Obituaries
Lola Dee, Popular Singer of the 1950s, Dies at 95
Pop singer Lola Dee, who recorded for the Columbia and Mercury labels in the 1950s and toured around the world with the likes of Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante and Johnnie Ray, has died. She was 95. Dee died Thursday of natural causes at a nursing facility in Hinsdale, Illinois, her publicist and CD producer, Alan […]
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Stan Rogow, Emmy-Nominated ‘Lizzie McGuire’ Producer, Dies at 75
Stan Rogow, the writer and Emmy-nominated producer who guided the Hilary Duff-starring Lizzie McGuire series and feature that spawned from the Disney Channel hit and partnered with John Sayles on several projects, has died. He was 75. Rogow died Thursday at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, family spokesperson Scott Fisher told The Hollywood Reporter. […]
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Ryan O’Neal, Star of ‘Love Story,’ ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ and ‘Paper Moon,’ Dies at 82
Ryan O’Neal, the boyish leading man who kicked off an extraordinary 1970s run in Hollywood with his Oscar-nominated turn as the Harvard preppie Oliver in the legendary romantic tearjerker Love Story, has died. He was 82. O’Neal died Friday, his son Patrick O’Neal, a sportscaster with Bally Sports West in Los Angeles, reported on Instagram. […]
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Ellen Holly, Pioneering Black Actress on ‘One Life to Live,’ Dies at 92
Ellen Holly, whose long-running turn as Carla on ABC’s One Life to Live made her the first Black actress to gain stardom on a daytime soap opera, has died. She was 92. Holly died in her sleep Wednesday at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, publicist Cheryl L. Duncan announced. A member of The Actors Studio […]
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David McKnight, Actor in ‘J.D.’s Revenge’ and Robert Townsend Films, Dies at 87
David McKnight, who portrayed the title character in the cult blaxploitation horror classic J.D.’s Revenge and appeared in Hollywood Shuffle and The Five Heartbeats for Robert Townsend, has died. He was 87. McKnight died Sunday of cancer in Las Vegas, his friend and publicist Cynthia Busby told The Hollywood Reporter. McKnight also showed up on […]
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Walter Boxer, Longtime United Artists Executive, Dies at 99
Walter Boxer, who spent more than four decades as a charismatic, globe-trotting executive with United Artists, has died. He was 99. Boxer died Nov. 29 in hospice care in West Hollywood following a series of strokes, his nephew Lawrence Wolinsky told The Hollywood Reporter. Boxer, who spoke four languages, started out at UA in 1955 […]
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Benjamin Zephaniah, British Poet, Political Activist and ‘Peaky Blinders’ Actor, Dies at 65
Benjamin Zephaniah, a British poet and political activist who drew huge inspiration from his Caribbean roots, has died. He was 65. Zephaniah died Thursday after being diagnosed with a brain tumor eight weeks ago, his family announced in a statement on Instagram. “We shared him with the world and we know many will be shocked […]
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VFX Veterans Mourn Death of Influential Softimage Founder Daniel Langlois
Veterans of the computer graphics industry are expressing shock and sadness over the death of Daniel Langlois, the influential founder of pioneering 3D computer graphics software developer Softimage, whose tools were used to create visual effects on countless notable films — among them, Jurassic Park, The Matrix, Men in Black, The Fifth Element and Titanic — during […]
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Marisa Pavan, Oscar-Nominated Actress in ‘The Rose Tattoo,’ Dies at 91
Marisa Pavan, the Italian actress and twin sister of Pier Angeli who received an Oscar nomination for her performance as the daughter of Anna Magnani’s seamstress in the 1955 drama The Rose Tattoo, has died. She was 91. Pavan died Wednesday in her sleep at her home in Gassin, France, near Saint-Tropez, Margaux Soumoy, who […]
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Norman Lear, Sitcom Genius and Citizen Activist, Dies at 101
The six-time Emmy winner had quite the résumé: 'All in the Family,' 'Maude,' 'Good Times,' 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' and more.
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Charles Officer, ‘Akilla’s Escape’ Director, Dies at 49
Charles Officer, a pioneering Black Canadian film and TV director, has died. He was 49. Officer died Friday at his home in Toronto due to complications following a lung transplant that he underwent in February 2023. That included battling an autoimmune illness. Officer’s latest film was Akilla’s Escape, a crime noir about an urban child […]
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Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on Supreme Court, Dies at 93
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Friday. She was 93. O’Connor died in Phoenix, of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness, the Supreme Court said in a news release. Chief Justice John Roberts […]
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