COMEDY LEGENDS we lost in 2022.
Gary Waldhorn - British actor best known for playing David Horton,in the UK sitcoms The Vicar of Dibley,and Lionel Bainbridge,in Brush Strokes
Dwayne Hickman -.American actor best known for US sitcoms, playing the titular character in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,and as Chuck McDonald,in The Bob Cummings Show.
Bob Saget,- Americana ctor and comedian,best known for US sitcoms,playing Danny Tanner in Full House,its sequel,Fuller House,and as the nbarrator,Ted Mosby,in How I Met Your Mother.
Howard Hesseman -American actor best known for US sitcoms,as DJ ‘Doctor’ Johnny Fever,in WKRP in Cincinnati,and as teacher,Charlie Moore,in Head of the Class.
Louie Anderson - US stand up comedian,author and game show host,best known for the US sitcom,Baskets,and creating the animated series,Life With Louie,and hosting the game show,Family Feud,and his Las Vegas stand up comedy show,Louie: LargerThan Life.
Barry Cryer - British comedian and comedy writer,best known for writing for many British and American comedians,usch as Bob Hope,The Two Ronnies,Dave Allen,Jack Benny,Richard Pryor,Tommy Cooper,Kenny Everett,George Burns,Frankie Howerd,and Morecambe & Wise,as well as being a panelist on British satirical panel show,I’m Sorry,I Haven’t a Clue?.
Jack Smethhurst - British actor,best known as the bigoted,ignorant Eddie Booth,in the UK sitcom Love Thy Neighbour.
Anna Karen - British actress,best known as the hen pecked,and sexually repressed Olive Butler,in the UK sitcom,On the Buses,and reprising the role,in the UK sitcom,The Rag Trade.
Sally Kellerman - American actress,nest known for playing Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Hoolihan,in Robert Altman’s 1970 comedy war film M*A*S*H, Loretta Swit played the character to greater fame in the cult hit tv sitcom adaptation.Kellerman also was known for comedy films such as the Rodney Dangerfield film,Back to School,and for Brewster McCloud,and The Last of ther Red Hot Lovers.
Ivan Reitman - American film director and producer,best known for a string of hit comedy movies,including the Ghostbusters franchise,Meatballs,Stripes, Kindergarten Cop,Animal House,Dave,and Twins.
Lynda Baron - British actress,best known for playing Nurse Gladys Emmanuel,the object of the affections of shopkeeper Arkwright (played by Ronnie Barker),in the classic UK sitcom,Open All Hours,and briefly in its sequel Still Open All Hours
Scoey Mitchell - American actor best known as Justin Culp,in the US sitcom,Rhoda,and for portraying Richard Pryors ‘father’ in Pryor’s 1986 biopic,Jo Jo Dancer:Your Life is Calling,directed and starring Pryor himself.
Peter Bowles - British actor,best known for playing the aristocratic Richard De Vere,in the UK sitcom,To the Manor Born,
Gilbert Gottfried - American stand up comedian and actor,best known for his stand up comedy routines which some found him borderline offensive,most notably his jokes about 9/11 terrorist attack.He wa salso well known for his shrill,exaggerated voice which often lent him to do voice work,including the parrot,Iago,i Disney’s animatec classic,Aladdin.H ewas also known for his podcast,Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast.
Liz Sheridan - American actress,best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld’s mother,in the US sitcom,Seinfeld,and as nosy neighbour Mrs Ochmonek,in ALF.
Estelle Harris - American actress,best known for playing George Costanza’s shrill voiced mother,Estelle Costanza,in the US sitcom,Seinfeld.
Robin Parkinson - British actor,best known for playing the second actor to play Monsieur Ernest LeClerk,in the UK sitcom,Allo,Allo!,He appeared in other British sitcoms,including The Dick Emery Show,Dad’s Army,and On the Buses.
Patricia Brake - British actress,best known for playing Ingrid Fletcher,the daughter of Norman Stanley Fletcher,played by Ronnie Barker,in the British sitcom,Porridge and its sequel,Going Straight.
Frank Williams - British actor,best known for playing the Reverend Timothy Farthing,in the classic British sitcom,Dad’s Army,and reprising the role,in the 2019 film adaptation,H ealso appeared in other UK sitcoms including You Rang,M’Lord?,and Hi De Hi.
Larry Storch - Americana ctor,best known for playing the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn,in the US sitcom,F Troop.
Tony Dow - American actor,former child actor,best known for his role as Wally Cleaver,in the family sitcoms Leave It To Beaver,and its later sequal,The New Leave It To Beaver.
Bernard Cribbins - British comedy and dramatic actor,best known for comedy roles in films such as Carry On Jack,carry On Spying,Carry On Colombus,Two Way Stretch,The Mouse on the Moon,and the family film,The Railway Children,as well as the narrator for the UK children’s series,The WOmbles,and appearing in the recent Doctor Who tv series.
(Bernard Cribbins,in blue shirt,alongside Carry On Jack co-stars Kenneth Williams & Juliet Mills)
Mary Alice - American actress,best known form playing Leticia ‘Lettie’ Bostic,in the 80′s US sitcom,A Different World,a spin-off from The Cosby Show,and for playing Effie Williams,in the 1976 musical drama film,Sparkle.
Bruce Montague - English Actor,best known for playing Leonard Dunn,in the British BBC2 sitcom (1978-83),Butterflies,
Duggie Brown - English stand up comedian & entertainer,known for 70′s UK tv variety shows,The Comedians,and,The Good Old Days.
Josephine Tewson - English actress,best known as Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Warren,the beleagured and harassed neighbour of snobbish,eccentric busybody Hyacinth Bucket,played by Dame Patricia Routledge,in the BBC sitcom,Keeping Up Apperances,as Edna Hawkins’aka Mrs H,in the 80′s ITV sitcom,Shelley,and as Miss Davenport,in,as to date,the worlds longest running sitcom,Last of the Summer Wine
Leslie Jordan - American actor and comedian,best known for playing the camp Beverly Leslie,in the US sitcom,Will & Grace,as well as sitcoms,Call Me Kat,and The Cool Kids,as well as the horror anthology American Horror Story.
Leslie Phillips - British comic actor,best known for appearing in 4 of the cult classic Carry On films,two of the Doctor in...films,and as the voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter film franchise,Died at the grand age of 98.
Tom Owen - British actor,best known to UK viewers for playing Tom Simmonite,the son of Compo Simmonite,previously played by his real life father,Bill Owen,in the world’s longest running sitcom,Last of the Summer Wine
‘Gallagher’ - American observational stand up comedian,best known to US viewers for regularly smashing up melons as a routine in his stand up and tv shows.
Ruth Madoc - British comedy actress,best known for playing Welsh holiday camp radio announcer,Galdys Pugh,in the classic 1980′S UK sitcom,Hi-De-Hi.
Robert Clary - French born American actor,best known for playing Corporal Louie LeBeau,in the classic 1960′s US sitcom.Hogan’s Heroes.
John Bird - English actor,comedian and satirist.best known for appearing alongside impressionist Rory Bremner and comedian John Fortune,in the satire show,Bremner,Bird & Fortune,and being a prominent figure in the rise of British satire during the 1960′s,appearing in the show,That Was The Week That Was,fronted by satirist and broadcaster,David Frost.
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