People we lost in 2009.

[Wayne Manor]

Chas Balun
Paul Naschy
Dick Durock
Edmund Purdom
John Hughes

[Hellbilly]

Marilyn Chambers
Bea Arthur

[Nailwraps]

Ricardo Moltaban (pardon the spelling)
Billy Mays
Patrick Swayze
Brittany Murphy
Michael Jackson
Walter Cronkite
Ted Kennedy
Ed McMahon
Ferrah Fawcett
David Carrandine
Roy E. Disney
Zelda Rubinstein
Captain Lou Albano
Rowland S. Howard
Chas Balun

You really have taken your toll Death. You must be really proud.

[ArrowBeach]

Patrick McGoohan
James Whitmore
Natsha Richardson
Ron Silver
John Updike
Henry Gibson
Paul Harvey
Karl Marlden
Jennifer Jones
Dom DeLuise

and music guys like

Jim Carroll
Les Paul
Lex Interior

[vampyr789]

Heath Ledger
Michael Jackson
Patrick Swayze
Brittany Murphy

[Katatonia]

Pat Hingle
Soupy Sales
Fred Travalena
Brenda Joyce
Beverly Roberts
Lucy Gordon
Wayne Allwine
Jane Randolph
Maurice Jarre
Betsy Blair

Celebrity animal deaths:

"Socks" the former first cat
“Gidget” the Taco Bell Dog

Man, there's a lot of misspelled names in this thread!

[Wayne Manor]

Here's something I missed from earlier this year:

"Louis Byron "Lou" Perryman (August 15, 1941 – April 1, 2009), also known as Lou Perry, was an American character actor. He acted in a number of small roles both on television and in films such as The Blues Brothers, Poltergeist, Boys Don't Cry and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.

He was a film crew member on the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre film.

Perryman was killed in his home in Austin, Texas on April 1, 2009, allegedly by a 26-year-old man named Seth Christopher Tatum. He had been stabbed several times with a sharp object."

[Erick H.]

Originally Posted by Wayne Manor

Here's something I missed from earlier this year:

"Louis Byron "Lou" Perryman (August 15, 1941 – April 1, 2009), also known as Lou Perry, was an American character actor. He acted in a number of small roles both on television and in films such as The Blues Brothers, Poltergeist, Boys Don't Cry and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.

He was a film crew member on the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre film.

Perryman was killed in his home in Austin, Texas on April 1, 2009, allegedly by a 26-year-old man named Seth Christopher Tatum. He had been stabbed several times with a sharp object."

Yes,I had read about that one,dreadful story.

Of the well reported deaths Natasha Richardson's was the most startling to me.Awful,such a simple thing leading to such a tragedy.Brittany Murphy's passing was also a jolt.So young.Terrible.

[dickieduvet]

Steve 'Doc Death' Williams
Andrew 'Test' Martin

[dave13]

Originally Posted by Wayne Manor

Here's something I missed from earlier this year:

"Louis Byron "Lou" Perryman (August 15, 1941 – April 1, 2009), also known as Lou Perry, was an American character actor. He acted in a number of small roles both on television and in films such as The Blues Brothers, Poltergeist, Boys Don't Cry and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.

He was a film crew member on the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre film.

Perryman was killed in his home in Austin, Texas on April 1, 2009, allegedly by a 26-year-old man named Seth Christopher Tatum. He had been stabbed several times with a sharp object."

holy shit. just last week i was watching the bonus material for tcm2 and virtually every cast and crew member interviewed went out of their way to praise the guy. until then i wasnt aware of him at all. he seemed like such a genuinely nice person. not that anyone deserves to die that way, but it seems particularly awful when it happens to someone like that.