Robert Lane Saget (May 17, 1956 – January 9, 2022)

(FOX NEWS) – “Full House” Actor Bob Saget is dead after being
found in a hotel room in Orlando on Sunday afternoon, according
to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

"Earlier today, deputies were called to the Ritz-Carlton Orlando,
Grande Lakes for a call about an unresponsive man in a hotel
room. The man was identified as Robert Saget & pronounced
deceased on scene. Detectives found no signs of foul play or
drug use in this case," the tweet read.

Saget had performed a stand-up comedy set in Jacksonville
Saturday evening.

Original release on ABC:1987– 1995)

Sidney L. Poitier ( February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022)

In 1964, Sidney Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor becoming
the first Black male and Bahamian actor to win the award.

He also received two further Academy Award nominations, ten
Golden Globes nominations, two Primetime Emmy Awards
nominations, six BAFTA nominations, eight Laurel nominations,
and one Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination. Poitier was
one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of
Hollywood cinema, and after the death of Kirk Douglas in 2020,
was the oldest living and earliest surviving male Academy Award
winner

The star’s death was confirmed to Fox News on Friday by the
Bahamian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office.

Sidney Poitier was awarded the 1964 Academy Award for
Best Actor for his role in the movie Lilies of the Field.

February, 1955

January, 1987

Actor Denzel Hayes Washington Jr.  is 67 years old today.

Washington has earned various awards including two Academy
Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild
Award, and a Tony Award. In 2016, he received the Cecil B.
DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, The New York
Times ranked him as the greatest actor of the twenty-first
century.

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times posted a favorable notice,
writing that producer Brian Desmond Hurst “has not only hewed to
the line of Dickens’ classic fable of a spiritual regeneration on
Christmas Eve, but he has got some arresting recreations of the
story’s familiar characters,” adding, “The visions of Scrooge’s life
story are glimpses into depressing realms, and the aspects of
poverty and ignorance in 19th century England are made plain.

NOTE: THIS IS A GREAT FILM AS WELL! BLOGGER BOB

Alastair George Bell Sim
(9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976)