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RIP martial artist actor Sonny Chiba (Kill Bill 1-2); the virus
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RIP wrestler/actor Brick Bronsky, probably best known for playing Roger Smith in Class of Nuke 'Em High 2 & 3
RIP Eddie Pasky, Lt. Leslie (& William Shatner's stand-in) on Star Trek.
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RIP Michael Nader. While primarily a soap opera actor, he also played Nicholas Pike, the first main villain from the 1990 Flash series.
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RIP Ed Asner (Marry Tyler Moore Show, Superman: The Aniamted Series, etc.). Right to the very end he had multiple projects in various states of production.
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RIP Art Metrano (Police Academy franchise, Joanie Loves Chachi, Fred and Barney Meet the Thing).
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RIP Norm Macdonald (probably best known as one of the Weekend Update anchors on Saturday Night Live)
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RIP Norm Macdonald (probably best known as one of the Weekend Update anchors on Saturday Night Live)
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RIP director Melvin van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song). Also the main subject of the movie Baadasssss!, where he was played by his son.
RIP Willie Garson (Stanford Blatch on Sex and the City); also Lee Harvey Oswald in a notable Quantum Leap 2-parter
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RIP Marvel colorist Andy Yanchus, whose work included the various 1980s-1990s versions of The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.
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RIP Jack Angel (Flash, Hawkman, and Samurai on Super Friends; Teddy in AI)
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Normally I don't post news of people I hadn't heard of before, but RIP cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Details are still coming out but it was a shooting by prop gun, most likely accidental, The story is made even more surreal in that Alec Baldwin was the shooter. Very messed up story in so many ways.
B-Movie studio Troma has signs on set that say, "1. Safety to Humans, 2. Safety to Property, 3. Make a Good Movie." Hollywood productions should also follow that order. No movie or show no matter how good is worth death or serious injury.
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RIP Peter Scolari (Bossum Buddies, Girls)
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RIP Joanna Cameron (Isis on The Secrets of Isis)
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RIP William Lucking (Piney on Sons of Anarchy, Col. Lynch on The A-Team)
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Very sad about Dean. He was brilliant in Quantum Leap
RIP Vegar Hoel (Martin in the Dead Snow movies). In a surreal bit of timing I rewatched the second one with a friend just last night. Most of the news stories are in Norwegian; this is the only one I've been able to find in English. Will replace with a better link later.
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RIP Gavan O'Herlihy, best known as the first of two actors to play the thankless role of Chuck Cunningham (Richie's brother, eventually mostly forgotten even by his parents) on Happy Days.
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RIP David Fox. Aside from what the article describes, he was also a voice actor, e.g. Sentinels and Master Mold on X-Men: The Animated Series and Captain Haddock on The Adventures of Tintin.
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A few from the last few days.
Chris Achilleos, fantasy artist, sadly passed away on the 8th December.
Mike Nesmith of the Monkees passed away on the 10th
And Anne Rice, author of the Vampire Chronicles, passed away on the 11th.
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Sadly Betty White has passed less than a month before she would have turned 100.
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RIP ground breaking black actor Sidney Poitier (In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming for Dinner)
RIP Peter Bogdanovich (director of The Last Picture Show, also had recurring role in The Sopranos as Dr Melfi's only therapist)
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RIP Bob Saget (Full House, America's Funniest Home Videos)
RIP Dwayne Hickman (titular role in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis)
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RIP Ron Goulart. Aside from his fiction work, he also wrote non-fiction reference works on comic books. So we've lost a good historian on pop culture.
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RIP Marlon Bundo, Pence family rabbit. Subject of books written by Charlotte Pence (drawn by Karen Pence) and by Jill Twiss (of John Oliver's team). Because both books featured fictionalized versions of the rabbit, I think he still counts as a pop culture figure and not just a political figure.
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RIP Yvette Mimeux (The Time Machine, The Black Hole)
RIP Gaspard Ulliel, who is set to appear as Midnight Man in the first season of Moon Knight.
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Sad to lose another RHPS alumni.
Also, RIP actor/game show host Louie Anderson (Life with Louie, Family Feud)
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RIP Peter Robbins (original voice of Charlie Brown in animated specials); suicide.
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RIP Howard Hessemen (Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati)