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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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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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Doris Roberts (born Doris May Green; November 4, 1925 – April 17, 2016) was an American actress. She received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award during her acting career, which began in 1951. She was perhaps best known for her role as Raymond Barone’s mother, Marie Barone, on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond and
as Mildred Krebs on Remington Steele. 


Roberts’ acting career began in 1952 with a role on the TV series Studio One. She appeared in episodes of The Naked City (1958–63), Way Out (1961), Ben Casey (1963), and The Defenders (1962–63). In 1961, she made her film debut in Something Wild (1961). 

She has usually been cast as a mother or mother-in-law on television, i.e. as Theresa Falco on Angie. 

Other series she appeared in were
Alice,
Barney Miller,
Soap,
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Full House

and
Step by Step

. (Wikipedia)

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Anna Marie “Patty” Duke (December 14, 1946 – March 29, 2016) Actress of stage, film and television. She first became famous as a tween star, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16 for her role in The Miracle Worker, which she had originated on Broadway. She later starred in the sitcom, The Patty Duke Show. She progressed to more mature roles upon playing Neely O’Hara in the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls. She served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1985 to 1988, four years after her Patty Duke Show co-star William Schallert held the same office


In 1982, Duke was cast alongside Richard Crenna in the ABC sitcom It Takes Two, from Soap and Benson creator Susan Harris.
The socially topical series depicted both Duke’s and Crenna’s
characters as a modern career couple (hers was a lawyer, his a surgeon)
and the moral and personal challenges that abounded from their
professions. Helen Hunt and Anthony Edwards played their teenaged offspring. Although It Takes Two was praised, ABC cancelled the series after one season due to low ratings.


Duke would subsequently work with Susan Harris on a new ABC series, Hail To The Chief,
which premiered in April 1985. She appeared as the first female
President of the United States in the ensemble, all-star series (the
cast featured Dick Shawn, Herschel Bernardi, Glynn Turman and Ted Bessell as Duke’s husband, among others) and the material was topical yet off-the-wall, much in the fashion of Soap, like which it was partially serialized. Hail To The Chief was less successful than the star’s and producer’s previous joint effort of It Takes Two and was cancelled after seven episodes. In 1987, Duke returned to series television in another short-lived comedy, Karen’s Song, which aired on the fledgling Fox network. 

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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)