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In Memoriam: Celebrities

US entertainer Ken Delo has died aged 77 earlier this month in the US. He appeared on shows such as Mission: Impossible as well as appearing on a variety show on the early days on HSV7 here in Melbourne. (1963-1964) with fellow American entertainer Jonathan Daly (Vale: Ken Delo).
 
Tony Burton
American Actor
Anthony "Tony" Burton was an American actor and comedian, best known for his role as Tony "Duke" Evers in the Rocky franchise. Burton was born Anthony Burton in Flint, Michigan on March 23, 1937. He had a younger sister named Loretta. A Flint Northern High School graduate, he was a Michigan Golden Gloves heavyweight boxing champion and two-time all-state football player. At Northern, he played halfback. In 1954, he scored 13 touchdowns and led his team in scoring. Many of the scoring runs were of 50 yards or more. He gained 820 yards rushing that year and one of his runs was for 95 yards. That same year, he was selected to the first teams of the All City and All Valley teams as a halfback. He was also chosen as an All State honorable mention. He was the team's co-captain and Most Valuable Player. Burton led his team in yards gained and receiving yards. In one game against Grand Rapids Catholic, he gained 213 total yards. At Northern, Burton was also the leading baseball pitcher, pitching the team to the city championship title.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNIhLva8kUc
 
George Kennedy
American Actor
George Harris Kennedy, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in more than two hundred film and television productions. His wide variety of roles include "Dragline" in Cool Hand Luke, for which he won an Academy Award; as Joe Patroni in all four of the 1970s Airport disaster films; as Police Captain Ed Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films; and as corrupt oil tycoon Carter McKay on the original Dallas television series.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN5rX_R28rU
 
Joey Feek

Joey + Rory were an American country and bluegrass duo composed of singer-songwriters Rory Lee Feek and Joey Martin Feek, who were husband and wife. Joey was the duo's lead vocalist, while Rory sung background vocals and played guitar. The duo was the third-place finalist on CMT's competition Can You Duet in 2008. That same year, Joey + Rory signed to Sugar Hill/Vanguard Records, releasing their debut album The Life of a Song in late October. This album's lead-off single, "Cheater, Cheater", was a Top 40 hit on the Billboard country charts. Although none of their other singles made top 40 on that chart, the duo released seven studio albums in total. Joey died on March 4, 2016 of cervical cancer.



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg2srpHNpPs
 
Pat Conroy
Author
Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy was a New York Times bestselling American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films. He is recognized as a leading figure of late-20th century Southern literature.
 
Ray Tomlinson
Programmer
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson was an American computer programmer who implemented the first email system on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971. It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPANET. To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the user name from the name of their machine, a scheme which has been used in email addresses ever since. The Internet Hall of Fame in their account of his work commented "Tomlinson's email program brought about a complete revolution, fundamentally changing the way people communicate".
 
Paul Ryan (cartoonist)

Paul Ryan(September 23, 1949 – March 6, 2016 was an American comic book and comic strip cartoonist. Ryan worked extensively for Marvel Comics and DC Comics on a number of super-hero comics. Until his death in 2016, he penciled and inked the daily comic strip The Phantom for King Features Syndicate.

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I wasn't planning to post today (I only come on on a Saturday), but there are reports that Australian entertainer Jon English has died (it was announced a few minutes ago on Channel 7's Sunrise) from complications from surgery (Aussie rocker Jon English dead at 66).

EDIT: I just found another article about the death of Jon English on the website of The Age (Singer songwriter Jon English dead at 66). There is also an article on Wikipedia about him (Jon English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
 
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Ernestine Anderson
Singer
Ernestine Anderson was an American jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning more than six decades, she recorded over 30 albums. She was nominated four times for a Grammy Award. She sung at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival, as well as at jazz festivals all over the world. In the early 1990s she joined Qwest Records, the label of fellow Garfield High School grad Quincy Jones



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLg-1i2XQds
 
Frank Sinatra Jr.
American Singer
Francis Wayne "Frank" Sinatra, professionally known as Frank Sinatra, Jr., was an American singer, songwriter and conductor. Frank Jr. was the son of singer and actor Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra. He was the younger brother of singer and actress Nancy Sinatra, and the older brother of television producer Tina Sinatra.



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB9dFASrhlk
 
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Larry Drake
American Actor
Larry Drake was an American actor, best known as Benny Stulwicz on L.A. Law. Drake was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Lorraine Ruth, a homemaker, and Raymond John Drake, a drafting engineer for an oil company. He graduated from Tulsa Edison High School and the University of Oklahoma.



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehYJ-85sa3I
 
Joe Santos
Actor
Joe Santos was an American film and television actor. Born in Brooklyn, Santos was a football player at Fordham University, and even turned semi-pro, before finding a new avenue in acting. He struggled in show business, and worked blue-collar jobs until his friend Al Pacino helped him get a role in the 1971 movie The Panic in Needle Park.
 
Ken Howard
American Actor
Kenneth Joseph "Ken" Howard, Jr. was an American actor, best known for his roles as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and as basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player Ken Reeves in the television show The White Shadow. Howard won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1970 for his performance in Child's Play, and later won the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his work in Grey Gardens


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RARBgE1UJg
 
Joe Garagiola
Announcer
Joseph Henry Garagiola, Sr. was an American professional baseball catcher, later an announcer and television host, popular for his colorful personality. Garagiola played nine seasons in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, and the New York Giants. He was also well known outside of baseball for having been one of the regular panelists on The Today Show for many years, and for his numerous appearances on game shows, both as a host and panelist.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz34uoPqkjY
 

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