Deaths: March 31

1. Christo Jivkov

Actor | The Passion of the Christ

Christo Jivkov was born on February 18, 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He was an actor and producer, known for The Passion of the Christ (2004), Otchuzhdenie (2013) and The Final Inquiry (2006). He died on March 31, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

2. Alfredo De Angelis

Actor | Al compás de tu mentira

Alfredo De Angelis was born on November 2, 1912 in Adrogué, Almirante Brown, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Al compás de tu mentira (1950) and El cantor del pueblo (1950). He died on March 31, 1992 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

3. Andrew Getty

Director | The Evil Within

Andrew Getty was born on July 1, 1967 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Evil Within (2017). He died on March 31, 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

4. Andrew Jack

Actor | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Andrew Jack was born on January 28, 1944 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) and Kate & Leopold (2001). He was married to Gabrielle Rogers, Paula Jack and Felicity Hutchinson. He died on March ...

5. Anne Gwynne

Actress | House of Frankenstein

Slender, strikingly beautiful strawberry blonde Anne Gwynne arrived in Hollywood a typical starry-eyed model looking to for top stardom. Not quite achieving her goal, she did become one of Universal Studio's favorite and revered cover girls while earning notoriety as one of cinema's finest ...

6. Bella Abzug

Actress | Manhattan

A popular labor, civil rights, and feminist activist, Abzug became the first Jewish woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1970. She was a 1947 graduate of Columbia Law School and the counsel for several of Sen. Josephy McCarthy's targets in the 1950s.

7. Brandon Lee

Actor | The Crow

Born on February 1, 1965 to Bruce Lee (Martial Arts idol) and Linda Lee Cadwell. Brother to Shannon Lee. In 1970-71, they moved to Hong Kong, where Brandon lived until age eight, becoming fluent in Cantonese. By the time he was able to walk, he was already involved in learning about martial arts ...

8. Brian Bradley

Actor | To Live and Die in L.A.

Brian Bradley was born on October 19, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Amazing Stories (1985) and Angel (1999). He died on March 31, 2023 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

9. Britt Damberg

Actress | Raggargänget

Britt Damberg was born on January 11, 1937 in Köping, Västmanlands län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Swedish Punks (1962), Antes Supershow (1963) and The Circle (2015). She was married to Björn Lindroth. She died on March 31, 2019 in Sweden.

10. Candice Rialson

Actress | The Eiger Sanction

Lovely, radiant, enticing, and charismatic blonde Candice Rialson was perhaps the most dynamic and personable actress to appear in enjoyably trashy drive-in pictures throughout the 1970's. Rialson was born on December 18, 1951 in Santa Monica, California and grew up in Orange County, California. ...

11. Charlotte Brontë

Writer | Jane Eyre

Charlotte was born 1816, the third of the six children of Patrick Brontë, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife Maria Branwell Brontë. After their mother's death in 1821, Charlotte and her sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, were sent to Cowan Bridge Clergy Daughters' School, which Charlotte would later ...

12. Cleve Hall

Re-Animator

Cleve Hall was born on June 22, 1959 in Florida, USA. He was a costume designer and actor, known for Re-Animator (1985), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019) and The Sandlot (1993). He died on March 31, 2021 in Burbank, California, USA.

13. Cristina

Cristina died on March 31, 2020 in the USA.

14. Donna Carroll

Actress | Intervention

Donna Carroll was born on May 28, 1939 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Intervention (2004), Redemption (2004) and Un latido distinto (1981). She was married to Óscar López Ruiz. She died on March 31, 2020 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

15. Doris Packer

Actress | Leave It to Beaver

Prime character veteran Doris Packer has one of those placid, glowering veteran faces you know you've seen over and over again but just can't seem to place. Close your eyes, however, and that bosom-heavy voice of hers is absolutely unmistakable. Found quite comfortably amid plush settings, she ...

16. Douglas Wilmer

Actor | Octopussy

Douglas Wilmer was born on January 8, 1920 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Octopussy (1983), Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and El Cid (1961). He was married to Anne Harding and Elizabeth Joan Melville. He died on March 31, 2016 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK.

17. Eda Reiss Merin

Actress | Ghostbusters

Eda Reiss Merin was born on July 31, 1913 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Ghostbusters (1984), The Black Cauldron (1985) and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991). She was married to Sam Merin. She died on March 31, 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

18. Edward Jewesbury

Actor | Richard III

Edward Jewesbury was born on August 6, 1917 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Richard III (1995), Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and Henry V (1989). He was married to Christine Roberts. He died on March 31, 2001 in Esher, Surrey, England, UK.

19. Eva Kríziková

Actress | Racha, chemi sikvaruli

Eva Kríziková was born on July 15, 1934 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. She was an actress, known for Racha, chemi sikvaruli (1977), Na pochode sa vzdy nespieva (1961) and Pán si nezelal nic (1970). She was married to Frantisek Zvarík. She died on March 31, 2020 in Malacky, ...

20. Frank Aendenboom

Actor | Crimi Clowns

Frank Aendenboom was born on October 24, 1941 in Antwerp, Belgium. He was an actor, known for Crimi Clowns (2012), Blueberry Hill (1989) and The Lion of Flanders (1984). He was married to Rosemarie Bergmans. He died on March 31, 2018 in Belgium.

21. Frankie Knuckles

Soundtrack | The Rachel Papers

Frankie Knuckles was born on January 18, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Rachel Papers (1989), The Solitude of Prime Numbers (2010) and Eden (2014). He died on March 31, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

22. Gene Lockhart

Actor | His Girl Friday

Gene Lockhart was born on July 18, 1891, in London, Ontario, Canada, the son of John Coates Lockhart and Ellen Mary (Delany) Lockhart. His father had studied singing and young Gene displayed an early interest in drama and music. Shortly after the 7-year-old danced a Highland fling in a concert ...

23. Giacomo Battaglia

Actor | Liberarsi - Figli di una rivoluzione minore

Giacomo Battaglia was born on January 27, 1965 in Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy. He was an actor, known for Liberarsi - Figli di una rivoluzione minore (2008), Il matrimonio più sconvolgente della storia (2020) and Gole ruggenti (1992). He died on March 31, 2019 in Crotone, Calabria, ...

24. Gillian Dobb

Actress | Magnum, P.I.

Gillian Dobb was born as Gillian Doreen Wells on May 8, 1929 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, best known for her role as "Agatha Chumley" in Magnum, P.I. (1980) and Gidget's Summer Reunion (1985). In 1952, she moved to Australia where she began working with the Canberra Repertory Society...

25. Hedgemon Lewis

The Main Event

Hedgemon Lewis was born on February 25, 1946 in Greensboro, Alabama, USA. He was an actor, known for The Main Event (1979), Detroit 9000 (1973) and Nickelodeon (1976). He died on March 31, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

26. Hedy Krilla

Actress | Mädchen in Uniform

Hedy Krilla was born in 1899 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress, known for Mädchen in Uniform (1931), Invasion (1969) and Acht Mädels im Boot (1932). She died on March 31, 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

27. Helga Anders

Actress | Mädchen, Mädchen

Helga Anders was born on January 11, 1948 in Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria. She was an actress, known for Mädchen, Mädchen (1967), Im weissen Rößl (1967) and Amerika oder der Verschollene (1969). She was married to Roger Fritz. She died on March 31, 1986 in Haar, Bavaria, Germany.

28. Jeff Grosso

Self | Airwalk Skatefest '88

Jeff Grosso was born on April 28, 1968 in Glendale, California, USA. He died on March 31, 2020 in Newport Beach, California, USA.

29. Jeffrey Lee Pierce

Soundtrack | Too Young to Die

Jeffrey Lee Pierce was born on June 27, 1958. He died on March 31, 1996 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

30. Jerry Paris

Director | The Dick Van Dyke Show

Glimpsed here and there throughout the 1950s, usually in amiable supporting roles on film, it was as in television that Jerry Paris found his true calling. In front of the camera, however, most fans will remember him as Jerry Helper, the next-door neighbor of Rob and Laura Petrie (Dick Van Dyke and ...

31. Jesse Owens

Self | Kings of the Olympics

Jesse Owens, arguably the most popular American track and field star in history, was -- along with his contemporary, world's heavyweight champion Joe Louis -- one of the first African Americans to change white society's perception of both black athletes and, more importantly, people of color. The ...

32. José Antonio Gurriarán

Writer | Une histoire de fou

José Antonio Gurriarán was born on July 7, 1938 in El Barco de Valdeorras, Spain. He was a writer, known for Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad (2015), La sombra de Ararat (2017) and Días de cine (1991). He died on March 31, 2019 in Madrid, Spain.

33. Jules Dassin

Director | Du rififi chez les hommes

Jules Dassin was an Academy Award-nominated director, screenwriter and actor best known for his films Rififi (1955), Never on Sunday (1960), and Topkapi (1964).

He was born Julius Samuel Dassin on 18 December 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was one of eight children of Russian-Jewish ...

34. Julie Bennett

Actress | Hey There, It's Yogi Bear

Glamorous, red-haired American radio, stage and screen actress of effervescent personality, best known for her work in voice-overs. Julie was born in Manhattan but grew up in Los Angeles where she attended Beverly Hills High School and subsequently studied drama under Max Reinhardt and Florence ...

35. Kiyoshi Sasabe

Director | Han-ochi

Kiyoshi Sasabe was born on January 8, 1958 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Han-ochi (2004), Tsure ga utsu ni narimashite. (2011) and Dai Tsunahiki No Koi (2021). He died on March 31, 2020 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan.

36. Lalo Hartich

Actor | La señora Ana Luce sus Medallas

Lalo Hartich was born on December 29, 1901 in La Plata, Argentina. He was an actor, known for La señora Ana Luce sus Medallas (1967), Rolando Rivas, taxista (1972) and Las campanas de Teresa (1957). He died on March 31, 1979 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

37. Leonid Zorin

Writer | Chelovek niotkuda

Leonid Zorin was born on November 3, 1924 in Baku, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]. He was a writer, known for Chelovek niotkuda (1961), Druzya i gody (1966) and Skvernyy anekdot (1966). He was married to Tatiana. He died on March 31, 2020 in Moscow, Russia.

38. Luigi De Filippo

Actor | Filumena Marturano

Luigi De Filippo (born 10 August 1930) is an Italian actor, stage director and playwright. Born in Naples, the son of actors Peppino De Filippo and Adele Carloni, he studied literature at the university, leaving the studies on the threshold of graduation to pursue a career in journalism. Shorty ...

39. Melville Cooper

Actor | The Adventures of Robin Hood

Born George Melville Cooper on October 15, 1896, in Birmingham England, he was the son of non-professionals W.C.J. and Frances (Brennan) Cooper, and attended various English public schools, including King Edward's School in Birmingham. Attracted to the stage as a teenager, he made his debut at ...

40. Nipsey Hussle

Soundtrack | Project Power

Airmiess Joseph Asghedom (August 15, 1985 - March 31, 2019), known professionally as Nipsey Hussle (often stylized as Nipsey Hu$$Le), was an American rapper. Emerging from the West Coast hip hop scene in the mid-2000s, Hussle independently released his first mix-tape, Slauson Boy Volume 1, to ...

41. O'Kelly Isley

Soundtrack | Okja

O'Kelly Isley was born on December 25, 1937 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was a producer, known for Okja (2017), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Thunder Force (2021). He died on March 31, 1986 in Alpine, New Jersey, USA.

42. Pape Diouf

Actor | Black Terror

Pape Diouf was born on December 18, 1951 in Abéché, French Equatorial Africa. He was an actor, known for Black Terror, Arab on the City (2011) and Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2006). He died on March 31, 2020 in Senegal.

43. Patrick DeMarchelier

Actor | Sex and the City

Patrick DeMarchelier was born on August 21, 1943 in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France. He was an actor, known for Sex and the City (2008), The Believers (1987) and París: Magic Jeans (2015). He was married to Mia Skoog. He died on March 31, 2022 in France.

44. Peter Beard

Actor | Hallelujah the Hills

Born in 1938 in New York City and raised in New York City, Alabama and Islip, Long Island, Peter Beard began keeping diaries at an early age. He took his first pictures at the age of twelve and photography quickly evolved into an extension of his diaries, as a way to preserve and remember favorite ...

45. Pierre Bénichou

Producer | Mora

Pierre Bénichou was born on March 1, 1938 in Oran, French Algeria. He was an actor and writer, known for Mora (1982), Pêcheur d'Islande (1959) and Turf (2013). He was married to Alix Dufaure. He died on March 31, 2020 in Paris, France.

46. Radley Metzger

Director | The Opening of Misty Beethoven

One of the pioneers of American adult cinema, Radley Metzger was born in New York. He first made a name in erotic cinema by importing and distributing European erotic films, including the Danish sex film I, a Woman (1965). At around the same time Metzger decided to direct his own features, which ...

47. Rafael Berrio

Soundtrack | Quién lo impide

Rafael Berrio was born in October 1963 in San Sebastián, Spain. He was a composer and actor, known for Quién lo impide (2021), The Reconquest (2016) and El Tercer hombre (2019). He died on March 31, 2020 in San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain.

48. Rafael Gómez

Self | Rafael Gómez. El andaluz que liberó París

Rafael Gómez was born on January 29, 1921 in Adra, Almería, Andalucía, Spain. He was married to Florence López. He died on March 31, 2020 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.

49. Ralph Forbes

Actor | Twentieth Century

Ralph Forbes had other ideas than the family wish for him to seek a career in law or the navy. He became interested in acting and began stage work in England. By 1917, he had come to the US to get his feet wet in the film medium with his first silent that year. But he returned to the UK to work in ...

50. Raul Alfonsín

Self | Videomatch

Raul Alfonsín was born on March 12, 1927 in Chascomús, Argentina. He was married to María Lorenza Barrenechea. He died on March 31, 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

51. Robert Carroll

Actor | King Kung Fu

Robert Carroll was born on August 15, 1924 in Edgartown, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for King Kung Fu (1976), Bristlelip (1982) and E! True Hollywood Story (1996). He was married to Lucille G. Hillman, Edwina Brooke and Rebecca B. Welton. He died on March 31, 2015 in Oak Bluffs, ...

52. Ronnie Corbett

Actor | Casino Royale

Ronnie Corbett began his successful show business career in the early 1950s. Amongst many other things he performed on stage with Danny La Rue in a cacophony of well received variety and cabaret shows.

It was whilst performing in these shows that Corbett attracted the attention of several top TV ...

53. Selena

Soundtrack | Don Juan DeMarco

Selena was born in Lake Jackson, Texas, 50 miles southeast of Houston, to Abraham Quintanilla Jr. and Marcella Quintanilla. Abraham opened a Mexican restaurant, Papagayo, in Lake Jackson. Selena was 9 years old when her father discovered her talent for singing. He formed a band consisting of Selena...

54. Shirley Mills

Actress | Child Bride

Shirley Olivia Mills was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1926 and moved to southern California as a child.

She became the star of an independent film which achieved great fame, Child Bride (1938) when she was 12 years old; she describes it in detail on her "official" Website on a separate page devoted...

55. Stephen Murray

Actor | The End of the Affair

Stephen Murray was born on September 6, 1912 in Partney, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The End of the Affair (1955), Dulcimer Street (1948) and A Tale of Two Cities (1958). He was married to Joan Butterfield. He died on March 31, 1983 in London, England, UK.

56. Sven Melander

Actor | Sällskapsresan eller Finns det svenskt kaffe på grisfesten

Sven Melander was born on October 30, 1947 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He was an actor and writer, known for Sällskapsresan eller Finns det svenskt kaffe på grisfesten (1980), The Jonsson Gang & Dynamite Harry (1982) and The Stig-Helmer Story (2011). He was married to Karin ...

57. Tommy Seebach

Soundtrack | Album

Tommy Seebach was born on September 14, 1949 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a composer, known for Album (2008), Sonny Soufflé chok show (1986) and Musikboxen (1980). He died on March 31, 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

58. Víctor Nubla

Composer | Kan el Abismo

Víctor Nubla was born on July 28, 1956 in Barcelona. He was a composer and actor, known for Kan el Abismo (2006), El hijo del hombre perseguido por un O.V.N.I. (2020) and Cròniques de la veritat oculta (1997). He died on March 31, 2020 in Barcelona.

59. Viktor Dashkevich

Actor | Yabloko luny

Viktor Dashkevich was born on January 3, 1945. He was an actor, known for Yabloko luny (2009). He died on March 31, 2020 in Vitebsk, Belorussiya.

60. Vincent Marzello

Actor | The Witches

Vincent Marzello was born on July 4, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Witches (1990), Superman (1978) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). He was married to Lorelei King. He died on March 31, 2020 in London, England, UK.

61. Wallace Roney

Music_department | Love Jones

Wallace Roney was born on May 25, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Love Jones (1997), The Visit (2000) and The Jazz Griots: Liberty in Cadence Volume 2. He was married to Geri Allen. He died on March 31, 2020 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA.

62. Yves Préfontaine

Actor | Marguerite Volant

Yves Préfontaine was an actor, known for Marguerite Volant (1996), La nuit de la poésie 15 mars 1991 (1991) and Yves Préfontaine (1977). He died on March 31, 2019 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

63. Zoltán Peskó

Soundtrack | Verdi

Zoltán Peskó was born on February 15, 1937 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a composer, known for Verdi (1982), Mi újság a Futrinka utcában? (1961) and In memoriam Gyöngyössy Imre (1997). He was married to Tünde Tarjan. He died on March 31, 2020 in Hungary.