A Trip Down Memory Lane Through The Deaths Of Pop Culture Figures From My Youth! RIP

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A Trip Down Memory Lane Through The Deaths Of Pop Culture Figures From My Youth! RIP.

As I was looking through out RIP tag I was flooded with so many fond memories of actors or others that had impacted my youth. I then realized we hadn’t covered some of the more consequential deaths from my fave TV shows in my opinions some because they were a long time ago and others because it wasn’t splashy news. So, here are a few of the deaths that touched me because their work in life touched in my youth.

Bill Bixby of Incredible Hulk TV fame passes away on November 21, 1993 at the age of 59.

Noah Beery Jr. of The Rockford Files passes away on November 1, 1994 at the age of 81.

Martin Balsam of Six Million Dollar Man TV movie pilot passes away on February 13, 1996 at the age of 76.

DeForest Kelley of Star Trek fame passes away on June 11, 1999 at the age of 79.

Carroll O’Connor of All In The Family fame passes away on June 21, 2001 at the age of 76.

James Doohan of Star Trek fame passes away on July 20, 2005 at the age of 85.

Jack Colvin of Incredible Hulk passes away on December 1, 2005 at the age of 71.

Andreas Katsulas of an Incredible Hulk TV movie and Babylon 5 passes away on February 13, 2006 at the age of 59.

Tom Bosley of Murder She Wrote and Happy Days passes away on October 19, 2010 at the age of 83.

William Windom of Murder She Wrote passes away on August 16, 2012 at the age of 88.

Jean Stapleton, also of All In The Family, passes away on May 31, 2013 at the age of 90.

Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek fame passes away on February 27, 2015 at the age of 83.

Martin E. Brooks of the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman passes away on December 7, 2015 at the age of 90.

Aron Eisenberg of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine passes away on September 21, 2019 at the age of 50.

René Auberjonois of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Benson,  passes away on December 8, 2019 at the age of 79.

John is a long-time pop culture fan, comics historian, and blogger. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief at Comics Nexus. Prior to being EIC he has produced several column series including DEMYTHIFY, NEAR MINT MEMORIES and the ONE FAN'S TRIALS at the Nexus plus a stint at Bleeding Cool producing the COMICS REALISM column. As BabosScribe, John is active on his twitter account, his facebook page, his instagram feed and welcomes any and all feedback. Bring it on!