Andrew Koenig took his own life he was 41

Joshua Andrew Koenig ,^[1] also known as Josh Andrew Koenig or Andrew Koenig, has died he was 41, it is believe that the actor took his own life. Koenig was an American character actor, film director, editor, writer, and human rights activist. He was the son of actor Walter Koenig.^[2]

(August 17, 1968 – c. February 2010)

From 1985 to 1989, Koenig played a recurring role as Richard "Boner" Stabone, best friend to Kirk Cameron's character Mike Seaver in the first four seasons of the ABC sitcom Growing Pains.^[3] During the same period, he guest starred on episodes of the sitcoms My Sister Sam and My Two Dads as well as the drama 21 Jump Street. In the early 1990s he provided a voice for the animated series G.I. Joe as Ambush and Night Creeper Leader,^[4] and had a minor role as Tumak in the 1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Sanctuary".^[5]


Koenig played the role of The Joker in the critically successful 2003 fan film Batman: Dead End.^[6] Directed by commercial director Sandy Collora, the short received its first screening at the San Diego Comic-Con International.^[7][8] Director Kevin Smith called it "possibly the truest, best Batman movie ever made".^[9]
Onstage, he starred as the M.C. in the 2007 interactive theater play The Boomerang Kid^[10] and performed with the improv group Charles Whitman Reilly and Friends.
Though he continued his performing career in the 2006 independent film The Theory of Everything (2006), Koenig worked increasingly behind the scenes. He wrote, produced and/or directed the shorts Good Boy (2003) and Woman in a Green Dress and Instinct vs. Reason (2004). Most recently he was working as an editor on a number of films and had been a video producer for the podcast Never Not Funny (2006-2010). His final role was in the film DaZe: Vol. Too — NonSeNse, in post-production at the time of his death, with Koenig portraying the role of Vice Chancellor.^[6]
Andrew Koenig was the son of actor Walter Koenig and Judy Levitt.^[11] Andrew's sister Danielle Koenig is married to stand-up comedian Jimmy Pardo.
Writer Harlan Ellison spoke of the young Andrew — by his given first name of Josh — as being the inspiration for his story Jeffty Is Five.

“

...I had been awed and delighted by Josh Koenig, and I instantly thought of just such a child who was arrested in time at the age of five. Jeffty, in no small measure, is Josh: the sweetness of Josh, the intelligence of Josh, the questioning nature of Josh.[12]

”

The story went on to win the 1977 Nebula Award and the 1978 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
Koenig traveled to Burma in July 2007 and visited Burmese refugee camps in Thailand with his father as part of the U.S. Campaign for Burma. The following January, he protested the Communist Party of China's political and financial support of the military dictatorship in Burma during the 119th Tournament of Roses Parade, entering the parade and standing in front of a Chinese float promoting the 2008 Beijing Olympics after a pre-parade human rights march agreed to by parade officials was allegedly stifled by them. Koenig, who carried a sign reading "China: Free Burma" in both English and Chinese, was arrested and briefly held for his act of civil disobedience. Koenig's defense attorney was Bill Paparian, a fellow protester and former mayor of Pasadena, California, where the parade is held.^[13]
"China sits on the UN Security Council and they have refused to condemn Burma. China purchases gas from Burma and sells them weapons that the military uses on the Burmese people. So they are really quite complicit, and that was the whole point of protesting the China float," Koenig explained.^[14] Koenig also noted the Chinese government's implicit support of genocidal forces in Sudan, sweatshops and tainted export products, saying of the float, "China is putting on a good face because of the Olympics, but [it’s time to] send a message to the Chinese government that they have to not just change their face, but change the way they do things.”^[15] The Pasadena Weekly quoted Koenig as stating, "Their free speech rights have been totally censored. As a country with a Constitution and a Bill of Rights, we need to continue to support and enforce ours, and [use it to] recognize the rights of human beings all over the world."^[13]
In February 2010, Koenig was reported missing by friends and family.^[16] He was last seen near a bakery in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on February 14, and missed a scheduled flight back to the US on February 16.^[17] According to his parents, Koenig left evidence that he was depressed prior to his disappearance.^[18] On February 25, 2010, it was reported by CNN that his body was found by friends searching for him in Stanley Park in Vancouver.^[19] Police later confirmed Koenig's body was found earlier in the day, and Koenig's father told reporters at an evening press conference that his son took his own life.^[20] 

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Lionel Jeffries died he was 83

Lionel Charles Jeffries died he was a British actor, screenwriter and film director.^[2][3][4][5] Who died after after a long illness.

(10 June 1926 – 19 February 2010)

Jeffries attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wimborne Minster, Dorset. In 1945, he received a commission in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.^[6] After his World War II service, for which he was awarded the Burma Star, he trained at RADA.^[7] He entered repertory at the David Garrick Theatre, Lichfield for two years and appeared in early British television plays.
He built a successful career in British films mainly in comic character roles and as he was prematurely bald he often played characters older than himself, such as the role of father to Caractacus Potts (played by Dick Van Dyke) in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), although Jeffries was actually six months younger than Van Dyke, who was born on 13 December 1925. His acting career reached a peak in the 1960s with leading roles in other films like Two-Way Stretch (1960), The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960), First Men in the Moon (1964) and Camelot (1967).
In the 1970s Jeffries turned to writing and directing children's films, including the celebrated 1970 version of The Railway Children and The Amazing Mr Blunden. He was a member of the British Catholic Stage Guild.^[3]
Jeffries had a dislike of television and its production values and shunned the medium for many years.^{[citation needed]} Since the 1980s, however, he did appear on television, including Inspector Morse. He retired from acting in 2001.
Following a long illness, Jeffries died in a nursing home in Poole, Dorset, on 19 February 2010 at the age of 83. He was married to Eileen Mary Walsh from 1951 until his death. Their son and two daughters survive him.^[6]

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Jamie Gillis died he was 66

Jamie Gillis, the controversial but very popular 1970's adult film actor has died at the age of 66. Gillis was best known for numerous appearances with his then girlfriend, Serena, in many adult films, often with very extreme and hard content such as BDSM themes, playing dominant roles.

Gillis was actually trained to be a mainstream actor, and certainly was a powerful on-screen presence in any movie in which he appeared, but by the 1970's he seemed drawn to the world of adult films, although Gillis had made some film appearances in a few mainstream movies as well.

Gillis was born in New York, NY, and was a graduate of Columbia University. He once worked as a cab driver while trying to find work as an actor. He answered an ad in THE VILLAGE VOICE for a nude model once, and slowly began to find work in the adult entertainment industry.

Recently, Gillis had been suffering from cancer and finally died of the disease. Some reports claim that Gillis was actually bisexual, and he had starred in at least one all male film as well. While never as popular as either John Holmes or Ron Jeremy ever were, Gillis was still a highly recognizable star in many films, both adult and mainstream.

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Jason Wood died he was 38

Jason Wood died he was 38. Woods was a British comedian. A regular performer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he was best known for his comic musical impersonations of performers including Cher and Morrissey. He frequently headlined comedy clubs.^[1]

(1972 – 20 February 2010)



In 2004 he took part in the first series of Strictly Come Dancing. He and his partner, professional dancer Kylie Jones, were the first to leave the competition.^[1] He was a contestant on the second series of The Underdog Show.
Wood was gay. His show "My Anus Horribilis," its name a play on Queen Elizabeth's 1992 "Annus Horribilis" Christmas message, was about how "[The Christian right is] pushing the country backwards, and I wanted to point that out. It’s insane when they’re quoting Leviticus to outlaw gay sex, yet most people, who have never read the Bible, won’t know that book also threatens punishment for people who wear shirts of mixed fibre."^[2] His Fringe show in 2006 attracted a damning one-star review by The Scotsman newspaper. He referred to this on subsequent posters, quoting, "A star – The Scotsman".^[3]
Wood died on 20 February 2010 aged 38.^[1] Initial reports suggested he died in his sleep .^[4]

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Alexander Haig died he was 85,

Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. died he was 85. Haig was a retired United States Army general who served as the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.^[1] In 1973 Haig served as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, the number-two ranking officer in the Army.^[2] Haig served as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, commanding all U.S. and NATO forces in Europe.

(December 2, 1924 – February 20, 2010)

Haig, a veteran of the Korean War and Vietnam War, was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star with oak leaf cluster, and the Purple Heart.^[3]
On February 20, 2010, Haig died from complications from an infection after being hospitalized in critical condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on January 28, 2010.^[4][5][6][7]
Haig was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Regina Anne (née Murphy) and Alexander Meigs Haig, Sr., a Republican lawyer.^[8] He was raised in his Irish American mother's Catholic religion,^[9] and attended Saint Joseph's Preparatory School in Philadelphia. He graduated from Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pennsylvania and then went to the University of Notre Dame for two years, before transferring to the United States Military Academy, where he graduated in 1947. He received a master's degree in business administration from Columbia Business School in 1954 and 1955. He also received a master's degree in international relations from Georgetown University in 1961, where his thesis focused on the role of the military officer in the making of national policy.

Haig unsuccessfully ran for the Republican Party nomination for President in 1988. He was a fierce critic of the more moderate George H. W. Bush, and speculation was that he sought the Presidency in part because of that. When he withdrew from the race, he gave his support to the presidential campaign of Senator Bob Dole of Kansas.
Haig has been portrayed by the following actors in film and television productions:^[29]

• John Pochna in the 1982 film Inchon.
• Stanley Grover in the 1987 Warner Bros. Television drama The Betty Ford Story.
• David Ogden Stiers in the 1989 US television drama The Final Days.
• Matt Frewer in the 1995 Canadian TV drama Kissinger and Nixon.
• Powers Boothe in Oliver Stone's 1995 film Nixon.
• Richard Dreyfuss in the 2001 US television drama The Day Reagan Was Shot.
• Colin Stinton in the 2002 BBC production of Ian Curteis's controversial The Falklands Play.
• Bill Smitrovich in the 2003 CBS/Showtime miniseries The Reagans.

Haig was the host for several years of the television program World Business Review. At the time of his death he was the host of 21st Century Business, with each program a weekly business education forum that included business solutions, expert interview, commentary and field reports.^[24] Haig served as a founding member of the advisory board of Newsmax Media, which publishes the nation's leading conservative web site, Newsmax.com. ^[25] Haig was co-chairman of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, along with Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen J. Solarz. Haig was a member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) Board of Advisors. Haig was a founding Board Member of America Online.^[26]
On January 5, 2006, Haig participated in a meeting at the White House of former Secretaries of Defense and State to discuss United States foreign policy with Bush administration officials.^[27] On May 12, 2006, Haig participated in a second White House meeting with 10 former Secretaries of State and Defense. The meeting including briefings by Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, and was followed by a discussion with President George W. Bush.^[28] Haig published his memoirs, entitled Inner Circles: How America Changed The World, in 1992.
On February 19, 2010, a hospital spokesman revealed that the 85-year-old Haig had been hospitalized at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore since January 28 and remained in critical condition ^[4]. On February 20, Haig died at the age of 85 from complications from an infection.^[5]

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Justin Mentell died he was 27

Justin Michael Mentell^{[2] [1]} died he was 27. Mentell was an American artist and actor. Who tragically,died young in a fatal car accident in Iowa County, Wisconsin.

(December 16, 1982 – February 1, 2010)

Mentell was born in Austin, Texas. He made his stage debut at three years of age as an orphan in Miss Liberty, and went on to appear in local theater productions, among them the musical Peter Pan, in which he portrayed one of the Lost Boys. After the family moved to Waukegan, Illinois, Mentell joined the Northbrook Children's Theater, where he continued to perform on stage. He also took up speed skating, placing third at the Junior Olympics and eventually becoming a member of the U.S. Speedskating's junior national long track team.
Mentell attended Northern Illinois University (NIU), where he majored in acting. He appeared in several plays there, including Balm in Gilead, The Play's the Thing and Never the Sinner. During his sophomore year, he trained at the Moscow Art Theatre, as part of a summer exchange program sponsored by NIU's School of Theater and Dance.
At NIU he also appeared in several independent films, including At the Still Point, for which he received the Golden Reel Award for Best Actor at its 2005 Film Festival. He also appeared in "Gotham III" in 2004 and used his speed-skating skills to land a role in the 2004 roller derby comedy Roll Bounce.
Mentell was a member of the cast of television dramedy Boston Legal as Garrett Wells. He played the role from the end of the first season through February 2006. His 2009 projects included Death Walks the Streets and the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced live-action/CGI family feature G-Force for Walt Disney Pictures, which was released in theaters July 24, 2009.
On February 1, 2010, Mentell died in a car crash near Hollandale, Wisconsin. According to the Iowa County Sheriff's Department, Mentell, 27, was pronounced dead at the scene around 9 a.m. The accident was said to have taken place around 3:30 a.m. after his 2005 Jeep left the roadway on Highway 39, went down an embankment and struck two trees.^[1] One unconfirmed possibility is that he had fallen asleep at the wheel,^[3] though his Jeep was not discovered until later in the day by a passing farmer who alerted authorities. He was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle.^[4][5]


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Charles Wilson died he was 76

Charles Nesbitt Wilson , died he was 76. Wilson was a former United States naval officer and former 12-term Democratic United States Representative from the 2nd congressional district in Texas.

(June 1, 1933 – February 10, 2010)

He was best known for leading Congress into supporting Operation Cyclone, the largest-ever CIA covert operation, which supplied military supplies and arms including anti-aircraft weaponary including stinger missles (which provided dramataic and effective results against the Soviet Air Force)to the Afghan Mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. His behind-the-scenes campaign was the subject of the non-fiction book Charlie Wilson's War and a subsequent film adaptation.
Charlie Wilson was born in the small town of Trinity, Texas, where he attended public schools and graduated from Trinity High School in 1951. While a student at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy, where he received a B.S. and graduated eighth from the bottom of his class in 1956.^[1] He received the second-highest number of demerits in the Academy's history.^[2]
Between 1956 and 1960, Wilson served in the United States Navy, attaining the rank of lieutenant. Following four years as a surface fleet officer, he was assigned to the Pentagon as part of an intelligence unit that evaluated the Soviet Union’s nuclear forces.

It is speculated that Wilson first entered politics as a teenager by running a campaign against his next-door neighbor, city council incumbent Charles Hazard. When Wilson was 13, his dog entered Hazard's yard. Hazard retaliated by mixing crushed glass into the dog's food, causing fatal internal bleeding. Being a farmer's son, Wilson was able to get a driving permit at age 13, which enabled him to drive 96 voters, mainly black citizens from poor neighborhoods, to the polls. As they left the car,it is speculated that, he told each of them that he didn't want to influence their vote, but that the incumbent Hazard had purposely killed his dog. After Hazard was defeated by a margin of 16 votes, Wilson went to his house to tell him he shouldn't poison any more dogs.^[3] Wilson cited this as "the day [he] fell in love with America." This event was retold in the 2007 film Charlie Wilson's War.

As an adult, Wilson stayed out of politics until he was moved to volunteer for the John F. Kennedy presidential campaign. In 1960, after taking 30 days' leave from the Navy, Wilson entered his name into the race for Texas state representative from his home district. This action was against the regulations of the Navy, as service members are prohibited from holding a public office while on active duty. While Wilson was back on duty, his family and friends went door to door campaigning. In 1961, at age 27, he was sworn into office in Austin, Texas.
For the next 12 years, Wilson made his reputation in the Texas legislature as the "liberal from Lufkin", viewed with suspicion by business interests. He battled for the regulation of utilities, fought for Medicaid, tax exemptions for the elderly, the Equal Rights Amendment, and a minimum wage bill. He was also one of the few prominent Texas politicians to be pro-choice. Wilson was notorious for his personal life, particularly drinking, cocaine use, womanizing, and picked up the nickname "Good Time Charlie".
In 1972, Wilson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Second District of Texas, taking office the following January. He was re-elected 11 times, but was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress and resigned October 8, 1996.
In 1980 Wilson was accused of using cocaine at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas however the investigation by Justice Department attorney Rudolph Giuliani was dropped due to lack of evidence.^[14] Liz Wickersham told investigators that she saw Charlie use cocaine only once in the Cayman Islands, however this was outside US jurisdiction.^[15] In "The Charlie Wilson real story" Wilson reveals he traveled to Las Vegas in the summer of 1980, and recalls an experience with two strippers in a hot tub.

The girls had cocaine, and the music was loud. It was total happiness. And both of them had ten long, red fingernails with an endless supply of beautiful white powder....The feds spent a million bucks trying to figure out whether, when those fingernails passed under my nose, did I inhale or exhale, and I ain't telling.

— Charile Wilson^[1]

When questioned about his alleged cocaine use in 2007 Wilson reaffirmed "Nobody knows the answer to that and I ain't telling".^[16]
Wilson was involved in a drunken hit-and-run accident on the Washington DC's Key Bridge just before his first visit to Pakistan. A witness stated she saw Wilson's Lincoln Continental hit a Mazda and she took down his license plate however Wilson was never convicted.^[15]

One time I had barely gotten out of a DUI. They made me go to a class, at 7:30 on Saturday mornings, about not drinking whiskey.

— Charlie Wilson^[17]

Wilson's admirers defended him in the History Channel documentary, The True Story of Charlie Wilson, stating he drank that night to ease the pain he felt for the plight of the Afghan people. After noting the incident was not portrayed in the film Charlie Wilson's War, Wilson stated "I got off easy".^[15]


Wilson retired from Congress in 1997 to live in Lufkin, Texas.^[18] In February 1999, Wilson married Barbara Alberstadt, a ballerina he met at a party in Washington in 1980.


In September 2007, after two months on an organ transplantation waiting list, Wilson received the heart of a 35-year-old donor. Years of heavy drinking may have put a strain on his heart; in 1985, he had been told by a doctor that he had 18 months to live.^[19]
Wilson died on February 10, 2010 in the Memorial Health System in Texas. He suffered from cardiopulmonary arrest. He was pronounced dead at 12:16 P.M. Central Time.^[20]
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