Lois Maxwell, the Canadian-born actress who was to many fans the definitive Miss Moneypenny in James Bond films, has died in Western Australia aged 80, the BBC reported last night. … Read full obituary
September 7, 2007 — Marcia Mae Jones, who launched her career in Hollywood as a child actress and appeared in films of the 1930s such as “The Champ,” “Heidi” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” has died. She was 83. … Read full obituary
PARIS — Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died, French media reported Sunday. He was 84.
France-Info radio and LCI television said the family had announced the death of Marceau. No other details were released. … Read full obituary
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on “Bewitched” and Bernice on “Designing Women,” has died. She was 81. … Read full obituary
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Jane Wyman, the Oscar-winning actress who was Ronald Reagan’s first wife and starred in the popular 1980s television drama “Falcon Crest,” died on Monday at age 90, her longtime manager said. … Read full obituary
LICKING, Missouri (AP) — Actress Miyoshi Umeki, who won an Oscar for her performance as the doomed wife of an American serviceman in “Sayonara” and later starred in the Broadway musical “Flower Drum Song,” has died of cancer. She was 78. …
Umeki also portrayed Mrs. Livingston, the housekeeper, in the ABC series, “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” (1969-1972), which starred Bill Bixby and Brandon Cruz. … Read full obituary
Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian director whose chilly canticles of alienation were cornerstones of international filmmaking in the 1960s, inspiring intense measures of admiration, denunciation and confusion, died on Monday at his home in Rome, Italian news media reported today. He was 94. He died on the same day as Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish filmmaker who died at his home in Sweden earlier Monday. … Read full obituary
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, an iconoclastic filmmaker widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema, died Monday, the president of his foundation said. He was 89. … Read full obituary
French actor Michel Serrault, best known internationally for the 1978 comedy La Cage aux Folles, has died after a long illness, his family announced late Sunday.
Serrault, 79, one of the great names of French cinema, made 135 films in a career covering more than 50 years … Read full obituary
Laszlo Kovacs, one of Hollywood’s most influential and respected directors of photography, died Saturday night in his sleep. He was 74.
Kovacs lensed the landmark cinematic achievement “Easy Rider” and compiled about 60 credits including “Five Easy Pieces,” “Shampoo,” “Paper Moon,” “New York, New York,” “What’s Up, Doc,” “Ghostbusters,” “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and “Miss Congeniality.” … Read full obituary
SANTA ROSA — Jim Mitchell, the porn czar who co-founded the Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theatre and who later shot his brother to death, died Thursday night at his Sonoma County home. He was 63. … Read full obituary
Film director Richard Franklin, known for the thrillers Patrick and Roadgames, and more recently the compelling dramas Hotel Sorrento and Brilliant Lies, has died in Melbourne aged 58. …” Read full obituary
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Charles Lane, the prolific character actor whose name was little known but whose crotchety persona and roles in hundreds of films made him instantly recognizable to generations of moviegoers, has died. He was 102. … Read full obituary
Senegalese movie icon, Ousmane Sembene, died on Saturday evening in Dakar at the age of 84, following a protracted illness. Sembene, who will long be remembered as the “father of the African cinema”, adapted most of his novels for the movie. Some of the novels include: ‘Borom Saret’ in 1963, ‘La Noire de …’ (1966), ‘Le Mandat’ (1968), ‘Xala’ (1974), ‘Guelawar’ in 1992 and his last feature-length film ‘Molade’ in 2004. … Read full obituary
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Mala Powers has died of complications from leukemia. She was 76.
Powers played Roxanne to Jose Ferrer’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” and starred in other films of the 1940s and 1950s. … Read full obituary
New Zealand’s oldest surviving film star, Witarina Harris, has died at the age of 101.
In 1928, aged 22, she was picked by Universal Pictures to play the starring role of Princess Miro in the silent movie Under The Southern Cross, later known as The Devil’s Pit. … Read full obituary
Playwright Lee Nagrin, whose new work Behind the Lid will debut in New York City next week, succumbed to complications from advanced colon cancer this morning in New York City. She was 78. … Read full obituary
Gretchen Wyler, a veteran Broadway actress who enjoyed a second career in films and television and went on to become a leading animal-rights activist, has died. She was 75. … Read full obituary
Charles Nelson Reilly, the Tony Award winner who later became known for his ribald appearances on the “Tonight Show” and various game shows, has died. He was 76.
Reilly died Friday in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia, his partner, Patrick Hughes, told the New York Times. … Read full obituary
Movie actor Carl Wright, who began his career as a tap dancer and comedian, has died of cancer at age 75, his family confirmed on Sunday. …
Wright’s film credits include “Barbershop,” “Soul Food” and “Big Momma’s House.” … Read full obituary
The Reverend Martin Luther King’s eldest child has died.
Yolanda King was a stage and television actress. She died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, California. … Read full obituary
Bernard Gordon, a screenwriter blacklisted during Hollywood’s anti-communist crusade in the 1950s, has died at the age of 88. Gordon died on Friday at his Hollywood Hills home after a long battle with cancer, according to his daughter, Ellen Gordon. … Read full obituary
BALTIMORE — Gordon Scott, a handsome, muscular actor who portrayed an “intelligent and nice” Tarzan in 1950s movies, has died. He was 80. … Read full obituary
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