The Rest In Peace & Remembrance Thread #2

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    Ariel Sharon, former Israeli PM, dies at 85
    Jan 11, 8:35 AM (ET)
    By JOSEF FEDERMAN

    JERUSALEM (AP) - Ariel Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle East, died Saturday, eight years after a stroke left him in a coma from which he never awoke. He was 85.

    As one of Israel's most famous soldiers, Sharon was known for bold tactics and an occasional refusal to obey orders. As a politician he became known as "the bulldozer," a man contemptuous of his critics while also capable of getting things done.

    He led his country into a divisive war in Lebanon in 1982 and was branded as indirectly responsible for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians at the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps outside Beirut when his troops allowed allied Lebanese militias into the camps. Yet ultimately he transformed himself into a prime minister and statesman.

    Sharon's son Gilad announced the death on Saturday afternoon. Sharon's health had taken a downturn over the past week and a half as a number of bodily organs, including his kidneys, stopped functioning, and doctors on Thursday pronounced his condition "grave."

    Full story at AP / Iwon News.
     
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    Russell Johnson, the Professor on 'Gilligan's Island,' Is Dead at 89

     
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    Dave Madden passed away on Thursday morning.
    The 82-year-old Hollywood veteran died in Fruit Cove, Florida, of congestive heart and kidney failure, reports TMZ.
    While on a host of shows over the years, Dave was best known for his role of Reuben Kincaid in The Partridge Family.
     
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    'Wizard of Oz' Munchkin Ruth Robinson Duccini dies
    Jan 16, 11:20 PM (ET)

    LAS VEGAS (AP) - Ruth Robinson Duccini, the last of the original female Munchkins from the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz," has died. She was 95.

    With her death, only one actor who played one of the original 124 Munchkins in the movie remains alive.

    Duccini died of natural causes in Solari Hospice Care Center in Las Vegas on Thursday.

    Her death was confirmed by Stephen Cox, author of "The Munchkins of Oz." He says he learned of it from Duccini's son.

    Duccini, born in Rush City, Minn., traveled to California with a troupe little people, and was cast in the MGM fantasy movie starring Judy Garland. Duccini was 4 feet tall.

    Cox provided a recent statement made by Duccini about her time on the movie set.

    "It was long hours and heavy costumes. We didn't have much time for ourselves. It was all new to me then, and I loved being a part of what is now a classic," she said.

    Duccini met her husband while working at MGM, and the two had a son and daughter.

    She worked as a "Rosie the Riveter" in Santa Monica, Calif., during World War II, using her short stature to squeeze into hard-to-reach parts of planes. She also appeared in the spoof "Under the Rainbow" starring Chevy Chase and Carrie Fisher.

    In her later years, Duccini appeared at festivals and screenings celebrating "The Wizard of Oz."

    The only surviving original Munchkin is Jerry Maren, 93, of Los Angeles, who portrayed a member of the Lollipop Guild.
     
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    Remembering Original Series Guest Star Sarah Marshall, 1933-2014
    By StarTrek.com Staff - January 21, 2014

    StarTrek.com is saddened to report the passing of Sarah Marshall, the British actress who guest starred as Dr. Janet Wallace, an ex-love of Captain Kirk’s, in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Deadly Years.” Marshall passed away on January 18 in Los Angeles at the age of 80, following a lengthy battle with cancer. Marshall’s many other film, TV and stage credits included The Twilight Zone, The Long, Hot Summer, Goodbye, Charlie (for which she received a Tony Award nomination), Applause, Miss Winslow and Son, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, F Troop, The Fugitive, Get Smart, Three’s Company, Cheers, Dangerous Minds and Dave.

    Marshall was married for more than 50 years to actor Karl Held, who played Lindstrom in the TOS episode “The Return of the Archons.” According to the Hollywood Reporter, Marshall is survived by Held, as well as by her son Timothy, daughter-in-law Trixie Flynn, grandchildren Seamus, Sarah, Timothy and Eliza and half-sister Ann. StarTrek.com extends our condolences to Marshall’s family, friends and family.
     
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    Ex-Marlboro man dies from smoking-related disease
    Jan 26, 11:47 PM (ET)
    By DAISY NGUYEN

    LOS ANGELES (AP) - Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72.

    Lawson died Jan. 10 at his home in San Luis Obispo of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, his wife, Susan Lawson said Sunday.

    Lawson was an actor with bit parts on such TV shows as "Baretta" and "The Streets of San Francisco" when he was hired to appear in print Marlboro ads from 1978 to 1981. His other credits include "Charlie's Angels,""Dynasty" and "Baywatch." His wife said injuries sustained on the set of a Western film ended his career in 1997.

    A smoker since age 14, Lawson later appeared in an anti-smoking commercial that parodied the Marlboro man and an "Entertainment Tonight" segment to discuss the negative effects of smoking. Susan said her husband was proud of the interview, even though he was smoking at the time and continued the habit until he was diagnosed with COPD.

    "He knew the cigarettes had a hold on him," she said. "He knew, yet he still couldn't stop."

    A few actors and models who pitched Marlboro brand cigarettes have died of smoking-related diseases. They include David Millar, who died of emphysema in 1987, and David McLean, who died of lung cancer in 1995.

    Lawson was also survived by six children, 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
     
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    Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies in NY

    (more at the link!)
     
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    Oscar-winning actor Maximilian Schell dies at 83
    Feb 1, 12:38 PM (ET)


    VIENNA (AP) - Austrian-born actor Maximilian Schell, a fugitive from Adolf Hitler who became a Hollywood favorite and won an Oscar for his role as a defense attorney in "Judgment at Nuremberg," has died. He was 83.

    Schell's agent, Patricia Baumbauer, said Saturday he died overnight at a hospital in the Austrian city of Innsbruck following a "sudden illness."

    It was only his second Hollywood role, as defense attorney Hans Rolfe in Stanley Kramer's classic "Judgment at Nuremberg," that earned him wide international acclaim. Schell's impassioned but unsuccessful defense of four Nazi judges on trial for sentencing innocent victims to death won him the 1961 Academy Award for best actor. Schell had first played Rolfe in a 1959 episode of the television program "Playhouse 90."

    Despite being type-cast for numerous Nazi-era films, Schell's acting performances in the mid-1970s also won him renewed popular acclaim, earning him a best actor Oscar nomination for "The Man in the Glass Booth" and a supporting actor nomination for his performance alongside Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards in "Julia."

    Austrian Cabinet minister Josef Ostermayer described Schell as one of "the greatest actors in the German-speaking world," the Austria Press Agency reported.

    The son of Swiss playwright Hermann Ferdinand Schell and Austrian stage actress Noe von Nordberg, Schell was born in Vienna on Dec. 8, 1930 and raised in Switzerland after his family fled Germany's annexation of his homeland.

    Schell followed in the footsteps of his older sister Maria and brother Carl, making his stage debut in 1952. He then appeared in a number of German films before relocating to Hollywood in 1958.

    By then, Maria Schell was already an international film star, winning the best actress award at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in "The Last Bridge."

    Maximilian made his Hollywood debut in Edward Dmytryk's "The Young Lions," a World War II drama starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin.

    Schell later worked as a producer, starting with an adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Castle," and as a director.

    Full story at Iwon / AP News.
     
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    Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead with needle in arm: cops
    February 2, 2014 | 1:28pm

    Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of an apparent drug overdose — in the bathroom with a hypodermic needle still in his arm — inside a Greenwich Village home on Sunday morning, cops said.

    A personal assistant found Hoffman’s body in an apartment at 35 Bethune St. and called 911 around 11:30 a.m, sources said.
    Cops are at the scene and are investigating, sources said.

    Hoffman, 46, publicly admitted in 2006 that he nearly succumbed to substance abuse after graduating from NYU’s drama school, but got sober in rehab.
    “It was all that (drugs and alcohol), yeah. It was anything I could get my hands on…I liked it all,” he told “60 Minutes” as the time.
    Last year, Hoffman reportedly checked himself into rehab again for ten days after relapsing in 2012.

    TMZ said he began using prescription pills, then snorted heroin for about a week before realizing he needed help.
     
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    Former 2nd Lady Joan Mondale Dies at Age 83
    ST. PAUL, Minn.
    February 4, 2014 (AP)
    By BRIAN BAKST Associated Press

    Joan Mondale, who burnished a reputation as "Joan of Art" for her passionate advocacy for the arts while her husband was vice president and a U.S. ambassador, died Monday. She was 83.

    Walter Mondale, sons Ted and William and other family members were by her side when she died, the family said in a statement released by their church. The family had announced Sunday that she had gone into hospice care, but declined to discuss her illness.

    "Joan was greatly loved by many. We will miss her dearly," the former vice president said in a written statement.

    An arts lover and an avid potter, Joan Mondale was given a grand platform to promote the arts when Walter, then a Democratic senator, was elected Jimmy Carter's vice president in 1976.

    Carter named her honorary chairwoman of the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities, and in that role she frequently traveled to museums, theaters and artist studios on the administration's behalf. She lobbied Congress and states to boost public arts programs and funding.

    She also showcased the work of prominent artists in the vice presidential residence, including photographer Ansel Adams, sculptor David Smith and painter Georgia O'Keeffe.

    Full story at ABC News.

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    Actor Richard Bull has died

    Actor Richard Bull has died. He was best known for hi portrayal of Nels Olson the storekeeper on Little House On The Prairie, and the father of the mean girl Nellie Olson.
     
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    Baseball legend Ralph Kiner has passed away at age 91
    Posted on February 6, 2014 by Mike Fitzgerald
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    Ralph Kiner, Hall-of-Fame slugger with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the ’40s and ’50s who became a New York institution in his second, equally-distinguished broadcasting career with the Mets for over 40 years, died Thursday, He was 91.

    It is hard to imagine anyone having lived a more dream life than Kiner, who grew up in Alhambra, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, fulfilled his childhood ambition of being a major league baseball player, won a record seven straight National League home run titles to get himself elected to the Hall of Fame and, along the way, was golfing pals with Hollywood legends Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Jack Benny, dated movie stars Janet Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor, and, finally, became one of the most beloved New York sports figures as Mets broadcaster from their 1962 inception until 2006 when he finally had his workload reduced to cameo TV appearances.
     
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    Samantha Juste Dolenz, ex-wife of former Monkee Micky Dolenz passed away on
    Feb. 5 from a stroke, she was 69. She is the mother of actress Ami Dolenz.
    Samantha was a model from England, who was also a host on a 60's British tv
    show called "Top of the Pop", that is where she met Micky.
     
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    Shirley Temple, iconic child star, dies at 85

     
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    Comic Legend Sid Caesar Dead at 91

     
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    Actor Ralph Waite Dies at 85

    The Waltons star Ralph Waite, who more recently recurred on Bones and NCIS, has died at the age of 85.

    Waite portrayed John Walton Sr. for nine seasons on the CBS Depression-era drama and in three NBC telefilms. After the series wrapped, he appeared on Murder One, Carnivàle and the miniseries Roots among others.

    Bones fans will recognize Waite as Booth’s grandfather and caretaker Hank. He also played dad to Mark Harmon’s character Gibbs on NCIS, and recurred on Days of Our Lives as Father Matt.

    Bones executive producers Hart Hanson and Stephen Nathan issued the following statement: “All of us at Bones mourn the loss of Ralph Waite. We loved having him on set and in many ways his character was the moral center of our show as Booth’s (David Boreanaz) plainspoken, loving, war hero grandfather. The entire Bones family sends condolences to his family and loved ones.”

    Waite’s Bones and NCIS co-stars took to Twitter to react to the actor’s passing.
     

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