Deaths: July 27

1. Jerry Doyle

Jerry Doyle was born on July 16, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Babylon 5 (1993), Captain Simian & The Space Monkeys (1996) and Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998). He was married to Andrea Thompson. He died on July 27, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

2. Alan Bennion

Actor | Doctor Who

Alan Bennion was born on April 18, 1930 in Castle Northwich, Cheshire. He was an actor, known for Doctor Who (1963), The Expert (1968) and Oliver Twist (1985). He died on July 27, 2018 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.

3. Andrew Golden

Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson stole nine weapons and 2,000 rounds of ammunition from their parents and grandparents homes, taking Johnson's stepfather's minivan and the next morning headed to Westside School, Jonesboro, Ark. on March 24,1998. After lunch the two middle school students lured ...

4. Bernard Hepton

Actor | Get Carter

Tall, dignified-looking Bernard Hepton enjoyed a six-decade-long career on both stage and screen during which he particularly excelled at subtle, self-effacing, or introspective roles. An electrician's son, Hepton grew up in the West Yorkshire city of Bradford. Due to poor eyesight, he missed out ...

5. Binnie Barnes

Actress | The Time of Their Lives

British-born actress who appeared in both British and American films, but who found her greatest success in Hollywood second leads. After a variety of jobs, including nurse, chorus girl and milkmaid, Barnes entered vaudeville. She appeared in more than a score of short comedies with comedian ...

6. Bob Hope

Actor | The Ghost Breakers

Comedian Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, London, England, the fifth of seven sons of Avis (Townes), light opera singer, and William Henry Hope, a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. His maternal grandmother was Welsh. Hope moved to Bristol before emigrating with his parents...

7. Bobby Day

Soundtrack | The Iron Giant

Bobby Day was born on July 1, 1928 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He is known for The Iron Giant (1999), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) and Stand by Me (1986). He died on July 27, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

8. Brigitte Horney

Actress | Liebe, Tod und Teufel

Brigitte Horney was born on March 29, 1911 in Dahlem, Germany. She was an actress, known for Liebe, Tod und Teufel (1934), Jakob und Adele (1982) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943). She was married to Hanns Swarzenski and Konstantin Irmen-Tschet. She died on July 27, 1988 in Hamburg, ...

9. Britt Nilsson

Actress | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Britt Nilsson was born on May 9, 1943 in Eskilstuna Kloster, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), Catalina Caper (1967) and The Thing with Two Heads (1972). She was married to Roger Gentry. She died on July 27, 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

10. Carmen Victoria Perez

Actress | Raquel

Carmen Victoria Perez was born on April 7, 1941 in Caracas, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for Raquel (1973), El derecho de nacer (1965) and Por estas calles (1992). She died on July 27, 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela.

11. D.L. Menard

Soundtrack | Serenity

D.L. Menard was born on April 14, 1932 in Erath, Louisiana, USA. He was married to Lou Ella Abshire. He died on July 27, 2017 in Scott, Louisiana, USA.

12. Danny Simon

Writer | Your Show of Shows

Danny Simon was a comedy writer, who together with his brother, Neil Simon, wrote for such classic 1950s television series as Your Show of Shows (1950). It was Danny who mentored his younger sibling and nicknamed him "Doc". They worked together in radio in the late 1940s and then in television, a ...

13. Dianne Foster

Actress | Night Passage

A curvaceous and comely lead and second lead actress of the 1950s and 1960s, Dianne Foster was born Olga Helen Laruska on October 31, 1928 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Of Ukrainian parentage, she began her stage career performing in high school plays and in local community theater productions. Her...

14. Edward Lewis

Producer | Spartacus

Edward Lewis was born on December 16, 1919 in Camden, New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Spartacus (1960), Missing (1982) and Seconds (1966). He was married to Mildred Lewis. He died on July 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

15. Elizabeth Allan

Actress | The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger

British stage and film actress Elizabeth Allan was born in Skegness, Lincolnshire. She made her stage debut at the age of 17; her movie debut came about four years later with an appearance in the Hercule Poirot mystery Alibi (1931).

At the beginning of her career, Allan mainly appeared in films for ...

16. Ettore Manni

Actor | Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide

Dark, rugged and exceedingly good-looking, Italian actor Ettore Manni was a familiar presence in Neopolitan romancers and costumers. He also gave added stature to a number of peplum films and spaghetti westerns of the 1960s. On screen from 1952, he appeared in over 100 films in his close to ...

17. Geoffrey Hughes

Actor | Yellow Submarine

Geoffrey began his extensive stage career at the Unity Theatre in Liverpool. He then appeared in several West End productions, such as Say Goodnight to Grandma and Run for Your Wife. He appeared in numerous TV shows, including Coronation Street (1960) and Keeping Up Appearances (1990), where he ...

18. Harry Shannon

Actor | Citizen Kane

Born and raised on a farm in Michigan in 1890, Irish-American character actor Harry Shannon had the credentials for becoming a staple player in westerns. He started off his career traveling around with repertory and stock companies and developed his musical abilities in tent shows, burlesque houses...

19. Iris Scaccheri

Actress | Mamma

Iris Scaccheri was an actress, known for Mamma (1982) and Livsfarlig film (1988). She died on July 28, 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

20. Isabel Dean

Actress | Sense and Sensibility

In a career spanning 50 years, Isabel Dean demonstrated talent and versatility while never fulfilling the great promise initially indicated. With large eyes and classically chiseled features, she became best known as an exponent of somewhat steely patrician ladies of elegance and breeding. That she...

21. James Mason

Actor | Lolita

James Mason was born in Huddersfield and had a film career spanning over 50 years during which he appeared in over 100 films in England and America but never won an Oscar. Whatever role he played, from the wounded Belfast gunman in Odd Man Out to Rommel in The Desert Fox, his creamy velvet voice ...

22. Johnny Weissmuller Jr.

Actor | THX 1138

Johnny Weissmuller Jr. was born on September 23, 1940 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for THX 1138 (1971), American Graffiti (1973) and Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle (1975). He was married to Diane. He died on July 27, 2006 in San Francisco, California, USA.

23. Juan Carlos Lamas

Actor | Destino para dos

Juan Carlos Lamas was born on October 13, 1921 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Destino para dos (1968), Il cavaliere dalla spada nera (1956) and Procesado 1040 (1958). He died on July 27, 2004 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

24. Karin Booth

Actress | Swing Shift Maisie

Karin Booth was born on June 19, 1916 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She was an actress, known for Swing Shift Maisie (1943), The Unfinished Dance (1947) and Tobor the Great (1954). She was married to Allan Pinkerton Carlisle. She died on July 27, 2003 in Jupiter, Florida, USA.

25. Lew Brown

Actor | Airport

Lew Brown was born on March 18, 1925 in Goltry, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Airport (1970), Topaz (1969) and Days of Our Lives (1965). He was married to Toby Adler. He died on July 27, 2014 in La Jolla, San Diego, California, USA.

26. Lilian Harvey

Actress | Die Drei von der Tankstelle

Lilian Harvey was born on January 19th, 1906 in London. Her mother was English and her father was German. When she was eight her family moved to Berlin shortly before the outbreak of WW1. She spent much of the war at school in Switzerland where she broadened her knowledge of languages and classical...

27. Marco Aurelio Denegri

Self | Un marciano llamado deseo

Marco Aurelio Denegri was born on May 16, 1938 in Lima, Peru. He died on July 27, 2018 in Lima, Peru.

28. Marty Sklar

Writer | EPCOT

Marty Sklar was born on February 6, 1934 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. He was a writer, known for EPCOT (1967), The Magical World of Disney (1954) and After the Fair: The Legacy of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair (2014). He was married to Leah. He died on July 27, 2017 in Hollywood Hills, ...

29. Maury Chaykin

Actor | My Cousin Vinny

The award-winning Canadian-American character actor Maury Chaykin was born on July 27, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Professor Irving J. Chaykin and his wife Clarice. Irving Chaykin, an American citizen, taught accountancy at the City College of New York. The former Clarice Bloomfield, his...

30. Michael Winkelman

Actor | The Indian Fighter

Michael Winkelman was born on June 27, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Indian Fighter (1955), The Real McCoys (1957) and Science Fiction Theatre (1955). He was married to Diana Maria Bustillos. He died on July 27, 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

31. Miklós Rózsa

Composer | Ben-Hur

A child prodigy, Miklos Rózsa learned to play the violin at the age of five and read music before he was able to read words. In 1926, he began studying at the Leipzig Conservatory where he was considered a brilliant student. He obtained his doctorate in music in 1930. Moving to Paris the following ...

32. Nick Raynes

Actor | Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding

A grandson of Marvin Davis and a nephew of John Davis, Nick Raynes' interest in film began early. Nick attended the Professional Children's School and graduated from the New School where he majored in film. Nick has worked both in front and behind the camera. He began training as an actor with Gary...

33. Norman Alden

Actor | Back to the Future

Born Norman Adelberg in 1924, he served in the Army during World War II. At the end of the conflict he had the opportunity to benefit from the GI Bill program meant to help returning soldiers to start or resume studying. That is how, while attending Texas Christian University, he discovered on the ...

34. Pina Criscuolo

Actress | Esperando la carroza

Pina Criscuolo is known for Waiting for the Hearse (1985).

35. Polly Platt

Producer | Say Anything...

Polly Platt was born on January 29, 1939 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA. She was a producer and production designer, known for Say Anything (1989), Terms of Endearment (1983) and Broadcast News (1987). She was married to Tony Wade, Peter Bogdanovich and Phillip Klein. She died on July 27, 2011 in ...

36. R.G. Armstrong

Actor | Predator

A golden career was reflected in his name. Robert Golden Armstrong ("Bob" to his friends) was born in Birmingham, Alabama on April 7, 1917. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While there, he was frequently performing on stage with the Carolina Playmakers. After graduating,...

37. Sam Shepard

Actor | August: Osage County

Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, IL, to Jane Elaine (Schook), a teacher, and Samuel Shepard Rogers, a teacher and farmer who was also in the army. As the eldest son of a US Army officer (and WWII bomber pilot), Shepard spent his early childhood moving from base to base ...

38. Santiago Santamaría

Self | XII FIFA World Cup 1982

Santiago Santamaría was born on August 22, 1952 in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died on July 27, 2013 in Laborde, Córdoba, Argentina.

39. Susana Mayo

Actress | Simplemente una rosa

Susana Mayo was born on April 2, 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Simplemente una rosa (1971), A Dragonfly for Each Corpse (1975) and Los de la mesa 10 (1960). She died on July 27, 2016 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

40. Suzanne Krull

Actress | Race to Witch Mountain

Suzanne Krull was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She moved to Southern California with her family during high school. Upon graduating, she auditioned for acceptance to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was accepted and completed two years of the program. She was then invited to ...

41. Tony Martin

Soundtrack | The Big Store

Born Alvin Morris, the son of immigrants from Poland, Tony Martin received a soprano saxophone on his tenth birthday. In his grammar school glee club, he became an instrumentalist and soprano pop singer. When in high school, he then formed his first band called "The Red Peppers", eventually joining...

42. Tony Vogel

Actor | Mission: Impossible

Tony Vogel was born on June 29, 1942 in Oxfordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Mission: Impossible (1996), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Les Misérables (1998). He died on July 27, 2015.

43. William Wyler

Director | The Best Years of Our Lives

William Wyler was an American filmmaker who, at the time of his death in 1981, was considered by his peers as second only to John Ford as a master craftsman of cinema. The winner of three Best Director Academy Awards, second again only to Ford's four, Wyler's reputation has unfairly suffered as the...

44. Youssef Chahine

Director | Iskanderija... lih?

Youssef Chahine (born in Alexandria, Egypt, 1926) started studying in a friars' school, and then turned to Victoria College until the High School Certificate. After one year in the University of Alexandria, he moved to the U.S. and spent two years at the Pasadena Play House, taking courses on film ...