Deaths: December 21

1. Emanuel Ungaro

Costume_department | Gloria

Emanuel Ungaro was born on February 13, 1933 in Aix-En-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a costume designer, known for Gloria (1980), Trompe l'oeil (1975) and La truite (1982). He was married to Laura Bernabei Fanfani. He died on December 21, 2019 in Paris, France.

2. Albert Bettcher

Camera_department | Blade Runner

Al Bettcher began his career with the 168th Signal Photo Corp in WWII. After the war he filmed the Japanese War Crimes Trials in the Philippines. When he returned home, he started at the Columbia studios still lab, where he worked for 7 years before breaking in as an assistant cameraman on the ...

3. Bill Simpson

Actor | Kidnapped

Bill Simpson was born on September 11, 1931 in Ayr, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Kidnapped (1978), The Good Companions (1980) and Scotch on the Rocks (1973). He was married to Tracy Reed and Mary Miller. He died on December 21, 1986 in Ayrshire, Scotland, UK.

4. Billie Whitelaw

Actress | The Omen

Billie Whitelaw first appeared on the radio aged 11. She made her theatrical debut in 1950 and in films from 1953. She has made a speciality of playing intense, single-purposed women. Also, (on stage), she has appeared in many of the stranger plays by Samuel Beckett.

5. Bob Steele

Actor | The Big Sleep

American Western star and character actor whose career spanned six decades. The son of director Robert N. Bradbury, he appeared in vaudeville with his parents and with his twin brother Bill Bradbury appeared as a child in a series of 16 semi- documentary short films directed by their father, The ...

6. Bolotbek Shamshiyev

Director | Belyy parokhod

Bolotbek Shamshiyev was born on January 12, 1941 in Frunze, Kirghiz SSR, USSR [now Bishkek, Chuy, Kyrgyzstan]. He was a director and writer, known for Belyy parokhod (1976), Volchya yama (1984) and Snaypery (1986). He died on December 21, 2019 in Bishkek, Kirgiziya.

7. Bruce McCandless II

Max Q

Bruce McCandless II was born on June 8, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Max Q (1998), A Beautiful Sunset (2016) and Horizon (1964). He was married to Ellen Shields. He died on December 21, 2017 in California, USA.

8. Carlos Feller

Actor | Le nozze di Figaro

Carlos Feller was born on July 30, 1925 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Le nozze di Figaro (1993), Il barbiere di Siviglia (1988) and Falstaff (1995). He died on December 21, 2018.

9. Catalina Speroni

Actress | Un extraño en nuestras vidas

Catalina Speroni was born on January 1, 1938 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Un extraño en nuestras vidas (1972), Quiere casarse conmigo...?! (1967) and Campeones de la vida (1999). She died on December 21, 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

10. Chu Ishikawa

Composer | Sôseiji

Chu Ishikawa was born in 1966. He was a composer and actor, known for Gemini (1999), Killing (2018) and Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989). He died on December 21, 2017 in Japan.

11. Colin Douglas

Actor | The Children of the New Forest

Colin Douglas was born on July 28, 1912 in Newcastle, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Children of the New Forest (1964), Gamble for a Throne (1961) and The Crawling Eye (1958). He was married to Gina Cachia. He died on December 21, 1991 in London, England, UK.

12. Deddie Davies

Actress | Pride

Deddie Davies was born on March 2, 1938 in Bridgend, Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for Pride (2014), Vanity Fair (1967) and The Railway Children (1970). She was married to Paddy Ward. She died on December 21, 2016 in the UK.

13. Dick Enberg

Actor | Heaven Can Wait

A native of suburban Detroit, Michigan, Dick Enberg grew up near Pontiac, one of Detroit's suburbs. Upon graduating from high school Enberg went to college first at Central Michigan University and then at Indiana University. After graduating from college Dick moved to Los Angeles to become an ...

14. Dick Schaap

Writer | Lombardi

Dick Schaap was born on September 27, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Lombardi, Semi-Tough (1977) and New York Illustrated (1966). He was married to Patricia McLeod and Madeleine Gottlieb. He died on December 21, 2001 in New York City, New York, USA.

15. Dominic Frontiere

Music_department | Color of Night

Dominic Carmen Frontiere, 86, Emmy and Golden Globe winning film and television composer, former head of music at Paramount Pictures, passed away in Tesuque, New Mexico on 21 December 2017. He is survived by his wife Robin and their children Emily, Joseph, Nicholas and Sofia, as well as daughter ...

16. Emmanuel Yarborough

Actor | Oz

Emmanuel Yarborough was born on September 5, 1964 in Rahway, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Oz (1997), Legend of the Devil (1996) and Paranoia (1997). He died on December 21, 2015 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

17. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writer | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

"There are no second acts in American lives," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, who himself went from being the high priest of the Jazz Age to a down-and-out alcoholic within the space of 20 years, but not before giving the world several literary masterpieces, the most famous of which is "The Great Gatsby...

18. Federico Moura

Soundtrack | El Clan

Federico Moura was born on October 23, 1951 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a composer, known for The Clan (2015), No sos vos, soy yo (2004) and The World Against Me (1996). He died on December 21, 1988 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

19. George S. Patton

Self | Nazi Concentration Camps

George S. Patton III was a highly successful and highly controversial general who held Corps- and Army-level commands during World War II. Because of his great competence as a battlefield commander, Patton might have led the American troops during the invasion of Normandy; however, his impolitic ...

20. Gerry Alanguilan

Art_department | Star Wars Audio Comics: YouTube Channel

Gerry Alanguilan was a producer, known for Star Wars Audio Comics: YouTube Channel (2014), Illustrated By (2012) and Panganay sa pito (2017). He was married to Ilyn. He died on December 21, 2019 in San Pablo City, Laguna, Philippines.

21. H.B. Warner

Actor | It's a Wonderful Life

Henry Byron Warner was the definitive cinematic Jesus Christ in Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings (1927). He was born into a prominent theatrical family on October 26, 1875 in London. His father was Charles Warner, and his grandfather was James Warner, both prominent English actors. He replaced ...

22. Henry H. Daniels Jr.

Actor | Meet Me in St. Louis

Henry H. Daniels Jr. was born on January 27, 1921 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Burning Cross (1947) and Bewitched (1945). He was married to Carmelita. He died on December 21, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

23. Horacio Ferrer

Actor | Historias Breves 2

Horacio Ferrer was born on June 2, 1933 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was an actor, known for Historias Breves 2 (1997), Cadence 3 (1983) and Luar (1992). He was married to Lulú Michelli. He died on December 21, 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

24. Jerry Yellin

Self | Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission

Captain (Retired) Jerry Yellin is an Army Air Corps veteran who served in WWII between 1941 and 1945. Yellin enlisted two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on his 18th Birthday. After graduating from Luke Air Field as a fighter pilot in August of 1943, he spent the remainder of the war ...

25. Jim French

Actor | Left 4 Dead

Jim French was born in 1928 in Pasadena, California, USA. At the age of eight he knew he wanted to be a radio announcer. During WWII, Jim got a job as an announcer on a radio station called KPAS. He entered the Army a few years later and, after being sent to Japan with other troops, was assigned to...

26. John Arnatt

Actor | A Challenge for Robin Hood

John Edwin Arnatt was born in Petrograd on the eve of the Russian Revolution, the son of a manager for Vauxhall Motors. Forced to leave Russia during the turmoil, his family returned to England where John was schooled at Epworth College and later trained for acting at RADA. On stage from 1936, he ...

27. José María Aguilar

Actor | Tango Bar

José María Aguilar was born on May 3, 1891 in San Ramón, Canelones, Uruguay. He was an actor, known for Tango Bar (1935), Canchero (1930) and El quinielero (1930). He died on December 21, 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

28. Kamatari Fujiwara

Actor | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin

Kamatari Fujiwara was born on January 15, 1905 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for The Hidden Fortress (1958), Seven Samurai (1954) and To Live (1952). He died on December 21, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan.

29. Laya Raki

Actress | Hawaiian Eye

Billed as "the black-haired volcano", sloe-eyed Laya Raki made international headlines in the 1950s, both on and off the screen. She was born Brunhilde Marie Joerns near Brunswick in Germany, the daughter of a German vaudevillian and circus artiste who earned his living with magic acts and ...

30. Lois Hall

Actress | Dead Again

Lois, was born in a tiny town in Minnesota in 1926, moved with her family to Long Beach, California where she had her first experience with theater as a set designer, stage manager and head electrician, was given a scholarship at the Pasadena Playhouse and became bitten by the "acting bug". In 1957...

31. Marianne Stone

Actress | Lolita

She was one British character player who seemed to show up everywhere on post-war film, stage and TV, although, more times than not, could barely be glimpsed. A most efficient actress, Marianne Stone's career spanned four decades and was primarily enjoyed in bawdy, ribald comedy playing lowbrow or ...

32. Martin Peters

Actor | Renford Rejects

Martin Peters was born on November 8, 1943 in Plaistow, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Renford Rejects (1998), The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (1999) and Till Death Us Do Part (1965). He was married to Kathleen Peters. He died on December 21, 2019 in England, UK.

33. Myron Healey

Actor | Shadow on the Land

American actor and occasional screenwriter. One of the most frequently seen heavies in films and television programs of the 1950s, his name is nevertheless well known only to buffs. Occasionally he played minor leads and sympathetic characters, but his stern good looks and rich deep voice made him ...

34. Ralph Nelson

Director | Lilies of the Field

In 1959, Emmy Award-winning television director Ralph Nelson directed a 90-minute adaptation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," with John Neville as the Dane, for the DuPont Show of the Month. Nelson himself adapted the 1601 Quatro (the "pirated" version considered corrupt) in order to make a coherent ...

35. Ramachandra Babu

Cinematographer | Cineku

Ramachandra Babu was born on December 15, 1947 in Maduranthakam, Tamil Nadu, India. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Cineku (2006), Professor Dinkan and Padayottam (1982). He was married to K. Lathika Rani. He died on December 21, 2019 in Kozhikode, Kerala, India.

36. Richard Hamilton

Actor | On Deadly Ground

Richard Hamilton was born on December 31, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for On Deadly Ground (1994), Men in Black (1997) and Sommersby (1993). He was married to Marilynn Margaret Morgan. He died on December 21, 2004 in Jeffersonville, New York, USA.

37. Richard Long

Actor | The Stranger

Entering films straight out of high school, Richard Long's good looks served him well and got him a contract at Universal Pictures. Making his debut as Claudette Colbert's son in Tomorrow Is Forever (1946), Long played juvenile leads in many Universal productions (he was one of the sons in the "Ma ...

38. Robert Paige

Actor | Son of Dracula

A "B" Hollywood leading man who had the requisite tall, dark and handsome features (plus an excellent singing voice) that Hollywood often relied upon, Robert Paige was an extremely capable player worthy of stronger dramatics but was too often trapped in staid and standard leading man roles that ...

39. Rod Cameron

Actor | The Runaround

The well-worn phrase "Tall in the saddle" is certainly one easy way of describing (and perhaps pigeon-holing) leathery, wiry-framed 1940s and early 1950s western film star Rod Cameron, although he proved quite capable in crime stories, horrors and even swing-era musicals.

The 6'4" Canadian-born ...

40. Roswell Rudd

Actor | Wavelength

Roswell Rudd was born on November 17, 1935 in Sharon, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Wavelength (1967), Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally (1972) and Inside Out in the Open (2001). He was married to Marilyn Schwartz and Moselle Galbraith. He died on December 21, 2017 in ...

41. Stella Adler

Actress | Shadow of the Thin Man

Stella Adler was born on February 10, 1901, in New York, the youngest daughter of the Yiddish theater actors, Jacob P. Adler and Sarah Adler, who founded an acting dynasty. In addition to her parents, Stella's family included her siblings Charles Adler, Jay Adler, Julia and Luther Adler, all of whom...

42. Stuart Erwin

Actor | Before Dawn

Stuart Erwin was an American actor who often worked as a voice actor in radio and animation. He was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Erwin was born in Squaw Valley, Fresno County, California in 1903. Squaw Valley is a census-designated place, the location of a post ...

43. Ted Healy

Actor | Mad Love

Ted Healy was was born Ernest Lea Nash and grew up as a very good friend of Moses "Moe" and Samuel "Shemp" Horwitz (later Moe and Shemp Howard). In the '20s he changed his name to Ted Healy and got Moe, Shemp, and a violinist named Larry Feinberg (later Larry Fine) to do vaudeville acts with him as...

44. William Higgins

Director | The Young & the Hung

William Higgins was born on December 19, 1942 in the USA. He was a director and producer. He died on December 21, 2019 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.