Dead actors you still miss.

I still miss **Raoul Julia, Phil Hartman ** who died before their time.

I really miss John Candy - he was funny. I saw a snippet or two of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles yesterday on TV. Laughed my ass off. And, lest we forget, he lent his voice talents to many animated movies, including Heavy Metal - his scene with Harold Ramis is classic.

I miss Burgess Merideth for some damn, reason, too.

As a Star Wars fan, I also miss Sir Alec Guinness. I was happy just knowing he was around.

Cary Grant

Raoul Julia was the first name that came to mind.

John Belushi

Y’know, if you miss Sir Alec as I do may I heartily recommend his wonderfully warm diary ( done in his 80’s) called **My Name Escapes Me **. I read it about a week or so before his passing and it made losing him all that much more sadder. Funny thing is is that Sir Alec loathed his role in Star Wars, just loathed it.

I miss Groucho and his Brothers in their prime.

When I was a kid/early teen I thought River Phoenix was very cool. I think he had the potential for a long, interesting career.

Another vote for Phil Hartman.

Boris Karloff
Bela Lugosi
Richard Burton
Vincent Price
Evelyn Ankers
Carole Lombard
Constance Bennett

I’m sure Eve will be along soon with an even better list.

Well, I’m thinking more along the lines of people who should still be alive and working–not Jean Harlow, say, who’d be 93 . . .

Gilda Radner
Madeline Kahn
Phil Hartman
Cass Elliott
Divine

The Marxes are a good call, though at least they all lived fairly long lives. Phil Hartman died during my lifetime, and I miss him a lot. Every so often, a role will come along that just calls out for him. Zap Brannigan is one - of course, that role was written for him, so that only makes sense. Or I’ll see an old Simpsons or SNL (where he got to show his many talents). Very sad.

Ah, Eve is on the ball as always. Madeline Kahn was always so funny. Really the same story for her. You just can’t see anyone else playing her roles.

Eve got it right with Madeline Kahn. She played every role to a “T.”

Makes me think of Marty Feldman, who passed before his time as well.

Shirley I’ll be sure to pick that one up. Yes, I know he was not fond of that role.

Easily the highest for me is Phil Hartman. Every time I see him I just shake my head and mutter “damn!” Well, I laugh at his humor too. But there’s always this little voice in the back of my mind wondering what was yet to come. The worst was when I heard they were thinking about a live action Troy McClue movie. That would have been so great.
Damn.

I saw “Presumed Innocent” again not too long ago, and I couldn’t stop thinking how tragic it was that a wonderful screen presence like Raúl Julia died.

River Phoenix showed a lot of promise. Too bad he got mixed up with drugs.

Michael Landon.

Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. They will always be my all time favorites.

(Gee, I’ll bet you didn’t see THAT coming, did you?)

:wink:

J.T. Walsh. Mostly a character actor, but a damn fine one at that. He’d only be 60 this year.

I already miss John Ritter.

Phil Hartman and Leslie Cheung. Both died violently and totally unexpectedly and bummed me out immensely.

Jeremy Brett. He WAS Sherlock Holmes.

I miss Phil Hartman and not an actor, but Aaliyah the singer.

Some good names here. I miss River Pheonix.

I think that Brandon DeWilde went way too soon. I don’t know how old he would be today, (I should check) but he died at age 29 (I think) and had made the sucessful transition to acting as an adult. (He is very memorable as the teenaged boy who looks up to Paul Newman in “Hud.”)

I also miss Pete Duel. He was 31 or something when he died (presumably suicide) and he was pretty damned funny in a western series he did (“Alias Smith and Jones.”). He could have done a lot of great things had he lived.

Phil Hartman, Gilda Radner, John Ritter, and Steve Barton (who should have been chosen for Dance of the Vampires on Broadway).