Notable Showbiz Deaths of 2018

Former child star, best known for his work on STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (as Worf's son Alexander) and GRACE UNDER FIRE. He was better known as "Jonny P. Jewels" in his later career as a musician/restaurateur.

Writer and director for “The Odd Couple” and “Happy Days”.

Legendary record producer and Fame studio owner, regarded as the "Father of Muscle Shoals Music".

Cozza coached Yale for 32 seasons and led the Bulldogs to 10 Ivy League titles. He was inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame in 2002.

Founding member of British rock group the Moody Blues.

Actor-brother of Dick Van Dyke. He turned down both THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW and GILLIGAN'S ISLAND to star on the legendary (for all the wrong reasons) sitcom MY MOTHER THE CAR; later, he co-starred on the much-better-received series COACH. His daughter was tragically-short-lived actress Kelly Van Dyke.

Full-figured beauty (a former Miss Denmark, born in Hareskovby) who doubled for Marilyn Monroe, dated Cary Grant, and starred opposite the Three Stooges.

Also starred in several "B" movies, including the horror pic TERROR IS A MAN (1959), a loose adaptation of H.G. Wells' THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU. The movie incorporated a "warning bell" gimmick that would alert moviegoers when a particularly horrific sequence was about to take place so that they could hide their eyes. It would ring a second time when it was safe to look again.

Four of her other better-known performances came in the Joseph Kane noir ACCUSED OF MURDER (1956); THE BEAST OF BUDAPEST (1958); THREE BLONDES IN HIS LIFE (1961, opposite Jock Mahoney); and as an enticing pin-up beauty on Uranus in JOURNEY TO THE SEVENTH PLANET (1962, shot in her native Denmark). She was also the "Pirate Girl" on the first three seasons (1956-58) of the game show TREASURE HUNT, created by host Jan Murray.

Gall - who owned France’s pop charts for decades, and who inspired “My Way” - was the daughter of a songwriter who had penned hits for Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour.

Singer/songwriter whose hit "Trapped by a Thing Called Love" topped the R&B charts in 1971.

Canadian TV actor best known for his roles in the ABC comedy "Soap" (as Dutch) and the cult hit "Battlestar Galactica" (as Dr. Cottle). He also starred on Canada’s "Danger Bay" and, more recently, guested on "Arrowverse" (as Agent Smith).

Former child actor whose claim to fame was portraying the splash-making “Salami” Sam in Disney’s Judd Apatow-penned 1995 fat-camp comedy HEAVY WEIGHTS. Miller's co-stars included Aaron Schwartz and Kenan Thompson.

"Fast Eddie" was one of Motorhead's three original members (the other two being late greats Lemmy Kilmister and Phil Taylor). He left the group in the early 1980s to start another, Fastway.

One of the original Mouseketeers on the fabled kids program THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB, nicknamed "Dodo" by her castmates. Her parents, Bessie Hay and Sid Tracey, had a vaudeville dance act known as Tracey & Hay; Doreen was born while they were on tour in London. In the years following MMC, Tracey visited American military bases in South Vietnam and Thailand with her own act. She later worked in promotions at Warner Brothers Records with acts including Frank Zappa, Tower of Power, and the Doobie Brothers.

Legendary broadcaster who spent 56 years calling college football, including 15 Rose Bowls...along with the 2006 thriller between USC and Texas at the famed game in Pasadena. Words to live by: "Whoa, Nellie!"

Writer/producer/director whose credits include the original POLICE ACADEMY (which remains the best-received of the series, by far) and THE FIRST WIVES' CLUB. He also brought DUDLEY DO-RIGHT to live-action in 1999.

Iconic lead singer of the notable 1990's band The Cranberries.

British actor whose better-known roles included that of evil "General Klytus" in the 1980 sci-fi epic FLASH GORDON.

Actor best known for such movies as THE WAY WE WERE and ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES.