Though born in Texas, actor John Hillerman (December 20, 1932-November 9, 2017) earned his most popular role courtesy of a fake British accent, playing Jonathan Quayle Higgins, the majordomo of ...
Though born in Texas, actor John Hillerman (December 20, 1932-November 9, 2017) earned his most popular role courtesy of a fake British accent, playing Jonathan Quayle Higgins, the majordomo of ...
Southern California private detective Kinsey Millhone was the alter ego of Sue Grafton (April 24, 1940 - December 28, 2017), author of the bestselling "alphabet series" of mystery novels, which ...
Notable deaths in 2017. 27 / 142. Back image_gallery ... After graduating with a degree in journalism from the University of Texas, in 1949 Smith headed off for New York with two suitcases and $50 ...
One of 12 children of an Arkansas sharecropper, Glen Campbell (April 22, 1936-August 8, 2017) first picked up a guitar at age 4. By the early Sixties, he'd played his way to L.A. Though...
Jeanne Moreau (January 23, 1928-July 31, 2017) was internationally renowned for her portrayals of seductresses, Bohemians, unfaithful paramours and wronged women. She worked with such acclaimed ...
Fats Domino (February 26, 1928-October 24, 2017), who helped create a new style of music called rock 'n' roll (and who became the first purely rock 'n' roll musician to be awarded the National...
Comedian Dick Gregory (October 12, 1932-August 19, 2017) first made his name by focusing his wit on something that was no laughing matter: racism in America. He began performing comedy while in ...
In all, the Country Music Hall of Fame member wrote more than 1,000 songs, and in 2012 received a National Medal of Arts for bringing "his unique blend of warmth and humor to the great tradition ...
David Cassidy (April 12, 1950-November 21, 2017) got his big break - and his first Billboard hit - as heartthrob Keith Partridge in the hit TV series "The Partridge Family," in which he starred...
Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus (August 5, 1935-April 11, 2017) gained notoriety through his early work with German directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder (including "The Marriage of Maria Braun ...
You might not be reading this (and we wouldn't be writing this) if it were not for Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov (September 7, 1939-May 19, 2017). For on September 26, 1983, when the Soviet...
It was a novel that put Robert James Waller (August 1, 1939-March 10, 2017), an economics and applied mathematics professor, on the map. His 1992 romance, "The Bridges of Madison County," was ...
For 50 years, Don Imus (July 23, 1940-December 27, 2019) was the flamethrower of morning drive-time radio, a provocateur as outrageous as he'd been influential. "I wasn't trying to be outrageous ...
A song-and-dance man who, while in the Army's Special Services entertainment branch served under Sgt. Leonard Nimoy, Ken Berry (November 3, 1933-December 1, 2018) had hoped for a career in movie ...
At 5'5, science fiction writer Harlan Ellison (May 27, 1934-June 28, 2018) was bullied as a youth, which may have fueled his loud-mouthed attitude, once punching an Ohio State University professor ...
Notable deaths in 2018. 21 / 142. ... as he tried to lean on it to pay almost $2 billion in arrears, at the same time he pushed against the invasion of Iraq. ... Schoendienst ranks second in ...
The winner of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award last year, virtuoso drummer Hal Blaine (February 5, 1929-March 11, 2019) was a member of the famed Los Angeles-based group of session musicians ...
Comic actor, writer and producer Bob Einstein (November 20, 1942-January 2, 2019) debuted his character "Super Dave" Osborne (a stuntman whose daredevil attempts usually backfire spectacularly) on ...
A leading actress of the French New Wave, the Danish-born Anna Karina (September 22, 1940-December 14, 2019) modeled and sang in cabarets before moving to France, where she was advised by Coco ...
As a child, he listened to Lebanese and Polish folk tunes played by his parents. Eventually he graduated to big band, swing, country and rockabilly. The self-taught guitarist Richard Monsour, who ...