Recent shows where a large number of the principal cast has died

My Little Margie

Tony, Paulie Walnuts, Ginnie Sack. Who else?

Moesha. Lawd that set was cursed. Either that or Brandy is.

R2 Lots, look it up. Tony’s dad, Livia, Frank Vincent. Even Vito’s secret lover though he obviously died young or not in old age.

Everbody Loves Raymond.

Ray/Robert's parents. Debra's parents. Amy's parents. One of the twin boys.

Most of the Bewitched cast died early.

Golden Girls.. Even Coco is dead.

Alice Golden Girls

60 Minutes. Still on the air. Everybody dead or zombies.

It's rather amusing that Six Feet Under has a surviving cast.

That's not a lot, r4. The Livia actor and Frank Vincent were both old as shit. You're talking about a show with a giant cast of age 50+ actors. Of course some of them are dead, 20 years after the finale

R10 Tell that to my career.

My 600 Pound Life

R13 dead 😆. No pun intended.

SATC

R15 Because a stupid bitch showed me fake love when my brother actually died.

Glee.

R17 beat me to it. It has to be the most cursed cast if there ever was one.

R18 In Tvland only

OP, you really need to define "recent."

R20 Anything from the 80s on. Though I’m not a stickler cuntish OP. If you have a fun fact about old shows where the cast died young or when the show was still relevant please share.

Almost the entire cast of Designing Women.

Larry Sanders Show - Hey Now!!! Garry Shandling and Rip Torn. Jeffrey Tambor has disappeared after getting in trouble for that last show he was on. …. where are Janene Garafalo and Jeremy Piven these days?

R23 I didn’t know he died. I used to stay watching the Larry Sanders Show as I waited for soft porn to come on.

I was watching some clips of the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget, made in 2008 and I was amazed at the amount of people in there that are already dead.

Bob Saget, Greg Giraldo, Gilbert Gottfried, Norm Macdonald, and Cloris Leachman.

Nancy Marchand (Livia Soprano) died WHILE THE SHOW WAS ON THE AIR.

[quote]It's rather amusing that Six Feet Under has a surviving cast.

Frances Conroy retired from acting, and that's sometimes a sign that an actor is in poor health. If she dies in the next few months, it'll be really weird because in the final episode, her character dies in 2025.

But for a show that ended 20 years ago with a large cast of regular and recurring players whose youngest main cast member is now pushing fifty, they are doing pretty damn well. You have to go deep down into the cast list before you find actors who have died: it's basically just Michelle Trachtenberg and the actress who played Rachel's hooker friend.

R27 Cosby Show but I went and fucked things up.

I'm still here, bitches.

General Hospital:

Billy Miller

Tyler Christopher

Jackie Zeman

Stuart Damon

Sonja Eddy

Johnny Wactor

Tristan Rogers

Leslie Charleson

Denise Alexander

Glee

Cheers is probably headed there. Kirstie Alley died in 2022 and George Wendt died a few months ago. The actor who played Coach died while the show was on.

I recall some rumors that Shelley Long is in poor health. I think John Ratzinger will be the next one to go, followed by Long, then Rhea Perlman, followed by Kelsey Grammer and then Ted Dansen. Woody Harelson will be the Betty White of the cast.

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R32, I think Bebe Neuwirth will be the last to go. She's not that much older than Harrelson, women tend to live longer, and she's less likely to get in an accident while stoned.

[quote] I think John Ratzinger

Oh, dear. Wasn't he a Cardinal?

Diff'rent Strokes

I think Jerry Mathers, 77, is the last surviving member of the Leave it to Beaver cast.

Not recent but noteworthy.