Ryan O'Neal (April 20, 1941-December 8, 2023) transitioned from an actor on TV's "Peyton Place" to an Oscar-nominated role in "Love Story," the blockbuster tear-jerker that catapulted him into the front ranks of Hollywood stars in the 1970s. O'Neal and Ali MacGraw starred as colleg...
In its obituary, The Times opined that "throughout his life he maintained a fearlessness and an indifference to consequences" and one journalist claimed: "To say that he has no shame is to drastically exaggerate the amount of shame that he has". In a publicity quote printed in Hardee's ...
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, and raised in California during the Great Depression, White performed on radio and for an experimental TV station in Los Angeles in the 1930s. After the war, when she served as a member of the American Women's Voluntary Services, she began hosting a live varie...
According to a family obituary, the Days of Our Lives star, who played Mickey Horton on the soap opera from 1965 to 2004, suffered a stroke in 2007, and had been dealing with declining health ever since. Clarke served as a sergeant in the US Air Force during the Korean War, also parti...
If an artist’s name is highlighted in blue, you can click on it to be taken to Best Classic Bands’ full obituary of that artist. Below the list of musical artists, we’ve also noted several other prominent figures whose lives were lost in 2021. ...
Wells recreated the role in spin-off movies (such as "Rescue From Gilligan's Island" and "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island") and the animated series "Gilligan's Planet," and even made cameo appearances in character on "Baywatch" and "Alf." Her stage appearances included "...
Her Times obituary noted the three essential themes in her work as "the nature of Man; the 'horseness' of horses; and the divine in human form". Birthplace: Suffolk, United Kingdom Jackie Parker Dec. at 74 (1932-2006) John Dickerson "Jackie" Parker (January 1, 1932 – November 7,...
I am sure when my obituary is written, the lead paragraph will be about Roe v. Wade. I thought, over a period of time, that the right of a woman to make a decision about what she would do in a particular pregnancy would be accepted – that by this time, the thirtieth anniversary ...
In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. His novels and stories...
Wells recreated the role in spin-off movies (such as "Rescue From Gilligan's Island" and "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island") and the animated series "Gilligan's Planet," and even made cameo appearances in character on "Baywatch" and "Alf." Her stage appearances included "...