Dead Celebrities

29/10/2023

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-28/freinds-star-matthew-perry-dead-at-56

Authorities responded around 4 p.m. to Perry's Los Angeles home, where he was discovered unresponsive. There was no sign of foul play.

19/10/2023

Burt Young, April 30, 1940 – October 8, 2023,
best known for playing Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law and best friend Paulie Pennino in the Rocky film series.

16/10/2023

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/actress-suzanne-somers-dies-at-76-after-cancer-battle/3342533/

Suzanne Somers, who starred in sitcoms “Three’s Company” and “Step By Step” died one day before her 77th birthday.

06/10/2023

RIP to Bears legend Dick Butkus. 1942-2023

02/10/2023

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/stage/2023/sep/28/michael-gambon-star-of-harry-potter-and-the-singing-detective-dies-aged-82

The Olivier award-winning actor, whose major film roles included Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, has died

04/09/2023

This day 2008, Jerry Reed, country music singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor died. His signature songs included "Guitar Man,", "A Thing Called Love," (both of which were covered by Elvis Presely), "When You're Hot, You're Hot" "Ko-Ko Joe", "East Bound and Down" (the theme song for the 1977 blockbuster Smokey and the Bandit, in which Reed co-starred), and "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)".

04/09/2023

On this day September 3, 2012 actor Michael Clarke Duncan died at the age of 54. He was best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in The Green Mile (1999), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and other honors, and for playing Kingpin in Daredevil and Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (both 2003). He also appeared in movies such as Armageddon (1998), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), The Scorpion King (2002), Sin City (2005), and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), as well as in the role of Leo Knox in the television series Bones (2011) and its spin-off The Finder (2012). He also had voice roles in films, including Brother Bear (2003), Kung Fu Panda (2008), and Green Lantern (2011); he had the voice role of Benjamin King in the video game Saints Row (2006).

02/09/2023

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna103104

The singer, who dubbed his brand of music “drunken Caribbean rock ‘n’ roll,” was also an astute businessman with a sprawling restaurant, resort and radio empire.

26/08/2023

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna42292

When producers hired Barker to host “The Price Is Right” in 1972, they hit the jackpot. The game show had faded significantly from its glory days in the late ‘50s and had been punted by two networks before it landed at CBS.

01/07/2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/06/30/alan-arkin-dead/

The four-time Oscar nominee appeared in movies including “Catch-22,” “Argo” and “Little Miss Sunshine,” which earned him the best supporting actor prize.

24/05/2023

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Entertainment/Culture/legendary-singer-tina-turner-dies-83/story%3fid=16521099

Singer Tina Turner, known for her sultry voice, has died. She was 83.

15/05/2023

https://www.si.com/more-sports/2023/05/15/poker-doyle-brunson-dies

The Texas native was the first to officially make $1 million playing the game.

27/04/2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/arts/television/jerry-springer-dead.html

The raucous and often confrontational “Jerry Springer Show” ran for nearly three decades and became a cultural phenomenon. Mr. Springer also had a career in politics.

12/04/2023

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-jaffee-dies-age-102-mad-magazine-cartoonist-fold-in/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6i&linkId=209319018

For decades, virtually every issue of Mad featured new material by Jaffee. His collected "Fold-Ins" filled a four-volume box set published in 2011.

11/04/2023

Near the end of his life, Bob Marley was told by a doctor that he had "more cancer in him than I've seen with a live human being," and that he only had a few months to live, so "he might as well go back out on the road and die there."
Three years earlier, the reggae icon had been diagnosed with melanoma under his toenail in 1977. Doctors removed the nail and the nail bed, but Marley refused to have the toe itself amputated to stop the spread of the disease, insisting that it violated his Rastafarian religious beliefs. By 1980, the cancer had spread throughout his body, infecting his liver, lungs, and even his brain. Marley played his last show on September 30, 1980, in Pittsburgh, performing Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" during the soundcheck to the bemusement of his roadies, who didn't know anything was wrong. He died eight months later at the age of 36.

Bob Marley was just 36 years old when he died in 1981.

10/04/2023

R.I.P. Judy Farrell (1938-2023)

27/03/2023

🎂On March 24, 1944 the actor and U.S. Marine drill instructor R. Lee Ermey was born Ronald Lee Ermey in Emporia, Kansas. He achieved fame for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Ermey was also a U.S. Marine Corps staff sergeant and an honorary gunnery sergeant. He served in the Marines from 1961 to 1972. Ermey was often typecast in authority figure roles, such as Mayor Tilman in the film Mississippi Burning (1988), Bill Bowerman in Prefontaine (1997), Sheriff Hoyt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake (2003) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006), Jimmy Lee Farnsworth in Fletch Lives (1989), a police captain in Seven (1995), plastic army men leader Sarge in Toy Story (1995), Toy Story 2 (1999) and Toy Story 3 (2010), General Kramer in Toy Soldiers (1991), The Late Master Sergeant Hiles in The Frighteners (1996) and Frank Martin in the Willard remake (2003). On television, Ermey hosted two programs on the HISTORY Channel: Mail Call (2002-2009), in which he answered viewers' questions about various military issues both modern and historic; and Lock n' Load with R. Lee Ermey (2009), which concerned the development of different types of weapons. He also hosted GunnyTime on the Outdoor Channel (2015-2017). His other notable work in film include The Boys in Company C (1978), Apocalypse Now (1979), Up from the Depths (1979), Purple Hearts (1984), The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989) Demonstone (1990), The Rift (1990), Kid (1990), The Terror Within II (1991), Body Snatchers (1993), Chain of Command (1994), On Deadly Ground (1994), Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994), Murder in the First (1995), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Under the Hula Moon (1995), Dead Man Walking (1995), Switchback (1997), All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series (1998 - voice), Life (1999), Saving Silverman (2001), Taking Sides (2001), Man of the House (2005) and The Watch (2012). His other notable work on television include Miami Vice (1987), I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990), The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993), Tales from the Crypt (1994), Space: Above and Beyond (1995), The X-Files (1995), The Simpsons (1995, 2015 - voice), Rough Riders (1997), Cracker (1997-1998), Family Guy (2001, 2011 - voice), Scrubs (2002), The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2004 - voice), House (2005, 2008), SpongeBob SquarePants (2007 - voice) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2010). Ermey passed away on April 15, 2018 at the age of 74 in Santa Monica, California.

17/03/2023

https://www.tmz.com/2023/03/17/the-wire-star-lance-reddick-dead-dies/

Lance Reddick, known for his work on 'The Wire' and 'John Wick,' has died at the age of 60. RIP.

05/03/2023

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/movies/tom-sizemore-dead.amp.html

He earned praise for his work in films like “Saving Private Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down.” He also served prison time for drug possession and domestic abuse.

20/02/2023

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/arts/television/richard-belzer-dead.amp.html

A stand-up comic, he called his hard-boiled character on the long-running TV drama “Lenny Bruce with a badge.”

18/02/2023

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kellie-pickler-husband-kyle-jacobs-002751515.html

Kellie Pickler’s husband, songwriter Kyle Jacobs, was found dead in an apparent su***de at the singer’s home in Nashville, Tenn. on Friday. He was 49. According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, a 911 call was received at 1:21 p.m. on Friday from a home on Sneed Road. Upon arrival...

16/02/2023

https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/actress-raquel-welch-dead-at-82-years-old-163447877972

Golden Globe-winning actress Raquel Welch, known for her role in films such as, “One Million Years B.C.” and “Three Musketeers,” has died at 82 years old. NBC News’ Kristen Dahlgren takes a look back at her legendary career and legacy.

31/01/2023

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/arts/television/cindy-williams-dead.amp.html =s

The show, in which Ms. Williams and Penny Marshall played roommates who worked in a Milwaukee brewery, was a spinoff of “Happy Days” and became a staple of 1970s television.

31/01/2023

Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams, dies at age 64.

03/01/2023

She broke barriers for women as a co-host of the “Today” show, a network evening news anchor and a creator of “The View,” all while gaining her own kind of celebrity.

06/12/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/arts/television/kirstie-alley-dead.html

She also starred in the NBC sitcom “Veronica’s Closet,” which aired from 1997 to 2000.

30/11/2022

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/arts/music/christine-mcvie-dead.amp.html

As a singer, songwriter and keyboardist, she was a prolific force behind one of the most popular rock bands of the last 50 years.

11/10/2022

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Lansbury

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (born 16 October 1925) is an Irish-British[2] and American actress and singer who has played many film, theatre and television roles. With one of the longest careers in the entertainment industry, her career has spanned over 80 years, much of it in the United States;....

04/10/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/arts/music/loretta-lynn-dead.html

Her powerful voice, playful lyrics and topical songs were a model for generations of country singers and songwriters. So was her life story.

23/09/2022

Hartman co-founded the Doobie Brothers in 1970 with singer and guitarist Tom Johnston.

08/08/2022

(WGHP) — Olivia Newton-John died at 73 on Monday morning at her home in California, according to her husband. Newton-John died of breast cancer after a 30-year battle with the disease, TMZ re…

08/08/2022

Roger E. Mosley, best known as helicopter pilot T.C. on the original 'Magnum P.I.', has died at age 83.

04/08/2022

Don Rickles: US Navy Veteran of the Pacific Theater

Donald Jay Rickles was born on May 8, 1926 in Queens New York. After graduating from Newtown High School in Elmhurst Queens, Don joined the US Navy as soon as he turned 18 years old. Originally, Don wanted to serve and entertain the troops with his quick sense of humor. That did not work out for him.

After being stationed at the Naval Training Center in Sampson New York, Seaman 1st Class Don Rickles served on the USS Cyrene, a motor torpedo boat tender, that served as an es**rt around New Guinea and Leyte in the Pacific Theater.

"I got to know a lot of really good people on that boat, a lot of good memories. But that is not what I signed up for. One day we were out shooting the guns, and all you hear is this loud "Boom! Boom! Boom!" and I told the guy in charge, "Hey I can entertain, you need to send me over to Special Services." You know what he said to me? "Keep firing!" -Don Rickles Navy Times June 10, 2015

Don was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1946. Unfortunately, he never made the USO tour - but Don had a military career that he could be proud of. That mattered a lot to him.

After the war he studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. With intentions of becoming a dramatic actor Rickles once again did not find his niche. He did however begin a career that would be one of the most epic in Hollywood as the original insult comic. No heckler ever stood a chance against the Merchant of Venom. Early in his career Don befriended Frank Sinatra - with Sinatra's help Rickles soon became a headliner in Las Vegas.

In 1958, he made his film debut in 'Run Silent, Run Deep" with fellow World War II veterans Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. Don made his first appearance on the "Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1965. Rickles would go on to join Johnny as a regular guest appearing in more than 100 episodes.

By the mid-1960s Don Rickles parlayed his comedic styles to establish himself as one of the top comics in Hollywood. As an unofficial member of the Rat Pack, Rickles was a regular on the Dean Martin Roast Series and inked a deal with ABC for the The Don Rickles Show.

In 1970 Don would portray the character of Supply Sergeant Crapgame in the World War II film "Kelly's Heroes." He also starred in C.P.O. Sharkey for two seasons on NBC in 1976.

Don Rickles would go on to headline in many comedy specials but one of his most proud moments in his career was when he was asked to perform at Ronald Reagan's second inaugural celebration.

In 1995, Rickles portrayed Billy Sherbert in Martin Scorsese's "Casino" and he would go on to lend his voice to Mr Potato Head in 'The Toy Story" trilogy.

With a career that lasted over 60 years, Don Rickles finally realized his dream as a 18-year-old - not only did he entertain the troops of World War II - he would go on to entertain thousands of enlisted men and women for years to come.

Seaman 1st Class Don Rickles passed away on April 6, 2017 at the age of 90 years old. He lies in rest at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles California.

01/08/2022

Ron Zimmerman, whose varied career included writing for Marvel comics, being a film and television producer, and doing stand-up comedy, died of cancer on July 28, according to reports and social me…

01/08/2022

Sandoval was one of the hundreds of Navajos who were recruited from the vast Navajo Nation to help transmit messages in World War II for the Marine Corps. Only three are still alive today.

01/08/2022

Nichelle Nichols, best known for playing Lt. Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series, has died [...]

01/08/2022

Carroll's career spanned more than seven decades.

10/07/2022

EW confirmed that '24' actor Gregory Itzin has died at age 74, with series producer Jon Cassar remembering him as an 'all around great guy.'

10/07/2022

https://www.audacy.com/1010wins/news/local/tony-sirico-sopranos-actor-dead-at-79

Actor Tony Sirico, best known for his role as Paulie Gaultiere in the “Sopranos” died at 79 on Friday, according to fellow “Sopranos” cast-member Michael Imperioli.

29/06/2022

Happy Birthday to the late Pat Morita
(June 28, 1932 – November 24, 2005)