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John Ritter

JOHN RITTER
 
 
John Ritter  (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor.  Ritter was known for playing Jack Tripper on the hit ABC sitcom Three’'s Company, for which he won an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award in 1984.  Ritter appeared in hundreds of films and television shows/episodes combined (and performed on Broadway), including It (1990), Problem Child (1990), Problem Child 2 (1991), and Bad Santa in 2003 (his final live action film which was dedicated to his memory).  Ritter received four Daytime Emmy Award nominations for his voice work on the children’s television series, Clifford the Big Red Dog.  Don Knotts called Ritter the “greatest physical comedian on the planet”.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
Several of the performers that had appeared at the original  Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969 were in attendance at the Vietnam Veterans Benefit Concert near Washington, D.C., on July 4, 1987:  Richie Havens, Country Joe, John Sebastian, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (at least individually, with Stephen Stills and Neil Young appearing in a reformed Buffalo Springfield).  Other musicians at the Vietnam Veterans Benefit Concert included James Brown, Stevie Wonder, the Byrds, Bonnie Raitt, Kris Kristofferson, Linda Ronstadt, Frankie Valli, and the Four Tops; and there were also speeches by John Ritter, Louis Gossett, Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Oliver Stone, and Ed Asner. 
 
(January 2013)