The Episcopal Actors' Guild of America, Inc.
"Charitable help for performers of all faiths, and none"
ANNUAL MEMORIAL LIST, 2008-2009
(as of November 6, 2009)
* designates Guild Members
Alvin Ganzer
Beverly Garland
Stephen Gately
Larry Gelbert
Irving Gertz
Henry Gibson
William Gibson
Steven Gilborn
Thomas Goldsmith
Christel Goltz
Lucy Gordon
Vern Gosdin
Morton Gottlieb
Ellie Grenwich
Jack Grimes
Shelly Gross
Louis (Lou) Guss
John Hager
Monte Hall
Andy Hallet
Bernie Hamilton
Bob Harman
Harry Harris
Tony Hart
Paul Harvey
Syed Alwi Syed Hassan
John Michael Hayes
Donald W. Henderson
Daniel Herbert
Don Hewitt
Michael Higgins
Pat Hingle
Hanne Hiob
Cheryl Holdridge
Timothy Holst
Jim Horne
Israel Horowitz
John Hughes
Lois Hunt
Joe Hyams
Michael Jackson
Lou Jacobi
Maurice Jarre
Choi Jin-sil
Pirkle Jones
Van Johnson
Wik Jongsma
Brenda Joyce
Harry Kalas
Joza Karas
Nicholas Kau
Millard Kaufman
John Kenley
Shih Kien
Lawrence S. King
Jay Kingwell
Eartha Kitt
Alvin Klein
Larry Knechtel
Marie Knight
Alfred A. Knopf, Jr.
Joan Kobin
Mark Landon
Don Lane
Pearl Lang
Alicia de Larrocha
Danny La Rue
Sid Laverents
Robert E. A. Lee
Hugh Leonard
John Leonard
Drake Levin
Wayne Lewellen
Al Lewis
Oreste Lionello
Terry Little
Alan Livingston
Hank Locklin
Les Lye
Rita Lloyd
George MacPherson
Miriam Makeba
Karl Malden
Anna Manahan
Frankie Manning
Jack Manning
Patricia Marand
Frank Marino
Jose Luis "Chavito" Marrero
Mary Katherine Marion
Maria Elena Marques
Al Martino
Maxine Marx
Francis Mason
Judi Ann Mason
Nicholas Maw
Ekaterina Maximova
Bob May
Billy Mays
Frank McCourt
Jody McCrea
Roger McFarlan
Virginia Davis McGhee
John McGlinn
Patrick McGoohan
Ed McMahon
Brooks McNamara
Mike Mearian*
Daniel Melnick
Mae Mercer
Carol Mitchell-Leon
Michael D. Mitchell
Mitch Mitchell
Vic Mizzy
Zakes Mokae
Ricardo Montalban
Anna Karen Morrow
John Mortimer
Robert Mulligan
Tharon Musser
Gerald Myers
Daniel Nagrin
Matagoro Nakamura
George Na'ope
Max Neuhaus
Christopher Nolan
Odetta
Nora O'Brien
Tom O'Horgan
Elaine Cancilla Orbach
Nancy Overton
Anita Page
Bette Page
Milton Parker
Les Paul
George Perle
Lou Perryman
Sammy Petrillo
Tullio Pinelli
Harold Pinter
Boris Pokrovsky
Jules Power
Harve Presnell
Andre Pokovsky
Robert Prosky
Keith Pruitt
Edmund Purdom
Jonn Quade
Mansour Rahbani
Ed Reimers
Rosetta Reitz
Trevor Rhone
Wendy Richard
Natasha Richardson
Shirley Jean Rickert
Terence Rigby
Clint Ritchie
John 'Mr. Magic' Rivas
Beverly Roberts
Ken Roberts
Majel Roddenberry
Peter Rogers
Mira Rostova
Jill Roth *
Barbara Rubenstein
Jack Rylyn
Soupy Sales
Salvatore Samperi
Darrell Sandeen
Olga San Juan
Dorothy Sarnoff
Ann Savage
Francis B. Sayre, Jr.
Reuben Schafer
Doris Ann Scharfenberg
Charles Schneer
Gerald Schoenfeld
Budd Schulberg
Norman Seaman
Mike Seeger
Ron Silver
Johannes Mario Simmel
Lee Solters
Roy A. Somlyo
Evgenios Spatharis
Joan Stanton
Robert St. Clair
Ray Dennis Steckler
Milan Stitt
Gale Storm
Bill Story
Robert V. Straus
Miguelangel Suarez
Mollie Sugden
Dolores Sutton
Marina Svetlova
Patrick Swayze
Larry Swansen
Clarence Swenson
Ned Tanen
Eleanor Tauber*
Ronald Tavel
Koko Taylor
Wayne Tippit
Fred Travalena
Mary Travers
Tracy Trevett
Reg Varney
Gordon Waller
Sandra Warfield
Dale Wasserman
Keith Waterhouse
Coy Watson Jr.
Delmar Watson
Douglas Watt
Mimi Weddell
Kate Robertson Whitehead
James Whitmore
Collin Wilcox
Ben Williams
Simon Channing Williams
Susan Willis*
Eileen Winters
Joseph Wiseman
Jack Wrangler
Timothy D. Wright
Oleg Yankovsky
George Vlachos
Dennis Yost
Gilberto Zaldivar
Howard Zieff
Alberto Zoppe
George Zoritch
Allen Zwerdling
The Guild's Annual Memorial Service has been an ongoing tradition since our founding in 1923. This year's Annual Memorial List is featured here and is updated weekly. It commemorates and celebrates the lives and careers of our performing arts colleagues who have deceased during the previous year. Held on the second Sunday of November in our National Headquarters, "The Little Church Around the Corner," it features a Memorial Address by an invited luminary of the performing arts community, and an enthusiastic standing ovation for our deceased colleagues. It is a unique and unforgettable event, and performers of all beliefs are most welcome to attend.
Doris Cole Abrahams
Stanley Ackerman
Captain Lou Albano
Frank Aletter
Betty Allen
Walter Allwine
Maryann Amacher
Abdul-Khaliq al-Mukhtar
Robert Anderson
Ken Annakin
Army Archerd
Bea Arthur
Paulette Attie *
Clive Barnes
Ray Barrett
Peter Basco
Pina Bausch
Molly Bee
Hildegard Behrens
Paul Benedict
Estelle Bennett
Dick Berg
Claude Berri
Giulio Bertola
Betsy Blair
Frances Blaisdell
Hal Blankenship
Eric Blau
Monica Bleibtreu
Joseph Bloch
Augusto Boal
Bob Bogle
Marguerite Bonham *
Victoria Boothby *
Sam Bottoms
Jimmy Boyd
Irving Brecher
Stefan Brecht
James Brady
Delaney Bramlett
Lance Cpl. Julian Brennan
Dorothy Bridges
Ernest Brown
Robert Delford Brown
Anne Wiggins Brown
Baird Bryant
Dorothy Bryce*
Michael Buckley
Donald Buka
Paul Burke
Douglas Campbell
Jack Cardiff
Phil Carey
David Carradine
Jim Carroll
Mickey Carroll
Martha Randall Carson *
John C. Carter
Page Cavanaugh
Marilyn Chambers
Robert Chandler
Schuyler Chapin
Sydney Chaplin
B.R. Chopra
Dina Cocea
Frank Coghlan, Jr.
Sam Cohn
Carol Cole
Doris Cole
Tom Cole
Chris Connor
Russ Conway
Marilyn Cooper
Pierre Cossette
Walter Cronkite
David Thomas Crowe
Merce Cunningham
T. Scott Cunningham
Frank Currier*
John Daly
Carolyn George D'Amboise
Altovise Davis
Virginia Davis
John Dawson
Blossom Dearie
Roy DeCarava
Ennio De Concini
Art D'Lugoff
Dom DeLuise
Peter Dennis
Edward Downes
James T. Dukas *
Dominick Dunne
Vera Links Eliscu
Harry Endo
Gage Bush Englund
Eva Evdokimova
Elsa Fabregas
Ellen Faull
Farrah Fawcett
Raymond Federman
Art Ferrante
Suzanne Fiol
Ezio Flagello
Flemming Flindt
Nina Foch
Horton Foote
Peter A. Fopeano
Ruth Ford
Lukas Foss
Susanna Foster
Jack Frankel*
John Furia, Jr.
Don Galloway
Danny Gans