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.
Georgia Bright Engel (July 28, 1948 – April 12, 2019)
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Georgia Engel, who played the charmingly innocent, small-voiced Georgette on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and amassed a string of other TV and stage credits, has died.
According to her friend and executor,John Quilty, Engel died Friday in Princeton, New Jersey. The cause of death was unknown because she was a Christian Scientist and didn’t consult doctors due to her beliefs.
Cast members of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” The CBS sitcom originally aired from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977.
Donald Moffat (December 26, 1930 – December 20, 2018)
Tony Award-nominated actor Donald Moffat died Thursday due to complications from a stroke. Moffat’s daughter, Lynn, told The New York Times her father died in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
He appeared on television in “One Life to Live,” “Logan’s Run” and “The New Land.” His best-known movie roles include the 1982 horror classic “The Thing” and “The Right Stuff.”
Moffat retired from acting in 2005 and one of his last appearances was an off-Broadway production of “A Few Stout Individuals” in 2002.