Celebrity Deaths in History February 23, 2012
Died on this date:
Philip Abbott – Actor/Director (The F.B.I.)
Carl Anderson – Actor (Jesus Christ Superstar)
Frank Atkinson – Actor (Great Expectations)
Neale Clark – Actor (Invasion of the Space Preachers)
Esmond Knight – Actor (The Element of Crime)
Fuzzy Knight – Actor (She Done Him Wrong)
Stan Laurel – Actor (The Flying Deuces)
Leo McCabe – Actor (The Informer)
Phillip Terry – Actor (The Lost Weekend)
Johnny Tyke – Actor/Stuntman (Gower Gulch Cowboys)
Tincho Zabala – Actor (Don’t Die without Telling Me Where Your Going)
Elisa Cegani – Actress (La Corona Di Ferro)
Aurora Molina – Actress (Viva San Isidro)
Florence Rice – Actress (At the Circus)
Reginald Barker – Director (Civilization)
Donnie Brooks – Singer/Actor (A Swingin’ Summer)
David Horsley – Silent Film Producer (Cowboy’s Romance)
Carl Pingitore – Editor/Producer (Dirty Harry)
David Susskind – Producer (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore)
James Gavin – Military Consultant/Actor (The Longest Day)
Melvin Franklin – Singer/Actor (Pole Position)
Robert Metzler – Writer (Dr. Renaults Secret)
Diane Shalet – Actress (The Last Tycoon)
Celebrity Deaths in History February 22, 2012
Died on this date:
Fred Butler – Silent Film Actor (The Dictator)
Arthur Empey – Writer/Producer/Actor (Millionaire for a Day)
Ed Flanders – Actor (St. Elsewhere)
Bud Geary – Actor/Stuntman (Robin Hood)
Donald Haines – Actor (Pride of the Bowery)
Dick Kallman – Actor (Hank)
Joe Smith – Actor (The Ed Sullivan Show)
Donald Stuart – Actor (The Invisible Man)
Edith Barrett – Actress (I Walked with a Zombie)
Priscilla Bonner – Silent Film Actress (The Red Kimono)
Cass Daley – Actress (Red Garter)
Helen Parrish – Actress (In Old California)
Katina Paxinou – Actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
Daphne Pollard – Actress (Run, Girl, Run)
Evangline Russell – Silent Film Actress (Hawks of the Hills)
Simone Simon – Actress (The Curse of the Cat People)
Curtis Bernhardt – Director/Writer (Possessed)
George Diskant – Cinematographer (The Rifleman)
Michael Maltese – Writer (Looney Toons)
Ernest Palmer – Cinematographer (Broken Arrow)
Willard Van Enger – Special Effects/Cinematographer (Casablanca)
Efren Zimbalist Sr. – Violinist (Okay for Sound)
Chuck Jones – Animator/Producer (The Dot & The Line)
Mabel Normand – Silent Film Actress/Director (Tillies Punctured Romance)
Celebrity Deaths in History February 21, 2012
Died on this date:
Wolf Albach Retty – Actor (Die Kinder)
Lawrence Grossmith – Actor (Gaslight)
Louis Hayward – Actor (The Lone Wolf)
Sherwood Keith – Actor (The Three Witnesses)
Fred mace – Silent Film Actor (The Bangville Police)
John Thaw – Actor (Chaplin)
Charles Beaumont – Writer (The Twilight Zone)
Jacques Becker – Director (Le Trou)
Margot Fonteyn – Dancer (Romeo & Juliet)
Roger Swaybill – Writer (Breaking Point)
Howard Zieff – Director (Private Benjamin)
Ben Chapman – Actor/Stuntman (The Creature From The Black Lagoon)
Malcom X – Political Activist
Celebrity Deaths in History February 20, 2012
Died on this date:
Maurice Dallimore – Actor (The Collector)
Thurston Hall – Actor (Theodora Goes Wild)
Halliwell Hobbes – Actor (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde)
Jack Ingram – Actor (Lost in Alaska)
Sandy Kenyon – Actor (Here Comes Garfield)
Charles La Torre – Actor (A Double Life)
Cyril Maude – Actor (Orders is Orders)
Robert Quarry – Actor (Dr. Phibes Rises Again)
Chief Luther Standing Bear – Actor (Fighting Pioneers)
Derek Waring – Actor (Partners)
Dick York – Actor (BeWitched)
Sophie Cunningham – Actress (The Season)
Rosemary DeCamp – Actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
Sandra Dee – Actress (Imitation of Life)
Lillian Fontaine – Actress (The Lost Weekend)
Louise Gish – Actress (Coupling)
Emily Perry – Actress (The Dame Edna Experience)
Henry Tewksbury – Director (My Three Sons)
George Archainbaud – Director (Hopalong Cassidy)
Gene Siskel – Movie Critic
Celebrity Deaths in History February 19, 2012
Died on this Date
Rick Burks – Actor (Blood Diner)
Jamie Gillis – Actor (Alien Space Avenger)
Lionel Jefferies – Actor (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
Louis Marshall Jones – Actor (Hee Haw)
Ovila Legare – Actor (The Beachcombers)
Samuel Lufkin – Actor (County Hospital)
Brady Michaels – Actor/Stuntman (Passenger 57)
Jules Munshin – Actor (On The Town)
Lynne Overman – Actor (Reap The Wild Wind)
Michael Powell – Director/Writer/Producer (Stairway to Heaven)
Max Schreck – Actor (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror)
Forrest Taylor – Actor (Man Without a Gun)
Gene Troobnick – Actor (Guiding Light)
Tom Wilson – Actor (Captain Blood)
Renata Vanni – Actress (The Greatest Story Ever Told)
Janet Blair – Actress (The Fuller Brush Man)
Madge Blake – Actress (Singin in the Rain)
Brenda Bruce – Actress (Swallows and Amazons)
Florence Gill – Actress (I Married A Witch)
Muriel Landers – Actress (Doctor Doolittle)
Zelda Sears – Actress/Writer (The Divorcee)
Marta Toren – Actress (Sirocco)
Norma Varden – Actress (The Sound of Music)
Alice White – Actress (Playing Around)
Derek Jarman – Director (Caravaggio)
Jules Munshin – Actor (Easter Parade)
David Watkin – Cinemtaographer (Out of Africa)
Ina Claire – Actress (Ninotchka)
Celebrity deaths in History February 18, 2012
Died on this date:
Monte Blue – Actor (Key Largo)
Richard Bright – Actor (The Godfather Part II)
Jack Coffer – Actor/Stuntman (Laredo)
Andy Devine – Actor (Stagecoach)
Michael Morrison – Actor (As the World Turns)
Cliff Nazarro – Actor (You’ll Never Get Rich)
Robert Rossen – Actor/Director (The Hustler)
William Russell – Silent Film Actor (The Head of the Family)
Jacqueline Hill – Actress (Doctor Who)
Maggie McNamara – Actress (The Cardinal)
Marguerite Snow – Silent Film Actress (The Woman in Room 13)
Louis Wolheim – Actor/Writer/Director (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Hamilton Luske – Director/Animator/Producer (Cinderella)
Fred Niblo Jr. – Writer (East of the River)
Noam Pitlik – Director/Producer (Barney Miller)
Celebrity Deaths in History February 17, 2012
Died on this date:
Hal Dawson – Actor (Libeled Lady)
Barry Evans – Actor (Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush)
Joseph Kearns – Actor (Alice in Wonderland)
Daniel O’Herlihy – Actor (Robocop)
Mikhail Rasumny – Actor (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
Erik Rhodes – Actor (Top Hat)
Peter Schrum – Actor (Terminator II: Judgment Day)
Lee Strasberg – Actor (The Godfather Part II)
Kathryn Adams – Silent Film Actress (The Forbidden Woman)
Lucille Benson – Actress (1941)
Tala Birell – Actress (Bringing Up Baby)
Dorothy Gibson – Silent Film Actress (Saved From the Titanic)
Kathryn Grayson – Actress (Kiss Me Kate)
Nita Naldi – Actress (La Femme Nue)
Verree Teasdale – Actress (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
George Marshall – Director (How the West Was Won)
Emeric Pressburger – Writer (The Red Shoes)
Gita Alpar – Actress (The Flame of New Orleans)
Kathleen Lockhart – Actress (The Glenn Miller Story)
Celebrity Deaths in History February 16, 2012
Died on this date:
Smiley Burnette – Actor (Billy the Kid Returns)
Veronica Copper – Actress (King Kong)
Howard De Silva – Actor (The Lost Weekend)
Fred De Silva – Silent Film Actor (Durand of the Badlands)
William Gargan – Actor (The Bell’s of St. Mary)
Emile Hamaty – Actor (Splendor)
Charles Legneur – Actor (Around the World in Eighty Days)
Kevin Smith II – Actor (Xena, Warrior Princess)
Norma Castillo – Actress (Spring Bride)
Marceline Day – Actress (London After Midnight)
Nicole De Huff – Actress (Meet the Parents)
Vera Kholodnaya – Actress (A Corpse Living)
Gloria Stuart – Actress (Titanic)
Gant Gaither – Producer (My Six Loves)
Howard Koch – Writer/Producer (Casablanca)
Roger Bowen – Actor (What About Bob)
Lansing Brown – Hollywood Celebrity Photographer
Alfred Newman – Composer (Alexander’s Ragtime Band)
Celebrity Deaths in History February 15, 2012
Died on this date:
Henry Brandon – Actor (The Searchers)
Wally Cox – Actor (The Twilight Zone)
Echlin Gayer – Silent Film Actor (The Mad Dancer)
Tim Holt – Actor ( The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Mike Lally – Actor (Coma)
Avon Long – Actor (The Sting)
Jack Luden – Actor (Bordertown Trail)
Daniel McDonald – Actor (The Ice Storm)
Antonio Moreno – Actor (The Searchers)
Tommy Rettig – Actor (Lassie)
Vladimir Sokoloff – Actor (The Magnificent Seven)
McLean Stevens – Actor (M.A.S.H.)
Ethel Merman – Singer/Actress (Call Me Madam)
Jan Miner – Actress (Lenny)
George Dunning – Director (Yellow Submarine)
Hasse Ekman – Writer (Swinging at the Castle)
Burt Kennedy – Director/Producer (The Train Robbery)
Leonard Spigelgass – Writer (A Majority of One)
Patrick Sullivan – Animator (Felix the Cat)
Nat King Cole – Singer (Unforgettable)
Celebrity Deaths in History February 14, 2012
Died on this date:
Wolfe Barzell – Actor (Frankenstein’s Daughter)
Michael Gazzo – Actor (The Godfather II)
Perry Lopez – Actor (Chinatown)
Lincoln Plummer – Silent Film Actor (When The Wife’s Away)
Sigfried Ruman – Actor (Stalag 17)
Donna Fick – Actress (Myrt and Marge)
Angelique Pettyjohn – Actress (Star Trek)
Jean Wallace – Actress (The Big Combo)
Arthur Edeson – Cinematographer (Casablanca)
Pal Erdoss – Director ( Die Spinnen)
Claude Binyon – Writer (Holiday Inn)
Mildred Burke – Wrestler (All the Marbles)
