In Memoriam

Happy Birthday! George Chandler (1898) Santos Ortega (1899) Lena Horne (1917) At Rest: Ted Oliver (1957) Mary Livingstone (1983) King Donovan (1987) George "Spanky" McFarland (1993) Gale Gordon (1995) Buddy Hackett (2003) Harve Presnell (2009) Bob Hastings (2014)

Happy Birthday! Ed Gardner (1901) Joan Davis (1907) Ruth Warrick (1916) Ed Gilbert (1931) At Rest: Richard LeGrand (1963) Jayne Mansfield (1967) Bob Crane (1978) Jane Rose (1979) Lana Turner (1995) William Hickey (1997) Rosemary Clooney (2002) Katharine Hepburn (2003)

Happy Birthday! Maxine Stuart (1918) Pat Mortia (1932) Gilda Radner (1946) At Rest: Frank Sutton (1974) Rod Serling (1975) Herbie Faye (1980) Jose Iturbi (1980) Fred Travalena (2009)

Stars that have left us in 2015 so far... 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 Jayne Meadows Allen Grace Lee Whitney Ellen Albertini Dow B.B. King Anne Meara Reynaldo Rey Betsy Palmer Jim Bailey Dick Van Patten Patrick Macnee

Happy Birthday! Moroni Olsen (1889) John McIntire (1907) Bill Kennedy (1908) Billy Curtis (1909) At Rest: Jack Lemmon (2001) Gale Storm (2009) Don Grady (2012)

Happy Birthday! Peter Lorre (1904) Joan Harrison (1907) At Rest: Doris Singleton (2012)

Happy Birthday! Anne Revere (1903) Reed Hadley (1911) George Murdock (1930) At Rest: Colin Clive (1937) Florence Sundstrom (2001) John Fiedler (2005) Farrah Fawcett (2009)

Happy Birthday! Phil Harris (1904) Geraldine Wall (1907) At Rest: Jackie Gleason (1987) Brian Keith (1997) Paul Winchell (2005) Eli Wallach (2014)

Happy Birthday! Mary Livingstone (1905) Nat Hiken (1914) Joseph Mell (1915) Irene Worth (1916) At Rest: Stanley Andrews (1969) Aaron Spelling (2006) Ed McMahon (2009) Peter Falk (2011)

Happy Birthday! Richard Eastham (1916) Paul Frees (1920) Ralph Waite (1928) Freddie Prinze (1954) At Rest: Judy Garland (1969) Hope Summers (1979) Fred Astaire (1987) Dennis Day (1988) George Carlin (2008) Dody Goodman (2008)

Happy Father's Day & Welcome Summer! Let's take a second to remember 35 of television's most beloved fathers  Porter Ricks played by: Brian Kelly (1931-2005) "Flipper" (1964-1967) Father to: Sandy & Bud Ozzie Nelson played by: Ozzie Nelson (1906-1975) "The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" (1952-1966) Father to: Ricky & David Jed Clampett  played by: Buddy Ebsen (1908-2003) "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962-1971) Father to: Elly May Archie Bunker played by: Carroll O'Connor (1924-2001) "All In The Family" (1971-1979) Father to: Gloria Tony Soprano played by: James Gandolfini (1961-2013) "The Sopranos" (1999-2007) Father to: Meadow & A.J. Sheriff Andy Taylor played by: Andy Griffith (1926-2012) "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960-1968) Father to: Opie Darrin Stephens played by: Dick York (1928-1992) & Dick Sargent (1930-1994)

Happy Birthday! Dorothy Stickney (1896) Wonderful Smith (1911) Judy Holliday (1921) Jane Russell (1921) Maureen Stapleton (1925) Robert Pastorelli (1954) At Rest: Carroll O'Connor (2001) Carlos Romero (2007) Lorena Gale (2009) Elliott Reid (2013)

Happy Birthday! Matt Crowley (1905) Hank Rolike (1927)

Happy Birthday! Dame May Whitty (1865) Charles Coburn (1877) Moe Howard (1897) Mildred Natwick (1905) George Voskovec (1905) Pat Buttram (1915) Carol Forman (1918) Nancy Marchand (1928) At Rest: Will Wright (1962) Ed Wynn (1966) James Gandolfini (2013)

Happy Birthday! Keye Luke (1904) Clayton "Bud" Collyer (1908) Nedra Volz (1908) E.G. Marshall (1914) Ross Elliott (1917) At Rest: Ethel Barrymore (1959) Barbara Cason (1990) Joan Caulfield (1991) Nancy Marchand (2000) Clarence Clemons (2011)

Happy Birthday! Ralph Bellamy (1904) At Rest: Jeff Chandler (1961) Luis Van Rooten (1973) Pamela Britton (1974) Kate Smith (1986) Cyd Charisse (2008)

Happy Birthday! Stan Laurel (1890) Jack Albertson (1907) Phyllis Kennedy (1914) At Rest: George Reeves (1959) Reginald Denny (1967) Stephen Wolfe Smith (2000)

Happy Birthday! Aron Kincaid (1940) Jim Varney (1949) At Rest: William Austin (1975) Ned Glass (1984) Meredith Wilson (1984) Barry Kelley (1991) Hume Cronyn (2003)

Happy Birthday! Gene Barry (1919) At Rest: Alan Reed (1977)

Happy Birthday! Basil Rathbone (1892) Larry Keating (1896) Mary Wickes (1910) Ralph Edwards (1913) Percy Rodrigues (1918) Paul Lynde (1926) At Rest: George Cisar (1979) Darla Hood (1979) Billy Nelson (1979) Geraldine Page (1987) K.T. Stevens (1994) Douglas Seale (1999) Lane Smith (2005)

Happy Birthday! Ben Welden (1901) Bernie Hamilton (1928) At Rest: Milburn Stone (1980) Theresa Merritt (1998) Gregory Peck (2003)

Happy Birthday! Gerald Mohr (1914) Richard Todd (1919) Chad Everett (1937) At Rest: John Wayne (1979) Herbert Anderson (1994) DeForest Kelley (1999) Mala Powers (2007) Ann Rutherford (2012)  

Happy Birthday! Hattie McDaniel (1892) Robert Cummings (1910) Mary Lansing (1911) Barry Morse (1918) Judy Garland (1922) June Haver (1926) At Rest: Spencer Tracy (1967) Michael Rennie (1971) George Chandler (1985)

Happy Birthday! Cole Porter (1891) At Rest: Sybil Thorndike (1976) Allen Ludden (1981) Madge Kennedy (1987) Alexis Smith (1993) Alma Beltran (2007) Harry Lewis (2013)

Happy Birthday! Robert Preston (1918) Alexis Smith (1921) Dana Wynter (1931) Joan Rivers (1933) Don Grady (1944) At Rest: Robert Donner (2006) Frank Cady (2012)

Happy Birthday! Hope Summers (1896) Jessica Tandy (1909) Dean Martin (1917) At Rest: Jean Harlow (1937) Zasu Pitts (1963) Judy Holliday (1965) Dan Duryea (1968) Barbara Baxley (1990) Bob Sweeney (1992)

Happy Birthday! Richard Paul (1940) David Dukes (1945) At Rest: Jack Haley (1979) Larry Riley (1992) Anne Bancroft (2005) Dana Elcar (2005) Nolan Miller (2012) Maxine Stuart (2013) Esther Williams (2013)

June 6, 2008, that was the date the very first post was made on this blog...and now seven years later there have been more than 1500 posts...! Happy Anniversary to In Memoriam!  Who haven't we remembered?

Happy Birthday! Herb Vigran (1910) Stan Jones (1914) Mary Kay Bergman (1961) At Rest: Vito Scotti (1996) Jeanette Nolan (1998) Mel Torme (1999) President Ronald Reagan (2004)

Happy Birthday! Clara Blandick (1880) Vinton Hayworth (1906) Rosalind Russell (1907) Robert Merrill (1917 or 1919) Dennis Weaver (1924) Priscilla Morrill (1927) Hank Brandt (1934) At Rest: Lucien Littlefield (1960) Gloria Saunders (1980) Josephine Hutchinson (1998)

Happy Birthday! Maurice Evans (1901) Ellen Corby (1911) Roy Glenn, Sr. (1914) Colleen Dewhurst (1924) Tony Curtis (1925) Edward Winter (1937) At Rest: Ozzie Nelson (1975) Anthony Quinn (2001) Leon Askin (2005) David Carradine (2009) Rue McClanahan (2010) James Arness (2011)

Happy Birthday! Walter Tetley (1915) Al Ruscio (1924) Milo O'Shea (1926) At Rest: Jim Hutton (1979) Jack Gilford (1990) Rex Harrison (1990) Ann Nelson (1992) Ray Combs (1996) Dorothy Stickney (1998) Imogene Coca (2001) Mel Ferrer (2008) Richard Dawson (2012) Kathryn Joosten (2012)

Happy Birthday! Frank Morgan (1890) John Randolph (1915) Joan Caulfield (1922) Andy Griffith (1926) Marilyn Monroe (1926) Pat Corley (1930) Cleavon Little (1939) At Rest: Frances Heflin (1994) Michael Fox (1996) Hank Ketcham (2001)