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Johnny Crawford, who found early fame in the 1950s as an original Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club and even more success as the son of Chuck Connors’ title character in the 1958-63 Western series The Rifleman, died Thursday two years after an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and a recent battle with Covid-19 . He was…

Bonni Lou Kern, one of the original Mouseketeers on television’s pioneering The Mickey Mouse Club of the 1950s, died September 28 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Wooster, OH. She was 79. Kern, a California native whose married name was Bonni Carr, appeared as a Mouseketeer in 1955-56 and was…

Karen Pendleton, one original Mouseketeers from The Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950s, died Sunday of a heart attack in Fresno, CA. She was 73. Author and Disney  historian Lorraine Santoli announced the news today. Known for her shoulder-length blond curls, Pendleton was among the youngest of the original Mouseketeers…

Doreen Tracey, one of the nine original Mouseketeers on Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club who later starred in movies and TV, became the publicist for Frank Zappa and worked at Warner Bros, has died. She was 74. Tracey died Wednesday of pneumonia in Thousand Oaks, CA, after a two-year battle with cancer. Tracey was born on…

Television director and producer Dick Darley, director of the first season of The Mickey Mouse Club and the person who brought the groundbreaking pulp science fiction series Space Patrol to a national audience died April 21. He was 92. “Early this morning our family lost a wonderful man – my dad,” said Darley’s…