Leonard Frey, Actor, Dies at 49; Was in 'Fiddler' and Other Films, https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/25/obituaries/leonard-frey-actor-dies-at-49-was-in-fiddler-and-other-films.html. Was he the Bufferin or Anacin guy? Adolph Archie, a petty criminal, escapes from a work release program, and trying to steal a car, he assaults a security guard, takes her gun and runs. Remi Laurent -- he played the son in the original film of La Cage aux Folles (1978) and died in 1989. I met good people from all over while in the elevators (new technology, no buttons inside the elevator. Hi, R170. On August 24, 1988, Leonard Frey died of non-communicable disease. (Tragically for the Murphy family, his younger brother Patrick Sean Murphy died in the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.). When I called his family to let them know we were going to have a tribute, I was referred to his brother. What about Jim Henson? Not actors, but the founders of the fun, doomed FILMEX in LA, Gary and Gary. Court Miller, one of the actors in Torch Song Trilogy, and Kim Milford, who was on Broadway in Hair and Rocky Horror Larry Kert, the original Tony in West Side Story, replaced Dean Jones in Company, died of AIDS. That leaves Curtis, who won the Tony for "The Rothschilds". Rollins was wonderful. I was awed by the number of handsome and talented young men playing the dancing waiters. Speaking of Chores boys, I would say Michael C. Hall is HIV. It was awful. Couldn't remmber his name. Handsome yes, but I didn't realize he was downright HOT on Dark Shadows! I ask at IMDb but apparently it's some big mystery. I truly hope they find a cure for this (and other) dreadful diseases. People have all kinds of different personal relationships. r74 that's pecisely what makes this thread so sad - the unfinished stories, the what ifs A tribute to Rock Hudson or Liberace isnt half as sad because those stars hit a home run and ten some. We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born However, lots and lots of men in their 30s and 40s died unusually young from cancer or pneumonia :P A high school friend, a talent musician, died of aids. There's no mention of AIDS-related death. So did Curt Dawson, who did several soaps, including Another World. Kenny Sacha- He played the Rose drag queen in The Rose among other things. He died in 1994. John Hargreaves, Australian actor who was in Don's Party died of AIDS. I moved to NYC as an 18 year-old in 1981, coinciding with the official beginning of the AIDS epidemic. Irresponsible, maybe. Mark Lester is very much alive. Died Place. The other clip shows him in a bizarre scene seemingly about to shove his dick into Barnabas's mouth. Didn't she also date Robert Downey Jr. at one time? Davis was dying of AIDS and then the wife helped him commit suicide before the the end came naturally. Peter Coffield who was in a ton of TV series and TV movies in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as well as commercials. No, he died on 08/24/1988, He was 49 years old when he died. I'm shocked that no one's mentioned Legit Actor/Porn Actor/Singer, Dennis Parker aka Wade Nichols yet. He will be remembered for his goofy smile, his contagious laugh, his horrible Frey received critical acclaim in 1968 for his performance as Harold in off-Broadway's The Boys in the Band. R39 - Joel Crothers will always be Joe Haskell from Dark Shadows in my heart. I also appeared in a successful Off Broadway production in the 80s. [quote]R18 [R10]--how can you POSSIBLY have left out mention of Frey as Harold in "The Boys in the Band"? I sure would have liked to have a piece of that! He appears to have died of AIDS in the mid1980s, and his partner, Gerald Mast, a film historian, died a few years later. Interestingly, Richard Lester had cast a different boy as Bobby, but several people (probably RW included) told him that the kid wasn't pretty enough, so Lester fired the poor guy and found someone better looking. How did he survive from 85 to 90 alone? I just found this post online regarding Dennis Parker (Wade Nichols): [quote] Dennis and I were friends from the early 80s until his death. r62 a 4th member of the original cast died of AIDS -- Rene Clemente, who played Coricopat. Although he didn't die of AIDs, he contracted the disease and then shot himself at age 55: handsome actor Todd Armstrong, the lead in Jason and the Argonauts (1963). Yeah, that video of Michael Jeter is pure joy. He infected comedian Corbett Monica's daughter (Corbett Monica used to tour with Rat Packers as an opening act) and she sued his estate. "They say Brad Davis got Aids from a needle transfusion ?". Really appreciate this effort to remember these fellas. Though I don't mean to compare two very different world disasters, I figured if the memory of the World Wars was kept alive for so long, even after certain nations had become our allies, something similar can be done with the AIDS crisis years. He was 49 years old. May be was a bbbbbbb..bbbbiisekshool. [quote]Musical theatre for anyone with a brain died with AIDS. He always had his bicycle with him. Most depressing thread ever. I just checked his bio, and it says he died of Alzheimers. Either youre too young or your memory is failing you, but clearly you forget what it was (and in some instances, still is) like to be an actor of color in 1981. When I watch musicals of the 60's and 70's, or old television variety shows with bunches of male dancers - I'm always sad that probably most of them died of AIDS in the first wave. Apparently wasa heroin user. Apparently Keene was always bugging him for sex, promising to give him a blowjob if Robby would suck his dick too. So many talented chorus men from the 80's. Vanessa Redgrave's first husband, Tony Richardson (though better known as a director). I thought he had been living with AIDS for 20 years, but it's 30, which is a huge difference. Jeffrey's big number, "We Beseech Thee", which was cut from the movie version, Anton Diffring (German actor who played Nazis in many post-World War II films), Bill Beyer, who played Wally on the soap "Capitol". Jonathon Scott Taylor apparently retired from acting took a law degree and is living somewhere in England. I doubt his HIV-status when he died is secret to anyone. Wow, thank you, r166. Thanks for that link, r44. [quote]The audio commentary for the Doctor Who series Silver Nemesis mentions he left Germany in 1936, as he was not enamored of fascism and further that he was a homosexual. Other cast members included Elizabeth Allen, Dennis Cole, Jeanne Cooper, Peter Haskell, Linda Harrison, Karen Jensen, Madlyn Rhue, and Laraine Stephens. Gorgeous German hunk Amadeus August - died in 1992 at age 50. [quote]Brett was gay after his marriage to Anna Massey. who should have been famous if they hadn't been taken from the world prematurely. No AIDS, and not gay, although he was very gay friendly. right before he died, talking about how he had to hide the fact he had AIDS and no one would hire him, etc. Denholm Elliot was actually well known to American viewers through his role of Marcus in the Indiana Jones movies. A good conversation starter. He acted in several operas, including ''Die Fledermaus,'' with Beverly Sills and Joan Sutherland. Is this why we're such bitter old things? See the article in its original context from. Yes, I agree, Michael Jeter was more than semi-famous. Dennis Stewart 1994- Craterface in Grease. That first guy was smoking hot..to bad he got a dirty load. [quote]For years, I thought that Keene Curtis died of AIDS. Robert Drivas - interesting young American actor, also naked in "The Illustrated Man" with Rod Steiger, and in "Where Its At" with David Janssson and DL fave Brenda Vacarro, he also had a small part in "Cool Hand Luke". Tom McBride is probably best-remembered as one of the more famous unfortunate victims of Jason Voorhees: in Friday the 13th Part II (1981), he played Mark, the wheelchair-bound camp counselor who gets a machete in the face. But I swear I saw it once in a soap mag but never again. Uh Terry Lester died of AIDS complications, he wasted away and a heart attack did him in. Cade Frey (Michael) Cade Michael Frey, 18, of Farmersburg, passed away on Tuesday, November 24, 2020. ; Hart to Hart; Barney Miller (1975 episode: 'The Escape Artist' & 1980 episode: 'Vanished', part 2); Moonlighting; Murder, She Wrote; and the miniseries Testimony of Two Men, as well as a co-starring role as the villainous Parker Tillman on the short-lived ABC western comedy Best of the West,[3] and Raymond Holyoke on Mr. Smith, which ran for 13 episodes on NBC in fall 1983. WebCause of death: Stabbed Motive: Killed by accident when he tried to stop Carol from destroying the picture she posed for, after realizing he didn't love her. I haven't read about the dust thing. He had no money at his death, so she didn't get anything. Was he on a wire with a harness under his tux? There's an excellent article about Wade Nichols (Dennis Parker) on The Rialto Report, that includes interviews with his family and friends and some great pictures from his pre-fame days. [1] After attending James Madison High School,[1] he studied art at Cooper Union, with designs on becoming a painter, then switched to acting at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse[1] under acting coach Sanford Meisner, and pursued a career in theater. James Frey, the disgraced author whose literary career was supplanted by turns as a reality TV star, ad pitchman, and philanthropist, was found dead of a heart attack in his Los Angeles mansion. In more inland areas, downed trees were more often the cause of death. He died in 1995 and was 52. r319 There have always been many gays and bis in the military, independent of not allowed. Hal Rubenstein won't die, because he IS THE UNDEAD! During those times they just used other illnesses to cloak the real reasons but these were sexually active gay men who died young. Anthony Perkins admitted he had AIDS In his last couple of months. That DALLAS actor was so young and beautiful. He was gay and eccentric. He was a lovely, talented man and had a wonderful partner in EJ Alexander. I think it's the perfect kind of "interesting failure" type of film that is ripe for a remake. Jr. R104, you should cite what you're quoting, for the baby-gays r75, there is a way to measure the loss of the artists who were and stars never achieved. He wasn't mentioned in obits. One of the very WORST people I have EVER had the displeasure to meet, and see in action. Those who knew Lenny knew it was AIDS, and he lost many of those people from his life because it was early in the plague years. Armstrong was dubbed. Did so many actors, and other people in show business, who died of AIDS have their families, and managers etc, go to such extremes to cover up the real cause of their deaths? He is survived by a brother, Charles Frey Jr., and a nephew, Charles Frey 3d. But he obviously had a voracious appetite for sex. He must have been a pushy bottom then.He was kind of an outcast in Germany as he was half Jewish. Daniel McDonald had a brain tumor. I loved Michael Jeter in Green Mile and The Gift. We became good friends and spent a lot of time together, He and his partner and my husband and I socialized frequently..he even helped my husband build bookshelves and a window seat in our apartment. Died at 49 in 1989 - GREAT actor, so sad to lose him (used to see him around the UWS when I lived in NYC in the 80's.). After his death, all these years later, his family have never commented on Julia's cause of death. He was a smart and lovely guy. R263 my mind always goes there, too. R295 Is Miss Hal a bottom? You think she was lying? Recently watched the movie If. (1968) and was struck by actor Richard Warwick; I was sure Id seen him in something else and sure enough he also appeared in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and Sebastiane (1976) interestingly, in all 3 films, his character was implied to be or definitely was gay. This is quite possibly the gayest name ever. Frey remained as GM through the 1991 season, when he was replaced by Larry Himes after Frey's power I can't remember where i posted them. Hello. I mean you know that must be true. He had a sexy high voice. She noticed that he spent a lot of time with gay male "friends" but just chalked it up to his being very "gay friendly." She was a fat, nasty, prejudiced bitch who sold horrible food but you never saw paparazzi or blue police barriers or limos at her place. Who knows what's up with that marriage, but they support each other and that's that. R63 Daniel McDonald was married, had 2 kids and reportedly died of brain cancer. r123, he made hot porn. WebIs Leonard Frey still alive? Leonard Frey, who played the role of Motel the tailor in the 1971 movie Fiddler on the Roof after being featured in the Broadway production, is dead of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Leonard Frey was a gifted comic actor who could do drama as well. Sad to see that Baltimora "Tarzan Boy" and comedian Frank Maya both died of AIDS. I saw Carol Channing in one of her revivals of Hello Dolly in the early 80s. Timothy Patrick Murphy is best known of his portrayal of the doomed Mickey Trotter Rays nephew and a love interest for Lucy before hes paralyzed in a car accident with Sue Ellen in the 82-83 season of Dallas; in 1984, he played the title role in Sams Son, Michael Landons semi-autobiographical TV movie about his youth and his struggles with his family. He got off at 88 St and I wondered, "WTF is he doing in this neighborhood at night? Robert Drivas' wonderful ass in "The Illustrated Man". click ACCEPT. Well that was true. Handsome Paul Keenan best known from his work on "Days of Our Lives" and "Dynasty" is notable in that he was one of the first actors to admit he was suffering from AIDS and was gay, rather than trying to cover it up. Works. I didn't realize that BOB from "twin Peaks". Whenever I watch the movie version of "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas" , I.wonder how many of those beautiful talented dancers in the football team locker room number are still with us. This thread always bums me out when it resurfaces. I loved her. Stephen W. Burns made a potentially promising film debut in the last (and worst) of the initial Herbie films, Herbie Goes Bananas (1980), replaced Mark Harmon in the last 3 episodes of the LA paramedics TV series 240 Robert (1981) and, in the role that probably brought him his biggest exposure, played Jack Cleary, one of Meggies brothers, in the classic miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983). WebLeonard Frey. He died in New York City. I remember the last time I saw him before he died I brought tapes from the US which contained episodes of Frasier. Official cause of death was an intentional overdose of narcotics (assisted suicide). So he made his mark playing Nazis in the UK. Except the people that talk to it.]. The "official" story back then was cancer of the throat caused by his inexperience as a singer in "A Love My Wife", which is the lousiest cover story I'd ever heard. Very good threadbut r2's link was bad! And who could ever forget Michael Jeter as Ethel Merman in "The Fisher King" ? Cookie Mueller. - Susan Brooks. Morali and Parker allegedly became lovers and teamed up for Parker's one and only LP, 'Like an Eagle', released in 1979 on Casablanca Records, the infamous Los Angeles label run by cocaine-crazed Neil Bogart. NEW YORK (AP) _ Leonard Frey, who played the role of Motel the tailor in the 1971 movie Fiddler on the Roof, has died of AIDS. The handsome Tom Fuccello, who played Sen. Dave Culver on "Dallas." Played "Johnny" in the Airplane movies. Richard Warwick portrayed Uncas in the 1971 tv series The Last of the Mohicans. John Abineri portrayed Chingachgook (say that three times fast). Strange that they didn't just make Bracken a woman and have Eleanor Parker play that. During the first season, Eleanor Parker received top billing as Sylvia Caldwell, executive secretary to John Bracken, who was sometimes heard but never seen, but Parker left the series after the first 16 episodes, citing the limited nature of her role. I find it too cutesy for words. number then drops dead, somewhere in act 2". I. Saw many great musicals as a kid. R148: Could you be thinking of Gene Anthony Ray? R168 - I guess I didn't read carefully enough because I thought I waste first to mention him, at rwhatever I was. Howard Rollins from In the Heat of the Night, Whoops I'm late. Get details on someones death such as date of death, place of death, surviving relatives, assets, and more! When the second season began, Leslie Nielsen joined the cast to portray Bracken. WebNo, he died on 08/24/1988, 33 years ago. I have only ever seen Joel from the 70s and later, with the moustache. He was a very sexy man. He doesn't mention him by name, but calls him a much older, Tony-winning actor in the show. You might want to stop talking to it.]. I had to move out and move on. How the hell could he throw himself around like a rag doll that way? R90, the guy who played Al was also a longtime Solid Gold dancer who got this young gay hot week after week. Even more depressing: the thought of the hundreds of actors, writers, comedians, etc. [quote]Strange that they didn't just make Bracken a woman and have Eleanor Parker play that. Born Dennis Posa in Long Island, our struggling auteur co-opted the name Wade Nichols in the mid-70's when he started doing skinflicks, initially gay and then seguing exclusively into straight porn. BTW, I lived through this in the 1980s. I had never heard this before, so I can't confirm the veracity of the claim. Please click here to update your account with a username and password. An incredibly nice man. As a character actor, he often played roles of a comic nature. 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