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In Memoriam: Celebrities

Patty Duke
American Actress
Anna Marie "Patty" Duke was an American actress of stage, film and television. She first became known as a teen star, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16 for her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, which she had originated on Broadway. Later she had the lead in the eponymous sitcom The Patty Duke Show. Duke progressed to more mature roles such as in the film Valley of the Dolls playing Neely O'Hara. She served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1985 to 1988, four years after her Patty Duke Show co-star William Schallert held the same office.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViomzdjsLZ0
 
James Noble
Actor

James Wilkes Noble was an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the sweet-natured but naive Governor of Georgia on ABC’s 1980s sitcom Benson. Noble was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Lois Frances and Ralph Byrne Noble. He began his career in soap operas, such as The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, The Doctors and A World Apart.
 
Erik Bauersfeld
Voice Actor

Erik Bauersfeld was an American radio dramatist and voice actor. His most notable role was providing the voices of Admiral Ackbar and Bib Fortuna in the third film of the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi. He reprised his role as the voice of Admiral Ackbar in Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA
 
Merle Haggard
Songwriter
Merle Ronald Haggard was an American country music songwriter, singer, guitarist, fiddler, and instrumentalist. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band the Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville sound recordings of the same era.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68cbjlLFl4U
 
Doris Roberts
American Actress
Doris Roberts was an American actress. She received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award during her acting career, which began in 1951. She was perhaps best known for her role as Raymond Barone's mother, Marie Barone, on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.
 
Chyna
Wrestler
Chyna was an American professional wrestler, actress, glamour model, bodybuilder, and pornographic film actress. Laurer first rose to prominence in the professional wrestling promotion the World Wrestling Federation in 1997, where she performed under the ring name Chyna and was billed as the "Ninth Wonder of the World". A founding member of the stable D-Generation X, she held the WWF Intercontinental Championship twice and the WWF Women's Championship once. She was also the first woman to participate in the Royal Rumble and King of the Ring events, as well as to become number one contender to the WWF Championship. With singles victories over several prominent male wrestlers – including multiple-time world champions Triple H, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho and Jeff Jarrett – Chyna has left "a lasting legacy as the most dominant female competitor of all time". After leaving the WWF in 2001, Chyna wrestled sporadically, with New Japan Pro Wrestling in 2002 and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in 2011.
 
The singer Prince has died.

For many of us he was a personal hero, perhaps because he was bold and striking and it made it just a bit more acceptable to do so. Prince was a fantastic musician with quite a few r&b and pop classic albums, whilst his stake to the pop throne may never have been secured with the likes of Michael Jackson around, he didn't need to be crowned anything. He wasn't the king of pop so much as he was just Prince. A musician within his own world playing by his rules, and sometimes he'd shear them with us. A legend.
 
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William Schallert
Character Actor
William Joseph Schallert was an American character actor who appeared in many films and in such television series as Perry Mason; The Smurfs; Jefferson Drum; Philip Marlowe; The Rat Patrol; Gunsmoke; Star Trek; The Patty Duke Show; 87th Precinct; The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; The Waltons; Hawaii Five-O, Quincy, M.E.; The Partridge Family; Bonanza; Wanted: Dead or Alive; Leave It to Beaver; The Dick Van Dyke Show; Love, American Style; Get Smart; Lawman; Combat!; The Wild Wild West; and in later years, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Medium and True Blood.
 
Alan Young, American actor best known for voicing Mr. Ed and Scrooge McDuck, passed on at age 96. :(
 
Muhammad Ali
Professional Boxer
Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the history of the sport. A controversial and polarizing figure during his early career, Ali is now highly regarded for the skills he displayed in the ring plus the values he exemplified outside of it: religious freedom, racial justice and the triumph of principle over expedience. He is one of the most recognized sports figures of the past 100 years, crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC.
 
Anton Yelchin
Actor
Anton Viktorovich Yelchin was an American film and television actor. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles and the Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis. His role as Jacob Clarke in the Steven Spielberg miniseries Taken was significant in furthering his career as a child actor. He later appeared on the television series Huff and starred in the films Terminator Salvation, Charlie Bartlett, Fright Night, Like Crazy and Only Lovers Left Alive.


AntonYelchin, a rising actor best known for playing Chekov in the new 'Star Trek' films, was killed Sunday morning in a fatal traffic collision, his publicist said.
 
Elie Weisel died yesterday. He was a Holocaust survivor and the author of the book Night, which taught the world many of the atrocities committed at concentration camps and earned him the noble peace prize. There's no denying that his influence was huge, his activism is a big reason that we teach kids about the Holocaust in schools so that such an event could never happen again. Rest in peace, Weisel.
 
Jerry Doyle
Actor
Jerry Doyle was an American talk radio host, right-libertarian political commentator, television actor and founder of the content platform EpicTimes. His nationally syndicated talk show, The Jerry Doyle Show, aired throughout the United States on Talk Radio Network. As an actor, Doyle is best known for his role as Michael Garibaldi in the science fiction series Babylon 5.
 

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