Entertainment industry obituaries

He had small roles in several sitcom episodes and produced The Wayne Brady Show and Whose Line Is It Anyway.

Danny Breen, Second City performer and Hollywood actor/producer, dies at 67

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/se...en-dies-at-67/

He produced hit records for Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Etta James, Joe Tex, Tommy Roe, Arthur Conley, Paul Anka, Tom Jones, Aretha Franklin, James & Bobby Purify, the Osmonds and many others.

Rick Hall, legendary R&B producer at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, dies at 85

http://www.americansongwriter.com/20...tudios-dies-85

Gun Crazy was part of the inspiration for the 1967 Bonnie & Clyde movie.

Peggy Cummins, lethal beret-wearing outlaw in 1950 noir classic Gun Crazy, dies at 92

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituar...102-story.html

It is largely because of Tony Calder that the Beatles' first single, Love Me Do, became a hit.

Tony Calder, music promoter who worked with Beatles, Rolling Stones, dies at 74

http://www.variety.com/2018/music/ne...ad-1202652035/

Steuer was also a singer and musician and owned a vegan restaurant in Portland, Oregon.

Star Trek, Grace Under Fire actor Jon Paul Steuer dead at 33

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.3739692

He turned down the lead role in Gilligan's Island to co-star with a 1928 Porter automobile in My Mother The Car -- not one of his wisest decisions.

Jerry Van Dyke, Emmy-nominated Coach actor, dies at 86

http://www.variety.com/2018/tv/news/...es-1202655598/

Sadly, he has "reached the end." At least he lived long enough to see the Moody Blues finally make it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

Ray Thomas, Moody Blues flutist and founding member, dead at 76

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...-at-76-w515092

Born in Winnipeg, Rhodes also starred in the Canadian tv series Da Vinci's Inquest, Danger Bay and Street Legal.

Donnelly Rhodes, actor in Soap, Battlestar Galactica, The Flash, dead at 80

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...ead-at-80.html

R&B singer-songwriter Denise LaSalle dies at 78

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...042_story.html

Her hits included Love So Right, Man Sized Job and Now Run & Tell That. Her biggest hit, which topped the r&b chart and reached #13 on the Hot 100 in 1971, was Trapped By A Thing Called Love. Here it is on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7qvvJWkUXk

This 1995 Disney film starred Ben Stiller as a fitness guru running a "fat camp" for kids. The movie poster showed four kids holding up a six-foot-long submarine sandwich with Stiller in the middle of it.

Joseph Wayne Miller, Salami Sam in Heavyweights, dies at 36

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...110-story.html