Good actors who died too soon and no one remembers now

Katrin Cartlidge

I loved Katrin Cartlidge.

Rodney Dangerfield.

Alan Rickman

I remember all of them except Katrin Cartlidge, whoever the hell that was.

I think your question is interesting, but your choices are mostly actors who, while not older aged, lead substantial lives. My idea would be someone more along the lines of Brad Davis

John Cazale owns this thread.

Marilyn Monroe

R8 Tell that to the companies still using her image to market all kinds products. From "Marilyn Monroe's Estate Is Making People Rich, But Who?":

[quote] According to CMG CEO Mark Roesler, their company has licensed Monroe’s image and products to hundreds of companies, including Coca-Cola and Mercedes-Benz. Monroe’s likeness has been used to sell everything from perfume to clothing, giftware, collectibles, and even paper products.

You know a thread is gonna be shit when not even the OP knows what she's talking about.

R8 are you fucking insane?

JON-ERIK HEXUM! (SOB!!!!!)

Not only is Raul Julia still very much remembered, he's the star of a long-running meme. Rest in power, Raul.

Diana Sands

Brandon deWilde

I’m not sure Gandolfini belongs on this list. The Sopranos feels fairly iconic, if not immortal.

Grayson Hall

The love of my life, Diana Hyland.

Why are all these woman dying around John Travolta?

Dana Hill OWNS this thread.

Alan Rickman will ALWAYS be admired and remembered, by me! Second on my list; the first is Raul Julia. I met him years ago in New York. Kissed me on the cheek before saying goodbye. Total cutie, charming and sweet and friendly. Also very tall and sex on a stick!!!

Phillip Seymour Hoffman died too soon but is well-known to people over 35.

R22 Who's that?

Brittany Murphy: The best actress of her generation.

John Cassavetes

If you feel like it, mention your favorite performance by this person. John Heard-Chilly Scenes of Winter Katrin Cartlidge-Career Girls Alan Rickman-Truly Madly Deeply Phillip Seymour Hoffman- Capote Diana Sand- A Raisin in the Sun Brittany Murphy--Girl Interrupted Raul Julia-Kiss of the Spiderwoman JT Walsh--Good Morning Vietnam

Joan Hackett, Shirley Knight, Elizabeth Hartman--The Group

Anton Yelchin, Peter Sellers,

Who says that "no one remembers now" these actors and actresses? I'm sure their work is still being appreciated. The OP sounds like a doofus.

Olivia de Havilland

Geez - it took until r30.

I’m a massive JT Walsh fan. He was so underrated.

Please note that the OP and some of the twats here are omniscient and connected to all people in the world so they know that "no one remembers" the dead good actors "now."

Meaning, "I'm 26 and just read about Raul Julia after seeing a scene from 'The Addams Family' and my hag never heard of him."

Ray Sharkey

In the late 80s I thought about writing a book about all those who had died of AIDS but who were in the background of things, who had created our culture, contributed to the betterment of society and humanity, too in the background to be noticed but changed things, yet were now dead, men and women because of AIDS. I think we would be astounded by the lose.

People who are bitching about this thread, just make it "Good actors who died too soon." Your point is well taken..

Alice. Brady

Peter Deuel

Joi Lansing (I don't know about "good" but certainly a charming performer)

Robert Walker

River Phoenix

R35, you should still do it. It would be an long overdue tribute to those who should have lived long enough to help shape arts and culture into the 21st century, but did not.

R6 Brad Davis was an amazing actor and hot!!! I'll never forget "Midnight Express". Tough movie.

James Rehorn

6'8" Nick Oleson. Here he is on "Married with Children" accidentally sitting on Bud, who is too small to notice. If only that could have been me!

What about me, you fuckers???

Brittany Murphy

Charlotte Cushman

Thespis

Aldo Ray

Carole Lombard

Laurence Harvey

r47 Aldo Ray made it to 64 and ended up doing a non-sex role in a porno.

Jayne Mansfield

At least half the actors on this thread are hugely well known. Anyone who thinks Alan Rickman isn't remembered isn't part of the Harry Potter generation. Or their parents. Or anyone who's paid attention to popular media in the 21st c. Similarly with James Gandolfini and anyone OVER 35, or anyone of any age who's seen The Sopranos.

That said, cheers to R35 for nominating Truly, Madly, Deeply as Rickman's finest.

Adding to the 'remembered but gone too soon" list, Madeline Kahn, in anything by Mel Brooks.

I meant R26 for Truly, Madly, Deeply.

Madonna Ciccone. 😥

Leonard Frey

Lenny Baker

[quote]OP: ....no one remembers

Meaning OP gets paid a quarter a thread and this gambit always pulls 50 replies before the dishonesty and stupidity of the opening assumption becomes clear.

Wendy Jo Sperber

Ray Sharkey was great in Scenes From The Class Struggle in Beverly Hills.

As was Roberto Beltran, also underrated.

David Dukes.

Again, John Cazale owns this thread.

I'd love to have seen what roles Cazale would have done had he lived longer.

I read Streep really loved him.

Vic Morrow

Morrow got a head of himself.

Another vote for Wendy Jo Sperber.

I agree John Cazale owns the thread.

I'm ashamed to admit I laughed at R61

Who was the little girl murdered with her mother by her father and her voice was in All Dogs Go to Heaven?

Montgomery Clift

He might as well be dead -- Randy Quaid.

Phil Hartman

Favorite movie Philip Seymour Hoffman : Before Thr Devil Knows Your Deaf

“Try, Madly, Deeply” is a thoughtful, quirky, wonderful film, totally eclipsed by the megahit, “Ghost,” which was released around the same time, and had a similar situation.

Robert Urich - is he still remembered by any young people?

Lloyd Haynes

[quote]Joan Hackett, Shirley Knight, Elizabeth Hartman--The Group

Shirley Knight died in April at the age of 83.

Olivia de Havilland. Gone too soon

Actress Debralee Scott who was all over television in the 1970s. From IMDB:

“She was engaged to John Levi, who was a police officer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who was killed in the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre.”

“Ironically, she died in Florida shortly after moving there from New York City to help an ailing sister. One day she collapsed and was in a coma for several days but awoke in the hospital and seemed to be fine for a spell. She was released two days later on her birthday. No explanation was given for the coma, but she seemed fine and in good spirits. Three days later she went to take a nap and never woke up. Cause of death uncertain despite an autopsy. She was cremated.”

Jeffrey Hunter, died at 42 from complications after an accident on set.

Reaching way back.... Robert Williams John Gilbert and especially Ross Alexander, tortured gay actor

Joyce Jameson

She was a Fun Girl.

Andre Noble was a Canadian actor who starred in two films about teen boy hustlers, a supporting role in Twist, and updated gay version of Oliver Twist and a lead in the film Sugar, which came out after he died.

Lucille Ricksen

Died age 14.

Silent film actress.

The OP is an idiot. Anybody who watches movies remembers those actors. And nobody remembers James Gandolfini? He was Tony fucking Soprano! The OP is dumb as a rock.

Sal Mineo

Carol Wayne

Francis Boggs

First to be murdered in movieland. Story sounds as if he was gay but doesn't say directly.

From IMDb:

[quote]Francis Boggs is an obscure figure in the history of cinema, but an important one. It was he who brought the movies to Los Angeles in 1909 when he established a permanent L. A. film studio for the Chicago-based Selig Polyscope Company. In a four-year film career he wrote and directed nearly 200 one-reel films. Today only three are known to survive. He was also the first victim of movieland murder. Boggs was an actor, who toured mining towns in California and finally in Chicago, where he became associated with former magician and minstrel-show operator William Nicholas Selig in filmmaking. He returned to California to shoot the climactic scenes of The Count of Monte Cristo (1908) and ended up playing the lead role as well. He set up Selig's Los Angeles operation in 1909. In 1911 he was shot and killed by a mentally disturbed employee (the attack also wounded Selig) and was soon forgotten, his work eventually crumbling to dust. But Francis Boggs is as much, if not more, responsible for establishing the American film industry in California as any of the more well-known film pioneers.

Peg Entwistle

Rebecca Schaeffer

Lee Thompson Young

Jason Raize

Robert Shaw

Anton Yelchin Margaret Sullavan

David Janssen, Warren Hymer (character actor in Warners' early talkies -- massive basket you can see today), Pier Angeli, and the embodiment of this topic, Alice Brady.

Elizabeth Taylor.

Carole Landis.

Steve Shaw, age 25 when he was killed in a head-on collision with a truck, in 1990. He’d been a child actor beginning in the mid-70s. He was perhaps best known as Karen Fairgate’s oldest child on KNOTS LANDING. He died before the series ended, but his death was not written into the show. He is at the top in the pic posted.

Terry-Thomas.

Don't know if he died early (yes I'm a lazy whore) but he was so funny. Kill or Cure should be stupid, but he makes it great.

Doris Roberts called Debralee a drunk and said that's what killed her. They were both in 'Angie' with DL queen Donna Pescow.

Doris and Donna and Debralee.

Doris was a total cunt.

Ian Charleson

and Brad Renfro

The character actor Bruno Kirby died too soon (he was 57 when he died). I guess the OP would consider him someone "no one remembers now" but I don't think that's the case. He was a memorable actor, and was in "The Godfather Part II", "Good Morning, Vietnam", "This Is Spinal Tap", "Birdy", "Tin Men", "When Harry Met Sally", "The Basketball Diaries", "Donnie Brasco" and "City Slickers."

Anton Yelchin, who played Chekov in three "Star Trek" movies, died at age 27 when his Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled into him and pinned him against a brick pillar.

Emmaline Henry, best known for playing Mrs. Bellows on I DREAM OF JEANNIE, died from brain cancer at age 50. She had many roles besides Amanda Bellows including a part in ROSEMARY’S BABY. At the time of her death the never married actress had guest starred a couple of times on THREE’S COMPANY as JC Braddock, Chrissy’s boss. The plan, had she lived, was to make her role recurring.

I seriously doubt Peter Sellers is someone "No One Remembers Now." He was in "Dr. Strangelove", "Lolita", the Pink Panther movies and "Being There." And he's generally considered one of the greatest actor/comedians of all time. He's remembered.

TCM is doing a Peter Sellers-fest tomorrow. Although considering some of the titles, it could also be a tribute to Trump.

The Bobo

Lolita

Dr. Strangelove

Shirley MacLaine. Although not self destructive she's totally cuckoo and a total narcissist.

John Heard was 71 when he died. The rest were in their 50s. How did they died too soon?

Yes no one remembers Gandolfini ... except the zillion people who still vote The Sopranos as the greatest show of all time.

Oops! The comment at R100 belongs in the "Most Troubled Stars of All Time" thread. That would definitely include Shirley MacLaine.

John Hodiak

Jeff Chandler

Dack Rambo. (Also his less well-known twin brother, Dirk.) Their real first names were Orman and Norman.

Delilah-Judith

OP knows what everyone on the planet remembers.

OP is an idiot.

I guess that makes her an idiot savant.

I don't know, OP, I was thinking of Raul Julia just the other day.

Diana Dors