January 25, 2019

Hello fans,

Fred Dryer, of NFL and Hunter fame, is our featured celebrity this week. As a youngster I spent Saturday night week after week watching Fred Dryer's Hunter rid Los Angeles of the criminals that plague it, one bullet at a time. Such a classic '80s action show! Just don't reboot it, please!

Now, let's see what Fred Dryer has been doing these days. Works for me.

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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--

See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":

Timothy Dalton: Played secret agent James Bond in the movies "The Living Daylights" and "Licence to Kill", also appeared in "The Rocketeer" and other movies

Irene Dunne: Starred in the movie "I Remember Mama"

Lauren Hutton: Former supermodel, appeared in the movie "American Gigolo" and the TV series "Paper Dolls"

(Answer at the bottom)

FRED DRYER

Learn More About Fred Dryer and see 'Then & Now' pictures on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: 6 July 1946, Hawthorne, California, USA

BIRTH NAME: John Frederick Dryer

NICKNAME: Hunter

CLAIM TO FAME: He is best known for his lead role aa LAPD Homicide Detective Sergeant Richard Hunter on the TV series Hunter.

FAMILY LIFE: Married to actress and Playboy centerfold Tracy Vaccaro from 1983 until their divorce in 1988, they have one daughter together.

INFO: Former College Football standout at San Diego State University where he played Defensive End. Was a first round Draft Pick of the New York Giants in 1969 where he played for 3 seasons before finishing his 13 year career with the Los Angeles Rams.

After his football career, Fred did sportscasting on CBS, quitting after 10 games because he felt he had no freedom in that job; besides, he was tired of traveling.

In the 80s, he started acting. In 1979, he began studying with actress and acting coach Nina Foch.

With the movies Gus and Prime Time, he got his Screen Actors Guild card. His first important role was in The Starmaker, where he played Melanie Griffith's stepfather.

In 1982, Fred auditioned for Cheers. One of 3 finalists, he lost the male lead to actor Ted Danson. Later, he made several guest appearances on the show as Dave Richards, Sam's former Boston Red Sox teammate turned sportscaster.

In 1984, Fred was chosen to play the leading role of the TV series Hunter: LAPD Homicide Detective Sergeant Richard Hunter, a mobster's son turned cop. Hunter, created by Frank Lupo and produced by Stephen J. Cannell, is TV's version of Clint Eastwood's violent big screen cop Dirty Harry. Hunter's partner is Sergeant DeeDee McCall, a beautiful and tough widow, known around the squad as "The Brass Cupcake", played by Stepfanie Kramer. Hunter ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991.

With Hunter, Dryer became a producer and director.

TRIVIA: Member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

Holds the NFL record for most safeties (two safeties) in a single game.

Nearly won the role of Sam Malone on Cheers (1982), but lost it to Ted Danson when the writers decided they'd rather have the owner of the bar be a baseball player instead of a football player.

Born on the same day as George W. Bush and Sylvester Stallone.

Once promised to set his hair on fire in the end zone if he ever scored an NFL touchdown. Fortunately, never did.

Due to the fact that the enormous Dryer is a foot taller than his "Hunter" co-star Stepfanie Kramer, she had to stand on an egg crate while they were in the same shot so that both of them could be seen.

One of his college football teammates at San Diego State was Carl Weathers.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dryer still acts ocassionally, most recently appearing on the CBS hit series NCIS and in the Transformers spinoff Bumblebee as Sheriff Lock.

CREDITS:

2018 Bumblebee...Sheriff Lock

2018 NCIS (TV Series)...Marine Master Sergeant Thomas Fletcher
- Fragments (2018) ... Marine Master Sergeant Thomas Fletcher

2015 Agent X (TV Series)...Mike - Former Agent X / Former Agent X
Penultimatum (2015)
Truth, Lies and Consequences (2015)

2015 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV Series)...Octavian Bloom
Aftershocks (2015)

2014 Crisis (TV Series)...Thomas Jefferson Smith
- This Wasn't Supposed to Happen (2014) ... Thomas Jefferson Smith
- How Far Would You Go (2014) ... Thomas Jefferson Smith
- Homecoming (2014) ... Thomas Jefferson Smith
- Here He Comes (2014) ... Thomas Jefferson Smith

2013 The Wrong Woman (TV Movie)...Detective Sanford

2013 The Millers (TV Series)...Sarge / Frank
- Internet Dating (2013)

2013 Snake & Mongoose...Ed Donovan

2013 The Exes (TV Series)...Mr. Collins
- Take This Job and Shove It (2013)

2009 Accidentally on Purpose (TV Series)...Edward
- It Happened One Christmas (2009)

2005 Suits on the Loose...Senator Roy Boxwell

2005 Out of Practice (TV Series)...Michael
- If These Floors Could Talk

2003 Fire Over Afghanistan...Colonel Collins

2003 Hunter (TV Series)...Lt. Rick Hunter

2003 Hunter: Back in Force (TV Movie)...Det. Sgt. Rick Hunter

2002 Shakedown (Video)...General Wolf

2002 Hunter: Return to Justice (TV Movie)...Rick Hunter

2002 Justice League (TV Series)...Sgt. Rock / Flagship Pilot #2
- The Savage Time: Part III (2002)
- The Savage Time: Part II (2002)

2000 Highway 395...Wade, Rawley

2000 Wild Grizzly (TV Movie)...Ranger Frank Bradford

2000 Relic Hunter (TV Series)...Randall Fox
- Three Rivers to Cross (2000)

2000 Warm Texas Rain (Video)...Karl Lorens

2000 The Independent...Jean Claude

1999 Stray Bullet...Forest Mason

1997-1998 Diagnosis Murder (TV Series)...Police Chief Masters
- Retribution: Part 2 (1998)
- Retribution: Part 1 (1998)
- Murder Blues (1997)

1998 Ask Harriet (TV Series)...Prof. Derrick Smythe
- Pumps and Circumstances

1995-1996 Land's End (TV Series)...Mike Land / Dr. Amore

1995 The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A. (TV Movie)...Lt. Rick Hunter

1994 Day of Reckoning (TV Movie)...Jack O'Brien

1984-1991 Hunter (TV Series)...Det. Sgt. Rick Hunter
152 episodes

1988 Mickey's 60th Birthday (TV Movie)...Det. Sgt. Rick Hunter

1982-1987 Cheers (TV Series)...Dave Richards

1987 Death Before Dishonor...Gunnery Sgt. Burns

1984 Cannonball Run II...Sergeant in CHP Car (as Fred Dreyer)

1984 Hart to Hart (TV Series)...Boyd Miller
- Slam Dunk (1984)

1984 The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins (TV Movie)...Barney Daniels

1983 The Rousters (TV Series)...Will Clayton
- The Marshal of Sladetown (1983)

1983 The Rousters (TV Movie)...Will Clayton

1982 Something So Right (TV Movie)...Mike Bosnick

1982 CHiPs (TV Series)...Lt. John LeGarre
- Force Seven (1982)

1982 The Kid from Nowhere (TV Movie)...Larry Kandal

1981 A Girl's Life (TV Movie)...Johnny Paloney

1981 The Star Maker (TV Movie)...Milt Cooperman

1981 Lou Grant (TV Series)...Mike Hauser
- Violence (1981)

1980 Laverne & Shirley (TV Series)...The Lifeguard
- Not Quite New York (1980)

1976 Gus...Atoms player (sideline & showers) (uncredited)

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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--

Timothy Dalton - ALIVE
Born: 03/21/1946

Irene Dunne - DEAD (Heart failure)
Born: 12/20/1901 Died: 09/04/1990

Lauren Hutton - ALIVE
Born: 11/17/1943

WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...

1/23
Caio Junqueira [pt], 42, Brazilian actor (Elite Squad), traffic collision.
Lin Ching-hsuan, 65, Taiwanese writer, heart attack.
Jonas Mekas, 96, Lithuanian film director (Walden, Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty) and poet.
Oliver Mtukudzi, 66, Zimbabwean musician.
Aloysius Pang, 28, Singaporean actor (Timeless Love, Young & Fabulous), military training accident.
Ryszard Peryt, 71, Polish conductor and librettist.
Aysen Gruda, 74, Turkish actress and comedian, pancreatic cancer.

1/22
Themos Anastasiadis, 61, Greek journalist and publisher, cancer.
Kevin Barnett, 32, American comedian and television writer (Rel, Broad City, The Eric Andre Show).
Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul, 63, Bangladeshi musician and political activist, heart attack.
Andrew Fairlie, 55, Scottish chef, brain cancer.
Roman Kolakowski [pl], 61, Polish composer, poet and musician.
John Mortimer Smith, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee (1991-1995) and Trenton (1997-2010).
Charles Vandenhove, 91, Belgian architect.

1/21
Marcel Azzola, 91, French accordionist (Jacques Brel).
Russell Baker, 93, American writer (Growing Up), Pulitzer Prize recipient (1978, 1983), complications following a fall.
Kaye Ballard, 93, American actress (The Mothers-in-Law, The Doris Day Show) and singer ("Fly Me to the Moon"), kidney cancer.
Khandaker Abdul Baten, 72, Bangladeshi guerrilla leader and politician, MP (since 2009).
Raghbir Singh Bhola, 91, Indian field hockey player, Olympic champion (1956) and silver medalist (1960).
Edwin Birdsong, 77, American funk keyboardist.
Maxine Brown, 87, American country singer (The Browns), complications of heart and kidney disease.
Ulises Butrón [es], 56, Argentine rock guitarist and singer, complications from pneumonia.
Mauro Cichero, 67, Italian-born Venezuelan footballer (national team).
Petras Cidzikas [lt], 74, Lithuanian dissident.
Evening Attire, 20, American racehorse.
Padraic Fiacc, 94, Irish poet.
Merwin Goldsmith, 81, American actor (Hercules in New York, Soup for One, Active Adults).
Rosa González Román, 76, Chilean journalist and politician, Deputy (1998-2006).
Henri, Count of Paris, 85, French noble, Orléanist pretender to the French throne (since 1999).
Pawel Kedzierski [pl], 72, Polish film director.
Charles Kettles, 89, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient.
Roman Kudlyk, 77, Ukrainian poet and literary critic.
Marie Kyselková [cs], 83, Czech actress.
Andrzej Liss, 68, Polish politician, member of Sejm (2002-2007).
Pedro Manfredini, 83, Argentine footballer (Racing Club, Roma, national team).
Giuseppe Minardi, 90, Italian racing cyclist.
Lupando Mwape, 68, Zambian politician, Vice-President (2004-2006).
Adewale Olarenwaju, Nigerian actor.
Oleksandr Okunskyi [ru], 47, Ukrainian basketball player, cancer.
Leo Paquette, 84, American chemist, Parkinson's disease.
Shivakumara Swami, 111, Indian Lingayat spiritual leader and educationist, Seer of Siddaganga Matha (since 1941), lung infection.
Yildirim Uran, 63, Turkish football coach, heart attack.
Harris Wofford, 92, American attorney and politician, Senator from Pennsylvania (1991-1995), complications from a fall.

1/20
Evloghios, 83, German-born Italian Orthodox bishop, Primate of the Holy Synod of Milan (since 1990).
Mustapha Filali, 97, Tunisian politician.
Norman Itzkowitz, 87, American historian.
Dumisani Kumalo, 71, South African politician and diplomat, UN ambassador (1999-2009).
Masazo Nonaka, 113, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest verified living man.
François Perrot, 94, French actor (Toutes griffes dehors, Who Wants to Kill Sara?, Le coeur à l'ouvrage).
Leonardo Quisumbing, 79, Filipino judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1998-2009).
Jimmy Rayl, 77, American basketball player (Indiana Hoosiers, Indiana Pacers).
Lolo Rico [es], 84, Spanish writer, television director and journalist.
Ian Shirley, 78, New Zealand social policy academic (Auckland University of Technology).
Brandon Truaxe, 40, Canadian skin care executive, founder of Deciem, suicide by jumping.
Andrew G. Vajna, 74, Hungarian-American film producer (Nixon, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Medicine Man).
Mithra Wettimuny, 67, Sri Lankan cricketer.

1/19
Atin Bandyopadhyay, 85, Bangladeshi writer, stroke.
Mario Bertoncini, 86, Italian composer, pianist, and music educator.
Jagjit Singh Chopra, 84, Indian neurologist, complications from a stroke.
Gert Frank, 62, Danish cyclist, Olympic bronze medalist (1976), heart attack.
Nathan Glazer, 95, American sociologist.
Liang Jingkui, 87, Chinese physical chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Barthélémy Kotchy, 84, Ivorian writer and politician.
Omelyan Koval [uk], 98, Ukrainian politician.
Ted McKenna, 68, Scottish drummer (The Sensational Alex Harvey Band), haemorrhage during hernia surgery.
May Menassa, 80, Lebanese writer and journalist, ruptured aneurysm.
Tony Mendez, 78, American intelligence officer, subject of Argo, complications from Parkinson's disease.
Muriel Pavlow, 97, English actress (Malta Story, Doctor in the House, Reach for the Sky).
Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, 63, Indian politician, cancer.
Red Sullivan, 89, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, New York Rangers) and coach (Pittsburgh Penguins), Alzheimer's disease.
Henry Sy, 94, Chinese-born Filipino retailer and investor (SM Investments, SM Prime).

1/18
Boo, 12, American dog and Facebook celebrity, heart failure.
Gulab Chandio, 60, Pakistani actor.
John Coughlin, 33, American figure skater, suicide.
Gary Gutting, 76, American philosopher.
Cees Haast, 80, Dutch racing cyclist.
Gilles Paquet, 82, Canadian economist.
Franco Pian, 96, Italian footballer (SPAL, Internazionale, Legnano).
Brian Stowell, 82, Manx reporter (Manx Radio), linguist, physicist and author, Reih Bleeaney Vanannan winner (2008).
William A. Thomas, 70, American college football player and coach (Tennessee State Tigers).
Ivan Vutsov, 79, Bulgarian football player (Levski Sofia, national team) and manager (Spartak Pleven).
Glen Wood, 93, American racing driver, co-founder of Wood Brothers Racing.
Marcelo Yuka [pt], 53, Brazilian drummer and songwriter (O Rappa), stroke.

1/17
Vicente Álvarez Areces, 75, Spanish politician, President of Asturias (1999-2011), Senator (since 2011) and Mayor of Gijón (1987-1999).
Babiker Awadalla, 101, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister (1969).
S. Balakrishnan, 69, Indian film score composer and music director.
Windsor Davies, 88, Welsh actor (It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Carry On England, Never the Twain).
Fernand Labrie, 81, Canadian endocrinologist and medical researcher.
Debi Martini, American punk rock singer and bassist (Red Aunts).
Joe O'Donnell, 77, American football player (Buffalo Bills).
Mary Oliver, 83, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (1984), lymphoma.
Mary Jane Osborn, 91, American biochemist and molecular biologist.
Garfield Owen, 86, Welsh rugby player (Halifax, Keighley, Newport), Parkinson's disease.
Vladimír Puchalský [cs], 74, Czech politician, Mayor of Prerov (2014-2018), heart failure.
Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, 72, Spanish judge, President of the European Court of Justice (1994-2003).
Sam Savage, 78, American novelist (Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife).
Turk Schonert, 62, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Atlanta Falcons, Stanford Cardinal), heart attack.
Tara Simmons, 34, Australian musician, breast cancer.
Daniel C. Striepeke, 88, American makeup artist (Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Mission: Impossible).
Fumiko Yonezawa, 80, Japanese theoretical physicist, heart attack.
Reggie Young, 82, American musician (The Memphis Boys).