2 essential links for those who enjoy this thread. https://findadeath.com https://www.findagrave.com Hollywood graveyard vlog. Quite good. https://www.youtube.com/c/HollywoodGraveyard
I'm wondering if there is an obituary for @waltky The op of this thread. I knew him on a couple of different forums also and he has not been heard from in a very long time and I believe his health was not great. Been over 2 years since his last sighting.
Ray Liotta American actor and producer (1954–2022) Raymond Allen Liotta was an American actor and film producer. He was known for his roles as Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams (1989) and Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990). He was a Primetime Emmy Award-winning actor and received nominations for a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Wikipedia
In case you have not heard. Tony Dow, played Wally Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver has passed away at 77.
So sad, she was certainly an icon. After the first season of Trek she was thinking about quitting. But at an NAACP function, a fan greeter her - Martin Luther King. She told him she was planning to quit. https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/a-conversation-with-mlk-jr-kept-nichelle-nichols-from-exiting-star-trek/X3Z7Q7LGN5BSVMVUFTDN3O63RU/#:~:text=Actress Nichelle Nichols wasn't,Television; Chick Harrity / AP) MLK said Star Trek was the only show he allowed his children to watch.
I also remember the first kiss between a white man and a black woman on the big screen. It was Charlton Heston in The Omega Man, in 1971. Given the filming schedules of movies as opposed to TV series, I have to wonder if The Omega Man was beat to the punch and intended to be the first on any screen. But when was the first kiss between a black man and a white woman?!?! That is another matter altogether. Well it turns out the Brits beat us to the punch in 1962, and really claim the first interracial kiss on the screen. NN — Six years before Capt. Kirk and Lt. Uhura locked lips on “Star Trek” in what is often credited as TV’s first interracial kiss, another couple were pushing boundaries Newly uncovered footage from the British Film Institute (BFI) shows a black man and a white woman kissing in a televised play of “You in Your Small Corner,” in 1962. https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/20/world/first-interracial-kiss-on-tv/index.html
Roger E. Mosley, ‘Magnum P.I.’ actor, dies at 83 (msn.com) In addition to “Magnum, P.I.,” Mosley also made appearances on the shows “Love Boat,” “Night Gallery,” “Sanford and Son,” “Kung Fu,” “Kojak,” “McCloud,” “The Rockford Files,” “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams,” “Starsky and Hutch,” “You Take the Kids,” “Night Court,” “Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper,” “Walker,” “Texas Ranger,” “Rude Awakening,” “Las Vegas” and “Fact Checkers Unit.”
Oh Wow! Anne Hesch is Brain Dead from a lack of oxygen. Her kidneys, liver, heart, lungs live on. Now a perfect organ donor. eh