Jackie Burch, a former teacher of the deaf who went on to serve as a casting director on such noteworthy films as Sixteen Candles , Predator , Die Hard , Mask and Dick Tracy , has died. She was 74.

Burch died Sunday at her home in Atlanta after a four-month battle with endometrial cancer, her friend and fellow casting director Gail Goldberg announced.

Burch partnered with John Hughes on Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Cl ub (1985) and Weird Science (1985) and with John Landis on Into the Night (1985), Three Amigos! (1986), Coming to America (1988), Oscar (1991) and Beverly Hills Cop III (1994).

Jackie Burch, a former teacher of the deaf who went on to serve as a casting director on such noteworthy films as Sixteen Candles , Predator , Die Hard , Ma

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