Deaths: March 12

1. Lynne Thigpen

Multi-talented actress Lynne Thigpen was born Cherlynne Thigpen in Joliet, Illinois, on December 22, 1948. She performed in community theater and university theater productions while attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Following graduation, she taught high-school English for a...

2. Alphonse Beni

Actor | Les 69 positions

Alphonse Beni was born in 1946 in Nkongsamba, Cameroon. He was an actor and director. He was married to Suzanne Beni. He died on March 12, 2023.

3. Arnold Ridley

Actor | Dad's Army

Young Arnold Ridley was forced to give up a budding acting career and turn to writing. He hit the jackpot with 'The Ghost Train' which was a great West End success, and has been filmed several times. This was followed by a number of other plays during the 1920s and 1930s. In later life he returned ...

4. Barbara Morrison

Actress | From Here to Eternity

Barbara Morrison was born on October 1, 1907 in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK. She was an actress, known for From Here to Eternity (1953), Papillon (1973) and Darktown Strutters (1975). She died on March 12, 1992 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

5. Celmira Luzardo

Actress | La mujer del presidente

Celmira Luzardo was born on March 31, 1952 in Bogota, Colombia. She was an actress, known for La mujer del presidente (1997), Herencia maldita (1990) and Los Cuervos (1984). She died on March 12, 2014 in Bogota, Colombia.

6. Charlie Parker

Soundtrack | Se7en

Charles Christopher Parker Jr. was born on August 29, 1920, in a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, to Charles Parker Sr. and his 18-year-old wife Addie. His father ran out on the family when Charlie was just a little boy. When he was 11 his mother bought him an alto saxophone for his birthday. By ...

7. Charlie Quintana

Music_department | Repo Man

Charlie Quintana was born in 1962 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Repo Man (1984), Cruzados: Motorcycle Girl (1985) and Cruzados: Hanging Out in California (1986). He died on March 15, 2018.

8. Clive Burr

Music_department | Class of Nuke 'Em High

Clive Burr was born on March 8, 1957 in East Ham, London, England, UK [now East Ham, Newham, London, England, UK]. He was an actor, known for Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986), Me Me Me (2011) and Alcatraz: Island in the Sun (1983). He died on March 12, 2013 in Wanstead, London, England, UK.

9. Craig Mack

Soundtrack | The Wackness

Craig Mack was born on September 3, 1971 in North Trenton, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for The Wackness (2008), 25th Hour (2002) and Barbershop (2002). He died on March 12, 2018 in Walterboro, South Carolina, USA.

10. Danny Thompson

Actor | Space Is the Place

Danny Thompson was born on October 1, 1947 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Space Is the Place (1974), Spaceways (1968) and Parkinson (1971). He was married to Marilyn Ojugbana. He died on March 12, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

11. Don Burrows

Music_department | Fluteman

Don Burrows was born on August 8, 1928 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was a composer and actor, known for Fluteman (1982), Two Thousand Weeks (1969) and Death of a Soldier (1986). He died on March 12, 2020 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

12. Dorothy Maclean

Self | Findhorn

Dorothy Maclean was born on January 7, 1920 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She was married to John Wood. She died on March 12, 2020 in Findhorn, Moray, Scotland, UK.

13. Erol Büyükburç

Actor | Neredesin Firuze

Erol Büyükburç was born on August 8, 1936 in Adana, Turkey. He was an actor and composer, known for Neredesin Firuze (2004), Haydi Gençlik Hop Hop Hop (1975) and Kizilciklar oldumu (1967). He was married to Emel Büyükburç. He died on March 12, 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey.

14. Estelita Rodriguez

Actress | Rio Bravo

Estelita Rodriguez was born on July 2, 1928 in Guanajay, Cuba. She was an actress, known for Rio Bravo (1959), Belle of Old Mexico (1950) and Susanna Pass (1949). She was married to Dr. Ricardo A. Pego, Ismael Alfonso Halfss, aka Henry Half, Grant Withers and Chu Chu Martinez. She died on March 12,...

15. Eurico Miranda

Self | Copa União

Eurico Miranda was born on June 7, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was married to Sylvia Brandão Miranda. He died on March 12, 2019 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

16. Hugh Herbert

Actor | The Black Cat

Former stage actor and playwright - he wrote over 150 plays and vaudeville sketches - Hugh Herbert went, in the early 1930s to Hollywood, as a comedian. In the 1930s he worked mostly for Warner Bros., impersonating often eccentric millionaires, tycoons and dimwitted professors. In a few movies he ...

17. Jean Vallée

Composer | Fusil chargé

Jean Vallée was born on October 2, 1939 in Verviers, Belgium. He was an actor and composer, known for Fusil chargé (1972), Night Club (1966) and Chansons euro '70 (1969). He died on March 12, 2014 in Clermont-sur-Berwinne, Belgium.

18. Joe Morello

Music_department | Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate

Joe Morello was born on July 17, 1928 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate (1967), Närvarande (2003) and Jazz i K.B. Hallen: Dave Brubeck Quartet (1965). He was married to Jean. He died on March 12, 2011 in Elizabeth, New ...

19. John Cazale

Actor | Dog Day Afternoon

John Cazale was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to an Irish-American mother, Cecilia (Holland), and an Italian-American father, John Cazale. Cazale made only five feature films in his career, which fans and critics alike call classics. But before his film debut, in the short The American Way (1962),...

20. John Richardson

Self | Drug-Taking and the Arts

John Richardson was born on February 6, 1924 in London, England, UK. He died in March 2019 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

21. Jorge Guinzburg

Writer | Sex a pilas

Jorge Guinzburg was an Argentine journalist, writer, humorist and publicist. Born in Argentina in 1948, he began his career in radio with his friend Carlos Abrevaya (deceased in 1994), after both leave the studies in the law University. He made debut on radio in the Juan Carlos Mareco's program (...

22. Josephine Hull

Actress | Harvey

Josephine Sherwood changed her name after marrying stage actor Shelly Hull in 1910. She studied drama at Radcliffe College -- much to the dismay of her parents -- and first worked on the stage in a stock company in Boston. Her husband died in 1919, aged 35, of Spanish influenza. Josephine left the ...

23. Juanin Clay

Actress | WarGames

Juanin Clay was born on November 26, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for WarGames (1983), The Edge of Night (1956) and The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981). She was married to Joe Lambie. She died on March 12, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

24. Karen Steele

Actress | Marty

Karen Steele was born on March 20, 1931, in Honolulu, Hawaii. A former cover girl and model, she was one of the most strikingly beautiful actresses to ever work in film and television. She went to the University of Hawaii and to Rollins College in Florida before gracing our film screens with her ...

25. Magda Guzmán

Actress | En nombre del amor

Magda Guzmán was born on May 16, 1928 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. She was an actress, known for In the Name of Love (2008), La duda (1954) and La vida no vale nada (1955). She was married to Federico Falcón and Julian Dupre. She died on March 12, 2015 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

26. Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Writer | Nate the Great Goes Undercover

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat was born on November 12, 1928 in Portland, Oregon, USA. She was a writer, known for Nate the Great Goes Undercover (1978) and I'm Not Oscar's Friend Anymore (1983). She was married to Mitchell Sharmat. She died on March 12, 2019 in Munster, Indiana, USA.

27. Maurice Evans

Actor | Planet of the Apes

A grand, robust, highly theatrical British classical actor, Maurice Evans was born on June 3, 1901, in Dorchester, England, the son of a justice of the peace who enjoyed amateur play writing on the side. In fact, his father adapted several adaptations of Thomas Hardy's novels and Evans would often ...

28. Med Flory

Actor | The Nutty Professor

Med was a great jazz saxophone player, band leader and big band musician. To say he was only an actor is the equivalent of saying Dwight D. Eisenhower was a military general without mentioning that he was also President of the United States. Flory was primarily a musician, with acting as a sideline.

29. Morton Downey Jr.

Actor | Predator 2

Talk-show host and songwriter ("Because We're Young", "Hearts Are Wild"), composer, author, actor and singer, educated at New York University (BS) and a two-year Law School student. He was a program director and announcer at WPOP in Hartford, Connecticut, and later made several records under his ...

30. Nokie Edwards

Soundtrack | Kangaroo Jack

Nokie Edwards was born on May 9, 1935 in Lahoma, Oklahoma, USA. He was married to Judy Bean, Zelda Wade and Jean Bauers. He died on March 12, 2018 in Yuma, Arizona, USA.

31. Oleg Tabakov

Actor | Voyna i mir

Oleg Tabakov was a renown Russian actor, director, and public figure, who played over 100 roles in film and on TV. He is best known for his roles as Count Nikita Rostov in War and Peace (1965) by Sergey Bondarchuk, and as Oblomov in the eponymous film by Nikita Mikhalkov.

He was born Oleg Pavlovich ...

32. Patrick Nève

Self | Formula 1

Patrick Nève was born on October 13, 1949 in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. He died on March 13, 2017 in Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium.

33. Pete Mitchell

Self | Eggheads

Pete Mitchell was married to Helen . He died on March 12, 2020 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK.

34. Richard Coogan

Actor | Captain Video and His Video Rangers

Richard Coogan was born on April 4, 1914 in Short Hills, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949), Bronco (1958) and Girl on the Run (1953). He died on March 12, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

35. Robert Castel

Self | Après la gauche

Robert Castel was born on March 27, 1933 in Saint-Pierre-Quilbignon, France. He died on March 12, 2013 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France.

36. Robert Ludlum

Writer | The Bourne Supremacy

Robert Ludlum was born on May 25, 1927 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Legacy (2012). He was married to Karen Dunn and Mary Patricia Ryducha. He died on March 12, 2001 in Naples, Florida, ...

37. Roland F. Crump

Self | Tomorrowman

Roland F. Crump was born on February 27, 1930 in Alhambra, California, USA. He is known for Tomorrowman, The Magical World of Disney (1954) and The Imagineering Story (2019). He was married to Leona Deiman and Marie Tocci. He died on March 12, 2023 in Carlsbad, California, USA.

38. Ronald DeFeo

Self | 75A4053: The Ronald DeFeo Interview

Ronald DeFeo was born on September 26, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Nissa Burkhalter, Tracey Defeo and Barbara Puco. He died on March 12, 2021 in Albany, New York, USA.

39. Roy Glenn

Actor | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Roy Glenn was born on June 3, 1914 in Pittsburg, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) and Lydia Bailey (1952). He was married to Pauline (Lilla) Fractious. He died on March 12, 1971 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

40. Rudolf Mang

Self | ABC's Wide World of Sports

Rudolf Mang was born on June 17, 1950 in Bellenberg, Bavaria, Germany. He was married to Heidi. He died on March 12, 2018 in Bellenberg, Bavaria, Germany.

41. Samantha Lewes

Actress | Bosom Buddies

Samantha Lewes was born on November 29, 1952 in San Diego, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Bosom Buddies (1980) and Mr. Success (1984). She was married to Tom Hanks. She died on March 12, 2002 in Sacramento, California, USA.

42. Shelby Bacon

Actor | Holiday Inn

Shelby Bacon was born on November 29, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Holiday Inn (1942), Corpus Christi Bandits (1945) and Perils of the Jungle (1953). He died on March 12, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

43. Shelly Liebowitz

Producer | The Legend of Fillmore Slim

A veteran of more than 35 years in the entertainment industry, Shelly Liebowitz's diversified background and wide range of experiences has allowed him to explore all facets of the music industry including writer, director, record promoter, record producer, and personal manager - eventually leading ...

44. Sir Lancelot

Actor | I Walked with a Zombie

He was born Lancelot Victor Edward Pinard, to well-to-do Anglophile parents in Trinidad. Oddly though, it wasn't until schooling took him to New York City in 1940 that he discovered a love of calypso music. In a profession where successful artists commonly took names like King Radio or Lord Invader...

45. Terry Pratchett

Writer | Good Omens

Terry Pratchett was born on April 28, 1948 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Good Omens (2019), Untitled Discworld Project and The Wee Free Men. He was married to Lyn Marian Purves. He died on March 12, 2015 in Broadchalke, Salisbury, Wiltshire, ...

46. Tonie Marshall

Writer | Vénus beauté (institut)

Tonie Marshall was the daughter of French actress Micheline Presle and American actor/director William Marshall, who appeared in such '40s and '50s films as Knute Rockne All American (1940). As a child, Tonie saw her mother "doing movies and getting invited everywhere", and the life of an actress ...

47. Traci Braxton

Actress | Sinners Wanted

Traci Braxton was born on April 2, 1971 in Severn, Maryland, USA. She was a producer and actress, known for Sinners Wanted (2018), CHAAW: Chapter 1 (2023) and BET Her Presents: The Couch (2020). She was married to Kevin Surratt. She died on March 12, 2022 in the USA.

48. Vera Chytilová

Director | O necem jiném

Vera Chytilová was born on February 2, 1929, in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). She studied philosophy and architecture in Brno for two years, then worked as a technical draftsman, a designer, a fashion model, a photo re-toucher, then worked as a clapper girl for Barrandov Film ...