Twin Peaks Actors Who Have Passed Away
by Lebowskidoo | created - 16 Apr 2020 | updated - 2 months ago | Public
1. Piper Laurie
Actress | The Hustler
Piper Laurie was a three-time Oscar nominee, nominated by BAFTA as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best performance by an actress in 'The Hustler' with Paul Newman.
Laurie was born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, to Charlotte Sadie (Alperin) and Alfred Jacobs, a ...
2. Ian Abercrombie
Actor | Army of Darkness
Ian Abercrombie began his theatrical career as a lad during the Blitz in World War II. After his footwork years during which he earned Bronze, Silver and Gold medals in dance for the stage, he performed in London, Holland, Ireland, and Scotland. He made his American stage debut in 1955 in a ...
3. Rick Aiello
Actor | Do the Right Thing
Rick Aiello was born on September 21, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Do the Right Thing (1989), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) and Sex and the City (2008). He was married to Arlene Ann Urichich. He died on July 26, 2021 in Warwick, New York, USA.
4. Royce D. Applegate
Actor | Gettysburg
Character actor, born in Oklahoma, his most visible role was that of Chief Petty Officer Manilow Crocker on the first season of the television series sea Quest DSV. Applegate portrayed Deputy Crawford in Stir Crazy (1985); in his career worked in many films and series Tv: Splash (1984), Gettysburg ...
5. Frances Bay
Actress | Blue Velvet
Cute, tiny, and prolific little old lady character actress Frances Bay worked constantly in both films and TV shows alike after making her debut at the age of 59 in life with a small part in the comedy Foul Play (1978) in 1978.
She frequently portrayed eccentric elderly women and good-hearted ...
6. James Booth
Actor | Zulu
James Booth was born on December 19, 1927 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Zulu (1964), American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (1990) and Airport '77 (1977). He was married to Paula Delaney. He died on August 11, 2005 in Hadleigh, Essex, England, UK.
7. David Bowie
Soundtrack | Labyrinth
David Bowie was one of the most influential and prolific writers and performers of popular music, but he was much more than that; he was also an accomplished actor, a mime and an intellectual, as well as an art lover whose appreciation and knowledge of it had led to him amassing one of the biggest ...
8. Eve Brent
Actress | The Green Mile
Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Fort Worth, Eve Brent began her career in radio and early television and later moved on to the college and little theater stage. Arriving in Hollywood with a husband and infant son in the 1950s, she landed some film (Gun Girls (1957), Journey to Freedom (1957), ...
9. Ritch Brinkley
Actor | Breakdown
Ritch Brinkley was born on March 18, 1944 in Colorado City, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Breakdown (1997), Cabin Boy (1994) and The Man with One Red Shoe (1985). He died on November 5, 2015 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
10. Brent Briscoe
Actor | Mulholland Dr.
After graduating from the University of Missouri, Brent Briscoe began his career as an apprentice at The Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theatre in 1985. Thereafter, he spent several years on the road, starring in the theatrical productions "Greater Tuna" and "A Tuna Christmas." In 1994, he switched gears ...
11. Gary Bullock
Actor | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Born July 19, 1941 and raised in Elizabethton, Tennessee, Gary's father, Robert Bullock, was a great movie fan. Thus, Gary watched a lot of films as a small boy, from Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers to Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and, of course, Roy Rogers.
Fascinated with acting, Gary ...
12. Don Calfa
Actor | The Return of the Living Dead
Don is probably best remembered for his role as "Ernie Kaltenbrunner" in the 1985 comedy horror The Return of the Living Dead (1985). Don's career spans over 40 years in both film and TV. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Ozone Park Queens, and later West Hempstead, Long Island, Don Calfa ...
13. Catherine E. Coulson
Actress | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Catherine E. Coulson began her professional association with director David Lynch when she worked as assistant director on Lynch's legendary feature debut Eraserhead (1977). This is when the two began discussing the idea of a woman who carried a log around with her. Coulson spent much of her career...
14. Julee Cruise
Soundtrack | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Julee Cruise was born on December 1, 1956 in Creston, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Blue Velvet (1986) and Scream (1996). She was married to Edward Grinnan. She died on June 9, 2022 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA.
15. Royal Dano
Actor | Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Royal Dano was undoubtedly one of the best, most quirky and striking character actors to ever grace the big and small screen alike in a lengthy and impressive career which spanned 42 years.
Royal Edward Dano was born on November 16, 1922 in New York City, to Mary Josephine (O'Connor) and Caleb ...
16. Don S. Davis
Actor | A League of Their Own
Don S. Davis was born on August 4, 1942 in Aurora, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for A League of Their Own (1992), The Fan (1996) and Twin Peaks (1990). He was married to Ruby Fleming-Davis and Sondra Sue Davis. He died on June 29, 2008 in Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada.
17. 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...
18. Robert Forster
Actor | Jackie Brown
Robert Forster was born Robert Wallace Foster, Jr. in Rochester, New York, to Grace Dorothy (Montanarella) and Robert Wallace Foster, Sr., who worked as an elephant trainer and baking supply company executive. He was of English, Irish, and Italian descent. Forster first became interested in acting ...
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 ...
20. Willie Garson
Actor | White Collar
Rarely at a loss for work, Willie Garson appeared in more than 300 episodes of television and more than 70 films. Best known for his long runs on television as Mozzie on White Collar (2009), Stanford Blatch on Sex and the City (1998), and Henry Coffield on NYPD Blue (1993), he also appeared as the ...
21. Pamela Gidley
Actress | Cherry 2000
Pamela Gidley was born on July 11, 1965, in Methuen, Massachusetts, and raised in Nashua, New Hampshire. Pamela was the only girl among four older brothers. After high school, she moved to New York and was discovered by a modeling agent while walking down a Manhattan street and soon afterward she ...
22. Jane Greer
Actress | Out of the Past
As a baby, she was winning beauty contests; as a teenager, with good looks and an attractive contralto voice, she was singing with big bands (most notably Enric Madriguera's orchestra in Latin Club Del Rio in Washington, D.C.. She met Rudy Vallee, her first husband, on the radio where she also ...
23. Rodney Harvey
Actor | My Own Private Idaho
Rodney Harvey was born on July 31, 1967 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for My Own Private Idaho (1991), Twin Peaks (1990) and The Outsiders (1990). He died on April 11, 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
24. Tony Jay
Actor | The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Tony Jay was a British actor and narrator. He is known for his deep and distinctive British voice. He was well-known for voicing Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Megabyte from ReBoot, Monsieur D'Arque from Beauty and the Beast, Shere Khan from The Jungle Book 2, Magneto in X-Men ...
25. David L. Lander
Actor | Laverne & Shirley
David L. Lander was born on June 22, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Laverne & Shirley (1976), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Used Cars (1980). He was married to Kathy Fields and Thea (Pool) Markus. He died on December 4, 2020 in Los Angeles, ...
26. Peggy Lipton
Actress | Twin Peaks
She was a groovy and sexy icon of the late hippie era. To millions of TV viewers she became familiar as the reformed juvenile delinquent, turned undercover cop, Julie Barnes. With her expressive brown eyes and trademark long blonde hair, sylphlike Peggy Lipton was one third of a streetwise urban ...
27. Calvin Lockhart
Actor | Predator 2
Bahamian-born Calvin Lockhart first caught moviegoers' attention in the supercharged urban films Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) and Halls of Anger (1970) before becoming a fairly steady fixture in the "blaxploitation" movies of the early-to-mid-1970s.
Born Bert Cooper to a large family in Nassau on ...
28. Annette McCarthy
Actress | Twin Peaks
Annette McCarthy was born on April 12, 1958. She was an actress, known for Twin Peaks (1990), Baywatch (1989) and The Fall Guy (1981). She was married to Mark A. Mangini. She died on January 6, 2023 in the USA.
29. Clark Middleton
Actor | Sin City
He was a scene-stealer par excellence who exemplified triumph over adversity. The actor born as Clark Tinsley Middleton made a success of his profession though afflicted with crippling juvenile rheumatoid arthritis from the age of four. There were frequent recurring bouts of the ailment affecting ...
30. Don Murray
Actor | Bus Stop
Don Murray is an American actor. He is best known for playing Governor Breck, the authoritarian ruler in the science fiction film "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" (1972).
Murray was born in 1929 to Dennis Aloisius Murray and his wife Ethel Cook. Dennis worked as a dance director and stage ...
31. Jack Nance
Actor | Eraserhead
Born in Boston of Irish ancestry and raised in Dallas, Jack Nance traveled throughout the country doing children's theater. For eight years, he performed with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Later, he became involved with avant-garde theater. He first met David Lynch in the ...
32. Marjorie Nelson
Actress | Inheritance
Marjorie Nelson was born on November 2, 1923 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for Inheritance (2004), Twin Peaks (1990) and The Slender Thread (1965). She was married to Victor Eugene Steinbrueck and Howard Da Silva. She died on February 12, 2010 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
33. Dan O'Herlihy
Actor | RoboCop
Daniel Peter "Dan" O'Herlihy was born on 1 May 1919 at Odessa Cottage, Wexford Town, County Wexford (Ireland) to John Robert O'Herlihy, a civil servant from Cork who later worked in the Department of Industry and Commerce, and Ellen (née Hanton). Dan had at least two siblings, a sister and a ...
34. Gavan O'Herlihy
Actor | The Descent: Part 2
Gavan O'Herlihy was born on July 29, 1951 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Descent: Part 2 (2009), Willow (1988) and Never Say Never Again (1983). He was married to Juliette. He died on September 15, 2021 in Bath, England, UK.
35. Walter Olkewicz
Actor | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Walter Olkewicz was born on May 14, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), The Client (1994) and 1941 (1979). He died on April 6, 2021 in Reseda, California, USA.
36. 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 ...
37. Linda Porter
Actress | Dude, Where's My Car?
Linda Porter was born on January 31, 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) and Twins (1988). She died on September 25, 2019 in the USA.
38. Frank Silva
Actor | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
A native of central California, Frank Silva majored in theater at San Francisco State University where he received a master's degree in light design. He worked with director David Lynch on several of his movies (Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart) as a prop master and set decorator. While Silva was ...
39. Tom Sizemore
Actor | Saving Private Ryan
Tom Sizemore rose in prominence throughout the 1990s, establishing himself as a memorable tough-guy actor, sought by the most respected directors in the business.
Thomas Edward Sizemore, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Judith (Schannault), an ombudsman staff member, and Thomas Edward Sizemore, ...
40. 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 ...
41. Al Strobel
Actor | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Al Strobel was born on January 28, 1940 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was an actor, known for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Twin Peaks (1990) and Megaville (1990). He died on December 2, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
42. Ron Taylor
Actor | Trading Places
Ron Taylor was born on October 16, 1952 in Galveston, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Trading Places (1983), Matlock (1986) and Twin Peaks (1990). He was married to Deborah Sharpe-Taylor. He died on January 16, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
43. Lenny von Dohlen
Actor | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Lenny von Dohlen was born in Augusta, Georgia. As a child, he wished to become a jockey, but grew too tall for his dream. He graduated from the University of Texas/Austin and majored in drama at Loretto Heights College.
His film debut was in the Academy Award-winning Tender Mercies (1983), starring ...
44. David Warner
Actor | Titanic
Distinguished character actor David Hattersley Warner was born on July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England, to Ada Doreen (Hattersley) and Herbert Simon Warner. He was born out of wedlock and raised by each of his parents, eventually settling with his itinerant father and stepmother. He only saw his ...
45. Kenneth Welsh
Actor | The Day After Tomorrow
This latterly white-haired Canadian character actor had a natural predilection for portraying historical figures. Kenneth Welsh was born in Edmonton, Alberta. After college he studied drama at the National Theatre School in Montreal. He then acted on the Shakespearean stage in Ontario for several ...
46. Clarence Williams III
Actor | The General's Daughter
Born on August 21, 1939, the son of a displaced musician, Harlem-born actor Clarence Williams III was raised by his musical grandparents, the legendary jazz and boogie-woogie composer/pianist Clarence Williams, who wrote such classics as "T'Aint Nobody's Business If I Do" and "Baby, Won't You ...
47. Hank Worden
Actor | The Searchers
American character actor, mainly in Westerns in comic or rustic roles. Born Norton Earl Worden in Rolfe, Iowa, during his parents' visit to a relative's home there, he was raised on a cattle ranch near Glendive, Montana. Educated at Stanford and the University of Nevada as an engineer, he trained ...
48. Ed Wright
Actor | Wild at Heart
Ed Wright was born on January 25, 1906 in Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for Wild at Heart (1990), Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014) and Twin Peaks (1990). He died on December 10, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
49. John Boylan
Actor | Twin Peaks
John Boylan was born on January 31, 1912 in Canton, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Twin Peaks (1990), Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and American Heart (1992). He died on November 16, 1994 in Bellevue, Washington, USA.
50. Diane Caldwell
Actress | Twin Peaks
Diane Caldwell was an actress, known for Twin Peaks (1990), On Adim (2017) and Twin Peaks (1989). She died on March 29, 2018 in Arambol, Goa, India.
51. Judith Drake
Actress | Intolerable Cruelty
Judith Drake was born on February 9, 1942 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Intolerable Cruelty (2003), Ten Inch Hero (2007) and The Benchwarmers (2006). She died on May 31, 2022 in Burbank, California, USA.
52. Galyn Görg
Actress | RoboCop 2
Galyn Görg was an actress, professional dancer, and producer. She is known as an actress for Point Break (1991), RoboCop 2 (1990) and Judgment Night (1993).
Galyn was born in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Gwyn Gorg (Gwyndolin Lee Görg), is a writer, storyteller, and educator. Her father, Alan...
53. Dep Kirkland
Writer | The Toast
Dep Kirkland was born on November 9, 1949 in Savannah, Georgia, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Toast, Perfect and The Last Plantation. He died on September 4, 2022 in Lake Jackson, Jasper County, Georgia, USA.
54. Marvin Rosand
Actor | Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Marvin Rosand was born on May 6, 1936 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was an actor, known for Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014), Twin Peaks (2017) and Sweet Revenge (1976). He died on September 21, 2015 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
55. Arnie Stenseth
Actor | Twin Peaks
Arnie Stenseth was born on June 2, 1937 in Tyler, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for Twin Peaks (1990), Twin Peaks (1989) and Police Quest: SWAT 2 (1998). He died on February 7, 2020 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
56. Brian Straub
Actor | Twin Peaks
Brian Straub was born on July 26, 1959 in Bay City, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Twin Peaks (1990), Medium Straight (1988) and Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990). He died on November 22, 1991 in Bay City, Michigan, USA.
57. Steven James Tingus
Actor | Triggered, a Cinematic Superhero Fan-Film
Steven James Tingus was born on August 19, 1963 in Sacramento, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Triggered, a Cinematic Superhero Fan-Film (2022), Black Salt (2015) and Butt Boy (2019). He died on December 3, 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
58. Michael M. Vendrell
Stunts | They Live
Michael M. Vendrell was born on November 18, 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for They Live (1988), The Rock (1996) and Colors (1988). He died on February 17, 2013 in Kailua Kona, Hawaii, USA.
59. Sandra Kaye Wetzel
Actress | Twin Peaks
Sandra Kaye Wetzel was born on February 10, 1954. She was an actress, known for Twin Peaks (1990). She died on June 8, 2023.
60. Mae Williams
Actress | Twin Peaks
Mae Williams was born on May 14, 1921 in Missouri, USA. She was an actress and casting director, known for Twin Peaks (1990), Coast to Coast (1980) and In the Mood (1987). She was married to John Hayden. She died on January 19, 1999 in Studio City, California, USA.
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