Dead Celebrity Alert

Coley Wallace, who once knocked out Rocky Marciano and played Joe Louis in two movies has died, his attorney said. He was 77. …

But Wallace is best known for twice portraying Joe Louis on film, once in “The Joe Louis Story” in 1953 and again in Martin Scorsese’s “Raging Bull” in 1980. … Read full obituary

Longtime Boston political columnist David Nyhan died while shoveling snow in front of his home in Brookline yesterday, friends said. … Read full obituary

Johnny Carson, the “Tonight Show” TV host who served America a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter, droll comedy and heartland charm for 30 years, has died. He was 79. … Read full obituary

NEW YORK - She played the icy first wife of Orson Welles in “Citizen Kane” and a mysterious housekeeper on “Peyton Place,” but one role seemed to resonate the most with Ruth Warrick — that of Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, an inveterate busybody on “All My Children.” … Read full obituary

MUNICH, Germany (AFP) — German investigators opened a murder hunt after fashion designer Rudolph Moshammer, who created clothes for celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, was found dead at his home here.

“Everything indicates that he was murdered,” said Munich prosecutor Peter Boie. … Read full story

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “The Terminator” stunt double, Frank Orsatti, has died of acute respiratory failure, aged 62. … Read full obituary

MIAMI (AP) — Richard Hirschfeld, a colorful confidant of boxing champ Muhammad Ali who spent most of the last eight years as a fugitive from the federal government, killed himself Tuesday in jail. … Read full story

MIAMI, Jan. 2 — Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and a candidate for the presidency in 1972, died Saturday in Florida, friends said. She was 80. … Read full obituary