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"I'll take 'Game show hosts' for $600." "This Canadian hosted Jeopardy! for more than 36 years before dying of cancer in 2020." "Who is Alex Trebek?" Sadly, that answer is correct. Trebek also hosted The Wizard Of Odds, The $128,000 Question, Double Dare, High Rollers, Battlestars and Classic Concentration.
Alex Trebek, long-running Jeopardy! host, dead at 80
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/08/enter...rnd/index.html
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Belasco played Charles Whitmore in 52 episodes of the 2011-14 series Let's Stay Together. He also appeared in six episodes of Pitch, five episodes of I'm Dying Up Here and the 2017 movie WTF: World Thumbwrestling Federation.
Bert Belasco, BET's Let's Stay Together star, dies at 38
https://people.com/tv/bert-belasco-l...her-star-dead/
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Supernaw's I Don't Call Him Daddy topped the country chart for two weeks in December 1993. Among his other hits are Reno, State Fair, Red & Rio Grande, Not Enough Hours In The Night and What'll You Do About Me.
Doug Supernaw, '90s country star, dies of cancer at 60
http://www.cmt.com/news/1826145/doug...dies-in-texas/
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Mo3 (Melvin Noble) released three albums and five mixtapes. Among his best-known songs are Why, Everybody, Ride For Me, And I, All The Way Down, Broken Love and Gangsta Love.
Rapper Mo3 killed in Dallas shooting at 28
https://www.aol.com/article/entertai...t-28/24687994/
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After playing Sheila in Hair – her big solo number was Easy To Be Hard – Kellogg performed on several episodes of Kraft Music Hall, The Tonight Show, The Mike Douglas Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and other variety series and appeared in Elvis Presley's 1969 Western movie Charro!
Lynn Kellogg, actress in the original 1968 Broadway production of Hair, dies at 77
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...233526871.html
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In March 1958, O'Connor was one of the opening acts for Buddy Holly's tour of the United Kingdom. He and Holly became close friends.
British entertainer Des O'Connor dies at 88 following a fall
O'Connor had numerous successful TV shows across the decades
as well as recording 36 albums and scoring four top-10 singles.
https://news.sky.com/story/des-oconn...ed-88-12132988
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Ketchum had 13 top-40 country hits and six top-tens, 1991-2001, including Stay Forever, Sure Love, Hearts Are Gonna Roll, Mama Knows The Highway and Past The Point Of Rescue.
Hal Ketchum, Small Town Saturday Night singer, dead at 67
http://www.cmt.com/news/1827853/just...es-away-at-67/
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Green played on albums by Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington, Lloyd Price, Rufus Thomas, Jimmie Vaughan and other artists. He released four solo albums, the first in 1995 and the most recent, Many Shades Of Green, in 2014.
Herman Green dies at 90: Memphis saxophonist played with giants from B.B. King to John Coltrane
https://www.commercialappeal.com/sto...ic/6438081002/
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He was seen but not heard. Prowse portrayed Darth Vader in Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi but James Earl Jones provided the voice. Prowse also appeared in Hammerhead, Black Snake, Vampire Circus, A Clockwork Orange and two Frankenstein films.
Darth Vader actor David Prowse dead at 85
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...wse-dead-at-85
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Bobbitt appeared in three Crocodile Dundee films and 429 episodes of the 1979-86 television series Prisoner: Cell Block H.
Betty Bobbitt, cult US actress who found worldwide fame in Australia dies at 81
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp...codile-dundee/
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In addition to appearing in 98 episodes of Falcon Crest and 95 episodes of Hennesey, Dalton co-starred on The Joey Bishop Show, 1962-65, and had roles in several movies including Girls On The Loose, Cyber Tracker and The Plainsman
Abby Dalton, Hennesey and Falcon Crest actress, dead at 88
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...t-actress-dead
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Johnson appeared in several movies including Pirates Of Tortuga, None But The Brave, Wild In The Country, Licence To Kill, Think Big, The Last Grenade, The Red White & Black, Tarzan & The Jungle Boy and Tarzan & The Great River.
Rafer Johnson, 1960 Olympic decathlon champion, dead at 86
https://popculture.com/sports/news/r...mpion-dead-86/
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Berlinger appeared in 23 episodes of The Joey Bishop Show, 13 episodes of A Touch Of Grace, 10 episodes of Operation Petticoat and seven episodes of Bracken's World and in several films including Going Ape, Teenage Rebel, That Thing You Do, The Shaggy D.A. and The Long Goodbye,
Warren Berlinger, actor in Blue Denim, Come Blow Your Horn and Cannonball Run, dies at 83
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...run-dies-at-83
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Keays-Byrne appeared in 34 movies and TV movies including Snapshot, Resistance and The Blood Of Heroes and in the TV miniseries Moby Dick, Joe Wilson and Journey To The Center Of The Earth.
Hugh Keays-Byrne, villain in two Mad Max films, dead at 73
https://nypost.com/2020/12/02/hugh-k...in-dead-at-73/
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Tiffin appeared in several movies including Harper, State Fair, Summer & Smoke, Come Fly With Me, Viva Max, One Two Three, The Lively Set, The Pleasure Seekers and For Those Who Think Young. She also appeared in 12 films, mostly comedies, in Italy in the 1960s-70s.
Actress Pamela Tiffin dead at 78
https://celebritiesdeaths.com/pamela...ied-at-age-78/
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"Hello!" Lander was best known for playing Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman but he also played Dr. Marty Guthrie in 12 episodes of The Bold & The Beautiful, 1997-98, and voiced characters in Recess, Oswald, ProStars, Jungle Cubs, Galaxy High School, 101 Dalmatians, The Garfield Show, The Little Mermaid and other animated series.
David Lander, Squiggy in Laverne & Shirley, dies at 73
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/dav...ey-1234847158/
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Reid co-starred in eight episodes of Built To Last, 1997; eight episodes of For Your Love, 1998-2000; and 66 episodes of Eve, 2003-06. Among her movie appearances are Gas, Divas, Set It Off, Zoe Gone and How To Be A Player.
Natalie Desselle Reid, Madea's Big Happy Family actress, dead at 53
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/07/enter...eid/index.html
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Slater was Third Eye Blind's bassist in 1993-94. He was replaced by Arion Salazar. The band had three consecutive top-ten hits in 1997-98: Semi-Charmed Life, How's It Going To Be and Jumper[/i].
Jason Slater, original Third Eye Blind bassist, dead at 49
https://nypost.com/2020/12/09/jason-...st-dead-at-49/
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Windsor appeared in nine Carry On films, 1964-74, and played Peggy Mitchell in 1,562 episodes of the BBC One soap opera EastEnders, 1994-2016. She also had roles in several movies including Comrades, Death Trap, Playgirl After Dark, Hair Of The Dog, Not Now Darling, A Study In Terror, Sparrows Can't Sing and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and she voiced the dormouse in Disney's 2010 Alice In Wonderland film.
EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor dies at 83
https://www.itv.com/news/2020-12-11/...r-dies-aged-83
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The 1989 movie No Holds Barred, financed by the World Wrestling Federation, starred Hulk Hogan as wrestler Rip Thomas and featured Tiny Lister as a wrestler named Zeus. Lister then became a wrestler for real. He also appeared in more than 80 movies including Prison, Runaway Train, Men Of War, Armed & Dangerous, American Justice, The Hustle, The Dark Knight, The Fifth Element, Austin Powers In Goldmember and Beverly Hills Cop II.
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, former WWE superstar and Deebo from Friday movie series, dies at 62
https://www.cbssports.com/wwe/news/t...es-dies-at-62/