In 1978, Parker was introduced to Jacques Morali, the producer and impresario responsible for the Village People, the Ritchie Family, Eartha Kitt during her disco kick (did you know Bruce Vilanch was a co-writer of 'Where Is My Man'??) Dennis C. Stewart, the guy who played crater face in Grease. Birth. Is this why we're such bitter old things? His name was Tony Fields. Sounds like the wiki in r228 is revising history. Hope it gets off the ground this century. Please click here to get full access and no ads for $1.99 or less per month. Just checked the Wikipedia page for Brad Davis and it contradicts the commonly held belief he died of AIDS. Morali and Parker allegedly became lovers and teamed up for Parker's one and only LP, 'Like an Eagle', released in 1979 on Casablanca Records, the infamous Los Angeles label run by cocaine-crazed Neil Bogart. People just took the bus or a Hi, R170. Do not believe JST is his birth name but in any event if you can find out that bit of information it is easy to run to ground listings of solicitors/barristers in the UK. What a peculiar and erroneous notion, r111. I'll make sure of that. I remember Beth Broderick from that Sabrina show was the main speaker at his memorial service. He wrote a song about his death called "Life Goes On.". [quote]Stephen W. Burns made a potentially promising film debut in the last (and worst) of the initial Herbie films, Herbie Goes Bananas (1980). Now it's all amusement park Disney crap with unimaginative staging. His official cause of death was sudden heart failure. He was on Broadway in the cast of "Hair" and starred in Fellini's "Satyricon" and a dozen other European B movies. He was treated like a leper until his death. He acted in several operas, including Die Fledermaus, with Beverly Sills and Joan Sutherland. She noticed that he spent a lot of time with gay male "friends" but just chalked it up to his being very "gay friendly." Apparently Keene was always bugging him for sex, promising to give him a blowjob if Robby would suck his dick too. Ray Sharkey was so hot. Interesting, never knew there were porn stars who crossed over to soaps - or vice-versa. What happens to Helix Studio boys once theyre no longer twinks? A good conversation starter. Didn't Billy Preston die in the last decade? 4 Sep 1938. He also appeared in plays by Moliere and Ronald Ribman at the Yale Repertory Theater and starred on Broadway in Peter Nichols's ''National Health.'' His obit says it was lymphoma which can be AIDS related. Anyone can read what you share. Died in 1994 at age 45. Leonard Frey, Actor, Dies at 49; Was in 'Fiddler' and Other Films, https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/25/obituaries/leonard-frey-actor-dies-at-49-was-in-fiddler-and-other-films.html. Not actors, but the founders of the fun, doomed FILMEX in LA, Gary and Gary. Interestingly, Richard Lester had cast a different boy as Bobby, but several people (probably RW included) told him that the kid wasn't pretty enough, so Lester fired the poor guy and found someone better looking. For the non-Broadway DLers, David Carroll, mentioned in R24, died in the bathroom of the BMG/RCA recording studio while attempting to record the cast album for "Grand Hotel." I meant to post this as evidence of Joel Crothers' beauty. You might want to stop talking to it.]. No, poor Jim just wouldn't go to the doctor until it was too late. How unpleasant that your racism has to taint this thread. The other clip shows him in a bizarre scene seemingly about to shove his dick into Barnabas's mouth. Much of the uncertainty in the queries sent my way arises from the misperception that a I loved EON, and adored all three actors. What a tragic story: John Megna, who played nerdy little Dilli in To Kill a Mockingbird. Stephen Schwartz was a good friend of Billy Byers. Didn't she also date Robert Downey Jr. at one time? This thread makes me so sad. He and his wife had two children. I had to move out and move on. Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, "Leonard Frey, Actor, Dies at 49; Was in 'Fiddler' and Other Films", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show. [quote]During those hell years I cut out every obit concerning an aids related death. 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. Milford was way too theatrical for a raunchy blues based rock band, he was good looking, but not at all suited for Beck's band. Reed Jones, 'Skimbleshanks, in the original Broadway production of "Cats", June 19, 1989. R173 He was such a neat freak. (Tragically for the Murphy family, his younger brother Patrick Sean Murphy died in the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.). Dennis Stewart 1994- Craterface in Grease. If he returns to Covington, 30 miles east of Atlanta where filming started April 28 for the seventh season of Heat of the Night, he will be arrested and almost certainly jailed. Anybody got any info on him? our privacy/terms or if you just want to see the damn OK, that's bizarre and kind of maybe explains why when he came to pick me up for that last/aborted date he took a bath at my place. Let's not forget he was also Johnny Slash on "Square Pegs," with a very young SJP. I saw Carol Channing in one of her revivals of Hello Dolly in the early 80s. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. 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. I can't remember where i posted them. If the world were fair, he and Jamie would have been husbands. IIRC his first female *relations* came via Victoria Principal well into his adult years and the subsequently married a woman. But I also remember there was quite a bit of speculation about he died. About a dozen men from the original Broadway production of Evita. His obit at the time mentioned his companion. Hello. Emmy and Tony Winner Jeter was more than semi-famous. No AIDS, and not gay, although he was very gay friendly. Either way, I thought it was tragic. Strange that they didn't just make Bracken a woman and have Eleanor Parker play that. I'm shocked that no one's mentioned Legit Actor/Porn Actor/Singer, Dennis Parker aka Wade Nichols yet. Most of the cast from "The Boys In the Band" (1970). Robert Drivas' wonderful ass in "The Illustrated Man". 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. 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). On Nov 16, 2017, Leonards manager, Robert Kory, issued a widely published statement 2 about the cause of death: Leonard Cohen died during his sleep following a fall in the middle of the night on Nov. 7. Not an actor, but I want to add Ricky Wilson of The B-52's. Anyone remember partner's name? He made his stage debut in an Off-Broadway production of Little Mary Sunshine and received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for The National Health. Except the people that talk to it.]. Remarkably, ABC never found out about Parker's double life, (of if they did, excused it as an excess of the times) despite the fact that his XXX films continued to be released as late as 1983. He was so good looking. He's one of the sweetest, gentlest men I know, and one of the most gifted actors,' O'Connor told a small group of TV writers in Los Angeles earlier this year. 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. Ray Sharkey, of "The Idolmaker" & "Wiseguy". Died in 1992 at the age of 30. [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. He died at age 35 in 1992. He infected comedian Corbett Monica's daughter (Corbett Monica used to tour with Rat Packers as an opening act) and she sued his estate. So she held his hand. Jeffrey Mylett, of the original cast/film version of "Godspell", died in 1986 at age 36. I. That DALLAS actor was so young and beautiful. R237, it just occurred to me today that the onset of AIDS and it's mysterious and sudden tragic effects are just as fresh/old in our minds as the devastation of the WWII holocaust was in the minds of Jews back in 1975 (as Bette Midler would let us know in her stage act, when talking about visiting Germany, right around then). August 16, 1993. Glenn Frey, a co-founder of the Eagles and a hit-maker in his own right, died on January 18, 2016, at the age of 67. WebLook up death records online. It does happen. You think she was lying? Antony Hamilton, the hottie who replaced Jon Erik Hexum on "Cover Up". Perhaps someone will write a more elaborated biography about this strange character, who appeared on the Merv Griffin Show during the late '70s, and slept with many of the hottest men of the era (you can find some of their comments on YouTube and DiscoMusic.com). At the time of his death he survived by his large extended friends and family. I went through his illness with him and was with him the day before he passed away. He also played Clare Quilty in the Alan Jay Lerner musical Lolita, My Love which closed, before reaching Broadway, in 1971. WebIs Leonard Frey still alive? Am I remembering correctly that he was on Bracken's World? According to Wiki, he died from complications from open heart surgery. Your post made me look them all up, sort them out, and pay my own private homage to those acting pioneers who - perhaps with the excepton of Luckinbill - got the raw end of the deal by playing gay in a gay play/film long before it was fashionable or award-worthy. He had a sexy high voice. The 52 year old who died of AIDS in 1997. Rap, that horrid musical wannabe skyrocketed in the 80s as a direct loss of this pool of talent. ", that was MARK Lester. I was just watching "The Doctors" - the soap on RetroTV - and saw a very handsome actor, Peter Burnell. About 15 years later, I heard Channing say in an interview that all the chorus boys in that show were dead of AIDS. I remember your story! He was Alfonso Ribeiro's dad on the show. Anthony Perkins admitted he had AIDS In his last couple of months. Ron Richardson, of "Big River", as well as Howard Rollins. [quote]It's tempting to turn this man's incredible story into a camp snapshot, a tawdry tale of the externalities of showbiz. [quote] Was Anthony Perkins truly gay or just confused. Peter Tramm the substitute dancer for Kevin Bacon in Footloose. Thank you, R35 and R36. I just learned of his death when I was listening to the audio commentary. However his list of gay conquests is rather substantial. @205, Not according to IMDB. He also appeared as a panelist on the game shows Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour and Super Password. It appears his mother and ex-wife kept AIDS out of his obituary to protect his young daughter's memory of him. Rue McClanahan wrote that Brad mowed her lawn and plowed her pussy. He died in 1988 at age 49 of complications from AIDS. I have only ever seen Joel from the 70s and later, with the moustache. I've never had that happen before, you know, where your date shows up and asks to take a bath. I remember as a kid getting Premiere Magazine and every year they'd have a list. Either youre too young or your memory is failing you, but clearly you forget what it was (and in some instances, still is) like to be an actor of color in 1981. Who knows what's up with that marriage, but they support each other and that's that. How can someone mention Dan Hartman and not "Relight My Fire"?! Paul Stevens, who played Brian Bancroft on Another World, died of AIDS. (I had a crush on him and nearly satisfied it many moons ago.) But most of the people mentioned here made the team, but barely got up to bat a few times. Kenny Sacha- He played the Rose drag queen in The Rose among other things. He was really good looking. Cade was a 2020 graduate of Sullivan High School. Daniel McDonald star of the musical Steel Pier. She had been very upset by Carolyn Jones' death. I truly hope they find a cure for this (and other) dreadful diseases. They were in "The Rothschilds" together when Robby was 13-14. Ryan Gosling was attached to it some time ago. (There is some disagreement over this, since other bios say he died of cancer from smoking.). Love R&B, love gospel, love many other areas where Blacks have made a great contribution to music. He also had guest spots on shows like Night Court and Star Trek: The Next Generation. There's no mention of AIDS-related death. Tom McBride is probably best-remembered as one of the more famous unfortunate victims of Jason Voorhees: in Friday the 13th Part II (1981), he played Mark, the wheelchair-bound camp counselor who gets a machete in the face. This is for another thread but I've wondered if part of the reason Edge of Night got cancelled is that they knew half of the male cast was about to drop dead. Cause of death Unknown. 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 moved to NYC as an 18 year-old in 1981, coinciding with the official beginning of the AIDS epidemic. He was a heavy drug user definitely, but he was also a sex addict. The "official" story back then was cancer of the throat caused by his inexperience as a singer in "A Love My Wife", which is the lousiest cover story I'd ever heard. One of them was the brilliant one about a gay guy who was under the mistaken impression that Frasier was, too. He begins at 3:50. He wasn't young. Frey received critical acclaim in 1968 for his performance as Harold in off-Broadway's The Boys in the Band. I wonder if the TV artist Bob Ross died of AIDS. Born in Brooklyn, he studied art from the time he was 8 years old and was headed toward a career as a painter when he decided to change goals and switched from Cooper Union to the Neighborhood Playhouse. R232 is that Idolmaker remake ever happening? [quote]Speaking of, how is Hal Rubenstein still alive? Not a good guy but hot. Date of death. I had such a mad crush on David Oliver. During the original Public Theatre run of THE NORMAL HEART, Brad was getting fuked by every hot boy who came his way. Please click here to register for free. Wade's brother says he died in the hospital due to AIDS complications. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. He was a very sexy man. They claimed it was "kidney failure." Howard Rollins from In the Heat of the Night, Whoops I'm late. ; Hart to Hart; Barney Miller (1975 episode: 'The Escape Artist' & 1980 episode: 'Vanished', part 2); Moonlighting; Murder, She Wrote; and the miniseries Testimony of Two Men, as well as a co-starring role as the villainous Parker Tillman on the short-lived ABC western comedy Best of the West,[3] and Raymond Holyoke on Mr. Smith, which ran for 13 episodes on NBC in fall 1983. I can not find a photo of him anywhere online, which saddens me even more. Strange that his memory was treated so shabbily in the Crystal Skull fiasco His name was Michael, r278. He played Damien. I still get chills. Dan Hartman, singer/musician. I didn't realize that BOB from "twin Peaks". [quote]R18 [R10]--how can you POSSIBLY have left out mention of Frey as Harold in "The Boys in the Band"? He had a couple of big solo hits: Instant Replay in the late 70s and I Can Dream About You in 1984. R148, I was a friend of Gary Bond's. Gee r154 if there was only someway to check. Other cast members included Elizabeth Allen, Dennis Cole, Jeanne Cooper, Peter Haskell, Linda Harrison, Karen Jensen, Madlyn Rhue, and Laraine Stephens. Did you know his friend John from NY (also an old roommate)? He always had his bicycle with him. 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. Christopher Chadman, dancer and choreographer, who played Lewis in the video version of the stage show Pippin with William Katt and Chita Rivera, died of AIDS in 1995. My Friend Leonard, was later discredited. Denholm Elliott wouldn't be famous to most Americans, right? Remi Laurent -- he played the son in the original film of La Cage aux Folles (1978) and died in 1989. At the time of his death, he was 50 years old. Today is the Anniversary of Wayland Flowers death in 1988. Micheal Jeter From Evening Shade died of Aids. Really appreciate this effort to remember these fellas. I knew him in the 70s and early 80s. Otherwise, you'll just have to find some other site And who could ever forget Michael Jeter as Ethel Merman in "The Fisher King" ? You hit an exterior keypad with your destination floor and it routes you to one of the 14 elevators;no more sardine-cans). Leonard H Frey was born on November 28, 1912, and died at age 78 years old on October 10, 1991. He had a couple of big solo hits: Instant Replay in the late 70s and I Can Dream About You in 1984. He was mainly known for his disco hit 'Like An Eagle'. Armstrong was dubbed. Cade Frey (Michael) Cade Michael Frey, 18, of Farmersburg, passed away on Tuesday, November 24, 2020. Here's another shot. Another handsome British stage and tv actor Americans might not know was Geoffrey Burridge. [quote]Whenever I watch the movie version of "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas" , I.wonder how many of those beautiful talented dancers in the football team locker room number are still with us. He sure was! Kind of a psychopath. He has that very distinct late 70s/early 80s style of comedy that I grew up with and love. Steven Gelfer, 'Carbucketty' in the original Broadway production of "Cats", December 26, 1988. 24 Aug 1988 (aged 49) New York, New York County (Manhattan), New Some features on this site require registration. Shenar had a great speaking voice. His first civics lesson? Brad Davis was molested by his mother so his "plowing" of Rue was really just a "repetition compulsion" regarding his childhood trauma. Was recently in Manhattan staying with an old college friend in a hotel in Times Square; I grew up in NYC during the seventies until the mid-eighties. 308, he is already mentioned repeatedly up thread [quote] During those hell years I cut out every obit concerning an aids related death. He is survived by a brother, Charles Frey Jr., and a nephew, Charles Frey III. NEW YORK (AP) _ Leonard Frey, who played the role of Motel the tailor in the 1971 movie Fiddler on the Roof, has died of AIDS. [quote]Lenny Baker had to withdraw from the pre-Broadway tryout of McNally's "It's Only A Play". and various studio groups of the time. - Susan Brooks. More talented then I gave him credit for, then. We are changing the login scheme for contributors for simpler login and to better support using multiple devices. [quote]The most beautiful man in the world in the seventies, Hiram Keller. Couldn't remmber his name. He started going out on location wearing a wig and women's clothes. Apparently wasa heroin user. IMDB has AIDS listed as his cause of death and Wikipedia has cancer caused by AIDS. I remember telling my photography teacher soon after Ritts' death that it was because of AIDS so I had read about it pretty soon after. Dack Rambo. He was born on March 16, 2002 in Vigo County to Robert Michael Frey and Jennifer Ann (Meier) Frey. Paul Jabara-he wrote and won an Oscar for Last Dance sun by Donna Summer. [quote]I had no idea Howard E. Rollins died of AIDS. site without all this bureaucratic nonsense, Other stage credits included revivals of The Time of Your Life (1969), Beggar on Horseback (1970), Twelfth Night (1972) and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1980). Dennis Parker aka soap star, disco singer, and porn actor. Do you know something the rest of us don't? r4 Lenny Baker was str8 and died of throat cancer. During those hell years I cut out every obit concerning an aids related death. Prolific character actor: portrayed Orson Welles in The Night That Panicked America, as well as drug lord Alejandro Sosa in Scarface. He was a model for Yves St. Laurent and others. R31, Tom got AIDS from his partner, who didn't reveal his HIV when they met. He fucked guys as well as women, so he could have easily gotten it through sexual contact. Died in December 11, 1986 the day after his 31st birthday. The story that Wade committed suicide is false. You know he died of LEG CANCER which is so unusual. Swen Swenson, who introduced this number in the original Broadway production of LITTLE ME. Leonard Cohen died in his sleep after a fall at his home in Los Angeles, his manager has said. Ray Sharkey was so gorgeous. R207 Why is the post about Raul Julia offensive? Daniel McDonald had a brain tumor. English actor Ian Charleson was getting well-known and had just played Hamlet before he died. He also did a lot of Broadway, with a featured role in the original Fiddler on the Roof and later in the movie. Hello and thank you for being a DL contributor. Though perhaps a female studio head was considered unbelievable at the time. I just checked his bio, and it says he died of Alzheimers. Uh Terry Lester died of AIDS complications, he wasted away and a heart attack did him in. R263 my mind always goes there, too. He also starred as rich, evil Alan Spaulding in "GL" in the late 70's and 80's. The handsome Tom Fuccello, who played Sen. Dave Culver on "Dallas." Dry your tears! Was he the Bufferin or Anacin guy? Peter Burnell, who played Mike Powers on The Doctors, committed suicide after being diagnosed.
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