Dallas-F.W. Star-Telegram: Remembering those we lost in '06
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JANUARY
Janette Carter , the daughter of two members of country music’s Carter
Family who helped preserve folk and country music. Age 82. Jan. 22.
William Rubin, who as director of painting and sculpture at the New
York Museum of Modern Art played a central role in shaping the
museum’s collections and exhibitions. Age 78. Jan. 22.
Fayard Nicholas, who with his brother Harold wowed the tap dancing
world and inspired generations of dancers from Fred Astaire to Savion
Glover. Age 91. Jan. 24. Pneumonia and stroke complications.
Chris Penn, a younger brother of Sean Penn who played supporting roles
in films such as Reservoir Dogs and Starsky & Hutch . Age 43. Jan. 24.
Playwright Endesha Ida Mae Holland, whose autobiographical play From
the Mississippi Delta told how the civil-rights movement inspired a
girl born in poverty to turn her life around. Age 61. Jan. 25.
Gene McFadden, R&B singer-songwriter who as a member of McFadden and
Whitehead had Top 20 in 1979 with Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now. Age 56.
Jan. 27. Cancer.
Nam June Paik, the avant-garde composer who was credited with being
the inventor of video art. Age 74. Jan. 29.
Moira Shearer, the ballerina and actress whose debut film, The Red
Shoes, created an international sensation in 1948. Age 80. Jan. 31.
FEBRUARY
Al Lewis, the cigar-chomping patriarch of The Munsters whose work as a
basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed
his role as Grandpa from the TV sitcom, died after years of failing
health. Age 82. Feb. 3.
Animator Myron Waldman, who originated Betty Boop’s dog, helped create
two Oscar-nominated cartoons and put Superman and Raggedy Ann on the
screen. Age 97. Feb. 4. Congestive heart failure.
Franklin Cover, who played Tom Willis, the white neighbor on The
Jeffersons and half of one TV’s first interracial couples. Age 77. Feb. 5.
Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, a comedic entertainer and character actor who
appeared in John Wayne films and other movies. Age 80. Feb. 6.
Stanley Wilson, the longtime head of the Texas State Network who
secured exclusive rights to broadcast Dallas Cowboys football games on
the radio in the 1960s and ‘70s. Age 90. Feb. 7 in Fort Worth. Wilson
also managed KFJZ-TV in Fort Worth from its launch in 1955 until 1960.
Juan Soriano, Mexican painter and sculptor. Age 85. Feb. 10.
Playwright John Belluso, who had a debilitating bone disease and
championed the rights of disabled people in his work. Age 36. Feb. 10.
Peter Benchley, whose novel Jaws made millions think twice about
stepping into the water. Age 65. Feb. 11. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Robert W. Peterson, whose book Only the Ball Was White chronicled the
story of the Negro leagues. Age 80. Feb. 11. Lung cancer and emphysema.
Andreas Katsulas, c haracter actor best-known as the one-armed man in
the 1993 film The Fugitive . Age 59. Feb. 13. Lung cancer.
Edna Lewis, the granddaughter of a slave who became a chef and the
author of acclaimed cookbooks on traditional Southern cuisine (2003’s
The Gift of Southern Cooking). . Age 89. Feb. 13.
Ray Barretto, Grammy-winning Latin jazz percussionist. Age 76. Feb. 17.
William Cowsill, lead singer of the 1960s singing family band The
Cowsills, which inspired the television series The Partridge Family .
Age 58. Feb. 18.
Bruce Hart, who wrote the lyrics to the Sesame Street theme. Age 68.
Feb 21.
Anthony Burger, a Dove Award-winning gospel-music pianist who played
for the popular Gaither Homecoming shows. Age 44. Feb. 22. Suspected
heart attack.
Octavia E. Butler, considered the first black woman to gain national
prominence as a science fiction writer. Age 58. Feb. 24.
Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of
television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on The
Andy Griffith Show and would-be swinger landlord Ralph Furley on
Three’s Company. Age 81. Feb. 24. Pulmonary and respiratory complications.
Dennis Weaver, who starred in Gunsmoke and McCloud. Age 81. Feb. 24.
Darren McGavin, the actor whose roles included the grouchy dad who
famously ogled a leg-shaped lamp in A Christmas Story . Age 83. Feb.
25. McGavin also starred in five TV series, most notably the cult
favorite Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
MARCH
Jack Wild, who as a child starred in Oliver! and H.R. Pufnstuf. Age
53. March 1. Cancer.
Dana Reeve, who won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her
Superman husband, Christopher Reeve, through his decade of near-total
paralysis. Age 44. March 6. Lung cancer.
King Floyd III, the soul singer and songwriter best known for his 1970
hit Groove Me, which can be heard on the We Are Marshall soundtrack .
Age 61. March 6, of complications from a stroke and diabetes.
Ali Farka Toure , a two-time Grammy Award winner and one of Africa’s
best-known performers. About 66. March 7.
M aureen Stapleton, an Oscar-winning character actress (Reds) who
played dramatic and comedic roles on stage, screen and television. Age
80. March 13. Chronic pulmonary disease.
Peter Tomarken, who was known as host of the hit 1980s game show Press
Your Luck, in which contestants often shouted the slogan “big bucks,
no whammies!”. Age 63. March 13. Plane crash.
Anselmo Colzani , an Italian baritone whose powerful yet versatile
voice resounded at Milan’s La Scala and New York’s Metropolitan opera
houses. Age 87. March 19.
Bernard Lacoste, who spent more than 40 years at the helm of the
Lacoste clothing empire best known for its crocodile-embossed polo
shirts. Age 74. March 21.
Vocalist Pio Leyva, one of the aging Cuban musicians who gained
international fame through the Buena Vista Social Club. Age 88. March 22.
Sarah Caldwell, hailed as the first lady of opera for her adventurous
productions as longtime director of the Opera Company of Boston. Age
82. March 23.
Richard Fleischer, who directed memorable films such as 20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea and Tora! Tora! Tora!. Age 89. March 25.
Dan Curtis, creator of the TV soap Dark Shadows and a prolific
TV-movie director. Age 78. March 27. Cancer.
Gretchen Rau, a veteran film set decorator who shared an Academy Award
this year for her work on Memoirs of a Geisha . Age 66. March 29.
Brain tumor.
Henry Farrell, author of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Age 85. March 29.
Gloria Monty , a groundbreaking producer who turned the ABC daytime
drama “General Hospital” into a pop sensation in the late 1970s. Age
84. March 30. Cancer.
APRIL
Gene Pitney, whose keening tenor voice produced a string of hits
including Town Without Pity Age 65. April 5. He also wrote Hello Mary
Lou for Rick Nelson.
Swedish director and screenwriter Vilgot Sjoman , whose provocative
and sexually explicit films including I Am Curious Yellow stirred
controversy in the 1960s. Age 81. April 9. Brain hemorrhage.
Helen Cohn, who along with her husband helped clothe Elvis Presley,
Roy Rogers and a host of stars with rhinestone creations during the
height of cowboy chic. Age 92. April 7.
Proof (real name Deshaun Holton), a member of the rap group D12. Age
32. April 11. Shot.
June Pointer , the youngest of the Pointer Sisters, known for the ’70s
and ’80s hits I’m So Excited, Fire and Slow Hand. Age 52. April 12.
Cancer.
Dame Muriel Spark , author of more than 20 novels, including The Prime
of Miss Jean Brodie. Age 88. April 13.
Morton Freedgood , a best-selling author who wrote The Taking of
Pelham One Two Three under the pen name John Godey. Age 93. April 16.
Scott Brazil, an Emmy-winning producer-director, whose television
shows included The Shield and Hill Street Blues. Age 50. April 17.
Respiratory failure due to Lou Gehrig’s disease and lyme disease
complications.
Alida Valli , 84. Italian actress; co-starred in 1949 classic The
Third Man . Sometimes simply billed as Valli. April 22
William P. Gottlieb , whose photographs of such jazz greats as Billie
Holiday and Louis Armstrong are recognizable worldwide. Age 89. April
23. Stroke.
Phil Walden, the Capricorn Records co-founder who launched the careers
of Otis Redding and the Allman Brothers Band. Age 66. April 24. Cancer.
Jane Jacobs, an author and community activist of singular influence
whose classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities transformed
ideas about urban planning. Age 89. April 25.
With BuckBonnie Owens, a singer who married Buck Owens and later Merle
Haggard, and helped build the careers of each. Age 76. April 24, less
than a month after Owens’ death..
Elma Gardner “Pem” Farnsworth, who helped her husband Philo T.
Farnsworth develop the television and was among the first people whose
images were transmitted on TV. Age 98. April 27.
John Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard professor who won worldwide renown
as a liberal economist, backstage politician and witty chronicler of
affluent society. Age 97. April 29.
Jay Bernstein, Hollywood publicist and manager who helped turn Farrah
Fawcett and Suzanne Somers into household names. Age 69. April 30.
MAY
Johnny Paris , who had late ‘50s hits such as the burbly Red River
Rock with Johnny & the Hurricanes. Age 65. May 1.
Fort Worth native Jay Presson Allen, who adapted The Prime of Miss
Jean Brodie for stage and screen and wrote the screenplay adaptation
of Cabaret. Age 84. May 1.
Singer Rosita Fernández , a Tejano legend. Age 88. May 2.
Louis Rukeyser, who for more than three decades delivered pun-filled,
common-sense commentary on complicated business and economic news as a
best-selling author, columnist, lecturer and television host. Age 73.
May 2. Multiple myeloma, a rare bone-marrow cancer.
Grant McLennan, front man of the indie-rock group the Go-Betweens. Age
48. May 6. Heart attack.
William Garber , who co-founded Fort Worth Community Theatre and was
known as one of Cowtown’s theater icons. Age 78.
George “Lee” Lutz, whose brief and awful stay in an Amityville, N.Y.,
home became the inspiration for one of The Amityville Horror, one of
the most famous haunted house stories ever. Age 59. May 8. Heart disease.
Colombian-American singer Soraya, who won a Latin Grammy for best
singer-songwriter album in 2004 and worked to educate Hispanic women
about breast cancer, the disease that killed her. Age 37. May 10.
Karel Appel, a founder of an influential art group known for its
spontaneous expressionism. Age 85. May 10.
Pietro Garinei, who told romantic tales of Italy and its people
through plays and songs such as Arrivederci Roma, a hit for Perry
Como. Age 87. May 9.
Ted Berkman, author and screenwriter who wrote the Ronald Reagan movie
Bedtime for Bonzo. Age 92. May 12.
Johnnie Wilder Jr., the soulful lead singer of R&B band Heatwave
(Always and Forever). Age 56. May 13.
Lew Anderson, who gave Howdy Doody Show viewers a tearful goodbye as
the final Clarabell the Clown. Age 84. May 14.
Stanley Kunitz, former American poet laureate. Age 100. May 14.
Freddie Garrity, lead singer of ‘60s band Freddie and the Dreamers.
Age 69.this; people watch has him at 64 in 2004 May 19. Emphysema.
Katherine Dunham , a pioneering dancer and choreographer, author, and
civil-rights activist who left Broadway to teach culture in one of
America’s poorest cities. Age 96. May 21.
Billy Walker, the Grand Ole Opry legend whose hits included Charlie’s
Shoes and Cross the Brazos at Waco. Age 77. May 21. Van accident that
also killed Walker’s wife and two of his band members.
Ian Copeland, a rock music agent and entrepreneur who represented the
Police (whose drummer was Copeland’s brother, Stewart), R.E.M., Adam
Ant, the Go-Go’s and other groups that emerged in the 1970s and 1980’s
new wave and punk scenes. Age 57. May 23. Melanoma.
Legendary sportscaster Angel Fernandez, Mexican sportscaster known for
being one the first to yell “ Gooooooollll!” when teams scored during
soccer matches. Age 80. May 23.
Clifford Antone , owner of the namesake Austin blues club credited
with launching the careers of Stevie Ray Vaughan and other musicians.
Age 56. May 23. Henry Bumstead, an Academy Award-winning production
designer who created sets for such classic films as To Kill A
Mockingbird and Vertigo in a career spanning 70 years. Age 91. May 24.
Prostate cancer.
Desmond Dekker, whose 1968 hit Israelites was one of the first reggae
songs to hit the U.S. top 40. Age 64. May 25. Heart attack.
Paul Gleason, who played the go-to bad guy in Trading Places and the
angry high school principal in The Breakfast Club . Age 67. May 27.
Mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer linked to asbestos.
Alex Toth, a maverick comic artist who designed classic Hanna-Barbera
adventure cartoons such as The Superfriends and Space Ghost. Age 77.
May 27.
Robert Sterling, character actor who had appeared in scores of movies
and TV-show episodes in a career that spanned nearly 50 years. Age 88.
May 30.
Lula Mae Hardaway, Stevie Wonder’s mother and a co-writer of such hits
as Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours . Age 76. May 31.
JUNE
Rocio Jurado, the powerful-voiced singer-actress who was a beloved
figure in Spain and Latin America. Age 61. June 1.
Vince Welnick, the Grateful Dead’s last keyboard player and a veteran
of other bands, including the Tubes and Missing Man Formation. Age 51.
June 3.
Billy Preston, musician often referred to as “the fifth Beatle” for
his keyboard contributions to the Fab Four’s music. Age 59. June 6.
Preston also had several solo hits in the ‘70s, including Will It Go
‘Round in Circles and Nothing From Nothing.
Arnold Newman, a photographer who revealed the souls of artists and
politicians. Age 88. June 6.
Ingo Preminger , a literary agent, producer of the film MASH and
brother of the late filmmaker Otto Preminger. Age 95. June 7.
James Cameron, who survived an attempted lynching by a white mob and
went on to found America’s Black Holocaust Museum. Age 92. June 11.
Barbara Epstein, a founder and co-editor of The New York Review of
Books who pushed for American distribution of The Diary of Anne Frank
and edited the book’s original U.S. version. Age 76. June 16. Lung cancer.
Vincent Sherman, who directed — and romanced — Bette Davis, Rita
Hayworth and Joan Crawford during his heyday as a leading Hollywood
filmmaker in the 1940s and ’50s. Age 99. June 18.
Moose, the Jack Russell terrier who played Eddie on Frasier. Age 15.
June 22.
Arif Mardin, the legendary Grammy Award-winning producer who worked
with stars including Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan and Norah Jones. Age
72. June 25. Pancreatic cancer.
Lyle Stuart, who published one of the modern book business’ greatest
hoaxes in Naked Came the Stranger and the controversial The Anarchist
Cookbook . Age 83. June 24.
George Page , the creator and host of the long-running PBS series
Nature . Age 71. June 28. Cancer.
Lennie Weinrib, a character actor, writer, director and voice-over
artist who brought to life the Saturday-morning live-action character
H.R. Pufnstuf. Age 71. June 28.
JULY
Singer and songwriter Willie Denson, perhaps best known for the hit
Mama Said. Age 69. July 1. Lung cancer.
Irving Green, the co-founder of Mercury Records; promoted Sarah
Vaughan, Dinah Washington. Age 90. July 1.
Jan Murray, one of the fabled generation of comics who rose from the
Catskills to prime-time TV, tickling fans of the 1950s game show
Treasure Hunt. Age 89. July 2.
Benjamin Hendrickson , Daytime Emmy winner for As the World Turns .
July 3. Age 55. Suicide.
Internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson ,
whose repertoire ranged from Baroque to the contemporary. Age 52. July
3. Breast cancer.
Paul Nelson, influential Rolling Stone critic who was an early
champion of Bob Dylan. Age 40. July 4. Heart disease.
Barbara Albright, a prolific writer of food and knitting books. Age
51. July 5. Brain tumor. Albright wrote about 25 books, including
1,001 Reasons to Love Chocolate, which she co-wrote with Mary Tiegreen.
Actress Kasey Rogers , best-known for playing Louise Tate, the wife of
Darrin’s boss on Bewitched for six years. Age 80. July 6.
Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd. Age 60. July 7. Diabetes.
June Allyson, veteran actress who was nominated twice for Golden
Globes in the ’50s but perhaps was best known to younger generations
for her Depends commercials. Age 88. July 8.
Bill Miller , Frank Sinatra’s longtime pianist. Age 91. July 11.
Barnard Hughes, character actor who won Tony for Da and whose scores
of movie and TV roles included Grandpa Buzz in Blossom . Age 90. July 11.
Red Buttons, comedian who also showed his facility with drama in
1957’s Sayanora (for which he won an Oscar), 1972’s The Poseidon
Adventure and several episodes of ER. Age 87. July 13. Vascular disease.
-nominated actress Carrie Nye , the wife of Dick Cavett. Age 69. July
14. Lung cancer. M ickey Spillane, hard-boiled crime novelist who
created the character Mike Hammer and was known for such books as I,
the Jury and Kiss Me Deadly. Age 88. July 17.
Emmy-winning actor Jack Warden (Brian’s Song ). Age 85. July 19. Heart
and kidney failure.
Mako , Japanese-born character actor who appeared in more than 100
movies and TV shows, and was nominated for an Oscar for 1967’s The
Sand Pebbles. Age 72. July 21. Esophageal cancer.
Award-winning blues musician Jessie Mae Hemphill . Age 71, July 22.
Complications from an ulcer.
AUGUST
Bob Thaves , creator of the quirky comic strip Frank & Ernest, which
runs in the S tar-Telegram. Age 81. Aug. 1.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano who won global acclaim. Age 90. Aug. 3
Ed Thrasher , art director/photographer whose many album-cover designs
include the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Are You Experienced? and Frank
Sinatra’s Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back. Age 74. Aug. 5. Cancer.
Arthur Lee, front-man for influential ’60s psychedelic rock group
Love. Age 61. Aug. 3. Leukemia.
TV personality Mike Douglas . Age 81. Aug. 11.
Country music singer Johnny Duncan , known for songs like She Can Put
Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime and It Couldn’t Have Been Any Better .
Age 67. Aug. 14 in Stephenville. Heart attack.
Bruno Kirby , a veteran character actor who costarred in When Harry
Met Sally, City Slickers and many other films. Age 57. Aug. 15. Leukemia.
Walter Sullivan, novelist (A Time to Dance), authority on Southern
literature. Age 82. Aug. 15.
Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press photojournalist who took picture of
flag-raising on Iwo Jima. Age 94. Aug. 20.
Bruce Gary, Knack drummer whose beats introduce the kitsch classic My
Sharona . Age 55. Aug. 22. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Robert K. Hoffman , co-founder of National Lampoon. Age 59. Aug. 22 in
Dallas. Leukemia.
Ralph Schoenstein, a humorist who ghostwrote Bill Cosby’s best-selling
book Fatherhood . Age 73. Aug. 24.
Joseph Stefano, who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psych
o. Age 84. Aug. 25.
Ed Benedict, a legendary animator who put life, love and laughter in
TV cartoon characters such as Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble and Yogi
Bear. Age 94. Aug. 28.
Jumpin’ Gene Simmons, rockabilly musician and songwriter (Tim McGraw’s
Indian Outlaw). . Age 69. Aug. 29.
Naguib Mahfouz , the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in
Literature for his novels depicting Egyptian life in his beloved
corner of ancient Cairo. Age 94. Aug. 30.
Actor Glenn Ford, who played strong, thoughtful protagonists in films
such as The Blackboard Jungle, Gilda and The Big Heat. Age 90. Aug. 30.
SEPTEMBER
Dancer Willi Ninja, the inspiration for Madonna’s Vogue video. Age 45.
Sept. 2. AIDS.
Steve Irwin, TV’s Crocodile Hunter. Age 44. Sept. 4. Stingray attack.
Robert Earl Jones , father of actor James Earl Jones and an actor in
his own right who appeared in such movies as Witness and The Cotton
Club. Age 96 (some sources say 102). Sept. 7.
Daniel Wayne Smith , son of Anna Nicole Smith. Age 20. Sept. 10.
Daniel Smith, who appeared on his mother’s E! TV show, died at her
bedside days after she had given birth to a baby girl.
Joseph Hayes , who wrote the book The Desperate Hours, which was twice
adapted for film. Age 88. Sept. 11. Alzheimer’s disease.
Pat Corley, actor who played Phil the bartender in Murphy Brown. Age
76. Sept. 11. Congestive heart failure.
Actor Mickey Hargitay , father of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
star Mariska Hargitay and widower of actress Jayne Mansfield. Age 80.
Sept. 14. Multiple melanoma. He was also a 1955 Mr. Universe.
Pablo Santos , who appeared in the short-lived WB sitcom Greetings
from Tucson in 2002. Age 19. Sept. 15. Small-plane crash.
Elizabeth Allen, a Tony Award-nominated actress known to early
television fans as the “Away We Go” girl on The Jackie Gleason Show .
Age 77. Sept. 19.
Danny Flores, played saxophone and shouted “tequila!” on 1950s hit
Tequila! Age 77. Sept. 19.
Sven Nykvist, Oscar-winning Swedish cinematographer who worked with
Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen. Age 83. Sept. 20
Actor Edward Albert , who won a “Most Promising Newcomer” Golden Globe
for 1972’s Butterflies are Free and was the son of actor Eddie Albert.
Age 55. Sept. 22. Lung cancer.
Raymond “Boz” Burrell , original bass player for rock group Bad
Company. Age 60. Sept. 21. Heart attack.
Etta Baker , blues guitarist who influenced Bob Dylan. Age 93. Sept. 23.
Malcolm Arnold, Oscar-winning soundtrack composer whose credits
include The Bridge on the River Kwai. Age 84. Sept. 23. Chest infection.
Ralph Story , host of the 1950s quiz show The $64,000 Challenge . Age
86. Sept. 26.
“Uncle Josh” Graves , whose bluesy playing adorned hundreds of
bluegrass, country records. Age 79. Sept. 30.
Prentiss Barnes , singer with the Moonglows (Ten Commandments of
Love.) Age 81. Sept. 30.
OCTOBER
Tamara Dobson , actress who played Cleopatra Jones in two
blaxploitation films. Age 59. Oct. 2. Multiple sclerosis, pneumonia.
Jerry Belson, Emmy-winning comedy writer (“The Tracey Ullman Show.”)
Age 68. Oct. 10.
Gillo Pontecorvo, who directed the classic The Battle of Algiers, a
1966 epic on the Algerian uprising against the French. Age 86. Oct. 12.
R.W. “Johnny” Apple , New York Times editor and writer. Age 71. Oct 4.
Thoracic cancer.
Herbert B. Leonard , who created and produced the 1950s TV series The
Adventures of Rin Tin Tin and the gritty police drama Naked City / Age
84. Oct. 14.
Tommy Johnson , whose tuba playing can be heard in the famous Jaws
theme. Age 71. Oct. 16. Cancer and kidney failure.
Sid Davis, who produced quirky educational films warning youngsters of
the dangers of drugs, running with scissors. Age 90. Oct. 16.
Christopher Glenn, CBS correspondent, announcer and voice of
children’s program In the News . Age 68. Oct. 17
Miriam Engelberg, graphic author who found improbable humor in her
fight with cancer (Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person.) Age 48. Oct. 17.
Spoony Singh, whose Hollywood Wax Museum gave tourists the next best
thing to a real celebrity. Age 83. Oct. 18.
Phyllis Kirk, actress who was stalked by Vincent Price in the horror
film House of Wax . Age 79. Oct. 19.
Jane Wyatt, actress who for six years on Father Knows Best was one of
TV’s favorite moms. Age 96. Oct. 20.
Arthur Hill, stage and screen actor known for roles in 1971’s The
Andromeda Strain and the 1971-’73 TV series Owen Marshall: Counselor
at Law. Age 84. Oct. 22. Alzheimer’s disease.
Sandy West, drummer for the influential ’70s rock band the Runaways.
Age 47. Oct. 21. Lung cancer.
Lawrence W. Levine , cultural historian (“Black Culture and Black
Consciousness.”) Age 73. Oct. 23.
Marijohn Wilkin, country songwriter whose works included The Long
Black Veil, covered by such artists as Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Cash and
the Band. Age 86. Oct. 28.
NOVEMBER
William Styron, novelist known for such works as Sophie’s Choice and
The Confessions of Nat Turner. Age 81. Nov. 1.
Buddy Killen, Nashville songwriter and producer who helped launch
Dolly Parton’s career. Age 73. Nov. 1.
Adrienne Shelly, independent-film actress who starred in Hal Hartley’s
films The Unbelievable Truth and Trust. Age 40. Nov. 1. A construction
worker has been charged with second-degree murder in her death.
Paul Mauriat, French composer who had a No. 1 U.S. hit in 1968 with
Love is Blue. Age 81. Nov. 3.
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey , whose memoir on life with 11 siblings,
Cheaper by the Dozen , inspired several films. Age 98. Nov. 4.
Basil Poledouris , who composed the Emmy-winning score for the 1989
television miniseries “Lonesome Dove” and the opening fanfare for the
1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta. Age 61. Nov. 8.
Ellen Willis , feminist author and the New Yorker’s first rock critic.
Age 64. Nov. 9. Lung cancer.
Marian Marsh, doll-faced actress who played the milkmaid mesmerized by
John Barrymore in 1931’s Svengali. Age 93. Nov. 9.
Jack Williamson, a science-fiction author who wrote dozens of novels
and short stories in a career that spanned eight decades. Age 98. Nov.
10. Williamson published steadily since writing his first story, The
Metal Man, in 1928 at the age of 20. His last book, The Stonehenge
Gate, was published recently
Gerald Levert, the fiery singer of passionate R&B love songs and the
son of O’Jays singer Eddie Levert. Age 40. Nov. 10.
Milton Friedman , economist and author. Age 94. Nov. 16.
Robert Lockwood Jr ., a Delta blues guitarist who became the
torchbearer of Robert Johnson’s guitar legacy and a revered musician
in his own right,. Age 91. Nov. 21.
Anita O’Day, a singer with drummer Gene Krupa’s swing band in the
early 1940s who became one of the most distinctive voices in the
history of jazz. Age 87. Nov. 23.
Philippe Noiret, French actor whose performance as the kindly
projectionist in Cinema Paradiso was just one highlight of a career
that spanned more than 50 years. Age 76. Nov. 23. Cancer.
Robert McFerrin Sr., the first black man to sing solo at the
Metropolitan Opera and the father of singer Bobby McFerrin. Age 85.
Nov. 24.
William Diehl, best-selling author of Primal Fear, Sharky’s Machine
and other novels. Age 81. Nov. 24. Aortal embolism.
Raul Velasco, who hosted one of Mexico’s most popular and enduring
television programs, Siempre en Domingo . Age 73. Nov. 26.
Phyllis Cerf Wagner , a writer, actress and socialite best known as
the wife of top publisher Bennett Cerf and then the spouse of former
New York mayor Robert F. Wagner, but proudest of her association with
the Dr. Seuss books. Age 90. Nov. 24.
John R. Pepper II, co-founder of Memphis’ WDIA-AM, the first
nationwide radio station with programming targeting a black audience.
Age 91. Nov. 20.
Bebe Moore Campbell , who wrote several best-sellers including
Brothers and Sisters and What You Owe Me . Age 56. Nov. 27.
Perry Henzell , filmmaker whose “The Harder They Come” introduced
Jamaican pop culture to global audience. Age 70. Nov. 30.
DECEMBER
Jay “Hootie” McShann , jazz pianist and bandleader who helped refine
the blues-tinged Kansas City sound. Age 90. Dec. 7.
Georgia Gibbs , hitmaking 1950s singer (“Kiss of Fire,” “Dance With
Me, Henry.”) Age 87. Dec. 9.
Fred Marsden, the drummer in the “British Invasion” group Gerry and
the Pacemakers and brother of band leader Gerry Marsden. Age 66. Dec.
9. Cancer.
Martin Nodell , creator of the Green Lantern, the comic book superhero
who uses his magical ring to help him fight crime. Age 91. Dec. 9
Peter Boyle, the actor known for playing everything from a tap-dancing
monster in Young Frankenstein to the curmudgeonly father in the
long-running TV sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond . Age 71. Dec. 12.
Multiple myeloma and heart disease.
Ahmet Ertegun , who helped define American music as the founder of
Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&B of Ray
Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of
the Rolling Stones. Age 83. Dec. 14, of complications from a fall
suffered in late October.
Actor Mike Evans, best known as Lionel Jefferson in the TV sitcoms All
in the Family and The Jeffersons . Age 57. Dec. 14. Throat cancer.
Joseph Barbera , half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that
produced such beloved cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear
and the Flintstones. Age 95. Dec. 18.
Chris Hayward, an Emmy Award-winning television writer who helped
develop the bumbling animated Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-Right and
other offbeat characters for the Rocky and Bullwinkle TV show. Age 81.
Nov. 20. Cancer. Hayward also co-created The Munsters and worked on
Get Smart and Barney Miller.
SOURCES: Star-Telegram archives and wire services, Entertainment
Weekly, Internet Movie Database, Boston Globe, TVGuide.com .,
MSNBC.com, World Entertainment News Network
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