Remembering the celebrities we lost in 2023
It’s never easy saying goodbye to those we’ve come to love. And while most of us don’t come into regular contact with celebrities, we invite them into our homes via television, movies and streaming services, making them a part of our everyday lives.
This year, sadly, we said goodbye to many talented musicians, actors and other high-profile personalities.
Among them were Matthew Perry, Tina Turner, Sue Johanson, Andre Braugher, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Barker, Michael Gambon and Robbie Robertson.
We’re taking the time to celebrate the legacy of this uber-talented group of people by remembering some of the celebrities we lost in 2023.
Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences as “America’s little brother” on Eight is Enough, died at his California home on Jan. 7. He was 54.
Rich was the little brother to a generation of TV viewers as the son of a newspaper columnist played by Dick Van Patten, who raised eight children alone after his wife in the show — and the actress who played her — died during filming of the first season.
He had a limited acting career after starring as Nicholas Bradford when he was 8 years old, the youngest of eight children from the ABC hit dramedy that ran from 1977 to 1981.
Rich’s public life after stardom was similar to that of other child actors whose promising careers are later derailed by drugs, alcohol and run-ins with the law.
He suffered from a type of depression that defied treatment. In his life, he tried to erase the stigma of talking about mental illness.
Jeff Beck, a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock n’ roll and influenced generations of shredders along the way, died on Jan. 10 after contracting bacterial meningitis. He was
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