1988 in American Television - Deaths

Deaths

  • February 1 – Heather O'Rourke, 12, actress from Poltergeist and Happy Days
  • March 10 – Andy Gibb, 30, actor/songwriter of the Bee-Gees
  • April 5 – Alf Kjellin, 68, actor, director.
  • May 15 – Andrew Duggan, 64, character actor.
  • May 18 – Daws Butler, prolific voice actor whose work included The Jetsons and several animated TV commercials.
  • May 27 – Florida Friebus, 78, actress (The Bob Newhart Show).
  • July 9 – Barbara Woodhouse, 78, dog trainer (Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way)
  • July 21 – Jack Clark, 67, game show announcer.
  • July 25 – Judith Barsi, 10, American child actress
  • July 31 – Trinidad Silva, 38, actor (Jesus Martinez on Hill Street Blues), in a car accident
  • September 11 – John Sylvester White, 68, actor (Welcome Back, Kotter).
  • September 20 – Roy Kinnear, 54, actor/comedian.
  • September 29 – Charles Addams, 76, cartoonist whose macabre drawings inspired The Addams Family.
  • October 11 – Wayland Flowers, 58, puppeteer (Madame's Place), from AIDS.
  • October 31 – John Houseman, 86, actor (The Paper Chase, Silver Spoons)
  • December 6 – Timothy Patrick Murphy, 29, actor (Dallas), from AIDS
  • December 12 – Dick Clair, television comedy writer, who asked to be cryogenically frozen
  • December 20 – Max Robinson, ABC News correspondent, from AIDS
  • December 27 – Jess Oppenheimer, comedy writer who created I Love Lucy

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