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2015 In Memoriam


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1/1: Donna Douglas, 82, actress best known as Elly May Clampett on "The Beverly Hillbillies"

1/2: Roger Kitter, 64, actor

1/5: Khan Bonfils, 42, actor

1/7: Rod Taylor, 84, actor

1/8: Patsy Garrett, 93, actress

1/10: George Dickerson, 81, actor

Tim Drummond, 74, bassist

Taylor Negron, 57, actor

1/13: Frank Mazzola, 79, actor

1/14: Darren Shahlavi, 42, actor

Layne Tom, Jr, 87, actor

1/15: Ervin Drake, 95, songwriter

1/18: Dallas Taylor, 66, drummer

1/20: Rose Marie McCoy, 92,songwriter

1/23: Barrie Ingham, 92, English actor

1/26: R.J. Adams, 72, actor

Neil Levang, 83, musician

1/28: Edward Saylor, 94, WWII veteran, member of Doolittle’s Raiders.

1/29: Colleen McCullough, 77, author

Rod McKuen, 81, songwriter

Alexander Vracius, 96, WWII fighter ace.

1/30: Geraldine McEwan, 82, actress

Than Wyenn, 95, actor

1/31: Lizabeth Scott, 92, actress

2/1: Anita Darian, 87, singer

2/3: Mary Healy, 96, actress

2/4: Richard Bonehill, 67, actor

2/5: Jeffrey Segal, 94, actor

2/11: Bob Simon, 73, journalist

2/12: Movita Castaneda, 98, actress

Gary Owens, 80, announcer/voice actor

2/13: Hugh Walters, 75, actor

2/14: Pamela Cundell, 95, actress

Alan Howard, 77, actor

2/15: Eileen Essell, 92, actress

2/16: Lesley Gore, 68, singer

2/17: June Fairchild, 68, actress

2/21: Paul Napier, 84, actor

2/23: Ben Woolf, 34, actor

2/25: Harve Bennett, 84, producer

2/27: Richard Bakalyan, 84, actor

Leonard Nimoy, 83, actor

3/1: Daniel von Bargen, 64, actor

3/2: Jenna McMahon, 89, writer

3/3: Lynn Borden, 77, actress

3/4: Emory Bass, 89, actor

3/8: Sam Simon, 59, writer, producer, director

3/9: Wayne Kemp, 73, country music singer/songwriter

Windell Middlebrooks, 36, actor

3/10: Alan Lurie, 94, voice actor

3/11: Ralph Taeger, 78, actor

3/15: Sally Forrest, 86, actess

3/20: Gregory Walcott, 87, actor

3/26: J. Karen Thomas, 50, actress

3/27: B.J. Crosby, 63, singer/actress

3/28: Leon Bass, 90, WWII soldier

3/30: Robert Z’dar, 64, actor

4/2: Tom Towles, 65, actor

4/3: Bob Burns, 64, drummer

Vivian Nathan, 98, actress

4/5: Richard Dysart, 86, actor

4/6: Ben Powers, 64, actor

4/7: Geoffrey Lewis, 79, actor

Dickie Owen, 88, actor

4/13: Gunter Grass, 87, author

Rex Robinson, 89, actor

Herb Trimpe, 75, comic book artist

4/15: Joseph A. Bennett, 44, actor

Jonathan Crombie, 48, actor

4/22: Lois Lillenstein, 78, actoress

Audree Norton, 88, actress

4/23: Paul Ryan, 69, actor

4/24: Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, 93, Auschwitz survivor

Sid Tepper, 96, songwriter

4/26: Jozef Paczynski, 95, Auschwitz survivor

Jayne Meadows, 95, actress

4/27: Suzanne Crough, 52, actress best known as Tracy Partridge on "The Partridge Family"

4/28: Jack Ely, 71, singer

4/30: Nigel Terry, 69, actress

5/1: Grace Lee Whitney, 85, actress

5/7: Gilbert Lewis, 74, actor

5/9: Elizabeth Wilson, 94, actress

5/12: John Colenback, 79, actor

5/15: John Stephenson, 91, voice actor

5/18: Elbert West, 47, country music singer/songwriter

5/23: John Carter, 87, actor

Anne Meara, 85, actress

5/27: William Newman, 80, actor

5/28: Reynaldo Rey, 75, actor

5/29: Betsy Palmer, 88, actress

6/7: Christopher Lee, 93, actor

6/11: Ron Moody, 91, actor

6/12: Monica Lewis, 93, singer/actress

Rick Ducommun, 62, actor

6/13: George Winslow, 69, actor

6/20: Anthony Sydes, 74, actor

JoAnn Dean, 91, actress

6/21: Tony Longo, 53, actor

6/22: James Horner, 61, composer

6/23: Dick Van Patten, 86, actor

6/28: Jack Carter, 93, comedian/actor

7/1: Sir Nicholas Winton, 106, British humanitarian

7/3: Amanda Peterson, 43, actress

7/8: Dewitt Lowrey, 93, WWII soldier

Irwin Keyes, 63, actor

7/10: Omar Sharif, 83, actor

Roger Rees, 71, actor

7/15: Aubrey Morris, 89, actor

7/17: Nova Pilbeam, 95, actress

7/18: Alex Rocco, 79, actor

George Coe, 86, actor

7/19: Mildred Joanne Smith, 94, actress

7/21: Kee Etsicitty, 92, Navajo Codetalker

Theodore Bikel, 91, actor

7/22: Natasha Parry, 84, actress

7/24: William White, 88, Tuskegee Airman

7/29: Sean Malone, 54, actor

8/3: Coleen Gray, 92, actress

8/7: Terrance Evans, 81, actor

8/8: Jennifer Rae Beck, 44, actress

8/16: E’Dena Hines, 33, actress

8/17: Yvonne Craig, 78, actress best known as Batgirl on "Batman"

8/20: Melody Patterson, 66, actress

8/30: Wes Craven, 76, director

9/1: Dean Jones, 84, actor

9/3: Judy Carne, 76, actress

9/4: Jean Darling, 93, actress

9/6: Calvin Spann, 90, Tuskegee Airman

Martin Milner, 83, actor

9/7: Dickie Moore, 89, actor

9/10: John Connell, 91, actor

9/19: Jackie Collins, 77, writer

9/20: Jack Larson, 87, actor best known as Jimmy Olsen in "The Adventures of Superman"

9/22: Yogi Berra, 90, baseball player/manager

9/29: Pat Woodell, 71, actress

10/3: Barbara Meek, 81, actress

10/5: Andrew Rubin, 69, actor

10/6: Kevin Corcoran, 66, actor

10/9: Ben Abraham, 90, holocaust survivor.

10/12: Joan Leslie, 90, actress

10/13: Bruce Hyde, 74, actor

10/24: Maureen O’Hara, 95, actress

10/27: Ralph Richeson, 63, actor

10/30: Al Molinaro, 96, actor

10/31: Charles Herbert, 66, actor

11/1: Fred Thompson, 73, actor

11/2: Tommy Overstreet, 78, country singer

11/4: Melissa Mathison, 65, screenwriter

11/7: Gunnar Hansen, 68, actor

11/11: Nathaniel Marston, 40, actor

11/15: P.F. Sloan, 70, singer/songwriter

11/16: David Canary, 77, actor

11/17: Ramona Jones, 91, musician

11/19: Mal Whitfield, 91, Tuskegee Airman

11/20: Jim Perry, 82, Game Show Host

11/24: Al Markim, 88, actor

11/25: Joshua Shintani, 32, actor

11/28: Marjorie Lord, 97, actress

12/3: Scott Weiland, 48, musician

Melvin Williams, 73, actor

12/4: Robert Loggia, 85, actor

Karen Montgomery, 66, actress

12/5: Tibor Rubin, 86, Holocaust survivor

12/7: Martin E. Brooks, 90, actor

12/12: Rose Siggins, 43, actress

12/20: Patricia Elliott, 77, actress

12/25: George Clayton Johnson, 86, writer

Jason Wingreen, 95, actor

12/27: Meadowlark Lemon, 83, basketball player

12/28: Sean Whitesell, 52, actor

12/30: Wayne Rogers, 82, actor

12/31: Natalie Cole, 65, singer

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Guest El Chalupacabra

He wasn't a celebrity, but he was important to me and was a good man all his life. My grandfather passed away at age 98 on 12/29/15. He was a WW2 vet serving in the Army 1941-1946. He was in the signal corps, Americal division, and participated in the battle of Guadalcanal. I just thought i would mention it since we are losing so many WW2 vets these days.

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I'm sorry about your loss. Neither of my Grandfathers served during WWII. My Dad's pa was too young so he was through with basic by the time the war ended and just sailed around the ocean for while and got out of the Navy before the Korean War broke out and my Ma's pa shirked by using his health. Signal corps are very interesting,

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Guest El Chalupacabra

Thank you Spam and Brando. I much appreciate that. And Spam, regardless if he was in WW2, even serving in peace time, just after WW2 was still very uncertain. Had things gone another way, we could have easily had to go into China, for example. So it is still an accomplishment.

 

I'm sorry to have hijacked this thread a bit. Since I noticed a lot of WW2 vets on the list above (including Christopher Lee), I really meant to just bring awareness to the fact that WW2 Vets, and other people who lived during that era, are starting to pass away at an increased rate and it won't be long before we don't have any WW2 vets, indeed people who just lived during that era, around anymore. I don't mean to romanticize that generation or anything, but I think the WW2 generation (both men and women who served in war, and also those who didn't but were on the home front) were made of sterner stuff.

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