THE HAT SQUAD 2012 - THE ACTORS

As is customary in a lot of entertainment sites (at least, I hope you find Inner Toob entertaining!), the end of the year leads us to look back at those whom we lost. I try to keep up to date with all of the departed who were involved in the expansion of the Toobworld Dynamic throughout the world, but I always somebody who deserved a tip of the hat from ye olde Caretaker. I'm sure this year will be no different.

But the blame can't be laid on those whose sites I depend on for this information. (Believe me, I've tried.) Besides major obituary sources like the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, I've come to depend on "A Shroud Of Thoughts", "Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine", "Thrilling Days Of Yesteryear", and especially "Boot Hill". Thanks to everyone concerned at those blogs and web sites.

Sadly there were far too many we lost in many fields, so I've divided up the list for several posts.  The following list is always the toughest, because they visually contributed so much to our enjoyment of the World of the Toob.  And this year we lost far too many of the greats......

THE ACTORS

• Jenny Tomasin ('Upstairs, Downstairs')
• William Duell ('Police Squad')
• Joaquin Martinez ('Centennial', 'Alias Smith And Jones')
• Morgan Jones ('The Blue Angels', 'Highway Patrol', 'Mannix' - first season)
• Dick Tufeld (voice of Robot in 'Lost In Space', many voice-over credits)
• James Farentino ('Vanished', 'Blue Thunder', 'The Bold Ones: The Lawyers', 'Mary')
• Robert Hegyes ('Welcome Back, Kotter', 'Cagney & Lacey')
• Dimitra Arliss ('Rich Man, Poor Man: Book II', 'General Hospital')
• Nicol Williamson ('Columbo')
• Ian Abercrombie ('Seinfeld')
• Silvana Gallardo ("Calendar Girl Murders")
• Frederick Treves ('Regiment', 'Doctor Who')
• Ben Gazzara ('QBVII', 'Run For Your Life')
• Ruth Hausmeister ('Zwei Bruder', 'Arzte')
• Peter Breck ('The Big Valley', 'The Black Saddle', 'Maverick')
• Phil Bruns ('Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman', 'Forever Fernwood')
• Zina Bethune ('The Nurses', 'Love Of Life')
• David Kelly ('Strumpet City', 'Fawlty Towers')
• Elyse Knox (B-movie actress of the 40s, mother of Mark Harmon, Kristin Nelson, grandmother to Tracy Nelson & the Nelson twins)
• Laurie Main ('Family Affair', 'Mayberry RFD', 'Welcome To Pooh Corner')
• Dick Anthony Williams (Malcolm X in "King", 'Homefront')
• Peter Halliday ('A For Andromeda'/'The Andromeda Breakthrough', 'Chico The Rainmaker', 'Doctor Who')
• Erland Josephson (longtime collaborator with Ingmar Bergman TV: 'Il giudice istruttore', 'Som löven i Vallombrosa', 'Dubbelsvindlarna', 'Röda rummet')
• Neal Hope ('Degrassi Junior High', 'Degrassi High')
• Dennis Chinnery ('Doctor Who')
• Philip Madoc ('Doctor Who')
• Leonardo Cimino ('Ryan's Hope', 'Naked City')
• Pierre Tornade (French, 'Nestor Burma')
• Wallace Earl ('The Rifleman', 'The Big Valley' - a woman)
• Faith Brook ('The Irish RM', 'Miss Marple')
• Jose Rubio ('La Casa De Los Martinez', 'Musica y Estrellas')
• Ed Brigadier ('House', 'Alias', 'Nip/Tuck')
• Gerard Rinaldi (French - 'Marc and Sophie')
• Joan Taylor (Rose Freeman) (Millie on 'The Rifleman', oversaw her late husband's 'Hawaii Five-O' estate)
• Dennis Bowen ('How The West Was Won', over 1000 commercials)
• Tamas Pinter (Hungarian - 'Linda T.I.R.')
• Eileen McDonough ('The Waltons', 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show')
• Warren Stevens ('Tales Of The Bengal Lancers', 'Bracken's World', 'Star Trek', 'Bonanza', 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea', 'Peyton Place', 'M*A*S*H', 'ER')
• Nick Santini (soaps, suicide)
• Barry Cahill (many Westerns, married to Rachel Ames)
• Luke Askew (many Westerns)
• Garry Walberg ('Quincy, M.E.', 'The Odd Couple')
• James E. Brodhead ('Here's Lucy', 'McMillan & Wife', 'The Wonder Years')
• Julio Aleman (Mexican telenovelas)
• James Tarwater ('Walker, Texas Ranger')
• William Finley ('Tales From The Crypt', 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch', 'Masters of Horror')
• Jonathan Frid ('Dark Shadows')
• Peter Carsten ('Povratak otpisanih', 'Ein Schloß am Wörthersee')
• Marcelo Alfaro ('Montecristo')
• Robert Broyles ('The High Chapparel', 'Bonanza')
• Hank Robinson (baseball players and cowboys)
• Nicholas King ('One Man's Family')
• Patricia Medina ('Bonanza', 'Mannix', Mrs. Joseph Cotton)
• George Lindsey ('The Andy Griffith Show' & 'Mayberry RFD')
• John Forrest (Thunder in the West, Good Wives, Emergency Ward 10, Armchair Theatre, Doctor Finlay's Casebook and A Requiem for Modiglian)
• Joyce Redman ('Vanity Fair')
• Walter Matthews ('General Hospital', 'Another World', Fram Oil Filter ads)
• C. Lindsey Workman ('Here Come The Brides')
• Janet Carroll ('Murphy Brown', 'Melrose Place', 'Married With Children')
• Dick Beals (voice of 'Speedy Alka Seltzer', Gumby, Davy)
• Kathryn Joosten ('The West Wing', 'Desperate Housewives')
• Frank Cady ('Petticoat Junction', 'Green Acres', 'Beverly Hillbillies', former crossover king)
• Yvette Wilson ('Moesha', 'The Parkers')
• Susan Tyrell ('Open All Night', Madam DeBarge in 'I Am Weasel' & 'Cow And Chicken')
• Victor Spinetti ('Two In Clover', 'An Actor's Life For Me', Super Ted')
• Richard Lynch ('Galactica 1980', 'Murder, She Wrote')
• Caroline John (Liz Shaw on 'Doctor Who')
• Anthony Bate ('Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy', 'Smiley's People', 'Game, Set, Match', 'Cambridge Spies')
• Doris Singleton ('I Love Lucy')
• Don Grady ('The Mickey Mouse Club', 'My Three Sons')
• Andy Griffith ('The Andy Griffith Show', 'Matlock', 'Pray For The Wildcats')
• Ernie Sykes ('Dress Rehearsal', 'Sykes And A....', 'Sykes'
• Ernest Borgnine ('McHale's Navy', 'Airwolf', 'The Single Guy')
• Dara Singh ("Vikram Aur Betaal")
• Celeste Holm ("Nancy", "The Delphi Bureau", "Promised Land")
• Isuzu Yamada (Japanese actress)
• Michael Lipton ("Somerset", "One Life To Live")
• Simon Ward ("The Tudors", Churchill on TV and movies)
• Angharad Rees ("Poldark")
• Chris Wedes (P.J. Patches of Seattle kids TV)
• Sherman Hemsley ("All In The Family", "The Jeffersons", "Amen")
• Chad Everett ("Medical Center", "Centennial", "Manhattan, Az")
• Mary Tamm (Romana 1 of "Doctor Who", EastEnders")
• Susanne Lothar (German actress, "Poirot - Murder On The Orient Express")
• Lupe Ontiveras ("Desperate Housewives")
• Paco Moran (2500 WIN Spanish TV programs)
• Morgan Paull ("Centennial", "The Fall Guy", "Gunsmoke", "The Patty Duke Show" - debut)
• Dolphy (Filipino actor, "Buhay Artista", "John en Marsha")
• Geoffrey Hughes ("Coronation Street", Onslow on "Keeping Up Appearances")
• R.G. Armstrong (MANY TV westerns!)
• Norman Alden ("Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", Lou the Repairman)
• Fern Persons (101, missed 102nd b'day by five days. "ER", "Early Edition", "Missing Persons")
• John Finnegan ("Columbo", my friend)
• Al Freeman, Jr. ("One Life To Live", "Sweet Charlie")
• Ron Palillo ('Welcome Back, Kotter')
• Joan Roberts ('Fantasy Island", "Jack And The Beanstalk")
• Phyllis Thaxter ("Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "Climax!", "Lux Video Theater", "Wagon Train")
• William Windom ("My World & Welcome To It", "Parenthood", "Murder, She Wrote", MANY guest star roles!)
• Michael Clark Duncan ('The Finder')
• Lance LeGault ('The A-Team', 'Airwolf')
• Jeffrey Stone ('The Three Musketeers' in Italy)
• Maite Nahyr ('Maigret', "Mademoiselle O")
• Biff Elliot ('Alfred Hitchcock Presents', 'Cannon', 'Mission Impossible')
• Anna Orso ('Io e mio figlio - Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi')
• Lucy Gallardo ('Deborah', 'Gran Teatro')
• Sancho Garcia ('Curro Jiminez')
• Lloyd Kino ('McHale's Navy', 'Star Trek', 'C.S.I.')
• John Moffatt ('The Adventures Of Ben Gunn', 'Love In A Cold Climate', 'Crown Court', 'Maigret')
• John Ingle ('General Hospital', 'Days Of Our Lives', 'The Drew Carey Show')
• Stephen Dunham ('DAG', 'Oh Grow Up')
• Herbert Lom ('The Human Jungle', 'Hawaii Five-O', 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', "Pink Panther" movies)
• Johnny Lewis ("Sons Of Anarchy", "The O.C.")
• Alex Karras ('Centennial', 'Webster', "The 500 Pound Jerk")
• John Clive ('Robert's Robots', 'How Green Was My Valley', 'The Nesbitts Are Coming')
• Sylvia Kristel (the Emmanuelle TV movies)
• Russell Means ('Into The West' 'Buffalo Girls', 'Nash Bridges')
• Elizabeth Bell ('Harriet's Back In Town', 'The Bill', 'Casualty', 'Sexton Blake', 'Doctors')
• Brian Cobby (The Speaking Clock)
• Clive Dunn ('Dad's Army')
• Lucille Bliss (voice of Crusader Rabbit)
• Trevor Lawrence ('Doctor Who')
• David Webb ('Doctor Who')
• Deborah Raffin ("Nightmare In Badham County")
• Larry Hagman ('I Dream Of Jeannie', 'Dallas')
• Dinah Sheridan ('Don't Wait Up', 'Just Us', 'Doctor Who' - Chancellor Flavia)
• Joy Parker ("Henry IV", "Dixon Of Dock Green", widow of Paul Scofield)
• Susan Luckey ('Telephone Time', 'The George Burns And Gracie Allen Show')
• Don McArt ('Adam 12', 'The Addams Family', 'My Little Margie', 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents')
• Jack Klugman ('The Odd Couple', 'Quincy, M.E.', 'You Again?', 'The Twilight Zone')
• Charles Durning ('Evening Shade', 'Captains And The Kings', 'Rescue Me', Santa Claus of Toobworld)
• Cliff Osmond ("The Rifleman," "Twilight Zone," "Gunsmoke," "All in the Family," "The Bob Newhart Show")
• Harry Carey Jr. ('Wagon Train', 'Bonanza', 'Gunsmoke', 'Have Gun, Will Travel')
• Thelma Reston ('Escrito nas Estrelas' 'Bicho de Mato', many Brazilian tele-novelas)
• Milo Quesada ('The Aeronauts', 'Estudio1')
• Axel Anderson ("Die Schwarze Hand", 'Mañana puede ser verdad')
• Sakari Jurkka ('Rauhanranta 12', 'Nitrokabinetti')
• Alida Cheli ('Docteur Caraibes', 'Casa Dolce Casa')
• Ed Grady, ('Dawson's Creek', 'I'll Fly Away')
• Frederick Neumann ('Law & Order', 'Crime Story', 'Spencer: For Hire', 'The Equalizer')
• Carolyn Conwell ('The Young And The Restless')
• Pat Renella ('Mannix', 'The New Phil Silvers Show', 'General Hospital')

Good night and may God bless......