Even sadder with Allen Ludden's death was that Jack Clark longtime Password announcer also died in 1988 from bone cancer. He was 62 as was Ludden first GE College Bowl host. (Clark also hosted some Password segments.) He too should have been mentioned!
I remembet him from College Bowl, the quiz show that would pit four students each from two diiferent colleges in a battle of trivia to see who could win the most scholarship money for their schools. A lot of the schools were small or regional schools that many people had not heard of and that sometimes led to an increase of interest in those schools because these college kids were really intelligent and the questions were a lot deeper than the usual trivia shows.
Beulah Bondi also played Martha Corrine on The Waltons, Richard Boone played Hec Ramsey, and Gloria Grahame played Violet Bick in It's a Wonderful Life.
Didn't Jim Davis play the leading man opposite Bette Davis in a movie from the late 1940's? He had dark hair back then and looked very different back then - was handsome in his youth.
@@victorcorners5594 I'm not really familiar with his film career but yes he did have dark hair when he was young so your question is most likely correct.
Except not as many people smoke or least not heavily as actors did in Golden Age era of Hollywood like Humphrey Bogart for instance smoked 3-4 packs a day of unfiltered cigarettes along with heavy drinking leading to his death at age 57 in 1957 of esophageal cancer. Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, John Wayne, Errol Flynn all died relatively young from years of smoking, drinking or both or in Judy Garland was addicted to alcohol and drugs leading to her death from barbiturate overdose in 1969. John Wayne’s death from cancer from the radiation from a film set near a bomb testing site and led to his and several co stars and even the directors death from cancer but Wayne’s 3-4 pack a day smoking habit for over 30 years didn’t help.
This one really took me back. I was a sophomore in college and we were discussing the recent death of Harry Chapin, another student remarked something about there being a lot of famous deaths this year. Our professor said it only seemed that way because we were becoming adults and realizing our own mortality. I don't know why, but that really stuck with me. Anyway, another sad but wonderful watch. Thank you.
Jenny Maxwell - murdered 6-10-1981. Best remembered for her role in 'Blue Hawaii' (1961) with Elvis Presley. Appeared in a number of television series including 'The Twilight Zone', 'Route 66', 'My Three Sons', among others.
I was 17 years old in 1981. Even though Natalie Wood's death was tragic, I remember feeling at the time like she'd lived a full life but she really didn't. She was only 43 when she passed. I guess to a 17 year old, that seemed like a full life but it's actually tragically short. May she R.I.P.
I had just turned 15 when Natalie Wood had died tragically that way. I remember it well to this day even in 2024. My memory is very good and I can recall days even in Kindergarten and before that as a baby.
Yes, and his father became an advocate for missing and murdered children ever since. I remember it well. The next one to "hit me" like this was Polly Klaas in the early '90s.
Ross Martin had a major heart attack in the 1960s, causing him to miss several episodes of "The Wild, Wild West." He was told to be careful with his heart for the rest of his life. On July 3, 1981, he was playing tennis 🎾 on an extremely hot day where the temperature was over 100 degrees!! He had a major heart attack and he died. He was a fantastic actor and he was a gifted 🎻 violinist! He also loved reading and studying Shakespeare.
Jack Albertson had a small part as a postal worker in "Miracle on 34th Street." It's ironic that Natalie Wood, who played the young girl Susan in the same movie, only outlived Albertson by four days.
Jeez between the actors directors, great musicians of rock and pop music, TV personalities, and world leaders, the world really took a hit in 1981. Too many good people who gave so much and still had more to offer left us too soon.
I'm not going to lie, you have such a diverse group of people here, I was very surprised to not see Albert Speer. He died on September 1st-42 years to the day that Germany invaded Poland.
Omar Bradley was the last 5 star general. Willima Holden was such a good actor, his world weary, cynical and tired characters were always so memorable. Love is A Many Splendired Thing and Sunset Boulevard. Lotte Lenya sang a haunting version of Mack the Knife, an almost nightmarish evocation of Weimar Berlin in the post WWI years when hyper inflation raged and life was surreal before the Nazis came to power. Her portrayal as the knife shoe wielding, latent lesbian Rosa Klebb in From Russia with Love was so good.
I had the pleasure of meeting him in 1979, in El Paso, TX, Ft. Bliss, my dad graduated from the Sargent Majors Academy, Omar was there & I got to meet him & shake his hand, I'll never forget that day!👍✌️
That’s right Bernard Lee set the tone for future M actors being the first to play the character from Dr No in 1962 until Moonraker in 1979 when couldn’t return for For Your Eyes Only as was set to reprise his role and script was changed out of respect for Lee writing in that M was on leave rather than recast the part for the film.
Oh yes, the original Mack the Knife. Lottie Lenya sang it in the most spooky manner, evoking automatons dancing in a bizarre circus. It actually sounds much more like the Weimar Republic days of out of control inflation and nightmarish sexual behavior.
The 3 actors took me back to age 8 was a tradition to watch every year till this day now, was White Christmas, Miricle on 34th St and West side story, were Vera Ellen, Natalie Wood and Rosemary Clooney. RIP.
A very strange coincidence occurred just before this video played: UA-cam saw fit to air a commercial, and the song in the commercial was "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley. Live on in Jah, Robert Nestor Marley.
Here we are folks, 2024, and I’ve been reading deaths of famous people. AND guess what? They still haven’t found a cure for HEART FAILURE AND CANCER !!!!!!!!!
I loved Natalie Wood from afar. I just thought she was the most beautiful woman in the World. Silly teenaged crush, but I saw her in The Big Race and became enamored. Was saddened to hear of her death at a place we used to anchor at on fishing trips. Didn't add up.
You Forgot Jazz Drummer William Randolph " COZY " Cole . His Big Hit TOPSY Part 2 Reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 , Number One on the Rhythm & Blues Charts. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
It was later found that Harry Chaplin suffered a heart attack while driving on the Long Island Expressway which led to his colliding with a tractor trailer truck and exploding
Hard to believe that the Platters had a Namesake Singer for the renowned and VERY idiosyncratic Director David Lynch. Since David Lynch the Director titled one of his Movies "Blue Velvet" after an equally mellow Bobby Vinton Song.🤔😉🎤📻🎼🎵🎶🎸🎹🎷🥁🎥B.W.
Robert Moses is the one who refused to let Walter O'Malley build a new ballpark in Brooklyn that would have housed the Dodgers starting in 1960 after moving out of Ebbets Field. Because of that O'Malley moved the team to Los Angeles for the 1958 season, and taking the New York Giants with him.
you forgot someone i was hoping you'd put on the list, but tbh, he's the kinda person i despize, Fredric Wurthum was the kind of person who sees one thing that looks mildly suggestive and then flips out until he can campaign it dead and burried, people like him are the biggest obsticles of creative freedom, and anyone against ANY kind of freedom (well aside from freedom to kill and hurt people) need to be silent and keep their "opinions" do them selves
Natalie Wood starred opposite John Wayne charchter Ethan Edwards as his niece Deboroah Edwards in the searchers and Jim Davis starred opposite John Wayne in the movie El Dorado as a hired gunslinger with Christopher George who John Wayne both killed in that movie which also started a very young James Cann as the charchter Mississippi in 1966 love Anthony Fed ex lol
The Year I was Introduced to the Munsters and The Addams Family. Bob Marley Died the day That Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats became Known as The Mega Musical CATS. Actress Kelly Monaco was 5 when George Jessel died. Oh Adam Walsh, The son of John Walsh and The reason why we have Code Adam. Bill Holden was also in Damien: Omen II (1978), where he Played Richard Thorn, Damien Thorn's Uncle. The Drowning of Natalie Wood.
The Natalie Wood mystery was finally solved recently when a recording of her leaving the boat was discovered. She told Robert Wagner that she felt dirty and she wanted to wash up ashore. Too soon?
@@lynettepalecek3141 To this day I still have an autographed photo of those from when I wrote a letter back in 1971 and it was in my mailbox a few weeks later. It was in color and it was taken in 1966 from the 1st Season.
@@bruce8808 Wow! Lucky you!! I'm sure that you treasure that photograph 📸 and you have it well protected. Do you have it on display for everyone to see?
Adam Walsh: murdered/sacrificed by his father John according to his sister Meghan Walsh. John in turn has had Meghan arrested and he took custody of her children
Acting like _you_ were the one to decide who is worthy of being commemorated or not, based on their respective cause of death, makes _you_ the idiot in here. Guess what, they say "all people are equal in death", so you will be equal to all these "idiots" who "threw away the gift of life" one day.
Even sadder with Allen Ludden's death was that Jack Clark longtime Password announcer also died in 1988 from bone cancer. He was 62 as was Ludden first GE College Bowl host. (Clark also hosted some Password segments.) He too should have been mentioned!
Allen Ludden from Password. What memories that brings back from when I was a kid.
I remembet him from College Bowl, the quiz show that would pit four students each from two diiferent colleges in a battle of trivia to see who could win the most scholarship money for their schools. A lot of the schools were small or regional schools that many people had not heard of and that sometimes led to an increase of interest in those schools because these college kids were really intelligent and the questions were a lot deeper than the usual trivia shows.
Allen Ludden- Password for years, other game shows, singer, actor, author, class act!
How time flies by. I can hardly believe it's been so long ago that these people died. I'm 78 and I'm taken aback by these memorials.
Beulah Bondi also played Martha Corrine on The Waltons, Richard Boone played Hec Ramsey, and Gloria Grahame played Violet Bick in It's a Wonderful Life.
You forgot Jim Davis, Western Movie actor and played Jock Ewing on Dallas. Aged 71 or 72(Brain Cancer)
Yes, you are right. A "Father" of Bobby and JR Ewings. A real actor of Hollywood "Golden age".
I'm sure, if we're being pedantic, they forgot hundreds of people.
Didn't Jim Davis play the leading man opposite Bette Davis in a movie from the late 1940's? He had dark hair back then and looked very different back then - was handsome in his youth.
@@victorcorners5594 I'm not really familiar with his film career but yes he did have dark hair when he was young so your question is most likely correct.
I'm assuming that you're talking about Jim Davis who was the creator of the cartoon cat "Garfield." I liked Garfield a lot. He was so funny. 😂
People are still passing from the same things all these years later.
Except not as many people smoke or least not heavily as actors did in Golden Age era of Hollywood like Humphrey Bogart for instance smoked 3-4 packs a day of unfiltered cigarettes along with heavy drinking leading to his death at age 57 in 1957 of esophageal cancer. Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, John Wayne, Errol Flynn all died relatively young from years of smoking, drinking or both or in Judy Garland was addicted to alcohol and drugs leading to her death from barbiturate overdose in 1969. John Wayne’s death from cancer from the radiation from a film set near a bomb testing site and led to his and several co stars and even the directors death from cancer but Wayne’s 3-4 pack a day smoking habit for over 30 years didn’t help.
But generally at a much higher age
Unless you count Covid.
The Wild Wild West was one of the best shows ever for a kid I was 4 when it came out.
After seeing this, 1981 seems to just happened yesterday with tomorrow being the future. Brings back memories of youth and dreams for tomorrow
This one really took me back. I was a sophomore in college and we were discussing the recent death of Harry Chapin, another student remarked something about there being a lot of famous deaths this year. Our professor said it only seemed that way because we were becoming adults and realizing our own mortality. I don't know why, but that really stuck with me. Anyway, another sad but wonderful watch. Thank you.
I'm a fan of Harry Chapin,he had alot of great songs including his biggest hit The Cats In The Cradle ! I still enjoy his music .
RIP to all these great talents. TY for sharing this video. It was beautifully done. God Bless You & stay safe.
Vera Ellen was more than an actress, she was the best all around dancer in Hollywood. She could do it all - jazz, ballet, soft shoe. She was amazing
Jenny Maxwell - murdered 6-10-1981. Best remembered for her role in 'Blue Hawaii' (1961) with Elvis Presley. Appeared in a number of television series including 'The Twilight Zone', 'Route 66', 'My Three Sons', among others.
I was 17 years old in 1981. Even though Natalie Wood's death was tragic, I remember feeling at the time like she'd lived a full life but she really didn't. She was only 43 when she passed. I guess to a 17 year old, that seemed like a full life but it's actually tragically short. May she R.I.P.
We're the same age!
I was 19 and 43 years old was old people for our perspective life time ;)
I had just turned 15 when Natalie Wood had died tragically that way. I remember it well to this day even in 2024. My memory is very good and I can recall days even in Kindergarten and before that as a baby.
you left us too soon bob marley and harry chapin way too soon
I remember back in 81 when Adam Walsh went missing and eventually found his body so sad
Yes, and his father became an advocate for missing and murdered children ever since. I remember it well. The next one to "hit me" like this was Polly Klaas in the early '90s.
Slightly off-topic: How far back in time will you go with this series?
In any case, you're doing a wonderful job here! These tributes are wonderful!
Thanks for the nice words. I plan to go back to at least 1969. After that, I'll have to see.
@@inmemoriam2000that would be great!!
Yes a wonderful job, I am taken aback at how young some of these stars were that I grew up with.
@@inmemoriam2000Please start at 1968 with Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Thank you.🙏
@@inmemoriam2000 You should go back to as far as the 1920s, 30s, 40s. Just my thoughts. You're doing a great job on these Vince!
Ross Martin had a major heart attack in the 1960s, causing him to miss several episodes of "The Wild, Wild West." He was told to be careful with his heart for the rest of his life. On July 3, 1981, he was playing tennis 🎾 on an extremely hot day where the temperature was over 100 degrees!! He had a major heart attack and he died. He was a fantastic actor and he was a gifted 🎻 violinist! He also loved reading and studying Shakespeare.
He was great in Suitable For Framing, an early Columbo episode.
@@kazamshah4543Yes, I agree. That episode was in the first season. I have the entire first season of "Columbo" on dvds 📀.
Beulah Bondi also played Martha Corinne on The Waltons
Her last role.
Thank you. I knew the name but couldn't place it. MC was a tough old broad.
I love the Harry Warren song I know Why and So Do You
Bernard Lee who played M in the first 11 James Bond films from Dr No to Moonraker before his death in 1981 at age 73 from stomach cancer.
Jack Albertson had a small part as a postal worker in "Miracle on 34th Street." It's ironic that Natalie Wood, who played the young girl Susan in the same movie, only outlived Albertson by four days.
R.I.P. Alan Ludden.
And now, Alan's beloved wife, Betty White. RIP Betty, you're reunited with Alan, the love of your life.
Jeez between the actors directors, great musicians of rock and pop music, TV personalities, and world leaders, the world really took a hit in 1981. Too many good people who gave so much and still had more to offer left us too soon.
Divine...truly heartfelt.
I'm not going to lie, you have such a diverse group of people here, I was very surprised to not see Albert Speer. He died on September 1st-42 years to the day that Germany invaded Poland.
What about Harriet Widmer? She starred on Amos & Andy, and was the face of Aunt Jemima.
Styime also played Otis on Sanford and son.
Omar Bradley was the last 5 star general. Willima Holden was such a good actor, his world weary, cynical and tired characters were always so memorable. Love is A Many Splendired Thing and Sunset Boulevard. Lotte Lenya sang a haunting version of Mack the Knife, an almost nightmarish evocation of Weimar Berlin in the post WWI years when hyper inflation raged and life was surreal before the Nazis came to power. Her portrayal as the knife shoe wielding, latent lesbian Rosa Klebb in From Russia with Love was so good.
I had the pleasure of meeting him in 1979, in El Paso, TX, Ft. Bliss, my dad graduated from the Sargent Majors Academy, Omar was there & I got to meet him & shake his hand, I'll never forget that day!👍✌️
And yes, he was the only living 5 Star General at the time, WOW! That's history right there👍✌️
Muita gente sempre deixando saudades enormes. Uma saudade tremenda deste ano.
You left out Bernard Lee, who was the first actor to portray James Bond's boss M on screen. He died from stomach cancer on January 16, 1981.
That’s right Bernard Lee set the tone for future M actors being the first to play the character from Dr No in 1962 until Moonraker in 1979 when couldn’t return for For Your Eyes Only as was set to reprise his role and script was changed out of respect for Lee writing in that M was on leave rather than recast the part for the film.
Can't believe you didn't mention 3 Penny Opera for Lottie Lenya aka Mack the Knife 🤨
Oh yes, the original Mack the Knife. Lottie Lenya sang it in the most spooky manner, evoking automatons dancing in a bizarre circus. It actually sounds much more like the Weimar Republic days of out of control inflation and nightmarish sexual behavior.
The 3 actors took me back to age 8 was a tradition to watch every year till this day now, was White Christmas, Miricle on 34th St and West side story, were Vera Ellen, Natalie Wood and Rosemary Clooney. RIP.
Rest in Jah Bob Marley 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🙏🏾🙏🏾👊🏾
A very strange coincidence occurred just before this video played: UA-cam saw fit to air a commercial, and the song in the commercial was "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley. Live on in Jah, Robert Nestor Marley.
RIP angels
Richard boone was the voice of smaug in the 1977 film the hobbit
Rest up Joe Louis 🥊🙏🏾🙏🏾
Richard Boone was also in one of my favorite movies named Hombre starring Paul Newman.
Actor Pat Conway, star of 1950's western Tombstone Territory died April 24, 1981 at age 50.
Thank you for that information.
That was a good catch Spring. Good Ol' Sheriff Clay Hollister 👍.
Great show and actor
Here we are folks, 2024, and I’ve been reading deaths of famous people. AND guess what? They still haven’t found a cure for HEART FAILURE AND CANCER !!!!!!!!!
I loved Natalie Wood from afar. I just thought she was the most beautiful woman in the World. Silly teenaged crush, but I saw her in The Big Race and became enamored.
Was saddened to hear of her death at a place we used to anchor at on fishing trips. Didn't add up.
You Forgot Jazz Drummer William Randolph " COZY " Cole . His Big Hit TOPSY Part 2 Reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 , Number One on the Rhythm & Blues Charts.
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
You didnt mention allan ludden was married to betty white
With us eternally
2:11 !!wow!! that arena (now torn down) must've been named after him.
Also RIP Roy Brown, who wrote and originally recorded "Good Rockin' Tonight," which Elvis Presley later covered.
Ross Martin was on the show Mr Lucky
It was later found that Harry Chaplin suffered a heart attack while driving on the Long Island Expressway which led to his colliding with a tractor trailer truck and exploding
Wow, Betty White outlived her husband by 40 years.
What about Frank DeKova "F Troop" 's Chief Wild Eagle?
Most tragic deaths of 1981 in my opinion are Bob Marley and Nathalie Wood
Stymie was my favorite "Little Rascal"!
I remember watching the news when Natalie Wood drowned
REST IN HEAVENLY PARADISE EVERYONE.
4:13 that's where the #codeadam came from?
Hard to believe that the Platters had a Namesake Singer for the renowned and VERY idiosyncratic Director David Lynch. Since David Lynch the Director titled one of his Movies "Blue Velvet" after an equally mellow Bobby Vinton Song.🤔😉🎤📻🎼🎵🎶🎸🎹🎷🥁🎥B.W.
You didnt mention gloria graham was in its a wonderful life
And was absolutely beautiful.
Robert Moses is the one who refused to let Walter O'Malley build a new ballpark in Brooklyn that would have housed the Dodgers starting in 1960 after moving out of Ebbets Field. Because of that O'Malley moved the team to Los Angeles for the 1958 season, and taking the New York Giants with him.
Legends!
I Love the song Stardust
you forgot someone i was hoping you'd put on the list, but tbh, he's the kinda person i despize, Fredric Wurthum was the kind of person who sees one thing that looks mildly suggestive and then flips out until he can campaign it dead and burried, people like him are the biggest obsticles of creative freedom, and anyone against ANY kind of freedom (well aside from freedom to kill and hurt people) need to be silent and keep their "opinions" do them selves
Vera Ellen was so pretty and so was Gloria Graham and the other pretty girls!
❤God rest their souls ❤
What happened to Natalie Wood will always have doubts & questions
Was my last year stationed in West Germany
I nearly died this year. So this one was quite poignant. 😢
Natalie Wood starred opposite John Wayne charchter Ethan Edwards as his niece Deboroah Edwards in the searchers and Jim Davis starred opposite John Wayne in the movie El Dorado as a hired gunslinger with Christopher George who John Wayne both killed in that movie which also started a very young James Cann as the charchter Mississippi in 1966 love Anthony Fed ex lol
Geez the ole' "speedball" is a common cause of death.
can you do historical figures
8:11 awesome and interesting about the person who was behind #knottsberryfarms.
I was born on July 18,1981.
Jack albertson was the voice of amos slade in the fox and the hound
Great Actor!! He was in a horror movie in the '80s called DEAD and BURIED. Wow, what an actor. Loved him in Willy Wonka and The Poseidon Adventure!
Everybody passed by one day
RIP: actor Arthur O'Connell,.....nominated for an Academy Award 2 times....
The Year I was Introduced to the Munsters and The Addams Family. Bob Marley Died the day That Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats became Known as The Mega Musical CATS. Actress Kelly Monaco was 5 when George Jessel died. Oh Adam Walsh, The son of John Walsh and The reason why we have Code Adam. Bill Holden was also in Damien: Omen II (1978), where he Played Richard Thorn, Damien Thorn's Uncle. The Drowning of Natalie Wood.
And now the President of the United States - - Hoobert Heever :)
You should re-edit this for the proper description on Adam Walsh. There's no reason for that kind of sanitation.
The Natalie Wood mystery was finally solved recently when a recording of her leaving the boat was discovered. She told Robert Wagner that she felt dirty and she wanted to wash up ashore.
Too soon?
You forgot to add Jim Davis of Dallas
Gone too Raoul Walsh gifted director of fine war dramas westerns and crime dramas like White Heat.
Wow I was born that year
Me too
I remember watching on t.v. his assassination,
Steve Currie died the day i was born. 4/28/1981
Georges Brassens 29 /10/1981
You forgot BELCH😊
The year of my birth!
Same!
1983- that's mine)
I was only 1 year old in 1981.
@@jasonpalacios2705 you were born at the year of Moscow Olympic games) 1980
@@victorcorners5594 Yes I was born in 1980 when that event happened but actually I was born in June in that year.
Too fast cant read
I thought Ross Martin had died recently
Robert Conrad. If you were thinking of the show "The Wild Wild West"
Robert Conrad was over 3 and a half years ago. Feb. 8, 2020. 2 great actors that I watched on the W.W.W. since I was a kid. R.I.P. TO HIM & ROSS.
@@bruce8808Yes. I loved watching Robert Conrad and Ross Martin in "The Wild, Wild West" when I was a young girl in the 1960s.
@@lynettepalecek3141 To this day I still have an autographed photo of those from when I wrote a letter back in 1971 and it was in my mailbox a few weeks later. It was in color and it was taken in 1966 from the 1st Season.
@@bruce8808 Wow! Lucky you!! I'm sure that you treasure that photograph 📸 and you have it well protected. Do you have it on display for everyone to see?
Natalie Wood Murdered
55-Natural causes?
Possibly a heart attack. All "natural causes" means is it wasn't murder, suicide or an accident.
One of my grandfathers died aged 55, the other 42. Both WW2 vets. Even for those who survived the war, life was a lot shorter back then.
Adam Walsh: murdered/sacrificed by his father John according to his sister Meghan Walsh. John in turn has had Meghan arrested and he took custody of her children
According to this site only men die
What video were you watching?
No.
Many of these idiots threw the gift of life away on drugs. They should not be celebrated.
Acting like _you_ were the one to decide who is worthy of being commemorated or not, based on their respective cause of death, makes _you_ the idiot in here.
Guess what, they say "all people are equal in death", so you will be equal to all these "idiots" who "threw away the gift of life" one day.
@@deavacui2825 * Thank you *
@@deavacui2825 Doing Drugs is the right thing? I don't think so
It's called being remembered, not celebrated, dumbshit.
Sadly, it continues to this day in 2024 Dennis. We shouldn't judge others on their bad habits. They are still human beings.