First Episode / Last Episode: 15 Beloved Performers Bookends

You don’t know what you got until it’s gone. It’s a phrase applied to love lost, but can also apply to several of our favorite actors and performers over the years. Whether it was tragedy or just their time being up, several iconic people from the silver screen to our smaller television sets have shuffled off this mortal coil.

Fortunately, several of them left behind a giant library of work for us to stream and watch whenever we’d like to be reminded of them. Several of them left iconic roles and performances that we’ll watch again and again. This Pictofact isn’t about that, though.

This is about the first time we as a culture saw them, and the last time we got to seem them. The times before they were famous and long after, either way it’s a trivia question of the first appearance or the final bow. Here are some of the bookends of our favorite actors over the years.