We’re losing famous people left and right.
I can recall the recent deaths of:
John Ritter
Johnny Cash
Donald O’Connor
Elia Kazan
Robert Palmer
George Plimpton
Stanley Farfara (Whitey)
Gordon Jump
Any others? (I like morbid tallying)
Trevor Goddard died this past June. He played Mic Brumby on JAG and had a very small role in Pirates of the Caribbean.
If you like morbid tallying, you may want to bookmark this.
If you’re counting author/scholars, then Edward Said (who’s the subject of another thread in the Cafe) just passed away this month.
You forgot Warren Zevon!
Bob and Kate, Hope and Hepburn, that is.
I did an IMDB search on this year’s deaths, and came up with these A- and B-list celebs:
Anthony Havelock-Allan, Maurice Gibb, Richard Crenna, Nell Carter, Fred Rogers, Hank Ballard, Hortz Buchholz, Karen Morley, Lynne Thigpen, Thora Hird, Michael Jeter, Vera Zorina, Nina Simone, Suzy Parker, Robert Stack, Wendy Hiller, Johnny & June Carter Cash, Martha Scott, Gregory Peck, Hume Cronyn, Katharine Hepburn, Buddy Hackett, Herbie Mann, Barry White, Buddy Ebsen, John Schlesinger, Bob Hope, Gregory Hines, Jinx Falkenberg, Warren Zevon, Leni Riefenstahl, Gisele MacKenzie, John Ritter, Gordon Jump, Donald O’Connor, Elia Kazan.