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George Harris Kennedy, Jr. (February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016) Academy Award winning actor who appeared in more than two hundred film and television productions.

He made numerous television appearances on such shows as The Asphalt Jungle, Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Have Gun Will Travel, The Andy Griffith Show, Peter Gunn, Bonanza, Maverick, McHale’s Navy, Gunsmoke,  Daniel Boone and Route 66 S1, E1. Kennedy played George Spangler in the 1963 Perry Mason episode, “The Case of the Greek Goddess.” He portrayed the character “Blodgett” in a 1966 episode “Return to Lawrence” of the ABC western series The Legend of Jesse James, starring Christopher Jones in the title role.

In 1971 he starred in the series Sarge  and in 1975 The Blue Knight. 

Kennedy starred as Carter McKay in the CBS prime time serial Dallas (1978–1991), appearing from 1988-1991.

In 2003 he made a comeback to television in the soap opera The Young and the Restless, playing the character Albert Miller, the biological father to legendary character Victor Newman. (Wikipedia). 

He will be missed. And 2016 needs to be stopped.

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George Gaynes (born George Jongejans; May 16, 1917 –
February 15, 2016)  Singer, actor and comedy performer of
stage, screen and television, voice artist and World War II veteran.

Gaynes’ most recognized role’s in cinema was arguably that of Commandant Eric Lassard in the Police Academy series and the comedy film Tootsie. To television fans, he is perhaps best known as the curmudgeonly but lovable foster parent Henry Warnimont on the NBC series Punky Brewster; as high-powered theatrical producer Arthur Feldman on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, in which Gaynes’ real-life wife, Allyn Ann McLerie, co-starred as his love interest; and as Frank Smith, the mob boss brought down by Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary) on the soap opera General Hospital. (Wikipedia)

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Daniel Patrick Harrington, Jr., (August 13, 1929 – January 6, 2016), known as Pat Harrington, Jr. or simply Pat Harrington, a voice, stage, and television actor, best known for his role as building superintendent “Schneider” on the CBS sitcom One Day at a Time.

Harrington became famous in the 1950s as a member of Steve Allen’s television comedy troupe, the “Men on the Street” (which also included Don Knotts, Tom Poston and Louis Nye). Harrington also gained considerable recognition for his many appearances as the comedic Italian immigrant “Guido Panzini” on The Jack Paar Show in the mid-1950s. In the 1959-1960 season, he played the recurring role of Pat Hannigan in eleven episodes of Danny Thomas’s CBS sitcom, Make Room for Daddy.
Hannigan is the pending son-in-law of Thomas’ character of Danny
Williams; he is engaged to older daughter Terry Williams, played by
Penny Parker after Sherry Jackson, who originally filled the role, vacated the series in 1958. Just a few weeks before Harrington’s passing, Marjorie Lord, another alumnus of The Danny Thomas Show who played Thomas’ second wife in the series, died on November 28, 2015.

In the 1964–1965 television season, he guest-starred on numerous programs, including ABC’s sitcom The Bing Crosby Show and NBC’s Kentucky Jones (starring Dennis Weaver). In a 1965 episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (“The Bow-Wow Affair”), Harrington reprised his role as “Guido Panzini” (who he also played in the February 8, 1966 episode of McHale’s Navy and in the May 2, 1983 episode of One Day At A Time). (Wikipedia)

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Martin E. Brooks (born Martin Baum;
November 30, 1925 – December 7, 2015) was an American character actor
known for playing scientist Dr. Rudy Wells in the television series The Six Million Dollar Man and its spin-off, The Bionic Woman, from 1975 onward (a role originally portrayed by Martin Balsam and then by Alan Oppenheimer).

Brooks reprised the role of Wells in three television movies: The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1987), Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989) and Bionic Ever After? (1994). His other television roles include Ted Burton in Knots Landing, Mike Snow in Hunter, Dr. Arthur Bradshaw in General Hospital, Deputy D.A. Chapman in McMillan & Wife, and Edgar Randolph in the soap opera Dallas, in a story arc involving J.R. Ewing. He also guest-starred in an episode of The Silent Force in 1970. (Wikipedia)

He shall be missed.

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Jack Edward Larson (February 8, 1928 – September 20, 2015) Actor, librettist, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his portrayal of photographer/cub reporter Jimmy Olsen on the TV series Adventures of Superman.

His other TV credits include

L.I.M. Mr. Larson