Two promising young singers, Aaliyah and Melanie Thornton, died tragically young in separate plane crashes. From behind the camera 2001 saw the passing of directors Burt Kennedy, Stanley Kramer, Budd Boetticher, Paul Landres, Michael Ritchie, David Swift, Herbert Ross, Ken Hughes and Ralph Thomas, as well as Planet of the Apes make-up artist John Chambers, cinematographer John Alonzo, Alfred Hitchcock assistant Herbert Coleman, and producers Howard W. Belvedere’s Christopher Hewett, Sanford and Son’s Grady - Whitman Mayo, M*A*S*H ’s Colonel Flagg - Edward Winter, Eight Is Enough’s Lani O’Grady, sit-com pioneer Johnny Stearns, and Adventures in Paradise’s Gardner McKay. Imogene Coca, Ann Sothern and Dagmar, Tonight show producer Fred de Cordova, syndication pioneer Frederick Ziv, Dark Shadows’ Louis Edmonds, comic drunk Foster Brooks, Fame’s Albert Hague, Mr. From the world of television we lost My Favorite Martian Ray Walston, comediennes Other top film stars who took their final curtain call include Rosemary DeCamp, Gloria Foster, Deborah Walley, Eileen Heckart, Joan Sims, Anthony Steel, Kathleen Freeman, Walter Reed, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Dexter, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dorothy McGuire, Beatrice Straight, Corinne Calvet, Police Academy’s David Graf, and The Exorcist’s Jason Miller.
The Beatles’ George Harrison, the “Queen of the Cowgirls” Dale Evans, Oscar-winning stars Jack Lemmon and Anthony Quinn, All in the Family’s Archie Bunker - Carroll O’Connor, country music legend Chet Atkins, crooner Perry Como, violin virtuoso Isaac Stern, Dennis the Menace creator Hank Ketcham, 1950s teen heartthrob Troy Donahue, literary legend Eudora Welty, Hanna-Barbera co-founder William Hanna, songwriter Jay Livingston, and AIP co-founder Samuel Z.
Numerous other celebrities also died during the year. Like the rest of the country, the world of the performing arts also lost friends and family in the catastrophe including Frasier producer David Angell, Anthony Perkins’ widow, actress Berry Berenson, and television commentator Barbara Olson, among others. INTRODUCTION The year 2001 was a tumultuous one, as America was shattered by terrorist attacks that claimed thousands of lives in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction ¡ Reference Bibliography 3 The 200¡ Obituaries Alexander’s, Tommy Gattas, James Gattas, the Fox & Hound, the University of Memphis Library and the Memphis and Shelby County public libraries. Mark He‡ngton, Anne Taylor, Andy Branham, John Nelson, Richard Allynwood, Frank de Azpillaga, Irv Jacobs, Bob Cuneo, Alun Jones, Marty Baumann, Trinity Houston, Joy Martin, Denise Tansil, John Janovich, Jake Miller, Hal Stansbury, Blaine Lester, Jay Morris, the fine folks at J. Porter at the Science Fiction Chronicle, Rosa Burnett and the sta› at State Technical Institute library, Tom Weaver, Fred Davis, Forrest J Ackerman, Mike Fitzgerald, John Beifuss, Eric Rohr, Ray Neilson, John Whyborn, Boyd Magers, Larry Tauber, An-ĭrew “Captain Comics” Smith, Nikki and Jimmy Walker, Tony Pruitt, Bobby Mathews, Kent Nelson, Dale Warren, Dr. Special thanks also go to Bob King at Classic Images, for granting permission to use information from my columns, and to the people at Jerry Ohlinger’s for assistance in acquiring many of the photographs appearing herein. John Lilly, Troy Donahue, Pauline Moore, Deborah Walley, Toby Wing, John Mitchum and Rufus ThomasĪCKNOWLEDGMENTS I greatly appreciate the assistance of my good friend, Carla Clark, and my mother, Helene Lentz. McCarthy DeMere, Johnny Colletta, Lucile Ewing, John Lavecchia, Dr. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 6¡¡, Je›erson, North Carolina 28640 This book is dedicated to the memory of those friends and family lost during 200¡- John P. Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina, and Londonįront cover, clockwise from top left: Dale Evans, Dorothy McGuire, Edward Winter and Whitman Mayo Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 200¡ Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture by
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