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ELSEWHERE'. By Staff. Mar 2, 1995. Ed Flanders, who won Emmy Awards for his portrayals of the sensitive, fatherly Dr. Donald Westphall on NBC's "St. Elsewhere" and for the plain-speaking Harry S ...
Apr 22, 2024 · NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless died at the age of 80 on December 22, 2017. No cause of death was immediately given. McCandless is best-known for being the first human to fly in space untethered; he is the man in the suit in this famous image. The famous space first took place in 1984.
Jan 25, 2017 · January 25, 2017, 3:09pm. Jim Nabors, whose name is synonymous with the genial bumpkin Gomer Pyle, whom he played on TV, died Nov. 30. He was 87. Read his obituary here. An updated list of ...
- Mary Tyler Moore, January 25
- Sir John Hurt, January 27
- Bill Paxton, February 25
- Chuck Berry, March 18
- Don Rickles, April 6
- Charlie Murphy, April 12
- Erin Moran, April 22
- Jonathan Demme, April 26
- Roger Moore, May 23
- Gregg Allman, May 27
The beloved actress, best known for the indelible characters she created for the sitcoms The Dick Van Dyke Show and the groundbreaking Mary Tyler Moore Show, went on to do powerful dramatic work in the film Ordinary People, for which she received an Oscar nomination. She died in Greenwich, Connecticut, at age 80. She had struggled with diabetes for...
One of Britain's finest actors, Hurt memorably starred in Midnight Express (1975), Alien (1979), The Elephant Man (1980), 1984 (1984) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001). He played the gay writer Quentin Crisp twice: In the TV play The Naked Civil Servant in 1975, and in the 2009 film An Englishman in New York. Hurt died of pancreat...
Paxton excelled at playing the everyman, in films like The Terminator, Apollo 13 and, most recently, the History channel miniseries Hatfields and McCoys, for which he earned an Emmy nomination. He died at 61 due to complications from heart surgery.
Rolling Stone called him "the father of rock and roll," not only for pioneering the sound of early rock, but for exemplifying the attitude that went with it (not to mention the moves, as in his infamous duckwalk). Berry, whose many hits included "Roll Over Beethoven," "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B. Goode," never stopped touring; his last albu...
The iconic stand-up comedian, nicknamed Mr. Warmth, was known for his biting "insult humor." Rickles was filming a web series, "Dinner with Don," when he died of kidney failure at 90.
The older brother of comedian Eddie Murphy was best known as a writer and cast member on Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show. He died at age 57 of leukemia.
Best known for playing Joanie Cunningham on the sitcom Happy Days, Moran died at 56 following a battle with throat cancer.
The critically-acclaimed auteur behind films like Something Wild (1986), Philadelphia (1993) and the Talking Heads documentary Stop Making Sense (1984), was best known for his biggest box office hit, the 1991 horror classic The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He died of cancer at 73.
When Sean Connery hung up his James Bond tux, there was concern that the franchise might not survive. Moore not only revived it, he remade 007 in his more playful image, memorably embodying the British secret agent for six films, beginning with Live and Let Die. He was 89 when he died from cancer.
He and his brother, Duane (who died in a motorcylce crash in 1971), formed The Allman Brothers Band, the pioneering '70s Southern Rock group responsible for classic songs like "Whipping Post," "Melissa" and "Midnight Rider." His soulful voice placed him 70th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time." He died of liver cancer in his Georg...
Jun 10, 2017 · The actor donned Batman's costume for TV in the '60s, giving an enduring rendition of the hero. Later in his career, West enjoyed a renaissance as a voice actor. His family says he died Friday night.
Sturdy character actor and character lead of American stage, TV and film, Ed Flanders is best recalled as Dr. Westphall, the doctor who cared too diligently for his patients in the NBC series 'St ...
V. Joris Van Severen. Roger Vangheluwe. Olivier Vanneste. Categories: West Flanders. Flemish people by province. Hidden category: Commons category link from Wikidata.
