Chuck Connors (1921-1992) and Johnny Crawford (1946-2021)

The Rifleman aired on ABC from September 30, 1958, to
April 8, 1963, as a production of Four Star Television. It
was one of the first primetime series on US television to
show a single parent raising a child.

The series starred Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas
McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain.

Chuck Connors with his Winchester Model 44-40 1892 rifle.

When Connors auditioned for the show, the director suddenly
threw a rifle at him; the former Major League Baseball player
caught it and got the job. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Charles Robert Redford Jr. is a actor, director and producer
and the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy
Award from four nominations, a British Academy Film Award,
Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2014, two Golden Globe
Awards, the Cecil B. DeMille Award and Time named him one
of the 100 most influential people in the world. He’s 36 today.

Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford’s television
career began in 1960, including an appearance on The
Twilight Zone in 1962 (below).

The Twilight Zone episode: "Nothing in the Dark."

1969

Actor and producer Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. is particularly
known for his nine collaborations with filmmaker Martin Scorsese,       
and is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy      
Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and      
a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.       

In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honor, and he also
received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack 
Obama in 2016. De Niro is 79 years old today.
       

1970

Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter (1978)

De Niro in Godfather Part 2 (1974)

Raging Bull (1980)

Cape Fear (1991)

Olivia Newton-John (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022)

Olivia Newton-John, beloved actress and singer best known for
her role as Sandy Olsson in Grease and for hits such as 1981’s “Physical,” died on Monday (Aug. 8) at her ranch in California. She
was 73 years old.

It was announced in May of 2017 that Newton-John’s breast
cancer from past years had returned and metastasized to her lower
back. Her back pains had initially been misdiagnosed. She was 
experiencing a great deal of pain from the metastatic bone lesions
and had openly spusing cannabis oil to ease her pain. Her daughter Chloe owns a cannabis farm in Oregon.

Roger Earl Mosley 
(December 18, 1938 – August 7, 2022)

Mosley was an American actor, director, and writer
best known for his role as the helicopter pilot
Theodore "T.C." Calvin in the CBS television
series Magnum, P.I., which originally aired from
1980 until 1988.

Mosley reportedly died at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center in Los Angeles, California, following injuries
sustained from a car collision on August 4.