Gone but never forgotten......... 2023

1. Earl Boen

Veteran character actor Earl Boen is probably best known for his role as criminal psychologist Dr. Peter Silberman in the Terminator series. Other films which he appeared include Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), The Man with Two Brains (1983), Alien Nation (1988), Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult ...

2. Adam Rich

Actor | Code Red

Adam Rich was born on October 12, 1968 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Code Red (1981), Eight Is Enough (1977) and Dungeons & Dragons (1983). He died on January 8, 2023 in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

3. Ben Masters

Actor | Passions

Ben Masters was born on May 6, 1947 in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for Passions (1999), All That Jazz (1979) and Mandingo (1975). He died on January 11, 2023 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

4. Carole Cook

Actress | Sixteen Candles

Actress Carole Cook showed a knack for comic timing from early on, so much so that the legendary Lucille Ball took her on as a protégée. Cook would make many appearances on Ball's TV shows The Lucy Show (1962) and Here's Lucy (1968), as well as other shows like Magnum, P.I. (1980), Dynasty (1981), ...

5. Jeff Beck

Soundtrack | Pirate Radio

Jeff Beck was born in Surrey in 1944. He grew up in a suburban street in Carshalton. When he was about 10, he wanted to play the guitar. His mum, however, wanted him to play the piano because she didn't approve of the guitar. When he was in his late teens, he joined "The Tridents" on lead guitar. ...

6. Tatjana Patitz

Actress | Rising Sun

Tatjana Patitz was born on March 25, 1966 in Hamburg, West Germany. She was an actress, known for Rising Sun (1993), The Larry Sanders Show (1992) and Ready to Wear (1994). She was married to Jason Johnson. She died on January 11, 2023 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

7. Lisa Marie Presley

Actress | Lisa Marie Presley: Idiot

Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She was a music artist and actress, known for Lisa Marie Presley: Idiot (2005), Michael Jackson: You Are Not Alone (1995) and Lisa Marie Presley: Dirty Laundry (2005). She was married to Michael Lockwood, Nicolas Cage, ...

8. Al Brown

Actor | Red Dragon

Al Brown was born on September 26, 1939 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Red Dragon (2002), The Replacements (2000) and The Wire (2002). He was married to Barbara Eberz and Janet Newhart. He died on January 13, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

9. C.J. Harris

Self | American Idol: The Search for a Superstar

C.J. Harris was born on January 28, 1991 in Jasper, Alabama, USA. He died on January 15, 2023 in Jasper, Alabama, USA.

10. Gina Lollobrigida

Actress | Notre-Dame de Paris

Gina Lollobrigida was born on July 4, 1927 in Subiaco, Italy. Destined to be called "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World", Gina possibly had St. Brigid as part of her surname. She was the daughter of a furniture manufacturer, and grew up in the pictorial mountain village. The young Gina did some ...

11. David Crosby

Actor | Backdraft

David Crosby was born on August 14, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for Backdraft (1991), Hook (1991) and The Limey (1999). He was married to Jan Dance. He died on January 18, 2023 in Santa Ynez, California, USA.

12. Lance Kerwin

Actor | Outbreak

Lance Kerwin was born on November 6, 1960 in Newport Beach, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Outbreak (1995), Enemy Mine (1985) and Salem's Lot (1979). He was married to Yvonne Kerwin and Kristen Lansdale. He died on January 24, 2023 in San Clemente, California, USA.

13. Annie Wersching

Actress | The Last of Us

This talented actress was born Anne Marie Wersching and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. She opted early on for a life in the entertainment industry, performing in community theatre and later as a dancer for some fourteen years with a troupe called the St. Louis Celtic Stepdancers. After moving to ...

14. Lloyd Morrisett Jr.

Writer | Sesame Street

Lloyd Morrisett Jr. was born on November 2, 1929 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He was a writer, known for Sesame Street (1969), Sesame Street and The Electric Company (2006). He was married to Mary Pierre. He died on January 15, 2023 in San Diego, California, USA.

15. Lisa Loring

Actress | The Addams Family

Lisa Loring was an American actress and former child model. She is primarily known for having played Wednesday Addams in the comedy-horror sitcom "The Addams Family" (1964-1966). The sitcom was the first screen adaptation of the comic strip "The Addams Family" (1938-1988) by Charles Addams, which ...

16. Cindy Williams

Actress | Laverne & Shirley

Cindy Williams was born Cynthia Jane Williams in Van Nuys, California on August 22, 1947. The Leo was 5'4" and, during her first years on Laverne & Shirley (1976), weighed a dainty 105 lbs. The brown haired, blue-eyed female was born the daughter of Francesca Bellini and Beachard Williams. Her ...

17. Kevin O'Neal

Actor | What's Up, Doc?

Kevin O'Neal was born on March 26, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for What's Up, Doc? (1972), Love Story (1970) and No Time for Sergeants (1964). He was married to Sheila Stubbs. He died on January 28, 2023 in Thousand Oaks, California, USA.

18. Barrett Strong

Soundtrack | Ready Player One

Soul music singer and songwriter Barrett Strong was born on February 5, 1941, in Westpoint, Mississippi. He moved to Detroit, Michigan, and was one of the first artists to sign with Berry Gordy's legendary Motown Records label in the early 1960s. In fact, his recording of "Money (That's What I Want...

19. Melinda Dillon

Actress | Magnolia

Melinda Dillon came to prominence with the role of Jillian Guiler, a mother whose child is abducted by aliens in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Dillon's performance in the film earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. A few years later, Dillon ...

20. Burt Bacharach

Soundtrack | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Burt Bacharach was a well known and multi award winning singer and song writer.

Over 1,000 different artists have recorded Bacharach's songs. From 1961 to 1972, most of Bacharach and David's hits were written specifically for and performed by Dionne Warwick, but earlier associations (from 1957 to ...

21. Richard Belzer

Actor | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

A social misfit, Belzer was kicked out of every school he ever attended, due to his uncontrollable wit. His mother (Frances) died of breast cancer when Richard was 18. Four years later, his father (Charles) committed suicide. A dedication is written to Charles Belzer in Richard Belzer's "UFOs, JFK,...

22. Tom Sizemore

Actor | Saving Private Ryan

Tom Sizemore rose in prominence throughout the 1990s, establishing himself as a memorable tough-guy actor, sought by the most respected directors in the business.

Thomas Edward Sizemore, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Judith (Schannault), an ombudsman staff member, and Thomas Edward Sizemore, ...

23. Robert Blake

Actor | Lost Highway

American actor who began as a child in Our Gang comedies and reappeared as a powerful adult performer of leading and character roles. Born in New Jersey, the young Mickey Gubitosi won a role in MGM's Our Gang series at the age of 5. As one of the more prominent children in the Gang, he gained ...

24. Bobby Caldwell

Soundtrack | The Cooler

Bobby Caldwell was born on August 15, 1951 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for The Cooler (2003), S1m0ne (2002) and Hearts in Atlantis (2001). He was married to Mary Beth Caldwell. He died on March 14, 2023 in Great Meadows, New York, USA.

25. Lance Reddick

Actor | John Wick

Incisive, intense, multi-talented American actor Lance Solomon Reddick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the younger of two sons, to Solomon Reddick and public schoolteacher Dorothy Gee. Having opted initially for a career in music, he attended first the Peabody Preparatory Institute and the Walden ...

26. Sean Lampkin

Blue Streak

Sean Lampkin was born on September 30, 1969. He was an actor and producer, known for Blue Streak (1999), Wild Hogs (2007) and Nothing to Lose (1997). He died on March 8, 2023.

27. Judy Farrell

Writer | Fame

Judy Farrell was born on May 11, 1938 in Quapaw, Oklahoma, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Fame (1982), Quincy M.E. (1976) and M*A*S*H (1972). She was married to Joe Bratcher and Mike Farrell. She died on April 2, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

28. Michael Lerner

Actor | Barton Fink

Michael Lerner was an American actor from New York City, the older brother of actor Ken Lerner. He was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the domineering studio head Jack Lipnick in "Barton Fink" (1991). Other well-known roles include crime boss Arnold ...

29. Len Goodman

Self | Dancing with the Stars

Len Goodman was born on April 25, 1944 in Farnborough, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor and production manager, known for Dancing with the Stars (2005), The Sword of the Lord (1976) and Love/Loss (2010). He was married to Sue Barrett and Cherry Kingston. He died on April 22, 2023 in Tunbridge ...

30. Harry Belafonte

Actor | Bobby

Harold George Belafonte was born on March 1, 1927 in New York City. He was educated at the New York Dramatic Workshop. He grew up in Jamaica, British West Indies, and did folk-singing in nightclubs and theaters, and on television and records. His debut was at the Village Vanguard in New York. Also,...

31. Jerry Springer

Actor | Domino

Jerry Springer was born on February 13, 1944 in Highgate, London, England, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for Domino (2005), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Ringmaster (1998). He was married to Margaret 'Micki' JoAnn Velten. He died on April 27, 2023 in Evanston, Illinois,...

32. Gordon Lightfoot

Soundtrack | Knives Out

Gordon Lightfoot may have been one of the most accomplished and well-known singer-songwriters to come out of Canada.

He is internationally known for such monumental folk/pop/rock hits as "Sundown", "If You Could Read My Mind", "Early Mornin' Rain", "Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald", and many more. ...

33. Raquel Welch

Actress | The Three Musketeers

A new reigning 1960s international sex symbol took to the cinematic throne as soon as Raquel Welch emerged from the sea in her purposely depleted, furry prehistoric bikini. Tantalizingly wet with her garb clinging to all the right amazonian places, One Million Years B.C. (1966), if nothing else, ...

34. Jim Brown

Actor | Mars Attacks!

Often mentioned as the greatest player in NFL history, this ruggedly handsome African American fullback for the Cleveland Browns first appeared on movie screens in the western Rio Conchos (1964), followed by a strong supporting role as convict commando "Jefferson" in the terrific WWII action film ...

35. Marlene Clark

Actress | Enter the Dragon

Lovely, sultry, and charismatic Marlene Clark was born December 19, 1937, in New York City (some sources list it as Los Angeles, California). Her father was a bus driver and her mother worked in a factory. Marlene grew up in New York City's Harlem area, and went to junior college in Tennessee. She ...

36. Tina Turner

Soundtrack | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

With almost fifty years in the music business, Tina Turner became one of the most commercially successful international female rock stars. Her sultry, powerful voice, her incredible legs, her time-tested beauty and her unforgettable story all contributed to her legendary status.

Born to a ...

37. Treat Williams

Actor | Deep Rising

Richard Treat Williams was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to Marian (Andrew), who dealt in antiques, and Richard Norman Williams, a corporate executive. At the age of three, his family moved to Rowayton, Connecticut. Educated at prep-school, he first made a serious commitment to his craft during ...

38. Tony Bennett

Actor | Muppets Most Wanted

Tony Bennett, one of the legends of jazz and popular music who served during the Second World War and then developed a career spanning over half a century, is now giving another concert tour across the United States and Europe.

He was born Anthony (Antonio) Dominick Benedetto on August 3, 1926, in ...

39. Sinéad O'Connor

Soundtrack | In the Name of the Father

Sinéad O'Connor was born on December 8, 1966 in Glenageary, Ireland. She was a music artist and actress, known for In the Name of the Father (1993), Vanilla Sky (2001) and Sinéad O'Connor: Nothing Compares 2 U (1990). She was married to Barry Herridge, Steve Cooney, Nicholas Sommerlad and ...

40. Randy Meisner

Soundtrack | Space Cowboys

Randy Meisner was born on March 8, 1946 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for Space Cowboys (2000), Vertical Limit (2000) and Faith (1990). He was married to Lana Rae Graham and Jennifer Lee Barton. He died on July 26, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

41. Paul Reubens

Actor | Pee-wee's Playhouse

Paul Reubens was born Paul Rubenfeld on August 27, 1952 in Peekskill, New York, to Judy (Rosen), a teacher, and Milton Rubenfeld, a car salesman who had flown for the air forces of the U.S., U.K., and Israel, becoming one of the latter country's pioneering pilots. Paul grew up in Sarasota, Florida,...

42. Angus Cloud

Actor | Abigail

Angus Cloud was born on July 10, 1998 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Abigail (2024), Your Lucky Day (2023) and Euphoria (2019). He died on July 31, 2023 in Oakland, California, USA.

43. Ron Cephas Jones

Actor | This Is Us

Ron Cephas Jones was born on January 8, 1957 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for This Is Us (2016), Luke Cage (2016) and Half Nelson (2006). He died on August 19, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

44. Bob Barker

Producer | The New Price Is Right

For 35 years, Bob Barker had been the host of The Price is Right (1972) game show. Not only is it the highest-rated daytime program, it is also the longest-running game show in TV history, surpassing the prime-time hit What's My Line? (1950), which ran for 18 years. He also served as the executive ...

45. Jimmy Buffett

Soundtrack | Jurassic World

Jimmy Buffett was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and grew up living beside the the Gulf of Mexico. After graduating from the University of Southern Mississippi he worked his way to success in the music industry. His hits in the 1970s including "Margaritaville" and "Come Monday". He struck a chord ...

46. Billy Miller

Actor | The Young and the Restless

Billy Miller was born on September 17, 1979 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), General Hospital (1963) and American Sniper (2014). He died on September 15, 2023 in Austin, Texas, USA.

47. Magoo

Soundtrack | The Whole World at Our Feet

Magoo was born on July 12, 1973 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for Diamond Cartel (2015), Mr. Mercedes (2017) and Saturday Night Live (1975). He was married to Meco Barcliff. He died on August 13, 2023 in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.

48. Irish Grinstead

Actress | Tiffany the Doll

Irish Grinstead was born on June 2, 1980 in Harris, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Tiffany the Doll (2022), The Brewster Project (2004) and 702: Gotta Leave (2000). She died on September 16, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

49. Piper Laurie

Actress | The Hustler

Piper Laurie was a three-time Oscar nominee, nominated by BAFTA as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best performance by an actress in 'The Hustler' with Paul Newman.

Laurie was born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, to Charlotte Sadie (Alperin) and Alfred Jacobs, a ...

50. Suzanne Somers

Actress | Three's Company

Suzanne Somers was the third of four children born to Frank and Marion Mahoney. Her father worked loading beer onto boxcars, and her mother was a medical secretary. She grew up living in constant fear of being hurt or even killed at the hands of her verbally and physically abusive, alcoholic father...

51. Burt Young

Actor | Rocky

Burly, talented character actor who remained consistently busy playing "rough edged" or scary characters, often on the wrong side of the law. Young was born on April 30, 1940, in New York City, the son of a high school shop teacher. He is of Italian descent. Young received his dramatic arts ...

52. Lara Parker

Actress | Dark Shadows

Lara Parker was born, Mary Lamar Rickey, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Memphis. She attended Central High School in Memphis, and won a scholarship to Vassar College. At Vassar, Lara began a major in philosophy, which she completed at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College), receiving...

53. Richard Roundtree

Actor | Shaft

Richard Roundtree shot to fame as the ultra-hip, flamboyantly-dressed -- not to mention charismatic-- private eye John Shaft. The film Shaft (1971) spawned a genre, two sequels and a series. It made Roundtree a household name, and, for a while, one of the hottest box-office stars in Hollywood. As ...

54. Richard Moll

Actor | But I'm a Cheerleader

Charles Richard Moll was an American actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the role of Aristotle Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon, the bailiff on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1984 to 1992. He has also done extensive work as a voice actor, typically using his deep voice to portray villainous ...

55. Matthew Perry

Actor | Friends

Matthew Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, to Suzanne Marie (Langford), a Canadian journalist, and John Bennett Perry, an American actor. His ancestry includes English, Irish, German, Swiss-German, and French-Canadian.

Perry was raised in Ottawa, Ontario, where he became a top-ranked ...

56. Tyler Christopher

Actor | General Hospital

Tyler Christopher was born on November 11, 1972 in Joliet, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for General Hospital (1963), Shouting Secrets (2011) and Into the West (2005). He was married to Brienne Pedigo and Eva Longoria. He died on October 31, 2023 in San Diego, California, USA.

57. Rosalynn Carter

Americans

Rosalynn Carter was born on August 18, 1927 in Plains, Georgia, USA. She is known for Americans (1978), The American Sportsman (1965) and PBS NewsHour (1975). She was married to Jimmy Carter. She died on November 19, 2023 in Plains, Georgia, USA.

58. Sandra Day O'Connor

Actress | Wallace Stegner

A mild-mannered jurist who thinks carefully before she speaks or makes decisions, Sandra Day O'Connor does not project the figure of a trailblazer. But she became exactly that. She was the daughter of cattle ranchers Henry Day and Ada Wilkey. She was a true child of the frontier, learning how to ...

59. Norman Lear

Producer | All in the Family

Norman Lear enjoyed a long career in television and film, political and social activism, and philanthropy.

Born in 1922 in New Haven, Connecticut, Lear flew 52 combat missions over Europe in World War II before beginning his television career. His classic shows of the 1970s and '80s - All in the ...

60. Ellen Holly

Actress | In the Heat of the Night

Ellen Holly is a retired Black American actress. She was best known for her part as Carla Benari Hall in "One Life to Live" which she played for more than 20 years but she she was more then a soap opera actress.

On Broadway, she showed her versatile acting talent in the various roles she played in "...

61. Ryan O'Neal

Actor | Love Story

Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal was an American actor and former boxer. He trained as an amateur boxer before beginning his career in acting in 1960. In 1964, he landed the role of Rodney Harrington on the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place. It was an instant hit and boosted O'Neal's career. He ...

62. Bill Saluga

Actor | The Great Buck Howard

One of those actors whom everyone has seen but no one knows his name, Bill Saluga, of the Ace Trucking Company comedy troupe, was seen all over television in the seventies and early eighties as an obnoxious little fellow named "Raymond J. Johnson, Jr." When addressed as "Johnson" though, he would ...

63. David McKnight

Actor | Under Siege

David McKnight was born on July 2, 1936 in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for Under Siege (1992), Superhero Movie (2008) and Pump Up the Volume (1990). He died on December 3, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

64. Andre Braugher

Actor | Homicide: Life on the Street

Many actors have attempted to crack both genres of drama and comedy. Few have succeeded, among them the genial Andre Braugher (pronounced 'Ahn-drey Braw-ger'). A two-time Emmy Award winner, he is especially remembered for two seminal roles: as the intense, often explosive Detective Frank Pembleton ...

65. Jack Hogan

Actor | Combat!

Jack Hogan was born and raised in North Carolina and studied architecture at the University of North Carolina. In 1948, bored by college life, he left U.N.C. and spent the next four years in the navy. During this time, he decided to become an actor and once discharged, he enrolled at the Pasadena (...

66. Lee Sun-kyun

Actor | Gisaengchung

Lee Sun-kyun was born on March 2, 1975 in Seoul, South Korea. He was an actor and manager, known for Parasite (2019), A Hard Day (2014) and Paju (2009). He was married to Jeon Hye-jin. He died on December 27, 2023 in Seoul, South Korea.

67. Tom Smothers

Actor | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Tom Smothers was born on February 2, 1937 in Governors Island, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967), Speed Zone (1989) and The Informant! (2009). He was married to Marcy Carriker, Rochelle Ruth Robley and Stephanie R. Shorr. ...

68. Kamar de los Reyes

Actor | One Life to Live

Raised in the backstage wings of Las Vegas hotels by his Cuban father, Puerto Rico-born Kamar de los Reyes knew the second he was hoisted onto the stage to dance with Lola Falana at the age of 8, that he not only wanted to perform, but he wanted to be out front.

Kamar's father, a Cuban drummer and ...

69. Maurice Hines

Actor | The Cotton Club

Maurice Hines was born on December 13, 1943 in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Cotton Club (1984), Oops, Ups & Downs: The Murder Mystery of Humpty Dumpty and The Equalizer (1985). He died on December 29, 2023 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.

70. Sandra Reaves-Phillips

Actress | 'Round Midnight

Sandra Reaves-Phillips was born on December 23, 1944 in Mullins, South Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for 'Round Midnight (1986), Lean on Me (1989) and For Love or Money (1993). She died on December 29, 2023 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA.

71. Les McCann

Soundtrack | Casino

He took a few piano lessons as a child, and played drums and sousaphone in high school band. He worked at a local theater, helping musicians unload their equipment in return for tickets to the concerts. After high school, he joined the Navy and won a talent contest as a singer, leading to an ...