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Where Are They Now - August 8, 2014
Hello fans,Jessica Harper - Suspiria, Phantom of the Paradise, Stardust Memories
Scott Bairstow - The Postman, Wild America, Lonesome Dove: The Series
Anne Archer - Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games, Short Cuts
Diane Franklin - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Last American Virgin, Better Off Dead...
Meg Ryan - Sleepless in Seattle, Innerspace, When Harry Met Sally...
To vote, visit: Where Are They Now ArchivesNow, let's catch up with actor Craig Wasson!
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Email Melissa *View Past Issues: Where Are They Now Archives*--DEAD OR ALIVE?--See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":
Gary Collins: Host of the TV show "Hour Magazine" as well as the Miss America pagenant for a number of years, he was also an actor
Donna Fargo: Country music singer, "The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA", "Funny Face"
Richard Mulligan: Starred in the TV series "Soap" and "Empty Nest"
(Answer at the bottom)*Craig WassonLearn More About Craig Wasson on Celebrity Nooz BIRTH DATE: March 15, 1954, Eugene, Oregon
CLAIM TO FAME: He is most well known for his starring role in the 1984 Brian DePalma film Body Double.
FAMILY LIFE: He has been married to Ann Hunter Bell since May 1981. They have one child.
INFO: Wasson's acting career began in the 1970s with a role in the 1977 suspense thriller Rollercoaster. He was in two separate Vietnam War movies that both came out in 1978: The Boys in Company C (1978) -- in which he played a private -- and Go Tell the Spartans (1978) -- in which he played a corporal. He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actor for his performance in Four Friends (1982).
He starred in the 1984 suspense film Body Double, and had a lead role as Dr. Neil Gordon in the 1987 horror film Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. He has also made guest appearances in a number of TV series over the years, including The Bob Newhart Show, Phyllis, Skag, For Jenny with Love, M*A*S*H, Hart to Hart, Walker, Texas Ranger, Profiler, The Practice, Seven Days, The Secrets of Isis and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
TRIVIA: Often mistaken for Bill Maher.
Has a singer and songwriter credit in The Boys in Company C (1978).
WHERE IS HE NOW: Wasson is a reader for audio books, having narrated Stephen King's 2011 novel 11/22/63, and other books by Stephen King, as well as books by James Ellroy and John Grisham.
* CREDITS:2006 Sasquatch Mountain...Travis Cralle
2006 Akeelah and the Bee...Ted Saunders
2004 Puerto Vallarta Squeeze...Danny Pastor
2003 Ghost Rock...Cherokee Bill
2001 New Alcatraz...Warden Fred Riley
2001 Epoch (TV Movie)...Hudson
2000 Danny and Max...Ralph
2000 Escape Under Pressure...Elgin Bates
1999 The Storytellers...Larry Moore
1999 The Last Best Sunday...Deputy Sheriff Bennett
1999 The Pornographer...Spano
1999 Velocity Trap...John Dawson, RMC Corp.
1999 Seven Days (TV Series)...Christopher Bass
Last Card Up (1999)
1998 Tian shang ren jian...Adam Peers
1998 Back to Even...Sasso
1997 Seed: A Love Story (Short)...Hayes
1997 Deep Family Secrets (TV Movie)
1997 The Practice (TV Series)...Father O'Brien
1996-1997 Dangerous Minds (TV Series)...Douglas Hartman
1997 Profiler (TV Series)...Andre Kostos
The House That Jack Built (1997)
1996 Walker, Texas Ranger (TV Series)...Dr. Sullivan
Plague (1996)
1996 The Tomorrow Man (TV Movie)...Dr. Galloway
1996 Harvest of Fire (TV Movie)...Philip Dixon
1996 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)...Ee'char
Hard Time (1996)
1995 Touched by an Angel (TV Series)...Tim Porter
In the Name of God (1995)
1995 The Sister-in-Law (TV Movie)...Andy Warner
1995 I Shot a Man in Vegas...Radio Caller (voice)
1995 The Marshal (TV Series)
Grab the Money and Run (1995)
1995 Trapped in Space (TV Movie)...Palmer
1994 Diagnosis Murder (TV Series)...Atty. Avery Decker
Many Happy Returns (1994)
1994 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)...Hank Walden
A Murderous Muse (1994)
1992-1994 Lifestories: Families in Crisis (TV Series)...Father Rooney / Bill Bell
A Child Betrayed: The Calvin Mire Story (1994) ... Father Rooney
Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story (1992) ... Bill Bell
1994 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (TV Series)...Julius Hoffman
Luck of the Draw (1994)
1993 Strapped (TV Movie)...Ben
1993 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV Series)...Maxwell Forrester
Secret Place (1993)
1992 Malcolm X...TV Host
1991 Midnight Fear...Paul
1990 L.A. Law (TV Series)...Tom Cavanaugh
Outward Bound (1990)
1989 A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation...James Madison
1989 For Jenny with Love (TV Series)...Michael
1988 Bush Shrink...Dr. Martin Cypher
1988 Bum Rap...Paul Colson
1987 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors...Neil Gordon
1986 Tales from the Darkside (TV Series)...Sam Hummel
The Geezenstacks (1986)
1986 The Men's Club...Paul
1985 Zoo Ship (voice)
1984 Body Double...Jake Scully
1984 Why Me? (TV Movie)...Brian Harmon
1983 Great Performances (TV Series)...Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad (1983)
1983 M*A*S*H (TV Series)...Pvt. Kurland
Give and Take (1983)
1983 Second Thoughts...Will
1981 Ghost Story...Don Wanderley / David Wanderley
1981 Four Friends...Danilo
1981 Thornwell (TV Movie)...Busher
1980 Nights at O'Rear's...Max
1980 Schizoid...Doug
1980 The Outsider...Michael Flaherty
1980 Carny...Mickey
1980 Skag (TV Series)...David Skagska
1979 Lou Grant (TV Series)...Michael Avenik / Aaron
Hype (1979) ... Michael Avenik
Romance (1979) ... Aaron
1979 Hart to Hart (TV Series)...Stephen Maxwell
Hit Jennifer Hart (1979)
1979 Mrs. R's Daughter (TV Movie)...Andy
1979 Butterflies (TV Movie)...Russell Parkinson
1979 Kaz (TV Series)
Count Your Fingers (1979)
1978 Go Tell the Spartans...Cpl. Stephen Courcey
1978 The Boys in Company C...Dave Bisbee
1977 Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series)...Lieutenant
The 200 Pound Gorilla (1977)
1977 Rafferty (TV Series)...Dr. Furey
The Will to Live (1977)
The Epidemic (1977)
1977 Rollercoaster...Hippie Boy
1977 The Rockford Files (TV Series)...Steve Watson
Dirty Money, Black Light (1977)
1977 Phyllis (TV Series)...Mark Valenti
1977 The Bob Newhart Show (TV Series)...Chuck Morgan
Halls of Hartley (1977)
1976 Serpico (TV Series)...Blake
Dawn of the Furies (1976)
1976 The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series)...Gare Jordan
In Case of Madness (1976)
1976 Isis (TV Series)...Feather
Now You See It... (1976)
...And Now You Don't (1976)
1975 The Silence (TV Movie)...Hal
1968 One Life to Live (TV Series)...Doug Ebert (1991)
To see Then & Now pictures of Craig Wasson, visit: Celebrity Nooz*--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--Gary Collins - DEAD
Born: 04/30/1938 Died: 10/13/2012
Donna Fargo - ALIVE
Born: 11/10/1945
Richard Mulligan - DEAD (Cancer)
Born: 11/13/1932 Died: 09/26/2000
*WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...8/6
Imre Bajor, 57, Hungarian actor, brain tumor.
Pran Kumar Sharma, 75, Indian cartoonist (Chacha Chaudhary), cancer.
Smita Talwalkar, 59, Indian film actress, producer (Tu Tithe Mee) and director, ovarian cancer.
8/5
Dmitri Anosov, 77, Russian mathematician.
Arvind Apte, 79, Indian cricketer, prostate cancer.
Marilyn Burns, 64/65, American actress (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre).
Walter De Logi, 63, American biotechnology executive, co-founder and chairman of Ceres, Inc..
Harold J. Greene, 59, American military officer, Army commanding general of NSRDEC, shot.
Khalil Morsy(fr), 68, Egyptian actor.
Angéla Németh, 68, Hungarian javelin thrower, Olympic (1968) and European (1969) champion.
Vladimir Orlov, 77, Russian novelist.
Chapman Pincher, 100, British journalist and historian.
Rodrigo de Triano, 25, English thoroughbred, Cartier Champion Three-year-old Colt (1992), pneumonia.
Yoshiki Sasai, 52, Japanese biologist (RIKEN), apparent suicide by hanging.
Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, 87, American naval officer and physician, Surgeon General (1969-1973), complications from a stroke.
8/4
James Brady, 73, American government official and gun control advocate, White House Press Secretary (1981-1989), survived Reagan assassination attempt (1981).
Chester Crandell, 68, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives (2011-2013) and Senate (since 2013), horseriding fall.
Irma Elizondo Ramírez, 68, Mexican politician, MP for Coahuila (since 2012), heart attack.
Jake Hooker, 61, Israeli-born American pop musician (Arrows), songwriter ("I Love Rock 'n' Roll") and producer.
Daniel Mansour, Palestinian militant, a commander of the PIJ, airstrike.
Walter Massey, 85, Canadian actor (Arthur, Lassie).
Rodolfo Motta(es), 70, Argentine football player and coach.
Rodrigo Osorio (futbolista)(es), 48, Salvadoran footballer, traffic collision.
Rafael Santa Cruz, 53, Peruvian cajon musician and actor, heart attack.
Vratislav Schilder, 75, Czech puppeteer.
Richie Taylor, 61, Irish rock music journalist and musician, complications from a stroke.
George Usayi, 48, Zimbabwean footballer.
Charles Womack, 71, American newspaper and magazine publisher.
8/3
George Lyle Ashe, 81, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP for Durham West (1977-1987), Mayor of Pickering (1973-1977), Parkinson's disease.
Miangul Aurangzeb, 86, Pakistani politician, Governor of Balochistan (1997-1999) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (1999).
Charles Calhoun, Jr., 83, American politician and judge, member of the Texas Senate.
Gene Callahan, 80, American journalist, policy advisor and MLB lobbyist.
Edward Clancy, 90, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Sydney (1983-2001).
Dorothy Salisbury Davis, 98, American crime fiction writer.
Kenny Drew, Jr., 56, American jazz pianist and composer.
Christian Frémont, 72, French politician, chief of staff (Nicolas Sarkozy), Representative of the French Co-Prince of Andorra (2008-2012).
Manuel Gomez Torres, Mexican politician, Mayor of Ayutla, Jalisco, shot.
Wimper Guerrero(es), 32, Ecuadorian footballer, heart attack.
Jess Marlow, 84, American news broadcaster (KNBC, KCBS), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Steve Post, 70, American radio broadcaster (WNYC), colon and lung cancer.
Hal Sherbeck, 86, American football coach (Fullerton College).
Benedito de Ulhôa Vieira, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Uberaba (1978-1996).
8/2
Brian Buckley, 78, Australian AFL football player (Carlton).
Ed Joyce, 81, American television executive, President of CBS News (1983-1985).
Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo, 72, Bahraini industrialist, chairman of Kanoo, diabetes.
June Krauser, 88, American Hall of Fame swimmer, swimming official and rules writer, Parkinson's disease.
Eroni Kumana, 93, Solomon Island fisherman, rescued John F. Kennedy after PT-109 sinking.
Billie Letts, 76, American novelist (Where the Heart Is).
Sir Alan Peacock, 92, British economist.
Barbara Prammer, 60, Austrian politician, Minister for Women's Affairs and Consumer Protection (1997-2000), President of the National Council (since 2006), pancreatic cancer.
Betty Jo Simpson, 80, American social media personality, lung cancer.
James Thompson, 48, American-born Finnish crime writer.
Pete van Wieren, 69, American sports broadcaster (Atlanta Braves), cutaneous B-cell lymphoma.
Olga Voronets, 88, Russian mezzo-soprano folk singer.
8/1
Mohammed Nur Alkali, 68, Nigerian policy advisor and educator.
Valyantsin Byalkevich, 41, Belarusian football player and coach, thrombus.
Szabolcs Cseh(ro), 71, Romanian stuntman and actor, cancer.
Norman Cornish, 94, English artist.
Rod de'Ath, 64, Welsh drummer (Rory Gallagher).
Hadar Goldin, 23, Israeli soldier.
Catherine Gregg, 96, American philanthropist and environmentalist, First Lady of New Hampshire (1953-1955).
Michael Johns, 35, Australian singer-songwriter (American Idol), blood clot.
Jan Roar Leikvoll, 40, Norwegian author.
Keith Newbery, 65, British journalist, columnist and editor.
Saeed Saleh, 76, Egyptian actor (Madrast Al-Mushaghebeen).
Mike Smith, 59, British television and radio presenter (BBC Radio 1), complications from heart surgery.