Notable Deaths
Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
January | 4 | Donal Donnelly | 78 | USA | Actor | The Godfather: Part III • Waterloo • The Dead • I'm All Right Jack • The Knack ...and How to Get It |
11 | Éric Rohmer | 89 | France | Director | La Collectionneuse • My Night at Maud's • Claire's Knee • The Marquise of O • Pauline at the Beach • The Green Ray • A Tale of Winter • Autumn Tale • Triple Agent | |
17 | Erich Segal | 72 | USA | Author, Screenwriter | Love Story • Oliver's Story • Yellow Submarine • The Games • A Change of Seasons | |
21 | L.A. Johnson | 62 | USA | Producer, Filmmaker, Sound Recordist | CSNY/Déjà Vu • Year of the Horse •Solo Trans • Human Highway •Rust Never Sleeps• The Last Waltz• Woodstock | |
22 | Johnny Seven | 83 | USA | Actor | The Apartment • The Love God? • Gunfight in Abilene • The Greatest Story Ever Told | |
22 | Jean Simmons | 80 | UK | Actress | Black Narcissus • Hamlet • The Robe • Guys and Dolls • The Big Country • Spartacus • Elmer Gantry • Angel Face • The Happy Ending • Divorce American Style | |
24 | Pernell Roberts | 81 | USA | Actor | The Magic of Lassie • Ride Lonesome | |
27 | Zelda Rubinstein | 76 | USA | Actress | Sixteen Candles • Poltergeist • Teen Witch • Southland Tales | |
27 | Martin Grace | 67 | Spain | Stuntman, Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark • The Truman Show • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom • The Number 23 • Brazil • King Arthur • Superman • Shallow Hal • Willow • Patriot Games • The Spy Who Loved Me • Octopussy • For Your Eyes Only | |
February | 1 | David Brown | 93 | USA | Producer | The Sugarland Express • The Sting • Jaws • The Verdict • Cocoon • Driving Miss Daisy • The Player • A Few Good Men |
1 | Justin Mentell | 27 | USA | Actor | G-Force • Palo Alto • Roll Bounce | |
5 | Ian Carmichael | 89 | UK | Actor | Miss Robin Hood • Private's Progress • Brothers in Law • I'm All Right Jack • School for Scoundrels • The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins | |
16 | John Davis Chandler | 75 | USA | Actor | The Young Savages • Ride the High Country • Once a Thief • The Outlaw Josey Wales | |
17 | Kathryn Grayson | 88 | USA | Actress | Show Boat • Anchors Aweigh • Till the Clouds Roll By • Andy Hardy's Private Secretary • The Toast of New Orleans • Thousands Cheer | |
19 | Lionel Jeffries | 83 | UK | Actor, Screenwriter, Director | Stage Fright • The Colditz Story • Bhowani Junction • Tarzan the Magnificent • Two-Way Stretch • The Trials of Oscar Wilde • First Men in the Moon •Camelot • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang • The Railway Children • The Amazing Mr Blunden | |
22 | Robin Davies | 56 | UK | Actor | Shakespeare in Love • Blood on Satan's Claw • Britannia Hospital | |
26 | Richard Devon | 84 | USA | Actor | Magnum Force • The Seventh Sign • The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze | |
28 | Martin Benson | 91 | UK | Actor | The Omen • Cleopatra • Goldfinger • The King and I • Angela's Ashes | |
March | 4 | Nan Martin | 82 | USA | Actress | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors • Shallow Hal • Cast Away • Toys in the Attic |
5 | Charles B. Pierce | 71 | USA | Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Actor, Set decorator, cinematographer | Sudden Impact • The Legend of Boggy Creek • Dillinger • The Phantom Tollbooth • Carny | |
10 | Corey Haim | 38 | Canada | Actor | Lucas • Crank: High Voltage • The Lost Boys • License to Drive • Blown Away • Dream a Little Dream | |
14 | Peter Graves | 83 | United States | Actor | Airplane! • Stalag 17 • Addams Family Values • Men in Black II • House on Haunted Hill • Looney Tunes: Back in Action | |
15 | David J. Steinberg | 45 | United States | Actor | Willow • Epic Movie • Transylmania | |
18 | Fess Parker | 85 | United States | Actor | Old Yeller • The Great Locomotive Chase • Harvey • The Light in the Forest • Island in the Sky | |
24 | Robert Culp | 79 | United States | Actor | Sunday in New York • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice • Hannie Caulder • The Pelican Brief | |
31 | Shirley Mills | 83 | United States | Actress | Child Bride • The Under-Pup • The Grapes of Wrath • Virginia City • Reveille with Beverly • The Family Secret • The Model and the Marriage Broker • My Six Convicts | |
April | 1 | John Forsythe | 92 | USA | Actor | Destination Tokyo • The Trouble with Harry • In Cold Blood • ...And Justice for All |
4 | Lori Martin | 62 | USA | Actor | Cape Fear • The Chase | |
6 | Sam Menning | 85 | USA | Actor | The Onion Movie • The Butcher's Wife • The Prestige • Life Stinks | |
8 | James Aubrey | 62 | Latvia | Actor | Lord of the Flies • Spy Game • The Hunger | |
8 | Christopher Cazenove | 65 | UK | Actor | Three Men and a Little Lady • Zulu Dawn • A Knight's Tale • Aces: Iron Eagle III | |
9 | Meinhardt Raabe | 94 | United States | Actor | The Wizard of Oz | |
10 | Dixie Carter | 70 | United States | Actress | That Evening Sun • Going Berserk | |
14 | Peter Ratajczyk aka Peter Steele | 48 | United States | Singer / Songwriter / Bass Player | Type O Negative • Carnivore | |
16 | Sid Conrad | 86 | USA | Actor | The Glimmer Man • Caddyshack II • King Kong | |
17 | Dede Allen | 86 | USA | Film Editor | Dog Day Afternoon • Bonnie and Clyde • The Hustler • Reds • Wonder Boys • The Breakfast Club • Little Big Man | |
23 | Shay Duffin | 79 | Ireland | Actor | Seabiscuit • The Departed • Leprechaun • Beowulf • Titanic • Newsies • Raging Bull | |
25 | Dorothy Provine | 75 | USA | Actress | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World • That Darn Cat! • The Great Race • Never a Dull Moment | |
May | 1 | Danny Aiello III | 53 | USA | Stuntman | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind • Catch Me If You Can • Burn After Reading • The Last Boy Scout • Scent of a Woman • Meet Dave • Die Hard with a Vengeance • Kate & Leopold • Sex and the City • Hoffa • Ladder 49 • Shooter • In America • Jungle 2 Jungle |
2 | Lynn Redgrave | 67 | UK | Actress | Gods and Monsters • Georgy Girl • Shine • The Jane Austen Book Club • Tom Jones • Peter Pan • The Wild Thornberrys Movie • Kinsey | |
3 | Jimmy Gardner | 85 | UK | Actor | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban • Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves • Frenzy • Finding Neverland • Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo | |
9 | Lena Horne | 92 | USA | Actress | Panama Hattie • Cabin in the Sky • Stormy Weather • The Wiz | |
16 | Ronnie James Dio | 67 | USA | Singer, Actor, Writer | Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | |
23 | Simon Monjack | 39 | UK | Writer | Factory Girl | |
24 | Paul Gray | 38 | USA | Musician | Rollerball • Behind the Player: Paul Gray | |
26 | Art Linkletter | 97 | Canada | Actor, Comedian | Champagne for Caesar | |
28 | Eddie Barth | 78 | USA | Actor | Fame • The Amityville Horror • Osmosis Jones • Babe: Pig in the City • Rover Dangerfield | |
28 | Gary Coleman | 42 | USA | Actor, Comedian | On the Right Track • Jimmy the Kid • Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star • An American Carol • S.F.W. | |
29 | Dennis Hopper | 74 | USA | Actor, Director | Speed • Giant • Land of the Dead • Easy Rider • True Romance • The Indian Runner • Apocalypse Now • Hoosiers • Blue Velvet • True Grit • Waterworld • Hang 'Em High • Swing Vote • Cool Hand Luke • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 • Rebel Without a Cause • Super Mario Bros. • Rumble Fish • Chattahoochee • Boiling Point • EDtv • Knockaround Guys • Meet the Deedles • Paris Trout • River's Edge • Out of the Blue • Jesus' Son • Space Truckers • Alpha and Omega • Black Widow • Hell Ride | |
31 | William A. Fraker | 86 | USA | Cinematographer, Director, Producer | The President's Analyst • Rosemary's Baby • Looking for Mr. Goodbar • Heaven Can Wait • 1941 • WarGames • Irreconcilable Differences • Murphy's Romance • Tombstone • Close Encounters of the Third Kind • Street Fighter | |
June | 3 | Rue McClanahan | 76 | USA | Actress | The Rotten Apple • Walk the Angry Beach • Hollywood After Dark • The Fighting Temptations • Some of My Best Friends Are... • They Might Be Giants • Starship Troopers |
4 | Richard Dunn | 73 | USA | Actor | Road to Perdition • The Wedding Singer | |
6 | Robert B. Radnitz | 85 | USA | Producer | My Side of the Mountain • Sounder • Cross Creek • Island of the Blue Dolphins | |
13 | Jimmy Dean | 81 | USA | Singer, Actor | Diamonds Are Forever • Big Bad John | |
16 | Ronald Neame | 99 | UK | Director, Cinematographer | Scrooge • The Poseidon Adventure • Meteor • Gambit • The Odessa File • Hopscotch | |
17 | Elżbieta Czyżewska | 72 | Poland | Actress | The Saragossa Manuscript • Music Box • Małżeństwo z rozsądku • The First Day of Freedom • The Impossible Goodbye • Mąż swojej żony | |
19 | Vince O'Brien | 90 | USA | Actor | Annie Hall • Quiz Show • Six Degrees of Separation • The Cross and the Switchblade | |
21 | Tam White | 67 | UK | Actor, Musician | Cutthroat Island • The Negotiator • Braveheart | |
22 | Tracy Wright | 50 | Canada | Actress | Monkey Warfare • Superstar | |
23 | Allyn Ferguson | 85 | USA | Composer | Back to the Secret Garden • Little Lord Fauntleroy • The Count of Monte Cristo • Avalanche Express • The Last Days of Patton • Pancho Barnes • Ivanhoe • Camille | |
27 | Aldo Giuffre | 86 | Italy | Actor | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | |
27 | Corey Allen | 75 | USA | Actor, Director | Rebel Without a Cause • I-Man • The Chapman Report | |
30 | Elliott Kastner | 80 | USA | Producer | Where Eagles Dare • The Long Goodbye • Equus | |
July | 1 | Ilene Woods | 81 | USA | Actress, Singer | Cinderella |
9 | Vonetta McGee | 65 | USA | Actress | Blackula • Repo Man | |
10 | Robert Spillane | 45 | USA | Actor | The Thomas Crown Affair | |
13 | Alan Hume | 85 | UK | Cinematographer | Return of the Jedi • A Fish Called Wanda • Supergirl • Octopussy | |
15 | Peter Fernandez | 83 | USA | Voice Actor, Actor | Speed Racer • What's Eating Gilbert Grape • That Man from Rio | |
15 | Kip King | 72 | USA | Actor | A Night at the Roxbury • Westworld • Corky Romano • Perfumed Garden | |
16 | James Gammon | 70 | USA | Actor | Urban Cowboy • Major League • Cold Mountain • The Country Bears • In the Electric Mist • Wyatt Earp• Silver Bullet • I Love You to Death • The Adventures of Huck Finn • Cabin Boy • Wild Bill • Ironweed • A Man Called Horse • Silverado • The Iron Giant | |
27 | Maury Chaykin | 61 | USA | Actor | Entrapment • Cutthroat Island • ''Dances with Wolves • My Cousin Vinny • The Art of War • Intern Academy • Casino Jack • WarGames • MouseHunt • Beethoven's 2nd • The Mask of Zorro • It's a Boy Girl Thing | |
31 | Tom Mankiewicz | 69 | USA | Screenwriter, Director, Producer | Diamonds Are Forever • Superman • Dragnet | |
August | 1 | Robert F. Boyle | 100 | USA | Art Director, Production Designer | Saboteur • North by Northwest • Cape Fear • The Birds |
8 | Patricia Neal | 84 | USA | Actress | The Fountainhead • The Breaking Point • The Day the Earth Stood Still • A Face in the Crowd • Breakfast at Tiffany's • Hud • In Harm's Way • The Subject Was Roses • Cookie's Fortune | |
9 | George DiCenzo | 70 | USA | Actor | Back to the Future • Close Encounters of the Third Kind • The Exorcist III • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints • Helter Skelter | |
10 | David L. Wolper | 82 | USA | Producer, Documentary Film-maker | The Race for Space • The Making of the President, 1960 • Four Days in November • The Devil's Brigade • The Bridge at Remagen • The Hellstrom Chronicle • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory • This is Elvis • L.A. Confidential | |
11 | Bruno Schleinstein | 78 | Germany | Actor, Musician, Artist | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser • Stroszek | |
14 | Abby Lincoln | 80 | USA | Actress, Singer | The Girl Can't Help It • Nothing But a Man • For Love of Ivy • Mo' Better Blues | |
24 | Satoshi Kon | 46 | Japan | Director | Perfect Blue • Millennium Actress • Tokyo Godfathers • Paprika | |
September | 1 | Cammie King | 76 | USA | Actress | Gone with the Wind • Bambi |
3 | Robert Schimmel | 60 | USA | Actor, Comedian | Blankman • A Low Down Dirty Shame • Scary Movie 2 | |
7 | Clive Donner | 84 | UK | Director, Film Editor | The Purple Plain • Nothing But the Best • What's New Pussycat? • Luv • Alfred the Great | |
7 | Glenn Shadix | 58 | USA | Actor | Beetlejuice • Planet of the Apes • The Nightmare Before Christmas • Dunston Checks In • Demolition Man | |
11 | Harold Gould | 86 | USA | Actor | The Sting • Patch Adams • The Master of Disguise • Brother Bear • Stuart Little | |
11 | Kevin McCarthy | 96 | USA | Actor | Invasion of the Body Snatchers • Twilight Zone: The Movie • Just Cause • Death of a Salesman • UHF • Greedy • Piranha • Winged Victory • The Misfits • Hotel • A Big Hand for the Little Lady | |
12 | Claude Chabrol | 80 | France | Director | Madame Bovary • Story of Women • Les Cousins | |
19 | Irving Ravetch | 89 | USA | Screenwriter | The Long, Hot Summer • Home from the Hill • Hud • The Reivers • The Cowboys • Norma Rae • Murphy's Romance | |
26 | Gloria Stuart | 100 | USA | Actress | Back Street • The Old Dark House • The Kiss Before the Mirror • It's Great to Be Alive • Secret of the Blue Room • The Invisible Man • Roman Scandals • Here Comes the Navy • Gold Diggers of 1935 • Poor Little Rich Girl • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • My Favorite Year • Mass Appeal • Wildcats • Titanic • The Love Letter • The Million Dollar Hotel • Land of Plenty | |
28 | Sally Menke | 56 | USA | Film Editor | Pulp Fiction • Kill Bill • Inglourious Basterds • Reservoir Dogs • Jackie Brown • Heaven & Earth | |
28 | Arthur Penn | 88 | USA | Director, Producer | The Left Handed Gun • The Miracle Worker • Mickey One • The Chase • Bonnie and Clyde • Alice's Restaurant • Little Big Man • Night Moves • The Missouri Breaks • Four Friends • Target • Dead of Winter | |
29 | Tony Curtis | 85 | USA | Actor | Houdini • The Black Shield of Falworth • Trapeze • Sweet Smell of Success • The Vikings • The Defiant Ones • Some Like It Hot • Operation Petticoat • Spartacus • The Great Impostor • Taras Bulba • Captain Newman, M.D. • The Great Race • The Boston Strangler • The Last Tycoon • Little Miss Marker • The Mirror Crack'd | |
29 | Joe Mantell | 94 | USA | Actor | Marty • Storm Center • Beau James • The Birds • Chinatown • The Two Jakes | |
October | 4 | Norman Wisdom | 95 | UK | Actor, Comedian | Trouble in Store • The Square Peg • A Stitch in Time • The Early Bird |
5 | Roy Ward Baker | 93 | UK | Director | A Night to Remember • Quatermass and the Pit | |
12 | Angelo Infanti | 71 | Italy | Actor | The Godfather • Letters to Juliet | |
14 | Simon MacCorkindale | 58 | UK | Actor | Death on the Nile • The Riddle of the Sands • The Sword and the Sorcerer • Jaws 3-D | |
15 | Johnny Sheffield | 79 | USA | Actor | Tarzan Finds a Son! • Tarzan's Secret Treasure • Tarzan's New York Adventure • Bomba, the Jungle Boy | |
16 | Barbara Billingsley | 94 | USA | Actress | Airplane! • The Bad and the Beautiful • Leave It to Beaver • Shadow on the Wall | |
19 | Tom Bosley | 83 | USA | Actor | Love with the Proper Stranger • The World of Henry Orient • Divorce American Style • The Secret War of Harry Frigg • Yours, Mine and Ours • Gus • Million Dollar Mystery | |
19 | Graham Crowden | 87 | UK | Actor | Out of Africa • For Your Eyes Only • Calendar Girls | |
25 | Lisa Blount | 53 | USA | Actress, Producer | An Officer and a Gentleman • The Accountant • Chrystal | |
28 | James MacArthur | 72 | USA | Actor | The Young Stranger • The Light in the Forest • Third Man on the Mountain • Kidnapped • Swiss Family Robinson • The Interns • Spencer's Mountain • The Bedford Incident • Battle of the Bulge • Hang 'Em High | |
29 | George Hickenlooper | 47 | USA | Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Documentary Film-maker | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse • Ghost Brigade • Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade • The Low Life • Dogtown • The Man from Elysian Fields • Being Mick • Mayor of the Sunset Strip • Factory Girl • Casino Jack | |
November | 4 | Michelle Nicastro | 50 | USA | Singer, Voice Actor | The Swan Princess • When Harry Met Sally... |
5 | Jill Clayburgh | 66 | USA | Actress | The Terminal Man • Gable and Lombard • Silver Streak • Semi-Tough • An Unmarried Woman • Starting Over • First Monday in October • I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can • Hanna K. • Love and Other Drugs • Bridesmaids | |
10 | Dino De Laurentiis | 91 | Italy | Producer | Bitter Rice • La Strada • Battle of the Bulge • The Bible: In The Beginning • Danger: Diabolik • Barbarella • Serpico • Death Wish • Ragtime • Conan the Barbarian • Dune • The Bounty • Raw Deal • Marie • Blue Velvet • Tai-Pan • Manhunter • U-571 • Hannibal • Red Dragon • Army of Darkness | |
13 | Luis García Berlanga | 89 | Spain | Director | Welcome Mr. Marshall! • The Executioners • Everyone to Jail | |
15 | Moira Hoey | 88 | Ireland | Actress | This Is My Father • Angela's Ashes • Headrush • The Tiger's Tail | |
20 | Heinz Weiss | 89 | Germany | Actor | The Great Escape • Tread Softly • Die Rechnung - eiskalt serviert • Murderers Club of Brooklyn • Death in the Red Jaguar • Dead Body on Broadway • The Little Drummer Girl | |
23 | Ingrid Pitt | 73 | Poland | Actress | Doctor Zhivago • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum • Where Eagles Dare • The House That Dripped Blood • Countess Dracula • The Wicker Man • Who Dares Wins | |
27 | Irvin Kershner | 87 | USA | Director | The Empire Strikes Back • Robocop 2 • Never Say Never Again | |
28 | Giorgos Fountas | 86 | Greece | Actor | Stella • Never on Sunday | |
28 | Leslie Nielsen | 84 | Canada | Actor | Ransom! • Forbidden Planet • Creepshow • The Poseidon Adventure • Airplane! • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! • The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear • Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult • Dracula: Dead and Loving It • Scary Movie 3 • Mr. Magoo • Superhero Movie | |
29 | Mario Monicelli | 95 | Italy | Director | I soliti ignoti • L'armata Brancaleone • Amici miei • Caro Michele • Un borghese piccolo piccolo• Il Marchese del Grillo• Le rose del deserto | |
30 | Ted Sorel | 74 | USA | Actor | Network • Lenny | |
December | 15 | Jean Rollin | 72 | France | Director, Producer, Writer, Actor | Le Viol du Vampire • Les Raisins de la Mort |
15 | Blake Edwards | 88 | USA | Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor | Operation Petticoat • Breakfast at Tiffany's • Days of Wine and Roses • The Pink Panther • A Shot in the Dark • 10 • S.O.B. • Victor/Victoria | |
19 | Lupe Gigliotti | 84 | Brazil | Actress | Os Normais | |
20 | Steve Landesberg | 74 | USA | Actor | Forgetting Sarah Marshall • Wild Hogs • King of the Corner | |
27 | Grant McCune | 67 | USA | Visual Effects Artist | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope • Ghostbusters II • Speed • Richie Rich • Rambo • Executive Decision | |
29 | Bill Erwin | 96 | USA | Actor | Home Alone • Planes, Trains and Automobiles • Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult • The Land Before Time |
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