Comedian and Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens died Sunday after suffering a six-year battle with cancer. He had previously helped his own terminally ill legendary fighter pilot father who battled cancer until he died in 2004.
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Milton Rubenfeld died at age 84 in 2004 — nearly two decades before the actor best known as Pee-wee Herman spent several years privately enduring his own cancer journey