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Vieira, who used the stage name Donald Keeler – he was the nephew of actor/singer/dancer Ruby Keeler – played Sylvester "Porky" Brockway on 91 episodes of Lassie (1954-57) and appeared in 14 movies and TV movies including Nebraska, Red Heat, The Patriot and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Lassie child star Joey Vieira dies at 80
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Novak, born Milan Mrđenović, appeared in 68 movies including Dear God, Future War, Tom Horn, Truck Turner, Force Of Darkness, Exit To Eden, An Eye For An Eye, Vampire Assassin and The Ultimate Warrior.
Mel Novak, bruce Lee's co-star in Game Of Death, dies at 90
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Since I Fell For You reached #4 on the Hot 100 in December 1963. Among Welch's other hits are Ebb Tide, Two Different Worlds, You Don't Know Me, Darling Take Me Back, If You See My Love and a 1970 remake of Neil Sedaka's Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.
Since I Fell For You hitmaker Lenny Welch dies at 86
https://soultracks.com/news-lenny-welch-dies-at-86/
Kotcheff directed 19 movies including Split Image, Switching Channels, Uncommon Valor, Life At The Top, The Shooter, Fun With Dick & Jane and Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe?
Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood and Weekend At Bernie's, dies at 94
The Canadian filmmaker also helmed North Dallas Forty and executive-produced Law & Order: SVU.
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Brother and sister Nino Tempo and April Stevens, born Antonio and Caroline Lo Tempio, had several 1960s hits including Stardust, Whispering, Tea For Two, Sweet & Lovely, All Strung Out and the 1963 number one Deep Purple. Nino also played saxophone with the group of session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew. April died in 2023.
Wrecking Crew member Nino Tempo dies at 90
https://www.lockportjournal.com/news...f1323dbfa.html
Katt played high school teacher Harry Senate in 49 episodes of Boston Public, 2000-02, and appeared in 46 movies and TV movies including Astoria, Insomnia, Boiler Room, Full Frontal, Strange Days, School Of Rock, Rules Of Engagement, The Babysitter, The Dark Knight and Martians Go Home.
Nicky Katt, Boston Public and Dazed & Confused actor, dies at 54
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Marsh played Rose Buck in 59 episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-75, 2010-12) and appeared in 34 movies and TV movies including Monarch, Frenzy, Jane Eyre, Dark Places, Return To Oz, The Changeling, The Horsemasters and The Eagle Has Landed.
Jean Marsh, actress who co-created Upstairs, Downstairs, dies at 90
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...arsh-dead.html
Wink began in radio at age 17 at WPLI in his home town, Jackson, Tennessee. He later worked at WHBQ in Memphis. Between 1959 and 1994, he worked at a succession of stations in Los Angeles: KHJ, KRLA, KFWB, KGIL, KMPC, KJQI and KABC. From 1996 to 2007 he hosted a daily program on the syndicated Music Of Your Life network. Wink hosted 21 television game shows including Gambit, Debt, High Rollers and Tic-Tac-Dough. His autobiography, Winking At Life, was published in 2000.
Longtime TV game show host Wink Martindale dies at 91 in Rancho Mirage
https://www.desertsun.com/story/life...e/83107541007/
Rodgers appeared in the musical films Just For Fun (1963) and It's All Over Now (1964) and had several top-ten hits in Ireland and the UK. Come Back & Shake Me, her biggest hit, reached #2 in Ireland and #3 in the UK in April 1969.
Eurovision star Clodagh Rodgers dies at 78
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3x8mpznlgo
Hutchins starred as Tom Brewster on Sugarfoot (1957-61) and played Dagwood Bumstead on Blondie (1968-69) and appeared in 21 movies and TV movies including No Time For Sergeants, The Shooting, The Terror At 37,000 Feet and the Elvis Presley films Spinout and Clambake.
Will Hutchins, star of ABC's Sugarfoot, dies at 94
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...ot-1236197846/
Nyweide appeared in eight movies including Bella, Margot At The Wedding, Shadows & Lies, An Invisible Sign and New York City Serenade.
Sophie Nyweide, child actor in Mammoth and Noah, dead at 24
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/enter...ath/index.html
Roman, born Bertha Louise Hable, appeared in 158 episodes of Hee Haw (1969-92) and released 13 gospel albums, an album of standards (At Last) and an album of Patsy Cline songs (Lulu Salutes Patsy).
Lulu Roman, Hee Haw star and gospel singer, dead at 78
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The Alarm formed in 1981 in Rhyl, Wales, and has released 21 studio albums and 29 live albums. Among their hits are Strength, Presence Of Love, The Road, Sold Me Down The River, Sixty Eight Guns, Rain In The Summertime and Devolution Workin' Man Blues.
Mike Peters, frontman of the Alarm, dies at 66 after three-decade battle with cancer
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Pointer played Rebecca Barnes Wentworth in 44 episodes of Dallas (1981-83) and appeared in 39 movies and TV movies including Carrie, Nickelodeon, Inferno, Mommie Dearest, Honeysuckle Rose, Blue Velvet, Micki + Maude, Carried Away, The Onion Field, The 3,000 Mile Chase and Looking For Mr. Goodbar.
Priscilla Pointer, Dallas actress and mother of Amy Irving, dies at 100
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...ng-1236203396/
Between the ages of five and 18, Collins appeared in 49 films including Black Moon, Magnificent Obsession, Johnny Doughboy, Get Hep To Love, Evelyn Prentice, All This & Heaven Too, Torch Singer, Treasure Island, The Scarlet Letter, The Mysterious Rider, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer and They Just Had To Get Married.
Carla Valderrama's book This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars & Stories includes a 2020 interview with Collins, who revealed that when she was 15, screenwriter Harry Ruskin, age 50, offered her a movie role if she would sleep with him. She complained to MGM co-founder Louis B. Mayer, who told her, "Darling, you'll get used to it." Otherwise, "You’ll never work again on this soundstage as long as you live." Three years later Collins appeared in two more films (one for MGM and one for Warner Bros.) and then quit show business. "It was the single best decision of my life," she said. "Hollywood is a rotten business. It was then and it is now. It's not going to change."
Cora Sue Collins, celebrated child actress at MGM in the 1930s, dies at 98
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...gm-1236202858/
I Kissed A Girl reached #20 on Billboard's modern rock chart in June 1995 and got to #67 on the Hot 100. (I won't repeat what Sobule said about Katy Perry releasing a song with the same title in 2008.) Among Sobule's other hits are Bitter, Supermodel and Too Cool To Fall In Love.
Jill Sobule, singer-songwriter of groundbreaking 1995 song I Kissed A Girl, dies in house fire
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Buzzi, best known as purse-slinging spinster Gladys Ormphby on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967-73), also appeared in 28 movies and TV movies including Freaky Friday, Boys Will Be Boys, Up Your Alley, One Month Out, The North Avenue Irregulars and The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again.
Ruth Buzzi of Laugh-In, Sesame Street fame dies at 88
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/...-88-alzheimer/
Scalies played longshoreman Thomas "Horseface" Pakusa in 12 episodes of The Wire (2003) and appeared in seven movies including Condition Red, Two Bits, 12 Monkeys and Diary Of A City Priest.
Charley Scalies, actor on The Wire and The Sopranos, dies at 84
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...os-1236206891/
Parsons released 25 albums and wrote more than 600 songs including Beulah Land, Morning Light, Dancing Shoes, Come Back Home, If God Be For Us, I Call It Home, I Stand Upon The Rock, I'm Not Giving Up, Shout For Joy, The Pearl, The Old Country Church and The Day Love Became Grace.
Southern gospel legend Squire Parsons dead at 77
https://wvmetronews.com/2025/05/06/s...ns-dead-at-77/
Rodriguez had 45 country hits, 20 top tens and six number ones: You Always Come Back To Hurting Me, Ridin' My Thumb To Mexico, That's The Way Love Goes, I Just Can't Get Her Out Of My Mind, Just Get Up & Close The Door and Love Put A Song In My Heart. Among his other hits are remakes of the Beatles' Something, the Eagles' Desperado and Mocedades' Eres Tu.
Johnny Rodriguez, pioneering Hispanic country music star, dies at 73
https://www.billboard.com/music/musi...ry-1235968505/