I can think of a few:
Michael Conrad - Hill Street Blues
Jack Soo - Barney Miller
John Ritter - 8 Simple Rules
Phil Hartman - NewsRadio
Jerry Orbach - Law and Order
Jon Erik Hexum - cover up.A short 1984 series.Accidental shooting while messing around with a prop gun.
shareNancy Marchand. I'm watching The Sopranos and it's just awful how they brought her back through CGI!
Also Coach from Cheers
Stanley Kamel in Monk
Mrs. Krabappel in The Simpsons
Jock in the original Dallas and Larry Hagman in the Dallas revival
Hoss in Bonanza
Smith from Alias Smith and Jones
Private Walker in Dad's Army
I should have remembered Hoss from Bonanza, my father loved that show. Also Jock from Dallas which I also watched - up till the dream season anyway.
shareDidn't watch Dallas beyond the dream season either. Just horrible.
David Strickland from Suddenly Susan is another one.
David Strickland hanged himself in Vegas
http://www.findadeath.com/directory/s/David_Strickland/index.html
Didn't find out until a few years later. I always thought he left the show because it was crap!
shareJohn Ritter
John Spencer
Patrick Swayze
Andy Whitfield
John Hamilton
George Reeves
Frank Barone on Raymond.
The first mom on 8 is Enough.
Howard's mom on BBT.
Hoss' name was Dan Blocker.
I forgot that Patrick Swayze was doing a series when he died. The Adventures of Superman was finished a year before George Reeves killed himself (allegedly).
shareTake it up with Wikipedia...I checked to make sure...they say it was still in production
Producers planned to continue Adventures of Superman in 1959 with two more years' worth of episodes, to begin airing in the 1960 season. The death of actor John Hamilton threw the plan into disarray. Actor Pierre Watkin was hired to replace Hamilton as "Perry White's brother." Watkin had played Perry White himself in the two Columbia serials and had guested on the series before.
The sudden death of the show's star George Reeves in June 1959 was not the end of the series either, in the producers' eyes. When Jack Larson returned from Europe after the death of Reeves, producers suggested the series could continue as "Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen," with more focus on Larson continuing his character, playing opposite a "Superman" who would be a composite of stock shots of George Reeves and a look-alike stunt double to be filmed from behind. Larson rejected the distasteful idea out of hand, and the series was truly over.
Vic Morrow - Twilight Zone
shareThis always freaks me out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jHwEc0USS4
Alice Pearce - Bewitched (original Mrs. Kravitz)
Marion Lorne - Bewitched (Aunt Clara)
Zara Cully - The Jeffersons (Mother Jefferson)
Freddie Prinze - Chico and The Man (Chico)
Steve Shaw - Knots Landing (Eric)
Larry Riley - Knots Landing (Frank Williams)
Larry Hagman-Dallas
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