In Memorial 2016
2016 saw a great lost of actors, directors, playwrights, from the Stage, Movies and TV all will be greatly missed. We will never forget Carol Brady – Florence Henderson and Marie Barone – Doris Roberts or Steven Hill from Law and Order. Gene Wilder who was one of our childhood’s most fun and scary people Willy Wonka. Who could forget George Kennedy as Joe Patroni in Airport movies. Have a look back at all of these wonderful people that we said goodbye to in 2016.
Abe Vigoda– Actor – B’way-Arsenic and Old Lace, Tough to Get Help, Inquest, Man in the Glass Booth
Alan Rickman– Actor – B’way – Seminar, Private Lives, Les Liaisons Dangereuses – Harry Potter
Angela Paton– Actor – B’way-Harvey, Passione, The Three Sisters
Beth Howland– Actor – B’way-Company, Darling of the Day, Drat the Cat, High Spirits, Bye Bye Birdie
Bill Cunningham-New York Photographer – Much Loved NY Personally
Charmian Carr – Actor – Movie-Liesi in the The Sound of Music
David Gest – Entertainer, Comedian, Producer, and Television personality
David Huddleston -Actor -B’way-1776, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Death of a Salesman, The First, The Roast, Woman Is My Idea
David Margulies – Actor – B’way-Wonderful Town, 45 Seconds from Broadway, Thousand Clowns, Angels in America, Coversations with My Father
Doris Roberts – Actor – B’way The Desk Set, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Bad Habits, Unusual Acts
Florence Henderson – Actor – B’way – Oklahoma, Fanny, Girl Who Came to Supper, Wish You Were Here
Fyvush Finkel – Actor – B’way- Fiddler on the Roof, Cafe Crown
Garry Marshall – Actor – B’way – The Roast – Movie Director Pretty Woman, Princess Diaries, Runaway Bride
Garry Shandling – Stand-up Comedian, Actor, Writer, and Producer
Gary Glasberg – Television Writer and Producer- Crossing Jordan, Bones, Shark, Mentalist, NCIS
Gene Wilder – Actor – B’way- Luv, White House, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Mother Courage and Her Children – Movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
George Gaynes – Actor – B’way – Gigi, Of Love Remembered, Any Wednesday, Lady of the Camellias, Gypsy, Wonderful Town
George Kennedy – Actor – Movie and TV actor – Airport, Cool Hand Luke, Delta Force, Never Say Never
Gloria DeHaven – Actor – B’way – Seventh Heaven TV-The Love Boat, Ryan’s Hope, Out To Sea
Guy Hamilton – Movie Director – Goldfinger, Battle of Britain, Evil Under the Sun, Funeral in Berlin, Force 10 From Navarone
Harper Lee – Writer To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman
Howard Davies – Director B’way-Moon for the Misbegotten, Private Lives, Iceman Cometh, Translations, My Fair Lady, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Good, Piaf
James Noble – Actor-B’way Runner Stumbles, 1776, Strange Interlude, Far Country, Velvet Glove, Big Knife
Joe Santos – TV Actor – The Rockford Files, The Sopranos
Ken Howard – Actor- B’way – Rumors, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Norman Conquests, Little Black Sheep, Seasaw, Shild’s Play, 1776
Leonard Cohen – Singer Songwriter – Albums Dear Heather, Old Ideas, Popular Problems, You Want it Darker
Pat Harrington – Actor- B’way – Happiness is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls Royce, Ladies and Gentleman TV – Hot in Cleveland
Patricia Barry – Actor – B’way – Goodbye Again, Pink Elephant, Calico Wedding TV – Guiding Light, Days of Our Lives, Perry Mason
Patty Duke – Actor – B’way – Oklahoma, Isle of Children, Miracle Worker-Movie Valley of the Dolls TV The Patty Duke Show
Peter Shaffer – Playwright – Equus, Amadeus, Lettice and Lovage, Royal Hunt of the Sun, Five Finger Exercise
Richard Libertini – Actor- B’way – Relatively Speaking, Sly Fox, Conversations with My Father, Bad Habits, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Don’t Drink the Water
Rita Gam – Actor -Producer-B’way – Fortune’s Fool, Uncle Vanya, There’s a Girl in My Soup, Young and Fair, Insect Comedy, Temporary Island
Robert Vaughn – Actor – B’way Love Letters – TV The Man from UNCLE, The Virginian, Untouchables, Eleventh Hour
Ronnie Claire Edwards – Actor- B’way – Patio/Porch, The Lincoln Mask, Trial of the Catonsville Nine – TV The Waltons, Star Trek The Next Generation
Steven Hill – Broadway A Flag is Born (1946) Mister Roberts (1948)
Alan Thicke – Actor – Songwriter – TV Growing Pains, The Alan Thicke Show, Thicke of the Night