-
Sutton appeared in several plays including Our Town, The Last Madam and A Raisin In The Sun and in more than 80 movies and TV-movies including Ray, Glory Road, American Violet, Eve's Bayou, Monster's Ball, Steel Magnolias, The Big Easy, The Pelican Brief and Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes.
Carol Sutton, 'mesmerizing' New Orleans actress for half century, dies at 76
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_l...50522b808.html
-
Charley Pride had 60 top-40 country hits, 52 top tens and 29 number ones including Amazing Love, More To Me, Night Games, Then Who Am I, Mountain Of Love, You're My Jamaica, A Shoulder To Cry On, I'm Just Me, It's Gonna Take A Little Bit Longer, Wonder Could I Live There Anymore, Kiss An Angel Good Mornin' and Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone. Here he is in 2014, singing a medley of some of his hits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZAlHSC0Egg
Country music legend Charley Pride dead at 86 from COVID-19 complications
https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news...from-covid-19/
-
Le Carré (real name: David Cornwell) wrote 25 novels. Ten of them, including The Russia House, The Looking Glass War, The Little Drummer Girl and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, were adapted as motion pictures.
John le Carré, best-selling author of cold war thrillers, dies at 89
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/b...arre-dead.html
-
Bulloch played – but did not voice – Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi, appeared in seven episodes of Doctor Who and played Philip Cooper in 203 episodes of the 1965-69 BBC television soap opera The Newcomers.
Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett, dead at 75
https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny...vea-story.html
-
Carl Mann released 15 singles between 1957 and 1976. His only hits were rockabilly versions of Nat "King" Cole songs. Mona Lisa reached #25 on the Hot 100 in August 1959 and Pretend peaked at #57 three months later.
Rockabilly great, Mona Lisa hitmaker Carl Mann dead at 78
https://www.commercialappeal.com/sto...ic/3935073001/
Here are his two hits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J4I4qhGKag
-
Luker, a three-time Tony Award nominee, also appeared in several episodes of Boardwalk Empire, NCIS: New Orleans and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Rebecca Luker, star of Show Boat, The Music Man and Mary Poppins on Broadway, dies at 59
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...way-dies-at-59
-
Mississippi Queen reached #21 on the Hot 100 in July 1970. Among Mountain's other well-known songs are Never In My Life, Nantucket Sleighride, For Yasgur's Farm and The Animal Trainer & The Toad.
Leslie West, Mountain guitarist and voice behind hit Mississippi Queen, dies at 75
https://people.com/music/leslie-west-dead-at-75/
-
The rap/hip-hop trio Whodini formed in 1982 in Brooklyn. Their hits include Friends, One Love, Big Mouth and Freaks Come Out At Night.
Whodini co-founder John 'Ecstasy' Fletcher dead at 56
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...-dead-1107571/
-
Rice released 12 solo albums, seven albums with his band The Tony Rice Unit and six albums as a member of The Bluegrass Album Band. He also played guitar on albums by David Grisman, Ricky Skaggs, Béla Fleck, J.D. Crowe, Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter and many others.
Bluegrass great Tony Rice dead at 69
https://tasteofcountry.com/tony-rice-dead-dies/
-
Manzanero wrote more than 600 songs including Adoro, Felicidad, Esperaré, Te Extraño, Esta Tarde Vi Llover (which, with English lyrics, became Yesterday I Heard The Rain) and Somos Novios (which, with English lyrics, became It's Impossible, a 1970 hit for Perry Como). Manzanero was honored with a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.
Armando Manzanero, legendary Mexican singer and composer, dead at 85
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/28/enter...ntl/index.html
-
Dawn Wells participated in the 1960 Miss America pageant. She was Miss Nevada. She appeared in all 98 episodes of Gilligan's Island and in multiple episodes of Bonanza, Surfside 6, Growing Pains, Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip and The Joey Bishop Show.
Dawn Wells, Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island, dies at 82
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-82-1149549
-
Bolling recorded more than 60 albums and composed music for more than a hundred films including Borsalino, To Catch A Spy, The Passengers, The Awakening, Lucky Luke, California Suite and He Died With His Eyes Open.
Claude Bolling, jazz pianist and composer of film scores, dies at 90
https://www.archyde.com/death-of-cla...film-scores-3/
-
Wright was a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet from 1958 to 1968 and recorded 32 albums with the band. Alto sax player Paul Desmond died in 1977, drummer Joe Morello died in 2011 and pianist Brubeck died in 2012. Wright also played on albums by Gene Ammons, Cal Tjader, Sonny Stitt, Buddy DeFranco, Carmen McRae and many others.
Eugene Wright, double bassist in the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, dies at 97
https://www.marlbank.net/posts/eugen...artet-has-died
-
Brothers Steve and Rudy Salas formed Tierra in 1980 in Los Angeles. They had previously been members of El Chicano, whose 1970s hits include Viva Tirado, Brown Eyed Girl and Tell Her She's Lovely. Tierra's biggest hit, Together, reached #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1981.
Rudy Salas, Tierra band leader and cofounder, dies at 71
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/en...es/4093495001/
-
The McGuire Sisters – Phyllis, Christine and Dorothy – had 17 top-40 hits, from Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight in 1954 to Just For Old Time's Sake in 1961. Two of their songs went to number one, Sincerely in 1955 and Sugartime in 1958.
Phyllis McGuire, last of singing McGuire Sisters, dies at 89
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/phyll...b6ec8ae0b255bb
-
Gerry & the Pacemakers had six top-ten hits and three number ones in the UK, 1963-65. Ferry Cross The Mersey, How Do You Do It and Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, were top-ten hits in the US.
Gerry Marsden, frontman of Gerry & the Pacemakers, dies at 78
https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...s-dies-aged-78
-
Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan, who were husband and wife, had seven top-40 country hits, 1970-74, including Tennesee Bird Walk (which went to number one in April 1970), Just One More Song, Somehere In Virginia In The Rain and a remake of the Fortunes' You've Got Your Troubles.
Country Star Misty Morgan dies at 75
https://www.noise11.com/news/country...ed-75-20210103
-
Gerdes played President Eisenhower in the 2020 movie The 11th Green. He also appeared in Hidalgo and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and in episodes of 48 television series including ER, NYPD Blue, Bones, Dexter, Chicago Hope, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, Nash Bridges and 7th Heaven.
George Gerdes, singer and Seinfeld and Grey’s Anatomy actor, dead at 72
https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny...sym-story.html
-
Roberts played Madge Pinciotti in 81 episodes of That '70s Show and played Julie Rogers in 16 episodes of Charlie's Angels. She appeared in 19 movies including Sheena, Purgatory, Tourist Trap. Legal Tender, California Dreaming and A View To A Kill.
Tanya Roberts dies at 65, a day after premature death announcement
That '70s Show actor and Bond girl Tanya Roberts is confirmed dead at 65 years old, a day after her death was prematurely reported by her publicist.
https://screenrant.com/tanya-roberts-death-obituary/
-
Ramsey appeared in Broadway productions of Hello Dolly, Miss Moffat and Eubie!, was a regular on the 1975 comedy/variety series Keep On Truckin' and Bill Cosby's 1976 variety series Cos, played Laverne Hooks in six Police Academy films and voiced D.I. Holler in 21 episodes of the 1992-93 animated series The Addams Family.
Marion Ramsey, Broadway actress and Police Academy star, dies at 73
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...tar-dies-at-73