RIP Allen Thicke 69 yrs.old died today playing hockey with his son.

Bernard Fox - Dr Bombay
 

Fox was born May 11, 1927, in Wales and was the son of two stage actors. His acting career started when he was 18 months old. His acting was interrupted when he served in the Royal Navy during World War II.

Fox appeared in an uncredited role in the 1958 movie “A Night To Remember,” which was about the Titanic tragedy of April 15, 1912. Thirty-nine years later, he played the role of Colonel Gracie in the James Cameron movie “Titanic.”

Fans probably best remember Fox for his appearances on two beloved 1960s sitcoms, “Bewitched” and “Hogan’s Heroes.”

Fox played the womanizing witch doctor Dr. Bombay in 19 episodes of “Bewitched.” He was the bumbling Colonel Crittendon on “Hogan’s Heroes.” Another memorable guest appearance was on “The Andy Griffith Show” as English valet Malcolm Meriweather.

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I must say due to my 30 plus year as a emergency medicine tech/paramedic i must bring up Henry Heimlich died yesterday ....i have seen many lives saved by that simple action.....he actually desserves more news than what he got.

I have been schooled and recertified in his creation for all of my years of training.


Adults and even infants have been given life due to his world wide known action/creation/name of......'HEIMLICH MANUVER"

George Michael died. At 53. There goes part of my teenage years...

Omg. Fucking 2016....are you done yet???

rip
 

I'm heartbroken over this one.

George Michael was a great song artist!!!
 

_Father Figure_ by George Michael was on my list of top 5 erotic songs. This has been a very sad year!

Prince did 3 of rest of my top 5. Wahhh, etc.

Think 2016 has been bad enough!

RIP......my dad. He wasn't famous except to us. He died suddenly yesterday. We didn't see eye to eye on most everything however that never stopped me from trying to repair that relationship

Heartfelt condolences to you and your family, Teddy.

What marks his place here is not that he was famous but that he was important and mattered to you, an integral part of this Community. May he rest in peace and may you find comfort in knowing you never gave up.

Sincerest condolences, Teddybear. It hurts to lose a parent regardless of the condition of the relationship prior to losing them. My thoughts are with you and your family during this painful time.

R.I.P. Carrie Fischer
 

This is so hard...more tragedy for 2016. Sad News

I was really hoping that she would pull through. I can't wait until 2016 is over.

No.way

She was a childhood icon..I wanted to BE Princess Leia. And I was many times for Halloween...I'm beyond sad...

The writer Richard Adams - author of Watership Down - died today too. :( At least he lived to 96 years old.

I am still numb and without words. She was such a role model as Princess Leia. And then, to the mentally ill community.

Vera Rubin born July 23, 1928 - died Dec 25 2016
 

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(CNN)Vera Rubin, a pioneering astrophysicist who proved the existence of dark matter, had a gift for overcoming daunting challenges.

In the 1960s, she became the first woman to observe at the legendary Caltech's Palomar Observatory. But the boys club that ran the place had some bad news for her.
"They told her, 'It's a real problem because we don't have a ladies room,' so she went back to her room and took out a little piece of paper and cut it into a skirt and went to the bathroom door and stuck it on the men's figure on the door.
"She said, 'Look, now you have a ladies room.'"
"She could do anything of that nature, yet she was extremely kind and warm and positively, amazingly so," said Neta Bahcall, an astrophysicist who oversees Princeton's undergraduate astronomy program at 74 years old. "Vera never gave up on anything."
Rubin died on Sunday at the age of 88, the Carnegie Institution of Science said. Her colleagues and those who admired her spirit remember her as someone who revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos by confirming the existence of dark matter, invisible material that comprises more than 90% of the universe...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/us/ver...omy-obit-trnd/

Fuck you 2016! No more sad news!!!

RIP Debbie Reynolds
 

Debbie Reynolds has passed away at the age of 84. She starred in many films, perhaps the most famous of which was "Singin' in the Rain", with Gene Kelly.

More recently, she played Grace's mother in "Will & Grace".

She passed away just one day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher.

RIP, Debbie Reynolds. You were one of the last great legends of the silver screen.

WHAT?????! Too many taken from us this way...way too many!

This makes me sad and scared because my sister isn't doing well and I have a feeling if she should die before my mother, my mother will not be far behind.

Debbie Reynolds played the part or Grace Adlers mom on Will & Grace ~ she made the expression "Told You So" dance popular lol

This has been a year of extraordinary loss in fields as divergent as celebrity, music, acting, science, politics and others.

The one that I will miss the most has been my voice of reason for years. The one person who could possibly ask the right questions and answer mine in this next year as the world unfolds as it will, not to mention my 6pm dinner companion on PBS for years as well.

You will be missed Gwen Ifill. 1955-2016

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RIP William Christopher aka Father Mulcahy from *MASH*

He was 84 and died from lung cancer(f)

Ricky Harris, comedian and actor died Dec.26, 2016. He was 54.


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Clare Hollingworth
 

Clare Hollingworth, who was the first to break the news that World War II had started, died Tuesday at the age of 105.

Known as the “doyenne of war correspondents,” Hollingworth’s career took her to Palestine, Iraq and Iran, where she was the first to interview 21-year-old shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, who was overthrown by revolutionaries in February 1979.

As correspondent for the Economist and the Observer, Hollingworth was in Jerusalem in July 1946 when the King David hotel where she was staying was bombed by Zionist paramilitaries led by future Israeli prime minister Menachim Begin, the only man who’s hand she refused to shake. “I would not shake a hand with so much blood on it,” she told the Guardian in 2004.
From the Middle East, Hollingworth switched to covering the conflict in Vietnam, where she scored a scoop in 1968 that peace talks would shortly begin between Hanoi and Washington.

Another scoop she was ahead of was the defection of British spy Kim Philby, who Hollingworth knew personally. She reported in the Guardian that Philby had fled to Russia, but the story was largely buried by her editors, fearing a libel suit. Philby was later awarded the Order of Lenin and made a KGB general. He died in Moscow in 1988.

In 1972, Hollingworth, then 61, became the Telegraph’s first Beijing correspondent since 1949.

She reported from China during the Cultural Revolution — a decade of violence and civil war that caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands — rapprochement with the West, and the death of Mao Zedong.

After a stint back in the UK as defense correspondent, she traveled to Hong Kong to cover the colony’s handover to Chinese control in 1997.

She would become an institution there, a frequent sight in the city’s Foreign Correspondent’s Club.

In a statement Tuesday, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club praised Hollingworth’s “remarkable career as a foreign correspondent.”
“We are very sad to hear about Clare’s passing,” said Hong Kong club President Tara Joseph. “She was a tremendous inspiration to us all and a treasured member of our club. We were so pleased that we could celebrate her 105th birthday with her this past year.”
Hollingworth died Tuesday in her flat on Glenealy in Hong Kong’s Central district.
Her passing was announced in a statement by her family published on the Celebrate Clare Hollingworth Facebook group.

“Although Clare made her name by getting the scoop on WWII … that event arguably overshadowed some equally impressive achievements,” they said.
“During the war Clare was all over the Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa. She was in Palestine for the final run-up to the foundation of Israel. She covered the civil war in Algeria, and was in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Vietnam during their conflicts.”

“Clare pushed the boundaries for women in journalism, and though she has gone, her legacy will certainly live on.”

Dick Gauthier
 

The good-looking actor may be best remembered by audiences as Hymie the Robot from 1960s TV spy spoof “Get Smart.” Although he only appeared in six episodes over the course of four seasons, the literal-minded automaton was a hit with fans and served as best man at Max’s wedding to Agent 99.

Gautier had a lengthy career with other notable comedic roles, including the Elvis Presley-inspired Conrad Birdie in the original Broadway production of “Bye, Bye Birdie.” He was nominated for a Tony award in 1960.

He later went on to star as Robin Hood in “Get Smart” co-creator Mel Brooks’ 1975 TV series, “When Things Were Rotten.” Although the series was critically acclaimed it was not popular, and was canceled after 13 episodes.

In addition to guest appearances on sitcoms, he was a frequent game show panelist. Beginning in the 1980s he became involved with voice-over work, playing the part of Rodimus Prime in “Transformers” and Serpentor in “G.I. Joe” animated series.

Before and throughout his acting career he was also a successful cartoonist, known for celebrity caricatures, and author of several instructional drawing books.

Miguel Ferrer (1955 - 2017)
 

Miguel Ferrer, the actor best known for starring as Owen Granger on “NCIS: Los Angeles,” died Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, of cancer. He was 61.

Ferrer launched his career in the early 1980s with small guest shots on such series as Magnum, P.I., CHiPS and Cagney & Lacey and features including Heartbreaker, The Man Who Wasn’t There and Star Trek: III: The Search for Spock. He would go on to focus mostly on TV throughout that decade before landing the Twin Peaks role in 1990.

The Santa Monica native toplined the short-lived Stephen J. Cannell-creator cop drama Broken Badges in 1991 and also starred in Lynch’s 1950s romp On the Air the following year. He appeared in a number of features during the 1990s but continued to star on short-run TV series including Fallen Angels and Al Franken’s LateLine.

In 2001, Ferrer landed a role in the NBC drama Crossing Jordan, starring opposite Hennessy’s Boston medical examiner. The show was among the top 20 in the year-end ratings for 2001-02 and remained on the air until 2007.

After that series wrapped, Ferrer starred opposite Michelle Ryan in Bionic Woman, which lasted nine episodes, co-starred with Ally Walker and Tisha Campbell-Martin in the LAPD drama The Protector in 2011. But his next role would be his biggest.

In 2012, Ferrer joined the cast of CBS’ popular spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles, opposite Chris O’Donnell, LL Cool J, Linda Hunt and others. He came in early on as the assistant director of NCIS and at first was a hard-as-nails unpleasant sort to the team. But during the course of the ensuing seasons, his Owen Granger warmed up to them and became a friend. There has been an ongoing mole-hunt storyline in the current eighth season of NCIS: LA, and Granger was stabbed while in police custody in the most recent episode that aired Sunday.

Ferrer was the oldest of the five children of singer Rosemary Clooney and Academy Award-winning actor Jose Ferrer. He is a first cousin of actor George Clooney. He started his career as a drummer and played the drums on a cover of the Beach Boys' “Don’t Worry Baby” for Keith Moon’s solo album, “Two Sides of the Moon.”

Ferrer will be seen reprising his role as Rosenfield in the upcoming “Twin Peaks” reboot for Showtime. The series has already finished filming and will debut this summer.

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Mary Tyler Moore just died at the age of 80.

Butch Trucks, who co-founded the Allman Brothers Band, has died. He and Gregg and Duane Allman and three other musicians formed the band in Macon, Georgia. Butch was the drummer. He was 69 years old.

rip mtm
 

Mike Connors
 

Mike Connors, the B-movie actor who found stardom on the long-running detective series "Mannix," has died. He was 91.

Connors played the private investigator Joe Mannix on the CBS television series that ran from 1967 to 1975.

Connors was born Krekor Ohanian Aug. 15, 1925, in Fresno, California. He was of Armenian descent. He served during World War II in the U.S. Army Air Forces. After the war, he attended the University of California at Los Angeles on a basketball scholarship. His basketball coach was the legendary UCLA coach John Wooden.

It was during his college basketball career that a director, William Wellman, noticed Connors' strong facial expressions and encouraged him to start an acting career.

After the actor had played a character named Touch Connors on a TV show and in movies during the 1950s, a talent agent suggested that name as his stage name -- so as not to be confused with the actor George O'Hanlon.

Connors' early film credits included "Island in the Sky," which starred John Wayne, and Cecil B. DeMille's blockbuster "The Ten Commandments," in which he played a shepherd alongside Charlton Heston.

During the mid-to-late '50s, Connors turned to television, appearing on such TV series as "Frontier," "City Detective," "State Trooper," and "Maverick."

He later had a starring role on "Tightrope!" from 1959 to 1960, which led to "Mannix" beginning in 1967. After "Mannix," he starred on the short-lived "Today's F.B.I.," which ran from 1981 to 1982.

Connors continued to act on TV as well as in films from the 1985 to 2003 including the films "Too Scared To Scream" (1985), "Fist Fighter" (1989), "Downtown Heat" (1994), "Gideon" (1998) and "The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave" (2000). He reprised his role as Joe Mannix in the 2003 comedy film "Nobody Knows Anything!"

Connors returned to TV in 2007 to appear in an episode of "Two and a Half Men."

Barbara Hale
 

Actress Barbara Hale, who won an Emmy Award for playing legal secretary Della Street on the long-running "Perry Mason" television series, has died. She was 94.

Hale signed on with "Perry Mason" when the series began in 1957, playing the secretary to lawyer Perry Mason, played by Raymond Burr. Hale played Della as a quiet, devoted employee, a classic girl Friday. She was capable and professional, and she looked the part, dressed in timeless business wear that avoided following trends, her hair perfectly coifed. While she wasn't out there winning cases herself, it was clear that Della was the backbone that made her boss' success possible.

For fans of the "Perry Mason" series of novels, begun in 1933 by Erle Stanley Gardner, Hale became the unmistakable face of Della. She wasn't the first actress to play the secretary – five others portrayed Della in early movie adaptations – but Hale did it so well, and for so long, that she became the standard. Her portrayal won her an Emmy Award for best supporting actress in a dramatic series in 1959, as well as another nomination in 1961. When the series was canceled in 1966, she remained in fans' minds as the epitome of Della, and when it was revived for a series of 30 "Perry Mason" TV movies beginning in 1985, she was back.

Those movies also starred Burr as Mason – until his 1993 death. Four more movies were made with other lawyers standing in for Mason, thanks in part to Hale's reassuring continuity, with the final installment coming in 1995. Hale and Burr worked together for decades, and the two became good friends during their long time as colleagues. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times a few years after Burr's death, Hale said, "If anybody had a hero, I did. And Raymond was the man."

Though Hale is remembered most frequently as Della, she had a number of other notable roles on the big screen as well as on television. An early favorite was "Higher and Higher" (1943), Frank Sinatra's film debut. Hale played a young debutante, the love interest of Sinatra's character, and the two sang together. Of the chance to share vocals with Ol' Blue Eyes, Hale later told the Los Angeles Times, "Isn't that fun? I never had been so scared in my life, but he's been a very dear friend ever since."

Hale's first starring role was in 1946's "Lady Luck" opposite Robert Young. She'd go on to play opposite other top leading men of the day, including James Stewart in "The Jackpot" (1951), Rock Hudson in "Seminole" (1953), and Charlton Heston in "The Far Horizons" (1955). After a break from the big screen during the years when she starred on "Perry Mason," Hale returned for a few films in later years, including a supporting role in 1970's "Airport."

On television, Hale guest-starred on a number of shows during the years between the main "Perry Mason" series and the movie revivals, including "Lassie," "Adam-12," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," and "The Greatest American Hero." Her final television appearance came after a hiatus of five years with a 2000 turn on an episode of "Biography" focusing on Burr.

Hale has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and she won a 2001 Golden Boot Award for her memorable presence in a number of movie Westerns during her pre-"Perry Mason" career.

John Hurt
 

John Hurt, the acclaimed English character actor who starred in “The Elephant Man,” has died. He was 77.

Hurt, whose prolific career stretched for six decades across stage, film, and television, was known for playing offbeat characters whose stories were tinged with darkness. He was almost unrecognizable under prosthetic makeup in his Academy Award-nominated performance as John Merrick, the deformed 19th-century Englishman whose life story was depicted in “The Elephant Man” (1980).

Other notable roles included Winston Smith, protagonist of the dystopian classic “Nineteen Eighty-Four” (1984); Kane, the ill-fated spacefarer who was host to the titular parasite in “Alien” (1979); the insane Roman emperor Caligula in the BBC miniseries "I, Claudius" (1976); a secret incarnation of the face-changing, time-traveling Doctor on the 50th anniversary episode of "Doctor Who" (2013); and Mr. Ollivander, the magic wand salesman who appeared in three of the "Harry Potter" films (2001 - 2011).

He was knighted in 2015 for his services to drama.

Professor Irwin Corey
 

"Professor" Irwin Corey, the classic comedian billed as the World's Foremost Authority, died Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. He was 102.

The centenarian funnyman was known for a decidedly weird routine. Dressed in the garb of an absent-minded professor – wild hair, a shabby suit, and sneakers – he'd wander onstage distractedly. He'd consult his notes, maybe laugh at something he saw there, pocket the notes, consult them again … finally, the first word of his routine, always the same: "However …" What followed was a masterpiece of doublespeak, improvised by Corey and thoroughly confusing and amusing his audience.

One oft-quoted snippet of a Corey routine started: "However ... we all know that protocol takes precedence over procedures. This Paul Lindsey point of order based on the state of inertia of developing a centrifugal force issued as a catalyst rather than as a catalytic agent, and hastens a change reaction and remains an indigenous brier to its inception. This is a focal point used as a tangent so the bile is excreted through the panaceas."

Corey sprinkled more recognizable aphorisms among the 50-cent words, and these quotable quotes were so perfect that some have entered the lexicon as clichéd phrases, with few who repeat them knowing who coined them. Here's how Corey turned a phrase:

"Wherever you go, there you are."

"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."

"You can get further with a kind word and a gun that you do with just a kind word."

The distinctive routine came from the brain of a man who had an unconventional childhood and young adulthood. Born in Brooklyn July 29, 1914, Corey was one of six siblings who grew up in an orphanage despite not being orphans. Abandoned by her husband, Corey's mother struggled to support her children while working and also attempting to recover from tuberculosis. The Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum was a solution born out of desperation – she could work enough to send them money for the children's care while also recuperating from her illness.

It was Corey's home until he was 13, and it was where he started his long comedy career, performing to amuse the other children. But then the young teen joined the tide moving west, riding the rails to California in search of work. He returned to New York as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps, working his way across the country and, in his spare time, taking up boxing and becoming a featherweight champion.

Back east, Corey began performing as a comedian, working the Catskills circuit as well as New York City clubs. As his career burgeoned, World War II interrupted. Corey was determined not to serve, first seeking 4F status and then, when he was drafted nevertheless, convincing his superiors he was a homosexual and being discharged after six months.

Postwar, Corey honed his Professor persona and ramped up his path to fame, appearing on many of the hottest shows of TV's early days. He was a regular guest of talk show hosts including Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, and Ed Sullivan. Through his surreal stand-up routine, he influenced many of the next generation of comics as they got their start: Lenny Bruce, Jonathan Winters, and George Carlin were just a few of the stand-ups who looked up to him. He occasionally acted, too, as when he guest-starred on an episode of "The Phil Silvers Show" and, later, in movies such as "How To Commit Marriage" (1969) and "Car Wash" (1976).

Alongside his stage and screen career came a number of odd stunts, not least of which was his 1960 bid for the presidency of the United States as part of Hugh Hefner's "Playboy" ticket. His campaign slogans included, "Vote for Irwin and get on the dole" and, "Corey will run for any party, with a bottle in his hand."

In 1974, attendees of the National Book Award ceremony were perplexed as Corey arrived onstage to accept the award on behalf of its actual winner, Thomas Pynchon, author of "Gravity's Rainbow." His acceptance speech was much like one of his "professorial" comedy routines. Just as the audience was at its most bewildered, a streaker ran across the stage – not associated with Pynchon or Corey in any way; he was just a random sign of the times. Corey knew the more serious contingent of the literary world was annoyed by his appearance, but he didn't care: As he told interviewer Jim Knipfel, "I got paid $500 for it, and I had a good time."

In his 80s and 90s, Corey undertook an unusual mission. Walking the streets of New York City, he sold newspapers to drivers for a dollar or a handful of change. According to The New York Times, those papers were often free ones that he took from public newspaper boxes. Unkempt and repeating his mantra – "Help a guy out?" – Corey appeared like any other panhandler, though some recognized the comedian. What they didn't know was that he donated all his proceeds from these escapades to a charity that provides medical supplies for children in Cuba. He even had the autographed photo of Cuban President Fidel Castro on his apartment wall to prove it.

It was one of many ways in which Corey was politically and socially conscious. A far-left liberal, he loved relating his favorite example of his radicalism: "When I tried to join the Communist Party, they called me an anarchist," as he told The New York Times. He was blacklisted in Hollywood for his support of the party, a consequence that continued to affect his career for years after the end of the McCarthy era. But he remained active with his leftist views, supporting causes including the Mumia Abu-Jamal defense fund and Palestinian relief efforts.

Of his political activism, Corey told interviewer Kliph Nesteroff, "I was never aware that I was a political commentator. It just happens. You just do it. You breathe, but you're not conscious of breathing. When I did my act, I wasn't conscious that it was political."