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Melvin Williams ‘The Wire’: Real-Life Avon Barksdale Drug Kingpin Dies At 73 After Losing Battle With Cancer

Among the many iconic HBO dramas, one in particular, "The Wire," while with an enormous cult following, never got the attention it truly deserved when it was time for critics to award it - now, nearly a decade after the show ended in 2008, the main protagonist's real-life version, Melvin Williams from "The Wire," has unfortunately passed away.