Michael Clarke Duncan

Los Angeles, Sept. 4 (Reuters): Actor Michael Clarke Duncan, nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of a death row inmate in the 1999 drama The Green Mile, died in a hospital yesterday, less than eight weeks after suffering a heart attack, a spokeswoman said. He was 54.

Duncan died in Los Angeles, his fiancée, reality television star Omarosa Manigault, said in a statement through Duncan’s publicist. He had a heart attack on July 13 and “never fully recovered”. He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, she said.