The initial sort is by something called "STARmeter" with Rock Hudson heading the list. Shame about drag queen Craig "Outrageous" Russell, Larry Kert, with Liza in "New York New York". Look at the Clintons. It had been well Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, "Leonard Frey, Actor, Dies at 49; Was in 'Fiddler' and Other Films", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show. No, poor Jim just wouldn't go to the doctor until it was too late. A truly beautiful man! Interestingly, Richard Lester had cast a different boy as Bobby, but several people (probably RW included) told him that the kid wasn't pretty enough, so Lester fired the poor guy and found someone better looking. Gorgeous German hunk Amadeus August - died in 1992 at age 50. This thread always bums me out when it resurfaces. Rather a Peter O'Toole lookalike, the good-looking actor was in lots of British movies and TV including 'Zulu', and the newly re-released 'Wake In Fright' (originally titled 'Outback') made in Australia in 1971, he was also Anne Boleyn's lover in 'Anne Of The Thousand Days'. Please click here to get full access and no ads for $1.99 or less per month. Brad Davis' wife wrote a book, based on the fact that he died of aids. But his wife tells herself that he got it from drug use. R90, the guy who played Al was also a longtime Solid Gold dancer who got this young gay hot week after week. I haven't read about the dust thing. Leonard Frey was a gifted comic actor who could do drama as well. Bless him. I remember Beth Broderick from that Sabrina show was the main speaker at his memorial service. In a remembrance of McLinden, Ian Temple paints a vivid picture of youthful energy, sex, love and loss in the 1980s through to the 1990s. So many folks lost and these are just the semi-famous folks. Stephen Schwartz wrote a song about Bill Beyers' death, called "Life Goes On." Ian Charleson. This is for another thread but I've wondered if part of the reason Edge of Night got cancelled is that they knew half of the male cast was about to drop dead. Was it because of subpar acting or clutch-voice? Truly the loss of all of the talent and beauty from the early years of the epidemic are devastating .. And so many in so many other important professions. @205, Not according to IMDB. Mark Fotopolos, one of the most handsome guys in that chorus and a Broadway musical actor (as well as Thommie Walsh's one-time bf) died of AIDS in 1991, after living for quite a few years with HIV, and devoting himself to ACT-UP. Morali and Parker allegedly became lovers and teamed up for Parker's one and only LP, 'Like an Eagle', released in 1979 on Casablanca Records, the infamous Los Angeles label run by cocaine-crazed Neil Bogart. It was awful. I had such a mad crush on David Oliver. I'm reading this thread alongside the "People Who Lived Through the AIDS Onset" and it's been an education, tragic and moving. I remember how powerful he was in "Ragtime", and he got an Oscar nomination for that, and I thought he'd have an amazing career thereafter. That eulogy is not in the play of "THe Normal Heart". Stephen W. Burns made a potentially promising film debut in the last (and worst) of the initial Herbie films, Herbie Goes Bananas (1980), replaced Mark Harmon in the last 3 episodes of the LA paramedics TV series 240 Robert (1981) and, in the role that probably brought him his biggest exposure, played Jack Cleary, one of Meggies brothers, in the classic miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983). I saw Carol Channing in one of her revivals of Hello Dolly in the early 80s. Richard Warwick was beautiful in one of the best UK movies of the 60s -- Lindsay Anderson's If. Richard Warwick lip synched "What is a Youth" in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. They claimed it was from heart failure. He was Alfonso Ribeiro's dad on the show. Frey received critical acclaim in 1968 for his performance as Harold in off-Broadway's The Boys in the Band. I still get chills. If you can't find the email you can resend it here. He wanted me to clean the toilet every time I used it. In one of entertainment's most bizarre career moves, he went straight from the Oscar nom to a role on the soap Another World. ", Paul Reeves, of the West End "Starlight Express.". Anyone remember partner's name? People just took the bus or a A recent study from Brazil showed that the average age at death for RA was 67 years -- the same age as Glenn Frey. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Never. That first guy was smoking hot..to bad he got a dirty load. Get details on someones death such as date of death, place of death, surviving relatives, assets, and more! Well that was true. How about John Matuszak? R132 Anton Diffring was gay? number then drops dead, somewhere in act 2". Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Leonard H Frey. IMDb has a sortable database entitled "Most Popular Males Who Died Of "aids." And who could ever forget Michael Jeter as Ethel Merman in "The Fisher King" ? There's a compilation of her articles in print, and one of them she talks about a man with AIDS who stayed alive by drinking his own pee. About 15 years later, I heard Channing say in an interview that all the chorus boys in that show were dead of AIDS. [all posts by tedious, racist idiot removed.]. He was a lovely, talented man and had a wonderful partner in EJ Alexander. He played Damien. They were friends and occasional fuck buddies. We decided wed start a scholarship fund in his honor. [1] He appeared with the rest of the original cast in the 1970 film version, directed by William Friedkin.[2]. USA. Oh, that's so sad. Mr. Frey was born in Brooklyn and attended James Madison High School. He performed a variety of leading roles for the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, in ''The Time of Your Life,'' ''Beggar on Horseback,'' ''Twelfth Night'' and Athol Fugard's ''People Are Living Here.'' Tom Villard--You may remember him from 2 GG episodes (one where they are on vacation) or the movies One Crazy Summer and My Girl. We are changing the login scheme for contributors for simpler login and to better support using multiple devices. Thomas Frey, 44 Asbury. We became good friends and spent a lot of time together, He and his partner and my husband and I socialized frequently..he even helped my husband build bookshelves and a window seat in our apartment. Officially, Glenn Frey's cause of death was listed as complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis, and pneumonia. His official cause of death was sudden heart failure. A collection of cardboard tombstones, bound together with a rubber band. Irene & Tommy Rutledge's home was used in the Boars' Nest Bears in the Dukes Of Hazzard, when they were trying to prove that the star player is the age to play for the team. I've asked about Bert Convy here before. One of them was the brilliant one about a gay guy who was under the mistaken impression that Frasier was, too. Many publications, like Variety and The LA Times, reported that hospital officials would only say that he died after a long battle with a chronic illness. The gayest HORROR ever! ", that was MARK Lester. Leonard Frey (September 4, 1938 August 24, 1988) was an American actor. The very talented actor Franklyn Seales, co-star of The Onion Field (1979) and star of many stage productions, died of AIDS at age 37. Please click here to update your account with a username and password. Did so many actors, and other people in show business, who died of AIDS have their families, and managers etc, go to such extremes to cover up the real cause of their deaths? r225 wandered in from Pleasantville I think. Frey's television credits included appearances on Hallmark Hall of Fame; Medical Center; Mission Impossible; Eight Is Enough; Quincy, M.E. The trouble was that he would leave the office about 4 and have a couple at the VFW, a couple at the Legion, a couple at the country club and so on, so that by the time he rolled home about 7:30 he was flying high. So, essentially, this is a list of closeted b list bottoms. It wasn't until Tom Hanks and Philadelphia that actors (and producers) clamored "I want an Oscar, get me a gay role! He also appeared as a panelist on the game shows Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour and Super Password. He also played leading roles in The Time of Your Life, Twelfth Night and Athol Fugards People Are Living Here at the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center. He definitely did NOT commit suicide, but died of AIDS, which was still very much a stigma in 1985. Mark Lester is very much alive. I'm 65 and sometimes I forget it ever happened. r57, here's another pic of Timothy Patrick Murphy: I had to look up his name admittedly, but Tom Villard - he guested on The Golden Girls last season (he was Dorothy's former student who gave her that high paying job that she quit) and he was also on Pyramid often. Now hes confronting it head-on, The Super Mario Bros. is now highest-grossing video game adaptation with $500 million, Angela Bassett understood Austin Butlers Oscars moment. R207 Why is the post about Raul Julia offensive? Cause of death Unknown. The Canadian singer-songwriter died on 7 November at the age of 82. Died of AIDS - early 90s, I think. He started going out on location wearing a wig and women's clothes. I saw Howard Rollins in a London production of I'm Not Rappaport co-starring the incredible Paul Scofield. His theatrical breakthrough came with his performance as Harold in Mart Crowleys Boys in the Band. He later recreated the role for the 1970 film. Someone please help me with this one -- I'm pretty sure he died of AIDS but I'm not positive. r128, you violated rule 87 in the 1970s Gay Handbook: 87: Never date an actor. 'I want to preserve him.'. After his death, all these years later, his family have never commented on Julia's cause of death. And I was thinking exactly what you were thinking. During the original Public Theatre run of THE NORMAL HEART, Brad was getting fuked by every hot boy who came his way. Couldn't remmber his name. He had a sexy high voice. I grew up in the midst of this and was scared beyond scared to think it was something I could contract. Was he the Bufferin or Anacin guy? Here he is singing Cole Porter's "Love for Sale. I went with this very smart theater friend of mine who leaned over and whispered after the big opening number where you meet all the characters, "The whole house will come down when the little dying Jewish man does his big "To Life!" His stage work earned Broadway acclaim including several Arthur Miller plays - "All My Sons" (1947), "Death of a Salesman" (1949) for which he won a Tony Award, "The Crucible" (1953), and "The Price" (1968). (There is some disagreement over this, since other bios say he died of cancer from smoking.). Notably, Parker must have had an influence on the quality of the tunes as both singles are co-written by him and stand out in Morali's pantheon for being slower and more thoughtful than the majority of his releases of the period. r10--how can you POSSIBLY have left out mention of Frey as Harold in "The Boys in the Band"? Here's a clip from the MTM episode. Died Place. Steven Gelfer, 'Carbucketty' in the original Broadway production of "Cats", December 26, 1988. He wrote a song about his death called "Life Goes On.". But he obviously had a voracious appetite for sex. They claimed it was "kidney failure." Some people do get brain tumors in their 50s - and its a pretty swift decline. He didn't get AIDS from a blood transfusion. Either the family was in full denial or they were trying to cover it up. Born in Brooklyn, he studied art from the time he was 8 years old and was headed toward a career as a painter when he decided to change goals and switched from Cooper Union to the Neighborhood Playhouse. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Billy Preston, of Beatles fame and later a solo artist, died of AIDS. However, according to Frey's manager, Irving Azoff, the rheumatoid arthritis medications Frey was taking possibly contributed to his death. "The colitis and pneumonia were side effects from all the meds," Azoff told The Wrap shortly after Frey died. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. IIRC his first female *relations* came via Victoria Principal well into his adult years and the subsequently married a woman. Leonard Cohen died in his sleep after a fall at his home in Los Angeles, his manager has said. Died in 1992 at the age of 30. Reed Jones, 'Skimbleshanks, in the original Broadway production of "Cats", June 19, 1989. West End actor Martin Smith is also mentioned in the piece above. The days after the storm were also deadly, as people tried to clear away storm damage or used poorly ventilated generators to ward off the dark and the cold. But it's important to remind all of us, and to tell the younger ones who were not there, what was lost. who should have been famous if they hadn't been taken from the world prematurely. As in, right now, my shoulders. [quote]The worst offender, may he rest in peaceherb ritts. Per the Eagles' website , which posted a message Cade Frey (Michael) Cade Michael Frey, 18, of Farmersburg, passed away on Tuesday, November 24, 2020. It's something I do now when a friend dies. Ray Sharkey was so hot. Yes, 196. Ron Vawter - Supporting actor in films and member of the Wooster group. r114, what makes you think those three actors are living with AIDS? R39 - Joel Crothers will always be Joe Haskell from Dark Shadows in my heart. At least they didn't turn the New Amsterdam into a megachurch. Casey Stevens, who played Jamie Lee Curtis' boyfriend, Nick, in Prom Night. Glenn Frey, a co-founder of the Eagles and a hit-maker in his own right, died on January 18, 2016, at the age of 67. Per the Eagles' website , which posted a message about his death at the time, Frey died due to "complications from Rheumatoid Arthritis, Acute Ulcerative Colitis and Pneumonia." [quote]Strange that they didn't just make Bracken a woman and have Eleanor Parker play that. He also played Motel the tailor in the 1971 movie of ''Fiddler on the Roof,'' for which he received an Oscar nomination as best supporting actor. I remember Dack Rambo discussing his diagnosis on some talk show when I got home from school. [quote]During those hell years I cut out every obit concerning an aids related death. Some might say r160 that marriage to Anna Massey would turn anyone gay - but she was a revered actress who played lots of old boots and evil spinsters. I thought the whole show godawful at the time. Wow, thank you, r166. Died in December 11, 1986 the day after his 31st birthday. What a peculiar and erroneous notion, r111. I really, truly believe that's why we have such a shitty generation of music that is so repetitive, of pop culture that keeps feeding on itself, why we have a lack of new ideas.because our beautiful artists and creators all died in the AIDS holocaust, while Reagan (and others) sat by and watched. When I watch musicals of the 60's and 70's, or old television variety shows with bunches of male dancers - I'm always sad that probably most of them died of AIDS in the first wave. Yeah, that video of Michael Jeter is pure joy. How long might he have been living with it? I'm shocked that no one's mentioned Legit Actor/Porn Actor/Singer, Dennis Parker aka Wade Nichols yet. Cause of death: death from AIDS-related complications. -- Theodore "Teddy" Wilson (appeared on tons of sitcoms and TV shows in the 70s and 80s, esp. Somewhere in my kitchen. Ray Sharkey deserves his own thread. [quote]Lenny Baker had to withdraw from the pre-Broadway tryout of McNally's "It's Only A Play". I can't remember where i posted them. He was a smart and lovely guy. Though I don't mean to compare two very different world disasters, I figured if the memory of the World Wars was kept alive for so long, even after certain nations had become our allies, something similar can be done with the AIDS crisis years. R148: Could you be thinking of Gene Anthony Ray? What an evil, evil tragedy AIDS wrought on our artistic community. With the exception of Cliff Gorman, who died of cancer, and Laurence Luckinbill, Peter White, and Reuben Greene, who are all still living, all the BITB actors (Frey, Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Keith Prentice, and Robert LaTourneaux) were killed by AIDS. I remember Carrol O'Connor tried to save his job for him but he was on another planet. It never does. 4 Sep 1938. [quote]This is heresy but "We'll Take a Glass Together" has always annoyed me. Funny but when I first read the press release on Dr. Brandt, his publicist said an "illness " and didn't specify, and the first thing I thought was geez in this day and age people are still trying to cover up AIDS? Kenny Sacha- He played the Rose drag queen in The Rose among other things. If there were more than a few, then I suppose it's a subject for another thread. What about Jim Henson? I'm shocked to be alive, but I feel I must never forget the fucking tragic shit show it was, nor the beautiful lives cut so short. At the time of his death he survived by his large extended friends and family. For the most part I remember reading each of these in the newspaper at the time. What happens to Helix Studio boys once theyre no longer twinks? I would not put it past him to have also got it from a guy--he was one of those guys who would fuck anything that moved. - IMDb Mini Biography By: TPK Trivia (4) Studied acting at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse under famed Was Anthony Perkins truly gay or just confused. I had to move out and move on. He had issues, R175. [quote]In one of entertainment's most bizarre career moves, he went straight from the Oscar nom to a role on the soap Another World. Leonard Frey was so much more attractive than I thought he'd be out of his "Boys in the Band" makeup. He died in 1994. He died in 1988 at age 49 of complications from AIDS. r123, he made hot porn. I loved EON, and adored all three actors. He was waiting to invite you to his big debut at Carnegie Hall or some shit so we could all be proud of him. He also did commercials and displayed his fine body in some arty photogs. Later on he speaks of what a good man Hal Linden was and how much he admires hm, so it's clearly not Linden. For the person upthread who asked about Terry Lester, you were confusing him with the child star of the film "Oliver! Stephen Stucker. He also starred as rich, evil Alan Spaulding in "GL" in the late 70's and 80's. [quote]Brett was gay after his marriage to Anna Massey. Please complete the process by verifying your email address. We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born (For more on Casablanca check out Larry Harris' book 'And Party Every Day' for the inside story of this wildly dysfunctional but highly productive label). not the AIDS. He played "Rooster" - GREAT dancer; great showman. Died in 1994 at age 45. We met when he did some fundraising via Edge of Night for the nonprofit animal welfare organization I worked for. When I saw that movie for the first time--I was about 14 or so--I remember having crush on him, and then when he has that scene where he's in bed with the cute blonde Bobby Phillips, my heart nearly exploded. Later, I turned on tv and it was Oscar night. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. But any excuse to watch this What a sad thread. McLinden was part inspiration for the lead character in "It's a Sin," from the pen of Russell T. Davies. for your pointless bitchery needs. I truly hope they find a cure for this (and other) dreadful diseases. WebLeonard Frey. George Pesatura who replaced Sammy Williams in ACL. WebBrooklyn, New York, USA. In the fall of 1990, Hall was involved in a car accident in Los Angeles and required a blood transfusion, which was later discovered to be contaminated with HIV. [quote]Stephen W. Burns made a potentially promising film debut in the last (and worst) of the initial Herbie films, Herbie Goes Bananas (1980). Lee Mathis-hot man. And then there's that other role we remember Leonard Frey for, R10: People in the US know Denholm Elliott from Indiana Jones and "A Room with a View.". He doesn't mention him by name, but calls him a much older, Tony-winning actor in the show. To this day, his IMDB bio still insists he was engaged to soap actress Veleka Grey at the time of his death and the cause was cancer, -- Brad OHare (Guiding Light, Longtime Companion), -- James Raitt (brother of Bonnie), Broadway musical director, -- Denholm Elliott (A Room With A View), -- Ilka Tanya Payan (Telenovelas + Scarface, Hill Street Blues), -- Joe Megna (Dill in To Kill A Mockingbird), -- Merritt Butrick (Captain Kirks son on Star Trek). And he still looks healthy. Frey Jr. barricaded himself in a bedroom while multiple police agencies, including PSP surrounded the residence, but by the time officers forced their way into the room, Frey Jr. was deceased. Really appreciate this effort to remember these fellas. In recent years he had been active on television. She noticed that he spent a lot of time with gay male "friends" but just chalked it up to his being very "gay friendly." I have to wonder if that was some sort of inside joke. He infected comedian Corbett Monica's daughter (Corbett Monica used to tour with Rat Packers as an opening act) and she sued his estate. His last appearance was in an episode of the television series Murder, She Wrote.. Dack Rambo. He's not an actor, but Max Robinson the ABC newscaster from the late 80's&early 90's who reportrd the news from Chicago, I know he died from AIDS. Leonard Frey, an actor admired for his vivid and often flamboyant performances, died of AIDS yesterday at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. In 1979, Parker/Nichols became a regular cast member on 'The Edge of Night', appearing for five years as Police Chief, Derek Mallory. Most of the cast from "The Boys In the Band" (1970). He is survived by a brother, Charles Frey Jr., and a nephew, Charles Frey 3d. Frey, who was gay, died at age 49 from the complications of AIDS in New York on August 24, 1988, 11 days before his 50th birthday.[1]. I've always found it fascinating how he was able to effortlessly transition from Gay & Straight Adult Films to a mainstream network soap opera (Edge Of Night). Glenn Frey, Eagles Guitarist, Dead at 67 "Hotel California" rocker "succumbed to complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and Daniel McDonald had a brain tumor. The actress who played Billy Beyer's sister on Capitol also died from complications of AIDS. They were in "The Rothschilds" together when Robby was 13-14. It appears his mother and ex-wife kept AIDS out of his obituary to protect his young daughter's memory of him. In contrast to his buttoned-down image on CBS' In the Heat of the Night, Rollins sometimes wore a long, startling wig of dreadlocks when he cruised the North Georgia roads last year in his maroon 1993 Lincoln Mark VIII. You know, it's true this is a sad thread and, yes, there are some ignorant comments here. He always had his bicycle with him. Their athletic dancing went on for 20 minutes, and they were all magnificent. Rap, that horrid musical wannabe skyrocketed in the 80s as a direct loss of this pool of talent. David Oliver, appeared on "Another World" from 1983 to 1985, then landed a role in the acclaimed mini-series "A Year in the Life" (1986), playing Sarah Jessica Harper's husband, a role he reprised when it was turned into a series for the 1987-88 season. ADVERTISEMENT BY ANCESTRY.COM View death records Death details . I'm lucky to have had any intimacy in life. 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