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John A. “Jack” Riley Jr. (December 30, 1935 – August 19, 2016) Actor, voice artist and comedian. He is known for playing Elliot Carlin on the The Bob Newhart Show and for voicing Stu Pickles in the Rugrats franchise.


Riley was first a semi-regular in the cast of the 1960s sitcom Occasional Wife, a short-lived show on NBC in which he played Wally Frick.  In 1979, he starred in ABC’s holiday telefilm The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t (aka The Night Dracula Saved The World) as Warren the Werewolf (Wolf Man) of Budapest.Riley then appeared in a HBO comedy special in 1980 called The Wild Wacky Wonderful World of Winter. He was a regular cast member in The Tim Conway Show, a comedy-variety show that aired on CBS from March 1980 through the late Summer of 1981, acting in sketch comedy in each episode. In 1985, he reprised his Bob Newhart Show role of Elliot Carlin on St. Elsewhere.
 
Among his other TV credits are multiple appearances on such shows as Barney Miller, Hogan’s Heroes, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, One Day at a Time, Gomer Pyle, Diff’rent Strokes and Night Court.   
He continued to make guest appearances during the 1990s in popular sitcoms, showing up in episodes of Seinfeld, Son of the Beach, Friends, Coach, The Drew Carey Show, That ‘70s Show and, in a gag appearance, as an unnamed but obvious Mr. Carlin in an episode of Newhart.

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Garry Kent Marshall (November 13, 1934 – July 19, 2016) Actor, director, producer, writer, voice artist, and comedian. His notable credits included creating Happy Days, 
Laverne and Shirley 
and Mork & Mindy; developing Neil Simon’s 1965 play The Odd Couple for television, and directing Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve, Mother’s Day, The Princess Diaries, and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.


Marshall began his career as a joke writer for such comedians as Joey Bishop and Phil Foster and then became a writer for The Tonight Show with Jack Paar. In 1961, he moved to Hollywood, where he teamed up with Jerry Belson as a writer for television. The pair worked on The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Joey Bishop Show, The Danny Thomas Show, and The Lucy Show. Their first television series as creator / producers was Hey, Landlord, which lasted one season (1966–67). (Wikipedia)

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Ann Morgan Guilbert (October 16, 1928 – June 14, 2016), sometimes credited as Ann Guilbert, was an American
television and film actress, who portrayed a number of roles, from the
1950s on, most notably as Millie Helper in 61 episodes of the early
1960s sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, and later Yetta Rosenberg, Fran Fine’s doddering grandmother, in 56 episodes of the 1990s sitcom The Nanny.

Her other tv credits include
My Three Sons,
Hey Landlord

,
Good Morning World,
The Andy Griffith Show,
I Dream of Jeannie,
The New Andy Griffith Show,
Emergency!,
Cheers,
The Fanelli Boys,
Picket Fences,
Modern Family,

Seinfeld,
Life in Pieces  and others.  

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Alan Young (November 19, 1919 – May 19, 2016) 
English-Canadian-American actor, voice artist, comedian, radio host,
television host and personality best known for his role as Wilbur Post
in the television comedy series Mister Ed and as the voice of Scrooge McDuck in Disney films, TV series and video games. During the 1940s and 1950s, he starred in his own shows on radio and television


In 1950, the television version of The Alan Young Show began. By 1951, the series had garnered not only praise but also several Primetime Emmy awards, including “Outstanding Lead Actor” for Alan Young.


He appeared in the episode “Thin Ice” of the NBC espionage drama Five Fingers, starring David Hedison. Young’s television guest roles include Gibbsville, The Love Boat, Murder, She Wrote, St. Elsewhere, Coach, Party of Five, The Wayans Bros., USA High, Hang Time, ER, Maybe It’s Me and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch where he played Zelda’s love interest in the episode “Sweet Charity”,  During the 1988-89 season he costarred in the series 

Coming of Age. 


After 1974, he voiced Scrooge McDuck in numerous Disney films and in the popular series DuckTales (1987-1990).  (Wikipedia)

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Kenneth Joseph “Ken” Howard, Jr. (March 28, 1944 – March 23, 2016) Actor best known for his roles as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and as basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player Ken Reeves in the television show
The White Shadow

from 1978 to  1981. 

 He had the starring role in the 1973 TV series Adam’s Rib opposite his good friend, and Bruce Paltrow’s wife, Blythe Danner (who also played wife Martha to his Thomas Jefferson in the film 1776). He starred in The Manhunter, an American crime drama that was part of CBS’s lineup for the 1974–1975 television season. The series was produced by Quinn Martin and starred Howard as Dave Barret, a 1930s-era private investigator from Idaho. He starred in the TV movie Father Damien in 1980 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1981 for his performance as the ideal father in the CBS afternoon special The Body Human: Facts for Boys. Howard’s admitional credits included “Sidney Sheldon’s Rage of Angels, 1983,” the 2000 miniseries Perfect Murder, Perfect Town and the feature film Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story, both co-starring Kris Kristofferson. He played the title character in the 1984 American Playhouse production of Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson, having earlier played Mark Twain on Bonanza. Later, he appeared as Garrett Boydston in Dynasty and its spin-off The Colbys. In the early 1990s, he appeared on the television series Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury, and later in Crossing Jordan as Jill Hennessy’s father from 2001 to 2004. In 2007, he appeared as the primary villain in the critically acclaimed series Cane with Jimmy Smits.


Howard guest-starred on numerous television dramas. He was guest villain in Hart to Hart Returns, a 1993 made-for-TV movie starring Stefanie Powers and Robert Wagner. He also appeared in season one of The West Wing as President Bartlett’s first choice for U.S. Supreme Court Justice in the episode “The Short List”. His other dramatic guest roles included; .NYPD Blue, The Practice, Boston Legal, Cold Case, Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone, Brothers and Sisters, Law & Order: SVU, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fairly Legal, Crossing Jordan,The Closer and Blue Bloods. He appeared in an episode of The Golden Girls as one of Blanche’s many lovers, in The Office as Michael’s former boss, and on 30 Rock as Hank Hooper, Jack Donaghy’s boss from Kabletown.   (Wikipedia)