A. I. Bezzerides, screenwriter "Kiss Me Deadly"
Del Reeves, singer
Magnus Magnusson, TV host "Mastermind"
Yvonne DeCarlo, actress "The Munsters"
Iwao Takamoto, producer "Scooby-Doo", "Super Friends"
Carlo Ponti, producer "Dr. Zhivago", "Smashing Time"
Tudor Gates, screenwriter "The Vampire Lovers", "Twins of Evil", "Barbarella"
Ron Carey, actor "High Anxiety", "Fatso", "Barney Miller"
Peter Ronson, actor "Journey to the Center of the Earth"
Art Buchwald, humorist/author
Denny Doherty, singer "The Mamas & the Papas"
Liz Renay, actress "The Thrill Killers"
E. Howard Hunt, Watergate shenanigans-doer
Steve Mitchell, actor "The Killing", "Thriller - Late Date"
Tige Andrews, actor "Star Trek - Friday's Child"
Sidney Sheldon, producer "Charlie's Angels"
Molly Ivins, political journalist/author
Frankie Laine, singer
Anna Nicole Smith, blonde
Sir Ian Richardson, actor "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead","Gormenghast"
Janet Blair, actress "Night of the Eagle aka Burn, Witch, Burn"
Bruce Bennett, actor "Mildred Pierce"
Hideo Takamatsu, actor "The Last Emperor"
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian
Pompin Iglesias, actor
John Inman, actor "Are You Being Served?"
Richard Jeni, comedian "Platypus Man", "The Aristocrats"
Betty Hutton, actress "Annie Get Your Gun"
Arnold Drake, screenwriter "The Flesh Eaters", "Who Killed Teddy Bear"
Freddie Francis, director "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors", "Tales From the Crypt"
Calvert DeForest, comedian "Larry Bud Melman"
Luther Ingram, singer "If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)"
Marshall Rogers, comic book artist "Batman", "Dr. Strange"
Calvin Lockhart, actor "The Beast Must Die", "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me"
Dave Martin, writer "Doctor Who", "co-creator of K-9"
Bob Clark, director "A Christmas Story", "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things", "Murder By Decree"
Dakota Staton, singer
Roscoe Lee Browne, actor "Soap"
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author "Breakfast of Champions"
Don Ho, singer "Tiny Bubbles"
Tran Bach Dang, Vietnamese dude, patron saint of free soda
Kitty Carlisle, actress "What's My Line?", "A Night at the Opera"
Jean Pierre Cassel, actor "Murder on the Orient Express"
Boris Yeltsin, Russian leader
Bobby "Boris" Pickett, singer "Monster Mash"
Jack Valenti, former assistant to LBJ/chairman of Motion Picture Academy
Mstislav Rostropovich, musician
Dabbs Greer, actor "It! The Terror from Beyond Space", "The Vampire"
Tommy Newsom, band leader "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson"
Tom Poston, actor "Newhart", "Thriller - Masquerade"
Wally Schirra, astronaut
Curtis Harrington, director "What's the Matter with Helen", "Night Tide"
Jerry Falwell, hypocrit
Charles Nelson Reilly, actor "The Match Game", "Lidsville"
Nellie Lutcher, singer
Mala Powers, actress "Thriller - The Bride Who Died Twice"
Kurt Waldheim, UN secretary general/ Nazi guy
Ed Friendly, producer "Backstairs at the White House"
Chris Benoit, murderer
Fred Saberhagen, author "The Dracula Tape"
Joel Siegel, critic
Beverly Sills, opera singer
Boots Randolph, musician
Kerwin Matthews, actor "7th Voyage of Sinbad"
George Melly, singer/writer "Smashing Time"
Charles Lane, actor
Lady Bird Johnson, first lady
Kieron Moore, actor "Dr. Blood's Coffin", "Day of the Triffids"
Jerry Hadley, opera singer "Liverpool Oratorio"
Tammy Faye Bakker, makeup wearer
Mike Reid, actor "EastEnders"
Tom Snyder, TV host
Michelangelo Antonioni, director "Blow Up"
Ingmar Bergman, director "The Seventh Seal", "Autumn Sonata"
Bill Walsh, football coach
Tommy Makem, singer
Lee Hazlewood, songwriter
Merv Griffin, TV host/producer
Phil Rizzuto, baseball player
Michael Deaver, political consultant
Hilly Kristal, former owner of CBGB's
Miyoshi Umeki, actress "Sayonara", "Courtship of Eddie's Father"
Marcia Mae Jones, actress "The Gang's All Here", "Haunted House"
Madeleine L'Engle, author "A Wrinkle In Time"
Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer
Loretta King, actress "Bride of the Monster"
Jane Wyman, actress "The Lost Weekend"
Brett Somers, actress "The Match Game", "The Odd Couple"
Alice Ghostley, actress "Bewitched"
Karl Hardman, actor "Night of the Living Dead"
Marcel Marceau, mime
Charles B. Griffith, screenwriter "Little Shop of Horrors", "A Bucket of Blood"
Lois Maxwell, actress "The Haunting"
Ronnie Hazlehurst, composer "Yes, Minister", "The Two Ronnies", "Last of the Summer Wine"
George Grizzard, actor "Advise & Consent"
Deborah Kerr, actress "The Innocents"
Joey Bishop, comedian
Teresa Brewer, singer
Chef Tell, TV chef
Porter Wagoner, singer
Robert Goulet, singer
Linda Stein, manager "The Ramones"
Norman Mailer, author
Laraine Day, actress
Ira Levin, author "Rosemary's Baby"
Ronnie Burns, actor "The Burns & Allen Show", "The Honeymooners"
Dick Wilson, actor "Mr. Wilson on Charman ads"
Verity Lambert, producer "Doctor Who"
Reg Park, actor "Hercules in the Haunted World"
Robert Houghton Hepburn, brother of Katharine Hepburn
Mel Tolkin, writer "Your Show of Shows", "All in the Family"
Evel Knievel, daredevil
Ike Turner, musician
Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer
Dan Fogelberg, singer
Frank Morgan, saxophonist
Frank Capra Jr., producer
Jeanne Carmen, actress "The Monster of Piedras Blancas"
Michael Kidd, actor/choreographer "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"
Oscar Peterson, pianist
Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistani Prime Minister
2 comments:
OK,
I met two of the late celebrities on your list - any guesses?
As for Liz Renay; I first became aware of her from John Water's Desperate Living. If you need a truly great, trashy read - go pick up her bio, "My Face, For the World To See".
Hilly Kristal and. . . . .
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