Famous Men : R.I.P. List #2

Date of Birth 20 October 1953, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Date of Death 24 September 2016, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth Name William Goldwyn Nunn III

Height 6' 3½" (1.92 m)

Spouse: Donna Anne Watts (? - 24 September 2016) (his death)

Trade Mark: Frequently cast in Spike Lee films.

Date of Birth 10 September 1929, Youngstown, Pennsylvania, USA

Date of Death 25 September 2016, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth Name Arnold Daniel Palmer

Spouse (2) Kathleen Gawthrop (26 January 2005 - 25 September 2016) (his death)

Winifred Walzer (20 December 1954 - 20 November 1999) (her death) (2 children)

Date of Birth 15 June 1929, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Date of Death 26 September 2016

Nickname Godfather Of Gore

Height 6' 1" (1.85 m)

Date of Birth 24 February 1922, Seattle, Washington, USA

Date of Death 23 August 2016, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name Solomon Krakovsky

Height 5' 11½" (1.82 m)

Spouses: Rachel Schenker (1967 - 23 August 2016) (his death) (5 children)

Selma Stern (8 April 1951 - 1964) (divorced) (4 children)

Trade Marks: Often tells stories about his life as an Orthodox Jew Usually played roles that are both parental and authority figures His pragmatic voice

Date of Birth 17 January 1942, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Date of Death 3 June 2016, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (respiratory ailments)

Birth Name Cassius Marcellus Clay

Nicknames The Louisville Lip The Greatest The People's Champion

Height 6' 3" (1.91 m)

Spouse (4) Yolonda Williams (19 November 1986 - 3 June 2016) (his death) (1 child)

Verónica Porche Ali (19 June 1977 - 1986) (divorced) (2 children)

Khalilah 'Belinda' Ali (17 August 1967 - 29 December 1976) (divorced) (4 children)

Sonji Roi (14 August 1964 - 10 January 1966) (divorced)

Trade Marks:

Trademark phrase: "Floats Like A Butterfly and Stings Like a Bee"

Predicting the round in which his opponents would fall, sometimes even down to the minute

The Ali Shuffle

Boastful behavior

Extraordinary speed and agility in addition to devastatingly powerful blows

Stinging taunts of opponents which frequently rhymed.

Rope-a-dope strategy (absorbing round after round of punishing blows from the opponent only to come back stronger after the opponent exhausted themselves)

Suffered,for 30years, from Parkinson's Syndrome, caused by the numerous blows to the head during his boxing career.

[on Elvis Presley] Elvis was my close personal friend. He came to my Deer Lake training camp about two years before he died. He told us he didn't want nobody to bother us. He wanted peace and quiet and I gave him a cabin in my camp and nobody even knew it. When the cameras started watching me train, he was up on the hill sleeping in the cabin. Elvis had a robe made for me. I don't admire nobody but Elvis Presley. He was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd ever meet.

Born: September 4, 1960 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Died: January 23, 2012 (age 51) in Canada

Alternate Names: Stephen Adams

Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m)

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. [First words spoken on the moon. The speech as written by his wife read "That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind. Unfortunately he forgot the a in the between for and man, thus changing the meaning.]

Date of Birth 5 August 1930, Wapakoneta, Ohio, USA

Date of Death 25 August 2012, USA(Natural causes)

Birth Name Neil Alden Armstrong

Height 5' 11" (1.80 m)

Spouse Carol Held Knight (12 June 1994 - His death) Janet Shearon (28 January 1956 - 1994) (divorced) 3 children

Date of Birth 25 March 1938, Duncan, Oklahoma, USA

Date of Death 26 October 1999, Helena, Montana, USA (heart attack)

Birth Name Hoyt Wayne Axton

In November of 2007, the Oklahoma born-and-raised singer/songwriter was inducted posthumously, along with his mother, to the Oklahoma Country Music Hall of Fame in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

"Contemplating mankind's purpose turns people like me into pseudo-philosophers. I feel that life is simply a matter of one foot in front of the other and down the road we go. If we're lucky we get to enjoy a little dance or song now and then--I've been singing my song to life since I was born. I've learned that love and the blues seem to be partners."

Date of Birth 24 August 1934, Birmingham, England, UK

Date of Death 13 August 2016, England, UK

Birth Name Kenneth George Baker

Height 3' 8" (1.12 m)

Spouse: Eileen Baker (1970 - 1993) (her death) (2 children)

Trade Marks: Short stature Thick English accent Best known as R2D2 from the Star Wars films

He and Anthony Daniels are the only actors to have a role in all seven Star Wars movies. However, Baker worked only as an uncredited consultant in the seventh film while Daniels actually appeared in all seven films.

Date of Birth 11 June 1932 , Brooklyn, New York, USA

Date of Death 8 June 2005 , London, England, UK (virus)

Birth Name George Victor Bishop

Height 5' 11" (1.8 m)

Spouses: Hillary Preen (1962 - ?) (divorced) (4 children)

Jane Skinner (? - 8 June 2005) (his death)

Died 5 days after his UFO (1969) co-star Michael Billington.

Had three daughters. He also had a son named Daniel who passed away.

Date of Birth 30 April 1938, Venice, California, USA

Date of Death 14 October 2012, Biloxi, Miss., USA

Birth Name Gary Ennis Collins

Height 6' 1" (1.85 m)

"Needless to say, DeMolay had a profound effect on me. It arrived at a critical point in my life. For at fourteen, the issues of fraternity, faith, and trust were insignificant. The example of Jacques DeMolay's courage helped me to see that there was another dimension to one's life and that the attempt to reach a worthy goal could give so much more meaning to one's life. Of course, the opportunity to go through the chairs was an honor and certainly nurtured whatever leadership qualities I might possess today."

Date of Birth 25 May 1921, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death 1 Sept 2012, Los Angeles, USA (complications from a stroke)

"Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that."

Date of Birth 10 December 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date of Death 3 September 2012, Los Angeles, California, USA (cardiac arrest)

Birth Name Michael Clarke Duncan

Nickname Hollywood Big Mike

Height 6' 5" (1.96 m)

[on The Green Mile (1999)] I think the toughest scene for me to film was the two dead girls, simply because I had a lot of crying to do, a lot of howling to do, and it really drained me.

Date of Birth 11 June 1936, South Bend, Indiana, USA

Date of Death 24 July 2012, Los Angeles, California, USA (lung cancer)

Birth Name Raymon Lee Cramton

Height 6' 1½" (1.87 m)

Spouse Shelby Grant (22 May 1966 - 25 June 2011) (her death) 2 children

Date of Birth 8 February 1974, Nassau, Bahamas

Date of Death 6 June 2016, Coral Springs, Florida, USA

Birth Name Kevin Ferguson

Nickname Kimbo Slice

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Date of Birth 13 March 1901 , Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA

Date of Death 14 October 1983 , Los Angeles, California, USA (kidney failure)

Birth Name Peter Paul Fix

Height 6' (1.83 m)

Spouses: Beverly Pratt (20 August 1949 - 13 November 1979) (her death)

Frances Harvey (1922 - 1945) (divorced) (1 child)

Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, California - Block 17.

Personal Quotes: The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

[of John Wayne] He was too generous. He was just like his father and that I respect.

[of "Chata" Wayne] Not someone to settle down with. You just knew she was trouble.

Date of Birth 4 July 1925 , Santa Paula, California, USA

Date of Death 28 September 1966 , Tingo Maria area, Peru (drowned)

Birth Name Edward Heddy

Height 6' 4" (1.93 m)

Drowned while filming a TV scene in Peru at age 41.

Fleming was unmarried and had no children. He was to have married long-time companion Lynne Garber within two days of his death.

During Fleming's enlistment in the Seabees in 1942, his face was shattered when a 200-pound block of steel slipped from a hoist. A long convalescence and four plastic surgical procedures created the face familiar to Rawhide (1959) viewers.

Personal Quotes: [Citizen-News/Los Angeles, March 1, 1962] Most cattle today are like one large fillet. They are too pampered to appear on Rawhide (1959).

Date of Birth 5 September 1960 , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death 18 March 2002 , Los Angeles, California, USA (stroke)

Denis passed away suddenly following a massive stroke in Los Angeles on March 18, 2002, after having dinner in a Franklin Avenue restaurant in Hollywood with a few friends.

Date of Birth 7 January 1950, Parácuaro, Michoacán, Mexico

Date of Death 28 August 2016, Santa Monica, California, USA (Heart Attack)

Birth Name Alberto Aguilera Valadez

He was Mexico's leading singer-songwriter and top-selling artist. His biggest hits include "Hasta Que Te Conoci" ("Until I Met You") and "Amor Eterno" ("Eternal Love"). His song "Querida" ("Dear") topped Mexico's charts for an entire year. He wrote his first song when he was 13, and went on to compose more than 1,500 songs.

Date of Birth 1 February 1938, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Date of Death 24 July 2012, El Paso, Texas, USA (superior vena cava syndrome due to lung cancer)

Birth Name Sherman Alexander Hemsley

Height 5' 6" (1.68 m)

[When he was about to co-star with Isabel Sanford on "All in the Family" (1968)'s spinoff, "The Jeffersons" (1975)]: Isabel Sanford, who played his wife, Louise Jefferson, was reluctant to leave "All in the Family" (1968). She didn't know how the show would go."

Date of Birth 19 September 1936, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death 7 October 2011, Tiburon, California, USA (heart attack)

Birth Name David Alexander Hess

Height 5' 11" (1.80 m)

[on being a guest at horror conventions] I love doing them. Maybe other people don't. I just think if you're not in touch with your fans, why bother? I mean, it's a job but it's not a job. I can't do that many of them though. I try to limit my appearances to maybe four or five a year if that sounds right. When you're on screen and you're depicting something, you're influencing a lot of people. So it's very important if you're influencing them in a way that can be negative, that you go out there and show the positive side of you. The convention circuit is a good way to get out there and meet and greet your fans and say thank you. And at the same time, pick up a little pocket money if you're not working. So it works on both ends.

[on his first love] I'd say the music. That's my essence. I always tell people, "Don't make me choose because you won't get me in any more films!" Of course, that's not realistic because nobody forces you to choose ... you choose yourself. Essentially, I'm a musician. Always have been. When that darkness comes, I always resort to music to try and get myself back into a positive state of mind. That's not to say making films, writing or acting isn't important to me. It's very important because it's another way of telling people how I feel and who I am.

"My style of acting is to go over the edge during rehearsal -- to push it as far as I possibly can, just to see how far I can go. And I set my parameters from there."

Date of Birth 13 December 1974, Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Death 27 June 2009, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Birth Name Richard Hayes Hillman Jr.

Did not get along with his father, producer Richard Hillman Sr., during his lifetime. The two were estranged at the time of his death. Contracted HIV in the late 1990s.

Date of Birth 3 April 1893, Forest Hill, London, England, UK

Date of Death 1 June 1943, Bay of Biscay (casualty of war)

Birth Name Leslie Howard Steiner

Height 5' 10½" (1.79 m)

Spouse Ruth Evelyn Martin (March 1916 - 1 June 1943) (his death) 2 children

Died when the 1936 Douglas aircraft «Isis» he was in, with 4 crew members and 12 other passengers, KLM flight #777 of the regular line Bristol - Lisbon, was shot down by Luftwaffe fighter planes over the Bay of Biscay.

Disclosed in 1944, Leslie Howard left an estate totaling $251,000. The majority was held in trust to his widow, son and daughter. Howard had also left a Beverly Hills home to his secretary, Violette Cunnington (with whom he was rumored to be having an affair), but she had died six months before his own death.

Date of Birth 2 February 1944, Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK

Date of Death 27 July 2012, The Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, UK (prostate cancer)

Height 5' 11" (1.80 m)

"The joy of doing a play as an actor is that you've got that interaction with the audience and you're also your own editor. If I want to make a pause three quarters of an hour long, I can, whereas on television and film you've got an editor and if you feel there's a rhythm to a line and you want to say it that way, there's no guarantee it'll stay that way."

Date of Birth 3 October 1890, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Date of Death 8 March 1977, Cornwall, England, UK (following a stroke)

Birth Name Henry Watterson Hull

Height 6' (1.83 m)

Juliet van Wyck Fremont (30 November 1913 - 3 March 1971) (her death) 3 children

Died in England but was interred in the Rockland Cemetery in Sparkill, New York next to his wife.

Lived on an Old Lyme, Connecticut farm with his wife for over thirty years. Following her death in 1971 and after suffering a stroke, he moved to his daughter Joan's home in Cornwall, England.

Had three children: Henry Jr., an infrequent performer and stage manager; Shelley (named after his deceased brother and a prolific TV producer); and Joan.

Date of Birth 26 August 1952, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, USA

Date of Death 30 March 2003, Los Angeles, California, USA (epileptic seizure/asphyxiation)

Nickname Mike Jeter

Height 5' 4" (1.63 m)

Revealed his HIV status on "Entertainment Tonight" (1981) before it could be revealed by any tabloids.

Survived by his life partner, Sean Blue; his parents, Dr. William and Virginia Jeter of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee; his brother, William; and four sisters: Virginia, Amanda, Emily, and Larie.

Date of Birth 15 July 1935, Gary, Indiana, USA

Date of Death 10 October 2012, Los Angeles, California, USA (kidney failure)

Birth Name Alexander George Karras

Height 6' 3" (1.91 m)

Born: Robert Keith Richey Jr. November 14, 1921 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

Died: June 24, 1997 (age 75) in Malibu, California, USA(suicide)

At the time of his death, he was suffering from emphysema and terminal lung cancer, as well as mourning the recent gunshot suicide of his 27-year-old daughter, Daisy Keith, only ten weeks prior. His own suicide happened after he returned from a stay at a hospital.

Date of Birth 28 April 1949, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death 14 August 2006, Los Angeles, California, USA (complications from leukemia)

Birth Name Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu Jr.

Height 5' 6½" (1.69 m)

Spouse Lynn Sellers (29 September 2003 - 14 August 2006) (his death)

"I've been very lucky. And in this business, you have to have a certain amount of timing and luck because I know, right now as we're sitting here talking, there's a guy driving a cab in New York City who can put me away."

Date of Birth 25 December 1902, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Date of Death 1 January 1969, Santa Monica, California, USA (cancer)

Birth Name Ernest Barton MacLane

Height 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Spouse Charlotte Wynters (22 November 1939 - 1 January 1969) (his death) Martha Stewart (1925 - 1930) (divorced) 2 children

Date of Birth 2 February 1944, Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK

Date of Death 27 July 2012, The Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, UK (prostate cancer)

Height 5' 11" (1.80 m)

"The joy of doing a play as an actor is that you've got that interaction with the audience and you're also your own editor. If I want to make a pause three quarters of an hour long, I can, whereas on television and film you've got an editor and if you feel there's a rhythm to a line and you want to say it that way, there's no guarantee it'll stay that way."

Date of Birth 21 February 1954, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death 23 July 2011, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, USA (brain aneurysm)

Birth Name George Charles Mayer III

Nickname Chip

Height 6' 4" (1.93 m)

Spouses: Shauna Sullivan (24 December 1988 - ?) (divorced) (2 children)

Eileen Davidson (16 August 1986 - 1988) (divorced)

Teri Copley (1982 - 1984) (divorced) (1 child)

Was engaged to be married for a 4th time at the time of his death.

Date of Birth 28 December 1931, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Date of Death 6 September 2015, Carlsbad, California, USA (after a long illness)

Birth Name Martin Sam Milner

Height 6' 1" (1.85 m)

Died peacefully on a Sunday night at his home in Carlsbad, California, surrounded by his family.

Milner's memorial service occurred six days after his passing in Oceanside, California with Law Enforcement and community members paying tribute to him.

He is buried at Eternal Hills Memorial Park in Oceanside, California.

Date of Birth 10 July 1934, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Date of Death 23 Aug 2012, USA

Worked on Sesame Street for 42 years until his death.

Date of Birth 19 April 1925, Rochester, New York, USA

Date of Death 5 September 2016, Beverly Hills, California, USA (natural causes)

Birth Name Hugh Charles Krampe

Height 6' (1.83 m)

Spouse: Virginia Barber (25 June 2006 - 5 September 2016) (his death)

Date of Birth 2 April 1949, Cheshire, Connecticut, USA

Date of Death 14 August 2012, Palm beach, FL, USA (Heart Attack)

Birth Name Ron Paolillo

Height 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Was the second of the main cast members of "Welcome Back, Kotter" (1975) to pass away in 2012. The first was Robert Hegyes, who ironically also passed away from a heart attack.

Date of Birth 26 April 1918 , San Francisco, California, USA

Date of Death 5 November 1974 , Inglewood, California, USA (heart attack)

Birth Name Stafford Alois Repp

Nickname Staff

Height 5' 11" (1.8 m)

Spouse (3) Theresa Valenti Moriarty (6 November 1970 - 6 November 1974) (his death)

Sharon D. Currier (23 November 1969 - 5 November 1970) (divorced)

Berta J. Slack (1967 - 1968) (divorced)

He suffered a fatal heart attack on November 5, 1974 while at the Hollywood Park racing track. After his death, his sister, a TV writer, established the Stafford Repp Memorial Scholarship for alumni of his alma mater, Lowell High School, in San Francisco.

Veteran character actor best known for his role as Chief O'Hara on the _"Batman" (1966/II)_ TV series. He became a wealthy man through a business partnership in a chain of car washes before his early death at the age of 56.

Date of Birth 2 February 1955, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death 10 August 2016

Date of Birth 25 July 1936 , Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Date of Death 15 August 2013 , Dallas, Texas, USA (lung cancer)

Birth Name August Werner Schellenberg

Nickname Augie

Height 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Lived in Montreal until moving to Toronto, Ontario, where he resided from 1967 until 1995. Was living in Dallas, Texas when he died.

He was Métis (Swiss-German and Mohawk). His father was of Swiss descent and his mother was of English-Mohawk descent.

Date of Birth 21 June 1944, North Shields, Northumberland, England, UK

Date of Death 19 August 2012, San Pedro, California, USA (Suicide)

Birth Name Anthony D. L. Scott

Nickname T-Scott

Height 5' 6½" (1.69 m)

[on Top Gun (1986) and similar films] I see these pilots as rock 'n' roll stars of the skies. I see deep blue skies and silver steel. I hear the rock music and smell the jet fuel. I love shooting real things in the real world.

[on Days of Thunder (1990)] The problem was, we started on the movie without a script. Tom [Cruise] was already part of the line-up when I arrived and they said: "Tom can sit behind the wheel of a race car and smoke a cigarette and this movie will make a fortune." And that was the attitude we went in with. Robert Towne would be writing the scenes at night, we would shoot in the morning. It was a dangerous way to work. But we really thought, "Look - it's racing cars and it's Tom Cruise!" But you always have to get a story and you've got to get character first, and we hadn't.

(The studio) saw a cut of The Hunger (1983) and all of a sudden my parking spot at Warner Brothers was painted out.

"I always get criticized for style over content, unlike Ridley's films that go into the classic box right away. Mine sort of hover. Maybe with time people will start saying they should be classics, but I think I'm always perceived as reaching too hard for difference, and difference doesn't categorize you as the 'classic category'.

"The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life."

"The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through?"

"I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently."

"Ridley makes films for posterity. My films are more rock 'n' roll."

Date of Birth 31 October 1929, Naples, Campania, Italy

Date of Death 27 June 2016, Rome, Italy

Birth Name Carlo Pedersoli

Nickname Bud Spencer

Height 6' 2¾" (1.9 m)

Maria Pedersoli (25 February 1960 - 27 June 2016) (his death) (3 children)

Trade Marks: Uses to end a fist fight by striking a hammer-like blow on the top of the opponent's head and a Thick black beard.

He changed his screen name to "Bud Spencer" in 1967, as an homage to Spencer Tracy and to the American beer Budweiser. Spencer allegedly thought it was funny to call himself "Bud" in light of his huge frame.

Date of Birth 6 January 1936, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Date of Death 14 April 2015

Birth Name Alex Poulos

Date of Birth 20 March 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date of Death 2 April 2015, Pinellas, Florida, USA (complications following a stroke)

Birth Name Thomas Towles

Height 6' 3" (1.91 m)

Date of Birth 11 June 1933, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Date of Death 29 August 2016, Stamford, Connecticut, USA (complications from Alzheimer's disease)

Birth Name Jerome Silberman

Height 5' 10½" (1.79 m)

Spouses: Karen Boyer (8 September 1991 - 29 August 2016) (his death)

Gilda Radner (18 September 1984 - 20 May 1989) (her death)

Mary Joan Schutz (27 October 1967 - 24 November 1980) (divorced) (1 child)

Mary Mercier (22 July 1960 - 1965) (divorced)

Trade Marks: Soft mellow voice Curly brown hair and blue eyes Frequently played highly eccentric yet likeable characters Often worked with Richard Pryor Often worked with Mel Brooks

Date of Birth 11 March 1989, Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]

Date of Death 19 June 2016, Los Angeles, California, USA (car accident)

Birth Name Anton Viktorovich Yelchin

Height 5' 9" (1.75 m)

Date of Birth 10 December 1928, Farrell, Pennsylvania, USA

Date of Death 21 July 2016, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (cancer)

Birth Name William Robert Cardille

Spouse: Louise Maras (3 October 1953 - 21 July 2016) (his death) (3 children)

Inducted into the Horror Host Hall of Fame in 2012, as his character Chilly Billy.

His daughter, Lori, was the star of George Romero's Day of the Dead (1985).