Before we sign off completely on 2006, let’s take a moment just to pay tribute to some of the crime-fiction-related folk who passed away over this last year:
January 19: Anthony Franciosa, actor, star of The Name of the Game, Search, and Matt Helm. He was 77 years old.
February 24: Dennis Weaver, actor, star of McCloud. He was 81.
February 25: Darren McGavin, actor, star of The Outsider and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. He was 83.
April 17: Scott Brazil, producer/director, The Shield and Hill Street Blues. He was 50.
June 23: Aaron Spelling, the prolific TV producer who gave us Charlie’s Angels, Hart to Hart, Vega$, Starsky and Hutch, and The Mod Squad. Spelling was 83.
July 8: Dorothy Uhnak, cop turned author, whose semi-autobiographical book, Policewoman: A Young Woman’s Initiation Into the Realities of Justice, inspired the Angie Dickinson TV series Police Woman. She was 76.
July 17: Mickey Spillane, writer, creator of private eye Mike Hammer. He was 88.
July 19: Jack Warden, actor, star of Jigsaw John and Crazy Like a Fox. He was 85.
August 30: Glenn Ford, actor, star of The Blackboard Jungle, A Pocketful of Miracles, Cade’s County, and Jarrett. He was 90.
October 22: Arthur Hill, actor, star of Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law. He was 84.
November 10: Jack Palance, actor; he appeared in Shane, City Slickers, and the TV series Bronk. He was 87.
November 21: Robert Altman, director, best known for films such as M*A*S*H and Nashville, but also responsible for the controversial 1973 adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel The Long Goodbye. Altman was 81 years old.
Did I forget anyone?
Sunday, December 31, 2006
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