In Memoriam

A Final Look...  Ned Wertimer Tony Lip Conrad Bain Patty Andrews Robin Sachs Dale Robertson Bonnie Franklin Malachi Throne Richard Griffiths Milo O'Shea Annette Funicello Jonathan Winters Frank Bank Allan Arbus Deanna Durbin Jacqueline Brookes Jeanne Cooper Steve Forrest Jean Stapleton Esther Williams Maxine Stuart Harry Lewis James Gandolfini Joe Conley Dennis Burkley Dennis Farina Eileen Brennan Michael Ansara Eydie Gorme Henry Polic II Lee Thompson Young Julie Harris Jane Connell Ed Lauter Marcia Wallace Shirley Mitchell Al Ruscio Jane Kean Paul Walker Danny Wells Eleanor Parker Audrey Totter Peter O'Toole Joan Fontaine 

Happy Birthday! Jeanette Nolan (1911) Bert Parks (1914) Jack Lord (1920) Macon McCalman (1932) At Rest: Lew Ayres (1996) Artie Shaw (2004) Bernie Hamilton (2008)

December 29, 1887 - February 3, 1960 In Memoriam Remembers: Pierre Watkin   

Happy Birthday! Cliff Arquette (1905) Lew Ayres (1908) Lou Jacobi (1913) Andrew Duggan (1923) At Rest: William Demarest (1983) Clayton Moore (1999) Jerry Orbach (2004)

Happy Birthday! Sydney Greenstreet (1879) Marlene Dietrich (1901) Cathy Lewis (1916) Helen Page Camp (1930)

Happy Birthday! Elisha Cook, Jr. (1903) Richard Widmark (1914) Steve Allen (1921) Alan King (1927) At Rest: Jack Benny (1974) Elsa Lanchester (1986) Vincent Schiavelli (2005)

Merry Christmas! Happy Birthday! Humphrey Bogart (1899) Barton MacLane (1902) Rod Serling (1924) Mabel King (1932) Royce D. Applegate (1939) At Rest: W.C. Fields (1946) Cheerio Meredith (1964) Charlie Chaplin (1977) Joan Blondell (1979) Betty Garde (1989) Dean Martin (1995) Denver Pyle (1997) Hurd Hatfield (1998) Richard Paul (1998) Eartha Kitt (2008)

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

Happy Birthday! James Gregory (1911) Alan North (1920) Harry Guardino (1925) Corey Haim (1971)   At Rest: Jack Webb (1982) Billy Barty (2000)

Happy Birthday! Barbara Billingsley (1915) Gene Rayburn (1917) Ruth Roman (1922) Lynne Thigpen (1948) At Rest: Don DeFore (1993) Butterfly McQueen (1995) Michelle Thomas (1998)

Happy Birthday! Rolly Bester (1917) Paul Winchell (1922) At Rest: Richard Long (1974)

Happy Birthday! Charley Grapewin (1869 or 1875) Irene Dunne (1898) Dennis Morgan (1908) Ann Richards (1917) Audrey Totter (1920) Charita Bauer (1922) Charlie Callas (1924 or 1927) Mala Powers (1931) Kathryn Joosten (1939) John Spencer (1946) At Rest: Madge Sinclair (1995) Foster Brooks (2001) Arnold Stang (2009) Brittany Murphy (2009) Steve Landesberg (2010)

Happy Birthday! Mabel Paige (1880) Gary Morton (1924) Wayne Tippit (1932) Robert Urich (1946) At Rest: Desmond Llewelyn (1999) Hope Lange (2003)

Happy Birthday! Bill Zuckert (1915) Betty Grable (1916) Ossie Davis (1917) Hal Kanter (1918) At Rest: Mark Goodson (1992) Nick Stewart (2000) Joseph Barbera (2006) Majel Barrett (2008) Connie Hines (2009)

Happy Birthday! Richard Long (1927) George Lindsey (1928) Christopher Cazenove (1943) At Rest: Dana Andrews (1992)

December 16, 1890 - January 1, 1972 She was Connie Brooks' landlady, Mrs. Margaret Davis on the radio, television and film versions of "Our Miss Brooks." In Memoriam Remembers: Jane Morgan

Happy Birthday! Jeff Chandler (1918) Kasey Rogers (1925) At Rest: Charles Laughton (1962) Walt Disney (1966)

Happy Birthday! Lillian Randolph (1898) Frances Bavier (1902) Morey Amsterdam (1908) Dan Dailey (1915) June Taylor (1917) George Furth (1932) Lee Remick (1935) Thuy Trang (1973) At Rest: William Bendix (1964) Myrna Loy (1993) Norman Fell (1998) Jeanne Crain (2003) Mike Evans (2006)

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

Happy Birthday! Edward G. Robinson (1893) Frank Sinatra (1915) Ed Koch (1924) At Rest: Johnny Lee (1965) Tallulah Bankhead (1968) Jack Cassidy (1976) Anne Baxter (1985) Peter Boyle (2006) Van Johnson (2008)  

Happy Birthday! Bella Bruck (1911) Marie Windsor (1919) Eddie Firestone (1920) Vampira (1922) Dick Tufeld (1926) Ron Carey (1935) Tom Fuccello (1936) At Rest: David Lewis (2000)

Happy Birthday! Ray Collins (1889) Moyna MacGill (1895) Harold Gould (1923) Jean Byron (1925) Dan Blocker (1928) Tommy Rettig (1941) Michael Clarke Duncan (1957) At Rest: Ed Wood (1978) Freeman F. Gosden (1982) Richard Pryor (2005)

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) Gene Barry (2009)

Happy Birthday! Frank Faylen (1905) Lee J. Cobb (1911) Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925) Flip Wilson (1933) David Carradine (1936)

Happy Birthday! Clarence Nash (1904) Hurd Hatfield (1917) Ted Knight (1923) At Rest: Harry Morgan (2011)

Happy Birthday! Agnes Moorehead (1900) George Blair (1905) Wally Cox (1924)   At Rest: Frances Bavier (1989) Don Ameche (1993) Werner Klemperer (2000)

Happy Birthday! Walt Disney (1901) Otto Preminger (1905) Alvy Moore (1921) Carrie Hamilton (1963) At Rest: Robert Karvelas (1991) Beverly Garland (2008) 

Happy Birthday! Isabel Randolph (1889) Deanna Durbin (1921) 

Happy Birthday! Len Lesser (1922) At Rest: Roxie Roker (1995) Madeline Kahn (1999) Glenn Quinn (2002) Richard Todd (2009) 

 "The Waltons" which ran on CBS from 1972 to 1981 actually began as a two hour television movie in 1971 called "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story." In the film, Patricia Neal (1926-2010) and Andrew Duggan (1923-1988) played John and Olivia Walton respectively.  Miss Michael Learned (1939- ) and Ralph Waite (1928- ) took over the roles on the weekly series.  They also appeared in the two-hour television reunion films of the 1980's and 1990's.  Edgar Bergen (1903-1978) played Grandpa Zebulon Walton in the film and Will Geer (1902-1978) played him for the show's first six seasons (1972-1978).  Geer passed away in between the conclusion of the 1977-1978 season and the beginning of the 1978-1979 season. Ellen Corby (1911-1999) played Grandma Esther Walton in the 1971 tele-film and the television series.  Corby suffered a massive stroke in late 1976 and was absent during the final weeks of season five and all of season six except for ...

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

Happy Birthday! Mary Martin (1913) Joanne Siegel (1917) Malachi Throne (1928) David Doyle (1929) Richard Pryor (1940) At Rest: Paul Benedict (2008) Alan Sues (2011)