Deaths: June 18

1. Milton Quon

Actor | Speed

Milton Quon was born on August 22, 1913 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Speed (1994), Sweet Jane (1998) and Chill Factor (1989). He was married to Peggy Wong. He died on June 18, 2019 in Torrance, California, USA.

2. Alan Berg

Alan Berg was born in Chicago in January of 1934, the son of Dr. Joseph Berg and Ruth Berg. Alan had one older sister, Norma. At 17, he attended college at the University of Colorado in Denver. After two years, he transferred to the University of Denver. He graduated in 1957, and became one of the ...

3. Antonio Medellín

Actor | Mi pecado

Antonio Medellín was born on April 15, 1942 in Mexico City, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Burden of Guilt (2009), Las troyanas (1963) and Muchachitas (1991). He died on June 18, 2017 in Mexico City, Mexico.

4. Barbara Cason

Actress | House of Dark Shadows

Barbara Cason was born on November 15, 1928 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She was an actress, known for House of Dark Shadows (1970), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) and It's Garry Shandling's Show. (1986). She was married to Dennis Patrick and George Touliatos. She died on June 18, 1990 in Los ...

5. Barry McDaniel

Soundtrack | Sunday Bloody Sunday

Barry McDaniel was born on October 18, 1930 in Lyndon, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Das Gespenst von Canterville (1964) and Ariadne auf Naxos (1978). He died on June 18, 2018 in Berlin, Germany.

6. Bill Ham

Soundtrack | Friday Night Lights

Bill Ham was born on February 4, 1937 in Waxahachie, Texas, USA. He is known for Friday Night Lights (2004), The Stand (1994) and Teachers (1984). He was married to Cecile Curlin Autrey. He died on June 18, 2016 in Austin, Texas, USA.

7. Bill Sammeth

Producer | Donny Osmond - One Night Only!

Bill Sammeth was born on December 3, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Donny Osmond - One Night Only! (2017), Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz (1988) and The Late Show (1986). He died on June 18, 2018 in New York City, New York, ...

8. Charles Korvin

Actor | This Love of Ours

He was born in Piestany, Hungary, going to the United States in 1940 having studied at the Sorbonne and working in still and motion picture photography. After studying acting at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon Virginia, he made his 1943 debut on Broadway in "Dark Eyes" under the name Geza Korvin. It...

9. Clarence Clemons

Actor | Blues Brothers 2000

Clarence Clemons was mostly known as being the dynamic saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band. He was a pivotal part of the E-street band's persona and was a featured member of the band. His legacy teaming up with Bruce was a pivotal part of the success of the back up band. After ...

10. Curd Jürgens

Actor | The Spy Who Loved Me

Curd Jürgens (commonly billed as "Curt Jurgens" in anglophone countries) was one of the most successful European film actors of the 20th Century. He was born Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens on December 13, 1915, in Solln, Bavaria, in Hohenzollern Imperial Germany, a subject of Kaiser ...

11. Doris Dowling

Actress | The Lost Weekend

One of four children, lovely Detroit-born actress Doris Dowling (born May 15, 1923) would follow older sister Constance Dowling (who died relatively young in 1969) into show business. Raised in New York City, she briefly spent some time with a San Francisco Folies Bergère company before returning ...

12. Ethel Barrymore

Actress | The Spiral Staircase

Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life of their parents Maurice and Georgiana. Maurice Barrymore had emigrated from England in 1875, and after graduating from Cambridge in law had shocked his family by becoming an actor. Georgiana Drew of ...

13. Felix Knight

Actor | Babes in Toyland

Felix Knight was born on November 1, 1908 in Macon, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934), The Bohemian Girl (1936) and Springtime in Holland (1935). He was married to Alice Moore and Ethel Blume Knight. He died on June 18, 1998 in New York City, New York, USA.

14. Frederick Jaeger

Actor | Department S

Frederick was educated in Germany and France. He came to England in 1939 and took up acting at the suggestion of his English headmaster. He attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London between 1946 and 1948 and started his stage career at preston Rep in 1949. Many rep seasons in ...

15. George 'Buck' Flower

Actor | Back to the Future

There aren't many actors who can claim that they appeared in everything from innocuous family features to sexy soft-core smut to popular television programs to various horror, science fiction, and exploitation movies as well as worked behind-the-scenes on a slew of films in assorted production ...

16. Gô Katô

Actor | Kedamono no ken

Gô Katô was born on February 4, 1938 in Osaezaki-cho, Shizuoka, Japan. He was an actor, known for Sword of the Beast (1965), Samurai Rebellion (1967) and Saka no ue no kumo (2009). He died on June 18, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.

17. Horace Silver

Soundtrack | Election

Jazz composer-pianist Horace Silver took an interest in music as a young boy after becoming romantically interested in a 12-year-old girl who knew how to play the piano. After convincing the object of his affections to give him piano lessons, young Horace discovered his niche. He had, however, been...

18. Horacio Coppola

Director | Traum (Sueño)

Horacio Coppola was born on July 31, 1906 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and actor, known for Traum (Sueño) (1933), Viejo Buenos Aires, adiós (1930) and Así nació el obelisco (1936). He was married to Grete Stern. He died on June 18, 2012 in Buenos Aires, ...

19. Jack Rollins

Producer | Match Point

Jack Rollins was born on March 23, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Match Point (2005), Cassandra's Dream (2007) and Blue Jasmine (2013). He was married to Pearl (Jane) Rose Levine. He died on June 18, 2015 in Manhattan, New York City, New York,...

20. Joan Caulfield

Actress | Monsieur Beaucaire

Blond, blue-eyed Joan Caulfield was born on June 1 1922 in Orange, New Jersey, one of three daughters to Henry R. Caulfield, an aircraft company administrator based in Manhattan. She received a private education and enrolled in Columbia University in late 1940. Her early forays into acting with the...

21. José Saramago

Writer | Enemy

José Saramago was born on November 16, 1922 in Azinhaga, Golega, Portugal. He was a writer, known for Enemy (2013), Blindness (2008) and O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo. He was married to Pilar del Río and Ilda Reis. He died on June 18, 2010 in Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.

22. Leon White

Actor | Fist of the North Star

Leon Allen White (May 14, 1955 - June 18, 2018), better known by his ring names Big Van Vader or simply Vader, was an American professional wrestler and professional football player. Throughout his career, he performed for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the ...

23. Libby Holman

Actress | Dreams That Money Can Buy

Libby Holman's life was one of early poverty, extraordinary talent, scandal, fabulous wealth and tragedy. She's the stuff books and movies are ripe for. Born into a once-prosperous Jewish family in Ohio, her family's stock brokerage business collapsed in 1904 when her uncle disappeared after ...

24. Luis Moglia Barth

Director | ¡Tango!

Luis Moglia Barth was born on April 12, 1903 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and writer, known for ¡Tango! (1933), Dancing (1933) and The Last Meeting (1938). He died on June 18, 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

25. Maria Rohm

Actress | Ein Unbekannter rechnet ab

Maria Rohm was one of the rare gems in the movie business - acting, and in particular theatre and movies was truly her life's work. She started acting on-stage at the famous Vienna Burgtheatre as a child actor from ages 4 through 13. Having performed in such classics as William Shakespeare's "...

26. Michael Hastings

Writer | War Machine

Michael Hastings was born on January 28, 1980 in Malone, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for War Machine (2017), The Operators and America's Last Prisoner of War. He was married to Elise Jordan. He died on June 18, 2013 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

27. Nancy Marchand

Actress | The Sopranos

Nancy Marchand's mother, a pianist, sent her shy daughter to acting classes in hopes of breaking her out of her shell. As a student at Carnegie Tech (Carnegie Mellon University), she studied the works of William Shakespeare and the other great playwrights and, upon graduation, set off for New York ...

28. Pedro Armendáriz

Actor | From Russia with Love

Born in Mexican revolution times, Pedro Armendáriz was the first child of Mexican Pedro Armendáriz García-Conde and American Adele Hastings. He was raised in Churubusco, then a suburb of Mexico City, before the family traveled to Laredo, Texas. They lived there until 1921, the year Armendáriz' ...

29. Peter Allen

Soundtrack | Arthur

Peter Allen was born on February 10, 1944 in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for Arthur (1981), Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) and Muriel's Wedding (1994). He was married to Liza Minnelli. He died on June 18, 1992 in San Diego, California, USA.

30. Richard Stahl

Actor | Overboard

Richard Stahl was born on January 4, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Overboard (1987), The American President (1995) and Private School (1983). He was married to Kathryn Ish. He died on June 18, 2006 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

31. Richard Valeriani

Actor | Crimson Tide

Richard Valeriani was born on August 29, 1932 in Camden, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Crimson Tide (1995), Chet Huntley Reporting (1957) and 1976 Presidential Debates (1976). He was married to Kathie Berlin and Lee Hall. He died on June 18, 2018 in Manhattan, New York City, New York,...

32. Roger Delgado

Actor | Doctor Who

Born of a Spanish father and French mother in Whitechapel. Although most often called upon to play the villain (due to his dark good looks and sinister beard), he also had a career as a voice actor on BBC Radio appearing on such programs as the "Morning Story". He was a notable 'The Master' in many...

33. Ruth Sobotka

Actress | Killer's Kiss

Ruth Sobotka was born on August 4, 1925 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress and art director, known for Killer's Kiss (1955) and The Killing (1956). She was married to Stanley Kubrick. She died on June 18, 1967 in New York City, New York, USA.

34. Susana Duijm

Actress | Tuya para siempre

Susana Duijm was born on August 11, 1936 in Aragua de Barcelona, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for Tuya para siempre (1974), La loba (1973) and El norteño (1963). She was married to Martín Cerruti. She died on June 18, 2016 in Porlamar, Venezuela.

35. Terence Fisher

Director | Dracula

Terence Fisher was born in Maida Vale, England, in 1904. Raised by his grandmother in a strict Christian Scientist environment, Fisher left school while still in his teens to join the Merchant Marine. By his own account he soon discovered that a life at sea was not for him, so he left the service ...

36. Thomas Gomez

Actor | Key Largo

After graduating from high school in 1923, Thomas Sabino Gomez answered a help wanted ad, which resulted in his joining the Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne theater group. Prior to that time he had not considered acting as a career. He continued working as an actor with the Lunts, traveling across ...

37. Tim Hague

Self | UFC 98: Evans vs. Machida

Tim Hague was born on May 9, 1983 in Boyle, Alberta, Canada. He died on June 18, 2017 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

38. Valerie Allen

Actress | Bells Are Ringing

Valerie Allen's mother was Valerie Raemier, once known as Broadway's highest salaried showgirl, and a veteran of the Ziegfeld Follies. Her father was Edgar Allen, a talent booker for such venues as The Palace. It was he who suggested to Boston comedy juggler Fred Sullivan that his name was too long...

39. Victor Spinetti

Actor | A Hard Day's Night

Comic eccentric and gifted raconteur Victor Spinetti was born in Wales on September 2, 1929, the son of Giuseppe Spinetti and Lily (Watson) Spinetti. Educated at Monmouth School, he was initially interested in a teaching degree but turned to acting instead and studied for the stage at the College ...

40. Vincent Sherman

Director | Affair in Trinidad

Vincent Sherman was born on July 16, 1906 in Vienna, Georgia, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Affair in Trinidad (1952), Counsellor at Law (1933) and All Through the Night (1942). He was married to Hedda Comoraw. He died on June 18, 2006 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

41. William Tracy

Actor | The Shop Around the Corner

Pittsburgh-born actor William Tracy was born on December 1, 1917, and began performing professionally as a youth. Trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, he appeared in musical and comedy roles until his big break arrived in 1937 at age 19 when he took over the role of fidgety military ...

42. XXXTentacion

Soundtrack | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

XXXTentacion was born on January 23, 1998 in Plantation, Florida, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Exit (2019) and We Are Who We Are (2020). He died on June 18, 2018 in Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA.