Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, voice of Iago the parrot in 'Aladdin', dies at 67


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Comedian Gilbert Gottfried arrives with a duck at the Webby Awards in New York in 2010. The actor and legendary standup comic known for his raw, scorched voice and crude jokes, has died. He was 67. – Photo: Reuters

Gilbert Gottfried, the actor and legendary standup comic known for his raw, scorched voice and crude jokes, has died. He was 67.

Gottfried died from recurrent ventricular tachycardia due to myotonic dystrophy type II, a disorder that affects the heart, his publicist and longtime friend Glenn Schwartz said in a statement.

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