September 29th
Actors:
- Roger Bart is 57 (“The Producers,” “Stepford Wives,” “The Lost Room,” “Hostel: Part II,” “American Gangster,” “Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay,” “Desperate Housewives”)
- Mackenzie Crook is 48 (“The Office” (original British version), “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Game of Thrones”)
- Alexis Cruz is 45 (“Touched By An Angel,” “Stargate,” “Stargate SG-1”)
- Erika Eleniak is 50 (“Baywatch,” “The Blob,” “Under Siege,” “The Beverly Hillbillies,” “Snowbound,” “Betrayal,” “Strike Force”)
- Natasha Gregson Wagner is 49 (“Modern Vampires,” “Pasadena” “High Fidelity,” “The 4400”) (FAST FACT: Her mother was Natalie Wood)
- Drake Hogestyn is 66 (“Days Of Our Lives”)
- Zachary Levi is 39 (“Chuck,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel,” “Thor: The Dark World,” “Shazam,” “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
- Ian McShane is 77 (“Lovejoy,” “Deadwood,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” “American Gods”)
- Tom Sizemore is 58 (“Born on the Fourth of July,” “Passenger 57,” “True Romance,” “Natural Born Killers,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “Pearl Harbor,” “Black Hawk Down,” “Shooter”) (FAST FACTS: His career has been marred with legal hassles surrounding addiction and alleged domestic abuse. In February 2017, Sizemore pleaded no contest to two charges of domestic abuse for assaulting his girlfriend. He was sentenced to 36 months summary probation, as well as 30 days of community service, as well as being forced to complete a year-long domestic violence program, to abide two protective orders associated with the charges.)
- Jill Whelan is 53 (“Airplane!,” “The Love Boat’s” Vicki Stubing)
- The late “Singing Cowboy” Gene Autry(1907-1998)
- The late Madeline Kahn(1942-1999) …she would have been 77(“What's Up, Doc?,” “Young Frankenstein,” “High Anxiety,” “History of the World, Part I,” “Paper Moon,” “Blazing Saddles,” “The Cheap Detective,” “City Heat,” “Clue,” “Mixed Nuts,” “Nixon”)
- The late Larry Linville(1939-2000) …he would have been 80(“M*A*S*H,“ “Grandpa Goes To Washington,” “School Spirit,” “Earth Girls Are Easy,” “C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.,” “Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever,” “A Million to Juan,” “No Dessert,” “Dad, till You Mow the Lawn”)
- The late Lizabeth Scott(1922 – 2015)…she would have been 97(“Pulp,” “The Skin of Our Teeth,” “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers,” “Dead Reckoning,” “Desert Fury,” “Too Late for Tears”) (FAST FACTS: She was dubbed "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s.” Of the 21 films she appeared in, she was the lead actress in all but one.)
Musicians:
- Suede’s Brett Anderson is 52
- Primus’ Les Claypool is 56
- Emerson Drive’s Danick Dupelle is 46
- City and Colour and Alexisonfire’s Dallas Green is 39
- Jerry Lee Lewis is 84
- Iron Butterfly’s Mike Pinera is 71
- Jean-Luc Ponty is 77
Plus:
- Reality TV star Lo Bosworth is 33 (“The Hills”)
- Comedian Andrew “Dice” Clay is 62 (born Andrew Clay Silverstein)
- TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 71
- The late PBS Newshour co-anchor Gwen Ifill(1955 – 2016)…she would have been 64(FAST FACT: In 1999, she became the first African American woman to host a nationally-televised U.S. public affairs program with “Washington Week in Review”)