Michael Clarke Duncan, the imposing, bass-voiced actor who earned an Oscar nomination for playing a death row inmate in Green Mile died Monday. He was 54.

Duncan was being treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after having had a heart attack July 13, said his fiancée, Omarosa Manigault, in a statement released by publicist Joy Fehily.

Standing 6-foot-5 and weighing 315 pounds, the Chicago native was a bodyguard before becoming an actor in his 30s. He shot to fame after playing John Coffey, a convicted murderer with a gentle demeanor and extraordinary healing powers, in the 1999 drama The Green Mile.

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