Entertainment industry obituaries

Feldstein was briefly married to Clint Eastwood's daughter Francesca.

Jordan Feldstein, Maroon 5 manager and brother of actor Jonah Hill, dies at 40

https://www.aol.com/article/entertai...t-40/23315962/

He composed theme songs and scores for dozens of tv shows and movies, including That Girl, The Rat Patrol, The Flying Nun, The Outer Limits, Hang 'Em High and Cancel My Reservation.

Emmy-winning composer Dominic Frontiers dead at 86

http://www.variety.com/2017/music/ne...ts-1202648539/

She played Louisa von Trapp in The Sound Of Music and appeared in dozens of movies and tv shows including Dragnet, Logan's Run and Disney's The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.

The Sound Of Music actress Heather Menzies dead at 68

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-...ss-dies-at-68/

Many millions of Americans heard Dick Orkin's voice but likely didn't know his name. He appeared in hundreds of humorous radio commercials and created and produced Chickenman, a 1960s-70s superhero parody series which, at its peak, ran on 1,500 radio stations nationwide. He also portrayed the Tooth Fairy in another long-running series. Orkin died of a stroke December 25. He was 84.

Chickenman silenced forever

https://radioink.com/2017/12/25/chic...enced-forever/

"We're wanted men. I have the death sentence on 12 systems." Not any longer. Curtis was also in The Elephant Man and several British tv series.

Star Wars actor Alfie Curtis dead at 87

http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news...D=ansmsnnews11

He also voiced characters in video games and animated films and appeared in several episodes of Judging Amy, Murder One and NYPD Blue.

Jack Blessing, actor on Moonlighting, The Naked Truth, George Lopez dies at 66

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/jac...D=ansmsnnews11

His biography, Foggy Mountain Troubador, was published in 2016.

Curly Seckler, bluegrass singer/mandolin player and member of Flatt & Scruggs' Foggy Mountain Boys, dies at 98

http://www.newsobserver.com/entertai...191940319.html

Actress Rose Marie of Dick Van Dyke Show fame dies at 94
ABC News, Dec 28 2017 9:09 PM ET

Rose Marie, the wisecracking Sally Rogers of The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66) and a show business lifer who began as a bobbed-hair child star in vaudeville and worked for 90 years in theater, radio, TV and movies, died today. She was 94. born Rose Marie Mazetta in New York City, she began singing at age 3, hosted her own radio show, sang in a series of movie shorts, appeared on most of the vaudeville circuits, had supporting roles on The Doris Day Show and Murphy Brown, was a regular on Hollywood Squares and starred with Phil Silvers in the Broadway musical Top Banana.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...-fame-52035559

He released five albums and played alongside Count Basie, Woody Herman, Jaco Pastorius and others.

Jazz trumpeter, educator Melton Mustafa dies at 70

http://www.southflorida.com/music/sf...228-story.html

S is for Sadness because of the death of one of the world's best mystery writers.

Mystery writer Sue Grafton dies at 77
NPR, Dec 29 2017 3:29 PM ET

Sue Grafton, the author of A Is For Alibi and 24 other mysteries featuring detective Kinsey Millhone, died of cancer December 28 at age 77. Grafton published her first book about the likeable, savvy gumshoe in 1982 and had been writing about her – and working her way through the alphabet – ever since. Her most recent book, Y Is for Yesterday, came out in August and she told NPR that she looked forward to reaching the end of the series with Z Is For Zero.

Though Grafton came incredibly close to reaching the full 26 letters, her daughter Jamie Clark wrote on Facebook that says Kinsey's crime-solving days are over: "Sue always said that she would continue writing as long as she had the juice. She was adamant that her books would never be turned into movies or TV shows, and in that same vein, she would never allow a ghost writer to write in her name. As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y."

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ies-dies-at-77

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