Hope it gets off the ground this century. Not for nothing, I assumed you were R25. Dennis Parker aka soap star, disco singer, and porn actor. Steven Gelfer, 'Carbucketty' in the original Broadway production of "Cats", December 26, 1988. He was a lovely, talented man and had a wonderful partner in EJ Alexander. I remember telling my photography teacher soon after Ritts' death that it was because of AIDS so I had read about it pretty soon after. He was 49. Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble. Dexter Stuffins from Silver Spoons ( Franklyn Seals) died from AIDS. David Oliver, appeared on "Another World" from 1983 to 1985, then landed a role in the acclaimed mini-series "A Year in the Life" (1986), playing Sarah Jessica Harper's husband, a role he reprised when it was turned into a series for the 1987-88 season. It's traumatic for me to read these. [quote]It's tempting to turn this man's incredible story into a camp snapshot, a tawdry tale of the externalities of showbiz. During those times they just used other illnesses to cloak the real reasons but these were sexually active gay men who died young. "They say Brad Davis got Aids from a needle transfusion ?". He was rumored to have had a relationship with Frank Langella. He always pinged to me even though he was married and had a son. Hello and thank you for being a DL contributor. r195, do you mean Playgirl's own Chris George? Mark Lester is very much alive. He must have been a pushy bottom then.He was kind of an outcast in Germany as he was half Jewish. He was linked to actor Jeremy Brett, they may have been a couple. Sarah Jessica Parker 'dated' Timothy Murphy, played David Oliver's wife and co-starred with Merrit Butrick. Most of the cast from "The Boys In the Band" (1970). It always went down a treat! [quote]I don't know very much about Diffring's private life beyond the fact that he was gay . When I saw that movie for the first time--I was about 14 or so--I remember having crush on him, and then when he has that scene where he's in bed with the cute blonde Bobby Phillips, my heart nearly exploded. [quote'It's a terrible curse,' Heat star Carroll O'Connor has said of what he calls his friend and co-star's substance-abuse problems. It seems unlikely that he continued shooting them after the Edge contract began but was probably ending up on VHS formats of 16mm reels he had shot earlier. Apparently Keene was always bugging him for sex, promising to give him a blowjob if Robby would suck his dick too. Our town was rocked when one of the leading businessmen went into rehab, and this was back when rehab was a big deal. OK, that's bizarre and kind of maybe explains why when he came to pick me up for that last/aborted date he took a bath at my place. I had to move out and move on. I remember how powerful he was in "Ragtime", and he got an Oscar nomination for that, and I thought he'd have an amazing career thereafter. There is nothing like a good thread like this to cheer me up. 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. Rather a Peter O'Toole lookalike, the good-looking actor was in lots of British movies and TV including 'Zulu', and the newly re-released 'Wake In Fright' (originally titled 'Outback') made in Australia in 1971, he was also Anne Boleyn's lover in 'Anne Of The Thousand Days'. Not too many opportunities available, even with character/supporting/secondary roles. It never does. Frey was attending the Oscar night party at Elaine's. R258 I didn't know that. He was in lots of films around then, and is naked in "The Breaking of Bumbo" with the lovely fragrant Joanna Lumley in 1970. WebBrooklyn, New York, USA. Official cause of death was an intentional overdose of narcotics (assisted suicide). Not a good guy but hot. 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. On The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode titled "Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcaster's School," airing February 22, 1975,[4] Frey played the role of The Student.[4] Frey's final role was Walter Witherspoon in the television movie Bride of Boogedy. [all posts by tedious, racist idiot removed.]. The series centers on a powerful head of Century Studios and a group of up-and-coming starlets. Broadway power tenor David Carroll, OBC star of Chess and Grand Hotel, And then there's Brad Davis, though he's probably more than just semi-famous. A truly beautiful man! OP -- I had such a crush on Richard Warwick and, like another poster, that scene in IF when he's in bed with beautiful blond Bobby Phillips was the first time I had seen two men in bed together. I just learned of his death when I was listening to the audio commentary. And he took off his shirt a lot on AYITL. He was a smart and lovely guy. It's been well documented that he was one of Rudolph Nureyev's lovers and slept with directors and producers of both sexes to further his career. Tim Scott was the "longtime companion" (that's what we called them in those days) of Norman Buckley, brother of Betty. I came of age in the early 80s and hung onto the closet door with both hands super tight, I thought you didn't even have to have sex to get AIDS; you'd just develop it, triggered by the gay gene already in your body. Peter Tramm the substitute dancer for Kevin Bacon in Footloose. R168 - I guess I didn't read carefully enough because I thought I waste first to mention him, at rwhatever I was. Cause of death: death from AIDS-related complications. The story that Wade committed suicide is false. I believe Tim Scott had been involved with Ian Charleson when the former was in CHORUS LINE in London. Did you know his friend John from NY (also an old roommate)? Frey, who died Please click here to update your account with a username and password. His work for the Ritchie Family was all over the map with LP's like 'African Queens' rating quite high and ones like 'American Generation' quite low. Having studied art from the time he was 8, he was headed toward a career as a painter, but decided to change goals, switching from Cooper Union to the Neighborhood Playhouse. An incredibly nice man. Can't remember. No AIDS, and not gay, although he was very gay friendly. New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA. He started going out on location wearing a wig and women's clothes. Speaking of GG, I think the black actor who served the Girls at the Diner on Xmas eve (in season 2) also died of AIDS, though I would have to look it up. Howard Rollins from In the Heat of the Night, Whoops I'm late. Stephen Schwartz was a good friend of Billy Byers. He married 227 actress Alaina Reed in 1989 after appearing on the program. Glenn Frey, Eagles Guitarist, Dead at 67 "Hotel California" rocker "succumbed to complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and Ray Sharkey continued to have sex with and infect women with HIV after he was diagnosed. It's even been posted as FACT on some legitimate sites I've seen. R237, it just occurred to me today that the onset of AIDS and it's mysterious and sudden tragic effects are just as fresh/old in our minds as the devastation of the WWII holocaust was in the minds of Jews back in 1975 (as Bette Midler would let us know in her stage act, when talking about visiting Germany, right around then). ", Paul Reeves, of the West End "Starlight Express.". R150 No-- I just did a little research and found him, but it turns out he was killed by a cop. It was awful. I loved EON, and adored all three actors. Not an actor, but director Colin Higgins, who directed 9 to 5 (which I'm watching right now) and Foul Play. He definitely did NOT commit suicide, but died of AIDS, which was still very much a stigma in 1985. A collection of cardboard tombstones, bound together with a rubber band. Gary Bond, aged 55, who died in 1995. He was also on some (I think syndicated) sitcom called We Got It Maid. I moved to NYC as an 18 year-old in 1981, coinciding with the official beginning of the AIDS epidemic. [quote]Micheal Jeter From Evening Shade died of Aids. Gee r154 if there was only someway to check. In 1979, Parker/Nichols became a regular cast member on 'The Edge of Night', appearing for five years as Police Chief, Derek Mallory. r4 Lenny Baker was str8 and died of throat cancer. I'm shocked to be alive, but I feel I must never forget the fucking tragic shit show it was, nor the beautiful lives cut so short. Christopher Bernau: won huge acclaim (as in, some said even better than Frank Langella in Bway version) for "Dracula" in an Off-Bway "Dracula" in - late 70's (I think; NYC gays, pls correct if am wrong with dates). WebLeonard Frey. Never. Ray Sharkey was so hot. Thanks for that link, r44. Jonathon Scott Taylor apparently retired from acting took a law degree and is living somewhere in England. Robby has nothing good to say about him and clearly regarded him as a child molester (Robby never took him up on the offer). He was bellissimo. His mother stood a top height of 6'2" and his father stood 6'6." As in, right now, my shoulders. r128, you violated rule 87 in the 1970s Gay Handbook: 87: Never date an actor. 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. He was 49. You think she was lying? West End actor Martin Smith is also mentioned in the piece above. R39 - Joel Crothers will always be Joe Haskell from Dark Shadows in my heart. Handsome, sensitive young actor. 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. I don't think anyone's mentioned Kevin Peter Hall: [quote]Kevin Peter Hall was an actor famous for his roles as Dr. Elvin Lincoln in Misfits of Science (1985), the 'monsters' in Prophecy (1979), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Predator (1987), and Predator 2 (1990). How can someone mention Dan Hartman and not "Relight My Fire"?! George Pesatura who replaced Sammy Williams in ACL. I'm sure they liked each other a lot. His last appearance was in an episode of the television series Murder, She Wrote.. Do you know something the rest of us don't? who died of AIDs. Ray Sharkey, of "The Idolmaker" & "Wiseguy". Sad. Daniel McDonald star of the musical Steel Pier. The Canadian singer-songwriter died on 7 November at the age of 82. What a peculiar and erroneous notion, r111. Sadly, while playing Larry Kramer in a play about the impact of AIDS, he was a major whore. . [quote]Crothers' longtime EDGE OF NIGHT co-star, Dennis Parker (who also went by the name Wade Nichols in some porn flicks), died eight months earlier. The wife was in complete denial. Bless him. [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. [quote]Strange that they didn't just make Bracken a woman and have Eleanor Parker play that. - Susan Brooks. Warren Stevens provided the voice of the unseen Bracken. Love R&B, love gospel, love many other areas where Blacks have made a great contribution to music. Here's another shot. And then there's that other role we remember Leonard Frey for, R10: People in the US know Denholm Elliott from Indiana Jones and "A Room with a View.". For the non-Broadway DLers, David Carroll, mentioned in R24, died in the bathroom of the BMG/RCA recording studio while attempting to record the cast album for "Grand Hotel." Leonard Frey, an actor admired for his vivid and often flamboyant performances, died of AIDS yesterday at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. They claimed it was from heart failure. Now it's all amusement park Disney crap with unimaginative staging. He made his New York professional debut as Yellow Feather in the Off Broadway musical ''Little Mary Sunshine'' and won a Vernon Rice Award for his subsequent performance in ''The Coach with Six Insides,'' Jean Erdman's adaptation of ''Finnegans Wake. The critics HATED it. I knew him in the 70s and early 80s. [quote]For years, I thought that Keene Curtis died of AIDS. This is quite possibly the gayest name ever. Was recently in Manhattan staying with an old college friend in a hotel in Times Square; I grew up in NYC during the seventies until the mid-eighties. But thank you for posting R10 and R14, Leonard Frey was not the only Boys in the Band cast member who died of AIDS. He was 49. 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. Please complete the process by verifying your email address. He didn't technically die of HIV/AIDS, but it's believed that he committed suicide because of complications with the disease. IIRC his first female *relations* came via Victoria Principal well into his adult years and the subsequently married a woman. R148: Could you be thinking of Gene Anthony Ray? He infected comedian Corbett Monica's daughter (Corbett Monica used to tour with Rat Packers as an opening act) and she sued his estate. 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. 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