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Actor Tom Wilkinson has died at 75. I remember him best for his roles as mobster Carmine Falcone in "Batman Begins," Lieutenant General Cornwallis in "The Patriot," a rakish Ben Franklin in the "John Adams" miniseries, and as the ill-fated IMF secretary in "Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol." Wilkinson's filmography includes a lot more than those roles, of course; he played parts that demanded his natural English accent as well as others requiring him to affect an American accent—an accent that, in my opinion, started rough but improved over time. Wilkinson is listed as having "died suddenly," whatever that might mean. RIP.