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RIP Legion of Super-Heroes artist Steve Lightle
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I haven't been able to find a news article, but numerous posts on her Facebook page indicate that actress and men's magazine model Julie Strain has passed away. She had been fighting dementia for many years, a delayed result of a fall from a horse years earlier. From an acting standpoint I consider her best movie to be Rowdy Girls.
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RIP Mira Furlan, the latest Babylon 5 cast member to pass away. The show has a shockingly high mortality rate despite the different causes.
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Andy E. Nystrom wrote:
RIP Mira Furlan, the latest Babylon 5 cast member to pass away. The show has a shockingly high mortality rate despite the different causes.
Sad to hear this. I met Mira a few times, and she was a lovely lady.
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RIP Larry King, talk show host, played himself in numerous shows and movies; coronavirus
RIP Gregory Sierra (Sanford and Son, Barney Miller); cancer
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RIP Cloris Leachman (Last Picture Show, Young Frankenstein; Hippolyta in the pilot episode of Wonder Woman)
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RIP Dustin Diamond (Screech on Saved by the Bell; only watched maybe a minute of the show, but his character seemed memorable). Only 44.
RIP Hal Holbrook (Deep Throat in All the President's Men; Gemma's father on Sons of Anarchy)
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RIP Christopher Plummer (Sound of Music, Star Trek IV, Syriana, etc)
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Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler, dramatized in The People vs. Larry Flynt. I find pretty much everything about Hustler offensive, but I respect his commitment to freedom of expression. Both sides of the political spectrum, including people who hate his works have benefited from his efforts.
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RIP comic book artist Frank Thorne (Red Sonja).
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RIP Yaphet Kotto (Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big in Live and Let Die, Dennis Parker in Alien)
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RIP Jessica Walter. Aside from her better known work, she was also Morgan le Fey in the Dr Strange TV movie/pilot.
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Craig Grant aka muMs da Schemer, Poet on Oz:
Beverly Cleary, Children's author, best known for her character Ramona Quimby; she made it to 104, though
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RIP Frank Silla (Cousin Itt on Addams Family, Twiki on Buck Rogers)
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RIP Olympia Dukakis: Moonstruck, Steel magnolias, every incarnation of Tales of the City
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A couple more, one I've been meaning top post for a while:
Earth-X artist John Paul leon
Singer/actress Tawny Kitean (Bachelor Party, The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak)
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Wrestler Barry Orton (WWF in the 80s and 90s; brother of Cowboy Bob Orton, and uncle of Randy)
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RIP Charles Grodin (Midnight Run)
Norman Lloyd (St Elsewhere, Seven Days); age 106!
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RIP 1970s-1980s Marvel writer David Anthony Kraft (Defenders, etc) - the virus
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Like a streak of light, he arrived just in time. RIP Paul Soles, best known as the voice of Spider-Man in the 1967 cartoon series.
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RIP Gavin McLeod (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Love Boat)
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RIP F. Lee Bailey. Aside from his OJ Simpson trial notoriety, he was also the host of Lie Detector (1983 series). I remember as a kid it gave me my first insight that the polygraph device had its problems: two people with contradictory claims both tested True.
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RIP producer Douglas S. Cramer (e.g. Wonder Woman series; recorded the Commentary track for the pilot with Lynda Carter)
RIP Ned Beatty (Otis in the Superman movies)
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RIP Lisa Banes (Mayor Anita Massengil on Son of the Beach); killed by hit and run scooter.
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RIP Philece Sampler Aside from numerous English language versions of Japanese cartoons, she was Betty Ross on the 1996 Incredible Hulk cartoon series, replacing Genie Francis.
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RIP Veteran character actor (TV, action movies, biker films, blaxploitation, and more) William Smith. Just a sampling of his 289 IMDB credits includes the television shows Laredo; Rich Man, Poor Man; and the original Hawaii Five-O; and the movies The Frisco Kid, Any Which Way But Loose, and 1982's Conan the Barbarian (as Conan's father).