The following deaths of notable individuals related to American television occurred in 2018.
January
editFebruary
editMarch
editDate | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
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March 3 | David Ogden Stiers | 75 | American actor, voiceover artist, and musician, best known for portraying Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on M*A*S*H, D.A. Michael Reston in the Perry Mason made-for-TV movies, and recurring roles in Two Guys and a Girl as Mr. Bauer, and Oberoth in Stargate Atlantis, as well as voicing Dr. Jumba Jookiba In Lilo & Stitch: The Series, among his notable credits. | [38] |
March 10 | Michael Gershman | 73 | American cinematographer and director (Courthouse, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Crossing Jordan) | [39] |
March 14 | Stephen Hawking | 76 | English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, who played a holographic simulation of himself in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1993. The same year, his synthesiser voice was recorded for the Pink Floyd song Keep Talking, and in 1999 for an appearance on The Simpsons, and appeared in the documentary series Stephen Hawking, Master of the Universe, and guest-starred in Futurama and had a recurring role in The Big Bang Theory. | |
March 22 | Morgana King | 87 | Singer | |
March 23 | DuShon Monique Brown | 49 | Actress, best known as Connie on Chicago Fire and Katie Welch on Prison Break | [40] |
Debbie Lee Carrington | 58 | Actress |
April
editDate | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
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April 1 | Steven Bochco | 74 | Writer and producer (creator of Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue and Doogie Howser, M.D.) | [41] |
Bob Beattie | 85 | Skiing coach and commentator for ABC and ESPN | [42] | |
April 2 | Susan Anspach | 75 | American actress (The Defenders, The Patty Duke Show, The Nurses, McMillan & Wife, The Yellow Rose, Space, The Slap Maxwell Story, Empty Nest, Murder, She Wrote and Cagney & Lacey: The Return) | [43] |
April 4 | Soon-Tek Oh | 85 | Korean–American actor best known for the voice of Fa Zhou in Disney's Mulan and the direct-to-video sequel Mulan II and the sadistic Colonel Yin in Missing in Action 2: The Beginning. He has starred in many films, and also acted in television series, including Stargate SG-1, MacGyver, M*A*S*H, Charlie's Angels, Airwolf, Magnum, P.I., Hawaii Five-O, Kung-Fu, Zorro, Baa Baa Black Sheep and Touched by an Angel. | |
April 8 | Chuck McCann | 83 | American voice actor (DuckTales, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero) and commercial voiceover artist (Right Guard deodorant, Cocoa Puffs mascot Sonny the Cuckoo Bird). Also host of several local children's shows and guest spots on several sitcoms. | [44] |
April 13 | Art Bell | 72 | American broadcaster and author | |
April 15 | Philip D'Antoni | 89 | American producer (This Proud Land and Movin' On) | [45] |
R. Lee Ermey | 74 | Actor, voice actor, TV host, and United States Marine Corps drill instructor (TV work includes hosting Mail Call, Lock n' Load with R. Lee Ermey, and GunnyTime; and guest spots on House, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Rocket Power) | [46] | |
April 16 | Harry Anderson | 65 | Actor best known as Judge Harry T. Stone on Night Court and Dave Barry on Dave's World. Also had a main role in the miniseries It, a brief recurring role on Cheers, and hosted Saturday Night Live several times. | [47] |
Pamela Gidley | 52 | Actress and model (recurring roles on Tour of Duty, Strange Luck, The Pretender, Angel Street, Skin, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; and appearances in the TV movies Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Glory Days, Blue Bayou, Man Made, and Goodbye Casanova) | [48] | |
April 17 | Ken Dolan | 75 | American financial advisor who along with wife Daria Dolan formed the double act The Dolans (hosts of Dolans Unscripted on CNN and contributors to CBS This Morning) | [49] |
April 18 | Bruno Sammartino | 82 | WWE Hall of Fame professional wrestler | [50] |
April 20 | Al Swift | 82 | Politician and Emmy Award-winning TV news producer at KVOS-TV/Bellingham, Washington | [51] |
April 21 | Verne Troyer | 49 | American actor, comedian, YouTuber and stunt performer | |
April 22 | Dave Nelson | 73 | Retired baseball player and coach. TV color commentator/analyst for the Milwaukee Brewers and Kansas City Royals. | [52] |
April 23 | Don Bustany | 89 | Camera coordinator on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, and other MTM productions; co-creator of America's Top 10 | [53] |
Bob Dorough | 94 | Musician who wrote and performed the music on Schoolhouse Rock! | [54] | |
April 27 | Paul Junger Witt | 77 | Co-founder of Witt/Thomas Productions and film and television producer of such works as Here Come the Brides, The Partridge Family, The Golden Girls, Soap, Benson, Empty Nest and Blossom. | [55] |
April 29 | Robert Mandan | 86 | American actor, notable for playing Chester Tate on Soap, James Bradford in Three's A Crowd, and Col. Lawrence Fielding on Private Benjamin. Guest roles in The Facts of Life, Who's the Boss?, All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, Married... with Children, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. | [56] |
May
editDate | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
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May 6 | Ray Szmanda | 91 | Announcer on Menards commercials from 1976 to 1998 | [57] |
May 13 | Margot Kidder | 69 | Canadian-born American Emmy Award-winning actress and activist best known as Lois Lane in the 1970s-1980s Superman films (TV work includes a regular role in Nichols, panelist on Mantrap, guest spots on Harry O, Banacek, Saturday Night Live, The L Word, Brothers and Sisters, Smallville, and R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour; TV movie work includes Pygmalion, Body of Evidence and WindRunner) | [58] |
May 14 | Tom Wolfe | 88 | American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. His first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and also became a commercial success. It was adapted as a major motion picture of the same name directed by Brian De Palma. In 1977, PBS produced Tom Wolfe's Los Angeles, a fictional, satirical TV movie set in Los Angeles. Wolfe appears in the movie as himself. | |
May 16 | Joseph Campanella | 93 | Actor best known as Jonathan Young on The Bold and the Beautiful, and recurring roles on The Bold Ones: The Lawyers, The Doctors and the Nurses, Mannix, One Day at a Time, The Colbys, Road Rovers, That's Life, and Spider-Man | [59] |
Hugh Dane | 75 | American character actor | ||
May 20 | Patricia Morison | 103 | Actress and singer (TV work includes a recurring role as Dr. Karen Gayle on The Cases of Eddie Drake and guest spots on Cheers and Have Gun – Will Travel) | [60] |
May 21 | Allyn Ann McLerie | 91 | Canadian-born American actress and dancer (regular role in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd and The Tony Randall Show; recurring roles in WKRP in Cincinnati and Punky Brewster; guest roles include The Love Boat, The Thorn Birds, St. Elsewhere, Barney Miller, Dynasty, The Waltons and Brooklyn Bridge) | [61] |
May 21 | Clint Walker | 90 | Actor, best known as Cheyenne Bodie on Cheyenne | [62] |
May 22 | Elizabeth Sung | 63 | Actress, best known as Luan Volien from The Young and the Restless; guest appearances include Hawaii Five-0, The Sopranos, Bones, and Curb Your Enthusiasm | [63] |
May 24 | Jerry Maren | 98 | Actor, best known as a member of the Munchkin Lollipop Guild in the frequently televised film The Wizard of Oz; was a regular cast member on No Soap, Radio and The Gong Show, in addition to guest appearances on The Odd Couple and Seinfeld | [64] |
June
editDate | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
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June 1 | William Edward Phipps | 96 | American actor and producer perhaps best known for his roles in dozens of classic sci-fi and westerns, both in films and on television. | |
June 5 | Kate Spade | 55 | American fashion designer, sister-in-law of David Spade, and aunt of Rachel Brosnahan (appearances include Today and The View). | [65] |
June 8 | Anthony Bourdain | 61 | Chef, four-time Emmy winning-television host (A Cook's Tour, The Layover, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, and Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown) and writer (Treme). Guest appearances include Miami Ink, The Simpsons and Yo Gabba Gabba!. | [66] |
June 9 | Murray Fromson | 88 | Correspondent on CBS News | [67] |
June 10 | Neal E. Boyd | 42 | Opera singer and winner of America's Got Talent season three. | [68] |
June 11 | Rumen Petkov | 70 | Animator and director (Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, The New Woody Woodpecker Show, The Powerpuff Girls, Duckman, Mike, Lu & Og) | [69] |
June 12 | Al Meltzer | 89 | Sports anchor at WCAU in Philadelphia | [70] |
June 15 | Joe DeNardo | 87 | American meteorologist, philanthropist, and lifetime Emmy recipient, notable for his work at WTAE-TV Pittsburgh from 1969 to 2007, as well as an early tenure with KDKA-TV | [71] |
June 17 | Elizabeth Brackett | 76 | Journalist (correspondent on PBS NewsHour and host of Chicago Tonight on WTTW) | [72] |
June 18 | Big Van Vader | 63 | Former professional wrestler | [73] |
Richard Valeriani | 85 | Correspondent for NBC News | [74] | |
June 21 | Charles Krauthammer | 68 | Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist (The Washington Post) and pundit (Fox News) | [75] |
June 22 | Deanna Lund | 81 | American actress and author, notable for playing Valerie Scott in Land of The Giants and Peggy Lowell on General Hospital | [76] |
June 24 | Stanley Anderson | 78 | American actor (Son of the Morning Star, L.A. Law, Dangerous Minds, The Shining, Players, Seinfeld, The X-Files, Ally McBeal, Crossing Jordan, Roswell, Law & Order, American Dreams, The Practice, The Drew Carey Show and NYPD Blue) | [77] |
Richard Benjamin Harrison | 77 | American pawn shop owner and reality television personality ("Old Man" on Pawn Stars) | [78] | |
June 28 | Harlan Ellison | 84 | Writer (The Flying Nun, Burke's Law, Route 66, The Outer Limits, Star Trek, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Cimarron Strip, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour). | [79] |
June 29 | Matt Cappotelli | 38 | American professional wrestler, Co-winner of the third season of WWE Tough Enough. | [80] |
Steve Ditko | 90 | Writer/artist for Marvel Comics who co-created the characters Spider-Man (star of two live action and eight animated television series) and Doctor Strange (most prominently featured in a 1978 TV movie) | [81] |
July
editDate | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
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July 1 | Dick Feagler | 79 | News commentator at Cleveland stations WVIX, WKYC and WEWS-TV. | [82] |
July 5 | Ed Schultz | 64 | Political commentator and host of The Ed Show and News with Ed Schultz | [83] |
July 8 | Tab Hunter | 86 | Actor (star of The Tab Hunter Show, guest spots on Hawaii Five-O, The Love Boat and The Six Million Dollar Man) | [84] |
Alan Johnson | 81 | Choreographer, three time Emmy Award-winner (Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration, Shirley MacLaine... 'Every Little Movement, and S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin) | [85] | |
July 12 | Roger Perry | 85 | American actor (December Bride, Harrigan and Son, Arrest and Trial, Nanny and the Professor, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, Love, American Style, Ironside, The F.B.I., Barnaby Jones, The Facts of Life and Falcon Crest) | [86] |
July 17 | Dennis W. Day | 76 | Mousketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club | [87] |
July 18 | Adrian Cronauer | 79 | American radio and television personality and voice over talent who was immortalized by Robin Williams in the 1987 film adaptation of his autobiography Good Morning, Vietnam (alumnus of WRFT Roanoke, Virginia; commercial work included Lipton, Columbia Records and Welch's) | [88] |
July 19 | Jon Schnepp | 51 | Animator, director, producer, writer, and voice actor, best known for his work on Metalocalypse, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force | [89] |
July 21 | Elmarie Wendel | 89 | Actress best known as Mamie Dubcek on 3rd Rock from the Sun and Gina on George Lopez. Guest spots on Love & War, Seinfeld, General Hospital, Bewitched, Murphy Brown, and Empty Nest. | [90] |
July 25 | Frank Clarke | 84 | Retired football player and sportscaster (NFL on CBS, WFAA-TV/Dallas, Texas) | [91] |
Patrick Williams | 79 | Four-time Emmy-winning composer (The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, The Streets of San Francisco, The Mary Tyler Moore Show) | [92] | |
July 29 | Nikolai Volkoff | 70 | WWE Hall of Fame professional wrestler | [93] |
August
editSeptember
editOctober
editDate | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
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October 4 | Will Vinton | 70 | American producer and writer (Gary & Mike, The PJs, The California Raisin Show, A Claymation Christmas Celebration, Adventures in Wonderland, Sesame Street, guest starring on Guiding Light and Transformers: Rescue Bots) | [126] |
October 6 | Paul James | 87 | Sportscaster/sports director at Salt Lake City stations KSL-TV and KTVX | [127] |
Don Sandburg | 87 | American actor and producer (The Bozo Show and The Banana Splits) | [128] | |
Scott Wilson | 76 | Actor best known as Hershel Greene on The Walking Dead. Also recurring roles on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Bosch, Damien, and The OA | [129] | |
October 7 | Peggy McCay | 90 | Actress best known as Caroline Brady on Days of Our Lives | [130] |
Celeste Yarnall | 74 | Character actor (guest spots on The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, My Three Sons, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Star Trek, It Takes a Thief, Hogan's Heroes, Land of the Giants, and Star Trek: Of Gods and Men) | [131] | |
October 8 | Arnold Kopelson | 83 | Film/TV producer (TV work includes executive producing the shows The Fugitive and Thieves, and the TV movies Frogmen and Past Tense). Also served on the board of directors for the CBS Corporation. | [132] |
October 9 | Warner Saunders | 83 | News anchor at Chicago stations WMAQ-TV and WBBM-TV | [133] |
October 11 | Carol Hall | 82 | Film/TV composer (Sesame Street and several TV movies and specials) | [134] |
October 15 | Paul Allen | 65 | Businessman, philanthropist and investor (co-founder of Vulcan Productions) | [135] |
October 16 | Dennis Hof | 73 | Brothel owner and star of Cathouse: The Series | [136] |
Sid Michaels Kavulich | 62 | Politician and former sportscaster at WBRE-TV/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania | [137] | |
October 18 | Danny Leiner | 57 | Film/TV director (Backwash, The Mind of the Married Man) | [138] |
October 24 | James Karen | 94 | American actor, voice over talent and commercial pitchman, notable for serving as the spokesperson for Pathmark, daytime roles as Dr. Burke on As the World Turns and the original Lincoln Tyler on All My Children, a recurrent role as Eliot Randolph in Eight is Enough, a memorable role as the pro-KKK businessman who was saved by George Jefferson via CPR in The Jeffersons, and ruthless businessman Nathan Lassiter in Little House: The Last Farewell, among his credits. | [139] |
October 30 | Beverly McClellan | 49 | Singer who appeared on the first season of The Voice | [140] |
Doug Rafferty | 66 | Former newscaster at WTTV Indianapolis, Indiana and WGME Portland, Maine | [141] |
November
editDate | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
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November 3 | Sondra Locke | 74 | American actress and director (Night Gallery, The F.B.I., The ABC Afternoon Playbreak, Gondola , Kung Fu, Planet of the Apes, Barnaby Jones, Cannon, Friendships, Secrets and Lies, Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story, Tales of the Unexpected and Amazing Stories) | [142] |
November 4 | Mike Parker | 75 | News anchor/reporter at WBBM-TV/Chicago and KNXT-TV/Los Angeles | [143] |
November 5 | Kitty O'Neil | 72 | American stunt-woman, coordinator, and consultant (credits include The Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman, of which she set a women's high-fall record of 127 feet (39 m) at the Valley Hilton in Sherman Oaks, California, later breaking the record with a 180-foot (55 m) fall from a helicopter while filming.) She was also portrayed by Stockard Channing in the biographical TV movie Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story | [144] |
November 12 | Stan Lee | 95 | American comic book writer, best known as co-creator of Spider-Man, Hulk, Doctor Strange, Fantastic Four, The X-Men, Ant-Man, Iron Man, Thor, Daredevil, Black Panther, and many other Marvel Comics properties, many of which were adapted into television series in which Lee made cameos | [145] |
November 13 | Katherine MacGregor | 93 | American actress, notable for portraying Harriet Oleson on Little House On The Prairie | [146] |
November 15 | Roy Clark | 85 | American country musician, best known for co-hosting Hee Haw throughout its run (other TV work includes The Beverly Hillbillies, The Jimmy Dean Show, and numerous guest appearances) | [147] |
November 16 | William Goldman | 87 | Writer (Mr. Horn, City in Fear) | [148] |
November 17 | Mary Kay Stearns | 93 | Creator, writer and co-star of the first made-for-TV sitcom, Mary Kay and Johnny | [149] |
November 21 | Michele Carey | 75 | American actress (Wendy and Me, The Wild Wild West, Gunsmoke, Starsky and Hutch and A Man Called Sloane) | [150] |
November 23 | Wayne Maunder | 80 | Canadian-born American actor, notable for playing George Armstrong Custer in Custer, Scott Lancer in Lancer, and Sergeant Sam MacCray in Chase | [151] |
November 24 | Ricky Jay | 72 | Magician and actor (recurring roles on Deadwood, The Unit, and Kidnapped). Also the only magician ever profiled on American Masters. | [152] |
November 26 | Stephen Hillenburg | 57 | Cartoonist, animator, producer, and teacher, best known as the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants and the director of Rocko's Modern Life | [153] |
November 30 | Kuma von Clifford | 16 | Canine actor (Dog with a Blog, Mutt & Stuff) | [154] |
George H. W. Bush | 94 | 41st President of the United States | [155] |
December
editDate | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
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December 1 | Ken Berry | 85 | American actor, singer, dancer, and personality, notable for his roles as Dr. Kapish on Dr. Kildare, Joe Dalrymple on No Time for Sergeants, Captain Parmenter on F Troop, Sam Jones on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D., a recurrent member of The Carol Burnett Show, the host of his own variety series, and Vinton Harper on Mama's Family; commercial work for Kinney Shoes. | [156] |
December 2 | Paul Sherwen | 62 | English racing cyclist and sportscaster (NBC) | [157] |
December 3 | Philip Bosco | 88 | Actor (recurring roles on Damages, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, TriBeCa, and Liberty! The American Revolution) and voice-over narrator (The Civil War, Freedom: A History of Us, and American Experience) | [158] |
December 4 | Sam Nover | 77 | American sportscaster/sports director at WPXI/Pittsburgh from 1970 to 2001 and play-by-play announcer for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Pittsburgh Steelers. Also worked for NBC Sports and WKBD-TV/Detroit. | [159] |
December 5 | Thomas Billington | 60 | British professional wrestler; better known as the Dynamite Kid | [160] |
December 6 | Larry Hennig | 82 | Professional wrestler. Father of Curt Hennig and grandfather of Curtis Axel. | [161] |
Tim Rossovich | 72 | American football linebacker and actor (Charlie's Angels, When the Whistle Blows, Fantasy Island, Matt Houston, Hart to Hart, The A-Team, All My Children, Automan, Brothers, Knight Rider, Riptide, The Love Boat, The Fall Guy, Perfect Strangers, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Magnum, P.I., Hunter, MacGyver, Jake and the Fatman, Baywatch) | [162] | |
December 7 | Charles Weldon | 78 | American actor (Police Story, The Streets of San Francisco, Kojak, Sanford and Son, A Woman Called Moses, The Rockford Files, Roots: The Next Generations, Hill Street Blues, Gimme a Break!, The Atlanta Child Murders, St. Elsewhere, New York Undercover, Law & Order) | [163] |
December 9 | Rodney Kageyama | 77 | American actor | [164] |
December 10 | Alvin Epstein | 93 | American actor | [165] |
December 13 | Don Webster | 79 | Longtime personality at WEWS-TV/Cleveland | [166] |
Nancy Wilson | 81 | American singer and actress (Burke's Law, I Spy, Room 222, Hawaii Five-O, O'Hara, U.S. Treasury, Search, The F.B.I., Police Story, It's a Living, The Cosby Show, The Sinbad Show, The Parent 'Hood) | [167] | |
December 17 | Penny Marshall | 75 | Actress best known as Laverne DeFazio on Laverne & Shirley. Also film director and producer. Sister of Garry Marshall, mother of Tracy Reiner, and aunt of Scott Marshall. | [168] |
December 19 | Norman Gimbel | 91 | American lyricist; known for writing the lyrics for the theme songs for Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Angie and Wonder Woman | [169] |
December 24 | Jerry Riopelle | 77 | American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer (composed music for the TV movies Evil Roy Slade, Rolling Man, The Bounty Man and Cops) | [170] |
December 26 | Sister Wendy Beckett | 88 | British nun, art historian, and television presenter on the BBC and PBS. | [171] |
Herb Ellis | 97 | American actor (Dragnet, Lux Video Theatre, The Walter Winchell File, The D.A.'s Man, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, M Squad, Peter Gunn, Peter Loves Mary, The Andy Griffith Show, Hennesey, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Bewitched, Dragnet 1967) | [172] | |
December 29 | Sanford Gibbons | 85 | American actor and media personality (Petrocelli, Little House on the Prairie, Father Murphy, The Young Riders) | [173] |
Robert Ruth | 82 | American actor (Green Acres, Mannix, The Magician, Veronica Clare, Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond) | [174] | |
December 30 | Don Lusk | 105 | American animator (TV work includes The Smurfs, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and ten Charlie Brown television specials) | [175] |
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