Dead Celebrity Alert

LOS ANGELES (Oct. 29) - Teen actress Tara Correa-McMullen, who portrayed a former gang member in the TV show “Judging Amy,” was shot to death amid gang violence, police said. … Read full obituary

October 26, 2005 — Wellington Mara, the patriarch of the National Football League, who served as a ball boy for the leather-helmeted 1925 Giants and later turned the team - founded by his father - into one of the marquee names in professional sports, died yesterday at his home in Rye, N.Y. He was 89. … Read full obituary

Rosa Parks, the black woman whose 1955 arrest for saying “no” to an order to give her bus seat to a white man served as a catalyst for the U.S. civil-rights movement, died today. She was 92. Parks died of natural causes at her home, the Associated Press reported, citing Karen Morgan, a spokeswoman for U.S. Representative John Conyers of Michigan, who was Parks’ former employer. … Read full obituary

CANTON, Ohio, Oct. 11 (AP) — Angelo Argea, who spent two decades as Jack Nicklaus’s caddie, died here Monday at the home of his nephew. He was 75. … Read full obituary

ATLANTA (AP) - Vivian Malone Jones, one of two black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama led to George Wallace’s infamous “stand in the schoolhouse door” in 1963, died Thursday. She was 63. … Read full obituary

Theodore Joseph Peshak died Sunday at his Lake Forest home at 87. …

He directed some 350 educational films for Coronet Educational Films in Glenview. … Read full obituary

Filmography from the IMDB:

1. Citizenship and You (1959)
2. Clothes and You: Line and Proportion (1954)
3. Choosing Your Marriage Partner (1952)
4. Date Etiquette (1952)
5. High School: Your Challenge (1952)
6. Going Steady? (1951)
7. Good Table Manners (1951)
8. How Billy Keeps Clean (1951)
9. Improve Your Personality (1951)
10. What to Do On a Date (1951)
11. Appreciating Your Parents (1950)
… aka Appreciating Our Parents (USA)
12. The Benefits of Looking Ahead (1950)
13. Control Your Emotions (1950)
14. Developing Friendships (1950)
15. Developing Your Character (1950)
16. Earning Money While Going to School (1950)
17. Fun of Being Thoughtful (1950)
18. Fun of Making Friends (1950)
19. Good Sportsmanship (1950)
20. How Do You Know It’s Love? (1950)
21. The Solar System (1950)
22. Act Your Age (1949)
23. Are You a Good Citizen? (1949)
24. Attitudes and Health (1949)
25. Choosing Your Occupation (1949)
26. Dating: Do’s and Don’ts (1949)
27. Exercise and Health (1949)
28. Family Life (1949)
29. Friendship Begins at Home (1949)
30. Everyday Courtesy (1948)
31. Are You Popular? (1947)
32. Shy Guy (1947)

TV comedy actor Ronnie Barker, who starred in Porridge and The Two Ronnies, has died aged 76.

One of the most loved and respected comedy performers of his generation, he was best known as one half of a double act with Ronnie Corbett. … Read full obituary

Nipsey Russell, an actor and comedian whose impromptu versifying was familiar in years past to TV game show and late-night talk show audiences, died Oct. 2 of cancer at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

Mr. Russell didn’t have a birth certificate, so his age couldn’t officially be confirmed, said Joseph Rapp, Mr. Russell’s manager for nearly 40 years. He was either 81 or 82… Read full obituary