Gone, But Not Forgotten II
by dwgbarrie | created - 03 Jan 2022 | updated - 15 Feb 2023 | Public
1. Louie Anderson
Actor | Life with Louie
Iconic comedian Louie Anderson, the three-time Emmy®-Award winner, was one of the country's most recognized and adored comics; named by Comedy Central as "One of 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians of All Time." His career spanned more than 30 years. He was a best-selling author, star of his own stand ...
2022
2. 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 ...
2023
3. 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. ...
2023
4. James Caan
Actor | Thief
A masculine and enigmatic actor whose life and movie career have had more ups and downs than the average rollercoaster and whose selection of roles has arguably derailed him from achieving true superstar status, James Caan is New York-born and bred.
He was born in the Bronx, to Sophie (Falkenstein) ...
2022
5. Robbie Coltrane
Actor | Cracker
Robbie Coltrane, one of Britain's most popular comedians who was head of debating society at school and won prizes for his art, is now a film star who played in two James Bond films and in the "Harry Potter" franchise.
Coltrane was born Anthony Robert McMillan on March 30, 1950, in Rutherglen, a ...
2022
6. 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.
2023
7. Emilio Delgado
Actor | Sesame Street
Emilio Delgado was an actor and singer, best known for his 44 years in the role of "Luis" on Sesame Street from 1971-2015 and had the unofficial distinction of having played the same role on U.S. television longer than any other Mexican American actor. He was born in Calexico, California and spent ...
2022 - He played Luis Rodriguez on Sesame Street from 1971 to 2019.
8. Mike Douglas
Actor | Cinderella
Mike Douglas was born on August 11, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Cinderella (1950), The Mike Douglas Show (1961) and Bugsy (1991). He was married to Genevieve Purnell. He died on August 11, 2006 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA.
2006
9. Ralph Emery
Actor | Nashville Rebel
Ralph Emery was born on March 10, 1933 in McEwen, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for Nashville Rebel (1966), Girl from Tobacco Row (1966) and Dolly (1976). He was married to Joy Kott and Skeeter Davis. He died on January 15, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
2022
10. Louise Fletcher
Actress | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, to Episcopal minister Robert Fletcher and his wife Estelle, both of whom were deaf, Louise Fletcher was introduced to performing at a young age by the aunt who taught her to speak. After graduating from the University of North Carolina, she took a trip out west with her...
2022
11. Gilbert Gottfried
Actor | Aladdin
At the tender age of 15, Gilbert Gottfried began doing stand-up at open mike nights in New York City and, after a few short years, became known around town as "the comedian's comedian". After spending several years mastering the art of stand-up comedy, producers of the legendary NBC late-night ...
2022
12. Estelle Harris
Actress | Toy Story 2
Estelle Harris was an American actress and comedienne, known for her exaggerated shrill and grating comedic voice. She often worked as a voice actress in animation, voicing supporting characters and guest stars. Her best known roles are the obnoxious mother Estelle Costanza in the sitcom "Seinfeld"...
2022
13. Howard Hesseman
Actor | WKRP in Cincinnati
Howard Hesseman was a leading counter-culture figure since the late 1960s. He was a member of the improv group, "The Committee", for a decade in the 1960s/1970s. A character actor for many years on different television shows since the 1960s, he took small parts in The Andy Griffith Show (1960), ...
2022
14. William Hurt
Actor | A History of Violence
William McChord Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., to Claire Isabel (McGill) and Alfred McChord Hurt, who worked at the State Department. He was trained at Tufts University and The Juilliard School and has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including the most recent nomination for his ...
2022
15. Joni James
Soundtrack | L.A. Confidential
Joni James was born on September 22, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was married to Bernard Schriever and Tony Acquaviva. She died on February 20, 2022 in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
2022
16. Naomi Judd
Actress | Someone Like You...
Naomi Judd was born on January 11, 1946 in Ashland, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Someone Like You (2001), An Evergreen Christmas (2014) and Route 65 Nashville. She was married to Larry Strickland and Michael Charles Ciminella. She died on April 30, 2022 in Nashville, ...
2022
17. Sally Kellerman
Actress | MASH
Sally Kellerman arrived quite young on the late 1950s film and television scene with a fresh and distinctively weird, misfit presence. It is this same uniqueness that continued to make her such an attractively offbeat performer. The willowy, swan-necked, flaxen-haired actress shot to film comedy ...
2022
18. Angela Lansbury
Actress | The Manchurian Candidate
Angela Lansbury was born in 1925 into a prominent family of the upper middle class living in the Regent's Park neighborhood of London. Her father was socialist politician Edgar Isaac Lansbury (1887-1935), a member of both the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. Edgar ...
2022
19. Jerry Lee Lewis
Soundtrack | Grease
Jerry Lee Lewis was born on September 29, 1935 into a very religious family . His family, though not very wealthy, sold their house when he was a child to get their son a piano. He loved to play piano. He was sent to a religious school, but was soon thrown out shortly thereafter -- he did a boogie ...
2022
20. Ray Liotta
Actor | Narc
Intense was the word for Ray Liotta. He specialized in psychopathic characters who hide behind a cultivated charm. Even in his nice-guy roles in Field of Dreams (1989) and Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), you get the impression that something is smoldering inside of him. He was born in Newark, New ...
2022
21. Meat Loaf
Actor | The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Meat Loaf was born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Texas, to Wilma Artie (Hukel), a teacher and gospel singer, and Orvis Wesley Aday, a police officer. He moved to Los Angeles in 1967 to play in local bands. In 1970, he moved to New York and appeared in the Broadway musicals "Hair", "Rockabye Hamlet" ...
2022
22. Loretta Lynn
Soundtrack | The New Mutants
Loretta Lynn was born on April 14, 1932 in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, USA. She was a music artist and actress, known for The New Mutants (2020), High Crimes (2002) and Logan Lucky (2017). She was married to Oliver Lynn. She died on October 4, 2022 in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, USA.
2022
23. Bob McGrath
Actor | Follow That Bird
Bob McGrath was born on June 13, 1932 in Ottawa, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Follow That Bird (1985), Sesame Street (1969) and Sesame Street, Special (1988). He was married to Ann Logan Sperry. He died on December 4, 2022 in New Jersey, USA.
2022 - An original cast member of Sesame Street, he played Bob Johnson on the show from 1969 to 2019.
24. Olivia Newton-John
Soundtrack | Grease
Olivia Newton-John was an English singer and actress who was born on September 26, 1948, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. In 1954, her family relocated to Australia when her father was offered a job as the dean of a Presbyterian college in Melbourne. After winning a singing talent contest...
2022
25. Alan Park
Actor | Royal Canadian Air Farce
Alan Park was born on November 5, 1962 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Royal Canadian Air Farce (1993), Popcultured (2005) and How to Make a Monster (2011). He died on November 10, 2022 in Canada.
2022 - The comedian and satirist was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce from 2004 to 2014.
26. Sidney Poitier
Actor | In the Heat of the Night
Sidney Poitier was a native of Cat Island, Bahamas, although born, two months prematurely, in Miami during a visit by his parents, Evelyn (Outten) and Reginald James Poitier. He grew up in poverty as the son of farmers, with his father also driving a cab in Nassau. Sidney had little formal ...
2022
27. 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, ...
2023
28. Ivan Reitman
Producer | Up in the Air
Canadian producer and director Ivan Reitman created many of American cinema's most successful and best loved feature film comedies and worked with Hollywood's acting elite. Reitman produced such hits as the ground-breaking sensation National Lampoon's National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), which ...
2022
29. Peter Robbins
Actor | A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Child actor Peter Robbins was born on August 10, 1956, in Los Angeles, California. His mother was an immigrant from Hungary who died from cancer when Peter was 16 years old. He first began acting in various films and television shows in 1963. Robbins has the distinction of being the first person to...
2022 - He was the original voice of Charlie Brown in A Boy Named Charlie Brown. He also voiced the character in TV specials, including A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
30. Bob Saget
Actor | Full House
Bob Saget was an American actor, stand-up comedian, and television host from Philadelphia. His best known role was playing pater familias Danny Tanner on the hit sitcom "Full House" (1987-1995). He played the character again in the sequel series "Fuller House" (2016-2020). Saget served as the ...
2022
31. Liz Sheridan
Actress | Who's That Girl
Liz Sheridan was born on April 10, 1929 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Who's That Girl (1987), Play the Game (2009) and ALF (1986). She was married to William Dale Wales. She died on April 15, 2022 in New York City, New York, USA.
2022
32. Conway Twitty
Soundtrack | Limitless
Conway Twitty was born on September 1, 1933 in Friars Point, Mississippi, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for Limitless (2011), Punch-Drunk Love (2002) and Hollywoodland (2006). He was married to Dolores Virginia Henry, Temple Medley and Ellen Matthews. He died on June 5, 1993 in ...
1993
33. Barbara Walters
Producer | The Barbara Walters Special
Barbara Walters was born on September 25, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was a producer and writer, known for The Barbara Walters Summer Special (1976), The View (1997) and 20/20 (1978). She was married to Merv Adelson, Lee Guber and Robert Henry Katz. She died on December 30, 2022 in ...
2022
34. 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, ...
2023
35. Betty White
Actress | The Proposal
Betty White was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to Christine Tess (Cachikis), a homemaker, and Horace Logan White, a lighting company executive for the Crouse-Hinds Electric Company. She was of Danish, Greek, English, and Welsh descent.
Although she was best known as the devious Sue Ann Nivens on the ...
2021
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