Walter Koenig, Susan Saint James, Michael Gray, and Tom Skerritt Die

Four more losses to reflect on here in late October of 2026…

These guys were an actor and screenwriter who famously played Chekov in Star Trek; an actress who played in The Name of the Game, McMillan and Wife, and Kate and Allie; an actor who played Billy Batson in Shazam!; and an actor and director who was in M*A*S*H, Alien, The Dead Zone; Top Gun, Picket Fences and many more.

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Lance Reddick Dies

Tall, with a shaved head and a flair for portraying low-key but imposing authority figures.

The 6 foot, 3 inch actor, musician, singer, and film producer Lance Solomon Reddick was born December 31, 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Friends School of Baltimore. As a teenager, he studied music at the Peabody Preparatory Institute and a summer program teaching music theory and composition at the Walden School

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Inside Man (2006)

I watched this 2006 Universal Pictures crime-thriller “Inside Man on AMC. It was written by  Russell Gewirtz (also wrote the 2008 crime-thriller “Righteous Kill” which starred Robert De Niro and Al Pacino), directed by Spike Lee (film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and professor) and produced by Brian Grazer (Night Shift, Splash, Real Genius, Spies Like Us, Parenthood, Kindergarten Cop, Housesitter, Apollo 13, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, 1998 Psycho, The Da Vinci Code, Cowboys & Aliens, Felicity, 24).

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