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Charles Kimbrough has died at the age of 86. He is best known for playing dignified anchor Jim Dial on Murphy Brown for the sitcom’s original 10-season run between 1988 and 1998, a performance that earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 1990. He also reprised the role as a recurring guest star...

Annie Wersching, best known for playing Renee Walker in the seventh and eighth seasons of "24", has passed away from cancer at the age of 45. Her husband released the following statement: In addition to "24", she was a series regular on the first season of "Bosch", and recurred thereafter...

The longtime Today show weatherman and television personality passed away Saturday at the age of 87. His successor at Today, Al Roker, posted a nice tribute:

Norman Lloyd, an actor/producer/director whose career spanned an astounding nine decades, was best known for his role as the fair and kind Dr. Auschlander on "St. Elsewhere". He was also known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock: as the titular antagonist in Saboteur and as one of the...

David L. Lander, who played Squiggy for eight seasons on "Laverne & Shirley", has passed away from complications of multiple sclerosis at age 73. Lander was also a writer on the show for its first two seasons. Since his MS diagnosis in 1984, he primarily worked as a voice actor. A couple...

The iconic actor of the silver screen and those iconic Quaker Oats and Liberty Medical diabetes commercials has passed away at the age of 85. The cause was kidney disease. Film roles included Cocoon, The Thing, The Natural, The China Syndrome, The Firm, My Fellow Americans, Tender Mercies, 10...

https://deadline.com/2020/03/kenny-rogers-dead-country-music-icon-was-81-1202889317/ Country music star Kenny Rogers died Friday night in Sandy Springs, Georgia. He was 81. According to a statement posted by his family on Twitter, the singer, songwriter, actor and producer passed away at...

The cause was cancer. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kellye-nakahara-wallett-dead-actress-mash-dies-at-72-1279682

Say bye bye. The department has been dissolved. It remains to be seen as to what will happen as far as any future releases go, but I wouldn't hold my breath for any. Gunsmoke will likely still be finished but as far as anything else goes (Bonanza, Our Miss Brooks, Ben Casey, etc.), I hate to say...

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/star-trek-actor-robert-walker-jr-dies-79-1203427571/ Son of Golden Age actor Robert Walker, Robert Jr. has a similar career as Peter Fonda. I remembered him in Star Trek ("Charlie X") and The Invaders ("Panic") but also in The Big Valley ("My Son, My Son"), The...

You probably don't know it by now, but legendary television producer Leonard Goldberg (who made shows like Charlie's Angels, Hart to Hart, and T.J. Hooker alongside equally legendary Aaron Spelling) passed on recently at 85 from complications of a fall (obituary from the L.A. Times)...

Best known for playing Charlie in the Star Trek episode Charlie X, coincidentally written by DC Fontana.

She contributed greatly to the original Star Trek. https://www.startrek.com/news/dc-fontana-1939-2019

Just read on CNN that Ginger Baker passed at the age of 80. For my money, one of the great Rock and Roll drummers; maybe my favorite. Always loved his work on Disraeli Gears, particularly on Tales of Brave Ulysses. - Walter.

She also landed an historic Tony Award, plus an Oscar nomination for her performance in 'Claudine.' Diahann Carroll, the captivating singer and actress who came from the Bronx to win a Tony Award, receive an Oscar nomination and make television history with her turns on Julia and Dynasty, died...

May he R.I.P. https://pagesix.com/2019/09/15/the-cars-frontman-ric-ocasek-found-dead-in-manhattan-townhouse/?_ga=2.108998274.1220318598.1568452154-1134204799.1550368035

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/eddie-money-two-tickets-to-paradise-singer-dead-at-70

https://deadline.com/2019/07/arte-johnson-dead-laugh-in-emmy-winner-lover-at-first-bite-1202641747/

Veteran TV writer (and former lawyer) Peter Allan Fields passed away earlier this week. He had a long career writing for TV, starting with The Man From UNCLE, and going through Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. He wrote, among many others, TNG's much-loved The Inner Light...

With FILMAF ceasing activities on June 10. Can anyone recommend another good DVD and Blu-ray collection database.

Model-turned-actress Peggy Lipton has passed away at 72, after her colon cancer came back. Lipton started modeling at age 15 and moved to Los Angeles in 1964. She rose to fame with "The Mod Squad", Aaron Spelling's hit counterculture police drama that ran on ABC from 1968 to 1973. Her character...

Sad news for fans of The Invaders, The Defenders, The Fugitive, Branded, etc.: https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/larry-cohen-dead-dies-cult-horror-writer-director-its-alive-1203170986/

When Andre Previn composed film scores, they were extraordinary and memorable. "Bad Day at Black Rock", "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" , "One Two Three", "Two for the Seesaw", "Pepe", "Elmer Gantry", "Dead Ringer", "The Fortune Cookie", "Kiss Me Stupid" and my personal favorite " Inside...

Peter Tork of the Monkees has died at 77

The veteran actor has passed away at the age of 76 from complications of leukemia. He made his acting debut in 1967 with In the Heat of the Night, the Best Picture for 1967. He received a Golden Globe nomination for his supporting role in 1980's The Ninth Configuration. He acted in over 50...

Died at age 58. One of my all time favorite films was UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN.

The actor and comedian, best known as the astronaut Roger Healey on "I Dream of Jeannie" and next-door neighbor Howard Borden on "The Bob Newhart Show", has passed away at 91. "Jeannie" star Barbara Eden tweeted the following in tribute: "Our favorite zany astronaut, Bill Daily has passed...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/entertainment/aretha-franklin-dead/index.html Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, died of cancer at the age of 76.

Science fiction writer and frequent TV contributor Harlan Ellison has died. He was 84. Www.cbr.com/Harlan-ellison-Dies-84/

Eunice Gayson, the first girl to dally with James Bond on screen, has died at the age of 90. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/eunice-gayson-the-first-bond-girl-dies-aged-90/ar-AAyqD6g?ocid=spartandhp May she rest in peace.