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Posted Friday 1/05/18 at 11:08PM EST
Billy Harbach, The Tonight Show’s first producer, dies at 98
Harbach, a four-time Emmy winner, was tapped by NBC to launch the legendary late-night show Tonight! with Steve Allen.
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Posted Friday 1/05/18 at 12:04PM EST
Jon Paul Steuer, who played the eldest son on Grace Under Fire, dies at 33
Steuer played Brett Butler’s son for three seasons on the 1990s sitcom, leaving after the 1996 season.
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Bob Costas on Dick Enberg: “He was a sentimental man but there was nothing inauthentic about that enthusiasm”
“With all due respect to other great announcers in the ‘70s and ‘80s if you were to have a decathlon...
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Sports broadcasting legend Dick Enberg dies at 82
Enberg, who died Thursday morning of a possible heart attack, retired after a 60-year career just last year, in October...
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Posted Tuesday 12/19/17 at 9:22PM EST
Heather North, who voiced Daphne on Scooby-Doo, dies at age 70
North’s career voicing Daphne Blake stretched from Season 2 in 1970 to 2003’s Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico.
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Posted Wednesday 12/06/17 at 7:07PM EST
Ralphie May’s cause of death revealed
The comedian and former Last Comic Standing contestant died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease, reports TMZ.
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Posted Friday 12/01/17 at 5:37AM EST
Jim Nabors: An appreciation of the 1960s TV star who was a reminder of America’s “good old days” that existed only on TV
Nabors, with his Gomer Pyle character, “exemplified what older folks mean today when they pine, wistfully or angrily, for the...
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Posted Thursday 11/30/17 at 1:38PM EST
Jim Nabors dies: TV’s Gomer Pyle was 87
The Alabama native with the “rich baritone voice” was discovered by Andy Griffith, who put him on The Andy Griffith...
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Posted Wednesday 11/22/17 at 10:51PM EST
Nancy Zieman, host of PBS’ Sewing With Nancy, dies at 64
Zieman’s show, which launched on PBS stations in 1982, was the longest-running sewing TV series on North American TV, running...
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Posted Wednesday 11/22/17 at 10:51PM EST
Out of This World star Buzz Belmondo dies at 70
Belmondo was a star and writer on the syndicated alien teen comedy that ran from 1987 to 1991.
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Posted Wednesday 11/22/17 at 2:00PM EST
David Cassidy was a rare teen idol in a decade full of rock gods
The Partridge Family star, who died last night at age 67, “was an anomaly in his day, a rare fresh-faced...
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The Partridge Family’s David Cassidy dies at 67
The former teen heartthrob who made young girls swoon in the early 1970s as star of the hit ABC musical-sitcom...
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Posted Monday 11/20/17 at 1:56PM EST
Touched by an Angel’s Della Reese dies at 86
Reese went from an R&B singer to a TV star.
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Posted Monday 11/20/17 at 1:56PM EST
British camera operator dies while filming a stunt for BBC/Netflix drama The Forgiving Earth
“We have very little information at present,” said Sarah Prince, the agent for camera operator Mark Milsome.
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Posted Sunday 11/19/17 at 8:34PM EST
Earle Hyman, who played Bill Cosby’s dad on The Cosby Show, dies at 91
Hyman was only 11 years older than Cosby, yet he played an authoritative father figure in 40 episodes of the...