Former 500
by Pridex | created - 08 Sep 2012 | updated - 13 Sep 2021 | PublicThese celebrities were on my top favorite 500 list when they pass away.
1. Michael Clarke Duncan
Actor | The Green Mile
Michael Clarke Duncan was born on December 10, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. Raised on Chicago's South Side by his single mother, Jean, a house cleaner, Duncan grew up resisting drugs and alcohol, instead concentrating on school. He wanted to play football in high school, but his mother wouldn't let ...
Died: September 3, 2012 (age 54) - Heart attack. - He was listed as #216. He was always so entertaining & really did seem like a gentle giant.
2. Paul Walker
Actor | The Fast and the Furious
Paul William Walker IV was born in Glendale, California. He grew up together with his brothers, Caleb and Cody, and sisters, Ashlie and Amie. Their parents, Paul William Walker III, a sewer contractor, and Cheryl (Crabtree) Walker, a model, separated around September 2004. His grandfather, William ...
Died: November 30, 2013 (Age 40) - Car Accident - He was listed as #470. I loved him & I shall miss him.
3. Alan Rickman
Actor | Die Hard
Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). ...
Died: January 14, 2016 (Age 69) - Cancer - He was listed as #190. He was one of my favorite characters in the Harry Potters movies as Professor Severus Snape. I also enjoyed him in his roles in Galaxy Quest & Dogma
4. Bill Paxton
Actor | Aliens
Bill Paxton was born on May 17, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas. He was the son of Mary Lou (Gray) and John Lane Paxton, a businessman and actor (as John Paxton). Bill moved to Los Angeles, California at age eighteen, where he found work in the film industry as a set dresser for Roger Corman's New World ...
Died: February 25th, 2017 (Age 61) - Complications of surgery - He was listed at #107. I loved him in "Big Love."
5. Cloris Leachman
Actress | The Last Picture Show
The legendary actress set a record when at age 82, she appeared on Dancing with the Stars (2005). Cloris Leachman was born on April 30, 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa to Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman and the former Cloris Wallace. Her father's family owned a lumber company, Leachman Lumber Co. She ...
Died: January 27th, 2021 (Age 94) - Natural Causes - She was listed at #495. I do remember her in "The Facts of Life" but I loved her in "Raising Hope."
6. Christopher Plummer
Actor | Beginners
Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A ...
Died: February 7th, 2021 (Age 91) - A blow from the head from a fall. - He was listed at #250. He'll forever be in my heart as the handsome Captain Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" but I also loved him in the movies, "Knives Out" & "Beginners".
7. George Segal
Actor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
George Segal was born on February 13, 1934 in New York City, New York, to Fannie Blanche (Bodkin) and George Segal Sr., a malt and hop agent. All of his grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. After a stint in the military, he made his bones as a stage actor before being cast in his first ...
Died: March 23rd, 2021 (Age 87) He was listed as #180
8. Jessica Walter
Actress | Arrested Development
Acclaimed actress Jessica Walter was born on January 31, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Esther (Groisser), a teacher, and David Walter (his original surname was Warshawsky), a musician who was a member of the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the NYC Ballet Orchestra. She was of Russian ...
Died: March 24th, 2021 (Age 80) She was listed as #80
9. Michael Kenneth Williams
Actor | The Wire
Emmy-nominated actor and producer Michael Kenneth Williams was one of his generation's most respected and acclaimed talents. By bringing complicated and charismatic characters to life--often with surprising tenderness--Williams established himself as a gifted and versatile performer with a unique ...
Died: September 6, 2021 (age 54). He was listed as #145.
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