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In Remembrance
By Mona Lease
Hi, all!! The following is a partial list of the actors, actresses,
directors, writers, and musicians that we lost in 2017. RIP
Rose Marie: Actress, Sally Rogers of the "Dick Van Dyke Show"
Keely Smith: Solo Jazz Singer
Pat DiNizio: Lead Singer for the Smithereens
Bruce Brown: Documentary Filmmaker - "Endless Summer"
Heather North: Voice of Daphne Blake of "Scooby Doo"
Jim Nabors: Actor, Musician - "Andy Griffith Show" Gospel Albums
Mitch Margo: Musician, The Tokens - "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
David Cassidy: Actor Keith Partridge of "The Partridge Family"
Della Reese: Actress, Gospel Singer - "Touched By An Angel"
Warren Pete Moore: Musician, Original Member of The Miracles - "Tracks
of My Tears"
Mel Tillis: Musician, Grand Old Opry - "Neon Rose"
Malcolm Young: Musician, Co-founder of AC/DC - "It's A Long Way To The
Top (If You Wanna Rock-n-Roll)"
John Hillerman: Actor, Johnathon Higgins of "Magnun, PI"
Karen Dor: Actress, Helga Brandt of James Bond "You Only Live Once"
Robert Knight: Musician, Singer - "Everlasting Love"
Dick Noel: Writer, Ray Anthony Orchestra - aka "King Jingle Writer"
Peter MacGregor Scott: Director, - "The Fugative" "Cheech and
Chong movies"
John Motto: Designer, - "Star Wars"
Fats Domino: Musician, - "Ain't That A Shame" "Blueberry Hill"
Robert Guillaume: Actor, "Soap" "Benson", various commercials
Roy Doltrice: Actor, Amadeus of "Game Of Thrones"
Ralphie May: Comedian - Stand-Up Comedy
Tom Petty: Musician, Rock Superstar - SuperBowl Halftime Show 2008
Hugh Hefner: Founder, - "Playboy Magazine" "The Girls Next Door"
Anne Jeffries: Actress, Tess Truehart - "Dick Tracy Serials"
Robert Goldston: Producer, "The Iceman Cometh"
Jake LaMotta: Boxing Champ - "The Raging Bull"
Mike Hodge: Actor, - "Saw and Order"
Tracy Gentry: Musician - country music duo "Montgomery-Gentry"
Don Williams: Musician, "I Believe In Love"
Walter Becker: Musician, Co-founder of - "Steely Dan"
Haruo NNakajima: Actor - "Godzilla" original until 1972
Richard Anderson: Actor of - Boss of Steve Anderson in "The $6 Million
Dollar Man"
Bernard Pomerance: Writer, - "The Elephant Man"
Jay Thomas: Actor "Cheers" "Murphy Brown"
Jerry Lewis: Comedian, Actor - Annual Live "MD Telethon"
Glen Campbell: Musician, Singer - "Rhinestone Cowboy"
Leonard Landy: Actor - "Alfalfa of Our Gang"
Michael Johnson: Musician, "Bluer Than Blue"
Red West: Actor, Songwriter - Writer for Elvis "Roadhouse"
Martin Landau: Actor, - "Mission Impossible" Oscar for "Bela
Lugosi"
Steven Furst: Actor, Flounder of "Animal House"
Adam West: Actor, "Batman" series
Gregg Allman: Musician, - "Allman Brothers Band: - "Sweet
Melissa" "Midnight Rider"
Roger Moore: Actor, James Bond in "Casino Royale" "A View To A
Kill" "Live And Let Die"
Chris Cornell: Musician, Writer - Soundgarden, Audioslave "Black
Hole Sun"
Johnathon Demme: Director - "Silence of the Lambs"
Erin Moran: Actress, - "Joanie of Happy Days"
Don Rickles: Comedian, Actor - "Kelly's Heroes"
Chuck Barris: TV Personality - "The Gong Show"
Chuck Berry: Musician, The Duckwalk - "Maybelline"
Joanie Sledge: Singer - "Sister Sledge" "We are Family"
Judge Wapner: TV Judge - "The People's Court"
Richard Hatch: Actor - "Captain Apollo" of "Battlestar Galactica" series
Mike Conners: Actor - "Joe Mannix: of "Mannix"
Mary Tyler Moore: Actress, - "Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Remember the kiddies and our service people. Take good care of the
furry and feathered ones out there. Be safe and healthy. See ya next
time. Ever Toodles!! MONA
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