He must have been a pushy bottom then.He was kind of an outcast in Germany as he was half Jewish. He is survived by his four children from his first marriage. Billy Preston, of Beatles fame and later a solo artist, died of AIDS. They say Brad Davis got Aids from a needle transfusion ? I had to go to IMDB to find out what happened to him. I can't remember where i posted them. He has that very distinct late 70s/early 80s style of comedy that I grew up with and love. Father of Azariah Armstrong; Robert Alfred Armstrong; Barzillai Armstrong and Alfred Robert Armstrong. Westwood Memorial Park; Los Angeles County . Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble. for your pointless bitchery needs. Leonard Frey was so much more attractive than I thought he'd be out of his "Boys in the Band" makeup. Miss Amanda Blake, tho she was a bit of a household name. He was 93. Rue was an even bigger slut than Blanche. It wasn't until Tom Hanks and Philadelphia that actors (and producers) clamored "I want an Oscar, get me a gay role! He attended the University of Washington, where he studied law,[5] and became a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. His age is unknown at the time of writing but he was a young man. Birthplace: Lawshall. Stephen Stucker. Most depressing thread ever. [quote]Brett was gay after his marriage to Anna Massey. Apologies if this correction has been posted before. Robert (Bob) L. Armstrong, passed away from heart related causes on May 14th, 2020. What a peculiar and erroneous notion, r111. I'm lucky to have had any intimacy in life. Jeffrey Mylett, of the original cast/film version of "Godspell", died in 1986 at age 36. death. His screen debut was in The Main Event., Among his more famous motion pictures was Blood Under the Sun with James Cagney, Sea of Grass with Spencer Tracy, Paleface with Bob Hope, John Ford's The Fugitive. In the forties Mr. Armstrong returned to Broadway in Sleep No More., Mr. Armstrong appeared in the first situation comedy on television, The First One Hundred Years., See the article in its original context from. He was really good looking. If the world were fair, he and Jamie would have been husbands. Armstrong made four guest appearances on Perry Mason during its nine-year run on CBS: in 1958 he played as Walter Haskell in "The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant"; in 1961 he played the title character and murder victim Captain Bancroft in "The Case of the Malicious Mariner"; in 1962 he played defendant Jimmy West in "The Case of the Playboy Pugilist"; and in 1964 he played murderer Phil Jenks in "The Case of the Accosted Accountant," thus becoming one of only eleven actors to hit the Perry Mason trifecta, playing victim, defendant and murderer. Kenny Everett. [quote]What about Jim Henson? Methods: Comparisons of death-related variables during the 3 eras were performed. When I watch musicals of the 60's and 70's, or old television variety shows with bunches of male dancers - I'm always sad that probably most of them died of AIDS in the first wave. Well that was true. Steven Gelfer, 'Carbucketty' in the original Broadway production of "Cats", December 26, 1988. Peter Tramm the substitute dancer for Kevin Bacon in Footloose. Visit this actor at the IMDb. A collection of cardboard tombstones, bound together with a rubber band. A truly beautiful man! [citation needed]. 308, he is already mentioned repeatedly up thread [quote] During those hell years I cut out every obit concerning an aids related death. I've never had that happen before, you know, where your date shows up and asks to take a bath. It's even been posted as FACT on some legitimate sites I've seen. I can not find a photo of him anywhere online, which saddens me even more. Even more depressing: the thought of the hundreds of actors, writers, comedians, etc. Handsome Paul Keenan best known from his work on "Days of Our Lives" and "Dynasty" is notable in that he was one of the first actors to admit he was suffering from AIDS and was gay, rather than trying to cover it up. But I also remember there was quite a bit of speculation about he died. They seemed to get along famously. Didn't she also date Robert Downey Jr. at one time? Anthony Charles Robert Armstrong Jones; Anthony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones; Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon . Funeral Home Services for Robert are being provided by J M Wilkerson Funeral Establishment, Inc. - Petersburg. September 9, 2022 by Jacqueline. Makes me sad even to mention it but Lance Baker was a cute actor kid from New Zealand we managed who died really young. I loved Dan Hartman's Instant Replay and remember Billy Preston well from The Beatles era - didnt realise they had died of Aids. Advertisement. Ernest Ivanhoe Vernon Armstrong; Ernest L. Armstrong; Ernest Robert Armstrong; Ernest William Armstrong; Francis Armstrong; Lay a poppy for 2022. He died just sixteen hours before King Kong's co-producer, Merian C. Cooper. So many beautiful young men snatched away before their time. He was gay. During those hell years I cut out every obit concerning an aids related death. I'm shocked to be alive, but I feel I must never forget the fucking tragic shit show it was, nor the beautiful lives cut so short. Both Larry Kert's and Timothy Scott's memorial services were held at the Winter Garden Theatre, theaters where they had their biggest successes. Dan Hartman, singer/musician. BTW, I lived through this in the 1980s. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. I can;t stand Swen Swenson's voice singing "I've Got Your Number." Please click here to get full access and no ads for $1.99 or less per month. I remember Beth Broderick from that Sabrina show was the main speaker at his memorial service. In the fall of 1990, Hall was involved in a car accident in Los Angeles and required a blood transfusion, which was later discovered to be contaminated with HIV. I had no idea Howard E. Rollins died of AIDS. r77 This is the first I've heard of it. I moved to NYC as an 18 year-old in 1981, coinciding with the official beginning of the AIDS epidemic. Ooh, you should see what Robby Benson has to say about Queen Curtis in his autobiography. Of the men, Im one of only 3 cast-members who was still alive in the 1990s. This category includes civil, church, cemetery, obituary, and other death-related collections. That DALLAS actor was so young and beautiful. R173 He was such a neat freak. Birth date: December 5, 1839. I sure would have liked to have a piece of that! [en] Vital records: Robert Armstrong at +Archives + Follow. According to a 2002 interview, German actor Arthur Brauss suggested that Diffring died of AIDS. Robert Armstrong (Robert William Armstrong) Born Robert William Armstrong in Saginaw, Michigan, lived in Bay City, Michigan until about 1902 and moved to Seattle, Washington. Ray Sharkey, of "The Idolmaker" & "Wiseguy". There's an excellent article about Wade Nichols (Dennis Parker) on The Rialto Report, that includes interviews with his family and friends and some great pictures from his pre-fame days. So he made his mark playing Nazis in the UK. Played "Johnny" in the Airplane movies. Alan Jay Lerner. An English photographer and filmmaker by the name of Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO, FRSA, RDI wed Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II's sister, for ten years, from 1960 until 1978. I'm 65 and sometimes I forget it ever happened. Lord Snowdon obituary (British . TENNESSEE DEATH RECORD Name: Robert Harrison Armstrong Event Type: Death Event Date: 07 May 1953 Event Place: Wartrace, Bedford, Tenn Gender: Male Marital Status: Widowed Race: White . Hope it gets off the ground this century. Rich Armstrong died on Friday, October 7, 2022, in a sudden and unexpected manner at his home. Whats Happening and Sanford and Son), -- Larry Riley was in A Soldiers Story and was fired from Knots Landing for having aids, -- Michael Westphal, ATP tennis player (ranked in the top 50), -- Joel Crothers (Somerset, Edge of Night) went to his grave denying he was gay and denying he had aids. not the AIDS. . To this day, his IMDB bio still insists he was engaged to soap actress Veleka Grey at the time of his death and the cause was cancer, -- Brad OHare (Guiding Light, Longtime Companion), -- James Raitt (brother of Bonnie), Broadway musical director, -- Denholm Elliott (A Room With A View), -- Ilka Tanya Payan (Telenovelas + Scarface, Hill Street Blues), -- Joe Megna (Dill in To Kill A Mockingbird), -- Merritt Butrick (Captain Kirks son on Star Trek). I didn't see how many pages it was, already mentioned obviously. Best Known For: George . 1. R302 . oy, what did they all die of ? Do you know something the rest of us don't? West End actor Martin Smith is also mentioned in the piece above. Dennis C. Stewart, the guy who played crater face in Grease. Later on he speaks of what a good man Hal Linden was and how much he admires hm, so it's clearly not Linden. cancer; Cemetery. Hello and thank you for being a DL contributor. Peter Coffield who was in a ton of TV series and TV movies in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as well as commercials. Brad Armstrong's Sudden Death. My ex was best friends with Julie in the 80s/90s and she was absolutely devastated after he died. (Frank Silva) died from AIDS. Although born in Ohio, Custer spent part of his . [quote'It's a terrible curse,' Heat star Carroll O'Connor has said of what he calls his friend and co-star's substance-abuse problems. R150 No-- I just did a little research and found him, but it turns out he was killed by a cop. R39 - Joel Crothers will always be Joe Haskell from Dark Shadows in my heart. [quote]Stephen W. Burns made a potentially promising film debut in the last (and worst) of the initial Herbie films, Herbie Goes Bananas (1980). He died in 1994. Robert Armstrong, Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, who has died aged 93, was the supreme Whitehall mandarin - discreet, a staunch . [quote]Whenever I watch the movie version of "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas" , I.wonder how many of those beautiful talented dancers in the football team locker room number are still with us. and various studio groups of the time. He was on Broadway in the cast of "Hair" and starred in Fellini's "Satyricon" and a dozen other European B movies. If so, it worked on me. We'll always have Janet Jackson. Rome. Someone here claimed the guy who played Daddy Warbucks' gardener in 1982's [italic]Annie[/italic] died of AIDS, but since he is neither credited in the film or listed on IMDb, I cannot recall his name. Date of Death: April 20, 1973. He had wonderful timing which I remember best in a Mary Tyler Moore Show episode in which he played the only student who shows up for Ted Baxter's Famous School of Broadcasting. Rap, that horrid musical wannabe skyrocketed in the 80s as a direct loss of this pool of talent. R148, I was a friend of Gary Bond's. His obit says it was lymphoma which can be AIDS related. Later in that decade, Armstrong played another Carl Denham-like leading character role as "Max O'Hara" in 1949's Mighty Joe Young. Dennis was one of the sweetest, kindest people I have ever Known. He and his kind are the reason I have not got rid of the mountain of antique porn on VHS. IMDb has a sortable database entitled "Most Popular Males Who Died Of "aids." Speaking of, how is Hal Rubenstein still alive? Terry Lester died from heart disease. More talented then I gave him credit for, then. All those plays that won't get written now. Ironically, Mr. Armstrong's death came Friday, one day before the death of Merian C. Cooper, the man who created the movie, one of Hollywood's enduring classics. A similar movie in a lighter vein, Mighty Joe Young, also featured Mr. Armstrong as a nightclub owner, that featured Jcie Young, a more docile gorilla than Kong. And then there's that other role we remember Leonard Frey for, R10: People in the US know Denholm Elliott from Indiana Jones and "A Room with a View.". Anyone remember partner's name? Brett was gay after his marriage to Anna Massey. Bless him. How the hell could he throw himself around like a rag doll that way? Armstrong died at age 95 of natural causes in Studio City, California on July 27, 2012. Reed Jones, 'Skimbleshanks, in the original Broadway production of "Cats", June 19, 1989. Maybe for mud-pie? Now it's all amusement park Disney crap with unimaginative staging. Worsening health forced him to drop out of the production of "Grand Hotel" six months into the show's run. 1972, three daughters, one son) Daughter: Daryl Armstrong Daughter: Laure Nell Daughter: Robbie Armstrong-Dunham Son: Wynn Wife: Susan Guthrie . Husband of Sarah Reeve and Letitia Camping. Robert Cormier's cause of unexpected death on Friday was due to a fall. . There's a compilation of her articles in print, and one of them she talks about a man with AIDS who stayed alive by drinking his own pee. Thanks for that link, r44. R240 What kind of idiot puts dust in a "dessert"? Text size. Remarkably, ABC never found out about Parker's double life, (of if they did, excused it as an excess of the times) despite the fact that his XXX films continued to be released as late as 1983. He tries to restrain his gayness but it makes him seem even faggier. Timothy Scott, 'Mistoffelees' in the original Broadway production of "Cats", February 24, 1988. Needless to say, I wasn't surprised to find out that a gay man directed those movies. He was only 37 years old. Cause of death: Prostatic hypertrophy . In 1984, Parker died, whether from a self-inflicted gunshot wound (a rumor) or complications from AIDS. Davis was dying of AIDS and then the wife helped him commit suicide before the the end came naturally. Gary Bond, aged 55, who died in 1995. One of the very WORST people I have EVER had the displeasure to meet, and see in action. Timothy Patrick Murphy is best known of his portrayal of the doomed Mickey Trotter Rays nephew and a love interest for Lucy before hes paralyzed in a car accident with Sue Ellen in the 82-83 season of Dallas; in 1984, he played the title role in Sams Son, Michael Landons semi-autobiographical TV movie about his youth and his struggles with his family. I'm shocked that no one's mentioned Legit Actor/Porn Actor/Singer, Dennis Parker aka Wade Nichols yet. The leading cause of death in the UK in 2018 was dementia and Alzheimer disease, accounting for 12.7% of all deaths registered. He played small parts at first and then moved into lead roles in road shows touring the country. A lot of people who are familiar with his solo career don't realize that he was also part of the Edgar Winter Group in the early 70s & sang lead on their huge hit, Free Ride (which he also wrote). Prior to World War II, in 1940, Universal Pictures released Enemy Agent, about countering a Nazi spy ring. 13 January 2017. Kind of a psychopath. The wife was in complete denial. So handsome. Air Date: Walter Haskell : 43: the Sardonic Sergeant: 10/11/58: I was awed by the number of handsome and talented young men playing the dancing waiters. He was very blonde (I saw him on stage a few times). I had never heard this before, so I can't confirm the veracity of the claim. I remember seeing Leonard Frey on the First Ave bus years ago, when my neighborhood was scuzzy. Broadway power tenor David Carroll, OBC star of Chess and Grand Hotel, And then there's Brad Davis, though he's probably more than just semi-famous. Birth Country: United States. Rather a Peter O'Toole lookalike, the good-looking actor was in lots of British movies and TV including 'Zulu', and the newly re-released 'Wake In Fright' (originally titled 'Outback') made in Australia in 1971, he was also Anne Boleyn's lover in 'Anne Of The Thousand Days'. Gender: Male. He was so good looking. [quote]During those hell years I cut out every obit concerning an aids related death. He got his start in senior year at college writing sketches for a school theatrical, moved on to vaudeville, into silent films, Broadwayand then actionpacked gangster, Western and war, movies of the nineteenthirties and forties. The late 70's early 80's were the height of whoredome with the bath houses filled to capacity. Died at 49 in 1989 - GREAT actor, so sad to lose him (used to see him around the UWS when I lived in NYC in the 80's.). Major Ronald Owen Lloyd Armstrong-Jones, MBE QC DL ( n Jones; 18 May 1899 - 27 January 1966) was a British barrister and soldier. Either youre too young or your memory is failing you, but clearly you forget what it was (and in some instances, still is) like to be an actor of color in 1981. Our sketches of Robert's sons Hugh and Jack (in this chapter) and on Nancy Greene Armstrong and her son Bowling Green give information about their contacts with Lincoln. Patrick Kennedy, son of John F. & Jackie Kennedy was born prematurely. Beamish peerage database peerage ID. Another handsome British stage and tv actor Americans might not know was Geoffrey Burridge. Please click here to register for free. As the big-time promoter Carl Denham in 1933's "King Kong," Robert Armstrong uttered one of the most famous lines in movie history. [quote] Cookie Mueller. The actress who played Billy Beyer's sister on Capitol also died from complications of AIDS. This is quite a revelation because that suicide rumor has been floating around the internet for as long as I can remember. Did TV and movies-- probably '70s and '80s. Dack Rambo. [quote]I had no idea Howard E. Rollins died of AIDS. Today is the Anniversary of Wayland Flowers death in 1988. He was the son of wrestler Bob Armstrong and brother to professional wrestlers Steve, Scott and Brian. Unless you are rich enough to keep him as a sugar daddy, you will always be third or lower on their priority list. Either the family was in full denial or they were trying to cover it up. This memorial website was created in memory of Robert Armstrong, 74, born on April 4, 1916 and passed away on April 22, 1990. The enormous success of King Kong led to more gorilla movies featuring Mr. Armstrong as the vigorous, confident showman, Denham. They claimed it was from heart failure. Gee r154 if there was only someway to check. We met when he did some fundraising via Edge of Night for the nonprofit animal welfare organization I worked for. ", Paul Reeves, of the West End "Starlight Express.". Yes, 196. 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