2020 was devastating, by any measure. I have to be honest with you, I don’t even have any words. I do this memorial post every year at around this time (well, usually much earlier), just to recognize as many losses as possible, since invariably the Oscars “In Memoriam” segment has to cut names for time, and also because Daily Grindhouse goes to pop culture nooks and crannies that the mainstream often won’t, just to show our appreciation for the people who have made our lives more interesting just by living theirs.
But I don’t have it in me to say much more than that. I just don’t. I’ve lost far too much personally — I’ve lost too many — and I’m tired. Not in my body. In my soul. I’m so tired. And I’m not unique. Surely plenty of you out there reading these words can relate. I hope not, but I fear otherwise. Let’s have a moment of quiet remembrance and reflection. Let’s use this space for that.
Let’s please light a few candles and play some music, and remember these names and faces. And as always, if I’ve missed any, please email dailygrindhouseonline@gmail.com and I will add them to this post.
FAREWELL…
Orson Bean
Peter Beard
Glen Beckert
Ronald ‘Khalis’ Bell
Allen Bellman
Jay Benedict
Warren Berlinger
Honor Blackman
William Blinn
Mark Blum
William Bogert
Beverly Bonner
Chadwick Boseman
Wilford Brimley
Lou Brock
Gianna & Kobe Bryant
Jeremy Bulloch
Jack Burns
Edd Byrnes
R.D. Call
Zoe Caldwell
Earl Cameron
Don Campbell
Lewis John Carlino
Marge Champion
Michael Chapman
Hélène Châtelain
Anthony Chisholm
Christo
Mary Higgins Clark
Joe Clark
Ron Cobb
Forrest Compton
Sean Connery
Robert Conrad
Alfio Contini
Ben Cooper
Richard Corben
Nick Cordero
Denise Cronenberg
Mart Crowley
Othella Dallas
Allen Daviau
Mac Davis
Spencer Davis
Olivia de Havilland
Gene Deitch
Brian Dennehy
Natalie Desselle Reid
Tommy DeVito
Malcolm Dixon
Mario Donatone
MF Doom (Daniel Dumile)
Kirk Douglas
Shirley Douglas
Mort Drucker
Justin Townes Earle
Christiane Eda-Pierre
Jean Erdman
Sergio Fantoni
F.X. Feeney
Tony Fernández
Conchata Ferrell
Leon Fleisher
Rhonda Fleming
Whitey Ford
Armando Francioli
Harriet Frank Jr.
Fred The Godson (Frederick Thomas)
Mirella Freni
Jim Frey
Bob Fujitani
Hector Garrido
Bob Gibson
David Giler
Juan Giménez
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Milton Glaser
Mary Pat Gleason
Paula Gloria Barton
Danny Goldman
Stuart Gordon
Victor Gorelick
Peter Green
Winston Groom
James E. Gunn
Parnell Hall
Steve Hann
James “Kamala” Harris
Margot Hartman
Sir Ronald Harwood
Buck Henry
Richard Herd
Toots Hibbert
Rupert Hine
Ian Holm
Roy Horn
Silvio Horta
Rita Houston
Jonathan Huber aka Luke Harper aka Brodie Lee
Peter H. Hunt
Luchita Hurtado
Grant Imahara
Anthony James
Katherine Johnson
Louis Johnson
Rocky Johnson
Jay Johnstone
Terry Jones
Roger Kahn
Hugh Keays-Byrne
Jack Kehoe
Irrfan Khan
Gary B. Kibbe
Shirley Knight
Larry Kramer
John Lafia
Helen LaFrance
David Lander
Don Larsen
Dieter Laser
Road Warrior Animal (Joseph Michael Laurinaitis)
Catie Lazarus
John le Carré
Carlo Leva
John Lewis
Buzzy Linhart
William Link
James Lipton
Tommy “Tiny” Lister
Michael Lonsdale
Barry Lopez
Trini Lopez
Rebecca Luker
Rafael Romero Marchent
Benny Mardones
José Mojica Marins
Ashley Mattingly
Terrence McNally
Mike “McBeardo” McPadden
Alan Metter
Al Milgrom
Lois Kelly Miller
Olan Montgomery
Joe Morgan
Ennio Morricone
Ed Murray
Kellye Nakahara
Johnny Nash
Fred “Curly” Neal
Claudette Nevins
Daria Nicolodi
Phil Niekro
Nobuhiko Obayashi
Denny O’Neil
Ken Osmond
Alan Parker
Aileen Passloff
Pat Patterson
David Paul
Neil Peart
Krysztof Penderecki
Regis Philbin
Bonnie Pointer
Genesis P-Orridge
Kelly Preston
Charley Pride
John Prine
David Prowse
Adolfo “Shabba-Doo” Quiñones
Helen Reddy
Joel M. Reed
Carl Reiner
Ann Reinking
Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman)
Diana Rigg
Naya Rivera
David Roback
Diane Rodriguez
Kenny Rogers
Carlo Sabatini
Richard Sala
John Saxon
Gale Sayers
Adam Schlesinger
Florian Schneider
Joel Schumacher
Tom Seaver
Joseph Shabalala
Lynn Shelton
Joe Shishido
John Shrapnel
Don Shula
Joe Sinnott
Jackie Stallone
Herb Stempel
Carter Stevens
Jerry Stiller
Carol Sutton
Yuko Takeuchi
Pamela Tiffin
Christopher Tolkien
Peter Tork
Alex Trebek
Nicholas Tucci
McCoy Tyner
Eddie Van Halen
Max von Sydow
Lyle Waggoner
Jack Wallace
Lee Wallace
Dawn Wells
Leslie West
Fred Willard
Hal Willner
David Wise
Bill Withers
Edna Wright
Betty Wright
Ned Wynn
Chuck Yeager
Johnny Yune
Rest in peace to all these artists and dignitaries and entertainers and distinguished persons, and even to the scoundrels. Here’s one more tune from Rupert Hine…
And then one last one from Bill Withers…
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