Celebrity Deaths in History May 16, 2012
Died on this date:
Jessica Arthur – Actress
Sammy Davis Jr. – Entertainer/Actor (Ocean’s Eleven)
Jack Dougherty – Actor (The Body Punch)
Robert Florey – Director (The Cocoanuts)
June Lang – Actress (Wee Willie Winkie)
Margaret Hamilton – Actress (The Wizard of Oz)
Jim Henson – Animator (The Muppet Show)
Andy Kaufman – Comedian/Actor (Taxi)
Sam Bernard- Silent Film Actor (The Great Pearl Tangle)
Sir Lewis Casson – Actor (Shake Hands With The Devil)
Burton Kaiser – Actor (Glengarry Glen Ross)
Marie Bell – Actress (Dance Program)
Margot Morgan – Actress (Blue Skies)
Celebrity Deaths in History May 15, 2012
Died on this date:
C. Graham Baker – Producer
Dorothy Coburn – Actress (Up and Down Stairs)
Sandy Courage – Composer (Star Trek)
Royal Dano – Actor (The Trouble with Harry)
Hampton Del Ruth – Silent Film Writer/Director (Naughty)
Ernest Torrence – Silent Film Actor (Broken Chains)
John Arledge – Actor (Gone With the Wind)
Albert Basserman – Silent Film Actor (Lucrezia Borgia)
Jackie Curtis – Actor (Mystery Of Body)
Andrew Duggan – Actor (Twelve Oclock High)
Barton Heyman – Actor (The Exorcist)
Narsico Ibanez Menta – Actor (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
Darwood Kaye – Actor (Our Gang)
Milton parsons – Actor (The Dead Don’t Die)
Gilbert Roland – Actor (Islands in the Stream)
Carol Tevis – Actress (Three Loves Has Nancy)
Helen Carey – Film Editor (The Crunch Bird)
Gilbert Fox – Animator (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Celebrity Deaths in History May 14, 2012
Died on this date:
Enid Bennett – Actress (Robin Hood)
Frank Churchill – Composer (Disney)
Georgette De Leon – Silent Movie Actress (
Selma Diamond – Actress (Night Court)
Jack Fina – Musician/Actor (It’s Great to Be Young)
Charles Fredericks – Actor (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Crauford Kent – Actor (Shining Victory)
Anna Lee – Actress (General Hospital)
Frank Sinatra – Singer/Actor
Robert Stack – Actor (Airplane!)
Rita Hayworth – Actress (Gilda)
Hugh Beaumont – Actor (Leave it to Beaver)
Jean D’yd – Actor (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
John Martin-Harvey – Actor (A Tale of Two Cities)
Billie Burke – Actress (The Wizard of Oz)
Ruth Cracknell – Actress (Mother and Son)
Wendy Hiller – Actress (Seperate Tables)
Lew Anderson – Actor (Clarabelle The Clown)
Celebrity Deaths in History May 13, 2012
Died on this date:
Robert Burks – Cinematographer (Once a Thief)
Dorothy Dale – Actress (The Ten Commandments)
Frank Jenks – Actor (White Lightning)
Frank McGrath – Actor ( The Reluctant Astronaut)
Frank Aletter – Actor (All in the Family)
Dan Blocker – Actor (Bonanza)
Gary Cooper – Actor (High Noon)
John Philip Law – Actor (Barbarella)
Jason Miller – Actor (The Exorcist)
Ralph Reader – Actor (The Blue Squadron)
Marco Zucker – Actor (El Verso)
Fay Holderness – Actress (The Bank Dick)
Leatrice Joy – Actress (Made For Love)
Paula Wessely – Actress (Heimkehr)
Diana Wynyard – Actress (Reunion in Vienna)
Celebrity Deaths in History May 12, 2012
Died on this date:
Mary Bertrand – Actress (The Wife Takes a Flyer)
Paul Byron – Silent Film Actor (Ashes of Remembrance)
Louis Calhern – Actor (High Society)
Elsie Cavanna – Actress (The Barber Shop)
Betty Hutton – Actress (The Greatest Show on Earth)
Richard Hylton – Actor (The Pride of St. Louis)
Steve Inhat – Actor (In Like Flint)
Tor Johnson – Actor (Bride of the Monster)
Charles Kemper – Actor (On Dangerous Ground)
Doris May – Actress (Boy Crazy)
Perry Como – Singer (It’s Impossible)
Robert Reed – Actor (The Brady Bunch)
Erich Von Stroheim – Director (Foolish Wives)
Elizabeth Bergner – Actress ( As You Like It)
Lenny Montana – Actor (The Godfather)
Joan Diener – Actress (Man of La Mancha)
Celebrity Deaths in History May 11, 2012
Died on this date:
John G. Adolfi – Director (The Spy)
Tim Carey – Actor (Echo Park)
Robert Fellows – Producer (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court)
Frank Jaquet – Actor (The Topeka Terror)
Catherine McLeod – Actress (Days of Our Lives )
Bill Pete – Animator (Walt Disney Corp.)
Nita Pike – Actress (Techno-Crazy)
John Wylie – Actor (Before And After)
Frankie Thomas – Actor (Tim Tyler’s Luck)
Jean Adair – Actress (Arsenic and Old Lace)
Brenda Carlin – Wife of George Carlin
Thelma Hill – Actress (Lizzies of the Field)
Ita Rina – Actress (Erotikon)
Leigh Snowden – Actress (The Creature Walks Among Us)
Celebrity Deaths in History May 10, 2012
Died on this date:
Scotty Beckett – Actor (A Date with Judy)
Dick Chevillat – Writer (The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
Jeanne Coyne – Dancer (Kiss Me Kate)
James Parrott – Director/Writer/Acotr (A Perfect Day)
Portland Schuyler – Child Actress (Bigger Than Life)
Joan Crawford – Actress (Mildred Pierce)
Adolph Zukor – Director/Producer (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde)
Warren Jackson – Actor (The Big Street)
John Lund – Actor (A Foreign Affair)
Seth Sakai – Actor (Pearl Harbor)
Maurice Schwartz – Actor (Mission to Moscow)
Craig Stevens – Actor (Peter Gunn)
Loren Tindall – Actor (Out Of The Depths)
Susan Oliver – Actress (Your Cheatin’ Heart)
Deborah Walley – Actress (Gidget)
Carol Haney – Dancer (Pajama Game)
Celebrity Deaths in History May 9, 2012
Died on this date:
Hershel Bernardi – Actor/Voice over artist (Charlie the Tuna Starkist)
Tex Brodus – Actor (South Pacific)
Naomi Childers – Actress (Success)
Phillip Dorn – Actor (Random Harvest)
Alice Faye – Singer/Actress (Poor Little Rich Girl)
Ben Frommer – Actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
Bill Goodwin – Actor (Spellbound)
Hoke Howell – Actor (Angel Eyes)
Margaret Lindsey – Actress (Jezebel)
Edmund O’Brien – Actor (Lucky Luciano)
Nat Perrin – Producer/Writer/Director (“The Addams Family”)
Ed Pine – Actor (The Reckless Moment)
Paul Zastupnevich – Costume Designer
Finlay Currie – Actor (People Will Talk)
Timothy Farrell – Actor (A Star is Born)
Canada Lee – Actor (Body and Soul)
Freddie Sanborn – Actor (Hellzapoppin)
Viola Allen – Silent Film Actress (The White Sister)
Mary Duncan – Actress (City Girl)
Marian Lorne – Actress (Bewitched)
Miroslava Stern – Actress (La Muerte Enamorada)
Celebrity Deaths in History May 8, 2012
Died on this date:
Laverne Andrews – Singer (The Andrews Sisters)
Neil Bogart – Executive Producer (Thank God It’s Friday)
Frank Burley – Singer/Actor (Homecoming)
Maxine Doyle – Actress (Sing, Neighbor, Sing)
Alan Edwards – Actor (If You Could Only Cook)
Edmund Gilbert – Actor/Voice Over artist
Vera Gordon – Actress (Humoresque)
Joe Grant – Animator (Walt Disney Corp.)
Mitchell Kowal – Actor (Have Gun will Travel)
Barbara Payton – Actress (Run for the Hills)
Dolf Sweet – Actor (Gimme a Break)
Clara Williams – Silent Film Actress (Hell’s Hinges)
Fritz Bachschmidt – Actor (Lindenstrasse)
Dirk Bogarde – Actor (The Doctor’s Dilemma)
Robert Cox – Silent Film Actor (Keystone Kops)
Richard Derr – Actor (Charlie Chan in Rio)
George Peppard – Actor (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
Dorothy Green – Actress (The Young and the Restless)
Marjorie Riordan – Actress (Pursuit To Algiers)
Fay Spain – Actress (Dragstrip Girl)
William Fox – Motion Picture Pioneer (Fox Film Corporation)
Dana Plato – Actress (Different Strokes)
Celebrity Deaths in History May 7, 2012
Died on this date:
Anne Bauchens – Film Editor
Warner Baxter – Actor (42nd Street)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. – Actor (Morning Glory)
Lillian Lawrence – Actress (Three Ages)
Sheldon Lewis – Silent Film Actor (Orphans of the Storm )
Mary Philbin – Actress (The Phantom of the Opera)
Ruth Renick – Actress (Cannonball Express)
Ruth Royce – Silent Film Actress (The Oregon Trail)
Nicolas Worth – Actor (The Ladies Man)
Rolland Bedard – Actor (The Forest Rangers)
Mickey Carroll – Actor (The Wizard of Oz)
William Fleming – Actor (Hamlet)
Charles King – Actor (The Birth of a Nation)
Edward Sedgwick – Actor/Director (The Passionate Plumber)
Linda Dangcil – Actress (The Flying Nun)
Adele Mara – Actress (Blondie Goes to College)
Machiko Soga – Actress (Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers)
