Nickname:	/ Mac-Man
Known for:	Ocean's Eleven, Guess Who, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Birth name:	Bernard Jeffery McCullough
Birthday:	5 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Height:	6' 3" (1.91 m)

R.i.p. Bernie Mac

Picture Inside. "Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital," his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a statement from Los Angeles, California. She said no other details were available and asked that his family's privacy be respected. The comedian suffered f... Read More » R.i.p. Bernie Mac

SAMUEL L. JACKSON has a painful memory of late pal BERNIE MAC - the comic hit actor with a ball while they played golf.Jackson was stunned when he learned that Mac had died in August (08), but he’ll always be left with one scar that reminds him of his friend.He explains, "Bernie was the only
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Samuel L. Jackson doesn't feel normal promoting his latest film "Soul Men" without costar Bernie Mac.


AP - Samuel L. Jackson doesn't feel normal promoting his latest film "Soul Men" without costar Bernie Mac.
The stale buddy road-trip movie "Soul Men" will be remembered mainly as the untimely swan song of Bernie Mac, the comic great who died in August at just 50.


Authentic soul music and superstar musical performances are the consistent theme and backdrop for the side-splitting comedy, Soul Men, starring entertainment icons Bernie Mac, who passed away on August 9,


Ben Stiller has paid tribute to his late "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" co-star Bernie Mac.

Ben - who reprises his role voicing Alex the lion in the animated sequel - says Bernie, who recorded his lines as Alex's father Zuba before his untimely passing in August aged 50, is the "core of the movie."
Samuel L. Jackson and the late Bernie Mac team up for the laugh-out-loud musical comedy 'Soul Men,' in theaters November 7, and "The Insider" is with Sam as he remembers the good times -- and great talent -- of Bernie and soul legend Isaac Hayes, who both passed away the same weekend in August. "If you had to make up -- in an ideal world -- a last performance that left a lasting impression on an audience that loved you and cared about you and have watched you do all these things, this is the perfect going away present," Jackson says. See what Samuel has to say about working with both Mac and Hayes shortly before the entertainment icons passed away. In 'Soul Men,' Sam and Bernie play a pair of backup soul singers who haven't spoken to each other in 20 years. But when they're invited to perform at a tribute concert for their famous former band leader at the legendary Apollo Theatre, the two curmudgeons reluctantly agree to travel cross country together for the honor. Isaac Hayes has a cameo role in the movie. Watch "The Insider" for more with Samuel L. Jackson!

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Samuel L. Jackson and the late Bernie Mac team up for the laugh-out-loud musical comedy 'Soul Men,' in theaters November 7, and "The Insider" is with Sam as he remembers the good times -- and great talent -- of Bernie and soul legend Isaac Hayes, who both passed away the same weekend in August. "If you had to make up -- in an ideal world -- a last performance that left a lasting impression on an audience that loved you and cared about you and have watched you do all these things, this is the perfect going away present," Jackson says. See what Samuel has to say about working with both Mac and Hayes shortly before the entertainment icons passed away. In 'Soul Men,' Sam and Bernie play a pair of backup soul singers who haven't spoken to each other in 20 years. But when they're invited to perform at a tribute concert for their famous former band leader at the legendary Apollo Theatre, the two curmudgeons reluctantly agree to travel cross country together for the honor. Isaac Hayes has a cameo role in the movie. Watch "The Insider" for more with Samuel L. Jackson!

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Funnyman Bernie Mac missed out on seeing the movie that friends feel sure will cement his reputation as a bona fide film star - because he fell ill before a finished print was complete.


Funnyman BERNIE MAC missed out on seeing the movie that friends feel sure will cement his reputation as a bona fide film star - because he fell ill before a finished print was complete.Soul Men co-star Samuel L. Jackson insists the late comedian would have been proud of his final film - because he was
Samuel L. Jackson was among 6,000 mourners who gathered to remember comedian Bernie Mac at a service on Saturday.

The "Pulp Fiction" actor paid his respects to the "Ocean's Thirteen" star - who died on August 9 after suffering complications related to pneumonia - and made a touching speech during the ceremony at Chicago's House Of Hope Church.
Bernie Mac was laid to rest on Saturday in Chicago, and ET has video from the star-studded funeral as thousands of people turned out to pay tribute to the late actor and comedian.

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CHICAGO (AP) - As Cedric the Entertainer scanned the crowd of more than 6,000 gathered on Chicago's South Side to remember Bernie Mac on Saturday, he cracked that the comedy king was "still the hottest ticket in town."


AP - CHICAGO (AP) — As Cedric the Entertainer scanned the crowd of more than 6,000 gathered on Chicago's South Side to remember Bernie Mac on Saturday, he cracked that the comedy king was "still the hottest ticket in town."
AP - As Cedric the Entertainer scanned the crowd of more than 6,000 gathered on Chicago's South Side to remember Bernie Mac on Saturday, he cracked that the comedy king was "still the hottest ticket in town."
D.L. Hughley says he will speak at Bernie Mac's memorial on Saturday in Chicago, which will be held at noon at the 10,000-seat House of Hope for fans and friends of the late star. "I hate funerals. I don't like going to church. I feel like Bernie kind of punk'd me on this one," Hughley said during his stand-up comedy this week at the Tempe Improv comedy club in Arizona, USA Today reports via The Arizona Republic. "I thought, like we all do, that things would get better and I'd get around and get to talk to him," he said. "But I didn't, and I didn't get to tell him how much I loved him." Mac died last Saturday at age 50 of complications from pneumonia. Donations in his honor may be sent to the Bernie Mac Foundation for Sarcoidosis, 40 E. 9th St., Suite 601, Chicago, IL 60605, according to his rep.

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The wife of tragic comedian Bernie Mac began preparing herself for the star's death a week before the star passed away.


GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) - In one of his final roles, Bernie Mac roars. In the upcoming "Madagascar" sequel, the comedian and actor voices the lion Zuba,


AP - In one of his final roles, Bernie Mac roars.
Cedric the Entertainer and Bernie Mac tore up the stage together in the "Kings of Comedy" -- but outside of STK last night, Cedric left the funny stuff behind him as he opened up about "his brother's" passing.See Also Bern Out -- Mac Dies at...

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