Vanished Celebrities

Before Dr. Phil did a show on her, Shelley Duvall was kinda a "vanished" celeb, I think.

No, Shelley would pop up now and again in news or entertainment. She was never a recluse.

A season or two ago, Top Chef had a jerky contestant named Aaron. He seemed to relish to role of villain. I recently looked him up online and found that, after leaving top chef, he was arrested for hurting his girlfriend. In quick succession, the restaurant that employed him appears to have first fired him, then shut down. The chef abandoned his Twitter, deleted his Facebook, and has disappeared.

New age author Carlos Castaneda disappeared from the public the last 10 years of his life. Weird cultiness and suicide involving his female followers. Sorry I am too lazy to post a link. You can google it.

Barbara Harris is allegedly an acting teacher in the northern suburbs of Chicago but she certainly dropped out of the public eye

What happened to that hottie in the "Voices Carry" video. I tried to look him up, but I found nada. Same goes for DL favorite Michael Schoeffling. I read he has a furniture store, but I found nada.

there are plenty of celebs from the 1950s and 1960s who dropped off the face of the earth

Isaac Mizrahi

Dog the Bounty Hunter

Katherine Ross

Cameron Diaz

Nick Stahl

Rob Morrow

Eric Stoltz

Id say Sam Worthington, but he's come out with a new movie.,THE SHACK, this month

Rob Morrow is on Billions. Isaac Mizrahi sells his schmatas on Hsn or Qvc. Eric Stolz directs TV . Katherine Ross is a Christian now.Cameron Diaz gets papped on the regular. Nick Stahl is trying to stay clean and away from the business fof the moment.

R8 = Rona Barrett

Jane Pauley

Cully Holland is SO hot in "Warbirds"!!!!

WHET??? WHET????

Richard Simmons has seemed to go quiet recently. I assume he's still alive.

Jane Pauley replaced Charles Osgood on CBS Sunday Morning last September. It's one of the most high profile non prime time shows on television. Do you cultural gurus live under a rock?

Richey Edwards is the most famous one I can think of although he has been legally declared dead now so maybe doesn't fit the OP.

There doesn't seem to be any evidence of his death (other than his self acknowledged depression) and there have been numerous unproven sightings. I guess after so many years his family didn't see any other option.

Bobbie Gentry hasn't really been 'seen' since the 1980s

Jonathan Gilbert from Little House on the Prairie. There were rumors that he was a Wall Street broker, rumors that he was doing theater in LA, and rumors that he was a missionary somewhere in South America or Asia, but nobody has ever been able to track him down.

Didn't I kind of disappear?

Miyoshi Umeki was pretty much a recluse. Friend of mine used to talk to her infrequently on the phone, though only when she'd call him. Apparently, she had always been shy, but it became more pronounced as she got older. She died on August 28, 2007.

R11 He died in 1991

Brenda Vaccaro

This is a mighty fascinating thread! Do celebrated, as in well-known, criminals count? Because I would say the two girls on which the Kate Winslet movie HEAVENLY CREATURES was based certainly qualify as vanished, since both moved to different locations and changed their names.

The accomplice to the murder of the other girls mother ended up being murder/crime/fiction novelist, Ann Perry! It was years before the fans of those novels knew that they were reading crime novels from a real-life "criminal".

If you want to read a great book about this subject, I recommend Nick Hornby's Juliet, Naked. It's about a singer who disappears after releasing one album, and the cottage industry and internet chat groups that develop as a result. It is a great read for anyone who likes Hornby - I do! I do! -- music, and weird celebratory stories. Because the singer was from a previous era, there is also a little tinge melancholy that runs through the story, as the main characters still hold on an idol from their youth. I've read all of Hornby's books, and this is my favorite.

There was a whole thread about Patti Deutch. No pics of her anywhere for the past 30 years.

r23- That can only mean one most likely thing to my mind – identity change! I expect that she probably changed her name and her looks, and now has a good time being right under our nose undetected. ;-)

R15 Bobbie Gentry is stationed on the Tallahatchie Bridge still trying to figure out what Billie Joe threw off it many years ago.

R13 We don't get that this side of the pond.

r9 No not Rona but my closest friends say I like to stay in the know.

Joey Heatherton

Do you think the third photo might be Patti Deutsch?

Irene Cara

Doris Day

Dorothy Malone

Blu Cantrell

Debleah Morgan ("Dance with Me", late '90s one hit wonder)

Charlene ("I've Never Been to Me")

John Rocca (lead singer of the '80s disco-pop band Freeez)

Nanette Fabray

Janis Paige

Lola Falana

Betty Jaynes (Judy and Mickey' s co-star from Babes in Arms)

Forgot her name. Molly something?

Famous Editorial Cartoonist who did a 'Draw Mohamed contest' about 4 years ago.

Well, it infuriated the terrorists and the Have her on their most wanted list.

FBI could not protect her.

She disappeared, changed her name and appearance....nobody knows where she is anymore.

Erik per Sullivan, Dewey on "Malcolm In The Middle." Here's a cast reunion photo, with Justin Berfield holding a photo for the missing Erik.

Reuben Greene, the black actor who played Bernard in THE BOYS IN THE BAND, both stage and screen. In the DVD extras someone, probably Mart Crowley, says they have tried to locate him for years with no success.

Eddie

SissyBoodleBoots

The guy who played Jake Ryan in Sixteen Candles lives in PA with his wife and kids and owns a furniture store, but I haven't seen any recent pics of him

Jeremy Spenser was in a few movies in the 50s and 60s, then disappeared.

Kate Jackson

Sue Lyon

Tussday Weld

Marsha Warfield

Peter Lemongello

Glynis Johns

Delta Burke

Isn't Marsha Warfield dead?

Arte Johnson

Gary Burghoff

JoAnn Plfug

The original letter turner on Wheel of Fortune pre Vanna

Carol Merrill (from the original Let's Make a Deal)

Ursula Andress

David Leisure

Matt Frewer

"Jonathan Gilbert from Little House on the Prairie. There were rumors that he was a Wall Street broker, rumors that he was doing theater in LA, and rumors that he was a missionary somewhere in South America or Asia, but nobody has ever been able to track him down."

Can't someone just ask his sister Melissa where he is?

Greg Reeves from CSNY.

[quote] The original letter turner on Wheel of Fortune pre Vanna

Susan Stafford. She became a psychologist and then lost her license to practice for being extremely homophobic.

Even the furniture store thing abiut Michael Schoeffling is dated. He could be retired by now for all we know. His daughter is a married model who lives in NY.

I second Jonathan Gilbert, nobody knows anything about him despite numerous efforts to track him down.

Anita Bryant

Tommy Rall (heard he's pretty much retired, saw a recent photo of him on another site and he looked ok.)

Mara Corday

Joyce Bulifant

Barbara Parkins

Jenny Jones

Gail Strickland

Griffin Dunne

Great in the movie AFTER HOURS. Catch it if you can...cool to see NYCs very rough SoHo & LES before they were gentrified.

Lauren Hutton

Stacy Lattisaw

Alicia Bridges (I want some ACK-SHAWN!!)

Grace Slick

Tommy Steele

Griffin had a recurring role on Fox's RED BAND SOCIETY a few years ago and popped up in the Carrie Fisher/Debbie Reynolds documentary.

Ann Curry (formerly of the Today Show)

Charles Gibson (formerly of ABC News)

Steve Sandvoss

TerriLynn Joe

Mac Davis

Jeannie C. Riley

Barbara Mandrell

Tony Dow (Although I think he's been doing the autograph show circuit lately.....)

Isn't Barbara Mandrill severely brain damaged from that car crash?

Wow you can see her Daddy in her r48 Kathrine Ross is married to Sam Elliot - so that aint too shabby.

Alicia Bridges does disco oldies shows occasionally.

Olivia Newton John's husband vanished, didn't he?

Here's Jeannie C Riley in a video posted 4 years ago. She sounds good

Steven Shortridge

The men from WEST SIDE STORY

Richard Beymer

Russ Tamblyn

George Chakiris

Rick Moranis but he came back recently.

Meg Foster

Monty Hall of Lets Make A Deal.

Still alive at 95!

Just about everyone in The Warriors, except James Remar.

Lauren Hutton didn't vanish. She still models, actually - I saw her in an ad recently

An ad for what? Diapers?

Kay Lenz

Belinda J. Montgomery

Stephanie Zimbalist

r72, it was bottega veneta

Greg Evigan

Kim Lankford

[quote] Steve Sandvoss

He vanished from Hollywood, but he didn't vanish altogether. There were several articles about how Steve (who now goes by "Max") left Hollywood to join his brother in the goat farming/dairy business.

Meg Foster had the bluest, weirdest eyes ever

She looks like a burn victim now :O(

R78 thats a fate worse than vanishing

R76 I just saw him on some TV show re run the other night, that couldnt have been more than a few yrs old. Forget the show...

Still very handsome & has a full head of hair - completely white.

Charlene Tilton

Both Richard Beymer and Russ Tamblyn are in the Twin Peaks revival. Riss Tamblyn had a cameo with his daughter in Django Unchained a few years back.

This guy claims to have found a semi-recent pic of Michael Schoeffling. Looks believable enough.

Ever wonder what you're missing, what the deplorables would say?

Mike Branson

That looks nothing like Michael Schoeffling, even a 20 years older version.

Many of the people mentioned in this thread are still acting, although in lower profile projects, or do public appearances. So not totally vanished.

R85 Most porn stars disappear from public eye after retiring. Branson has been the subject of many rumors though that became a running joke on here.

Notice a deplorable asked about Mike Branson.

Yet the loser knew who he was too.

There was an actor, Wes Stern, who was on television a lot in the early 70s. I think he made a movie with Jacqueline Bissett before that. He was in teen magazines, guest-starred on "The Partridge Family," had a semi-regular role on "Rhoda", then when his minor moment was over, he just vanished except for a few TV guest shots. Not a notable story in itself, but nobody seems to have any idea what happened to him or where he went.

Jane and Jackie

[quote]That looks nothing like Michael Schoeffling, even a 20 years older version.

Here's another one. Pretty sure this is legitimately him

I choose to remember him like this.

Jake even got a doll.

Varnished celebrities

Iain Quarrier, an actor who starred in two Roman Polanski films, Cul-de-sac and The Fearless Vampires Killers. He appeared in only five movies in the mid to late 1960s before retiring from the film business following the murder of his close friend Sharon Tate in 1969.

Griffin Dunne had a rather prominent role in "Dallas Buyers Club", though hard to see him under all that hair and beard.

I vote for Bambi Woods, star of "Debbie Does Dallas". They made a whole documentary about trying to find her and it ended as a drag when they couldn't. She has done a good job of hiding from her porn past (and, despite rumors, is supposedly alive).

P.S. You'd think Bambi's wonky eye would give her away easily. It was prominent.

The actress Heather Lin/Lind. She was so pretty. Also Bridget Fonda. Corey Parker probably still acts?

[quote]Here's Jeannie C Riley in a video posted 4 years ago. She sounds good

She was terrific in that video!

Maureen Teefy

Sabrina LeBeauf

PJ Soles

Abby Dalton

Pamelyn Ferdin

Eric Shea

Lisa Gerritsen

Cameron Diaz? That is so stupid. She was just in Annie. Fairuza Balk certainly isn't getting roles in anything.

Sarah Holcomb from Animal House and Caddy Shack. Had some mental health and/or drug problems and dropped off the face of the Earth about 1980.

Another Animal House actor, Lisa Baur, the girl who makes out in the car at the Blues Club after they do the dead roommate thing only appeared in one episode of Charlie's Angels before disappearing. She's rumored to be living in New Zealand and making candles.

Bridget Fonda is married to Danny Elfman.

Gene Hackman.

Fawn Liebowitz's friend?

"Days of Heaven" actress Linda Manz

Jeannie C Riley is a hoot in that video.

Meg Foster played an old hooker recently in an episode of F/X's Baskets. She was very funny, and very tragic-looking.

The story I remember is Sarah Holcomb developed schizophrenia in her early twenties- hanging around with drugging party dudes like Belushi and her at-the-time boyfriend Brian Doyle Murray probably didn't help things. A movie loosely based on her came out 10+ years ago with Rachel Leigh Cook. Holcomb's brother had a role in it.

Sarah's still alive. I think she lives up somewhere in New England.

Gene Hackman is officially retired.

There were rumors that husky-voiced Bobbie Gentry was really a man. Perhaps she/he gave up the drag to live amongst the people undetected.

Eric Shea vanished for many years but then started popping up about 8 or 10 years ago doing some "Poseidon Adventure" reunions.

Here is 4 years ago for Poseidon's 40th with the major surviving cast (but not the retired and rumored not well Gene Hackman).

Why Pamela Sue Martin looks like Valerie Harper now we'll never know...

Carol Lynley, omg.

gale harold

Brenda Vacarro did all four seasons of Treme as Aunt Mimi. She was wonderful.

bridget fonda?

Those pictures look nothing like Michael Schoeffling.

r107, I was just wondering about Linda Manz

Joe Dallesandro. There's someone from the eldergay vault.

The last time I saw Linda Manz was on that movie GUMMO.

Some infomercial guy who sold some kind of cleaning stuff for a brief moment after Billy Mays died. He had a hooker scandal and has since disappeared.

R113 - woooow Paaaaam.......

Beavis and Butthead. They used to be everywhere.

Matt Frewer, that's a good one! Wasn't he Max Headroom?

And that handsome actor that costarred with him, Beau Gravitte? Is he still around?

Shrinkin' Violette

R103, Fairuza Balk was in the last season of Ray Donovan.

Max Headroom

Coming soon:

Billy Bush Chelsea Handler

I thought we were talking about vanished celebrities, as in, they fell off the radar and were barely heard from again, rather than celebrities whose careers just naturally petered out.

Nick Kamen

The original Penny from Hairspray.

Charles Martin Smith

Lark Voorhies

Ike Eisenmann

Ricky Segall

Carrie Kei Heim

Lance Kerwin

Please post a real picture of Jake Ryan. I cannot believe there is not one current picture of him floating around on the Web. Is he in the Witness Protection Program or something? The previous pics posted cannot be him.

Several cast members of [italic]Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman[/italic] are MIA:

–Louise Lasser (Mary Hartman).

–Greg Mullavey (Mary's husband, Tom).

–Claudia Lamb (Mary's daughter Heather).

–Bruce Solomon (Sgt. Foley).

–Marian Mercer (Wanda Jeeter).

–Salome Jens (Mae Olinski).

Some cast members have died, including Graham Jarvis ( Charlie Haggers), Dody Goodman (Mary's mom), Victor Killian (Grandpa Larkin), Debralee Scott (Mary's younger sister, Cathy), Philip Bruns (Mary's dad), and Dennis Burkley (Mac Slattery).

God, I miss that show!

A few months back there was a thread about what happens to actors who have some degree of fame when they stop getting work. (And don't have enough money to live off of for the rest of their lives.)

This thread seems like a good continuation.

R135 Louise Lasser is an acting teacher at HB Studio in NYC.

Frewer has been on Orphan Black for the last five years.

R135, Marian Mercer is dead too.

There's a new creepy podcast about Richard Simmons's disappearance.

Re: 140

Did it mention the rumors that he's pulling a Caitlyn?

Article about the Richard Simmons podcast.

Richard Simmons

Karen Valentine

Denise Nicholas

Lucinda Dickey

Erin Moran

Leif Garrett

Gigi Perreau

Danielle Darrieux

Steve Lawrence

Lyle Waggoner

R125 Yes, Matt Frewer = Max Headroom

Michael T. Weiss

Ken Wahl

Andie MacDowell

Casper Van Dien

Victoria Principal

Chris Noth

Frances Conroy

Peri Gilpin

Leigh McCloseky

No one mentioned me😥

This thread confuses me. Are people just throwing out names of people they haven't heard about recently? I mean, Charlene Tilton was in the recent "Dallas" reboot; Andie MacDowell was recently on a television show on the Hallmark Channel, Casper van Dien is still in small movies and tv shows (like those "Sharktopolous" movies).

If you google most of these names, you'll find a lot of them are still working, but it's just on one of the 200 channels you're not watching, or direct to video movies you never rent/download.

Hollywood is crazy, so people run away

The classic example of this is the singer Rodriguez. His disappearance and eventual discovery was chronicled in the Academy Award-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" in 2012.

[quote]Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 Swedish–British documentary film of a South African cultural phenomenon directed and written by Malik Bendjelloul which details the efforts of two Cape Town fans in the late 1990s, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true, and if not, to discover what had become of him. Rodriguez's music, which had never achieved success in the United States, had become very popular in South Africa although little was known about him in that country.

I was just reading about that documentary in the OP link. There are many holes in the story as the film tells it.

R92, that could be Schoeffling, there are other pictures on FB where the features seem to be the same. Unfortunately, if it is him, he didn't age well and looks much older than 55. I guess I'm with R93, if that is him, I would rather have remembered him as Jake Ryan.

You're assuming DL's Olds know how to use Google R151

Most are on Windows 6 and have DL bookmarked

The cast of Downton Abbey

These are the other photos.

Contrast the profile pic at R92 with the one below. Totally different nose, isn't it?

If these are recent pics, he looks nothing like he used to. I don't just mean aging (grey hair, receding hairline, weight gain), I mean structurally the face looks completely different to me.

The kid who played Vicki the robot

The lips and side hairline do resemble the younger him, R159. Compared to his Hollywood peers, it's kind of shocking how badly he aged for such a gorgeous guy, if it is indeed him of course.

R161, there's a recent article about his life as a carpenter.

Yikes! Those photos at R158 are shocking, but I do believe that it is Jake Ryan. Unfortunate choice of eyeglass frames to boot.

I see Griffin Dunne on Instagram all the time

Jenny the Icicle Queen

Valerie Perrine - Oscar nominated Best Actress for Lenny

The cutie with the odd name who played Derek the mean brother on "Strangers With Candy". He didn't even show up to do the movie. And his replacement sucked.

Gary Sandy

Tom Riddle from that second Harry Potter movie (droooollll)

Catherine Burns - Oscar-nominated Supporting Actress for Last Summer

Hugh Downs

DL fave Sally Kirkland - I'm worried.

Oh, won't she be at the Oscars this evening, R171??? Doesn't she always go??? I'm being dead serious.

I'm with you, R151. It would be more interesting our way.

R154, I recently watched that film and thought it was very absorbing. What holes in the story do you mean?

Barbara Walters

Star Jones

Debbie Matenopolos

R171 Here's Sally out and about this past November at the AFI Fest.

Lyle Waggoner owns a successful company that rent trailers for movie sets.

Robert Lowell, star of the MST3K favorite I Accuse My Parents

Edward Ryan, played Al Sullivan in The Fighting Sullivan's with DL fave Anne Baxter, also starred in many B-movies in the '40s

I love that photo of her, r176. She looks completely insane.

Is there anyone who didn't love Jake? I love how Molly Ringworm bitches about how all people ask her about is Jake. I refuse to look at the Jake now pictures. Refuse.

The pics at r92 and r158 are Schoeffling. Compare the profile and ears- outer ear shape doesn't change. He looks like who he is- a 50-something dad who long ago left Hollywood being secretly photographed in Bumfuck, PA.

I agree r181. I do not think he looks bad at all he just hasn't done botox and filler. He looks like a normal, well adjusted and happy person. Tammy cruise is probably his age and looks insane and terrible in comparison.

What happened to Shane McDermott?

Shane McDermott in 2014.

Shane McDermott

Thank you r151, some people are just naming people they haven't about recently. Everyone on the list r8 made can be found with one google search,

I figured Bobbie Gentry was on this list....she strikes me as the most frequently cited example.

Last June, a WaPo reporter tracked Bobbie Gentry down. Maybe.

Pia Zadora. As in (to be sung to the tune of the Toreador Song from Carmen):

Pia Zadora, don't spit on the floor-a.

Use the cuspidor-a.

That's what it's for-a.

Regarding Jonathan Gilbert, Melissa said that he moved away after Little House ended and she hasn't heard from him since. She has no idea why. Kind of bizarre!

Good thread by the way, it's nice and chill in here.

That's weird that he won't even talk to his own sister

Anna Maria Alberghetti

Maxine Nightingale

Yvonne Elliman

Cindy Birdsong

Ther is a new podcast about Richard Simmons' disappearance. It's called 'Missing Richard Simmons"

Bummed. Always hoping for surprises, hoped tonight would start with Dev. But if it's going to be straight down the fucking line all night... ugh.

"Valerie Perrine - Oscar nominated Best Actress for Lenny"

Last time I saw her was on ATWT as the mother of Jack and Brad Snyder. This was maybe, 2001, 2002? I think the character was named Dolores.

R193 Cindy was killed when her hair do collapsed & fractured her cranium.

[167] according to the strangers with candy movie dvd commentary, he was looked so old loozing he wasn't cast to play the role.

Another World: Where are Vicky Wyndham (Rachel), Gail Brown (Clarice) & Nancy Frangione (Cecile)?

[quote]The pics at [R92] and [R158] are Schoeffling. Compare the profile and ears- outer ear shape doesn't change. He looks like who he is- a 50-something dad who long ago left Hollywood being secretly photographed in Bumfuck, PA.

Perhaps, but I can't figure out why his nostrils in the current day appear to be twice the size as they used to be.

The gorgeous and magnetic Jenny Wright

*He was looking sp old

Barbi Benson

Rachel Ticontin

Laura SanGiacomo

The fat lady who played Mimi on The Drew Carey Show

Where's Brad from Teen Witch? And Russ from Honey, I shrunk the Kids? The whole cast for that matter.

Jameson Parker, costar with Gerald McRaney on Simon & Simon. No IMDB credits since a guest spot on JAG back in 2003.

Meg Foster should be cast in The Game of Thrones.

Amanda Bearse

Irene Ng

Jaye P. Morgan

Jim J. Bullock

Chuck Barris

R175 Debbie and Star tweet constantly. Both have done so just in the last few hours. They've hardly vanished. Barbara gave an interview just a couple of months ago. She's 143 years old and pretty much retired, it's not the same as vanished.

Matt Frewer is still around in lots of things, including the new show Timeless.

Gary Grimes

Yes yes yes ! r201 I looked her up a few year ago because she had a quality about her that was memorable. She was very kittenish sort of like Maralyn Monroe. I always wondered why she gave up.

Bobbie Gentry was just too fucking gorgeous

Chrissy Metz' clitoris

What about Matt Frewer's handsomer costar Beau Gravitte? Is it true he's selling real estate in New Jersey?

WEHT Jaye Davidson?

"Brenda Vacarro did all four seasons of Treme as Aunt Mimi."

No. That was Elizabeth Ashley.

R48, She's pretty fugly for a model.

Why is it that so many think "vanished" means "got older and retired from a good career"?

The Sham Wow kind is back. Just saw him recently.

Brigitte Bardot

Gil Gerard

Charles Perez

Brigitte Bardot r221 lives in France which is not the same as vanishing. She married a far right politician. Prides herself on being a bigot and every now and again gets in trouble for inciting racial disharmony. These days she's as ugly on the outside and she is on the inside.

Billy Bush

I was wondering what happened to Lauren Lane who played C.C. Babcock on "The Nanny" (1993-1999).

Lane is an Associate Professor at Texas State University (San Marcos). She is Head of Acting in the Department of Theatre and Dance.

[quote]The gorgeous and magnetic Jenny Wright

This may be one of the few people listed that actually fits this topic as OP intended. On the NEAR DARK DVD commentary, Adrian Pasdar indicated that she had completely disappeared and while looking at the camera he asked her to get in contact.

Glenne Headley

Thomas Jane

Laura San Giacomo

Lauren Ambrose

In recent years Jenny Wright has been doing some of the horror movie conventions.

Christopher Jones

Laura San Giacomo

She's still doing guest appearances on various TV shows, but mostly she works with disabled kid charities since her kid has CP.

There was an excellent interview with Jenny Wright in "Shock Cinema" a year or so ago. Turns out she'd been dealing with a very serious drug problem for many years, and even alluded to living on the streets for a while. Very ambivalent about her time in Hollywood. She does the autograph show circuit occasionally.

I remember seeing her photo in "Vogue" (if memory serves) when she was in NY starring in the play "Album"; she was so pretty.

Several comedians from Chelsea Handler's old show on E! seem to be MIA, including:

Chris Franjola

Chris Wolf

Dov Davidoff

Sarah Colonna

Guy Branum

Heather McDonald

Brad Wollack

Josh Wolf

Chelsea's brother, a chef, Roy Handler

^^Sorry, I didn't mean to say Chris Wolf. I have no idea who that is.^^

[quote]Several comedians from Chelsea Handler's old show on E! seem to be MIA, including:

They're stand-up comedians. They generally make a living by being on tour. Franjola was in Boston in January, McDonald is coming to Boston in a couple weeks, Josh Wolf played Mohegan Sun (CT) a few weeks ago, etc.

I know for a fact that Gil Gerard ate his way out of a career. I once saw a memo from a PTB on a show he did (not the space one that made him famous), begging him to slim down. He couldn't lose it and nobody would hire him. And nobody would accept him as a character actor since he wasn't that versatile anyway.

Ditto, Jayne Kennedy, God bless her. She was gorgeous in her time. And very sweet. But just too BIG to last. I also ran into another beauty at a grocery story in the Valley who had the same issue -- beautiful but she looked like a linebacker as she got older: Lynda Day George.

That bundle of talent, Alison Doody

Did Erin Moran end up unemployed and living in a trailer park, taking care of a relative, or is that just urban legend?

Ew. What bit Jenny Wright? Why are there multiple Lauren Ambrose mentions? She does cable mini-series. And that is true about Erin Moran. She is an okie trailer meth tweaker. I saw the pictures.

Bobby Rydell

Fabian

Della Reese

Antony Carbone

Greta Scacchi

Michael Pitt

Macaulay Culkin Paul Bettany Cameron Diaz Isabelle Adjani

Bunny D

Jonathan Gilbert was pretty easy to track down if you know where to look. I'm sure Melissa knows how to contact him and is in contact with him, but he is no longer in show business and wants his privacy. She can just dodge all questions about him by stating he doesn't speak to her. There is some false biographical information about him out there which leads me to believe he's doing all he can to remain private.

Michael Pitt played the villain in Criminal, with Costner and Ryan Reynolds, R240, pretty easy to recognize, and I've only ever seen him since Numbers.

Huma Abedin

[quote] Bobbie Gentry hasn't really been 'seen' since the 1980s

There are rumors she got lost in Demi Moore's bush.

Erin Moran was all over the tabloids a few years ago r236. She ended up in a trailer park, she has what seems to be a pretty serious drinking problem. Possibly drugs too. The trailer belonged to her mother in law, but she eventually kicked them out. Last reports were she was living in various motels. There were also rumors she was going to leave her husband for a woman but who knows if there's any truth to that.

That is totally Jake Ryan in those pics!!! I think hes too thin,if he filled out a little and cut that hair(I loathe long hair on older men) you'd easily see it. The eyebrows,the ears,the mouth,the chin,all the same. I think he looks just fine,but goddamn was he ever a hottie back when.

R246 reminds me of this.

[R207] Amanda Bearse lives in Seattle. She's an active member of the community. Does lots of LGBTQ events. Teaches acting.

Bearse still does the horror conventions also because Fright Night is still popular.

FREE Acting lessons from Marcy!!!!

@ABC7 1 hour ago

LAPD did a welfare check on Richard Simmons, and the detective says the fitness guru is fine

Someone mentioned Claudia Lamb (Heather on "Mary Hartman") — she was a radio journalist in the Bay Area for years and still is active on social media.

Leslie Ann Powers (Penny from the original "Hairspray") truly fits this category. John Waters and Ricki Lake both say they want her to get in touch.

Two others:

A child actor named Michael-James Wixted (pictured) was very active on American TV in the 1960s and 1970s, and his career didn't peter out. It just stopped. There are queries on various message boards about him, but he seems to have truly vanished.

And this creepy one:

Jonathan Scott-Taylor played Damien in the second Omen film and got generally good reviews in a campy movie. He worked in legit theater and movies for a while afterward (including the Royal Shakespeare Company) and then just disappeared. The now-vanished IMDB message boards had lots of queries and theories, including some who said he had some truly obsessed stalkers after his eerie portrayal of Damien.

R243- She wrote about the estrangement in her book, so it wasn't in response to any direct question. She said last she heard he was a stock broker in NY,

Sorry, didn't mean to post that picture, which is supposedly him, but clearly is not. However, this picture seems more likely to be him.

WEHT Thora Birch? She's a good actress

Larry, his brother Darryl, and his other brother Darryl

Her dad ruined her career r257. He was her manager and behaved like a total diva on set. He would insist on being onset during her sex scenes and on occasion would give instructions to the male actor, which creeped them out no end. Other than that he was difficult and demanding. In order to avoid him, they stopped hiring her.

Malin Berggren from Swedish pop group Ace of Base. Has been in hiding since 2002. Not one photo has surfaced since. She had a stalked in the mid-90s that held a knife to her sister's throat as she slept demanding to know her whereabouts. Malin was never the same. What is known is that she changed her name, first and last (mother's maiden surname). She lives in Sweden. She left the music business for good. That's all that's known.

R8 named the most oddly vanished broad in Hollywood - Rona Barrett - who IMDB says is just 80 years old (now that has to be BS)

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Christopher Jones died in 2014

i confess i'm the lindbergh baby

Trini Alvarado

Viv Vance

Trini Alvarado is a mom and wife. She lives in NY and lives a happy regualar persons life.

Judy Norton Taylor

Mary Kate McGeehan (Falcon Crest)

Melanie Mayron (Thirtysomething)

Patricia Wettig (Thirtysomething)

Deborah Adair (The Young & The Restless; Dynasty; Finder Of Lost Loves)

R193 Cindy Birdsong was so pretty, but she's become a religious nut, appearing on the 700 Club. Sad.

R269 After the Supremes broke up in the 70's Cindy Birdsong wasn't doing so well so therefore Motown gave her a job as a secretary, believe it or not. From a Supreme to a secretary. Diana Ross also helped her out with some money. Cindy said years ago that she was writing her memoirs but so far it has never materialized.

Lee Horsley (Matt Houston)

Donna Pescow (Angie)

Robert Hays (Angie)

Jenny Wright is still very sexy and fascinating. She needs to star in a dark, exciting Netflix series.

David Hartman - former host of Good Morning America

Steve Kmetko - Former host of E! News

Judy Norton Taylor is a die hard Scientologist. Somebody on Reddit saw her at a Target hawking LRH books, CCHR anti drug DVDs, and Way to Happiness brochures. It was pretty sad to watch, the Reddit poster said. She does do the autograph circuit once in a while

R273 David Hartman was on the GMA 40th Anniversary show a while back.

Alison Lohman

I see Trini Alvarado a lot in Hell's Kitchen in NYC - she's a mom, always with her kids walking them to and from school. She's still pretty and very nice. Friendly and outgoing.

Bump!

Melina Kanakaredes

The little blonde girl in ALIENS.

Edward (?) Furlong

Nick Stahl

Craig Schaeffer or Scheffer. Was in A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT with Brad Pitt.

I saw Greg Mullavey in an off-Broadway show last year opposite Marlo Thomas. They were both terrific; his bio in the Playbill had numerous theater appearances, so he's been keeping busy.

I always thought Mary Kay Place would have had a bigger career though. Also, I though Bruce Solomon (Sergeant Foley) would work more. Always was hoping for him to do a shirtless scene on "Mary Hartman"x2 but don't think he ever did.

The very cute twink lead in EUROTRIP.

Never saw him before nor since...

Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver constantly works and has not vanished at all. She was never one of those attention seeking red carpet types. She is in Avatar 2 and 3 and is coming out in a new series.

Jayne Kennedy and her hubby Leon Issac Kennedy. Their career tanked when a home made sex tape got out. She was beautiful (albeit with a big hairy pussy).

Erica Gavin

Susan Anton

Forgot all about Alison Lohman. Very pretty and not a bad actress. Should have Michelle Williams career.

I liked Alison Lohman, too

Trax Colton

Ty Hardin

Robert Conrad

Clint Walker

Ana Alicia

Yvonne Elliman is alive and well, well sorta...

Ann Jillian

Valerie Perrine

Kathy Najimi

Nia Vardalos

Anitra Ford

Nia Vardalos is starring in a well-reviewed show at the Public Theatre right now...

G.

One mysterious celeb disappearance was Emily Longstreth. She was in Private Resort, Pretty in Pink, and The Big Picture. She wasn't a big star by any means, but is still remembered by some. She disappeared suddenly in the early 90s.

There were postings on Crazy Days and Nights website that she fell into drugs and mental illness, was homeless in NYC. Her mother made a very long, defensive posting about how perfect and great her daughter was doing, it made me think it might be true, sadly enough.

Then there was postings on her amazon.com message board (amazon recently closed all their boards down) that she died after freezing to death on the streets of NYC in January 2015. Here's an archived capture of her board discussion.

Couple of names upthread I've run into.

I was at a party at Lincoln Center with Ursula Andress but that was over10 years ago. She looked fabulous in a tight gold lame dress. I'm not star struck but boy, did she strike me!

Joe Dallesandro is around too in NYC. I know.

Rona Barrett too, at another party, but goes back oh even before my encounter with La Andress.

[quote]The fat lady who played Mimi on The Drew Carey Show

Isn't she currently the White House Press Secretary?

R260 I know where she lives and also what her new name is. She has a husband and children and lives a normal life. I think she had some kind of business and might have been a teacher at some point as well.

Pamela Springsteen

Former child actor Robby Kiger.

Patrick Houser

80s teen actress Kim Valentine

Anita Bryant is presently living with her second husband in Edmond OK.

R302 Pamela Springsteen is a photographer now. She doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with anything related to her acting career anyone. She'd probably rake it in at horror conventions, since her Sleepaway Camp sequel appearances have a fan base.

The girl who played Penny Pingleton in the original 1986 film of "Hairspray," Leslie Ann Powers, completely vanished.

R306 She resurfaced 2 years ago at 30th anniversary Hairspray Q&A at the IFC center in NYC. Apparently, she also lives in NYC.

Here's a picture of her at the event.

What happened to the sleeve of her dress? And who is the balding man on the side?

Is that the hilarious woman who played Prudence Pingleton on the left? That was someone I was never expecting to get heavy.

Craig Wasson doesn't do conventions.

Karen Valentine

[quote]The fat lady who played Mimi on The Drew Carey Show

I know this is from several years ago but she didn't disappear, she just mostly retired after the Drew Carey Show. But she was a regular on a sitcom around the time this was first posted so clearly they didn't bother looking Kathy Kinney up on the IMDb.

Most older pornstars.

Re: The Emily Longstreth info posted years ago, a lot of it seems to be false. For instance, the supposed ex sister-in-law talked about Emily's brother Eric in the present tense in 2017, but he passed away in 2012.

She appears to be alive per some online lookup resources that I won't link to, because she's not a public persona anymore.

Child star John P. Navin, Jr.

He was in everything for a brief period of time in the early 80s. He was in the first scene of the first episode of “Cheers.” He also co-starred with Ann Jillian in the short-lived sitcom “Jennifer Slept Here.” Then, nothing. His last IMDB credit was in 1993.

Jay Mohr was everywhere in the late 90s - what happened?

Reply 313: Interesting, thanks.

Jay Mohr lost his looks, so it became hard to cast him. Part of the reason he did so well in the late 90s was that then he was both sexually attractive and a comedian ( a rare combination).

Speaking of which, what happened to Dane Cook? Hollywood really tried to foist him on the public--he didn't really have that much comic talent (despite his popularity at the time with college kids) so he didn't really do that well. He had decent features (but bad skin), and an amazing body.

Richard Ruccolo, until a few weeks ago. Boy, did he come out of hiding in a big way!

Catherine Burns. There was a thread about her on here a while back, which is where I learned about her story.

Marion Ross (Mrs. C on Happy Days)

Actress Heidi Kling

R39 Marsha Warfield lives in Vegas with her girlfriend/wife, and has regular stand up gigs on the strip. She's very active on Twitter. I followed her before I was suspended for calling Betsy DeVos & Lea Michele cunts (and not even directly!). Which reminds me: I want my fucking Twitter account back.

I'm going to add Dinah Manoff & Kristy McNichol to the list. McNichol said long ago that her mental health made it necessary for her to retire from acting. But what's Manoff's story? It doesn't appear she's worked in years. Maybe they haven't "disappeared", but they're both definitely off the radar.

Actress Margot Finley.

R317 Dane Cook 2020

Bump

Dinah Manoff had a 19 year old son who was killed in a car accident about 4 years ago...he was a real cutie too...

That Chris Gaines fella.

Wow, I'm sorry to hear that, R326. I've always really liked her, and that's a terrible thing for anyone to endure. And he was cute.

I'd forgotten how many of the people named in this thread hadn't disappeared at all.

Griffin Dunne never disappeared, he's had multiple projects every year going back two decades, and prior to that only had a couple years out of the spotlight.

Gene Hackman was simply retired, someone posted a photo of him buying a new bike about 2 years ago and he looked fine, not on death's door as rumors were suggesting.

Lee Horsley didn't disappear, he basically retired when the beefcake roles dried up, but he comes out of retirement for Tarantino movies. I wish I could remember where I saw this info but a couple years ago someone linked to a business he owns, plus he also used to write Western novels under a pen name, maybe still does.