• Obituaries of Notable People in the Television Category



  • Reg Varney, 92 (1916 - 2008)

    Reg  Varney

    Reg Varney, a comic actor who played a cheery Cockney bus driver in British sitcom "On the Buses," died Sunday, his daughter said. He was 92. Daughter Jeanne Marley said Varney died at a nursing home in Budleigh Salterton, southwest England, after a short illness. Born in east London in 1916, Varney began his career as a singer, piano player and comic in the rough-and-tumble world of...

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  • Heather Pick (2008)

    Heather  Pick

    Columbus, Ohio - Heather Pick, a Columbus TV news anchor who waged a long and public fight with breast cancer, has died. She was 38. On its Web site, WBNS-TV said Heather Pick died Friday at home surrounded by her family. Pick was the morning co-anchor on Channel 10. She was found to have breast cancer in 1999, and she learned in 2004 that the disease had spread to her spine and...

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  • Tony Dean (2008)

    Tony  Dean

    PIERRE, S.D. - Tony Dean, a nationally known outdoor enthusiast who promoted South Dakota with his radio and television shows, died Sunday. He was 67. The Hofmeister Isburg Funeral Chapel confirmed that he died Sunday morning. Dean, whose real name was Anthony DeChandt, returned to his Pierre home last week after being hospitalized for complications from appendix removal. Dean was...

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  • Jack Narz, 85 (1922 - 2008)

    Jack   Narz

    Jack Narz, a longtime game show host who was an early victim of the quiz show scandals of the 1950s when a show he was hosting was canceled, died Wednesday. He was 85. Narz died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications from a stroke, his wife, Delores, said Thursday. Among the shows he hosted over the years were "Video Village," which began in 1960, "Seven Keys," 1961, "I'll Bet,"...

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  • Eileen Herlie, 90 (1918 - 2008)

    Eileen  Herlie

    NEW YORK -- Eileen Herlie, a stage and TV actress who appeared on "All My Children" for more than three decades as the motherly Myrtle Fargate, has died at 90. Herlie died Wednesday of pneumonia, said Julie Hanan Carruthers, the ABC soap opera's executive producer. The actress joined the long-running show in 1976 to play Myrtle, who became the surrogate mother to many of the soap's...

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