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[WernherVonTrapp]

Andrew Koenig, son of Chekov and "Growing Pains" star.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...koenig_n_477501.html

[Gidgiddoni84]

Originally posted by Gathrun:
Corey Haim - March 10, 2010 at 38 of unknown causes (at the moment).

80's child actor and teen girls' dream. Star of movies like Lost Boys, Lucas and License to Drive.

With Kiefer Sutherland's meal ticket about to dry up, and now the untimely death of one of the Frog brothers, I for one am getting a bit nervous.

I'm not saying that Jack Bauer is attacking child stars in an effort to build an unholy army of the night that is loyal only to him, I'm just connecting the dots and asking the questions that mainstream Hollywood media doesn't seem to want to ask.

[HW3]

Peter Graves dead of heart attack at 83. Graves, the tall, stalwart actor likely best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps, leader of a gang of special agents who battled evil conspirators in the long-running television series "Mission: Impossible," died Sunday. He would have been 84 this week. Graves had just returned from brunch with his wife and kids and collapsed before he made it into the house. One of his daughters administered CPR but was unable to revive him. Graves' family doctor visited the house and believed he had a heart attack.

Although Graves never achieved the stardom his older brother, James Arness, enjoyed as Marshall Matt Dillon on TV's "Gunsmoke," he had a number of memorable roles in both films and television.

[tuddley3]

Don't forget his memorable role in Airplane! as Capt. Over.


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Deaths reported during the week ending 13 March 2010

Saturday, 6 March
Mark Linkous, singer-songwriter (Sparklehorse), suicide by gunshot, 47.

Tuesday, 9 March
Willie Davis, major leaguer (Los Angeles Dodgers), apparently of natural causes, 69.

Wednesday, 10 March
Corey Haim, actor ("The Lost Boys"), apparently of an accidental drug overdose, 38.

Thursday, 11 March
Paul Dunlap, film score composer (The Three Stoges), 90.
Merlin Olsen, NFL football player (Los Angeles Rams) and actor ("Father Murphy"), of mesothelioma, 69.
John Hill, aka "The Stomper", pro wrestler, cause not reported, 68.

[HW3]

See this link for another one of his rolls as Price Stalag 17

[WMMangus]

RE Peter Graves:

This goes back a ways; Ranch owner/father in US Saturday morning TV show "Fury - The Story of a Boy and a Horse."

[Wolferz]

re; Corey Haim. His mother reported that he had an enlarged heart and his lungs filled with fluid and drowned him. Has there been an autopsy report stating that he overdosed?

[tuddley3]

Originally posted by Wolferz:
Has there been an autopsy report stating that he overdosed?

The toxicology results probably won't be ready for another week or 2 at least.

[Treetop64]

One more RE Peter Graves:

Hosting the DVD collection of Victory at Sea.

~S~

[HW3]

Texas-born actor, Fess Parker, who made coonskin caps cool in his star portrayal of Davy Crockett in the mid-1950s TV series, died today, the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 85.

Parker, who played another pioneer American hero on television's "Daniel Boone" in the 1960s before retiring from acting a decade later and becoming a successful Santa Barbara hotel developer and Santa Ynez Valley winery owner, died of complications from old age at his home near the winery, family spokeswoman Sao Anash said.

He retired from Hollywood in 1973 and turned to real estate — an ocean-front resort in Santa Barbara, a 21-room inn in Los Olivos, and an award-winning winery. Parker was named a Disney Legend in 1991.