User:ThylekShran
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ROBIN WILLIAMS
JULY 21, 1951 – AUGUST 11, 2014
Thank you for the laughs, the tears and the memories,
for your love and generosity and for sharing your gifts with the world.
You will be loved and missed, always.
Intro
[edit]Hiya, folks. Unlike this fellow right here, THIS is the REAL Shran, the same user who populates Memory Alpha. If there are any doubts, contact me at my MA talk page and I will put them at rest.
Just so you know, while I may be a frequent visitor to Wikipedia, I will most likely not be an active contributor... primarily because my first loyalties go to Memory Alpha, on which I am an admin. One of the first pages on Wikipedia I really did any work on is Hoshi Sato, but that was just to disprove the misconception that Hoshi was, without a doubt, the inventor of the universal translator. Regardless of how little I edit, however, you can reach me at my talk page here or at MA and I will reply to either, ASAP.
Notable contributions
[edit]Well, I created the page for Edward Kelsey, who was a voice actor on one of my favorite television shows, DangerMouse. I also created the pages for my favorite radio station – FM99 – and my favorite radio show, Rumble in the Morning (formerly known as Tommy & Rumble), which broadcasts on that station. Oh, and I created Lennie Weinrib despite the fact that I have never seen a single episode of H.R. Pufnstuf.
I also worked some on the articles for Pat Corley and László Kovács and created the pages for Charles Larson (producer), casting director Phyllis Huffman, Oscar-nominated production designer/art director Harold Michelson, Grammy-winning composer Carlos Franzetti (a relative of a Memory Alpha pal), editor Maryann Brandon, film executive Jeffrey Chernov, cinematographer Derek Vanlint, and location scout/manager and friend Scott Trimble. I expanded and rewrote Barton MacLane's article, as well, using content from a deleted article I wrote for Memory Alpha (turns out the guy didn't appear on Star Trek, despite IMDb's claims).
In 2009, I created and updated pages related to the late, great King of Pop, Michael Jackson. I created the pages for such Jackson songs as "Is It Scary" and "A Brand New Day" and I occasionally managed the Jackson singles template, among other Jackson-oriented contributions. In addition, I updated the box office numbers for 2009's Star Trek.
I also created the pages for sound editor James Nelson, casting directors Barry Moss and Joy Todd, film editors Claudine Bouché, Hans Funck and Tom Rolf, costume designer George L. Little, production designer John J. Lloyd, script supervisors June Randall and Marshall Schlom, visual effects pioneer Howard A. Anderson, Jr., and producer C. O. Erickson. I'm particularly proud of the pages for Nelson and Rolf, though I'm sure both could be improved with tighter writing and more cited information.
Showbiz in Memoriam 2024
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable entertainment figures who died in 2023. For a more comprehensive and detailed listing of notable showbiz deaths this year, please visit here
Names in bold are entertainment figures who were added in the last month with 20 or more different-language Wiki articles at time of death.
- Percy Adlon, director/writer/producer
- Anouk Aimée, actress
- Akebono Tarō, professional/sumo wrestler
- Steve Albini, musician/recording engineer/record producer
- Erich Anderson, actor
- Afa and Sika Anoa‘i, professional wrestlers
- Jaime de Armiñán, writer/director
- Erica Ash, actress/comedian
- Susan Backlinie, actress/stuntwoman
- Aston "Family Man" Barrett, musician/producer/engineer
- Hinton Battle, actor/singer/dancer
- Annie Belle, actress
- Margot Benacerraf, director/writer
- Dickey Betts, singer/songwriter/musician
- Tom Bower, actor
- Susan Buckner, actress
- Veljko Bulajić, director/writer
- Humphrey Campbell, singer/record producer
- Laurent Cantet, director/screenwriter
- Adan Canto, actor
- Eric Carmen, singer/songwriter/musician
- Terry Carter, actor
- Roberto Cavalli, fashion designer
- Cheng Pei-pei, actress
- Chino XL, rapper/actor
- Bill Cobbs, actor
- Dabney Coleman, actor
- Gerry Conway, musician
- Eleanor Coppola, filmmaker
- Roger Corman, director/producer/actor
- Chris Cross, musician
- Michael Culver, actor
- Charles Cyphers, actor
- Mark Damon, actor/producer
- Alain Delon, actor/producer/writer/singer
- Toumani Diabaté, musician
- Charles Dierkop, actor
- Lou Dobbs, political commentator
- Shannen Doherty, actress
- Phil Donahue, talk show host
- Shelley Duvall, actress/producer
- Duane Eddy, guitarist
- David Emge, actor
- Péter Eötvös, composer/conductor
- Tisa Farrow, actress
- Joe Flaherty, actor/writer/comedian
- Kinky Friedman, singer/songwriter/humorist
- Yvonne Furneaux, actress
- Ira von Fürstenberg, actress/socialite
- Chris Gauthier, actor
- Louis Gossett Jr., actor
- Gary Graham, actor
- Benji Gregory, actor
- Françoise Hardy, singer/actress
- Steve Harley, singer/songwriter/musician
- Albert Heath, drummer
- Darryl Hickman, actor
- Bernard Hill, actor
- Doug Ingle, musician/singer/songwriter
- Jesse Jane, pornographic actress
- Byron Janis, musician
- Michael Jayston, actor
- Norman Jewison, director/producer
- Glynis Johns, actress/singer/dancer
- Jaclyn Jose, actress
- Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, composer
- Kagney Linn Karter, pornographic actress
- Toby Keith, singer/songwriter/musician
- Wayne Kramer, musician/songwriter/composer
- Ruth Maria Kubitschek, actress
- Yoshiko Kuga, actress
- Jon Landau, film producer
- Steve Lawrence, singer/actor
- Margaret Lee, actress
- Philippe Leroy, actor
- Richard Lewis, comedian/actor
- Tony Lo Bianco, actor
- Jackie Loughery, actress/beauty queen
- Janusz Majewski, director/writer
- Giovanna Marini, singer/songwriter
- Peter Marshall, host/actor/entertainer
- John Mayall, musician/songwriter/producer
- Melanie, singer/songwriter/musician
- Sandra Milo, actress
- Kenneth Mitchell, actor
- Martin Mull, actor/comedian
- Don Murray, actor
- Bob Newhart, comedian/actor
- Christian Oliver, actor/producer
- Maria Rosaria Omaggio, actress
- Seiji Ozawa, conductor
- Janis Paige, actress
- Chance Perdomo, actor
- Mike Pinder, musician
- Bernard Pivot, journalist/TV host
- Ewa Podleś, singer
- Maurizio Pollini, pianist
- Ventura Pons, director/writer/producer
- Micheline Presle, actress
- Aribert Reimann, composer/musician
- Georg Riedel, musician/composer
- Wolfgang Rihm, composer
- Chita Rivera, actress/singer/dancer
- Helena Rojo, actress
- Fred Roos, producer/casting director
- Gena Rowlands, actress
- Albert S. Ruddy, producer
- Barbara Rush, actress
- William Russell, actor
- David Sanborn, alto saxophonist
- Pamela Salem, actress
- Silvio Santos, media mogul/TV host
- Alan Scarfe, actor
- Peter Schickele, composer/musician/parodist
- Adrian Schiller, actor
- David Seidler, screenwriter
- Marlena Shaw, singer
- Shifty Shellshock, vocalist/songwriter
- Richard M. Sherman, songwriter
- James B. Sikking, actor
- Armando Silvestre, actor
- Richard Simmons, fitness personality
- Yury Solomin, actor/director
- David Soul, actor/singer
- Morgan Spurlock, filmmaker/producer/TV host
- Jerzy Stuhr, actor/writer/director
- Donald Sutherland, actor
- Damo Suzuki, singer
- Atsuko Tanaka, voice actress
- Richard Tandy, musician
- Paolo Taviani, director/screenwriter
- Robert Towne, screenwriter/director
- Vera Tschechowa, actress
- Pankaj Udhas, singer
- Michael Verhoeven, director/screenwriter/producer
- Bill Viola, video artist/filmmaker
- Johanna von Koczian, actress
- M. Emmet Walsh, actor
- Carl Weathers, actor/director
- Fritz Wepper, actor
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist/talk show host
- Patti Yasutake, actress
- Corey Yuen,* director/producer/action choreographer
- Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, actress
* Yuen died in 2022, but his death was not announced until August 2024. His placement here is only temporary.
Showbiz in Memoriam 2023
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable entertainment figures who died in 2024. For a more comprehensive and detailed listing of notable showbiz deaths this year, please visit here.
- Joss Ackland, actor
- Kenneth Anger, filmmaker
- Alan Arkin, actor
- Burt Bacharach, songwriter/composer/musician
- John Bailey, cinematographer/director
- Bob Barker, game show host
- Jeff Beck, musician
- Tony Bennett, singer
- Harry Belafonte, singer/actor/activist
- Richard Belzer, actor/comedian
- Helmut Berger, actor
- Jane Birkin, singer/actress
- Carla Bley, composer/musician/bandleader
- Earl Boen, actor
- Barbara Bosson, actress
- Andre Braugher, actor
- Jim Brown, athlete/actor/activist
- Jimmy Buffett, singer/songwriter/musician
- Dick Butkus, athlete/actor
- Margit Carstensen, actress
- Inna Churikova, actress
- Angus Cloud, actor
- Phyllis Coates, actress
- Carole Cook, actress
- Nicolas Coster, actor
- David Crosby, singer/musician/songwriter
- Toto Cutugno, singer/songwriter/musician
- Terence Davies, director/screenwriter
- Margia Dean, actress
- Michel Deville, director/screenwriter
- Melinda Dillon, actress
- Evan Ellingson, actor
- Sharon Farrell, actress
- Frederic Forrest, actor
- William Friedkin, director/screenwriter/producer
- Terry Funk, professional wrestler/actor
- Sir Michael Gambon, actor
- Astrud Gilberto, singer
- Hugh Hudson, director
- Barry Humphries, comedian/actor
- Gayle Hunnicutt, actress
- Otar Iosseliani, director/screenwriter
- The Iron Sheik, professional wrestler
- Glenda Jackson, actress
- Juraj Jakubisko, director/writer
- Ahmad Jamal, musician
- Ron Cephas Jones, actor
- Marty Krofft, writer/producer
- Denny Laine, musician/singer/songwriter
- Piper Laurie, actress
- Norman Lear, writer/producer
- Coco Lee, singer/dancer/actress
- Rita Lee, singer/songwriter/composer/actress
- Lee Sun-kyun, actor
- Michael Lerner, actor
- Gordon Lightfoot, singer/songwriter/musician
- Gina Lollobrigida, actress
- Cody Longo, actor/musician
- Lisa Loring, actress
- Shane MacGowan, singer/songwriter/musician
- George Maharis, actor/singer
- Mark Margolis, actor
- Burny Mattinson, animator/writer/director/producer
- Juliette Mayniel, actress
- James McCaffrey, actor
- David McCallum, actor
- Dariush Mehrjui, filmmaker
- Billy Miller, actor
- Walter Mirisch, producer
- Richard Moll, actor
- Barry Newman, actor
- Sinéad O'Connor, singer/songwriter/musician
- Ryan O'Neal, actor
- Jansen Panettiere, actor
- Gleb Panfilov, director/screenwriter
- Tatjana Patitz, model/actress
- Marisa Pavan, actress
- Matthew Perry, actor/writer/producer
- John Pilger, journalist/filmmaker
- Gordon Pinsent, actor/writer/director
- Lisa Marie Presley, singer/songwriter
- Dame Mary Quant, fashion designer
- Lance Reddick, actor
- Paul Reubens, actor/comedian/writer/producer
- Robbie Robertson, musician/songwriter/producer
- Sixto Rodriguez, singer-songwriter/musician
- Owen Roizman, cinematographer
- Richard Roundtree, actor
- Andy Rourke, musician
- Kaija Saariaho, composer
- Ryuichi Sakamoto, musician/composer/actor
- Julian Sands, actor
- Carlos Saura, director/screenwriter
- Arthur Schmidt, film editor
- Renata Scotto, opera singer/director
- Wayne Shorter, musician/composer
- Tom Sizemore, actor
- Tom Smothers, comedian/musician/singer
- Michael Snow, artist/filmmaker
- Suzanne Somers, actress
- Arleen Sorkin, actress/writer/comedian
- Jerry Springer, TV host/producer/politician
- Frances Sternhagen, actress
- Stella Stevens, actress
- Ray Stevenson, actor
- Inga Swenson, actress
- Sylvia Syms, actress
- Sara Tavares, singer/songwriter/musician
- Nadja Tiller, actress
- Chaim Topol, actor/singer
- Tina Turner, singer/dancer/actress
- Concha Velasco, actress
- Cynthia Weil, songwriter
- Raquel Welch, actress
- Annie Wersching, actress
- Roger Whittaker, singer/songwriter/musician
- George P. Wilbur, stuntman/actor
- Tom Wilkinson, actor
- Cindy Williams, actress
- Treat Williams, actor
- Oliver Wood, cinematographer
- Bray Wyatt, professional wrestler
- Burt Young, actor
- Benjamin Zephaniah, writer/musician/actor
Showbiz in Memoriam 2022
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable entertainment figures who died in 2022. For a more comprehensive and detailed listing of notable showbiz deaths this year, please go here.
- Mary Alice, actress
- Kirstie Alley, actress
- Louie Anderson, comedian/actor
- John Aniston, actor
- Shinji Aoyama, filmmaker/writer/composer
- Cüneyt Arkın, actor/writer/director
- Eduard Artemyev, composer
- Nicki Aycox, actress
- Angelo Badalamenti, composer
- Jules Bass, producer/director/writer
- Jean-Jacques Beineix, director/screenwriter/producer
- Teresa Berganza, singer
- Marilyn Bergman, lyricist
- Harrison Birtwistle, composer
- Peter Bogdanovich, filmmaker/actor
- Michel Bouquet, actor
- David Brenner, film editor
- Peter Brook, director
- James Caan, actor
- Irene Cara, singer/actress
- Pat Carroll, actress/comedienne
- Aaron Carter, singer/actor
- Robbie Coltrane, actor
- Kevin Conroy, actor
- Coolio, rapper/songwriter/actor
- Gal Costa, singer
- Bernard Cribbins, actor/singer
- George Crumb, composer
- Mylène Demongeot, actress
- Ruggero Deodato, director
- Andy Fletcher, musician
- Louise Fletcher, actress
- Jason David Frank, actor/mixed martial artist
- Gallagher, comedian
- Clarence Gilyard, actor
- Jean-Luc Godard, filmmaker
- Gilbert Gottfried, comedian/actor
- Clu Gulager, actor
- Mike Hagerty, actor
- Philip Baker Hall, actor
- Scott Hall, professional wrestler
- Estelle Harris, actress
- Taylor Hawkins, musician
- Anne Heche, actress
- Brad William Henke, actor
- Howard Hesseman, actor
- Mike Hodges, director/screenwriter
- Bo Hopkins, actor
- Marsha Hunt, actress
- William Hurt, actor
- Antonio Inoki, professional wrestler
- Gregory Itzin, actor
- Conrad Janis, actor
- Brad Johnson, actor
- Wilko Johnson, musician/songwriter/actor
- L. Q. Jones, actor
- Leslie Jordan, actor/writer
- Naomi Judd, singer/songwriter
- Sally Kellerman, actress
- Hardy Krüger, actor
- Mark Lanegan, singer/songwriter/musician
- Dame Angela Lansbury, actress/singer
- Jerry Lee Lewis, musician/singer/songwriter
- Ray Liotta, actor
- Meat Loaf, singer/actor
- Radu Lupu, pianist
- Loretta Lynn, singer/songwriter
- Lata Mangeshkar, singer/composer
- Stuart Margolin, actor/director
- Diane McBain, actress
- Bob McGrath, actor/singer
- Christine McVie, musician/singer/songwriter
- Pablo Milanés, musician/singer
- Yvette Mimieux, actress
- Ichirou Mizuki, singer/composer/actor
- Robert Morse, actor/singer
- Roger E. Mosley, actor
- Kitten Natividad, actress
- Dame Olivia Newton-John, singer/actress
- Nichelle Nichols, actress/singer
- Irene Papas, actress
- Kay Parker, actress
- Jacques Perrin, actor/producer/filmmaker
- Nehemiah Persoff, actor
- Wolfgang Petersen, filmmaker
- Leslie Phillips, actor
- Enrique Pinti, actor/comedian
- Anita Pointer, singer
- Sidney Poitier, actor/director
- Andrew Prine, actor
- Albert Pyun, director
- Bob Rafelson, filmmaker
- Ivan Reitman, director/producer
- Eileen Ryan, actress
- Mitchell Ryan, actor
- Bob Saget, comedian/actor/director
- Pharoah Sanders, musician
- Klaus Schulze, musician/composer
- Liz Sheridan, actress
- Yoko Shimada, actress
- Henry Silva, actor
- Tony Sirico, actor
- Paul Sorvino, actor
- Catherine Spaak, actress/singer
- Ronnie Spector, singer
- Larry Storch, actor
- Alec John Such, musician
- Alain Tanner, director
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor
- Douglas Trumbull, director/visual effects supervisor
- Joe Turkel, actor
- Gaspard Ulliel, actor
- Vangelis, musician/composer
- Ronan Vibert, actor
- Monica Vitti, actress
- Lenny Von Dohlen, actor
- Barbara Walters, newscaster/TV personality
- Fred Ward, actor
- David Warner, actor
- Jimmy Wang Yu, actor/writer/director
- Kenneth Welsh, actor
- Ted White, stuntman/actor
- Dame Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer
- Yoshishige Yoshida, director/screenwriter
Showbiz in Memoriam 2021
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable entertainment personalities who died in 2021. For a more comprehensive and detailed listing of notable showbiz deaths this year, please go here.
- Virgil Abloh, fashion designer/artist
- Brad Allan, action choreographer/stuntman
- Louis Andriessen, composer/musician
- Jack Angel, voice actor
- Michael Apted, director/producer
- Ed Asner, actor
- Jean-Pierre Bacri, actor/screenwriter
- Lisa Banes, actress
- Pilar Bardem, actress
- Franco Battiato, singer/songwriter/filmmaker
- Ned Beatty, actor
- Jean-Paul Belmondo, actor
- Leslie Bricusse, songwriter/screenwriter/librettist
- Mario Camus, director/screenwriter
- Raffaella Carrà, singer/actress
- Jean-Claude Carrière, screenwriter/actor
- Sonny Chiba, actor/martial artist
- Michael Constantine, actor
- Alex Cord, actor
- Chick Corea, musician/composer
- Arlene Dahl, actress
- Henry Darrow, actor
- Dustin Diamond, actor
- Joan Didion, writer
- Robert Downey Sr., filmmaker/actor
- DMX, rapper/actor
- Richard Donner, director/producer
- Olympia Dukakis, actress
- Don Everly, singer/musician
- Vicente Fernández, singer/actor
- Verónica Forqué, actress
- Mira Furlan, actress
- Siegfried Fischbacher, magician/entertainer
- Willie Garson, actor
- Charles Grodin, actor/writer/talk show host
- Edita Gruberová, soprano
- David Gulpilil, actor
- Bernard Haitink, conductor/musician
- Sarah Harding, singer/actress/model
- Monte Hellman, filmmaker
- Gloria Henry, actress
- Dusty Hill, musician
- Pat Hitchcock, actress
- Hal Holbrook, actor
- Sally Ann Howes, actress/singer
- Joey Jordison, musician
- Larry King, broadcasting legend
- Tommy Kirk, actor
- Tawny Kitaen, actress/model
- Yaphet Kotto, actor
- Dilip Kumar, actor
- Art LaFleur, actor
- Cloris Leachman, actress
- Gunnel Lindblom, actress
- Joanne Linville, actress
- Ernie Lively, actor
- Norman Lloyd, actor/producer/director
- Christa Ludwig, singer
- Norm Macdonald, comedian/writer/actor
- Gavin MacLeod, actor
- Carlos Marín, singer
- Biz Markie, rapper
- Pat Martino, musician
- Jackie Mason, comedian/actor
- Helen McCrory, actress
- Larry McMurtry, writer
- Frank McRae, actor
- Vladimir Menshov, actor/director
- Roger Michell, director
- Milva, singer/actress
- Trevor Moore, comedian/writer/producer
- Michael Nesmith, musician/songwriter
- Gavan O'Herlihy, actor
- Lee "Scratch" Perry, musician/songwriter/producer
- Ronald Pickup, actor
- Christopher Plummer, actor
- Markie Post, actress
- Jane Powell, actress/singer/dancer
- Lloyd Price, singer/songwriter
- Puneeth Rajkumar, actor/singer
- Marion Ramsey, actress
- Anne Rice, writer
- Peter Mark Richman, actor
- Paul Ritter, actor
- Tanya Roberts, actress
- Charlie Robinson, actor
- Giuseppe Rotunno, cinematographer
- Richard Rush, director/screenwriter/producer
- Will Ryan, voice actor
- Mort Sahl, comedian
- Libuše Šafránková, actress
- Peter Scolari, actor
- George Segal, actor
- Barbara Shelley, actress
- Sir Antony Sher, actor
- Gregory Sierra, actor
- Cliff Simon, actor/host
- William Smith, actor
- Stephen Sondheim, composer/lyricist
- Jim Steinman, songwriter/record producer
- Dean Stockwell, actor
- Julie Strain, actress/model
- Una Stubbs, actress
- Bertrand Tavernier, filmmaker
- Mikis Theodorakis, composer
- B. J. Thomas, singer
- Kartal Tibet, actor/director
- Mari Törőcsik, actress
- James Michael Tyler, actor
- Cicely Tyson, actress
- Jean-Marc Vallée, director/writer/editor/producer
- Buddy Van Horn, stuntman/director
- Melvin Van Peebles, filmmaker/actor
- Bunny Wailer. singer/songwriter/musician
- Jessica Walter, actress
- Charlie Watts, musician
- Lina Wertmüller, director/screenwriter
- Betty White, actress/comedian/TV personality
- Cara Williams, actress
- Clarence Williams III, actor
- Michael K. Williams, actor
- Mary Wilson, singer
- Jane Withers, actress
- Samuel E. Wright, actor/singer
Showbiz in Memoriam 2020
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2020. For a more comprehensive tribute, see my list at IMDb.
- Kelly Asbury, animation artist/writer/director
- S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, singer/music director/actor
- Orson Bean, actor
- Martin Birch, record producer/engineer
- Honor Blackman, actress
- Lucia Bosè, actress
- Chadwick Boseman, actor/producer
- Claude Brasseur, actor
- Julian Bream, musician
- Wilford Brimley, actor
- Kobe Bryant, athlete/producer
- Jeremy Bulloch, actor
- Zoe Caldwell, actress
- Earl Cameron, actor
- Pierre Cardin, fashion designer
- Diana Serra Cary (Baby Peggy), actress/author
- Marge Champion, dancer/choreographer/actress
- Michael Chapman, cinematographer
- Soumitra Chatterjee, actor
- Jimmy Cobb, musician
- Lynn Cohen, actress
- Sir Sean Connery, actor
- Robert Conrad, actor
- Kevin Conway, actor
- Linda Cristal, actress
- Ben Cross, actor
- Charlie Daniels, singer/songwriter/musician
- Mac Davis, singer/songwriter/actor
- Dame Olivia de Havilland, actress
- Suzy Delair, actress
- Ewa Demarczyk, singer
- Brian Dennehy, actor
- Manu Dibango, musician/composer
- Kirk Douglas, actor/producer
- James Drury, actor
- Daniel Dumile, a.k.a. MF Doom, rapper/producer
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, actor
- John Ericson, actor
- Conchata Ferrell, actress
- Caroline Flack, TV presenter
- Rhonda Fleming, actress
- Mirella Freni, singer
- Stuart Gordon, director/writer/producer
- Juliette Gréco, singer/actress
- Peter Green, musician/singer/songwriter
- Sir Ronald Harwood, playwright/screenwriter
- Buck Henry, writer/actor/director
- Ken Hensley, singer-songwriter/musician
- Richard Herd, actor
- Sir Ian Holm, actor
- Roy Horn, magician/entertainer
- Robert Hossein, actor/director/writer
- Jon Huber, a.k.a. Luke Harper/Brodie Lee, pro wrestler
- Agathonas Iakovidis, singer
- Grant Imahara, TV host/engineer/roboticist/model maker
- Rafer Johnson, athlete/actor
- Terry Jones, actor/comedian/writer/director
- Mory Kanté, singer/songwriter/musician
- Rishi Kapoor, actor
- Hugh Keays-Byrne, actor
- Irrfan Khan, actor
- Saroj Khan, choreographer
- Kim Ki-duk, filmmaker
- Shirley Knight, actress
- Alexi Laiho, musician/singer/composer
- Lee Konitz, musician/composer
- Dieter Laser, actor
- John le Carré, writer/producer
- James Lipton, actor/writer/producer/host
- Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr., actor
- Little Richard, singer/songwriter/musician
- Michael Lonsdale, actor
- Trini Lopez, singer/actor
- Dame Vera Lynn, singer/entertainer
- Johnny Mandel, composer/arranger
- Armando Manzanero, singer/composer/musician
- Jiří Menzel, writer/director/actor
- Haruma Miura, actor/singer
- Ennio Morricone, composer/orchestrator/conductor
- Philippe Nahon, actor
- Johnny Nash, singer/songwriter/producer
- Lori Nelson, actress
- Daria Nicolodi, actress/screenwriter
- Geoffrey Palmer, actor
- Sir Alan Parker, filmmaker
- Ivan Passer, director/writer
- Neil Peart, musician/lyricist
- Krzysztof Penderecki, composer/conductor
- Regis Philbin, TV personality/entertainer
- Michel Piccoli, actor
- Genesis P-Orridge, singer/songwriter/musician/artist
- Kelly Preston, actress
- Charley Pride, singer/musician
- David Prowse, actor
- James Randi, magician/skeptic
- Helen Reddy, singer/actress
- Sumner Redstone, media magnate
- Carl Reiner, actor/writer/director/producer
- Ann Reinking, actress/dancer/choreographer
- Dame Diana Rigg, actress
- Naya Rivera, actress/singer
- Kenny Rogers, singer/songwriter/actor
- Annie Ross, singer-songwriter/actress
- John Saxon, actor
- Florian Schneider, musician/singer/composer
- Joel Schumacher, director
- Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, singer/songwriter
- Lynn Shelton, filmmaker
- Sushant Singh Rajput, actor
- Fernando Solanas, filmmaker
- Phyllis Somerville, actress
- Jerry Stiller, comedian/actor
- Max von Sydow, actor
- Dyanne Thorne, actress
- Pamela Tiffin, actress
- Alex Trebek, TV personality/game show host
- McCoy Tyner, musician
- Birol Ünel, actor
- Eddie Van Halen, musician/songwriter
- Dawn Wells, actress
- Stuart Whitman, actor
- Fred Willard, actor/comedian
- Dame Barbara Windsor, actress
- Bill Withers, singer/songwriter/musician
Showbiz in Memoriam 2019
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2019. For a more comprehensive tribute, see my list at IMDb.
- Julie Adams, actress
- Danny Aiello, actor
- Bibi Andersson, actress
- Anémone, actress
- Omero Antonutti, actor
- Ermias Asghedom, a.k.a. Nipsey Hussle, rapper
- René Auberjonois, actor
- Claudine Auger, actress
- Michel Aumont, actor
- Christian Bach, actress/producer
- Ginger Baker, musician
- Dave Bartholomew, musician/composer
- Hal Blaine, musician
- Verna Bloom, actress
- Cameron Boyce, actor
- Diahann Carroll, actress/singer
- Beth Carvalho, singer
- Seymour Cassel, actor
- Carol Channing, actress/singer/dancer/comedian
- Larry Cohen, writer/director/producer
- Tim Conway, actor/comedian/writer
- Valentina Cortese, actress
- Dick Dale, musician
- Georgiy Daneliya, director/screenwriter
- Doris Day, actress/singer
- Stanley Donen, director
- Bob Einstein, actor/writer/producer
- Hannelore Elsner, actress
- Georgia Engel, actress
- Roky Erickson, musician/singer/songwriter
- Vladimir Etush, actor
- Robert Evans, producer/executive
- Albert Finney, actor
- Keith Flint, singer
- Peter Fonda, actor
- D. C. Fontana, writer
- Robert Forster, actor
- Robert Frank, photographer/filmmaker
- Marie Fredriksson, singer
- Bruno Ganz, actor
- Michael Gielen, conductor/composer
- João Gilberto, musician/singer/songwriter
- Edith González, actress
- Jean Guillou, composer/musician
- Sid Haig, actor
- Valerie Harper, actress
- Rutger Hauer, actor
- David Hedison, actor
- Katherine Helmond, actress
- Jerry Herman, composer/lyricist
- Mark Hollis, singer/songwriter/musician
- Med Hondo, director/writer/producer/actor
- Robert Hunter, lyricist/musician/singer
- James Ingram, singer/songwriter
- Neil Innes, writer/comedian/musician
- Jessica Jaymes, pornographic actress
- Daniel Johnston, singer/songwriter/musician
- Freddie Jones, actor
- José José, singer/actor
- Giya Kancheli, composer
- Anna Karina, actress
- Girish Karnad, actor/director/writer
- Ken Kercheval, actor
- Marlen Khutsiev, director/writer
- Machiko Kyō, actress
- Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer
- Marie Laforêt, singer/actress
- Michel Legrand, composer/conductor/musician
- Ron Leibman, actor
- Pierre Lhomme, cinematographer
- Peggy Lipton, actress
- Jacques Loussier, musician/composer
- Branko Lustig, producer
- Sue Lyon, actress
- Carol Lynley, actress
- Bill Macy, actor
- Dušan Makavejev, writer/director
- Jean-Pierre Marielle, actor
- Ashley Massaro, pro wrestler/TV personality
- Andre Matos, singer/musician
- Peter Mayhew, actor
- Syd Mead, visual futurist
- Jonas Mekas, filmmaker
- Sylvia Miles, actress
- Dick Miller, actor
- Jean-Pierre Mocky, filmmaker/actor
- Eddie Money, singer/songwriter/musician
- Pedro Morales, pro wrestler
- Shelley Morrison, actress
- Oliver Mtukudzi, musician
- Marie-José Nat, actress
- Jessye Norman, singer
- Ric Ocasek, singer/songwriter/musician
- "Mean" Gene Okerlund, interviewer/announcer
- Christopher Pallies, a.k.a. "King Kong Bundy", pro wrestler
- D. A. Pennebaker, filmmaker
- Luke Perry, actor
- Michael J. Pollard, actor
- André Previn, musician/composer/conductor
- Harold Prince, producer/director
- Harley Race, professional wrestler
- "Dr. John" Rebennack Jr., singer/songwriter/musician
- Alvin Sargent, screenwriter
- Édith Scob, actress
- Camilo Sesto, singer/songwriter
- W. Morgan Sheppard, actor
- John Singleton, director/writer/producer
- Caroll Spinney, puppeteer
- Sulli, singer/songwriter/actress
- Clive Swift, actor
- Tardar Sauce, a.k.a. Grumpy Cat, internet celebrity
- Rip Taylor, comedian/actor/TV personality
- Russi Taylor, actress
- Peter Tork, musician/actor
- Rip Torn, actor
- Andrew G. Vajna, producer
- Agnès Varda, filmmaker
- Jan-Michael Vincent, actor
- Scott Walker, singer/songwriter
- Richard Williams, animator/director
- John Witherspoon, actor/comedian
- Morgan Woodward, actor
- Sergei Yursky, actor
- Franco Zeffirelli, director
Showbiz in Memoriam 2018
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2018. For a more comprehensive tribute, see my list at IMDb.
- José Antonio Abreu, conductor/musician
- Harry Anderson, actor
- Michael Anderson, director
- Susan Anspach, actress
- Lys Assia, singer
- Stéphane Audran, actress
- Charles Aznavour, singer/songwriter/actor
- Marty Balin, singer/songwriter/musician
- Tim "Avicii" Bergling, musician/DJ/record producer
- Ken Berry, actor/dancer/singer
- Bernardo Bertolucci, director/screenwriter
- Steven Bochco, writer/producer
- Philip Bosco, actor
- Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef/TV personality
- Glenn Branca, composer/musician
- Montserrat Caballé, operatic soprano
- Joseph Campanella, actor
- Mary Carlisle, actress/singer
- Reg E. Cathey, actor
- Emma Chambers, actress
- Raymond Chow, producer
- "Fast" Eddie Clarke, musician
- Roy Clark, singer/musician/presenter
- Anne V. Coates, film editor
- Bill Daily, actor
- Vic Damone, singer/actor
- Bradford Dillman, actor
- Sir Ken Dodd, comedian/singer/actor
- Milena Dravić, actress
- Dennis Edwards, singer
- Harlan Ellison, writer
- Geoff Emerick, audio engineer
- Ezzatolah Entezami, actor
- R. Lee Ermey, actor
- Nanette Fabray, actress/singer/dancer/comedian
- Ennio Fantastichini, actor
- D. J. Fontana, musician
- Miloš Forman, director/screenwriter
- Aretha Franklin, singer
- France Gall, singer
- John Gavin, actor
- Eunice Gayson, actress
- Lewis Gilbert, director/writer/producer
- Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer
- William Goldman, screenwriter
- Roy Hargrove, musician
- Barbara Harris, actress
- Shinobu Hashimoto, screenwriter
- Edwin Hawkins, singer/musician/arranger
- Juraj Herz, director/writer/actor
- Stephen Hillenburg, animator/writer/producer/director
- Rolf Hoppe, actor
- Tab Hunter, actor/singer
- Ricky Jay, magician/actor
- Jóhann Jóhannsson, composer
- Margot Kidder, actress
- Ed King, musician
- Kader Khan, actor/writer
- Richard H. Kline, cinematographer
- Joseph Kobzon, singer
- Gary Kurtz, producer
- Francis Lai, composer
- Ringo Lam, filmmaker
- Claude Lanzmann, filmmaker
- Stan Lee, writer/producer/editor/publisher/actor
- Sondra Locke, actress/director
- Didier Lockwood, musician
- Bud Luckey, animator/composer/singer/musician/voice actor
- Dame Gillian Lynne, dancer/choreographer
- Craig Mack, rapper
- John Mahoney, actor
- Dorothy Malone, actress
- Penny Marshall, actress/director
- Hugh Masekela, musician/composer/singer
- Maurane, singer/actress
- Chuck McCann, actor/TV personality
- Peggy McCay, actress
- Mac Miller, rapper/producer
- Donald Moffat, actor
- Rosenda Monteros, actress
- Patricia Morison, actress/singer
- John Morris, composer/conductor/orchestrator
- Robby Müller, cinematographer
- Kira Muratova, director/screenwriter
- Ermanno Olmi, filmmaker
- Dolores O'Riordan, singer/songwriter/musician
- Idrissa Ouédraogo, filmmaker
- Münir Özkul, actor
- Vinnie Paul, musician
- Lucian Pintilie, director/screenwriter
- María Dolores Pradera, singer/actress
- Charlotte Rae, actress
- Douglas Rain, actor
- Burt Reynolds, actor/director/producer
- Donnelly Rhodes, actor
- Nicolas Roeg, director/cinematographer
- Otis Rush, musician/singer/songwriter
- Bruno Sammartino, professional wrestler
- Nelson Pereira dos Santos, filmmaker
- Connie Sawyer, actress
- Mrinal Sen, filmmaker
- Pete Shelley, singer/songwriter/musician
- Neil Simon, playwright/screenwriter
- Mark E. Smith, singer/songwriter/musician
- Sridevi, actress
- Stefán Karl Stefánsson, actor/singer
- David Ogden Stiers, actor
- Barbro "Lill-Babs" Svensson, singer/actress
- Oleg Tabakov, actor
- Rachid Taha, singer
- Isao Takahata, director/writer
- Vittorio Taviani, director/screenwriter
- Cecil Taylor, musician
- Verne Troyer, actor
- Jerry Van Dyke, comedian/actor
- Clint Walker, actor
- Leon White, a.k.a. Big Van Vader, professional wrestler
- Dame June Whitfield, actress
- Hugh Wilson, writer/director/producer
- Nancy Wilson, singer
- Scott Wilson, actor
- Peter Wyngarde, actor
- XXXTentacion, rapper/songwriter
- Celeste Yarnall, actress
Showbiz In Memoriam 2017
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2017. For a more comprehensive tribute, see my list at IMDb.
- John Abercrombie, musician/composer
- Lola Albright, actress
- Gregg Allman, musician/singer/songwriter
- Richard Anderson, actor
- John G. Avildsen, filmmaker
- Luis Bacalov, composer
- Michael Ballhaus, cinematographer
- Chuck Barris, game show producer/host
- Aleksey Batalov, actor
- Walter Becker, musician/songwriter/producer
- Chester Bennington, singer/songwriter
- Shelley Berman, comedian/actor
- Chuck Berry, musician/singer/songwriter
- William Peter Blatty, writer/filmmaker
- Powers Boothe, actor
- Glen Campbell, singer/songwriter/musician/actor/TV host
- Bernie Casey, actor
- David Cassidy, actor/singer/musician
- Mike Connors, actor
- Professor Irwin Corey, comedian/actor
- Chris Cornell, singer/songwriter/musician
- Peggy Cummins, actress
- Mireille Darc, actress/model
- Danielle Darrieux, actress
- Jonathan Demme, director/producer
- Barry Dennen, actor/singer
- Fats Domino, musician/singer/songwriter
- Karin Dor, actress
- Roy Dotrice, actor
- Gord Downie, musician/singer/songwriter
- Nelsan Ellis, actor/producer
- Miguel Ferrer, actor
- Darlanne Fluegel, actress
- June Foray, actress
- Sir Bruce Forsyth, entertainer/presenter
- Stephen Furst, actor/director/producer
- Nicolai Gedda, tenor
- Gerald B. Greenberg, film editor
- Dick Gregory, comedian
- Brad Grey, producer/executive
- Robert Guillaume, actor
- Barbara Hale, actress
- Monty Hall, game show host/producer
- Sir Peter Hall, director
- Johnny Hallyday, singer/actor
- Robert Hardy, actor
- Anthony Harvey, director/editor
- Richard Hatch, actor
- Glenne Headly, actress
- John Heard, actor
- Bobby Heenan, pro-wrestling manager/commentator
- Hugh Hefner, publisher/producer/screen personality
- Jon Hendricks, singer/lyricist
- Pierre Henry, composer
- John Hillerman, actor
- Gerald Hirschfeld, cinematographer
- Allan Holdsworth, musician/composer
- Tobe Hooper, director/screenwriter/producer
- Rance Howard, actor
- Sir John Hurt, actor
- Dmitri Hvorostovsky, singer
- Tino Insana, actor/writer
- Clifton James, actor
- Al Jarreau, singer
- Anne Jeffreys, actress
- Albert "Prodigy" Johnson, rapper
- Shashi Kapoor, actor/producer
- Christine Kaufmann, actress
- Gorden Kaye, actor
- Vinod Khanna, actor
- Fred J. Koenekamp, cinematographer
- Ivan Koloff, professional wrestler
- Jake LaMotta, boxer/comedian/actor
- Martin Landau, actor
- Sonny Landham, actor
- Walter Lassally, cinematographer
- Daliah Lavi, actress/singer
- Umberto Lenzi, director/screenwriter
- Jerry Lewis, actor/comedian/filmmaker
- Ulli Lommel, actor/filmmaker
- Federico Luppi, actor
- Rose Marie, actress
- Elsa Martinelli, actress
- Alec McCowen, actor
- Heather Menzies, actress
- Dina Merrill, actress/socialite
- Robert Miles, composer/record producer
- Tomas Milian, actor
- Mary Tyler Moore, actress
- Sir Roger Moore, actor
- Erin Moran, actress
- Jeanne Moreau, actress
- Charlie Murphy, comedian/actor
- Jim Nabors, actor/singer
- Geoff Nicholls, musician
- Michael Nyqvist, actor
- Robert Osborne, film historian/TV host
- Michael Parks, actor
- Bill Paxton, actor/director
- Tom Petty, singer/songwriter/musician/record producer
- Tim Pigott-Smith, actor
- Richard Portman, sound engineer
- Om Puri, actor
- Della Reese, singer/actress
- Don Rickles, comedian/actor
- Emmanuelle Riva, actress
- Jean Rochefort, actor
- George A. Romero, filmmaker
- Peter Sallis, actor
- Sam Shepard, playwright/actor
- Keely Smith, singer
- Harry Dean Stanton, actor
- George Steele, professional wrestler/actor
- Seijun Suzuki, director
- Jay Thomas, actor/radio host
- Mel Tillis, singer/songwriter/musician
- Paolo Villaggio, actor/writer
- Frank Vincent, actor
- Derek Walcott, playwright/poet
- Adam West, actor
- John Wetton, musician
- Don Williams, singer/songwriter/musician
- George Young, musician/songwriter/producer
- Malcolm Young, musician/songwriter/singer
Showbiz In Memoriam 2016
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2016. For a more comprehensive tribute, see my list at IMDb
- Ken Adam, production designer
- Joe Alaskey, actor
- Edward Albee, playwright
- Muhammad Ali, athlete/actor/activist/champion
- Alexis Arquette, actress
- Alexandre Astruc, film critic/director
- Héctor Babenco, director/writer/producer
- Kenny Baker, actor
- Amelia Bence, actress
- Pierre Boulez, composer/conductor
- David Bowie, singer-songwriter/musician/actor
- Corry Brokken, singer
- Pete Burns, singer/songwriter
- Phil Chess, record producer/executive
- William Christopher, actor
- Michael Cimino, director/screenwriter/producer
- Guy Clark, musician/singer/songwriter
- Leonard Cohen, singer/songwriter
- Ronnie Corbett, comedian/actor
- Raoul Coutard, cinematographer
- Paul Cox, filmmaker
- Peter Maxwell Davies, composer/conductor
- Gloria DeHaven, actress/singer
- Larry Drake, actor
- Patty Duke, actress
- Ronit Elkabetz, actress/director/screenwriter
- Bob Elliott, comedian
- Keith Emerson, musician
- Pierre Étaix, filmmaker/comedian/clown
- Keith "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson, athlete/actor/internet celebrity
- Fyvush Finkel, actor
- Frank Finlay, actor
- Carrie Fisher, actress/writer
- Dario Fo, playwright/actor/director
- Glenn Frey, singer-songwriter/musician/actor
- Mr. Fuji, professional wrestler
- Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress/socialite
- Juan Gabriel, singer/songwriter
- Michel Galabru, actor
- George Gaynes, actor
- Götz George, actor
- Ron Glass, actor
- Christina Grimmie, singer/songwriter
- Merle Haggard, singer/songwriter/musician
- Guy Hamilton, director
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
- Curtis Hanson, director/screenwriter/producer
- Florence Henderson, actress
- Arthur Hiller, director
- Steven Hill, actor
- Ken Howard, actor
- David Huddleston, actor
- Sonny James, singer/songwriter/musician
- Sharon Jones, singer
- Paul Kantner, musician/singer
- George Kennedy, actor
- Abbas Kiarostami, filmmaker
- Burt Kwouk, actor
- Greg Lake, musician/singer/songwriter
- Chus Lampreave, actress
- Joanie "Chyna" Laurer, professional wrestler/actress
- Herschell Gordon Lewis, filmmaker
- Richard Libertini, actor
- Lonnie Mack, musician/singer/songwriter
- Neville Marriner, conductor/musician
- Garry Marshall, writer/producer/director/actor
- George Martin, producer/arranger/composer/conductor
- Denise "Vanity" Matthews, singer/songwriter/actress/model
- Nick Menza, musician
- George Michael, singer/songwriter
- Chips Moman, songwriter/record producer/musician
- Scotty Moore, musician
- Michèle Morgan, actress
- Noel Neill, actress
- Agnes Nixon, writer/producer
- Marni Nixon, singer
- Bill Nunn, actor
- Hugh O'Brian, actor
- Rick Parfitt, singer/musician
- Billy Paul, singer
- Jimmy Perry, writer
- Jon Polito, actor
- Oleg Popov, clown
- Prince, singer/songwriter/musician
- Prince Buster, singer/songwriter/producer
- Nancy Davis Reagan, actress
- Debbie Reynolds, actress/singer
- Alan Rickman, actor
- Jacques Rivette, director/writer
- Doris Roberts, actress
- Leon Russell, musician/singer/songwriter
- Andrew Sachs, actor
- William Schallert, actor
- Ettore Scola, director/screenwriter
- Peter Shaffer, playwright/screenwriter
- Garry Shandling, comedian/actor/writer/producer
- Frank Sinatra, Jr., singer/songwriter/conductor
- Douglas Slocombe, cinematographer
- Bud Spencer, actor
- Robert Stigwood, manager/producer/executive
- Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor, rapper
- Rod Temperton, songwriter/producer/musician
- Alan Thicke, actor/composer/writer/TV host
- Toots Thielemans, musician
- Grant Tinker, executive
- Lupita Tovar, actress
- Rudy Van Gelder, recording engineer
- Peter Vaughan, actor
- Robert Vaughn, actor
- Alan Vega, singer/musician
- Bobby Vee, singer
- Abe Vigoda, actor
- Andrzej Wajda, director/screenwriter
- Janet Waldo, actress
- Papa Wemba, singer/musician
- Maurice White, singer-songwriter/musician
- Gene Wilder, actor/writer/director
- Terry Wogan, broadcaster
- Victoria Wood, comedian/actress/writer/singer
- Anton Yelchin, actor
- Alan Young, actor/comedian
- Bata Živojinović, actor
- Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer
- Andrzej Żuławski, writer/director
Showbiz In Memoriam 2015
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2015. For a more comprehensive tribute, see my list at IMDb
- Chantal Akerman, filmmaker
- Daevid Allen, musician/singer/songwriter/performance artist
- Lynn Anderson, singer
- Laura Antonelli, actress
- Vicente Aranda, director/screenwriter
- Harve Bennett, producer/writer
- James Best, actor
- Theodore Bikel, actor/singer-songwriter/musician
- Cilla Black, singer/presenter
- Pierre Brice, actor
- Bobbi Kristina Brown, media personality/singer
- Errol Brown, singer-songwriter
- David Canary, actor
- Robert Chartoff, producer
- Ornette Coleman, musician/composer
- George Cole, actor
- Natalie Cole, singer
- Richard Corliss, film critic
- Yvonne Craig, actress
- Wes Craven, writer/director/producer
- Andraé Crouch, singer/composer/arranger
- Pino Daniele, singer/songwriter/musician/composer
- Arsen Dedić, singer/songwriter/composer
- Danièle Delorme, actress/producer
- Donna Douglas, actress
- Betsy Drake, actress
- Richard Dysart, actor
- Anita Ekberg, actress
- Gabriele Ferzetti, actor
- Kim Fowley, singer/songwriter/producer/manager
- Stan Freberg, comedian/voice actor/advertising director
- Brian Friel, playwright
- Jeanna Friske, singer/actress/model
- Edgar Froese, musician
- Frank Gifford, sportscaster
- Lesley Gore, singer/songwriter
- Coleen Gray, actress
- Jean Gruault, screenwriter
- John Guillermin, director
- Faten Hamama, actress
- Setsuko Hara, actress
- Julie Harris, costume designer
- Jimmy Hill, broadcaster/presenter
- James Horner, composer/conductor/orchestrator
- Franco Interlenghi, actor
- Saeed Jaffrey, actor
- Richard Johnson, actor
- Dean Jones, actor
- Louis Jourdan, actor
- "Lemmy" Kilmister, singer-songwriter/musician
- B.B. King, musician/singer-songwriter
- Ben E. King, singer
- Tadeusz Konwicki, writer/director
- James Last, composer/arranger/bandleader
- Sir Christopher Lee, actor
- Joan Leslie, actress
- Andrew Lesnie, cinematographer
- Geoffrey Lewis, actor
- Robert Loggia, actor
- Marjorie Lord, actress
- Patrick Macnee, actor
- Judith Malina, actress/director
- Kurt Masur, conductor
- Melissa Mathison, screenwriter
- Albert Maysles, filmmaker
- Geraldine McEwan, actress
- Rod McKuen, singer-songwriter/musician/poet
- Jenna McMahon, writer
- Jayne Meadows, actress/TV personality
- Anne Meara, actress/comedian
- Martin Milner, actor
- Al Molinaro, actor
- Ron Moody, actor
- Mark Murphy, singer
- Taylor Negron, actor/comedian
- Leonard Nimoy, actor/director
- Patricia Norris, costume designer/production designer
- Elena Obraztsova, mezzo-soprano
- Maureen O'Hara, actress
- Manoel de Oliveira, filmmaker
- Miroslav Ondříček, cinematographer
- Gary Owens, radio host/announcer/voice actor
- Betsy Palmer, actress
- Patachou, singer
- Marília Pêra, actress
- Amanda Peterson, actress
- Roddy Piper, professional wrestler/actor
- Maya Plisetskaya, dancer
- Mike Porcaro, musician
- Roger Rees, actor
- "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, professional wrestler
- Alex Rocco, actor
- Wayne Rogers, actor/producer
- Francesco Rosi, director/screenwriter
- Demis Roussos, singer
- Eldar Ryazanov, director/screenwriter
- Gene Saks, director/actor
- Gunther Schuller, composer/conductor/musician
- Lizabeth Scott, actress
- Stuart Scott, sportscaster
- Omar Sharif, actor
- Sadhana Shivdasani, actress
- Sam Simon, writer/producer/director
- Bruce Sinofsky, filmmaker
- Percy Sledge, singer
- Chris Squire, musician/singer-songwriter
- Olga Syahputra, actor/comedian/presenter
- "Philthy Animal" Taylor, musician
- Rod Taylor, actor
- Clark Terry, musician
- Fred Dalton Thompson, actor/politician
- Allen Toussaint, musician/singer/songwriter/producer
- Dick Van Patten, actor
- Jon Vickers, tenor
- Alberta Watson, actress
- Scott Weiland, musician/singer-songwriter
- Jerry Weintraub, producer/manager/promoter
- Haskell Wexler, cinematographer/filmmaker
- Grace Lee Whitney, actress
- David Willcocks, choirmaster/musician/composer
- Elizabeth Wilson, actress
- Holly Woodlawn, actress
- Phil Woods, musician
- Bud Yorkin, producer/director
Showbiz In Memoriam 2014
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theater, radio, and music personalities who died in 2014. For a more comprehensive tribute, see my list at IMDb.
- Claudio Abbado, conductor
- Licia Albanese, soprano
- Maya Angelou, writer/actress
- Richard Attenborough, actor/director/producer
- Alice Babs, singer/actress
- Lauren Bacall, actress
- K. Balachander, screenwriter/director/producer
- Donatas Banionis, actor
- Skye McCole Bartusiak, actress
- Polly Bergen, actress
- Carlo Bergonzi, tenor
- Acker Bilk, musician
- Karlheinz Böhm, actor
- David Brenner, comedian
- Jack Bruce, musician/singer/songwriter
- Sid Caesar, actor/comedian
- Christine Cavanaugh, actress
- Gustavo Cerati, singer/musician
- Chespirito, comedian/actor/writer/director
- Věra Chytilová, director/screenwriter
- Warren Clarke, actor
- Joe Cocker, singer
- Glenn Cornick, musician
- Ann B. Davis, actress
- Assi Dayan, writer/director/actor
- Ruby Dee, actress
- Antoine Duhamel, composer/conductor
- Phil Everly, singer/musician
- Nelson Frazier Jr. a.k.a. Viscera, professional wrestler
- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor/composer
- James Garner, actor
- H. R. Giger, artist/designer
- Gerry Goffin, lyricist
- Menahem Golan, producer/director/writer
- Charlie Haden, musician
- Bob Hastings, actor
- Edward Herrmann, actor
- Jim Hellwig, The Ultimate Warrior, professional wrestler
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor
- Christopher Hogwood, conductor
- Geoffrey Holder, actor/dancer/choreographer/director
- Jan Hooks, actress/comedian
- Bob Hoskins, actor
- Wendy Hughes, actress
- Brian G. Hutton, director
- Martha Hyer, actress
- Jimi Jamison, singer/songwriter
- Miklós Jancsó, writer/director
- Gottfried John, actor
- Russell Johnson, actor
- Dickie Jones, actor
- Udo Jürgens, singer/songwriter
- Casey Kasem, radio personality/voice actor
- Don Keefer, actor
- Richard Kiel, actor
- Frankie Knuckles, DJ/record producer
- Glen A. Larson, writer/producer
- Virna Lisi, actress
- Jeremy Lloyd, writer/actor
- Roger Lloyd-Pack, actor
- Joan Lorring, actress
- Paco de Lucía, musician/composer
- Yuri Lyubimov, actor
- Lorin Maazel, conductor/composer/musician
- Gabriel García Márquez, writer
- Rik Mayall, comedian/actor/writer
- Paul Mazursky, writer/director/producer/actor
- Ian McLagan, musician
- Andrew V. McLaglen, director
- Juanita Moore, actress
- Oswald Morris, cinematographer
- Rosemary Murphy, actress
- V. K. Murthy, cinematographer
- Mike Nichols, director/producer
- Magda Olivero, soprano
- Riz Ortolani, composer
- Don Pardo, announcer
- Elizabeth Peña, actress
- Luise Rainer, actress
- Harold Ramis, actor/writer/director
- Tommy Ramone, musician
- Arthur Rankin Jr., animation producer/director
- Akkineni Nageswara Rao, actor
- James Rebhorn, actor
- Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer
- Alain Resnais, director
- Joan Rivers, comedian/actress/writer/TV personality
- Mickey Rooney, actor
- Sabah, singer/actress
- Tatiana Samoilova, actress
- Joe Sample, musician/composer
- Joseph Sargent, director
- Maximilian Schell, actor
- L'Wren Scott, fashion designer
- Peter Sculthorpe, composer
- Pete Seeger, singer-songwriter/musician
- Marian Seldes, actress/teacher
- Lorenzo Semple Jr., writer
- Suchitra Sen, actress
- Run Run Shaw, producer
- James Shigeta, actor
- Horace Silver, musician/composer
- Donald Sinden, actor
- Dick Smith, make-up artist
- Wayne Static, singer/musician
- Marcia Strassman, actress
- Elaine Stritch, actress/singer
- Ken Takakura, actor
- Meshach Taylor, actor
- Shirley Temple, actress
- Misty Upham, actress
- Ralph Waite, actor
- Eli Wallach, actor
- Billie Whitelaw, actress
- Robin Williams, actor/comedian
- Gordon Willis, cinematographer
- Johnny Winter, musician/singer
- Bobby Womack, singer
- Yoshiko Yamaguchi, actress/singer
- Mae Young, professional wrestler
- Carmen Zapata, actress
- Saul Zaentz, producer
- Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., actor
- China Zorrilla, actress
Showbiz In Memoriam 2013
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2013.
- Patty Andrews, singer
- Michael Ansara, actor
- Allan Arbus, actor
- James Avery, actor
- Kevin Ayers, singer/songwriter/musician
- Conrad Bain, actor
- Peter Banks, musician/singer/songwriter
- Paul Bearer, pro-wrestling manager
- Antonia Bird, producer/director
- Karen Black, actress/singer/writer
- Bobby "Blue" Bland, singer
- Les Blank, filmmaker
- Eileen Brennan, actress
- Richard Briers, actor
- Joyce Brothers, psychologist/advice columnist/TV personality
- Clive Burr, musician
- Donald Byrd, musician
- J.J. Cale, singer/songwriter/musician
- Vincenzo Cerami, screenwriter
- Patrice Chéreau, director
- Jack Clement, singer/songwriter/producer
- Van Cliburn, musician
- Jeanne Cooper, actress
- Damiano Damiani, director/screenwriter
- Nigel Davenport, actor
- Colin Davis, conductor
- Ray Dolby, sound engineer
- George Duke, musician
- Deanna Durbin, actress/singer
- Henri Dutilleux, composer
- Roger Ebert, film critic
- Marta Eggerth, actress/singer
- Arik Einstein, singer/songwriter/actor
- David R. Ellis, director/stuntman
- Manolo Escobar, singer/actor
- Dennis Farina, actor
- Joan Fontaine, actress
- Bryan Forbes, director/screenwriter/actor
- Steve Forrest, actor
- Jesús Franco, filmmaker/actor/composer
- David Frost, journalist/presenter/media personality
- Annette Funicello, actress/singer
- James Gandolfini, actor
- Giuliano Gemma, actor
- Peter Gilmore, actor
- Eydie Gormé, singer
- Richard Griffiths, actor
- Jim Hall, musician
- Chico Hamilton, musician
- Jeff Hanneman, musician/songwriter
- Julie Harris, actress
- Noel Harrison, singer/actor
- Ray Harryhausen, visual effects creator/film producer
- Richie Havens, singer/songwriter/musician
- Huell Howser, TV personality
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, screenwriter
- George Jones, musician/singer/songwriter
- Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly, rapper
- Jim Kelly, actor/martial artist
- Lisa Robin Kelly, actress
- John Kerr, actor
- Wojciech Kilar, composer
- Bernadette Lafont, actress
- Allen Lanier, musician
- Yusef Lateef, musician/composer
- Ed Lauter, actor
- Georges Lautner, director/screenwriter
- Alvin Lee, singer/musician
- Elmore Leonard, writer
- Tony Lip, actor
- Carlo Lizzani, director/screenwriter
- Arthur Malet, actor
- Ray Manzarek, musician
- Richard Matheson, writer
- Mindy McCready, singer
- Stephenie McMillan, set decorator
- Marian McPartland. musician/composer/radio host
- Mariangela Melato, actress
- Édouard Molinaro, director/screenwriter
- Cory Monteith, actor/singer
- Sara Montiel, actress
- Georges Moustaki, singer/songwriter/musician
- Hal Needham, director/stuntman
- Sergiu Nicolaescu, director/actor/writer
- Milo O'Shea, actor
- Nagisa Oshima, director/screenwriter
- Peter O'Toole, actor
- Patti Page, singer
- Kumar Pallana, actor
- Eleanor Parker, actress
- Ted Post, director
- Pran, actor
- Reg Presley, singer/songwriter/musician
- Ray Price, singer/songwriter/musician
- Phil Ramone, record producer/engineer
- Lou Reed, musician/singer/songwriter
- Dale Robertson, actor
- Robin Sachs, actor
- Otto Sander, actor
- Richard C. Sarafian, director
- Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor
- August Schellenberg, actor
- Tony Sheridan, singer/songwriter/musician
- Mel Smith, comedian/actor/director
- Jean Stapleton, actress
- János Starker, musician
- Pat Summerall, sportscaster
- Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina
- John Tavener, composer
- Gilbert Taylor, cinematographer
- Frank Thornton, actor
- Malachi Throne, actor
- Armando Trovaioli, composer
- Bebo Valdés, musician
- Luciano Vincenzoni, screenwriter
- Paul Walker, actor
- Marcia Wallace, actress/comedian
- Cedar Walton, musician
- Slim Whitman, singer/songwriter/musician
- Esther Williams, actress/swimmer
- Michael Winner, filmmaker
- Jonathan Winters, comedian/actor
- Yury Yakovlev, actor
- Lee Thompson Young, actor
Showbiz in Memoriam 2012
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2012.
- Ian Abercrombie, actor
- Norman Alden, actor
- Bob Anderson, fencer/fight choreographer
- Maurice André, musician
- Theo Angelopoulos, filmmaker
- Takeshi Aono, actor
- R. G. Armstrong, actor
- Alexander Arutiunian, composer/musician
- William Asher, director/writer/producer
- Luke Askew, actor
- Turhan Bey, actor
- Ernest Borgnine, actor
- Ray Bradbury, writer
- Peter Breck, actor
- Chuck Brown, singer/musician
- Dave Brubeck, musician/composer
- Frank Cady, actor
- Harry Carey Jr., actor
- Elliott Carter, composer
- Christopher Challis, cinematographer
- Yash Chopra, director/producer
- Dick Clark, radio and TV personality/host
- Gary Collins, actor/TV host
- Don Cornelius, TV host/producer
- Lucio Dalla, singer/songwriter/composer
- Hal David, lyricist
- Richard Dawson, actor/comedian/game show host
- Phyllis Diller, comedienne/actress
- Michael Clarke Duncan, actor
- Donald "Duck" Dunn, musician
- Charles Durning, actor
- Nora Ephron, writer/director
- Chad Everett, actor
- James Farentino, actor
- Jon Finch, actor
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, singer/conductor
- Steve Franken, actor
- Al Freeman Jr., actor
- Jonathan Frid, actor
- Carlos Fuentes, writer
- Ben Gazzara, actor
- Robin Gibb, singer/songwriter/producer
- Joel Goldsmith, composer
- Don Grady, actor/musician
- Andy Griffith, actor
- Ulu Grosbard, director/producer
- Tonino Guerra, screenwriter
- Larry Hagman, actor/director
- Marvin Hamlisch, composer/conductor
- Robert Hegyes, actor
- Levon Helm, musician/singer/actor
- Sherman Hemsley, actor
- Hans Werner Henze, composer
- Celeste Holm, actress
- Whitney Houston, singer/actress/producer
- Geoffrey Hughes, actor
- Etta James, singer
- Davy Jones, musician/singer/songwriter
- Kathryn Joosten, actress
- Erland Josephson, actor
- Alex Karras, actor
- David Kelly, actor
- Eduard Khil, singer
- Zalman King, filmmaker/actor
- Jack Klugman, actor
- Sylvia Kristel, actress
- Lance LeGault, actor
- Johnny Lewis, actor
- George Lindsey, actor
- Herbert Lom, actor
- Jon Lord, musician/composer
- Richard Lynch, actor
- Frederica Sagor Maas, writer
- Chris Marker, writer/photographer/filmmaker
- Tony Martin, singer/actor
- Scott McKenzie, singer/songwriter
- Ralph McQuarrie, designer/illustrator
- Russell Means, actor/activist
- Patricia Medina, actress
- Claude Miller, director/screenwriter
- Patrick Moore, astronomer/TV personality
- Jerry Nelson, puppeteer/singer
- Michael O'Hare, actor
- Lupe Ontiveros, actress
- Ron Palillo, actor
- Frank Pierson, screenwriter/director/producer
- Charles Pitts, musician
- Deborah Raffin, actress
- Carlo Rambaldi, special effects artist
- J. Michael Riva, production designer
- Jenni Rivera, singer/songwriter/producer/TV personality
- Lina Romay, actress
- Ann Rutherford, actress
- Andrew Sarris, film critic
- Vidal Sassoon, hairdresser/businessman
- Harris Savides, cinematographer
- Tony Scott, director/producer
- Earl Scruggs, musician
- Ravi Shankar, musician/composer
- Robert B. Sherman, songwriter
- Kaneto Shindo, filmmaker
- Paul L. Smith, actor
- Sage Stallone, actor
- Warren Stevens, actor
- Mel Stuart, director/producer
- Donna Summer, singer/songwriter/actress
- Bruce Surtees, cinematographer
- Eric Sykes, comedian/actor/writer/director
- Joan Taylor, actress
- Phyllis Thaxter, actress
- Susan Tyrrell, actress
- Chavela Vargas, singer
- Gore Vidal, writer/actor
- Galina Vishnevskaya, singer
- Mike Wallace, journalist/game show host
- Simon Ward, actor
- Bob Welch, singer/songwriter/musician
- Kitty Wells, singer
- Andy Williams, singer/TV host
- Yvette Wilson, actress/comedian
- William Windom, actor
- Isuzu Yamada, actress
- Adam Yauch, musician/singer/songwriter/producer
- Richard D. Zanuck, producer
Showbiz in Memoriam 2011
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2011.
- Theoni V. Aldredge, costume designer
- Tom Aldredge, actor
- Dev Anand, actor/producer/director/writer
- Pedro Armendáriz Jr., actor
- James Arness, actor
- Nickolas Ashford, singer/songwriter
- Milton Babbitt, composer/music theorist
- George Baker, actor
- Trevor Bannister, actor
- John Barry, composer
- Frances Bay, actress
- Roberts Blossom, actor
- Vicco von Bülow, comedian/cartoonist/writer/director
- Michael Cacoyannis, filmmaker
- Charlie Callas, comedian/actor
- William Campbell, actor
- Gilbert Cates, director/producer
- Annette Charles, actress
- Linda Christian, actress
- Diane Cilento, actress
- Clarence Clemons, musician
- Jeff Conaway, actor
- Jackie Cooper, actor/director
- Nicholas Courtney, actor
- Don Diamond, actor
- Nate Dogg, rapper
- Paulette Dubost, actress
- Ryan Dunn, stunt performer/TV personality
- John Dye, actor
- Bernd Eichinger, filmmaker
- Cesária Évora, singer
- Peter Falk, actor
- Edith Fellows, actress
- Gunnar Fischer, cinematographer
- Anne Francis, actress
- Dolores Fuller, actress
- Betty Garrett, actress/singer/comedian
- Annie Girardot, actress
- Michael Gough, actor
- Farley Granger, actor
- Lyudmila Gurchenko, actress/singer
- Edward Hardwicke, actor
- Václav Havel, playwright
- Jill Haworth, actress
- Johannes Heesters, actor/singer
- David Hess, actor/singer/songwriter
- Tim Hetherington, photojournalist/filmmaker
- Bill Hunter, actor
- Kevin Jarre, screenwriter
- Charles Jarrott, director
- Steve Jobs, entrepreneur/executive
- Shammi Kapoor, actor
- Tomoko Kawakami, voice actress
- Barbara Kent, actress
- Aron Kincaid, actor
- Don Kirshner, music publisher/producer/manager
- Jack LaLanne, fitness expert/TV host
- Jani Lane, singer/songwriter/musician
- Arthur Laurents, playwright/director/screenwriter
- Jerry Leiber, songwriter/producer
- Len Lesser, actor
- Sidney Lumet, director
- John Mackenzie, director
- Kenneth Mars, actor
- Anna Massey, actress
- Bill McKinney, actor
- Gary Moore, musician
- Harry Morgan, actor
- Paul Motian, musician/composer
- Mary Murphy, actress
- Cynthia Myers, model/actress
- Dwight "Heavy D" Myers, rapper/producer/actor
- Charles Napier, actor
- David Nelson, actor/director
- John Neville, actor
- Lena Nyman, actress
- Patrice O'Neal, comedian/actor
- Roland Petit, dancer/choreographer/director
- Paul Picerni, actor
- Marie-France Pisier, actress
- Polly Platt, production designer/producer/writer
- Alice Playten, actress
- Pete Postlethwaite, actor
- Francesco Quinn, actor
- Gerry Rafferty, singer/songwriter/musician
- Peggy Rea, actress
- Cliff Robertson, actor
- Andy Rooney, journalist/commentator
- Alan Rubin, musician
- Raúl Ruiz, filmmaker
- Jane Russell, actress
- Ken Russell, filmmaker
- Michael Sarrazin, actor
- Tura Satana, actress/dancer
- "Macho Man" Randy Savage, professional wrestler
- Maria Schneider, actress
- Sherwood Schwartz, writer/producer
- Gil Scott-Heron, poet/singer/songwriter/musician
- Angela Scoular, actress
- George Shearing, musician
- Elisabeth Sladen, actress
- Bubba Smith, actor
- Phoebe Snow, singer/songwriter/musician
- G. D. Spradlin, actor
- Mike Starr, musician
- Fred Steiner, composer/conductor/orchestrator
- Elaine Stewart, actress/model
- John Sullivan, writer
- Clarice Taylor, actress
- Dame Elizabeth Taylor, actress
- Sada Thompson, actress
- Gordon Tootoosis, actor
- Margaret Tyzack, actress
- Violetta Villas, singer/actress
- Andy Whitfield, actor
- Nicol Williamson, actor
- Amy Winehouse, singer/songwriter
- Gary Winick, director/producer
- Googie Withers, actress
- John Wood, actor
- Dana Wynter, actress
- Peter Yates, director/producer
- Susannah York, actress
- Laura Ziskin, producer
Showbiz in Memoriam 2010
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2010.
- Corey Allen, actor/director
- Dede Allen, film editor
- Cécile Aubry, actress/writer
- Roy Ward Baker, director
- Luis García Berlanga, writer/director
- Barbara Billingsley, actress
- Lisa Blount, actress/producer
- Caterina Boratto, actress
- Tom Bosley, actor
- Robert F. Boyle, art director/production designer
- David Brown, producer
- Solomon Burke, singer
- Jackie Burroughs, actress
- Stephen J. Cannell, writer/producer
- Captain Beefheart, singer/songwriter/musician
- Ian Carmichael, actor
- Dixie Carter, actress/singer
- Christopher Cazenove, actor
- Claude Chabrol, filmmaker
- Maury Chaykin, actor
- Alex Chilton, singer/songwriter/musician
- Jill Clayburgh, actress
- Art Clokey, animator/director/producer
- Gary Coleman, actor
- Alain Corneau, writer/director
- Bruno Cremer, actor
- Robert Culp, actor
- Tony Curtis, actor
- John Dankworth, musician/composer
- Jimmy Dean, singer/actor
- Dino De Laurentiis, producer
- George DiCenzo, actor
- Ronnie James Dio, singer/songwriter/musician
- Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, actor
- Clive Donner, director
- Blake Edwards, filmmaker
- Herb Ellis, musician
- Bill Erwin, actor
- Bobby Farrell, dancer/singer
- Bekim Fehmiu, actor
- Eddie Fisher, singer/entertainer
- John Forsythe, actor
- William A. Fraker, cinematographer
- James Gammon, actor
- Greg Giraldo, comedian
- Bernard Giraudeau, actor/director/writer
- Harold Gould, actor
- Peter Graves, actor
- Kathryn Grayson, actress/singer
- Julien Guiomar, actor
- Guru, rapper
- Corey Haim, actor
- June Havoc, actress
- Dennis Hopper, actor/writer/director
- Lena Horne, singer/actress
- Bobby Hebb, singer/songwriter/musician
- George Hickenlooper, filmmaker
- Alan Hume, cinematographer
- Gregory Isaacs, singer/songwriter
- Dorothy Janis, actress
- Lionel Jeffries, actor/screenwriter/director
- Lamont Johnson, director/actor
- Elliott Kastner, producer
- Ben Keith, musician
- Irvin Kershner, director
- Andrew Koenig, actor/filmmaker
- Satoshi Kon, writer/director/animator
- Abbey Lincoln, singer/songwriter/actress
- Art Linkletter, TV personality
- Mark Linkous, singer/songwriter/musician
- James MacArthur, actor
- Simon MacCorkindale, actor/producer
- Joe Mantell, actor
- Adele Mara, actress
- Teena Marie, singer/songwriter
- Nan Martin, actress
- Kevin McCarthy, actor
- Rue McClanahan, actress
- Kate McGarrigle, singer/songwriter/musician
- Vonetta McGee, actress
- Malcolm McLaren, impresario/manager/recording artist
- Alexander McQueen, fashion designer
- Sally Menke, film editor
- Mitch Miller, musician/conductor/record producer
- James Mitchell, actor/dancer
- Mario Monicelli, writer/director
- James Moody, musician
- Patricia Neal, actress
- Ronald Neame, filmmaker
- Leslie Nielsen, actor
- Merlin Olsen, actor/athlete
- Baby Marie Osborne, actress
- Per Oscarsson, actor
- Fess Parker, actor
- Teddy Pendergrass, singer
- Arthur Penn, director
- Ingrid Pitt, actress
- Dorothy Provine, actress
- Pete Quaife, musician
- Corin Redgrave, actor
- Lynn Redgrave, actress
- Frances Reid, actress
- Pernell Roberts, actor
- Éric Rohmer, director/screenwriter
- Jean Rollin, writer/director
- Zelda Rubinstein, actress
- Bruno Schleinstein, actor
- Werner Schroeter, filmmaker
- Erich Segal, writer
- Lhasa de Sela, singer/songwriter
- Glenn Shadix, actor
- Johnny Sheffield, actor
- Jean Simmons, actress
- Peter Steele, singer/songwriter/musician
- Gloria Stuart, actress
- Joan Sutherland, singer
- Hideko Takamine, actress
- Laurent Terzieff, actor
- Doris Eaton Travis, actress
- Helen Wagner, actress
- Georges Wilson, actor
- Sir Norman Wisdom, actor/comedian
- David L. Wolper, producer
- Ilene Woods, actress/singer
Showbiz in Memoriam 2009
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2009.
- Lou Albano, professional wrestler/actor
- Wayne Allwine, voice actor/sound editor
- Robert Anderson, writer
- Ken Annakin, director
- Bea Arthur, actress/singer/comedian
- Ron Asheton, musician/songwriter
- Val Avery, actor
- Ray Barrett, actor
- Gene Barry, actor
- Alain Bashung, singer/songwriter/actor
- Timothy Bateson, actor
- Pina Bausch, dancer/choreographer
- Louie Bellson, musician/composer/arranger
- Claude Berri, filmmaker
- Betsy Blair, actress
- Augusto Boal, theatre practitioner
- Jane Bryan, actress
- Paul Burke, actor
- Kathleen Byron, actress
- Gianna Maria Canale, actress
- Jack Cardiff, cinematographer/director
- Philip Carey, actor
- David Carradine, actor
- Jim Carroll, writer/musician
- Marilyn Chambers, actress/model
- Sydney Chaplin, actor
- Vic Chesnutt, singer/songwriter/musician
- Walter Cronkite, newscaster
- Merce Cunningham, dancer/choreographer
- Virginia Davis, actress
- Dom DeLuise, actor/comedian
- Willy DeVille, singer/songwriter
- Roy E. Disney, executive/producer
- Edward Fatu, a.k.a. Umaga, professional wrestler
- Farrah Fawcett, actress/model
- Horton Foote, writer
- Susanna Foster, actress
- Lorena Gale, actress/director
- Don Galloway, actor
- Stephen Gately, singer/songwriter
- Larry Gelbart, writer/director
- Henry Gibson, actor
- Steven Gilborn, actor
- Adam Goldstein, a.k.a. DJ AM, disc jockey/musician
- Jade Goody, TV personality
- Lucy Gordon, actress/model
- Ellie Greenwich, songwriter/singer/producer
- Kelly Groucutt, musician
- Andy Hallett, actor/singer
- John Hart, actor
- Don Hewitt, producer
- Connie Hines, actress
- Pat Hingle, actor
- Hugh Hopper, musician
- John Hughes, filmmaker
- Lux Interior, singer
- Michael Jackson, singer/songwriter/dancer
- Lou Jacobi, actor
- Maurice Jarre, composer/conductor
- Jennifer Jones, actress
- Brenda Joyce, actress
- Feroz Khan, actor/filmmaker
- Allen Klein, music executive/manager/producer
- Larry Knechtel, musician
- Alicia de Larrocha, musician/composer
- José Luis López Vázquez, actor
- Karl Malden, actor
- Kim Manners, director/producer
- Frankie Manning, dancer/choreographer
- Zena Marshall, actress
- Andrew "Test" Martin, professional wrestler
- Al Martino, singer/actor
- Dallas McKennon, actor
- Ekaterina Maximova, ballerina
- Billy Mays, TV pitchman
- Patrick McGoohan, actor
- Ed McMahon, comedian/announcer/TV personality
- Mitsuharu Misawa, professional wrestler
- Taylor Mitchell, singer/songwriter
- Vic Mizzy, composer
- Ricardo Montalbán, actor
- Sir John Mortimer, writer
- Yoshirō Muraki, production designer/art director
- Brittany Murphy, actress/singer
- Nagesh, actor
- Paul Naschy, actor/writer/director
- Dan O'Bannon, writer/director
- Les Paul, musician/inventor
- Tullio Pinelli, screenwriter
- Billy Powell, musician
- Harve Presnell, actor/singer
- Edmund Purdom, actor
- Jocelyn Quivrin, actor
- Jane Randolph, actress
- Alaina Reed-Hall, actress/singer
- Wendy Richard, actress
- Barbara Rudnik, actress
- George Russell, musician/composer
- Rosanna Schiaffino, actress
- Ron Silver, actor
- Natasha Richardson, actress
- Soupy Sales, comedian
- Shakti Samanta, director/producer
- Budd Schulberg, writer
- Shih Kien, actor
- Mercedes Sosa, singer
- Arnold Stang, actor
- Gale Storm, actress/singer
- Mollie Sugden, actress
- James Sullivan, a.k.a. The Rev, musician/songwriter
- Patrick Swayze, actor
- Koko Taylor, singer
- Vyacheslav Tikhonov, actor
- Richard Todd, actor
- Harry Alan Towers, producer/writer
- Mary Travers, singer/songwriter
- Dana Vávrová, actress/director
- Keith Waterhouse, writer
- Paul Wendkos, director
- James Whitmore, actor
- Joseph Wiseman, actor
- Eric Woolfson, singer/songwriter/musician
- Edward Woodward, actor
- Howard Zieff, director
Showbiz in Memoriam 2008
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2008.
- Aleksandr Abdulov, actor
- Forrest J. Ackerman, film historian/writer/actor
- Edie Adams, comedian/actress/singer
- Eddy Arnold, singer/songwriter/musician
- Neil Aspinall, music executive/producer/manager
- Šaban Bajramović, singer/songwriter
- Majel Barrett, actress/producer
- Henry Beckman, actor
- Paul Benedict, actor
- Natalia Bessmertnova, ballerina
- Sam Bottoms, actor
- Bernie Brillstein, producer
- George Carlin, comedian/actor
- Youssef Chahine, director/writer
- Cyd Charisse, actress/dancer
- Lilyan Chauvin, actress/director
- Sofiko Chiaureli, actress
- Baldev Raj Chopra, director/producer
- Arthur C. Clarke, writer/TV host
- John Costelloe, actor
- Alexander Courage, composer/orchestrator/arranger
- Hazel Court, actress
- Michael Crichton, writer/director/producer
- Eva Dahlbeck, actress
- Jean Desailly, actor
- Jules Dassin, director/producer/writer/actor
- Don S. Davis, actor
- Jean Delannoy, filmmaker
- Guillaume Depardieu, actor
- Bo Diddley, musician/singer/songwriter/producer
- Giuseppe Di Stefano, singer
- Ivan Dixon, actor/director
- Ronnie Drew, singer/songwriter/musician
- Boris Dvornik, actor
- Julie Ege, actress
- Mel Ferrer, actor/director/producer
- Nina Foch, actress
- George Furth, actor/playwright/librettist
- Beverly Garland, actress
- Leyla Gencer, singer
- Estelle Getty, actress
- Dody Goodman, actress
- Johnny Griffin, musician
- David Groh, actor
- Earle Hagen, composer/orchestrator/conductor
- Bernie Hamilton, actor
- Isaac Hayes, singer/songwriter/actor
- John Michael Hayes, screenwriter
- Jeff Healey, musician/singer/songwriter
- Neal Hefti, musician/composer/arranger
- Charlton Heston, actor
- Freddie Hubbard, musician/composer
- Kon Ichikawa, director/writer
- Van Johnson, actor/singer/dancer
- Ollie Johnston, animator
- Mauricio Kagel, composer
- Stanley Kamel, actor
- Mahendra Kapoor, playback singer
- Evelyn Keyes, actress
- Eartha Kitt, singer/actress/dancer
- Harvey Korman, actor/comedian
- Ruslana Korshunova, model
- Walter "Killer" Kowalski, professional wrestler
- Mikel Laboa, singer/songwriter
- Don LaFontaine, voice actor
- Benoit Lamy, director/writer/producer
- John Phillip Law, actor
- Heath Ledger, actor
- Olga Lepeshinskaya, ballerina
- Yegor Letov, singer/songwriter/musician
- Israel "Cachao" López, musician/composer
- Bernie Mac, comedian/actor
- Muslim Magomayev, singer
- Miriam Makeba, singer/songwriter
- Abby Mann, writer/producer
- Dick Martin, comedian/director/actor/host
- Bill Melendez, animator/director/producer/voice actor
- Anthony Minghella, writer/director/producer
- Mitch Mitchell, musician
- LeRoi Moore, musician
- Barry Morse, actor
- Robert Mulligan, director
- Lois Nettleton, actress
- Paul Newman, actor/producer/director
- Maila Nurmi, a.k.a. Vampira, actress/TV personality
- Odetta, singer
- Ken Ogata, actor
- Anita Page, actress
- Bettie Page, model
- Joy Page, actress
- Michael Pate, actor
- Harold Pinter, writer/actor/director
- Suzanne Pleshette, actress
- Sydney Pollack, director/producer/actor
- Robert Prosky, actor
- Raghuvaran, actor
- Ivan Rebroff, singer
- Jerry Reed, singer/songwriter/musician/actor
- Brad Renfro, actor
- Dino Risi, director/writer
- Alain Robbe-Grillet, writer/director
- Leonard Rosenman, composer
- Tim Russert, broadcast journalist
- Yves Saint-Laurent, fashion designer
- Henri Salvador, comedian/singer/musician
- Ann Savage, actress
- Roy Scheider, actor
- Paul Scofield, actor
- Natasha Shneider, musician/singer/songwriter/actress
- Norman "Hurricane" Smith, record producer/musician
- Elizabeth Spriggs, actress
- Jo Stafford, singer
- Levi Stubbs, singer
- Yma Sumac, singer
- Horst Tappert, actor
- Studs Terkel, writer/broadcaster/actor
- Margaret Truman, singer/actress
- Dee Dee Warwick, singer
- David Watkin, cinematographer
- Donald E. Westlake, writer
- Jerry Wexler, music producer
- Richard Widmark, actor
- Stan Winston, special effects artist
- Richard Wright, musician/singer/songwriter
Showbiz in Memoriam 2007
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2007.
- Brian Adams, professional wrestler
- Mike Awesome Alfonso, professional wrestler
- Ernesto Alonso, producer/director/actor
- Michelangelo Antonioni, writer/director
- Kirill "Kirka" Babitzin, singer
- Jeanne Bates, actress
- Maurice Béjart, dancer/choreographer/director
- Bruce Bennett, actor
- Chris Benoit, professional wrestler
- Nancy Benoit, professional wrestling valet/model
- Ingmar Bergman, writer/director
- A. I. Bezzerides, writer
- Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, professional wrestler
- Joey Bishop, entertainer
- Janet Blair, actress/singer
- Michael Brecker, musician/composer
- Teresa Brewer, singer
- Jean-Claude Brialy, actor/writer/director
- Roscoe Lee Browne, actor
- Chad Butler, a.k.a. Pimp C, rapper/record producer
- Ron Carey, actor
- Kitty Carlisle, actress/singer
- Jean-Pierre Cassel, actor
- Allen Coage, professional wrestler
- Luigi Comencini, writer/director
- Bob Clark, director/writer/producer
- Alice Coltrane, musician/composer
- Darlene Conley, actress
- Régine Crespin, singer
- Laraine Day, actress
- Yvonne De Carlo, actress
- Brad Delp, singer/songwriter/musician
- Denny Doherty, singer/songwriter/musician/actor
- Solveig Dommartin, actress
- Lucky Dube, musician
- Kevin DuBrow, singer/songwriter/musician
- Lillian Ellison, The Fabulous Moolah, professional wrestler
- Ray Evans, lyricist
- Fernando Fernán Gómez, actor/writer/director
- John Flynn, director
- Dan Fogelberg, musician/singer/songwriter
- Freddie Francis, cinematographer/director
- Richard Franklin, director/producer
- Alice Ghostley, actress
- Robert Goulet, singer/actor
- Pierre Granier-Deferre, director/writer
- Dabbs Greer, actor
- Merv Griffin, TV host/media mogul
- George Grizzard, actor
- Lee Hazlewood, singer/songwriter/musician/producer
- Don Ho, singer/musician
- Betty Hutton, actress/singer/dancer
- John Inman, actor
- Richard Jeni, comedian/actor
- Marcia Mae Jones, actress
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz, writer/director
- Deborah Kerr, actress
- Michael Kidd, choreographer/dancer/actor
- László Kovács, cinematographer
- Frankie Laine, singer
- Charles Lane, actor
- Grégory Lemarchal, singer
- Ira Levin, writer
- Calvin Lockhart, actor
- Norman Mailer, writer/actor/filmmaker
- Delbert Mann, director
- Marcel Marceau, actor/mime artist
- Sherri Martel, professional wrestler/manager
- Kerwin Mathews, actor
- Bruno Mattei, filmmaker
- Lois Maxwell, actress
- Barbara McNair, singer/actress
- Gian Carlo Menotti, composer/librettist
- Igor Moiseyev, choreographer/dancer
- Conchita Montenegro, model/actress/dancer/singer
- Ulrich Mühe, actor
- Barry Nelson, actor
- Nikos Nikolaidis, filmmaker/actor
- Luciano Pavarotti, singer
- Markku Peltola, actor/musician
- Emma Penella, actress
- Oscar Peterson, musician/composer
- Carlo Ponti, producer
- Tom Poston, actor
- Mala Powers, actress
- Toše Proeski, singer/songwriter/musician
- Fons Rademakers, actor/director/producer
- Chrismansyah "Chrisye" Rahadi, singer/songwriter
- Boots Randolph, musician
- Charles Nelson Reilly, actor/comedian
- Ian Richardson, actor
- Max Roach, musician/composer
- Stuart Rosenberg, director
- Eleonora Rossi Drago, actress
- Mstislav Rostropovich, musician/conductor
- John P. Ryan, actor
- Natasja Saad, rapper/singer
- Izumi Sakai, singer/songwriter
- Johanna Sällström, actress
- Gordon Scott, actor
- Ousmane Sembène, director/writer
- Michel Serrault, actor
- Melville Shavelson, writer/director
- Sidney Sheldon, writer
- Joel Siegel, film critic
- Beverly Sills, singer
- Anna Nicole Smith, model/actress/TV personality
- Tom Snyder, talk show host
- Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer
- George Tabori, writer/director
- Iwao Takamoto, producer/designer/animator
- Alex Thompson, cinematographer
- Hank Thompson, singer/songwriter/musician
- Ike Turner, musician/singer/songwriter/record producer
- William J. Tuttle, makeup artist
- Miyoshi Umeki, actress/singer
- Jack Valenti, president of the MPAA
- Porter Wagoner, singer/songwriter/musician
- Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, actor/musician
- Tony Wilson, record label owner/broadcaster/impresario
- Jane Wyman, actress/singer/dancer
- Edward Yang, writer/director
- Joe Zawinul, musician/composer
- Peter Zinner, film editor
Showbiz in Memoriam 2006
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died in 2007.
- Edward Albert, actor
- Elizabeth Allen, actress
- June Allyson, actress/dancer/singer
- Anicée Alvina, singer/actress
- Robert Altman, director/writer/producer
- Sir Malcolm Arnold, composer
- Tina Aumont, actress
- Joseph Barbera, animator/director/producer
- Syd Barrett, singer/songwriter/musician
- Tom Bell, actor
- Peter Benchley, writer
- Frances Bergen, actress/model
- Fabián Bielinsky, director/writer
- Walerian Borowczyk, director/writer
- Peter Boyle, actor
- Gérard Brach, screenwriter
- Ed Bradley, broadcast journalist
- Richard Bright, actor
- James Brown, singer/songwriter/musician/producer
- Phil Brown, actor
- Ruth Brown, singer/songwriter
- Henry Bumstead, art director/production designer
- Boz Burrell, singer/musician
- Red Buttons, actor/comedian
- Betty Comden, lyricist/librettist/songwriter
- Pat Corley, actor
- Robert Cornthwaite, actor
- Franklin Cover, actor
- Dan Curtis, director/producer
- Desmond Dekker, singer/songwriter/musician
- Tamara Dobson, actress
- Robert Donner, actor
- Mike Douglas, singer/TV host
- Katherine Dunham, dancer/choreographer
- Rocío Dúrcal, singer/actress
- Daniel Emilfork, actor
- Ahmet Ertegun, record executive/songwriter
- Mike Evans, actor
- Freddy Fender, singer/musician
- Maynard Ferguson, musician/bandleader
- Richard Fleischer, director
- Glenn Ford, actor
- Anthony Franciosa, actor
- Arthur Franz, actor
- Paul Gleason, actor
- Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, actor
- Kenneth Griffith, actor
- Val Guest, writer/director
- Mickey Hargitay, actor/bodybuilder
- Arthur Hill, actor
- DeShaun "Proof" Holton, rapper/actor
- Barnard Hughes, actor
- Akira Ifukube, composer
- Eloy de la Iglesia, writer/director
- Shohei Imamura, director/writer
- Steve Irwin, conservationist/TV personality
- Claude Jade, actress
- Tony Jay, actor
- Robert Earl Jones, actor
- Rocío Jurado, singer/actress
- Andreas Katsulas, actor
- Bismillah Khan, musician
- Bruno Kirby, actor
- Phyllis Kirk, actress
- Don Knotts, actor/comedian
- Arthur Lee, singer/songwriter/musician
- Gerald Levert, singer/songwriter
- Al Lewis, actor
- György Ligeti, composer
- Mako, actor
- Arif Mardin, music producer
- Marian Marsh, actress
- Osa Massen, actress
- Paul Mauriat, conductor/composer/musician
- Darren McGavin, actor
- Anna Moffo, singer/actress
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee, filmmaker
- Fayard Nicholas, dancer/choreographer/actor
- Leon Niemczyk, actor
- Maj-Britt Nilsson, actress
- Philippe Noiret, actor
- Sven Nykvist, cinematographer
- Anita O'Day, singer
- Gérard Oury, actor/writer/director
- Buck Owens, singer/musician/presenter
- Padmini, actress/dancer
- Jack Palance, actor
- Gordon Parks, photographer/musician/writer/director
- Chris Penn, actor
- Wilson Pickett, singer/songwriter
- Gene Pitney, singer/songwriter/musician
- June Pointer, singer
- Gillo Pontecorvo, director
- Basil Poledouris, composer/conductor/orchestrator
- Lilia Prado, actress/dancer
- Billy Preston, singer/songwriter/musician
- Rajkumar, actor/singer
- Lou Rawls, singer/songwriter/actor
- Dana Reeve, actress/singer/activist
- Kasey Rogers, actress
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singer
- Moira Shearer, dancer/actress
- Adrienne Shelly, actress/writer/director
- Vincent Sherman, director
- Shin Sang-ok, producer/director
- Vilgot Sjöman, writer/director
- Jeremy Slate, actor
- Aaron Spelling, producer
- Mickey Spillane, writer/actor
- Maureen Stapleton, actress
- Robert Sterling, actor
- Tetsurō Tamba, actor
- Ali Farka Touré, singer/musician
- Alida Valli, actress
- Shirley Walker, composer/conductor/orchestrator
- Jack Warden, actor
- Dennis Weaver, actor
- Sandy West, musician/singer/songwriter
- Jack Wild, actor/singer
- Shelley Winters, actress
- J. Madison Wright, actress
- Jane Wyatt, actress
- James Yancey, a.k.a. J Dilla/Jay Dee, record producer/rapper
- Atıf Yılmaz, director/writer/producer
Showbiz in Memoriam 2000 – 2005
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died between 2000 and 2005.
- Aaliyah, singer/actress
- Dimebag Darrell Abbott, musician/songwriter
- Don Adams, actor
- Eddie Albert, actor
- Steve Allen, comedian/host/musician/writer/actor
- Chet Atkins, musician
- Anne Bancroft, actress
- Sir Alan Bates, actor
- Barbara Bel Geddes, actress
- Luciano Berio, composer
- Milton Berle, comedian/actor
- Elmer Bernstein, composer/conductor
- Margaret Booth, editor
- Eddie Bracken, actor
- Jonathan Brandis, actor
- Marlon Brando, actor
- Laura Branigan, singer/songwriter
- Charles Bronson, actor
- Ray Brown, musician
- Art Carney, actor
- Johnny Carson, TV host/comedian/writer
- Johnny Cash, singer/songwriter/musician/actor
- June Carter Cash, singer/songwriter
- John Chambers, makeup artist
- Ray Charles, musician/singer/songwriter
- Leslie Cheung, singer/actor
- Julia Child, chef/TV personality
- Rosemary Clooney, singer/actress
- James Coburn, actor
- Imogene Coca, actress
- Perry Como, singer/TV personality
- Jeanne Crain, actress
- Richard Crenna, actor
- Hume Cronyn, actor
- Celia Cruz, singer
- Rodney Dangerfield, comedian/actor/writer
- Ossie Davis, actor/writer
- Sandra Dee, actress
- James Doohan, actor
- Buddy Ebsen, actor/dancer
- Jack Elam, actor
- John Entwistle, musician/singer/songwriter
- Richard Farnsworth, actor/stuntman
- Ibrahim Ferrer, singer
- John Fiedler, actor
- Geraldine Fitzgerald, actress
- John Frankenheimer, director
- Vittorio Gassman, actor
- Maurice Gibb, musician/singer/songwriter
- Sir John Gielgud, actor/director
- Jerry Goldsmith, composer/conductor
- Alexander Golitzen, art director
- Frank Gorshin, actor/impressionist/comedian
- David Graf, actor
- Adolph Green, playwright/lyricist
- Jane Greer, actress
- Virginia Grey, actress
- Eddie Guerrero, professional wrestler
- Sir Alec Guinness, actor
- Buddy Hackett, comedian/actor
- Conrad Hall, cinematographer
- Lionel Hampton, musician
- William Hanna, animator/director/producer/songwriter
- George Harrison, musician/singer/songwriter
- Richard Harris, actor/singer
- Sir Nigel Hawthorne, actor
- Ofra Haza, singer
- Eileen Heckart, actress
- David Hemmings, actor/director/producer
- Katharine Hepburn, actress
- Dame Wendy Hiller, actress
- George Roy Hill, director
- Gregory Hines, dancer/actor
- John Lee Hooker, singer/musician
- Bob Hope, comedian/actor
- Kim Hunter, actress
- Rick James, singer/songwriter/musician/record producer
- Waylon Jennings, singer/songwriter/musician
- Michael Jeter, actor
- Chuck Jones, animator/filmmaker
- Russell Jones, a.k.a. Ol' Dirty Bastard, rapper/producer
- Katy Jurado, actress
- Michael Kamen, composer/conductor/arranger
- Elia Kazan, director
- Howard Keel, actor/singer
- Alan King, actor/comedian
- Hildegard Knef, actress/singer
- Stanley Kramer, director/producer
- Hedy Lamarr, actress
- Hope Lange, actress
- Peggy Lee, singer/songwriter
- Janet Leigh, actress
- Jack Lemmon, actor/musician
- Julie London, actress
- Linda Lovelace, actress
- Nancy Marchand, actress
- Walter Matthau, actor
- Virginia Mayo, actress
- Mercedes McCambridge, actress
- Dorothy McGuire, actress
- Russ Meyer, filmmaker
- Arthur Miller, playwright/screenwriter
- Ann Miller, dancer/singer/actress
- Spike Milligan, comedian/writer/actor/musician
- Sir John Mills, actor
- Dudley Moore, actor/comedian/musician
- Pat Morita, actor
- Richard Mulligan, actor
- Harold Nicholas, dancer
- Birgit Nilsson, singer
- Carroll O'Connor, actor
- Donald O'Connor, dancer/singer/actor
- Dan O'Herlihy, actor
- Jerry Orbach, actor/singer
- Robert Palmer, singer/songwriter/musician
- Gregory Peck, actor
- John Peel, disc jockey
- Julia Phillips, producer
- Sam Phillips, record producer
- Richard Pryor, comedian/actor
- Tito Puente, musician/songwriter/record producer
- Amrish Puri, actor
- Anthony Quinn, actor
- Dee Dee Ramone, musician/songwriter
- Joey Ramone, singer
- Tony Randall, actor
- Ronald Reagan, actor/politician
- Christopher Reeve, actor
- Steve Reeves, actor/bodybuilder
- Christopher "Big Pun" Rios, rapper
- John Ritter, actor/comedian
- Jason Robards, actor
- Fred Rogers, TV personality/musician/writer/producer
- Isabel Sanford, actress
- Walter Scharf, composer
- Maria Schell, actress
- Vincent Schiavelli, actor
- John Schlesinger, director
- Chuck Schuldiner, musician/singer/songwriter
- Compay Segundo, singer/musician/composer
- Artie Shaw, musician/composer
- Nina Simone, singer/songwriter/musician
- Elliott Smith, singer/songwriter/musician
- Carrie Snodgress, actress
- Alberto Sordi, actor/writer/director
- Ann Sothern, actress
- John Spencer, actor
- Robert Stack, actor/host
- Layne Staley, singer/musician/songwriter
- Rod Steiger, actor
- Jan Sterling, actress
- Isaac Stern, musician
- Beatrice Straight, actress
- Joe Strummer, singer/songwriter/musician
- Renata Tebaldi, singer
- Ingrid Thulin, actress
- Lawrence Tierney, actor
- David Tomlinson, actor
- Claire Trevor, actress
- Robert Urich, actor
- Sir Peter Ustinov, actor/writer/director/producer
- Roger Vadim, writer/director
- Luther Vandross, singer/songwriter
- Jim Varney, actor/comedian
- Gwen Verdon, actress/dancer
- Ray Walston, actor
- Barry White, singer/songwriter/record producer
- Billy Wilder, writer/director/producer
- Paul Winchell, ventriloquist/comedian/actor
- Paul Winfield, actor
- Ralph E. Winters, editor
- Robert Wise, director/producer/editor
- Fay Wray, actress
- Teresa Wright, actress
- Iannis Xenakis, composer
- Loretta Young, actress
Showbiz in Memoriam 1990 – 1999
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died between 1990 and 1999.
- Don Ameche, actor
- Dame Judith Anderson, actress
- Lindsay Anderson, director
- Marian Anderson, singer
- André the Giant, professional wrestler/actor
- Dana Andrews, actor
- Eve Arden, actress
- Jean Arthur, actress
- Dame Peggy Ashcroft, actress
- Howard Ashman, librettist/lyricist
- Gene Autry, singer/songwriter/musician/actor
- Lew Ayres, actor
- Pearl Bailey, actress/singer
- Martin Balsam, actor
- Jean-Louis Barrault, actor
- Saul Bass, graphic designer/filmmaker
- Ralph Bellamy, actor
- Joan Bennett, actress
- Mary Kay Bergman, voice actress
- Leonard Bernstein, composer/conductor
- Bill Bixby, actor/director
- Sir Dirk Bogarde, actor
- Sergei Bondarchuk, actor/writer/director
- Sonny Bono, singer/songwriter/entertainer/actor/politician
- Shirley Booth, actress
- Robert Bresson, writer/director
- Jeremy Brett, actor
- Lloyd Bridges, actor
- Richard Brooks, writer/director/producer
- Jeff Buckley, singer/songwriter/musician
- George Burns, comedian/actor
- Raymond Burr, actor
- John Cage, composer
- Cab Calloway, singer/dancer/bandleader
- John Candy, actor/comedian
- Cantinflas, actor/comedian
- Frank Capra, director/writer/producer
- Edward Carfagno, art director/production designer
- Marcel Carné, director/writer
- Eva Cassidy, singer/musician
- René Clément, director/writer
- Kurt Cobain, singer/songwriter/musician
- Claudette Colbert, actress
- Chuck Connors, actor/athlete
- William Conrad, actor/director/producer
- Peter Cook, comedian/actor/writer
- Aaron Copland, composer/conductor
- Stanley Cortez, cinematographer
- Joseph Cotten, actor
- Jacques Cousteau, filmmaker/explorer
- Jordan Cronenweth, cinematographer
- Peter Cushing, actor
- Roald Dahl, writer
- Sammy Davis Jr., singer/actor/dancer/comedian
- Miles Davis, musician/bandleader/composer
- Georges Delerue, composer
- Jacques Demy, director/writer
- Sandy Dennis, actress
- John Denver, singer/songwriter/musician
- Marlene Dietrich, actress
- Edward Dmytryk, director/editor
- Irene Dunne, actress
- Linwood G. Dunn, special effects creator
- Denholm Elliott, actor
- Falco, singer/songwriter/musician
- Chris Farley, actor/comedian
- Alice Faye, actress/singer
- Federico Fellini, writer/director
- José Ferrer, actor/director
- Ella Fitzgerald, singer
- Lola Flores, singer/actress/dancer
- Tom Fogerty, musician
- Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballerina
- Redd Foxx, comedian/actor
- Friz Freleng, animator/director/producer/writer
- Lucio Fulci, writer/director
- Samuel Fuller, writer/director/producer/actor
- Eva Gabor, actress/socialite
- Leonid Gaidai, director/writer
- Serge Gainsbourg, musician/composer/actor/filmmaker
- Rory Gallagher, musician/singer/songwriter
- Greta Garbo, actress
- Jerry Garcia, musician/singer/songwriter
- Ava Gardner, actress
- Greer Garson, actress
- Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, writer/producer
- Stan Getz, musician
- Dizzy Gillespie, musician/composer
- Lillian Gish, actress
- Paulette Goddard, actress
- Dexter Gordon, musician
- Martha Graham, dancer/choreographer
- Stewart Granger, actor
- Graham Greene, writer
- Fred Gwynne, actor
- Sir Rex Harrison, actor
- Phil Hartman, actor/comedian
- Helen Hayes, actress
- Brigitte Helm, actress
- Paul Henreid, actor
- Jim Henson, puppeteer/artist/filmmaker
- Audrey Hepburn, actress
- William Hickey, actor
- Bill Hicks, comedian
- Benny Hill, comedian/actor
- Dana Hill, actress
- Sterling Holloway, actor
- Michael Hutchence, singer/songwriter/musician
- Eugène Ionesco, playwright
- Burl Ives, singer/actor
- Brion James, actor
- Derek Jarman, filmmaker/designer
- Dorothy Jeakins, costume designer
- Antônio Carlos Jobim, composer/musician
- Ben Johnson, actor
- Raul Julia, actor
- Madeline Kahn, actress/comedian/singer
- Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, singer/songwriter/musician
- Brian Keith, actor
- DeForest Kelley, actor
- Gene Kelly, actor/dancer/director/choreographer
- Arthur Kennedy, actor
- Krzysztof Kieślowski, writer/director
- Albert King, musician/singer
- Sam Kinison, comedian/actor
- Klaus Kinski, actor
- Masaki Kobayashi, director
- Stanley Kubrick, filmmaker
- Akira Kurosawa, filmmaker
- Dorothy Lamour, actress
- Burt Lancaster, actor/producer
- Michael Landon, actor/writer/director/producer
- Charles Lang, cinematographer
- "Scatman John" Larkin, singer/musician
- David Lean, director/editor/writer
- Brandon Lee, actor/martial artist
- Desmond Llewelyn, actor
- Jack Lord, actor
- Myrna Loy, actress
- Ida Lupino, actress/director
- Alexander Mackendrick, writer/director
- Fred MacMurray, actor
- Louis Malle, director/writer
- Henry Mancini, composer/conductor/arranger
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, director/screenwriter/producer
- Jean Marais, actor
- E. G. Marshall, actor
- Dean Martin, singer/actor
- Giulietta Masina, actress
- Marcello Mastroianni, actor
- Victor Mature, actor
- Curtis Mayfield, singer/songwriter/musician/producer
- Linda McCartney, photographer/musician
- Joel McCrea, actor
- Roddy McDowall, actor
- Butterfly McQueen, actress
- Yehudi Menuhin, musician/composer
- Melina Mercouri, actress/politician
- Freddie Mercury, singer/songwriter
- Burgess Meredith, actor
- Don Messick, voice actor
- Toshiro Mifune, actor
- Roger Miller, singer/songwriter/musician
- Robert Mitchum, actor
- Kazuo Miyagawa, cinematographer
- Yves Montand, actor/singer
- Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
- Jack Nance, actor
- Anthony Newley, actor/singer/songwriter
- Haing S. Ngor, actor
- Harry Nilsson, singer/songwriter
- Alex North, composer
- Rudolf Nureyev, dancer/choreographer
- John Osborne, playwright
- Maureen O'Sullivan, actress
- Alan J. Pakula, director/producer
- Sergei Parajanov, director/writer
- George Peppard, actor
- Anthony Perkins, actor
- Carl Perkins, singer/songwriter/musician
- Jon Pertwee, actor/entertainer
- Astor Piazzolla, composer/musician/arranger
- River Phoenix, actor/musician
- Dana Plato, actress
- Donald Pleasence, actor
- Michael Powell, director/writer/producer
- Vincent Price, actor
- Mario Puzo, writer
- Satyajit Ray, writer/director/composer
- Oliver Reed, actor
- Robert Reed, actor
- Lee Remick, actress
- Fernando Rey, actor
- William H. Reynolds, editor
- Tony Richardson, director/producer
- Martin Ritt, director/producer
- Hal Roach, producer/writer/director
- Jerome Robbins, choreographer/dancer/director
- Gene Roddenberry, writer/producer
- Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer/singer
- Roy Rogers, singer/actor
- Esther Rolle, actress
- Howard Rollins, actor
- Cesar Romero, actor/singer/dancer
- Bob Ross, painter/instructor/TV host
- Miklós Rózsa, composer
- Telly Savalas, actor
- Alfred Schnittke, composer
- George C. Scott, actor
- Selena, singer/songwriter
- Delphine Seyrig, actress
- Tupac Shakur, rapper/actor
- Del Shannon, singer/songwriter/musician
- Sebastian Shaw, actor
- Dinah Shore, singer/actress/TV personality
- Sylvia Sidney, actress
- Don Siegel, director/producer
- Shel Silverstein, writer
- Don Simpson, producer
- Frank Sinatra, singer/actor
- Madge Sinclair, actress
- Gene Siskel, film critic
- Red Skelton, actor/clown
- Sir Georg Solti, conductor
- Dusty Springfield, singer/producer
- Barbara Stanwyck, actress
- James Stewart, actor
- Woody Strode, actor/athlete
- John Sturges, director
- Toru Takemitsu, composer
- Jessica Tandy, actress
- Danny Thomas, comedian/actor/producer
- Gene Tierney, actress
- Ugo Tognazzi, actor
- Viktor Tsoi, singer/songwriter
- Lana Turner, actress
- Conway Twitty, singer/musician
- Jo Van Fleet, actress
- Sarah Vaughan, singer
- Stevie Ray Vaughan, musician/singer/songwriter
- Gianni Versace, fashion designer
- Hervé Villechaize, actor
- Gian Maria Volontè, actor
- Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G., rapper
- J. T. Walsh, actor
- Flip Wilson, comedian/actor
- Eric "Eazy-E" Wright, rapper/record producer
- Tammy Wynette, singer/songwriter/musician
- Freddie Young, cinematographer
- Terence Young, director/writer
- Frank Zappa, musician/singer/composer/filmmaker
- Fred Zinnemann, director
Showbiz in Memoriam 1980 – 1989
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died between 1980 and 1989.
- Alvin Ailey, dancer/director/choreographer
- Jack Albertson, actor
- Robert Aldrich, director/producer
- Jean Anouilh, playwright/screenwriter
- Harold Arlen, composer
- Desi Arnaz, actor/musician/producer
- Hal Ashby, director
- Sir Frederick Ashton, dancer/choreographer
- Fred Astaire, dancer/singer/actor/choreographer
- Mary Astor, actress
- Georges Auric, composer
- Tex Avery, animator/director/voice actor
- Jim Backus, actor
- Hermione Baddeley, actress
- Chet Baker, musician/singer
- George Balanchine, choreographer/dancer
- Lucille Ball, actress/comedian/executive/producer
- Samuel Barber, composer
- Judith Barsi, actress
- Richard Basehart, actor
- Count Basie, musician/bandleader/composer
- Mario Bava, filmmaker
- Anne Baxter, actress
- Samuel Beckett, playwright
- John Belushi, comedian/actor/singer
- Ingrid Bergman, actress
- Irving Berlin, songwriter
- Mel Blanc, voice actor
- Amanda Blake, actress
- Ray Bolger, actor/singer/dancer
- Beulah Bondi, actress
- John Bonham, musician/songwriter
- Richard Boone, actor
- Louise Brooks, actress/dancer
- Clarence Brown, director/producer
- Yul Brynner, actor
- Luis Buñuel, director/screenwriter
- Victor Buono, actor/comic
- Richard Burton, actor
- Cliff Burton, musician/songwriter
- Daws Butler, voice actor
- James Cagney, actor/dancer
- Yakima Canutt, stunt performer/stunt coordinator/director
- Truman Capote, writer
- Gia Carangi, model
- Hoagy Carmichael, musician/singer/songwriter/actor
- Karen Carpenter, singer/musician
- John Carradine, actor
- Madeleine Carroll, actress
- John Cassavetes, actor/director/writer
- Richard S. Castellano, actor
- Graham Chapman, comedian/writer/actor
- Paddy Chayefsky, writer
- René Clair, writer/director
- Coluche, comedian/actor
- Jackie Coogan, actor
- Broderick Crawford, actor
- Scatman Crothers, actor/musician
- George Cukor, director
- Ian Curtis, singer/songwriter/musician
- Dalida, singer/actress
- Bette Davis, actress
- Dolores del Río, actress
- William Demarest, actor
- I. A. L. Diamond, screenwriter
- Divine, actor/singer
- Diana Dors, actress
- Melvyn Douglas, actor
- Dominique Dunne, actress
- Jimmy Durante, singer/musician/comedian/actor
- Maurice Evans, actor
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, filmmaker/actor
- Adrienne Fazan, editor
- Marty Feldman, actor/writer/comedian
- Verna Fields, editor
- Terence Fisher, director/editor
- Henry Fonda, actor
- Carl Foreman, screenwriter
- Bob Fosse, choreographer/director
- Georges Franju, director/writer
- Paul Frees, actor
- Gert Fröbe, actor
- Louis de Funès, actor
- Abel Gance, writer/director
- Marvin Gaye, singer/songwriter/musician/producer
- Janet Gaynor, actress
- Jean Genet, dramatist
- Ira Gershwin, lyricist
- Andy Gibb, singer/songwriter
- Jackie Gleason, comedian/actor/writer/composer
- Benny Goodman, musician/bandleader
- Ruth Gordon, actress/screenwriter/playwright
- Glenn Gould, musician
- Gloria Grahame, actress/singer
- Cary Grant, actor
- Lorne Greene, actor/singer
- Hugh Griffith, actor
- Yılmaz Güney, director/writer/producer/actor
- Joan Hackett, actress
- Bill Haley, singer/musician
- Margaret Hamilton, actress
- Howard Hanson, composer/conductor
- Ann Harding, actress
- Elizabeth Hartman, actress
- Henry Hathaway, director
- Richard Haydn, actor
- Sterling Hayden, actor
- Rita Hayworth, actress/dancer
- Edith Head, costume designer
- Jascha Heifetz, musician
- Lillian Hellman, playwright/screenwriter
- Woody Herman, musician/bandleader/singer
- Sir Alfred Hitchcock, director/writer/producer
- William Holden, actor
- Stanley Holloway, actor
- Lightnin' Hopkins, singer/songwriter/musician
- William Hornbeck, editor
- John Houseman, actor/producer
- Trevor Howard, actor
- Rock Hudson, actor
- John Huston, director/screenwriter/actor
- Harry James, musician
- Carolyn Jones, actress
- Curd Jürgens, actor
- Raj Kapoor, actor/producer/director
- Herbert von Karajan, conductor
- Andy Kaufman, comedian/actor
- Boris Kaufman, cinematographer
- Danny Kaye, actor/singer/dancer
- Grace Kelly, actress/princess
- Henry King, director
- Roy Kinnear, actor
- Kishore Kumar, playback singer/actor
- Elsa Lanchester, actress
- Ernest Laszlo, cinematographer
- Peter Lawford, actor
- Bernard Lee, actor
- John Lennon, singer/songwriter/musician
- Sergio Leone, writer/director
- Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist/librettist
- Mervyn LeRoy, director/producer
- Boris Leven, art director/production designer
- Liberace, musician/singer
- Frederick Loewe, composer
- Joshua Logan, director
- Anita Loos, writer
- Joseph Losey, director
- Phil Lynott, musician/singer/songwriter
- Rouben Mamoulian, director
- Daniel Mandell, editor
- Silvana Mangano, actress
- Bob Marley, singer/songwriter/musician
- Richard Marquand, director
- Strother Martin, actor
- Lee Marvin, actor
- James Mason, actor
- Raymond Massey, actor
- Vincent J. McMahon, pro-wrestling promoter
- Steve McQueen, actor
- Ethel Merman, actress/singer
- Lewis Milestone, director
- Ray Milland, actor/director
- Vincente Minnelli, director
- Thelonious Monk, musician/composer
- Robert Montgomery, actor/director
- Kenneth More, actor
- Vic Morrow, actor/director
- Muddy Waters, singer/songwriter/musician
- Clarence Nash, voice actor
- Pola Negri, actress
- Ricky Nelson, musician/singer/songwriter/actor
- Nico, singer/songwriter/musician/actress
- David Niven, actor
- Warren Oates, actor
- Edmond O'Brien, actor
- Sir Laurence Olivier, actor/director
- Roy Orbison, singer/songwriter/musician
- Carl Orff, composer
- Eugene Ormandy, conductor/musician
- Heather O'Rourke, actress
- Geraldine Page, actress
- John Payne, actor
- Sam Peckinpah, director/screenwriter
- Elio Petri, writer/director
- Slim Pickens, actor
- Walter Pidgeon, actor
- William Powell, actor
- Otto Preminger, director/producer
- Emeric Pressburger, writer/director/producer
- Robert Preston, actor
- J. B. Priestley, writer
- Sir Anthony Quayle, actor
- Gilda Radner, comedian/actress
- Mohammed Rafi, playback singer
- George Raft, actor
- Anne Ramsey, actress
- Sir Michael Redgrave, actor
- Donna Reed, actress
- Elis Regina, singer
- Lotte Reiniger, animator/director
- Randy Rhoads, musician
- Sir Ralph Richardson, actor
- Buddy Rich, musician
- Glauber Rocha, director/writer/producer
- Harold Rosson, cinematographer
- Dan Rowan, comedian/actor/host
- Joseph Ruttenberg, cinematographer
- Jean-Paul Sartre, writer
- Rebecca Schaeffer, actress
- Franklin J. Schaffner, director
- Romy Schneider, actress
- Bon Scott, singer/songwriter/musician
- Randolph Scott, actor
- Andrés Segovia, musician
- Peter Sellers, actor/comedian
- Norma Shearer, actress
- Takashi Shimura, actor
- Simone Signoret, actress
- Douglas Sirk, director
- Gale Sondergaard, actress
- Lee Strasberg, actor/teacher
- Dorothy Stratten, actress
- Karl Struss, cinematographer
- Robert Surtees, cinematographer
- Gloria Swanson, actress
- Andrei Tarkovsky, filmmaker
- Jacques Tati, writer/director/actor
- Norman Taurog, director/writer
- Peter Tosh, musician/singer/songwriter
- Patrick Troughton, actor
- François Truffaut, filmmaker
- Rudy Vallée, singer/actor/musician
- Lee Van Cleef, actor
- Lino Ventura, actor
- Vera-Ellen, actress
- King Vidor, director/writer/producer
- Vladimir Vysotsky, singer/songwriter/musician/actor
- Hal B. Wallis, producer
- Raoul Walsh, director/writer/producer/actor
- Sir William Walton, composer
- Andy Warhol, artist/filmmaker
- Johnny Weissmuller, actor/athlete
- Orson Welles, actor/director/writer/producer
- Oskar Werner, actor
- Mae West, actress/singer/writer
- Cornel Wilde, actor/director
- Tennessee Williams, playwright
- Dennis Wilson, musician
- Jackie Wilson , singer
- Natalie Wood, actress
- William Wyler, director/producer
- Keenan Wynn, actor
Showbiz in Memoriam 1970 – 1979
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died between 1970 and 1979.
- Bud Abbott, comedian/actor
- Philip Ahn, actor
- Marc Allégret, writer/director
- Duane Allman, musician
- Broncho Billy Anderson, actor/filmmaker
- Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, comedian/actor
- Pier Angeli, actress
- Louis Armstrong, musician/singer/composer
- Dorothy Arzner, director
- Sir Stanley Baker, actor
- Josephine Baker, dancer/singer/actress
- Lex Barker, actor
- Ed Begley, actor
- Jack Benny, comedian/actor
- Edgar Bergen, actor/comedian
- Busby Berkeley, choreographer/director
- Dan Blocker, actor
- Joan Blondell, actress
- Marc Bolan, singer/songwriter/musician
- Bourvil, actor/singer/comedy
- Stephen Boyd, actor
- Charles Boyer, actor
- Leigh Brackett, writer
- Pierre Brasseur, actor
- Jacques Brel, singer/songwriter/actor
- Walter Brennan, actor
- George Brent, actor
- Benjamin Britten, composer/conductor/musician
- Joe E. Brown, actor
- Tim Buckley, singer/songwriter/musician
- Billie Burke, actress
- David Butler, director/actor
- Spring Byington, actress
- Bruce Cabot, actor
- Sebastian Cabot, actor
- Maria Callas, singer
- Leo G. Carroll, actor
- Maybelle Carter, musician
- Ted Cassidy, actor
- William Castle, director/producer
- John Cazale, actor
- Gino Cervi, actor
- Coco Chanel, fashion designer
- Lon Chaney Jr., actor
- Sir Charles Chaplin, actor/filmmaker/composer
- Maurice Chevalier, actor/singer
- Agatha Christie, writer
- Henri-Georges Clouzot, director/writer
- Lee J. Cobb, actor
- Richard Conte, actor
- Betty Compson, actress
- Gladys Cooper, actress
- Merian C. Cooper, producer/director
- Dolores Costello, actress
- Noël Coward, playwright/composer/actor
- Joan Crawford, actress
- Donald Crisp, actor
- Jim Croce, singer/songwriter
- John Cromwell, director/actor
- Bing Crosby, singer/actor
- Dan Dailey, dancer/actor
- John Dall, actor
- Bebe Daniels, actress/entertainer
- William H. Daniels, cinematographer
- Bobby Darin, singer/songwriter/musician/actor
- Bella Darvi, actress
- Delmer Daves, writer/director
- Sandy Denny, singer/songwriter
- Vittorio De Sica, filmmaker/actor
- Andy Devine, actor
- Brandon deWilde, actor
- William Dieterle, actor/director
- Brian Donlevy, actor
- Nick Drake, singer/songwriter
- Geeta Dutt, playback singer
- Arthur Edeson, cinematographer
- Cliff Edwards, musician/singer/actor
- Duke Ellington, musician/composer/bandleader
- ”Mama Cass” Elliot, singer
- Dame Edith Evans, actress
- Percy Faith, bandleader/orchestrator/composer
- Frances Farmer, actress
- Betty Field, actress
- Glenda Farrell, actress
- Gracie Fields, actress/singer/comedienne
- Peter Finch, actor
- Larry Fine, actor/comedian
- Max Fleischer, animator/director/producer
- John Ford, director
- Arthur Freed, producer
- Pierre Fresnay, actor
- Jean Gabin, actor
- Lee Garmes, cinematographer
- Erroll Garner, musician/composer
- Will Geer, actor
- Leo Genn, actor
- Pietro Germi, actor
- Ritwik Ghatak, director/writer
- Samuel Goldwyn, producer
- Betty Grable, actress/model/singer/dancer
- Corinne Griffith, actress/producer
- Jean Hagen, actress
- Abdel Halim Hafez, singer/actor/musician
- Jack Haley, vaudevillian/actor/comedian/singer/dancer
- Ernest Haller, cinematographer
- William Hartnell, actor
- Laurence Harvey, actor
- Donny Hathaway, musician/singer/songwriter
- Jack Hawkins, actor
- Howard Hawks, director/producer
- Sessue Hayakawa, actor
- Susan Hayward, actress
- Van Heflin, actor
- Jimi Hendrix, musician/singer/songwriter
- Bernard Herrmann, composer/conductor
- Winton C. Hoch, cinematographer
- Tim Holt, actor
- Miriam Hopkins, actress
- William Hopper, actor
- Edward Everett Horton, actor
- Moe Howard, actor/comedian
- James Wong Howe, cinematographer
- Howlin' Wolf, singer/musician
- Howard Hughes, producer/director/aviator/industrialist
- William Inge, playwright
- Ub Iwerks, animator/director/producer/special effects pioneer
- Mahalia Jackson, singer
- Janis Joplin, singer/songwriter
- Louis Jordan, musician/singer/songwriter
- Mikhail Kalatozov, director
- Prithviraj Kapoor, actor
- Cecil Kellaway, actor
- Gene Krupa, musician
- Umm Kulthum, singer/actress
- Meena Kumari, actress
- Carl Laemmle Jr., producer/executive
- Veronica Lake, actress
- Fritz Lang, director/writer
- Agustín Lara, composer/interpreter
- Bruce Lee, martial artist/actor
- Margaret Leighton, actress
- Mitchell Leisen, director
- Al Lettieri, actor
- Anatole Litvak, director/producer
- Harold Lloyd, actor/comedian
- Anita Louise, actress
- Paul Lukas, actor
- Diana Lynn, actress
- William Lyon, editor
- Anna Magnani, actress
- Marjorie Main, actress/singer
- Fredric March, actor
- Frances Marion, writer/director
- Groucho and Zeppo Marx, actors/comedians
- Marilyn Maxwell, actress
- Maggie McNamara, actress
- Jean-Pierre Melville, director/writer
- Johnny Mercer, songwriter/lyricist
- Darius Milhaud, composer
- Victor Milner, cinematographer
- Sal Mineo, actor/singer
- Charles Mingus, musician/composer/bandleader
- Yukio Mishima, writer
- Hal Mohr, cinematographer
- Keith Moon, musician
- Agnes Moorehead, actress
- Chester Morris, actor
- Jim Morrison, singer/songwriter
- Zero Mostel, actor
- Mukesh, playback singer
- Audie Murphy, actor/war hero
- J. Carrol Naish, actor
- Alfred Newman, composer
- Jack Oakie, actor
- Merle Oberon, actress
- Phil Ochs, singer/songwriter/musician
- Cathy O'Donnell, actress
- Reginald Owen, actor
- Larry Parks, actor
- Gram Parsons, singer/songwriter
- Pier Paolo Pasolini, director/writer
- Katina Paxinou, actress
- Mary Pickford, actress/producer
- Lily Pons, singer/actress
- Elvis Presley, singer/musician/actor
- Jacques Prévert, writer
- Louis Prima, singer/musician
- Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian
- Marjorie Rambeau, actress
- Nicholas Ray, director
- Sir Carol Reed, director
- Michael Rennie, actor
- Jean Renoir, director/writer
- Minnie Riperton, singer-songwriter
- Tex Ritter, singer/actor
- Paul Robeson, singer/actor
- Edward G. Robinson, actor
- Mark Robson, director/producer
- Richard Rodgers, composer
- Roberto Rossellini, director/writer
- Nino Rota, composer
- Rosalind Russell, actress
- Margaret Rutherford, actress
- Robert Ryan, actor
- George Sanders, actor
- Elsa Schiaparelli, fashion designer
- George Seaton, writer/director/producer
- Jean Seberg, actress
- Edie Sedgwick, socialite/actress/model
- John F. Seitz, cinematographer
- Rod Serling, writer/producer/host
- Leon Shamroy, cinematographer
- Robert Shaw, actor
- Douglas Shearer, sound designer/recording director
- Larisa Shepitko, writer/director
- Dmitri Shostakovich, composer/musician
- Vasily Shukshin, writer/actor
- Michel Simon, actor
- Robert Siodmak, director
- Max Steiner, composer/conductor
- George Stevens, director/producer/cinematographer
- Inger Stevens, actress
- Leopold Stokowski, conductor
- Harry Stradling, cinematographer
- Igor Stravinsky, composer/musician/conductor
- Ed Sullivan, TV personality/host
- Constance Talmadge, actress
- Akim Tamiroff, actor
- Dimitri Tiomkin, composer/conductor
- Jacques Tourneur, director
- Dalton Trumbo, writer
- Edgar G. Ulmer, director
- Geoffrey Unsworth, cinematographer
- Mary Ure, actress
- Vivian Vance, actress/singer
- Ronnie Van Zant, singer/songwriter
- Sid Vicious, musician/singer
- Martha Vickers, actress
- Gene Vincent, singer/musician
- Luchino Visconti, director/writer
- T-Bone Walker, musician/singer/songwriter
- Jack L. Warner, executive/producer
- Ethel Waters, singer/actress
- John Wayne, actor/producer/director
- William A. Wellman, director
- Thornton Wilder, playwright
- Chill Wills, actor
- Ed Wood, filmmaker/actor
- Peggy Wood, actress
- Gig Young, actor
- Darryl F. Zanuck, producer/executive
- Adolph Zukor, producer/executive
Showbiz in Memoriam 1920 – 1969
[edit]A tribute to some of the notable film, television, theatre, radio and music personalities who died between 1920 and 1969.
- Alfred Abel, actor
- Nick Adams, actor
- Renée Adorée, actress
- James Agee, writer/critic
- Gracie Allen, actress/comedienne
- Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, actor/comedian/director/writer
- George Arliss, actor/writer
- Pedro Armendáriz, actor
- Edward Arnold, actor
- Anthony Asquith, director/writer
- Agnes Ayres, actress
- Lloyd Bacon, director/actor
- Fay Bainter, actress
- George Bancroft, actor
- Tallulah Bankhead, actress
- Theda Bara, actress
- Sir J. M. Barrie, writer
- Ethel Barrymore, actress
- John and Lionel Barrymore, actors
- Richard Barthelmess, actor
- Warner Baxter, actor
- André Bazin, film critic/theorist
- Jacques Becker, writer/director
- Noah and Wallace Beery, actors
- Robert Benchley, writer/actor/humorist
- William Bendix, actor
- Constance Bennett, actress
- Sarah Bernhardt, actress
- Charles Bickford, actor
- Billy Bitzer, cinematographer
- J. Stuart Blackton, filmmaker
- Humphrey Bogart, actor
- Ward Bond, actor
- Frank Borzage, director/producer/actor
- Clara Bow, actress
- Alice Brady, actress
- Bertolt Brecht, writer/director
- Fanny Brice, comedian/singer/actress
- Tod Browning, director/writer/producer/actor
- Lenny Bruce, comedian
- Nigel Bruce, actor
- Francis X. Bushman, actor
- Louis Calhern, actor
- Eddie Cantor, actor/comedian/singer/dancer/songwriter
- Harry Carey, actor
- Nancy Carroll, actress
- Jack Carson, actor
- Enrico Caruso, singer
- Jeff Chandler, actor/singer
- Raymond Chandler, writer
- Lon Chaney, actor
- Ruth Chatterton, actress
- Albert Chevalier, actor/entertainer
- Benjamin Christensen, director/writer/actor
- Montgomery Clift, actor
- Patsy Cline, singer
- Colin Clive, actor
- Charles Coburn, actor
- Eddie Cochran, musician/singer/songwriter
- Jean Cocteau, writer/director
- George M. Cohan, entertainer/composer
- Nat King Cole, singer/musician
- Ronald Colman, actor
- John Coltrane, musician/composer
- Pinto Colvig, actor/entertainer
- Sam Cooke, singer/songwriter
- Gary Cooper, actor
- Lou Costello, comedian/actor
- Michael Curtiz, director
- Dorothy Dandridge, actress/singer/dancer
- Linda Darnell, actress
- Jane Darwell, actress
- Sabu Dastagir, actor
- Harry Davenport, actor
- Marion Davies, actress/producer
- Ralph Dawson, editor
- James Dean, actor
- Cecil B. DeMille, filmmaker
- Maya Deren, filmmaker
- William Kennedy Dickson, inventor/filmmaker
- Christian Dior, fashion designer
- Walt Disney, producer/director/animator/voice actor
- Richard Dix, actor
- Robert Donat, actor
- Françoise Dorléac, actress
- Alexander Dovzhenko, director/writer
- Marie Dressler, actresss
- Carl Theodor Dreyer, writer/director
- Bobby Driscoll, actor
- Germaine Dulac, director
- Margaret Dumont, actress
- Isadora Duncan, dancer/choreographer
- Dan Duryea, actor
- Guru Dutt, actor/director/producer
- Julien Duvivier, writer/director
- Jeanne Eagels, actress
- Nelson Eddy, singer/actor
- Thomas Edison, inventor/producer
- Sergei Eisenstein, director/writer
- Gösta Ekman, actor
- Edward Elgar, composer
- T. S. Eliot, writer
- Brian Epstein, manager/impresario
- Jean Epstein, director/writer/critic
- Max Factor Sr., makeup pioneer
- Douglas Fairbanks, actor/writer/producer
- John Farrow, director/writer
- William Faulkner, writer
- Gabriel Fauré, composer/musician
- Verna Felton, actress
- Louis Feuillade, director
- W. C. Fields, comedian/actor
- Barry Fitzgerald, actor
- Robert J. Flaherty, filmmaker
- Victor Fleming, director/cinematographer
- Errol Flynn, actor
- William Fox, executive/producer
- Kay Francis, actress
- Anne Frank, aspiring writer and actress
- William Frawley, actor
- Karl Freund, cinematographer/director
- Clark Gable, actor
- Carlos Gardel, singer/songwriter/actor
- John Garfield, actor
- Judy Garland, actress/singer/vaudevillian
- Gladys George, actress
- George Gershwin, composer/musician
- Cedric Gibbons, art director/set designer
- John Gilbert, actor
- Dorothy Gish, actress
- Maxim Gorky, writer
- Edmund Goulding, director/writer
- Sydney Greenstreet, actor
- D. W. Griffith, director/producer
- Sacha Guitry, writer/director/actor
- Woody Guthrie, singer/songwriter/musician
- Alice Guy-Blaché, director/producer
- Edmund Gwenn, actor
- Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist/librettist/producer
- Tony Hancock, comedian
- W. C. Handy, musician/composer
- Sir Cedric Hardwicke, actor
- Oliver Hardy, comic actor
- Jean Harlow, actress
- Mildred Harris, actress
- Lorenz Hart, lyricist
- Moss Hart, playwright
- William S. Hart, actor/director/producer
- Ben Hecht, writer
- Cecil Hepworth, filmmaker
- Jean Hersholt, actor
- Billie Holiday, singer/songwriter
- Judy Holliday, actress/singer
- Buddy Holly, singer/songwriter/musician
- Gustav Holst, composer
- Curly and Shemp Howard, actors/comedians
- Leslie Howard, actor
- Harry Houdini, magician/escape artist
- Langston Hughes, writer
- Josephine Hull, actress
- Jeffrey Hunter, actor
- Walter Huston, actor/singer
- Aldous Huxley, writer
- Thomas H. Ince, producer
- Emil Jannings, actor
- Robert Johnson, singer/musician
- Al Jolson, entertainer
- Brian Jones, musician
- Boris Karloff, actor
- Buster Keaton, actor/filmmaker
- Jerome Kern, composer
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge, actor
- Sir Alexander Korda, producer/director
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer
- Gregory La Cava, director/producer
- Barbara La Marr, actress
- Alan Ladd, actor
- Carl Laemmle, producer
- Bert Lahr, actor/vaudevillian
- Carole Landis, actress
- Lillie Langtry, socialite/actress
- Mario Lanza, singer/actor
- Jesse L. Lasky, producer
- Charles Laughton, actor
- Stan Laurel, comic actor/writer/director
- Florence Lawrence, actress
- Gertrude Lawrence, actress/singer/dancer
- Lead Belly, singer/songwriter/musician
- Vivien Leigh, actress
- Paul Leni, director
- Robert Z. Leonard, director/actor/producer/writer
- Max Linder, actor/director
- Gene Lockhart, actor
- Marcus Loew, film pioneer/exhibitor
- Carole Lombard, actress
- Federico García Lorca , writer
- Peter Lorre, actor
- Ernst Lubitsch, director/writer/producer/actor
- Bela Lugosi, actor
- Auguste and Louis Lumière, filmmakers/inventors
- Jeanette MacDonald, singer/actress
- Maurice Maeterlinck, writer
- Herman J. Mankiewicz, screenwriter
- Anthony Mann, director
- Jayne Mansfield, actress/singer
- Herbert Marshall, actor
- Mae Marsh, actress
- Chico and Harpo Marx, comedians
- W. Somerset Maugham, writer
- Louis B. Mayer, producer/executive
- Leo McCarey, director/writer
- Winsor McCay, animator/filmmaker
- Hattie McDaniel, actress
- Victor McLaglen, actor
- Georges Méliès, filmmaker
- Adolphe Menjou, actor
- William Cameron Menzies, art director/production designer
- Oscar Micheaux, director/producer/writer
- Glenn Miller, musician/arranger/composer/bandleader
- Carmen Miranda, singer/dancer/actress
- Thomas Mitchell, actor
- Tom Mix, actor
- Kenji Mizoguchi, director/writer
- Marilyn Monroe, actress/model/singer
- Maria Montez, actress
- Frank and Ralph Morgan, actors
- Helen Morgan, singer/actress
- Paul Muni, actor
- F. W. Murnau, director
- Mikio Naruse, director/writer
- Alla Nazimova, actress/writer/producer
- Robert Newton, actor
- Mabel Normand, actress/writer/director
- Ramon Novarro, actor
- Ivor Novello, composer/actor/writer
- Willis H. O'Brien, special effects and animation pioneer
- Edna May Oliver, actress
- Eugene O'Neill, playwright
- Max Ophüls, director/writer
- Maria Ouspenskaya, actress
- Yasujirō Ozu, director/writer
- G. W. Pabst, filmmaker
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski, musician/composer
- Eugene Pallette, actor
- Charlie Parker, musician/composer
- Dorothy Parker, writer
- Charles Pathé, producer
- Robert W. Paul, filmmaker
- Susan Peters, actress
- Édith Piaf, singer/songwriter/actress
- ZaSu Pitts, actress
- Cole Porter, composer/songwriter
- Edwin S. Porter, director/writer/cinematographer
- Dick Powell, actor/singer/director/producer
- Tyrone Power, actor
- Marie Prevost, actress
- Sergei Prokofiev, musician/composer
- Giacomo Puccini, composer
- Vsevolod Pudovkin, director/writer/actor
- Edna Purviance, actress
- Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer/conductor/musician
- Claude Rains, actor
- Basil Rathbone, actor
- Maurice Ravel, composer
- Otis Redding, singer/songwriter/producer
- George Reeves, actor
- Wallace Reid, actor/director/writer
- Django Reinhardt, musician/composer
- Max Reinhardt, director
- Rin Tin Tin, canine film star
- Thelma Ritter, actress
- Bill Robinson, dancer/actor/singer
- May Robson, actress
- Jimmie Rodgers, singer/songwriter/musician
- Will Rogers, humorist/entertainer/actor
- Robert Rossen, writer/director
- Gail Russell, actress
- Walter Ruttmann, director
- Camille Saint-Saëns, composer/musician
- Mark Sandrich, writer/director
- Erik Satie, composer/musician
- Joseph Schildkraut, actor
- Leon Schlesinger, producer
- Arnold Schoenberg, composer
- Max Schreck, actor
- David O. Selznick, producer
- Mack Sennett, actor/director/producer/writer
- George Bernard Shaw, writer
- Ann Sheridan, actress
- Jean Sibelius, composer
- Victor Sjöström, director/writer/actor
- Max Skladanowsky, filmmaker
- Bessie Smith, singer
- Sir C. Aubrey Smith, actor
- George Albert Smith, filmmaker
- John Philip Sousa, composer/conductor
- John Steinbeck, writer
- Josef von Sternberg, director/writer
- Lewis Stone, actor
- Richard Strauss, composer/conductor/musician
- Erich von Stroheim, actor/director/writer
- Preston Sturges, writer/director
- Margaret Sullavan, actress
- Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, actor/singer
- Sharon Tate, actress/model
- Robert Taylor, actor
- Irving Thalberg, producer
- Olive Thomas, actress
- Mike Todd, producer
- Thelma Todd, actress
- Gregg Toland, cinematographer
- George Tomasini, editor
- Franchot Tone, actor
- Totò, actor/comedian/writer/singer
- Spencer Tracy, actor
- Henry Travers, actor
- Sophie Tucker, singer/comedian/actress
- Ritchie Valens, singer/songwriter/musician
- Rudolph Valentino, actor
- W. S. Van Dyke, director/writer
- Conrad Veidt, actor
- Lupe Vélez, actress
- Dziga Vertov, filmmaker
- Charles Vidor, director
- Jean Vigo, filmmaker
- Robert Walker, actor
- Edgar Wallace, writer
- Fats Waller, musician/composer
- Sam Warner, producer/executive
- Dinah Washington, singer/musician
- Franz Waxman, composer
- Clifton Webb, actor/dancer/singer
- Lois Weber, director/writer/actress
- Kurt Weill, composer
- James Whale, director
- Dame May Whitty, actress
- Robert Wiene, director
- Ted Wilde, writer/director
- Warren William, actor
- Hank Williams, singer/songwriter/musician
- Diana Wynyard, actress
- Anna May Wong, actress
- Sam Wood, director/producer
- Monty Woolley, actor
- Ed Wynn, actor/comedian
- Roland Young, actor
- Victor Young, composer/arranger/conductor/musician
- Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., impresario/producer