1996 in American Television - Deaths

Deaths

  • February 3 – Audrey Meadows, actress (Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners)
  • February 13 – Martin Balsam, actor (Murray on Archie Bunker's Place)
  • February 15 – McLean Stevenson, actor (Lt. Col. Henry Blake on M*A*S*H)
  • February 15 – Tommy Rettig, former child actor (Jeff on Lassie)
  • March 4 – Minnie Pearl, comedian
  • March 5 – Whit Bissell, character actor
  • March 9 – George Burns, 100, comedian
  • March 11 – Vince Edwards, actor (Ben Casey)
  • April 21 – Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, sports commentator
  • May 20 – Jon Pertwee, 76, former star of Doctor Who.
  • June 2 – Ray Combs, 40, former host of Family Feud, (suicide)
  • June 5 - Vito Scotti, 78, American character actor, Gilligan's Island
  • June 16 – Mel Allen, sports commentator
  • July 21 – Herb Edelman, actor (Stanley Zbornak on The Golden Girls)
  • August 27 – Greg Morris, actor (Mission: Impossible)
  • September 13 – Tupac Shakur, 25, actor/songwriter.
  • September 29 – Leslie Crowther, 63, British TV comedian & game show host
  • October 6 – Ted Bessell, actor (That Girl)
  • October 13 - Beryl Reid, actress
  • October 27 – Morey Amsterdam. actor and comedian (Buddy on The Dick Van Dyke Show)
  • December 8 – Howard E. Rollins, Jr., actor (Tibbs on the TV version of In the Heat of the Night)
  • December 11 – Willie Rushton, 59, comedian, actor, and performer.
  • December 12 – Larry Gates, soap opera actor (Guiding Light)
  • December 14 - Edward K. Milkis, 65, producer

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    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

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