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Remembering those we lost in 2015

RIP Donna Douglas Rod Taylor Taylor Negron Joe Franklin Geraldine McEwan Lizabeth Scott Gary Owens Lesley Gore Leonard Nimoy Windell D. Middlebrooks Gregory Walcott Richard L. Bare Richard Dysart James Best Ben Powers Geoffrey Lewis Vanda Barra Jayne Meadows Allen Grace Lee Whitney Ellen Albertini Dow Elizabeth Wilson B.B. King Anne Meara Reynaldo Rey Betsy Palmer Dick Van Patten Jim Bailey Patrick Macnee Jack Carter Diana Douglas Webster Roger Rees Omar Sharif Nova Pilbeam Alex Rocco George Coe Gerald S. O'Loughlin Theodore Bikel Yvonne Craig Bud Yorkin Melody Patterson Dean Jones Jean Darling Martin Milner Jackie Collins Jack Larson Pat Woodell Joan Leslie Marty Ingels Maureen O'Hara Betsy Drake Al Molinaro Fred Thompson Nathaniel Marston David Canary Marjorie Lord Robert Loggia Martin E. Brooks Jason Wingreen Wayne Rogers

Birthdays & Passings for December 31st

Happy Birthday! Rhys Williams (1897) Jule Styne (1905) Rosalind Cash (1938) At Rest: Ricky Nelson (1985) Lloyd Haynes (1986) Esther Sutherland (1986) Eileen Heckart (2001) Bill Idelson (2007) James Avery (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for December 30th

Happy Birthday! Jeannette Nolan (1911) Bert Parks (1914) Jack Lord (1920) At Rest: Doris Grau (1995) Lew Ayres (1996) Artie Shaw (2004) Bernie Hamilton (2008)

Birthdays & Passings for December 29th

Happy Birthday! Forrest Taylor (1883) Pierre Watkin (1887) Joseph Maher (1933) Ed Flanders (1934) At Rest: Phyllis Kennedy (1998) Earl Hindman (2003) Bill Erwin (2010)

Birthdays & Passings for December 28th

Happy Birthday! Cliff Arquette (1905) Lew Ayres (1908) Lou Jacobi (1913) Andrew Duggan (1923) At Rest: William Demarest (1983) Jimmy Demaret (1983) Clayton Moore (1999) Helen Kleeb (2003) Jerry Orbach (2004) Joseph Ruskin (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for December 27th

Happy Birthday! Sydney Greenstreet (1879) Marlene Dietrich (1901) Cathy Lewis (1916) Helen Page Camp (1930) At Rest: Hoagy Carmichael (1981) Jess Oppenheimer (1988) Harry Carey, Jr. (2012)

Birthdays & Passings for December 26th

Happy Birthday! Elisha Cook, Jr. (1903) Richard Widmark (1914) Steve Allen (1921) Shirley Patterson (1922) Alan King (1927) At Rest: Robert Lowery (1971) Jack Benny (1974) Elsa Lanchester (1986) Hurd Hatfield (1917) Jason Robards (2000) Vincent Schiavelli (2005) Bart Andrews (2009)

Birthdays & Passings for December 25th

Happy Birthday! Humphrey Bogart (1899) Rod Serling (1924) Mabel King (1932) At Rest: Charlie Chaplin (1977) Joan Blondell (1979) Dean Martin (1995) Denver Pyle (1997) Hurd Hatfield (1998) Richard Paul (1998) Eartha Kitt (2008)

Birthdays & Passings for December 24th

Happy Birthday! Ava Gardner (1922) At Rest: Nana Bryant (1955) Peter Lawford (1984) Gardner Fox (1986) Charles Durning (2012) Jack Klugman (2012)

Birthdays & Passings for December 23rd

Happy Birthday! James Gregory (1911) Allan North (1920) Leonard Stern (1923) Harry Guardino (1925) Corey Haim (1971) At Rest: Kaaren Verne (1967) Charles Ruggles (1970) Jack Webb (1982) Billy Barty (2000) Victor Borge (2000) Tyler MacDuff (2007)

Birthdays & Passings for December 22nd

Happy Birthday! Peggy Ashcroft (1907) Barbara Billingsley (1915) Gene Rayburn (1917) Ruth Roman (1922) Lynne Thigpen (1948) At Rest: Dick Elliott (1961) Wilbur Hatch (1969) Don DeFore (1993) Butterfly McQueen (1995) Michelle Thomas (1998)

Birthdays & Passings for December 21st

Happy Birthday! Joe Mantell (1915) Paul Winchell (1922) Ed Nelson (1928) At Rest: Ted Healy (1937) H.B. Warner (1958) Richard Long (1974) Stella Adler (1992) Lois Hall (2006)

Birthdays & Passings for December 20th

Happy Birthday! Charley Grapewin (1869) Irene Dunne (1898) Dennis Morgan (1908) Ann Richards (1917) Audrey Totter (1917) Charita Bauer (1922) Charlies Callas (1927) Kathryn Joosten (1939) John Spencer (1946) At Rest: Peter Brocco (1992) Madge Sinclair (1995) Foster Brooks (2001) Brittany Murphy (2009) Arnold Stang (2009) Steve Landesberg (2010)

Birthdays & Passings for December 19th

Happy Birthday! Mabel Paige (1880) Sir Ralph Richardson (1902) Lee Rich (1918) Gary Morton (1924) Robert Ulrich (1946) At Rest: Barton Yarborough (1951) Ronald Howard (1996) Desmond Llewelyn (1999) Hope Lange (2003) Les Tremayne (2003)

Birthdays & Passings for December 18th

Happy Birthday! Gladys Cooper (1888) Alfred Bester (1913) Bill Zuckert (1915) Betty Grable (1916) Ossie Davis (1917) Hal Kanter (1918) At Rest: Louis Untermeyer (1977) Anne Revere (1990) Don Fedderson (1994) Chris Farley (1997) Nick Stewart (2000) Joseph Barbera (2006) Majel Barrett (2008) Connie Hines (2009)

Birthdays & Passings for December 17th

Happy Birthday! Richard Long (1927) George Lindsey (1928) Dave Madden (1931) Christopher Cazenove (1943) At Rest: Thomas Mitchell (1962) Dana Andrews (1992) Jennifer Jones (2009) Alaina Reed-Hall (2009)

Birthdays & Passings for December 16th

Happy Birthday! Peter Schrum (1934) At Rest: Lee Van Cleef (1989) Moses Gunn (1993) Madlyn Rhue (2003) John Spencer (2005)

Birthdays & Passings for December 15th

Happy Birthday! Jeff Chandler (1918) Kasey Rogers (1925) At Rest: Glenn Miller (1944) Charles Laughton (1962) Walt Disney (1966) John Zaremba (1986) Blake Edwards (2010) Joan Fontaine (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for December 14th

Happy Birthday! Lillian Randolph (1898) Frances Bavier (1902) Morey Amsterdam (1908) Dan Dailey (1915) June Taylor (1917) Lewis Arquette (1935) Thuy Trang (1973) At Rest: William Bendix (1964) Verna Felton (1966) Milt Josefsberg (1987) Myrna Loy (1993) Norman Fell (1998) Jeanne Crain (2003) Mike Evans (2006) Neva Patterson (2010) Peter O'Toole (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for December 13th

Happy Birthday! Van Heflin (1910) John Hart (1917) Robert Prosky (1930) At Rest: Tim Moore (1958) Spencer Williams, Jr. (1969) Rufe Davis (1974) Cyril Delevanti (1975)

Birthdays & Passings for December 12th

Happy Birthday! Edward G. Robinson (1893) Don C. Harvey (1911) Frank Sinatra (1915) The Honorable Edward I. Koch (1924) At Rest: Ralph Berger (1960) Johnny Lee (1965) Tallulah Bankhead (1968) Jack Cassidy (1976) Anne Baxter (1985) Dick Clair (1988) Peter Boyle (2006) Van Johnson (2008) Audrey Totter (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for December 11th

Happy Birthday! Marie Windsor (1919) Eddie Firestone (1920) Vampira (1922) Betsy Blair (1923) Dick Tufeld (1926) Ron Carey (1935) Tom Fuccello (1936) At Rest: Reed Hadley (1974) David Lewis (2000)

Birthdays & Passings for December 10th

Happy Birthday! Ray Collins (1889) Moyna MacGill (1895) Dorothy Lamour (1914) Harold Gould (1923) Jean Byron (1925) Dan Blocker (1928) Tommy Rettig (1941) Michael Clarke Duncan (1957) At Rest: Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1978) Freeman F. Gosden (1982) Marie Windsor (2000) Mary Jackson (2005) Richard Pryor (2005)

Birthdays & Passings for December 9th

Happy Birthday! Tim Moore (1887) Emmett Kelly (1898) Margaret Hamilton (1902) Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (1909) Broderick Crawford (1911) Frances Reid (1914) Redd Foxx (1922) Paddi Edwards (1931) At Rest: Louella Parsons (1972) Vincent Gardenia (1992) Vivian Blaine (1995) Henny Backus (2004) Gene Barry (2009) Eleanor Parker (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for December 8th

Happy Birthday! Frank Faylen (1905) Lee J. Cobb (1911) Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925) Flip Wilson (1933) David Carradine (1936) At Rest: Slim Pickens (1983) Ivan Bonar (1988) Anne Seymour (1988) Lester Fletcher (1989) Paulene Myers (1996) Howard Rollins (1996) Peg Leg Bates (1998) Robert Prosky (2008)

Birthdays & Passings for December 7th

Happy Birthday! Clarence Nash (1904) Eli Wallach (1915) Hurd Hatfield (1917) Ted Knight (1923) At Rest: I. Stanford Jolley (1978) Harry Morgan (2011)

Birthdays & Passings for December 6th

Happy Birthday! Agnes Moorehead (1900) Wally Cox (1924) King Moody (1929) At Rest: Frances Bavier (1989) Don Ameche (1993) Werner Klemperer (2000)

Birthdays & Passings for December 5th

Happy Birthday! Walt Disney (1901) Otto Preminger (1905) Alvy Moore (1921) Mel Bryant (1924) Carrie Hamilton (1963) At Rest: Fred Clark (1968) Robert Karvelas (1991) Gilbert Mack (2005) Nina Foch (2008) Beverly Garland (2008)

Birthdays & Passings for December 4th

Happy Birthday! Isabel Randolph (1889) Deanna Durbin (1921) At Rest: Bryant Washburn, Jr. (1960) Bert Lahr (1967) Jack Mercer (1984) Edward Binns (1990) Hank Brandt (2004)

Birthdays & Passings for December 3rd

Happy Birthday! Len Lesser (1922) Andy Williams (1927) At Rest: Ruth White (1969) Mary Nash (1976) Madeline Kahn (1999) Glenn Quinn (2002) Ellen Drew (2003) Maria Perschy (2004) Joan Castle (2009) Richard Todd (2009)

Birthdays and Passings for December 2nd

Happy Birthday! Rufe Davis (1908) Robert F. Simon (1908) Virginia Carroll (1913) Bill Erwin (1914) Ray Walston (1914) Jonathan Frid (1924) Julie Harris (1925) At Rest: Desi Arnaz (1986) Robert Cummings (1990) Roxie Roker (1995)

Birthdays and Passings for December 1st

Happy Birthday! Mary Martin (1913) Ralph Manza (1921) Paul Picerni (1922) Robert Symonds (1926) Malachi Throne (1928) David Doyle (1929) Richard Pryor (1940) At Rest: Paul Benedict (2008) Bill McKinney (2011)

Birthdays & Passings for November 30th

Happy Birthday! Marco Rizo (1915) Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (1918) Virginia Mayo (1920) Allan Sherman (1924) Richard Crenna (1926) Dick Clark (1929) At Rest: Lester Sharpe (1962) Zeppo Marx (1979) Philip Sterling (1998) Paul Walker (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for November 29th

Happy Birthday! Luis Van Rooten (1906) Fran Ryan (1916) At Rest: Judith Lowry (1976) Natalie Wood (1981) Cary Grant (1986) Herb Vigran (1986) Ralph Bellamy (1991) Robert Shayne (1992) Robert F. Simon (1992) Gene Rayburn (1999) Ethel Winant (2003) Macon McCalman (2005) Shirley Walker (2006)

Birthdays & Passings for November 28th

Happy Birthday! Jose Iturbi (1895) Dick Powell (1901) Elliott Lewis (1917) Hope Lange (1931) Gloria Winters (1931) Anna Nicole Smith (1967) At Rest: Rosalind Russell (1976) Garry Moore (1993) Terry Lester (2003) Leslie Nielsen (2010) Danny Wells (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for November 27th

Happy Birthday! Whitney Ellsworth (1908) Buffalo Bob Smith (1917) Stephen Elliott (1918) Bruce Lee (1940) James Avery (1948) At Rest: John Carradine (1988) David White (1990) Boris Alpon (1995) Billie Bird (2002) Jocelyn Brando (2005) Patricia Marand (2008)

Birthdays & Passings for November 26th

Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Birthday! Robert Strange (1881) Francine Beers (1924) Robert Goulet (1933) Marian Mercer (1935) At Rest: Tommy Dorsey (1956) Dan Tobin (1982) Jane Kean (2013)

Absence

Hello, I'm sorry for the sudden disappearance of my daily posting, I have had major computer issues this month and they are just now getting cleared up. I will be back on November 26th with daily posts! Happy Thanksgiving!

Birthdays & Passings for November 7th

Happy Birthday! Louis Nicoletti (1906) Aline Towne (1919) Dana Plato (1964) At Rest: Steve McQueen (1980) Jack Kelly (1992) Charles Aidman (1993) Carleton Young (1994) Slappy White (1995) Hilary Bader (2002) Howard Keel (2004)

Birthdays & Passings for November 6th

Happy Birthday! Jonathan Harris (1914) Dorothy Meyer (1924) Rebecca Schaeffer (1967) At Rest: Aneta Corsaut (1995) Hal Kanter (2011)

Birthdays & Passings for November 5th

Happy Birthday! Ralph Moody (1886) Natalie Schafer (1900) Joel McCrea (1905) Roy Rogers (1911) Vivien Leigh (1913) John McGiver (1913) Herbert Edelman (1933) At Rest: Ward Bond (1960) Reginald Owen (1972) Stafford Repp (1974) John Gallaudet (1983) Fred MacMurray (1991) John Breckinridge (1996) Jill Clayburgh (2010)

Birthdays for November 4th

Happy Birthday! Will Rogers (1879) Ian Wolfe (1896) Frank Jenks (1902) Gig Young (1913) Walter Cronkite (1916) Art Carney (1918) Martin Balsam (1919) Shirley Mitchell (1919) Kate Reid (1930) Noam Pitlik (1932) Linda Gary (1944)

Birthdays & Passings for November 3rd

Happy Birthday! Gilbert Mack (1912) Charles Bronson (1921) Leonard Stern (1923) Aneta Corsaut (1933) Mike Evans (1949) At Rest: Harry Worth (1975) Mary Martin (1990) Bob Kane (1998) Jonathan Harris (2002) Sid Melton (2011)

Birthdays & Passings for November 2nd

Happy Birthday! Burt Lancaster (1913) Ann Rutherford (1917) At Rest: Paul Frees (1986) Leonard Stone (2011)

Birthdays & Passings for November 1st

Happy Birthday! Jeff Richards (1924) Emmaline Henry (1928) Marcia Wallace (1942) At Rest: Elsa Maxwell (1963) Hazel Hayes (1974) Victor Sen Yung (1980) Phil Silvers (1985) Noah Beery, Jr. (1994) Skitch Henderson (2005) Bettye Ackerman (2006) Adrienne Shelly (2006)

Birthdays & Passings for October 31st - Happy Halloween!

Happy Birthday! Ethel Waters (1896) Dale Evans (1912) Barbara Bel Geddes (1922) Michael Landon (1936) John Candy (1950) At Rest: John Houseman (1988) River Phoenix (1993) Rosalind Cash (1995) Arthur Peterson (1996)

Birthdays & Passings for October 30th

Happy Birthday! Ruth Gordon (1896) Ruth Hussey (1911) Jane Randolph (1915) Hugh Reilly (1915) Hamilton Camp (1934) Ed Lauter (1938) At Rest: Pert Kelton (1968) Ramon Novarro (1968) Steve Allen (2000) Robert Goulet (2007) Arthur Bernard Lewis (2010)

Birthdays & Passings for October 29th

Happy Birthday! Fanny Brice (1891) Hope Emerson (1897) Lew Parker (1907) Neal Hefti (1922) At Rest: Adolphe Menjou (1963) Lloyd Bochner (2005)

Birthdays & Passings for October 28th

Happy Birthday! Elsa Lanchester (1902) Irene Kamp (1910) Douglas Seale (1913) Dody Goodman (1914) Jack Soo (1917) At Rest: Morey Amsterdam (1996) James MacArthur (2010) Merry Anders (2012)

Birthdays & Passings for October 27th

Happy Birthday! Jack Carson (1910) Fred De Cordova (1910) Teresa Wright (1918) Ruby Dee (1922) Ned Wertimer (1923) Desmond Dhooge (1924) Jane Connell (1925) Carrie Snodgress (1945) At Rest: Lew Parker (1972) Allan Lane (1973) Rex Stuart (1975) Xavier Cugat (1990) John David Carson (2009)

Birthdays & Passings for October 26th

Happy Birthday! H.B. Warner (1875) Terry Frost (1906) Jackie Coogan (1914) Bob Hoskins (1942) At Rest: Hattie McDaniel (1952) Louise Beavers (1962) William S. Paley (1990) Hoyt Axton (1999)

Birthdays & Passings for October 25th

Happy Birthday! Leo G. Carroll (1886) Cecil Elliott (1887) Maudie Prickett (1914) Billy Barty (1924) Jeanne Cooper (1928) Anthony Franciosa (1928) Gordon Tootoosis (1941) At Rest: Forrest Tucker (1986) Vincent Price (1993) Mildred Natwick (1994) Nigel Davenport (2013) Marcia Wallace (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for October 24th

Happy Birthday! Sybil Thorndike (1882) I. Stanford Jolley (1900) Bob Kane (1915) David Nelson (1936) At Rest: Douglas Croft (1963) Gene Roddenberry (1991) Raul Julia (1994) Don Messick (1997) Montrose Hagins (2012)

Birthdays & Passings for October 23rd

Happy Birthday! Gummo Marx (1892) Mira McKinney (1892) Hayden Rorke (1910) Frank Sutton (1923) Johnny Carson (1925) At Rest: Al Jolson (1950) Robert Lansing (1994) William Hootkins (2005) Robert F. O'Neill (2007) Lou Jacobi (2009)