The Departed 2016

[J.B.]

"What were their names, the departed?"

RIP Debbie Reynolds

RIP Carrie Fisher

RIP George Michael

Green Hornet star Van Williams RIP

rick parfitt r.i.p.

Zsa Zsa

Gordie Tapp, Hee-Haw star dead at 94 R.I.P.

RIP Bernard Fox

RIP John Glenn

RIP Alan Thicke

greg lake r.i.p.

r.i.p. pete

r vaughan

r.i.p. andrew sachs

RIP Fritz Weaver

RIP Ron Glass

RIP- Florence Henderson

RIP Sharon Jones

RIP Leon Russell...

RIP Leonard Cohen

RIP Robert Vaughn

RIP John Polito

Gene Wilder

Mr. Fuji passes away

RIP Steven Hill

RIP Jack Davis

RIP Gloria DeHaven -- Golden Age Hollywood

RIP Miss Cleo

RIP Jerry Doyle AKA Mr. Garibaldi

R.I.P. Gary Marshall

RIP Alan Vega (vocalist for Suicide) dead at 78

RIP Bud Spencer

RIP Henry McCullough...

RIP Janet Waldo

Muhammad Ali on Life Support-The End is Near

Kimbo Slice died age 42

Madeleine Lebeau Passes away.................

r.i.p. burt kwouk

Nick Menza RIP

Alan Young RIP

Patty Duke has passed at 69

RIP Prince found dead at age 57

RIP Joan Laurer AKA Chyna

RIP Merle Haggard

RIP Ronnie Corbett

Johan Cruyff dead at 68...

RIP Gary Shandling

Joe Garagiola RIP

Ken Howard 'White Shadow' dies at 71.

RIP Frank Sinatra, Jr.

RIP Sylvia Anderson

RIP Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.

George Martin: 1926-2016

RIP Nancy Reagan

RIP, Gilbert Hill

R.I.P. Vanity

RIP Maurice White - Founder of Earth, Wind, & Fire

R.I.P. Abe Vigoda

Glenn Frey dies at 67

RIP Dan Haggerty

Alan Rickman RIP

RIP David Bowie.

RIP, Pat Harrington Jr

[Bruce Banner]

Yes, 2016 has exacted a heavy toll.

Also, Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, passed away a couple of days ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38446309

[hedrap]

This isn't a one-off year. I've been warning about this since Roy Schneider died.

The Boomers had the biggest slate of film/TV stars. Once they entered retirement age, their stars were going to start passing on. We got three or four years of long list ahead.

Stars come about in ebb and flow, hang on for decades. But they pass in waves and then we get a death tally at years end. That's what makes it hard. If they passed like they arrived it wouldn't feel so depressing.

[hobub]

TCM always does a good job but they should have held off until New Year's Eve this time.

[emeraldknight47]

I would imagine that the 2017 Oscars will likely feature one of the single, longest "In Memorium" pieces in recent history. Let's hope that, as of today, they needn't add any more...

[Earth 2 Chris]

TCM always does a good job but they should have held off until New Year's Eve this time.

Yeah, I was wondering about that. They are always very touching, but I hadn't seen this year's yet. I'm guessing they will either revise it, or do separate ones for Fisher and Reynolds, which they also do.

Edited to add:

I just watched that, and the Gene Wilder bit choked me up.

They did leave out Glenn Frey. He was an actor too, and was in Jerry Maguire, for instance.

Chris

[Hector]

It's the same thing year after year, just go back to any year, bunch of famous people die...unfortunately, it's part of nature.

Just take last year for instance (2015)...some big names there too...starting with Leonard Nimoy...

http://www.justjared.com/2015/12/28/in-remembrance-celebrity-deaths-in-2015/

Go to any year...same thing.

The reason most of us here relate to these deaths more...because they are often celebrities from our childhood...like hedrap said...baby boomers are the one we relate to the most...because we are part of the same boat.

Anyway...not to sound gloom and doom...but that's the result of our limited lifespans.

Why can we live as long as Giant Sequoias?

[Makernaut]

The joke for years and years was "Abe Vigoda....Dead or Alive?" and as he went very early in the year, it seems like he may have been holding The Grim Reaper back. Once he went, the flood gates opened.

(Yes, of course...I realize that is not a real reason for so many celebrity deaths in 2016)

[Nostalgiabuff]

I think what is different this year, is the amount of celebrities that died very young. I mean, god bless Abe Vigoda, but the guy was in his nineties. or Nancy Reagan or James Garner, or even Debbie Reynolds, 84. those were good long lives. but then you look at Prince, and George Michael and Carrie Fisher and so many others, including Bowie and Glenn Frey, way to young to leave this world.

[Hector]

For many of those younger celebrities who keep dying...stay off drugs, simple as that...

[Brown Bear]

Wwf' mister Fuji passed as well

[Hector]

Ex NFL player dies in freak accident...

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/former-bills-falcons-safety-keion-carpenter-dies-at-39-after-accident-on-family-vacation-160437539.html

[J.B.]

Wwf' mister Fuji passed as well

He's 24th down the list.

[J.B.]

Removed James Garner from the list as I was just informed that he sailed Into the Mystic 2 years ago. (Thanks hobub)

[Falstaff13]

TCM updates its list when it (sadly) has to do so. I haven't seen one with Debbie Reynolds, but I saw where they went back to add both Zsa Zsa and Carrie Fisher.