Oz Cast Members Who Have Passed Away
by Lebowskidoo | created - 20 Jun 2020 | updated - 1 month ago | Public
1. Lance Reddick
Actor | John Wick
Incisive, intense, multi-talented American actor Lance Solomon Reddick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the younger of two sons, to Solomon Reddick and public schoolteacher Dorothy Gee. Having opted initially for a career in music, he attended first the Peabody Preparatory Institute and the Walden ...
Natural Causes
2. Mason Adams
Actor | Son in Law
Mason Adams was well known for playing Pepper Young on the popular radio soap opera series Pepper Young's Family throughout the 1940 and 1950s. He was also heard on most of the successful radio programs during radio's "Golden Age." In the 1970s, Adams was frequently heard on Himan Brown's CBS ...
Natural Causes
3. Richard Bright
Actor | The Godfather Part III
Fair complexioned, cold-eyed actor Richard Bright notched up an impressive array of character performances of often shifty, or deadly characters on the wrong side of the law. He first came to attention as a burglar in the engrossing The Panic in Needle Park (1971), and then followed it the ...
Struck By a Bus
4. Reg E. Cathey
Actor | Fantastic Four
Born into a military family in Huntsville, Alabama -- his father was an army vet who had served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, while his mother held a somewhat mysterious job in the Department of Defence -- Reg E. Cathey spent much of his early childhood living on a rural farmhouse in Germany....
Cancer
5. Kevin Conway
Actor | Gettysburg
Kevin Conway was born on May 29, 1942 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Gettysburg (1993), Thirteen Days (2000) and Invincible (2006). He was married to Mila Burnette. He died on February 5, 2020 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
Heart Attack
6. Matthew Cowles
Actor | Shutter Island
Matthew Cowles was born on September 28, 1944 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Shutter Island (2010), All My Children (1970) and City by the Sea (2002). He was married to Christine Baranski and Kathleen Dezina. He died on May 22, 2014 in New York City, New York, USA.
Heart Failure
7. Jonathan Demme
Director | The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme was born on February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Rachel Getting Married (2008) and Philadelphia (1993). He was married to Joanne Howard and Evelyn Purcell. He died on April 26, 2017 in ...
Esophageal Cancer & Heart Disease
8. Uta Hagen
Actress | The Boys from Brazil
Noted stage actress who has also done limited work in TV and film. Born in Germany and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Her Broadway debut was in "The Seagull" in 1938. She won her first Tony (and other awards) in 1950 for Clifford Odets "...
Stroke
9. Edward Herrmann
Actor | Overboard
Edward Herrmann was born on July 21, 1943 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was an actor, known for Overboard (1987), The Lost Boys (1987) and Nixon (1995). He was married to Star Herrmann and Leigh Curran. He died on December 31, 2014 in New York City, New York, USA.
Cancer
10. Gloria Irizarry
Actress | Bad Boys II
Gloria Irizarry is known for Bad Boys II (2003), Jacob's Ladder (1990) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).
Diabetes
11. Eartha Kitt
Actress | The Emperor's New Groove
An out-of-wedlock child, Eartha Kitt was born in the cotton fields of South Carolina. Kitt's mother was a sharecropper of African-American and Cherokee Native American descent. Her father's identity is unknown. Given away by her mother, she arrived in Harlem at age nine. At 15, she quit high school...
Cancer
12. Elizabeth Lawrence
Actress | The Crucible
Elizabeth Lawrence was born on September 6, 1922 in Huntington, West Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for The Crucible (1996), Unbreakable (2000) and All My Children (1970). She was married to Arthur Marion Payne III and John 'Jack' Sears. She died on June 11, 2000 in the USA.
Cancer
13. Mark Margolis
Actor | Pi
Mark Margolis was an American actor who is well-known for his collaborations with film director Darren Aronofsky, particularly Pi (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Noah (2014), Black Swan (2010), and The Fountain (2006). Margolis also gained notoriety for his portrayal of "Tio" Hector Salamanca ...
14. Malachy McCourt
Actor | Q
Malachy McCourt entered the world in Brooklyn, New York - where his parents lived at the time - and was raised in Limerick, Ireland. He managed to fail every subject in school, except English and recess. In 1952, he returned to the United States and worked as a longshoreman, dishwasher, and laborer...
Undisclosed
15. John McMartin
Actor | Blow Out
John McMartin was born on August 21, 1929 in Warsaw, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Blow Out (1981), All the President's Men (1976) and No Reservations (2007). He was married to Cynthia Baer. He died on July 6, 2016 in New York City, New York, USA.
Cancer
16. Pat McNamara
Actor | Airplane II: The Sequel
Pat McNamara was born on July 22, 1933 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Instinct (1999). He died on January 5, 2024 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Undisclosed
17. Anne Meara
Actress | Heavyweights
The incredibly gifted comedienne-actress Anne Meara is known for her comedic efforts alongside husband-comedian, Jerry Stiller; together, they were 'Stiller and Meara'; they were original members of the improvisational company, the Compass Players, which later evolved as the Second City Theater. ...
Natural Causes
18. Zakes Mokae
Actor | The Serpent and the Rainbow
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 5, 1934, actor Zakes Mokae was initially a jazz saxophonist. Moving to England in 1961, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and became one of the most distinguished thespians in South Africa for over two decades.
Mokae was one of the few ...
Stroke
19. George Morfogen
Actor | V
George Morfogen was born on March 30, 1933 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for V (1983), What's Up, Doc? (1972) and She's Funny That Way (2014). He was married to Gene Laughorne. He died on March 8, 2019 in New York City, New York, USA.
Natural Causes
20. Milo O'Shea
Actor | Barbarella
A fourth generation Dubliner he was equally known in his homeland and on British television for knockabout comedy and for classic tragedy. His father, Con O'Shea, was an actor - singer (part of a double act known as 'Light and Shade') who became an army captain in the Civil War. His mother was a ...
Alzheimer's Disease
21. Don Pardo
Actor | Radio Days
Don Pardo was born on February 22, 1918 in Westfield, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Radio Days (1987), Stay Tuned (1992) and 'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection (2003). He was married to Catherine Anne (Kay) Lyons. He died on August 18, 2014 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Natural Causes
22. Luke Perry
Actor | Beverly Hills, 90210
Luke Perry was an American actor, primarily remembered as a teen idol throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s. Perry was born in Mansfield, Ohio in 1966. Mansfield was known at the time as a center for the home appliances and stove manufacturing industries. The city's largest employer used to be ...
Stroke
23. Rockets Redglare
Actor | Big
Rockets Redglare was born on May 8, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Big (1988), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) and Mystery Train (1989). He died on May 28, 2001 in New York City, New York, USA.
Complications from Kidney Failure, Liver Failure, Cirrhosis & Hepatitis C
24. Roger Rees
Actor | Frida
Like a number of British actors of the same generation (John Hurt and Alan Rickman, to name two), Roger Rees originally trained for the visual arts. He was born on May 5 1944 in Aberystwyth, Wales, and acted in church and Boy Scouts stage productions while growing up in South London, but studied ...
Cancer
25. Dana Reeve
Actress | Everyone's Hero
Dana Reeve was born on March 17, 1961 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Everyone's Hero (2006), Loving (1983) and Oz (1997). She was married to Christopher Reeve. She died on March 6, 2006 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
Cancer
26. Steve Ryan
Actor | Arrested Development
Steve Ryan was born on June 19, 1947 in Manhattan, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Arrested Development (2003), Crime Story (1986) and Daddio (2000). He was married to Wendy Sue Walton. He died on September 3, 2007 in Duarte, California, USA.
Undisclosed
27. Adrienne Shelly
Actress | Waitress
The late Adrienne Shelly was born in Queens, New York, to Elaine Langbaum and Sheldon Levine. After graduating Jericho High School in Jericho, New York, she enrolled at Boston University and majored in film production. She dropped out after her junior year and moved to Manhattan, where she made a ...
Homicide
28. Elaine Stritch
Actress | 30 Rock
A brash, sharp-tongued, incorrigible actress/singer who led a six decade career that contained many highs and lows, veteran Elaine Stritch's raucous six-decade career certainly lived up well to the Stephen Sondheim song lyrics "I'm Still Here." A popular, magnetic performer, she stole so many ...
Cancer
29. Brian Tarantina
Actor | Summer of Sam
Brian Tarantina was born on March 27, 1959 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Summer of Sam (1999), Knight and Day (2010) and Jacob's Ladder (1990). He died on November 2, 2019 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
Heart Problems
30. Kristin Rohde
Actress | Homicide: Life on the Street
Kristin Rohde was born on February 22, 1964 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), Oz (1997) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). She died on December 5, 2016 in Bellport, New York, USA.
Cancer
31. Bruce MacVittie
Actor | Brooklyn's Finest
Bruce MacVittie was born in Providence, RI in 1956. He began acting in high school, attended Boston University, studied with Jerzy Grotowski in 1976 and moved to New York City to pursue a career in acting in 1979. He began his career at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in 1980 in Edward Allen Baker's "...
Undisclosed
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