Deaths: August 8
by bcampos862 | created - 06 Aug 2017 | updated - 08 Aug 2020 | Public1. Charles Keating
Actor | Another World
Charles Keating was born on October 22, 1941 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Another World (1964), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) and The Bodyguard (1992). He was married to Mary Ellen Cudbody. He died on August 8, 2014 in Weston, Connecticut, USA.
2. Alan Napier
Actor | Marnie
Alan Napier was born on January 7, 1903 in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England. Tall, distinguished-looking English character actor with aristocratic bearing and precisely modulated voice. A cousin of the former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, he studied at the Royal Academy of ...
3. Andrea Feldman
Actress | Heat
Andrea Feldman was a performer in several of Andy Warhol's films, most prominently in the film "Heat" as Sylvia Miles's daughter. She was notable for her screechy voice and hysterical performance style, and she often played out-of-control characters unable to cope with their circumstances.
She ...
4. Arleta
Actress | Arleta: Ah, beba!
Arleta was born on May 3, 1945 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress and composer, known for Arleta: Ah, beba! (1991), Arleta: Bar 'To navagio' (1991) and Arleta: Na pethaneis (1993). She died on August 8, 2017 in Athens, Greece.
5. Arthur Davies
Actor | Rigoletto
Arthur Davies was born on April 11, 1941 in Wrexham, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for Rigoletto (1982), Black Jack (1979) and Looks and Smiles (1981). He died in August 2018 in the UK.
6. Barbara Bel Geddes
Actress | Vertigo
Arguably best remembered for her role as Miss Ellie, the Ewing family matriarch on the long-running TV series Dallas (1978), Barbara Bel Geddes had earlier scored success on stage and screen long before gaining more lasting fame on television. She was born in New York City on Halloween Day 1922, ...
7. Barbara Cook
Actress | Thumbelina
Barbara Cook is best-loved and remembered for her work on the Broadway stage. An amazing singer and refreshingly impulsive actress, she made her debut at age 23 in the musical "Flahooley". Roles in "Plain and Fancy" and, the most famous flop of all time, "Candide" followed. In 1957, she created her...
8. Brioni Farrell
Actress | Star Trek
Brioni Farrell was born on February 12, 1940 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress and executive, known for Star Trek (1966), General Hospital (1963) and Fantasy Island (1977). She was married to Eugene Robert Glazer. She died on August 8, 2018 in California, USA.
9. Carol Hughes
Actress | The Border Legion
Carol Hughes was born on January 17, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Border Legion (1940), Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) and Gold Mine in the Sky (1938). She was married to Frank Faylen. She died on August 8, 1995 in Burbank, California, USA.
10. Damian O'Flynn
Actor | The Hidden City
Damian O'Flynn was born on January 29, 1907 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Hidden City (1950), Broadway (1942) and Philo Vance Returns (1947). He died on August 8, 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
11. Danny Murphy
Actor | Me, Myself & Irene
Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Danny was injured in a diving accident in Oaks Bluff, Martha's Vineyard on August 8, 1974 leaving him a quadriplegic at age 19. He graduated from Stonehill College in 1979 majoring in Criminal Justice and then enjoyed a successful corporate career in Boston ...
12. Dave Parks
Actor | Number One
Dave Parks was born on December 25, 1941 in Muenster, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Number One (1969), NFL Monday Night Football (1970) and The NFL on CBS (1956). He died on August 8, 2019 in Austin, Texas, USA.
13. Edna Skinner
Actress | Easy to Love
Edna Skinner and her friend Jean Fish retired to the southern Oregon coast in the 1970s after both had led colorful lives and rewarding careers in everything from Hollywood movies to outdoor writing, gathering up innumerable interests and friends along the way. Settling in the North Bend/Coos Bay ...
14. Erling Wicklund
Actor | Ni liv
Erling Wicklund was born on June 7, 1944 in Göteborg, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Nine Lives (1957). He died on August 8, 2019 in Norway.
15. Ernie Colon
Writer | DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year
Ernie Colon was born on July 13, 1931 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was a writer, known for DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year (2016), Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld (2013) and Adventures Into Digital Comics (2006). He was married to Ruth Ashby. He died on August 8, 2019 in Huntington, Long ...
16. Fay Wray
Actress | King Kong
Canadian-born Fay Wray was brought up in Los Angeles and entered films at an early age. She was barely in her teens when she started working as an extra. She began her career as a heroine in westerns at Universal during the silent era. In 1926 the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers ...
17. Glen Campbell
Soundtrack | True Grit
Glen Campbell was born on April 22, 1936 in Billstown, Arkansas, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for True Grit (1969), Shindig! (1964) and Dark Phoenix (2019). He was married to Kim Campbell, Sarah Jan Barg, Billie Jean Nunley and Diane Marie Kirk. He died on August 8, 2017 in Nashville...
18. Harry Bellaver
Actor | From Here to Eternity
Harry Bellaver was born on February 12, 1905 in Hillsboro, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for From Here to Eternity (1953), Another Thin Man (1939) and Miss Sadie Thompson (1953). He was married to Gertrude Dudley Vaughan Smith. He died on August 8, 1993 in Nyack, New York, USA.
19. Jack Clement
Soundtrack | Drop Dead Gorgeous
Jack Clement was born on April 8, 1931 in Whitehaven, Tennessee, USA. He was a producer, known for Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), Walk the Line (2005) and A Perfect World (1993). He died on August 8, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
20. Jean-Pierre Mocky
Director | Litan
As an actor he became popular as Albert de Morcerf in a version of The Count of Monte Cristo (1954), fame and adulation followed with his Francois in Head Against the Wall (1959). As a director he became famous with anarcho-pictures, brilliant cynic comedies. His preferred actors in all decades were...
21. Jeri Gray
Actress | Short Cuts
Jeri Gray was born on April 6, 1925 in Georgia, USA. She was an actress, known for Short Cuts (1993), The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990) and Martin (1992). She died on August 8, 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
22. John Glines
Writer | Sesame Street
John Glines was born on October 11, 1933 in Santa Maria, California, USA. He was a writer, known for Sesame Street (1969) and The 37th Annual Tony Awards (1983). He was married to Chaowarat Chiewvej. He died on August 8, 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.
23. Jorge Zorreguieta
Jorge Zorreguieta was born on January 28, 1928 in Larroque, Entre Ríos, Argentina. Jorge was married to María del Carmen Cerruti Carricart and Marta López Gil. Jorge died on August 8, 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
24. Karen Black
Actress | Five Easy Pieces
Karen entered Northwestern University at 18 and left two years later. She studied under Lee Strasberg in New York and worked in a number of off-Broadway roles. She made a critically acclaimed debut on Broadway in 1965 in "The Playroom". Her first big film role was in You're a Big Boy Now (1966), ...
25. Linda Mkhize
Soundtrack | District 9
Linda Mkhize died on August 8, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
26. Louise Brooks
Actress | Die Büchse der Pandora
Mary Louise Brooks, also known by her childhood name of Brooksie, was born in the Midwestern town of Cherryvale, Kansas, on November 14, 1906. She began dancing at an early age with the Denishawn Dancers (which was how she left Kansas and went to New York) and then with George White's Scandals ...
27. Lourdes Canale
Actress | Rebelde
Lourdes Canale was born on February 11, 1926 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Rebelde (2004), Verano de amor (2009) and Clase 406 (2002). She died on August 8, 2012 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
28. Malcolm T. Elliott
Self | Celebrity Squares
Malcolm T. Elliott was born on May 13, 1946 in Moreland, Victoria, Australia. He was married to Pamela Miller and Brenda Holland. He died on August 8, 2019 in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia.
29. Manfred Max-Neef
Self | Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems
Manfred Max-Neef was born on October 16, 1932 in Valparaiso, Chile. He was married to ???. He died on August 8, 2019 in Valdivia, Chile.
30. Melville Shavelson
Writer | The Five Pennies
Melville Shavelson was born on April 1, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Five Pennies (1959), Houseboat (1958) and The Seven Little Foys (1955). He was married to Ruth Lafaye Florea and Lucille (Lucy) T. Myers. He died on August 8, 2007 in ...
31. Menahem Golan
Producer | The Apple
Menahem Golan was born Menahem Globus to parents of Polish decent in Tiberias, Israel, in May 1929. In his early years, he was a pilot for the fledgling Israeli Air Force, changing his surname to Golan for patriotic reasons in 1948. A few years later, he took the first step towards his future ...
32. Mickey Morton
Actor | The Star Wars Holiday Special
Mickey Morton was born on March 8, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), Star Trek (1966) and Legends of the Superheroes (1979). He died on August 8, 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
33. Patricia Neal
Actress | Hud
Patricia Neal, the Oscar and Tony Award-winning actress, was born Patsy Louise Neal in Packard, Kentucky, where her father managed a coal mine and her mother was the daughter of the town doctor. She grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she attended high school. She was first bit by the acting bug...
34. Richard Deacon
Actor | The Birds
Richard Deacon was the bald, bespectacled character actor most famous for playing television producer Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) from 1961 to 1966. In the first season of that show he also continued to appear on the series he was already appearing on, Leave It to Beaver (1957), ...
35. Richard Sipe
Self | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
A.W. Richard Sipe (1932-2018) was devoted full time to research into the sexual and celibate practices of Roman Catholic bishops and priests. That path led him to the study of the sexual teaching of the church and its effects on behavior - especially sexual abuse of minors by clergy - and the ...
36. Eduardo del Río
Writer | Calzonzín inspector
Eduardo del Río was born on June 20, 1934 in Zamora, Michoacan, Mexico. He was a writer, known for Inspector Calzonzin (1974) and Entrelíneas (2007). He was married to Micaela Flores. He died on August 8, 2017 in Tepoztlan, Morelos, Mexico.
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37. Robert Ferrell
Self | The Presidents
Robert Ferrell was born on May 8, 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was married to Lila Sprout. He died on August 8, 2018 in Chelsea, Michigan, USA.
38. Robert Jacks
Actor | The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Robert Jacks was born on August 9, 1959 in Monterey, California, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), A Troll's Bridge (2002) and Scary Movie (1991). He died on August 8, 2001 in Austin, Texas, USA.
39. Roberto Fugazot
Actor | Vidas marcadas
Roberto Fugazot was born on June 20, 1902 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was an actor and composer, known for Vidas marcadas (1942), Aves sin rumbo (1934) and Prisioneros de la tierra (1939). He died on August 8, 1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
40. Sancho Gracia
Actor | El crimen del padre Amaro
Sancho Gracia was born on September 27, 1936 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was an actor and producer, known for The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002), Curro Jiménez (1976) and Eight Hundred Bullets (2002). He was married to Noela Aguirre. He died on August 8, 2012 in Madrid, Spain.
41. Susan Sheridan
Actress | The Black Cauldron
Susan Sheridan was born on March 18, 1947 in Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Black Cauldron (1985), Moomin (1990) and Midsomer Murders (1997). She was married to Max Brittain and Michael Sheridan. She died on August 8, 2015 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.
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