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A look back at the esteemed personalities who've left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.

As we celebrate the living, we also mourn the dead.

As we celebrate the living, we also mourn the dead. Here are the stars we've lost in 2021.

When it premiered in 1989, Cops was one of the first reality shows on television, and it went on to become an institution over the course of 32 seasons. Langley and his co-producer Malcolm Barbour had been shopping the concept for years before landing it on the nascent Fox network. Heres whats to know about the creators net worth. John Langley, who created the long-running TV show “Cops” which helped usher in the reality TV era, died Saturday of an apparent heart attack in Baja, Mexico. He ...

Local School Founded By Man Who Voiced Disney Character May Close Enter your number to get our free mobile app Samuel E. Wright of Orange County passed away in May following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Wright was an actor best known for voicing Sebastian in Disneys classic  The Little Mermaid. He also voiced Sebastian in  The Little Mermaid: Ariels Beginning In 1988, the two-time Tony nominee moved to the Hudson Valley and noticed a lack of arts in the area. He wanted to make sure all ki...

Actor Ned Beatty died at the age of 83 according to multiple reports.

‘The Mod Squad’ actor Clarence Williams III dies at 81 By Lindsey Bahr article Actor Clarence Williams III attends the premiere of the Weinstein Companys "Lee Daniels The Butler" at Regal Cinemas L.A. Live on August 12, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images) Expand Clarence Williams III, who played the cool undercover cop Linc Hayes on the counterculture series "The Mod Squad" and Prince’s father in "Purple Rain," has died. He was 81. Williams di...

“Welcome to Broadway, Baby!” This was the phrase that told Samuel E. Wright that he had finally made it as an actor. Within my first week at SCETV, in the Content division, I got my first assignment to research this incredibly charismatic man, who voiced the crab, Sebastian, in Disney’s, The Little Mermaid. Sadly, last week, Wright, a Camden, South Carolina native, passed away. My supervisor, Tabitha Safdi, had gotten an interview from Wright a while back and asked me to put together a v...