Actors and Actresses You Miss

Rodney Bewes’ passing means we’ll never see a third (1) incarnation of the Likely Lads.

(1) The Ant ‘n’ Dec reboot doesn’t count.

 

Raymond Burr
Barbara Hale
William Hopper
Lee Marvin
Lionel Stander
Steve McQueen
Richard Boone
Larry Hagman

 

Gene Hackmam. Still with us but retired.

 

One of my favorites. Love him in The French Connection.

 

He made acting look so easy.

 

I haven't seen much of John Hurt, but his appearance on Doctor Who as The War Doctor was outstanding. He came across as a man so torn over the action he going to take.

Liked in in both The Addams Family and its sequel and as M. Bison in Street Fighter. Despite the seeming silliness of Street Fighter, Julia came across so strongly in the movie and looked like he was having a great time.

I agree that Hartman was a great actor. He was one of the great chameleons of Saturday Night Live, able to assume any role and make it his own. My favorite sketch of his is Robot Repair, a sketch with a very simple premise but one that plays out brilliantly.

 

Can say the same for Gene Hackman too.

 

Michelle Monaghan. She got out of bed, got dressed and said she was going out for milk. That was a week ago.

I don't think she's ever coming back.

 

Isn't she on a TV show now? Love that chick. Wanted her for Lois Lane too.

 

Bill Paxton

This dude was great

 

Paul Newman.

 

What am I missing here?

 

Ruth Gordon
River Phoenix
Anne Ramsey
Charles Hawtrey
Joan Sims
Wilfrid Brambell
Harry H. Corbett
Carrie Fisher
Geraldine Page
Jill Clayburgh
Brittany Murphy
Mollie Sugden
Arthur Brough
Neil McCarthy
Geoffrey Bayldon
Gene Wilder
Lee Grant
Melinda Dillon

 

I miss-Jack Lord[book em Danno].

 

Jessica Tandy
Hume Cronin

 

Chris Farley died 20 years ago yesterday...

Here is his All That appearance.

 

Hedy

 

Great thread.

Someone I was particularly sad over when I learned they died was Robert Urich. No, not the biggest of stars, yet in a way he was, for about thirty years - because he was a star of the small screen and TV movies - and that in a way is why I was particularly sad, as well as the fact that he left too soon at age 55, back in 2002. I felt that movie stardom passed him by for some inexplicable reason. Perhaps though, it was choice. I throw that out as a possible explanation, but I don't think it is so. Urich apparently once described himself as "TV's Harrison Ford", which implies that whilst he felt he was a successful TV actor, he would much rather have been in Ford's shoes.

One movie that he co-starred in that is an old favourite of mine, and kind of falls into the 'cult classic' status is Turk 182!

One of the four rogue bike cops that Harry Callahan had to deal with in Magnum Force, Urich was otherwise the perennial good-guy of the TV screen, in shows like Vega$, and Spenser: For Hire.

At the one Star Trek convention I've attended, I got the opportunity to ask Avery Brooks (who co-starred in Spenser: For Hire) about him, and he spoke well of him, recalling that they spent quite a bit of time together on a drive. Indeed, everyone seems to have thought well of the man. He was the sort of man that everyone liked and that had an "everyman" appeal. And I think that is also why I miss Robert Urich.

Friends with Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck, Urich was married to actress Heather Menzies.

 

Eli Wallach

 

all the good actors that turned into Ass****s

 

Name names!

 

can't...: ) sorry...

 

I LOVE and MISS him...his bit on SNL is hysterical...just thinking about it cracks me up!
Chris Farley Dances to Sexy and I Know It

 

WEAK!