Deaths: September 25

1. Andy Williams

Soundtrack | Nobody

The extraordinary, easy-listening crooning talents of Andy Williams were first unveiled when he was 8 years old and inducted into the Williams Brothers Quartet as its youngest member. Born in Wall Lake, Iowa on December 3, 1927, Andy started singing with his three older brothers (Bob Williams, Dick...

2. Alejandra Pizarnik

Writer | Cineficción Radio

Alejandra Pizarnik was born on April 29, 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a writer, known for Cineficción Radio (2019). She died on September 25, 1972 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

3. Alex Montoya

Actor | The Magnificent Seven

Alex Montoya was born on October 19, 1907 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) and Soldiers of Fortune (1955). He died on September 25, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

4. Alicia de Larrocha

Soundtrack | Star Trek: Nemesis

Alicia de Larrocha was born on May 23, 1923 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She was married to Juan Torra. She died on September 25, 2009 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

5. Arne Weise

Producer | Natural World

Arne Weise was born on February 28, 1930 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He was a director and producer, known for Natural World (1983), Unga emigranter (1964) and Stockholm 12 timmar (1965). He was married to Agneta Malmberg, Kicki Christensson and Else-Marie Sundin. He died on September 25, 2019 in ...

6. Arnold Palmer

Actor | Return to Campus

Arnold Palmer was born on September 10, 1929 in Youngstown, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Return to Campus (1975), Call Me Bwana (1963) and Arnold Palmer: Course Strategy (1989). He was married to Kathleen Gawthrop and Winifred Walzer. He died on September 25, 2016 in Pittsburgh, ...

7. Art Gilmore

Actor | Highway Patrol

Art Gilmore was born on March 18, 1912 in Tacoma, Washington, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Highway Patrol (1955), Dragnet (1951) and Dragnet 1967 (1967). He was married to Grace Weller. He died on September 25, 2010 in Irvine, California, USA.

8. Bobby Knutt

Actor | Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Bobby Knutt was born on November 25, 1945 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996), Jake's Progress (1995) and How We Used to Live (1968). He was married to Donna Hartley. He died on September 25, 2017 in Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France.

9. Cornell Woolrich

Writer | The Window

Prolific mystery writer Cornell Woolrich was born in New York City, but his parents separated when he was young and he spent much of his childhood in Latin America with his father. Then he was sent back to New York to live with his rich, domineering mother, Claire. He attended Columbia University ...

10. Dolores Michaels

Actress | The Wayward Bus

Dolores Michaels was born on January 30, 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for The Wayward Bus (1957), Warlock (1959) and Fräulein (1958). She was married to Bernard Woolfe and Maurice Martine. She died on September 25, 2001 in West Hollywood, California, USA.

11. Don Adams

Actor | Get Smart

Don Adams was born in New York, to a father of Hungarian Jewish descent, and a mother of German and Irish ancestry. He had a sister, Gloria, and a brother, Dick Yarmy. He served in the U.S. Marines in World War II and contracted malaria during the fighting on Guadalcanal island. After the war he ...

12. Elizabeth Dawn

Actress | Coronation Street

Sylvia Butterfield MBE, known professionally as Elizabeth Dawn or Liz Dawn, was an English actress, best known for her role as Vera Duckworth in the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street. First starting on the serial in 1974, she had more of a recurring role as a factory worker until ...

13. Emlyn Williams

Writer | The Last Days of Dolwyn

Born George Emlyn Williams in Pen-y-Ffordd, Mostyn, Flintshire in northeast Wales on November 1905, he lived in a rural village in which Welsh was spoken until he was 12 years old, when his family moved to an English-speaking town, Connah's Quay. It changed the course of his life, as it was there ...

14. Francis De Sales

Actor | Two Faces West

Francis De Sales was born on March 23, 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Two Faces West (1960), Mr. & Mrs. North (1952) and The Outer Limits (1963). He was married to Doris Frances Mylott and Eileen Elizabeth Carroll. He died on September 25, 1988 in Van Nuys, ...

15. Frank Fay

Actor | God's Gift to Women

Frank Fay was born on November 17, 1891 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for God's Gift to Women (1931), Nothing Sacred (1937) and The Matrimonial Bed (1930). He was married to Barbara Stanwyck, Frances White, Betty Kean and Gladys Buchanan. He died on September ...

16. George Plimpton

Actor | Good Will Hunting

George Plimpton was born on March 18, 1927 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Good Will Hunting (1997), Nixon (1995) and Just Cause (1995). He was married to Sara Whitehead Dudley and Freddy Medora Espy. He died on September 26, 2003 in Manhattan, New York City, ...

17. Gérard Palaprat

Actor | Trans-Europ-Express

Gérard Palaprat was born on June 12, 1950 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Trans-Europ-Express (1966), Vidocq (1967) and Le grand voyage (1969). He was married to Guylaine. He died on September 25, 2017 in Beauvoir-sur-Niort, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

18. Helen Broderick

Actress | Swing Time

Helen Broderick was a deliciously funny character comedienne with vaudeville and stage experience, a close friend of Jeanne Eagels. The story goes that, at the age of 14, she ran away from home because her mother (who featured in operatic comedy) was totally obsessed by the theatre. Ironically, all...

19. Jan Tríska

Actor | Ronin

Jan Tríska was born on November 4, 1936 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Ronin (1998), Apt Pupil (1998) and The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996). He was married to Karla Chadimová. He died on September 25, 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic.

20. Jean Shepard

Soundtrack | Opry Video Classics: Queens

Jean Shepard was born on November 21, 1933 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, USA. She was married to Benny Howard Birchfield, Archie Leon Summers and Harold Hawkshaw Hawkins. She died on September 25, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

21. Jerry Thorpe

Producer | Kung Fu

Jerry Thorpe was born on August 29, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Kung Fu (1972), The MacKenzies of Paradise Cove (1979) and The Venetian Affair (1966). He was married to Dee Turnell. He died on September 25, 2018 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

22. John Bonham

Soundtrack | The Song Remains the Same

John Bonham is still regularly voted in polls as the greatest and most influential rock drummer of all time, an opinion which has also been expressed by the likes of Roger Taylor of Queen, Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

He started playing drums at the age of five ...

23. José Ignacio Rucci

José Ignacio Rucci was born on March 15, 1924 in Alcorta, Santa Fe, Argentina. He died on September 25, 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

24. Karyn Dwyer

Actress | Better Than Chocolate

Karyn is best known for her starring role as Maggie in the hit independent film, Better Than Chocolate (1999). She was also in Superstar (1999), Sailor Moon (1995) , The Life Before This (1999) , and many other film, TV, and theatrical productions. She created, produced, and starred in her one ...

25. Kashif

Soundtrack | Brenda Starr

Kashif, artist/producer CEO, Founder and Creative Director Music Business 411

From his teenage years as a member of the '70s seminal funk band B.T. Express, through his award-winning albums as a solo artist and his hit-making productions with such major artists as Whitney Houston, George Benson, Al ...

26. Kent Lipham

Actor | No Retreat No Surrender

Kent Lipham was born to Jimmy and Nancy Lipham in 1961. He has a younger brother named Jamie. Around the age of sixteen, fearing he was becoming agoraphobic his mother insisted Kent join a club. Not being very smart, athletic, or crafty the drama club seemed perfect for him. The roar of the grease ...

27. Lani O'Grady

Actress | Eight Is Enough

Although Lani O'Grady retired from acting in the '80s to become a talent agent like her mother, she had long secured her place in the TV Land pantheon as Mary, the brainiac wannabe doctor in Eight Is Enough (1977)'s expansive Bradford brood. The dramedy, starring Dick Van Patten as a newspaper ...

28. Laura Waterbury

Actress | Better Off Dead...

Laura Waterbury was born on March 12, 1947 in Bedford, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Better Off Dead (1985), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) and Innerspace (1987). She died on September 25, 2013 in North Hollywood, California, USA.

29. Lewis Milestone

Director | All Quiet on the Western Front

Lewis Milestone, a clothing manufacturer's son, was born in Bessarabia (now Moldova), raised in Odessa (Ukraine) and educated in Belgium and Berlin (where he studied engineering). He was fluent in both German and Russian and an avid reader. Milestone had an affinity for the theatre from an early ...

30. Libi Staiger

Actress | Hanky Panky

Libi Staiger was born on January 10, 1928 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Hanky Panky (1982), Guiding Light (1952) and Kate & Allie (1984). She was married to Jerome Eskow. She died on September 25, 2019 in Austin, Texas, USA.

31. Linda Porter

Actress | Dude, Where's My Car?

Linda Porter was born on January 31, 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) and Twins (1988). She died on September 25, 2019 in the USA.

32. Mary Astor

Actress | The Maltese Falcon

Mary Astor was born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke on May 3, 1906 in Quincy, Illinois to Helen Marie Vasconcellos, an American of Portuguese and Irish ancestry from Illinois, and Otto Ludwig Langhanke, a German immigrant. Mary's parents were very ambitious for her and wanted something better for her...

33. Paul Badura-Skoda

Writer | Essence

Paul Badura-Skoda was born on October 6, 1927 in Wien, Austria. He was a writer, known for Essence (2018), Harmoniques (1998) and Dalli Dalli (1971). He was married to Eva Halfar. He died on September 25, 2019 in Vienna, Austria.

34. Rodrigo Obregón

Actor | Hard Ticket to Hawaii

Rodrigo Obregón was born on October 28, 1951, in Paris, France, as Rodrigo Obregón Osorio. He moved back to Colombia with his family at a very young age. In his early teens, he was given a choice by his choreographer mother between pursuing dancing or academics and he chose dancing. At fifteen ...

35. Shoki Mokgapa

Actress | Dredd

Shoki Mokgapa was born on August 17, 1984 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. She was an actress, known for Dredd (2012), Sink (2015) and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013). She died on September 25, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

36. Tim Quill

Actor | Hamburger Hill

Tim Quill was born on October 18, 1962 in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Hamburger Hill (1987), Argo (2012) and Hiding Out (1987). He was married to Lisa Jo Casanova Quill. He died on September 25, 2017 in Monmouth, New Jersey, USA.

37. Anthony Booth

Actor | Corruption

Anthony Booth was born on October 9, 1931 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Corruption (1968), Till Death Us Do Part (1965) and The Hi-Jackers (1963). He was married to Stephanie Buckley, Nancy Jaeger, Patricia Phoenix and Gale Booth. He died on September 25, 2017 in Todmorden, ...

38. Venu Madhav

Actor | Sye

Venu madhav was born in Kodad in Andhrapradesh(Now Telangana) State. He was popular as mimicry artist and campaigned for Telugu Desam Party chief NTR during 1994 elections. He debuted in movies with 1996 movie Sampradayam. He rose to fame with his next films Master, Tholiprema. He also hosted ...

39. Walter Pidgeon

Actor | Forbidden Planet

Walter Pidgeon, a handsome, tall and dark-haired man, began his career studying voice at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He then did theater, mainly stage musicals. He went to Hollywood in the early 1920s, where he made silent films, including Mannequin (1926) and Sumuru (1927). ...