Deaths: September 6

1. Michael Kenneth Williams

Actor | The Wire

Emmy-nominated actor and producer Michael Kenneth Williams was one of his generation's most respected and acclaimed talents. By bringing complicated and charismatic characters to life--often with surprising tenderness--Williams established himself as a gifted and versatile performer with a unique ...

2. Adi Dassler

After graduating from school, Dassler followed in his father's footsteps to complete an apprenticeship as a Schumacher. In 1920 he took over his father's shoe making business, whose product range he soon expanded to include sports shoes. In 1924 his brother Rudolf Dassler also joined the company. ...

3. Akira Kurosawa

Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin

After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater...

4. Anita Page

Actress | The Broadway Melody

Beautiful Anita Page was one of the most famous and popular leading ladies during the last years of the silent screen and the first years of the talkie era. She was best known for starring in The Broadway Melody (1929), the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Her leading men...

5. Anthony Johnson

Actor | Friday

Anthony Johnson was born on February 1, 1966 in Compton, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Friday (1995), Menace II Society (1993) and The Players Club (1998). He was married to Lexis Jones Mason. He died on September 6, 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

6. Barbara Hicks

Actress | Brazil

The youngest of three daughters born to iron and steel merchant William 'Copper' Hicks and Hester, She was educated at a girls school in Shrewsbury where she appeared as the Duke of Gloucester in Richard of Bordeaux and as Bottom in A Midsummer Nights Dream, She served as a land girl during WWII ...

7. Bill Wallis

Actor | Brazil

Bill Wallis was born on November 20, 1936 in Guildford, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Brazil (1985), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) and The Bourne Identity (1988). He was married to Karen Mills and Jean Spalding. He died on September 6, 2013 in Bath, Somerset, England, UK.

8. Blanche Sweet

Actress | Anna Christie

Born into a family of show people, Blanche Sweet first appeared on the stage when she was 18 months old. She was a dancer by the time she was four and a talented actress by 1909 when she started work at the Biograph with D.W. Griffith. By 1910, aged 14, she was four years younger than Mary Pickford...

9. Burt Reynolds

Actor | Boogie Nights

Enduring, strong-featured, and genial star of US cinema, Burt Reynolds started off in T.V. westerns in the 1960s and then carved his name into 1970s/1980s popular culture, as a sex symbol (posing nearly naked for "Cosmopolitan" magazine), and on-screen as both a rugged action figure and then as a ...

10. Chester Williams

Invictus

Chester Williams was born on August 8, 1970 in Paarl, South Africa. He is known for Invictus (2009), A Question of Sport (1970) and 30 for 30 (2009). He was married to Maria. He died on September 6, 2019 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

11. Chris Duncan

Self | 2006 National League Championship Series

Chris Duncan was born on May 5, 1981 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. He was married to Amy. He died on September 6, 2019 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

12. Derek Bourgeois

Composer | Beasts

Derek Bourgeois has been highly active in his native England as both a composer and leader in the field of music education. He studied at Cambridge University and the Royal College of Music, working with Herbert Howells (composition) and Adrian Boult (conducting). He has held numerous academic and ...

13. E.J. André

Actor | The Ten Commandments

E.J. André was born on August 14, 1908 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for The Ten Commandments (1956), Papillon (1973) and Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958). He died on September 6, 1984 in Hollywood, California, USA.

14. Edmund Gwenn

Actor | Miracle on 34th Street

There are very few character actors from the 1930s, '40s or '50s who rose to the rank of stardom. Only a rare man or woman reached the level of renown and admiration, and had enough audience appeal, to be the first name in a cast's billing, a name that got marquee posting. Charles Coburn comes to ...

15. Gertrude Lawrence

Actress | Mimi

Gertrude Lawrence was born on July 4, 1898 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Mimi (1935), Rembrandt (1936) and The Glass Menagerie (1950). She was married to Richard Aldrich and Francis Gordon-Howley. She died on September 6, 1952 in New York City, New York, USA.

16. Harry Wilson

Actor | Some Like It Hot

Harry Wilson was born on November 22, 1897 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Some Like It Hot (1959), Frankenstein's Daughter (1958) and One Million B.C. (1940). He died on September 6, 1978 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

17. Jane Frazee

Actress | Calendar Girl

A professional entertainer since the age of six, blue-eyed brunette Jane Frazee and her older sister Ruth Frazee had a vaudeville sister act and appeared in nightclubs and on radio together. They journeyed to Hollywood, but the act broke up when Ruth failed her screen tests and Jane passed hers. ...

18. Jean-Paul Belmondo

Actor | Pierrot le fou

The son of the renowned French sculptor Paul Belmondo, he studied at Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique (CNSAD); after the minor stage performances he made his screen debut in À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957) but the episodes with his participation were cut before ...

19. Joan Blackham

Actress | Bridget Jones's Diary

Joan Blackham was born on May 15, 1946 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Battle for Sevastopol (2015) and Hard Cases (1988). She died on September 6, 2020.

20. John McVicar

Writer | McVicar

John McVicar was born on March 21, 1940. He was a writer, known for McVicar (1980), Arena (1975) and The Big Story (1993). He was married to Valentina Artsrunik and Sheila Wilshire. He died on September 6, 2022.

21. Johnny Desmond

Soundtrack | Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

Singer, songwriter ("Oh, My Darlin'"), author and actor, educated at the Detroit Conservatory of Music, and a band vocalist with the orchestras of Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa and Bob Crosby. He performed regularly, even through his final illness, in live venues, and made many records and radio/...

22. Johnny Kingdom

Self | Johnny Kingdom: A Year on Exmoor

Johnny Kingdom was born on February 23, 1939 in Brayford, Devon, England, UK. He was married to Julie Carter. He died on September 6, 2018 in Wadham Cross, Knowstone, Devon, England, UK.

23. Just Jaeckin

Director | Gwendoline

Just Jaeckin was born on August 8, 1940 in Vichy, Allier, France. He was a director and actor, known for The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (1984), Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981) and Girls (1980). He was married to Anne. He died on September 6, 2022 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, ...

24. Kate Millett

Self | Mouvement de Libération des Femmes Iraniennes, Année Zéro

Kate Millett was born on September 14, 1934 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. She was a director and producer, known for Mouvement de Libération des Femmes Iraniennes, Année Zéro (1979), Three Lives (1971) and The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017). She was married to Sophie...

25. Kay Kendall

Actress | Les Girls

Kay Kendall was born on May 21, 1927 in Withernsea, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Les Girls (1957), The Reluctant Debutante (1958) and Simon and Laura (1955). She was married to Rex Harrison. She died on September 6, 1959 in London, England, UK.

26. Kevin Dobson

Actor | Knots Landing

At his best playing blue-collared tough guys, curly dark-haired Irish-American actor Kevin Patrick Dobson was born in Queens, New York, on March 18, 1943, and raised in the Jackson Heights area of that borough. One of seven children born to a school janitor father and a homemaker mother, the future...

27. Ligia Branice

Actress | Interno di un convento

Ligia Branice was born on December 7, 1932 in Krasnystaw, Lubelskie, Poland. She was an actress and writer, known for Behind Convent Walls (1978), La Jetée (1962) and Spotkania (1957). She was married to Walerian Borowczyk. She died on September 6, 2022 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.

28. Liz Fraser

Actress | I'm All Right Jack

Best known for playing the perpetually-ditzy blonde bimbo in several installments of the "Carry On" franchise, buxom Liz Fraser (born Elizabeth Joan Winch above a corner shop in south London) studied at RADA on a scholarship and first acted in repertory theatre and television before breaking into ...

29. Louise Platt

Actress | Stagecoach

Louise Platt was born on August 3, 1915 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for Stagecoach (1939), Captain Caution (1940) and Tell No Tales (1939). She was married to Stanley Gould and Jed Harris. She died on September 6, 2003 in Greenport, New York, USA.

30. Lucas Demare

Director | Guacho

Lucas Demare was born on July 14, 1910 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and writer, known for Guacho (1954), Los isleros (1951) and Su mejor alumno (1944). He died on September 6, 1981 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

31. Luciano Pavarotti

Soundtrack | Yes, Giorgio

Luciano Pavarotti was a best-selling classical singer and humanitarian known for his most original and popular performances with the 'Three Tenors' and 'Pavarotti & Friends'.

He was born on October 12, 1935, in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, in Northern Italy. He was the first child and only son of two ...

32. Madeleine L'Engle

Writer | A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle was born on November 29, 1918 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for A Wrinkle in Time (2018), A Ring of Endless Light (2002) and Camilla Dickinson (2012). She was married to Hugh Franklin. She died on September 6, 2007 in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA.

33. Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú

Actress | Antigua vida mía

Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú was born on February 15, 1935 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress and producer, known for Antigua vida mía (2001), Esperando al mesías (2000) and Estela (2008). She died on September 6, 2022 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

34. Maria Palmer

Actress | Lady on a Train

This lovely Austrian-born actress was born (in 1917) and raised in Vienna, performing as a child on stage and appearing in various productions for the renown Max Reinhardt. Trained in dance, she was a member of the Bodenwieser Ensemble, a European troupe. Following a few high school plays and dance...

35. Martin Milner

Actor | Sweet Smell of Success

Martin Sam Milner was born December 28, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan. His mother, Jerre Martin, originally from Oregon, was a dancer with the Paramount Theater circuit. His father, Sam Gordon Milner, a Polish Jewish immigrant, was a film distributor. The Milners moved to Seattle when Martin was a baby...

36. Mervyn Johns

Actor | Dead of Night

Mervyn Johns was born on February 18, 1899 in Pembroke, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for Dead of Night (1945), A Christmas Carol (1951) and The Day of the Triffids (1963). He was married to Diana Churchill and Alice Maud Steele Wareham. He died on September 6, 1992 in Norwood, England, UK.

37. Mike Neville

Self | BBC Look North: North East and Cumbria

Mike Neville was born on October 17, 1936 in Willington Quay, Tyne and Wear, England, UK. He was married to Pam Neville. He died on September 6, 2017 in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England, UK.

38. Mike Sexton

Actor | 7 Days to Vegas

Mike Sexton was born on September 22, 1947 in Shelbyville, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for 7 Days to Vegas (2019), World Poker Tour: Rise Above (2017) and World Poker Tour (2003). He was married to Karen Sexton and Unknown. He died on September 6, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

39. Molly Glynn

Actress | In America

Molly Glynn (6/14/1968 - 9/6/2014) was a well-known Chicago stage actress who also played several roles in film and television, including a recurring role as an ER doctor on the television series Chicago Fire at the time of her death. Born and raised in Hartford, CT to William E. Glynn (Mayor of ...

40. Nino Castelnuovo

Actor | Les parapluies de Cherbourg

Francesco 'Nino' Castelnuovo was born to humble beginnings in Lombardy, the second of four brothers. His working life began with a series of stints in various jobs, including house painting, as a mechanic and as a sales agent, after which he decided to take drama classes at the Piccolo Teatro in ...

41. Olga Baclanova

Actress | Freaks

Born Olga Vladimirovna Baklanova, one of six children of Vladimir Baklanoff and his wife Alexandra, later billed as the Russian Tigress in her early talking films, was born August 19, 1893. She graduated from the Cherniavsky Institute in Moscow prior to her selection in 1912 at age 19 to apprentice...

42. Otto Kruger

Actor | Saboteur

The grandnephew of South African pioneer and former president Paul Krüger, Otto Kruger trained for a musical career from childhood, but after enrolling in Columbia University he switched his career choice to acting. Making his Broadway debut in 1915, at 30, he shortly became a matinée idol of the ...

43. Patricia Cutts

Actress | The Tingler

Patricia Cutts was born on July 20, 1926 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Tingler (1959), The Adventures of P.C. 49: Investigating the Case of the Guardian Angel (1949) and Playhouse 90 (1956). She was married to William Nichols, John A.C. Findlay (agent) and Harold S.N.I. ...

44. Percy Rodrigues

Actor | Star Trek

A symbol of intelligence, leadership and moral strength in his various 1960s and 1970s roles, African-Canadian actor Percy Rodrigues rose in Hollywood stature during the late 1960s following a couple of earlier Broadway appearances. The serenely handsome, distinguished-looking actor also became ...

45. Peter Benson

Actor | Albion Market

Peter Benson played the funeral director Bernie Scripps in most of the 18 series of Heartbeat (1992), from 1995 to 2009, a role perhaps which he is most likely to be remembered for.

His character also ran a garage in the fictional town of Aidensfield and often got involved in disastrous money-making...

46. Peter Luck

Producer | Sunday

Peter Luck was born on January 5, 1944 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. He was a producer and writer, known for Sunday (1981), Where Are They Now (2006) and The Australians (1981). He was married to Penny Anderson. He died on September 6, 2017 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

47. Philippe Eidel

Composer | Cible émouvante

Philippe Eidel was born on December 22, 1956 in Tananarive, Madagascar. He was a composer and actor, known for Wild Target (1993), Bunker palace hôtel (1989) and L'histoire du garçon qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse (1994). He died on September 6, 2018 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France.

48. Richard Allan

Actor | With a Song in My Heart

Richard Mann Allan was born in Jacksonville, Illinois on June 22, 1923 to a farmer father Robert and a dietitian mother Edna. He grew up with two brothers, Edward and Robert Jr. and a sister Catherine. He began taking dance classes when he was seven years old, and he also loved going to see Fred ...

49. Robert Mugabe

Self | Zimbabwe i dag

Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU...

50. Roberto Grela

Actor | Buenas noches, Buenos Aires

Roberto Grela was born on June 28, 1913 in Concepción, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor and composer, known for Buenas noches, Buenos Aires (1964), La diosa impura (1963) and El tango del millón (1973). He died on September 6, 1992 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

51. Stefan Gierasch

Actor | Jeremiah Johnson

Stefan Gierasch was born on February 5, 1926 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Jeremiah Johnson (1972), Carrie (1976) and What's Up, Doc? (1972). He was married to Hedy Sontag, Jane Elizabeth Churchman and Nina Rudman. He died on September 6, 2014 in Santa Monica, ...

52. Thad Mumford

Writer | M*A*S*H

Thad Mumford was born on February 8, 1951 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for M*A*S*H (1972), The Electric Company (1971) and The Duck Factory (1984). He died on September 6, 2018 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

53. Tiny Doll

Tiny Doll was born on July 23, 1914 in Stolpen, Germany. She was an actress. She died on September 6, 2004 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.

54. Tito Martínez del Box

Writer | Radio Rochela

Tito Martínez del Box is known for Radio Rochela (1959), Cuidado con las imitaciones (1948) and Imitaciones peligrosas (1949).

55. Tom Fogerty

Soundtrack | Café de Flore

Tom Fogerty was born on November 9, 1941 in Berkeley, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Café de Flore (2011), The Vow (2020) and Creedence Clearwater Revival: I Put a Spell on You (1969). He was married to Patricia Suzanne Clapper and Loretta Gail Skinner. He died on September 6, ...

56. Will Jordan

Actor | The Doors

Will Jordan was born on July 27, 1927 in Bronx, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Doors (1991), Down with Love (2003) and I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978). He died on September 6, 2018 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

57. Wilson Moreira

Soundtrack | Suave Veneno

Wilson Moreira was born on December 12, 1936 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He died on September 6, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.