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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Celebrities Lost to Cancer

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Cancer affects almost all families.  Now a days, sadly it's not IF i get cancer, it's WHEN. These celebrities were taken by the disease. Most cancers can be prevented.  Get YEARLY physicals, get a cat scan, get a mammogram, get a colonoscopy. Get early screening if cancer runs in your family. You're WORTH IT. 

Here are some cancer foundations to donate to: 

American Cancer Society
Susan G. Komen for the Cure (breast cancer)
St. Jude (children's cancer fund)

American Lung Association (lung cancer)

Stand Up To Cancer 
Colon Cancer Foundation 
Colon Cancer Coalition


ADRENAL GLAND: (rare) 

James Gammon: age 70: actor 


ANAL CANCER:

Farrah Fawcett: age 62: actress
Gwen Welles: age 42: actress


APPENDIX CANCER: (rare)

Carol Higgins Clark: age 66: writer 
Sue Grafton: age: 77: writer 
Audrey Hepburn: age 63: actress
Jeannie Morris: 85: journalist 


BILE DUCT CANCER: (rare)

Karen Black: age 74: actress
Tommy Ramone: age 65: musician


BLADDER CANCER:

Ray Bolger: age 83: actor
Eileen Brennan: age 80: actress
Dominick Dunne: age 83: writer
Earl Hamner Jr.: age 92: writer
Jack Lemmon: age 76: actor
Barney Martin: age 82: actor
Edward G. Robinson: age 79: actor
Fernando Rey: age 76: actor
Telly Savalas: age 72: actor
Frank Sinatra: age 82: singer
McLean Stevenson: age 68: actor
David Ogden Stiers: age 75: actor
George Tobias: age 78: actor
Andy Williams: age 84: musician


BLOOD CANCER: (rare)

Christine Cavanaugh: age 51: actress 
Gower Champion: age 61: actor
Philip Coppens: age 41: writer
Larry Drake: age 67: actor
Phyllis George: age 70: sports newscaster 
Frank Jeffries: age 79: actress


BONE CANCER:

Fatima Ali: age 29: chef
Pedro Armendariz: age 51: actor (was dying from the cancer when he committed suicide)
Peter Boyle: age 71: actor
Richard Farnsworth: age 80: actor (was dying from the cancer when he committed suicide)
Norman Fell: age 74: actor
Charles Grodin: age 86: actor 
Tim Holt: age 54: actor
Benita Hume: age 61: actress
Gordon Jackson: age 66: actor
Richard Kiley: age 76: actor
Reggie Nalder: age 84: actor
Thomas Mitchell: age 70: actor
Charlotte Rae: age 92: actress
Carl Sagan: age 62: writer
Vivian Vance: age 70: actress


BRAIN CANCER: (the worst kind, in my opinion)

John Bay: age 53: actor
Sam Bottoms: age 53: actor
Elisabeth Brooks: age 46: actress
"The Unsinkable Molly" (Maggie) Brown: 65: philanthropist
Bert Convy: age 51: gameshow host
Wes Craven: age 76: director
Robert Donat: age 53: actor
Gunther Gebel-Williams: age 66: animal trainer
George Gershwin: age 38: composer
Laura Gilpin: age 56: poet 
John Gunther Jr. Age 17: subject of "Death Be Not Proud" 
Susan Hayward: age 57: actress
Emmaline Henry: age 50: actress
Edward Herrmann: age 71: actor
James Ingram: age 66: singer
Richard Jordan: age 56: actor
Ted Kennedy: age 77: U.S. Senator
Clare Boothe Luce: age 84: playwright/U.S. Ambassador
John McCain: age 81: politician
Heather Menzies: age 68: actress
Bob Mosher: age 57: screenwriter
Tommy Noonan: age 46: actor
Jerry Paris: age 60: actor
Pat Paterson: age 68: actress
Collin Wilcox Paxton: age 74: actress
Slim Pickens: age 64: actor
Chaim Potok: age 73: writer
Roger Rees: age 71: actor
Wilma Rudolph: age 54: olympian
Irene Ryan: age 70: actress 
Zachary Scott: age 51: actor 
Mary Shelley: age 53: writer
Gene Siskel: age 53: movie critic
Alexis Smith: age 72: actress
Tammi Terrell: age 24: singer
Kim Walker: age 32: actress


BREAST CANCER:

V.C. Andrews: age 63: writer
Ingrid Bergman: age 67: actress
Bibi Besch: age 56: actress
Rachel Carson: age 56: writer
Juanin Clay: age 45: actress
Jackie Collins: age 77: writer
Norma Crane: age 44: actress
Bette Davis: age 81: actress
Elizabeth Edwards: age 61: writer
Judy Holliday: age 43: actress
Jill Ireland: age 54: actress
Joi Lansing: age 43: actress 
Linda McCartney: age 56: musician
Hattie McDaniel: age 60: actress
Olivia Newton-John: age 73: singer
Marni Nixon: age 86: singer
Kelly Preston: age 57: actress
Barbara Pym: age 66: writer
Lynn Redgrave: age 67: actor
Carol Shields: age 68: writer
Wendie Jo Sperber: age 47: actress
Dusty Springfield: age 59: singer
Marcia Strassman: age 66: actress 
Jaqueline Susann: age 56: writer
Mary Wickes: age 85: actress


CERVICAL CANCER:

Colleen Dewhurst: age 67: actress
Kay Medford: age 60: actress
Anais Nin: age 73: writer 
Eva Peron: age 33: First Lady of Argentina


COLON/COLORECTAL CANCER:

Jack Albertson: age 74: actor
Kirstie Alley: age 71: actress 
Hal Ashby: age 59: director
Milton Berle: age 93: actor
Sorrell Booke: age 64: actor
Chadwick Boseman: age 43: actor 
Frank Conroy: age 69: writer
Hume Cronyn: age 91: actor
Alice Ghostly: age 84: actress
Robin Gibb: age 62: musician
Ruth Handler: age 85: inventor of Barbie
Betty Hutton: age 86: actress
Carolyn Jones: age 53: actress
Ted Knight: age 62: actor
Peggy Lipton: age 72: actress
Cleavon Litton: age 53: actor
H.P. Lovecraft: age 46: writer
Ida Lupino: age 77: actress/director
Mary Martin: age 76: actress
Elizabeth Montgomery: age 62: actress
Richard Mulligan: age 67: actor
Rafaela Ottiano: age 54: actress
Teddy Pendergrass: age 59: singer 
Meshach Taylor: age 67: actress 
Babe Zaharias: age 45: olympian
Carlos Ruiz Zafon: age 55: writer 


GALLBLADDER CANCER: (rare)

Iain Banks: age: 59: writer 
Christopher Jones: age 72: actor
Charles Laughton: age 63: actor


JOINT CANCER: (rare)

Robert Urich: age 55: actor


KIDNEY (renal) CANCER:
Ruby Keeler: age 83: actress
Charles Laughton: age 62: actor
Anthony Newley: age 67: composer
Lee Remick: age 55: actress


LEUKEMIA:

Charles Bukowski: age 73: writer
Jill Clayburgh: age 66: actress
Jeanne Coyne: age 50: actress
Rich Cronin: age 36: singer
Roald Dahl: age 74: writer
Nora Ephron: age 71: writer
Phoebe Gilman: age 62: writer
Cliff Gorman: age 65: actor
Kay Kendall: age 32: actress
Bruno Kirby: age 57: actor
Billie Letts: age 76: writer
Audra Lindley: age 79: actress
Norm MacDonald: age 61: comedian 
Donald Meek: age 68: actor
Charlie Murphy: age 57: actor
Bill Nunn: age 63: actor
Gregory Ratoff: age 63: actor
George Raft: age 79: actor
William Redfield: age 49: actor
Rainer Maria Rilke: age 51: writer
Paul Scofield: age 86: actor
E.C. Segar: age 43: writer
Susan Sontag: age 71: writer
Adam West: age 88: actor


LIVER CANCER:

Gregg Allman: age 69: musician
Hans Christian Anderson: age 70: writer
Hal Ashby: age 59: director
Lucille Benson: age 69: actress 
David Bowie: age 69: musician
Raymond Burr: age 76: actor
John Coltrane: age 40: musician
Richard Cromwell: age 50: actor
Joe Frazier: age 67: boxer
Jackie Gleason: age 71: actor
Anthony Goldschmidt: age 71: movie poster designer
Gregory Hines: age 57: actor
Jim Hutton: age 45: actor
Ken Kesey: age 66: writer
Ronald Lacey: age 55: actor 
Gertrude Lawrence: age 54: actress 
Mickey Mantle: age 63: baseball player
Ozzie Nelson: age 69: actor
Taylor Negron: age 57: actor 
Lupe Ontiveros: age 69: actress
Edith Piaf: age 47: singer
Tracy Reed: age 69: actress
Joe Sawyer: age 75: actor
Mort Shuman: age 52: songwriter 
August Wilson: age 60: play writer
Flip Wilson: age 64: actor


LUNG CANCER: (takes the lead...you still want that smoke?)

Desi Arnaz: age 69: actor
Bea Arthur: age 86: actress
Tom Bosley: age 83: actor
Andre Braugher: age 61: actor 
Yul Brynner: age 65: actor
Harry Carey: age 69: actor
John Cazale: age 42: actor
Rosemary Clooney: age 74: singer
Nat "King" Cole: age 45: singer
Christopher Connelly: age 47: actor
Wilhelmina Cooper: age 40: model 
Scatman Crothers: age 76: actor
Bob Denver: age 70: actor
Joe DiMaggio: age 84: baseball player
Walt Disney: age 65: animator
Jimmy Dorsey: age 53: musician
Peter Fonda: age 79: actor
Kathleen Freeman: age 82: actress
Victor French: age 54: actor
Wanda Gag: age 53: writer
Paul Gleason: age 67: actor (mesothelioma)
Betty Grable: age 56: actress
George Harrison: age 58: musician
Barbara Hollard: age 77: writer
Moe Howard: age 77: actor
Peter Jennings: age 67: news anchor
Andreas Katsulas: age 59: actor
Andy Kaufman: age 35: actor
Stubby Kaye: age 79: actor
Buster Keaton: age 70: actor
Alan King: age 76: actor
Ed Lauter: age 74: actor (mesothelioma)
Virna Lisi: age 78: actress
Barbara Luddy: age 71: actress
Simon MacCorkindale: age 58: actor
John Mahoney: age 77: actor
Nancy Marchand: age 71: actress
E.G. Marshall: age 84: actor
Dean Martin: age 78: actor
Audrey Meadows: age 73: actress
Gary Merrill: age 74: actor
Roddy McDowall: age 70: actor
Malcolm McLaren: age 64: musician (mesothelioma)
Steve McQueen: age 50: actor (mesothelioma)
Ray Milland: age 81: actor
Millard Mitchell: age 50: actor
Robert Mitchum: age 79: actor
Paul Newman: age 83: actor
Merlin Olsen: age 69: actor (mesothelioma)
George Peppard: age 65: actor
Brian Piccolo: age 26: NFL player
Vincent Price: age 82: actor
Nicholas Ray: age 67: actor
Alejandro Rey: age 57: actor 
Diana Rigg: age 82: actress
Jason Robards: age 78: actor
Gale Robbins: age 58: actress
Robert Ryan: age 63: actor
Michael Sarrazin: age 70: actor (mesothelioma)
Vincent Schiavelli: age 57: actor
Tim Scott: age 57: actor
Alastair Sim: age 75: actor
Robert Taylor: age 57: actor 
Jim Varney: age 50: actor
James Whitmore: age 87: actor


(Hodgkin's or non) LYMPHOMA:

Gene Autry: age 91: singer
Michael Crichton: age 66: writer
Alan Hale Jr: the 68: actor
Lynden David Hall: age 31: singer
Richard Harris: age 72: actor
Jacqueline Kennedy: age 64: former First Lady 
Sidney Lumet: age 86: director
Louis Malle: age 63: director
Paul Mantee: age 82: actor 
Daniel Massey: age 64: actor
Howard Rollins: age 46: actor 
Bob Ross: age 52: artist
Fred Thompson: age 73: actor
John M. Watson Sr. : age 69: actor
Andy Whitfield: age 39: actor


MYELOMA:

Peter Boyle: age 71: actor
Jim Davis: age 72: actor
Emilio Delgado: 81: actor 
Mickey Hargitay: age 80: actor
Ann Landers: age 83: writer
Abe Levitow: age 52: director 
Jon Polito: age 65: actor 
Roy Scheider: age: 75: actor
Robert James Waller: age 77: writer
Sam Walton: age 72: founder of Wal-mart
Stan Winston: age 62: special effects creator
Susannah York: age 72: actress


OPTICAL CANCER:

Pedro Armendariz Jr.: age 71: actor
Rio Hackford: age 51: actor 
Oliver Sacks: age 82: writer 


ORAL CANCER:

Burl Ives: age 85: actor
Gordon MacRae: age 64: actor
Bruce Paltrow: age 58: director
Aaron Spelling: age 83: producer
Jack Wild: age 52: actor


OVARIAN CANCER: (high mortality rate)

Marcheline Bertrand: age 56: actress
Sandy Dennis: age 54: actress
Diana Dors: age 52: actress 
Susan Fleetwood: 51: actress 
Joan Hackett: age 49: actress
Madeline Kahn: age 57: actress
Dixie Lee: age 40: actress
Janet Margolin: age 50: actress
Anita Morris: age 50: actress
Laura Nyro: age 49: singer
Kate O'Hara: age 74: actress 
Barbara Park: age 66: writer
Julie Parrish: age 62: actress 
Alice Pearce: age 48: actress
Gilda Radner: age 42: actor
Dinah Shore: age 77: singer
Jessica Tandy: age 85: actor
Loretta Young: age 87: actress


PANCREATIC CANCER: (lowest survival rate of all cancers)

Hal Ashby: age 59: director
Alan Bates: age 69: actor
Jack Benny: age 80: t.v. host
Karen Black: age 74: actress (ampullary)
Joseph Bologna: age 82: actor 
Powers Boothe: age 68: actor
Oona Chaplin: age 66: actress
Umberto Eco: age 84: writer
Vince Edwards: age 67: actor 
Rene Enriquez: age 56: actor
Aretha Franklin: age 76: singer
Bonnie Franklin: age 69: actress
Peggy Ann Garner: age 52: actress
Ben Gazzara: age 81: actor 
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: age 87: Justice of the Supreme Court 
Fred Gwynne: age 66: actor
Lorraine Hansberry: age 34: writer
Rex Harrison: age 82: actor
Jean Hersholt: age 69: actor
Bill Hicks: age 32: comedian
William Hootkins: age 57: actor
John Hurt: age 77: actor
Steve Jobs: age 56: computer inventor
Fernando Lamas: age 66: actor
Michael Landon: age 54: actor
Anna Magnani: age 65: actress
Kenneth Mars: age 75: actor
Margaret Mead: age 76: anthropologist
Luciano Pavarotti: age 71: opera singer
Brock Peters: age 78: actor
Wolfgang Petersen: age 81: director 
Pete Postlethwaite:age 64: actor
Harve Presnell: age 75: actor
Donna Reed: age 64: actress
R. J. Reynolds: age 68: businessman
Sally Ride: age 61: astronaut
Alan Rickman: age 69: actor
Pernell Roberts: age 81: actor
Alex Rocco: age 79: actor
Simone Signoret: age 64: actress
Jerry Springer: age 79: TV host 
Patrick Swayze: age 57: actor
Alex Trebek: age 80: TV host 
Keenan Wynn: age 70: actor 


PROSTATE CANCER:

Bud Abbott: age 78: actor
Don Ameche: age 85: actor
Bill Bixby: age 59: actor
Gary Cooper: age 60: actor
Harold Gould: age 86: actor
Sterling Hayden: age 70: actor 
Dennis Hopper: age 74: actor
Geoffrey Hughes: age 68: actor
Langston Hughes: age 65: writer
William Hurt: age 71: actor 
Jack Klugman: age 90: actor
Fredric March: age 77: actor
Jerry Orbach: age 69: actor
Dick Sargent: age 63: actor
William Saroyan: age 72: writer
Frank Zappa: age 52: musician


SKIN CANCER: (melanoma)

Stephen J. Cannell: age 69: writer
Sheila Gish: age: 62: actress
Bob Marley: age 36: musician
Frank McCourt: age 78: writer
Burgess Meredith: age 89: actor
Theresa Merritt: age 73: actress
Roger Moore: age 89: actor
James Rebhorn: age 65: actor


SPINAL CANCER:

Graham Chapman: age 48: actor
Dan Haggerty: age 73: actor
John Houseman: age 86: actor
Grace Stafford: age 88: actress 


STOMACH CANCER:

James Baldwin: age 63: writer
Rafael Campos: age 49: actor
Jack Carson: age 52: actor
Marion Davies: age 64: actress
Edna Ferber: age 82: writer 
John Ford: age 79: director
Jack Gilford: age 81: actor
Gloria Grahame: age 57: actress
Laurence Harvey: age 45: actor
DeForest Kelley: age 79: actor
Allen Ludden: age 63: gameshow host
Peter O'Toole: age 81: actor 
Clifford Odets: age 57: screenwriter 
Lilli Palmer: age 71: actor
Morgan Paul: age 67: actor
Sydney Pollack: age 73: director
Fred "Mr. Rogers": age 74: children's t.v. show host
Nipsey Russell: age 87: comedian
Gertrude Stein: age 72: writer
Elaine Stritch: age 89: actress
Lilyan Tashman: age 37: actress
Michelle Thomas: age 30: actress
Tony Todd: age: 69: actor 
Tom Tryon: age 65: actor
John Wayne: age 72: actor


THROAT (esophageal)  CANCER:

James Baldwin: age 63: writer
Humphrey Bogart: age 57: actor
Richard Boone: age 63: actor
Lon Chaney: age 47: actor
Sammy Davis Jr.: age 64: actor
Richard Dawson: age 79: gameshow host
Bob Denver: age 70: actor
Andrew Duggan: age 64: actor
Frances Farmer: age 56: actress
Ulysses S. Grant: age 63: 18th President
Jean Hagen: age 54: actress
Kevin Hagen: age 77: actor
Larry Hagman: age 81: actor
Robert Kardashian : age 59: O. J. case lawyer
Dorothea Lange: age 70: photographer
David Lean: age 82: director
Edna Purviance: age 62: actress 
Anthony Quinn : age 86: actor
Anne Ramsey: age 58: actress
Dr. Seuss: age 87: writer
Ann Sheridan: age: 51: actress
Sylvia Sidney: age 88: actress
Jack Soo: age 61: actor
Ed Sullivan: age 73: T.V. host
Lana Turner: age 74: actress
Martha Vickers: age 46: actress 
Deborah Walley: age 59: actress
Ed Wynn: age 79: actor


THYMUS CANCER: (rare)

Alan Hale Jr. : age 68: actor 


THYROID CANCER:

Red Callender: age 76: musician 
Esther Earl: age 16: activist 
Roger Ebert: age 70: movie critic
Susan Gordon: age 62: actress 
William Rehnquist: age 81: American Supreme Court Chief Justice 


UTERINE CANCER:

Anne Bancroft: age 73: actress
Dixie Carter: age 70: actress (endometrial)
Evelyn Keyes: age 91: actress
Shari Lewis: age 65: actress
Betty MacDonald: age 49: writer
Agnes Moorehead: age 73: actress
Kim Stanley: age 76: actress


UNANNOUNCED TYPE OF CANCER:

Suzan Ball: age 21: actress
Diana Bellamy: age 57: actress
Alice Brady: age 43: actress
Leif Erickson: age 73: actor
John Fiedler: age 80: voice of "Piglet"
Farrah Forke: age 54: actress 
Larry Holden: age 49: actor
Jan Hooks: age 57: actress
Douglas Kennedy: age 57: actor
Richard Libertini: age 82: actor
Nick Massi:age 73: musician
Lois Moran: age 81: actress 
Jesse Pearson: age 49: actor
Bob Peck : age 53: actor
Julia Phillips: age 57: producer
Markie Post: age 70: actress 
Ainslie Pryor: age 37: actor 
Emmanuelle Riva: age 89: actress
Paul Reubens: age 70: actor 
Maria Schneider: age 58: actress
Carol Ann Susi: age 62: actress 
Helen Walker: age 47: actress