Jean Stapleton (Jeanne Murray)
(January 19, 1923 – May 31, 2013)
Carl Reiner (March 20, 1922 – June 29, 2020)
Comedian, actor, director, screenwriter, and publisher Carl Reiner’s career
spanned seven decades. During the early years of television comedy from
1950 to 1957, he co-wrote and acted on Caesar’s Hour and Your Show of
Shows, starring Sid Caesar. In the 1960s, Reiner was best known as the
creator, producer, writer, and actor on The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Orson Bean (Dallas Frederick Burrows)
(July 22, 1928 – February 7, 2020)
Orson Bean was a film, television, and stage actor, and a comedian, writer,
and producer. He appeared frequently on televised game shows from the
1960s through the 1980s and was a long-time panelist on the television
game show To Tell the Truth. He was a favorite of Johnny Carson,
appearing on The Tonight Show over 200 times. On February 7, 2020,
while walking near Venice Boulevard and Shell Avenue, in Venice, Los
Angeles, Bean was struck by two drivers, with the second vehicle striking
him fatally.
Ronald Leibman (October 11, 1937 – December 6, 2019)
NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Ron Leibman, who appeared in movies, theater
and television in a career that spanned six decades and won a Tony award
for Tony Kushner’s iconic play ”Ängels in America," died Friday after an
illness. A friend, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the cause was
complications of pneumonia.
Ron Leibman as Dr. Leonard Green in the NBC sitcom Friends.
Bill Macy (May 18, 1922 – October 17, 2019)
(FoxNews) – Bill Macy, the actor who made an indelible imprint on 1970s
sitcoms with his portrayal on Norman Lear "Maude" of the loving if always
up-for-an-argument Walter Findlay, died last night in Los Angeles.
Macy’s death was announced by his producer and manager Matt Beckoff,
writing on Facebook “My buddy Bill Macy passed away at 7:13pm tonight. He
was a spitfire right up to the end. My condolences to his beautiful wife
Samantha Harper Macy.”
Macy costarred in the 1972-78 All in the Family spin-off series opposite Bea
Arthur, who played the outspoken liberal Maude Findlay, a cousin of Family‘s
Edith Bunker.
Macy with Bea Arthur in Maude, original broadcast on CBS from
September 12, 1972 until April 22, 1978.