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Series Regulars Who Died When Show Was Still On The Air
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Debbie Weems - Captain Kangaroo
Carolyn Jones while playing on the daytime soap "Capitol."
A number of soap actors have died while the show was still on the air:
Charita Bauer ("Guiding Light")
Macdonald Carey and Frances Reid ("Days Of Our Lives")
David Lewis, Anna Lee, John Beradino ("General Hospital")
Phil Carey and Clint Ritchie ("One Life To Live")
Ruth Warrick ("All My Children")
Mary Stuart (best known as Jo on "Search For Tomorrow" but was
playing Meta Bauer on "Guiding Light" at the time of her death)
Jeanne Cooper ("The Young And The Restless")
And another "former regular" from the game-show world: Jay Stewart,
announcer on "Sale Of The Century" from 1983-88, committed suicide
in September 1989. The shows airing on GSN have Don Morrow as
announcer; he took Stewart's place when the latter retired.
A number of soap actors have died while the show was still on the air:
Charita Bauer ("Guiding Light")
Macdonald Carey and Frances Reid ("Days Of Our Lives")
David Lewis, Anna Lee, John Beradino ("General Hospital")
Phil Carey and Clint Ritchie ("One Life To Live")
Ruth Warrick ("All My Children")
Mary Stuart (best known as Jo on "Search For Tomorrow" but was
playing Meta Bauer on "Guiding Light" at the time of her death)
Jeanne Cooper ("The Young And The Restless")
And another "former regular" from the game-show world: Jay Stewart,
announcer on "Sale Of The Century" from 1983-88, committed suicide
in September 1989. The shows airing on GSN have Don Morrow as
announcer; he took Stewart's place when the latter retired.
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rnigma said:
Drumm kept saying to Burger: "We can beat Mason. We have the technology."
bpatrick said:
Although she was no longer a "regular" at the time, Helen Wagner....portrayer of "Nancy"....Matriarch of the Hughes family for 54 years on "As The World Turns"....died in 2010.....only months before the show left the air.
Smittian said:
That reminds me....Larry Hagman, who passed in November of 2012.....during the 2nd. season of the "Dallas" sequel series on TNT.
landtuna said:
Correct. He had just left, and was working on the failed L&O spinoff, Trial by Jury, when his failing health stopped him after just two episodes.
On Petticoat Junction one of the Cannonball conductors died.
stevations said:
Smiley Burnett
I suppose you could add Walt Disney, who introduced the Wonderful World of Disney program each week. The first show after he died, Dick Van Dyke did a tribute to him.
In that same category, Dick Powell hosted his own anthology show. In 1962, he was diagnosed with cancer and died on January 2, 1963. Due to his popularity in Hollywood, a number of MAJOR stars filled in to do the introductions during the final stages of his illness and after his death.
In that same category, Dick Powell hosted his own anthology show. In 1962, he was diagnosed with cancer and died on January 2, 1963. Due to his popularity in Hollywood, a number of MAJOR stars filled in to do the introductions during the final stages of his illness and after his death.
Never mind...someone else beat me to the punch.
The sad news just broke this morning:
"Glee" cast member Cory Monteith just passed away.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/14/cory-monteith-dead_n_3593385.html
"Glee" cast member Cory Monteith just passed away.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/14/cory-monteith-dead_n_3593385.html
On Petticoat Junction one of the Cannonball conductors died.
Smiley Burnett
I thought his partner on the show, Rufe Davis must had died while the show was still in production. I checked and he died in 1974, after production had stopped. He disappeared from the series shortly after Burnett died. I thought he had died too. I guess he was just written out.
Smiley Burnett
I thought his partner on the show, Rufe Davis must had died while the show was still in production. I checked and he died in 1974, after production had stopped. He disappeared from the series shortly after Burnett died. I thought he had died too. I guess he was just written out.
I believe that Rufe Davis just left the series, around the time that Bea Benederet passed away. He was replaced by Bryon Foulger playing "Wendell Gibbs". Then, during production for the last season, Mr. Foulger got sick and Rufe Davis returned as "Floyd Smoot" in a few episodes near the end of the final season, including "Steve's Uncle George" (played by Don Ameche). Mr. Foulger died on the date that the final episode of "Petticoat Junction" first ran so he fits into this topic as well.
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