Gone, but never forgotten......2019
by cjabowie9 | created - 02 Jan 2019 | updated - 09 Feb 2021 | Public
1. Bob Einstein
Writer | Bizarre
Bob Einstein was born on November 20, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Bizarre (1979), Super Dave (1987) and Super Dave's Spike Tacular (2009). He was married to Roberta Marie Smith and Cathy Maureen Kilpatrick. He died on January 2, 2019 in Indian Wells, ...
2. Daryl Dragon
Composer | Payback
Daryl Dragon was born on August 27, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Payback (1990), Go for It (1976) and Sandstone (1975). He was married to Toni Tennille. He died on January 2, 2019 in Prescott, Arizona, USA.
3. Mary Kay Stearns
Writer | Mary Kay and Johnny
Mary Kay Stearns was born on October 27, 1925 in Glendale, California, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Mary Kay and Johnny (1947), Kraft Theatre (1947) and Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950). She was married to John Stearns. She died on November 17, 2018 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
4. Carol Channing
Actress | Thoroughly Modern Millie
Carol Channing was born January 31, 1921, at Seattle, Washington, the daughter of a prominent newspaper editor, who was very active in the Christian Science movement. She attended high school in San Francisco and later worked as a model in Los Angeles. She attended prestigious Bennington College in...
5. James Ingram
Soundtrack | Junior
As a sophomore at the University of Akron, he left town to come to Los Angeles with his band, Revelation Funk. The band broke up shortly after arriving in L.A. Shortly afterward, Ingram started working with Ray Charles as a piano player.
After Quincy Jones heard James Ingram's voice on "Just Once," ...
6. Kristoff St. John
Actor | The Young and the Restless
Kristoff made his television debut at age 8 in the sit-com series "That's My Mama." Now, 39 years later, he is one of the stars on CBS's "Young and The Restless," the number one rated drama for the past 25 years on daytime television, playing the popular character of Neil Winters. Is it just a ...
7. Albert Finney
Actor | Murder on the Orient Express
The son of a Lancashire bookmaker, Albert Finney came to motion pictures via the theatre. In 1956, he won a scholarship to RADA where his fellow alumni included Peter O'Toole and Alan Bates. He joined the Birmingham Repertory where he excelled in plays by William Shakespeare. A member of the Royal ...
8. Karl Lagerfeld
Actor | La doublure
Karl Lagerfeld was born on September 10, 1933 in Hamburg, Germany. He was a costume designer and actor, known for The Valet (2006), Reincarnation (2014) and The Tale of a Fairy (2011). He died on February 19, 2019 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
9. Peter Tork
Actor | The Monkees
Performed as a folk musician in Greenwich Village and Los Angeles before being selected for the Monkees TV show. Made 58 TV episodes 6 albums, a TV special, and a movie before leaving the Monkees in 1969 Released a solo single in 1982. Rejoined the Monkees for tours and an from 1986 to 1989. ...
10. Beverley Owen
Actress | Bullet for a Badman
Beverley Owen was born Beverley Ogg in Ottumwa, Iowa, on Thursday, May 13th, 1937. In high school and college, she was always doing television, theatre, and radio programs. She then moved to New York to pursue an acting career after graduating from the University of Michigan. She was fired many a ...
11. André Previn
Music_department | My Fair Lady
German-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor André George Previn (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin, in Berlin) was for eight decades a hugely influential and prolific figure in jazz, as well as classical and film music. Being Jewish, Previn's family was forced to leave Hitler's Germany in ...
12. Nathaniel Taylor
Actor | Sanford and Son
Nathaniel Taylor was born on March 31, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Sanford and Son (1972), Black Girl (1972) and The Redd Foxx Show (1986). He was married to Loretta Taylor. He died on February 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
13. Katherine Helmond
Actress | Overboard
Katherine Marie Helmond was born on July 5, 1929, in Galveston, Texas. After her parents divorced, she was raised by her mother, Thelma (nee Malone) Helmond, and her maternal grandmother, both of Irish Catholic descent. She attended Catholic school, and appeared in numerous school plays and ...
14. Luke Perry
Actor | Beverly Hills, 90210
Luke Perry was an American actor, primarily remembered as a teen idol throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s. Perry was born in Mansfield, Ohio in 1966. Mansfield was known at the time as a center for the home appliances and stove manufacturing industries. The city's largest employer used to be ...
15. Tamara 'Gingir' Curry
Actress | Mars Attacks!
Tamara 'Gingir' Curry was born on January 1, 1974 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She was an actress, known for Mars Attacks! (1996), The Deviants (2004) and Stand Up (2007). She was married to Cecilio Gill. She died on March 3, 2019 in Cataula, Georgia, USA.
16. Jan-Michael Vincent
Actor | Bite the Bullet
Virile, handsome and square-jawed youthful star of the 1970s and 1980s who showed early potential at super-stardom, Jan-Michael Vincent originally made a name for himself portraying rebellious young men bucking the system, as in Tribes (1970), White Line Fever (1975) and Baby Blue Marine (1976) or ...
17. Nipsey Hussle
Soundtrack | Project Power
Airmiess Joseph Asghedom (August 15, 1985 - March 31, 2019), known professionally as Nipsey Hussle (often stylized as Nipsey Hu$$Le), was an American rapper. Emerging from the West Coast hip hop scene in the mid-2000s, Hussle independently released his first mix-tape, Slauson Boy Volume 1, to ...
18. Nancy Gates
Actress | World Without End
Nancy Gates was born February 1, 1926 in Dallas, Texas. She entered show business, at an early age, when she was signed to a contract with RKO Studios when she was 15. Her first production with that studio was in 1942's Hitler's Children (1943). Nancy was also in two more films that year, those ...
19. Georgia Engel
Actress | Everybody Loves Raymond
Georgia Engel was born on July 28, 1948 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She was an actress, known for Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and Open Season (2006). She died on April 12, 2019 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
20. Ken Kercheval
Actor | Dallas
Ken Kercheval was born on July 15, 1935 in Wolcottville, Indiana, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Dallas (1978), Network (1976) and The Secret Storm (1954). He was married to Cheryl Paris, Ava Ruth Fox and Judith Peters Launt. He died on April 21, 2019 in Clinton, Indiana USA.
21. Larry Flash Jenkins
Actor | Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Larry Flash Jenkins was born on May 10, 1955 in Long Island, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Fletch (1985) and Mr. Mom (1983). He was married to Michelle, Harriet Michele Lark and Jean Coleman. He died on April 25, 2019 in Los Angeles, ...
22. Jessie Lawrence Ferguson
Actor | Darkman
Jessie Lawrence Ferguson was born on June 8, 1942 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Darkman (1990), Prince of Darkness (1987) and Boyz n the Hood (1991). He died on April 26, 2019 in Palmdale, California, USA.
23. John Singleton
Writer | Boyz n the Hood
Son of Danny Singleton, a mortgage broker, and Sheila Ward, a pharmaceutical company sales executive, and raised in separate households by his unmarried parents, John Singleton attended the Film Writing Program at USC, after graduating from high school in 1986. While studying there, he won three ...
24. Norma Miller
Actress | Malcolm X
Norma Miller and Frankie Manning were both consultants on the Lindy Hop dance scene at the Roseland Ballroom. However, only Frankie Manning has been given credit as a dance consultant. Otis Sallid/choreographer said "Just for the record. I studied for a month with Frankie Manning so that the work ...
25. Barbara Perry
Actress | Trancers
Barbara Perry was born on June 22, 1921 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Trancers (1984), The Back-up Plan (2010) and Mr. Woodcock (2007). She was married to Art Babbitt and Bennett Warren James. She died on May 5, 2019 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
26. Peter Mayhew
Actor | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Peter Mayhew was born on May 19, 1944 in Barnes, London, England, to Constance Elizabeth (Yeates) and Walter Henry Mayhew. Later resident in Texas, this former resident of Yorkshire, England, was working as a hospital attendant at the King's College Hospital in London when film producer Charles H. ...
27. Kip Niven
Actor | Magnum Force
Kip Niven was raised in Prairie Village, Kansas (a suburb of Kansas City in affluent Johnson County), and graduated in 1963 from Shawnee Mission East High School. After spending a year at Baylor University, he changed his mind and entered the theater program at The University of Kansas, where he ...
28. Peggy Lipton
Actress | Twin Peaks
She was a groovy and sexy icon of the late hippie era. To millions of TV viewers she became familiar as the reformed juvenile delinquent, turned undercover cop, Julie Barnes. With her expressive brown eyes and trademark long blonde hair, sylphlike Peggy Lipton was one third of a streetwise urban ...
29. Doris Day
Soundtrack | Love Me or Leave Me
One of America's most loved actresses was born Doris Mary Kappelhoff on April 3, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Alma Sophia (Welz), a housewife, and William Joseph Kappelhoff, a music teacher and choir master. Her grandparents were all German immigrants. She had two brothers, Richard, who died ...
30. Tim Conway
Actor | The Carol Burnett Show
Funny man Tim Conway was born on December 15th, 1933 in Willoughby, Ohio, to Sophia (Murgoiu) and Daniel Conway, a pony groomer. He was a fraternity man at Bowling Green State University, served in the army, and started his career working for a radio station.
Conway got into comedy when he started ...
31. Melvin Edmonds
Actor | Soul Food
Melvin Edmonds was born on November 2, 1953 in Indiana, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Soul Food (1997), After 7: 'Till You Do Me Right (1995) and After 7: Heat of the Moment (1989). He died on May 18, 2019 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
32. Carmine Caridi
Actor | The Godfather Part II
Carmine Caridi was born on January 23, 1934 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Godfather Part II (1974), The Godfather Part III (1990) and The Money Pit (1986). He died on May 28, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
33. Ray Girardin
Actor | Hollywood Man
Ray Girardin was born on January 23, 1935 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Hollywood Man (1976), Number One with a Bullet (1987) and Hill Street Blues (1981). He was married to Marlene Ray. He died on February 28, 2019 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
34. Leah Chase
Actress | NCIS: New Orleans
Known as the "Queen of Creole Cuisine," Leyah "Leah" Lange Chase has fed Quincy Jones, Jesse Jackson, Duke Ellington, Thurgood Marshall, James Baldwin, Ray Charles, Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and countless others as Executive Chef of Dooky Chase's Restaurant - one of the best-known ...
35. Bushwick Bill
Writer | Bushwick Bill: Geto Boy
Bushwick Bill was born under the name Richard Stephen Shaw in Kingston, Jamaica, on December 1, 1966. His father is a merchant marine, and his mother a maid. According to a source from the Houston Chronicle, he is a high school dropout, and reads at the fourth grade level. He has failed a majority ...
36. Gloria Vanderbilt
Actress | Shirley Temple's Storybook
Great-great-granddaughter of "The Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of her family's fortune. Her maternal aunt, Lady Thelma Furness, was a mistress of King Edward VIII of Great Britain. Gloria is a close cousin of the British Dukes of Marlborough.
37. Beth Chapman
Actress | Corner Gas
Beth Chapman was born on October 29, 1967 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was a producer and actress, known for Corner Gas (2004), Dog the Bounty Hunter (2003) and Hawaii Five-0 (2010). She was married to Duane 'Dog' Chapman and Keith A. Barmore. She died on June 26, 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
38. Max Wright
Actor | ALF
Max Wright was born on August 2, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for ALF (1986), All That Jazz (1979) and The Shadow (1994). He was married to Linda Ybarrondo. He died on June 26, 2019 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
39. Billy Drago
Actor | The Untouchables
Drago was well known for his villainous parts (leading or supporting), and his rugged yet scary looks and evil smile. He was born William Eugene Burrows in Hugoton, Kansas. He became interested in acting and took his mother's maiden name "Drago" as a stage name. At first he worked as a stuntman in ...
40. Arte Johnson
Actor | Laugh-In
Arte Johnson was born on January 20, 1929 in Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Laugh-In (1967), Love at First Bite (1979) and Baggy Pants & the Nitwits (1977). He was married to Gisela Johnson and Texie Waterman. He died on July 3, 2019 in Los Angeles, ...
41. Paul Benjamin
Actor | The Station Agent
Born, and raised for a time, in Pelion, South Carolina, African-American actor Paul Benjamin was the youngest of twelve children of a Baptist preacher, the Reverend Fair Benjamin, and his wife Rosa. Paul lost his mother while still a baby and his father as a child. He moved to Columbia, South ...
42. Cameron Boyce
Actor | Mrs. Fletcher
Cameron Boyce was an American actor, with Afro-Caribbean and African-American descent. His paternal grandmother Jo Ann Allen was one of the "Clinton Twelve", the first African-Americans to attend an integrated high school in the Southern United States (specifically in Clinton, Tennessee).
In 1999, ...
43. Ross Perot
Self | This Week
Perot was born on June 27, 1930, in Texarkana, Texas, to an impoverished family. He was the son of Lula May (Ray), a secretary, and Gabriel Ross Perot, who worked in cotton contracts. He started working various odd jobs at age seven. In 1949, Perot was admitted to the United States Naval Academy (...
44. Rip Torn
Actor | Men in Black
Rip Torn was born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. on February 6, 1931 in Temple, Texas, the son of Thelma Mary (Spacek) and Elmore Rudolph Torn, who was an agriculturalist and economist, credited with popularizing the custom of eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day. "Rip" is a family name, taken by ...
45. Denise Nickerson
Actress | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Denise Nickerson was best known for her role as Violet Beauregarde in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and as a member of the Short Circus on The Electric Company (1971). She left the acting business at the end of 1993, and she worked as a nurse and later a stay at home mom. She will ...
46. Charles Levin
Actor | The Golden Child
Charles Levin was born on March 12, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Golden Child (1986), Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979). He was married to Katherine De Hetre and Mollie Weinblatt. He died on June 28, 2019 in Selma, Oregon, USA.
47. David Hedison
Actor | Live and Let Die
Albert David Hedison Jr. was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the elder son of Albert and Rose Hedison, naturalized United States citizens from Armenia. His father owned a jewelry enameling business and his son was expected to follow in his footsteps. Young Al had other ideas, having put his ...
48. Rutger Hauer
Actor | Hobo with a Shotgun
Blond, blue-eyed, tall and handsome Dutch actor Rutger Hauer enjoyed an international reputation for playing everything from romantic leads to action heroes to sinister villains. Hauer was born in Breukelen, a Dutch town and former municipality in the province of Utrecht.
He was the son of Teunke ...
49. Barry Coe
Actor | Peyton Place
Barry Coe was born on November 26, 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Peyton Place (1957), Jaws 2 (1978) and The 300 Spartans (1962). He was married to Jorunn Kristiansen. He died on July 16, 2019 in Palm Desert, California, USA.
50. Toni Morrison
Writer | Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison was born on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Song of Solomon, Beloved (1998) and American Experience (1987). She was married to Harold Morrison. She died on August 5, 2019 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA.
51. Peter Fonda
Actor | Easy Rider
Peter Henry Fonda was born in New York City, to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario, Canada-born New York socialite Frances Brokaw (born Frances Ford Seymour). He was the younger brother of actress and activist Jane Fonda and the father of actress Bridget Fonda.
Fonda made his professional...
52. Jessi Combs
Actress | Breathless Betrayal
Jessi Combs was born in the Black Hills of Rapid City, South Dakota. With a lifelong desire to become a race-car driver, this fearless young lady found a love for speed and its machines at a very young age. Her family explored everything around them and gave her a solid appreciation for off-roading...
53. Valerie Harper
Actress | Mary Tyler Moore
Making people laugh was only one facet of Valerie Harper's career, which extended from the stage to television and feature films. A native of Suffern, New York -- "I was born to suffer" -- Harper began her career as a dancer with the corps de ballet at Radio City Hall during its spectacular heyday....
54. John Wesley
Actor | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
John Wesley was born on August 3, 1947 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992), The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990) and Hang 'Em High (1968). He was married to Jenny Aubert. He died on September 8, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
55. Lashawn Daniels
Soundtrack | Widows
Lashawn Daniels was born on December 28, 1977 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was a composer, known for Widows (2018), The House Bunny (2008) and Trainwreck (2015). He was married to April Daniels and April. He died on September 3, 2019 in South Carolina, USA.
56. Eddie Money
Soundtrack | Over the Top
Eddie Money was born on March 21, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Over the Top (1987), The Iron Claw (2023) and Sideways (2004). He was married to Laurie Money and Margo Lee Walker. He died on September 13, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
57. Ric Ocasek
Soundtrack | Super 8
Ric Ocasek was born on March 23, 1944 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Super 8 (2011), The Saint (1997) and Transformers (2007). He was married to Paulina Porizkova, Suzanne LaPointe and Constance Campbell. He died on September 15, 2019 in Manhattan, New York ...
58. Cokie Roberts
Self | ABC News: Inauguration 2009
Cokie Roberts was born on December 27, 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was married to Steve Roberts. She died on September 17, 2019 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
59. Jessye Norman
Soundtrack | Wild at Heart
Jessye Norman was born on September 15, 1945 in Augusta, Georgia, USA. She was an actress, known for Wild at Heart (1990), The Hours (2002) and Choke (2008). She died on September 30, 2019 in New York City, New York, USA.
60. Rip Taylor
Actor | DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
The nicknames, "The Prince of Pandemonium", "The Master of Mayhem" and "King of Camp and Confetti", are but a few valid applications that were thrust upon zany comedian Rip Taylor, whose flamboyant blend of burlesque and self-deprecating humor entertained audiences for over four decades. He ...
61. Diahann Carroll
Actress | Julia
One of television's premier African-American series stars, elegant actress, singer and recording artist Diahann Carroll was born Carol Diann (or Diahann) Johnson on July 17, 1935, in the Bronx, New York. The first child of John Johnson, a subway conductor, and Mabel Faulk Johnson, a nurse; music ...
62. Bill Macy
Actor | The Jerk
Bill Macy was born on May 18, 1922 in Revere, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Jerk (1979), Maude (1972) and Analyze This (1999). He was married to Samantha Harper and Judith Janus. He died on October 17, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
63. John Witherspoon
Actor | Friday
John Witherspoon was an African-American actor from Detroit, Michigan known for playing Granddad from The Boondocks and Willie Jones from the Friday trilogy. He also acted in Boomerang, Little Nicky, Soul Plane, Vampire in Brooklyn, Black Jesus and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He passed away in ...
64. Robert Walker Jr.
Actor | Easy Rider
Born in Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (Queens, New York City) on April 15, 1940, the son of actors Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones, Robert Walker Jr. certainly had the right pedigree to make the grade in Hollywood. His parents separated when Robert was only three. Six years later, his mother ...
65. Ron Leibman
Actor | Garden State
Ron Leibman was born on October 11, 1937 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Garden State (2004), Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981) and Kaz (1978). He was married to Jessica Walter and Linda Lavin. He died on December 6, 2019 in New York City, New York, USA.
66. Caroll Spinney
Actor | Sesame Street
Caroll Spinney was born on December 26, 1933 in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Sesame Street (1969), The Muppet Movie (1979) and The Great Muppet Caper (1981). He was married to Debra Spinney and Janice Spinney. He died on December 8, 2019 in Woodstock, ...
67. Rene Auberjonois
Actor | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
René Murat Auberjonois was born on June 1, 1940 in New York City, to Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline (Murat), who was born in Paris, and Fernand Auberjonois, who was Swiss-born. René was born into an already artistic family, which included his grandfather, a well-known Swiss ...
68. Philip McKeon
Producer | The Jacket
Philip McKeon was born on November 11, 1964 in Westbury, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Jacket (2005), Murder in the First (1995) and Alice (1976). He died on December 10, 2019 in Wimberly, Texas, USA.
69. Danny Aiello
Actor | Do the Right Thing
Danny Aiello was an American actor of Italian descent, and enjoyed a lengthy career in film. He was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role as Salvatore "Sal" Frangione in the comedy-drama film "Do the Right Thing" (1989).
Aiello was born in Manhattan, New York ...
70. Susan Harrison
Actress | Sweet Smell of Success
Susan Harrison was born on August 26, 1938 in Leesburg, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Key Witness (1960) and The Twilight Zone (1959). She was married to Cassius Marcus Conger and Joël Colin. She died on March 5, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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