Groundbreakers, character actors, beloved sitcom stars, and news anchors of various stripes are among the memorable TV stars who have passed away in 2024 so far.
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00:00Groundbreakers, character actors, beloved sitcom stars, and news anchors of various
00:05stripes are among the memorable TV stars who have passed away in 2024 so far.
00:11For a period of about five years in the 1970s, David Soll was one of the hugest deals in
00:16American pop culture, as he starred on one of the biggest shows on TV and recorded a
00:21string of hit songs.
00:22Before then, he starred on the Western sitcom Here Comes the Brides from 1968 to 1970.
00:28Then in 1975, he hit supernova status thanks to the premiere of the detective series Starsky
00:33and Hutch.
00:34Soll played by-the-book Ken Hutch Hutchinson, opposite Paul Michael Glazer as the roguish
00:39Dave Starsky.
00:40Soll followed that up with a major role in the 1979 miniseries version of Salem's Lot.
00:46As for his music career, his ballad Don't Give Up On Us topped the charts in the U.S.
00:50and the U.K., while Silver Lady went to number one in the latter.
00:54In his later years, Soll was diagnosed with both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
00:58and cancer.
00:59On January 4, 2024, he died at a hospital in London at the age of 80.
01:04His wife Helen Snell wrote in a statement,
01:06"...he shared many extraordinary gifts in the world as actor, singer, storyteller, creative
01:11artist, and dear friend.
01:13His smile, laughter, and passion for life will be remembered by the many whose lives
01:18he has touched."
01:19When he retired from CBS News in 2016, Charles Osgood had spent 45 years with the organization.
01:29At one point or another, he anchored CBS Morning News, the CBS Evening News, and CBS Sunday
01:35Night News.
01:36In addition to writing and recording the daily Osgood File for CBS' radio affiliates for
01:40more than four decades, he became the host of the long-running CBS Sunday Morning in
01:451994.
01:46Osgood would go on to anchor that program for 22 years, leading it to three Daytime
01:50Emmys for Outstanding Morning Program, the right vehicle for a nontraditional newsman.
01:56Sunday Morning allowed Osgood to show off his interviewing skills, play the piano, tell
02:00original short stories, and recite his own poems.
02:03On January 23, 2024, he died from complications of dementia at his New Jersey home at the
02:08age of 91.
02:10Terry Carter made a lot of different kinds of TV, and he was often a groundbreaker in
02:14various genres.
02:15From 1955 to 1959, he played Private Sugarman on the sitcom The Phil Silvers Show, making
02:21him the only Black actor in the cast and one of only a few people of color with a regular
02:26network role at the time.
02:27Then in the 1960s, he appeared on the World War II-set action series Combat and was a
02:33news anchor on the Boston station WBZ, making him the first Black anchor in all of New England.
02:38Starting in 1970, Carter had a recurring role on the detective drama MacLeod as Sergeant
02:43Joe Broadhurst, which he followed up with a lead role on Battlestar Galactica.
02:47In the last few decades of life, he turned his attention to documentary filmmaking, including
02:52the Emmy-nominated A Duke Named Ellington on PBS' American Masters.
02:57Carter died at the age of 95 at his home in New York City on April 23, 2024.
03:02He was fondly remembered by family and friends, including his Battlestar Galactica co-star
03:06Anne Lockhart, who wrote,
03:08He was a gifted actor, a total professional, and a most generous and supportive compatriot
03:13and a loyal friend.
03:15The sweeping oil industry family saga Dallas was the most popular show on TV in the early
03:2080s.
03:21In 1983, Pat Colbert broke the show's color barrier to become the first Black actor with
03:25a major role on the primetime soap.
03:27For eight seasons, she appeared on 66 episodes as Dora Mae, an associate of the Ewing family
03:33and the charming head of the ritzy hangout the Oil Barons Club.
03:37Hello, Mr. Bar.
03:38Ah, Dora Mae, Dora Mae, did you happen to notice what a beautiful day it is?
03:41Colbert's other notable TV credits include episodes of The Fall Guy and Knott's Landing,
03:46and she made it to the big screen with a starring role in the 1987 spy parody movie Leonard,
03:51Part 6.
03:52In the 2010s and 2020s, Colbert endured a series of strokes, which her relatives believe
03:57led to her death at the age of 77 on June 23, 2024.
04:02She passed away at her home in Compton, California.
04:04Her sister Tammy told the Los Angeles Times,
04:06"...She was just good.
04:08She was good at everything she started out to do.
04:10She made it a point to get there and do well at it."
04:14Daytime and primetime soap operas were hugely popular in the late 70s and early 80s, and
04:19that's where actor Doug Sheehan first found onscreen success.
04:22On General Hospital, he played attorney Joe Kelly for more than 200 episodes, netting
04:26a Daytime Emmy nomination along the way.
04:29In 1983, he moved over to the cast of Knott's Landing, on which he played journalist Ben
04:34Gibson for five years.
04:35Then in the 90s, he played a couple of teen sitcom dads on Sabrina the Teenage Witch and
04:40the TV adaptation of Clueless.
04:42"...I'm semi-retiring from the Other Realm Foreign Service, so I'm gonna be settling
04:45down.
04:46I want you to come to Paris and live with me."
04:48"...Live with you?
04:49Right now?"
04:50Having retired from acting in the early 2000s, Sheehan moved to Bighorn, Wyoming.
04:54He died at his home there on the morning of June 29, 2024, at the age of 75.
04:59Joan Van Ark, who played his wife on Knott's Landing, remembered him by declaring in a
05:03statement,
05:04"...my heart is broken to hear the news of Doug Sheehan's sudden passing.
05:08Good night, sweet prince, and may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."
05:12After amassing a prolific list of theatrical credits, Bill Cobbs moved into film and TV
05:17in the 1970s.
05:18Over the next 50 years or so, he became one of the most recognizable character actors
05:22in Hollywood.
05:23Among his nearly 200 credits are the films The Bodyguard, Air Bud, and The Night at the
05:28Museum movies.
05:29On the small screen, he was a main or recurring cast member on the likes of I'll Fly Away,
05:33The Gregory Hines Show, and The Drew Carey Show.
05:36In 2020, he won a Daytime Emmy for the children's series Dino Dana.
05:40Nine days after marking his 90th birthday, Cobbs died on June 25, 2024 from natural causes
05:46while surrounded by his family at his home outside of Los Angeles.
05:50His brother, Thomas Cobbs, wrote on Facebook,
05:52"...as a family, we are comforted knowing Bill has found peace and eternal rest with
05:56his Heavenly Father."
05:58A frequent collaborator with prolific TV producer Stephen Bochco, James B. Sicking
06:02is well-known primarily for two very different series.
06:05He appeared on every episode of NBC's award-winning police drama Hill Street Blues as Lieutenant
06:10Howard Hunter, the unflappable head of the Emergency Action Team Unit.
06:14Two years after that show ended in 1987, Sicking was one of the stars of Doogie Howser, M.D.,
06:20as the titular teenage doctor's father, David Howser.
06:23On July 13, 2024, Sicking died in his home in Los Angeles of complications from dementia
06:28at the age of 90.
06:29His former TV son Neil Patrick Harris remembered him by writing on Instagram,
06:33"...a true professional.
06:35He treated everyone with respect, taught me countless lessons, yet always had a spark
06:39of mischief in his eyes.
06:41It was an absolute honor to be his son."
06:44Before she was a TV star, Naomi Pomeroy was one of the hottest chefs in Portland, Oregon.
06:49She opened her restaurant Beast in 2007 and was soon thereafter named the Pacific Northwest's
06:54Best Chef by the James Beard Awards.
06:56She made the leap to TV in 2010 as she competed on Iron Chef America and Knife Bite.
07:01She became a reliable star on Bravo's Top Chef franchise, competing on Top Chef Masters,
07:06and guest-judging for multiple episodes of Top Chef.
07:09"...so my favorite part is just making people happy."
07:12On July 13, 2024, Pomeroy embarked on a river tubing trip on the Willamette River, during
07:17which she became sucked below the surface and her movement was impeded by a paddleboard
07:22leash.
07:23She tragically sank and was never seen alive again.
07:25Her body was spotted by a canoeing party and retrieved five days later.
07:29She was only 49.
07:31Lou Dobbs was a foundational figure in 24-hour cable news.
07:34When CNN went on the air in June 1980, he was one of its first anchors.
07:38After nearly three decades there, he departed to join Fox Business Network in 2009.
07:43In the 2010s and 2020s, his vocal support of Donald Trump changed the tone of his program
07:48into a more political one.
07:50Dobbs ended up getting caught up in a major scandal when Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic
07:55sued Fox News and its associated networks for defamation over false claims about election
08:00rigging.
08:01In February 2021, Fox Business dismissed Dobbs and ended his show for helping spread the
08:05claims of irregularities.
08:07On July 18, 2024, Dobbs passed away at the age of 78.
08:11A representative of Fox News told Newsweek,
08:13"...an incredible business mind with a gift for broadcasting, Lou helped pioneer cable
08:18news into a successful and influential industry.
08:21We are immensely grateful for his many contributions and send our heartfelt condolences to his family."
08:27After graduating with a theater degree from UCLA in the 1970s, Patti Yasutake wanted to
08:32act on TV but struggled to find work as an Asian American.
08:35While working with the influential Asian American theatrical collective EastWest Players for
08:40three decades, she eventually landed some screen work, including a Japanese transplant
08:45struggling to fit in among Americans in the 1986 movie Gung-Ho.
08:49Yasutake is probably best known for her place in the Star Trek universe.
08:53Across 16 episodes and two feature films, she played starship nurse Alyssa Ogawa, and
08:58the final live-action performance of her career proved to be her most acclaimed.
09:02In the 2023 Emmy-winning Netflix limited series Beef, she played the mother-in-law of Ali
09:07Wong's stressed-out lead character Amy.
09:09On August 5, 2024, Yasutake passed away in a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 70 from
09:15complications of T-cell lymphoma.
09:19Known mostly for his TV work in the 80s and 90s, John Aprea first made an impact in 1974's
09:24The Godfather Part II as the young version of gangster Sal Tessio.
09:29Sitcom fans fondly remember him for his recurring role on Full House as Nick Katsopoulos, father
09:33of John Stamos' Uncle Jesse.
09:36You know, there are going to be a lot of grandsons at this reunion.
09:39None of them mine.
09:40Pop, you promised you weren't going to bug me about this."
09:43Aprea returned to that role for a cameo on the sequel series Fuller House in 2017, and
09:48in between, he had guest appearances on such shows as The Sopranos and NYPD Blue.
09:53On August 19, 2024, Aprea's agent revealed that the actor had died two weeks earlier
09:58of natural causes on August 5 at his Los Angeles home at the age of 83.
10:03While Rachel Lillis' name and face might not be instantly recognizable, her voice certainly
10:08is to generations of kids.
10:10In the original English-language dub of the first Pokémon series from the 1990s, she
10:14voiced the trainer Misty, the villainous Team Rocket member Jessie, and numerous Pocket
10:19Monsters including Jigglypuff.
10:21Lillis also lent her voice to dozens of other English-language versions of Japanese animated
10:26series.
10:27In May 2024, Lillis was diagnosed with breast cancer.
10:30Just three months later, on August 10, she died from complications of the disease at
10:34the age of 55.
10:36Her friend and longtime Pokémon co-star Veronica Taylor remembered her by writing on social
10:40media,
10:41"...Rachel was an extraordinary talent, a bright light that shone through her voice
10:45whether speaking or singing."
10:47Peter Marshall's career included singing, acting, and radio DJing, but he ultimately
10:52found his show business niche as a game show host with the 1966 debut of The Hollywood
10:56Squares on NBC's Daytime lineup.
10:59He would go on to win the Daytime Emmy for Best Game Show Host twice, and parlayed his
11:03goodwill with the public into a revival of his acting career in the 70s and 80s, as he
11:07appeared on popular shows like Fantasy Island and The Love Boat.
11:11Marshall continued to appear on TV throughout the 90s and into the 2000s, including a revival
11:16of Hollywood Squares.
11:17On August 15, 2024, his family issued a statement confirming that the 98-year-old entertainer
11:23had died that morning from kidney failure in his Los Angeles home.
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