Deaths: August 4

1. Arsha Aghdasi

Arsha Aghdasi was an actor, known for Bang Bang (2014), Dying of the Light (2014) and The Oath (2019). He died on August 5, 2021 in Lebanon.

Adriana Roel was born on July 5, 1934 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico. She was an actress, known for Anacrusa (1979), She Doesn't Want to Sleep Alone (2012) and Renuncia por motivos de salud (1976). She was married to José Antonio López de Gyves. She died on August 4, 2022 in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.

3. Anar Nagilbaz

Actor | Baki ogrusu

Anar Nagilbaz was an actor, known for Baki ogrusu (1997). He was married to Ayden and Anjelik. He died on August 4, 2018 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

4. Bernard Barrow

Actor | Ryan's Hope

Bernard Barrow was born on December 30, 1927 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Ryan's Hope (1975), Serpico (1973) and Loving (1983). He was married to Joan Kaye, Joyce Shrya Gitelman and Jane Adele Mabbott. He died on August 4, 1993 in New York City, New York, USA.

5. Blake Snyder

Writer | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Named "Hollywood's most successful spec screenwriter", Blake Snyder began his Hollywood career early in life. His father, Kenneth C.T. Snyder, was an Emmy-winning TV producer of many children's shows in the 1960s and 1970s. Among them were The Funny Company, Hot Wheels, animated segments on Sesame ...

6. Bob Wilber

Music_department | The Cotton Club

Wilber's career as a musician, composer, arranger and jazz educator spanned an impressive 75 years. His fascination with jazz began at the age of three after listening to a recording of Duke Ellington's 'Mood Indigo'. Learning clarinet as a child, he then became adept at the soprano saxophone while...

7. Brent Carver

Actor | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Brent Carver was born on November 17, 1951 in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999), Millennium (1989) and Due South (1994). He died on August 4, 2020 in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada.

8. Bryan Brendle

Actor | Night School

Bryan Brendle was born on December 25, 1974 in Columbus, Georgia. He was an actor, known for Night School (2018), High Rise (2009) and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021). He died on August 4, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

9. David Emigh

Actor | The Trespasser

David Emigh was born on October 28, 1953 in the USA. He was an actor, known for The Trespasser (2014) and You've Been Invited (2014). He died on August 4, 2020 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.

10. Erville Alderson

Actor | The Scarlet Empress

A character actor whose film career spanned from Hollywood's Silent Era until the 1950s. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 11, 1882, Erville would start his film career in 1918 at the age of 36 in Her Man (1918). Film pioneer D.W. Griffith utilized Erville in many of his films, including ...

11. Frank Maxwell

Actor | The Wild Angels

A ubiquitous presence during television's golden age, New York native Frank Maxwell stood out as a solid purveyor of quiet authority. Upon graduating from the University of Michigan, a prospective legal career had been on the cards. But those plans came to naught in the wake of a successful ...

12. Hans Christian Andersen

Writer | Frozen

Andersen experienced an unhappy childhood marked by deep poverty. When he was 14 years old, he left his parents' home and fled alone to Copenhagen. Here the director of the Royal Theater, Jonas Collin, took care of the child and gave him shelter and work. With his help, the young Hans Christian ...

13. Ileen Getz

Actress | The Station Agent

Ileen Getz was born on August 7, 1961 in Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Station Agent (2003), Changing Lanes (2002) and Friends with Money (2006). She was married to Mark Grinnell. She died on August 4, 2005 in New York City, New York, USA.

14. James Brady

Self | Secret Service

James Brady was born on August 29, 1940 in Centralia, Illinois, USA. He was married to Sarah Brady and Sue Beh. He died on August 4, 2014 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.

15. John Alderson

Actor | South Sea Woman

John Alderson led a colorful life considering his origins in a mining village in the north of England. After spending all of two weeks as a miner, he lied about his age, joined the British Army and attained the rank of Major. Leaving for the US, he married a General's secretary and got into the ...

16. John Michael Herndon

Actor | Dolemite Is My Name

John Michael Herndon was born in the small rural town of Linn, Missouri, but spent his remaining childhood years in Jefferson City, MO. As an exceptionally shy and introverted child, he expressed himself by being the class 'artist.' In an effort to break out of his shell, he transferred to the much...

17. John Pickard

Actor | True Grit

John Pickard was born on June 25, 1913 in Lascassas, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for True Grit (1969), The Twilight Zone (1959) and The Time Tunnel (1966). He was married to Anne Bernard McLaurine. He died on August 4, 1993 in Rutherford County, Tennessee, USA.

18. Julio López

Actor | Moebius

Julio López was an actor, known for Moebius (1996), Treinta segundos para morir (1981) and Sea of Love (1998). He died on August 5, 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

19. Kathleen M. Shea

Producer | Heat

Kathleen M. Shea was born on September 7, 1945 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. She was a producer and actress, known for Heat (1995), The Cannonball Run (1981) and The Last of the Mohicans (1992). She died on August 4, 2017 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

20. Larry Rakestraw

Self | The NFL on CBS

Larry Rakestraw was born on April 22, 1942 in Mableton, Georgia, USA. He died on August 4, 2019 in Suwanee, Georgia, USA.

21. Lee Hazlewood

Soundtrack | (500) Days of Summer

This singer, songwriter and producer who wrote millionsellers for Nancy Sinatra 'These boots are made for walkin' and for Dean Martin 'Houston' and 'Shades', and for Frank sinatra 'This town' was the son of an oilman. Drafted during the Korean war, he became a country DJ in¨Phoenix in 1953. He ...

22. Lilian Valmar

Actress | Alma de bohemio

Lilian Valmar was born on September 27, 1928 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Alma de bohemio (1949), Masterworks of Terror (1960) and Vacaciones (1947). She was married to Oscar Casco. She died on August 4, 2013 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

23. Lorenzo Music

Writer | Rhoda

Lorenzo Music was born on May 2, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Rhoda (1974), Carlton Your Doorman (1980) and Garfield in Paradise (1986). He was married to Henrietta Music. He died on August 4, 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

24. Lorrie Collins

Actress | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Lorrie Collins was born on May 7, 1942 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952), Ranch Party (1957) and The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956). She was married to Stew Carnell. She died on August 4, 2018 in Reno, Nevada, USA.

25. Luiz Melodia

Soundtrack | Cidade de Deus

Luiz Melodia was born on January 7, 1951 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was an actor and composer, known for City of God (2002), Casa de Areia (2005) and Torre de Babel (1998). He died on August 4, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

26. Mary Miles Minter

Actress | Jenny Be Good

Little Mary Miles Minter was a child star who was dominated by her mother. At the age of 5 she first appeared on the stage in the play "Cameo Kirby". From that time on she worked steadily without a single vacation. Her greatest stage success was in "The Littlest Rebel", with William Farnum and ...

27. Masahiko Tsugawa

Actor | Marusa no onna

Masahiko Tsugawa was born on January 2, 1940 in Kyoto, Japan. He was an actor and director, known for A Taxing Woman (1987), Wakarenu riyû (1987) and Puraido: Unmei no toki (1998). He was married to Yukiji Asaoka. He died on August 4, 2018 in Japan.

28. Melvyn Douglas

Actor | Being There

Two-time Oscar-winner Melvyn Douglas was one of America's finest actors, and would enjoy cinema immortality if for no other reason than his being the man who made Greta Garbo laugh in Ernst Lubitsch's classic comedy Ninotchka (1939), but he was much, much more.

Melvyn Douglas was born Melvyn Edouard...

29. Patrice Munsel

Actress | The Alcoa Hour

Patrice Munsel was born on May 14, 1925 in Spokane, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for The Alcoa Hour (1955), The Red Skelton Hour (1951) and Melba (1953). She was married to Robert Schuler. She died on August 4, 2016 in Schroon Lake, New York, USA.

30. Pearl White

Actress | The Perils of Pauline

Born on her father's farm in Green Ridge, Missouri, the youngest of five children. Moved with her family to Springfield, Missouri, where she grew up. Joined the Diemer Theatre Company during her second year of high school, and went on the road with a touring stock company at age 18, in 1907. Signed...

31. Stu Rosen

Sound_department | Defenders of the Earth

Rosen's family moved to Long Beach when he was age 7 and he graduated from Long Beach State by 1963. Shortly after he got a job at KCET as a production assistant. In 1965, channel 2 was looking for a kid's show, so Rosen pitched Dusty's Treehouse (1968) to CBS and ended up doing the show for 10 ...

32. Tom Keene

Actor | Plan 9 from Outer Space

Not much is known about the early life of darkly handsome "B" cowboy actor Tom Keene, who was born George Duryea on December 30, 1896, in Rochester, New York. However, he did arrive in Hollywood in the late 1920s after college studies at Columbia and Carnegie Tech and immediately made an impact as ...

33. Vicente de la Mata

Self | Pelota de trapo

34. Victor Mature

Actor | The Robe

American leading man Victor John Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Clara P. (Ackley) and Marcellus George Mature, a cutler and knife sharpener. His father, born Marcello Gelindo Maturi in Pinzolo, Trentino, was Italian, and his mother was of Swiss-German and German descent. Mature worked ...

35. Villi Tokarev

Actor | Superment

Villi Tokarev was born on November 11, 1934 in Krasnodarskiy krai, USSR. He was an actor and composer, known for Superment (1990), Provintsialy (2002) and Vot ya stal bogatyy ser i priekhal v EsEsEr (1990). He was married to Svetlana Radushinskaya, Julia Bedinsky-Tokarev and ???. He died on August ...

36. Walter Burke

Actor | Support Your Local Sheriff!

Highly recognizable Irish-American character actor whose small stature and wizened features made him resemble a leprechaun (a role which he played on more than one occasion). Probably best known as Willie Stark's bodyguard in All the King's Men (1949).

37. Walter Levin

Self | Le quatuor des possibles

Walter Levin was born on December 6, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. He was married to Evi Markov. He died on August 4, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.