Deaths: July 15

1. Kieron Moore

Actor | Crack in the World

With dark good looks and a brawny build, Irish actor Kieron Moore made a name for himself in post-war British films as both heroes and villains. Interestingly, he is better remembered for one of his more earnest failures, that of Count Vronsky opposite Vivien Leigh's Anna Karenina (1948).

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2. Alfie Bass

Actor | Dance of the Vampires

Alfie Bass was born on April 8, 1916 in Bethnal Green, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), Moonraker (1979) and The Bespoke Overcoat (1955). He was married to Margaret Beryl Bryson. He died on July 15, 1987 in Barnet, London, England, UK.

3. Alicia Vignoli

Actress | ¡Tango!

Alicia Vignoli was born in 1911 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for ¡Tango! (1933), Dancing (1933) and Ayer y hoy (1934). She died on July 15, 2005 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

4. Anton Chekhov

Writer | Kis Uykusu

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in 1860, the third of six children to a family of a grocer, in Taganrog, Russia, a southern seaport and resort on the Azov Sea. His father, a 3rd-rank Member of the Merchant's Guild, was a religious fanatic and a tyrant who used his children as slaves. Young Chekhov...

5. Aubrey Morris

Actor | A Clockwork Orange

He was one of those delightful, typically British actors with a penchant for playing eccentrics. Early in his career, Jeremy Brett once quaintly introduced Aubrey Morris to Noël Coward as "the finest small-part player in London". Born Aubrey Steinberg of Jewish-Ukrainian ancestry, he was one of ...

6. Benny Rubin

Writer | Bright Lights

Benny Rubin was born on February 2, 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Bright Lights (1935), Traveling Saleslady (1935) and Coma (1978). He was married to Beatrice Dallinger and Mary Bolt. He died on July 15, 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

7. Bert Convy

Actor | The Cannonball Run

Bert Convy was born on July 23, 1933 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Cannonball Run (1981), Hero at Large (1980) and Weekend Warriors (1986). He was married to Catherine Hall and Anne Anderson. He died on July 15, 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

8. Bill Thompson

Actor | Lady and the Tramp

Bill Thompson was born on July 8, 1913 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Lady and the Tramp (1955), Peter Pan (1953) and Sleeping Beauty (1959). He was married to Mary Margaret McBride. He died on July 15, 1971 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

9. Celeste Holm

Actress | All About Eve

Celeste Holm was an only child, born into a home where her mother was a painter and her father worked in insurance. She would study acting at the University of Chicago and make her stage debut in 1936. Her Broadway debut came when she was 19 in 'The Time of Your Life'. She appeared in many ...

10. Christine Chubbuck

Self | Suncoast Digest

Christine Chubbuck was born on August 24, 1944 in Hudson, Ohio, USA. She died on July 15, 1974 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.

11. Dana Hill

Actress | National Lampoon's European Vacation

Dana Hill was born Dana Lynne Goetz on May 6, 1964, in a suburb of Los Angeles, to parents Sandy Hill and Ted Goetz, a commercial director. Despite diabetes ending a promising future in athletics when she was just ten years old, Dana gamely threw herself into acting when still in her early teen ...

12. David Brian

Actor | Intruder in the Dust

David Brian was born Brian James Davis on August 5, 1914 in New York City. After graduating from City College, he found work as a doorman before entering show business with a song-and-dance routine in vaudeville and nightclubs. He did a wartime stint with the United States Coast Guard and returned ...

13. Douglas Flett

Soundtrack | Life on Mars

Douglas Flett was a composer, known for Life on Mars (2006), Glädjekällan (1993) and Nunzio (1978). He died on July 15, 2019.

14. Eddie Foy Jr.

Actor | Yankee Doodle Dandy

With the passing of Irving Foy in 2003, another era in American show business comes to a close. Eddie Foy & the Seven Little Foys appeared on screen together only once, in 1915 in A Favorite Fool (1915), while Eddie Sr., without his progeny, appeared on screen in Actors' Fund Field Day (1910) and ...

15. Elisabeth Welch

Actress | Big Fella

In British films of the 1930s and 1940s, American-born singer Elisabeth Welch made several memorable guest appearances in cabaret sequences, and starred opposite Paul Robeson in two features. Sophisticated, glamorous and charming, her appearances were a refreshing departure from the stereotype of ...

16. Ernesto Schoó

Writer | Otra esperanza

Ernesto Schoó was born on October 12, 1925 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a writer and actor, known for New Hope (1996), Cuatro caras para Victoria (1992) and Cuentos y novelas: A sangre fría (1984). He died on July 15, 2013 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

17. Florence Halop

Actress | Night Court

Florence Halop was born on January 23, 1923 in Jamaica Estates, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Night Court (1984), St. Elsewhere (1982) and George Burns Comedy Week (1985). She was married to George Gruskin. She died on July 15, 1986 in Los Angeles, California, ...

18. George Cleveland

Actor | A Date with Judy

Round-faced and twinkling, George Cleveland had a 58-year career of stage, vaudeville, motion picture, radio and television acting. His first film was Mystery Liner (1934) with Noah Beery and he went on to appear in 150 others. However, he is best remembered as Gramps on the original Lassie (1954) ...

19. Gianni Versace

Costume_designer | Judge Dredd

Gianni Versace was born on December 2, 1946 in Reggio di Calabria, Italy. He was a costume designer and production designer, known for Judge Dredd (1995), Showgirls (1995) and The Leading Man (1996). He died on July 15, 1997 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

20. Googie Withers

Actress | One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

Googie Withers began her acting career at the age of 12. She was dancing in the chorus in a West End revue when she was spotted by a Warner Brothers casting director. She went to do a screen test for them at the Riverside Studios and was invited to become an extra. On her first day at the filming of...

21. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz

Self | Mexico City 1968: Games of the XIX Olympiad

Gustavo Díaz Ordaz was born on March 12, 1911 in San Andrés Chalchicomula, Puebla, Mexico [now Ciudad Serdán, Puebla, Mexico]. He was married to Borja Osrono, Guadalupe. He died on July 15, 1979 in Mexico City, Mexico.

22. Guy Wilkerson

Actor | The Fugitive

Guy Wilkerson was born on December 21, 1899 in Whitewright, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fugitive (1963), Captain Midnight (1942) and Return of the Rangers (1943). He died on July 15, 1971 in Hollywood, California, USA.

23. Hank Cochran

Soundtrack | True Romance

Hank Cochran was born on August 2, 1935 in Isola, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for True Romance (1993), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and Starman (1984). He was married to Suzi Cochran, Jeannie Seely and Shirley Kay. He died on July 15, 2010 in Hendersonville, Tennessee, ...

24. Hugh Hurd

Actor | Shadows

Hugh Hurd was born on February 11, 1925 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Shadows (1958), A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Who's the Man? (1993). He was married to Dr. Merlyn Sue Purdy. He died on July 15, 1995 in New York City, New York, USA.

25. Jeff Upton

Camera_department | Agent Cody Banks

Jeff Upton was born on December 25, 1948 in Nottingham, England, UK. He is known for Agent Cody Banks (2003), Chaos (2005) and Blade: Trinity (2004). He died on July 15, 2005 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

26. Julia Lennon

Julia Lennon (née Stanley; 12 March 1914 - 15 July 1958) was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon. After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister, Mimi Smith, she handed over the care of her son to her sister. She later ...

27. Kip King

Actor | Westworld

Kip King was born on August 11, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Westworld (1973), Meet the Fockers (2004) and A Night at the Roxbury (1998). He was married to Hajnalka E. Biro. He died on July 15, 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

28. Lawrence Tibbett

Actor | The Cuban Love Song

One of the great voices of the Metropolitan Opera, Lawrence Mervil Tibbet was born in Bakersfield, California, in 1896. Born at the end of the "wild west" era, he was only six when his father, who was a Kern County deputy sheriff, was killed by bandits. After training with, among others, ...

29. Margaret Lockwood

Actress | The Lady Vanishes

Karachi-born Margaret Lockwood, daughter of a British colonial railway clerk, was educated in London and studied to be an actress at the Italia Conti Drama School. Her first moment on stage came at the age of 12, when she played a fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1928. She had a bit part in ...

30. Martin Landau

Actor | Ed Wood

Oscar-winning character actor Martin Landau was born on June 20, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York. At age 17, he was hired by the New York Daily News to work in the promotions department before he became a staff cartoonist and illustrator. In his five years on the paper, he served as the illustrator for ...

31. Olga Vyalikova

Actress | I zhizn, i slyozy, i lyubov...

Olga Vyalikova was born on March 26, 1954. She was an actress, known for I zhizn, i slyozy, i lyubov... (1984) and An Ordinary Miracle (1979). She was married to Aleksandr Moskvitin. She died on July 15, 2019.

32. Peter Fernandez

Actor | Speed Racer

From ages 7 to 11 was popular model for John Robert Powers Agency. Radio and Broadway actor until army draft. Radio shows included: "Mr. District Attorney", "Let's Pretend", "Gangbusters", "My Best Girls, " "Superman", "Suspense", many soap operas, and as George Bigelow on "The Aldrich Family" and ...

33. Peter van Eyck

Actor | The Longest Day

With his whitish blond crew-cut, slow, menacing drawl and Germanic manner, Van Eyck was destined to be typecast as stereotypically scowling, arrogant Nazi officers. This was ironic, because he was an avowed anti-fascist who had left Germany in 1931 -- two years before Adolf Hitler came to power. ...

34. Raymond Choo Kong

Actor | Westwood Park

Raymond Choo Kong is known for Westwood Park (1997).

35. Stan Lewis

Soundtrack | Frequency

Stan Lewis was born on July 5, 1927 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Frequency (2000), Apocalypse Now (1979) and To Die For (1995). He was married to Pauline. He died on July 15, 2018 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.