15 Sitcom Stars Who Died In Poverty & Forgotten by Hollywood

They walked into your living room every week. You knew their voices, their catchphrases, the way they delivered a punchline. And then the show ended — and for some of them, everything else ended with it. This is the story of 15 sitcom stars who were household names in their prime and had almost nothing left by the end. Some lost it to medical bills. Some to contracts that paid them a fraction of what the reruns earned. Some to an industry that simply stopped calling once they were no longer young. A few died in circumstances so quiet that the news took weeks to reach the people who had once worked beside them. The hardest one on this list is somewhere in the middle — and it's a name almost everyone watching will recognise instantly. Stay to the end. The last story is the one that says the most about how Hollywood treats the people who made it money.