Tag: comedy

RIP, Roger Lloyd-Pack

Actor Roger Lloyd-Pack has died. Lloyd-Pack appeared in Doctor Who; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Only Fools and Horses; The Vicar of Dibley; Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Spy (2011); and many other films and television shows. The BBC and The AV Club have obituaries. The BBC is […]

RIP, Dave Madden

Actor and comedian Dave Madden has died. He was best known for his portrayal of Reuben Kincaid in the television series, The Partridge Family and his work on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In.  The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times have obituaries. Here Madden appears after […]

RIP, Russell Johnson

Actor Russell Johnson has died. Johnson was best known as the Professor on the television show, Gilligan’s Island, and as physicist Steve Carlson in This Island Earth (1955). Terence Towles Canote has more on Johnson’s life and work at A Shroud of Thoughts. The New York Times and […]

RIP, Marcia Wallace

Actress Marcia Wallace has died. Marcia Wallace is probably best known for voicing Edna Krabappel in The Simpsons,  playing receptionist Carol Kester on The Bob Newhart Show, as Maggie Hawley in  That’s My Bush! and as Annie Wilkes on The Young And The Restless. Entertainment Weekly,  The New […]