Michael Clarke Duncan dies at 54

Michael Clarke Duncan, star of the film “The Green Mile,” has died at age 54.

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Michael Clarke Duncan, right, and Tom Hanks starred in the 1999 movie “The Green Mile.” Set on death row in a Southern prison in 1935, “The Green Mile” was a big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s 1996 best-selling serialized novel.

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Michael Clarke Duncan, who played a prison inmate in "The Green Mile," got some last-minute primping from his manager, Dolores Robinson, before walking the red carpet at the premiere of the film in December 1999 in Los Angeles.

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Michael Clarke Duncan in 2001’s “See Spot Run.”

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Michael Clarke Duncan in the 2001 remake of “Planet of the Apes.”

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Michael Clarke Duncan as Starkweather in 2005’s ”The Island.”

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Michael Clarke Duncan joked with referee Steve Javie during a 2007 NBA game between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Clippers in Los Angeles.

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Michael Clarke Duncan signed autographs before the first DirecTV Celebrity Beach Bowl flag football game in Miami Beach in 2007.

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2007

Michael Clarke Duncan, joined by singer Jordin Sparks, jokingly accepted the award for best actor for an absent Forest Whitaker at the 2007 BET Awards in Los Angeles.

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2012

Michael Clarke Duncan and his fiancee, reality TV star Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, attended gossip columnist Perez Hilton's 34th Birthday and Mad Hatter's Ball on March 24 in Los Angeles.

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