Actors who left us in 2009.(Vanity)

Ya it looks like there a quite a few clips on You Tube

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

Yes, he was also in a TV series, Laredo which aired from 1965-1967. It starred Carey, Neville Brand, Peter Brown, and Will Smith. Carey played Captain Parmalee. Great show, great cast.

And of course he was fantastic in the Prisoner-one of my all time favorite TV shows. They don’t even come close to making shows like that anymore.

A good yearly necrology is at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=necrology&necYear=2009

Among the ones I noticed:

Arnold Strang, the voice of Top Cat. He was also a character actor, and played the photographer in Dennis the Menace, as well as a lot of other bit parts.

Soupy Sales

John Hughes. He wrote or directed the original Vacation, all the “Brat Pack” movies, Uncle Buck, Home Alone, Ferris Bueller, and quite a few other movies.

Neville Brand

Wasn't he the second most highly decorated soldier of WW2?

Yes, and as I recall the shows were on Sunday, 6 pm central standard time I believe.

Arnold Stang, I recall just seeing his obit in The Telegraph a few days ago.

I have taken to reading the UK papers before US papers anymore.

EW was quite an accomplished tenor also.

Had quite a few golden records.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE1h3-1s_E0&feature=related

Yes, it was 6:00 P.M. Sunday central time. I almost wrote that on my post but wasn’t 100% certain.

Actually those old Disney shows may have been the best TV ever. They still hold up well today. There were a lot of them set in Scotland which is odd since Disney is Portuguese I think.

Disney did well to get Guy Williams for Zorro.

He was an accomplished fencer even prior to his acting career.

List of Living Octogenarians

Here are the most recent changes to the list below:

Richard Gordon - turned 80
William Wayne Justice - died
Al Martino - died
Soupy Sales - died
Alan Sues - added

The following 290 living people are all at least 80 years old:
(*) indicates 90 to 99 (53 people on this list)
(!) indicates 100 and over (2 people on this list)

Julie Adams - actress, “Creature From the Black Lagoon”
Marty Allen - game show panelist
Ed Ames - tomahawk-throwing actor
Richard Anderson - actor, “The Six Million Dollar Man”
Patty Andrews - singer, the Andrews Sisters
Bill Archer - U.S. congressman
James Arness - actor, “Gunsmoke”
Richard Attenborough - film director, “Gandhi”
Lauren Bacall - actress
Chuck Barris - TV host, “The Gong Show”
Dave Brubek - jazz pianist
Hal David - songwriter, “What the World Needs Now is Love”
Conrad Bain - actor, “Diff’rent Strokes”
Howard Baker Jr. - U.S. senator/White House chief of staff
Roger Bannister - runner
Bob Barker - game show host
(*) Gene Barry - actor, “War of the Worlds”
Harry Belafonte - calypso singer
Orson Bean - actor, “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”
Pope Benedict XVI - Roman Catholic pope
Tony Bennett - singer
Yogi Berra - baseball player
Chuck Berry - rock ‘n’ roll pioneer
James Best - actor, “The Dukes of Hazzard”
(*) Barbara Billingsley - actress, “Leave It to Beaver”
George Blanda - Hall of Fame NFL football player
(*) Ernest Borgnine - actor
Robert Bork - U.S. Supreme Court nominee
Frank Borman - U.S. astronaut
Tom Bosley - actor, “Happy Days”
Boutros Boutros-Ghali - U.N. secretary-general
Ray Bradbury - science fiction author
Ben Bradlee - editor, The Washington Post
Peter Breck - actor, “The Big Valley”
Mel Brooks - director, “Young Frankenstein”
Joyce Brothers - advice columnist
Helen Gurley Brown - editor, “Cosmopolitan”
Barbara Bush - U.S. first lady
George Bush - U.S. president
(*) Robert Byrd - U.S. senator
(*) Frank Cady - actor; “Green Acres”
Sid Caesar - actor
Charlie Callas - comedian
Pierre Cardin - fashion designer
Scott Carpenter - U.S. astronaut, Project Mercury
Jimmy Carter - U.S. president
Rosalynn Carter - U.S. first lady
Fidel Castro - Cuban dictator
Carol Channing - actress
Jack T. Chick - Christian cartoonist/publisher
Noam Chomsky - leftist linguist
Robert Clary - actor, “Hogan’s Heroes”
Mike Connors - actor, “Mannix”
Denton Cooley - heart surgeon
Jackie Cooper - actor
(*) “Professor” Irwin Corey - comedian
Javier Perez de Cuellar - U.N. secretary-general
Tony Curtis - actor
Bill Daily - actor, “I Dream of Jeannie”
Vic Damone - singer, “On the Street Where You Live”
Jean Darling - actress, “The Little Rascals”
Hal David - songwriter, “What the World Needs Now is Love”
Al Davis - pro sports executive, Oakland/L.A. Raiders
Ann B. Davis - actress, “The Brady Bunch”
Doris Day - actress
Dorothy DeBorba - actress, “The Little Rascals”
(*) Olivia De Havilland - actress
(*) Dino De Laurentiis - film producer
Jimmy Dean - singer/sausage producer
Jeremiah Denton - U.S. POW in Vietnam / U.S. senator
Little Jimmy Dickens - country singer
(*) Phyllis Diller - actress
Anatoly Dobrynin - Soviet diplomat
(*) Bobby Doerr - baseball player
Bob Dole - U.S. senator
Fats Domino - rock and roll pioneer
(*) Kirk Douglas - actor
Hugh Downs - TV host
Deanna Durbin - actress, “Three Smart Girls”
Richard Dysart - actor, “L.A. Law”
Blake Edwards - film director, “The Pink Panther”
Queen Elizabeth II - British head of state
Nanette Fabray - actress
Peter Falk - actor, Columbo
Jules Feiffer - cartoonis, “The New Yorker”
Al Feldstein - editor, “MAD”
(*) Bob Feller - baseball player
Tom Foley - U.S. speaker of the House
Fyvush Finkel - actor, “Boston Public”
Eddie Fisher - singer
(*) Joan Fontaine - actress
(*) Betty Ford - U.S. first lady
Whitey Ford - Hall of Fame baseball player
(*) John Forsythe - actor
Bernard Fox - actor, “Bewitched”
Jonathan Frid - actor, “Dark Shadows”
(*) Zsa Zsa Gabor - actress
Joe Garagiola - major leaguer & TV host
James Garner - actor, “The Rockford Files”
(*) Betty Garrett - actress, “Laverne & Shirley”
Valery Giscard d’Estaing - French president
John Glenn - U.S. astronaut & senator
Richard Gordon - U.S. astronaut, Apollo 12
(*) Michael Gough - actor, “Batman”
(*) Billy Graham - evangelist
Andy Griffith - actor
Peter Graves - actor, “Mission: Impossible”
Shecky Greene - comedian
Robert Guillaume - actor, “Benson”
Alexander Haig - U.S. general & cabinet member
Barbara Hale - actress, “Perry Mason”
Monty Hall - game show host
Milo Hamilton - baseball announcer
Pat Harrington Jr. - actor, “One Day at a Time”
Donald Harron - actor, “Hee Haw”
Ray Harryhausen - film producer, “Jason and the Argonauts”
(*) Ernie Harwell - baseball announcer, Detroit Tigers
(*) Knut Haugland - explorer, Kon-Tiki
Richard “Racehorse” Haynes - criminal defense attorney
Hugh Hefner - publisher, “Playboy”
Hal Holbrook - actor, “Lincoln”
Ernest Hollings - U.S. senator
(*) Lena Horne - singer
Gordie Howe - NHL hockey player
Lee Iacocca - automobile manufacturer
(*) Monte Irvin - Hall of Fame baseball player
Al Jaffee - cartoonist, “MAD”
Sonny James - country singer
Arte Johnson - actor, “Laugh-In”
Russell Johnson - actor, “Gilligan’s Island”
Jennifer Jones - actress, “The Song of Bernadette”
Bil Keane - cartoonist, “The Family Circus”
George Kennedy - actor, “The Naked Gun”
Tom Kennedy - game show host, “Password Plus”
Jack Kevorkian - assisted suicide practitioner
Ralph Kiner - Hall of Fame baseball player
B.B. King - blues musician
Henry Kissinger - U.S. secretary of state
Jack Klugman - actor
Ed Koch - mayor of New York
(*) C. Everett Koop - surgeon general
Sid Krofft - TV producer, “Land of the Lost”
(*) Jack LaLanne - fitness guru
Jake LaMotta - boxer, middleweight champion
Angela Lansbury - actress, “Murder, She Wrote”
Lyndon LaRouche - U.S. presidential candidate
Don Larsen - major leaguer, NY Yankees
Tommy Lasorda - major-league manager
Frank Lautenberg - U.S. senator
Cloris Leachman - actress, “Phyllis”
Norman Lear - TV producer
Christopher Lee - horror film actor
Stan Lee - comic book writer, “Spiderman”
Tom Lehrer - musical satirist, “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”
Len Lesser - actor, “Seinfeld”
(!) Claude Levi-Strauss - anthropologist
Jerry Lewis - actor, “The Nutty Professor”
(*) Art Linkletter - TV host and pitchman
James Lipton - TV host, “Inside the Actor’s Studio”
June Lockhart - actress, “Lost In Space”
Gina Lollobrigida - actress
(*) Herbert Lom - actor, “The Pink Panther”
Jim Lovell - U.S. astronaut
(*) Lee MacPhail - baseball executive
(*) Nelson Mandela - South African politician
Benoit Mandelbrot - mathematician, fractals
Imelda Marcos - Philippine first lady
Rose Marie - actress/game show panelist
Peter Marshall - game show host, “The Hollywood Squares”
George Martin - music producer, The Beatles
Nan Martin - actress, “The Drew Carey Show”
(*) Tony Martin - singer/actor
Jim McDivitt - U.S. astronaut, Apollo 9
George McGovern - U.S. senator
John McLaughlin - political commentator/host
Robert Michel - U.S. congressman
(*) Marvin Miller - baseball players negotiator
(*) Mitch Miller - bandleader
(*) Al Molinaro - actor, “Happy Days”
Walter Mondale - U.S. vice president
Roger Moore - actor, James Bond
(*) Harry Morgan - actor
Ennio Morricone - film soundtrack composer, “The Mission”
Hosni Mubarak - Egyptian president
Roger Mudd - TV journalist
Stan Musial - basball player
(*) Yasuhiro Nakasone - Japanese prime minister
Noel Neill - actress, “Adventures of Superman”
Bob Newhart - actor, “The Bob Newhart Show”
(*) Edwin Newman - newscaster
Leslie Nielsen - actor, “The Naked Gun”
James Noble - actor, “Benson”
Hugh O’Brian - actor, “Wyatt Eartp”
Maureen O’Hara - actress
Patti Page - singer, “The Doggie in the Window”
Arnold Palmer - golfer
(*) Don Pardo - TV announcer, “Saturday Night Live”
Fess Parker - actor, “Davy Crockett”
Joe Paterno - college football coach
Shimon Peres - Israeli prime minister
William Perry - U.S. secretary of defense
Prince Philip of the U.K. - British royal family member
Bum Phillips - NFL football coach
T. Boone Pickens - oil industry executive
Sidney Poitier - actor
Ray Price - country singer
Charlotte Rae - actress, “The Facts of Life”
James Randi - magician
Joyce Randolph - actress, “The Honeymooners”
Nancy Reagan - U.S. first lady
Carl Reiner - actor/director
Don Rickles - comedian
(*) Oral Roberts - preacher
Pernell Roberts - actor, “Bonanza”
Robin Roberts - Hall of Fame baseball player
Cliff Robertson - actor, “Charly”
Dale Robertson - actor, westerns
(*) David Rockefeller - chairman, Chase Manhattan bank
(*) Andy Rooney - TV news commentator
Mickey Rooney - actor
Al Rosen - baseball executive
Marion Ross - actress, “Happy Days”
Dan Rostenkowski - U.S. congressman
Jane Russell - actress & bra spokeswoman
Eva Marie Saint - actress, “North By Northwest”
(*) J. D. Salinger - author, “Catcher in the Rye”
Vidal Sassoon - hairdresser
Phyllis Schlafly - activist, Eagle Forum
(*) Helmut Schmidt - W. German chancellor
James Schlesinger - U.S. secretary of defense
Red Schoendienst - baseball manager
Robert Schuller - preacher
(*) Sherwood Schwartz - TV producer
Earl Scruggs - banjo player, “The Ballad of Jed Clampett”
Vin Scully - baseball announcer, Los Angeles Dodgers
(*) Pete Seeger - folk musician
Doc Severinsen - bandleader, “The Tonight Show”
Ravi Shankar - sitar player
(*) Yitzak Shamir - Israeli prime minister
Ariel Sharon - Israeli prime minister
(!) George Beverly Shea - gospel singer
Liz Sheridan - actress, “Seinfeld”
(*) Sargent Shriver - U.S. political candidate
George Shultz - U.S. cabinet secretary
Neil Simon - playwright, “The Odd Couple”
Duke Snider - Hall of Fame baseball player
Jean Stapleton - actress, Edith Bunker
John Paul Stevens - U.S. supreme court justice
Ted Stevens - U.S. senator
Jerry Stiller - actor, “Seinfeld”
Larry Storch - actor, “F-Troop”
Alan Sues - actor, “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In”
Gordie Tapp - performer, “Hee Haw”
Chuck Tanner - baseball manager, Pittsburgh Pirates
Shirley Temple - actress
Margaret Thatcher - British prime minister
Helen Thomas - White House reporter
Frank Thornton - actor, “Are You Being Served?”
Grant Tinker - TV executive (NBC)
Y. A. Tittle - Hall of Fame football player
(*) Abigail Van Buren - advice columnist
Dick Van Patten - actor, “Eight is Enough”
Gloria Vanderbilt - fashion designer
Dick Van Dyke - actor
Gore Vidal - novelist, “Lincoln”
Abe Vigoda - actor, “Barney Miller”
Paul Volcker - chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve
Claus von Bulow - acquitted attempted murder defendant
Ralph Waite - actor, “The Waltons”
Clint Walker - actor, “Cheyenne”
Mort Walker - cartoonist, “Beetle Bailey”
(*) Mike Wallace - TV journalist
(*) Eli Wallach - actor
Joseph Wapner - television judge
John Warner - U.S. senator
(*) Kitty Wells - country singer
Adam West - actor, “Batman”
Ruth Westheimer - sex counselor
Betty White - actress
Slim Whitman - country singer
Andy Williams - singer, “Moon River”
Dick Williams - Hall of Fame baseball manager
Esther Williams - swimmer
Roger Williams - pianist, “Born Free”
Jonathan Winters - comedian
(*) John Wooden - NCAA basketball coach
Jim Wright - U.S. speaker of the House
Chuck Yeager - test pilot
Alan Young - actor, “Mister Ed”
(*) Efrem Zimbalist Jr. - actor

Compiled by David Carson
Who’ Dead and who’s alive

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And although you had originally put it up with thumbtacks, in the end, you had to tear and scrape if off.

≤}B^)

Prayers and thoughts to you my friend.
My Father Aug. 19, 1926 – Dec. 15, 2006
Your description made me smile, you described my Father to tee
We were blessed to have such Fathers.

Ron Silver was an intelligent actor and a Hollywood Jewish lefty. Then came 9/11. Ever since he was a valiant anti-jihadi activist becoming more of a conservative on more political issues from then until his death.

Wow. There’s couple on that list I missed.
Soupy Sales?
“I took my wife to the baseball game last night. We’re so in love! I kissed her between the strikes and she kissed me between the balls.”

He’s in my favorite version of A Christmas Carol - he plays the ghost of Christmas Present. He does a great job.

Good link. Yeah, that’s a pretty comprehensive list!
I noticed some pretty big names left off the original poster’s list. James Whitmore, for example.
Also, I see that Frank Costanza died on March 11. RIP.

Here is one of my all-time top 5 TV theme songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF_49tWPNWA

I feel bad for Groucho Marx, he died the day before Elvis Presley.

Alfa, you ARE in for a treat. "Piece of Cake" is one of the best and most beautiful TV series ever made, from the music to the acting to the beautiful airplanes. There is no such thing as too many Spitfires.

mware, which pilot did Woodward's son play?