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The following deaths of notable individuals related to American television occurred in 2020.

January

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Date Name Age Notability Source
January 1 David Stern 77 Commissioner of the National Basketball Association from 1984 to 2014 who oversaw the launches of NBA TV and NBA League Pass. [1]
Barry ZeVan 82 American television weathercaster at Minneapolis–St. Paul stations KARE and KSTP-TV and Washington, D.C. station WJLA-TV [2]
January 3 Robert Blanche 57 American film and television actor best known as Patrick Bonanno on Leverage [3]
January 7 Silvio Horta 45 American film and television writer (co-creator of Ugly Betty; creator of Jake 2.0 and The Chronicle) [4]
January 8 Buck Henry 89 American actor, comedian, producer, writer, and director (co-creator and writer for Get Smart, Captain Nice and Quark; regular on The New Steve Allen Show and That Was The Week That Was, recurring guest host on Saturday Night Live, guest roles in Murphy Brown and Will and Grace, and recurring roles on 30 Rock and Hot in Cleveland) [5]
Edd Byrnes 87 American actor/singer, best known for playing Kookie on 77 Sunset Strip [6]
January 9 Lan O'Kun 87 American screenwriter, playwright, lyricist and composer (Love, American Style, Apple's Way, Insight, Small Wonder, The Love Boat, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Highway to Heaven) [7]
January 10 Michael Greene 86 American actor (Wanted Dead or Alive, Cheyenne, The Dakotas, Batman, Gunsmoke, Kung Fu, The Dukes of Hazzard, Fantasy Island, The A-Team, All My Children, The Twilight Zone, The Fall Guy, The Colbys, LBJ: The Early Years, Quantum Leap, Hunter, Melrose Place, Baywatch) [8]
January 11 Stan Kirsch 51 American actor, screenwriter, director, and acting coach. [9]
Norma Michaels 95 American character actress (All My Children, One Life to Live, Santa Barbara, The King of Queens, Baywatch, Bewitched, Guiding Light, General Hospital) [10]
January 12 William Bogert 83 American actor, best known for his semi-regular role as Brandon Brindle on Small Wonder, Kent Wallace from Chappelle's Show's Frontline spoofs, William Bellamy in Centennial, and the "Confessions of a Republican" ad for Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 U.S. presidential election (and later on reprised the role for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign) [11]
January 15 Rocky Johnson 75 WWE Hall of Fame professional wrestler; father of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. [12]
January 18 Jack Van Impe 88 American televangelist, host of Jack Van Impe Presents [13]
January 19 Gene London 88 American children's show host and puppeteer at WCAU/Philadelphia, New York City stations WABD and WABC-TV, and NBC [14]
January 20 Len Goorian 100 Longtime producer and Hall of Fame broadcaster at WCPO-TV in Cincinnati [15]
January 22 Sonny Grosso 89 American film producer, television producer, and NYPD detective (A Family for Joe, True Blue, Top Cops, The Big Easy) [16]
January 23 Jim Lehrer 85 American television journalist (anchor of PBS NewsHour from 1975 to 2011 and co-creator of the program, moderator of twelve United States presidential debates from 1988 to 2012) [17][18]
Tyler Gwozdz 29 American entrepreneur and contestant on season 15 of The Bachelorette [19]
January 25 Carleton Sheets 80 American real estate investor and infomercial pitchman [20]
January 26 Leo Fernández III 60 Puerto Rican reporter and paparazzo, worked at WKAQ-TV, WAPA-TV, WLII and WJPX [21]
Kobe Bryant 41 American Oscar-winning and Olympic Gold medalist basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers), author, producer, and documentarian. (Contributor for NBA TV programs and specials; guest appearances on General Hospital, All That, Sister, Sister and Ridiculousness; commercial work included Sprite, McDonald's, Nutella, Nike, and Nintendo) [22][23]
January 27 Jack Burns 86 American actor, comedian, writer, and voice actor (regular role as Deputy Sheriff Warren Ferguson on The Andy Griffith Show, voice roles as Ralph Kane in Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, and Sid the Squid in Animaniacs, co-host of The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour, writer for Hee Haw and The Muppet Show, co-writer/recurring regular on Fridays, guest hosted Saturday Night Live, and the voice of Larry, one half of the crash test dummies in the Ad Council's seat belt advertising campaign. [24]
January 28 Marj Dusay 83 American actress best known as the second Alexandra Spaulding on Guiding Light, Monica Warner on The Facts of Life, a co-starring role on All My Children, and a guest starring role as Kara in the Star Trek episode "Spock's Brain". [25]
January 30 Fred Silverman 82 American television executive with all of the Big Three television networks between 1963 and 1981 (vice president of CBS from 1970 to 1975, president of ABC from 1975 to 1978 and president of NBC from 1978 to 1981); founder of The Fred Silverman Company. Also producer on Scooby-Doo, The Waltons, Charlie's Angels, Rich Man, Poor Man, Roots, and Shōgun, and executive producer of Matlock. [26]
January 31 Anne Cox Chambers 100 American media proprietor (Cox Enterprises), daughter of James M. Cox [27]

February

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Date Name Age Notability Source
February 3 Bob Griffin 85 Longtime Ark-La-Tex television sports and news anchor (KSLA, KTBS-TV) [28]
February 4 Gene Reynolds 96 Longtime television producer and director (M*A*S*H, Lou Grant) [29]
February 5 Kevin Conway 77 American actor and film director [30]
Kirk Douglas 103 American actor (TV work includes guest spots on The Jack Benny Program, The Johnny Cash Show, Tales from the Crypt, The Simpsons, Touched by an Angel, and Saturday Night Live; and the television films Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973), Victory at Entebbe, Mousey, Draw!, Amos, Queenie, The Secret, Take Me Home Again, and Empire State Building Murders) [31]
February 7 Orson Bean 91 American actor, comedian, panelist, and activist (best known for his role in The Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Bevis", regular roles on Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman and Desperate Housewives, recurring roles in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and The Facts of Life, game show appearances include To Tell the Truth, Match Game, and Super Password, guest appearances include Superstore, Hot in Cleveland and Grace & Frankie) [32]
February 8 Robert Conrad 84 American actor best known as James T. West in The Wild Wild West and Tom Lopaka on Hawaiian Eye. Also starred on The D.A., Assignment Vienna, Centennial, and Baa Baa Black Sheep. [33]
Paula Kelly 77 American actress, singer, dancer and choreographer [34]
February 10 Marge Redmond 95 American actress, notable for her role/narration as Sister Jacqueline on The Flying Nun and Sarah Tucker in several Cool Whip commercials. [35]
February 14 Lynn Cohen 86 American actress best known as Magda on Sex and the City and Judge Elizabeth Mizener on Law & Order [36]
February 16 Jason Davis 35 American actor best known as the voice of Mikey Blumberg on Recess [37]
Kellye Nakahara 72–73 American actress, best known for playing Nurse Kealani Kellye in M*A*S*H [38]
February 17 Ja'Net DuBois 87 Actress best known as Willona Woods on Good Times, Florence Avery on The PJs, and Grandma Ellington on The Wayans Bros. Also sang The Jeffersons theme song. [39]
February 19 Bob Cobert 95 American composer (composed theme songs to Dark Shadows, Password, Blockbusters, Chain Reaction and many others) [40]
February 20 Sy Sperling 78 American consumer products executive, founder and spokesman of Hair Club [41]
February 22 B. Smith 70 American model, publisher, author, lifestyle designer, chef, and television personality (host of B. Smith With Style, and made two appearances on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) [42]
February 25 Lee Phillip Bell 91 American television producer (The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless) [43]

March

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Date Name Age Notability Source
March 2 James Lipton 93 American actor, writer, and host of Inside the Actors Studio. Other TV credits include The Simpsons, Arrested Development, and Glee; guest starring on The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, As the World Turns, and Guiding Light [44]
March 3 Bobbie Battista 67 Anchor for WRAL-TV/Raleigh, North Carolina, CNN, and HLN; host of CNN's TalkBack Live [45]
March 6 Danny Tidwell 35 American jazz dancer; runner-up of the third season of So You Think You Can Dance [46]
March 9 Lorenzo Brino 21 American child actor (7th Heaven) [47]
March 13 Arch Deal 88 American television reporter at WFLA-TV, WLCY-TV and WTVT in the Tampa Bay area [48]
March 16 Stuart Whitman 92 American actor (starred in Cimarron Strip, guest starring in Loving, All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital) [49]
March 17 Lyle Waggoner 84 American actor; announced The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1974 and portrayed Steve Trevor on Wonder Woman [50]
March 20 Kenny Rogers 81 American country music singer-songwriter and actor. Star of several television films including those based on his song "The Gambler"; guest appearances included Daniel Watkins on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Denny Byle on Touched by an Angel, and a Kindly Book Narrator on How I Met Your Mother [51]
March 24 Richard S. Kline 79 American game show producer (Break the Bank and Strike It Rich as sole producer; Win, Lose or Draw and 3rd Degree collaborating with Bert Convy, and several collaborations with Jack Barry) [52]
March 24 William Dufris 62 American actor (Bob the Builder) [53]
March 25 Mark Blum 69 American actor (Sweet Surrender, Mozart in the Jungle, You) [54]
March 26 Curly Neal 77 American basketball player and entertainer. Member of The Harlem Globetrotters (1963–85) during its tenure that included lending his voice to the Harlem Globetrotters and The Super Globetrotters cartoon series, appearing in The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine, and co-starring in The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island, among his credits. [55]
March 31 Julie Bennett 88 American actress, voice actress. (The Yogi Bear Show, McHale's Navy, Cattanooga Cats, Spider-Man) Best known as the voice of Hanna-Barbera's Cindy Bear on The Yogi Bear Show and its feature-film spin-off, Yogi's Treasure Hunt, Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears and The New Yogi Bear Show. [56]

April

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Date Name Age Notability Source
April 1 Adam Schlesinger 52 American musician (Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, Tinted Windows, and Fever High) and songwriter (TV work includes T.U.F.F. Puppy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Big Time Rush, and Sesame Street). Three-time Emmy-winner (2012, 2013, 2019), and Grammy-winner (2010). [57]
April 3 Logan Williams 16 Canadian actor (The Whispers, The Flash, When Calls the Heart, Supernatural) [58]
April 6 James Drury 85 Actor best known as the title character of The Virginian [59]
Al Kaline American Hall of Fame baseball player, broadcaster, and executive, all for the Detroit Tigers. Served as the Tigers TV color commentator from 1975 to 2002. [60]
April 7 Hal Willner 64 Music producer (Saturday Night Live) [61]
Herb Stempel 93 Game show contestant most famous for blowing the whistle on the scripted game show Twenty-One, beginning the 1950s quiz show scandals. Was portrayed by John Turturro in Quiz Show. [62]
April 8 Rick May 79 Canadian actor and theatrical performer (Child in the Night)
April 12 Danny Goldman 80 American actor known as the voice of Brainy Smurf from The Smurfs [63]
April 14 Gary Drapcho 63 Longtime sports anchor at WICU-TV and WSEE-TV in Erie [64]
April 15 Willie Davis 85 Professional football player (Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns), broadcaster (founder of All Pro Broadcasting), and color commentator for NFL on NBC; father of actor Duane Davis [65]
Brian Dennehy 81 Actor (recurring roles on several series including The Fighting Fitzgeralds, Public Morals, The Blacklist, Hap and Leonard, and Star of the Family). Golden Globe winner for his role as Willy Loman in the 2000 television film Death of a Salesman. [66]
April 16 Mike Buchanan 78 Longtime television journalist at WUSA and WJLA-TV in Washington, DC [67]
Gene Deitch 95 American expatriate animator (TV work included several adaptations of King Features Syndicate comics such as Popeye, Beetle Bailey and Krazy Kat) [68]
Howard Finkel 69 Longtime WWE Hall of Fame ring announcer [69]
Eugene Kane 63 American journalist (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) and commentator (Alumnus of WTMJ-TV and host of Black Nouveau on WMVS/WMVT from 2002 to 2006) [70]
April 20 Tom Lester 81 American actor, businessman, and evangelist, best known for his role as Eb Dawson on Green Acres, and was the last original surviving cast member of the 1965–71 sitcom. [71]
April 21 Mike Anderson 67 Anchorman, reporter, and commentator for WISN-TV Milwaukee (and its sister Hearst Television outlets) from 1981 to 2017; also an alumnus of KIRO-TV Seattle and an R&B singer. [72]
Jerry Bishop 84 Voice over announcer best known for his work on Judge Judy. Also worked for The Cross-Wits, Dick Clark's Live Wednesday, Disney Channel, ABC, NBC, and commercials for Budweiser, Burger King, and Coors. [73]
Dimitri Diatchenko 52 Character actor (brief recurring roles on General Hospital, Sons of Anarchy, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and guest spots on numerous shows). [74]
April 22 Shirley Knight 83 Actress (recurring roles in Buckskin, Maggie Winters, and Desperate Housewives) [75]
April 24 Mark Farrell 55 News director at KTEN in Ada-Sherman [76]
April 25 Willie Dixon 52 Photojournalist at KTRK-TV in Houston [77]
April 27 Ashley Ross 34 American reality show contestant (Little Women: Atlanta) [78]
April 28 Ed Carter 81 Longtime television journalist at WIS in Columbia, SC [79]
John Mercer 56 News anchor/reporter at WDEF-TV in Chattanooga [80]
April 30 Sam Lloyd 56 American actor, singer, and musician (Scrubs, Cougar Town) [81]

May

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Date Name Age Notability Source
May 9 Little Richard 87 American musician and actor (credits include Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures, Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme, Columbo, Full House, Baywatch, The Drew Carey Show, and The Simpsons; film role in Goddess of Love, promos for Jenny Jones; numerous appearances on WWE shows; performed theme song to The Magic School Bus; commercial work for Nike) [82]
May 10 Betty Wright 66 Grammy Award-winning American singer/songwriter (Clean Up Woman), and producer (musical appearances include Soul Train, American Bandstand, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, The Mike Douglas Show and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, guest appearances on The Mo'Nique Show and Magic City, served as a mentor to Danity Kane on Making the Band, and was profiled on Unsung the previous April; her music and sampled vocals were used on numerous television series, music videos, and specials, resulting in lawsuits due to copyrighting infringement and unauthorized use of her music) [83][84]
May 11 Jerry Stiller 92 American comedian (Stiller and Meara) and actor best known as Frank Costanza on Seinfeld and Arthur Spooner on The King of Queens. Also recurring roles on Joe and Sons, Tattingers, Fish Hooks, and Teacher's Pet. Father of Ben Stiller and husband of Anne Meara. [85]
Hutton Gibson 101 American expatriate sedevacantist and game show contestant, winner of the 1968 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions. Father of actors Mel Gibson and Donal Gibson. [86]
May 14 Phyllis George 70 American businesswoman, actress, presenter/host and sportscaster (co-host of The NFL Today and numerous programs for CBS Sports, anchor of CBS Morning News, co-host of Candid Camera, host of television versions of People and Women's Day. Winner of Miss Texas 1970, Miss America 1971, and the First Lady of Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown Jr. from 1979 to 1983) [87]
May 15 Fred Willard 86 American comedian, actor, presenter, and writer (regular roles on Fernwood 2 Night/America 2-Night, Real People, Sirota's Court, D.C. Follies, A Minute with Stan Hooper and Maybe It's Me; recurring roles on Modern Family, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Bold and the Beautiful, Roseanne, Mad About You and Family Matters; guest roles include Get Smart, Campus Ladies, Pushing Daisies, Murphy Brown, The Bob Newhart Show, and Laverne & Shirley; voice work include The Simpsons, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Dexter's Laboratory, Family Guy and The Loud House) [88]
May 16 Frank Bielec 72 Home renovation designer (Trading Spaces) [89]
Lynn Shelton 54 American actress, writer, director and producer (production credits include New Girl, The Mindy Project. Fresh Off the Boat, Love, GLOW, Dickinson and Little Fires Everywhere; both acting and producer on Maron with partner Marc Maron) [90]
May 17 Shad Gaspard 39 American wrestler, novelist, and actor, who was part of the WWE tag team duo Cryme Tyme (credits include Big Time Rush, Key and Peele, The Game, and From Dusk till Dawn: The Series; his body was found on May 20) [91]
May 18 Ken Osmond 76 American actor, author, and officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, best known for playing Eddie Haskell on Leave It to Beaver and The New Leave It to Beaver; his near-fatal attack from a carjacker he helped convict in 1980 was recreated for an episode of Top Cops [92]
May 19 Hagen Mills 34 American actor (Baskets) [93]
May 26 Richard Herd 87 American actor (recurring roles on T. J. Hooker, Seinfeld, seaQuest DSV, and Star Trek: Voyager and the miniseries V and its sequel V The Final Battle) [94]
Anthony James 77 American character actor who specialized in playing villains in films and television, many of them Westerns. [95]
May 29 Rob Andringa 51 Former Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey player and hockey analyst for Wisconsin Public Television and Big Ten Network [96]

June

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Date Name Age Notability Source
June 1 Lee Grosscup 83 Football player and sportscaster (ABC) [97]
June 2 Chris Trousdale 34 American actor/singer, and former member of the group Dream Street (TV work includes Days of Our Lives, Shake It Up, Austin & Ally and Lucifer. Auditioned for The Voice in 2012) [98]
Mary Pat Gleason 70 Actress and writer best known as Jane Hogan on Guiding Light which she also wrote for. Also recurring roles on The Middleman, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, and Mom. Emmy winner (1986). [99]
June 3 Jimmy Capps 81 American guitarist, member of The Nashville A-Team (member of the Larry's Country Diner and Grand Ole Opry house bands) [100]
June 9 Dick Johnson 66 News anchor/reporter at KDFW/Dallas and WMAQ-TV and WLS-TV/Chicago [101]
June 10 Jas Waters 39 Writer (This is Us, Kidding, Hood Adjacent With James Davis, The Breaks) [102]
Ann Varnum 80 Longtime morning host at WTVY-TV/Dothan, AL [103]
June 11 Mel Winkler 78 Actor best known as Dr. Simon Harris on The Doctors. Also recurring voice roles on Oswald and The New Batman Adventures [104]
June 18 James Henerson 84 Writer (I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Attica) and producer (Starman, The Fire Next Time) [105]
June 24 Lester Crystal 85 American news executive (PBS NewsHour, NBC Nightly News), president of NBC News (1977–1979) [106]
June 27 Linda Cristal 89 Argentine actress (lone regular role in American television was Victoria Cannon in The High Chaparral) [107]
June 29 Johnny Mandel 94 American composer who co-wrote "Suicide is Painless", the theme song to M*A*S*H [108]
Carl Reiner 98 Actor, writer, director and producer, best known as the creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show on which he also had a recurring role as Alan Brady. Also recurring roles/guest spots on Good Heavens, Father of the Pride, Your Show of Shows, Caesar's Hour, and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Nine-time Emmy winner. [109]

July

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Date Name Age Notability Source
July 1 Hugh Downs 99 American television personality best known as the host of 20/20 and The Today Show. Other roles include the sidekick/announcer on Tonight Starring Jack Paar and the host of Concentration. [110]
July 4 Brandis Kemp 76 American actress (TV work includes Fridays, AfterMASH, Faerie Tale Theatre, and The New Lassie) [111]
July 5 Bettina Gilois 58 German-American author and screenwriter. TV work includes the movies Bessie, The Lost Wife of Robert Durst, Mahalia, and A Million Miles Away and the series Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes and Muscle Shoals. Emmy winner (2015). [112]
Nick Cordero 41 Canadian actor (TV work includes guest spots on Blue Bloods, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lilyhammer, and Queer as Folk) [113]
July 6 Charlie Daniels 83 Grammy Award-winning musician/songwriter (TV credits include The Fall Guy, Fox NFL Sunday, Super Bowl XXXIX Pregame Show, Dinner: Impossible, King of the Hill, Murder, She Wrote, and Veggietales; commercial work for GEICO) [114]
July 8 Naya Rivera 33 American actress/singer (Glee); her body was found July 13. [115]
July 10 Morris Cerullo 88 American televangelist (host of Victory Today), founder of The Inspiration Network [116]
Dick Williams 92 American television/radio personality, weatherman, and magician, best known for hosting Magicland on WMC-TV Memphis from 1966 to 1989. [117]
July 12 Jane Gardner 68 Anchorwoman at WTKR and WVEC Norfolk, and WTVR-TV Richmond; reporter at WSLS Roanoke [118]
Kelly Preston 57 American actress; wife of John Travolta (For Love and Honor, Hawaii Five-0 and Magnum PI) [119]
Joanna Cole 75 Author of The Magic School Bus books, which became a television series of the same name. [120]
July 13 Grant Imahara 49 Electrical engineer and robotics technician best known as the co-host of MythBusters. Also hosted White Rabbit Project and created The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson robot sidekick Geoff Peterson and worked on the Energizer Bunny. [121]
July 14 Galyn Görg 55 Actress best known as Lt. Leora Maxwell on M.A.N.T.I.S.. Guest starred on Guiding Light, Transformers: Rescue Bots, Chicago Fire, Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy, General Hospital, Bewitched, Back to the Future, Days of Our Lives, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. [122]
Bob Johnson 73 Longtime anchorman at WTVC in Chattanooga from 1975 to 2007 [123]
July 16 Phyllis Somerville 76 American actress (Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Sex and the City, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Sopranos, Third Watch, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Kidnapped, CSI: Miami, Fringe, The Big C, Elementary, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Daredevil, The Good Wife, Outsiders, Madam Secretary) [124]
July 17 John Lewis 80 American Civil Rights Leader (the last of the "Big Six" activists), Congressman, author, and narrator. A member of the Democratic Party, serving as a U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death, and as the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. TV credits include voice work in the Arthur episode "Arthur Takes a Stand"; contributing appearance in the documentary Bobby Kennedy for President, and John Lewis: Get In the Way; cameo appearance in the music video for Young Jeezy's song "My President". [125]
Shirley Love 87 American politician and broadcaster at WOAY-TV/Oak Hill, West Virginia from 1954 to 1997 [126]
July 19 Nina Kapur 26 News reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City, WDVM-TV in Hagerstown, Maryland, and News 12 Networks [127]
July 23 Mike Adams 55 American conservative columnist and professor (guest appearances on Hannity, The O'Reilly Factor, The Kelly File, Glenn Beck Program, and The 700 Club) [128]
Jerry Taft 77 Longtime meteorologist at KMOL-TV in San Antonio from 1976 to 1977, WMAQ-TV from 1977 to 1984 and WLS-TV in Chicago from 1984 to 2018 [129]
July 24 Rene Carpenter 92 Newspaper columnist and television personality (Everywoman, Nine in the Morning). Portrayed by Yvonne Strahovski in The Astronaut Wives Club. Wife of Mercury Seven astronaut Scott Carpenter. [130]
July 25 Regis Philbin 88 Television personality best known as the co-host of WABC-TV's The Morning Show which became the nationally syndicated Live with Regis and Kathie Lee and later Live! with Regis and Kelly. Also the first host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, America's Got Talent and Million Dollar Password, the sidekick/announcer on The Joey Bishop Show, eponymous host of That Regis Philbin Show! (succeeding Steve Allen) and a record 136 guest appearances on Late Show with David Letterman. [131]
John Saxon 83 Character actor (recurring roles/guest spots on Gunsmoke, Burke's Law, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Bonanza, Ironside, The Virginian, The Six Million Dollar Man, Wonder Woman, Fantasy Island, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Murder, She Wrote, and several TV movies). [132]
Olivia de Havilland 104 Actress (TV work includes ABC Stage 67, The Screaming Woman, Roots: The Next Generations, Murder Is Easy (1982), The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana, North and South Book II: Love and War, and Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna) [133]
July 26 Edmund Ansin 84 American billionaire, philanthropist, and broadcaster, owner/founder of Sunbeam Television [134]
Michael Mandell ? Actor (guest spots on Person of Interest, NYC 22, Glee, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Ed, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Ugly Betty and Guiding Light) [135]
Charlie Balducci 44 Reality TV personality (True Life). [136]
July 27 Beckie Mullen 55 American actress and wrestler, best known as Sally The Farmer's Daughter on Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling [137]
July 28 Reese Schonfeld 88 TV executive, first president of CNN (1980–82), founder of Food Network [138]
John Ivanic 52 Former news anchor at WCMH-TV in Columbus [139]
July 31 Alan Parker 76 Oscar and Golden Globe-winning British film/television producer, director, and writer, whose 1980 musical drama Fame was later adapted into a 1982–87 series of the same name, a sequel and a reality based competition program. [140]

August

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Date Name Age Notability Source
August 1 Wilford Brimley 85 Actor and longtime spokesman for the Quaker Oats Company and Liberty Medical; regular role as Gus Witherspoon on Our House, recurring role on The Waltons, and several television films. [141]
Reni Santoni 82 American actor (The Trials of O'Brien, Hawk, Love, American Style, The Odd Couple, The F.B.I., Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, Barnaby Jones, Lou Grant, Hawaii Five-O, The Rockford Files, Charlie's Angels, CHiPs, Manimal, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Hardcastle and McCormick, Hill Street Blues, Sanchez of Bel Air, Miami Vice, Midnight Caller, Quantum Leap, Murder, She Wrote, Walker, Texas Ranger, NYPD Blue, Murder One, Seinfeld, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Franklin & Bash) [142]
August 4 Dick Goddard 89 American meteorologist on WJW/Cleveland for over 50 years. Also writer and cartoonist. [143]
August 10 Raymond Allen 91 Actor (recurring roles on Good Times, Sanford and Son, Sanford Arms and Starsky & Hutch. Also guest spots on The Jeffersons, What's Happening!! and The Love Boat). [144]
August 11 Sumner Redstone 97 Television executive, patriarch of the family that owns ViacomCBS [145]
August 14 Ash Christian 35 Actor, director and producer. Emmy winner (2014) [146]
Linda Manz 58 Actress (Dorothy, Orphan Train, Faerie Tale Theatre) [147]
August 18 Ben Cross 72 British actor (U.S. TV work includes recurring roles on Dark Shadows and Banshee and a voice role on Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja) [148]
August 20 Chi Chi DeVayne 34 American drag queen (appeared on season 8 of RuPaul's Drag Race and season 3 of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars) [149]
August 23 Lori Nelson 87 Actress best known as Greta Hanson on How to Marry a Millionaire [150]
August 26 Joe Ruby 87 American animation producer and writer, co-founder and namesake of Ruby-Spears Productions, also contributed to Hanna-Barbera (most famously co-creating Scooby-Doo), Sid and Marty Krofft, and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises [151]
August 28 Chadwick Boseman 43 Actor (guest spots on Law & Order, CSI: NY, ER and Castle) [152]
David S. Cass Sr. 78 American film director and stuntman [153]
August 29 Clifford Robinson 53 American basketball player and reality show participant (Survivor: Cagayan) [154]
August 30 Ric Drasin 76 American bodybuilder, personal trainer, actor, stuntman, author, and professional wrestler [155]
August 31 Norm Spencer 62 Canadian voice actor best known as Cyclops on X-Men: The Animated Series [156]
Tom Seaver 75 Major League Baseball pitcher and color commentator, most prominently on WPIX for the New York Yankees from 1989 to 1993, and the New York Mets from 1999 to 2005. [157]

September

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Date Name Age Notability Source
September 1 Sue C. Nichols 55 American artist [158]
September 6 Kevin Dobson 77 Actor best known as Detective Bobby Crocker on Kojak and M. Patrick "Mack" MacKenzie on Knots Landing. Also recurring roles on F/X: The Series, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, Shannon, and The Doctors. [159]
Mike Sexton 72 American Hall of Fame poker player and commentator for the World Poker Tour. [160]
September 9 Stevie Lee Richardson 54 Dwarf wrestler, co-founder of the Half Pint Brawlers hardcore midget wrestling circuit [161]
September 10 Diana Rigg 82 English actress (American television roles included Diana, Game of Thrones and Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero; host of Mystery!; her signature role as Emma Peel in The Avengers was widely seen in syndication in America) [162]
September 20 Michael Chapman 84 American cinematographer and film director [163]
September 27 Kevin Burns 65 Television producer, director and writer best known for Ancient Aliens, Biography, The Curse of Oak Island and dozens of other shows. [164]
September 28 Gene Corman 93 American film producer and agent. He is the younger brother of Roger Corman [165]
September 29 Mac Davis 78 Country music singer, songwriter, actor. Host of The Mac Davis Show and recurring roles on The Client, King of the Hill, and Rodney. [166]
Helen Reddy Singer and actor. Host of The Helen Reddy Show and The Midnight Special and several guest appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show, and The Carol Burnett Show. [167]

October

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Date Name Age Notability Source
October 2 Edward S. Feldman 91 American film and television producer [168]
October 3 Thomas Jefferson Byrd 70 American character actor [169]
Armelia McQueen 68 American actress (Adventures in Wonderland, Hart of Dixie) [170]
October 4 Clark Middleton 63 Actor (recurring roles on The Blacklist, Twin Peaks, The Path, and Fringe) [171]
October 7 Tom Kennedy 93 Game show host (Name That Tune, Split Second, and You Don't Say! among others) and announcer (Date with the Angels, Lawrence Welk's Top Tunes and New Talent). Brother of Jack Narz. [172]
October 10 Kent L. Wakeford 92 American cinematographer [173]
October 12 Conchata Ferrell 77 Character actress (recurring roles on L.A. Law, Two and a Half Men, Hot l Baltimore, E/R, Hearts Afire, Teen Angel, and The Ranch) [174]
October 14 Rhonda Fleming 97 Actress (guest spots on Wagon Train, Police Woman, The Love Boat, and McMillan & Wife) [175]
October 15 Joan Barnett 74 American television producer (The Jayne Mansfield Story, The Parent Trap II, Long Gone) [176]
October 16 Anthony Chisholm 77 Actor best known as Burr Redding on Oz [177]
October 18 Sid Hartman 100 Sports journalist (panelist on Sports Show with Mike Max on WUCW/Minneapolis–St. Paul for 20 years) [178]
October 21 Marge Champion 101 American dancer, model, and actress (guest spots on The Philco Television Playhouse, Lux Video Theatre,The Red Skelton Show, Fame, and Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (which won her an Emmy Award in 1975) [179]
October 22 William Blinn 83 American screenwriter (most notably writer of Brian's Song, Roots and The Boys Next Door and creator of Starsky & Hutch) and producer (Fame). Emmy winner (1972, 1977). [180]
Joel Daly 86 American news anchor, most notably for 38 years (1967–2005) at WLS-TV/Chicago [181]
October 27 Don Morrow 93 American voice-over artist announcer (Sale of the Century, The Challengers) and host (Camouflage) [182]
October 28 Kathleen Luong 45 Vietnamese American actress and model [183]
Leanza Cornett 49 Model (Miss America 1993) and TV personality (host of Entertainment Tonight, Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?, and On The Block; guest spots on Melrose Place, The Tick, and Fear Factor) [184]

November

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Date Name Age Notability Source
November 1 Carol Arthur 85 American actress, mainly recognizable in supporting roles in films directed by Mel Brooks; widow of Dom DeLuise [185]
Eddie Hassell 30 American actor [186]
Nikki McKibbin 42 Singer who competed on the first season of American Idol. [187]
Elsa Raven 91 Actress (recurring roles on Days of Our Lives, Amen, and Wiseguy) [187]
November 6 Ken Spears 82 American animation producer and writer, co-founder and namesake of Ruby-Spears Productions, also contributed to Hanna-Barbera (most famously co-creating Scooby-Doo), Sid and Marty Krofft, and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises [188]
November 7 Norm Crosby 93 American comedian, host of The Comedy Shop from 1978 to 1981, also recurring guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. [189]
November 8 Alex Trebek 80 Canadian-American newsman and television personality best known as the long-time host of Jeopardy!; other notable American shows included Double Dare, To Tell the Truth, Classic Concentration, High Rollers and Battlestars. Guest cameos on several shows (in which their characters appear on Jeopardy!) including The Golden Girls, Mama's Family, and Cheers. Parodied by Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live. [190]
November 9 Tom Heinsohn 86 Hall of Fame basketball player, coach, and broadcaster, all for the Boston Celtics (TV color commentator for the Celtics since 1981) [191]
November 12 Lynn Kellogg 77 American actress and singer [192]
November 13 Walter C. Miller 94 American television producer and director [193]
November 14 Rae Norman 62 American actress
William Thomas Jr. 73 American actor
November 16 Art Wolff 82 American television director and acting coach (Pursuit of Happiness, The Tracey Ullman Show, It's Garry Shandling's Show, Grand, The Powers That Be, Rhythm & Blues) [194]
November 17 Kay Morley 100 American actress
November 18 Mel Brez 84 American soap opera writer (The Doctors, One Life to Live, Days of Our Lives, As the World Turns)
Kirby Morrow 47 Canadian actor, voice actor, writer, and comedian known for his roles as Miroku from InuYasha, Cyclops from X-Men: Evolution, Jay from Class of the Titans, and Cole from LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu. [195]
Marguerite Ray 89 Actress, best known for roles on Sanford, The Young and the Restless, and Dynasty [196]
November 19 Herb Solow 89 American television executive (Desilu Studios, MGM Television) and producer (Man From Atlantis) [197]
November 20 Dena Dietrich 91 American actress, best known for playing Mother Nature (and using the catchphrase "It's Not Nice To Fool Mother Nature!") in the Chiffon margarine commercials. [198]
Sandy Dvore 86 Graphic artist and title designer (created title sequences for The Partridge Family, The Young and the Restless, and several other TV series and movies) [199]
Malcolm Marmorstein 92 American television writer [200]
November 23 Abby Dalton 88 Actress, best known as Ellie Barnes on The Joey Bishop Show and Julia Cumson on Falcon Crest [201]
November 24 Dorothea G. Petrie 95 American television producer [202]
November 29 Peg Murray 96 American actress of stage and television (The Doctors and the Nurses, Me & Mrs. C, Loving, All My Children) [203]

December

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Date Name Age Notability Source
December 2 Warren Berlinger 83 American character actor (The Joey Bishop Show, Bracken's World, The Funny Side, A Touch of Grace, Love, American Style, Operation Petticoat, Happy Days, CHiPs, Too Close for Comfort, Murder, She Wrote, Shades of LA) [204]
Rafer Johnson 86 American decathlete and actor [205]
Pat Patterson 79 WWE Hall of Fame professional wrestler [206]
December 4 David Lander 73 Comedian, actor and voice-over artist, significant roles include Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman in Laverne & Shirley and Doc Boy Arbuckle in the Garfield franchise (other roles include Galaxy High School, Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone, ProStars, On the Air, Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, Pacific Blue, Jungle Cubs, 101 Dalmatians: The Series, Oswald) [207]
December 7 Natalie Desselle-Reid 53 Actress, significant roles include Minerva in Cinderella and Eunetta in For Your Love (other roles include Built to Last, Eve) [208]
December 10 Tom Lister Jr. 62 American actor and professional wrestler (under the ring names "Zeus" and "Z-Gangsta") with several bit roles in television [209]
Carol Sutton 76 American actress [210]
December 16 Marcus D'Amico 55 British actor best known as "Mouse" Tolliver in the 1993 miniseries Tales of the City [211]
December 17 Doug Crane 85 American animator (The Deputy Dawg Show, The Marvel Super Heroes shorts featuring Thor, Spider-Man, Challenge of the Superfriends, Godzilla, Trollkins, The Smurfs, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, BraveStarr) [212]
Tom Hanneman 68 Minneapolis–Saint Paul sportscaster (reporter/anchor for WCCO-TV, play-by-play voice of the Minnesota Timberwolves, studio host for Fox Sports North) [213]
Rod Perry 86 American actor best known for his role of Sgt. David "Deacon" Kay in S.W.A.T. [214]
December 18 Joseph L. Scanlan 91 American film and television director (The Starlost, Land of the Lost, Somerset, Matt and Jenny, The Littlest Hobo, The Campbells, Falcon Crest, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Knots Landing, The Young Riders, Homefront, The Outer Limits, La Femme Nikita)
December 19 David Giler 77 American writer and producer (Tales from the Crypt, Tales from the Cryptkeeper and Perversions of Science) [215]
December 20 Lee Wallace 90 American actor of film, stage, and television [216]
December 23 Rebecca Luker 59 American actress, singer, and recording artist (Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NCIS: New Orleans) [217]
December 26 Jonathan Huber 41 Professional wrestler known as Luke Harper in World Wrestling Entertainment and Brodie Lee in All Elite Wrestling [218]
December 27 William Link 87 Writer/producer, most notably for Columbo and Murder, She Wrote (The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Michael Shayne, Jericho, Mannix, Ellery Queen, Blacke's Magic, Probe, B.L. Stryker, Over My Dead Body, The Cosby Mysteries) [219]
December 28 Nick McGlashan 33 American fisherman (Deadliest Catch) [220]
December 29 Jessica Campbell 38 Naturopathic practitioner and actress best known as Amy Andrews on Freaks and Geeks [221]
Adolfo Gutierrez Quiñones 65 American actor/dancer/choreographer, better known as Shabba Doo and founding member of The Original Lockers (credits include The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Married... with Children, Miami Vice, What's Happening!! (alongside fellow Locker Fred Berry), Saturday Night Live, Blowin' Up and Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure; featured in the music videos for Chaka Khan's "I Feel for You" and Madonna's "Who's That Girl?"; also an alumnus member of the Soul Train Dancers) [222]
December 30 Dawn Wells 82 American actress, author, and producer, best known for portraying Mary Ann Summers on Gilligan's Island and its subsequent franchises; Marketing Ambassador to MeTV; Pageant winner of Miss Nevada 1959. [223]
December 31 Gary Howard Klar 73 American actor
Joan Micklin Silver 85 American director [224]

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