Bob May (1939 – January 18, 2009) was an American actor best remembered for playing The Robot on the television series Lost in Space.
Born in New York City, May was the grandson of vaudeville comedian Chic Johnson, as well as an actor, stage performer, stuntman, director and public speaker.
For years, May was a regular at autograph conventions in the Los Angeles area and around the country. May’s home was destroyed in the firestorm that hit the Los Angeles area in 2008; he and his wife escaped without injury. In later life, May enjoyed attending matches at St James’ Park to watch his beloved Newcastle United FC play.
Death of Bob May Bob May died of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Lancaster. Bob May was 69 years old at the time of his death
Susanna Foster (born Suzanne DeLee Flanders Larson) (December 6, 1924 – January 17, 2009) was an American film actress best known for her role as Christine in the 1943 film, The Phantom of the Opera.
Death of Susanna Foster Susanna Foster died unexpectedly at 5:30 a.m. EST on January 17, 2009 (aged 84). She had been residing at The Lillian Booth Actor’s Home in Englewood, New Jersey since 2003
Trivia Susanna Foster turned down the role for National Velvet, this role went to Elizabeth Taylor.
Later Life By 1983 Foster had been on and off welfare, lived in her car, then moved back to Hollywood from the east coast to make a "comeback." She lived for a time with a doting fan in a tiny apartment on Cherokee Avenue in Hollywood. For a time she attended the occasional film convention or Phantom of the Opera screening and signed autographs, interacting with her fans. She claimed her son Philip was a drug addict and he also became an alcoholic. In 1985 Philip lapsed into hepatic coma (liver failure) on Susanna’s living room floor and died three days later in Van Nuys Hospital. Eventually, she was unable to keep a job or support herself. Her surviving son, Michael, who had tried in vain to help her, finally brought her back to the east coast where she spent the last years of her life living in nursing homes.
Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán Merino (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican television, theatre, and film actor. He had a career spanning decades and multiple notable roles. During the late 1970s, he was the spokesperson in automobile advertisements for the Chrysler Cordoba (in which he famously extols the "Corinthian leather" used for its interior). From 1977 to 1984 he starred as Mr. Roarke in the television series Fantasy Island. He also played the villainous Khan Noonien Singh in both the 1967 "Space Seed" episode of the first season of the original Star Trek series, and the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He won an Emmy Award in 1978, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1993. Up until his 80s, he continued to perform, often providing voices for animated films and commercials.
Death of Ricardo Montalban Montalbán died on January 14, 2009 in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 88. His cause of death has not yet been identified.
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) was a two-time Emmy winning American born actor, raised in Ireland and England, with an extensive stage career, who rose to fame in the British film and TV industry by starring in the 1960s television series Danger Man (renamed Secret Agent when exported to the US), cult classic The Prisoner and Mel Gibson’s Oscar winning epic Braveheart as Edward Longshanks. McGoohan wrote several episodes of The Prisoner himself, occasionally using the pseudonyms Joseph Serf and Paddy Fitz.
Patrick McGoohan won two Emmies, both for Outstanding Guest Actor – Drama Series – both for Columbo (1975, 1990)
Death of Patrick McGoohan Patrick McGoohan died Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 80. Cause of death is unknown.
Personal Life At the time of his death, McGoohan was mostly retired, living in Los Angeles, California with his wife of 57 years, Joan Drummond McGoohan. Along with his three daughters, he had five grandchildren (Sarah, Erin, Simon, Nina, and Paddy). On June 11, 2008, he became a great-grandfather to Jack Patrick Lockhart
Claude Berri (July 1, 1934 – January 12, 2009) was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer, of Jewish origin.
Berri won the Oscar for Best Short Film for "Le Poulet" at Academy Awards in 1965, and produced Roman Polanski’s Tess which was nominated for Best Picture in 1979 (won 3 Oscars).
Tom O’Horgan (May 3, 1926 – January 11, 2009 ) is an American theatre and film director and composer.
O’Horgan made his Broadway directorial debut in 1968 with the ground-breaking musical Hair, garnering a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Musical. Additional Broadway credits include Lenny, with Cliff Gorman as controversial comedian-satirist Lenny Bruce, Jesus Christ Superstar, Dude, Inner City, The Leaf People, and I Won’t Dance.
O’Horgan won three Drama Desk Awards for his direction of the off-Broadway plays, Lenny, Futz!, and Tom Paine, and was named Theatrical Director of the Year by Newsweek in 1968.
Tom O’Horgan was battling with Alzheimer’s disease, but died of natural cause. Tom O’Horgan was 84 years old at the time of his his death
Olga San Juan (March 16, 1927 – January 3, 2009) was a Brooklyn-born dancer and comedian of Puerto Rican extraction who was active in films primarily in the 1940s. She was dubbed the "Puerto Rican Pepperpot" for singing and dancing roles alongside Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, and others. In 1951, she starred on Broadway in the Lerner & Loewe musical, Paint Your Wagon.
She was married to actor Edmond O’Brien in 1948, divorcing him in 1976, with whom she had three children, including television producer Bridget O’Brien and Maria O’Brien and Brendan O’Brien, both of whom became actors.
She died at the age of 81 at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California of kidney failure stemming from a long-term illness.
Olga San Juan with Bing Crosby – I’ll See You In Cuba (Blue Skies)
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Filmography Caribbean Romance (1943) Rainbow Island (1944) Bombalera (1945) Out of This World (1945) Duffy’s Tavern (1945) Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945) The Little Witch (1945) Blue Skies (1946) Cross My Heart (1946) Variety Girl (1947) Are You With It? (1948) One Touch of Venus (1948) The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948) The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949) The Barefoot Contessa (1954) The 3rd Voice (1960)
Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (July 19, 1924 – January 3, 2009) was an American actor.
Hingle is traditionally known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures. One of his notable roles is the father of the character played by Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961). While he is probably best known in recent times for playing Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels, Hingle has a long list of television and movie credits to his name, going back to 1948. Among them are Hang ‘Em High (1968), Sudden Impact (1983), Road To Redemption (2001), When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? (1979), Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive (1986), The Grifters (1990), Citizen Cohn (1992), Muppets from Space, and Shaft (2000). Along with Michael Gough, who played Alfred Pennyworth, he is one of only two actors to appear in all of the first four Batman films.
In the 1997 revival of the musical 1776, Hingle played Benjamin Franklin, with Brent Spiner as John Adams. In 2002, he was a regular cast member of ABC’s series The Court. He also played Horace in 1995’s "The Quick and the Dead".
Recently, he appeared in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, as the original owner of Dennit Racing.
Death of Pat Hingle He died of blood cancer on January 3rd, 2009.
Actor Pat Hingle – In His Own Words
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Early life Hingle was born Martin Patterson Hingle in Denver, Colorado, the son of Marvin Louise (née Patterson), a schoolteacher and musician, and Clarence Martin Hingle, a building contractor. Hingle enlisted in the U.S. Navy in December 1941, dropping out of the University of Texas. He served on the destroyer USS Marshall during World War II. He returned to the University of Texas after the war and earned a degree in radio broadcasting.
Near fatal 1960 accident In 1960, he had been offered the title role in Elmer Gantry, but could not do it due to a near fatal accident; caught in an elevator in his West End Avenue apartment building that had stalled between the second and third floors, he crawled out, trying to reach the second floor corridor, lost his balance and fell 54 feet down the shaft, fracturing his skull, wrist, hip and most of the ribs on his left side, breaking his left leg in three places and losing the little finger on his left hand. He lay near death for two weeks and his recovery took more than a year.
Bob May (1939 – January 18, 2009) was an American actor best remembered for playing The Robot on the television series Lost in Space.
Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán Merino (November 25, 1920 – 
Tom O’Horgan (May 3, 1926 – 
Olga San Juan (March 16, 1927 –