September 7, 1991

Little Rock (Pulaski County) native Ben Piazza died of cancer. Piazza was an actor, director, author, and playwright who starred in such notable films as The Hanging Tree (1959) and Tell Me that You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970). He was compared to the young Marlon Brando in his youth but achieved acclaim for character roles in his later years, often portraying an edgy, tightly controlled suburbanite or a repressive parent in films such as The Blues Brothers (1980).