Notable Deaths
Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
January | 2 | Steven Gilborn | 72 | USA | Actor | Dunston Checks In • Evolution • Alien Resurrection • Nurse Betty • Private Parts • The Brady Bunch Movie |
3 | Pat Hingle | 84 | USA | Actor | Splendor in the Grass • Hang 'Em High • Batman • The Land Before Time • Shaft • Norma Rae • Sudden Impact • Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby • The Quick and the Dead • Baby Boom | |
5 | Ned Tanen | 77 | USA | Producer | The Breakfast Club • St. Elmo's Fire • Sixteen Candles | |
6 | John Scott Martin | 82 | UK | Actor | The Meaning of Life • Pink Floyd The Wall • Ali G Indahouse • Little Shop of Horrors | |
8 | Don Galloway | 71 | USA | Actor | The Big Chill • Clifford | |
12 | Claude Berri | 74 | France | Director, Producer, Writer | Jean de Florette • Manon des Sources • Le Poulet • Tess • Germinal | |
13 | Patrick McGoohan | 80 | Ireland | Actor, Writer | Braveheart • Escape from Alcatraz • Treasure Planet • The Phantom • A Time to Kill • Scanners • The Three Lives of Thomasina • Ice Station Zebra | |
14 | Ricardo Montalbán | 88 | Mexico | Actor, Director | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan • The Naked Gun • Escape from the Planet of the Apes • The Ant Bully • Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams • Cannonball Run II | |
18 | Kathleen Byron | 88 | UK | Actress | Saving Private Ryan • The Elephant Man • Black Narcissus • Emma | |
21 | Charles H. Schneer | 88 | USA | Producer | Jason and the Argonauts • Clash of the Titans • The 7th Voyage of Sinbad • Mysterious Island • It Came from Beneath the Sea | |
25 | Kim Manners | 58 | USA | Producer, Director, Production Manager, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Actor | Valdez Is Coming • Halls of Anger | |
February | 6 | James Whitmore | 87 | USA | Actor | Planet of the Apes • The Shawshank Redemption • Tora! Tora! Tora! • The Majestic |
6 | Philip Carey | 83 | USA | Actor | Operation Pacific • Pushover • Mister Roberts | |
12 | George Grenville | 88 | USA | Film Editor | Iron Eagle • Wrong is Right • Looking for Mr. Goodbar • Bite the Bullet | |
20 | Robert Quarry | 83 | USA | Actor | Count Yorga, Vampire • Dr. Phibes Rises Again | |
22 | Howard Zieff | 81 | USA | Director | Private Benjamin • My Girl • The Dream Team | |
27 | Alan Saunders | 68 | USA | Actor | Annie Hall • Cop and a Half | |
March | 1 | Joan Turner | 86 | USA | Actress | In Her Shoes • All About the Benjamins |
4 | Horton Foote | 92 | USA | Screenwriter | To Kill a Mockingbird • Baby the Rain Must Fall • The Trip to Bountiful • Of Mice and Men (1992) • Tender Mercies | |
13 | Betsy Blair | 85 | USA | Actress | Marty • A Double Life • Another Part of the Forest • The Snake Pit | |
15 | Ron Silver | 62 | USA | Actor, Director | Ali • Reversal of Fortune • Timecop • Silkwood • Find Me Guilty | |
18 | Natasha Richardson | 45 | UK | Actress | Nell • The Parent Trap • Maid in Manhattan • Patty Hearst • Evening • Wild Child | |
21 | John Franklyn-Robbins | 84 | UK | Actor | Vanity Fair • The Golden Compass • Lionheart | |
29 | Maurice Jarre | 84 | France | Composer | Lawrence of Arabia • Doctor Zhivago • Ghost • The Longest Day • Fatal Attraction • Gorillas in the Mist • Witness • Taps • Dead Poet's Society • A Passage to India • The Last Tycoon • Top Secret! • Ryan's Daughter • Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome • The Mosquito Coast • The Island at the Top of the World • Prancer | |
29 | Monte Hale | 89 | USA | Actor, Singer | Giant | |
April | 1 | Miguel Ángel Suárez | 69 | Puerto Rico | Actor | Bananas • Stir Crazy • Under Suspicion • Angel • Che: Part One |
1 | Lou Perryman | 67 | USA | Actor | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre • Poltergeist • The Blues Brothers | |
4 | Jody McCrea | 74 | USA | Actor, Producer | Lafayette Escadrille • Cry Blood, Apache • Beach Party • Muscle Beach Party • Bikini Beach • Beach Blanket Bingo • How to Stuff a Wild Bikini | |
5 | Wouter Barendrecht | 43 | Netherlands | Producer | The Goddess of 1967 • Springtime in a Small Town • Last Life in the Universe • Pleasure Factory | |
9 | Shakti Samanta | 83 | India | Director, Producer | Aradhana • Kati Patang • Amar Prem | |
10 | Yevgeny Vesnik | 86 | Russia | Actor | The Adventures of the Elektronic | |
12 | Marilyn Chambers | 57 | United States | Actress, producer | Rabid • Behind the Green Door | |
20 | Peter Rogers | 95 | UK | Director | Carry On film series | |
21 | Daniel Melnick | 77 | USA | Producer | Altered States • Blue Streak • Universal Soldier: The Return • Straw Dogs • All That Jazz • L.A. Story • Footloose | |
22 | Ken Annakin | 94 | UK | Director | Swiss Family Robinson • The Longest Day • Battle of the Bulge • Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines | |
22 | Jack Cardiff | 94 | UK | Cinematographer-Director | Black Narcissus • The Red Shoes • A Matter of Life and Death • War and Peace • The African Queen • The Prince and the Showgirl • The Vikings • Sons and Lovers | |
25 | Beatrice Arthur | 86 | USA | Actress | Lovers and Other Strangers • Mame • The Golden Girls • Maude | |
27 | Feroz Khan | 69 | India | Actor | Tarzan Goes to India • Dharmatma • Qurbani • Janbaaz | |
May | 1 | Danny Gans | 52 | USA | Actor, Entertainer | Bull Durham |
4 | Dom DeLuise | 75 | USA | Actor, Comedian, Film Director | History of the World, Part I • Spaceballs • Robin Hood: Men in Tights • All Dogs Go to Heaven • An American Tail • The Muppet Movie • The Cannonball Run • The Twelve Chairs • Blazing Saddles • The End • Smokey and the Bandit II • Hot Stuff • Oliver & Company | |
4 | Jane Randolph | 93 | USA | Actress | Railroaded! • Cat People • The Curse of the Cat People | |
7 | Mickey Carroll | 89 | USA | Actor | The Wizard of Oz | |
18 | Wayne Allwine | 62 | USA | Voice actor/third voice of Mickey Mouse, Sound effects editor | Who Framed Roger Rabbit • Fantasia 2000 • A Goofy Movie • The Great Mouse Detective • The Black Cauldron • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier • Splash • Three Men and a Baby • Alien Nation • Innerspace | |
20 | Lucy Gordon | 28 | UK | Actress | Perfume • Serendipity • Spider-Man 3 | |
28 | Mort Abrahams | 93 | USA | Producer | Planet of the Apes • Goodbye, Mr. Chips | |
June | 3 | David Carradine | 72 | USA | Actor | Kung Fu • Death Race 2000 • Bound for Glory • Bird on a Wire • Kill Bill • Crank: High Voltage |
3 | Shih Kien | 96 | China | Actor | The Young Master • Enter the Dragon | |
21 | Lorena Gale | 51 | Canada | Actress | The Butterfly Effect • Fantastic Four • The X-Files: I Want to Believe • Ernest Goes to School • Traitor • Halloween: Resurrection • The Exorcism of Emily Rose • Agent Cody Banks • The Fly II • The Day the Earth Stood Still | |
23 | Ed McMahon | 86 | USA | Actor | The Incident • Fun with Dick and Jane • Bewitched • Full Moon High • Butterfly | |
25 | Farrah Fawcett | 62 | USA | Actress | Logan's Run • The Cannonball Run • Extremities • The Apostle • Dr. T & the Women | |
25 | Michael Jackson | 50 | USA | Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Producer | The Wiz • Captain EO • Moonwalker • Michael Jackson's Ghosts • Men in Black II • Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls • This Is It | |
29 | Jan Rubes | 89 | Canada | Singer, Actor | Witness • One Magic Christmas • Dead of Winter • The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick • D2: The Mighty Ducks | |
30 | Harve Presnell | 75 | USA | Actor | Fargo • Paint Your Wagon • Saving Private Ryan • Patch Adams | |
July | 1 | Karl Malden | 97 | USA | Actor | A Streetcar Named Desire • On the Waterfront • Baby Doll • Birdman of Alcatraz • Gypsy • Patton• One-Eyed Jacks • How the West Was Won • Kiss of Death • I Confess |
4 | Brenda Joyce | 92 | USA | Actress | Tarzan and the Amazons • Tarzan and the Leopard Woman • Tarzan and the Huntress • Tarzan and the Mermaids • Tarzan's Magic Fountain | |
10 | Zena Marshall | 83 | UK | Actress | Dr. No • Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines • The Terrornauts | |
17 | Walter Cronkite | 92 | USA | News Anchor, Actor | We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story | |
26 | Traugott Buhre | 80 | Germany | Actor | Derrick • Tatort • Anatomy | |
26 | Clayton Hill | 78 | USA | Actor | Dawn of the Dead • The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh | |
31 | Jean-Paul Roussillon | 78 | France | Actor | Monsieur de Pourceaugnac • Une hirondelle a fait le printemps • Playing 'In the Company of Men' • Kings and Queen • A Christmas Tale | |
August | 6 | John Hughes | 59 | USA | Director, Writer, Producer | National Lampoon's Vacation • Ferris Bueller's Day Off • Weird Science • The Breakfast Club • Sixteen Candles • Pretty in Pink • She's Having a Baby • Planes, Trains and Automobiles • Uncle Buck • Home Alone • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York • Flubber |
9 | John Quade | 71 | USA | Actor, Stuntman | The Outlaw Josey Wales • 92 In The Shade • The Sting • Every Which Way But Loose | |
13 | Les Paul | 94 | USA | Musician, Songwriter, Actor | The Dream Catcher | |
26 | Sadie Corre | 91 | USA | Actress, Dancer | Return of the Jedi • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang • Willow • Funny Bones | |
28 | Wayne Tippit | 76 | USA | Actor | Nurse Betty • JFK • Taps • The Dream Team | |
September | 7 | Frank Coghlan, Jr. | 93 | USA | Actor | The Public Enemy • Adventures of Captain Marvel |
12 | Larry Gelbart | 81 | USA | Author, Screenwriter, Producer | Tootsie • Oh, God! • Blame It on Rio • Bedazzled • Neighbors • Rough Cut | |
14 | Patrick Swayze | 57 | USA | Actor, Dancer, Singer-songwriter | Dirty Dancing • Road House • Ghost • Point Break • Red Dawn • The Outsiders • Grandview, U.S.A. • Steel Dawn • Next of Kin • Waking Up in Reno • Black Dog • Donnie Darko • 11:14 • Keeping Mum • Tall Tale • Youngblood • Christmas in Wonderland | |
14 | Henry Gibson | 73 | USA | Actor | The Burbs • Nashville • Innerspace • The Blues Brothers • Gremlins 2: The New Batch • Charlotte's Web • Bio-Dome • Tom and Jerry: The Movie | |
17 | Dick Durock | 72 | USA | Actor, Stuntman | Swamp Thing • Stand by Me • The Enforcer • Any Which Way You Can • Die Hard with a Vengeance | |
21 | Robert Ginty | 60 | USA | Actor, Director | The Exterminator • Coming Home • Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man | |
October | 10 | Sean Lawlor | 55 | Ireland | Actor | Trojan Eddie • Titanic • Braveheart • In the Name of the Father • |
14 | Collin Wilcox | 74 | USA | Actress | To Kill a Mockingbird • Jaws 2 • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | |
19 | Joseph Wiseman | 91 | Canada | Actor | Dr. No • Viva Zapata! • The Unforgiven | |
November | 4 | David Tree | 94 | USA | Actor | Goodbye, Mr. Chips • Pygmalion |
16 | Edward Woodward | 79 | UK | Actor | Breaker Morant • The Wicker Man | |
17 | Tony Kendall | 72 | Italy | Actor | Machine Gun McCain | |
December | 3 | Richard Todd | 90 | UK | Actor | The Hasty Heart • Stage Fright • The Dam Busters • A Man Called Peter |
4 | Bryan O'Byrne | 78 | USA | Actor | Gunfight in Abilene • Marnie • The Shakiest Gun in the West • The Million Dollar Duck • Gus • Love at First Bite • The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again • Zapped! • Spaceballs | |
9 | Gene Barry | 90 | USA | Actor | The War of the Worlds • Thunder Road | |
16 | Roy E. Disney | 79 | USA | senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, nephew of Walt Disney | Fantasia 2000 | |
17 | Jennifer Jones | 90 | USA | Actress | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing • Duel in the Sun • Since You Went Away • The Song of Bernadette • Love Letters • A Farewell to Arms | |
17 | Dan O'Bannon | 63 | USA | Screenwriter, Director, Actor | Dark Star • Alien • Heavy Metal • Blue Thunder • Lifeforce • The Return of the Living Dead • Invaders from Mars • Total Recall • Screamers | |
20 | Brittany Murphy | 32 | USA | Actress, Singer | Clueless • Just Married • Girl, Interrupted • 8 Mile • Sin City • The Dead Girl • Uptown Girls • Riding in Cars with Boys • Spun • Happy Feet • Little Black Book • Don't Say a Word • Summer Catch | |
20 | Arnold Stang | 91 | USA | Actor | The Man with the Golden Arm Alakazam the Great • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World • Hello Down There • Hercules in New York • Ghost Dad • Dennis the Menace | |
22 | Michael Currie | 81 | USA | Actor | Sudden Impact • The Dead Pool • Halloween III: Season of the Witch • Firefox • Any Which Way You Can • G.I. Jane | |
30 | Perry Wilson | 93 | USA | Actress | The Matchmaker • Fear Strikes Out |
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“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when its more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
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The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (18741963)