The cause of his death was believed to be from a heart attack. It always went down a treat! He Was Born With A Silver Spoon. He was really good looking. But it may have been suicide. September 9, 2022 by Jacqueline. r74 that's pecisely what makes this thread so sad - the unfinished stories, the what ifs A tribute to Rock Hudson or Liberace isnt half as sad because those stars hit a home run and ten some. I don't think anyone's mentioned Kevin Peter Hall: [quote]Kevin Peter Hall was an actor famous for his roles as Dr. Elvin Lincoln in Misfits of Science (1985), the 'monsters' in Prophecy (1979), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Predator (1987), and Predator 2 (1990). R132 Anton Diffring was gay? David Oliver from Another World and A Year IN the Life died at 30 in 1992. Robert Golden Armstrong ("Bob" to his friends) was born in Birmingham, Alabama on April 7, 1917. . If you only know him from Evening Shade, or you don't know him, the Grand Hotel clip is him at his (or anyone's) best. They were in "The Rothschilds" together when Robby was 13-14. Wow, thank you, r166. Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong ( Erie, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1949 - Fort Worth, Texas [1 ], April 4, 2017 [2 ]) was a serial killer recognized for her role as the intellectual author of the Brian Wells crime (Pizza Bomber's case [3 ]) occurred in Erie, Pennsylvania, on August 28, 2003.She became public after she was found responsible for organizing a complex conspiracy that included the . Hello and thank you for being a DL contributor. Mark Lester is very much alive. I remember seeing Leonard Frey on the First Ave bus years ago, when my neighborhood was scuzzy. This film was another stop-motion animation giant gorilla fantasy, made by the same King Kong team of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. Casey Stevens, who played Jamie Lee Curtis' boyfriend, Nick, in Prom Night. R295 Is Miss Hal a bottom? There, I witnessed a tragic accident involving an old cable that snapped and resulted in the death and injuries of several hard-working men. One of the very WORST people I have EVER had the displeasure to meet, and see in action. However, lots and lots of men in their 30s and 40s died unusually young from cancer or pneumonia :P A high school friend, a talent musician, died of aids. We will remember him . The series centers on a powerful head of Century Studios and a group of up-and-coming starlets. He was linked to actor Jeremy Brett, they may have been a couple. He was treated like a leper until his death. Married Nannie Duke 02 Dec 1896 - Coffee, TN Son: Jim Armstrong Son: Thomas M Armstrong Recently watched the movie If. (1968) and was struck by actor Richard Warwick; I was sure Id seen him in something else and sure enough he also appeared in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and Sebastiane (1976) interestingly, in all 3 films, his character was implied to be or definitely was gay. So handsome. Was also on a ton of TV shows like The Bionic Woman (the haunted house episode where Kristy McNichol is his daughter). for your pointless bitchery needs. [You do realize that this is a troll, right? If you can't see it, or the W&W and Ignore Poster buttons, you probably have NoScript or AdBlock enabled on your browser. He had a couple of big solo hits: Instant Replay in the late 70s and I Can Dream About You in 1984. cancer; Cemetery. Ray Sharkey deserves his own thread. He was gay. Hi, R170. The actress who played Billy Beyer's sister on Capitol also died from complications of AIDS. The Bethesda CEO, the husband of Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter, Robert a. Altman's cause of death finally released after he passed away Feb. 3 at 73. 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. It's even been posted as FACT on some legitimate sites I've seen. Advertisement. [quote]In one of entertainment's most bizarre career moves, he went straight from the Oscar nom to a role on the soap Another World. R148, I was a friend of Gary Bond's. What a peculiar and erroneous notion, r111. Best Known For: George . title. The Armstrong Curse was a joke that led to moniker that took . I'm not denying the publicist downplayed the cause of death, though. He also worked throughout the 1930s and 1940s for many film studios. Richard Warwick portrayed Uncas in the 1971 tv series The Last of the Mohicans. At the end of the picture, as the giant Kong sprawls dead at the base of the Empire State Building, a bystander observes that it was the airplanes that helped defeat him at last. Best known for numerous 60s tv roles and for the movie "The Illustrated Man" where he has a very lovely nude scene. He received great reviews for his portrayal of Big Daddy in the Broadway production of "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" in 1955.In 1958, R.G. September 9, 2022 by Prinzo. Jan. 13, 2017. So babygays heard it at the same time you did. 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. [quote]Parker styled himself as the quintessential clone of the period; a mustachioed, uber-male strapped into tight, silver spandex jumpsuits and was obviously at ease sexually with both genders. Funeral Home Services for Robert are being provided by J M Wilkerson Funeral Establishment, Inc. - Petersburg. Ryan Gosling was attached to it some time ago. Was he on a wire with a harness under his tux? It was beauty killed the beast. I've always found it fascinating how he was able to effortlessly transition from Gay & Straight Adult Films to a mainstream network soap opera (Edge Of Night). I thought he had been living with AIDS for 20 years, but it's 30, which is a huge difference. Birth Year: 1839. . . That leaves Curtis, who won the Tony for "The Rothschilds". I actually knew Richard Warwick - slightly, he used to frequent a gay bar (The Colherne - now gone) my gang used to drink in at Earls Court, back in the early 80s, so we got chatting a few times, and almost picked each other up once, but something came up and it didnt happen. click ACCEPT. William passed away of cause of death on month day 1931, at age 68 at death place, Utah. Our town was rocked when one of the leading businessmen went into rehab, and this was back when rehab was a big deal. In contrast to his buttoned-down image on CBS' In the Heat of the Night, Rollins sometimes wore a long, startling wig of dreadlocks when he cruised the North Georgia roads last year in his maroon 1993 Lincoln Mark VIII. Although Robert Armstrong starred in more than 100 adventure movies of all varieties, it was this line, spoken as an obituary to a slain 50 foot gorilla, that survived as his most famous film utterance. But I swear I saw it once in a soap mag but never again. Among the memorable, scenes featuring Mr. Armstrong was the one in which he haughtily assures frightened onlookers that the solid platinum chains shackling Kong cannot possibly break. 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. 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. Salivary Gland Tumour. Brad was just 50 years old at the time of his death. He was a very sexy man. Thanks for the info. I'll make sure of that. His death was attributed to his mother's smoking. August 16, 1993. English actor Ian Charleson was getting well-known and had just played Hamlet before he died. So many talented chorus men from the 80's. Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM. Armstrong died at age 95 of natural causes in Studio City, California on July 27, 2012. Peter Tramm the substitute dancer for Kevin Bacon in Footloose. The grave site of Robert Armstrong. A good conversation starter. He was 93. 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. So many folks lost and these are just the semi-famous folks. [quote] Dan Hartman, singer/musician. Richard Warwick was beautiful in one of the best UK movies of the 60s -- Lindsay Anderson's If. Richard Warwick lip synched "What is a Youth" in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. [quote]Micheal Jeter From Evening Shade died of Aids. Tag Team Champs: Bob Armstrong (left) with Robert Fuller. He infected comedian Corbett Monica's daughter (Corbett Monica used to tour with Rat Packers as an opening act) and she sued his estate. And in 1933, he appeared as Denham, the fasttalking movie maker who insists on visiting a mysterious island where an enormous ape, called Kong, is said to be thriving. Stephen W. Burns made a potentially promising film debut in the last (and worst) of the initial Herbie films, Herbie Goes Bananas (1980), replaced Mark Harmon in the last 3 episodes of the LA paramedics TV series 240 Robert (1981) and, in the role that probably brought him his biggest exposure, played Jack Cleary, one of Meggies brothers, in the classic miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983). Now it's all amusement park Disney crap with unimaginative staging. r114, what makes you think those three actors are living with AIDS? Jeffrey Mylett, of the original cast/film version of "Godspell", died in 1986 at age 36. Westwood Memorial Park; Los Angeles County . Almost nobody actually died from AIDS. I'm lucky to be alive; timing is everything, if I'd been born 5 years earlierwho knows? Peter Burnell, who played Mike Powers on The Doctors, committed suicide after being diagnosed. Birth Name: Robert William Armstrong. 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. Miss Amanda Blake, tho she was a bit of a household name. *Peter Evans, 38, May 20, 1989, Versatile actor praised for his lead role in "Children of a Lesser God", *Ian Charleson, 40, January 6, 1990, The Scottish actor who costarred in the 1981 "Chariots of Fire", *Leonard Fray, 49, August 24, 1988, Motel the tailor in the stage and film versions of "Fiddler on the Roof", *Larry Kert, 60, June 5, 1991, The singer and actor who played Tony in Broadway's "West Side Story", Charles Ludlam, 44, May 28, 1987, Actor-playwright-director in his post-absurdist theater of the Ridiculous, Cookie Mueller, 40, November 10, 1989, Actress in John Waters's "Pink Flamingoes"; Details magazine art critic, Larry Riley, 59, June 6, 1992, The actor who played Frank Williams on CBS's "Knots Landing", Craig Russell, 42, October 30, 1990, Flamboyant entertainer and impersonator of Mae West, Judy Garland, Jack Smith, 57, September 18, 1989, Performance artist and maker of the 1963 film "Flaming Creatures", Barry Robins, 41, April 1, 1986, Lead in Bless the Beasts and the Children, Rmi Laurent, 32, 14 November 1989, the son in 1978 film La Cage aux Folles. Some people do get brain tumors in their 50s - and its a pretty swift decline. I remember how powerful he was in "Ragtime", and he got an Oscar nomination for that, and I thought he'd have an amazing career thereafter. He was a fucking knockout, for me, perfectly emblematic of what was "young and handsome" in the sixties. They were friends and occasional fuck buddies. Reed Jones, 'Skimbleshanks, in the original Broadway production of "Cats", June 19, 1989. In fact, I didn't know that he'd died. Rap, that horrid musical wannabe skyrocketed in the 80s as a direct loss of this pool of talent. and his lovely wife Mary Craven were mostly just enjoying life in California, and still traveled and vacationed in Europe occasionally. World War I. And who could ever forget Michael Jeter as Ethel Merman in "The Fisher King" ? Although "King Kong " put Armstrong on the map as an actor, it would also cause him to. r55 Lypsinka performed "I've Got Your Number" from "Little Me" in a tribute to fashion designer Pauline Trigere in 1992. That eulogy is not in the play of "THe Normal Heart". I don't remember when it happened. Besides, singing on Broadway, Kim Milford also toured as a vocalist with British rock/jazz guitarist Jeff Beck's band in the 1970s. I've been practicing law since 1985. I've always wondered. I always suspected that Gregory Hines did not die of liver cancer, as was reported. r10--how can you POSSIBLY have left out mention of Frey as Harold in "The Boys in the Band"? His upbeat, fun-loving personality made him a delight for all who came in contact with him. [quote]I had no idea Howard E. Rollins died of AIDS. Did any non-gay actors ever die of the AIDS? Was it because of subpar acting or clutch-voice? What an evil, evil tragedy AIDS wrought on our artistic community. 308, he is already mentioned repeatedly up thread [quote] During those hell years I cut out every obit concerning an aids related death. 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. Birthday: November 20, 1890. r4 Lenny Baker was str8 and died of throat cancer. He was born in Plattsburgh, May 8, 1939, the son of Thurman and Laura (Dubuque) Armstrong. But any excuse to watch this What a sad thread. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. Micheal Jeter From Evening Shade died of Aids. I think it's the perfect kind of "interesting failure" type of film that is ripe for a remake. R258 I didn't know that. 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). - Susan Brooks. It was sad. and died after 2 days. That first guy was smoking hot..to bad he got a dirty load. Cause of Death: cancer. Paul Stevens, who played Brian Bancroft on Another World, died of AIDS. Age: 82. I went with this very smart theater friend of mine who leaned over and whispered after the big opening number where you meet all the characters, "The whole house will come down when the little dying Jewish man does his big "To Life!" He was a lovely, talented man and had a wonderful partner in EJ Alexander. (I had a crush on him and nearly satisfied it many moons ago.) Remi Laurent -- he played the son in the original film of La Cage aux Folles (1978) and died in 1989. In his films, Mr. Armstrong played gangsters, cowboys, aviators, boxers and policemen in both comedies and melodramas, Sometimes he was the villain, other times he played romantic leads. . Howard Rollins from In the Heat of the Night, Whoops I'm late. Went out with him once, R126. This memorial website was created in memory of Robert Armstrong, 74, born on April 4, 1916 and passed away on April 22, 1990. It's traumatic for me to read these. Story of Ex-Middlesbrough David Armstrong's Cause of Death. Did you know his friend John from NY (also an old roommate)? He was a smart and lovely guy. I find it too cutesy for words. Leonard Frey was so much more attractive than I thought he'd be out of his "Boys in the Band" makeup. site without all this bureaucratic nonsense, A bit OT, Mark Lester might actually be the biological father of one, or two, of Michael Jackson's three children. In 1953, along with many of his Actors Studio buddies, he was part of the cast of "End As a Man" -- this became the first play to go from off-Broadway to Broadway. Kenny Sacha- He played the Rose drag queen in The Rose among other things. I grew up in the midst of this and was scared beyond scared to think it was something I could contract. Antony, the second child and oldest son of Ronald Armstrong-Jones and his wife, Anne (nee Messel), was born in the fifth year of the couple's marriage, at . got his first taste of movies, appearing in Garden of Eden (1954). This article paves the way for readers to know more about David Armstrong's Cause of Death. He delivered the film's famous final line: "It wasn't the airplanes. 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