MARRIED. Jaclyn Smith, 35, TV actress (Charlie's Angels, The Users); and Tony Richmond, 39, British-born cinematographer; she for the third time, he for the second; in Los Angeles. The couple met in Arizona while both were working on the 1980 television film Nightkill.

DIED. John Passmore Widgery, 70, Britain's Lord Chief Justice from 1971 until his retirement last year; in London. An incisive debater with a formidable grasp of complicated issues, Widgery led a controversial inquiry that absolved the British army of gross misconduct in the 1972 shooting of 13 Roman Catholics during a demonstration in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He helped to make a number of landmark decisions on freedom of the press, including the reversal of obscenity convictions against three editors of the satirical magazine Oz in 1971.

DIED. Ray Bliss, 73, veteran strategist of the Republican Party who, as its national chairman, played a key role in rebuilding the organization after Barry Goldwater's crushing loss to Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential race; in Akron. After working in the 1931 mayoral election in his native Akron, Bliss rose through the G.O.P. ranks to become state chairman in 1949 and three years later joined the Republican National Committee, a post he retained until his retirement from politics last year. As national chairman from 1965 to 1969, he re-established the party's ties to young people, blacks and intellectuals and provided the base for Richard Nixon's presidential victory in 1968. A party loyalist with a preference for working behind the scenes, Bliss once said: "If I wanted to make policy, I should go out and run for office and make speeches. I'd rather build up our candidates, not Ray Bliss."

DIED. Melvyn Douglas, 80, veteran stage and film actor and a two-tune Oscar winner for his supporting roles in Hud (1963) and Being There (1979); of pneumonia; in New York City. The son of Russian-born Concert Pianist Edouard Hesselberg, Douglas made his Broadway debut in 1928. In 1931 he married Actress Helen Gahagan, who later became a noted political activist and Congresswoman from California. After establishing himself as a suave, romantic leading man during the 1930s and 1940s by playing opposite such stars as Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Gloria Swanson (Tonight or Never) and Joan Crawford (A Woman's Face), Douglas shifted to first-rate character portrayals in such films as Billy Budd (1962), The Americanization of Emily (1964) and I Never Sang for My Father (1970). Douglas, who had just completed his 77th film, Ghost Story, which is scheduled for release in December, recently declared: "Much of what we did in the old days was junk. I don't share the intense nostalgia for those films that some people do."

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