On December 8, 2019, Spinney died at his home in Woodstock, Connecticut, at the age of 85, a few weeks before his 86th birthday. He was survived by his wife Debra and three children.
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Caroll Spinney
Caroll Spinney | Death
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when did the first episode of sesame street air
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10 November 1969.
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is it a series?
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Yes, an educational children's television series.
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is the series still running?
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Yes, it is on its second run.
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when was the pilot episode done?
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July 1969.
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is it a puppet show?
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Yes.
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name a few characters from the series?
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Human characters included Susan and muppet characters included Elmo.
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can you name more muppet characters?
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Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
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how do the latter look like?
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He has a green body with no visible nose.
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does the muppet perform any oscar related play?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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who performed the aforementioned bird muppet?
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It was performed by Caroll Spinney till his retirement.
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who is he by profession?
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He was an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker.
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did he do comics too?
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Yes, a comic strip about military life.
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what is the name of the comic?
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"Harvey".
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when did he die?
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While in the Air Force, Spinney wrote and illustrated "Harvey", a comic strip about military life. He also animated a series of black-and-white cartoons called "Crazy Crayon".
Caroll Spinney | Comics and cartoons
On December 8, 2019, Spinney died at his home in Woodstock, Connecticut, at the age of 85, a few weeks before his 86th birthday. He was survived by his wife Debra and three children.
Caroll Spinney | Death
Caroll Edwin Spinney (December 26, 1933 – December 8, 2019) was an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker, most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on "Sesame Street" from its inception in 1969 until 2018.
Caroll Spinney | Introduction
Hooper in November 1982. Lee felt ill that day and barely spoke to the cast. Spinney (who was wearing Big Bird's feet at the time) placed his arm around Lee's shoulder and said "I love you, Mr. Hooper." Lee replied, "And I love you, Caroll." Lee died a few days later.
Will Lee | Death of Mr. Hooper
Many years later, Spinney's Picklepuss and Pop puppets were characters in "Wow, You're a Cartoonist!"
Caroll Spinney | Early puppeteering
Spinney had three children from his first marriage to Janice Spinney, whom he married in 1960. Spinney and Janice divorced in 1971 after eleven and a half years of marriage. Spinney was married to his second wife, Debra Jean Gilroy, from 1979 until his death. In 2015, Spinney he was diagnosed with dystonia, a neurological movement disorder that causes muscle contractions. On November 8, 2019, Spinney and Big Bird (played by Matt Vogel) participated in a lighting ceremony, where, by mayoral proclamation, the day was named "Caroll Spinney Day" in New York City.
Caroll Spinney | Personal life
He continued puppeteering throughout his childhood and adolescence and used his performances to raise money for college tuition. After he graduated from Acton High School (subsequently Acton-Boxborough Regional High School) in Acton, Massachusetts, Spinney served in the US Air Force.
Caroll Spinney | Early life
Caroll Edwin Spinney was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, on December 26, 1933, to Chester and Margaret Spinney. His mother, a native of Bolton, England, named him Caroll because he was born the day after Christmas. He drew and painted from childhood, and developed a love of puppeteering when he saw a performance of "Three Little Kittens" at the age of five. This motivated him to purchase a monkey puppet from a rummage sale three years later and put on a puppet show utilizing the monkey and a plush snake. The following Christmas, his mother gave him a Punch and Judy puppet theater.
Caroll Spinney | Early life
Due to the Comic Code, the comics were aimed towards children and the characters were acquired from Famous Studios , which made them popular in the 1950s due to the rise of baby boomers. Alfred Harvey retired in 1982, and his company was sold to HMH Communications and in 1989 it was renamed to Harvey Comics Entertainment. He was in a coma since 1989 and he died at age 80 on July 4, 1994 from heart failure, according to his sons Alan and Russell at a New Rochelle Hospital, and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Alfred Harvey | Harvey Comics
In 1955, Spinney relocated to Las Vegas, where he performed in the show "Rascal Rabbit". He returned to Boston, joining "The Judy and Goggle Show" in 1958 as a puppeteer "Goggle" to Judy Valentine's Judy. Throughout the 1960s, he performed on the Boston broadcast of "Bozo's Big Top", where he played various costumed characters which included Flip Flop the Rag Doll, Mr. Rabbit, Kookie the Boxing Kangaroo as well as Mr. Lion, who created cartoon drawings from the names of children participating in the show. Through that decade, he was also a commercial artist and animator. Spinney created a puppet duo consisting of two cats named Picklepuss and Pop, which he utilized throughout the 1960s.
Caroll Spinney | Early puppeteering
Askey carried on working on his comedy career until just before he was hospitalised in July 1982 due to poor circulation which resulted in gangrene and the amputation of both legs. He died in London's St Thomas's Hospital on 16 November 1982 and is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery.
Arthur Askey | Death
Haney died in Saddle River, New Jersey in 1964, at age 39, six weeks after the opening of "Funny Girl", which she choreographed (and ten years to the month after she injured her ankle and was replaced by Shirley MacLaine). The cause was pneumonia, complicated by diabetes and alcoholism. Blyden and Haney resided in the historic Achenbach House in Saddle River, New Jersey, which they believed to be haunted by the spirit of its builder. The house was later sold to tour operator Mario Perillo and was destroyed by fire in 2004.
Carol Haney | Death
Harvey died of pneumonia at his home on January 25, 1940.
Chandler C. Harvey | Later life and death
Hall continued "Girl Commandos" until 1943, when it was taken over by Jill Elgin. Hall also created the Blonde Bomber (aka Honey Blake), a newsreel camerawoman, chemist, and crime-fighter with a sidekick named Jimmy Slapso. The Blonde Bomber was a regular feature of Harvey's Green Hornet comics.
Barbara Fiske Calhoun | Harvey Comics
When Maverick checks on Carol Hines, he finds that her neck-snapping was an illusion and that she died of fright at the sight of Aldo Ferro's Psi-Borg form.
List of Marvel Comics characters: H | Carol Hines
A gag line that he had left was found: "These last few days are among the happiest I've ever ignored." National Lampoon's tribute to him was an editorial by Matty Simmons and a cartoon showing a sign next to the edge of a cliff with the inscription, "Doug Kenney Slipped Here."
Douglas Kenney | Death
On January 17, 1945, Sproule's first wife Fannie Retallack died at age 56. Harvey remarried later to Grace Macklin, who was 18 years his junior. Harvey Sproule died on July 9, 1959. He is buried in Cobourg Union Cemetery in Cobourg, Ontario, along with his first wife Fannie and his second wife Grace.
Harvey Sproule | Death
Howard died at age 58 at the Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut. He lived in Oxford, Connecticut, at the time, married to Carol (Zavednak) Howard. George Wildman, Charlton Comics' editor during the 1970s, described the artist as, "sort of shy. Easy come, easy go", and said Howard had married the sister of one of Wildman's early secretaries. Howard's friend and frequent collaborator Nicola Cuti said the artist, a heavy smoker, "always wore the same outfit: a white shirt, a kind of tan bush jacket, black hat, black pants and black tie. ...I was over at his apartment, and he opened up his closet, and there were 20 white shirts, 20 bush jackets, 20 black pants..." The magazine "Comic Book Artist" in 2001 attempted to contact Howard for an issue devoted to Charlton Comics, and reported that while he "apparently still resides in Connecticut ...
Wayne Howard | Personal life
"Kerry Drake" was canceled after Andriola died in 1983.
Alfred Andriola | Comic strips and comic books
The strip was later drawn by Norman Howard Rice (1911–1956). Rice died as the result of a car accident on 31 December 1956 (New Year's Eve). The strip was then drawn by Les Dixon from 1957 until 1975.
Bluey and Curley | Post-Gurney
On an "Intimate Portrait" episode on Burnett, she tearfully recalled her grandmother's last moments: "She said to my husband Joe from her hospital bed 'Joe, you see that spider up there?' There was no spider, but Joe said he did anyhow. She said 'Every few minutes a big spider jumps on that little spider and they go at it like rabbits!!' And then she died. There's laughter in everything!" She continued the tradition of tugging her ear. The show ceased production in 1978. Four post-script episodes were produced and aired on ABC during the summer of 1979 under the title, "Carol Burnett & Company" basically using the same format and, with the exception of Harvey Korman and Lyle Waggoner, the same supporting cast.
Carol Burnett | 1967–1978: "The Carol Burnett Show"
After her death, Carson kept the Art Fern character off the air for most of the next year. He eventually hired Danuta Wesley and later Teresa Ganzel to be his new Matinée Lady.
Carol Wayne | Career
Some of Spinney's artwork includes the 1996 painting called "Luna Bird", showing Big Bird walking on the moon, and the 1997 painting "Autumn", showing him playing in autumn leaves. Spinney also drew the drawing of Mr. Hooper that sits near Big Bird's nest.
Caroll Spinney | Artwork
Harvey's second film and his first credited role were "Dragnet" (1947), starring Henry Wilcoxon and Robert Kent, and the exploitation film, "She Shoulda Said No!" (1949), respectively. Harvey died in 1963 at the age of fifty-one of a heart attack in Studio City, California.
Don Harvey (actor, born 1911) | Life
Carol died of a heart attack in February 1967. Production resumed under another director.
Hell Is Empty | Production
The sketches were a "smorgasbord of explode-the-fourth-wall nuttiness:... comedy songs; skits abandoned partway through; cameos by audience stooges; an absurdist raffle; and in a trademark stunt, a man who wandered through the theater hawking an ever-larger potted tree." The comedy continued even after the show had ended, as departing audience members discovered the man who'd been carrying the increasingly tall plant waiting for them the lobby, trapped and shouting atop a 20-foot tree. Seeing a painting of a warship, Olsen and Johnson began firing weapons at it until it sank inside the frame. At this point, a soaking wet man in a uniform walked onstage, but was shot to death by the pair because "a captain always goes down with his ship!" As an actress walked the aisles yelling, "Oscar!", another loudly said that she was just going to use the bathroom.
Hellzapoppin (musical) | Sketches
He died on February 19, 1957 at Geneva College.
Clarence E. Macartney | Death
(Veteran Harvey writer-artist Lennie Herman had created "Royal Roy" for Star Comics. Herman died in 1983 before the first issue of "Royal Roy" was published.) The "Royal Roy" comic ended after six issues and the lawsuit was dropped.
Harvey Comics | 1980s decline and sale
Laughton died of pneumonia on March 21, 1952, just two months after the death of Curly Howard, who died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Both Curly and Eddie were born in the same year and were both 48 years old when they died within two months of each other.
Eddie Laughton | Death
Harvey Comics was founded by the Harvey brothers; Alfred, Leon and Robert, in the 1940s after first acquiring an existing - faltering - title from Brookwood Publications; Speed Comics. The title's headliners were Shock Gibson and Captain Freedom, a patriotic hero like The Shield. Harvey added more anthologies, including Champion Comics and Pocket Comics. From the new titles only one would stay around for a while: The Black Cat, a Hollywood starlet-superhero, which was published into the 1950s. Harvey began a shift to licensed characters when in 1942 took over as the radio hero Green Hornet's publisher from Holyoke after six issues.
Harvey Comics | History
Dwyer died on December 13, 1987, in Highlands, North Carolina.
Bil Dwyer (cartoonist) | Death
Carol is portrayed by Melissa McBride, who was announced as part of the ensemble cast of the show in late 2010. McBride did not audition for the role of Carol and was simply given the part, believing it was a short-term gig. On an interview with Conan O'Brien, she said that she believed she would be dead "within a few episodes, if not, by the end of the week." McBride has stated that, after receiving the part, she read the comic book up until the point where Carol dies, but was unsure if the producers would go in the direction of her comic series counterpart.
Carol Peletier | Casting and portrayal
In 1966 Herron moved to Harvey Comics, hired by his old associate Joe Simon. During that year, Herron was the lead writer for the publisher's short-lived Harvey Thriller superhero line, working on characters such as Dynamite Joe, Glowing Gladiator, Jack Q. Frost, and Lone Tiger, in the titles "Robot Parade" and "Spyman".
France Herron | Harvey Comics
Duvall died in 1969, the same year as the last Looney Tunes cartoon was released.
Earl Duvall | Death
With his wife, nee Nellie W. Glines, Harvey had a son. Harvey died in 1971.
Arthur E. Harvey | Personal life and death
Doolittle died April 16, 1892. His body was buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.
Harvey Doolittle Colvin | Death and legacy
He made two rare television appearances during his retirement, in a 1984 special on game-show bloopers hosted by William Shatner and in a 1990 television tribute to Carol Burnett on "Sally". Moore recounted the time circumstances forced Burnett and him to share a dressing room in an elevator for one show after a mixup. The show was live and a short commercial break required a hasty time to change costumes. Moore, hoping to save some time, asked his assistant to place his costume for the next sketch in the elevator so he could run to there and run back, not realizing Burnett had the same plan.
Garry Moore | Retirement and death
Myers won the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Award for 1975 for his work on the strip. Caplin died in 2000. Myers continues to write and draw the strip, compiling a large backlog of strips in the event poor health were to prevent him from meeting his syndication requirements.
Broom-Hilda | Awards
Hooper's absence as soon as possible, for maximum exposure, and to ensure that parents were at home with their children in order to discuss it. The illustrations used for the episode were drawn by Caroll Spinney, who performed Big Bird. Mr. Hooper's picture remained on the set from then on, as a continuing memorial to Lee and Mr. Hooper. Spinney, speaking of the scene in which the pictures were passed out, reported, "When we finished that scene there wasn't one of us whose face wasn't streaked with tears", even Spinney underneath his costume. Jon Stone, who directed the episode, wanted to do another take, although Spinney later said, "There was nothing wrong with that take.
Mr. Hooper | Development and legacy
Higgins died in San Antonio on June 5, 1955. On December 4, 1955, six months after Higgins' death, he was dramatized by the actor Robert Bray in the CBS history series "You Are There" in the episode entitled "Spindletop - The First Great Texas Oil Strike (January 10, 1901)". Mike Ragan was cast as Marion Fletcher; Parley Baer as Captain Lucas, Jean Byron as Caroline Lucas, DeForest Kelley as Al Hammill, Tyler McVey as Mayor Wheat, and William Fawcett as a farmer.
Pattillo Higgins | Higgins' later life and death
She died a few weeks before her 102nd birthday in New York City. She had no children and no immediate family survivors.
Dorothy Stickney | Death
Harvey Gaul died December 1, 1945, of injuries from an auto accident.
Harvey Bartlett Gaul | Death
On the evening of 19 December 2008 Colin Jerry was performing Manx music on the uilleann pipes at the Tynwald Hill Inn pub in St John's. Having just played his favourite carol he collapsed. Friends summoned an ambulance and he was taken to Noble's Hospital, Braddan, where he died that evening. He left his wife, Cristl, and three children – Bridget, Patrick and Kate – and grandchildren.
Colin Jerry | Death
Dorothy would turn up again in issue 18 for Celsius's funeral.
Dorothy Spinner | Kupperburg Run
The show featured animated versions of several famous comic strips, including "Tumbleweeds", "Alley Oop" and "Nancy". Voices were provided by June Foray (Broom-Hilda), Bob Holt (Gaylord) and Alan Oppenheimer (Irwin and Grelber). The character also made a brief animated appearance in "The Fantastic Funnies" (1980), a TV special that aired on CBS showcasing newspaper cartoonists. The animation sequence was produced by Bill Melendez Productions. June Foray was brought back to voice the character.
Broom-Hilda | Animation
He wrote and provided illustrations for such comic book titles as "Magnus, Robot Fighter," "Donald Duck," and "Uncle Scrooge". He was involved with the Southern California Comic Artist Professionals Society for many years, and was a past President of the Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS). Christensen died in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 18, 2006, at the age of 90 of natural causes. He beat the odds that he would not survive past 40, having been a Type I diabetic since the age of 13.
Don R. Christensen | Introduction
Harvey Comics (also known as Harvey World Famous Comics, Harvey Publications, Harvey Comics Entertainment, Harvey Hits, Harvey Illustrated Humor, and Harvey Picture Magazines) was an American comic book publisher, founded in New York City by Alfred Harvey in 1941, after buying out the small publisher Brookwood Publications. His brothers, Robert B. and Leon Harvey, joined shortly after. The company soon got into licensed characters, which by the 1950s, became the bulk of their output. The artist Warren Kremer is closely associated with the publisher. Harvey's mascot is "Joker", a harlequin jack-in-the-box character.
Harvey Comics | Introduction
Carney died on 8 September 1941 in London, England.
Jem Carney | Death
"Presented in 1988 at the Chicago Comicon for comics published in 1987:"
1987 in comics | Harvey Awards
In 1932, their first son, Michael, was born, followed by Colin in 1935, and then Barry Jerome (Jerry) in 1937. Michael became the director of public television in New York, Colin was a professor of English Literature at the University of Toronto, and Jerry worked as a college academic counselor in New York City, and wrote the play, "Cinderella Wore Combat Boots". While working on the musical adaptation, "Say Hello to Harvey", in 1981, Mary Coyle Chase suffered a heart attack suddenly at her home in Denver and died at the age of 75.
Mary Chase (playwright) | Personal life
When the comic "Knockout" launched in 1938 with a Billy Bunter comic strip, Chapman drew the early instalments before being replaced by Frank Minnitt. In the 1950s and '60s he illustrated Cassell's "Billy Bunter's Own" annuals. He lived in Reading, commuting daily to London by train for many years. He died in 1972, survived by two daughters, Dorothy and Marjorie.
C. H. Chapman | Life
Spinney first met Jim Henson in 1962 at a puppeteering festival, where Henson asked if he would like to "talk about the Muppets". As Spinney failed to realize the question was an employment offer, the conversation never came to pass. In 1969, Spinney performed at a Puppeteers of America festival in Utah. His show was a mixture of live actors and puppets but was ruined by an errant spotlight that washed out the animated backgrounds. Henson was once again in attendance and noticed Spinney's performance. "I liked what you were trying to do," Henson said, and he asked once more if they could "talk about the Muppets".
Caroll Spinney | As a "Sesame Street" puppeteer
John I. Caldwell (March 23, 1946 – February 21, 2016) was a nationally syndicated American gag cartoonist primarily known for his work in "National Lampoon" and "Mad", where he was a member of "The Usual Gang of Idiots." Following his death, The Comics Reporter described him as having had "one of the most prolific and successful [cartooning] careers of the late 20th Century."
John Caldwell (cartoonist) | Introduction
He later did work for Terrytoons, Hal Seeger Productions, Filmation and Hanna-Barbera. In addition to his animation work, Tendlar moonlighted as a comic book artist, providing illustrations for "Jingle Jangle Comics" and Harvey Comics as well as producing promotional comic books. He died in Los Angeles, California on September 9, 1993, at the age of 84.
David Tendlar | Introduction
Glanville worked in puppetry and lived in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, until her death on 1 March 1999 at the age of 74.
Christine Glanville | Death
Couchey's break came when Harvey Comics advertised for cartoonists. A few of Couchey's fellow art school graduates, who had started an art studio of their own, told him about the advertisements. At Harvey, Couchey's artwork began appearing in the "Little Dot", "Little Lotta" and "Richie Rich" titles throughout the 1950s and 1960s, with reprints appearing for many years. Couchey did not create these famous Harvey characters, but he did have the opportunity to change attitudes or events.
Sid Couchey | Harvey Comics
"The Carol Burnett Show" with Harvey Korman and Tim Conway did a comic parody. The character Brenda Morgenstern (Julie Kavner) refers to the Bicentennial Minutes in the "Rhoda" episode "If You Don't Tell Her, I Will," broadcast in December 1975. CBS daytime game show "Match Game" had questions posed to contestants in this form as well throughout 1975 and 1976. Panelist Charles Nelson Reilly makes a joke that a moment on the New Year's Eve 1976 episode of "Match Game 76" is "the last one, thank god."
Bicentennial Minutes | In popular culture
In the movie Topper Returns (1941), after the character Annie (played by Carole Landis) is nearly killed by a falling chandelier, the character Gail (played by Joan Blondell) exclaims "Six more inches and we'd all be singing 'Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore.'" The Martin Scorsese film title Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a reference to the song Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore. "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" was the title of an episode of The Brady Bunch (1969) that aired on October 17, 1969. It was also a reference to the song Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore,
Harold Spina | In Popular Culture
Colin Harvey (11 November 1960 – 15 August 2011) was a British science fiction writer, editor, and reviewer who was born in Cornwall, England. Harvey died after having a stroke.
Colin Harvey (writer) | Introduction
It's particularly irritating if you've seen the much better "Harvey"." Angie Errigo of "Empire magazine" wrote: "There is scarcely a laugh to be had unless you are six years old or immoderately fond of such wheezes as depositing dog poop on a white carpet".
Drop Dead Fred | Critical response
After developing a cold, Murphy died suddenly of pneumonia over the Washington's Birthday weekend in 1976. Cartoonists at Murphy's funeral included Ted Richards, Melinda Gebbie, and Justin Green. Richards, who was Murphy's best friend, wrote a eulogy for him which was later published in "Arcade" #6 (Summer 1976). That issue also featured a portfolio of Murphy's work. "Flamed-Out Funnies" #2 was published posthumously by Rip Off Press in November 1976. Some of Murphy's comics were also posthumously published in "San Francisco Comic Book" issue #5 and #7, released in 1980 and 1983 respectively.
Willy Murphy | Death
Harvey Herschel Korman (February 15, 1927May 29, 2008) was an American actor and comedian, who performed in television and film productions. His big break was being a featured performer on CBS' "The Danny Kaye Show", but he is best remembered for his performances on the sketch comedy series "The Carol Burnett Show" for which he won four Emmy Awards as well as his partnership with Tim Conway. Korman also appeared in several comedy films by Mel Brooks.
Harvey Korman | Introduction
Quigley died after an illness on October 21, 2014.
Joan Quigley | Death
Mark Mitchell, comedian and Round The Twist star said it was "Impossible not to learn from Bunney. You could turn to her in a moment of exasperation knowing she would impart something very timely, if humbling".
Bunney Brooke | Tributes
Also in the early 1930s, Dwyer worked on the strips "Bing Brown" and "When Mother Was a Girl". "When Mother Was a Girl", also created by Chic Young, was a "topper" to "Dumb Dora" that was laid out above the main strip in the comics pages. It was canceled simultaneously with "Dora". "Mr. Dilly" began and ended in 1948. His final strip, "Sandy Hill", about a boy and his family living in the country, was distributed by the Register and Tribune Syndicate from 1951 to 1954.
Bil Dwyer (cartoonist) | Comic strips
First it was Lilyan Tashman, then Lew Cody. I wonder who'll be next?"
Dorothy Dell | Death
Crandall, who had left New York City in the 1960s in order to care for his ailing mother in Wichita, Kansas, had developed alcoholism. Recovering by the time of his mother's death, he nonetheless suffered debilitated health and left art in 1974 to work as a night watchman and janitor for the Pizza Hut general headquarters in Wichita. After suffering a stroke that year, he spent his remaining life in a nursing home and died in 1982 of a heart attack. One of his last published stories, "This Graveyard Is Not Deserted", appeared in "Creepy" #54 (July 1973). "Creepy" #58 contained "Soul and Shadow", possibly his last published comic book work.
Reed Crandall | Final years
He died on August 10, 1998.
Harvey Butterfield | Bishop
Peter Sellers died on 24 July 1980, aged 54. Michael Bentine died on 26 November 1996, aged 74. Harry Secombe died on 11 April 2001, aged 79. Milligan claimed to be relieved that Secombe had died before him, because had he died before Secombe then Secombe would have been in a position to sing at his funeral. Terence "Spike" Milligan died on 27 February 2002, aged 83; Secombe ended up singing at his funeral anyway, as a recording. Two years later Milligan's wish to have the words "I told you I was ill" inscribed on his gravestone was finally granted, although the church would only agree if the words were written in Irish, as .
The Goon Show | Deaths
This new spin on the comic strip alienated many older male viewers and may have led to its retirement on January 1, 2000.
Tom Forman (cartoonist) | Introduction
Harvey Parnell died in Little Rock and is interred at Roselawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Harvey Parnell | Death
He retired to San Diego, California. He died there on March 15, 1924.
DeRosey Caroll Cabell | Death and legacy
Irving and younger cartoonist friend Mel Casson were regular performers on the ABC television series "Draw Me a Laugh" (1949), which the two men jointly produced. The show was hosted by Patricia Bright and Walter Hurley. Guest cartoonists included Gus Edson. Viewers sent in ideas which were drawn by the cartoonists while members of the studio audience created the gag lines. Folk singer Oscar Brand then vocalized the "singing captions". The show lasted only 13 weeks and proved to be a financial disaster from which Irving, who had borrowed money to pay for the production, never really recovered. Irving was 69 when he died of a heart attack in his Manhattan apartment at 650 West End Avenue.
Jay Irving | Television
Sparber died on August 29, 1958 in New York City at the age of 52. It has been said that this may have been a factor in Paramount's 1959 decision to discontinue production of several cartoon series and sell the rights to Harvey Comics, but apparently this is not the case. During the reorganization of Famous Studios into Paramount Cartoon Studios in late 1956, Sparber was fired along with a number of other veteran Famous Studios staffers as a measure to cut costs. That Sparber continued to collect credits long after he was fired was a result of the long gestation time in animation; indeed, Sparber's last cartoon, "Travelaffs", opened on August 22, 1958, one week before his death.
Isadore Sparber | Death
DeCarlo died in New Rochelle, New York, of pneumonia. Comics creator Paul Dini said upon DeCarlo's death, "It was tragic that when he was at an age when many cartoonists are revered as treasures by more beneficent publishers, Dan felt spurned and slighted by the owners of properties that prospered greatly from his contributions."
Dan DeCarlo | Death
Rich Hall impersonates Paul Harvey on Saturday Night News.
Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1984–85 | Paul Harvey
On 27 January 1966, O'Connell died from a stroke as a result of diabetes aged 65.
Mick O'Connell (hurler) | Death
Jenner choose to remain at the CDC to die.
Carol Peletier | Season 1
♦Official Stories Come Alive Website
Larry Carney | External links
John Harvey died at age 53 of an apparent heart attack on Christmas Day, 1970, in New York.
John Harvey (American actor) | Later career
Scott died from cancer on 4 July 2017 at the age of 74.
Carol Lee Scott | Death
He would remain in this last post until his death in 1908 at the age of fifty-five.
Conolly Norman | Early career
Usually around holidays such as Halloween and Easter, Arthur would ask an intentionally long question, often filled with facts about the holiday, ending with him asking a simple question such as “How are you?”
List of Jimmy Fallon games and sketches | The Big Question
Carolus Pole by his wife Sarah Rashleigh, but died without issue, when his heir became his nephew William Rashleigh (1777–1855).
Menabilly | Philip Rashleigh III (1729–1811)
Personally, I'm with Hirst who, after a trademark 'silence', ripostes quite simply: 'Nonsense'."
Harold Pinter Archive | British Library responses to Pinter's death
Then, in December 1999, MacNelly was diagnosed with lymphoma. He continued working in spite of his illness, producing "Shoe" and editorial cartoons and Dave Barry illustrations in his Johns Hopkins Hospital bed right up to the day he died, June 8, 2000.
Jeff MacNelly | Later career and death
William Raphael Louis Dwyer, Jr. (January 29, 1907-December 13, 1987), known as Bil Dwyer, was an American cartoonist and humorist. He was known for several newspaper comic strips in the 1930s and 1950s, including "Dumb Dora" and "Sandy Hill", as well as a series of humorous books of Southern slang published in the 1970s.
Bil Dwyer (cartoonist) | Introduction
In the early 1940s, DC Comics brought back "Minute Movies" as a feature in 58 issues of "Flash Comics". In 1944, Max Gaines published the "Edgar Wheelan Joke Book" with Wheelan's Fat and Slat characters, who returned in their own title, "Fat and Slat", which ran for four quarterly issues in 1947 and 1948. The book also featured Wheelan's ""Comics" McCormick" ("The World's #1 Comic Book Fan"). In the late 1940s, Wheelan drew "Foney Fairy Tales", fairy tale parodies that ran as a feature in "Wonder Woman" and "Comic Cavalcade". After leaving comics, Wheelan created paintings of clowns. He died in 1966 in Fort Myers, Florida.
Ed Wheelan | Comic books
A resident of Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, Gaffney died at the age of 61 of an apparent heart attack at his home there on August 28, 1995. He was survived by his wife, Carol Crane, and his six daughters; a previous marriage ended in divorce.
John F. Gaffney | Personal life
Donald died of diabetes shortly before his fifth birthday. Alfred died in 1956.
Clara McMillen | Life and career
Feldkamp also edited a second posthumous volume, a comic almanac titled "How to Get from January to December", that appeared in 1951.
Will Cuppy | Introduction
Known as a practical joker and for making "wild bets", he grew a beard as a result of losing a 1965 bet to Don Lane on a football match. Harvey married fellow television personality Penny Spence and they had two children together: Eugenie in 1968 and Charlotte two years later. They lived together in the Sydney suburb of Epping. He lived in the village of Berrima in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales with his second wife of years, Katrina. Katrina also worked at Nine as the long-time personal assistant to executive Sam Chisholm. Harvey died in March 2019, aged 83.
Geoff Harvey | Personal life
Watterson died in Louisville on October 1, 1891. He is interred at Cave Hill Cemetery.
Harvey Magee Watterson | Death
Harvey was also a contributor to Oxford University Press' "American National Biography", providing biographies of a couple dozen cartoonists. In 1994, Harvey's first work of comics scholarship "The Art of the Funnies" was published by the University Press of Mississippi with "The Art of the Comic Book" following in 1996. He served as an associate editor for the journal "Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies", taking responsibility for submissions related to the comic strip. In 1998, Harvey was guest curator for the "Children of the Yellow Kid" exhibition at the Frye Museum in Seattle, for which he also provided the catalogue.
R. C. Harvey | Career
A comic strip ran from 1929-1967. Spin-offs included a radio-serial series "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (sporadically aired from 1932-1947), a 1939 movie serial "Buck Rogers", and a 1979 television series "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century". Nowlan also wrote several other novellas for the science fiction magazines as well as the posthumously published mystery, "The Girl from Nowhere". He died from a stroke at his home in Bala in 1940.
Philip Francis Nowlan | Biography
Clara Whipple Dewey died November 6, 1932, in Manhattan, New York, a little more than two months after her brother, "Jamie" Whipple "(né" James Cameron Mitchell Whipple; 1892–1980), became Production Manager for NBC in Chicago. The cause of death was "Carcinoma of the Liver." Her residence at the time of her death was 180 Claremont Avenue, where her brother James lived, in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan – less than 2 blocks north of the where Juilliard had been located from 1910 to 1969.
Clara Whipple | Death
The character was likely the inspiration for The Muppets' Statler and Waldorf. Benson became Johnny Carson's favorite comic and appeared frequently on the Carson-hosted "Tonight Show". He was honored for Best Documentary at the 2011 Backlot Film Festival for "The Last First Comic" uncovering the roots of American comedy also going inside the colorful world of the Burlesque show.
Irving Benson | Introduction
She died in Los Angeles, California on November 3, 1934.
Fannie Eliza Duvall | Career
Green died in hospital on Saturday 3 May 1997.
Hughie Green | Death
Linda's father is introduced in 1946, after Black Cat gains her own title. A former cowboy who gained stardom as a western hero during the silent movie days, Tim Turner retired from films sometime after the death of his stunt woman wife, Linda's mother. The elderly Turner lives primarily on his own on a ranch outside of Los Angeles. He has an affectionate relationship with his daughter, who he knows is The Black Cat, and occasionally advises her on her cases. It was Turner who taught his daughter how to ride and rope, skills she later translated into her stunt work.
Black Cat (Harvey Comics) | Tim Turner