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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. 

(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)

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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)