2017 Celebrity Death List

1. Francine York

Francine York was born in the small mining town of Aurora, Minnesota to her parents, Frank and Sophie Yerich. When Francine was five, her family (including her younger sister, Deanne) moved to Cleveland, where she began to write short stories and take an interest in acting. At age nine, Francine ...

80, undisclosed cancer

2. Rex King

Actor | WWE Monday Night RAW

Rex King was born on September 8, 1961 in Geneva, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for WWE Raw (1993), WWF Action Zone (1994) and WWF Superstars (1986). He was married to Terri Pomo. He died on January 9, 2017 in Greenup, Kentucky, USA.

55, kidney failure

3. William Peter Blatty

Writer | The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty was born on January 7, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Exorcist (1973), The Exorcist III (1990) and The Ninth Configuration (1980). He was married to Julie Alicia Witbrodt, Linda Blatty, Elizabeth Gilman and Mary Margaret Rigard. ...

89, multiple myeloma

4. Dick Gautier

Actor | Transformers

Dick Gautier was born on October 30, 1931 in Culver City, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Transformers (1984), G.I. Joe (1985) and Get Smart (1965). He was married to Tess Hightower, Barbara Stuart and Beverly J. Gerber. He died on January 13, 2017 in Arcadia, California,...

85, pneumonia

5. Jimmy Snuka

Actor | WWWF Championship Wrestling

Jimmy Snuka is a classic example of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) (formerly known as World Wrestling Federation (WWF)) bad guy who became a baby-face (a good guy) without trying. Originally a "heel", he came into the WWE under the guidance of heel manager Capt. Lou Albano. After receiving...

73, complications from stomach cancer and dementia

6. Miguel Ferrer

Actor | Traffic

Miguel Ferrer was an American actor known for playing Morton from RoboCop, Shan Yu from Mulan, Martian Manhunter from Justice League: The New Frontier, Slade Wilson from Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, Death from Adventure Time, Sesa Refumee from Halo 2 and Vice President Rodriguez from Iron Man 3...

61, throat cancer

7. Junie Morrison

Soundtrack | Free Guy

Junie Morrison was born in 1954 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. Junie was a composer, known for Free Guy (2021), Charlie's Angels (2000) and Dope (2015). Junie died on January 21, 2017 in London, England, UK.

62, undisclosed cause

8. Mary Webster

Actress | The Twilight Zone

Mary Webster was born on March 13, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Twilight Zone (1959), Master of the World (1961) and Everglades! (1961). She died on January 23, 2017 in Dallas, Texas, USA.

81, undisclosed cause

9. Butch Trucks

Actor | The Allman Brothers Band: 40th Anniversary Live at the Beacon Theatre

Butch Trucks was born on May 11, 1947 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. He was an actor, known for The Allman Brothers Band: 40th Anniversary Live at the Beacon Theatre (2014), Unplugged (1989) and The Allman Brothers Band: Live at the Beacon Theatre (2003). He was married to Melinda Trucks. He died ...

69, suicide (self-inflicted gunshot wound)

10. John Hurt

Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four

One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...

77, pancreatic cancer

11. Mary Tyler Moore

Actress | Ordinary People

Mary Tyler Moore was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on December 29, 1936. Moore's family relocated to California when she was eight. Her childhood was troubled, due in part to her mother's alcoholism. The eldest of three siblings, she attended a Catholic high school and married upon her graduation, in...

80, cardiopulmonary arrest caused by pneumonia

12. Mike Connors

Actor | Mannix

He once jokingly described himself as 'a frustrated song-and-dance man' who wound up typecast as a TV crime fighter. Tall, handsome Armenian-American Mike Connors had a minor career in the movies before becoming a star on the small screen as the impeccably dressed macho sleuth Joe Mannix. Towards ...

91, leukemia

13. Barbara Hale

Actress | Perry Mason

Barbara Hale was born on April 18, 1922 in DeKalb, Illinois, to Wilma (née Colvin) and Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener. She had one sister, Juanita. As a young girl, she intended to major in art and drawing but to work her way through The Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, she began her ...

94, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

14. Frank Pellegrino

Actor | Goodfellas

Frank Pellegrino was born on May 19, 1944 in East Harlem, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Goodfellas (1990), Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993). He was married to Josephine Nicita. He died on January 31, 2017 in Manhattan, New York City...

72, lung cancer

15. John Wetton

Soundtrack | The 40 Year Old Virgin

John Wetton was born on June 12, 1949 in Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Mandy (2018) and Good Boys (2019). He was married to Lisa Nojaim. He died on January 31, 2017 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK.

67, colon cancer

16. Richard Hatch

Actor | Battlestar Galactica

Born in Santa Monica, California, USA, Richard Hatch was studying classical piano at the age of eight, and knew he wanted to carve out a career as a performer before he reached his teens. After attending Harbor College in San Pedro, he joined a Los Angeles repertory company with which he traveled ...

71, pancreatic cancer

17. Al Jarreau

Soundtrack | Moonlighting

Al Jarreau was born on March 12, 1940 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Moonlighting (1985), Dick Tracy (1990) and Out of Africa (1985). He was married to Susan Player and Phyllis Hall. He died on February 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

76, respiratory failure

18. George 'The Animal' Steele

Actor | Ed Wood

George 'The Animal' Steele ( his professional wrestling name) was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA as William James Myers. He was a wrestling superstar in the WWF. He had a public image of a wild type of creature that chewed on the turn buckles and sported a green tongue. In the 1990s he became an ...

79, kidney failure

19. Warren Frost

Actor | Twin Peaks

Born and raised in upstate Vermont, Warren Frost left home at age 17 to enlist in the United States Navy during World War II, serving aboard the destroyer escort USS Borum (DE-790) in Europe during the Normandy landings. After his service, he worked mainly in theater. He had a doctorate in theater ...

91, undisclosed illness

20. Bill Paxton

Actor | Aliens

Bill Paxton was born on May 17, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas. He was the son of Mary Lou (Gray) and John Lane Paxton, a businessman and actor (as John Paxton). Bill moved to Los Angeles, California at age eighteen, where he found work in the film industry as a set dresser for Roger Corman's New World ...

61, stroke after undergoing heart surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm

21. Joseph Wapner

Self | The People's Court

Joseph Wapner was born on November 15, 1919 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The People's Court (1981), Sliders (1995) and Malcolm & Eddie (1996). He was married to Mildred (Mickey) Nebenzahl. He died on February 26, 2017 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

97, natural causes

22. Miriam Colon

Actress | Scarface

Miriam Colon was born on August 20, 1936 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. She was an actress, known for Scarface (1983), Sabrina (1995) and Goal! The Dream Begins (2005). She was married to Fred Valle, George Paul Edgar and ???. She died on March 3, 2017 in New York City, New York, USA.

80, complications from pulmonary infection

23. Nathan George

Actor | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Nathan George was born on July 27, 1936. He was an actor, known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) and Klute (1971). He died on March 3, 2017 in New York, USA.

80, non-communicable disease

24. Tommy Page

Soundtrack | Dick Tracy

Tommy Page was born on May 24, 1967 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Dick Tracy (1990), Latin Boys Go to Hell (1997) and Shag (1988). He was married to Charlie. He died on March 4, 2017 in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

46, suicide (undisclosed cause)

25. Robert Osborne

Actor | One Step Beyond

Robert Osborne was the host on Turner Classic Movies from its inception in 1994, in large part due to his deep and abiding love and knowledge of film. Osborne got his start working for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The ever-perspicacious Ball suggested that Osborne combine his interest in classic ...

84, natural causes

26. Chuck Berry

Soundtrack | Men in Black

Charles Edward Anderson Berry was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll ...

90, natural causes

27. Chuck Barris

Writer | The Gong Show Movie

Chuck Barris was born on June 3, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Gong Show Movie (1980), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) and X: First Class (2011). He was married to Mary Clagett Kane, Robin Altman and Lynne Frances Levy. He died on March ...

87, natural causes

28. Lola Albright

Actress | Peter Gunn

Lola Jean Albright was born on July 20, 1924 in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of John Paul Albright and Marion Harvey, both of whom were gospel singers. She worked as a model before moving to Hollywood in the mid-1940s, studied piano for 20 years and worked as a receptionist at radio station WAKR in ...

92, natural causes

29. Don Rickles

Actor | Kelly's Heroes

Donald Jay Rickles was born May 8, 1926 in New York. Following the Golden Era of Hollywood, he remained active until early 2017. He got his start in night clubs, toiling for over 20 years, until 1958, when he made his film debut in Run Silent Run Deep (1958). The movie was a big hit. Afterward, ...

90, kidney failure

30. Cal Bellini

Actor | Little Big Man

Cal Bellini was born on June 9, 1935 in Singapore. He was an actor, known for Little Big Man (1970), Kate McShane (1975) and Diagnosis: Unknown (1960). He was married to Vivian Cournoyer Bristow. He died on April 9, 2017 in California, USA.

81, undisclosed cause

31. Peter Hansen

Actor | General Hospital

Peter Hansen was born on December 5, 1921 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor, known for General Hospital (1963), The War of the Roses (1989) and When Worlds Collide (1951). He was married to Florence Elizabeth (Betty) Moe. He died on April 9, 2017 in Santa Clarita, California, USA.

95, undisclosed cause

32. J. Geils

Soundtrack | Hancock

J. Geils was born on February 20, 1946 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Hancock (2008), Frontline (1983) and The J. Geils Band: Freeze Frame (1982). He died on April 11, 2017 in Groton, Massachusetts, USA.

71, natural causes

33. Dorothy Mengering

Self | Late Show with David Letterman

Dorothy Mengering was born on July 18, 1921 in Linton, Indiana, USA. She was married to Hans Mengering and Harry Joseph (Joe) Letterman. She died on April 11, 2017 in Carmel, Indiana, USA.

95, natural causes

34. Charlie Murphy

Actor | Norbit

Charlie Murphy was born on July 12, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Norbit (2007), Night at the Museum (2006) and Chappelle's Show (2003). He was married to Tisha Taylor Murphy. He died on April 12, 2017 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, ...

57, leukemia

35. Clifton James

Actor | Live and Let Die

Blustery, stocky, loud although often genial character actor who has created a niche for himself playing often frustrated and fast talking Southern characters... most noticeably as Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the James Bond adventures Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man with the ...

96, complications of diabetes

36. Aaron Hernandez

Self | The NFL on CBS

Aaron Hernandez was born on November 6, 1989 in Bristol, Connecticut, USA. He died on April 19, 2017 in Leominster, Massachusetts, USA.

27, suicide (by hanging)

37. Cuba Gooding

Soundtrack | Sudden Death

Cuba Gooding was born on April 27, 1944 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Sudden Death (1985), Thank God It's Friday (1978) and Children of the Struggle (1999). He was married to Shirley Sullivan and Gail Barbara Harris. He died on April 20, 2017 in Woodland Hills, ...

73, natural causes

38. Erin Moran

Actress | Joanie Loves Chachi

Born in Burbank, California, USA on October 18, 1960, Erin Moran was the youngest daughter of Sharon and Edward Moran, who have five other children. She attended Walter Reed Junior High School for one year and North Hollywood High School for another year. Her first professional acting job was in a ...

56, undisclosed cancer

39. Don Gordon

Actor | The Towering Inferno

Don Gordon was born on November 13, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Towering Inferno (1974), Papillon (1973) and Bullitt (1968). He was married to Denise Farr, Bek Nelson, Nita Talbot and Helen Westcott. He died on April 24, 2017 in Los Angeles, ...

90, undisclosed cancer

40. 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 ...

73, esophageal cancer and complications from heart disease

41. Michael Parks

Actor | Red State

Michael Parks is known as an actor's actor by his peers with a breadth of astonishing range that has allowed him to portray stunning contrasts--sometimes in the same film, like in Tusk (2014), starring in dual roles as an erudite serial killer opposite Justin Long, and as a feeble rube opposite ...

77, undisclosed cause

42. Chris Boykin

Writer | Rob & Big

Chris Boykin was born on January 13, 1972 in Raleigh, Mississippi, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Rob & Big (2006), Sk8 Life (2006) and Skate. (2007). He was married to Shannon. He died on May 9, 2017 in Plano, Texas, USA.

45, heart attack

43. Powers Boothe

Actor | Sudden Death

Incisive, gravelly-voiced screen tough guy Powers Boothe was born on June 1, 1948 in Snyder, Texas, a sharecropper's son. Used to hard physical work "chopping cotton" as a youngster, he went on to become the first member of his family to attend university. He then proceeded to study acting via a ...

68, natural causes

44. Chris Cornell

Soundtrack | Casino Royale

Chris Cornell was a rock icon who thrived on contradictions. An innovator who resisted genre labels, he was nonetheless a chief architect of the 90s grunge movement. Frequently ranked as one of the best voices in music history, he successfully maintained his own unique identity over decades as a ...

52, suicide (by hanging)

45. Dina Merrill

Actress | BUtterfield 8

It would have been pretty difficult for willowy actress/model Dina Merrill to have pulled off playing a commoner on stage, film or TV in her day. She reeked of elegance and class. The epitome of style, poise and glamour, the New York-born socialite and celebrity was born Nedenia Marjorie Hutton on ...

93, Lewy body dementia

46. Roger Moore

Actor | Moonraker

Roger Moore will perhaps always be remembered as the man who replaced Sean Connery in the James Bond series, arguably something he never lived down.

Roger George Moore was born on October 14, 1927 in Stockwell, London, England, the son of Lillian (Pope) and George Alfred Moore, a policeman. His ...

89, undisclosed cancer

47. Cortez Kennedy

Actor | Arli$$

Cortez Kennedy was born on August 23, 1968 in Osceola, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Arli$$ (1996), The NFL on CBS (1956) and The NFL on NBC (1965). He was married to Nicole Sanders. He died on May 23, 2017 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

48, complications from pneumonia due to prolonged heart disease and diabetes

48. Jim Bunning

Self | Greats of the Game

Jim Bunning was born on October 23, 1931 in Southgate, Kentucky, USA. He was married to Mary Catherine Theis. He died on May 26, 2017 in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, USA.

85, complications following a stroke

49. Gregg Allman

Soundtrack | Jack Reacher

Gregg LeNoir Allman was NOT primarily known for being an actor, he was a musician, songwriter and singer that formed the Allman Brothers Band with his brother Duane in 1969. His music appeared in the movie soundtracks of films such as Walking Tall (2004) and Jack Reacher (2012) and in the ...

69, liver cancer

50. Manuel Noriega

Self | FN - Globalt uppdrag

Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian dictator, politician and military officer who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. An authoritarian ruler who amassed a personal fortune through drug trafficking operations, he had long standing ties to United States intelligence ...

83, brain cancer

51. Elena Verdugo

Actress | Marcus Welby, M.D.

Most baby-boomers remember actress Elena Verdugo from her pleasant, plain but rather dowdy Emmy-nominated role as "Consuelo Lopez", the altruistic assistant and sometime aide-de-camp to Robert Young's general practitioner for several seasons on the popular Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) dramatic series....

92, undisclosed cause

52. Glenne Headly

Actress | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

For fourteen years, she said that family was the most important thing to her and she set most of her time aside to be a "present" mother to her son. Movies, plays and television were chosen, for the most part, when they occurred in town or on a school break. She took one year to homeschool her son ...

62, pulmonary embolism

53. Adam West

Actor | Batman

Adam West was born William West Anderson on September 19, 1928 in Walla Walla, Washington, to parents Otto West Anderson, a farmer, and his wife Audrey V. (Speer), an opera singer. At age 10, in 1938, West had a cache of comic books; and starting in 1939, Batman, who appeared in Detective Comics, ...

88, leukemia

54. Bill Dana

Actor | The Nude Bomb

Comedian, author and composer, educated at Emerson College. He served in the US Infantry during World War II. Later, he was part of the team Dana and Wood on television and in supper clubs. As a single, he appeared on television with Martha Raye and Imogene Coca and was a writer for Steve Allen, ...

92, undisclosed cause

55. John G. Avildsen

Director | Rocky

John G. Avildsen was born on December 21, 1935 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. He was a director and editor, known for Rocky (1976), The Karate Kid Part III (1989) and Rocky V (1990). He was married to Tracy Brooks Swope and Marie Olga Maturevich. He died on June 16, 2017 in Los Angeles, California, ...

81, pancreatic cancer

56. Stephen Furst

Actor | National Lampoon's Animal House

Stephen Furst was born on May 8, 1954 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. He was an actor and director, known for National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Babylon 5 (1993) and The Dream Team (1989). He was married to Lorraine Furst. He died on June 16, 2017 in Moorpark, California, USA.

63, complications from diabetes

57. Prodigy

Soundtrack | Bulworth

Prodigy was born on November 2, 1974 in Hempstead, New York, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Bulworth (1998), Any Given Sunday (1999) and 8 Mile (2002). He was married to Ikesha Dudley. He died on June 20, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

42, choking complications from sickle cell anemia

58. Skip Homeier

Actor | The Gunfighter

A prolific young performer, child/juvenile Skippy Homeier was born George Vincent Homeier on October 5, 1930. Beginning on radio in his native Chicago at age six ("Portia Faces Life"), he came to films at age 14 with Tomorrow, the World! (1944), which was originally a 1943 Broadway drama starring ...

86, spinal myelopathy

59. Michael Nyqvist

Actor | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Born Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist in Stockholm, Sweden, it wasn't until he was over a year old when he was finally adopted from the orphanage he had been given to. His father was a lawyer and his mother a writer. It wasn't until he had his first child that he decided to seek out his biological parents. ...

56, lung cancer

60. Nelsan Ellis

Actor | Get on Up

Nelsan Ellis was an award-winning American film and television actor and playwright, perhaps best known as Lafayette Reynolds on HBO's True Blood (2008).

Nelsan was born on November 30, 1977, in Harvey, Illinois, the son of Jackie Ellis and Tommie Lee Thompson. Following his parents' divorce, Ellis ...

39, heart failure

61. Fresh Kid Ice

Soundtrack | New Jack City

Christopher Wong Won (Fresh Kid Ice) is the first Asian American rapper, a Miami Bass pioneer, and a music producer. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, he and his family moved to New York when he was 12. Upon graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Air Force for a four-year stint. ...

53, cirrhosis of the liver due to alcohol abuse and complications from Hepatitis C

62. 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 ...

89, hypovolemic shock and internal bleeding caused by heart disease

63. George A. Romero

Writer | Land of the Dead

George A. Romero never set out to become a Hollywood figure; by all indications, though, he was very successful. The director of the groundbreaking "Living Dead" films was born February 4, 1940 ,in New York City to Ann (Dvorsky) and Jorge Romero. His father was born in Spain and raised in Cuba, and...

77, lung cancer

64. Harvey Atkin

Actor | Meatballs

Harvey Atkin was born on December 18, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Meatballs (1979), Barney's Version (2010) and Speed Zone (1989). He was married to Celia Tessler. He died on July 17, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

74, brain cancer

65. Chester Bennington

Soundtrack | Transformers

Chester Charles Bennington was born in Phoenix, Arizona, to Susan Elaine (Johnson), a nurse, and Lee Russell Bennington, a police detective. His parents divorced when he was 11 years old. He has two half sisters and a half brother. He attended Centennial High School at the beginning of his freshman...

41, suicide (by hanging)

66. John Heard

Actor | The Guardian

John Heard was a very talented actor who established himself as a respected thespian in the late 1970s and early '80s, though he is perhaps better known for his turn as Peter McCallister, Kevin McCallister's (Macaulay Culkin) father in the Home Alone (1990) movies.

John was born in Washington, D.C.,...

71, cardiac arrest due to atherosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease

67. Sam Shepard

Actor | August: Osage County

Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, IL, to Jane Elaine (Schook), a teacher, and Samuel Shepard Rogers, a teacher and farmer who was also in the army. As the eldest son of a US Army officer (and WWII bomber pilot), Shepard spent his early childhood moving from base to base ...

73, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

68. Marty Sklar

Writer | EPCOT

Marty Sklar was born on February 6, 1934 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. He was a writer, known for EPCOT (1967), The Magical World of Disney (1954) and After the Fair: The Legacy of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair (2014). He was married to Leah. He died on July 27, 2017 in Hollywood Hills, ...

83, undisclosed cause

69. Ty Hardin

Actor | PT 109

Though born in New York City, Ty was raised in Texas and, after military service during the Korean War, took some classes at Texas A&M. He then moved west to California and won some minor roles in B movies. When TV's Clint Walker insisted on improvements in his Cheyenne (1955) contract, Warner ...

87, undisclosed cause; had been dealing with declining health

70. Robert Hardy

Actor | Sense and Sensibility

One of England's most successful and enduring character actors, with a prolific screen career on television and in films, Robert Hardy was acclaimed for his versatility and the depth of his performances.

Born in Cheltenham in 1925, he studied at Oxford University and, in 1949, he joined the ...

93, undisclosed cause

71. Glen Campbell

Soundtrack | True Grit

Glen Campbell was born on April 22, 1936 in Billstown, Arkansas, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for True Grit (1969), Shindig! (1964) and Dark Phoenix (2019). He was married to Kim Campbell, Sarah Jan Barg, Billie Jean Nunley and Diane Marie Kirk. He died on August 8, 2017 in Nashville...

81, Alzheimer's disease

72. Joseph Bologna

Actor | The Big Bus

Before signing with director Stanley Donen to play Michael Caine's libidinous best friend in Blame It on Rio (1984), Joe Bologna netted rave reviews for his Sid Caesar send-up in the well-received comedy My Favorite Year (1982) with Peter O'Toole. Well known as both a writer and an actor, Bologna ...

82, pancreatic cancer

73. Sonny Landham

Actor | Predator

An actor with a powerful physique, booming voice and who has played several "Native American" characters, Sonny Landham first broke into mainstream film with a bit part as a police officer in the subway. He ends up getting tripped when Michael Beck throws the baseball bat at his legs, in Walter ...

76, congestive heart failure

74. Jerry Lewis

Actor | The Nutty Professor

Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926 - August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team ...

91, natural causes

75. Viola Harris

Actress | The Other Guys

Viola Harris was born on September 19, 1920 in Bronx, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Other Guys (2010), Choke (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010). She was married to Robert H. Harris. She died on August 23, 2017 in New York City, New York, USA.

83, undisclosed illness

76. Jay Thomas

Actor | The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

Jay Thomas was born in Kermit, Texas, to Katherine (Guzzino), a tap-dancing South Louisiana belle of Italian descent, and T. Harry Terrell, Sr., an oil man. Reared in New Orleans, he was always active in sports and performing. He won his first award as emcee of the Jesuit High School talent show. ...

69, throat cancer

77. Tobe Hooper

Director | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Honored with many awards for his films and achievement in the horror genre, Tobe Hooper is truly one of the Masters of Horror (2005).

Tobe Hooper was born in Austin, Texas, to Lois Belle (Crosby) and Norman William Ray Hooper, who owned a theater in San Angelo. He spent the 1960s as a college ...

74, natural causes

78. Richard Anderson

Actor | Paths of Glory

Richard Anderson appeared in high school plays, served a hitch in the Army and, upon his discharge, began doing summer stock, radio work, a movie bit part (a wounded soldier in Twelve O'Clock High (1949)) and all the other minor jobs required of your basic struggling actor. He did comedy scenes on a...

91, natural causes

79. Xavier Atencio

Animation_department | The Andromeda Strain

Xavier Atencio was born on September 4, 1919 in Walsenburg, Colorado, USA. He was a writer, known for The Andromeda Strain (1971), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). He was married to Maureen Sheedy. He died on ...

98, undisclosed cause

80. Stewart Moss

Actor | The Bat People

Stewart Moss was born on November 27, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Bat People (1974), Star Trek (1966) and Beyond Westworld (1980). He was married to Marianne McAndrew. He died on September 13, 2017 in Walla Walla, Washington, USA.

79, heart attack

81. Frank Vincent

Actor | Goodfellas

"Go home and get your shine box....", so said ill-fated Billy Batts in Goodfellas (1990). However, Billy Batts is better known to a legion of crime-film fans as the talented actor, musician, and comedian Frank Vincent. He was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, but was raised in the Greenville ...

80, complications following open heart surgery after suffering a heart attack

82. Harry Dean Stanton

Actor | Lucky

Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, to Ersel (Moberly), a cook, and Sheridan Harry Stanton, a barber and tobacco farmer. He lived in Lexington, Kentucky and graduated from Lafayette Senior High School with the class of 1944. Drafted into the Navy, he served as a cook in the U.S. Navy during ...

91, heart failure

83. Albert Moses

Actor | The Spy Who Loved Me

Albert Moses was born on December 19, 1937 in Gampola, Kandy District, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). He was an actor and producer, known for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Octopussy (1983) and An American Werewolf in London (1981). He died on September 15, 2017 in London, England, UK.

79, undisclosed cause

84. Bobby Heenan

Actor | WrestleMania X-Seven

Bobby Heenan was born on November 1, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for WrestleMania X-Seven (2001), WCW Bash at the Beach (1996) and WrestleMania V (1989). He was married to Cynthia Jean Perrett. He died on September 17, 2017 in Largo, Florida, USA.

72, throat cancer

85. Bernie Casey

Actor | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Bernie Casey was born on June 8, 1939 in Wyco, West Virginia, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Never Say Never Again (1983) and Revenge of the Nerds (1984). He was married to Paula. He died on September 19, 2017 in Los Angeles, California, ...

78, stroke

86. Jake LaMotta

Writer | Raging Bull

Jake LaMotta had one of the best chins in boxing history. In over 110 fights against the greatest middleweights in history, LaMotta was only knocked to the canvas once in his entire 14 year career. Turning pro in the early 1940s, Lamotta ran up an impressive undefeated streak before losing. He was ...

95, pneumonia

87. Barry Dennen

Actor | Jesus Christ Superstar

Actor/singer/voice artist Barry Dennen possessed a sliver-eyed, sneering look and brittle, biting diction pattern that easily recalled the earlier flamboyant villainy of actor Jay Robinson. For Dennen, this would be best represented in his cruel, no-holds-barred performance of Pontius Pilate in the...

79, complications due to a fall 3 months prior

88. Hugh Hefner

Actor | Miss March

Hugh Hefner was born on April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Miss March (2009), Hop (2011) and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987). He was married to Crystal Hefner, Kimberley Conrad and Mildred Williams. He died on September 27, 2017 in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles,...

91, cardiac arrest and respiratory failure

89. Monty Hall

Producer | Let's Make a Deal

Monty Hall was born Maurice Halperin on August 25, 1921 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Manitoba in 1945. He's the father of Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason, television writer/director Sharon Hall, and Emmy Award winner ...

96, heart failure

90. Tom Petty

Actor | The Postman

Thomas Earl Petty was an American musician and actor who was the lead vocalist and guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, formed in 1976. He previously led the band Mudcrutch, was a member of the late 1980s super-group the Traveling Wilburys, and had success as a solo artist.

Petty had many ...

66, accidental drug overdose

91. Fats Domino

Soundtrack | The Blues Brothers

Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 - October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, was an American pianist and singer-songwriter. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Born in New Orleans to a French Creole family, Domino signed to Imperial ...

89, natural causes

92. Robert Guillaume

Actor | Benson

Robert Peter Williams Guillaume was an actor from St. Louis, Missouri who was known for playing Rafiki from The Lion King, Benson DuBois from Soap and Benson, and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls. He had five children from two marriages. He passed away in October 24, 2017 due to prostate cancer ...

89, prostate cancer

93. Jack Bannon

Actor | Little Big Man

Jack Bannon was born on June 14, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Little Big Man (1970), L.A. Heat (1996) and Hard Vice (1994). He was married to Ellen Travolta and Kathleen Larkin. He died on October 25, 2017 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA.

77, undisclosed cancer

94. Juanita Quigley

Actress | Imitation of Life

Juanita Quigley was born on June 24, 1931 in Los Angeles. At age 3, she began appearing in films in small roles as an extra child; these parts were often uncredited, but when Quigley did receive credit, it was under the name "Baby Jane." Her career changed when she played Baby Jessie Pullman in ...

86, undisclosed cause

95. John Hillerman

Actor | Magnum, P.I.

John Hillerman, who most famously played the impeccably urbane Englishman Jonathan Quayle Higgins III (VC !) -- Tom Selleck's sophisticated majordomo in Magnum, P.I. (1980) --, was of French, German and Austrian descent, raised in a small Texas town and educated at a Catholic high school. He ...

84, natural causes

96. Lil Peep

Soundtrack | The F**k-It List

Lil Peep was born on November 1, 1996 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for The F**k-It List (2020), Lil Peep Feat. Clams Casino: 4 Gold Chains (2018) and Lil Peep: Drugz (2020). He died on November 15, 2017 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

21, accidental drug overdose

97. Ann Wedgeworth

Actress | Sweet Dreams

Ann Wedgeworth was born January 21, 1934 in Abilene, Texas to Cortus and Elizabeth Wedgeworth, she graduated from from Highland Park High School in University Park, and later graduated from the University of Texas in 1957. After graduation, Ann moved to New York City and auditioned several times ...

83, undisclosed illness

98. Earle Hyman

Actor | The Cosby Show

Earle Hyman is a distinguished African American actor who had a 46-year-long career on Broadway, where he was nominated for a Tony Award. Hyman also was nominated for an Emmy Award as Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series for his appearance on The Cosby Show (1984) playing Bill Cosby's ...

91, undisclosed cause

99. Della Reese

Actress | Touched by an Angel

Della began singing in her hometown of Detroit when she was 6 years old. As a teenager, she toured with gospel great Mahalia Jackson and, at the age of 18, she formed the Meditation Singers and became the first performer to take gospel music to the casinos of Las Vegas. She was a vocalist with the ...

86, complications from diabetes

100. Peter Baldwin

Actor | Stalag 17

Peter Baldwin was born on January 11, 1931 in Winnetka, Illinois, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Stalag 17 (1953), The Wonder Years (1988) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970). He was married to Terry Lee Finkel, Emi De Sica and Lois Cederberg. He died on November 19, 2017 in Pebble ...

82, undisclosed cancer