In Remembrance:2007

[jaerdaph]

Edit: Nevermind.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Yolanda King, the oldest child of Martin Luther King Jr., died Tuesday. She was 51.

King was an actress who often portrayed heroes from the civil rights struggle (among her films were Ghosts of Mississippi and Death of a Prophet).

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Actor Carl Wright, who began his career as a tap dancer and comedian and later appeared in movies including Brbershop, Soul Food, and Big Momma's House, died last Saturday of cancer. He was 75.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Terry Ryan, who wrote the best-selling memoir The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, which was about her mother (and was adapted as a motion picture, died of cancer May 16 at her home in San Francisco. She was 60.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Robert J. Lapidus, who turned a surplus business into Bob's Stores, a major clothing retailer in the Northeast, died last Friday. He was 78.

He started his first store, Bob's Surplus in Middletown, Conn., 1954 when he was 25 and would have more than 30 stores throughout the northeast.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Charles Nelson Reilly, who was best known as a regular on Match Game, died last Friday of pneumonia. He was 76.

Reilly won a Tony for playing Bud Frump in the original production of How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. He made numerous appearences on TV shows. Besides Match Game, he was on Hollywood Squares, The Tonight Show, the TV version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Dean Martin Show, Lidsville, The X-Files, and The Drew Carey Show.

 

[Mark CMG]

Charles Nelson Reilly, who was best known as a regular on Match Game, died last Friday of pneumonia. He was 76.

Reilly won a Tony for playing Bud Frump in the original production of How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. He made numerous appearences on TV shows. Besides Match Game, he was on Hollywood Squares, The Tonight Show, the TV version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Dean Martin Show, Lidsville, The X-Files, and The Drew Carey Show.

That's a shame. One of a kind. His X-Files stuff was hilarious.

 

[Aeolius]

Besides Match Game, he was on Hollywood Squares, The Tonight Show, the TV version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Dean Martin Show, Lidsville, The X-Files, and The Drew Carey Show.

and he was the voice of the Dirty Bubble on Spongebob.

 

[AuroraGyps]

Charles Nelson Reilly, who was best known as a regular on Match Game, died last Friday of pneumonia. He was 76.

I called my dad to let him know about this. We're both HUGE Match Game fans. It's one of the only shows we can watch together and not drive each other crazy.

 

[RichCsigs]

I loved him on Match Game, but he'll always be Jose Chung to me.