Celebrity death thread 2022

Hopkins appeared in more than 80 movies and TV movies including American Graffiti, More American Graffiti, Vice, Phantoms, Hillbilly Elegy, Riders In The Storm, Sweet Sixteen, The Bounty Hunter, The Wild Bunch, The Midnight Express and The Man From Nowhere. He also played Eldred McCoy in 10 episodes of Doc Elliot (1973-74) and Matthew Blaisdell in 18 episodes of Dynasty (1981, 1987).

 
This guy was a pioneer up here. He used Canadian crews and studio musicians when he came touring (something never done prior) and helped set up the Canadian music industry.



Ronnie Hawkins, the big, boisterous Southern rockabilly singer who called Canada home and helped mentor the first band from this country inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died.

His wife Wanda confirmed to The Canadian Press that Hawkins died Sunday morning after a long illness at age 87. "He went peacefully and he looked as handsome as ever," she said in a phone interview with The Canadian Press.

The musician known as The Hawk didn't make his reputation in the studio. His highest charting single in the U.S. reached No. 26, and, not a natural songwriter, most of his recorded work consisted of covers. But his stage shows were raucous affairs, characterized by his booming voice, humorous stage patter and acrobatic moves like his "camel walk."

Hawkins, born and raised in Arkansas, got wind of steady work available on the Canadian bar circuit from Conway Twitty, among others. He began touring in Ontario in 1958, and by the time he was featured in a CBC Telescope documentary nine years later, he was ensconced in Canada.

"You know, I don't know anything about Canadian politics, the price of wheat or Niagara Falls," he said in the doc. "But I sure do know one thing: I sure dig it up here."
 
This guy was a pioneer up here. He used Canadian crews and studio musicians when he came touring (something never done prior) and helped set up the Canadian music industry.



Ronnie Hawkins, the big, boisterous Southern rockabilly singer who called Canada home and helped mentor the first band from this country inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died.

His wife Wanda confirmed to The Canadian Press that Hawkins died Sunday morning after a long illness at age 87. "He went peacefully and he looked as handsome as ever," she said in a phone interview with The Canadian Press.

The musician known as The Hawk didn't make his reputation in the studio. His highest charting single in the U.S. reached No. 26, and, not a natural songwriter, most of his recorded work consisted of covers. But his stage shows were raucous affairs, characterized by his booming voice, humorous stage patter and acrobatic moves like his "camel walk."

Hawkins, born and raised in Arkansas, got wind of steady work available on the Canadian bar circuit from Conway Twitty, among others. He began touring in Ontario in 1958, and by the time he was featured in a CBC Telescope documentary nine years later, he was ensconced in Canada.

"You know, I don't know anything about Canadian politics, the price of wheat or Niagara Falls," he said in the doc. "But I sure do know one thing: I sure dig it up here."

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Brake played Dot Sutton in 37 episodes of Home Tonight (1961) and Gwen Lockhead in 128 episodes of the soap opera Eldorado (1992-93). She also appeared in multiple episodes of Coronation Street, Porridge, Casualty, Going Straight, Troubles & Strife, The Glums, Doctors, Emmerdale Farm and Second Time Around and
co-starred in the 1968-69 ABC sitcom The Ugliest Girl In Town.

 
Vance co-wrote more than 300 recorded songs including Gina, Tracy, Dommage Dommage, Run Joey Run, Playground In My Mind, What Will My Mary Say, A World Without Sunshine, I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do, She Lets Her Hair Down (Early In The Morning), Perry Como's 1958 number-one hit Catch A Falling Star and Brian Hyland's 1960 number-one hit Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.

 
Bynum co-wrote more than 200 songs including including Kenny Rogers' Lucille, Patty Loveless' Chains, Jim Reeves' Nobody's Fool, George Jones' The Old Old House, Ray Price's You Can't Take It With You, Jeanne Pruett's I've Been So Wrong For So Long and the Johnny Cash/Waylon Jennings duet There Ain't No Good Chain Gang. Bynum also released three albums (1995, 1998, 2002).

 
Bon Jovi formed in 1983 in Sayreville, New Jersey. Such was a member until 1994. During that time, the band had 16 top-40 hits and five
number ones: You Give Love A Bad Name, Livin' On A Prayer, Bad Medicine, I'll Be There For You and Blaze Of Glory.

 
Bon Jovi formed in 1983 in Sayreville, New Jersey. Such was a member until 1994. During that time, the band had 16 top-40 hits and five
number ones: You Give Love A Bad Name, Livin' On A Prayer, Bad Medicine, I'll Be There For You and Blaze Of Glory.


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Seals & Crofts had eight top-40 hits in the 1970s: Diamond Girl, Summer Breeze, Get Closer, Hummingbird, My Fair Share, I'll Play For You,
You're The Love
and We May Never Pass This Way Again.

 
The Champs' Tequila was number one for five weeks in March-April 1958. Seals & Crofts joined the group in fall of 1958 and remained
until early 1963. They played on this "sequel," Too Much Tequila, which reached #30 in February 1960:

 
Summer Breeze reached #3 on the KHJ top thirty and was in the top ten for eight weeks. It got to #6 on the Billboard Hot 100. Seals & Crofts' first four singles failed to chart. Their fifth single, When I Meet Them, stalled at #104 on the Bubbling Under chart. Here is their first single, In Tune, released in October 1969:

 
Kathryn Kates. Estelle Harris. Mike Hagerty. Liz Sheridan. And now Philip Baker Hall. Five Seinfeld actors have died in 2022. Yikes!

Hall appeared in multiple episodes of Pasadena, Everwood, Messiah, Family Ties, Modern Family, Michael Hayes, Falcon Crest, The Loop, The Practice and Curb Your Enthusiasm and in more than 60 movies including Rush Hour, Bruce Almighty, Boogie Nights, The Amityville Horror, The Shaggy Dog (2006), The Truman Show and The Talented Mr. Ripley.

 
Kathryn Kates. Estelle Harris. Mike Hagerty. Liz Sheridan. And now Philip Baker Hall. Five Seinfeld actors have died in 2022. Yikes!

Hall appeared in multiple episodes of Pasadena, Everwood, Messiah, Family Ties, Modern Family, Michael Hayes, Falcon Crest, The Loop, The Practice and Curb Your Enthusiasm and in more than 60 movies including Rush Hour, Bruce Almighty, Boogie Nights, The Amityville Horror, The Shaggy Dog (2006), The Truman Show and The Talented Mr. Ripley.


Second. He had a good acting career.
 
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