Notable Showbiz Deaths of 2020

101. Jerry Bishop

Jerry Bishop was born on October 19, 1935 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Judge Judy (1996), A Man with Heart (1993) and Destination Truth (2007). He was married to Velma Joan Leventhal. He died on April 21, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

102. Dimitri Diatchenko

Actor | Get Smart

A native of San Francisco, Dimitri Diatchenko attended Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts. After high school, he attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida where he was a scholarship music student, majoring in classical guitar. After completing the Bachelors program, he ...

103. Shirley Knight

Actress | As Good as It Gets

Shirley Knight was an American actress who appeared in more than 180 feature films, television movies, television series, and Broadway productions in her career playing leading and character roles.

She was a member of the Actors Studio. Knight was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best ...

104. Hamilton Bohannon

Soundtrack | 54

Hamilton Bohannon was born on March 7, 1942 in Newman, Georgia, USA. He was a composer, known for 54 (1998), Rubber (2010) and Just Mercy (2019). He was married to Andrea. He died on April 24, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

105. Cis Corman

Casting_director | Death Wish

Cis Corman was born on May 12, 1926 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA. She was a producer and casting director, known for Death Wish (1974), The King of Comedy (1982) and The Deer Hunter (1978). She was married to Dr. Harvey Harold Corman. She died on April 27, 2020 in New York City, New York, USA.

106. Irrfan Khan

Actor | The Lunchbox

Born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan, in Jaipur, Rajasthan (NW India) January 7, 1967 to a Pashto-speaking Muslim family. Khan's mother, Begum Khan, was from the Tonk Hakim family and his father, Jagirdar Khan, from the Khajuriya village near the Tonk district, ran a tire business.

The Khan family name ...

107. John Lafia

Director | Man's Best Friend

John Lafia was born on April 2, 1957. He was a director and writer, known for Man's Best Friend (1993), Child's Play (1988) and Child's Play (2019). He was married to Beverly. He died on April 29, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

108. Rishi Kapoor

Actor | Agneepath

Born in south Mumbai, Kapoor is the second son of film director and actor Raj Kapoor. He did his schooling with his brothers at Mumbai's Campion School. His brothers are well-known actors, Randhir Kapoor and Rajiv Kapoor.

Rishi Kapoor debuted in his father's 1970 film Mera Naam Joker, playing his ...

109. Sam Lloyd

Actor | Scrubs

Sam Lloyd was born on November 12, 1963 in Springfield, Vermont, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Scrubs (2001), Galaxy Quest (1999) and Flubber (1997). He was married to Vanessa Villalovos. He died on April 30, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

110. Sue Bruce-Smith

How I Live Now

Sue Bruce-Smith was a producer, known for How I Live Now (2013), The Lobster (2015) and Under the Skin (2013). She died on May 2, 2020 in Dublin, Ireland.

111. John Ericson

Actor | Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Ericson was born in Düsseldorf, the son of a German chemist and a Swedish actress and opera singer. Escaping from the Nazi regime, his family emigrated to the U.S. when he was three. At first living in Detroit, they eventually settled in New York where his dad (according to a 1955 newspaper article...

112. Dave Greenfield

Soundtrack | Hardcore Henry

Dave Greenfield was born on March 29, 1949 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hardcore Henry (2015), Mystery Men (1999) and Away We Go (2009). He was married to Pam. He died on May 3, 2020 in the UK.

113. Don Shula

Actor | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Don Shula is an American former professional football coach and player who is best known as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, the team he led to two Super Bowl victories, and to the only perfect season in the history of the National Football League (NFL). He was previously the head coach of the ...

114. Roger Horchow

Actor | The X Files: I Want to Believe

Roger Horchow was born on July 3, 1928 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008), Stanley Marcus Documentary and The 54th Annual Tony Awards (2000). He died on May 2, 2020 in Dallas, Texas, USA.

115. Brian Howe

Actor | Bad Company: Shake It Up

Brian Howe

You might be forgiven for thinking that someone who wrote and sang the hits for one of the biggest bands in the world in the 80s and 90s would more likely be found on a Florida beach rather than huddled in a dark recording studio or traveling from gig to gig, taking his solo show on the ...

116. Florian Schneider-Esleben

Soundtrack | Swordfish

Florian Schneider-Esleben was born on April 7, 1947 in Öhningen-Kattenhorn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was a composer and actor, known for Swordfish (2001), 17 Again (2009) and Control (2007). He died on April 21, 2020 in Germany.

117. Andre Harrell

Producer | Honey

Andre Harrell was born on September 26, 1960 in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Honey (2003), New York Undercover (1994) and Strictly Business (1991). He was married to Wendy Credle. He died on May 7, 2020 in West Hollywood, California, USA.

118. Roy Horn

Actor | Vegas Vacation

He grew up in broken circumstances. The father was a drug addict and he ran away from his parents' home when he was still a child. Attracted by big cats, he found a job at the zoo, where he became particularly friendly with a cheetah named "Chico." Here Roy found his talent for dressage, which he ...

119. Little Richard

Actor | Last Action Hero

Richard Wayne Penniman, better known as Little Richard, the self-proclaimed "Architect of Rock 'n' Roll", traveled in his early days with the legendary vaudeville star Spencer "Snake" Anthony. One of Richard's early bands had the young, then unknown singer James Brown (the Godfather of Soul), a ...

120. Betty Wright

Soundtrack | Speed 2: Cruise Control

Soul and R&B singer Betty Wright was born December 21, 1953 in Miami, Florida. She started out as a member of her family's own gospel group The Echoes of Joy and began working as a backup vocalist for other singers at age thirteen. She recorded her 1968 debut album "My First Time Around" when she ...

121. Jerry Stiller

Actor | The Heartbreak Kid

As the short, straight-man counterpart of the stellar husband-and-wife comedy team "Stiller & Meara", Jerry Stiller and wife Anne Meara were on top of the comedy game in the 1960s, a steady and hilarious presence on television variety, notably The Ed Sullivan Show (1948), on which they appeared 36 ...

122. Joel Kupperman

Actor | Chip Off the Old Block

During World War II and its aftermath, Joel Kupperman was one of the most famous children in the country, and also one of the most loathed.

From 6 to 16, Joel was a star on "The Quiz Kids," a popular radio program that later migrated to television. He captivated Marlene Dietrich and Orson Welles by ...

123. Lynn Shelton

Director | Humpday

Two time Emmy-nominated actress and director Lynn Shelton fell ill and was taken to a Los Angeles, California hospital. During her medical examination it was found that she had been suffering, without diagnosis or any apparent symptoms, from acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood. She died ...

124. Fred Willard

Actor | Best in Show

Fred Willard radiated a unique charm that established him as one of the industry's most gifted comic actors, first coming to prominence as ambitious but dimwitted sidekick Jerry Hubbard to Martin Mull's smarmy talk-show host Barth Gimble in the devastating satirical series Fernwood Tonight (1977). ...

125. Phyllis George

Actress | Meet the Parents

Phyllis George was born on June 25, 1949 in Denton, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Meet the Parents (2000), My Wife Is Retarded (2007) and The $25,000 Pyramid (1974). She was married to John Y. Brown and Robert Evans. She died on May 14, 2020 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

126. Astrid Kirchherr

Camera_department | Celebration

Astrid Kirchherr was born on May 20, 1938 in Hamburg, Germany. She is known for Celebration (1979), All You Need Is Klaus (2009) and Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties (2017). She was married to Gibson Kemp. She died on May 13, 2020 in Hamburg, Germany.

127. Phil May

Soundtrack | London Boulevard

Phil May was born on November 9, 1944 in Dartford, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for London Boulevard (2010), Let It Snow (2019) and A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012). He died on May 15, 2020 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, UK.

128. Michael McCaskey

Self | West Wing Week

Michael McCaskey was born on December 11, 1943 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Nancy Richardson. He died on May 16, 2020 in the USA.

129. Monique Mercure

Actress | Naked Lunch

Monique Mercure was born on November 14, 1930 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Naked Lunch (1991), The Red Violin (1998) and J.A. Martin photographe (1977). She was married to Pierre Mercure. She died on May 16, 2020 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

130. Ken Osmond

Actor | Leave It to Beaver

Forever tagged as the unctuous, trouble-making truant Eddie Haskell on the quintessential 50s family show Leave It to Beaver (1957), actor Ken Osmond did not manage much of a career after the stereotype. So inextricably typed was he that he gave up on any semblance of a career within a short time ...

131. Gregory Tyree Boyce

Actor | Twilight

Gregory Tyree Boyce was born on December 5, 1989 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Twilight (2008), True to the Game 2 (2020) and Team Kaylie (2019). He died on May 13, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

132. Jerry Sloan

Self | NBA on NBC

Jerry Sloan was born on March 28, 1942 in McLeansboro, Illinois, USA. He was married to Tammy Jessop and Barbara Irvin. He died on May 22, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

133. Hana Kimura

Actress | Nü you shuai ba

Hana Kimura was a Japanese professional wrestler who worked for World Wonder Ring Stardom and previously Sendai Girls Pro Wrestling.

She was accepted in to the Wrestle-1 dojo after she passed an audition that took place in December of 2015. At the same month she was announced as a round girl of the ...

134. Eddie Sutton

Self | ESPN 25: Who's #1?

Eddie Sutton was born on March 12, 1936 in Bucklin, Kansas, USA. He was married to Patsy Joan Wright. He died on May 23, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

135. Jimmy Cobb

Soundtrack | Dexter

Jimmy Cobb was born on January 20, 1929 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was married to Ann Porter and Eleana Cobb. He died on May 24, 2020 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

136. Richard Herd

Actor | All the President's Men

Utilitarian character actor Richard Herd was one of those stern familiar faces you saw countless times on film and TV but couldn't quite place the name. The stage-trained actor, who shared a striking resemblance to actor Karl Malden, never found the one role that would make him a household name, ...

Herd's TV roles includes that of John, the original leader of the Visiting aliens in "V". He also portrayed William Shatner's boss (and Heather Locklear's dad) in the police drama "T.J. Hooker".

137. Anthony James

Actor | Unforgiven

Character actor Anthony James was born on July 22, 1942 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Unusually tall (6' 6½) and lanky, with a rough, pockmarked face, a lean, stringy build, and an extremely intense screen presence, James was often cast in Westerns as scary, sleazy villains. He was especially ...

138. Bob Kulick

Music_department | Calicoon

Bob Kulick was born on January 16, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Calicoon, Scorned (1993) and Kid (1990). He died on May 28, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Bob's brother, fellow musician Bruce Kulick, succeeded Vinnie Vincent (who, in turn, had succeeded "Space Ace" Frehley) in the legendary rock group KISS.

139. Curtis Cokes

Actor | Fat City

Curtis Cokes was born on June 15, 1937 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Fat City (1972), ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961) and World Heavyweight Championship: Muhammad Ali vs. Zora Folley (1967). He died on May 29, 2020 in Dallas, Texas, USA.

140. Mary Pat Gleason

Actress | Intolerable Cruelty

Mary Pat Gleason was born on February 23, 1950 in Lake City, Minnesota, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Intolerable Cruelty (2003), The Crucible (1996) and A Cinderella Story (2004). She died on June 2, 2020 in Burbank, California, USA.

141. Claude Heater

Actor | Tristan und Isolde

From barber to singer to portraying Jesus Christ onscreen, Claude Heater has had an interesting career. While a student at Richmond Union High in Oakland, California, Heater saw a performance of "Faust" in San Francisco which sparked his interest in opera. However, the young baritone wasn't sure he...

Heater is well-known to cinema-goers as "Jesus Christ" in BEN HUR.

142. Kurt Thomas

Actor | Gymkata

Kurt Thomas was born on March 29, 1956 in Miami, Florida, USA. He was an actor, known for Gymkata (1985), Slam (2003) and Circus (1988). He was married to Rebecca Sue Jones, Leanne Kay Hartsgrove and Elizabeth Ann Osting. He died on June 5, 2020 in Texas, USA.

Gymnastics legend Thomas - he has a Texan training center named after him - teamed with ENTER THE DRAGON director Robert Clouse for 1985's GYMKATA. The title martial art (three guesses as to what it was inspired by; if you need more than one, you should be ashamed of yourself) never quite caught on...although the movie's writer, Charles Robert Carner, went on to script the Rutger Hauer vehicle BLIND FURY half a decade later.

For the 10th anniversary of GYMKATA, Kristie Phillips would jump - to say nothing of bounce, spring, vault, et al - onto the "martial gymnast" bandwagon with Albert Pyun's SPITFIRE...which, he insists, was *not* meant as a sequel or as a reboot. (Still, worse calls have been made.)

143. Bonnie Pointer

Soundtrack | 54

Singer/songwriter Patricia "Bonnie" Pointer was born on July 11, 1950 in Oakland, California. She's the second youngest member of the hugely popular and successful soul/R&B group The Pointer Sisters. Bonnie began singing in the choir of her father Reverend Elton Pointer's church. In 1969 Bonnie ...

144. Sushant Singh Rajput

Actor | Dil Bechara

Sushant Singh Rajput was born on January 21, 1986 in Purnia, Bihar to K. K. Singh and Usha Singh. He has 4 sisters (i.e. Neetu, Meetu, Priyanka & Shweta). He was an Indian television & film actor, dancer and entrepreneur. He became a household name after playing the role of Manav in the TV series, ...

145. Jean Kennedy Smith

Actress | Lincoln

Jean Kennedy Smith was born on February 20, 1928 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for Lincoln (2012), Jack: The Last Kennedy Film (1993) and Australian Story (1996). She was married to Stephen Smith. She died on June 17, 2020 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

146. Vera Lynn

Soundtrack | Hellboy

Vera Lynn was born on March 20, 1917 in East Ham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Hellboy (2004), Lolita (1997) and Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982). She was married to Harry Lewis. She died on June 18, 2020 in Ditchling, East Sussex, England, UK.

147. Ian Holm

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Sir Ian Holm was one of the world's greatest actors, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning, Tony Award-winning, BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated British star of films and the stage. He was a member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company and has played more than 100 roles in films and on ...

Sir Ian's roles include that of evil android "Ash" from the original ALIEN.

148. Joel Schumacher

Director | The Phantom of the Opera

Joel Schumacher was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and fashion designer from New York City. He rose to fame in the 1980s for directing the coming-of-age drama "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985), and the vampire-themed horror film "The Lost Boys" (1987). In the 1990s, he worked on two ...

Besides helming a wide selection of films - from FLATLINERS to THE LOST BOYS to ST. ELMO'S FIRE to FALLING DOWN - Schumacher scripted THE WIZ for fellow directorial legend Sidney Lumet.

149. Kelly Asbury

Actor | Gnomeo & Juliet

Among Kelly Asbury's many achievements, he directed UglyDolls (2019) and Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017). He also co-wrote the 3D computer-animated feature film Gnomeo & Juliet (2011).

Asbury's other past directorial efforts include the Oscar-nominated films, Shrek 2 (2004) and Spirit: Stallion ...

150. Stuart Cornfeld

Actor | Old School

Stuart Cornfeld was born on November 13, 1952 in Tarzana, California, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Old School (2003), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and The Fly (1986). He was married to Johanna Went. He died on June 26, 2020 in the USA.

151. Carl Reiner

Writer | The Dick Van Dyke Show

Carl Reiner is a legend of American comedy, who achieved great success as a comic actor, a director, producer and recording artist. He won nine Emmy Awards, three as an actor, four as a writer and two as a producer. He also won a Grammy Award for his album "The 2,000 Year Old Man", based on his ...

152. Johnny Mandel

Music_department | MASH

Inducted into the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame in 2009 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame a year later, Johnny Mandel is perhaps best known as the composer of the iconic M*A*S*H (1972) theme song, "Suicide is Painless". Born and raised in Manhattan, he was the son of a garment manufacturer and an opera ...

153. Earl Cameron

Actor | Inception

Earl Cameron did not set out to be an actor. Bermudian by birth, Cameron joined the British Merchant Navy in the 1930s for the travel opportunities that it afforded. By the early 1940s, with World War II in full swing, Cameron found himself in London working menial jobs to survive. After seeing a ...

154. Nick Cordero

Actor | Going in Style

Nick Cordero was born on September 17, 1978 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Going in Style (2017), Don Juan (2011) and Unpregnant (2020). He was married to Amanda Kloots. He died on July 5, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

155. Ennio Morricone

Composer | The Hateful Eight

A classmate of director Sergio Leone with whom he would form one of the great director/composer partnerships (right up there with Eisenstein & Prokofiev, Hitchcock & Herrmann, Fellini & Rota), Ennio Morricone studied at Rome's Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he specialized in trumpet. His first ...

Morricone's resume includes several collaborations with Sergio Leone - namely the DOLLARS trilogy and both ONCE UPON A TIME films - as well as 1987's THE UNTOUCHABLES.

He also scored 1977's HOLOCAUST 2000 and 1985's RED SONJA. (Neither of those movies were as well-received as his music for them; still, nobody's perfect.)

156. Charlie Daniels

Soundtrack | Coyote Ugly

Charlie Daniels was born on October 28, 1936 in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Coyote Ugly (2000), The Heartbreak Kid (2007) and The Waterboy (1998). He was married to Hazel Juanita Alexander. He died on July 6, 2020 in Hermitage, Tennessee, USA.

157. Naya Rivera

Actress | Glee

Naya Rivera was an Afro-Latina American actress, model and singer known for playing Santana Lopez from Glee and Hillary Winston from The Royal Family. She also was in The Master of Disguise, Baywatch, CSI: Miami, American Dad, Batman: The Long Halloween Parts 1 and 2, Even Stevens and The Bernie ...

158. Benjamin Keough

Actor | Rod & Barry

Benjamin Keough was born on October 21, 1992 in Tampa, Florida, USA. He was an actor, known for Rod & Barry (2017) and Elvis by the Presleys (2005). He died on July 12, 2020 in Calabasas, California, USA.

Benjamin's maternal grandfather was the King of Rock N' Roll himself, Elvis Presley.

159. Kelly Preston

Actress | Battlefield Earth

Kelly Preston was born on October 13, 1962 in Honolulu, Hawaii. A talented and captivating performer, she first garnered international attention with her role as "Marnie Mason" in Ivan Reitman's Twins (1988), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. With her diverse character portrayals in ...

Besides being "Mrs. John Travolta", Preston's roles include that of Patrick Dempsey's girlfriend in RUN.

160. Grant Imahara

Actor | Star Trek Continues

Electronics wizard Grant Imahara has been behind the scenes of many top Hollywood films for years. An expert at animatronics, his skills were used extensively at George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic, where his talent was demonstrated on various features including the Matrix sequels, the three ...

161. Joanna Cole

Writer | The Magic School Bus

Joanna Cole was born on August 11, 1944 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Joanna was a writer, known for The Magic School Bus, The Magic School Bus (1994) and The Magic School Bus Rides Again: Kids in Space (2020). Joanna was married to Phil. Joanna died on July 12, 2020 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA.

162. John Lewis

Self | John Lewis: Good Trouble

John Lewis was born on February 21, 1940 in Troy, Alabama, USA. He was married to Lillian Miles. He died on July 17, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

163. Annie Ross

Actress | Short Cuts

Annie Ross was born on July 25, 1930 in Mitcham, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Short Cuts (1993), Superman III (1983) and Throw Momma from the Train (1987). She was married to Sean Lynch. She died on July 21, 2020 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

164. Regis Philbin

Actor | Little Nicky

TV-talk show host, game-show host, singer, author, and TV personality, Regis Philbin became one of the most popular talk-show hosts in America and in Canada, especially. Growing up as an only child in The Bronx, New York, Philbin went to the University of Notre Dame and got a degree in sociology. ...

165. Olivia de Havilland

Actress | Gone with the Wind

Olivia Mary de Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her sister Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her ...

166. John Saxon

Actor | A Nightmare on Elm Street

John Saxon appeared in nearly 200 roles in the movies and on television in a more-than half-century-long career that has stretched over seven decades since he made his big screen debut in 1954 in uncredited small roles in It Should Happen to You (1954) and George Cukor's A Star Is Born (1954). Born...

Saxon's better-known work includes: BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS (a sci-fi variation on THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, in which he played the Eli Wallach role) and FEVER PITCH (as Ryan O'Neal's publisher). A real-life black belt, he co-starred in ENTER THE DRAGON...and, years later, hosted the Saturday afternoon series MASTERS OF THE MARTIAL ARTS.

167. Alan Parker

Director | Evita

The son of Elsie Ellen, a dressmaker, and William Leslie Parker, a house painter, Alan Parker was a London advertising copywriter in the 1960s and early 1970s with Collett Dickenson Pearce (CDP), an ad agency. He formed a partnership with David Puttnam as his producer (Puttnam had been a ...

Sir Alan's cinematic output includes the musicals BUGSY MALONE and FAME, along with the fact-based MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (whose Oscar-winning script/music team reunited, half a decade later, for Brian DePalma's SCARFACE).

168. Wilford Brimley

Actor | The Natural

Wilford Brimley was born on September 27, 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was an actor, known for The Natural (1984), In & Out (1997) and Cocoon (1985). He was married to Beverly Berry and Lynne Brimley. He died on August 1, 2020 in St. George, Utah, USA.

When he wasn't shooting dog-food commercials, Brimley's roles included that of Fred Ward's and Joel Grey's boss in REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS. Brimley also portrayed the reluctant granddad/father-in-law on the series OUR HOUSE (created, believe it or not, by James Lee Barrett...whose other output ranges from Hal Needham's SMOKEY & THE BANDIT to George Stevens' THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD to Jack Webb's THE D.I.!).

169. Reni Santoni

Actor | Dirty Harry

Born Reinaldo Santoni in New York City on April 21, 1938 of French and Spanish heritage, Reni (aka Reni Sands) started his career off in entertainment as a comedy writer. He moved in front of the camera in the early 60s and was performing episodic TV drama ("East Side/West Side," "The Trials of ...

170. Raymond Allen

Actor | Sanford and Son

Raymond Allen was born on March 5, 1929 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Sanford and Son (1972), Darktown Strutters (1975) and Fight That Ghost (1946). He was married to Barbra Williams. He died on August 10, 2020 in California, USA.

171. Trini López

Actor | The Dirty Dozen

Trini Lopez was an American singer and actor who had 16 Top 40 songs on the charts from 1963 through 1968. He was born Trinidad López III in the Little Mexico neighborhood of Dallas, Texas on May 15, 1937. He started performing with his own band when he was 15 years old and caught the eye of rock ...

172. Linda Manz

Actress | Days of Heaven

Linda Manz was born on August 20, 1961 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Days of Heaven (1978), The Wanderers (1979) and The Game (1997). She was married to Robert L. Guthrie. She died on August 14, 2020 in Palmdale, Los Angeles County, California, USA.

173. Ash Christian

Producer | Fat Girls

Ash Christian was an Emmy Award-winning producer, director, and actor, with more than 15 feature films and television series to his credit.

Most recently, he produced the SXSW hit film 1985 (2018), which was released. Ash recently produced the thriller Burn (2019), released by eOne in 2019. He also ...

174. Ben Cross

Actor | Star Trek

Ben Cross was born Harry Bernard Cross on December 16, 1947, in London, England. He was the son of Catherine (O'Donovan), a cleaning woman, from Keelraheen, Dunmanway, Ireland, and Harry Cross, an English doorman and nurse. He began acting at a very young age and participated in grammar school ...

Cross's better-known films include FIRST KNIGHT (he was Prince Malagant of Gore), the fact-based CHARIOTS OF FIRE, and 20 THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (he was Captain Nemo).

175. Joe Ruby

Producer | Rumpelstiltskin

Joe Ruby was an American animator, television writer, television producer, and music editor from Los Angeles. Ruby and his partner Ken Spears were the co-creators of the "Scooby-Doo" franchise, and all five its original co-protagonists. They later co-founded the animation studio Ruby-Spears (1977-...

Ruby and fellow animator Ken Spears cut their teeth for years with Hanna-Barbera before founding their own studio...out of which they produced "Centurions: Power X-Treme", "Goldie Gold & Action Jack", "Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos", "Lazer Tag Academy", "Mr. T", "Rambo: the Force of Freedom", "Sectaurs: Warriors of Symbion", and "Thundarr the Barbarian", among numerous other cartoon series.

176. Peter Licassi

Actor | Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Peter Licassi was born on April 1, 1959. He was an actor, known for Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988), Santa Barbara (1984) and Cheeseball Presents (1984). He died on August 27, 2020.

Licassi made a name for himself as goofy girl-chaser/world-saver "Paul Terenzi" in 1988's camp classic KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE.

177. Chadwick Boseman

Actor | Black Panther

Chadwick Boseman was an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of T'Challa / Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2016 to 2019, particularly in Black Panther (2018), and for his starring roles as several pioneering Americans, Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on...

178. Ann Lynn

Actress | Just Good Friends

Ann Lynn was born on November 7, 1933 in Fulham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Just Good Friends (1983), A Shot in the Dark (1964) and Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973). She was married to Anthony Newley. She died on August 30, 2020 in Oxfordshire, England, UK.

Lynn had a penchant for portraying ill-fated characters, as her credits -- which include A SHOT IN THE DARK (she was maid-turned-extortionist Dudu), KING LEAR (she was Princess Regan), and HITLER: THE LAST 10 DAYS -- will verify.

179. Jirí Menzel

Director | Ostrzhe sledované vlaky

Jirí Menzel was born on February 23, 1938 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor and director, known for Closely Watched Trains (1966), I Served the King of England (2006) and Larks on a String (1969). He was married to Olga Menzelová-Kelymanová. He died on September 5, ...

180. Kevin Dobson

Actor | Knots Landing

At his best playing blue-collared tough guys, curly dark-haired Irish-American actor Kevin Patrick Dobson was born in Queens, New York, on March 18, 1943, and raised in the Jackson Heights area of that borough. One of seven children born to a school janitor father and a homemaker mother, the future...

181. Ronald Bell

Soundtrack | The Nice Guys

Ronald Bell was born on November 1, 1951 in Youngstown, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for The Nice Guys (2016), Nick of Time (1995) and Us (2019). He was married to Pamela Nasim Bell, Tia Sinclair Bell and Yasin. He died on September 9, 2020 in Virgin Islands, USA.

Bell co-founded the legendary pop group Kool & the Gang.

182. Diana Rigg

Actress | Last Night in Soho

British actress Dame Diana Rigg was born on July 20, 1938 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. She has had an extensive career in film and theatre, including playing the title role in "Medea", both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Rigg made her ...

In addition to portraying "Mrs. James Bond" and "Mrs. Emma Peel", Rigg portrayed slightly-eccentric fashion magnate Lady Holiday (first name unknown) in THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER.

183. Toots Hibbert

Soundtrack | Grosse Pointe Blank

Toots Hibbert was born on December 8, 1942 in May Pen, Jamaica. He was an actor and composer, known for Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Repo Men (2010) and Notes on a Scandal (2006). He was married to Doreen (Miss D). He died on September 11, 2020 in Kingston, Jamaica.

184. Merritt Yohnka

Stunts | Minority Report

Merritt Russell Yohnka was born on April 1, 1958 in Chebanse, Illinois to Marilyn and Norm Yohnka. He attended Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois, where he joined Delta Sigma Phi. In 1982, he was hired to work at Knott's Berry Farm in southern California as the star in the "Wild West ...

Stunt performer/coordinator who dabbled in acting; among his more notable roles was that of obnoxious "Principal Leeby" in 1994's TRADING MOM.

185. Winston Groom

Writer | Forrest Gump

This is condensed from Wikipedia.

Winston Groom was raised in Mobile, Alabama where he attended University Military School (now UMS-Wright Preparatory School). His earliest ambition was to become a lawyer but instead, chose to become a author. Groom attended the University of Alabama, was a member ...

Groom's novel FORREST GUMP was adapted into one of the most successful films of its year.

186. Ron Cobb

Production_designer | Conan the Barbarian

Artist, writer, film conceptual designer, and cartoonist Ron Cobb was born in 1937 in Los Angeles, California. Cobb began his career in the mid-1950's as an inbetweener/breakdown artist on the classic Walt Disney animated feature "Sleeping Beauty." Ron was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1960 and ...

187. Michael Lonsdale

Actor | The Day of the Jackal

Tall, bearded, heavy-set Anglo-French character actor, best known internationally for playing Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal (1973) and Bond villain Hugo Drax in Moonraker (1979). The son of an English army officer (Edward Lonsdale-Crouch) and a Franco-Irish mother (...

188. S.P. Balasubrahmanyam

Music_department | Maine Pyar Kiya

S.P. Balasubrahmanyam was born on June 4, 1946 in Konetampet, Pallipattu, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh [now Tiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu], India. He was a music artist and actor, known for Maine Pyar Kiya (1989), Enthiran (2010) and Andaz Apna Apna (1994). He was married to Savitri S.. He ...

189. Helen Reddy

Actress | Pete's Dragon

The #1 Grammy-winning "I Am Woman" became not only THE anthem of the feminist movement during the radical 1970s, but also the signature song for its lovely, crop-haired, reddish-haired composer and singer Helen Reddy. Many decades later this is the hit people still remember her for, despite the ...

190. Thomas Jefferson Byrd

Actor | Set It Off

Born in Georgia, Byrd earned a bachelor of science degree in education from Morris Brown College and later received a master of fine arts degree in dance from California Institute of the Arts. He has starred in numerous regional stage productions including the San Diego Repertory Theater's ...

191. Margaret Nolan

Actress | Goldfinger

Born in 1943 in Hampstead, London, Margaret Nolan had a career as a glamour model under the name of Vicky Kennedy, even posing for Playboy magazine. Entering films in 1963 in Saturday Night Out (1964) saw her catapulted into Goldfinger (1964). Often cast mainly for her fabulous buxom figure and ...

192. Edward Van Halen

Soundtrack | Twister

Edward Van Halen was a musician who along with his brother Alex Van Halen, and Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth, formed the band Van Halen in the early '70s, with Eddie on guitar, Alex on drums, Michael on bass and David on vocals. The band had different members over the years, but the core (...

193. Kent L. Wakeford

Cinematographer | Mean Streets

Kent Wakeford was born on January 23rd 1928 and whilst attending school in his native Los Angeles, apprenticed to a fashion photographer, before working as a cameraman for the Douglas Aircraft Company. He spend two years in the US Army Signal Corps as cameraman in America and Germany before ...

194. Conchata Ferrell

Actress | Two and a Half Men

It took 30 years since it was first predicted, but Conchata Ferrell finally achieved television stardom, albeit of the supporting variety, as the housekeeper "Berta" in the situation-comedy Two and a Half Men (2003). Ferrell originally had been tipped for stardom with her turn as the prostitute "...

195. Rhonda Fleming

Actress | Out of the Past

A native-born Californian, Rhonda Fleming attended Beverly Hills public and private schools. Her father was Harold Cheverton Louis (1896-1951). Her mother, Effie Olivia Graham (1891-1985), was a famous model and actress in New York. She has a son (Kent Lane), two granddaughters (Kimberly and Kelly)...

196. Anthony Chisholm

Actor | Premium Rush

Anthony Chisholm was born on April 9, 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Premium Rush (2012), 13 (2010) and Going in Style (2017). He was married to Gloria Nixon and Valerie Moore. He died on October 16, 2020 in Montclair, New Jersey, USA.

197. Marge Champion

Actress | The Party

One of the great dancer and choreographers in both movies and stage, Marge Champion was best known as the former wife of Gower Champion, when they worked together as a highly successfully dancing team in the MGM musical years. After retiring from movies, Champion worked as a dance teacher and as a ...

198. Jerry Jeff Walker

Soundtrack | What Just Happened

Jerry Jeff Walker was born on March 16, 1942 in Oneonta, New York, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for What Just Happened (2008), The Soloist (2009) and The Wanderers (1979). He was married to Susan Streit. He died on October 23, 2020 in Austin, Texas, USA.

199. William Blinn

Writer | Fame

William Blinn was born in Toledo, Ohio. After graduating from high school, and then to college, he moved to California, where he started his career as a television writer and producer in the 1960s.

After his freelance work on many television shows, his big break came in 1971 where he wrote the ...

Blinn created two popular TV series during his career: STARSKY & HUTCH during the 1970's; PENSACOLA - WINGS OF GOLD during the 1990's. He also created HEAVEN HELP US during the 1980's (which didn't go over nearly as well as the other two) and co-scripted Prince's movie PURPLE RAIN.

200. Sean Connery

Actor | The Rock

The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...