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Richard Harmon, who portrayed Erik Campbell

Erik Campbell is a character in Final Destination Bloodlines (2025), the sixth film in the supernatural horror franchise Final Destination, and was portrayed by Richard Harmon (pictured). Introduced as a grandson of Iris Campbell, who escaped Death in the 1960s, Erik is revealed to have been conceived out of his mother's affair and thus not in any danger. Despite this, while trying to help his brother cheat Death, Erik is sucked into an MRI machine by a wheelchair that crushes and impales him. The reveal of Erik's parentage was due to the film's crew wanting to subvert the audience's expectations regarding the order of deaths; a discarded idea involved twins. The directors were initially apprehensive about incorporating an MRI-machine death, but chose to include it due to positive feedback from the production team. Critics responded positively to Erik, describing him as a fan favorite and Bloodlines' best character, as well as praising his death scene and Harmon's performance. (Full article...)

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Battle of Albuera

1426 – Mohnyin Thado captured Sagaing to become the king of Ava, in present-day Myanmar.
1811 – Peninsular War: Allied British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces clashed with French troops at the Battle of Albuera (depicted) fought south of Badajoz, Spain.
1925 – The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
1961 – Led by Park Chung Hee, the Military Revolution Committee carried out a bloodless coup against the government of Yun Po-sun in Seoul, ending the Second Republic of Korea.
2014 – At least 12 people were killed and 70 others injured when two bombs exploded in a market in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Henry Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Known for his work on screen and stage, he often portrayed characters who embodied an everyman image. Born and raised in Nebraska, Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood film debut in 1935. He rose to film stardom with performances in films like Jezebel (1938), Jesse James (1939) and Young Mr. Lincoln (1939). Fonda received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and won the Best Actor award at the 54th Academy Awards for his final film role in On Golden Pond (1981), which co-starred Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane Fonda. He was too ill to attend the ceremony and died from heart disease five months later. This publicity photograph shows Fonda in his role in Warlock (1959).

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