2018 Obituaries Thread

[Ccook]

Hugh Wilson, creator of the TV sitcom WKRP In Cincinnati, age 74, cause not disclosed.

[Superballer]

If I'm not mistaken, I believe he directed and co-wrote the first Police Academy film as well. 

[Ccook]

Dorothy Malone, of the prime time soap opera Peyton Place as well as big screen features like Written On The Wind (Best Supporting Actress Oscar), of natural causes, age 92.

[Ccook]

John Coleman, meteorologist for WLS in Chicago, ABC’s Good Morning America and co-founder of The Weather Channel, age 83, unknown causes.

[JohnHolder]

1970's NBC daytime programming head Lin Bolen, whose many accomplishments include putting Wheel of Fortune on the air.

[Ccook]

Bolen was 76. She's also been cited with getting rid of Concentration and Jeopardy! from NBC as being "obsolete"  (it was a frictional run-in with Norm Blumenthal as well as getting slotted against CBS's The New Price Is Right that precipitated Concentration being canceled) and pioneering soap operas going a full hour.

[someguy23475]

Jim Rodford, bassist for Argent and the Kinks among others, passed Saturday at age 76.

[PatrickRox80]

Is there a source for Lin Bolen's death? I haven't seen anything.

[blozier2006]

Is there a source for Lin Bolen's death? I haven't seen anything.

I believe it was Jim MacKrell who broke the news on his Facebook page.

[Ccook]

As did Randy West. He wrote a detailed bio on Bolen.

[PatrickRox80]

Ah, that's right. I couldn't see them because I don't have Facebook.

[Ccook]

Jazz trumpeter Hugh Mazekela, whose instrumental "Grazing In The Grass" was a hit in the late 60s, of prostate cancer, age 78.

[Ccook]

Dave Holland, former drummer for Judas Priest, age 69, cause not disclosed.

[Ccook]

Mort Walker, comic strip artist who created Beetle Bailey, has passed on from pneumonia at age 94.

[Superballer]

He also had Hi and Lois, originally created in conjunction with Hagar the Horrible creator Dik Browne, on his resume as well.