Died 2008

He and co-host Dan Rowan took television by storm in the 1960s.

Robbins opened his first ice cream store in Glendale, Calif., in December 1945.

He won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing “Ben-Hur” and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the ’50s and ’60s.

He was executive producer of the hugely successful “Beatles Anthology” album.

His huge success with “A Man for All Seasons” was followed in 1979 by another great historical stage role, as Salieri in “Amadeus.”

Some of his best-known books are “Childhood’s End,” 1953; “The City and The Stars,” 1956; “The Nine Billion Names of God,” 1967; and “Rendezvous with Rama,” 1973.

Gygax also was a prolific writer and wrote dozens of fantasy books, including the Greyhawk series of adventure novels.

His unique playing style, combined with his blues-oriented vocals, earned him a reputation as a teenage musical prodigy.

Buckley founded the biweekly magazine National Review in 1955.

He uttered the famous “Jaws” quote, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”