In Memoriam

"Murder, She Wrote" began on September 30, 1984, in honor of the show's 29th anniversary we are going to look back at the wonderful list of actors that appeared on the show during its twelve season run.  The list is long so I shortened it to just twenty-five names.  Star Angela Lansbury is still with us, at the time of this writing she is 87 years old.  Long time recurring cast members Ron Masak (77) and Julie Adams (87) are also still with us. In Memoriam Remembers: Tom Bosley (1927-2010) William Windom (1923-2012) Cesar Romero (1907-1994) Audrey Meadows (1922-1996) Gale Storm (1922-2009) Kathryn Grayson (1922-2010) Ruth Roman (1922-1999) Don DeFore (1913-1993) Eddie Albert (1906-2005) Howard Keel (1919-2004) Cornel Wilde (1912-1989) Mason Adams (1919-2005) Frank Gorshin (1933-2005) Lois Nettleton (1927-2008) Peter Graves (1926-2010) Barry Nelson (1917-2007) Penny Singleton (1908-2003) Van Johnson (1916-2008) June Allyson (1...

Happy Birthday! Phillips Tead (1893) Trevor Howard (1913) *Doris Singleton (1919) *Steve Forrest (1924) Eddie Barth (1931) Larry Linville (1939) Madeline Kahn (1942) At Rest: Edward Everett Horton (1970) Lois Maxwell (2007) Tony Curtis (2010) *=Different sources list different birthdates for Doris Singleton and Steve Forrest.  That is why there names appear in more than one post. 

 Happy Birthday! Ed Sullivan (1901) Arnold Stang (1918) Doris Singleton (1919) William Windom (1923) At Rest: Harpo Marx (1964) Mabel Albertson (1982) Whitney Blake (2002)

Happy Birthday! Emmett Vogan (1893) William Conrad (1920) Roger C. Carmel (1932) Greg Morris (1933) At Rest: Robert Montgomery (1981) Lloyd Nolan (1985) Donald O'Connor (2003) Herbert Lom (2012) 

Happy Birthday! Edmund Gwenn (1877) George Raft (1901) Jack LaLanne (1914) Barbara Britton (1919) Julie London (1926) At Rest: Charles Correll (1972) Richard Mulligan (2000) Paul Newman (2008) Gloria Stuart (2010) 

Happy Birthday! Steve Forrest (1925) Juliet Prowse (1936) Christopher Reeve (1952) At Rest: Walter Pidgeon (1984) Mary Astor (1987) Don Adams (2005) 

Happy Birthday! Don Porter (1912) Audra Lindley (1918) Rick Vallin (1919) Louis Edmonds (1923) Anthony Newley (1931) Jim Henson (1936) Phil Hartman (1948) At Rest: Neil Hamilton (1984) Tommy Bond (2005) 

Happy Birthday! Walter Pidgeon (1897) Ray Charles (1930) Michelle Thomas (1969) At Rest: Charley Weaver (1974) Mary Frann (1998) 

Happy Birthday! John Houseman (1902) Allan "Rocky" Lane (1909) James V. Kern (1909) Martha Scott (1912) Virginia Capers (1925) Eugene Roche (1928) At Rest: Dan Rowan (1987) Irving Berlin (1989) Dorothy Lamour (1996) George C. Scott (1999) Gordon Jump (2003) Edward Albert (2006) Marcel Marceau (2007) Eddie Fisher (2010) 

Happy Birthday! Dede Ball (1892) Napoleon Whiting (1910) Larry Hagman (1931) Henry Gibson (1935) At Rest: Walter Brennan (1974) Jacqueline Susann (1974) Alice Ghostley (2007) 

Happy Birthday! Clarice Taylor (1917) Don Starr (1917) Frances Heflin (1920) Slappy White (1921) Dr. Joyce Brothers (1927) Stanley Fafara (1950) At Rest: Stanley Fafara (2003) John Hart (2009) 

Happy Birthday! Ricardo Cortez (1900) Elvia Allman (1904) Betty Garde (1905) William Hickey (1927) Mel Stewart (1929) 

Happy Birthday! Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (1905) Greta Garbo (1905) Leon Askin (1907) Harry Townes (1914) Jack Warden (1920) Phyllis Kirk (1927) James Gandolfini (1961) 

Happy Birthday! George Cleveland (1885) Roddy McDowall (1928) Anne Bancroft (1931) Paul Benedict (1938) John Ritter (1948) At Rest: Red Skelton (1997) 

Happy Birthday! Almira Sessions (1888) Paul Henning (1911) Lawrence Dobkin (1919) Tommy Bond (1926) Peter Falk (1927) Anne Francis (1930) At Rest: Jack Dodson (1994) James Gregory (2002) 

Happy Birthday! Agatha Christie (1890) Fay Wray (1907) Penny Singleton (1908) Nipsey Russell (1918) Jackie Cooper (1922) Glenn Corbett (1922) At Rest: Brett Somers (2007) 

September 14, 1914 (some sources say 1908) - the birthday of Clayton Moore.  In honor of his birthday we are remembering the cast of the television series that made him a star.  Moore passed away in 1999. "The Lone Ranger" ran on ABC television from 1949 to 1957, producing 221 episodes over the course of five television seasons.  Jay Silverheels (1912-1980) played Tonto Fred Foy (1921-2010) was the announcer During the 1952-1953 season The Lone Ranger was played by John Hart (1917-2009) while Moore was engaged in a salary dispute.  Gerald Mohr (1914-1968) could be heard in some 1949 episodes as the narrator Lane Bradford (1922-1973) played Duke Wade Chuck Courtney (1930-2000) played Dan Reid, The Lone Ranger's nephew *The character of Dan Reid was an ancestor of Britt Reid, who of course, was The Green Hornet* 

Happy Birthday! Ruth McDevitt (1895) Claudette Colbert (1903) Mae Questel (1908) Reta Shaw (1912) John Crawford (1920) Norman Alden (1924) Mel Torme (1925) Nell Carter (1948) 

Happy Birthday! Maurice Chevalier (1888) Desmond Llewelyn (1914) Edward Binns (1916) Tyler MacDuff (1925) 

In Memoriam Remembers: All those who were lost or affected in any way by the tragic events of September 11, 2001.  Even though it has been 12 years, wounds are still fresh and the pain is still there.  

Happy Birthday! Anne Seymour (1909) Herbert Lom (1917) Cathryn Damon (1930) Ian Abercrombie (1934) 

January 5, 1917 - September 10, 2007 A wonderful actress died on this day 6 years ago... She appeared in 86 films including Brother Rat (1938), Brother Rat and a Baby (1940), My Favorite Spy (1942), The Lost Weekend (1945), The Yearling (1946), Johnny Belinda (1948), Stage Fright (1950), The Glass Menagerie (1950), The Blue Veil (1951), Magnificent Obsession (1954), Lucy Gallant (1955), Pollyanna (1960), Bon Voyage (1962) and How to Commit Marriage (1969). As television became a popular medium she began to make more appearances on the biggest shows of the day.  Her guest work credits include "G.E. True Theater", "Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse", "Wagon Train", "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre", "The Red Skelton Hour", "My Three Sons", "The Bold Ones: The New Doctors", "Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law", "The Love Boat", "Charlie's Angels" and "Dr. Quinn, Medici...

Happy Birthday! Neil Hamilton (1899) James Seay (1914) DeForest Covan (1917) Cliff Robertson (1923) Jane Greer (1924) Nick Ramus (1929) At Rest: Burgess Meredith (1997) Ruth Roman (1999) Larry Hovis (2003) 

Happy Birthday! William Fawcett (1894) Frank Cady (1915) At Rest: Dorothy Dandridge (1965) Bud Collyer (1969) 

Happy Birthday! Peter Lawford (1923) Don Messick (1927) At Rest: Bibi Besch (1996) 

Happy Birthday! Irving Bacon (1893) **I apologize for the small posts in the past few days, there are very few deceased stars with September birthdays** 

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 Happy Birthday! Howard Morris (1919) Dick York (1928) Leonard Frey (1938) At Rest: Walter Tetley (1975) Irene Dunne (1990)

Happy Birthday! Kitty Carlisle (1910) Helen Wagner (1918) Eileen Brennan (1932) At Rest: Frank Capra (1991) Thuy Trang (2001) Michael Clarke Duncan (2012) 

NO POST TODAY! HAPPY LABOR DAY! 

September 1, 1900 - the birthday of Don Wilson. In honor of Don's 113th birthday we are going to remember him and the other members of "The Jack Benny Program" from both radio and television. Jack Benny (1894-1974) Mary Livingstone (1905-1983) Don Wilson (1900-1982) Dennis Day (1916-1988) Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (1905-1977) Mel Blanc (1908-1989) Frank Nelson (1911-1986) Artie Auerbach (1903-1957) Madge Blake (1899-1969) Bea Benderet (1906-1968) Verna Felton (1890-1966) Phil Harris (1904-1995) Joseph Kearns (1907-1962) Sheldon Leonard (1907-1997) Sara Berner (1912-1969) Gisele Mackenzie (1927-2003)