STAGE & SCREEN QUEEN
Former fashion model CICELY TYSON, who portrayed strong characters on stage and screen for more than 60 years (she earned a Tony, three Emmys and numerous nominations), was best known for her roles in the films Sounder and The Help and on TV in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots. She died Jan. 28 at age 96 of undisclosed causes.
The only actor to win Emmys for playing the same character (Lou Grant) in both a comedy (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) and a drama (his own spinoff from that hit series, entitled Lou Grant), ED ASNER died of natural causes Aug. 29 at age 91.
PRINCE PHILIP, a decorated World War II veteran and husband to Queen Elizabeth II, died of natural causes in England’s Windsor Castle April 9 at age 99. The longest-serving consort of a British monarch, the Duke of Edinburgh also was the longest-lived male member of the British royal family.
The Academy Award winner for playing mother to Cher’s Loretta in the Oscar-winning 1987 movie Moonstruck, OLYMPIA DUKAKIS boasts other memorable roles in Steel Magnolias and Tales of the City. The prolific theater actress, who was a cousin of Massachusetts politician Michael Dukakis, died May 1 at 89.
By the time he was 10, DEAN STOCKWELL had appeared on Broadway and in movies with such notables as Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. He also is remembered for TV an` film roles in Quantum Leap, Married to the Mob (which earned him an Oscar nomination), Dune and Paris, Texas. He died of natural causes at 85 on Nov. 7.
With an acting career spanning nearly 50 years, NED BEATTY was memorable in Deliverance, Nashville, All the President’s Men, Superman, Rudy, Roseanne, Where the Red Fern Grows, Charlie Wilson’s War and Network, for which he was nominated for his only Oscar. He died of natural causes June 13 at age 83.
Phil and DON EVERLY initially found fame in Nashville by writing songs for Grand Ole Opry star Roy Acuff’s publishing company and then with their own hits, including “Bye Bye Love,” “Wake Up Little Susie,” “All I Have to Do Is Dream” and more. The Everly Brothers were among the first inductees into the ,Rock En ,roll all of Fame. Don died Aug. 21 at age 84. (Brother Phil died in 2014 at 74.)