Geez - Celebrities are dropping like flies!
But I think a jinx in a work here… Remind me not to tell Eve when I’m sick.
Welp, I guess the current “three” are Kate Hepburn, and Buddies Hackett and Ebsen (apologies to whomever it was who gets annoyed at the “threes” references).
But… what about Hume Cronyn and Gregory Peck?
Hume and Greg were part of the First Three: them and David Brinkley (there was also a lesser-known actor who died at the same time, whose name escapes me right now).
According to E!, N!xau, the man who played Bushman Xi in The Gods Must Be Crazy films died last Tuesday. He was found dead after he had gone to gather firewood and didn’t return.
Don’t know if he would qualify as famous enough for the “rule of three”, but it seemed to be worth mentioning. I know E! is not exactly the BBC, but they seem to be about the only ones to mention it. Google only turned up a few other mentions of his death, one of them on a website for a South African independent news agency.
What about Barry White? He died between Hackett and Ebsen.
And don’t call me Welp.
As far as I can recall, since May we’ve lost Gregory Peck, Barry White, Kate Hepburn, Dame Rachel Kempson, Buddies Hackett and Ebsen, Herbie Mann, Hume Cronyn, playwright George Axelrod, Dave Rowberry of The Animals, Robert Stack, and N!xau.
David Brinkley, Thurmon and Maddox weren’t “show biz people,” so I don’t think they count in this tally.
Wooo-doggie.
Sorry to hijack the thread, but the thought of Buddy Ebsen and Audrey Hepburn getting it on ala’ “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is a real cringe-inducer.
You’re right, plnnr. Thanks a lot. 
JEEEEDD!!!
It seems like that stupid brick I threw had more unintended consequences than I bargained for… (seriously, massive waves of celebrity deaths always seem to happen in concert with these personal, umm…events.)
Oh well. You live, you learn.
Buddy Ebsen hosted The University of Florida homecoming pep rally known as “Gator Growl” when I was a student there in '68 or '69. Did his Jed Clampett schtick.
I know he considered himself a Gator his whole life.
Was Buddy Ebsen the last living dance partner of Shirley Temple? (Captain January)
Looks like it . . . Bill Robinson, Geo. Murphy, Charlotte Greenwood, Jack Oakie, Alice Faye, Jack Haley, James Dunn.
You think she killed 'em all?
RIP, Buddy.
Actor William Marshall (Blacula, etc.) also recently died.
Sir Rhosis
Eve - were you just waiting for the opportunity to use that title for a post?
I loved it. But then, I actually like puns.
Eh, I always knew the little brat was trouble.
Anyway, while we’re adding to the list of celebrities who’ve died since the spring, didn’t June Carter Cash go just last month?
This sucks. I always liked Ebsen’s characters, and from all accounts he was a hell of a good guy.
Well, author and screen-writer George Macdonald Fraser rated Ebsen highly. Coming from him that probably means you couldn’t actually meet a nicer chap. Here’s an anecdote from one of Fraser’s autobiographical books which amused me :
The official story of why he was dropped by MGM is that he was offered a $100K per year contract BUT had no control over which pictures he was assigned to; since he’d seen talented people doing unmitigated crap that destroyed their careers, he refused. I think the Tin Man story is probably more accurate.
Does anybody else remember THE KALIKAKS, a show that I remember as being weird and funny (though I was a kid) that starred his daughter Bonnie?
I thought Buddy’s cameo as Barnaby Jones in the totally unnecessary BEVERLY HILLBILLIES movie was inspired and its one and only saving grace.
She’s like Elizabeth Bathtory.
shiver