In Memoriam - Soap World Deaths in 2008 (Updated)

I created the video below as a tribute to the actors, writers, producers and other behind the scenes folks who have passed away in 2008.


Here is a summary of those who died this year. If someone is missing from this list, it was unintentional. Please let me know so that I can update.

Irene Dailey (September 12, 1920 - September 24, 2008) - (Pamela Stewart, THE EDGE OF NIGHT; Liz Matthews, ANOTHER WORLD)

Eileen Herlie (March 8, 1918 - October 8, 2008) - (Myrtle Fargate, ALL MY CHILDREN/ONE LIFE TO LIVE/LOVING)

Augusta Dabney (October 23, 1918 - February 4, 2008) - (Isabella Alden, LOVING; Helena Ashley, ONE LIFE TO LIVE; Carolyn Chandler Baldwin, GENERAL HOSPITAL; Betty Kahlman Barry, A WORLD APART; Barbara Norris Thorpe, THE GUIDING LIGHT; Peg Hale, LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING; Ann Holmes, AS THE WORLD TURNS; Laura Baxter, ANOTHER WORLD)

Robert Calhoun (1930 - May 24, 2008) - (Executive Producer, AS THE WORLD TURNS/GUIDING LIGHT; Producer, TEXAS; Director, ANOTHER WORLD)

Ray Goldstone (1919 - March 13, 2008) - (Writer, RITUALS; FALCON CREST; DAYS OF OUR LIVES; SEARCH FOR TOMORROW; LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING)

Edie Huggins (THE DOCTORS; THE EDGE OF NIGHT; LOVE OF LIFE)

Wade Battley (Art director, GENERAL HOSPITAL; DAYS OF OUR LIVES; PORT CHARLES)

Keith Pruitt (1961 - November 12, 2008) - (Frank Wendall, AS THE WORLD TURNS; Flynn Reilly, LOVING; Robinson, GUIDING LIGHT)

Christopher Allport (June 17, 1947 - January 25 ,2008) - (Tim McGowan, ANOTHER WORLD)

Shell Kepler (October 5, 1958 - February 1, 2008) - (Amy Vining, GENERAL HOSPITAL)

Clissold “Budd” Hill (1931 - November 20, 2008) - (Costume Designer, ALL MY CHILDREN)

Sherrell Hoffman (1938 - October 18, 2008) - (Director, GUIDING LIGHT; ALL MY CHILDREN, ANOTHER WORLD)

Claudio Capone (November 18, 1952 - June 23, 2008) - (The voice of B&B's Ridge in Italy)

Wayne Heffley (July 15, 1927 - November 19, 2008) - (Vern Scofield, DAYS OF OUR LIVES)

Dody Goodman (October 28, 1914 - June 22, 2008) - (Molly McDermott, ONE LIFE TO LIVE; Mavis Cobb, TEXAS; Martha Shumway, MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN; Althea Franklin, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW)

Studs Terkel (May 16, 1912 - October 31, 2008) - (MA PERKINS)

Ashley Callie (December 30, 1976 - February 15, 2008) - (Leone Haines, ISIDINGO)

Margot Boyd (September 24, 1913 - May 20, 2008) - (Majorie Antrobus, THE ARCHERS)

Jeanette Heller (1911 - October 16, 2008) - (Producer, ALL MY CHILDREN/ONE LIFE TO LIVE)

Heath Ledger (April 4, 1979 - January 22, 2008) - (Snowy Bowles, SWEAT)

Roy Scheider (November 10, 1932 - February 10, 2008) - (Kenny, THE EDGE OF NIGHT; Jonas Falk, LOVE OF LIFE; Bob Hill, THE SECRET STORM)

David Groh (May 31, 1939 - February 12, 2008) - (D.L. Brock, GENERAL HOSPITAL)

Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 - April 5, 2008) - (Jason Colby, THE COLBYS/DYNASTY)

Clive Hornby (October 20, 1944 - July 3, 2008) - (Jack Sugden, EMMERDALE)

Lois Nettleton (August 6, 1927 - January 18, 2008) - (Virginia Benson, GENERAL HOSPITAL)

Stanley Kamel (January 1, 1943 - April 8, 2008) - (Cody McCall, GENERAL HOSPITAL; Don Wallace, RITUALS; Eric Peters, DAYS OF OUR LIVES)

Beverly Garland (October 17, 1926 - December 5, 2008) - (Estelle, PORT CHARLES; Cookie, MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN)

Gloria Cromwell (Died March 3, 2008) - (Esther Hoffman, ONE LIFE TO LIVE; Georgia Rothchild, RYAN'S HOPE)

Kathy Staff (July 12, 1928 – December 13, 2008) - (Doris Luke, CROSSROADS; Vera Hopkins, CORONATION STREET; ex-Winnie Purvis, EMMERDALE FARM)

Keith Charles (March 4, 1934 - July 1, 2008) - (Rick Oliver, THE EDGE OF NIGHT; Nick Kane, THE SECRET STORM; Ross Cavanaugh, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW; Robert Jardin, WHERE THE HEART IS; Ted Chandler, LOVE OF LIFE; Alex McDaniels/Brandon Spaulding, THE GUIDING LIGHT; Ralph Mitchell, AS THE WORLD TURNS; Ted Clayton, ONE LIFE TO LIVE; Homer Dowd, RYAN'S HOPE)

James E. Reilly (July 15, 1948 - October 12, 2008) - (Writer, DAYS OF OUR LIVES; GUIDING LIGHT; PASSIONS; SUNSET BEACH; THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS; GENERAL HOSPITAL; RYAN'S HOPE; Consultant, THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL)

Larry Haines (August 3, 1918 - July 17, 2008) - (Stu Bergman, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW; THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS; Sidney Sugarman, ANOTHER WORLD; Neil Warren, LOVING)

Beverlee McKinsey (August 9, 1935 - May 2, 2008) - (Martha Donnelly, LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING; Iris Cory/Emma Ordway, ANOTHER WORLD; Iris Wheeler, TEXAS; Alexandra Spaulding, GUIDING LIGHT; Myrna Slaughter, GENERAL HOSPITAL)

UPDATED:
Dorothy Green (January 12, 1920 - May 8, 2008) - (Jennifer Brooks, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS)

Anthony Minghella (January 6, 1954 - March 18, 2008) - (Writer, GRANGE HILL; EASTENDERS)