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)
Did not realize it was so many. All will be greatly missed and we are better for having known them.
Tim
Mr. Whipple?
Yeah, Mr. Whipple’s a stretch. And Ingmar Bergman as (world’s greatest filmmaker) is… um… opinion?
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
Well why didn’t you say so in the first place! That’s a horse of a different color!