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Merlin Olsen, a bearded, gentle-giant Pro Football Hall of Famer who went on to a successful TV career as an actor, announcer, host and pitchman, died Thursday of cancer near Los Angeles. He was 69.

SALT LAKE CITY — Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman and member of the Los Angeles Rams’ “Fearsome Foursome” who followed up football with a successful television career in “Little House on ...

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After a battle with mesothelioma, former NFL player and television star Merlin Olsen died on March 10, 2010. He was 69. He played his entire 15-year pro football career with the Los Angeles Rams, and ...

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Football star turned actor Merlin Olsen, who was a key member of the Los Angeles Rams' defensive line nicknamed the "Fearsome Foursome," died at the age of 69 on Thursday after ...

LOS ANGELES (CN) - Football Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen claims that years of exposure to asbestos at jobs ranging from construction to working for NBC and 20th Century Fox caused his recently diagnosed ...

Merlin Olsen always fascinated me. I considered him borderline schizophrenic. On the football field, Olsen was part of the Los Angeles Rams’ Fearsome Foursome defensive line that swallowed ball ...