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  Barbara Shelley, born Barbara T. Kowin (February 13, 1932 – January 4, 2021) She appeared in more than 100 films and TV series and was particularly known for her work in horror films. In 1958, she made her first significant appearance in a film for Hammer, The Camp on Blood Island. She took a number of roles in gothic horror features for Hammer, such as Blood of the Vampire (1958), The Gorgon (1964) and Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966). She became the company's top female star and was nicknamed the "Queen of Hammer". She also appeared in Village of the Damned (1960), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Although she is known as a scream queen, her most famous scream (in Dracula) was dubbed by co-star Suzan Farmer. Her television appearances include the first Danger Man episode, "View from a Villa" (1960), plus a subsequent episode that season, "The Traitor" (also 1960); The Saint (1962), an episode of The New Phil Silve...

  avid Soul, born David Richard Solberg (August 28, 1943 – January 4, 2024) He was known for his role as Detective Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson in the television series Starsky & Hutch from 1975 to 1979; Joshua Bolt on Here Come the Brides from 1968 to 1970; and Officer John Davis in Magnum Force in 1973. He also starred in the 1979 hit TV movie adaptation Salem's Lot by Stephen King. Soul first gained national attention as the "Covered Man" appearing on The Merv Griffin Show in 1966 and 1967, on which he sang while wearing a mask. He explained: "My name is David Soul, and I want to be known for my music." The same year, he made his television debut in Flipper. His breakthrough came when he portrayed Detective Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson on Starsky & Hutch, a role he played from 1975 until 1979. Soul also directed three episodes of Starsky and Hutch: "Huggy Can't Go Home" (1979), "Manchild on the Streets" (1977), and ...

  Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (October 5, 1923 – January 4, 2024) In a career spanning eight decades on stage and screen, Johns appeared in more than 60 films and 30 plays. She received various accolades throughout her career, including a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. She appeared on stage from a young age and was typecast as a stage dancer from early adolescence, making her screen debut in South Riding (1938). She rose to prominence in the 1940s following her role as Anna in the war drama film 49th Parallel (1941), for which she won a National Board of Review Award for Best Acting, and starring roles in Miranda (1948) and Third Time Lucky (1949). Following No Highway in the Sky (1951), a joint British-American production, Johns took on increasingly more roles in the United States and elsewhere. She made her television and Broadway debuts in 1952 and took on starring roles in such f...

  Diana Claire Millay (June 7, 1935 – January 8, 2021) She was best known for her work in television, having guest starred in close to one hundred prime time shows, both live and filmed, and for playing continuing roles on two daytime soap operas, Dark Shadows and The Secret Storm. After appearing on the cover of Montgomery Ward's catalog as a child, she modeled and acquired acting experience in summer stock productions. She made her motion picture debut in the Robert Montgomery picture "Street of Sinners" (1957) and went on to roles in numerous TV programs which include "Maverick," "Bonanza", "Rawhide" and "Perry Mason." She retired during the early 1970s after appearing "Night of Dark Shadows" (1971). Millay's interests shifted from acting to writing and she published several books, including I'd Rather Eat Than Act, The Power of Halloween, and How to Create Good Luck. She was married to Broadway producer Geoffre...

  Veronica Greenfield, born Veronica Yvette, and known as Ronnie Spector (August 10, 1943 – January 12, 2022) Spector was part of the girl group the Ronettes in 1957 with her elder sister, Estelle Bennett, and their cousin, Nedra Talley. Ronnie fronted the group while record producer Phil Spector produced the majority of their recording output. The two were married in 1968 and separated in 1972. Bennett sang lead on the Ronettes' string of hits in the early-to-mid–1960s, including "Be My Baby" (1963), "Baby, I Love You" (1963), "The Best Part of Breakin' Up" (1964) and "Walking in the Rain" (1964). In 1964 she launched a solo career with the single "So Young". After 1980 she released five studio albums: Siren (1980), Unfinished Business (1987), Something's Gonna Happen (2003), Last of the Rock Stars (2006) and English Heart (2016). Bennett also recorded one extended play, She Talks to Rainbows (1999). In 1986 her career revi...

  Rosa Lee Hawkins (October 23,1945-January 11, 2022) Hawkins was the youngest member of the musical trio the Dixie Cups, whose hit single “Chapel of Love” reached No. 1 on the Billboard 100 in 1964. The other members were her sister Barbara, and Joan Marie Johnson. While in high school in 1963, Barbara brought Rosa along to sing with her and Joan Marie in a high school talent show. The trio initially called themselves the Meltones, only to discover later that the name had already been taken. Since they were from the land of Dixie, and “cups are cute,” Barbara said in an interview, they came up with the name Dixie Cups. The Dixie Cups continued to perform steadily over the decades, with Athelgra Neville, a childhood friend and sister of the Neville Brothers, stepping in as the most recent replacement for Johnson, who left the group in 1966 and died in 2016. The Dixie Cups received two Gold Records, for “Chapel of Love” and another hit, “People Say.” They were inducted into the Loui...

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  Larry King, born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger (November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) He was a television host, radio host, and paid spokesman, whose work was recognized with awards including two Peabody awards, an Emmy award, and 10 Cable ACE Awards. King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and 1960s, and gained prominence beginning in 1978 as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN. From 2012 to 2020, he hosted Larry King Now aired on Hulu, Ora TV, and RT America. He continued to host Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political talk show which aired weekly on the same two channels from 2013 until his death in 2021. King received many awards during his life, including several Cable ACE Awards, Peabody Awards and lifetime achievement awards. He guest starred in episodes of Arthur, 3...

  Lisa Marie Presley (February 1, 1968 – January 12, 2023) She was the only child of singer and actor Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, as well as the sole heir to her father's estate. Presley developed a career in the music business and issued three albums: To Whom It May Concern in 2003, Now What in 2005, and Storm & Grace in 2012. Her first album reached Gold certification with the Recording Industry Association of America. Presley also released non-album singles, including duets with her father using tracks he had released before he died. The father and daughter were extremely close, with Elvis once flying her out to Idaho after she said she had never seen snow. Her father named his 1958 Convair 880 private jet “the Lisa Marie.” Presley was married to musician Danny Keough, singer Michael Jackson, actor Nicolas Cage, and music producer Michael Lockwood. She had four children, including Benjamin Keough (who predeceased her). On January 12, 2023, Presley suffered c...

  William Garson Paszamant, known as Willie Garson. (February 20, 1964 – September 21, 2021) He appeared in over 75 films and more than 300 TV episodes. His first break in Hollywood was in guest roles on TV shows such as "Cheers" and "Family Ties." He was known for playing Stanford Blatch on the HBO series Sex and the City and in the related films Sex and the City and Sex and the City 2, Mozzie in the USA Network series White Collar from 2009 to 2014, Ralph in the 2005 romantic comedy Little Manhattan, Gerald Hirsch in the reboot of Hawaii Five-0, and Martin Lloyd in the sci-fi series Stargate SG-1. Garson also appeared in three movies from the Farrelly brothers—Kingpin, There's Something About Mary, and Fever Pitch. His other film credits include Groundhog Day, Just Like Heaven, The Rock, Fortress 2: Re-Entry, Being John Malkovich, Freaky Friday, Labor Pains, and Out Cold. He made a cameo in the end credits of Jackass Number Two, with the full context of the ca...

  Donald Patrick Murray (July 31, 1929 – February 2, 2024) Murray is remembered for his breakout performance in the film Bus Stop (1956, with Marilyn Monroe), which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His other films include A Hatful of Rain (1957), Shake Hands with the Devil (1959, with James Cagney), One Foot in Hell (1960, with Alan Ladd), The Hoodlum Priest (1961), Advise & Consent (1962, with Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton), Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965, with Steve McQueen and Lee Remick), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Deadly Hero (1975), and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986, with Kathleen Turner). On television, Murray starred in series such as The Outcasts (1968–1969), Knots Landing (1979–1981), and Twin Peaks (2017). In 1956, Murray married Hope Lange, with whom he had co-starred in Bus Stop. They had two children, Christopher and Patricia. They divorced in 1961. In 1962, he married Elizabeth Johnson and they had three childre...

  Kirk Douglas, born Issur Danielovitch (December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) He made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1950's, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war movies. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 movies, which include The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954), Paths of Glory (1957), The Vikings (1958), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Devil's Disciple (1959), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), Spartacus (1960), Lonely are the Brave (1962) and Seven Days in May (1964), among others. He received his first Oscar nomination (Best Actor) for his role in Champion (1949). In 1955, he established Bryna Productions, which began producing films as varied as Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960). In those two films he collaborated with the then-relatively-unknown director Stanley Kubrick, takin...

  Albert Finney (May 9, 1936 – February 7, 2019) He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began to work in the theatre as a Shakespearean actor before switching to film. Finney quickly attained prominence on screen in the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in plays. He became a leading Free Cinema figure at the same time as maintaining a successful career in theatre, film and television. He is known for his roles in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (also 1960), Tom Jones (1963), Two for the Road (1967), Scrooge (1970), Annie (1982), The Dresser (1983), Miller's Crossing (1990), Erin Brockovich (2000), Big Fish (2003), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), The Bourne Legacy (2012), and the James Bond film Skyfall (2012). A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times...

  Mary Wilson (March 6, 1944 – February 8, 2021) She gained worldwide recognition as a founding member of The Supremes, the most successful Motown act of the 1960s and the best-charting female group in U.S. chart history, as well as one of the all-time best-selling girl groups in the world. The group released a record-setting twelve number-one hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100, ten of which Wilson sang backing vocals for. Wilson remained with the group following the departures of other original members, Florence Ballard in 1967 and Diana Ross in 1970, though the group disbanded following Wilson's own departure in 1977. Wilson later became a New York Times best-selling author in 1986 with the release of her first autobiography, Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme, which set records for sales in its genre, and later for the autobiography Supreme Faith: Someday We'll Be Together. Continuing a successful career as a concert performer in Las Vegas, Wilson also worked in activism, fig...

  Joan Weldon, born Joan Louise Welton (August 5, 1930 – February 11, 2021) Weldon began her career singing in the San Francisco Grand Opera Company chorus. She also sang with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. On Broadway, she appeared in Kean. She also sang at the opening of the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center in 1964. Weldon had a brief television career in the 1950s. Her first appearance in 1955 was in an episode of The Millionaire, starring Marvin Miller. She made three appearances on Lux Video Theater in various roles. She also played Marian Keats in the title role of the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Angry Mourner" in 1957. Weldon also appeared in "Cheyenne" as a professional singer, and performed a duet with Clint Walker. Her final television appearance was in 1958 on Shirley Temple Theater. Weldon's film debut came in the 1953 film The System. Although her background was singing in operas, The System and her next two films, So This Is L...

  Ivan Reitman OC (October 27, 1946 – February 12, 2022) Ivan Reitman was born in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, on October 27, 1946, the son of Klara and Ladislav "Leslie" Reitman. Reitman's first producing job was with the then-new station CITY-TV in Toronto. CITY was also the home of the first announcing job of his later friend and collaborator Dan Aykroyd. Reitman's first commercial film ventures were as producer of two films for director David Cronenberg, Shivers (1975) and Rabid (1977). His big break came when he produced National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978 and directed Meatballs in 1979. From there, he directed and produced a number of comedies including Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984), Legal Eagles (1986), Twins (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Dave (1993), Junior (1994), Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), Evolution (2001), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), and No Strings Attached (2011). Reitman married Geneviève Robert in 1976. He had ...

  Stella Stevens, born Estelle Eggleston (October 1, 1938 – February 17, 2023) She began her acting career in 1959 and starred in such popular films as Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), The Nutty Professor (1963), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), The Silencers (1966), Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Stevens also appeared in numerous television series, miniseries, and movies, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960, 1988), Bonanza (1960), The Love Boat (1977, 1983), Hart to Hart (1979), Newhart (1983), Murder, She Wrote (1985), Magnum, P.I. (1986), Highlander: The Series (1995), and Twenty Good Years (2006). In 1960, she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. In addition, Stevens appeared in three Playboy pictorials, and was Playmate of the Month for January 1960. Stevens also appeared in several stage productions, including a touring production of an all-female version of Neil Si...

Julie Adams, born Betty May Adams (October 17, 1926 – February 3, 2019) Adams was an actress, primarily in television. She starred in a number of films in the 1950s, including Bend of the River and Creature from the Black Lagoon. She was also known for her roles as Paula Denning on Capitol and as Eve Simpson on Murder, She Wrote. In 1946, at the age of 19, she was crowned "Miss Little Rock" and then moved to Hollywood, California to pursue her acting career. Her first movie role was a minor part in Red, Hot and Blue (1949), followed by a leading role in the Lippert western The Dalton Gang (1949). Adams was featured as the bathing beauty Kay Lawrence in the science-fiction film Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). Adams co-starred in 1950s films opposite some of Hollywood's top leading men, including with James Stewart in 1952's Bend of the River, with Rock Hudson in The Lawless Breed (1953) and One Desire (1955), with Tyrone Power in The Mississippi Gambler (1953), ...

  Beverley Owen (May 13, 1937 – February 21, 2019) She was a television actress, best known for having played the original role of Marilyn Munster on the sitcom The Munsters before the role was taken over by Pat Priest. In 1956, Owen appeared in her first TV role in As the World Turns. Owen appeared on the shows The Doctors, Kraft Mystery Theatre, The Virginian, Wagon Train, and Another World, and in the feature film Bullet for a Badman, starring Audie Murphy, after which she got the role of Marilyn Munster on The Munsters. Owen left The Munsters after 13 episodes to marry Sesame Street writer and producer Jon Stone. They were married for eight years, and had two children. After her divorce in 1974 she continued to pursue her studies in early American history and earned a master's degree in 1989. In 1972, she played Dr. Paula McCrea for nine months in the soap opera Another World. Owen's daughter Polly confirmed that the actress died of ovarian cancer on February 21, 2019, at t...

  Thomas Morgan Woodward (September 16, 1925 – February 22, 2019) Woodward was an actor who is best known for his recurring role as Marvin "Punk" Anderson on the television soap opera Dallas and for his portrayal of Boss Godfrey, the sunglasses-wearing "man with no eyes", in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke. On another television series, Gunsmoke, he can be seen in 19 episodes, the most guest appearances of any actor on that long-running Western. He served in the Korean War as a lieutenant in special services . His acting debut came in the 1956 film "The Great Locomotive Chase". Besides "Cool Hand Luke", he went on to appear in other such films as "Gunpoint" (1966), "Firecreek" (1968), "The Sword of Ali Baba" (1968), "Final Chapter: Walking Tall" (1977), "Battle Beyond the Stars" (1980), and "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" (1985). He also made his television debut in 1956 on the series "Z...