In Memoriam: Deaths in the 2020s
by trainmaster-24948 | created - 23 Jan 2020 | updated - 2 weeks ago | PublicA list of famous people who died in the 2020s ranging from 2020 to 2029.
1. Kobe Bryant
Producer | Dear Basketball
Kobe Bean Bryant was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Bryant won five NBA championships, ...
2. Gianna Bryant
Self | 2020: The Lost Year
Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant was an American middle school basketball player that attended Harbor Day School in Newport Beach, California. Born in Los Angeles, California to Kobe Bryant and Vanessa Bryant, Gianna was raised with her older sister Natalia and two younger sisters, Bianka and Capri. Her ...
3. Betty White
Actress | The Proposal
Betty White was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to Christine Tess (Cachikis), a homemaker, and Horace Logan White, a lighting company executive for the Crouse-Hinds Electric Company. She was of Danish, Greek, English, and Welsh descent.
Although she was best known as the devious Sue Ann Nivens on the ...
4. Terry Jones
Writer | The Meaning of Life
Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, the son of Dilys Louisa (Newnes), a homemaker, and Alick George Parry Jones, a bank clerk. His older brother is production designer Nigel Jones. His grandparents were involved in the entertainment business, having managed the local Amateur Operatic ...
5. Jack Burns
Writer | The Muppet Movie
Appeared on the Andy Griffith show after Don Knotts departed. He played a bumbling deputy in the tradition of Barney Fife. After his partnership with George Carlin ended, he teamed with Avery Schreiber after meeting at Chicago's Second City comedy club. Jack appeared on Saturday Night Live In 1977 ...
6. Kirk Douglas
Actor | The Final Countdown
Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. ...
7. Charles Portis
Writer | True Grit
Charles Portis was born on December 28, 1933 in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. He was a writer, known for True Grit (2010), True Grit (1969) and Gringos. He died on February 17, 2020 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
8. James Lipton
Writer | Inside the Actors Studio
James Lipton was an actor, academic, author, choreographer, interviewer, scriptwriter, and producer for stage and television projects. He was known for creating and hosting the noted and popular TV series Inside the Actors Studio (1994), where successful and prominent actors discussed their craft ...
9. Kenny Rogers
Soundtrack | Polar
Born in Houston, Texas on August 21, 1938, Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, actor, record producer and entrepreneur Kenneth Ray Rogers was the fourth of eight children born to a carpenter father who worked in a shipyard and a mother who was a hospital nurse's assistant. Of humble Irish and Native...
10. Albert Uderzo
Writer | Astérix & Obélix contre César
Albert Uderzo is a French comic book writer and artist, of Italian descent. Albert was born in 1927 in the town of Fismes, in the Marne department of north-eastern France. Marne was created from the remains of the older province of Champagne, and the local capital is Chalons-en-Champagne.
Alnert's ...
11. Julie Bennett
Actress | Hey There, It's Yogi Bear
Glamorous, red-haired American radio, stage and screen actress of effervescent personality, best known for her work in voice-overs. Julie was born in Manhattan but grew up in Los Angeles where she attended Beverly Hills High School and subsequently studied drama under Max Reinhardt and Florence ...
12. Bill Withers
Soundtrack | The Bodyguard
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Bill Withers was born on July 4, 1938 in the small coal-mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia and was raised in the nearby town of Beckley. He was the youngest of six children of Mattie (Galloway), a maid, and William Withers, a miner. His father died when Withers...
13. Honor Blackman
Actress | Goldfinger
One of four children, Blackman was born in London's East End, to Edith Eliza (Stokes), a homemaker, and Frederick Thomas Blackman, a statistician employed with the Civil Service. She received elocution lessons for her 16th birthday (at her own request), and later attended the Guildhall School of ...
14. Buck Henry
Writer | The Graduate
Prolific, multi-talented comedy writer, story editor, actor and director. His father was an Air Force general (Paul Steinberg Zuckerman) turned stockbroker and his mother was silent screen star Ruth Taylor, formerly a member of Mack Sennett's bathing beauties. Buck Henry's first fling with comedy ...
15. Hal Willner
Music_department | Gangs of New York
Renowned for his eclectic approach, Hal Willner is a Music Producer based in New York, associated with the performance venue The Knitting Factory. He has a wide ranging interest in Film and Theatre Music, Jazz, Rock and Comtemporary Classical.
16. Mort Drucker
Writer | The Mad Magazine TV Special
Mort Drucker was born on March 22, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Mad Magazine TV Special (1974), When We Went MAD! and Another Froggy Evening (1995). He was married to Barbara Hellerman. He died on April 9, 2020 in Woodbury, Long Island, New York, USA.
17. Rick May
Actor | Star Fox 64
Rick May was a Canadian-American voice actor, director, theatrical performer and teacher known for voicing the Soldier from Team Fortress 2, Dr. M from Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves and Peppy Hare and Andross from Star Fox 64. He also voiced in Freddi Fish 5 and Age of Empires II. He passed away at ...
18. S. Ann Sullivan
Animation_department | Hercules
Ann Sullivan, an animator and ink-and-paint artist who worked on iconic films of the Disney Renaissance. Born in Fargo, North Dakota, followed her sister Helen to California, and after studying at the Art Center in Pasadena, landed a job at Walt Disney in the animation paint lab in the early 1950s....
19. Gene Deitch
Director | Obri
Gene Deitch was an animator at UPA. He later joined Terrytoons in 1955. He created characters like "John Doormat", "Clint Clobber", "Gaston Le Crayon", "Sidney", and "Foofle". In early 1958, his theatrical cartoon Sidney's Family Tree (1958) was nominated for Academy Award. In August, 1958, he was ...
20. Jason Davis
Actor | Rush Hour
Jason Davis was born on October 14, 1984 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was an actor, known for Rush Hour (1998), Beverly Hills Ninja (1997) and Recess (1997). He died on February 16, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
21. 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 Super Capers: The Origins of Ed and the Missing Bullion (2008). He was married to Vanessa Villalovos. He died on April 30, 2020 in Los Angeles, ...
22. 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 ...
23. 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.
24. 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 ...
25. 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 ...
26. Kumiko Okae
Actress | Neko no ongaeshi
Kumiko Okae was born on August 23, 1956 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. She was an actress, known for The Cat Returns (2002), Attack No. 1 (2005) and Lucky Seven (2012). She was married to Baku Ôwada. She died on April 23, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.
27. 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). ...
28. Rob Gibbs
Writer | Pocahontas
Rob Gibbs was born on October 17, 1964 in Escondido, California, USA. He was a writer, known for Pocahontas (1995), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) and WALL·E (2008). He died on April 24, 2020.
29. Mel Winkler
Actor | Doc Hollywood
Mel Winkler was an African-American actor who played Melvin from Doc Hollywood, the original voice of Aku Aku from Crash Bandicoot, Lucius Fox from The New Batman Adventures, Commissioner Henderson from Superman: The Animated Series, Dr. Simon Harris from The Doctors and Coach White from Coach ...
30. Denny O'Neil
Writer | Madame Web
Dennis O'Neil began as Stan Lee's editorial assistant in the mid-1960s. He wrote comic stories for Batman starting in the 1970s, and was one of the guiding forces behind returning the Batman character to its dark roots from the campiness of the '60s. He's written several novels, comics, short ...
31. 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, ...
32. 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), Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) and Lolita (1997). She was married to Harry Lewis. She died on June 18, 2020 in Ditchling, East Sussex, England, UK.
33. 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 ...
34. 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 ...
35. Milton Glaser
In 1977, William S. Doyle, Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Department of Commerce hired advertising agency Wells Rich Greene to develop a marketing campaign for New York State. Doyle also recruited Milton Glaser, a productive graphic designer to work on the campaign, and he created the "I...
36. Curtis Cim
Animation_department | The Secret of the Sword
Curtis Cim was born on September 14, 1954 in California, USA. Curtis is known for The Secret of the Sword (1985), Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! (2006) and Super Friends (1973). Curtis died on March 10, 2020 in Peoria, Illinois, USA.
37. 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 ...
38. Hugh Downs
Self | Live from Lincoln Center
Hugh Downs was born on February 14, 1921 in Akron, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Live from Lincoln Center (1976), Car 54, Where Are You? (1961) and Concentration (1958). He was married to Ruth Shaheen. He died on July 1, 2020 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
39. Pop Smoke
Soundtrack | F9
Bashar Barakah Jackson (July 20, 1999 - February 19, 2020), known professionally as Pop Smoke, was an American rapper. He is considered by many to be the face of Brooklyn drill. Born and raised in Canarsie, Brooklyn, Pop Smoke began his musical career in late 2018 with his debut single "MPR (Panic ...
40. Huey
Soundtrack | Stomp the Yard
Huey was born on September 12, 1987. He died on June 26, 2020 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
41. 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.
42. 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 ...
43. 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 ...
44. Adam Schlesinger
Music_department | Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Adam Schlesinger was born on October 31, 1967 in Manhattan, New York, New York, USA. He was a composer and writer, known for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015), That Thing You Do! (1996) and Music and Lyrics (2007). He was married to Katherine Michel. He died on April 1, 2020 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA.
45. 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 ...
46. 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.
47. 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. ...
48. 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...
49. 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 ...
50. 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.
51. 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-...
52. 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...
53. Sue C. Nichols
Writer | Aladdin
Susan Carol "Sue" Nichols was an artist from Massachusetts, active in the field of animation from the 1980s to the 2010s. She variously worked as a story writer, a visual development artist, a character designer, a storyboard artist, and a supervising artist. She is primarily remembered as one of ...
54. Tom Lester
Actor | Benji
Born in Jackson, Mississippi, Lester was brought up on his grandfather's farm, shucking corn, fishing, hunting, and picking cotton. He graduated from the University of Mississippi, majoring in Chemistry. He taught science and biology at a school in Purcell, Oklahoma, before moving to California. He...
55. Neil Peart
Soundtrack | Small Soldiers
Neil Peart was one of the most universally respected rock drummers, and was best known for his nearly superhuman, pyrotechnic drum playing, and for providing intellectual lyrics for his band's songs. Neil served as both drummer and lyricist for the rock band Rush since 1974, joining bassist/...
56. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Self | RBG
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born on March 15, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was married to Martin D. Ginsburg. She died on September 18, 2020 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
57. 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 ...
58. 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 (...
59. Mac Davis
Actor | North Dallas Forty
Mac Davis was born on January 21, 1942 in Lubbock, Texas, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for North Dallas Forty (1979), Next (2007) and Passengers (2016). He was married to Lise Gerard, Sarah Jane Barg and Fran Cook. He died on September 29, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
60. Izumi Matsumoto
Writer | Shin Kimagure Orenji Rôdo: Soshite, ano natsu no hajimari
Izumi Matsumoto was a writer, known for New Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning (1996), Kimagure Orange Road: I Want to Return to That Day (1988) and Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden (1989). He died on October 6, 2020 in Japan.
61. 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 "...
62. 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 ...
63. Alex Trebek
Producer | Jeopardy!
Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Alex Trebek graduated from the University of Ottawa with a degree in Philosophy. After his first decision to become a newscaster, he joined the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company), Canada's premier network in 1961. As he was working, he helped organize national ...
64. Norm Crosby
Actor | Grown Ups 2
Norm Crosby was born on September 15, 1927 in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Grown Ups 2 (2013), Cougar Club (2007) and Alright Already (1997). He was married to Joan Crane Foley. He died on November 7, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
65. 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 ...
66. Steve Bing
Producer | Get Carter
Steve Bing was born on March 31, 1965 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Get Carter (2000), Kangaroo Jack (2003) and Every Breath (1994). He died on June 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
67. James Randi
Actor | Wonderama
James Randi has an international reputation as a magician and escape artist, but today he is best known as the world's most tireless investigator and demystifier of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
Randi has pursued "psychic" spoonbenders, exposed the dirty tricks of faith healers, ...
68. Ken Spears
Music_department | The Green Hornet
Ken Spears was an American animator, television writer, television producer and sound editor from Los Angeles. He and his partner Joe Ruby co-created the "Scooby-Doo" franchise, and all five of its original co-protagonists. They later co-led the animation studio Ruby-Spears Productions (1977-1996),...
69. David Prowse
Actor | Star Wars
David "Dave" Prowse was born into a working class family on 1 July, 1935 in Bristol, England, UK. He was raised by his mother and never knew his father. As a child, David was disadvantaged and a poor student, he found a passion for bodybuilding and weight training in his early teens, as a young ...
70. 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, ...
71. David Hemblen
Actor | Rollerball
David Hemblen was a British actor. Born in London, England in 1941, Hemblen grew up in Toronto where he studied theatre. He received an M.A. in English and worked in many theatre productions; active in the television, film and theater, he had taken part in several Canadian television series during ...
72. Tom Lister Jr.
Actor | Le Cinquième Élément
If you ever wanted a 6' 5", musclebound, broad-shouldered, shaved-head actor to play a terrifying bodyguard, a soldier of fortune or a fearsome gangster, then Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr. was your man. The basketball player turned actor, who notched up appearances in roughly 132 films, first popped up ...
73. Jeremy Bulloch
Actor | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Jeremy Bulloch was born on February 16, 1945 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, the son of Aziz Diane (Meade) and McGregor Bulloch, an aeronautical engineer. He was the middle of three siblings, along with three older half-brothers from his mother's earlier marriage. Even at the age of ...
74. Tuck Tucker
Art_department | SpongeBob SquarePants
Tuck Tucker was born on August 20, 1961 in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA. He was a director, known for SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), The Little Mermaid (1989) and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004). He died on December 22, 2020 in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA.
75. Daniel Dumile
Soundtrack | Ken Park
Daniel Dumile was born on January 9, 1971 in London, England, UK. He was a music artist and actor, known for Ken Park (2002), Hell Fest (2018) and Vacation Friends (2021). He was married to Jasmine. He died on October 31, 2020 in New York City, New York, USA.
aka: MF Doom
76. Dale Baer
Animation_department | The Emperor's New Groove
Dale Baer was born on June 15, 1950 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He is known for The Emperor's New Groove (2000), Species (1995) and Robin Hood (2010). He was married to Jane Baer and Teddy. He died on January 15, 2021 in Irvine, California, USA.
77. Larry King
Actor | Ghostbusters
Larry King was born on November 19, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Enemy of the State (1998) and Shrek 2 (2004). He was married to Shawn Ora Engemann, Julie Alexander, Sharon Lepore, Alene Akins, Mickey Sutphin, Annette ...
78. Ron Campbell
Art_department | Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
Ron Campbell was born on December 26, 1939 in Seymour, Victoria, Australia. He was a director, known for Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (1994), Bionic Six (1987) and The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972). He was married to Engelina Koopman. He died on January 22, 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
79. Cloris Leachman
Actress | The Last Picture Show
The legendary actress set a record when at age 82, she appeared on Dancing with the Stars (2005). Cloris Leachman was born on April 30, 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa to Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman and the former Cloris Wallace. Her father's family owned a lumber company, Leachman Lumber Co. She ...
80. Polly Lou Livingston
Actress | Bravest Warriors
Polly Lou Livingston was born on May 6, 1929 in Santa Rosa Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Bravest Warriors (2009), Lego Dimensions (2015) and Adventure Time (2010). She was married to Robert Goldwin Livingston. She died on January 24, 2021 in San Antonio, Texas, ...
81. Christopher Plummer
Actor | Beginners
Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A ...
82. Brenda Banks
Animation_department | The Lord of the Rings
Brenda Banks was born on July 19, 1948 in the USA. She is known for The Lord of the Rings (1978), Wizards (1977) and Fire and Ice (1983). She died on December 30, 2020 in Burbank, California, USA.
83. Danny Goldman
Actor | Young Frankenstein
Danny Goldman was born on October 30, 1939 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and casting director, known for Young Frankenstein (1974), M*A*S*H (1970) and The Smurfs (1981). He was married to Mary Gillis. He died on April 12, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
84. Jessica Walter
Actress | Arrested Development
Acclaimed actress Jessica Walter was born on January 31, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Esther (Groisser), a teacher, and David Walter (his original surname was Warshawsky), a musician who was a member of the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the NYC Ballet Orchestra. She was of Russian ...
85. Jim MacGeorge
Actor | Teenagers from Outer Space
Jim MacGeorge was born on October 9, 1928 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Teenagers from Outer Space (1959), Get Smart (1965) and Bionic Six (1987). He was married to Victoria Utica Loranger. He died on January 16, 2021 in the USA.
86. DMX
Soundtrack | Exit Wounds
Earl Simmons (December 18, 1970 - April 9, 2021), known by his stage name DMX ("Dark Man X"), was an American rapper and actor. He began rapping in the early 1990s and released his debut album It's Dark and Hell Is Hot in 1998, to both critical acclaim and commercial success, selling 251,000 copies...
87. Norton Juster
Writer | The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster was born on June 2, 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Phantom Tollbooth, The Phantom Tollbooth (1970) and Jackanory (1965). He was married to Jeanne Betty Edyth Ray. He died on March 8, 2021 in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.
88. Billie Hayes
Actress | The Black Cauldron
Billie Hayes was born August 5, 1924 in the small town of DuQuoin, Illinois. She started in show business at 9 years old as a tap dancer in local clubs. She was encouraged but not "pushed" by her parents after she expressed the desire to do so. By the time she was in her teens, Hayes had joined a ...
89. Olivier Jean-Marie
Director | Oggy et les cafards
Olivier Jean-Marie was born on November 19, 1960 in Brunoy, Essonne, France. He was a director and writer, known for Oggy and the Cockroaches (2013), Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure (2007) and Space Goofs (1997). He was married to Agnes Varjas-Jean Marie. He died on May 13, 2021 in Rueil-Malmaison,...
90. Kentaro Miura
Writer | Kenpuu Denki Berserk
Kentarou Miura was born in Chiba City, Japan, in 1966.
While attending college at Nihon University, in 1988, Miura debuted a 48-page manga known as Berserk Prototype, an introduction to the current Berserk fantasy world. It went on to win Miura a prize from the Comi Manga School. In 1989, after ...
91. Samuel E. Wright
Actor | The Little Mermaid
Samuel Ernest Wright was an African-American actor and singer from Camden, South Carolina. He notably voiced Sebastian the Crab from Disney's The Little Mermaid franchise and Kron the Iguanodon from Dinosaur. He also played Mufasa in the original Broadway run of The Lion King. He passed away in May...
92. Eric Carle
Writer | The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle was born on June 25, 1929 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Very Hungry Caterpillar (2013), The World of Eric Carle (2022) and The World of Eric Carle (1993). He was married to Barbara Morrison and Dorothea Wohlenberg. He died on May 23, 2021 in Northampton, ...
93. Paul Soles
Actor | The Score
Paul Soles was born on August 11, 1930 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for The Score (2001), The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964). He was married to Jean Allan . He died on May 26, 2021 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
94. Ned Beatty
Actor | Network
Stocky, genial-looking supporting actor Ned Beatty was once hailed by Daily Variety as the "busiest actor in Hollywood."
Ned Thomas Beatty was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Margaret (Fortney) and Charles William Beatty. He grew up fishing and working on farms. His hometown of St. Matthews, ...
95. Barbara Windsor
Actress | EastEnders
Legendary EastEnders actress and Carry On star Barbara Windsor was born Barbara Ann Deeks in Stepney, London, the daughter of Rose (Ellis), a dressmaker, and John Deeks, a costermonger. She was a bright pupil at school and her parents wanted her to go to university, but after her first taste of ...
96. Tadashi Sawamura
Actor | Ninkyô kôboshi - kûmicho to daigashî
Tadashi Sawamura is known for Ninkyô kôboshi - kûmicho to daigashî (1970) and Kenka Tarô (1968).
97. Chick Vennera
Actor | Thank God It's Friday
Born in Herkimer, New York, Chick Vennera's career in entertainment had an early start. Beginning dance lessons at the age of three, piano at seven, clarinet and saxophone shortly thereafter, Chick found his passion at a very young age. He continued his musical education throughout high school, ...
98. Richard Donner
Director | Superman
Richard Donner was born on April 24, 1930 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Superman (1978), Ladyhawke (1985) and Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980). He was married to Lauren Shuler Donner. He died on July 5, 2021 in Los Angeles, ...
99. Biz Markie
Actor | Men in Black II
Biz Markie was an African-American rapper, disk jockey and actor. He was known for his hit 1989 song "Just a Friend". He played a beatboxing alien in Men in Black II (2002) alongside Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. He was originally going to voice The Grizz in Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (2013) but...
100. Siegfried Fischbacher
Actor | Vegas Vacation
Siegfried Fischbacher was born on June 13, 1939 in Rosenheim, Germany. He was a producer and actor, known for Vegas Vacation (1997), Ocean's Eleven (2001) and Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box (1999). He died on January 13, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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