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Gene Wilder and Teri Garr in “Young Frankenstein”
Teri Garr, known for her starring roles in “Young Frankenstein”
(1974) and "Tootsie,"(1982) died Tuesday at her home in Los
Angeles of complications due to multiple sclerosis.
Teri Garr and Richard Dreyfuss
1977
Ronald Pierce Ely
(June 21, 1938 – September 29, 2024)
Ron Ely died at the home of one of his daughters in
Santa Barbara on September 29, 2024. His death
was not made public until his daughter Kristen
revealed it today.
Ely is best known for having portrayed Tarzan in the
1966–1968 NBC series Tarzan and for playing the
lead role in the film Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
(1975). He hosted the Miss America pageant telecast
in 1980 and 1981.
He already had a few TV credits to his name at the time, the
first being an episode of Armstrong Circle Theatre in 1959
on CBS, a 31- year – old Robert Duvall introduced himself
to many audiences in 1962 with a silent and inscrutable
stare with his film debut as Boo Radley, the harmless
oddball neighbor in the Robert Mulligan-directed, Horton
Foote-written adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a
Mockingbird.
Robert Selden Duvall will be 94 on January
5, 2025.
TIM MAGUIRE 
Reeve’s wife, Dana, was by his side until his death.
Reeve’s widow, Dana Reeve, headed the Christopher Reeve Foundation after his death. Although a non-smoker, she
was diagnosed with lung cancer on August 9, 2005. She
died at age 44 on March 6, 2006, and the foundation was subsequently renamed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. All Reeve’s children serve on the board of
directors of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.
