Eddie Fisher (singer) Eddie Fisher (singer) Edwin John "Eddie" Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American singer and actor. He was the most successful pop singles artist during the first half of the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. Fisher divorced his first wife, actress Debbie Reynolds, to marry Reynolds' best friend, actress Elizabeth Taylor, after Taylor's husband, film producer Mike Todd, was killed in a plane crash. The scandalous affair was widely reported, bringing unfavorable publicity to Fisher. He later married Connie Stevens. Fisher fathered Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher with Reynolds, and
John Hurt Fisher and a "landmark work". Fisher married Jane Elizabeth Law in 1942; they had one son and two daughters. He died in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the age of 95 in 2015. John Hurt Fisher John Hurt Fisher (October 26, 1919 – February 17, 2015) was an American literary scholar, English professor, and medievalist, who specialized in the study of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. John Hurt Fisher was born in 1919 in Lexington, Kentucky. His father was Commodore Bascom Fisher, a schoolteacher, and his mother was Franke (née Sheddan) Fisher. Fisher grew up and attended elementary school in Iran, where his