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A nasty one-two punch:
RIP Phyllis Coates, TV's first Lois Lane
RIP Keith Giffen (co-creator of Ambush Bug, Lobo, the Jamie Reyes version of Blue Beetle, Rocket Raccoon)
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RIP Jeff Burr, who directed a number of the Puppet Master movies, starting with 4
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RIP Suzanne Somers. Aside from Three's Company and Step by Step, she was also a regular on one of the later versions of Candid Camera.
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My favourite candid Camera bit with Suzanne Somers. RTIP
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RIP Burt Young (Paulie in the Rocky movies)
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RIP Richard Roundtree (original Shaft actor)
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RIP Steve Erwin, comic book artist (Deathstroke, Gunfire, Checkmate; co-creator of the latter two)
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RIP Norman Lear, who created numerous 1970s sitcoms, many of which, like All in the Family, were inspired by British sitcoms but were nevertheless a major part of the North American TV landscape. Age 101!
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RIP Ryan O'Neal (Barry Lyndon, Partners, Irreconcilable Differences, etc.)
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RIP Ian Gibson, comic book artist probably best known for The Ballad of Halo Jones.
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RIP SF author David Drake.
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I keep meaning to mention this one: RIP producer Marty Krofft, (HR Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl).
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RIP Kenpachiro Satsuma, Godzilla in the Heisei era movies
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RIP James McCaffrey (Jimmy Keefe on Rescue Me, the main character Michael Payton aka Joe Astor on Viper seasons 1 & 4)
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RIP Richard Franklin, best known as UNIT officer Captain Mike Yates, a series regular in Doctor Who during Jon Pertwee's run as the third Doctor.
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RIP Tom Smothers, one of the Smothers Brothers, who were literally cancelled for expressing political views on their comedy variety show.
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RIP Tom Wilkinson (Batman Begins, Full Monty, Shakespeare in Love, etc)
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RIP Sliders co-creator Tracy Tormé
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RIP David Emge (Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews in the original Dawn of the Dead)
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RIP Actor Gary Graham, best known as Detective Sykes in the Alien Nation TV series and the Vulcan Sokal in Star Trek: Enterprise.
Alien Nation and Star Trek: Enterprise Star Gary Graham Dies Aged 73 - IGN
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RIP director Norman Jewison (In the Heat of the Night, original Thomas Crown Affair, etc)
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Frank Farian has passed; unfortunately he was behind the Milli Vanilli scandal but he was also the main songwriter for the song Rasputin.
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RIP TV director Rod Holcomb (the first 1979 Captain America TV movie, The Greatest American Hero, etc.)
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RIP Carl Weathers, Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies.