RIP – MICHAEL SHOWERS

EXPIRED: 08/24/11 –  Michael Showers, 45, played New Orleans cop, Capt. John Guidry, in the TV show Treme, about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In his role he was investigating the murder of the real-life Helen Hill, who was killed in 2007. He died nearby, pulled from the Mississippi River near the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, after being spotted by a steamboat captain. Police speculate he’d been dead for at least 2 days. His girlfriend reported him missing after he failed to return home after a night drinking on Bourbon Street. 

Showers was suffering from depression and anxiety and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis just a few months ago.

Showers was a struggling actor for several decades but racked up an impressive resume of extra and walk-on work over the last decade, including the movies Traffic, Mad Money, I Love You Phillip Morris, The Resident, The Tree of Life and the soon to be released Colombiana.

He also was getting more work on the small screen and recently appeared in The Vampire Diaries and Breaking Bad.

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RIP – DOUG FIEGER

EXPIRED: 02/14/10 – Doug Fieger, 57, the singer-songwriter for American pop band the Knack, wrote his first two albums about ex-girlfriends and broken hearts, so it’s kinda apropos that he would break the hearts of all his fans by leaving them finally and completely on Valentine’s Day. The Knack’s biggest hit was 1979’s “My Sharona” but nearly the entire album was written about that love /crush of Doug’s.

He had been living with his girlfriend Judy since he was 15, and moved from Detroit to Los Angeles with her after the demise of his first band, Sky. Judy worked as a hairdresser and while Fieger tried to get his new band, The Sunset Bombers, off the ground. Across the street from Judy’s salon was a children’s clothing store and in it worked a young girl named Sharona. Fieger met her, broke up with Judy and moved out.

RIP – DEE ANTHONY

EXPIRED: 10/25/09 – Dee Anthony, 83, was born Anthony D’Addario in the Bronx and began a 40-year music-managing career representing neighborhood friend Jerry Vale in the 1950s and later worked for crooner Tony Bennett.

Then he moved into a different territory and became the manager-to-beat for rock acts such as Traffic, Jethro Tull, the J. Geils Band, Joe Cocker, the MC5, Ten Years After and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.