Emmy Winner and Iconic Comedian Louie Anderson Dead at 68
Emmy winner and iconic comedian Louie Anderson has passed away at the age of 68.
The actor died Friday morning in Las Vegas from complications from cancer, his publicist told The Hollywood Reporter.
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Louie Anderson, the big-hearted everyman who rose to fame as a stand-up comic, then channeled the spirit of his late mother for his Emmy-winning turn as Christine Baskets on the FX series Baskets, has died. He was 68.
Anderson died Friday morning in a Las Vegas hospital of complications from cancer, his longtime publicist Glenn Schwartz told The Hollywood Reporter. Anderson had been undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
