THE BUTCHER'S BILL 2011. As the old year wanes, it's time once again to reflect on those notable celebrities who dropped off the twig this year.

• Verne Langdon, record producer/makeup artist "An Evening with Boris Karloff & Friends"
• Margot Stevenson, actress "The Shadow"
• Pete Postelthwaite, actor "The Usual Suspects", "The Shipping News"
• Anne Francis, actress "Forbidden Planet"
• Jill Haworth, actress "Tower of Evil"
• Gerry Rafferty, singer "Baker Street"
• Aron Kincaid, actor "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini"
• Peter Yates, director "Bullitt"
• Margaret Whiting, singer
• David Nelson, actor "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
• Paul Picerni, actor "The Untouchables"
• Dr. Creep, TV horror host
• Susannah York, actress "Superman", "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
• Don Kirshner, record producer
• Sargent Shriver, politician
• Jack LaLanne, TV fitness expert
• Charlie Louvin, singer "The Louvin Brothers"
• Charlie Callas, comedian
• John Barry, film composer "The Lion In Winter", "Somewhere In Time"
• Charles Sellier, film producer
• Maria Schneider, actress "Last Tango In Paris"
• Tura Satana, actress "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill"
• Lena Nyman, actress "Autumn Sonata"
• Gary Moore, guitarist "Thin Lizzy"
• Donald S. Sanford, screenwriter "Boris Karloff's Thriller"
• Kenneth Mars, actor "The Producers", "Young Frankenstein"
• Betty Garrett, actress "Laverne & Shirley", "All In the Family"
• T.P. McKenna, actor "Callan", "Doctor Who"
• George Shearing, pianist
• David F. Friedman, producer "Blood Feast"
• Len Lesser, actor "Seinfeld"
• Nicholas Courtney, actor "Doctor Who"
• Suze Rotolo, artist / cover model "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan"
• Rick Coonce, drummer "The Grass Roots"
• Jane Russell, actress "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
• Johnny Preston, singer "Running Bear"
• Mike Starr, bassist "Alice In Chains"
• St. Clair Lee, musician "Hues Corporation"
• Hugh Martin, songwriter "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
• Ronnie Hammond, singer "Atlantic Rhythm Section"
• Ferlin Husky, singer
• Michael Gough, actor "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors", "Batman"
• Jet Harris, musician "The Shadows"
• Warren Christopher, former Secretary of State
• Dorothy Young, actress/assistant to Harry Houdini
• Pinetop Perkins, musician
• Elizabeth Taylor, actress
• Richard Leacock, director "Monterey Pop"
• Diana Wynne Jones, author "Howl's Moving Castle"
• Geraldine Ferraro, politician
• H.R.F. Keating, author
• Farley Granger, actor "Strangers On A Train", "Rope", "Senso"
• Scott Columbus, drummer "Manowar"
• Sidney Lumet, director "12 Angry Men"
• Arthur Marx, author/son of Groucho Marx
• Sol Saks, screenwriter "Bewitched"
• Trevor Bannister, actor "Are You Being Served?"
• Michael Sarrazin, actor "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
• Elisabeth Sladen, actress "Doctor Who", "The Sarah Jane Adventures"
• Madelyn Pugh Davis, screenwriter "The Mothers-In-Law", "I Love Lucy"
• Marie-France Pisier, actress "The Other Side of Midnight"
• Poly Styrene, singer "X-Ray Spex"
• Phoebe Snow, singer "Poetry Man"
• William Campbell, actor "Dementia 13", "Star Trek"
• Yvette Vickers, actress
• Sada Thompson, actress "Family"
• Arthur Laurents, screenwriter
• Dana Wynter, actress "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
• John Walker, musician "The Walker Brothers"
• Dolores Fuller, actress "Glen or Glenda"
• Norma Zimmer, singer "The Lawrence Welk Show", "The Champagne Lady"
• Edward Hardwicke, actor "Sherlock Holmes", "Shadowlands"
• Leonard Kastle, writer/director "The Honeymoon Killers"
• Kathy Kirby, singer
• Randy Savage, wrestler "Macho Man"
• Bill Hunter, actor "Gallipoli"
• Hughette Clark, heiress
• Jeff Conaway, actor "Taxi", "Grease"
• Gil Scott-Heron, singer "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
• Clarice Taylor, actress "The Cosby Show"
• Harry Redmond Jr., special effects artist "King Kong"
• Dr. Jack Kevorkian, activist
• James Arness, actor "The Thing from Another World", "Them"
• Andrew Gold, singer "Halloween Howls", "Lonely Boy"
• Lilian Jackson Braun, author "Cat Who series"
• Leonard B. Stern, writer/director/c0-creator of Mad Libs "The Honeymooners", "Get Smart"
• Roy Skelton, voice actor "Doctor Who"
• Gunnar Fischer, cinematographer "The Seventh Seal", "Wild Strawberries"
• Jeff Jones, comic book artist
• Charlotte Joko Beck, author "Everyday Zen"
• Wild Man Fischer, singer "Young at Heart", "My Name Is Larry"
• Clarence Clemons, musician "Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band"
• Ryan Dunn, stuntman "Jackass"
• Mike Waterson, singer "The Watersons"
• Fred Steiner, composer "Star Trek", "Twilight Zone"
• Peter Falk, actor "Columbo"
• Gene Colan, comic book artist "Tomb of Dracula", "Captain America"
• Alice Playten, actress
• Martin H. Greenberg, anthologist
• Elaine Stewart, actress "The Bad and the Beautiful"
• Jimmy Roselli, singer
• Anna Massey, actress "Peeping Tom", "Vault of Horror"
• Betty Ford, US First Lady
• Michael "Wurzel" Burton, musician "Motorhead"
• Patricia "Mrs. Noah" Merbreier, actress "Captain Noah"
• Sherwood Schwartz, TV producer "The Brady Bunch", "Gilligan's Island"
• Googie Withers, actress "Dead of Night", "It Always Rains on Sunday"
• Amy Winehouse, singer "Back To Black"
• G.D. Spradlin, actor "The Godfather Part II"
• Michael Cacoyannis, director "The Trojan Women"
• Robert Edwards, anthropology professor "Glassboro State College"
• Polly Platt, producer/screenwriter "Say Anything...", "Targets"
• Gene McDaniels, singer
• John Wood, actor "WarGames"
• Bubba Smith, athlete/actor
• Jimmy Sangster, screenwriter/director "Horror of Dracula"
• Jerry Lieber, songwriter "Hound Dog"
• Richard Svehla, managing editor "Midnight Marquee"
• Nick Ashford, singer/songwriter "Ashford & Simpson"
• Joey Vento, founder & owner "Geno's Steaks"
• David "Honeyboy" Edwards, singer
• Cliff Robertson, actor "Spider-Man"
• Frances Bay, actress "In the Mouth of Madness"
• David Croft, writer/producer "Are You Being Served?", "Dad's Army"
• Steve Jobs, inventer/CEO "Apple"
• Diane Cilento, actress "The Wicker Man"
• Charles Napier, actor "The Blues Brothers", "Star Trek"
• Bert Jansch, musician
• Sylvia Robinson, singer "Love Is Strange"
• George Baker, actor "I Claudius", "The Prisoner"
• Al Davis, owner "Oakland Raiders"
• Roger Williams, pianist
• Patricia Breslin, actress "Twilight Zone - Nick of Time"
• Pete Rugolo, orchestra leader/composer
• Norman Corwin, radio writer/producer
• Tom Keith, comedian "A Prairie Home Companion"
• Richard Gordon, producer
• Andy Rooney, TV journalist "60 Minutes"
• Les Daniels, author "Living In Fear"
• Margaret Field, actress "The Man From Planet X"
• Joe Frazier, boxer
• Heavy D, rapper
• Ricky Hui, actor "Mr. Vampire"
• Bil Keane, cartoonist "Family Circle"
• Dulcie Gray, actress/author
• Gary Carcia, musician "Buckner & Garcia", "Pac-Man Fever"
• John Neville, actor "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"
• Anne McCaffrey, author "The Dragonriders of Pern"
• Ken Russell, director
• Svetlana Alliluyeva, author/daughter of Josef Stalin
• Dobie Gray, singer "Drift Away"
• Harry Morgan, actor "M*A*S*H*"
• Jerry Robinson, comic book artist "Batman"
• Harold Hopkins, actor "Gallipoli"
• Susan Gordon, actress "Twilight Zone - The Fugitive"
• Alberto de Mendoza, actor "Horror Express"
• Joe Simon, comic book writer "Captain America"
• Eduardo Barreto, comic book artist "New Teen Titans"
• Kim Jong-Il, silly North Korean leader
• Cesaria Evora, singer "Sao Vincente de Longe"
• Ronnie Wolf, screenwriter "On the Buses"
• Ralph MacDonald, songwriter "Where Is the Love", "Just the Two of Us"
• Vaclav Havel, playwright/Czech President
• Don Sharp, director "Kiss of the Vampire", "Callan"
• Pedro Armendariz Jr., actor "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark"