#RIP #OTD in 1965 stage, film (What Price Hollywood?, Bed of Roses, Topper, Topper Takes a Trip, Two-Faced Woman), radio, television actress, producer, Constance Bennett died from a cerebral hemorrhage in Fort Dix, New Jersey aged 60. Arlington National @ArlingtonNatl
On this day in 1980 Royal Air Force veteran, comedian and Academy Award-nominated actor, Peter Sellers died in London from a heart attack at the age of 54. Born Richard Henry Sellers on 8 September 1925 in Southsea, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. Perhaps best remembered for his role as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series. My favorite role played by Sellers is the man-child and TV-addicted Chance the gardener in the film, Being There (1979). Sellers married four times; Anne Hayes (1951-1961 divorce), Britt Ekland (1964-1968 divorce), Miranda Quarry (1970-1974 divorce) and Lynne Frederick (1977-1980 his death).
The Final Footprint – Sellers was cremated and his cremated remains are interred at Golders Green Crematorium in London under a rose bush at the far end of the complex next to the Chapel of Memory columbarium. His memorial plaque has the epitaph; “Life is a state of mind” and the term of endearment; WITH EVERLOVING MEMORIES. Other notable Final Footprints at Golders Green include; Kingsley Amis, Marc Bolan, Sigmund Freud, Doris Lessing, Keith Moon, Anna Pavlova, and Bram Stoker. In addition, among those who were cremated here, but whose cremated remains are elsewhere; Neville Chamberlain, T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Vivien Leigh, H. G. Wells, and Amy Winehouse.
On this day in 2011, lawyer, Oklahoma Sooner, the actor who portrayed Senator Pat Geary in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II, G. D. Spradlin died of natural causes at his cattle ranch in San Luis Obispo, California at the age of 90. Born Gervase Duan Spradlin on 31 August 1920 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.
Known for his distinctive accent and voice, he often played devious authority figures. He is credited in over 70 television and film productions.
The Final Footprint – Cremains scattered at his ranch.
#RIP #OTD 2016 soprano, ghost singer (for; Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood in West Side Story, Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady), mother of Andrew Gold, Marni Nixon died from breast cancer in New York City, aged 86. Final footprint not known at this time
#RIP #OTD 2020 television presenter, talk show host, game show host, actor, singer, “the hardest working man in show business” Regis Philbin died from a heart attack in Greenwich, Connecticut, age 88. Cedar Grove Cemetery on the campus of the University of Notre Dame
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