Rest In Play - 2020 - 2029

Peter David was born on September 23, 1956 and passed away on May 24, 2025. He was best known for his work writing The Incredible Hulk comics. Peter was born in Maryland and first became interested... in comics when he was about five years old. He started reading "Casper" and "Wendy" in a barbershop, and became interested in superheroes through the Adventures of Superman TV series. Peter began his career in journalism, taking after his father. His first professional assignment was covering the World Science Fiction Convention in 1974 for the Philadelphia Bulletin. In 1980, he left his job in writing for book publishing. His first job was at the EP Dutton imprint at Elsevier/Nelson. He then moved into sales and distribution, and ended up working for five years in the Marvel Comics Sales Department. During his time in sales, Jim Owsley became editor of the Spider-Man titles and actually purchased a Spider-Man story from Peter, which appeared in The Spectacular Spider-Man #103. Later, Bob Harras offered Peter The Incredible Hulk because it was a struggling title and nobody wanted to work on it. Peter got free rein with the character and ran with it. Peter spent 12 years working on Hulk, among other titles, but is best known for making Hulk a character people cared about and a comic people wanted to read. Some other comics he worked on include Aquaman, Young Justice, SpyBoy, Supergirl, Fallen Angel, Captain Marvel, and X-Factor. Peter also wrote novels, television shows, films, and video games. He wrote the novel Apropos of Nothing and the Knight Life series. For television, he wrote for series including Babylon 5, Young Justice, and Space Cases. In 1992, Peter won the Eisner Award, in 1993, he won the Wizard Fan Award, in 1996 he won the Haxtur Award, in 2007 he won the Julie Award, in 2011 he won the GLAAD Media Award, and in 2016, he won an Inkpot Award. Peter married his first wife, Myra Kasman, in 1977 and they had three daughters together. They divorced in 1998 and Peter married Kathleen O'Shea in 2001. They had one child together and stayed together until Peter's death in 2025. Peter loved bowling, the New York Mets, tai chi, The Beatles, and the James Bond films.Show more

Robbie Coltrane, born Anthony Robert McMillan, was born on March 30, 1950 and passed away on October 14, 2022. He was best known for his role as Hagrid in the Harry Potter films. Robbie was born in... Scotland and began acting in his early twenties in both theatre and comedy, before expanding into film. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he held a number of leading and supporting roles. In the mid-1990s, he started landing roles in bigger films, like the James Bond films GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough and what he is best known for, his role as the half-giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter franchise. Robbie was Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's number one choice for the role. Robbie also presented a number of documentary programs for the British ITV network and dabbled in voice acting in films like The Tale of Despereaux and Pixar's Brave. In 2016, Robbie starred in National Treasure. Robbie met Rhona Gemmell in the late 1980s and they had two children before marrying in 1999. They ended up separating in 2003 and later divorced, but they remained close. Later in life, Robbie suffered from osteoarthritis and was in a wheelchair from 2019 until he passed in 2022. Robbie won three British Academy Television Awards, one Royal Television Society Award, and one Broadcasting Press Guild Award for his role in Cracker. He also won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award, a Royal Television Society Award, and a Monte-Carlo Television Festival Award for his role in National Treasure.Show more

Ed was born on August 23, 1963 and passed away on May 27, 2025. He is best remembered as the physical performer of Chucky in Child's Play, Child's Play 2, and Bride of Chucky. Ed was born with dwar...fism and graduated from Plainwell High School. He career began in 1986 when he played the title role of Howard in the film Howard the Duck. While Chip Zien voiced Howard's character, Ed was the physical character. In 1988, he played Chucky in the horror film Child's Play and went on to star in Child's Play 2 and Bride of Chucky. Throughout his career, he appeared in 130 movies and television shows, including Land of the Lost, Tiptoes, My Name is Earl, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, among many others.Show more

Robin Muller tragically passed away at the age of 33 in May 2025. Robin had spent over a decade working at Goliath, most recently holding the role of Sales Manager Benelux. Robin leaves behind his wif...e, Lieke, and their one-year-old son, Loek.Show more

David was born on June 22, 1962 and passed away on May 4, 2025. David, like most children, loved watching TV as a child, and chased that passion into adulthood. He studied Communications at the Univer...sity of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in radio, TV, and film. Two months after graduating, he moved to Los Angeles and briefly worked at Lorimar Productions before joining The Walt Disney Company as a research assistant. David spent 35 years with Disney, moving between Chicago, Atlanta, and Dallas before settling down in Downers Grove, Illinois. In 2021, David retired as Senior Vice President of Broadcast Syndication and spent his final years traveling and spending time with his family. He leaves behind a loving wife, Katy, three children, Zachary, Daniel, and Ansley, and three grandchildren, Harrison, Ian, and Elaine.Show more

George Wendt was born on October 17, 1948 and passed away on May 20, 2025. He is best remembered for his role as Norm Peterson on the NBC sitcom Cheers. George was born in Chicago and went to the ...University of Notre Dame for college, though he was expelled after receiving a 0.0 GPA during his junior year. Later, he attended Rockhurst College in Missouri and graduated with a degree in economics. George started out at Second City, an improv comedy theater in Chicago. It's also where he met his future wife, Bernadette Birkett. In 1980, George had small roles in the movies My Bodyguard and Somewhere In Time, and the tv shows Taxi, Soap, and M*A*S*H. In 1982, he landed his first reoccurring role on Making the Grade, though it was canceled after six episodes. His breakthrough came with the sitcom Cheers. George, as Norm Peterson, appeared in all 275 episodes of Cheers from 1982 - 1993. He earned six Emmy nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. After Cheers, he started in The George Wendt Show, which featured him as a garage mechanic with a radio show, which ran for two months. He had a few appearances in other shows: The Larry Sanders Show, Columbo, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Frasier. He had a few movie roles as well: Becker, The Little Rascals, Man of the house, Spice World, and outside Providence. In his later years, he appeared in various movies, tv shows, talk shows, music videos, and theater productions. In 2023, he competed on The Masked Singer. In 2024, he reunited with most of the cast of Cheers at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards, presenting the awards for best directing and best writing of a comedy series. George married his wife, Bernadette, in 1978. They had three children together. Bernadette later voiced his off-screen wife, Vera, in Cheers. When George passed, the real life Cheers Beacon Hill bar honored him by setting up a memorial with a full glass of beer in the area of the bar where Norm always sat.Show more

Steve Pepoon was born on May 19, 1956 and passed away on May 3 2025. He was best known for being a writer on The Simpsons, ALF, and Get a Life. Steve was born in Missouri and attended Kansas State ...University. He then moved to Los Angeles in 1979 and managed drive-in movie theaters. He sold his first script, which became an episode of Silver Spoons, in 1985. A little over a year later, he was hired as a staff writer on ALF, and wrote for its final three seasons through 1990. One of the scripts he did for The Simpsons, Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment, won him an Emmy. He was the head writer for The Jackie Thomas Show in 1992 and 1993 and wrote for ABC's Roseanne and CBS's Tom in 1994. He created Nickelodeon's The Wild Thornberrys, which ended up running for five seasons. In 2009, he ran into Mary Stephenson, who he had first met in kindergarten. The two married the same year and Steve never returned to Hollywood.Show more

Judith was born in 1938 and passed away on May 4, 2025 at the age of 87. Age the age of 7, Judith fell ill with rheumatic fever and needed surgery on both of her legs, resulting in being confined t...o her bed for two years. This is where her creativity began to grow. She drew pictures of her surroundings, created small wearable yarn dolls, and paper doll fashions. Her entrepreneurial spirit started here, too: each day she sold her work on the sidewalk for a nickel. In the 1970s, Judith was working as an artist, but when finances were low, she started hand painting designed on denim jeans and kaftans to sell at boutiques. One day, she was at a local bagel store when she remembered her grandfather, who owned and operated a bagel store, used to draw funny faces on stale bagels for her Mom. Inspired by the idea, she asked the baker to make small bagels and drew faces on them, connected them with string, and sent her daughter off the school wearing the necklace. Around the same time, she was gearing up for an interview with UPI about painting on denim. Her husband dared her to sell the bagel necklaces to Bloomingdales, and to everyone's surprise, he ordered one hundred of them! She was deemed "The Bagel Lady" and spent her days filling orders. A Children's Editor from McGraw Hill invited her to lunch and told Judith they wanted her to write a children's book, and so "The Bagel Baker of Mulliner Lane," based off of her grandfather, came to be. Her monopoly in the bagel fashion/book industry turned into a monopoly in the toy industry, too. She had Bagel happy Family of Elephantagel bagels and Pigagel bagels in plush designs, which led her to Knickerbocker Toys. There, she was encouraged to start investing toys. Judith invented Puppet Sheet Theater, Bedkins, Beside Buddies, Treetures, Sweetie Pops, Baby Check-Up doll, and many many more toys for Hasbro, Mattel, and a few other toy companies throughout the span of her career. She's also written, illustrated, and/or developed 15 children's books and designed some children's bedding. In 1986, she received the Hasbro Inventors' Hall of Fame Award.Show more

Jackson "Butch" Guice was born on June 27, 1961 and passed away on May 1, 2025. Butch's first credited comics work was penciling and inking The Crusaders #1 in 1982. Marvel editor Al Milgrom offer...ed him a tryout on the toy-spin-off title Micronauts in the same year, and he continued penciling micronauts until 1984. In 1984, he drew the Marvel Comics adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and inked Dazzler. In 1986, he penciled X-Factor and The New Mutants. In 1987, he collaborated on a few titles with writer Mike Baron, including issues of Badger, Nexus, and The Chronicles of Corum. He penciled Teen Titans Spotlight #7 and #8, and in 1988 and 1989, he produced a series of covers for the Quality Comics/Fleetway 2000 AD reprint-title 2000AD Showcase while simultaneously penciling Iron Man for Marvel. In 1989, he became the artist on Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme. in 1991, Butch took over penciling Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. before moving back to DC. He drew Action Comics #676 - 711 over the course of three years. In 1995, he moved to Valiant Comics, where he became the regular penciller of Eternal Warrior. In 1996 and 1997, he illustrated the four-issue DC/Marvel: All Access mini-series. In 2000, Butch became the artist on Birds of Prey for issues #15-34. He then left DC Comics and moved to Florida to work for CrossGen. There, he launched Ruse with writer Mark Waid. After CrossGen, he worked with writer Warren Ellis on a six-issue story called New Maps of Hell for DC's JLA: Classified and the One Year Later revamp of Aquaman. In 2007, he worked on The Invincible Iron Man and became inker on Captain America for #32-35.Show more

Geoff Smith was born in May 1947 and passed away in April 2025. He had a long and successful career in the toy industry that spanned over 50 years. Geoff spent most of his career as a director at ...A.B. Gee. He was also a longstanding member of the Fence Club, having joined in 1991. He was the chairman in 2000 and also held he positions of Hon Charity secretary and Hon secretary. Geoff leaves behind his loving wife, Pauline.Show more