Posts Tagged: Sad Goodbyes

Steve Forrest, immortalized for viewers of a certain age as Lt. Dan “Hondo” Harrelson on the short lived but affectionately recalled SWAT, passed away on May 18th. For those unfamiliar with his… Read Article →

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I just saw this, and I’m too exhausted to do a proper write-up right now. Still, and although it’s entirely just that Mr. Klugman will be mostly remembered as Oscar Madison and… Read Article →

Actress Deborah Raffin, a regular star of TV mini-series and B-movies in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, has passed away. Ms. Raffin is best known on these pages as the ludicrously young… Read Article →

Well, crap. You know you’ve created an indelible comedy character when you’re more remembered for that instead of playing such genre characters as The Phantom of the Opera (admittedly, in one of… Read Article →

FoJ Marsden has informed me of the sad passing of actor Lance LeGault. Once the movie and (particularly) TV universe offered a myriad of character actors like this, those guys whose names… Read Article →

This is getting seriously depressing. Emi Itô on the right. Miss Itô died nearly a month ago, on June 15th, but the news just filtered down to me. I’m sure many of… Read Article →

Extremely sad news, as one of the very last of the greatest Hollywood character actors, Ernest Borgnine, has passed away. In this extremely long and busy career, Mr. Borgnine played it all…. Read Article →

Not just Andy Taylor (in what is probably one of the five greatest sitcoms of all time) or Mattlock, although either–especially the first–would be enough. I really loved his show Salvage 1,… Read Article →

One of the screen’s last great heavies, Richard Lynch, has passed away. Most famous for his slightly scarred visage, the result of a gruesome, drug-related fire in 1967 that badly burned 70%… Read Article →