James Avery
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star James Avery died from complications from open heart surgery in Glendale, Calif. on New Year's Eve. He was 68.
Peter O’Toole
Peter O'Toole, the wry, fun-loving star who played the dashing English adventurer and army officer T.E. Lawrence in the 1962 epic masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia for one of his eight best actor Oscar nominations without a win, died Saturday, Dec. 14, at age 81. During a career that spanned nearly six decades, O'Toole also received Oscar noms for his turns in Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972), The Stunt Man (1980), My Favorite Year (1982) and Venus (2006
Joan Fontaine
Joan Fontaine, the polished actress who achieved stardom in the early 1940s with memorable performances in the Alfred Hitchcock films Suspicion — for which she earned the best actress Oscar over her bitter rival, sister Olivia de Havilland — and Rebecca, died Sunday, Dec. 15, at age 96. Fontaine earned a third best actress Oscar nomination for her role in The Constant Nymph (1943).
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president and a charismatic inspiration to Hollywood and millions around the world, died Thursday, Dec. 5 at 95. Mandela, a force against apartheid, was portrayed by Morgan Freeman, Sidney Poitier, Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, David Harewood, Terrence Howard, Idris Elba and others on TV and on film.
Paul Walker
Paul Walker, best known for his role in the hit Fast and the Furious movies, died Saturday, Nov. 30, in a car accident in Valencia, Calif. He was 40. Walker was set to reprise his role as Brian O'Conner in Fast & Furious 7 for director James Wan and also was starring in Brick Mansions, an English-language remake of the French action movie District B13.
Marcia Wallace
Marcia Wallace died Friday, Oct. 25, at age 70. She won an Emmy for her voice work as Ms. Krabappel on Fox's The Simpsons and played Carol Kester, the wise-cracking, independent receptionist, on The Bob Newhart Show, which aired on CBS from 1972-78.
Lou Reed
Lou Reed, the enlightened singer-songwriter whose walk on rock and roll's wild side included fronting the iconic 1960s group The Velvet Underground and taking on unsavory subjects in a fascinating solo career, died Sunday, Oct. 27. He was 71.
Tom Clancy
The best-selling author died Tuesday, Oct. 1 in a Baltimore hospital. He was 66. Many of his novels had been turned into films, including The Hunt for Red October, Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games and The Sum of All Fears. Paramount is set to release an original movie based on his characters with the Chris Pine-starrer Jack Ryan: Shadow One.
Ray Dolby
Ray Dolby, the inventor and engineer whose surname became synonymous with high-quality cinema sound, died Sept. 12 in San Francisco at 80.
Elmore Leonard
Legendary writer Elmore Leonard died due to complications of a stroke on Tuesday, Aug. 20. He was 87. The prolific author passed away at his home in Detroit suburb Bloomfield Township on Tuesday morning surrounded by his family. Leonard's works have long been Hollywood favorites for adaptation. His books and short stories have inspired FX's Justified and the films Hombre, Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Jackie Brown, among other.
Lee Thompson Young
Lee Thompson Young, who played the main character on Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson and appeared on TNT's Rizzoli & Isles, died at 29. "We are broken-hearted. #RIPLeeThompsonYoung," Rizzoli & Isles creator Janet Tamaro wrote on Twitter.
Lisa Robin Kelly
That '70s Show actress Lisa Robin Kelly, who played Eric Forman's older sister on the comedy, was found dead at a California rehab facility at 43.
Eydie Gorme
Eydie Gorme, a popular nightclub and television singer as a solo act and as a team with her husband, Steve Lawrence, died at 84.
Cosmo Allegretti
Cosmo Allegretti, a puppeteer and voice artist who created Dancing Bear and other characters for the Captain Kangaroo kids show, died July 26 of emphysema at age 86.
Barbara Trentham
Barbara Trentham, an actress, model and ex-wife of Monty Python’s John Cleese, died Aug. 2 of complications from leukemia in Chicago at 68.
Eileen Brennan
Eileen Brennan, the veteran Oscar-nominated actress perhaps best known for her role as the good-hearted Texas waitress in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show, died July 28 of cancer. She was 80.
Dennis Farina
Dennis Farina, whose body of work included TV roles on Law & Order, Luck and New Girl, and such films as Saving Private Ryan, Out of Sight and Snatch, died July 22 in Scottsdale, Ariz., from a blood clot in his lung. He was 69.
Dennis Burkley
King of the Hill actor Dennis Burkley died early July 14 in his sleep at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. at 67. He had been battling health problems for some time.
Cory Monteith
Glee star Cory Monteith died July 13. His body was found at Vancouver's Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel, where he had checked in July 6.
Jim Kelly
Jim Kelly, a martial artist famous for his role in the 1973 Bruce Lee film Enter the Dragon, died June 29 of cancer.
Bert Stern
Photographer Bert Stern, best known for his photos of Marilyn Monroe taken weeks before her death, died June 26 at 83.
Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson, the author of classic sci-fi stories such as The Shrinking Man who also penned many iconic episodes of The Twilight Zone, died at 87 at his home in Calabasas, Calif. The cause of death was not disclosed.
Michael Hastings
Journalist Michael Hastings died in a car accident in Los Angeles on June 18. He was 33. Hastings covered politics for BuzzFeed, and had written for Rolling Stone and Newsweek. His Rolling Stone profile of General Stanley McChrystal, “The Runaway General," led to the resignation of the then-supreme commander of the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan.
Gary David Goldberg
Gary David Goldberg, the two-time Emmy Award winner who created the Michael J. Fox sitcom Family Ties and co-created Spin City, died from brain cancer at 68 on June 23 in Montecito, Calif.
James Gandolfini
James Gandolfini, who made his mark on television history as the troubled crime boss on HBO’s smash drama The Sopranos, died Monday, June 19, of an apparent heart attack. He was 51.
Esther Williams
Actress and champion swimmer Esther Williams, who showcased a combination of glamour and athleticism by starring in those spectacular and splashy MGM musicals of the 1940s and '50s, died at 91 on June 6.
Ray Manzarek
The Doors co-founder Ray Manzarek died at 74 on May 20 in Rosenheim, Germany after a battle with bile duct cancer.
Steve Forrest
Steve Forrest, who starred as Lt. Dan “Hondo” Harrelson on the 1970s ABC action series S.W.A.T., died May 18 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. at 87.
Joyce Brothers
Dr. Joyce Brothers, the former housewife and quiz show contestant who dispensed advice to millions of Americans as television’s first psychologist, died May 13 at 85.
Bryan Forbes
Bryan Forbes, the acclaimed British writer-director who helmed the sinister suburban horror classic The Stepford Wives, died May 8 after a long illness at his home in Surrey, England. He was 86.
Ray Harryhausen
Animation effects wizard Ray Harryhausen, who pioneered many of the stop-motion techniques that have become today's industry standards, has died at 92.
Harryhausen died Tuesday in London, it was announced on the Facebook page of the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation.
Chris Kelly
Chris Kelly, best known as one half of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross, has died at 34.
Kris Kross is best known for the multi-platinum 1992 album Totally Krossed Out, which included the hit "Jump," among others. Earlier this year, they performed at the 20th anniversary party for Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def label.
George Jones
George Jones, one of the biggest stars in music history, died at the age of 81 on April 26.
A Country Music Hall of Fame member and Texas native, Jones died while at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, where he had been staying since April 18, due to blood pressure irregularities and a fever.
Allan Arbus
Allan Arbus, a top-notch photographer who left that business to become an actor, most notably starring as sardonic psychiatrist Maj. Sidney Freedman on the CBS hit series M*A*S*H, died on April 19. He was 95.
Jonathan Winters
Comedian Jonathan Winters, whose range of comic characters and talent for mimicry vaulted him to stardom, died April 11 of natural causes at his home in Montecito, Calif. He was 87.
Annette Funicello
Annette Funicello, the wide-eyed child star of TV's The Mickey Mouse Club who became a pop-culture icon with her series of frolicking beach-movie roles opposite Frankie Avalon in the 1960s, died at 70 on April 8.
Roger Ebert
Film critic Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who put his thumbprint on film criticism, has died at 70. Just days before, Ebert announced that he would be taking a "leave of presence" to fight a recurrence of cancer.
Jane Henson
Jane Henson, who with Jim Henson was instrumental in bringing the Muppets to life in the 1950s on a Washington, D.C. TV station, died April 2 in Greenwich, Conn., after a long battle with cancer. She was 78.
Shain Gandee
Shain Gandee, one of the major stars of MTV's reality show Buckwild, his uncle and one other person were found dead in a car on Wolf Pen Drive in Sissonville on Monday, April 1. Gandee was 21 years old. In a statement, MTV said: "We are shocked and saddened by the terrible news about Shain Gandee, and those involved in this tragic incident."
Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone, the legendary music producer whose mixing mastery for Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Paul Simon and Billy Joel helped fashion some of the most sumptuous and top-selling albums of his era, died March 30. He was 79.
Paul Williams
Paul S. Williams, writer, author, editor, philosopher and original architect of the pioneering music magazine Crawdaddy!, died March 27 after a long battle with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. He was 64.
Don Payne
Don Payne, a four-time Emmy winner for The Simpsons who co-wrote the screenplay to the Thor movie and its sequel, died March 26 at his home in Los Angeles after a battle with bone cancer. He was 48.
Norman Palmer
Norman "Stormy" Palmer, who worked at Disney for 45 years and became closely associated with the studio’s acclaimed True-Life Adventure short-subject series of documentaries, died March 23 at his home in Northridge from natural causes. He was 94.
Fay Kanin
Fay Kanin, the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning screenwriter who brought an energetic and assertive female voice to her work, then served four terms as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died March 27. She was 95.
Stompin’ Tom Connors
Canadian country music star Stompin’ Tom Connors, died in March from natural causes. He was 77.
Henry Bromell
Homeland writer-producer Henry Bromell died Monday, March 18, of a heart attack. He was 65.
Clive Burr
Clive Burr, who played drums on Iron Maiden's first three albums — driving such metal classics as “Run to the Hills” and “Wrathchild" — died in his sleep March 12 after a long illness. He was 55 and had battled multiple sclerosis for years.
Bonnie Franklin
Bonnie Franklin, who played a Midwestern divorced mom raising two teenage girls in the long-running Norman Lear sitcom One Day at a Time, died March 1 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 69.
Van Cliburn
Famed pianist Van Cliburn, who became an American hero for his sensational triumph at a Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow at the height of the Cold War, died Feb. 27 after battling cancer. He was 78.
Mindy McCready
The country music singer, and one time Celebrity Rehab cast member, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head on Feb. 17.
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Ed Koch
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch died Feb. 1 of congestive heart failure. He was 88.
After leaving politics, Koch enjoyed a career as a radio host and newspaper columnist and made a number of film and television appearances as himself in such movies as The First Wives Club and The Muppets Take Manhattan and on TV shows including Sex in the City and Spin City. He was the judge on The People’s Court from 1995-97 and also hosted Saturday Night Live.
Pauline Phillips
Pauline Phillips, best known as “Dear Abby” to readers worldwide, died Wednesday, Jan. 17 at age 94. Phillips had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease since 2002.
Conrad Bain
Conrad Bain, who starred as Phil Drummond, the rich white businessman who adopts Harlem kids Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges on the popular sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, died Monday, Jan. 14 of natural causes. He was three weeks shy of his 90th birthday.
Huell Howser
Huell Howser, the popular, folksy host of California's Gold and other TV travelogues, died Sunday, Jan. 6, of natural causes. He was 67.
David Ellis
David R. Ellis, who directed 2006’s Snakes on a Plane, died Monday, Jan. 7. He was 60 years old. His body was found in his hotel room in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was in pre-production on Kite, a remake of a 1998 Japanese anime that was to have starred Snakes topliner Samuel L. Jackson.
Patti Page
Patti Page, the sultry-voiced pop star who guided millions of fans through "The Tennessee Waltz" and asked "(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window?" died Jan. 1 at a nursing home in Encinitas, Calif. She was 85. Page was a pop music icon and the biggest-selling female artist of the 1950s.
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