Deaths: October 16

1. John Clarke

John Clarke was born on April 14, 1931 in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Days of Our Lives (1965), The Satan Bug (1965) and Death Valley Days (1952). He was married to Patricia Clarke. He died on October 16, 2019 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.

2. Adam Kennedy

Writer | Raise the Titanic

Adam Kennedy was born on March 10, 1922 in Otterbein, Indiana, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Raise the Titanic (1980), The Domino Principle (1977) and The Dove (1974). He was married to Susan Adams. He died on October 16, 1997 in Kent, Connecticut, USA.

3. Alfredo Iglesias

Actor | Alta comedia

Alfredo Iglesias was an actor, known for Alta comedia (1965), Fiesta y bronca de ser joven (1992) and Juego limpio (1996). He died on October 16, 2001.

4. Ariel Delgado

Self | Almorzando con Mirtha Legrand

Ariel Delgado was born on March 15, 1931 in Mercedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died on October 16, 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

5. Audra Lindley

Actress | Three's Company

Audra Marie Lindley was born in Los Angeles, California, to a show-business family -- her father, Bert Lindley, was a stage and film actor. She got her early start in Hollywood as a stand-in, which eventually progressed to stunt work. After a while, however, she found stunt work not to her liking ...

6. Barbara Billingsley

Actress | Airplane!

Born Barbara Lillian Combes, she attended Los Angeles Junior College in the mid-1930s and then moved to New York City, where she worked as a model. In 1945, she received a contract from MGM, and she appeared in several films during the late 1940s and 1950s, sometimes without screen credit. In the ...

7. Cecilia Hart

Actress | Law & Order

Cecilia Hart was born on June 6, 1948 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. She was an actress, known for Law & Order (1990), The Runaways (1978) and MacGyver (1985). She was married to James Earl Jones and Bruce Weitz. She died on October 16, 2016 in Westport, Connecticut, USA.

8. Chao Li Chi

Actor | Big Trouble in Little China

Capable Chinese-American actor Chao Li Chi was born in Shanxi Province, China to a prominent local family. When he was 12 years old, he and his family fled China and emigrated to New York City as refugees from the Second Sino-Japanese War. Academically-gifted and well-versed in the ancient arts of ...

9. Cornel Wilde

Actor | The Greatest Show on Earth

Cornel Wilde was born Kornel Lajos Weisz on October 13, 1912 in Prievidza, Hungary (now part of Slovakia) to a Jewish family. In 1920, he immigrated to New York City with his parents, Rayna (Vid) and Vojtech Béla Weisz, and elder sister, Edith. His family Anglicized their names. Kornel took the ...

10. Dan Dailey

Actor | The Governor & J.J.

Born in New York City, Dan Dailey started his career in vaudeville, later making his Broadway debut in the stage version of "Babes in Arms".

When signed to MGM, the studio initially casted him as a Nazi in The Mortal Storm (1940). The studio realized their mistake and cast him in musical films, ...

11. Dan Wheldon

Self | Born Racer

Dan Wheldon was born on June 22, 1978 in Emberton, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was married to Susan Behm. He died on October 16, 2011 in North Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

12. Deborah Kerr

Actress | The King and I

Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. She was educated at Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol. She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. She subsequently performed with the Oxford ...

13. Dennis Hof

Self | Alongside Night

Dennis Hof was born on October 14, 1946 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. He was an actor, known for Alongside Night (2014) and Zombie Brothel. He died on October 16, 2018 in Crystal, Nevada, USA.

14. Dimitar Petrov

Director | Opasen polet

Dimitar Petrov was born on October 22, 1924 in Rila, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. He was a director and assistant director, known for Opasen polet (1968), Taralezhite se razhdat bez bodli (1971) and Kapitanat (1963). He died on October 16, 2018 in Bulgaria.

15. Don Barclay

Actor | The Falcon's Brother

Besides being a zany comedian, Don Barclay ( born Donn Van Tassel Barclay) was an innovative caricaturist whose humorous depictions of celebrities can be found in countless art galleries, museums, bars and restaurants across the United States. His most famous drawing (entitled 'SkiNose', displayed ...

16. Ed Lauter

Actor | Not Another Teen Movie

Edward Matthew Lauter II was born on October 30, 1938 in Long Beach, New York. In a film career that extended for over four decades, Lauter starred in a plethora of film and television productions since making his big screen debut in the western Dirty Little Billy (1972). He portrayed an eclectic ...

17. Eugene 'Porky' Lee

Actor | The Awful Tooth

Eugene 'Porky' Lee was born on October 25, 1933 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Awful Tooth (1938), Our Gang Follies of 1938 (1937) and Canned Fishing (1938). He died on October 16, 2005 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

18. Fyodor Glushchenko

Soundtrack | De zee die denkt

Fyodor Glushchenko was born on March 29, 1944 in Zimovniki, Rostov Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is known for De zee die denkt (2000), Yaroslav Mudry (1982) and Yesli mozhesh, prosti... (1984). He died on October 14, 2017 in Moscow, Russia.

19. Gene Krupa

Soundtrack | Avengers: Age of Ultron

Gene married Ethel McGuire in 1934. She was the switchboard operator at the Dixie Hotel where Gene was living while he was working in the pit band of "Girl Crazy." They were divorced in 1942 and remarried in 1946. Ethel died in 1955. Gene then married Patty Bowler in 1959 and they adopted two ...

20. George O'Hara

Actor | Is That Nice?

George O'Hara was born on February 24, 1899 in Eureka, Utah, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Is That Nice? (1926), The Crossroads of New York (1922) and Ladies Beware (1927). He died on October 16, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

21. Gerardo Alfaro

Actor | La oreja

Gerardo Alfaro was born on March 16, 1973 in Mexico City, Mexico. He was an actor, known for La oreja (2001), Con todo (2004) and Big Brother VIP: México (2002). He died on October 15, 2007 in Mexico City, Mexico.

22. Héctor Gance

Actor | ¡Robot!

Héctor Gance was born on March 1, 1927 in Mar del Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for ¡Robot! (1970), Rebelde con causa (1961) and The Journey (1992). He died on October 16, 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

23. Iain Shedden

Self | Punk in London

Iain Shedden was married to Christine. He died on October 16, 2017 in Sydney, Australia.

24. Jack DeLeon

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

Jack DeLeon was born on December 19, 1924 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Temptress (1995) and Allyson Is Watching (1997). He died on October 16, 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

25. Jason Bernard

Actor | Liar Liar

Jason Bernard was born on May 17, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Liar Liar (1997), WarGames (1983) and While You Were Sleeping (1995). He was married to Carol Joy Pacanda and Debra Jean Wilson. He died on October 16, 1996 in Burbank, California, USA.

26. Jean Shepherd

Actor | A Christmas Story

Raised in Hammond, Indiana, Jean Shepherd went on to work in the steel mills and was a veteran of the Army Signal Corps before entering the arts. In the 1950s, he began a long career as a radio personality telling stories of his youth, commenting on current topics and performing silly songs. While ...

27. John Dunsworth

Actor | Trailer Park Boys

John Dunsworth was born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, not far from the sea where he would spend much of his time on his yacht when not working. John was one of Halifax's most venerable and revered actors, appearing in countless CBC radio dramas and held leading roles in over 25 Neptune Theatre ...

28. John Larch

Actor | Dirty Harry

Instantly recognizable American character actor with bulbous nose and heavily lined face, who could convey integrity or menace to equal effect. He first came to prominence on radio as (Captain) Starr of Space (1953), using ray guns to combat Martians and alien queens. Beginning in 1953, Larch ...

29. John Reynolds

Actor | Manos: The Hands of Fate

John Reynolds was born on September 15, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966). He died on October 16, 1966 in El Paso, Texas, USA.

30. José María Vilches

Actor | 40 años de novios

José María Vilches was born in 1936 in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for 40 años de novios (1963), Candilejas (1965) and Amor bajo cero (1960). He died on October 16, 1984 in Pardo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

31. Leo G. Carroll

Actor | North by Northwest

One of the most indispensable of character actors, Leo G. Carroll was already involved in the business of acting as a schoolboy in Gilbert & Sullivan productions. Aged 16, he portrayed an old man in 'Liberty Hall'. In spite of the fact, that he came from a military family, and , perhaps, because of...

32. Moshe Dayan

Self | Ben Gurion Zoher

Born of Ukrainian Jewish immigrant parents in Palestine in 1915, Moshe Dayan joined the Haganah (Defense) the underground Jewish army in Palestine in 1929 with aimed to protect Jewish people from harassment and violence from the Muslim Palestinian population with resented Jewish presense in ...

33. Nora Cullen

Actress | Brigada en acción

Nora Cullen was born in 1905 in Argentina. She was an actress, known for Brigada en acción (1977), La casa de las sombras (1976) and Separate Tables (1974). She was married to Guillermo Battaglia. She died on October 16, 1990 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

34. Nora Lane

Actress | The Western Code

Nora Bennett Schilling was born in Chester, Illinois. She grew up and went to school near St. Louis. After modeling for a time, she went to visit a friend in California and was noticed by someone in the film industry. She successfully passed her screen test and began playing small parts in silent ...

35. Patrick Day

Self | On the Line

36. Peggy Ann Garner

Actress | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Actress Peggy Ann Garner was born Feb. 3, 1932, in Canton, Ohio. Her father was an English-born attorney, William H. Garner, who served as a U.S. Army officer during World War II. Virginia, her determined mother, got Peggy into summer stock and modeling before she was six. Estranged from her ...

37. Peter Bromilow

Actor | Wild at Heart

Peter Bromilow was born on April 21, 1933 in Cheshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Wild at Heart (1990), My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) and The Rocketeer (1991). He died on October 16, 1994 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

38. Rick Jason

Actor | Combat!

The only child of a stockbroker and well-to-do mother, Richard Jacobson (who changed his surname to "Jason") described himself as "second-generation nouveau riche" and a born romantic. His behavior got him expelled from eight prep schools before he managed to graduate from the Rhodes School. His ...

39. Roy Dotrice

Actor | Hellboy II: The Golden Army

The ever-impressive, chameleon-like British character actor Roy Dotrice was born on the Island of Guernsey, which is part of the United Kingdom, one of the Channel Islands off the coast of France. He was the first-born child of Louis and Neva Dotrice who prospered as bakers. The Germans occupied ...

40. Sabú

Music_department | Luisana mía

Sabú was born on September 12, 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Luisana mía (1981), Vuelvo a vivir, vuelvo a cantar (1971) and El mundo que inventamos (1973). He was married to Lupita D'Alessio. He died on October 16, 2005 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.

41. Sam Hardy

Actor | King Kong

Sam Hardy was born on March 21, 1883 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for King Kong (1933), The Miracle Woman (1931) and Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934). He was married to Betty Scott. He died on October 16, 1935 in Hollywood, California, USA.

42. Sean Hughes

Actor | The Last Detective

Sean Hughes was born on November 10, 1965 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Last Detective (2003), Sean's Show (1992) and The Commitments (1991). He died on October 16, 2017 in Highgate, London, England, UK.

43. Shirley Booth

Actress | Come Back, Little Sheba

Character actress Shirley Booth could play everything in all facets of show business, whether it was Miss Duffy the Tavern Owner's Man Crazy Daughter on "Duffy's Tavern", the sassy maid on TV's Hazel (1961) or the pathetic woman in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952). For those who only know her through...

44. Shunkai Yan

Actor | A Q zheng zhuan

Shunkai Yan was born on June 6, 1937 in Shanghai, China. He was an actor and director, known for A Q zheng zhuan (1981), A Tan nei zhuan (1988) and The New Stories of Du Xiaoxi (1984). He died on October 16, 2017 in China.

45. Stanley Clements

Actor | Up in Smoke

Stanley Clements realized he wanted a show-business career while he was in grammar school, and when he graduated he toured in vaudeville for two years. He then joined the touring company of Edward Bowes' (aka Major Bowes) Amateur Hour. In 1941 he was signed to a contract by 20th Century-Fox and ...

46. Sumi Haru

Actress | Krakatoa: East of Java

Sumi Haru was born on August 25, 1939 in Orange, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Krakatoa: East of Java (1968), Hill Street Blues (1981) and Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969). She died on October 16, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

47. Susana Campos

Actress | El día que me quieras

After more than ten years playing bits and co-starring roles in movies, she attained stardom in Mario Soffici's Rosaura a las 10 (1958). Next she went to Spain, where she played leading roles in many films. Back in Argentina in the mid-sixties, since then she gave able performances in movies, ...

48. Ursula Howells

Actress | Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

Ursula Howells was educated at St Paul's Girls' School in London, where her father Herbert Howells, a doyen of English church music taught music for 26 years. Following the death of her brother Michael from polio in 1935, her father composed his great choral masterpiece "Hymnus Paradisi".

She was ...

49. Vladek Sheybal

Actor | Red Dawn

Looking back at his filmography, it isn't difficult to imagine Vladek Sheybal in a scene, lobbing Molotov cocktails at advancing German troops, against a backdrop of war-torn Warsaw. However, this part of his life played out for real. A member of the Polish underground, he was twice captured and ...