James Reiher Snuka (born James Wiley Smith)  
(May 18, 1943 – January 15, 2017)  

Former pro wrestler Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka died Sunday, 12
days after a Pennsylvania judge dismissed a murder case
against him in the 1983 death of his girlfriend.

In December 2016, it was announced that Snuka was in hospice
and had an expected six months left to live, due to a terminal
illness.

Jimmy Snuka (l) and ed Francis during a match from
the Portland sports arena in portland, or, 1973.

Howard Green Duff (November 24, 1913 – July 8, 1990)

The radio series The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective was 
created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The
show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on
CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in 1949-
1951. The series starred Howard Duff (and later, Steve Dunne)
as Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as his secretary Effie, and took
a considerably more tongue-in-cheek approach to the character
than the novel or movie. The announcer was Dick Joy (below).

Dick Joy
(December 28, 1915 – October 31, 1991)

The legal drama series Perry Mason originally broadcast on CBS
television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966. The title
character, a criminal defense lawyer portrayed by Raymond Burr.

Many episodes are based on stories written by Erle Stanley
Gardner. Hollywood’s first weekly one-hour series filmed for
television, Perry Mason is one of TV’s longest-running and
most successful legal series.

In 1960, the series received the first Silver Gavel Award for
a television drama by the American Bar Association.

Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993)

Boston (AP) – Bonnie and Clyde made it quite clear how they felt about a former
member of their gang in a letter they sent to him as he sat in the Dallas County
Jail.

He was a coward, they wrote, and they should have killed him when they had the
chance.

The four-page letter to Raymond Hamilton was written in April 1934 in Bonnie
Parker’s neat cursive and signed by Clyde Barrow. The auction house’s executive
vice president, Robert Livingston said It could fetch more than $40,000 when it’s
sold next month by Boston-based RR Auction,

Livingston said Wednesday, based on the language, experts think Barrow, who
had poor writing skills, likely dictated the letter to Parker.

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and  Clyde Chestnut Barrow a.k.a. Clyde Champion Barrow.

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Steven Hill (born Solomon Krakovsky)
(February 24, 1922 – August 23, 2016)

Steven Hill, who starred for years as District
Attorney Adam Schiff on “Law & Order” (NBC)
and decades earlier played the leader of the
Impossible Missions Force before Peter
Graves on CBS-TV’s “Mission: Impossible,”
died Tuesday in Monsey, N.Y.  (Variety)