Died July 27

Former zoo director spearheaded conservation efforts.

Actor, playwright won 1979 drama Pulitzer Prize for “Buried Child”…

Cajun music star wrote “The Back Door.”

Jerry Doyle, an actor known best as the star of the sci-fi TV series “Babylon 5,” died July 27, 2016, according to multiple news sources. He was 60. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Alan McPherson died July 27, 2016. He was 72.

For more than half her life, Lindy Boggs remained largely in the background. After her husband, Louisiana U.S. Rep. Hale Boggs, died in a plane crash, Boggs won his empty …

Alongside costars Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope made seven classic adventure comedies between 1940 and 1962: the “Road” series.

His role in “Whale Music,” a Canadian film, earned him a Genie Award.