2024 RIP

1. Glynis Johns

Glynis Johns was the daughter of actor Mervyn Johns. Best known for her light comedy roles and often playful flirtation, Glynis was born in South Africa while her parents were on tour there (her mother was a concert pianist) but was always proud of her Welsh roots and took delight in playing the ...

2. David Soul

Actor | Starsky & Hutch

David Soul achieved pop icon status as handsome, blond-haired, blue-eyed Detective Kenneth Hutchinson on the cult "buddy cop" TV series Starsky and Hutch (1975), Soul also had a very successful singing career recording several albums, with worldwide number one hit singles including "Silver Lady" & ...

3. Pat McNamara

Actor | Airplane II: The Sequel

Pat McNamara was born on July 22, 1933 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Instinct (1999). He died on January 5, 2024 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

4. Anna Strasberg

Actress | extraña invasión

Anna Strasberg was born on April 16, 1939 in Caracas, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for Stay Tuned for Terror (1965), The Rat Patrol (1966) and Riot on Sunset Strip (1967). She was married to Lee Strasberg. She died on January 6, 2024 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

5. Peter Crombie

Actor | Se7en

Peter Crombie was born on June 26, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Se7en (1995), My Dog Skip (2000) and Rising Sun (1993). He was married to Nadine Kijner. He died on January 10, 2024 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

6. Tisa Farrow

Actress | Manhattan

Attractive, willowy brunette Tisa Farrow was born Theresa Magdalena Farrow on July 22, 1951, in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of writer/director John Farrow and Maureen O'Sullivan and the sister of Mia Farrow. Tisa made her film debut in the obscure hippie counterculture drama Homer ...

7. Michael Macready

Director | Flesh of My Flesh

Michael Macready was born on October 3, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Flesh of My Flesh (1969), Count Yorga, Vampire (1970) and Terror at Red Wolf Inn (1972). He was married to Greer Andrews, Pamela Murphy and Erica E Ebeling. He died on January 10, ...

8. April Ferry

Costume_designer | Maverick

April Ferry was born on October 31, 1932 in North Carolina, USA. She was a costume designer and actress, known for Maverick (1994), Elysium (2013) and Rome (2005). She was married to Stephen Robertson Ferry. She died on January 11, 2024.

9. Lynne Marta

Actress | Footloose

Lynne Marta was born on October 30, 1945 in Somerville, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Footloose (1984), Joe Kidd (1972) and Three Men and a Little Lady (1990). She was married to Brick Huston. She died on January 11, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

10. Bill Hayes

Actor | Days of Our Lives

Throughout the 1970s and a good part of the 1980s, Bill Hayes and his second wife, Emmy-winning Susan Seaforth Hayes, reigned as the Lunt and Fontanne of daytime soaps. Prior to this he had become a noted singer/actor on the Broadway stage and in night clubs. Born William Foster Hayes III in Harvey...

11. Joyce Randolph

Actress | The Honeymooners

Lovely, sweet-natured Joyce Randolph will forever be etched in the minds of "Golden Age" television viewers as the Bowery-like fourth party of the classic husband/wife quartet on the enduring TV family comedy The Honeymooners (1955) starring Jackie Gleason as the irrepressible hothead bus driver ...

12. Buzz Martin

Actor | Kraft Television Theatre

Buzz Martin was born on June 25, 1939 in New York, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Kraft Theatre (1947), Bachelor Father (1957) and The Twilight Zone (1959). He was married to Paula J. Mainwaring. He died on January 15, 2024 in Sonora, California, USA.

13. William O'Connell

Actor | Paint Your Wagon

William O'Connell was born on May 12, 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Paint Your Wagon (1969), Every Which Way But Loose (1978) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). He died on January 15, 2024 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.

14. Jean Brismée

Director | Monsieur Plateau

Jean Brismée was born on August 20, 1926 in Pipaix, Leuze-en-Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium. He was a director and writer, known for Monsieur Plateau (1967), Devil's Nightmare (1971) and Jean Rouch (1962). He died on January 18, 2024 in Waterloo, Belgium.

15. David Emge

Actor | Dawn of the Dead

David Emge was born in 1946 in Evansville, Indiana. Emge studied drama at the University of Evansville and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. While attending college David got drafted and served in the army during the Vietnam war. He began his acting career on stage at the Pittsburgh ...

16. Norman Jewison

Director | Jesus Christ Superstar

Norman Jewison was an award-winning, internationally acclaimed filmmaker who produced and directed some of the world's most memorable, entertaining and socially important films, exploring controversial and complicated subjects and giving them a universal accessibility. Some of his most well-known ...

17. Gary Graham

Actor | Robot Jox

Gary Graham was born on June 6, 1950 in Long Beach, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Robot Jox (1989), Star Trek: Enterprise (2001) and The Jackal (1997). He was married to Becky Hopkins, Diane Patricia Vaughan, Caren Leslie Williams and Susan Lavelle. He died on January 22,...

18. Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward

Actor | Deliverance

Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward was born on August 21, 1938 in Haywood County, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Deliverance (1972), Ghost Town: The Movie (2007) and Hillbilly Blood (2013). He was married to Dorothy Eileen Ledford. He died on January 24, 2024 in Haywood County, ...

19. Rod Holcomb

Director | ER

Rod Holcomb was born on May 28, 1943 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a director and producer, known for ER (1994), China Beach (1988) and The Six Million Dollar Man (1974). He was married to Jane Lucille Brackman, Suellen Maclean and Sandra Lavonne Avakian. He died on January 24, 2024 in ...

20. Chita Rivera

Actress | Chicago

An accomplished and versatile actress/singer/dancer, Chita Rivera has won two Tony Awards as Best Leading Actress in a Musical and received eight additional Tony nominations for an exceptional 10 Tony nominations. She recently starred in The Visit, the final John Kander/Fred Ebb/Terrence McNally ...

21. Annie Belle

Actress | La casa sperduta nel parco

Annie Belle was born Annie Brilland on December 10, 1956 in Paris, France. Belle comes from a family of engineers and first developed an interest in acting while attending the Rue Blanche acting school in Paris. Annie acted in her first film while still in her teens in 1974. Among the notable ...

22. Carl Weathers

Actor | Predator

Carl Weathers was born on January 14, 1948, in New Orleans, Louisiana. A famous and successful football star at San Diego State, he played with the Oakland Raiders and retired from the sport in 1974, in order to give full attention to his goal: to be a real actor.

Weathers first played small parts ...

23. Wayne Kramer

Soundtrack | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Wayne Kramer is a songwriter, producer and composer whose reputation writing music for television and film risks supplanting his legend as one of music's stellar guitarists. Rolling Stone Magazine recognizes him as one of the top 100 guitarists of all time and highlights from recent composing and ...

24. Don Murray

Actor | Bus Stop

Don Murray is an American actor. He is best known for playing Governor Breck, the authoritarian ruler in the science fiction film "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" (1972).

Murray was born in 1929 to Dennis Aloisius Murray and his wife Ethel Cook. Dennis worked as a dance director and stage ...

25. Helena Rojo

Actress | El privilegio de amar

Born in Mexico City on the 18th of August, 1944, Helena Rojo has an extensive career in theater, film and television acting, in both domestic and international productions (notably collaborating with Werner Herzog in "Aguirre, the Wrath of God", as well as Arturo Ripstein in "Fox Trot").

She began ...

26. James Dixon

Actor | It's Alive

James Dixon was born on March 6, 1937 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for It's Alive (1974), Is There Sex After Death? (1971) and It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987). He was married to Margaret Mary Gibney. He died on February 5, 2024 in Santa Monica...

27. Michael Jayston

Actor | Nicholas and Alexandra

Michael was born in Nottingham where he was educated at Becket Roman Catholic Grammar School, West Bridgeford in Nottingham where he was known as Jimmy - his real name is Michael James - and where he was caned some 130 times. While that might have been a record, the one that went into the record ...

28. Toby Keith

Actor | Beer for My Horses

Born July 8, 1961, Toby Keith Covel was the second child of Joan and Hubert Keith ("H. K.") Covel. He was born in Clinton, Oklahoma, and grew up with his brother Tracy and sister Tonnie in Moore, Oklahoma. After graduating from Moore High School, he didn't go on to college, but went to work in the ...

29. Robert M. Young

Director | Alambrista!

Born in New York City. Made many award-winning documentaries including The Eskimo: Fight for Life (1970) and a documentary about the civil war in Angola. In 1978 he won the Camera d'Or at Cannes and Best Feature at San Sebastian for Alambrista! (1977).

30. Mojo Nixon

Actor | Super Mario Bros.

Mojo Nixon was born on August 2, 1957 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Super Mario Bros. (1993), Astro Loco (2021) and Stag (1997). He was married to Adaire McMillan. He died on February 7, 2024 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

31. Anne Whitfield

Actress | White Christmas

Anne Whitfield was born August 27, 1938 in Oxford, Mississippi, USA. She was an actress, known for White Christmas (1954), numerous TV shows and commercials, and a long radio career beginning in 1945 when she was seven. Her TV appearances include One Step Beyond, 3 Perry Masons, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, ...

32. Lanny Flaherty

Actor | Signs

Lanny Flaherty was born on July 27, 1942 in Pontotoc, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for Signs (2002), Miller's Crossing (1990) and Men in Black³ (2012). He died on February 18, 2024 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

33. Bobbie Wygant

Self | Dateline

Bobbie Wygant was born on November 22, 1926 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. She was married to Phil Wygant. She died on February 18, 2024 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

34. Micheline Presle

Actress | If a Man Answers

Elegant, dark-haired Parisian Micheline Presle (billed in the U.S. as Micheline Prelle) was the daughter of a businessman whose surname was Chassagne. Taking acting classes as a teen, she was discovered by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and cast in Jeunes filles en détresse (1939) (portraying ...

35. John Savident

Actor | Coronation Street

John Savident was born on January 21, 1938 in St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK. He was an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Hudson Hawk (1991). He was married to Rona Hopkinson. He died on February 21, 2024.

36. Chris Gauthier

Actor | Freddy vs. Jason

Chris Gauthier was born on January 27, 1976 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Freddy vs. Jason (2003), Watchmen (2009) and 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002). He was married to Erin Gauthier. He died on February 23, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

37. Jackie Loughery

Actress | Burke's Law

A pert and glamorous redhead, Jacqueleen Loughery came to fame as the first ever Miss USA beauty pageant winner in 1952, held at Long Beach, California.

Just two years prior, the Brooklyn-born daughter and only child of Joseph Clark Loughery (a captain in the U.S. Navy) and Ellen (Avery) Loughery ...

38. Charles Dierkop

Actor | The Sting

Charles Dierkop was born on September 11, 1936 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for The Sting (1973), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984). He was married to Joan Florence Addis. He died on February 25, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, ...

39. Ole Anderson

Producer | Pro Wrestling USA

Ole Anderson was born on September 22, 1942 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Pro Wrestling USA (1984), WCW Worldwide (1975) and World Championship Wrestling (1985). He was married to Suzanne Crowder. He died on February 26, 2024 in Monroe, Georgia, USA.

40. Art Frankel

Actor | Magnolia

Art Frankel was born on January 4, 1928 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Magnolia (1999), The Back-up Plan (2010) and Critters (1986). He died on February 26, 2024 in Norco, California, USA.

41. Michael Culver

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Michael Culver was born on June 16, 1938 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), A Passage to India (1984) and Breakaway (1980). He was married to Amanda Ward and Lucinda Curtis. He died on February 27, 2024.

42. Richard Lewis

Actor | Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Richard Philip Lewis was born on June 29, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. He went to Dwight Morrow High School and Ohio State University, graduating in 1969 with a degree in marketing and communications. Lewis wrote ad copy in New Jersey while also writing jokes for ...

43. Jean Allison

Actress | Emergency!

She graduated from Marymount High School, Tarrytown, N.Y. and then from Adelphi College, NY. She married another Adelphi graduate, Lee Philips (actor, director) and were later divorced amicably. After studying with Sanford Meisner, she married F.X. Toole (the writer of Million Dollar Baby (2004) ...

44. Victoria Catlin

Actress | Twin Peaks

Victoria Catlin was born on September 23, 1952. She was an actress, known for Twin Peaks (1990), Ghoulies (1984) and Howling V: The Rebirth (1989). She died on February 28, 2024 in Merriam, Kansas, United States.

45. Mike Jones

Actor | WCW Monday Nitro

Got his start known as Virgil, the Bodyguard of Ted DiBiase. Originally they were sparring partners and when DiBiase signed with the WWF he got him signed as well. Eventually, the two broke apart and feuded. Virgil won the Million Dollar Belt from Ted DiBiase at Summer Slam 1991. He lost it back to...

46. Paul Vachon

Actor | Rustom-E-Rome

Paul Vachon was born on October 7, 1937 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Rustom-E-Rome (1964), WWF Championship Wrestling (1972) and The True Story of Eskimo Nell (1975). He was married to Deana 'Dee' Goddard. He died on February 29, 2024.

47. Betty Brodel

Actress | Swing Hostess

Elizabeth (Betty) Ann Brodel Franzalia, older sister to actress, Joan Leslie, turned 100 years old on February 5, 2020. Betty along with sisters Mary and Joan were actresses in Hollywood and Betty was in the following movies: 'Swing Hostess' (1944), 'Too Young to Know' (1945), 'Cinderella Jones' (...

48. Steve Lawrence

Actor | The Blues Brothers

Singer, composer, actor and author, educated at Brooklyn's Thomas Jefferson High School and a student of saxophone and piano. Between 1958 and 1960 he served in the US Army and was a vocalist with the US Army Band and Orchestra based in Fort Myers, Virginia. After he was discharged, he commenced ...

49. George Crise

Actor | Science Fiction Theatre

George Crise was born on August 17, 1933 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Science Fiction Theatre (1955), Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1955) and Miami Undercover (1961). He died on March 9, 2024 in Prescott, Arizona, USA.

50. Julie Robinson

Actress | Lust for Life

Julie Robinson was born on September 14, 1928 in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Lust for Life (1956), Buck and the Preacher (1972) and A Safe Place (1971). She was married to Harry Belafonte. She died on March 9, 2024 in ...

51. Malachy McCourt

Actor | Q

Malachy McCourt entered the world in Brooklyn, New York - where his parents lived at the time - and was raised in Limerick, Ireland. He managed to fail every subject in school, except English and recess. In 1952, he returned to the United States and worked as a longshoreman, dishwasher, and laborer...

52. Grant Page

Stunts | Mad Max

Grant Page was born on August 6, 1939 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. He was an actor, known for Mad Max (1979), Gods of Egypt (2016) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). He died on March 14, 2024 in New South Wales, Australia.

53. Joe Camp

Writer | Oh Heavenly Dog

Joe Camp was born on April 20, 1939 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Oh Heavenly Dog (1980), Benji (1974) and For the Love of Benji (1977). He was married to Kathleen Garrett and Carolyn H. Camp. He died on March 15, 2024 in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, USA.

54. M. Emmet Walsh

Actor | Blood Simple

Wonderfully talented, heavyset character actor (from New York, but regularly playing Southerners) M. Emmet Walsh has made a solid career of playing corrupt cops, deadly crooks, and zany comedic roles since the early 1970s.

Michael Emmet Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, to Agnes Katharine (Sullivan) and...

55. Ron Harper

Actor | Pearl Harbor

Born in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania--a small town just east of Pittsburgh--Ron Harper became valedictorian of his senior class and won an academic scholarship to Princeton University, where he supplemented his academic studies by appearing in a number of plays and musical comedies. He earned a ...

56. Jean-Paul Vignon

Robin Hood

Jean-Paul Vignon was born on January 30, 1935 in Dire-Daou, French Somaliland [now Dire Dawa, Ethiopia]. He was an actor, known for Robin Hood (2010), The Devil's Brigade (1968) and Shrek (2001). He was married to Brigid Bazlen. He died on March 22, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

57. Silvia Tortosa

Actress | La senyora

Silvia Tortosa was born on March 8, 1947 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She was an actress and director, known for La senyora (1987), Horror Express (1972) and Novela (1963). She was married to David Harper, Charles Davis and Hermann Bonnín. She died on March 23, 2024 in Barcelona, ...

58. Louis Gossett Jr.

Actor | An Officer and a Gentleman

Louis Gossett Jr. was one of the most respected and beloved actors on stage, screen and television and was also an accomplished writer, producer and director. Off-screen, he was a social activist, educator, and author dedicated to enriching the lives of others. He was the first African-American to ...

59. Barbara Baldavin

Actress | Star Trek

Barbara Baldavin was born on October 18, 1938 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress and casting director, known for Star Trek (1966), Skeeter (1993) and The Bionic Woman (1976). She was married to Joseph D'Agosta. She died on March 31, 2024 in Manhattan Beach, California, USA.

60. Barbara Rush

Actress | It Came from Outer Space

The epitome of poise, charm, style and grace, beautiful brunette Barbara Rush was born in Denver, Colorado in 1927 and enrolled at the University of California before working with the University Players and taking acting classes at the Pasadena Playhouse. It didn't take long for talent scouts to ...

61. Joe Flaherty

Actor | Happy Gilmore

Joe Flaherty was born on June 21, 1941 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Happy Gilmore (1996), Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Detroit Rock City (1999). He was married to Judith Ann Dagley. He died on April 1, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

62. Bruce Kessler

Director | McCloud

Bruce Kessler was born on March 23, 1936 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for McCloud (1970), Knight Rider (1982) and Mission: Impossible (1966). He was married to Joan Freeman. He died on April 4, 2024 in Marina del Rey, California, USA.

63. O.J. Simpson

Actor | Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Orenthal James Simpson, was an American former football running back, broadcaster, actor, advertising spokesman.

Simpson attended the University of Southern California, where he played football for the USC Trojans and won the Heisman Trophy in 1968. He played professionally as a running back in the ...

64. Dickey Betts

Soundtrack | Big Fish

Dickey Betts, born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1943, was the oldest member of the Allman Brothers Band when they formed in 1969. He shared lead guitar duties with band founder and leader Duane Allman, also playing alongside bassist Berry Oakley, drummers Jaimoe and Butch Trucks, and Allman's ...

65. Antonio Cantafora

Actor | Carambola

Antonio Cantafora was born on February 2, 1944 in Crotone, Calabria, Italy. He was an actor, known for Carambola (1974), Diamond Pedlars (1976) and And God Said to Cain... (1970). He died on April 20, 2024 in Rome, Italy.

66. Terry Carter

Actor | Foxy Brown

Terry Carter, a native of Brooklyn, New York, is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City. He attended Hunter College, Boston University - School of Communications, U.C.L.A. - School of Theater, Film, and Television, and St. John's University School of Law. He earned a Bachelor of ...

67. Michael Pinder

Soundtrack | Kaybedenler Kulübü

Michael Pinder was born on December 27, 1941 in Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Losers' Club (2011), He Never Died (2015) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013). He was married to Taralee Grant and Donna Roth. He died on April 24, 2024 in Roseville, California, USA.

68. Marla Adams

Actress | Gotcha!

Marla Adams was born on August 28, 1938 in Ocean City, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Gotcha! (1985), The Young and the Restless (1973) and The Golden Girls (1985). She died on April 25, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

69. Duane Eddy

Soundtrack | Natural Born Killers

Duane Eddy was born on April 26, 1938 in Corning, New York, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Natural Born Killers (1994), Forrest Gump (1994) and Broken Arrow (1996). He was married to Diane Mary 'Deed' Abbate, Maureen A Power, Jessi Colter and Carol Fowler. He died on April 30, 2024 in...