2023 RIP thread

[Lefty]

Phyllis Coates, 96. Featured in clue #1068, aired 1989-04-05 ('50s TV $200: Phyllis Coates & Noel Neill both played this reporter), though perhaps unlikely to be called on to carry an entire clue by herself. Lois Lane in the first season of the '50s Superman TV series (darker than the show's subsequent run; people sometimes died).

She seems to have packed most of her personal life into a few years, as Wikipedia tells us only this: Coates married director Richard L. Bare in 1948. They divorced in January 1949. She married jazz pianist Robert Nelms in 1950, gave birth to a daughter, and divorced in 1953.

Coates died on October 11, 2023, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills. She was 96.

[earendel]

Rudolph Isley, singer who co-wrote most of the Isley Brothers' greatest hits, including "Shout". Age 84.

[cinemaniax7]

Piper Laurie, Three-Time Oscar Nominee Who Starred in ‘Carrie’ and ‘The Hustler,’ Dies at 91

Appeared in three clues in the archive, the last coming on 5-7-2015.

[econgator]

Suzanne Somers, of Three's Company fame, has died at 76. She would have been 77 tomorrow.

https://people.com/suzanne-somers-dead-at-76-8358227

[alietr]

Suzanne Somers, of Three's Company fame, has died at 76. She would have been 77 tomorrow.

https://people.com/suzanne-somers-dead-at-76-8358227

She was the response in the only $2000 clue I got right when I was on.

[earendel]

Actor best known for playing Major Don West, the co-pilot of the Jupiter 2, on the 60s TV series Lost in Space. He also appeared in a cameo in the 1997 movie version of the show, along with several other then-surviving cast members, and as a guest star on numerous 60s and 70s TV shows.

Age 87

No mentions of him in the archives.

[LucarioSnooperVixey]

Actor best known for playing Major Don West, the co-pilot of the Jupiter 2, on the 60s TV series Lost in Space. He also appeared in a cameo in the 1997 movie version of the show, along with several other then-surviving cast members, and as a guest star on numerous 60s and 70s TV shows.

Age 87

No mentions of him in the archives.

See previous page.

[econgator]

Richard Roundtree, the titular Shaft, dies at 81 of cancer.

[cinemaniax7]

Burt Young, Who Played Paulie in the ‘Rocky’ Films, Dies at 83

On 5-25-2016, Young was the correct response to the following $1600 clue in the "YOUNG" MEN & WOMEN category:

He got an Oscar nomination for playing Talia Shire's brother in "Rocky"

[econgator]

Not a good week to be named Richard ... Richard Moll, Bull from Night Court, dead at 80.

[alietr]

Matthew Perry, Chandler Bing on Friends, drowns at the age of 54.

[alietr]

Washington Senators slugger Frank Howard, at 87.

[alietr]

Bob Knight, former Indiana University basketball coach, at 83.

[mfc248]

Former Indiana and Texas Tech men's basketball coach Bob Knight, aged 83. Knight won three NCAA championships at Indiana, including the last undefeated title winner in 1976, and coached the United States to the Olympic gold medal in 1984.

[Bamaman]

Former Indiana and Texas Tech men's basketball coach Bob Knight, aged 83. Knight won three NCAA championships at Indiana, including the last undefeated title winner in 1976, and coached the United States to the Olympic gold medal in 1984.

Also coached at Army.

[earendel]

Ken Mattingly, famously replaced as Command Module pilot on Apollo 13 (he was exposed to measles but didn't contract them). Played by Gary Sinese in the movie. He later went to the moon on Apollo 18. Age 87.

[Volante]

Ken Mattingly, famously replaced as Command Module pilot on Apollo 13 (he was exposed to measles but didn't contract them). Played by Gary Sinese in the movie. He later went to the moon on Apollo 18. Age 87.

*Apollo 16

[alietr]

Ken Mattingly, famously replaced as Command Module pilot on Apollo 13 (he was exposed to measles but didn't contract them). Played by Gary Sinese in the movie. He later went to the moon on Apollo 18. Age 87.

*Apollo 16

For that matter, there was no Apollo 18.

[Bamaman]

Ken Mattingly, famously replaced as Command Module pilot on Apollo 13 (he was exposed to measles but didn't contract them). Played by Gary Sinese in the movie. He later went to the moon on Apollo 18. Age 87.

*Apollo 16

For that matter, there was no Apollo 18.

There was, but the mission was cancelled, along with 19 and 20.

[earendel]

Ken Mattingly, famously replaced as Command Module pilot on Apollo 13 (he was exposed to measles but didn't contract them). Played by Gary Sinese in the movie. He later went to the moon on Apollo 18. Age 87.

*Apollo 16

For that matter, there was no Apollo 18.

There was, but the mission was cancelled, along with 19 and 20.

There was an Apollo 18, but NASA has suppressed all information about it. It was a secret DoD mission to deliver a classified payload. The crew encountered extraterrestrials and all of them died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_18_(film)