2016 obituary trends and clusters

[That Derek]

In no particular order:

INSPIRATIONS FOR “PEANUTS’CHARACTERS
01/29: Linus Maurer, 90, commercial artist; inspiration for “Peanuts’” “Linus Van Pelt”
08/09: Donna Wold, 87, inspiration for “Peanuts” character "the little red-haired girl”

EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER
03/10: Keith Emerson, 71, keyboardist, “The Nice” and “Emerson, Lake, and Palmer” – suicide by gunshot
08/11: Michael Enthoven, 72, British “art rock” manager (“King Crimson,” “Emerson, Lake and Palmer”; Marc Bolan; “Roxy Music”)
12/07: Greg Lake, 69, vocalist/guitarist, “King Crimson”; “Emerson, Lake, and Palmer”

JEFERSON AIRPLANE MEMBERS ON JANUARY 28TH
01/28: Signe Toly Anderson, 74, original female vocalist, “Jefferson Airplane”
01/28: Paul Kantner, 74, singer/songwriter, “Jefferson Airplane”

MOTOWN SONGWRITERS FROM ITS EARLY GROUP “THE SATINTONES’ ON OCTOBER 12TH
10/12: Robert Bateman, 77, Motown songwriter (“Please, Mr. Postman”); singer, early Motown group “The Satintones”
10/12: William "Sonny" Sanders, 77, Motown songwriter (“Higher & Higher”); singer, early Motown group “The Satintones”

ARTISTS FOR “MAGIC: THE GATHERING” – ONE DAY APART
02/09: Wayne England, age not available, artist, role-playing card sets “Magic: The Gathering”
02/10: Christopher Rush, 50, artist, role-playing card sets “Magic: The Gathering”
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EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND” – ONE DAY APART
04/16: Rod Daniel, 73, TV sitcom/movie director (“WKRP in Cincinnati”; “Everybody Loves Raymond”; “Teen Wolf”)
04/17; Doris Roberts, 90, TV sitcom character actress (“Soap”; “Angie”; ““Everybody Loves Raymond”)

EDWARD ALBEE, OR, CONNECTED TO HIM
01/09: Myra Carter, 86, Broadway actress noted for Edward Albee roles (“Three Tall Women”)
09/16: Edward Albee, 88, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
11/30: Alice Drummond, 88, character actress (“Awakenings”; “Ghostbusters”; early Albee stage roles; TV’s “Dark Shadows”)

PRINCE, OR, CONNECTED TO HIM
02/09: Donald E. Thorin, 81, cinematographer (“Purple Rain”; “An Officer and a Gentleman”)
02/15: Vanity (nee Denise Katrina Matthews), 57, Canadian-born singer/actress turned evangelist
04/21: Prince (ne Prince Rogers Nelson), 57, performing artist
08/26: Monty Lee Wilkes, 54, sound engineer/roadie (Prince; “Nirvana”; “The Replacements”)

PATTY DUKE, CONNECTED TO HER, OR CONNECTED TO “THE PATTY DUKE SHOW’
03/29: Patty Duke, 69, Academy Award-winning actress (“The Miracle Worker”; “The Patty Duke Show”; “Valley of the Dolls”); one-time president, SAG
04/23: A. Martin Zweiback, 85, screenwriter (Patty Duke film “Me, Natalie”; “Grace Quigley”; 1960s/1970s episodic TV)
04/29: Harry Falk, 83, TV director; first husband of Patty Duke
05/08: William Schallert, 93, TV character actor (“The Patty Duke Show”); one-time president, SAG
10/17: Eddie Applegate, 81, TV sitcom actor (“The Patty Duke Show”)
12/16: Joan D'Incecco, 89, casting director (“Car 54, Where Are You?”; “The Patty Duke Show”; “The Producers”; “Kojak”; “All My Children”)

PRESIDENTS OF SAG OR SAG-AFTRA
03/23: Ken Howard, 71, actor (“The White Shadow”; “1776”); sitting president of SAG-AFTRA
03/29: Patty Duke, 69, Academy Award-winning actress (“The Miracle Worker”; “The Patty Duke Show”; “Valley of the Dolls”); one-time president, SAG
05/08: William Schallert, 93, TV character actor (“The Patty Duke Show”); one-time president, SAG

DAVID BOWIE, OR, CONNECTED TO HIM
01/10: David Bowie, 69, singer/actor
01/17: Dale Griffin, 67, drummer, “Mott, the Hoople” (for whom Bowie wrote their signature song“All the Young Dudes”)
03/31: Maryan Baadi, age unavailable, Somalian-born mother of Iman and mother-in-law of David Bowie
04/06: Dennis Davis, 64, drummer for David Bowie
05/29: Wendy Leigh, 65, British celebrity biographer (David Bowie, JFK, Arnold Schwarzenegger) – building fall; possible suicide

GUYS NAMED “EDGAR” ON FEBRUARY 4TH
02/04: Edgar Mitchell, 85, Apollo 14 astronaut; sixth man to walk on the Moon (one day shy of the 45th anniversary of Apollo 14)
02/04: Governor Edgar Whitcomb (R-Indiana), 98, Governor of Indiana (1969-1973)

“SUGARLOAF”
02/11: Bob Raymond, 69, bassist, “Sugarloaf” (“Green-Eyed Lady”)
06/09: Bob Yeazel, 68, guitarist/vocalist, “Sugarloaf” (“Green-Eyed Lady”)
09/16: Jerry Corbetta, 68, lead vocalist/keyboardist, “Sugarloaf” (“Green-Eyed Lady”)

“OUR GANG”/”THE LITTLE RASCALS”
01/06: Douglas Greer, 94, Canadian-born child actor (second-tier player, early 1930s “Our Gang”)
11/23: Jerry Tucker (aka Jerry Schatz), 91, 1930s child actor (“Our Gang,” usually as adversarial “rich kid”)

THE PREANTEPENULTIMATE, ANTEPENULTIMATE, AND PENULTIMATE SURVIVORS OF ORSON WELLES’S “THE MERCURY THEATER”
04/09: Arthur Anderson, 93, radio/stage/TV/voice-over actor; voice of “Lucky,” the Lucky Charms cereal mascot; juvenile actor with Orson Welles and “The Mercury Theater”
05/10: William Herz Jr., 99, last surviving cast member, radio’s “War of the Worlds” (1938)
12/11: Kevin O'Morrison, 100, playwright; character actor; believed to be penultimate surviving member, Orson Welles' “The Mercury Theater”
Note: Centenarian NORMAN LLOYD survives

NEW YORK CITY REAL ESTATE MOGULS
02/06: John L. Tishman, 90, scion of NYC real estate family (Tishman Realty and Construction)
12/03: Jack Rudin, 92, scion of NYC real estate dynasty (Rudin Management Company)

CONNECTED TO ELVIS PRESLEY
02/24: Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, 88, Elvis Presley’s “Dr. Nick,” acquitted of overprescribing
06/28: Scotty Moore, 84, 1960s lead guitarist for Elvis Presley
10/29: Norman Brokaw, 89, talent agent (Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Cosby, Alexander Haig, Clint Eastwood)
11/23: Joe Esposito, 78, road manager for Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Bee Gees; Presley pallbearer; one of two best men at Presley’s wedding

LAST SURVIVING CAST MEMBERS
03/06: Kathryn Trosper Popper, 100, last surviving cast member, “Citizen Kane”
05/01: Madeleine LeBeau, 92), French 1940s actress; last surviving cast member, “Casablanca”
05/10: William Herz Jr., 99, last surviving cast member, radio’s “War of the Worlds” (1938)

CONNECTED TO “THE BEATLES”
03/08: Sir George Martin, 90, music producer/arranger (primarily for “The Beatles”)
05/14: Tony Barrow, 80, 1960s press officer for the Beatles (coined the term “Fab Four”)
05/25: Peggy Spencer, 95, British dancer/choreographer (TV's “Come Dancing”; Beatles' video "Your Mother Should Know”)
10/30: Claude “Curly” Putman, 85, songwriter (“Green, Green Grass of Home,” “She Stopped Loving Her Today”); inspiration for Paul McCartney’s song “Junior’s Farm”

“THE WALTONS”
03/24: Earl Hamner Jr., 92, radio/TV writer/producer (“Spencer’s Mountain”; “The Waltons”)
06/14: Ronnie Claire Edwards, 83, TV actress (“The Waltons”)

1950s POP SINGERS WITH #1 HITS
03/10: Gogi Grant, 91, 1950s popular singer (“The Wayward Wind”)
11/03: Kay Starr, 94, 1940s/1950s pop singer (“The Wheel of Fortune”)
12/12: Jim Lowe, 93, 1950s pop singer (“The Green Door”); standards/big band radio host (NYC’s WNEW-AM)
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“1776”
03/23: Ken Howard, 71, actor (“The White Shadow”; “1776”); sitting president of SAG-AFTRA
03/28: James Noble, 94, actor (“1776” – stage and screen; TV’s “Benson”)
04/09: Arthur Anderson, 93, radio/stage/TV/voice-over actor; voice of “Lucky,” the Lucky Charms cereal mascot; juvenile actor with Orson Welles and “The Mercury Theater” (Note: Arthur told me he had essayed roles both on Broadway and on the road except for “The Big Three” (Adams, Jefferson, Franklin)
08/02: David Huddleston, 85, comic actor (“Blazing Saddles”; “The Big Lebowski”; title role, “Santa Claus: The Movie”) – also “1776” on stage

RADIO SHRINKS
03/27: Toni Grant, 73, Los Angeles psychologist; syndicated radio personality
08/27: Dr. Joy Browne, 71, psychologist/radio personality (NYC’s WOR-AM); self-help author

SONS OF “THE RAT PACK”
03/16: Frank Sinatra Jr., 72, singer; son of singer Frank Sinatra; 1963 kidnapping victim
07/02: Teddy Rooney, 66, child actor-turned-musician; son of actors Mickey Rooney and Martha Vickers 08/03: Ricci Martin, 62, musician/entertainer: son of entertainer Dean Martin
Note: Mickey Rooney was a sometimes “Rat Pack-er” in the original Humphrey Bogart iteration

CLOSE RELATIVES OF DEAN MARTIN IN AUGUST 2016
08/03: Ricci Martin, 62, musician/entertainer: son of entertainer Dean Martin
08/24: Jeanne Biegger Martin, 89, fashion model; second wife of entertainer Dean Martin (1949-1972)

‘BARNEY MILLER”
01/26: Abe Vigoda, 94, actor (“The Godfather”; “”Barney Miller”; “Fish”)
11/25: Ron Glass, 71, TV sitcom actor (“Barney Miller”; “The New Odd Couple”)

“THE EAGLES”
01/18: Glenn Frey, 67, singer/songwriter/guitarist, “The Eagles”
03/06: Lana Rae Meisner, 63, wife of Randy Meisner (“The Eagles”) – accidental self-shooting
03/17: Steve Young, 73, “outlaw” country singer/songwriter (“Seven Bridges Road” for the Eagles)

CLOSE RELATIVES OF CELINE DION IN THE SAME WEEK IN JANUARY 2016
01/14: René Angélil, 74, Canadian husband of singer Celine Dion
01/16: Daniel Dion, 59, Canadian-born brother of singer Celine Dion

“BACHELOR FATHER”
01/15: Noreen Corcoran, 72, TV ingénue/actress (“Bachelor Father”)
03/18: Cherylene Lee, 69, Chinese-American TV actress (as “Blossom” on “Bachelor Father”)
10/16: Gloria Fong (aka Maylia), 90, 1940s Chinese-American film actress; widow of “Bachelor Father” actor Benson Fong; restaurateur

“STAR WARS” (mostly “Episode IV: A New Hope”)
12/25/2015: Jason Wingreen, 95, actor (“All in the Family,” “Archie Bunker’s Place”); voice of “Star Wars” character “Boba Fett”
02/14: Drewe Henley, 75, British actor (“Red Leader” X-Wing Commander in “Star Wars IV: A New Hope”)
02/17: George “Ray” West, 90, Academy Award Best Sound-winning sound mixer (“Star Wars IV: A New Hope”)
03/02: Tony Dyson, 69, British designer of the original “R2-D2”
04/03: Eric Bauersfeld, 93, “Star Wars” voice-over actor
04/17: Kit West, 80, British Academy Award-winning special effects artist (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”; “Return of the Jedi”)
08/13: Kenny Baker, 81, “R2-D2”
08/22: Michael Leader, 78, British actor (“EastEnders”; “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” as “clumsy” Stormtrooper”)
11/22: Peter Sumner, 74, Australian actor (as “Lieutenant Pol Treidum” in “Star Wars IV: A New Hope”)

REVEREND JIM JONES/JONESTOWN
12/31/2015: Robert Flick, 84, NBC news producer; survivor, Jonestown massacre and airport attack
09/15: Phil Tracy, 74, anti- Reverend Jim Jones journalist (“San Francisco Chronicle”; “The Village Voice”)
11/12: Frank Konigsberg, 83, film/TV producer (Bing Crosby specials; “9½ Weeks”; “The Guyana Tragedy”)

SIBLINGS OF BRITISH POET TED HUGHES
01/04: Olwyn Hughes, 87, literary agent for poet brother Ted Hughes and sister-in-law Sylvia Plath
08/06: Gerald Hughes, 85, brother of poet Ted Hughes and brother-in-law of poet Sylvia Plath

CELEBRITIES AND THEIR SPOUSES

02/20: Peter Mondavi, 101, Napa Valley vintner
09/02: Margrit Biever Mondavi, 91, Swiss-born arts patron; widow of vintner Robert Mondavi

06/24: Gwen Hiller, 92, Canadian-born wife of 1970s film director Arthur Hiller
08/17: Arthur Hiller, 92, Canadian-born film director (“Love Story”; “The In-Laws”; “Man of La Mancha”)

09/16: Audrey Howard Breen, age unavailable, wife of singer/actor Bobby Breen
09/19: Bobby Breen, 88, 1930s movie/radio child singer/actor

CELEBRITIES AND THEIR SIBLINGS

02/15: Mary Weaver Dodson, 83, TV art director (“Murder, She Wrote”); widow of actor Jack Dodson; sister of actor Fritz Weaver
11/26: Fritz Weaver, 90, character actor (Tony Award, “Child’s Play”; “Fail Safe”; “Holocaust”; “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Obsolete Man”)

02/23: Ramon Castro Ruz, 91, rancher; doppelgänger brother of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro
11/25: Fidel Castro Ruz, 90, dictator of Cuba (1959-2016)

“COOL HAND LUKE”
12/31/2015: Wayne Rogers, 82, actor (“Cool Hand Luke”; TV’s “M*A*S*H”)
02/28: George Kennedy, 91, Academy Award-winning character actor (“Cool Hand Luke”; “Airport” series)
03/08: Richard Davalos, 85, film actor (“East of Eden”; “Cool Hand Luke”; “Kelly’s Heroes”)
05/24: Buck Kartalian, 93, body builder turned character actor (“Planet of the Apes”; “Cool Hand Luke”)

“GHOSTBUSTERS”
05/24: Buck Kartalian, 93, body builder turned character actor (“Planet of the Apes”; “Cool Hand Luke”)
01/11: David Margulies, 78, character actor (as NYC mayor in “Ghostbusters” series)
11/30: Alice Drummond, 88, character actress (“Awakenings”; “Ghostbusters”; early Albee stage roles; TV’s “Dark Shadows”)

CONNECTED TO THE BEE GEES
01/04: Robert Stigwood, 81, Australian music impresario; film producer
08/12: Barbara Gibb, 95, mother of singers Barry, Maurice, Robin, Andy Gibb
11/23: Joe Esposito, 78, road manager for Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Bee Gees; Presley pallbearer; one of two best men at Presley’s wedding

MY LAI
04/03: Robert MacCrate, 94, special counsel, Department of the Army investigation of the 1968 My Lai Massacre
12/13: Lawrence Colburn, 67, US soldier who intervened in trying to stop the My Lai Massacre

JINGLE WRITERS
04/19: Les Waas, 94, Philadelphia-based jingle writer (“Mister Softee”)
09/21: Richard Trentlage, 87, adman/jingle writer (“Oscar Mayer Wiener,” “McDonald’s Is Your Kind of Place”)

MEMBERS OF HOLLYWOOD TWIN SETS
04/23: Wayne Hull, 89, 1930s child film actor (with twin brother Warren), “The Great Man Votes”
09/11: Lyn Wilde, 93, 1940s film actress (with sister Lee Wilde as “The Wilde Twins”)

TOUGH GUYS TURNED ACTORS
05/03: Abel Fernandez, 85, pugilist turned actor (TV’s “The Untouchables”)
05/24: Buck Kartalian, 93, body builder turned character actor (“Planet of the Apes”; “Cool Hand Luke”)
07/12: Seamon Glass, 90, pugilist-turned-character actor (“Sleeper”: “Deliverance”; TV’s “Star Trek”)

CONNECTED TO NYC-AREA CULT COMEDY SHOW “THE UNCLE FLOYD SHOW” – ALL ON JUNE 2ND
06/02: James H. Burns, 54, actor; pop culture historian (“Starlog” magazine)
06/02: Fred “Cappy” Capitani, 83, New Jersey-based cable access personality (“Cappy’s Casino Corner”)
06/02: Pamela Buttery, 54, provocative TV cult figure “Baby Bonzo” associated with NYC-area “The Uncle Floyd Show”

“EQUUS” – ONE DAY APART
06/06: Sir Peter Shaffer, 90, playwright/screenwriter (“Equus”: “Amadeus”)
06/07: Mary MacLeod, 78, Scottish stage/screen actress (“Equus,” British stage version; “If…”; “O Lucky Man”; “Mapp & Lucia”)

PEOPLE NAMED “COX” WITHIN A 48-HOUR PERIOD
06/16: MP Jo Cox, 41, West Yorkshire Labour Member of Parliament -- political assassination
06/18: Paul Cox, 76, Dutch-born Australian director/screenwriter
06.18: Robert Cox, 78, adman (“Just Say No”; Ford’s “Quality Is Job One”; “All Aboard Amtrak”)

LOCAL TV HORROR HOSTS
07/21: Bill “'Chilly Billy" Cardille, 87, Pittsburgh radio personality and TV horror/wrestling host; inspiration for Joe Flaherty’s “Count Floyd” character (“SCTV”)
10/27: John Zacherle (The Cool Ghoul), 98, NYC TV horror host, rock DJ, recording artist, "Dinner with Drac”

\LEONARD COHEN, OR, CONNECTED TO HIM
07/29: Marianne Ihlen, 81, Norwegian-born muse to, lover of, LP cover model for Leonard Cohen
11/07: Leonard Cohen, 82, Canadian singer/songwriter (“Suzanne”; “Hallelujah”), poet/novelist

“BATMAN ‘66”
09/03: Leslie H. Martinson, 101, prolific TV director (including 1966 “Batman” movie spin-off)
11/07: Julie Gregg, 79, film/TV actress (“The Godfather” series; “Man of La Mancha”; TV’s “Batman”)
11/29: Van Williams, 82, TV actor (“The Green Hornet”; “Surfside Six”; “Westwind”)
12/18: Zsa Zsa Gabor, 99, Hungarian-born actress/socialite

CONNECTED TO MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
03/17: Ralph David Abernathy III, 56, Georgia legislator; civil rights activist; son of civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy
04/26: Reverend Samuel Billy Kyles, 81, civil rights activist present at Martin Luther King Jr. assassination
09/03: Dabney Montgomery, 93, Civil Rights activist; bodyguard to Martin Luther King Jr. (Selma to Montgomery March)

TV ACTORS WHO WERE MARRIED TO KIM DARBY – WITHIN THE SAME WEEK
09/09: James Stacy, 79, TV actor (“Lancer”), double amputee convicted for child molestation; one-time husband of actress Kim Darby
09/14: James Westmoreland (aka Rad Fulton), 80, TV actor (“The Monroes”); husband of actress Kim Darby

CONNECTED TO ANDY WARHOL
01/10: David Bowie, 69, singer/actor (song “Andy Warhol” on his “Hunky Dory” LP)
07/18: Billy Name, 76, photographer; one-time lover of Andy Warhol
11/12: Anna Warhola, 92, Pittsburgh trolley operator; sister-in-law of Andy Warhol

[Bryan Styble]

Fascinating material there, Derek, and evidence of a prodigious amount of work that few, alas, will much appreciate.

And thanks to your compilation, I'm abandoning my long deep-seated ambition to start publishing "Sugarloaf Blues" magazine.

BRYAN STYBLE/Florida

[jdunlop]

I second the thank you, for this post and your others.

[Rob Cibik]

Post by That Derek
INSPIRATIONS FOR “PEANUTS’CHARACTERS
01/29: Linus Maurer, 90, commercial artist; inspiration for “Peanuts’” “Linus Van Pelt”
08/09: Donna Wold, 87, inspiration for “Peanuts” character "the little red-haired girl”

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Excellent!

Thanks.

[Anglo Saxon]

Awesome. How do you do this stuff??? And how fortunate we are to be the
recipients of your unique talents. Thanks so much, Derek.

Anglo Saxon

[RH Draney]

A couple of clusters you missed:

PEOPLE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HERE SINCE LONG BEFORE THEY FINALLY DIED
01/26: Abe Vigoda
12/18: Zsa Zsa Gabor

GRINDHOUSE MOVIE DIRECTORS:
09/26: Herschell Gordon Lewis
10/16: Ted V Mikels

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[c***@aol.com]

How about a cluster fuck?

[t***@iwvisp.com]

Post by c***@aol.com
How about a cluster fuck?

Look at that. Cathy C just wrote the world's shortest Autobiography!

[That Derek]

1950s POP SINGERS WITH #1 HITS
01/07: Kitty Kallen, 94, 1950s popular singer (“Little Things Mean a Lot”)
03/10: Gogi Grant, 91, 1950s popular singer (“The Wayward Wind”)
11/03: Kay Starr, 94, 1940s/1950s pop singer (“The Wheel of Fortune”)
12/12: Jim Lowe, 93, 1950s pop singer (“The Green Door”); standards/big band radio host (NYC’s WNEW-AM)

LOCAL TV KIDDIE SHOW HOSTS
01/08: Royal Parker, 86, Baltimore broadcast journalist; TV children’s show host “Pop Lolly”
08/08: W. Carter Merbreier, 90, Philadelphia children’s TV show host “Captain Noah” (1967-1994)
12/09: Clif St. James, 91, St. Louis broadcast journalist; meteorologist; children’s show host "Corky the Clown” (1954-1980)

"STAR TREK"
06/19: Anton Yelchin, 27, actor (as “Pavel Chekhov” in J. J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” series) – freak automobile accident
07/12: Seamon Glass, 90, pugilist-turned-character actor (“Sleeper”: “Deliverance”; TV’s “Star Trek”)
08/08: Barry Jenner, 75, TV actor (“Family Matters”; “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”)
08/26: Paul Comi, 84, TV character actor (“Ripcord”; “Rawhide”; “Star Trek”; “The Twilight Zone”)
09/16: Hagan Beggs (aka Jim Beggs), 79, Ulster-born Canadian actor (“Lt. Hansen” in early episodes, original “Star Trek”)
10/30: Don Marshall, 80, TV actor (“Land of the Giants”; “Julia”; “Star Trek” episode “Galileo 7”)
NOTE: Somebody from the world of Trek fandom usually issues a "Trekrology" sometime every new year rife with dozens of naems of actors, writers, directors, et. al.

TV/RADIO COMEDY
12/25/2015: Jason Wingreen, 95, actor (“All in the Family,” “Archie Bunker’s Place”); voice of “Star Wars” character “Boba Fett”
12/29/2015: Billie Allen, 90, early African-American TV actress (as Nipsey Russell’s wife, “Car 54, Where Are You?”
12/31/2015: Beth Howland, 74, stage/sitcom actress (Broadway’s “Follies”; TV’s “Alice”); wife of TV actor Charles Kimbrough – not reported/publicized until May 2016
12/31/2015: Wayne Rogers, 82, actor (“Cool Hand Luke”; TV’s “M*A*S*H”)
01/06: Douglas Greer, 94, Canadian-born child actor (second-tier player, early 1930s “Our Gang”)
01/06: Pat Harrington Jr, 86, comedic actor (“The Steve Allen Show”; “One Day at a Time”), cartoon voice-over artist (as “The Inspector”)
01/07: Richard Libertini, 82, TV/film character actor (“Catch-22”; Robert Altman’s “Popeye”; “The In-Laws”; “Soap”)
01/15: Noreen Corcoran, 72, TV ingénue/actress (“Bachelor Father”)
01/17: Jo de Winter, 94, TV actress (“Soap”; “Gloria”; “The Brady Bunch” one-shot as “Dear Libby”)
01/25: Mike Minor 75, TV sitcom actor (“Petticoat Junction”); son of TV producer Don Fedderson
01/26: Abe Vigoda, 94, actor (“The Godfather”; “”Barney Miller”; “Fish”)
01/27: Bill Martin, 70, songwriter for the Monkees; actor/director for Michael Nesmith projects; co-creator, TV’s “Harry and the Hendersons”
02/02: Bob Elliott, 92, radio/TV comedian (“Bob and Ray”); founder “The Slow Talkers of America”
02/15: George Gaynes, 98, Helsinki-born Dutch/Russian character actor (“Tootsie”; “Punky Brewster”; “Police Academy” series)
02/23: Burt Nodella, 91, TV producer (“Get Smart”); ex-boyfriend of “Get Smart” actress Barbara Feldon
03/23: Ken Howard, 71, actor (“The White Shadow”; “1776”); sitting president of SAG-AFTRA
03/24: Garry Shandling, 66, actor/comedian/writer (“It’s Gary Shandling’s Show”; “The Larry Sanders Show”)
03/28: James Noble, 94, actor (“1776” – stage and screen; TV’s “Benson”)
03/29: Patty Duke, 69, Academy Award-winning actress (“The Miracle Worker”; “The Patty Duke Show”; “Valley of the Dolls”); one-time president, SAG
03/31: Ronnie Corbett, 85, Scots-born TV comedian/actor (“The Two Ronnies”)
04/09: Arthur Anderson, 93, radio/stage/TV/voice-over actor; voice of “Lucky,” the Lucky Charms cereal mascot; juvenile actor with Orson Welles and “The Mercury Theater”
04/13: Frank Freda, 79, TV actor (“Diver Dan”)
04/16: Rod Daniel, 73, TV sitcom/movie director (“WKRP in Cincinnati”; “Everybody Loves Raymond”; “Teen Wolf”)
04/17; Doris Roberts, 90, TV sitcom character actress (“Soap”; “Angie”; ““Everybody Loves Raymond”)
04/23: Madeleine Sherwood, 93, Canadian-born stage/screen actress (“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”; “The Flying Nun”)
05/08: William Schallert, 93, TV character actor (“The Patty Duke Show”); one-time president, SAG
05/15: Michael Roberds, 52, Canadian-born TV actor (“The New Addams Family” as “Uncle Fester”)
05/19: Irving Benson, 102, vaudeville comic; portrayed Milton Berle heckler “Sidney Spritzer”
05/19: Alan Young, 96, Scots-Canadian TV/radio comic actor/voice-over artist (“Mister Ed”)
05/30: Carla Lane, 87, British TV sitcom writer/creator (“Butterflies”; “Bread”; “The LIverbirds”)
06/01: David Spielberg, 77, prolific TV character actor
06/12: Janet Waldo, 96, radio/cartoon voice-over actress (most notably as “Judy Jetson”); widow of playwright Robert E. Lee
06/14: Ann Morgan Guilbert, 87, TV sitcom actress (“The Dick Van Dyke Show”; “The Nanny”)
06/16: Richard O. Linke, 98, associate producer, “The Andy Griffith Show”
06/17: Ron Lester, 45, film/TV character actor (“Varsity Blues”; “Freaks and Geeks”)
06/18: Sharon Douglas, 96, 1940s radio/movie actress (“Babs Riley,” radio’s “The Life of Riley”)
06/23: Stuart Nisbet, 82, TV character actor (“Dragnet” TV stock company); Scottish history authority
07/03: Noel Neill, 95, movie/TV actress (“Lois Lane” in “The Adventures of Superman”)
07/07: Jimmy Gilbert, 93, Scots-born BBC comedy producer (many well-known series)
07/09: Norman Abbott, 93, prolific TV sitcom director; nephew of comedian Bud Abbott
07/09: Matt Villines, 39, “Saturday Night Live” segment director
07/14: Lisa Gaye, 81, 1950/1960s movie/TV actress (TV’s “How to Marry a Millionaire”)
07/17: Fred Tomlinson, 88, British singer/choral director; co-writer, Monty Python’s “Lumberjack Song”

07/19: Garry Marshall, 81, prolific TV/movie director, producer, writer, actor
07/28: Robert Crawford Sr., 95, TV editor (“The Monkees”; “Gidget”); father of actor Johnny Crawford
08/14: Philip “Fyvush” Finkle, 93, stage/screen actor rooted in NYC’s Yiddish theatre
08/15: Dick Assman, 82, Saskatchewan-based gas station owner; cult figure/punchline, “The Late Show with David Letterman”
08/19: Jack Riley, 81, movie/TV actor (“The Bob Newhart Show”; three Mel Brooks films)
08/25: Marvin Kaplan, 89, radio/TV/film/voiceover actor (“Meet Millie”; “Top Cat”; “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”; “Alice”)
08/29: Gene Wilder, 83, comedic actor/director/screenwriter
09/03: Leslie H. Martinson, 101, prolific TV director (including 1966 “Batman” movie spin-off)
09/18: Freda Rosen, 87, actress (“The Honeymooners” one-shot as “Rita Wedemeyer”); wife of comedy writer Arnie Rosen
10/08: Gary Dubin, 57, 1970s juvenile actor (“The Partridge Family”; “The Aristocats”; “Diamonds Are Forever”; “Jaws 2”)
10/12: Thomas Ford, 52, TV sitcom actor (“Martin”)
10/17: Eddie Applegate, 81, TV sitcom actor (“The Patty Duke Show”)
10/21: Kevin Meaney, 60, stand-up comedian/comic actor (TV’s “Uncle Buck”)
10/23: Jimmy Perry, 93, British TV comedy writer; co-creator, “Dad's Army,” “Hi-de-Hi!”
10/25: Kevin Curran, 59, TV comedy writer (“The Simpsons”); creator, David Letterman’s “Top Ten” lists
10/27: Hazel Shermet, 96, radio/TV/screen actress (“Duffy's Tavern”; “The New Zoo Revue”; “A Star Is Born”)
10/30: Tammy Grimes, 82, Broadway/screen/radio actress (“The Unsinkable Molly Brown”; “Can’t Stop the Music”; “The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”)
10/30: Don Marshall, 80, TV actor (“Land of the Giants”; “Julia”; “Star Trek” episode “Galileo 7”)
11/23: Jerry Tucker (aka Jerry Schatz), 91, 1930s child actor (“Our Gang,” usually as adversarial “rich kid”)
11/24: Florence Henderson, 82, stage/film/TV actress (“The Brady Bunch”)
11/25: Ron Glass, 71, TV sitcom actor (“Barney Miller”; “The New Odd Couple”)
11/29: Grant Tinker, 90, CEO, NBC (1981-1986); co-founder, MTM Enterprises
12/07: Adrianne Tolsch, 78, stand-up comic/emcee; wife of comedy writer Bill Scheft
12/13: Alan Thicke, 69, Canadian-born sitcom actor (“Growing Pains”); talk show host (“Thicke of the Night”); TV theme song co-writer (“Diff’rent Strokes”; “The Facts of Life”); father of singer Robin Thicke
12/14: Bernard Fox, 89, Welsh-born actor (recurring roles: “Bewitched”; “Hogan’s Heroes”; “The Andy Griffith Show”)
12/18: Zsa Zsa Gabor, 99, Hungarian-born actress/socialite
12/18: Gordie Tapp, 94, Canadian TV host, “Country Hoedown”; writer/comic performer, TV’s “Hee Haw”

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INSPIRATIONS FOR “PEANUTS’CHARACTERS
01/29: Linus Maurer, 90, commercial artist; inspiration for “Peanuts’” “Linus Van Pelt”
08/09: Donna Wold, 87, inspiration for “Peanuts” character "the little red-haired girl”
EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER
03/10: Keith Emerson, 71, keyboardist, “The Nice” and “Emerson, Lake, and Palmer” – suicide by gunshot
08/11: Michael Enthoven, 72, British “art rock” manager (“King Crimson,” “Emerson, Lake and Palmer”; Marc Bolan; “Roxy Music”)
12/07: Greg Lake, 69, vocalist/guitarist, “King Crimson”; “Emerson, Lake, and Palmer”
JEFERSON AIRPLANE MEMBERS ON JANUARY 28TH
01/28: Signe Toly Anderson, 74, original female vocalist, “Jefferson Airplane”
01/28: Paul Kantner, 74, singer/songwriter, “Jefferson Airplane”
MOTOWN SONGWRITERS FROM ITS EARLY GROUP “THE SATINTONES’ ON OCTOBER 12TH
10/12: Robert Bateman, 77, Motown songwriter (“Please, Mr. Postman”); singer, early Motown group “The Satintones”
10/12: William "Sonny" Sanders, 77, Motown songwriter (“Higher & Higher”); singer, early Motown group “The Satintones”
ARTISTS FOR “MAGIC: THE GATHERING” – ONE DAY APART
02/09: Wayne England, age not available, artist, role-playing card sets “Magic: The Gathering”
02/10: Christopher Rush, 50, artist, role-playing card sets “Magic: The Gathering”
“
EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND” – ONE DAY APART
04/16: Rod Daniel, 73, TV sitcom/movie director (“WKRP in Cincinnati”; “Everybody Loves Raymond”; “Teen Wolf”)
04/17; Doris Roberts, 90, TV sitcom character actress (“Soap”; “Angie”; ““Everybody Loves Raymond”)
EDWARD ALBEE, OR, CONNECTED TO HIM
01/09: Myra Carter, 86, Broadway actress noted for Edward Albee roles (“Three Tall Women”)
09/16: Edward Albee, 88, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
11/30: Alice Drummond, 88, character actress (“Awakenings”; “Ghostbusters”; early Albee stage roles; TV’s “Dark Shadows”)
PRINCE, OR, CONNECTED TO HIM
02/09: Donald E. Thorin, 81, cinematographer (“Purple Rain”; “An Officer and a Gentleman”)
02/15: Vanity (nee Denise Katrina Matthews), 57, Canadian-born singer/actress turned evangelist
04/21: Prince (ne Prince Rogers Nelson), 57, performing artist
08/26: Monty Lee Wilkes, 54, sound engineer/roadie (Prince; “Nirvana”; “The Replacements”)
PATTY DUKE, CONNECTED TO HER, OR CONNECTED TO “THE PATTY DUKE SHOW’
03/29: Patty Duke, 69, Academy Award-winning actress (“The Miracle Worker”; “The Patty Duke Show”; “Valley of the Dolls”); one-time president, SAG
04/23: A. Martin Zweiback, 85, screenwriter (Patty Duke film “Me, Natalie”; “Grace Quigley”; 1960s/1970s episodic TV)
04/29: Harry Falk, 83, TV director; first husband of Patty Duke
05/08: William Schallert, 93, TV character actor (“The Patty Duke Show”); one-time president, SAG
10/17: Eddie Applegate, 81, TV sitcom actor (“The Patty Duke Show”)
12/16: Joan D'Incecco, 89, casting director (“Car 54, Where Are You?”; “The Patty Duke Show”; “The Producers”; “Kojak”; “All My Children”)
PRESIDENTS OF SAG OR SAG-AFTRA
03/23: Ken Howard, 71, actor (“The White Shadow”; “1776”); sitting president of SAG-AFTRA
03/29: Patty Duke, 69, Academy Award-winning actress (“The Miracle Worker”; “The Patty Duke Show”; “Valley of the Dolls”); one-time president, SAG
05/08: William Schallert, 93, TV character actor (“The Patty Duke Show”); one-time president, SAG
DAVID BOWIE, OR, CONNECTED TO HIM
01/10: David Bowie, 69, singer/actor
01/17: Dale Griffin, 67, drummer, “Mott, the Hoople” (for whom Bowie wrote their signature song“All the Young Dudes”)
03/31: Maryan Baadi, age unavailable, Somalian-born mother of Iman and mother-in-law of David Bowie
04/06: Dennis Davis, 64, drummer for David Bowie
05/29: Wendy Leigh, 65, British celebrity biographer (David Bowie, JFK, Arnold Schwarzenegger) – building fall; possible suicide
GUYS NAMED “EDGAR” ON FEBRUARY 4TH
02/04: Edgar Mitchell, 85, Apollo 14 astronaut; sixth man to walk on the Moon (one day shy of the 45th anniversary of Apollo 14)
02/04: Governor Edgar Whitcomb (R-Indiana), 98, Governor of Indiana (1969-1973)
“SUGARLOAF”
02/11: Bob Raymond, 69, bassist, “Sugarloaf” (“Green-Eyed Lady”)
06/09: Bob Yeazel, 68, guitarist/vocalist, “Sugarloaf” (“Green-Eyed Lady”)
09/16: Jerry Corbetta, 68, lead vocalist/keyboardist, “Sugarloaf” (“Green-Eyed Lady”)
“OUR GANG”/”THE LITTLE RASCALS”
01/06: Douglas Greer, 94, Canadian-born child actor (second-tier player, early 1930s “Our Gang”)
11/23: Jerry Tucker (aka Jerry Schatz), 91, 1930s child actor (“Our Gang,” usually as adversarial “rich kid”)
THE PREANTEPENULTIMATE, ANTEPENULTIMATE, AND PENULTIMATE SURVIVORS OF ORSON WELLES’S “THE MERCURY THEATER”
04/09: Arthur Anderson, 93, radio/stage/TV/voice-over actor; voice of “Lucky,” the Lucky Charms cereal mascot; juvenile actor with Orson Welles and “The Mercury Theater”
05/10: William Herz Jr., 99, last surviving cast member, radio’s “War of the Worlds” (1938)
12/11: Kevin O'Morrison, 100, playwright; character actor; believed to be penultimate surviving member, Orson Welles' “The Mercury Theater”
Note: Centenarian NORMAN LLOYD survives
NEW YORK CITY REAL ESTATE MOGULS
02/06: John L. Tishman, 90, scion of NYC real estate family (Tishman Realty and Construction)
12/03: Jack Rudin, 92, scion of NYC real estate dynasty (Rudin Management Company)
CONNECTED TO ELVIS PRESLEY
02/24: Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, 88, Elvis Presley’s “Dr. Nick,” acquitted of overprescribing
06/28: Scotty Moore, 84, 1960s lead guitarist for Elvis Presley
10/29: Norman Brokaw, 89, talent agent (Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Cosby, Alexander Haig, Clint Eastwood)
11/23: Joe Esposito, 78, road manager for Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Bee Gees; Presley pallbearer; one of two best men at Presley’s wedding
LAST SURVIVING CAST MEMBERS
03/06: Kathryn Trosper Popper, 100, last surviving cast member, “Citizen Kane”
05/01: Madeleine LeBeau, 92), French 1940s actress; last surviving cast member, “Casablanca”
05/10: William Herz Jr., 99, last surviving cast member, radio’s “War of the Worlds” (1938)
CONNECTED TO “THE BEATLES”
03/08: Sir George Martin, 90, music producer/arranger (primarily for “The Beatles”)
05/14: Tony Barrow, 80, 1960s press officer for the Beatles (coined the term “Fab Four”)
05/25: Peggy Spencer, 95, British dancer/choreographer (TV's “Come Dancing”; Beatles' video "Your Mother Should Know”)
10/30: Claude “Curly” Putman, 85, songwriter (“Green, Green Grass of Home,” “She Stopped Loving Her Today”); inspiration for Paul McCartney’s song “Junior’s Farm”
“THE WALTONS”
03/24: Earl Hamner Jr., 92, radio/TV writer/producer (“Spencer’s Mountain”; “The Waltons”)
06/14: Ronnie Claire Edwards, 83, TV actress (“The Waltons”)
1950s POP SINGERS WITH #1 HITS
03/10: Gogi Grant, 91, 1950s popular singer (“The Wayward Wind”)
11/03: Kay Starr, 94, 1940s/1950s pop singer (“The Wheel of Fortune”)
12/12: Jim Lowe, 93, 1950s pop singer (“The Green Door”); standards/big band radio host (NYC’s WNEW-AM)
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“1776”
03/23: Ken Howard, 71, actor (“The White Shadow”; “1776”); sitting president of SAG-AFTRA
03/28: James Noble, 94, actor (“1776” – stage and screen; TV’s “Benson”)
04/09: Arthur Anderson, 93, radio/stage/TV/voice-over actor; voice of “Lucky,” the Lucky Charms cereal mascot; juvenile actor with Orson Welles and “The Mercury Theater” (Note: Arthur told me he had essayed roles both on Broadway and on the road except for “The Big Three” (Adams, Jefferson, Franklin)
08/02: David Huddleston, 85, comic actor (“Blazing Saddles”; “The Big Lebowski”; title role, “Santa Claus: The Movie”) – also “1776” on stage
RADIO SHRINKS
03/27: Toni Grant, 73, Los Angeles psychologist; syndicated radio personality
08/27: Dr. Joy Browne, 71, psychologist/radio personality (NYC’s WOR-AM); self-help author
SONS OF “THE RAT PACK”
03/16: Frank Sinatra Jr., 72, singer; son of singer Frank Sinatra; 1963 kidnapping victim
07/02: Teddy Rooney, 66, child actor-turned-musician; son of actors Mickey Rooney and Martha Vickers 08/03: Ricci Martin, 62, musician/entertainer: son of entertainer Dean Martin
Note: Mickey Rooney was a sometimes “Rat Pack-er” in the original Humphrey Bogart iteration
CLOSE RELATIVES OF DEAN MARTIN IN AUGUST 2016
08/03: Ricci Martin, 62, musician/entertainer: son of entertainer Dean Martin
08/24: Jeanne Biegger Martin, 89, fashion model; second wife of entertainer Dean Martin (1949-1972)
‘BARNEY MILLER”
01/26: Abe Vigoda, 94, actor (“The Godfather”; “”Barney Miller”; “Fish”)
11/25: Ron Glass, 71, TV sitcom actor (“Barney Miller”; “The New Odd Couple”)
“THE EAGLES”
01/18: Glenn Frey, 67, singer/songwriter/guitarist, “The Eagles”
03/06: Lana Rae Meisner, 63, wife of Randy Meisner (“The Eagles”) – accidental self-shooting
03/17: Steve Young, 73, “outlaw” country singer/songwriter (“Seven Bridges Road” for the Eagles)
CLOSE RELATIVES OF CELINE DION IN THE SAME WEEK IN JANUARY 2016
01/14: René Angélil, 74, Canadian husband of singer Celine Dion
01/16: Daniel Dion, 59, Canadian-born brother of singer Celine Dion
“BACHELOR FATHER”
01/15: Noreen Corcoran, 72, TV ingénue/actress (“Bachelor Father”)
03/18: Cherylene Lee, 69, Chinese-American TV actress (as “Blossom” on “Bachelor Father”)
10/16: Gloria Fong (aka Maylia), 90, 1940s Chinese-American film actress; widow of “Bachelor Father” actor Benson Fong; restaurateur
“STAR WARS” (mostly “Episode IV: A New Hope”)
12/25/2015: Jason Wingreen, 95, actor (“All in the Family,” “Archie Bunker’s Place”); voice of “Star Wars” character “Boba Fett”
02/14: Drewe Henley, 75, British actor (“Red Leader” X-Wing Commander in “Star Wars IV: A New Hope”)
02/17: George “Ray” West, 90, Academy Award Best Sound-winning sound mixer (“Star Wars IV: A New Hope”)
03/02: Tony Dyson, 69, British designer of the original “R2-D2”
04/03: Eric Bauersfeld, 93, “Star Wars” voice-over actor
04/17: Kit West, 80, British Academy Award-winning special effects artist (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”; “Return of the Jedi”)
08/13: Kenny Baker, 81, “R2-D2”
08/22: Michael Leader, 78, British actor (“EastEnders”; “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” as “clumsy” Stormtrooper”)
11/22: Peter Sumner, 74, Australian actor (as “Lieutenant Pol Treidum” in “Star Wars IV: A New Hope”)
REVEREND JIM JONES/JONESTOWN
12/31/2015: Robert Flick, 84, NBC news producer; survivor, Jonestown massacre and airport attack
09/15: Phil Tracy, 74, anti- Reverend Jim Jones journalist (“San Francisco Chronicle”; “The Village Voice”)
11/12: Frank Konigsberg, 83, film/TV producer (Bing Crosby specials; “9½ Weeks”; “The Guyana Tragedy”)
SIBLINGS OF BRITISH POET TED HUGHES
01/04: Olwyn Hughes, 87, literary agent for poet brother Ted Hughes and sister-in-law Sylvia Plath
08/06: Gerald Hughes, 85, brother of poet Ted Hughes and brother-in-law of poet Sylvia Plath
CELEBRITIES AND THEIR SPOUSES
02/20: Peter Mondavi, 101, Napa Valley vintner
09/02: Margrit Biever Mondavi, 91, Swiss-born arts patron; widow of vintner Robert Mondavi
06/24: Gwen Hiller, 92, Canadian-born wife of 1970s film director Arthur Hiller
08/17: Arthur Hiller, 92, Canadian-born film director (“Love Story”; “The In-Laws”; “Man of La Mancha”)
09/16: Audrey Howard Breen, age unavailable, wife of singer/actor Bobby Breen
09/19: Bobby Breen, 88, 1930s movie/radio child singer/actor
CELEBRITIES AND THEIR SIBLINGS
02/15: Mary Weaver Dodson, 83, TV art director (“Murder, She Wrote”); widow of actor Jack Dodson; sister of actor Fritz Weaver
11/26: Fritz Weaver, 90, character actor (Tony Award, “Child’s Play”; “Fail Safe”; “Holocaust”; “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Obsolete Man”)
02/23: Ramon Castro Ruz, 91, rancher; doppelgänger brother of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro
11/25: Fidel Castro Ruz, 90, dictator of Cuba (1959-2016)
“COOL HAND LUKE”
12/31/2015: Wayne Rogers, 82, actor (“Cool Hand Luke”; TV’s “M*A*S*H”)
02/28: George Kennedy, 91, Academy Award-winning character actor (“Cool Hand Luke”; “Airport” series)
03/08: Richard Davalos, 85, film actor (“East of Eden”; “Cool Hand Luke”; “Kelly’s Heroes”)
05/24: Buck Kartalian, 93, body builder turned character actor (“Planet of the Apes”; “Cool Hand Luke”)
“GHOSTBUSTERS”
05/24: Buck Kartalian, 93, body builder turned character actor (“Planet of the Apes”; “Cool Hand Luke”)
01/11: David Margulies, 78, character actor (as NYC mayor in “Ghostbusters” series)
11/30: Alice Drummond, 88, character actress (“Awakenings”; “Ghostbusters”; early Albee stage roles; TV’s “Dark Shadows”)
CONNECTED TO THE BEE GEES
01/04: Robert Stigwood, 81, Australian music impresario; film producer
08/12: Barbara Gibb, 95, mother of singers Barry, Maurice, Robin, Andy Gibb
11/23: Joe Esposito, 78, road manager for Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Bee Gees; Presley pallbearer; one of two best men at Presley’s wedding
MY LAI
04/03: Robert MacCrate, 94, special counsel, Department of the Army investigation of the 1968 My Lai Massacre
12/13: Lawrence Colburn, 67, US soldier who intervened in trying to stop the My Lai Massacre
JINGLE WRITERS
04/19: Les Waas, 94, Philadelphia-based jingle writer (“Mister Softee”)
09/21: Richard Trentlage, 87, adman/jingle writer (“Oscar Mayer Wiener,” “McDonald’s Is Your Kind of Place”)
MEMBERS OF HOLLYWOOD TWIN SETS
04/23: Wayne Hull, 89, 1930s child film actor (with twin brother Warren), “The Great Man Votes”
09/11: Lyn Wilde, 93, 1940s film actress (with sister Lee Wilde as “The Wilde Twins”)
TOUGH GUYS TURNED ACTORS
05/03: Abel Fernandez, 85, pugilist turned actor (TV’s “The Untouchables”)
05/24: Buck Kartalian, 93, body builder turned character actor (“Planet of the Apes”; “Cool Hand Luke”)
07/12: Seamon Glass, 90, pugilist-turned-character actor (“Sleeper”: “Deliverance”; TV’s “Star Trek”)
CONNECTED TO NYC-AREA CULT COMEDY SHOW “THE UNCLE FLOYD SHOW” – ALL ON JUNE 2ND
06/02: James H. Burns, 54, actor; pop culture historian (“Starlog” magazine)
06/02: Fred “Cappy” Capitani, 83, New Jersey-based cable access personality (“Cappy’s Casino Corner”)
06/02: Pamela Buttery, 54, provocative TV cult figure “Baby Bonzo” associated with NYC-area “The Uncle Floyd Show”
“EQUUS” – ONE DAY APART
06/06: Sir Peter Shaffer, 90, playwright/screenwriter (“Equus”: “Amadeus”)
06/07: Mary MacLeod, 78, Scottish stage/screen actress (“Equus,” British stage version; “If…”; “O Lucky Man”; “Mapp & Lucia”)
PEOPLE NAMED “COX” WITHIN A 48-HOUR PERIOD
06/16: MP Jo Cox, 41, West Yorkshire Labour Member of Parliament -- political assassination
06/18: Paul Cox, 76, Dutch-born Australian director/screenwriter
06.18: Robert Cox, 78, adman (“Just Say No”; Ford’s “Quality Is Job One”; “All Aboard Amtrak”)
LOCAL TV HORROR HOSTS
07/21: Bill “'Chilly Billy" Cardille, 87, Pittsburgh radio personality and TV horror/wrestling host; inspiration for Joe Flaherty’s “Count Floyd” character (“SCTV”)
10/27: John Zacherle (The Cool Ghoul), 98, NYC TV horror host, rock DJ, recording artist, "Dinner with Drac”
\LEONARD COHEN, OR, CONNECTED TO HIM
07/29: Marianne Ihlen, 81, Norwegian-born muse to, lover of, LP cover model for Leonard Cohen
11/07: Leonard Cohen, 82, Canadian singer/songwriter (“Suzanne”; “Hallelujah”), poet/novelist
“BATMAN ‘66”
09/03: Leslie H. Martinson, 101, prolific TV director (including 1966 “Batman” movie spin-off)
11/07: Julie Gregg, 79, film/TV actress (“The Godfather” series; “Man of La Mancha”; TV’s “Batman”)
11/29: Van Williams, 82, TV actor (“The Green Hornet”; “Surfside Six”; “Westwind”)
12/18: Zsa Zsa Gabor, 99, Hungarian-born actress/socialite
CONNECTED TO MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
03/17: Ralph David Abernathy III, 56, Georgia legislator; civil rights activist; son of civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy
04/26: Reverend Samuel Billy Kyles, 81, civil rights activist present at Martin Luther King Jr. assassination
09/03: Dabney Montgomery, 93, Civil Rights activist; bodyguard to Martin Luther King Jr. (Selma to Montgomery March)
TV ACTORS WHO WERE MARRIED TO KIM DARBY – WITHIN THE SAME WEEK
09/09: James Stacy, 79, TV actor (“Lancer”), double amputee convicted for child molestation; one-time husband of actress Kim Darby
09/14: James Westmoreland (aka Rad Fulton), 80, TV actor (“The Monroes”); husband of actress Kim Darby
CONNECTED TO ANDY WARHOL
01/10: David Bowie, 69, singer/actor (song “Andy Warhol” on his “Hunky Dory” LP)
07/18: Billy Name, 76, photographer; one-time lover of Andy Warhol
11/12: Anna Warhola, 92, Pittsburgh trolley operator; sister-in-law of Andy Warhol

Pretty Cool Derek.

Thanx,

Ray Arthur