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:birthday:to Marvel comics legend and Co creator of Spiderman Steve Ditko who is 90 today and definitely a contender for the deathlist at some point in the future. 

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On ‎12‎/‎24‎/‎2015 at 20:02, Shroud said:

A more-lengthy listing of surviving performers who appeared on the original Twilight Zone-Pt. 1.

 

*snip*

Tom Reese 1928

 

*snip*

Tom Reese has reportedly died aged 89.

Probably better known for his role on Ellery Queen.

 

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716074/

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On ‎16‎/‎02‎/‎2013 at 05:57, Davey Jones' Locker said:

To complement the venerable British science fiction series thread, let's look at some non-Star bloody Trek American shows.

 

Flash Gordon

All of the main actors from the 1930s serials are long gone, the last being Jean Rogers (Dale Arden) back in 1991. Likewise, the actors from the 1950s television show and the much-loved 1979 Filmation animated versions all seem to be gone, which leaves us with the notorious 1980 film...

 

Survivors are:

Peter Wyngarde (Klytus) born 1928

Max von Sydow (Ming the Merciless) born 1929

Topol (Dr Zarkov) born 1935

Brian Blessed (Vultan) 1936

Timothy Dalton (Barin) 1944

Sam Jones (Flash) 1954

Melody Anderson (Dale Arden) 1955

Ornella Muti (Princess Aura) 1955

 

Mariangela Melato (Kara) died back on January 11th this year, it seems.

 

Buck Rogers

Likewise no survivor from the 1930s serial, the last main cast member, Constance Moore, dying in 2005. Again, there was apparently a short-lived television show in the 1950s, featuring none other than:

 

Eva Marie Saint (Wilma Deering) born 1924

 

Of the well-known 1979 series, the following are still alive:

Michael Ansara (Kane) born 1922

Tim O'Connor (Dr Heuer) born 1927

Henry Silva (also played Kane) 1928

Felix Silla (Tweekie [and Cousin Itt on the Addams Family!]) 1937

Thom Christopher (Hawk) 1940

Gil Gerard (Buck) 1943

Eric Server (Dr Theopolis) 1944

Erin Gray (Wilma) 1950

Pamela Hensley (Aura) 1950

 

Battlestar Galactica (the original, not that new-fangled stuff)

Lorne Green is obviously long gone but nearly all the rest of the very extensive cast are still alive. I won't list them all here as they were a fairly young cast being nearly all born in the 1950s but the oldest survivor is:

 

Terry Carter (Tigh) 1928

 

Dead.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_O'Connor_(actor)

 

I can't say I'll be mourning him. He was probably the worst adult actor to appear in a M*A*S*H episode.

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I came across an old show called One Step Beyond (*cue sax*) which ran from 1959-61. Each of the episodes follows someone who is in a haunted place/dealing with ghosts/aliens/creepy paranormal stuff. It was an anthology series and therefore had a total of 670 actors (including the creator and narrator, John Newland).

 

531 out of 670 of them are known to have died. The remaining cast members are all aged 64-100 and some are very famous. Here they are:

 

 

 

 

ALIVE (88)

Norman Lloyd b.1914
Jeanne Manet b.1918
Don Kennedy b.1920
Carl Duering b.1923
Patrick Jordan b.1923
Elizabeth Sellars b.1923
Wayne Mallory b.1924
Fredd Wayne b.1924
Julie Adams b.1926
Eugene Iglesias b.1926
Cloris Leachman b.1926
Robert Crewdson b.1927
Laya Raki b.1927
Eileen Ryan b.1927
Joe Turkel b.1927
Peter Walker b.1927
H.M. Wynant b.1927
Mark Eden b.1928
David Knight b.1928
John Lasell b.1928
Joanne Linville b.1928
William Swan b.1928
Jean Allison b.1929
Alexander Davion b.1929
Michael Forest b.1929
Roberta Haynes b.1929
James Hong b.1929
Patricia Michon b.1929
Fabrizio Mioni b.1930
Siegfried Speck b.1930
Kenneth Cope b.1931
Nancy Hadley b.1931
Ann McCrea b.1931
Ralph Helfer b.1931
William Shatner b.1931
Sally Fraser b.1932
Virginia Leith b.1932
Richard Tyler b.1932
Robert Blake b.1933
Ben Cooper b.1933
Marla Landi b.1933
Lisa Montell b.1933
Robert Sampson b.1933
Cece Whitney b.1933
John Bown b.1934
Louise Fletcher b.1934
Suzanne Lloyd b.1934
Mary Peach b.1934
David Whorf b.1934
Lisa Gastoni b.1935
Rex Holman b.1935
Gregg Stewart b.1935
Linda Lawson b.1936
Ted Otis b.1936
Andrew Prine b.1936
Warren Beatty b.1937
Pamela Lincoln b.1937
Barbara Lord b.1937
Hampton Fancher b.1938
Terry Palmer b.1938
Anne Whitfield b.1938
Catherine Feller b.1939
Penelope Horner b.1939
Buzz Martin b.1939
Sandra Knight b.1940
Julie Payne b.1940
Gabriella Licudi b.1941
Elen Willard b.1941
Michael Crawford b.1942
Yvette Mimieux b.1942
Beverly Washburn b.1943
Jimmy Baird b.1945
Patty McCormack b.1945
Candy Moore b.1947
Danny Bravo b.1948
Mimi Gibson b.1948
Rene Kroper b.1948
Veronica Cartwright b.1949
Gareth Tandy b.1949
Diane Driscoll b.1950
Dennis Holmes b.1950
Howard Knight b.1950
Pauline Challoner b.1951
Donald Losby b.1951
Gilda Emmanuelli b.1952
Tina Marie Galloso b.1953
Daryn Hinton b.1954
Robin Sumner b.1954




 

UNKNOWN (51)

Nan Adams
Ray Baker
Larry Berrill
Larry Burrell (same person as Larry Berrill?)
Paula Byrne
Charles Calvert
Capri Candela
Claire Corelli
Joe Cronin
Robert Curtis
John Downing
Joan Dupuis
Steve Fenton
James Forrest
David Garcia
Deena Goldstone
Peter Gordon
Stacy Graham
David Gregg
Sasha Harden
Thomas Hasson
Robert Hernandez
Frank Hilliard
Mark Houston
Vance Howard
Janet Hughes
Sean Kelly
John Kennedy
James Kent
Emily Lawrence
Sally Layng
Bryan Parker
Robert Percival
Lucy Prentis
Maria Riachi
Charles Russell
Karen Scott
Helen Sessions
Robert Shafto
Jeffrey Smith
Marya Stevens
Joe Sullivan
Leni Tana
Jeanne Tatum
Mary Lou Taylor
J. Stewart Taylor
Christine Thomas
Maxie Thrower
Reba Waters
Chris Winters
Don Womack

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additionally, 17 of 96 episodes have an entirely dead cast. They are:

 

Ep11 "The Devil's Laughter"

Ep18 "Image of Death

Ep20 "Echo"

Ep22 "The Riddle"

Ep25 "Brainwave"

Ep28 "The Inheritance"

Ep30 "Message from Clara"

Ep33 "Dead Ringer"

Ep34 "The Stone Cutter"

Ep38 "The Justice Tree"

Ep43 "The Day the World Wept - The Lincoln Story"

Ep44 "The Lovers"

Ep46 "The Mask"

Ep62 "Anniversary of a Murder"

Ep69 "The Voice"

Ep72 "Where Are They?"

Ep87 "The Confession"

 

Some of the remaining episodes have only one remaining cast member who is aged 90+. I'll update this list every time someone dies (or if any more details surface about the obscure people).

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It's not quite Twilight Zone, but One Step Beyond is quite good for its age, actually.

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I did, but elsewhere. Here's fine too.

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On ‎20‎/‎12‎/‎2015 at 22:05, Shroud said:

James Best died in April of 2015 @ age 88. This leaves Richard Anderson, James Drury, Earl Holliman and apparently, Robert Dix surviving from the cast of Forbidden Planet.

Robert Dix is dead. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-dix-dead-forbidden-planet-forty-guns-actor-son-richard-dix-dies-at-83-1132829

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On ‎06‎/‎07‎/‎2018 at 23:11, Clorox Bleachman said:

I came across an old show called One Step Beyond (*cue sax*) which ran from 1959-61. Each of the episodes follows someone who is in a haunted place/dealing with ghosts/aliens/creepy paranormal stuff. It was an anthology series and therefore had a total of 670 actors (including the creator and narrator, John Newland).

 

531 out of 670 of them are known to have died. The remaining cast members are all aged 64-100 and some are very famous. Here they are:

 

ALIVE (88)

*snip*
Fredd Wayne b.1924

*snip*

Looks like Fredd Wayne is dead:

Wiki.

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1 hour ago, alt obits guy said:

Marta DuBois, who played 'Ardra' in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode 'Devil's Due', died May 8th with little public acknowledgement.

 

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/marta-dubois-obituary?pid=188977616

 

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Marta_Dubois

 

 

 

 

I remember her best from "Tales of the Gold Monkey" , probably because she was normaly in a hot tub and I was about 8!!

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On ‎05‎/‎01‎/‎2016 at 23:31, Shroud said:

Below is my "Top 15" of sci-fi/horror film people well-known enough to receive obits in both the US and UK with possibly one or two exceptions.

*snip*

 

Beverly Owen (79); the original Marilyn Munster on The Munsters.

*snip*

 

I considered a few others, but these seem enough for one or two successes during the year. Hedren is still active although showing her age rather badly. McCallum is also active, but into his 80's, people - anyone recall his short-lived 1975 US TV series of The Invisible Man? Owen might get an obit in the UK due to the continuing popularity of The Munsters and its various remakes, etc., over the years.Hansen is perhaps a little iffy, but is well-known enough for his "soaps" work to possibly make the Uk obituaries. The rest should have no problem gaining considerable media attention.

Report of the death of Beverley Owen: https://www.facebook.com/650170759/posts/10158280153540760/

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654087/

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3 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Obituary. The Munsters original cast is very reduced:

 

1)Pat Priest (1936): the second Marilyn Munster, diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2001, now in remission.

2)Butch Patrick (1953): Eddie Munster, convicted robber, drug user, frequently tried to commit suicide. Diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2011, but claimed he would live another 20 years.

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Sometime 20/20 pick for @Sir Creep Noah Keen has died: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=noah-keen&pid=192061088

 

Credits apt for this thread include The Twilight Zone and The Six Million Dollar Man, but he's been in loads of stuff, including the 1973 Battle For The Planet Of The Apes.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444607/

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Eddie Jones, who played Pa Kent in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman and the Agency head in the 2000 series The Invisible Man, has reportedly died: https://www.supermanhomepage.com/eddie-jones-pa-kent-from-lois-clark-has-passed-away/

 

Film credits include The Rocketeer and Seabiscuit.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428008/

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Star Trek TOS actor David Hurst has died at 93 according to this German Star Trek blog.

 

Also had a starring role in Hello, Dolly and appeared in popular TV garbage like Charlie’s Angels, Quincy ME, Mission: Impossible and The Man From UNCLE.

 

An Anglo-German, he was one of the children saved from a most certain death by Sir Nicholas Winton.

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On 06/07/2018 at 16:11, Clorox Bleachman said:

*snip*

Virginia Leith b.1932

*snip*

Virginia Leith has died

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Robert Butler, director of the Star Trek pilot episode, turns 92. He also directed the pilot episodes for the original Batman series and Hogan's Heroes. 

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On 12/11/2019 at 21:32, Joey Russ said:

Virginia Leith has died

 

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On ‎24‎/‎12‎/‎2015 at 20:02, Shroud said:

A more-lengthy listing of surviving performers who appeared on the original Twilight Zone-Pt. 1.

 

SNIP

Robert Sampson 1927/1929

SNIP

Death Notice for prolific character actor Robert Sampson: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=robert-leroy-sampson&pid=195206430

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11 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

 

Actually, quite a famous role in The Twilight Zone: the dad in Little Girl Lost. You know, the one with the portal to another dimension that the wee girl rolls off her bed into? A Richard Matheson classic. It's been ripped off quite often, including a funny piss take of it for one of the Simpsons Hallowe'en Specials.

 

 

 

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