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Lipton was the head writer of 171 episodes of Another World, 111 episodes of The Best Of Everything, 404 episodes of The Doctors, 422 episodes of Return To Peyton Place and five Bob Hope television specials.
James Lipton, creator and host of Inside The Actors Studio, dies at 93
Before he hosted the long-running Bravo series, Lipton played the Lone Ranger's nephew on radio and wrote TV scripts and Broadway lyrics.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...-studio-909382
Nevins appeared in five episodes of Barnaby Jones (each time as a different character), six episodes of JAG and nine episodes of Melrose Place. She appeared in dozens of other tv shows including ER, Coach, Columbo, CHiPs, Hotel, Dallas, Police Story, Designing Women, Picket Fences, Lou Grant, The Rockford Files, 7th Heaven and One Day At A Time.
Claudette Nevins, Melrose Place actress and star of Broadway's Plaza Suite, dies at 82
https://people.com/tv/claudette-nevins-dead-at-82/
Alfred McCoy Tyner was the last surviving member of the legendary John Coltrane Quartet, which also included double bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Joe Jones. Tyner also recorded with Donald Byrd, Art Blakey, George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Stitt, Milt Jackson, Bobby Hutcherson, Stanley Turrentine and others. As a solo artist and as a bandleader, Tyner released 67 studio albums and seven live albums. Among his best-known songs are Atlantis, The Greeting, Fly With The Wind, Monk's Blues, Passion Dance and You Taught My Heart To Sing.
McCoy Tyner, groundbreaking pianist of 20th century jazz, dies at 81
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/06/81294...azz-dies-at-81
Carl Adolf von Sydow appeared in more than 150 movies and tv shows, beginning with the 1949 Swedish film Bara En Mor (Only A Mother) and including Awakenings, Judge Dredd, Flash Gordon, Conan The Barbarian, The Seventh Seal and A Kiss Before Dying. In 1985, he played the apostle Peter in the Quo Vadis mini-series and King John of Portugal in the Christopher Columbus mini-series.
Max von Sydow, Game Of Thrones and The Exorcist actor, dies at 90
https://www.etonline.com/max-von-syd...d-at-90-142764
The nine men (including Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey and Laurence Luckinbill) who starred in the off-Broadway production of The Boys In The Band reprised their roles for the 1970 movie adaptation. In 2002, Crowley wrote a sequel, The Men From The Boys. He also produced 68 episodes (1980-83) of the Hart To Hart television series starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers.
Mart Crowley, The Boys In The Band playwright, dies at 84
When it opened in 1968, the play broke new ground in its depiction of gay characters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/a...wley-dead.html
Coppola conducted the music for The Godfather Part III (1990) and Dracula (1992). He – Coppola, not Dracula – was the younger brother of flutist/pianist/composer Carmine Coppola, the uncle of Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire and the grand-uncle of Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Robert Schwartzman.
Antonio Coppola, opera conductor in filmmaking clan, dies at 102
A seemingly ageless composer and maestro, he completed Puccini's unfinished Turandot, wrote the opera Sacco & Vanzetti and led a concert of his music at 100.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/a...pola-dead.html
Olsen was the bass player for the Music Machine, whose biggest hit, Talk Talk, reached #15 on the Hot 100 in January 1967. He produced albums for Pat Benatar, Rick Springfield, Joe Walsh, Journey, Heart, Santana, Whitesnake, the Animals, the Grateful Dead and many other artists.
Fleetwood Mac, Ozzy Osbourne and Scorpions producer Keith Olsen has died
https://www.loudersound.com/news/fle...ith-olsen-dead
Nikolas Landon "Lorenzo" Brino played Sam Camden in 139 episodes of 7th Heaven, The WB's 1996-2007 series about a minister, his wife and their seven children. Brino was a quadruplet. His brother Zachary and sister Myrinda appeared (uncredited) in a few episodes.
Lorenzo Brino, 7th Heaven actor, dies at 21 in car accident
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/lor...es-1203534928/
Whitman appeared in 116 movies and tv-movies including Brigadoon, Johnny Trouble, Barbed Wire (with Gene Autry), Hound Dog Man (with Fabian), When Worlds Collide, Run For The Roses, The Mark, The Comancheros, The Longest Day and Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines
Actor Stuart Whitman dies at 92
https://www.tmz.com/2020/03/17/actor...-dead-dies-92/
Waggoner appeared in three episodes of Fantasy Island, three episodes of Murder She Wrote and two episodes of Happy Days. He played a different character in each of those eight episodes. He appeared in 60 other movies and television series including Love Me Deadly, Maude, Gunsmoke, Mork & Mindy, Lost In Space and Charlie's Angels.
Lyle Waggoner, The Carol Burnett Show and Wonder Woman star, dies at 84
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/lyl...an-1203537006/
Kenny Rogers had 56 top-40 country hits (including duets) and 21 of those went to number one, including Lucille, Daytime Friends, The Gambler, She Believes In Me, You Decorated My Life, Coward Of The County, Morning Desire and Tomb Of The Unknown Love. Two of his number ones, Islands In The Stream (with Dolly Parton) and Lady, also went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Country music legend Kenny Rogers dies at 81
Rogers died at his home from natural causes under hospice care, surrounded by family.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...es-81-n1165531
Among the members of The Great Society were Grace Slick, her husband Jerry on drums and his brother Darby on guitar. The sextet formed in 1965 and released only one single, Someone To Love (written by Darby). In 1966, Grace replaced Signe Anderson as lead singer of Jefferson Airplane. With her new band, she re-recorded the song, retitled Somebody To Love, and it became Jefferson Airplane's first hit. The Great Society broke up and Jerry joined a new group, The Final Solution. That group broke up after a year and Jerry became a filmmaker of television commercials. He won a Clio award for a public-service ad recruiting officers for the San Francisco Police Department.
Jerry Slick, San Francisco musician/filmmaker and Grace's first husband, dead at 80
https://bestclassicbands.com/jerry-s...tuary-3-19-20/
Weissberg played banjo, guitar, steel guitar, mandolin and dobro. In 1972, he and banjoist/guitarist Steve Mandell recorded Dueling Banjos, a remake of Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith's 1955 song Feuding Banjos. Their song appeared in the Burt Reynolds movie Deliverance, went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1973 and won a Grammy award for best country instrumental. (Martin Mull recorded a parody, Dueling Tubas.) Weissberg also worked as a session musician on albums by Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Billy Joel, John Denver, Tom Paxton, Melanie, Richie Havens, Loudon Wainwright III and other artists.
Eric Weissberg, Dueling Banjos and Blood On The Tracks musician, dead at 80
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...-at-80-971278/
Warren founded the psychedelic rock band Psychic Ills in 2003. They've released five albums, five EPs and four singles. Among their best-known songs are Killer, January Rain, Moon Duo, Fade Me Out and Another Day Another Night.
Psychic Ills lead singer/guitarist Tres Warren dead at 41
https://www.stereogum.com/2077787/ps...obituary/obit/
Emmanuel N'Djoké Dibango played saxophone, vibraphone and piano. He released 62 studio albums and three live albums. Soul Makossa, his best-known song in the United States – "Makossa" means "I will dance" – was a #21 R&B hit and #35 pop hit in July 1973. Michael Jackson used the song's "ma-ma-se, ma-ma-sa, ma-ma-ko-sa" chant in his 1983 hit Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'.
Afro-jazz legend Manu Dibango dies after contracting coronavirus
The 86-year-old Cameroonian, best known for the 1972 hit Soul Makossa died in Paris.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/...095810504.html
McNally won four Tony awards and two Obie awards. He also won an Emmy award for writing Andre's Mother, a 1990 made-for-tv movie adapted from his screenplay about a woman dealing with her son's death from AIDS. Among McNally's best-known plays are Ragtime, Bad Habits, The Ritz, The Full Monty, Kiss Of The Spider Woman and Love! Valour! Compassion!
Terrence McNally, Tony award-winning playwright, dies of coronavirus complications at 81
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/enter...rnd/index.html
Rieflin played drums, organ, piano, acoustic guitar, electric bass, mellotron, bouzouki and synthesizers – not all at the same time, of course. In addition to his work with R.E.M., King Crimson and other bands, he released two solo albums and an album with Scottish musician Chris Connelly.
Bill Rieflin, drummer for King Crimson, R.E.M., Ministry, dead at 59
Multi-instrumentalist also performed with Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, Swans and many others.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...ituary-972751/
Blum appeared in 20 movies and 39 tv series including 30 episodes of Mozart In The Jungle, 13 episodes of Capital News and two episodes of Law & Order and NYPD Blue.
Mark Blum, star of Desperately Seeking Susan, Crocodile Dundee and You, dies at 69 due to coronavirus complications
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...ns/ar-BB11KBii
Callahan co-starred on General Hospital (1984-85), Falcon Crest (1986-88) and Santa Barbara (1989-91). He played Edmund Grey on All My Children from 1992 to 2005. (The USA TODAY obituary misspelled the name as "Gray." For shame!) Eva LaRue played Callahan's love interest on the series and they wound up marrying in real life. Callahan also co-starred on Days Of Our Lives (2008-10).
Former All My Children star John Callahan dies at 66 after suffering a stroke
https://www.usatoday.com/story/enter...-66/2934014001
Jan Howard had 25 solo country hits, 1960-78, and four top-ten duets with Bill Anderson including the 1967 number-one For Loving You. Among her other hits: Bad Seed, Evil On Your Mind, My Son, Rock Me Back To Little Rock, The One You Slip Around With and I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again. She was married to songwriter Harlan Howard from 1957 to 1967.
Jan Howard, country singer and Grand Ole Opry member, dies at 91
https://popculture.com/country-music...ember-dead-91/