Stanley Anderson dead. He played George Carey on the Drew Carey show. George was Drew's dad. He was also the President in the hit movie Armageddon and The Rock.
Sam the dog who played Duke in the Bush's beans commercials was put down for aggressive canine cancer.
Ed Schultz
Dee Ann Andretti, the wife of Mario dead.
Craig Turner, son of Tina Turner, dead from suicide.
Denis Akiyama - Johnny Mnemonic - Pixels actor dead at 66
Brandon Church, brother of country singer Eric Church dead. He co-wrote several of Eric's hits.
Derrick O’Connor, actor in Lethal Weapon 2, Time Bandits, Brazil, Jabberwockey and Pirates of the Carribean: Deads Man's Chest have died.
Richard Swift of the Grammy winning blues rock band The Black keys dead.
Alan Longmuir of the Bay City Rollers dead.
Harlin Ellison wrote sci-fi scripts and short stories including the Star Trek the Original series, City on the Edge of Forever that had Joan Collins guest star, dead.
Dr. Burton Grant, Amy Grant's father, dead.
Matt Cappotelli, Pro wrestler, Former WWE wrestler, dead from cancer.
Tab Hunter, actor and sometimes singer, and a pretty big star in the 1950's and 1960's is dead at age 86. He was also pretty well known for being one of Hollywood's first, major in-the-closet leading men (Rock Hudson was another) but he did come out publicly in his 2005 autobiography.
The Hollywood system tried to cover up his homosexuality and paired him with well-publicized romances with some of his co-stars like Debbie Reynolds and Natalie Wood (reading through his wikipedia bio, executives behind the scenes in Hollywood paired the couple 'Natalie Wood and Tab Wouldn't').
Actor Roger Perry dead. Was a guest star on an episode of the Classic Star Trek when the Enterprise went back in time to a 1968 earth. Roger played the Air Force pilot that was sent up to investigate the unidentafied flying object.
Robert Wolders, actor from Larado also died.
Nancy Sinatra, former wife of Frank and mother to Nancy "These Boots Are Made For Walking", dead at 101.
(07-15-2018 09:02 PM)DavidSt Wrote: Actor Roger Perry dead. Was a guest star on an episode of the Classic Star Trek when the Enterprise went back in time to a 1968 earth. Roger played the Air Force pilot that was sent up to investigate the unidentafied flying object.
That was a great one, too. Spock was ahead of his time when he said the Enterprise would be explained away as a weather balloon, lol...
(07-09-2018 07:06 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: Tab Hunter, actor and sometimes singer, and a pretty big star in the 1950's and 1960's is dead at age 86. He was also pretty well known for being one of Hollywood's first, major in-the-closet leading men (Rock Hudson was another) but he did come out publicly in his 2005 autobiography.
The Hollywood system tried to cover up his homosexuality and paired him with well-publicized romances with some of his co-stars like Debbie Reynolds and Natalie Wood (reading through his wikipedia bio, executives behind the scenes in Hollywood paired the couple 'Natalie Wood and Tab Wouldn't').
Yes, the movie L.A. Confidential was more truth than fiction in a lot of ways...
(07-22-2018 06:03 PM)stinkfist Wrote: I'm gonna set the o/u at worldwide deaths today at 150k.....
why does anyone give a fk about some dipshites on the boob tube any more than any other????
you're one strange feller.....
I'll take the over.
BTW, you can keep track of today's deaths in real time at this site (well I think it's a bot figuring out the expected numbers but who knows, maybe they have a bunch of Davids monitoring a ton of worldwide mortuary sites).
BTW#2 I saw Bill Cullen host a game show in person when I was like 10 or 11 in New York City. I couldn't begin to tell you the name of the show although in looking up his bio, it had to be either Three On A Match or Blankety Blanks. Most boring day ever except it was cool to see Cullen limp around on stage (he had polio early in his life and limped his whole life which they tried to hide on TV).
I can understand posting a person who has achieved notoriety in some way, but what seems incongruant is to include in the lists the mother/father/brother/sister/cousin, etc... who was NOT famous when they die.
(07-22-2018 09:57 PM)GoodOwl Wrote: I can understand posting a person who has achieved notoriety in some way, but what seems incongruant is to include in the lists the mother/father/brother/sister/cousin, etc... who was NOT famous when they die.
Janice olsen became a known figure if I remember right, when Susan was under illegal drug used and try to get her into rehab at a young age.
Amy Grant's father was a doctor. He tend to be well known.
Mime Nesmith's mother created the Liquid Paper.
Dave Heyward of Lady Antebellum, when his father goes, he would be listed as inventing the teeth whiting strips.
Ann Cullen did showed up at times with her husband. Usually wives and husbands of famous people do have some contribution to somewhat famous.
Sometimes fathers, mothers and siblings do show up on specials. If I remember right? Amy Grant did some specials on tv, and her family was included like her father.
Ann Cullen was with her husband on the Bert Convey's hosted tv game show called Tattletales. She also appeared as a guest panelist on her husband's game show To Tell The Truth. She is more known for her work on Broadway than tv and movies.
Brandon Church is a songwriter who cowrote several of Eric Church's hits.
Dee Ann Andretti just like other racing wives give support to their husbands. Ashley Judd was another former wife of Dario Franchetti.
Janice Olsen have been on tv and panels as mother's talk about their kids' drug abuse.
Nikolai Volkoff, WWE Hall of Fame wrestler, dead.
Brian Christopher, the son of WWE hal of famer, Jerry The King Lawler, and former wrestler dead at 46.
Freda Black, one of the prosecutors in the Michael Peterson murder trial (detailed recently on the Netflix series 'The Staircase') died in her home yesterday. She wasn't the main prosecutor but I think she was the only female one involved in the first trial? She was just in her 50's. Kind of odd but then again, the whole Peterson murder trial was an odd case.
The death of Brickhouse Brown was erroneously reported dead last week was not correct. He just died from cancer on the 29th. He was in Hospice care because of the cancer. This is just the fourth wrestler that is connected to WWE that died in this month alone.
(07-30-2018 01:36 PM)DavidSt Wrote: The death of the three former WWE Superstars which includes Brickhouse Brown made it 5 former superstars of WWE that died this month alone.
Matt Cappotelli also died from cancer as well.
Masa Saito, former tag team champion in WWE with Mr. Fuji as his tag partner also died.
Just last month, we lost Vader as well.
NOTE: I had to change the deaths to 5 former WWE wrestlers died this month alone with the inclusing of Masa.
Its semantics but Brickhouse Brown never wrestled for the WWE. He wrestled in the territories-- Texas/World Class, Memphis/USWA, Oklahoma/Mid-South, and later in some of the low-budget independent promotions. I remember him well, dude was pretty jacked to the gills back in the 80s. If he was 6'2 instead of 5'7 he probably would have easily gotten the call up to the WWE.
(07-30-2018 01:36 PM)DavidSt Wrote: The death of the three former WWE Superstars which includes Brickhouse Brown made it 5 former superstars of WWE that died this month alone.
Matt Cappotelli also died from cancer as well.
Masa Saito, former tag team champion in WWE with Mr. Fuji as his tag partner also died.
Just last month, we lost Vader as well.
NOTE: I had to change the deaths to 5 former WWE wrestlers died this month alone with the inclusing of Masa.
Its semantics but Brickhouse Brown never wrestled for the WWE. He wrestled in the territories-- Texas/World Class, Memphis/USWA, Oklahoma/Mid-South, and later in some of the low-budget independent promotions. I remember him well, dude was pretty jacked to the gills back in the 80s. If he was 6'2 instead of 5'7 he probably would have easily gotten the call up to the WWE.
In 1995, Brown competed as an enhancement wrestler that did two tv tapings with matches against Triple H, or known as Hunter Hearst Helmsley, and the other against Henry O. Godwinn. His time at WWE was short. WWE did mentioned his death along with Volkoff and Brian Christopher Lawler. Vince McMahan did buy out the WCCW that was the Texas one. They were trying to used the old WCCW talent into their roaster back then. Only Kerry Von Erich and the Red Rooster along with the Dingo Warrior who was renamed as The Ultimate Warrior ever lasted the longest. The only manager that was brought over was Percy Pringle who went by Paul Bearer.