In Memoriam: Celebrities

[indigohex]

Vivean Gray, famous for playing Ramsey Street gossip Mrs. Mangel in Neighbours, has died at the age of 92 (Vale: Vivean Gray).

 

[PaulTheProtist]

Daniel William Guers died a couple of days ago at the age of 91, he was the creator of Guers Iced Tea, a drink loved by many in the Coal Region and surrounding areas.

 

[LavenderCase]

Alan Young

Passed a couple of months ago. Best known for Mr. Ed and the voice of Scrooge McDuck. An inspirational actor.

 

[Kung Fu Ferret]

Can't believe it's been two years since we lost Robin Williams.......

 

[omahanime]

Barry Jenner
American Actor
Barry Francis Jenner was an American actor. Jenner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had early roles on two daytime programs, as Tony Cooper on Somerset and as Evan Webster on Another World, where he was involved with Olive Gordon in an infamous storyline plot to kill long-time character John Randolph. In 1981, he appeared in several episodes of Knots Landing as Jeff Cunningham, ex-husband of the Donna Mills character, Abby Cunningham. He later had a recurring role as Dr. Jerry Kenderson on Dallas. Jenner, best known for his pivotal role as Admiral William Ross on 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,'

 

[omahanime]

Kenneth "Kenny" George Baker (24 August 1934 – 13 August 2016) was an English actor and musician. He was well known for portraying the character R2-D2 in the popular science fiction movie franchise Star Wars.

 

[indigohex]

Former guitar player for 3 Doors Down Matt Roberts has died from a suspected prescription drug overdose (3 Doors Down's Matt Roberts tragically passes away).

 

[Kung Fu Ferret]

RIP Gene Wilder

 

[omahanime]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PJPJy00514

 

[indigohex]

I remembered watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on VHS when I was a kid. The version with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka that is. I just found out about his death on TV Tonight (Vale: Gene Wilder).

 

[Kung Fu Ferret]

Can't believe it's been exactly ten years since we lost the great Steve Irwin.......

 

[omahanime]

Hugh O'Brian
American Actor
Hugh Charles Krampe, known professionally as Hugh O'Brian, was an American actor known for his starring roles in the ABC western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and the NBC action television series Search. He also had a minor role in John Wayne's last film, The Shootist. O'Brian was the last man killed by John Wayne in a film.

 

[indigohex]

Vale Max Walker (Vale: Max Walker). He was a former cricketer (for Australia, and in 1972 became the first Tasmanian to be called up to the Australian Test team since C.L. Badcock in 1936) and Australian Rules footballer (for Melbourne Football Club). After his retirement, he was a commentator, first for Seven and then Nine where he hosted Wide World of Sports on the Nine Network until 1999 and the Sunday Footy Show (also on the Nine Network) from 1993 until 1998. He died from melanoma.

 

[omahanime]

Fidel Castro
Former Prime Minister of Cuba
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, commonly known as Fidel Castro, was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration Cuba became a one-party socialist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms implemented throughout society.

 

[omahanime]

Ron Glass
American Actor
Ronald E. "Ron" Glass was an American actor. He was known for his roles as the literary Det. Ron Harris in the television sitcom Barney Miller, and as the spiritual Shepherd Derrial Book in the short-lived 2002 science fiction series Firefly and its sequel film Serenity

 

[omahanime]

Florence Henderson
American Actress
Florence Agnes Henderson was an American actress and singer with a career spanning six decades. She is best remembered for her starring role as matriarch Carol Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974. Henderson also appeared in film as well as on stage and hosted several long-running cooking and variety shows over the years. She appeared as a guest on many scripted and nonscripted television programs and as a panelist on numerous game shows. She was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars in 2010. Henderson hosted her own talk show, The Florence Henderson Show, and cooking show, Who's Cooking with Florence Henderson, on Retirement Living TV during the years leading up to her sudden death on Thanksgiving Day 2016 from heart failure.

 

[indigohex]

Andrew Sacks (Manuel from Fawlty Towers) has died (Vale: Andrew Sachs).

And I remember watching The Brady Bunch when I was growing up, so it is sad that both parents from the show (Mike and Carol) and Alice have all died.

And some sad news with most of the players from Chapecoense killed in the tragic plane crash a few days ago in the LaMia Flight 2933 tragedy (LaMia Flight 2933 - Wikipedia).

 

[omahanime]

Van Williams
Actor
Van Zandt Jarvis Williams was an actor best known for his television role as Britt Reid/the Green Hornet and his earlier leading role as Kenny Madison in both Warner Bros. television detective series Bourbon Street Beat and its sequel, Surfside 6. He teamed for one season with the late Bruce Lee as his partner Kato, in the television series The Green Hornet, broadcast on ABC during the 1966–67 season.

 

[omahanime]

Peter Vaughan
Character Actor
Peter Vaughan was an English character actor, known for many supporting roles in British film and television productions. He also worked extensively on the stage. He was best known for his role as Grouty in the sitcom Porridge and also had a recurring role alongside Robert Lindsay in Citizen Smith, written by John Sullivan. He also had parts as Tom Franklin in Chancer, playing the father of Anthony Hopkins's character in The Remains of the Day, and as Maester Aemon in HBO's Game of Thrones.

 

[indigohex]

Firstly, Greg Lake (from Emerson Lake & Palmer) has died from cancer aged 69 (Greg Lake: King Crimson and ELP star dies aged 69 - BBC News). This means that Carl Palmer is now the only member of ELP who is still with us. And as I mentioned earlier in this thread, Fanfare for the Common Man (the ELP version) was used as the theme for Seven Sport here in Australia back in the 1990s.

And former astronaut and US Senator from Ohio has also died aged 95 (John Glenn, 1st American to Orbit Earth, Dies).