[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. Dry your tears! r62 a 4th member of the original cast died of AIDS -- Rene Clemente, who played Coricopat. Hello and thank you for registering. Tom obviously touched a lot of people with his talent and honesty. He sang All Good Gifts. [quote]Merritt Buttrick, Kirk's son David in Star Trek II/II, died at age 30 in 1989. Earl Calloway, "Merrell Jackson wins 'best trouper' award". At the time of his death he survived by his large extended friends and family. Light-skinned black actor -- I think his first name may have been Ray? I wonder if Lypsinka did this as a tribute to Swen Swenson, although she's lip syncing to a female singer who I cannot identify. He died on 23 February 1991. Though I don't mean to compare two very different world disasters, I figured if the memory of the World Wars was kept alive for so long, even after certain nations had become our allies, something similar can be done with the AIDS crisis years. His work for the Ritchie Family was all over the map with LP's like 'African Queens' rating quite high and ones like 'American Generation' quite low. One of the very WORST people I have EVER had the displeasure to meet, and see in action. I remember seeing Leonard Frey on the First Ave bus years ago, when my neighborhood was scuzzy. How can someone mention Dan Hartman and not "Relight My Fire"?! Learn How much net worth Merrell was in this year and how he spend his expenses? A lot of people who are familiar with his solo career don't realize that he was also part of the Edgar Winter Group in the early 70s & sang lead on their huge hit, Free Ride (which he also wrote). That DALLAS actor was so young and beautiful. Rue McClanahan wrote that Brad mowed her lawn and plowed her pussy. She had been very upset by Carolyn Jones' death. Apologies if this correction has been posted before. David Oliver from Another World and A Year IN the Life died at 30 in 1992. The gayest HORROR ever! It just craves attention. Was he the Bufferin or Anacin guy? (Frank Silva) died from AIDS. He was in lots of films around then, and is naked in "The Breaking of Bumbo" with the lovely fragrant Joanna Lumley in 1970. Someone please help me with this one -- I'm pretty sure he died of AIDS but I'm not positive. Walloon 14:41, 29 October 2007 (UTC) [ reply] Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and much more. In fact, I didn't know that he'd died. Several of A Chorus Line original cast members, too. Merrell Jackson is one of the most popular American Actor. He was a very sexy man. Very good threadbut r2's link was bad! Whats Happening and Sanford and Son), -- Larry Riley was in A Soldiers Story and was fired from Knots Landing for having aids, -- Michael Westphal, ATP tennis player (ranked in the top 50), -- Joel Crothers (Somerset, Edge of Night) went to his grave denying he was gay and denying he had aids. They seemed to get along famously. for your pointless bitchery needs. [14] He was also a painter.[15]. One of them was the brilliant one about a gay guy who was under the mistaken impression that Frasier was, too. (There is some disagreement over this, since other bios say he died of cancer from smoking.). Now it's all amusement park Disney crap with unimaginative staging. Worsening health forced him to drop out of the production of "Grand Hotel" six months into the show's run. [quote]A Chorus Line - and only nominations for the gay roles), I have to correct myself here; looked it up and Sammy Williams did indeed win a Tony for playing Paul in ACL. Updated: November 2, 2011 R232 is that Idolmaker remake ever happening? About a dozen men from the original Broadway production of Evita. I remember Beth Broderick from that Sabrina show was the main speaker at his memorial service. Ryan Gosling was attached to it some time ago. At least they didn't turn the New Amsterdam into a megachurch. I wonder if the TV artist Bob Ross died of AIDS. Speaking of, how is Hal Rubenstein still alive? So babygays heard it at the same time you did. I mean you know that must be true. It always went down a treat! A good conversation starter. Merrells income mostly comes from and basic source was being a successful American singer and actor (1952-1991). Vanessa Redgrave's first husband, Tony Richardson (though better known as a director). [quote]I don't know very much about Diffring's private life beyond the fact that he was gay . In his testimony, Michael Jackson's personal physician Conrad Murray said he found the singer in bed and not breathing on the afternoon of June 25, 2009. But any excuse to watch this What a sad thread. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Otherwise, you'll just have to find some other site Truly the loss of all of the talent and beauty from the early years of the epidemic are devastating .. And so many in so many other important professions. The Conqueror 1956: During the filming of this terrible film staring John Wayne as Genghis Khan, the entire crew was almost killed in a flash flood. Either way, I thought it was tragic. [quote'It's a terrible curse,' Heat star Carroll O'Connor has said of what he calls his friend and co-star's substance-abuse problems. He also did a lot of Broadway, with a featured role in the original Fiddler on the Roof and later in the movie. Was he on a wire with a harness under his tux? Cookie Mueller. The guy who played Al in the Chorus Line movie. And then there's that other role we remember Leonard Frey for, R10: People in the US know Denholm Elliott from Indiana Jones and "A Room with a View.". He definitely did NOT commit suicide, but died of AIDS, which was still very much a stigma in 1985. And who could ever forget Michael Jeter as Ethel Merman in "The Fisher King" ? Peter Coffield who was in a ton of TV series and TV movies in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as well as commercials. Robby has nothing good to say about him and clearly regarded him as a child molester (Robby never took him up on the offer). Later, I turned on tv and it was Oscar night. He always had his bicycle with him. He auditioned for the Chicago production of "Godspell" in May 1972, but was cast in the movie version instead. Many film stars made cameo appearances. Three other actors from GODSPELL have passed on, and they each have their own tribute pages. [quote]During those hell years I cut out every obit concerning an aids related death. He spent 20 years in the Air Force which has many gays but when Bob was in that was not allowed. So handsome. I was awed by the number of handsome and talented young men playing the dancing waiters. I don't know if she tried it herself, but it obviously didn't save her life. The actress who played Billy Beyer's sister on Capitol also died from complications of AIDS. Merrell Jackson (April 26, 1952, Chicago, Illinois - February 23, 1991) [1] was an actor who played one of the apostles in the film Godspell (1973). 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. He had issues, R175. Born on April 26, 1952 in United States of America, Merrell Jackson started his career as singer and actor (1952-1991) . His mother stood a top height of 6'2" and his father stood 6'6." A starring role in the short-lived prime-time soap "Glitter" (1984-85) followed, as did guest spots on "The Love Boat" and "Hotel." He died of AIDS at age 29 in 1989; he claimed to have had an affair with actor Brad Davis, who himself contracted AIDS and committed suicide in 1991. I had never heard this before, so I can't confirm the veracity of the claim. He died in 1994. Darryl Hinton Do you know something the rest of us don't? Charles Lee Ward, the tall blond dancer in the same production, also died far too young, and I am sure other men in that company did as well. He was waiting to invite you to his big debut at Carnegie Hall or some shit so we could all be proud of him. . Played "Johnny" in the Airplane movies. Yes indeed, we too use "cookies." He appears to have died of AIDS in the mid1980s, and his partner, Gerald Mast, a film historian, died a few years later. r77 This is the first I've heard of it. In a remembrance of McLinden, Ian Temple paints a vivid picture of youthful energy, sex, love and loss in the 1980s through to the 1990s. He died in 1996 from AIDS related Lymphoma. It helps to already be famous to become a social media influencer, but he demonstrates that you need to have a raw or personal touch and engage with your followers if you want to do well on Instagram Facebook, Twiter, Youtube, etc. Stephen Stucker. Some people do get brain tumors in their 50s - and its a pretty swift decline. 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. He contracted AIDS and died from complications related to the disease shortly afterwards. McLinden was part inspiration for the lead character in "It's a Sin," from the pen of Russell T. Davies. Thank you, R35 and R36. Mark Fotopolos, one of the most handsome guys in that chorus and a Broadway musical actor (as well as Thommie Walsh's one-time bf) died of AIDS in 1991, after living for quite a few years with HIV, and devoting himself to ACT-UP. People have all kinds of different personal relationships. I can't remember where i posted them. Funny but when I first read the press release on Dr. Brandt, his publicist said an "illness " and didn't specify, and the first thing I thought was geez in this day and age people are still trying to cover up AIDS? - Susan Brooks. P.S. I was just watching "The Doctors" - the soap on RetroTV - and saw a very handsome actor, Peter Burnell. Yes, 196. R295 Is Miss Hal a bottom? I loved this song. In one of entertainment's most bizarre career moves, he went straight from the Oscar nom to a role on the soap Another World. He was bellissimo. Handsome Paul Keenan best known from his work on "Days of Our Lives" and "Dynasty" is notable in that he was one of the first actors to admit he was suffering from AIDS and was gay, rather than trying to cover it up. I'm reading this thread alongside the "People Who Lived Through the AIDS Onset" and it's been an education, tragic and moving. | Gorgeous German hunk Amadeus August - died in 1992 at age 50. But it may have been suicide. I saw Carol Channing in one of her revivals of Hello Dolly in the early 80s. I didn't realize that BOB from "twin Peaks". John Abineri portrayed Chingachgook (say that three times fast). Cheryle Terrell, Joe Jackson's Mistress: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. I can not find a photo of him anywhere online, which saddens me even more. I doubt his HIV-status when he died is secret to anyone. R168 - I guess I didn't read carefully enough because I thought I waste first to mention him, at rwhatever I was. Somewhere in my kitchen. It was awful. During the original Public Theatre run of THE NORMAL HEART, Brad was getting fuked by every hot boy who came his way. 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). So wonderful She also wrote an advice column for the Village Voice. I find it too cutesy for words. The pop legend had been rehearsing past midnight on the night of June 24, 2022 ahead of a series of comeback concerts at the London . Then Susan Hayward was almost eaten by a panther. Merrell E Smith Merrell Smith (1927 - 2002) . The 52 year old who died of AIDS in 1997. Discover Merrell Jackson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Steven Gelfer, 'Carbucketty' in the original Broadway production of "Cats", December 26, 1988. It's even been posted as FACT on some legitimate sites I've seen. He died on February 23, 1991. The late 70's early 80's were the height of whoredome with the bath houses filled to capacity. EJ told me that Gary watched that episode over and over and loved it. Jr. R104, you should cite what you're quoting, for the baby-gays r75, there is a way to measure the loss of the artists who were and stars never achieved. That leaves Curtis, who won the Tony for "The Rothschilds". He was a very sexy man. [12] He was with the national touring company in Baltimore a year later. Apparently wasa heroin user. I think Terrance Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce are living with aids, which is a much better outcome. Maybe for mud-pie? R181 - I had no idea about the Dan Hartman history. According to Wiki, he died from complications from open heart surgery. [quote]The audio commentary for the Doctor Who series Silver Nemesis mentions he left Germany in 1936, as he was not enamored of fascism and further that he was a homosexual. Merrell was a phenomenal celebrity influencer. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Merrell Jackson. Social Network Born on April 26, 1952, the singer and actor Merrell Jackson was arguably the world's most influential social media star. As in, right now, my shoulders. He is the biggest queen I've ever seen. Thanks for that link, r44. He was mainly known for his disco hit 'Like An Eagle'. That first guy was smoking hot..to bad he got a dirty load. Well that was true. I haven't read about the dust thing. R199, Christopher George was not on "Bracken's World," he was on "Rat Patrol." [quote]Brett was gay after his marriage to Anna Massey. Though perhaps a female studio head was considered unbelievable at the time. In fact, she went into a funk that some say she never came out of and may account partially for why she divested from her acting career. How unpleasant that your racism has to taint this thread. A starring role in the short-lived prime-time soap Glitter (1984-85) followed, as did guest spots on The Love Boat and Hotel. He died of AIDS at age 29 in 1989; he claimed to have had an affair with actor Brad Davis, who himself contracted AIDS and committed suicide in 1991. It had a cast of 10 men and 2 women. A lot of people who are familiar with his solo career don't realize that he was also part of the Edgar Winter Group in the early 70s & sang lead on their huge hit, Free Ride (which he also wrote). ", that was MARK Lester. Cause of Death: Stillborn . On June 25, 2009, American singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 50.His physician, Conrad Murray, said that he found Jackson in his room at his North Carolwood Drive home in the Holmby Hills area of the city not breathing and with a weak pulse; he administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to no avail, and . 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. [quote]Tom Villard--You may remember him from 2 GG episodes (one where they are on vacation) or the movies One Crazy Summer and My Girl. Love R&B, love gospel, love many other areas where Blacks have made a great contribution to music. r331, in another thread, somebody claimed that it was Timothy Patrick Murphy, mentioned at r2, who unknowingly infected Fuccello. We all remember Rock Hudson, Liberace, Rudolf Nureyev, etc., but who are some of the semi-famous that we lost during the plague years? He started going out on location wearing a wig and women's clothes. [quote]Crothers' longtime EDGE OF NIGHT co-star, Dennis Parker (who also went by the name Wade Nichols in some porn flicks), died eight months earlier. Not an actor, but director Colin Higgins, who directed 9 to 5 (which I'm watching right now) and Foul Play. Those who knew Lenny knew it was AIDS, and he lost many of those people from his life because it was early in the plague years. When I watch musicals of the 60's and 70's, or old television variety shows with bunches of male dancers - I'm always sad that probably most of them died of AIDS in the first wave. If he died in Illinois, a death certificate is not obtainable until twenty years after the death unless one is a member of his immediate family or has a legal reason. So, how much was Merrell Jackson networth at the age of years old? December 13, 2002 . They were in "The Rothschilds" together when Robby was 13-14. The reality is probably much more complex. [2] During his senior year he played King Melchior in a school production of the Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors that was shown on local television TV 26,[3] and was an understudy in the Chicago production of the rock musical The Me Nobody Knows. I had no idea Howard E. Rollins died of AIDS. Merrell's innocence, playfulness, joy and enthusiasm jump out at you throughout the movie and stay in your heart for a very long time. 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