This has been another year that has seen the loss of many great and talented people throughout the SF/fantasy/horror and genre-related entertainment industry. As 2007 comes to a close we bid them all a final farewell in this memorium.
Joe Murphy – Podcaster, reviewer and good friend
Dick Wilson (Charmin’s Mr. Whipple)
Verity Lambert (1st Doctor Who producer)
Ira Levin (Author)
Lois Maxwell (Actress — Bond’s original Miss Moneypenny)
Alice Ghostley (Actress)
Robert Jordan (SF/Fantasy Author)
Perry Rodriquez (Actor — Star Trek TOS, Commodore Stone)
Mike Wieringo (Marvel Comic Artist/Illustrator)
Frank Rosenfelt (MGM CEO — responsible for getting “2001: A Space Odyssey” financed)
Michael Serrault (Actor)
Ingmar Bergman (the world’s greatest filmmaker)
Jack B. Sowards (Screenwriter)
Fred Saberhagen (SF/Fantasy Author)
Richard Compton (Director)
Madeleine L’Engle (SF/Fantasy Author)
Joel Siegel (Movie Critic)
Don Herbert (Mr. Wizard)
Charles Nelson Reilly (Actor/Writer/Director)
Jack Valenti (Hollywood Lobbyist — creator of the current movie ratings system)
Barry Nelson (Actor — the very 1st James Bond)
Roscoe Lee Browne (Actor)
Kurt Vonnegut (Novelist)
Robert Clark (Director)
Richard Jeni (Actor/Comedian)
Jean Baudrillard (Futurist, Philosopher)
Robert Adler (Inventor — creator of the TV remote control)
Tige Andrews (Actor — Star Trek TOS, Mod Squad)
Lee Bergere (Actor — Star Trek TOS, Abraham Lincoln)
Sidney Sheldon (Author)
Ron Carey (Actor)
Yvonne De Carlo (Actress — the original Lily Munster)
Iwao Takamoto (Cartoonist/Animator)
tim and darcy low says
Did not realize it was so many. All will be greatly missed and we are better for having known them.
Tim
Michael Natale says
Mr. Whipple?
Indiana Jim says
Yeah, Mr. Whipple’s a stretch. And Ingmar Bergman as (world’s greatest filmmaker) is… um… opinion?
Sam says
Dick Wilson isn’t too much of a stretch Jim. He was more than just Mr. Whipple. He did his share of fantasy sitcom TV including “Bewitched,†“Tabitha, “Fantasy Island†and “I Dream of Jeannie,†just to name a few. In one of his final movie roles, Wilson played, of all things, a store manager in “The Incredible Shrinking Woman.â€Â
Indiana Jim says
Well why didn’t you say so in the first place! That’s a horse of a different color!