Ted Beniades (Theodore Cleanthis Beniades)
(November 17, 1922 – October 24, 2014)

Beniades, a veteran actor who as an old-school undercover cop busts Al Pacino’s
Tony Montana for tax evasion in Scarface (1983), has died.

His family announced Beniades, who earlier starred as a detective on the gritty
1967-69 ABC series N.Y.P.D., died peacefully today at his home in Brookville, Pa.

Beniades also appeared with Pacino in Serpico (1973) and was in The Next Man
(1976), starring Sean Connery.

Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977)
Born in Chester, Pennsylvania

When she was seventeen, Waters attended a costume party at a nightclub
where some of the guests convinced her to sing, helping her to land her
first gig. She often toured with evangelist Billy Graham on his crusades.

Waters was the second African American, after Hattie McDaniel, to be
nominated for an Academy Award. She is also the first African-American
woman to be nominated for an Emmy Award, in 1962.

Original television run on CBS: September 24, to May 12, 1966

     
                                                       Ed Donahue

Original television run on NBC: October 29, 1956 – July 31, 1970

From left: Chet Huntley and David Brinkley

The news show succeeded the Camel News Caravan anchored by John
Cameron Swayze which was falling behind its main competition, CBS’s
Douglas Edwards with the News.