SAG Awards 2018 In Memoriam Honors David Cassidy
Late film and television stars David Cassidy, Roger Moore, Adam West, Jerry Lewis and Bill Paxton were honored at the 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards‘ In Memoriam segment.
Other notable stars honored were Jeanne Moreau, Martin Landau, John Herd, Sam Shepard, Nelsan Ellis, Dick Gregory, Jerry Van Dyke, Della Reese, Jim Nabors, Erin Moran and Don Rickles (among others).
Cassidy, a former teen heartthrob widely known for his starring role as Keith Partridge on the 1970s series The Partridge Family, died from organ failure Nov. 21 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 67.
In February 2017, Cassidy exclusively revealed to PEOPLE that he was battling dementia.
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James Bond actor Moore, best known for playing Agent 007 in the ’70s and ’80s, died in Switzerland on May 23 after battling leukemia. He was 89.
Batman star West died June 9 after a short battle with leukemia. The actor is best remembered for his turn as Gotham’s Caped Crusader in the 1960s— though his career spanned six decades of film, stage and voice work.
Comedy king Lewis, whose manic style amused generations of moviegoers on both sides of the Atlantic, died of natural causes at the age of 91 on March 20.
Paxton died Feb. 25 due to complications from surgery. He was 61. His earliest acting credits include minor roles in blockbusters such as Terminator (1984) and Aliens (1986), and he rose to fame in the 1990s thanks to roles such as Fred Haise in Apollo 13 (1995), the lead role in the 1996 hit Twister and as treasure hunter Brock Lovett in Titanic (1997). Later, he earned accolades on the TV hit Big Love (2006-11).
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The 24th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards was broadcast live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on both TNT and TBS.
