Deaths: August 24

1. Robin Leach

Robin Leach was born on August 29, 1941 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for The Ridiculous 6 (2015), I.M. Caravaggio (2010) and Sledge Hammer! (1986). He was married to Judith Desser. He died on August 24, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

2. Aaron Russo

Producer | Trading Places

Although he never went beyond secondary school, Aaron Russo became a millionaire in show business. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943, he worked in his family's business and later managed the Chicago nightclub, the Kinetic Playground, from 1968 to 1973 (with a long hiatus due to a fire). There he ...

3. Andre Blay

Producer | They Live

Andre Blay was born on July 27, 1937 in Mount Clemens, Michigan, USA. He was a producer, known for They Live (1988), The Blob (1988) and Village of the Damned (1995). He was married to Nancy Fleming. He died on August 24, 2018 in Bonita Springs, Florida, USA.

4. Andrew Horn

Writer | The Nomi Song

Andrew Horn was born on September 16, 1952. He was a writer and producer, known for The Nomi Song (2004), Doomed Love (1984) and We Are Twisted Fucking Sister! (2014). He died on August 24, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

5. Ann Richards

Actress | Sorry, Wrong Number

Ann Richards was born on December 13, 1917 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), Love from a Stranger (1947) and Love Letters (1945). She was married to Paul Kramer and Edmond Angelo. She died on August 24, 2006 in Torrance, California, USA.

6. Antonio Pennarella

Actor | Luna rossa

Antonio Pennarella was born on May 27, 1960 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was an actor, known for Luna rossa (2001), Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012) and Capri (2006). He died on August 23, 2018 in Naples, Campania, Italy.

7. Blanca Fernández Ochoa

Self | Supervivientes

Blanca Fernández Ochoa was born on April 21, 1963 in Madrid, Spain. She was married to Daniel Fioretto and David Fresneda. She died in September 2019 in La Peñota, Segovia, Spain.

8. Chango Farías Gómez

Composer | Reflexiones de un salvaje

Chango Farías Gómez was born on December 19, 1937 in San Telmo, Capital Federal, Argentina. He was an actor and composer, known for Reflexiones de un salvaje (1978), Con el alma (1995) and Después del último tren (1989). He died on August 24, 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

9. E.G. Marshall

Actor | 12 Angry Men

With over 150 Film and TV appearances to his credit, E. G. Marshall was arguably most well known as the imperturbable Juror No. 4 in the Sidney Lumet legal drama 12 Angry Men (1957).

Some of his stand-out performances are in Creepshow (1982), Christmas Vacation (1989), and Nixon (1995).

Marshall ...

10. Earl Jolly Brown

Actor | Live and Let Die

Earl Jolly Brown was born on October 18, 1939 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Live and Let Die (1973), Black Belt Jones (1974) and Linda Lovelace for President (1975). He died on August 24, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

11. Frank DiLeo

Actor | Goodfellas

Frank DiLeo was born on October 23, 1947 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Goodfellas (1990), Moonwalker (1988) and Wayne's World 2 (1993). He was married to Linda DiLeo. He died on August 24, 2011 in North Lima, Ohio, USA.

12. Gary Crosby

Actor | Girl Happy

The stocky-framed, lookalike son of singing legend Bing Crosby who had that same bemused, forlorn look, fair hair and jug ears, Gary was the eldest of four sons born to the crooner and his first wife singer/actress Dixie Lee. The boys' childhood was an intensely troubled one with all four trying to...

13. Getúlio Vargas

Actor | Barão do Rio Branco

Getúlio Vargas, nicknamed "the father of the poor", was a Brazilian president, lawyer, politician, and dictator who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil. Vargas rose to power in 1930 under a provisional presidency, remaining until 1934 where he was elected under a 1934 Constitution. ...

14. Gregory Rozakis

Actor | America America

Gregory Rozakis was born on January 30, 1943 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for America America (1963), Death Wish (1974) and The Cotton Club (1984). He died on August 24, 1989 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

15. Howard Lipstone

Producer | Jaws 3-D

Howard Lipstone was born on April 28, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a production manager and producer, known for Jaws 3-D (1983), Porky's II: The Next Day (1983) and The White Lions (1981). He was married to Jane Lipstone. He died on August 24, 2015 in Westwood, California, USA.

16. J.D. Disalvatore

Visual_effects | Dante's Peak

J.D. Disalvatore was born on March 5, 1966 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. She was a producer and editor, known for Dante's Peak (1997), Gay Propaganda (2002) and Shelter (2007). She died on August 24, 2017 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.

17. Jane Greer

Actress | Out of the Past

As a baby, she was winning beauty contests; as a teenager, with good looks and an attractive contralto voice, she was singing with big bands (most notably Enric Madriguera's orchestra in Latin Club Del Rio in Washington, D.C.. She met Rudy Vallee, her first husband, on the radio where she also ...

18. Jay Thomas

Actor | The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

Jay Thomas was born in Kermit, Texas, to Katherine (Guzzino), a tap-dancing South Louisiana belle of Italian descent, and T. Harry Terrell, Sr., an oil man. Reared in New Orleans, he was always active in sports and performing. He won his first award as emcee of the Jesuit High School talent show. ...

19. Jeanne Martin

Actress | I Love Lucy

Jeanne Martin was born on March 27, 1927 in Coral Gables, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for I Love Lucy (1951), The Dean Martin Show (1965) and The Jack Benny Program (1950). She was married to Dean Martin. She died on August 24, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

20. Juan Carlos Dual

Actor | Yago, pasión morena

Juan Carlos Dual was born on February 19, 1933 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Yago, pasión morena (2001), Los Libonatti (1991) and Son de Fierro (2007). He was married to Diana Maggi. He died on August 24, 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

21. Julie Harris

Actress | The Haunting

One of the finest classical and contemporary leading ladies ever to grace the 20th century American stage, five-time Tony Award winner Julie Harris was rather remote and reserved on camera, finding her true glow in front of the theatre lights. The freckled, red-haired actress not only was nominated...

22. Kenji Mizoguchi

Director | Ugetsu monogatari

Coming from a lower class family Mizoguchi entered the production company Nikkatsu as an actor specialized in female roles. Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922. Although he filmed almost 90 movies in the silent era, only his last 12 productions are really known ...

23. Leonard Frey

Actor | Fiddler on the Roof

Leonard Frey originally wanted to become an artist, but in college he became interested in acting. He made his stage debut in an off-Broadway production of "Little Mary Sunshine" and his film debut as a celebrant in Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1966), but he first rose to prominence ...

24. Louis Prima

Actor | The Jungle Book

Born in New Orleans' French Quarter, Louis Prima longed to play jazz. When he was a child, he studied the violin. His older brother Leon took up trumpet while Louis was still quite young, and he soon followed in his brother's footsteps. He played in clubs like "The Famous Door" in the 1930s, and by...

25. Mary Jane Croft

Actress | Our Miss Brooks

Diminutive, blond character comedienne whose strident voice and nervy manner made her the perfect foil to Lucille Ball's madcap antics on TV, at first, occasionally, on I Love Lucy (1951) (as "Betty Ramsay" and "Evelyn Bigsby"), then on a regular basis on The Lucy Show (1962) and Here's Lucy (1968)...

26. Mitchell Lewis

Actor | Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ

Mitchell Lewis was born on June 26, 1880 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), Salomé (1922) and The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1920). He was married to Rosabel Morrison and Nan Frances Ryan. He died on August 24, 1956 in Woodland Hills, ...

27. Pat Paterson

Actress | Charlie Chan in Egypt

From mill girl to film star was the real life story of Bradford born Pat Paterson. A former Laidler Sunbeam and stage struck she left Lister's Mill office at 15 to join a touring show, After doing cabaret work in London she was seen by an agent for Fox Films and given a part in the British film The...

28. Pete Roberts

Soundtrack | O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Pete Roberts was born on January 15, 1938 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Pete was married to Katherine "Kitsy", Marion Cain and Ann Lane. Pete died on August 24, 2017 in Warrenton, Virginia, USA.

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29. Richard Attenborough

Actor | Jurassic Park

Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames, was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Mary (née Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College and wrote a ...

30. Rickie Sorensen

Actor | The Sword in the Stone

Rickie Sorensen was born on August 26, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Sword in the Stone (1963), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) and Airport '77 (1977). He was married to Marianne Rubacha. He died on August 24, 1994 in Lynwood, California, USA.

31. Satoshi Kon

Writer | Tôkyô goddofâzâzu

Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film ...

32. Stanley Morgan

Actor | The Return of Mr. Moto

Stanley Morgan was born on November 10, 1929 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Return of Mr. Moto (1965), The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959) and Konga (1961). He was married to Linda. He died on August 24, 2018.

33. Steve Franken

Actor | Westworld

Steve Franken was born on May 27, 1932 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Westworld (1973), The Party (1968) and The Time Travelers (1964). He was married to Jean Garrett and Julia Elizabeth Carter. He died on August 24, 2012 in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California,...

34. Tom Frost

Cinematographer | The Edge

Tom Frost was one of the pioneering climbers and photographers during the Golden Age of Yosemite climbing. Born in 1937 in Hollywood, Frost graduated from Stanford University in 1958, the same year he first visited Yosemite Valley; the huge unclimbed granite big walls would prove formative to ...

35. Uri Katzenstein

Director | Anna's Assignment

Uri Katzenstein was a director and actor, known for Anna's Assignment (2017), The Hyenas (2018) and The Liquid of Life (2008). He died on August 24, 2018 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

36. Yootha Joyce

Actress | Man About the House

Yootha was a student at RADA where all ,her tutors said that she had no talent and suggested that she try a different career. Despite this she started in repertory theatres where she swept the stage , made tea and took what small roles she could get, In 1960 she was with Theatre Workshop Co in ;'...

37. Zena Walker

Actress | The Dresser

British actress Zena Walker would become better known for her output of theatre work than film. Born on March 7, 1934, in Birmingham, she was the daughter of George Walker, a grocer, and wife Elizabeth Louise (Hammond). A sensuous, graceful, dusky-voiced presence, she was educated at St. Martin's ...