It's difficult to believe that so many who died in 1974, were relatively young. And another thing that blows my mind, is that it was 50 years ago. I was 18 & graduated from high school on May 29, 1974!
During the 70's, it was starting to be understood that cigarette smoking could cause lung cancer. However, many people before the 70's passed away from smoking due to not knowing this. As a result, you will find that many people in this video passed away this way.
It's almost strange, seeing many of these faces again after so many years. I was 13 in 1974, now in my 60s. And shocked to see Edward Platt committed suicide? Wow. Anyway, I love your videos. Thank you. 🙏
I had also believed that Ed Platt had passed away from a heart attack until I watched this video. Apparently, it was one of his sons who revealed a few years ago that it was suicide.
It's sad to think that beginning with the passing of Bud Abbott, we lost four iconic comedians in just over twelve months. Bud Abbott passed away the last week of April 1974 followed by Jack Benny the last week of December. We then lost Larry Fine the last week of January 1975 and finally Moe Howard the first week of May. Legends lost in such a quick amount of time.
I watch all of those guys daily or weekly on MeTV or the other over the air TV channels across the US. Those old shows are better than what's on 90% of current cable or streaming today.
Moorehead was one of many people involved with the film “The Conqueror” who developed cancer which was attributed to radioactive fallout from open air testing in Utah. She was very open about her concern of being harmed.
I am 58 years old, and it is amazing how many of these people died at an earlier age than me. We should all be blessed on Christmas do you realize that we are still healthy and alive forget everything else at least we are still here.
I turned 57 this passed August and it really is kind of mind blowing how early a lot of them died, and for all their fame and money it couldn't buy them good health or freedom from circumstances.
I'm a few years older and was having much the same thought. I've now outlived most of these folks we all loved so much as kids,and am now knocking on heavens door.
As a nostalgia buff, these videos are perhaps the most entertaining on this platform. It is my hope that you continue to expand on these and perhaps go further back in time. I am grateful for this important work.
Jack Benny was getting ready to play Al Lewis in the movie adaptation of The Sunshine Boys opposite Walter Matthau and had gone as far as doing a screen test. When he died, his good friend George Burns took over and ended up winning an Oscar
@@EmilyTienne. I’m 70yo. Jack Benny was an absolute treasure. Class, skill and thought us the value in timing. ua-cam.com/video/IeOtLAv82mA/v-deo.htmlsi=uET22pQnuAGRTWbB
I was 14 in 1974 and lived in Spokane, WA, which was the location for Expo 74. Walter Brennan was supposed to be part of the folk portion of the fair in July or August. I had planned to go that day. But he canceled. I assumed at the time he was sick. I didn't go back to the Expo after that. And when I heard he had died on TV a few weeks later, it really bummed me out. RIP Walter Brennan.
I was sick back around Christmas. I passed the time by listening to several Jack Benny Radio Program Christmas shows that I found here on UA-cam. They were a lot of fun, especially the shopping episodes with Mel Blanc as a store clerk.
@@johnp139 I just looked it up, it was 68 back then. Today if you don’t make it to at least 80, your life got cut short early. And remember the movie Airplane? That old lady that sat next to Ted Striker? An actress named Ann Nelson. She was only 63 in it. Yes we are aging differently now!
@@jondstewart And I am 68! It kind of shakes you to know that not that long ago, you stood a 50 - 50 chance of not seeing tomorrow once you were past your mid 60s.
I read a story on the Internet that Stafford Repp (best known as "Chief O'Hara" on the 1960s TV show "Batman") suffered his fatal heart attack when he was at a racetrack. 😢
Very well done. I loved that you are giving the sound bits and mini bios, causes of death and dates. Doing these by each year is brilliant. I am enjoying these. Please do more of these! Especially the seventies!
True story when George Burns was at Jack Benny’s funeral, he was beyond grief-stricken and shell-shocked as he could only muster “He was my best friend for 50 years…”
Karen Silkwood and Buford Pusser they say we're car accidents but we who lived through that Era know they were murdered. Thanks for such a wonderful tribute to all these talented stars. I was 11 in 1974. Brings back many memories. I had no idea the guy from Get Smart committed suicide. So sad.
Pusser was drunk when his corvette left the highway and threw him from the car. Several law inforcement agencies and private companies investigated and declared no foul play was involved.
Can anyone imagine what a modern-day take on the Valley of the Dolls novel might be like 60 years later? And how much does the original still hold true?
Before Jackie Collins, there was Jackie Susanne. I had read Valley of the Dolls, the Love Machine, Once is Not Enough. Sure it wasn't "real literature" and really just trash, but they were delicious guilty pleasures. And as a kid, it kept me reading, and reading, and reading.
I didnt know the Chief died by suicide. Thats sad. I always enjoyed his frought relationship with Maxwell Smart in the show. Chief also did a nice turn as Roger Thornhill's lawyer in North By Northwest.
Anybody notice how so many of The Greatest Generation died so young from heart disease, cancer and emphysema - smoking and poor diet? Today we’re all on cholesterol and blood pressure medicines and have stayed away from cigarettes.
This is true. When I was growing up, practically everyone smoked. My father smoked & I did, too. Next yr, will be 20yrs since to stopped smoking. My poor father wasn't so lucky. He died in 1982, at age 66. I just celebrated my 64th bday, on the 19th of this month. His bday was 2 days b4 mine. He would've been 108. Maybe if he'd quit, he might've made it to maybe 80 or 85. Who knows, how old. In those days, we ate & drank whatever we wanted. And along with predisposed health issues, that's what took ppl away from their loved ones so young.🕊🪽
The term "accidental drug overdose" is just stupid. You took the drug you took the risk. It's like saying I was playing Russian roulette and accidentally killed myself. Although you wouldn't be able to say it like that because you would be dead.
I WAS 13 IN 1974 IT WAS A GOOD TIME TO GROW UP THE 70S . DAMM CANCER AND DRUGS . TO ALL OF YOU THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES . REST IN HEAVENLY PEACE TO EVERYONE AMEN.
I’ve watched many of your presentations. Remembering (and discovering some I had not previously known of) these people and the impact they had in the world and to me personally has been very enjoyable. I also love the quotes at the end. Thank you for your inspired work 💖!!
Reminiscing on the year 1974, we pay tribute to the iconic figures who left an indelible mark on our hearts. In Memoriam 1974: Famous Faces We Lost in 1974 is a poignant reflection on the enduring legacies of those we continue to remember and cherish
This is odd I just came across this my mother died in August of 1974 when she was 52 years old. I was 13, that was 50 years ago this August. Maybe i should go visit her grave this August.
I’m glad Cass Elliot’s cause of death was correctly listed. For years people hit a cruel laugh believing she died of a ham sandwich when in fact it was a heart attack brought on by undiagnosed heart disease. The “ham sandwich” diagnosis came about because an unfinished sandwich was found beside her bed.
Stunning that though I was only 14 in '74 so many of these people left a lasting impression on me as a kid. Glad to have grown up at a time when I had such adults above me.
I’m 72 now, so I was a young adult when these celebrities died. It’s funny but I used to say that my mom’s generation looked old for their age. It must be they had hairstyles and clothes we associated with the elderly. I didn’t smoke or live a wild life in the 70’s. And I worked harder in my pre-retirement years than I did in the 1970’s. It wasn’t the era of the Depression.
Many will not know their names but without the work of many of these people life today wouldn't be quite the same. . These people lived in a time before computers, before digital technology. Would they even recognise the world today? Would they like it or would they be appalled?
I'm sure if they wished they were alive again, they'd be happy they're back above ground. But may not like what the degenerate society has done to civilization. Then they'd probably be thinking "be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it!!"
They would be appalled at the Mass Homelessness and the destruction of the Labor Movement. They would be appalled that the average person nowadays in this country is NOT enjoying the highest standard of living for average people in the world, or even the second highest.
Thanks for this---I went into the Army in 74' Basic Training, AIT, then Overseas right away--missed the news on most of these folks at the time of their passing. So many played some kind of small role in my life growing up.
I remember Allan Jenkins as the voice of Officer Dibble in the Hanna Barbera cartoon Top Cat. And Otto Krueger appeared in one of my favorite films - High Noon.
They put Bob Kane’s picture on Bull Finger’s profile . Given the bitter history between the two of them over the creation of Batman it’s a disservice to Bill Finger’s memory.
Watching this for the first time and noticed that immediately. I've seen photos of them both, and the first thing I said was, "Why is Bob Kane in this? He was still alive when they made the Batman movie in 1989?"
I turned 15 in 1974, I remember hearing about Frank Sutton and Joe Flynn. After Walter Brennan and Jack Benny died, WGNO tv here in New Orleans started running the Jack Benny show followed by The Real McCoys late at night.
Tim Horton played 1554 games in 24 NHL seasons from 1950 to 1974 winning four Stanley Cups and although he was a tad under six feet tall and weighed under 200 pounds, former opponents had said he was the most tenacious and driven individual they ever faced. He would envelope opponents in a very strong bear hug. Another unrelated fact is that Walter Brennan won three of the first five Supporting Actor Oscars (1936, 1938, 1940)
He died 5 days before my 9th birthday, his hockey card became much in demands at school in the days after the crash . He was speeding and drunk in a high performance Ford Pantera mid engined sports car , notorious for its poor handling. His name still lives on here in Canada on the coffee shop restaurants that bear his name .
Vert Nice. Thanks for not using clone voice narration. The slide show format works extremely well and is not like fingernails on the chalkboard like cloned voices.👍
1-Billy DeWolfe, also starred on Good Morning World with Joby Baker, Goldie Hawn & Ronnie Schell. 2-Bobby Buntrock, also had a couple of guest roles on The Virginian after Hazel. Sad that we lost a great actor at 21 when his car veered off a bridge under construction at battle creek. Agnes Moorehead, also guest starred on The Twilight Zone and The Wild Wild West in Night of the Vicious Valentine. Cass Elliot, 32 years old. I was in my teens when she passed away. Walter Brennan, Guns of Will Sonnett. Richard Long, 77 Sunset Strip and guest starred on The Twilight Zone. Lost a lot of great actors that year. R.I.P. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE. STAY SAFE. GOD BLESS.
Richard Long also starred in the 77 Sunset Strip spin-off Bourbon Street Beat, as well as having a recurring role on the original Maverick as Gentleman Jack Darby.
Man, its hard to believe that is 50 years ago. Most of these folks I remember well, and remember when they died, although forgot the cause of their deaths. And we still don't have a true cure for cancer.
We all have our time here on the earth. It is short, just the flutter of a butterfly's wing. But what we make our time can last well into the future, if the generations that come remember you kindly.
That year I was 17. I would attest that, like hundreds of thousands of my contemporaries, I lost myself as well! A rather belated version of 'American Pie'.
I entered the world on January 14, 1974. I lost my mom on June 14, 2022 in the hospital because her breathing was bad. I lost my father on March 8, 1986 to a car hitting him at night while walking 2 miles from our house. I have a younger brother born June 17, 1978 who lives with me, we are disabled and have autism. A man has lived with us since early 1994.
Those Dam Cigarettes took So many Lives , Affecting the Lungs , Heart , Blood Pressure , Inoperable Tumers ext , when You Die from Cigarettes , You can Suffer Terribly, I think Everyone knows Someone from this era who Died from Cigarette Related Health Problems
Duke Ellington? Earl Warren? Ed Sullivan? Bud Abbott? Jack Benny? Seargeant Carter? I had no knowledge of these passings at the time, one of the biggest years in my life. No 'trending topics' back then.
It's difficult to believe that so many who died in 1974, were relatively young. And another thing that blows my mind, is that it was 50 years ago. I was 18 & graduated from high school on May 29, 1974!
I'm sorry but your reply makes absolutely no sense.
@@DISCOVEGASGUYhahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha
During the 70's, it was starting to be understood that cigarette smoking could cause lung cancer. However, many people before the 70's passed away from smoking due to not knowing this. As a result, you will find that many people in this video passed away this way.
It's almost strange, seeing many of these faces again after so many years. I was 13 in 1974, now in my 60s. And shocked to see Edward Platt committed suicide? Wow. Anyway, I love your videos. Thank you. 🙏
Thank you.
For years, I thought Ed Platt had died of a heart attack!
I was shocked also. Was very sad to see that.
I had also believed that Ed Platt had passed away from a heart attack until I watched this video. Apparently, it was one of his sons who revealed a few years ago that it was suicide.
I am surprised as well that it was suicide and not a heart attack. I have the complete Get Smart series on DVD.
I was 18 in 74 and remember losing these folks. Long time ago but sometimes seems like yesterday.
I was also 18 in 1974. Born in 1956. I had forgotten about losing some of these greats so early. Hard to believe 3 years later we would lose Elvis.
I was less than 1 in 1974. I entered the world on Jan 14, 1974.
@@robkrasinski6217 Then you were born on a Monday.
As am I
@@robkrasinski6217You are seven days older than I am.
My birthmom Sally died in March 1974. Her favorite song was "Satin Doll" by Duke Ellington. RIP Mom, I will always love you. ❤😢
It's sad to think that beginning with the passing of Bud Abbott, we lost four iconic comedians in just over twelve months. Bud Abbott passed away the last week of April 1974 followed by Jack Benny the last week of December. We then lost Larry Fine the last week of January 1975 and finally Moe Howard the first week of May. Legends lost in such a quick amount of time.
So hard to believe that it has been 50 years!
I watch all of those guys daily or weekly on MeTV or the other over the air TV channels across the US. Those old shows are better than what's on 90% of current cable or streaming today.
Did anyone throw a pie at Moe,when he was in his coffin?😁
He would have laughed if he knew that someone did.
@@dan-vv8gs or dig him up 6 months after his burial and try to pull his nose?
Moorehead was one of many people involved with the film “The Conqueror” who developed cancer which was attributed to radioactive fallout from open air testing in Utah. She was very open about her concern of being harmed.
I seen Agnes Moorehead in a episode of wild wild west she was great !💘🇺🇸📽️🎬🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️📺
I am 58 years old, and it is amazing how many of these people died at an earlier age than me. We should all be blessed on Christmas do you realize that we are still healthy and alive forget everything else at least we are still here.
I turned 57 this passed August and it really is kind of mind blowing how early a lot of them died, and for all their fame and money it couldn't buy them good health or freedom from circumstances.
@@bigreed43 Many of them died of lung cancer. People smoked multiple packs a day through their entire adult lives back then.
I'm a few years older and was having much the same thought. I've now outlived most of these folks we all loved so much as kids,and am now knocking on heavens door.
As a nostalgia buff, these videos are perhaps the most entertaining on this platform. It is my hope that you continue to expand on these and perhaps go further back in time. I am grateful for this important work.
Thank you. I have some great new stuff in the works. Stay tuned.
Crazy to think that as a kid growing up in the 70's, many of the people who I watched on daytime tv reruns were already dead, and many so young.
Many many folks died before reaching 70. Yes, some people did live into their 80s, a few into their 90s, but far less often than today.
I was a teenager in the '70s so I knew most of these, I was surprised to see how many died in their 50s
I was thinking the same. It makes sense why I never heard of some mighty talented and influential ppl in the 1980s and beyond. Gone way too soon.
Frank Sutton was SO good as Sergeant Carter on Gomer Pyle.
PYYYYLLLLE!!! Frank Suddon died when Gordon Lightfoot has his only #1 hit with Sundown.
I believe I read where Frank Sutton died on stage. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Frank Sutton died in his dressing room off stage .@@michaelwolf6424
I didn't know that Frank Suttton was gay either. But then again, A LOT of Hollywood and TV stars were gay or bi and just nobody talked about it.
@@michaelwolf6424 He was performing the night he died but he was in his dressing room.
it's ironic that Tex Ritter and John Ritter (his son and an amazing actor) both died from Disected Aortas
Inherited weakness in arterial walls
Yes, was thinking the same thing!
The year that I graduated from high school. 50th reunion coming up.
John Ritter was the heart and soul of Three's Company.
amazing i was just thinking the same thing as you.
Every time I watch Gomer Pyle, it makes me think of the comic strip Beetle Bailey, with Gomer being Beetle, and Sgt. Carter being Sgt. Snorkle.
Don't forget about Lou-Ann Poovey as Annie Fanny.😍
Jack Benny diagnosed with cancer Oct.74 died December 74,Hollywood was in shock!Terrible loss,what a shame!
Jack Benny was getting ready to play Al Lewis in the movie adaptation of The Sunshine Boys opposite Walter Matthau and had gone as far as doing a screen test. When he died, his good friend George Burns took over and ended up winning an Oscar
@@jennifersman7990nice bit of trivia. I didn’t know that.
He lived to be 80. And this was 50 years ago. Come on now.
@@EmilyTienne, he probably means= TRAGIC LOSS OF HIS TALENT..
@@EmilyTienne. I’m 70yo. Jack Benny was an absolute treasure. Class, skill and thought us the value in timing.
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I remember Billy De Wolfe as the voice of Professor Hinkle in Frosty The Snowman
"Naughty! Naughty! Naughty!"
👍
As I looked at the causes of so many deaths of the famous, especially in the sixties, I wonder how many were attributed to cigarettes!
I bet a lot of them had syphilis. 🤪
I was 14 in 1974 and lived in Spokane, WA, which was the location for Expo 74. Walter Brennan was supposed to be part of the folk portion of the fair in July or August. I had planned to go that day. But he canceled. I assumed at the time he was sick. I didn't go back to the Expo after that. And when I heard he had died on TV a few weeks later, it really bummed me out. RIP Walter Brennan.
I remember 1974, my first year in High School. I remember many of these people, RIP.
Tex and John Ritter died from the same issue Aortic Dessention
I was just thinking the samething...father and son ..that's crazy and I don't even think it's something that you could diagnose it just happens...
I was sick back around Christmas. I passed the time by listening to several Jack Benny Radio Program Christmas shows that I found here on UA-cam. They were a lot of fun, especially the shopping episodes with Mel Blanc as a store clerk.
It’s sad to see a good majority of these people died in their 50’s and 60’s, and only a few died in their 80’s
Not positive, but back then if you made it past 70, you lived a long time.
@@jondstewartNot really.
@@johnp139 I just looked it up, it was 68 back then. Today if you don’t make it to at least 80, your life got cut short early.
And remember the movie Airplane? That old lady that sat next to Ted Striker? An actress named Ann Nelson. She was only 63 in it. Yes we are aging differently now!
@@jondstewart And I am 68! It kind of shakes you to know that not that long ago, you stood a 50 - 50 chance of not seeing tomorrow once you were past your mid 60s.
I didn't know Chief O'Hara's first name was Clancy. In fact, I never even thought about what his full name was before seeing this video.
I read a story on the Internet that Stafford Repp (best known as "Chief O'Hara" on the 1960s TV show "Batman") suffered his fatal heart attack when he was at a racetrack. 😢
Agnes Moorehead was also in many movies. She did an excellent job in the Humphrey Bogart movie "Dark Passage".
@𝑫𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒔1888 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒔' 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 "𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏𝒏𝒚 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒂" 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏'𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒐. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒐𝒏.
Very well done. I loved that you are giving the sound bits and mini bios, causes of death and dates. Doing these by each year is brilliant. I am enjoying these. Please do more of these! Especially the seventies!
Thank you for those kind words. Next one up will be 2023. Then we will continue with the 70s.
0:15 - Interesting... John Ritter also died of an aortic dissection, same as his dad, Tex... If I were Jason Ritter, I'd be worried.
Beautiful tributes to many great talents. May they RIP. TY for sharing this. God Bless You & stay safe.
Tim Horton started a coffee shop to have income after he retired from hockey. If he only knew how big his little shop would become.
He was also killed while DUI......
His business partner basically stole the franchise from Horton's spouse, gave her like a million for her share of it.
I loved Jack Benny a great actor he was the greatest comedian ever
True story when George Burns was at Jack Benny’s funeral, he was beyond grief-stricken and shell-shocked as he could only muster “He was my best friend for 50 years…”
Karen Silkwood and Buford Pusser they say we're car accidents but we who lived through that Era know they were murdered. Thanks for such a wonderful tribute to all these talented stars. I was 11 in 1974. Brings back many memories. I had no idea the guy from Get Smart committed suicide. So sad.
Pusser was drunk when his corvette left the highway and threw him from the car. Several law inforcement agencies and private companies investigated and declared no foul play was involved.
@@charleskeller7452 But it WAS foul play with Karen Silkwood.
Can anyone imagine what a modern-day take on the Valley of the Dolls novel might be like 60 years later? And how much does the original still hold true?
Before Jackie Collins, there was Jackie Susanne. I had read Valley of the Dolls, the Love Machine, Once is Not Enough. Sure it wasn't "real literature" and really just trash, but they were delicious guilty pleasures. And as a kid, it kept me reading, and reading, and reading.
A modern take on VOTD wouldn’t raise any eyebrows because the story gets played out every day in gossip columns and on TMZ
Didn’t Tex Ritter’s son John die of the same thing?
Yes! I was about to post the same thing. Apparently it can be hereditary.
Grandson, yes
Yep!
I didnt know the Chief died by suicide. Thats sad. I always enjoyed his frought relationship with Maxwell Smart in the show. Chief also did a nice turn as Roger Thornhill's lawyer in North By Northwest.
Slight correction. Jack Benny was 39.
I'm surprised at how many died so young. Here I am at 78, feeling like I am defying the odds.
I hear you. I'm 73 and chasing you.. Don't let me catch up to you.😊
This really captivated me. I turned 16 that year and remember the deaths of Jack Benny, Dizzy Dean and Cass Elliot particularly clearly.
Anybody notice how so many of The Greatest Generation died so young from heart disease, cancer and emphysema - smoking and poor diet? Today we’re all on cholesterol and blood pressure medicines and have stayed away from cigarettes.
This is true. When I was growing up, practically everyone smoked. My father smoked & I did, too. Next yr, will be 20yrs since to stopped smoking. My poor father wasn't so lucky. He died in 1982, at age 66. I just celebrated my 64th bday, on the 19th of this month. His bday was 2 days b4 mine. He would've been 108. Maybe if he'd quit, he might've made it to maybe 80 or 85. Who knows, how old. In those days, we ate & drank whatever we wanted. And along with predisposed health issues, that's what took ppl away from their loved ones so young.🕊🪽
Whoa! I just posted that myself! Great minds...
You are all correct except that smoking cigarettes has been replaced by crack and coke. Not sure that's a good trade....
Man, that's an understatement and good observation! @@bobwhite9670
@@bobwhite9670not really. Second hand smoke is real. Very few people get affected by second hand crack.
Many were so young, as I am now 66, where did the time go. So many died of cancer or heart attacks, you never know when or what.
Gig Young was suffering severe depression, in murder, suicide of newlywed..wife. Very tragic..
My best memory of Walter Brennan is the song he recorded " Old Rivers ". I still have the LP my parents played for us kids growing up.
Good riddance to bad rubbish…one hatefully evil person.
I just subscribed to your service and am looking forward to many more retro years of famous people.
Excellent job! 🎉
Thank you very much!
It doesn't mention it here but Richard Long was also on "Bourbon Street Beat".
The term "accidental drug overdose" is just stupid. You took the drug you took the risk. It's like saying I was playing Russian roulette and accidentally killed myself. Although you wouldn't be able to say it like that because you would be dead.
I WAS 13 IN 1974 IT WAS A GOOD TIME TO GROW UP THE 70S . DAMM CANCER AND DRUGS . TO ALL OF YOU THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES . REST IN HEAVENLY PEACE TO EVERYONE AMEN.
I’ve watched many of your presentations. Remembering (and discovering some I had not previously known of) these people and the impact they had in the world and to me personally has been very enjoyable. I also love the quotes at the end. Thank you for your inspired work 💖!!
Thank you. That was very nice of you to say.
Reminiscing on the year 1974, we pay tribute to the iconic figures who left an indelible mark on our hearts. In Memoriam 1974: Famous Faces We Lost in 1974 is a poignant reflection on the enduring legacies of those we continue to remember and cherish
The good thing is you can still enjoy them on their TV shows or movies..
This is odd I just came across this my mother died in August of 1974 when she was 52 years old. I was 13, that was 50 years ago this August. Maybe i should go visit her grave this August.
Rest in Peace Mama Cass. She was a great musician. In our opinion.
Yes She Was.
A lot of people on this list had passed away from heart attacks.
Lots of smoking and drinking back then@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc
One of my favorite songs
I’m glad Cass Elliot’s cause of death was correctly listed. For years people hit a cruel laugh believing she died of a ham sandwich when in fact it was a heart attack brought on by undiagnosed heart disease. The “ham sandwich” diagnosis came about because an unfinished sandwich was found beside her bed.
Mama Cass Elliot died on the same day that Neil Peart became the new drummer for Canada’s premier rock trio RUSH July 29, 1974
Stunning that though I was only 14 in '74 so many of these people left a lasting impression on me as a kid. Glad to have grown up at a time when I had such adults above me.
People looked older for their age back then
They had to work very hard to earn money. They drank and smoked after to enjoy the fruits of their labor.
I’m 72 now, so I was a young adult when these celebrities died. It’s funny but I used to say that my mom’s generation looked old for their age. It must be they had hairstyles and clothes we associated with the elderly. I didn’t smoke or live a wild life in the 70’s. And I worked harder in my pre-retirement years than I did in the 1970’s. It wasn’t the era of the Depression.
Many, yes.
Many will not know their names but without the work of many of these people life today wouldn't be quite the same.
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These people lived in a time before computers, before digital technology. Would they even recognise the world today? Would they like it or would they be appalled?
I'm living now and I'm appalled by the world today as are many more surely.
I'm sure if they wished they were alive again, they'd be happy they're back above ground. But may not like what the degenerate society has done to civilization. Then they'd probably be thinking "be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it!!"
Amen to that sentiment.
I often state that our Founding Fathers would say two things. Wow, look what you've done! Followed by, what the hell are you doing!? :(
They would be appalled at the Mass Homelessness and the destruction of the Labor Movement. They would be appalled that the average person nowadays in this country is NOT enjoying the highest standard of living for average people in the world, or even the second highest.
Thanks for this---I went into the Army in 74' Basic Training, AIT, then Overseas right away--missed the news on most of these folks at the time of their passing. So many played some kind of small role in my life growing up.
Otto Kruger and Allan Jenkins were a couple of memorable actors who died that year...
I remember Allan Jenkins as the voice of Officer Dibble in the Hanna Barbera cartoon Top Cat. And Otto Krueger appeared in one of my favorite films - High Noon.
Surprised Christine Chubbuck was not mentioned
Would have been a interesting entry.
They put Bob Kane’s picture on Bull Finger’s profile . Given the bitter history between the two of them over the creation of Batman it’s a disservice to Bill Finger’s memory.
Bob Kane "almost" got away with the sole creator of Batman.
Watching this for the first time and noticed that immediately. I've seen photos of them both, and the first thing I said was, "Why is Bob Kane in this? He was still alive when they made the Batman movie in 1989?"
@@michaelwolf6424 he got away during Bill Finger’s lifetime. Which is sad.
Frank Sutton was also in the film, "Marty", where he was always looking for single girls at dance halls.
Nice tribute. Yes so many folks died way too young.
They were vibrant as we saw them, but alas we are all merely mortals.
I turned 15 in 1974, I remember hearing about Frank Sutton and Joe Flynn. After Walter Brennan and Jack Benny died, WGNO tv here in New Orleans started running the Jack Benny show followed by The Real McCoys late at night.
Thank you to the "Greatest Generation" for not only saving the world but also for making incredible art, music, cinema.....
Tim Horton played 1554 games in 24 NHL seasons from 1950 to 1974 winning four Stanley Cups and although he was a tad under six feet tall and weighed under 200 pounds, former opponents had said he was the most tenacious and driven individual they ever faced. He would envelope opponents in a very strong bear hug. Another unrelated fact is that Walter Brennan won three of the first five Supporting Actor Oscars (1936, 1938, 1940)
He died 5 days before my 9th birthday, his hockey card became much in demands at school in the days after the crash . He was speeding and drunk in a high performance Ford Pantera mid engined sports car , notorious for its poor handling. His name still lives on here in Canada on the coffee shop restaurants that bear his name .
Vert Nice. Thanks for not using clone voice narration. The slide show format works extremely well and is not like fingernails on the chalkboard like cloned voices.👍
Glad you like it!
At least this one includes Tex Ritter, one of my favorite songs from him is Rye Whiskey
Wow I don’t remember Lindbergh dying when I was a teen. You think they would have had specials on TV about him.
1-Billy DeWolfe, also starred on Good Morning World with Joby Baker, Goldie Hawn & Ronnie Schell.
2-Bobby Buntrock, also had a couple of guest roles on The Virginian after Hazel. Sad that we lost a great actor at 21 when his car veered off a bridge under construction at battle creek.
Agnes Moorehead, also guest starred on The Twilight Zone and The Wild Wild West in Night of the Vicious Valentine.
Cass Elliot, 32 years old. I was in my teens when she passed away.
Walter Brennan, Guns of Will Sonnett.
Richard Long, 77 Sunset Strip and guest starred on The Twilight Zone.
Lost a lot of great actors that year.
R.I.P. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE. STAY SAFE. GOD BLESS.
Billy De Wolfe was also the voice of Professor Hinkle the magician in the Rankin-Bass animated holiday special Frosty the Snowman.
Richard Long also starred in the 77 Sunset Strip spin-off Bourbon Street Beat, as well as having a recurring role on the original Maverick as Gentleman Jack Darby.
Richard Long also played Marjorie Main’s and Percy Kilbride’s eldest son in the Ma and Pa Kettle films.
I'm surprised Johnny Mack Brown wasn't mentioned in this the The cowboy hero of hollywood's golden age.
Turned 9 yo that year. Hard to believe it's been almost 50 years now since these great people left us.
You old son of a ….. Nevermind!… I’m that age too!??😳
Endora, Sargent Carter and Chief of Control. Loved those characters.
Man, its hard to believe that is 50 years ago. Most of these folks I remember well, and remember when they died, although forgot the cause of their deaths. And we still don't have a true cure for cancer.
Ms.Susan was also a regular on the Dumount TV network version of"The Morey Amserdam Show"in the late 1940's.
I was born in April 1974 almost fifty years old now ❤
We all have our time here on the earth. It is short, just the flutter of a butterfly's wing.
But what we make our time can last well into the future, if the generations that come remember you kindly.
That year I was 17. I would attest that, like hundreds of thousands of my contemporaries, I lost myself as well! A rather belated version of 'American Pie'.
We lost Sergeant Carter , Captain Binghamton , and
the Chief of Control all in
the same year.
Wow. All those big actors.
I entered the world on January 14, 1974. I lost my mom on June 14, 2022 in the hospital because her breathing was bad. I lost my father on March 8, 1986 to a car hitting him at night while walking 2 miles from our house. I have a younger brother born June 17, 1978 who lives with me, we are disabled and have autism. A man has lived with us since early 1994.
The Bill Finger entry has the wrong picture. The person pictured is co-creator of Batman - Bob Kane.
Wow I feel so old watching this kinda stuff. Makes me sad.
Very informative,yet sad.
All of the truly great ones are now gone. It's not only sad, it's a tragedy.
I hate to be that guy but you showed a picture of Bob Kane not Bill Finger. Finger and Kane were the co creaters.
Thank you for that correction.
Thank you for the amazing videos.
50 years ago. Seems like yesterday
These people are part of the fabric of my life. Sad to say but passing on is inevitable for us all.
I was only 15 years old...and to this day I never forget any of these great legends...
Those Dam Cigarettes took So many Lives , Affecting the Lungs , Heart , Blood Pressure , Inoperable Tumers ext , when You Die from Cigarettes , You can Suffer Terribly,
I think Everyone knows Someone from this era who Died from Cigarette Related Health Problems
And yet many more smoked and lived long lives.
Smoking was the legacy of early deaths for so many.
I will ALWAYS love Jack Benny!
Although not famous my father died in Nov of 1974 at the age of 53. I was 8 at the time. We were vacationing at Reds Fish Camp in Fl.
I graduated high school that year....
Duke Ellington? Earl Warren? Ed Sullivan? Bud Abbott? Jack Benny? Seargeant Carter? I had no knowledge of these passings at the time, one of the biggest years in my life. No 'trending topics' back then.
Kinda weird that this popped up on my feed since I was born in 1974.
Anne Klein was so pretty!
❤🎉 Rest in Paradise All. Brought joy to viewers followers.
Tex Ritter's son, John Ritter, died of same thing 3 decades later.
Thank you for the videos. Any chance to put up the birth dates too?
Ed Platt was also the host of a local kids tv show"Uncle Ed's Birthday Party'.
It’s only when you a see a video like this that you realize how many greats died in one year
Excellent - Respectful...
Many thanks!
I was born in 1974, never knew the ones that passed the same year.❤
Great job Vince!
Thank you very much.