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Barbara Billingsley
Peter Graves
Leslie Nielsen
Kevin McCarthy
Marie Osborne Yeats
Jill Clayburgh
Tony Curtis
Patricia Neal
Gary Coleman
Rue McClanahan
John Forsythe
Robert Culp
Fess Parker
Kathryn Grayson
Pernell Roberts
Jean Simmons |
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Barbara Billingsley
1915–2010
Best known for her role of June Cleaver in the iconic
50’s TV series “Leave it to Beaver.” One of her most
memorable roles was the priceless bit as the jive-talking granny in the
comedy spoof “Airplane!” She also appeared twice in
“The Love Boat” and as a Mother Superior in a
“New Mike Hammer” episode. Her swan song was the role of Miss
Ruthie in the TV movie “Secret Santa” in 2003.
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Peter Graves
1926-2010
Best known for his role
of Jim Phelps in both versions of the TV series "Mission Impossible"
and his pun-ishing role of Capt. Clarence Ovuer in the disaster movie
spoofs "Airplane!" and "Airplane II." He
started out his career with an uncredited role of the Bombardier in the
U.S. Army Air Forces recruiting film "Winning Your Wings."
He later rose to prominence as the mole character Lt. Price in "Stalag
17," and later in the landmark film "Night of the Hunter."
He also appeared in the epic miniseries "The Winds of War"
and "War and Rememberance" as Palmer Kirby during the
1980s. Peter's career was mostly television work with many TV series and
a just about every TV Theatre series imaginable. His swan song role,
however, was the narrator for the video game "DarkStar: The
Interactive Movie."
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Leslie Nielsen
Kevin McCarthy
Barbara Billingsley
Peter Graves
Marie Osborne Yeats
Jill Clayburgh
Tony Curtis
Patricia Neal
Gary Coleman
Rue McClanahan
John Forsythe
Robert Culp
Fess Parker
Kathryn Grayson
Pernell Roberts
Jean Simmons |
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Leslie Nielsen
1926-2010
Best known for his insanely comic role of Detective Lt. Frank Drebin in
the TV series "Police Squad" and later the "Naked
Gun" trilogy. Leslie had enjoyed a decent career as a working
actor during the 1960's and 1970's in many TV series including the
"The Love Boat" "Fantasy Island," "Vega$,", "S.W.A.T." "Kung Fu,"
"Cannon," "Columbo," and just about every popular show during the
1960's and 1970's.
His parody career started with an uncredited spot in the cult
classic "Kentucky Fried Movie."
But it wasn't until 1980 that his star started to rise when he was cast
as Dr. Rumack in the classic disaster film parody "Airplane!"
where he delivered the immortal comic line "I am serious, just don't
call me Shirley." More parodies followed, including "Dracula:
Dead and Loving It, " "Spy Hard, " "Mr. Magoo," "Wrongfully Accused,"
"2001: A Space Travesty," "Scary Movie 3 & 4," and
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Kevin McCarthy
1914–2010
Best known for his roles in both “Invasion of
the Body Snatchers” films. A TV veteran with credits too
numerous to count, Kevin had made a lucrative career out of the medium
with numerous landmark roles. One of his true gems, however, was the role
of the novelist Boris Trigorin in the TV version of Anton Chekhov’s play
“The Seagull.” He had appeared in just about all of the
most successful TV series during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. One of his
most memorable performances, however, was as the disillusioned son Biff in
the screen adaptation of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.”
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Marie Osborne Yeats
Jill Clayburgh
Barbara Billingsley
Peter Graves
Leslie Nielsen
Kevin McCarthy
Tony Curtis
Patricia Neal
Gary Coleman
Rue McClanahan
John Forsythe
Robert Culp
Fess
Parker Kathryn
Grayson
Pernell
Roberts
Jean Simmons
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Marie Osborne Yeats
1911-2010
A child star in the early days of Hollywood as Baby
Marie Osborne who starred in 23 films starting with “Little Mary
Sunshine” up to “Miss Gingersnap.” Her adult
career, however, consisted of bit and extra roles.
It was her uncredited work as a costume wardrobe supervisor is where she
really shone. She was involved in the costuming in such landmark films
such as “The Godfather -Part II,” and “Around the
World in Eighty Days,” “The Way We Were,” and “The Great
Imposter.”
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Jill
Clayburgh
1944-2010
Best known for her role in the landmark film "An Unmarried
Woman." Jill had a modest successful career, which will culminate
in the soon-to-be released "Bridesmaids" and the recently
released romantic comedy "Love and Other Drugs." Jill has
also starred in the hit films "Silver Streak," "Semi-Tough,"
and a pair of tour-de-force performances in "I'm Dancing as Fast as
I Can." and "The First Monday in October"
Her television credits include "Dirty Sexy Money," "Nip/Tuck,"
"Leap of Faith," "The Practice," "Ally McBeal," and
"Frasier," "Law and Order."
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Tony Curtis
Patricia Neal
Barbara Billingsley
Peter Graves
Leslie Nielsen
Kevin McCarthy
Marie Osborne Yeats
Jill Clayburgh
Gary Coleman
Rue McClanahan
John Forsythe
Robert Culp
Fess
Parker Kathryn
Grayson
Pernell
Roberts
Jean Simmons
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Tony Curtis
1925-2010
Best known for his roles in the such cinematic
classics as "Some Like it Hot," "Operation Petticoat," "The Sweet
Smell of Success," "The Great Race," and "The Defiant Ones,"
and "Spartacus" Tony has been featured in over 100 films.
Other landmark films include "The Outsider," in which he
played the Native American Ira Hayes, one of Marines who hoisted the U.S.
Flag on the peak of Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima, "The Vikings."
"Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?" and "Those Daring
Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies." He even spoofed his own image
in an episode of "The Flintstones." Tony also had some great
roles in television as well, which includes Mr. Roth in "Vega$,"
Fernand Modego in the TV version of "The Count of Monte Cristo,"
as David O. Selznick in "The Scarlett O'Hara War." |
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Patricia
Neal
1926-2010
An Oscar, Tony and Golden Globe winner, a champion for those with
strokes, which she herself suffered and plus was the wife of British
children's book writer Roald Dahl. Patricia appeared with stars such as
John Wayne in "Operation Pacific" and "In
Harm's Way," Gary Cooper in "The
Fountainhead," her Oscar-winning performance with Paul
Newman in "Hud," and in the science fiction
classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still." She
also appeared on Broadway in 1959 as Helen Keller's mother in "The
Miracle Worker." 1n 1962 she appeared with Audrey Hepburn
in "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Her last landmark
role was the titular "Cookie" in the Robert Altman film "Cookie's
Fortune" in 1999.
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Gary Coleman
Rue McClanahan
Barbara Billingsley
Peter Graves
Leslie Nielsen
Kevin McCarthy
Marie Osborne Yeats
Jill Clayburgh
Tony
Curtis
Patricia Neal
Dennis Hopper
Lynn Redgrave
John Forsythe
Robert Culp
Fess
Parker Kathryn
Grayson
Pernell
Roberts
Jean Simmons
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Gary Coleman
1968-2010
Best known for his role as the wisecracking kid
from "Diff'rent Strokes." Although
his movie and TV and film career was sporadic, he managed to land some
notable roles, including that of the Devil in one episode
of "Unhappily Ever After" and Cupid in "The
Jamie Foxx Show."
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Rue McClanahan
1934-2010
Best known for her role as the saucy, sharp southern belle, Blanche Devereaux in
"The Golden Girls" and "The Golden Palace." She was already a veteran of the Broadway stage and TV scene during the 1960s before she started working on Norman Lear's sitcoms,
"All in the Family," and "Maude". She also was cast in
"Mama's Family."
She did later stints in film as well with the Jack Lemmon-Walter Matthau comedy "Out to Sea," and as a biology teacher in
"Starship Troopers." She returned to Broadway in 2003 as Madam Morrible in
"Wicked."
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Dennis Hopper
Lynn Redgrave
Barbara Billingsley
Peter Graves
Leslie Nielsen
Kevin McCarthy
Marie Osborne Yeats
Jill Clayburgh
Tony
Curtis
Patricia Neal
Gary Coleman
Rue McClanahan
John Forsythe
Robert Culp
Fess
Parker Kathryn
Grayson
Pernell
Roberts
Jean Simmons
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Dennis
Hopper
1936-2010
Best known for his acting role as "Billy" and his direction
in the low-budget counter-culture classic "Easy Rider." Dennis' roller coaster career included many landmark and outstanding
turns in both television work and cinema. Among his best roles include
the alcoholic assistant coach in "Hoosiers," and another as
the pot-smoking photographer in the landmark film "Apocalypse Now,"
a tour-de-force as King Pelias in "Jason and the Argonauts,"
the Prophet in "Hang'em High," as legendary Rat Packer Frank
Sinatra in "The Night We Called it a Day", a superb
performance as Balkan gangster Viktor Drazen in 24, as
Col. Eli McNulty in the Pentagon drama "E-Ring." He also did
some voice work for video games including the classic "Grand Theft
Auto: Vice City" as the sleazebag film director Steve Scott, as
well as King Koopa in "Super Mario Brothers." He was also
cast in the classic "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant"
with James Dean with which he became close friends. He also did
some commercial spots for a financial planning company appealing to the
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Lynn
Redgrave
1943-2010
A scion of the Redgrave acting family along with
her sister Vanessa.
Lynn
made her own marks on the theatrical and cinema scene in the
UK
and the
US
. Her first real splash was
made with “Georgy Girl” In 1966, which proved a hit on
both sides of the pond. She
also made a controversial splash in the role of Xaviera Hollander in the
film “The Happy Hooker.” Other
notable roles include her major TV role as the secretary Ann Anderson in
the TV sitcom “House Calls,” as Charlotte
Buckland Seccombe in the James Michener epic “Centennial,”
and a terrific turn in “Law and Order; Criminal Intent”
However, her writing talents have also come the
fore in her play “The Mandrake Root” which played at
the San Repertory Theatre in 2001 in which she also played the lead
role.
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John Forsythe
Robert Culp
Barbara Billingsley
Peter Graves
Leslie Nielsen
Kevin McCarthy
Marie Osborne Yeats
Jill Clayburgh
Tony
Curtis
Patricia Neal
Gary Coleman
Rue McClanahan
Dennis Hopper
Lynn Redgrave
Fess
Parker Kathryn
Grayson
Pernell
Roberts
Jean Simmons |
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John
Forsythe
1918-2010
Best known for his roles as Blake Carrington in “Dynasty,”
“Dynasty: The Colbys” and as the voice of
“Charlie” in both the TV and movie series of “Charlie’s
Angels.” He
also had the role of Captian Fisby in both the original Broadway cast
and the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV presentation of “Teahouse of
the August Moon.”
He also had other series, as well, “Bachelor
Father” and “The John Forsythe Show”.
Included in his career are landmark film roles in “And
Justice For All,” “In Cold Blood”
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Robert
Culp
1930-2010
Best known for his
role as tennis-playing secret agent Kelly Robinson in the 60's TV series
"I Spy" with Bill Cosby, and for his
tour-de-force as FBI agent Bill Maxwell in "The Greatest
American Hero." He
became a TV staple throughout the 60's to the 90's, including stints on
both Bill Cosby vehicles, "The Cosby Show" and
"Cosby." He
also held landmark roles in "Roots, The Next
Generations" as
the U.S. President in "The Pelican Brief," as
General Erwin Rommel in "The Key to Rebecca," as
Ens. George 'Barney' Ross in "P.T. 109" and
as Joshua in "Greatest Heroes of the Bible."
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Fess Parker
Kathryn Grayson
Barbara Billingsley
Peter Graves
Leslie Nielsen
Kevin McCarthy
Marie Osborne Yeats
Jill Clayburgh
Tony
Curtis
Patricia Neal
Gary Coleman
Rue McClanahan
Dennis Hopper
Lynn Redgrave
John Forsythe
Robert Culp
Pernell
Roberts
Jean Simmons |
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Fess
Parker
1924-2010
Best know for his roles
as Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. Fess also played roles
in other Disney movies such as "Old Yeller".
His first movie role was an uncredited voice-over as the
chauffeur in "Harvey"
He later
acquired roles in "Springfield Rifle" and "Untamed
Frontier," but after his appearance in the Sci-fi movie
"Them," Walt Disney himself cast Fess in the
first of his best known roles for "Davy Crockett, King of the
Wild Frontier" He
also appeared in the Disney classic "Old Yeller".
In 1962 he tried his hand at the James Stewart role of Eugene
Smith in "Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington
," albeit unsuccessfully.
During this time, he appeared in both "Playhouse
90" and "General Electric Theatre"
productions. Other
notable credits include "Alfred Hitchcock
Presents," "
Death Valley
Days," and "Dragnet."
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Kathryn
Grayson
1922-2010
Best known for her role as Lilli Vanessi/Katarina
in the 1953 film "Kiss Me Kate," opposite Howard
Keel. She also
appeared in "Show Boat" in 1951
where she played Magnolia.
Initially discovered by MGM talent scouts as a
singer, Kathryn started in film in 1941 opposite Mickey Rooney in "Andy
Hardy's Private Secretary" She
shortly started being cast in films with some of MGM's top-tier stars
such as Gene Kelly and Mario Lanza. After
leaving MGM, she made one final role in "The Vagabond
King."
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Pernell
Roberts
Jean Simmons
Barbara Billingsley
Peter Graves
Leslie Nielsen
Kevin McCarthy Marie Osborne Yeats Jill Clayburgh Tony
Curtis Patricia Neal
Gary Coleman
Rue McClanahan
Dennis Hopper
Lynn Redgrave
John Forsythe Robert
Culp Fess
Parker Kathryn
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Pernell
Roberts
1928-2010
Best
remembered on television as Adam Cartwright in "Bonanza"
and the title role "Trapper
John, M.D." and on stage as a memorable Petruchio on
Broadway of "The Taming of the Shrew"
Pernell
spent a couple of years performing the classics with the renowned Arena
Stage Company in
Washington
,
DC
. in such productions as "The Taming of the Shrew"
(as Petruchio), "The Playboy of the Western Word,"
"The Glass Menagerie," "The Importance of Being
Earnest," and "Twelfth Night." He
made his Broadway debut in 1955 with "Tonight in Samarkind"
and the following year copped the
"Best Actor" Drama Desk Award for his
performance in "Macbeth.". A memorable return to
Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" which
was actually mentioned in the forward of a print edition of "Taming
of the Shrew," published sometime during the early 1960's.
He starred as Rhett Butler to Lesley Ann Warren's Scarlett
O'Hara in an ill-fated musical version of "Gone with the
Wind," and also appeared in another musical bomb, "Mata
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Jean
Simmons
1929-2010
Best know for her roles in "The
Robe," "Spartacus,"
as Sister Sharon opposite Burt Lancaster in "Elmer
Gantry" and as the missionary Sergeant Sarah Brown from "Guys
and Dolls" in which she used her own singing voice that
copped her first Golden Globe Award.
She burst on the British movie scene with such
classics as "Caesar and Cleopatra", as the
spoiled, selfish Estella in "Great
Expectations," as
a sultry native beauty in "Black
Narcissus" , and as Ophelia opposite Laurence Olivier in "Hamlet."
Thereby earning a Best
Supporting Actress Oscar nomination.
During the 1980s she mainly appeared in TV
mini-series, which included "The Thorn Birds" in
1983 and both "North and South" series in
1985 and 1987 and appeared in the "Star Trek: The Next
Generation" episode, "The Drumhead"
as retired Admiral Nora Satie, which is considered one of her top
television roles. She also
voiced-over a "Final Fantasy" game episode "The
Spirits Within"
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