June Callwood was 82. She was a social activist, journalist, broadcaster and writer who was often described as Canada's social conscience.
December 23, 2024
In Memoriam
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Barry Nelson was 89. He was an MGM contract player during the 1940s who later had a prolific theatre career and was the first actor to play James Bond on screen.
Roscoe Lee Browne was 81. His rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination. I knew him best as the narrator in "Babe".
Kurt Vonnegut was 84. He captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle." I wrote about Kurt Vonnegut in this entry from February 2006. He will be missed.
Johnny Hart was 76. He was the creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator of the strip The Wizard of Id.
Bob Clark was 67. He was a film director best known for the holiday classic "A Christmas Story" and the Canadian sex comedy "Porky's".
Eddie Robinson was 88. He was the Grambling State University football coach who sent more than 200 players to the NFL and won 408 games during a 57-year career.
Calvert DeForest was 85. He was best known for his work as "Larry 'Bud' Melman" on Late Night with David Letterman.
Stuart Rosenberg was 79. He was the prolific director of series television and theatrical films who partnered with Paul Newman on the widely popular prison drama "Cool Hand Luke" and several other movies.
Bowie Kuhn was 80. His 15 tumultuous years as baseball commissioner coincided with free agency and multimillion-dollar salaries.
Betty Hutton was 86. She was the energetic star of movie musicals like "Annie Get Your Gun."
Richard Jeni was 49. He was the stand-up comedian who starred in the sitcom Platypus Man and appeared in the Jim Carrey film The Mask.
Brad Delp was 55. He was the lead singer for Boston, a huge rock sensation in the 1970s.
John Vukovich was 59. He was the longest-serving coach in Philadelphia Phillies history and a member of their only World Series championship team in 1980.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was 89. He was the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and "court philosopher" of the Kennedy administration.
Lothar-Guenther Buchheim was 89. He was the German author and art collector best known for his autobiographical novel, "Das Boot."
Dennis "DJ" Johnson was 52. He was part of three NBA champions with the Boston Celtics and one with the Seattle SuperSonics.
Celia Franca was 85. She was the founder of The National Ballet of Canada and its artistic director for 24 years.
Hank Bauer was 84. He was the hard-nosed ex-Marine who returned to baseball after being wounded during World War II and went on to become a cornerstone of the New York Yankees dynasty of the 1950s.
Anna Nicole Smith was 39. She was the reality TV star and former model who appeared in The Naked Gun 33 1/3.
Frankie Laine was 93. He was the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s.
Steve Barber was 67. He was the first 20-game winner in modern Baltimore Orioles history and the losing pitcher in one of baseball's wildest no-hitters.
Gian Carlo Menotti was 95. He composed a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning operas and founded the Spoleto arts festivals in the United States and Italy.
Sidney Sheldon was 89. He won awards in three careers - Broadway theater, movies and television - then at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ruthless men.
Gump Worsley was 77. He was the Hall of Fame goaltender who played 21 years in the NHL with the New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens and Minnesota North Stars.
