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Happy Centenary David Frankham! A Retrospective.

Posted on February 16, 2026 | Leave a comment

Today, February 16, 2026, one of our favorite Star Trek guest stars turned 100!

Happy 100th Birthday David Frankham! You remember him best as Dr. Larry Marvin in Is There in Truth No Beauty?, the doomed, brilliant lover of Dr. Miranda Jones. I always felt sorry for his character!

I had the honor of meeting Mr. Frankham at the Star Trek Original Series Tour in 2016! (I dressed as Dr. Miranda Jones) I can’t believe it’s been 10 years! But what a delight, and he told us many stories of his very varied life as an actor, and of course in Star Trek! You can see my original post about meeting him here.

And indeed, David has had an amazing career. After serving with the British Army in India just after World War II, he landed a job from1948 through 1955 as a BBC Radio interviewer. This job would eventually lead him to acting, where he did everything from television to movies to voice overs! He also starred with his friend Vincent Price in several pictures. (Vincent even gave David furniture for his first apartment in California!) He was also in The Great Santini (1979) with Robert Duvall; who coincidentally just passed away the day before David’s Centennial at age 95 😦

Here’s some images from his amazing life! We love you, David! Carry on!

David in 1946 serving with the British Army in India
With BBC Radio in 1946.
Return of the Fly 1959 (It seems he often got cast as an unfortunate character!)

In Disney’s Ten Who Dared 1960
As the loyal and brave Sgt Tibbs in 101 Dalmations (1961)
In Master of the World (1961)
Promo pic for Master of the World
Great candid shot on the set of Master of the World
In Tales of Welles Fargo 1961

In Tales of Terror (sigh!) 1962

Tales of Terror with Basil Rathbone and Vincent Price

In The Outer Limits (1963)

Larry Marvick in Star Trek 1968

This kiss wasn’t originally scripted, but it worked so well!
Poor Larry!
As the Storyteller in the clay-mation short The House of Seven Gables (2018)
David and I at The Star Trek Original Set Tour, 2016 I love him!

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Farewells of 2024 Part 4 – Actors and Entertainers

Posted on February 13, 2025 | 3 comments

A day late but no less sincere as I didn’t finish this one yesterday. First I misplaced a few actors, (!) then a couple got numbered twice, and there’s a whole rigamarole you have to go through — new layers, new lines, new numbers and so forth. ANYWAY — Here are the many wonderful Actors and Entertainers we last in 2024. And, as I encourage you whenever you read these posts, look up the ones you’ve never heard of, you may find a new favorite! Too many, too soon but thanks for the memories. 🙂

Next time: Actresses and Entertainers

Actors and Entertainers

  1. Dabney Coleman, 92 Tootsie, Nine to Five, Never Forget, Dysphagia and heart failure.
  2. Donald Sutherland, 88, M*A*S*H, The Dirty Dozen, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Animal House, The Hunger Games,COPD
  3. Ron Ely, 86, Tarzan. Doc Savage. End Stage Heart disease
  4. Alain Delon, 88, French Legend. Purple Noon, Samurai. B Cell Lymphoma, Cardiac arrest.
  5. James Earl Jones, 88, The Great White Hope, The Lion King, Field of Dreams Complications of diabetes.
  6. Steve Lawrence, 88, Singer, Actor with beloved wife Eydie Gorme. Carol for another Christmas. The Carol Burnett Show, Alzheimer’s
  7. Richard Simmons,76, Fitness Guru, General Hospital, Heart attack
  8. Lou Gossett Jr., 87, An Officer and a Gentleman, Roots, COPD
  9. Bob Newhart, 94, Brilliant, subtle comedian, The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart, Elf. Natural causes.
  10. Earl Holliman, 96, Forbidden Planet, Twilight Zone, Police Woman. (undisclosed)
  11. Chris Gauthier 48, Smallville, Eureka, Once Upon a Time. Short illness.  
  12. Scott L Schwartz 65, Oceans 11,
  13. Mark Withers, 70, Dynasty, Kaz, Pancreatic cancer.
  14. Michael Newman, 67 Actor, Real life Fireman and Lifeguard, Baywatch, Parkinsons Disease
  15. Martin Mull 80, Actor and Comedian, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Fernwood Tonight, Roseanne, Long illness.
  16. Terry Carter 95, McCloud Battlestar Galactica (undisclosed)
  17. Tony Mondente,88, West Side Story, Family Ties. Short illness.  
  18. Bobby Bana, 90, West Side Story, Mary Poppins. Pneumonia.
  19. Carl Weathers, 76, Football player, Actor, Rocky, Predator, Cardiovascular disease
  20. Perry Kurtz 73, Comedian, killed by hit and run driver.
  21. Hiram Kasten, 71, Comedian-Actor, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Long term illness.
  22. Richard Lewis, 77, Comedian, Actor Men in Tights, Anything But Love, Curb Your Enthusiasm. Parkinson’s,Heart attack
  23. Thom Chistopher, 84, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, One Life to Live, (undisclosed)
  24. David Emge, 77, Dawn of the Dead, Hellmaster, (undisclosed)
  25. Chance Perdomo, 27, Gen V, After Ever Happy, Motorcycle Accident.
  26. John Aprea, 83, Godfather II, Matt Houston, Another World, Full House. Natural causes.
  27. Christian Oliver, 51, The Good German, Speed Racer, I Am Fear, Plane crash.
  28. Alec Musser, 50, All My Children, Desperate Housewives, Suicide
  29.       (The Amazing) Kreskin, (George Joseph Kresge Jr.), 89, Clinical Psychologist, Mentalist, The Mike Douglas Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Tonight Show, The Amazing World of Kreskin. Dementia.
  30.   Peter Marshall, 98, Actor, TV host, The Hollywood Squares, Annie, Kidney Failure
  31. Chuck Woolery, 86. Host, Wheel of Fortune, The Love Connection, (undisclosed)
  32. Michael Culver, 85, All-AroundBritish Actor,in over 300 Stage, Radio, TV and Motion Pictures, as well as voice work.  The Empire Strikes Back, A Passage to India, (undisclosed)
  33. Angus MacInnes 77, Canadian Actor, Star Wars,Half Moon Street, Witness,(undisclosed)
  34. Harry Johnson, 81, Battle Star Galactica, Law and Order Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Long illness.
  35. Spencer Milligan 86, Land of the Lost. The Bionic Woman, General Hospital (undisclosed)
  36. Timothy West, 90, English Actor of Stage Film, and TV, Royal Shakespeare Company, Edward VI, Day of the Jackal, Cry Freedom Coronation Street, East Enders.  Complications from a fall.
  37. John Amos, 84. Beloved American Actor, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Good Times, The World’s Greatest Athlete. Congestive Heart Failure.
  38. Mark Damon, 91, Actor and Producer, The Longest Day, House of Usher,Black Sabbath. Natural causes.
  39. John Lassell 95, The Twilight Zone, As the World Turns. (undisclosed)
  40. M. Emmet-Walsh, 88, Movie, TV, and Voice Actor, The Sandy Duncan Show, Harry and the Hendersons, 100+ more. Cardiac arrest.
  41. Don Murray, 94, Bus Stop, A Hatful of Rain, The Outcasts, Knot’s Landing. (undisclosed)
  42. Frank Fritz 60,Free-Styling Antique Collector, American Pickers (a.k.a. The Pickers) Complications from Stroke
  43. Johnny Russel, 91, (John Russell Countryman) Child Actor, The Blue Bird, The Man I Married US Ambassador to Oman. Pneumonia
  44. Benji Gregory, 46, Alf, Punky Brewster, Never Forget.  Heatstroke.
  45. Taylor Wily, 56, Actor, Sumo Wrestler and UFC Competitor (known as Teila Tuli) Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Hawaii 5-0 Natural Causes.
  46. Eddie Driscoll 60 The Last Ship, Entourage. Stomach cancer
  47. Hinton Battle, 67, Three-Time Tony Winner, The Wiz, many more, Lengthy illness
  48. Niels Arestrup, 75. French Stage, Screen, TV Actor and DirectorLumiere, The Future is Woman,   Long Illness
  49. Ron Harpur, 91, Love of Life, The Planet of the Apes (tv) Land of the Lost, Capital. (undisclosed)
  50. Wayne Northrop 77, Days of Our Lives, Dynasty. Early-Onset Alzheimer’s  
  51. David Harris, 75, The Warriors, Fatal Beauty, Cancer.
  52. Chad McQueen, 63, Actor, Martial Artist, Race Car Driver, The Karate Kid I and II, Red Line. Son of Steve McQueen. Organ failure.
  53. Doug Sheehan, 75, General Hospital, Knots Landing, Sabrina The Teenaged Witch, (undisclosed)
  54. Nicholas Pryor, 89, General Hospital, Risky Business, Hunger Games, Cancer.
  55. Ken Page, 70, Actor and Cabaret Singer,Ain’t Misbehavin’. Torch Song Trilogy, Dreamgirls, Nightmare Before Christmas (as Oogie Boogie)(in his sleep)
  56. Jonathan Haze, (Jack Aaron Schachter), 95, Little Shop of Horrors, Not of this Earth. Natural causes.
  57. Geoffrey Duel, 81, Chisum, The FBI Mannix, The Mod Squad, The Young and the Restless. COPD
  58. Darryl Hickman, 92, Grapes of Wrath, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Island in the Sky, Tea and Sympathy, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (as Davey) Older brother of Dwayne Hickman. (undisclosed)
  59. Phil Donahue, 88, Talk Show Host, Donahue, husband of Marlo Thomas. Long illness.
  60. Bill Hayes, 98, Actor and Singer, Your Show of Shows,Days of Our Lives, Frasier (undisclosed)
  61. Michael Cole, 84, The Mod Squad, The Return of the Mod Squad, General Hospital. (undisclosed)
  62. Tom Bower, 86, The Waltons, Two-Minute Warning, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Believer,Clear and Present Danger, Natural causes.
  63. Ron Hale, 78, All the President’s Men, General Hospital, Port Charles, Ryan’s Hope, Natural causes.
  64. Drake Hogestyn, 70, Days of Our Lives. Pancreatic Cancer
  65. Adrian Bailey, 67 Broadway Veteran,Sophisticated Ladies, My One And Only, Legs Diamond, Black and Blue, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Who’s Tommy, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Smokey Joe’s Café, The Little Mermaid. In 2008, Bailey fell through a trap door 30 plus feet before a matinee of The Little Mermaid, breaking many bones. Eventually he was able to walk again, but his career was halted. He died from complications in 2024.  
  66. John Ashton, 76, Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run. Cancer
  67. Sam Art Williams, 78, Actor, Playwright, Producer, Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole
  68. Paul D’Amato 76, Slap Shot, The Deer Hunter, Suspect, Heart Attack
  69. Paul Teal, 35, One Tree Hill, Dynasty, The Walking Dead Pancreatic cancer
  70. Ken Brophy, 70, Lucan, Hell Night.  Cancer.
  71. Robert Logan 82, 77 Sunset Strip, Daniel Boone, Adventures of The Wilderness Family. Natural Causes
  72. Tony LoBianco, 87, The French Connection, The Seven- Ups, Cancer.
  73. Fritz Wepper-82. German Actor, Derrick, Cabaret, The Bridge, Sepsis, followed by a long illness.
  74. Hudson Meek, 16, Baby Driver, Fall from moving vehicle
  75. Adan Canto, 42, Mexican Actor, X-Men:Days of Future Past. Blood &Oil, The Cleaning Lady.  Appendiceal cancer
  76. Gavin Creel 48 Broadway actor, Hair, Into the Woods, Cancer
  77. Art Evans, 82, Leadbelly, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling, Everybody Hates Chris, Diabetes.

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