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.

Comedian Bob Hope gave what he says is his last Christmas show
to U.S. servicemen in Saigon. Hope was a star of stage, radio, TV
and over 50 feature films.
 

Hope was one of many Hollywood stars who followed the tradition
of traveling overseas to entertain American troops stationed abroad.

The 1972 show marked Hope’s ninth consecutive Christmas Vietnam appearance. Although some antiwar protesters criticized Hope for supporting government policies in Vietnam, the comedian said he believed it was his responsibility to lift spirits by entertaining the
troops.

The USO Christmas Show at Tan Son Nhut Air Base.

Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr.
(February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021)

(Fox News) – Hal Holbrook, the Emmy and Tony award-
winning actor best known for his portrayal of Mark
Twain in his famous one-man-show, died on Jan. 23 at
his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. No cause of death has
been given.

Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain in his one-man show in 2005.

Brian Manion Dennehy (July 9, 1938 – April 15, 2020)

NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Dennehy, the burly actor who
started in films as a macho heavy and later in his career
won plaudits for his stage work in plays by William
Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O’Neill and Arthur
Miller, has died. According to the actor’s representatives,
Dennehy died Wednesday night of natural causes in New
Haven, Connecticut. He was 81.

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.