R.I.P. CELEBRITY DEATHS 2020(NON WRESTLERS)

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ACTOR
Kirk Douglas-103
Hugh Downs-99
Carl Reiner-98
Nicholas Parsons-96
Gene Reynolds-96
Bob Cobert-95
Gene Deitch-95
Forrest Compton-94
Tom Kennedy-93
Norm Crosby-93
James Lipton-93
John Ericson-93
Geoffrey Palmer-93
Jerry Stiller-92
Stuart Whitman-92
James Randi-92
Bill Britten/Bozo the Clown-92
Orson Bean-91
John Winston-91
Raymond Allen-91
Sean Connery-90
Max Von Sydow-90
Eizou Kaimai-90
Sidney Noel Rideau-90
Lee Wallace-90
Buck Henry-89
Bruce Allpress-89
Michael Lonsdale-89
Herb Solow-89
Regis Philbin-88
Gene London-88
Ian Holm-88
Edd Byrnes-87
Marty Sullivan/SUPERHOST-87
Roger Beatty-87
Joel Rogosin-87
Richard Herd-87
Joe Ruby-87
Frank Bough-87
John Karlen-86
Jack Burns-86
Ben Cooper-86
Gene Dynarsk-86
Fred Willard-86
Joel Daly-86
Dave Prowse-85
Wilford Brimley-85
James Drury-85
Soumitra Chatterjee-85
Doug Crane-85
Lyle Waggoner-84
Robert Conrad-84
Brice Armstrong-84
Jerry Bishop-84
James Henerson-84
Caesar Cordova-84
Warren Berlinger-83
MARTIN MILNER-83
John Saxon-83
Maurice Roëves-83
Roy Hudd-83
Hiroshi Masuoka-83
Trini Lopez-83
Derek Fowlds-82
Timmy Brown-82
John Mahon-82
Ken Spears-82
Ronald Forfar-81
Alan Harris-81
Brian Dennehy-81
Shu Wada-81
Nick Apollo Forte-81
Thomas William Lester-81
Reni Santoni-81
Alex Trebek-80
Allen Garfield-80
Danny Goldman-80
Joel Schumacher-80
Pat Brymer
Bob Petty-79
Thomas L. Miller-79
Tim Brooke-Taylor-79
Rick May-79
David Hemblen-79
Eddie Large-78
Dieter Laser-78
Mel Winkler-78
Anthony Chisholm-77
John Shrapnel-77
Terry Jones-77
Kevin Conway-77
Allen Daviau-77
Allen Daviau-77
Anthony James-77
Andrew Jack-76
Ken Osmond-76
Bobby Ball-76
Jeremy Bulloch-75
Reynaldo Rey-75
DAVID LANDER-73
Hugh Keays-Byrne-73
David Schramm-73
Charles Gordon-73
Ben Cross-72
GENO SILVA-72
THOMAS JEFFERSON BYRD-70
R.D. Call-70
ROSCOE BORN-69
Mark Blum-69
Danny Hicks-68
Jay Benedict-68
Michael Angelis-68
John Sessions-67
Rishi Kapoor-67
Malcolm Dixon-66
John Callahan-65
BJ Hogg-65
SHABBA-DOO-65
Clark Middleton-63
Ranjit Chowdhry-64
John Lafia-63
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister-62
Norm Spencer-62
William Dufris-62
David Paul-62
Thomas Epstein-62
Star Osamu Sakuta-62
Michael McCarthy-61
Kelly Asbury-60
Terry Marshall
Cheryl Wheeler-Sanders-59
Tuck Tucker-59
James Redford-58
Vic Henley-57
Sam Lloyd-56
Paul Haddad-56
Keiji Fujiwara-55
Luis Alfonso Mendoza-55
Rob Gibbs-55
Steve Bing-55
Irrfan Khan-53
Dimitri Diatchenko-52
Matteo De Cosmo-52
Stan Kirsch-51
Ian Royce-51
Grant Imahara-49
James King-49
Kirby Morrow-47
Filipe Duarte-46
Chadwick Boseman-43
Akira Kubodera-43
Nick Cordero-41
Jason Davis-35
Ash Christian-35
Chi Chi DeVayne-34
Gregory Tyree Boyce-30
Eddie Hassell-30
Harry Hains-27
Raphael Coleman-25
Sebastian Athie-24
Lorenzo Brino-21
Logan Williams-16
Ben Watkins-14

ACTRESSES
Olivia de Havilland-104
Marge Champion-101
Diana Serra Cary-101
Rhonda Fleming-97
Marge Redmond-95
Honor Blackman-94
Wanda Lewis Capt. Windy-94
Monique van Vooren-92
Elsa Raven-91
Lee Phillip Bell-91
LEE FIERRO-91
Peggy Pope-91
Joyce Gordon-90
Jacqueline Scott-89
Lucia Bosè-89
Paula Tilbrook-89
Abby Dalton-88
Julie Bennett-88
Betty Bobbitt-88
Rosalind Knight-87
Lynn Cohen-86
Zoe Caldwell-86
Shirley Douglas-86
Carol Arthur-85
Marj Dusay-83
Shirley Knight-83
Jill Gascoine-83
Barbara Windsor-83
Dawn Wells-82
Miss Mary Ann-82
Claudette Nevins-82
Dame Diana Rigg-82
Penny McCarthy
Natalie Trundy-79
Conchata Ferrell-77
Carol Sutton-76
Paula Kelly-76
Phyllis Somerville-76
Ja'net Dubois-74
Hilary Heath-74
Eileen Pollock-73
Kellye Nakahara-72
Lyn Faulds Wood-72
Ann Reinking-71
Mary Pat Gleason-70
Armelia McQueen-68
Esther Scott-66
Kumiko Okae-63
Leslie Hamilton Freas-63
Kelly Preston-57
Doreen Montalvo-56
Galyn Görg-55
Natalie Desselle-Reid-53
Tiani Warden-52
Hikari Yono-46
Caroline Flack-40
Yuko Takeuchi-40
Sei Ashina-36
NAYA RIVERA-33
Ashley Mattingly-33
Whitney Collings-33
Mana Kinjo-24
Alexis Eddy-23
Nikita Pearl Waligwa-15

MUSIC
Vera "Forces Sweetheart" Lynn-103
Johnny Mandel-98
Lynn Evans Mand-95
Bobby Lewis-95
Phil Phillips-94
Duane Tatro-93
India Adams-93
Tommy DeVito-92
Robert Parker-89
Bill Mack-88
Jack Sheldon-88
Little Richard-87
Eddie Cooley-87
Charley Pride-86
Manu Dibango-86
W.S. 'Fluke' Holland-85
Bob Shane-85
Ellis Marsalis-85
Johnny Bush-85
Armando Manzanero-85
Ricky Valance-84
Charlie Daniels-83
Trini Lopez-83
Kenny Rogers-81
Bill Withers-81
Ray Sawyer-81
Spencer Davis-81
Billy Joe Shaver-81
Umberto Saoncella
Hal Ketchum-67
Johnny Nash-60
Harold Reid-80
Tony Allen-79
Hamilton Bohannon-78
K.T. Oslin-78
Helen Reddy-78
Mac Davis-78
Jerry Jeff Walker-78
Gary McSpadden-77
Edna Wright-76
Bill Randle
Barbara Martin-76
Leslie West-75
Sweet Pea” Atkinso-74
Ray Manzarek-74
Wayne Fontana-74
Gordon Haskell-74
Lee Kerslake-73
John Prine-73
Florian Schneider-73
Benny Mardones-73
Peter Green-73
Joe Meador-73
Steve Priest-72
Ronn Matlock-72
Millie Small-72
Rudy Salas-72
Alto Reed-72
David Olney-71
Dave Greenfield-71
Reggie Haynes-71
Mark Stone-70
Bob Kulick-70
Paul Matters
Onaje Allan Gumbs-70
Rocco Prestia-69
Sandra Feva
Bonnie Pointer-69
Alan Merrill-69
J.R. SMALLING-69
Jorge Santana-68
Frankie Banali-68
Ronald ‘Khalis’ Bell-68
Neil Peart-67
Chris Needs-67
Brian Howe-66
Betty Wright-66
PAUL CHAPMAN-66
Tyrone “The Bone” Proctor-66
Steve Holland-66
Eddie Van Halen-65
Tito Rojas-65
Andy Gill-64
Hal Willner-64
Matthew Seligman -64
Troy Jones-64
Benny Garcia-64
Jack Sherman-64
Joey Image-63
Ian Mitchell-62
Tony Lewis-62
David Roback-61
Joe Diffie-61
Wesley "Pike" Hall, Jr.-61
Pamela Hutchinson-61
Doug Supernaw-60
Rebecca Luker-59
Steve Sutherland
Jimmy Winston
Bill Rieflin-59
Andre Harrell-59
Bruce Williamson-56
John Fletcher-56
Daniel Lee Martin-54
Mike Huckaby-54
Reed Mullin-53
Bryan Wayne Galentine-53
Troy Sneed-52
Adam Schlesinger-52
Stezo-52
Erick Morillo-49
Jason Slater-49
MF Doom-49
SEAN REINERT-48
Edward “Felix” McTeigue-48
Saint Dog-44
John Lancaster-43
Ward Weebie-42
Nikki McKibbin-42
Brent Young-39
Justin Townes Earle-38
Joe Payne-35
Ashley 'Minnie' Ross-34
Chris Trousdale-34
Rapper Huey-32
Cady Groves-30
Lil Marlo-30
Yohan-28
Lindsey Lagestee-25
Kevin Williams
FXXXXY-22
Braxton Baker-21
Nick Blixky-21
Pop Smoke-20

SPORTS
Mary Pratt-101
Sid Hartman-100
Billy DeMars-95
Bob Miller-94
Tommy Docherty-92
Whitey Ford-91
Don Shula-90
Don Larsen-90
Sir Stirling Moss-90
Phil Krueger-90
John McNamara-88
KC Jones-88
Pete Retzlaff-88
Pepper Rodgers-88
Harry Gregg-87
Rafer Johnso-86
Al Kaline-85
Mickey Wright-85
David Glass-85
Bob Gibson-84
Henri Richard-84
Mike Storen-84
Ron Perranoski-84
Eddie Sutton-84
Tony Taylor-84
Paul Hornung-84
Eddie Shack-83
Willie Wood-83
Fred Akers-82
Fred Silverman-82
Timmy Brown-82
Lou Brock-81
Mike McCormick-81
Phil Niekro-81
Horace Clarke-81
Alan "The Ton Machine" Glazier-81
Marv Marinovich-81
Phil Linz-81
Denis Menke-80
Ray Perkins-79
Dick Allen-78
PETER BONETTI-78
Jerry Sloan-78
Tony Dunne-78
Howard Mudd-78
John Thompson-78
Nobby Stiles-78
Joe Morgan-77
Fred "Curly" Neal -77
Gale Sayers-77
Mike Curtis-77
David Stern-77
Norman Hunter-76
Michael McCaskey-76
Tom Seaver-75
Jake Scott-75
Jay Johnstone-74
Sam Wyche-74
Bob Watson-74
Wes Unseld-74
Tom Dempsey-73
Gerard Houllier-73
Stuart Gordon-72
Ceri Morgan-72
Trevor Cherry-72
Ray Clemence-72
Pierre Lacroix-72
Ed Farmer-70
Matt Blair-70
Hector Thompson-70
Phyllis George,-70
Rick Reed-70
Alan Minter-69
Jack McIlhargey-68
Willie Thorne-66
Alejandro Sabella-66
Claudell Washington-65
Matt Keough-64
Kurt Thomas-64
Paolo Rossi-64
Hank Steinbrenner -63
Marty Smith-63
Michael Robinson-61
Jay Allen-60
Diego Maradonna-60
Steve Sutherland
Chris Doleman-58
Kevin Greene-58
Tony Fernandez-57
Dale Hawerchuk-57
Joey Moss-57
John Andretti-56
Carlton Haselrig-54
Markus Paul-54
Clifford Robinson-53
Cliff Robinson-53
Dan Walters-53
Kim Batiste-52
Pellom McDaniels-52
Anthony Stewart-50
Vaughn McClure-48
Christophe Dominici-48
Keith Hufnagel-46
Candace Muzny-43
Pavle Jovanovic-43
Papa Bouba Diop-42
Kobe Bryant-41
Matthew J Watkins-41
Reche Caldwell-41
Tarvaris Jackson-36
Tyson Brummett-35
Mario Henderson-35
Alex Pullin-32
Taylor Dever-31
Miguel Marte-30
Luke Sandoe-30
Lorenzo Taliaferro-28
Jordan Cox-27
Michael Ojo-27
Jordan Sinnott-25
Colby Cave-25
Will Forsyth-24
Fausto Segura-23
David Forney-22
Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya-20

OTHER
Mr. Peanut-104
John 'Sonny' Franzese, Sr-103
Paul Farnes-101
Katherine Johnson-101
Jackie Stallone-98
PIERRE CARDIN-98
Chuck Yeager-97
Rosalind P. Walter-95
Herb Stempel-93
Joe Sinnott-93
Mary Higgins-92
Albert Uderzo-92
Hector Garrido-92
Wilson Roosevelt Jerman-91
Mort Drucker-91
Allen Bellman-90
Roger Berlind-90
Jack Van Impe-89
Joe Coulombe-89
John le Carré-89
Clive Cussler-88
Al Worden-88
Edgar R. Goldenberg-88
Ben Bova-88
Ruth Bader Ginsburg-87
Chan Tai-ho-87
Princess María Teresa-86
Lucille Bridges-86
Jim Lehrer-85
Grandma Lee-85
Jiro Kuwata-85
Ron Cobb-83
Joe Clark-82
Shozo Uehara-82
Terrence McNally-81
Denny O'Neil-81
Frank Culotta-81
Rep. John Lewis-80
Richard Corben-80
JOE BLACK
Sy Sperling-78
Jens Nygaard Knudsen-78
David Nichols-78
Winston Groom-77
Alan Parker-76
Roy Horn-75
Earl Pomerantz-75
Joanna Cole-75
Hugh Wilson-74
Joanna Cole-75
Larry Tesler-74
Peter Sutcliffe-74
Eric Hall-73
Stuart Gordon-72
Frank Bielec-72
Robert Trump-71
Linda Tripp-70
B. Smith-70
Jean Hill
Elyse Rosenstein-69
Juan Romero-68
Bobbie Battista-67
Dick Johnson-66
Martin Pasko-65
Leslie A. Pope-65
Mike Hughes-64
Floyd Cardoz-59
Sam Clayton Jr.-58
Paul Vasquez-57
Lynn Shelton-54
John Gilbert Getty-52
Edward Irastorza-52
Luis Troyano-48
Silvio Horta-45
Joanna Clare Thomas-43
STEVE CASH-40
Jas Waters-39
Prince Azim-38
Aaron Grissom-34
Susie Zhao-33
Nick McGlashan-33
Amie Harwick
Tyler Gwozdz-29
Bobby Brown-28
Benjamin Keough-27
Daisy Coleman-23

ANIMALS
Marnie the Dog-18
Beatrice(Modern Family’ Bulldog)-10
Odin-10

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Former NBA Commissioner David Stern dies at 77 after suffering brain hemorrhage in December
Stern, the commissioner of the NBA for 30 years that helped popularize the league on a global scale, died on Wednesday

David Stern, the former commissioner of the NBA, has died at 77 after suffering a brain hemorrhage in December, the league announced Wednesday.

Stern was the commissioner of the NBA from 1984 through 2014, presiding over a period of immense growth for professional basketball at a time in which its popularity was significantly lower than it is today. At the beginning of his tenure, the NBA Finals were still being aired on tape delay. By the time he stepped down, the league had become a financial powerhouse and one of the most widely viewed sports in the world.

Among his greatest accomplishments as commissioner was the grooming of his eventual successor, Adam Silver, who is among the most popular executives in the history of sports. The financial foundation that Stern helped created has allowed Silver to pursue a number of creative initiatives that the league didn't have the resources to consider in the past, including a mid-season tournament that could be instituted in the near future

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Don Larsen, who pitched only perfect game in World Series history, dies at 90

By his own admission, Don Larsen was a most imperfect fellow and therefore about the unlikeliest man to ever pitch the only perfect game in World Series history. But pitch it he did, on October 8, 1956, a 97-pitch, 2-0 gem in Game 5 that gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead in the Series against the Dodgers and set them up for winning their sixth world championship in eight years under manager Casey Stengel.

Larsen, 90, died Wednesday in hospice in Hayden, Idaho, of esophageal cancer, a party guy to the end who achieved baseball immortality that one sun-splashed autumn afternoon at Yankee Stadium despite an otherwise mediocre 81-91 pitching career with seven different major league teams from 1953-67. As it was, Larsen didn’t even think he was getting the ball that day after having been lifted by Stengel in the second inning of Game 2 of the Series because of control problems. He had given up only one hit in that game and was leading 6-1, but he’d walked four batters and the Yankees went on to lose, 13-8. Afterward, Larsen fumed to reporters: “I don’t give a damn if I ever pitch another game for the Yankees or Stengel again! I go out there and break my neck? For what? He had no business taking me out of there! That’s the last time I’ll get to bed early. I’m gonna start enjoying life again.”

Nevertheless, Stengel, who shrugged off Larsen’s diatribe, opted to give the big righthander — whose Yankee teammates dubbed “Gooney Bird” because of his flaky nature — a second chance three days later in Game 5, passing up 18-game winner Johnny Kucks (who went on to pitch the 9-0 Game 7 clincher). Whether it was just hunch on the part of Stengel — who secretly had a fondness for Larsen because of his own penchant for late-night imbibing — the prodigal pitcher vowed to make good for his manager. “I’ll show ‘em all,” he said when Stengel announced the day before Larsen would be starting Game 5. “Don’t be surprised if I pitch a no-hitter too.”

It was an oft-handed boast made jokingly to a handful of reporters, but one that Larsen more than made good on. Reverting to a “no-wind-up” delivery he had fashioned during the ’56 season (in which he’d been 11-5 as a starter and long reliever), he baffled the Dodgers all day and out-dueled veteran Sal Maglie, 2-0, striking out seven. About the only hard-hit ball the Dodgers had in the game was Gil Hodges’ one-out fly to deep left center in the fifth inning on which Mickey Mantle made a running, one-hand catch. Indeed, Larsen went to three balls on only one batter — Pee Wee Reese in the first — and when he got veteran pinch hitter Dale Mitchell on a half-swing third strike to end the game, Yankee catcher Yogi Berra rushed out from behind the plate and jumped into his arms in what became an iconic picture.

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Former Bengals and Buccaneers head coach Sam Wyche has died of cancer. Despite what the Buffalo Bills say he invented the no huddle offense thru out the whole game.

He was 74

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Dr. Hook’s Ray Sawyer, ‘Cover of Rolling Stone’ Singer, Dead at 81

Alabama-born singer featured on hits like “Sylvia’s Mother” and “When You’re in Love With a Beautiful Woman” as member of Rolling Stone cover-gracing rock act

Ray Sawyer, the Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show member who sang the 1973 Shel Silverstein-penned hit “The Cover of ‘Rolling Stone,'” has died at the age of 81.

Page Six first reported Friday that Sawyer died in Daytona Beach, Florida following a brief illness; a representative for the band confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone.

The Alabama-born Sawyer – who founded the group with Dennis Locorriere, Billy Francis and George Cummings – was a member of Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show from 1969 to 1981. A few years before the band’s formation, Sawyer lost his right eye in a car accident; Sawyer wore an eyepatch that made him resemble the Peter Pan villain Captain Hook, which served as the inspiration for the Dr. Hook moniker.

In 1970, Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show’s demo tapes wound up in the hands of author and songwriter Shel Silverstein, who recruited the band to become a vessel for his music: The group would turn Silverstein-written tracks like “Sylvia’s Mother” and “The Cover of ‘Rolling Stone'” into hits and released two albums of Silverstein-penned songs, 1971’s Dr. Hook and 1972’s Sloppy Seconds.

The latter single, a tongue-in-cheek paean to the magazine and rock stardom with Sawyer on vocals, became a Top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100 and resulted in Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show, in caricature form, receiving a Rolling Stone cover in March 1973 as well as a profile of the New Jersey-via-Alabama act. “From unknown bar band to the cover of ‘Rolling Stone,’” the profile noted of the band’s sudden ascension.

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Didn't see Sam had passed. RIP.

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Sawyer hits hard for me. I’ve listened to Dr. Hook for many a year, always had a way of cheering me up when things got bad. R.i.p.

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Natalie Trundy, who went from Perry Mason client to Planet of the Apes regular
The actress was married to the Planet of the Apes franchise in more than one way. She was 79.

Arthur P. Jacobs had a big year in 1968. The Hollywood producer scored a blockbuster with his Planet of the Apes, the ninth highest-grossing film of the year. He also married after falling in love with an actress, Natalie Trundy.

Trundy was a familiar face in early Sixties television. In 1963, she played a resident in an uncommonly advanced small town in "Valley of the Shadow," one of the hour-long episodes of The Twilight Zone. "We have machines for so many things but I can't make this feeling stop," she tells visiting stranger Redfield (Ed Nelson), with whom she falls in love.

That same year, Trundy portrayed Sandra Keller, the granddaughter of an orange orchard owner who is accused of his murder on Perry Mason. Perry comes to the defense of Keller in "The Case of the Golden Oranges," and proves her innocence in the courtroom.

But Trundy suffered setbacks in 1963. After being struck by an automobile that spring, she suffered a ruptured disc. She recovered for in a year in a back brace, according to her website.

Following her injury and recovery, Trundy relocated to London, where she met Jacobs at the opening of a Playboy Club in 1966.

After they married, Jacobs cast his wife in Planet of the Apes sequels. She played both human and simian characters. In Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Trundy sported prosthetic makeup to play Albina, a scarred mutant. In Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), she was Dr. Stephanie Branton. Finally, she converted to ape for Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).

Her character in those final two films, Lisa, married Roddy McDowall's ape character, Caesar.

A 1978 appearance on Quincy M.E. would be her final screen role. On December 5, Trundy died of natural causes

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So wild she played three roles. I never noticed the two human characters were same actress.

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Silvio Horta, ‘Ugly Betty’ Creator, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide


Silvio Horta, creator of ABC’s popular series “Ugly Betty,” was found dead in a Miami motel room on Tuesday in an apparent suicide. He was 45.

Sources tell Variety that Horta died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A representative for Horta confirmed his death, but declined to comment on the nature of it.

The American version of “Ugly Betty,” which starred America Ferrera, ran for four seasons on ABC from 2006 to 2010 and was adapted from the hit Colombian telenovela “Yo soy Betty, la fea.” Horta served as showrunner and head writer on the comedy-drama.

The show centered on Betty Suarez, a young, smart Mexican American woman from Queens who lands a job at an upscale fashion magazine in Manhattan. During its run, the show won two Golden Globes, one for best comedy series and one for Ferrera. The original series was created in 1999 by Fernando Gaitan and ran until 2001.

Horta, who was born in Miami to Cuban parents and majored in film at NYU, had a project with Mary J. Blige in development at Fox in 2018. The prospective series, titled “Move,” was inspired by the life of famed choreographer and creative director Laurieann Gibson, who created routines for the likes of Beyonce, Michael Jackson, Alicia Keys and Lady Gaga.

His big break came in 1998 when he wrote the screenplay for horror-thriller “Urban Legend.” The script was turned into a successful feature starring Jared Leto and “Dune” star Alicia Witt.

Horta’s moved into TV in the earlly 2000s with the Sci Fi series “The Chronicle,” which ran for a single season and starred Octavia Spencer, among others. In 2003, Horta continued his science fiction run with the UPN series “Jake 2.0.” The series, which also only lasted one season, revolved around a computer expert (Christopher Graham) who, while working for the NSA, was accidentally infected by nanobots, giving him superhuman powers.