Deaths: September 14

1. Beah Richards

Beah Richards left her native Vicksburg, Mississippi, for New York City in 1950. She would not acquire a significant role on stage until 1955,when she appeared in the off-Broadway show "Take a Giant Step" convincingly portraying an 84-year-old grandmother without using theatrical makeup. In 1962 ...

2. Alan Abel

Actor | Is There Sex After Death?

Writer, musician and film producer whose greatest claim to fame is in being one of the country's greatest practical jokers. Four years out of Ohio State University, Abel perpetrated his first major hoax in 1959 as the mastermind of the "Society for Indecency to Naked Animals" in which he persuaded ...

3. Alberto Dalbés

Actor | Tendre et perverse Emanuelle

Alberto Dalbés was born on April 3, 1922 in Rosario, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Tender and Perverse Emanuelle (1973), The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973) and Cut-Throats Nine (1972). He died on September 14, 1983 in Madrid, Spain.

4. Angus Lennie

Actor | The Great Escape

Angus Lennie was born on April 18, 1930 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Great Escape (1963), Doctor Who (1963) and Para Handy - Master Mariner (1959). He died on September 14, 2014 in Acton, London, England, UK.

5. Barbara Jo Allen

Actress | Sleeping Beauty

Comedienne/writer Barbara Jo Allen induced laughs nationwide after originating and literally becoming synonymous with the talky, shrill-voiced, man-hungry spinster "Vera Vague," a WWII creation in the late 1930s. She kept the name throughout much of her career and was often billed as such. The ...

6. Basil Gogos

Karloff, the Gentle Monster

Acclaimed illustrator Basil Gogos was born in Egypt to Greek parents. He moved with his family to America when he was sixteen years old. Gogos attended several New York area schools which include the National School of Design, the Phoenix School of Design, and the School of the Visual Arts. ...

7. Beverly Bentley

Actress | C.H.U.D.

Beverly Bentley, originally of Atlanta, Georgia, began her career in 1951 in New York appearing on live television. She is a member of AEA, AFTRA, and SAG. She made her theatrical debut Off-Off Broadway in 1955 where she appeared as Connie Bliss in Clifford Odets' "The Big Knife", directed by her ...

8. Caterina Boratto

Actress | Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma

Caterina Boratto was born on March 15, 1915 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. She was an actress, known for Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), 8½ (1963) and Castle Keep (1969). She was married to Armando Ceratto. She died on September 14, 2010 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

9. Charles Crichton

Director | A Fish Called Wanda

Director Charles Crichton's film career began as an editor in 1935 with Alexander Korda's London Films, and in that capacity he worked on such productions as Sanders of the River (1935), Things to Come (1936) and Elephant Boy (1937) (which introduced Sabu to movie audiences). He soon left London ...

10. Dámaso Pérez Prado

Soundtrack | Space Cowboys

Pop orchestra leader responsible for the mambo craze that swept America during the early 1950s. Numerous hit recordings included, among others, "Patricia", "Mambo Jambo" and "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White". Would often interject his musical numbers with his signature grunt of "Dilo!".

11. Eiji Okada

Actor | Hiroshima mon amour

Eiji Okada was born on June 13, 1920 in Chiba, Japan. He was an actor, known for Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Woman in the Dunes (1964) and The Boy Detectives Club - The Iron Fiend (1957). He was married to Wasa, Aiko. He died on September 14, 1995 in Japan.

12. Gene Bacque

Self | ABC's Wide World of Sports

13. George Englund

Producer | The Ugly American

George Englund was born on June 22, 1926 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Ugly American (1963), The Eddie Fisher Show (1957) and Zachariah (1971). He was married to Bonnie Graves and Cloris Leachman. He died on September 14, 2017 in Palm ...

14. Gertrude Berg

Actress | The Goldbergs

Gertrude was born in New York City and her father owned a summer resort hotel. In her teens she wrote dialogues about her father and grandfather and recited them to guests at the hotel. This was the beginning of her writing which eventually led her to write "The Goldbergs." She married British-born...

15. Grace Kelly

Actress | Dial M for Murder

On November 12, 1929, Grace Patricia Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to wealthy parents. Her girlhood was uneventful for the most part, but one of the things she desired was to become an actress which she had decided on at an early age. After her high school graduation in 1947, Grace ...

16. Henry Gibson

Actor | Nashville

Henry Gibson was born on 21 September 1935 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Before appearing in films and television series, he was a child star on the stage during the 1940s and during the late 1950s he was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force. His screen debut came in 1963 when he was cast ...

17. Irving Thalberg

Producer | The Unknown

Irving Grant Thalberg was born in New York City, to Henrietta (Haymann) and William Thalberg, who were of German Jewish descent. He had a bad heart, having contracted rheumatic fever as a teenager and was plagued with other ailments all of his life. He was quite intelligent with a thirst for ...

18. Isadora Duncan

Writer | Isadora

Isadora Duncan was an American dancer and innovative educator known for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural projects, and a hectic marriage to the famous Russian poet Sergei Esenin.

She was born Isador 'Dora' Angela Duncan on May 26, 1877, in San Francisco, California. Her father, Joseph Duncan, ...

19. James Anderson

Actor | To Kill a Mockingbird

A familiar face to movie audiences in the 1950s, James Anderson's rugged and somewhat sinister good looks made him a natural for westerns, and he appeared in many of them over the years, often as a gunman or hired killer but occasionally as a storekeeper or grizzled frontier scout. He turned in a ...

20. James Westmoreland

Actor | Don't Answer the Phone!

James Westmoreland was born on November 25, 1935 in Dearborn, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Don't Answer the Phone! (1980), The Monroes (1966) and Bronco (1958). He was married to Kim Darby. He died on September 14, 2016 in Palm Desert, California, USA.

21. Janet Gaynor

Actress | A Star Is Born

Janet Gaynor was born Laura Gainor on October 6, 1906, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child, she & her parents moved to San Francisco, California, where she graduated from high school in 1923. She then moved to Los Angeles where she enrolled in a secretarial school. She got a job at a shoe ...

22. Jean Heywood

Actress | Billy Elliot

Jean Heywood was born on July 15, 1921 in Blyth, Northumberland, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Billy Elliot (2000), When the Boat Comes In (1976) and All Creatures Great and Small (1978). She was married to Roland Heywood. She died on September 14, 2019.

23. Jerry Fleck

Assistant_director | Star Trek: First Contact

Jerry Fleck was born on November 4, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and Edward Scissorhands (1990). He was married to Katy. He died on September 14, 2003 in Saugus, California, USA.

24. Jim Fuller

Sound_department | Hi Honey, I'm Home

Jim Fuller was born on November 1, 1971 in the USA. Jim is known for Hi Honey, I'm Home (1991), Welcome Freshmen (1991) and Clarissa Explains It All (1991). Jim died on September 14, 2013 in California, USA.

25. John Ralston

Self | The NFL on CBS

John Ralston was born on April 26, 1927 in Oakland, California, USA. He was married to Patricia and Patty Ward Ralston. He died on September 14, 2019 in Sunnyvale, California, USA.

26. Johnny Sekka

Actor | The Message

Johnny Sekka was born on July 21, 1934 in Dakar, Senegal. He was an actor, known for The Message (1976), Babylon 5 (1993) and The Avengers (1961). He was married to Cecilia Enger. He died on September 14, 2006 in Agua Dulce, California, USA.

27. Jorge Lavat

Actor | El Estudiante

Jorge Lavat was born on August 3, 1933 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor, known for El Estudiante (2009), Quinceañera (1987) and Muchachitas (1991). He was married to Silvia Burgos and Ana María Torres Landa. He died on September 14, 2011 in Mexico City, Distrito ...

28. Jorge Pedreros

Producer | De cara al mañana

Jorge Pedreros was born on August 8, 1942 in Santiago, Chile. He was a producer and actor, known for De cara al mañana (1982), Jappening con Ja (1978) and Dingolondango (1976). He was married to Gladys del Río. He died on September 14, 2013 in Santiago de Chile, Chile.

29. Julian Beck

Actor | Poltergeist II: The Other Side

A bold, innovative, avant-garde figure in theatre who helped revolutionized the style of playwriting and acting in the 1950s and 1960s, actor/writer/producer/directer Julian Beck was certainly a odd-looking sort with his baleful, hollow eyes, stark and skullish features and near-bald dome capped by...

30. Julie Bovasso

Actress | Saturday Night Fever

Julie Bovasso was born on August 1, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Saturday Night Fever (1977), The Verdict (1982) and My Blue Heaven (1990). She was married to Len Wayland and George Earl Ortman. She died on September 14, 1991 in New York City, New ...

31. Juliet Prowse

Actress | Can-Can

Born in India to South African parents, Juliet studied to be a dancer from the age of 4. Attending the Royal Academy of Dance, by the time Juliet was 14, she was deemed too tall to enter the world of ballet. She signed as a chorus dancer with the London Palladium and then pursued a career as a ...

32. Kim McGuire

Actress | Cry-Baby

Born in 1956 in New Orleans, LA, Kim McGuire was an actress, best known for playing Mona "Hatchet-Face" Malnorowski in John Waters' Cry-Baby (1990). Her other films include Disturbed (1990) and Acting on Impulse (1993). In 1997, after passing the State Bar exam, she began working as an attorney in ...

33. Lane Chandler

Actor | Samson and Delilah

American actor who had a brief flirtation with stardom before settling into character roles and bit parts. Born in rural South Dakota (according to government records, though some sources say Walsh County, North Dakota) as Robert C. Oakes, the son of a horse rancher, he moved with his family to ...

34. LaWanda Page

Actress | Friday

Best known for her role as Aunt Esther Anderson on "Sanford And Son", she appeared in many films including "Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood" (1996), "Friday" (1995), "The Legend of Dolemite" (1994), "West From North Goes South" (1993), "The Meteor Man" (1993...

35. Lía Casanova

Actress | Filomena Marturano

Lía Casanova was born in 1932 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Filomena Marturano (1950), Los inocentes (1963) and La amada inmóvil (1945). She died on September 14, 1986 in Argentina.

36. Lino Palacio

Writer | No te metás, Joaquín

Lino Palacio was born on November 5, 1903 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a writer, known for No te metás, Joaquín (1939) and Don Fulgencio (1950). He died in 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

37. Lisa Michelson

Actress | Majo no takkyûbin

Lisa Michelson was born on March 31, 1958 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), My Neighbor Totoro (1988) and Little Shop (1991). She was married to Gregory Snegoff. She died on September 14, 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

38. Lolita Torres

Actress | La hermana San Sulpicio

Lolita Torres was born on March 26, 1930 in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for La hermana San Sulpicio (1960), Más pobre que una laucha (1955) and 40 años de novios (1963). She was married to Julio Cesar Caccia and Santiago Rodolfo Burastero. She died ...

39. Lotus Long

Actress | Tokyo Rose

Lotus Long's father was Japanese and her mother was an ethnic Hawaiian. The family came to California in the 1920s and, because of her exotic beauty, Lotus didn't find it difficult to get into the movies and portrayed a succession of various Asian women. She took the stage name "Lotus Long", and ...

40. Louis Quinn

Actor | All the President's Men

Louis Quinn was born on March 23, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for All the President's Men (1976), 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and The Crowded Sky (1960). He was married to Christine Nelson and Joanne Elizabeth (Jody) Ward. He died on September 14, 1988 in Los Angeles, ...

41. Max Bennett

Writer | Paula De'Anda: Young, Wild and Free

Max Bennett was born on May 24, 1928 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. He was a writer, known for Paula De'Anda: Young, Wild and Free (2012), The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974) and The Danny Kaye Show (1963). He died on September 14, 2018 in San Clemente, California, USA.

42. Mickey Hargitay

Actor | Gli amori di Ercole

Mickey Hargitay was born on January 6, 1926 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for The Loves of Hercules (1960), Delirium (1972) and Bloody Pit of Horror (1965). He was married to Ellen Hargitay, Jayne Mansfield and Mary Birge. He died on September 14, 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

43. Norman Brooks

Soundtrack | Zelig

Norman Brooks was born on August 19, 1928 in Montreal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Zelig (1983), The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956) and The Block (1964). He died on September 14, 2006 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

44. Ove Sprogøe

Actor | Olsen-bandens sidste bedrifter

Ove Sprogøe was one of Denmark's finest and most treasured actors. Born in 1919 in Odense, where he also grew up, his parents were Arthur and Inger Sprogøe. He married his wife Eva in 1945, the same year as his stage debut at Folketeatret in Copenhagen.

Through a long career in film, television and ...

45. Patrick Swayze

Actor | Dirty Dancing

Patrick Wayne Swayze was born on August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas, to Patsy Swayze (née Yvonne Helen Karnes), a choreographer, and Jesse Wayne Swayze, a chemical plant engineer draftsman. His mother owned a dance school in Houston, where Patrick was also a student. His father passed away in 1982. ...

46. Robert Wise

Director | West Side Story

Robert Earl Wise was born on September 10, 1914 in Winchester, Indiana, the youngest of three sons of Olive R. (Longenecker) and Earl Waldo Wise, a meat packer. His parents were both of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. At age nineteen, the avid moviegoer came into the film business through an ...

47. Saeed Kangarani

Production_manager | Malakout

Saeed Kangarani was born in 1954 in Tehran, Iran. His best-known role was the role of the main actor/ Narrator Saeed in Daaee Jan Napoleon series aired in 1976. His excellent performance in Dar Emtedad Shab along with Googoosh is worth mentioning. For years he was mostly involved in TV series until...

48. Sam Szafran

Sam Szafran was born on November 19, 1934 in Paris, France. He was married to Lilette Keller. He died on September 14, 2019 in Malakoff, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

49. Sonia von Schrebler

Composer | El último día de invierno

Sonia von Schrebler is known for El último día de invierno (1942), Los perversos (1967) and Música en tu corazón (1946).

50. Stephen Dunham

Actor | The Mummy

Stephen Dunham was born on September 14, 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Mummy (1999), Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) and Get Smart (2008). He was married to Alexondra Lee. He died on September 13, 2012 in Burbank, California, USA.

51. Tito Vuolo

Actor | The Killing

Short, squat, voluble and Italian-born, Tito Vuolo could not avoid being typecast as the jolly Italian in office. In the nineteen fifties and sixties, Tito Vuolo portrayed dozens of Italian barbers, pizza makers, vendors, grocers, waiters, hotel or restaurant proprietors. He played them well but he...

52. Warren Hull

Actor | The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

He is the son of John Clarence & Laura H. (Shafer) Hull. He has two sisters, Laura Grace Hull; and Lina Southwick Hull.

He is also said to be the 23rd great grandson of both Henry II, King of England; and Robert de Vere (Robin Hood).

53. Wayne Morris

Actor | Paths of Glory

American actor who had early success as a sunny juvenile, but whose career declined following World War II, in which he was a highly-decorated hero. A native of Los Angeles, Morris played football at Los Angeles Junior College, then worked as a forest ranger. Returning to school, he studied acting ...

54. William McKinley

Self | President McKinley Reviewing the Troops

William McKinley (January 29, 1843 - September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. He was president during the Spanish-American War of 1898, raised protective tariffs to boost American industry, and rejected the expansionary ...

55. Yigong Wu

Director | Cheng nan jiu shi

Yigong Wu was born on December 1, 1938 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. He was a director and actor, known for My Memories of Old Beijing (1983), Evening Rain (1980) and Que li ren jia (1992). He died on September 14, 2019 in Shanghai, China.

56. Zienia Merton

Actress | Space: 1999

Born in Burma on December 11th, 1945, of an English father and a Burmese mother, Zienia lived in Singapore, then in Borneo and was schooled in Portugal. Zienia's childhood wish was to become a dancer, and upon securing her father's agreement she was registered at the dancing and acting school led ...