Thomas H. Ince, American film producer known as “The Father of the Western” for popularizing the genre in Hollywood, dies aboard William Randolph Hearst’s yacht, Oneida, off the coast of California. He was 44.

The official cause of death is heart failure, but police are… pic.twitter.com/O2e2ThnRQh

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