Known for:	Sling Blade, Bad Santa, Clifford the Big Red Dog
Birth name:	Jonathan Southworth Ritter
Birthday:	17 September 1948, Burbank, California, USA
Height:	5' 11" (1.80 m)

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Vintage Celebrity Sighting: It's Jack Tripper!

It's not very often we get Celebrity Sightings from over twenty years ago, in fact this is probably our first.User A-Team was going through some old photos and dug up this treasure of herself as a little girl with John Ritter.To read her story just click here.We love hearing about your Celebrity Sightings so ... Read More » Vintage Celebrity Sighting: It's Jack Tripper!

The widow of JOHN RITTER has spoken for the first time since two doctors were cleared of misdiagnosing the tragic actor’s fatal heart condition.Amy Yasbeck and the couple’s eldest children had launched a $67 million (£33.5 million) wrongful death case against cardiologist Joseph Lee and radiologist Matthew Lotysch at Glendale’s Superior Court, following the actor’s
Singer/songwriter Josh Ritter was once offered comforting words from the afterlife by a psychic who wrongly assumed he was the son of late actor John Ritter. The folk star is regularly linked with the TV star, who suddenly died from heart failure in 2003, because they share the same surname.


Singer/songwriter JOSH RITTER was once offered comforting words from the afterlife by a psychic who wrongly assumed he was the son of late actor JOHN RITTER.The folk star is regularly linked with the tragic TV star, who died suddenly from heart failure in 2003, because they share the same surname.Ritter accepts the link is something
The two doctors accused of misdiagnosing late actor John Ritter's fatal heart condition have been cleared by a California court. The TV star's widow, Amy Yasbeck, and the couple's eldest children launched a $67 million wrongful death case against cardiologist Joseph Lee and radiologist Matthew Lotysch at Glendale's Superior Court, following the actor's tragic and sudden passing in September 2003.


Reuters - Doctors who treated John Ritter after he collapsed on the set of his television comedy were cleared on Friday in a $67 million wrongful death lawsuit brought by the Emmy-winning actor's wife and children.
AP - A jury cleared a cardiologist and a radiologist Friday of negligence in the diagnosis and treatment of actor John Ritter, who died of a torn aorta in 2003. Jurors found that the radiologist advised Ritter to follow up with treatment by a physician after a body scan two years before his death. Ritter didn't follow the order.
GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) - A California jury has cleared a cardiologist and a radiologist of negligence in the diagnosis and treatment of actor John Ritter. Ritter died of a torn aorta in 2003.


Filed under: Celebrity Justice In a 9-3 vote, a jury in a Los Angeles suburb has cleared two doctors -- a cardiologist and a radiologist -- of negligence in the death of actor John Ritter.Jurors determined that doctors were not negligent for missing the diagnosis of a torn aorta...
A jury in Glendale, California has cleared two doctors of negligence in the treatment of actor JOHN RITTER.Ritter’s widow Amy Yasbeck filed a $67 million (£33.5 million) wrongful death lawsuit against a cardiologist and radiologist. The trial has been ongoing for a month.Ritter, 54, died from a tear in the aorta in September, 2003.Movie &
GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) - Attorneys in the wrongful-death lawsuit against John Ritter's doctors gave jurors drastically different views Wednesday on whether anything could have been done to save the actor on the night he died.


AP - Attorneys in the wrongful-death lawsuit against John Ritter's doctors gave jurors drastically different views Wednesday on whether anything could have been done to save the actor on the night he died.
The sequel to the TV show JOHN RITTER was shooting when he died is to be turned into a movie.As Ritter’s widow Amy Yasbeck fights an ongoing wrongful death legal battle with doctors she claims misdiagnosed her husband in 2003, studio bosses are planning to turn writer W. Bruce Cameron’s 8 Simple Rules For Dating
GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) - Sobbing into her hands, John Ritter's widow on Monday gave jurors in a wrongful-death trial a minute-by-minute account of events leading up to the actor's death in 2003. Amy Yasbeck sometimes could barely speak through her tears as she recounted the last hours in which she was summoned to a hospital and told her husband was having a heart attack and needed an angiogram.


LATEST: Actor JOHN RITTER was denied the right to a second opinion on his heart condition, his widow AMY YASBECK has claimed.Yasbeck and her eldest children are suing two doctors for $67 million (£33.5 million) for misdiagnosing the torn aorta that killed the comic star in September 2003, at the age of 54.She claims Ritter’s
AP - Sobbing into her hands, John Ritter's widow on Monday gave jurors in a wrongful-death trial a minute-by-minute account of events leading up to the actor's death in 2003.
LATEST: Late actor JOHN RITTER is to blame for his own death because he used an alias when he checked into hospital the day he died, a court has been told.Ritter’s widow Amy Yasbeck is suing two doctors she claims misdiagnosed and mistreated the Bad Santa actor prior to his death in 2003, aged 54.She
Popular actor John Ritter feared he had fallen victim to a serious bout of food poisoning on the day he died, according to a phone message that was played at his wrongful death trial in California.


AP - The jury in the John Ritter wrongful-death trial heard testimonials Tuesday from his TV co-star, agent, personal assistant and son, who praised the actor as a kind, loving and funny man facing a bright future at the time of his death.
GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) - The jury in the John Ritter wrongful-death trial heard testimonials Tuesday from his TV co-star, agent, personal assistant and son, who praised the actor as a kind, loving and funny man facing a bright future at the time of his death. ''I loved John,'' actress Katey Sagal said, fighting back tears as she briefly testified in Superior Court.


LATEST: Actress KATEY SAGAL broke down in tears in a California court on Tuesday (26Feb08) when she took to the stand in the ongoing JOHN RITTER wrongful death trial.Sagal, who starred as Ritter’s on-screen wife on hit TV show 8 Simple Rules… For Dating My Teenage Daughter, appeared briefly at Glendale’s Superior Court to testify