Here's one I forgot to mention earlier:

Actor William Campbell died of natural causes April 28 at age 87. Fans of Star Trek will remember him for two memorable roles in the original series: Trelane in "The Squire of Gothos," and Klingon Captain Koloth in "The Trouble With Tribbles." He reprised the latter role many years later in an episode of Star Trek - Deep Space Nine. He also starred in Francis Ford Coppola's first directorial effort, the 1963 horror film Dementia 13. (Hmmm... wonder what happened to 1-12?)

His first wife, later known as Judith Exner, gained notoriety for being a mistress of John F. Kennedy. (They divorced in 1958, three years before Kennedy became president.)



RIP

Signor V.

Poor Zsa Zsa. She's one tough cookie "dahling". I know she has appeared in many movies, but my memory of her mostly is when she did the talk show circuits talking about her many marriages and men in general. And as it turned out she married a prince (self proclaimed I believe). LMAO

TIS

Then perhaps the quote should have been:

"They hit her with nine husbands and she's still alive!"



Signor V.

Sherwood Schwartz has died. Maybe now the castaways can get off that darn island.

http://www.cbs8.com/story/15068745/sherw...ator-dies-at-94

most of them are dead anyway's

I don't imagine anyone will have him on their list, but Rob Grill, lead singer of 60's group, The Grass Roots, has passed away at 67. You might remember a couple of their songs, Midnight Confessions, Temptation Eyes and my favorite (their first), "Let's Live For Today."

I would not have remembered his name but do remember the group well. I saw them, along with a few other 60's groups, at the Civic Auditorium in G.R. back in the day.

TIS


http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obit...MzCI_story.html

The creepy, shovel wielding neighbor from Home Alone has died. Funny, I thought he was 87 when he made the movie.

http://www.tmz.com/2011/07/14/home-alone...acaulay-culkin/

Amy Winehouse found dead

+1 for TIS and Mig

wow...rip

G. D. Spradlin, best known to us as Senator Geary ("Godfather Part II") has died of natural causes at age 90. He passed away Sunday at his home in California.

You know I saw the story headline but honestly I didn't recognize it as a GF related name. RIP Senator Geary.


Senator Pat Geary: Mr. Cici, was there always a buffer involved?
Willi Cici: A what?
Senator Pat Geary: A buffer. Someone in between you and your possible superiors who passed on to you the actual order to kill someone.
Willi Cici: Oh yeah, a buffer. The family had a lot of buffers!



TIS

OK, it wasn't "Godfather" related. It was the general who sent Martin Sheen upriver in "Apocalypse Now".

R.I.P

G.D. Spradlin. Once again he was proof "there are no small roles, just small actors." He didn't hav much screen time in either GF II or Apocalypse Now, but he was a pivotak character, especially in II nonetheless. According to Wikipedia he had a law degree before he became an actor.

Has anyone made a list of all the actors from the Godfather films have died?

hopefully nobody puts vigoda down as dead

You put an animal down, not a person. (Well, he was a Fish, once).

Tom Aldredge, probably best known to most of us as Carmela's father on "The Sopranos" died last week.

Aldredge was 83 when he died on Friday in Tampa, Florida.

Oh yea?? I only know him from the Sopranos but I'm sorry to hear that.



TIS

TIS, he (Aldredge) was in a movie called, "Taking Chance". It stars Kevin Bacon as a soldier escorting a dead soldier on his last journey (home for burial).

I cannot recommend the movie enough! Aldredge had a nice part in it.

SC,

I DID see Taking Chance and I too liked the movie. Very lowkey yet very moving. I can't recall the part Aldredge played. I'm sure I didn't recognize him when I saw the movie.

I too recommend it.


TIS

He was a favorite of mine.



Joe Arroyo, a Colombian songwriter, singer and bandleader whose pan-Caribbean salsa hybrids and historically conscious lyrics made him one of his country’s most respected musicians, died on Tuesday in Baranquilla, his adopted home city in Colombia. He was 55.

The cause was hypertension and fluid in the lungs, his manager, Luis Ojeda, said.

His death drew tributes from Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia; the Colombian pop singer Shakira, who appeared in concert with Mr. Arroyo; and the Colombian rocker Juanes, who often performed the Arroyo hit “La Noche” in concert.

And it was mourned throughout Colombia. Fans thronged his funeral at a cathedral in Baranquilla on Wednesday in an outpouring of grief, and Cartagena, the Caribbean coastal city where Mr. Arroyo was born, declared two days of official mourning, with flags flown at half staff and Mr. Arroyo’s music played in the historic city center. The Latin Recording Academy said it would award Mr. Arroyo a posthumous Prize of Musical Excellence in November.

Mr. Arroyo claimed his own genre in Caribbean music: Joesón. His songs drew their danceable rhythms from traditions within Colombia, including cumbia and porro, and from all around the Caribbean, with elements of Dominican merengue, Jamaican reggae, Martinican zouk, Trinidadian soca, Cuban son montuno and more.

He had a high, fervent tenor voice, and the songs and arrangements he wrote were driven by supercharged horns and percussion. Although there were many love songs and party songs among his dozens of Latin American hits, Mr. Arroyo’s signature song was “Rebelión,” about a 17th-century slave uprising in Cartagena...

Obit

Thats sad RIP. My fav scene of him in the Sopranos is at Tony mums wake and he finally stands up to his wife and tells her what he thinks of her..

football player and actor Bubba Smith passed away today. he is better known as Moses Hightower in the Police Academy series.

http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/03/bubba-smit...houston-oilers/

L.A. Times obituary:

By Claire Noland, Los Angeles Times
August 4, 2011

Bubba Smith, a former All-Pro football player turned actor and commercial pitchman who delighted TV viewers by wrenching off the tops of "easy-opening cans" of beer, was found dead Wednesday at his Los Angeles home. He was 66.

The cause of death has not been determined, the L.A. County coroner's office said.

A caretaker found Smith at his Baldwin Hills home, police said.

A 6-foot-7, 280-pound defensive end, Smith was the No. 1 NFL draft pick from Michigan State University when he joined the Baltimore Colts in 1967.

He played five seasons for the Colts, which included their upset loss to the New York Jets in Super Bowl III and a victory over the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V. He spent two seasons with the Oakland Raiders and two more with the Houston Oilers before a knee injury ended his career in 1976.

After football, Smith was recruited to the ranks of former professional athletes who appeared as themselves in commercials for Miller Lite beer. He and fellow NFL veteran Dick Butkus were cast as inept golfers and polo players in the TV spots. Smith was also featured solo in one commercial extolling the virtues of the beer, beaming into the camera, "I also love the easy-opening cans," while ripping off the top of the can.

Despite a lucrative contract and widespread popularity, Smith walked away from the job.

"I went back to Michigan State for the homecoming parade last year," Smith told then-Times columnist Scott Ostler in 1986. "I was the grand marshal and I was riding in the back seat of this car. The people were yelling, but they weren't saying, 'Go, State, go!' One side of the street was yelling, 'Tastes great!' and the other side was yelling 'Less filling!'

"Then we go to the stadium. The older folks are yelling 'Kill, Bubba, kill!' But the students are yelling 'Tastes great! Less filling!' Everyone in the stands is drunk. It was like I was contributing to alcohol, and I don't drink. It made me realize I was doing something I didn't want to do."

So he turned to acting in movies and TV, notably playing Moses Hightower in six "Police Academy" movies. He also appeared in a number of TV series, including "Half-Nelson," "Blue Thunder" and "Good Times."

Charles Aaron Smith was born Feb. 28, 1945, in Orange, Texas, and grew up in Beaumont, where his mother was a teacher and his father was his high school football coach.

At Michigan State, Smith became an All-America defensive end for the Spartans, who went 19-1-1 his last two seasons. He also earned a bachelor's degree in sociology.

His brother Tody, a star at USC and in the NFL, later became Bubba's agent. He died at 50 in 1999.

Information on survivors was not immediately available.

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Sorry to read about this. I hadn't heard anything about him in a while. To me, 66 is still what I would call too young.

My 20-year old cat is named for Bubba Smith. I think I'll have to break the news to him very gently.

Signor V.

What about the former Arab dictators and those who are about to lose their job?
Jobless dictators tend to die soon.

R.I.P. Bubba Smith. If this board ever goes to a point system (so that no one can win by picking a bunch of 99 year olds) I think we need an excepion for former NFL players, especially linemen and linebackers. Very few make it past 70.

Idi Amin would be one exception.

you could say the same thing about wrestling (very few make it past 60).

Anyone have Hugh Carey?

Jerry Leiber passed away. He was a co-writer for "Hound Dog" and the writer for most of the Coasters' hits.
Jerry Leiber