Here is my yearly tribute to some of those we lost during the year. I know I don't have everybody.
James Avery (TMNT, Fresh Prince of Bel Air; actually died Jaunary 31, 2013)
Phil Everly (The Everly Brothers)
Larry D. Mann (voice of Yukon Cornelius; Hogan's Heroes)
Roger Lloyd - Pack (Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire)
Russell Johnson (Gilligan's Island)
Ruth Duccini (the last female munchkin)
Justin Carmical (JewWario; You Can Play This, Kickassia, Suburban Knights, To Boldly Flee)
Pete Seeger
Arthur Rankin Jr. (Rankin/ Bass Productions)
Maximilian Schell
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Shirley Temple
Sid Caesar (Your Show of Shows, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Grease, Sesame Street, The Cheap Detective, etc.)
John Henson
Christopher Malcolm (Labyrinth, The Empire Strikes Back, Ragtime, Superman III, Spies like us, Highlander)
Mary Grace Canfield (Green Acres)
Harold Ramis (Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Stripes, National Lampoon's Vacation, Animal House, etc.)
James Rebhorn ( Independence Day, Meet the Parents, My Cousin Vinny, etc.)
John Pinette
Mickey Rooney ( It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Pete's Dragon, Night at the Museum, The Muppets, etc.)
Bob Hoskins
Leslie Carlson
H. R. Giger
Maya Angelou
Ann B. Davis (The Brady Bunch)
Carla Laemmle (The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula)
Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)
Casey Kasem (Scooby - Doo, American Top 40, Here comes Peter Cottontail, Ghostbusters)
Steve Rossi (Rossi & Allen)
Terry Richards (Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark, 6 Bond films, Brazil, Superman II, Willow, total Recall, etc. )
Eli Wallach (The good, the bad, & the ugly, Batman)
Paul Mazursky
Bob Hastings
James Garner
James Shigeta
Dick Smith (Makeup artist: The Exorcist, Little Big Man, The Godfather, Taxi Driver, etc.)
Akima Castaneda (John Carter)
Marilyn Burns (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
Robin Williams
Lauren Bacall
Don Pardo
Sir Richard Attenborough
Richard Kiel
Stefan Gierasch (What's Up Doc, Carrie, The Hustler, etc.)
Denny Miller
Don Keefer (The Twilight Zone, Sleeper, Creepshow)
Paul Revere (Paul Revere & the Raiders)
Geoffrey Holder
Jan Hooks
Gary McLarty (Stunts: The Blues Brothers, Animal House, Beverly Hills Cop, etc.)
Gerard Parkes (Fraggle Rock, A Muppet Family Christmas, The Boondocks Saints 1 & 2)
Eddy Donno (Stunts: The Blues Brothers, McLintock, Star Trek II, etc.)
Carol Ann Susi (The Big Bang Theory)
Charles Champlin
Mike Nichols (Director: The Graduate, The Birdcage, Spamalot, etc.)
Ryan Heffner (My 5th grade teacher at Eisenhower elementary School)
Mordecai Lawner (Annie Hall, Ghostbusters II)
Ken Weatherwax (Pugsley on The Addams Family)
Norman Bridwell (Author of Clifford the big red dog series)
Billie Whitelaw (Frenzy, The Omen, Hot Fuzz)
Joe Cocker
Christine Cavanaugh (voice actress: Dexter's Lab, Babe, Rugrats, etc.)
Edward Herrman