In Remembrance...2008

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Dick Martin, half of the comedy duo Rowan and Martin, stars of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, died yesterday. He was 86.

 

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Dick Sutcliffe, creator of the animated series Davey and Goliath, died May 11. He was 90.

 

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Director Sydney Pollack died of cancer this weekend. He was 73.

 

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Earle Hagen, who wrote and performed the theme for The Andy Griffith Show, died Monday. He was 88.

Hagen composed original music for more than 3,000 TV episodes, pilots, and movies, including The Mod Squad, I Spy, and The Dick Van Dyke Show.

 

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Thelma Keane, the wife of cartoonist Bill Keane and the real-life mother in Bill's Family Circus comic strip, died May 23 of Alzheimer's disease. She was 82.

 

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Alexander "Sandy" Courage, an Oscar nominated film and television composer best known for writing the theme for Star Trek, died May 15. He was 88.

 

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Folk singer and political activist Utah Phillips died last Friday of heart failure. He was 73.

 

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Prolific film and television director Joseph Pevney died May 18. He was 96.

Pevney directed some of the most popular episodes of Star Trek, including "The City on the Edge of Forever", "The Trouble With Tribbles", and "Amok Time". He also directed episodes of The Munsters, The Fugitive, Bonanza, Marcus Welby, M.D., Trapper John, M.D., The Incredible Hulk, and Fantasy Island, among others, and films like Man of a Thousand Faces and Tammy and the Bachelor.

 

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Harvey Korman, actor and comedian. Appeared on the Carol Burnett show as well as many Mel Brooks films icluding Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part I, and others.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Folk singer and political activist Utah Phillips died last Friday of heart failure. He was 73.

Three times I went to his concerts, I am playing Phoebe Snow and sniffling right now.

The Auld Grump