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.
Donald Moffat in John Carpenter’s “The Thing”.
“I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I’d rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS ——- COUCH!”
Donald Moffat as U.S. Senator and Vice President Lyndon B.
Johnson in the 1983 historical drama film “The Right Stuff”.
John Mahoney (June 20, 1940 – February 4, 2018)
John Mahoney was a stage, film, and television actor, best known for
playing the blue-collar patriarch, Martin Crane, in the American sitcom
Frasier on NBC from 1993 to 2004. He also worked as a voice actor, and
performed on Broadway and in Chicago theatre. Mahoney died Sunday
while in hospice care in Chicago after a short illness.
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