Dick Cheney, the former vice president and polarizing political figure whose life inspired the 2018 Oscar-winning film Vice, has died. He was 84. The controversial politician died Monday due to complications from pneumonia, as well as cardiac and vascular disease, Cheney's family told the Associated Press.

Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney, a key architect of George W Bush's "war on terror" and an early advocate of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, has died at the age of 84.