Notable Showbiz Deaths of 2018

October 13, 1940 – January 1, 2018

Prolific character actor whose many movie credits include 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' (1967), 'Bandolero!' (1968), 'The Bridge at Remagen' (1969), 'Monte Walsh' (1970), 'The Grey Fox' (1982), 'Bridge to Terabithia' (1985), 'April Fool's Day' (1986), 'A Christmas Romance' (1994), 'Shanghai Noon' (2000), 'Kill Me Later' (2001) and 'Slither' (2006); also appeared on TV shows ranging from three appearances on 'Death Valley Days' in the late 1960s to three episodes of 'Da Vinci's Inquest' in 2003, with the latter earning him a Gemini Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Dramatic Series

March 27, 1984 – January 1, 2018

Musician and former child actor who was the first actor to play Worf's son, Alexander, on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' and went on to play Quentin Kelly in the first three seasons of 'Grace Under Fire'; also remembered for his role as Johnny "Viper" Vennaro in the film 'Little Giants' (1994); later became the lead singer for the Portland (originally Denver) band Soda Pop Kids (originally Kill City Thrillers) under the name Jonny P. Jewels

April 12, 1930 – January 1, 2018

Prolific cinematographer who won a German Film Award for his work on Rudolf Noelte's Maximilian Schell starrer 'The Castle' (1968), was nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers Award for Bernhard Sinkel's 1989 miniseries 'Hemingway' and also shot productions such as the features 'The Flying Classroom' (1973), 'North Sea is Dead Sea' (1976) and 'The Little Drummer Girl' (1984) and the mini-series 'Pig in a Poke' (1965) and 'The Oppermann Siblings' (1983)

February 13, 1930 – January 2, 2018

Writer, director and producer who worked on classic TV shows such as 'The Odd Couple,' 'Happy Days' and 'Mork & Mindy' who also provided the voice of cartoon superhero 'Batfink'

1948 – January 2, 2018

September 28, 1957 – January 2, 2018

Legendary professional wrestler with the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW) known as Mountain Fiji (Mt. Fiji)

January 31, 1932 – January 2, 2018

Record producer, songwriter, music publisher and musician who as owner and proprietor of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, was the architect of the Southern soul style known as the Muscle Shoals sound and is thus known as the "Father of Muscle Shoals Music"

January 18, 1933 – January 2, 2018

December 3, 1934 – January 3, 2018

September 25, 1946 – January 4, 2018

December 29, 1941 – January 4, 2018

Flautist and vocalist best known as a founding member of English rock group The Moody Blues

April 30, 1943 – January 5, 2018

October 28, 1944 – January 5, 2018

Slovak actor who played over a hundred characters on stage and appeared in over 80 films and television series; perhaps most widely known for his roles in Jirí Menzel's award-winning films 'My Sweet Little Village' (1985) and 'I Served the King of England' (2006), for co-starring opposite Glenn Close in István Szabó's 'Meeting Venus' (1991) and for his Czech Lion-winning performance in Martin Sulík's 'The Garden' (1995)

August 15, 1925 – January 5, 2018

Actor who was an iconic figure in Turkish cinema's Yeşilçam era; perhaps best known for his roles in many of the films directed by Ertem Egilmez, including the immensely popular 'Hababam Sinifi' ('Chaos Class') series, 'Mavi Boncuk' ('The Blue Bead') and 'Sev Kardeşim' ('Love, Brother'), the latter of which earned him a Golden Orange Award for Best Actor; also starred in several films for director Orhan Aksoy, including 'Neşeli Günler' ('Happy Days') and 'Aile Şerefi' ('Family Honor')

July 27, 1931 – January 5, 2018

Actor and banjo-playing comedian brother of Dick Van Dyke best known for his four-time Emmy-nominated role as the easily befuddled Luther Van Dam on the TV sitcom 'Coach'; also known for appearing alongside his brother in several episodes of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' (playing the brother of Van Dyke's character, Rob Petrie) and for turning down offers to play Gilligan on 'Gilligan's Island' and to replace Don Knotts on 'The Andy Griffith Show' to instead star in the infamously bad 1965-66 sitcom 'My Mother the Car'; more recently played the recurring roles of Big Jimmy Hughes on 'Yes, Dear' and Tag Spence on 'The Middle'

March 30, 1927 – January 6, 2018

Danish-born actress and model who doubled for Marilyn Monroe in 'Bus Stop,' starred in the horror film 'Terror Is a Man' and appeared in three Three Stooges shorts

October 9, 1947 – January 7, 2018

French pop icon who achieved international fame after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965 and enjoyed continued success over the next five decades

ca. 1957 – January 7, 2018

December 21, 1919 – January 7, 2018

d. January 8, 2018

July 16, 1939 – January 8, 2018

December 4, 1937 – January 8, 2018

Actor best known for his TV roles, particularly those of Dutch Leitner on 'Soap,' "Doc" Roberts on 'Danger Bay,' Detective Leo Shannon on 'Da Vinci's Inquest' and "Doc" Cottle on the reimagined 'Battlestar Galactica'

October 30, 1920 – January 9, 2018

November 14, 1931 – January 9, 2018

Two-time Oscar-winning art director and production designer whose credits range from David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962) and 'Doctor Zhivago' (1965) to Frank Darabont's 'The Shawshank Redemption' (1994) and 'The Green Mile' (1999); worked under production designer John Box as an assistant art director on 'Lawrence of Arabia' and as lead art director on 'Doctor Zhivago,' Fred Zinnemann's 'A Man for All Seasons' (1966) and Carol Reed's 'Oliver!' (1968), winning shared Oscars for both 'Zhivago' and 'Oliver!'; subsequently earned consecutive Oscar nominations as production designer of Ronald Neame's 'Scrooge' (1970) and Charles Jarrott's 'Mary, Queen of Scots' (1971); also earned a BAFTA nomination for 'Scrooge' and later received BAFTA nominations for designing Richard Attenborough's 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977) and John McTiernan's 'The Hunt for Red October' (1990); collaborated with director Richard Lester on three films -- 'Juggernaut' (1974), 'Royal Flash' (1975) and 'Finders Keepers' (1984) -- and was production designer on three of the four films directed by and starring Gene Wilder -- 'The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother' (1975), 'The World's Greatest Lover' (1977) and 'Haunted Honeymoon' (1986) -- as well as Robert Aldrich's 'The Frisco Kid' (1979), in which Wilder starred alongside Harrison Ford; other credits as production designer include Melvin Frank's 'A Touch of Class' (1973), Attenborough's 'Magic' (1978), Sydney Pollack's 'Absence of Malice' (1981) and 'Havana' (1990), Alan Johnson's 'To Be or Not to Be' (1983), Mel Brooks' 'Spaceballs' (1987), Paul Verhoeven's 'Basic Instinct' (1992), Phillip Noyce's 'Clear and Present Danger' (1994), Stuart Baird's 'Executive Decision' (1996), Gregory Hoblit's 'Fallen' (1998), and Brett Ratner's 'Rush Hour 2' (2001); remains most noted, however, as the production designer of the aforementioned Frank Darabont-directed critical darlings 'The Shawshank Redemption' and 'The Green Mile'; received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Art Directors Guild in 2010

December 18, 1981 – January 9, 2018

Actor who starred as "Salami" Sam in the live-action Disney film 'Heavyweights' (1995)

ca. 1946 – January 9, 2018

October 5, 1950 – January 10, 2018

Guitarist for the heavy metal band Motörhead and the last surviving member of the group's classic lineup, which also consisted of Lemmy and Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, both of whom died in late 2015; was also lead guitarist of the metal band Fastway, which he formed with UFO bassist Pete Way

March 2, 1930 – January 10, 2018

April 13, 1943 – January 10, 2018

Child performer who was a Mouseketeers on 'The Mickey Mouse Club' during the entirety of the show's original run from 1955 to 1959 and co-starred in Disney's 1956 live-action Western feature 'Westward Ho the Wagons!'; subsequently entered the music business, forming and touring with her own rock group and later working as a publicist for acts such as Frank Zappa, Tower of Power and the Doobie Brothers

August 30, 1969 – January 11, 2018

Award-winning Vietnamese-American filmmaker and actor best known for his acclaimed Vietnamese-language dramas 'Owl and the Sparrow' (2007) and 'Saigon Electric' (2011), with the former earning him the LA Film Festival's Audience Award and a nomination for the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards; also co-starred in the U.S. action-comedy 'Six-String Samurai' (1998) and the Vietnamese martial arts film 'The Rebel' (2007) and worked with writer-director Timothy Linh Bui as a gaffer on the seminal Vietnamese American films 'Three Seasons' (1999) and 'Green Dragon' (2001) and as co-writer on 'Powder Blue' (2009); an integral part of Southern California's indie film community and a pioneer in the Vietnamese film industry

c. 1931 – January 12, 2018

September 16, 1937 – January 12, 2018

October 18, 1928 – January 12, 2018

Legendary sports broadcaster who spent the last 40 years of his 54-year career (1952-2006) covering a wide variety of sporting events for ABC Sports, but was most widely known and acclaimed for his coverage of college football, which included calling 16 Sugar Bowls and 15 Rose Bowls; became a sportscasting icon thanks to his distinctively deep voice and the folksy, intelligent, down-to-earth manner with which he called the action, as well as his quirky expressions like "Whoa, Nellie!", "Fum-BLE!" and "Hold the phonnnnne!"; widely regarded by several generations as the definitive voice of college football, having missed only one college-football season in his 54 years when he served as play-by-play announcer during the inaugural season of ABC's 'Monday Night Football' (1970-71); retired after calling the thrilling 2006 Rose Bowl Game between Texas and USC, which was also the final Rose Bowl telecast under the ABC Sports branding and is often considered the greatest college football national championship game of all time

June 5, 1923 – January 12, 2018

Script supervisor who worked on a total of 80 films between the mid-1940s to the early 1980s; collaborated with director Arthur Hiller on nine films, including 'The Wheeler Dealers' (1963), 'Penelope' (1966), 'Love Story' (1970), 'The Man in the Glass Booth' (1975) and 'The In-Laws' (1979); also worked with Frank Sinatra on the films 'Robin and the 7 Hoods' (1964), 'Tony Rome' (1967), 'Lady in Cement' (1968) and 'The Detective' (1968) and so impressed the legendary entertainer that he employed her as his Executive Assistant; was also script supervisor on such films as 'Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier' (1955), 'A Kiss Before Dying' (1956), 'No Down Payment' (1957), 'The Last Angry Man' (1959), 'Sergeant Rutledge' (1960), 'Midnight Lace' (1960), 'One-Eyed Jacks' (1961), 'Boys' Night Out' (1962), 'Move Over, Darling' (1963), 'Boeing, Boeing' (1965), 'Play It Again, Sam' (1972) and 'Convoy' (1978)

December 8, 1922 – January 13, 2018

Actress who was a petite and vivacious supporting player in classic MGM and RKO pictures such as 'Bathing Beauty' (1944), 'Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble' (1944), 'Abbott and Costello in Hollywood' (1945), 'Till the End of the World' (1946) and 'Cry Danger' (1951)

November 29, 1925 – January 13, 2018

February 27, 1936 – January 14, 2018

August 21, 1943 – January 14, 2018

Writer, director and producer best known for creating, executive producing and writing for the classic 1978-1982 sitcom 'WKRP in Cincinnati' and for directing the films 'Police Academy' (1984) and 'The First Wives Club' (1996); shared the three Emmy nominations 'WKRP' received for Outstanding Comedy Series and went on to create the 1987-88 sitcom 'Frank's Place,' which was also nominated as Outstanding Comedy Series and won him an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series; also received the Humanitas Prize for one episode each of 'WKRP' and 'Frank's Place' and later earned Emmy nominations for writing and directing the pilot episode of his 1989-90 sitcom 'The Famous Teddy Z'; made his feature directorial debut with the hit, six-sequel-spawning comedy 'Police Academy,' which he also co-scripted with Neal Israel and Pat Proft; subsequently wrote (or co-wrote) and directed the films 'Rustlers' Rhapsody' (1985), 'Burglar' (1987), 'Guarding Tess' (1994) and the 1999-released Brendan Fraser starrers 'Blast from the Past' and 'Dudley Do-Right'; directed one final film, the 2004 John Grisham-penned family sports drama 'Mickey,' before retiring

August 19, 1943 – January 15, 2018

Gospel singer, composer, arranger, musician and choir master who led The Edwin Hawkins Singers and was best known for his arrangement of "Oh Happy Day," which became the first hymn to reach crossover pop success; was one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound, a winner of four Grammy Awards -- three in the 1970s for Best Soul Gospel Performance and one in 1993 for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album -- and a 2007 inductee into the Christian Music Hall of Fame

September 6, 1971 – January 15, 2018

Lead singer, co-songwriter and co-guitarist of Irish alternative band The Cranberries whose distinctive lilting mezzo-soprano voice and yodel helped fuel the group's rapid rise to fame in the early 1990s with global hits such as "Dreams," "Linger" and "Zombie" -- all of which she either wrote herself or co-wrote with guitarist Noel hogan -- and helped them to become Ireland's second most successful rock band after U2

c. 1927 – January 15, 2018

Unique, stylish, mustached actor and international sex symbol best known for his role as novelist turned sleuth Jason King on the cult British spy-fi series 'Department S' (1969-70) and its spin-off, 'Jason King' (1971-72); also remembered for co-starring opposite Deborah Kerr on the big screen in Jack Clayton's gothic horror classic 'The Innocents' (1961), for starring in the cult horror film 'Night of the Eagle' (1962; known as 'Burn, Witch, Burn!' in the U.S.), for his role as Klytus in Mike Hodges' sci-fi cult classic 'Flash Gordon' (1980) and for playing Timanov in the 1984 'Doctor Who' serial "Planet of Fire"

December 2, 1961 – January 16, 2018

April 14, 1930 – January 16, 2018

Veteran stage and screen actor who played Edmund Tyrone in the original Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' in 1958 and had his breakout film role the following year starring opposite Dean Stockwell -- who would play Edmund in the 1962 film adaptation of 'Long Day's Journey' -- in Richard Fleischer's classic crime drama 'Compulsion,' for which Dillman, Stockwell and their co-star Orson Welles all received the award for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival; reteamed with both Fleischer and Welles the following year for 'Crack in the Mirror' and then landed the title role in Michael Curtiz's 'Francis of Assisi' (1961); earned an Emmy nomination in 1963 for his performance in the 1962 'Alcoa Theatre' episode "The Voice of Charlie Pont" and would win a Daytime Emmy a decade later for the 1974 'ABC Afternoon Playbreak' drama "Last Bride of Salem"; starred alongside Peter Graves in the 1965-66 drama series 'Court Martial' and in Walter Grauman's 1965 film 'A Rage to Live,' the latter of which also featured Ben Gazzara, with whom Dillman would reunite two years later in John Guillermin's 'The Bridge at Remagen'; played Doctor of Animal Psychology Lewis Dixon in the Don Taylor-directed 'Escape from the Planet of the Apes' (1971), and in 1973 was seen as Willie Oban in John Frankenheimer's filmization of Eugene O'Neill's 'The Iceman Cometh' and as J.J., the best friend of Robert Redford's character in Sydney Pollack's hit romantic drama 'The Way We Were'; went on to play different police captains in two of the 'Dirty Harry' movies -- 'The Enforcer' (1976) and 'Sudden Impact' (1983) -- and to appear in two cult natural horror movies released in 1978: Irwin Allen's 'The Swarm' and Joe Dante's 'Piranha'; additional film credits include Paul Wendkos' 'Fear No Evil' (1969), James Goldstone's 'Brother John' (1971), Frankenheimer's '99 and 44/100% Dead' (1974), Jeannot Szwarc's 'Bug' (1975) and Stuart Rosenberg's 'Love and Bullets' (1979), while other episodic TV credits included recurring roles on 'Dr. Kildare' and 'Falcon Crest' and multiple characters on shows like 'The F.B.I.,' 'Barnaby Jones' and 'Murder, She Wrote'

April 5, 1948 – January 16, 2018

June 8, 1926 – January 16, 2018

January 13, 1966 – January 17, 2018

Actor and dancer best known for playing the "Dark Knight" on the children's game show 'Incredible Games' from 1994 to 1995 and for playing Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubby, on the immensely popular children's program 'Teletubbies' from 1997 to 2001

September 22, 1917 – January 19, 2018

November 26, 1928 – January 18, 2018

Theatre director and playwright who co-founded the Royal Shakespeare Company with the late Peter Hall; was behind the landmark 1963 theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Wars of the Roses' tetralogy that was itself adapted by Barton into a highly successful TV miniseries for the BBC in 1965; later received an Emmy nomination for his 1970 television adaptation of 'Hamlet' for 'ITV Saturday Night Theatre'

March 21, 1941 – January 19, 2018

Trailblazing TV executive and producer who served as vice president of daytime programming at NBC from 1972 to 1976, becoming the first woman to hold such a position at a television network; was responsible for commissioning the long-running game show 'Wheel of Fortune' and is credited with successfully bringing long form narrative to network soap operas by expanding them from half-hour to hour-long formats

November 26, 1942 – January 19, 2018

Actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as Mathilda in the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries 'Roots' and her Emmy-nominated portrayal of housemaid Maggie Rogers in the 1979 miniseries 'Backstairs at the White House'

January 30, 1924 – January 19, 2018

Legendary, sultry actress best known for her Oscar-winning performance as spoiled, sex-crazed Texas oil heiress Marylee Hadley in Douglas Sirk's 'Written on the Wind' (1956) and for playing overprotective mother Constance MacKenzie on the primetime soap 'Peyton Place' from 1964 to 1968; debuted in Hollywood as a brunette in the 1940s, first gaining attention with her brief but very memorable role as a flirtatious bookstore proprietress who helps out -- and has a drink with -- Humphrey Bogart's Philip Marlowe in Howard Hawks' 'The Big Sleep' (1946); played mostly "nice girl" parts for the first decade of her career -- notably in Raoul Walsh's Western 'Colorado Territory' (1949) and Henry Levin's crime noir 'Convicted' (1950) -- but began to acquire a more glamorous image after dyeing her hair blonde to play Doris Day's sister in the musical 'Young at Heart' (1954); soon started landing meatier, more mature roles, including that of alcoholic nymphomaniac Marylee in 'Written on the Wind,' which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as well as an Oscar; reteamed with 'Written on the Wind' director Douglas Sirk and co-stars Rock Hudson and Robert Stack on 'The Tarnished Angels' (1957) and acted alongside Hudson and Stack separately in Robert Aldrich's 'The Last Sunset' (1961) and Andrew L. Stone's 'The Last Voyage' (1960), respectively; received positive notices for her performances as the unsympathetic, suicidal first wife of Lon Chaney (played by James Cagney) in 'Man of a Thousand Faces' (1957) and the self-destructive daughter of John Barrymore (Errol Flynn) in 'Too Much, Too Soon' (1958); other notable film credits during the 1950s and early '60s included two Westerns with Randolph Scott -- 'The Nevadan' (1950) and 'Tall Man Riding' (1955) -- and two musical comedies with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis -- 'Scared Stiff' (1953) and 'Artists and Models' (1955) -- as well as Richard Quine's film noir 'Pushover' (1954), the Roger Corman-produced B picture 'The Fast and the Furious' (1955), Raoul Walsh's wartime drama 'Battle Cry' (1955), Edward Dmytryk's Western 'Warlock' (1959) and the first 'Beach Party' (1963); eventually turned to television and landed the role of Constance McKenzie on ABC's primetime soap 'Peyton Place' in 1964, remaining with the show for four seasons and receiving two Golden Globe nominations in the process; only worked on screen intermittently after leaving 'Peyton Place,' with perhaps her most notable credits in the years since being two episodes of the 1976 miniseries 'Rich Man, Poor Man' and supporting roles in films such as 'Golden Rendezvous' (1977), 'Winter Kills' (1979) and 'The Being' (1983); made her final screen appearance in a memorable cameo as the aging ex-con murderess friend of Sharon Stone's character in Paul Verhoeven's steamy neo-noir thriller 'Basic Instinct' (1992)

July 4, 1990 – January 19, 2018

October 23, 1963 – January 19, 2018

Film executive and producer who served as vice president of production at Walt Disney Pictures from 1994 to 1997, as executive vice president of production at Universal from 1997 to 2005, as co-president of production at Paramount from 2005 to 2007, and as president of production at Lionsgate from 2008 to January 2012 before becoming an independent producer; played a pivotal role in the launching of three billion-dollar film franchises: the 'Bourne' and 'American Pie' movies at Universal, and 'The Hunger Games' at Lionsgate; developed and supervised 'George of the Jungle' (1997) and other movies while at Disney and oversaw the development and production of films such as 'Erin Brockovich' (2000) and 'Along Came Polly' (2004) as well as 'The Bourne Identity' (2002) and 'The Bourne Supremacy' (2004) and the first three 'American Pie' movies (1999-2003) during her time at Universal; at Paramount oversaw such projects as 'Mission: Impossible III' (2006) for J.J. Abrams, 'Dreamgirls' (2006) for Bill Condon, 'Zodiac' (2007) and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' (2008) for David Fincher, 'Beowulf' (2007) for Robert Zemeckis, and 'The Spiderwick Chronicles' (2008) for Mark Waters; at Lionsgate oversaw the purchasing of the rights to the 'Hunger Games' books and the development and production of the first 'Hunger Games' movie (2012), then executive produced the following installments in the franchise: 'Catching Fire' (2013), 'Mockingjay - Part I' (2014) and 'Mockingjay - Part 2' (2015); formed her own production company in 2014, through which she produced Disney's Kenneth Branagh-directed live-action remake of 'Cinderella' (2015), Burr Steers' film adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' (2016), Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's techno-thriller 'Nerve' (2016), and Disney and Lucasfilm's first two films in the 'Star Wars Anthology Series': 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' (2016) and the upcoming 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' (2018); was also an executive producer on Lionsgate's 'Power Rangers' movie and ABC's made-for-TV remake of 'Dirty Dancing' that aired that same year; was working with Disney on adaptations of 'The One and Only Ivan' and 'The Paper Magician' and a reboot of the 'Sister Act' movies when she died from lung cancer at the age of 54

August 21, 1941 – January 20, 2018

July 7, 1941 – January 20, 2018

December 24, 1958 – January 20, 2018

The first openly gay comedian to appear on 'The Tonight Show' and the first to have his own half-hour comedy special on HBO

February 13, 1944 – January 21, 2018

June 12, 1922 – January 21, 2018

Assistant director ('The Paradine Case,' 'Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,' 'The Set-Up,' 'Neptune's Daughter,' 'Adam's Rib,' 'Summer Stock,' 'The Tall Target,' 'The Long, Long Trailer,' 'Above and Beyond,' 'Bad Day at Black Rock,' 'Blackboard Jungle,' 'Tea and Sympathy,' 'Sunrise at Campobello,' 'The Mating Game') and producer ('The Music Man,' 'A Big Hand for the Little Lady,' 'Camelot,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Finian's Rainbow,' 'Shaft,' 'Trouble Man,' 'Love at First Bite,' 'The Kindred,' 'Soapdish')

December 18, 1939 – January 21, 2018

November 27, 1912 – January 21, 2018

Hollywood's oldest working actress; began her performing career in the 1930s and amassed over 170 film and television credits since the 1950s but was best known for her appearances in the modern comedies 'When Harry Met Sally...' (1989), 'Dumb and Dumber' (1994) and 'Pineapple Express' (2008); made her film debut in Frank Capra's 'A Hole in the Head' (1959), reprising the role she originated in the 1957 Broadway production of the same name; went on to have roles in classic films such as Daniel Mann's 'Ada' (1961), Henry Hathaway's 'True Grit' (1969), Arthur Hiller's 'The Man in the Glass Booth' (1975) and Norman Jewison's '...And Justice for All' (1979); appeared as the wife of the first documentary couple seen in Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally...,' was the cart-riding little old lady who robs Jim Carrey's character in the Farrelly brothers' 'Dumb and Dumber,' played the grandmother of James Franco's character in David Gordon Green's 'Pineapple Express,' and was also seen in such films as Steven Soderbergh's 'Out of Sight' (1998), Bruno Barreto's 'View from the Top' (2003) and Luke Matheny's 'Lovesick' (2014); appeared on nearly 100 different TV series over the past 60 years, ranging from classics such as 'Mary Tyler Moore' 'The Andy Griffith Show,' 'The Fugitive,' 'Good Times,' 'The Rockford Files,' 'Kojak,' 'Starsky and Hutch' and 'All in the Family' to more recent hits including 'Seinfeld,' 'Will & Grace,' 'Boy Meets World,' 'How I Met Your Mother,' 'The Office,' 'ER,' 'CSI,' 'Ray Donovan' and '2 Broke Girls'

March 10, 1932 – January 23, 2018

Actor who played Lt. Cmdr. Chip Morton on TV's 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' and co-starred opposite Jack Lord on the Western series 'Stoney Burke'

August 10, 1942 – January 23, 2018

April 4, 1939 – January 23, 2018

Trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer who was a pioneer of jazz in South Africa and whose music became an international symbol of his country's fight against apartheid; had an unlikely No. 1 hit in the U.S. in 1968 with the instrumental "Grazing in the Grass" and was also well known for his protest songs "Soweto Blues" (1977) and "Bring Him Back Home" (1987), the latter of which became an unofficial anthem of the anti-apartheid movement; earned a Tony nomination for his work on the stage musical 'Sarafina!' and was nominated for a Grammy Award three times: the first in 1968 for "Grazing in the Grass," the second in 1989 for the 'Sarafina!' cast album, and the third in 2012 for his studio album 'Jabulani'

ca. 1954 – January 23, 2018

Producer on such films as 'Spaceballs' (1987), 'Waiting to Exhale' (1995), 'Cop Land' (1997), 'Enchanted' (2007), 'Zombieland' (2009) and '21 Jump Street' (2012); started out as Unit Production Manager (UPM) on Woody Allen's 'Stardust Memories' (1980) and would hold the same position on Allen's 'Zelig' (1983), 'Broadway Danny Rose' (1984) and 'Hannah and Her Sisters' (1986); was also location manager on Sydney Pollack's 'Tootsie' (1982) and UPM on Martin Scorsese's 'The King of Comedy' (1983), Frank Oz's 'The Muppets Take Manhattan' (1984) and Mike Nichols' 'Heartburn' (1986); earned his first producer credit as associate producer on Allen's 'Radio Days' (1987), on which he was also first assistant director; was co-producer on Mel Brooks' 'Spaceballs' and Karel Reisz's 'Everybody Wins' (1990) and producer of Pat O'Connor's 'The January Man' (1989) and reteamed with Brooks as executive producer of 'Life Stinks' (1991); subsequent credits as executive producer include David Fincher's 'Alien³' (1992), Joseph Ruben's 'The Good Son' (1993) and Barry Levinson's 'Wag the Dog' (1997) and was both executive producer and UPM on Hugh Wilson's 'The First Wives Club' (1996) and Ruben's 'Return to Paradise' (1998); was a producer of Forest Whitaker's 'Waiting to Exhale,' James Mangold's 'Cop Land' and Mark Levin's films 'Whiteboyz' (1999), 'Twilight: Los Angeles' (2000) and 'Brooklyn Babylon' (2001) and then executive produced such films as Chris Rock's 'Head of State' (2003), David Koepp's 'Secret Window' (2004) and 'Ghost Town' (2008), Ericson Core's 'Invincible' (2006) and Kevin Lima's 'Enchanted,' the latter two of which were for Disney; reteamed with Mark Levin to serve as executive producer and UPM on 'Little Manhattan' (2005) and also held both positions on Ruben Fleischer's horror-action-comedy hit 'Zombieland'; shared an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie as an executive producer on Curtis Hanson's HBO film 'Too Big To Fail' (2011); subsequently executive produced 'The Smurfs' (2011) and 'The Smurfs 2' (2013) for Raja Gosnell, '21 Jump Street' for Phil Lord and Chris Miller and 'The Equalizer' (2014) and 'Southpaw' (2015) for Antoine Fuqua

May 13, 1965 – January 23, 2018

August 1, 1953 – January 24, 2018

October 15, 1924 – January 24, 2018

1945 – January 24, 2018

March 5, 1957 – January 24, 2018

Short-tempered singer, songwriter and musician who was the frontman, lyricist and only constant member of the iconic English post-punk group The Fall

October 18, 1926 – January 25, 2018

Composer, orchestrator and conductor best known for writing the music for all but two of Mel Brooks' films, for his Oscar- and Grammy-nominated score for David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' (1980) and for composing the theme music for the TV sitcom 'Coach'; scored the first nine of the eleven films directed by Brooks -- 'The Producers' (1968), 'The Twelve Chairs' (1970), 'Blazing Saddles' (1974), 'Young Frankenstein' (1974), 'Silent Movie' (1976), 'High Anxiety' (1977), 'History of the World: Part 1' (1980), 'Spaceballs' (1987) and 'Life Stinks' (1991) -- and received his first Oscar nomination for the title song from 'Blazing Saddles'; was also recruited by 'The Producers,' 'Blazing Saddles' and 'Young Frankenstein' star Gene Wilder to score all four of the actor's directorial efforts: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother' (1975), 'The World's Greatest Lover' (1977), 'The Woman in Red' (1984) and 'Haunted Honeymoon' (1986); composed the scores for many other comedy favorites, including the Arthur Hiller-directed classic 'The In-Laws' (1979), Alan Johnson's Mel Brooks starrer 'To Be or Not to Be' (1983), Amy Heckerling's underrated 'Johnny Dangerously' (1984) and Jonathan Lynn's riotous 'Clue' (1985); other credits include Noel Black's sci-fi family telefilm 'The Electric Grandmother' (1983), the cultural phenomenon 'Dirty Dancing' (1987), Hector Babenco's Oscar-winning drama 'Ironweed' (1987), and numerous productions for director John Erman, including the feature 'Stella' (1990), the miniseries 'Scarlett' (1994) and the TV movies 'Our sons' (1991), 'Ellen Foster' (1997), 'Only Love' (1998) and 'The Blackwater Lightship' (2004); in addition to two Oscar nominations, won a Daytime Emmy in 1978 for his score for the 'NBC Special Treat' story 'The Tap Dance Kid' and won five ASCAP Awards for 'Coach'

October 14, 1942 – January 25, 2018

January 8, 1933 – January 26, 2018

December 12, 1952 – January 27, 2018

May 13, 1943 – January 29, 2018

August 17, 1982 – January 30, 2018

February 12, 1924 – January 30, 2018

Veteran stage and screen actor who earned a Tony nomination for his performance as Cardinal Ragna in 'Hadrian VII' in 1969 but was best known for playing the father of Paul Reiser's character on the sitcom 'Mad About You' (1993-1999); also remembered for playing Jules Berger on the 1991-93 drama series 'Brooklyn Bridge,' for playing Ben Loman in the 1985 made-for-TV adaptation of 'Death of a Salesman' opposite Dustin Hoffman's Willy Loman, and for his role as diner owner Pete in 'The Muppets Take Manhattan' (1984); also appeared in such films as 'Coogan's Bluff' (1968), 'Fiddler on the Roof' (1971), 'For Pete's Sake' (1974), 'The Changeling' (1980), 'Club Paradise' (1986), 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' (1988), 'City of Hope' (1991), 'Joe the King' (1999) and 'Detachment' (2011)

February 12, 1927 – January 31, 2018

Actress who was a child star during Hollywood's Golden Age, with her best known roles being Becky Thatcher, the love interest of the title character in the 1938 film adaptation of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' and the voice of the adult Faline, the title character's love interest in Disney's 'Bambi' (1942)

April 3, 1953 – January 31, 2018

August 24, 1928 – January 31, 2018

July 4, 1948 – January 31, 2018

July 25, 1949 – February 1, 2018

Special effects specialist who won nine Goya Awards and received another 33 Goya nominations for his work in Spanish cinema; won Goyas for Carlos Saura's '¡Ay, Carmela!' (1990) and 'Bunuel and King Solomon's Table' (2001), Pilar Miró's 'Prince of Shadows' (1991), Imanol Uribe's 'Running Out of Time' (1994), Álex de la Iglesia's 'The Day of the Beast' (1995) and 'The Last Circus' (2010), Julio Medem's 'Earth' (1996), Miguel Courtois's 'The Wolf' (2004) and Guillermo del Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth' (2006); also worked with del Toro on -- and earned a Goya nomination for -- 'The Devil's Backbone' (2001) and teamed with filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar on ten films, including 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown' (1988), 'The Skin I Live In' (2011) and 'Julieta' (2016), all of which garnered Goya nominations for Abades; also earned Goya nominations for José Luis Cuerda's 'Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing' (1989), Medem's 'Cows' (1992), Vicente Aranda's 'Libertarias' (1996), Alejandro Amenábar's 'Open Your Eyes' (1997), Saura's 'Goya in Bordeaux' (1999), Milos Forman's 'Goya's Ghosts' (2006) and Pablo Berger's 'Blancanieves' (2012), among other films; further credits include Paul Verhoeven's 'Flesh + Blood' (1985), Amenábar's 'Tesis' (1996), Gilles Mimouni,'s 'The Apartment' (1996), Jonathan Glazer's 'Sexy Beast' (2000), Susanne Bier's 'Brothers' (2004) and Almodóvar's 'Volver' (2006) and 'Broken Embraces' (2009)

February 3, 1943 – February 2, 2018

Singer who replaced David Ruffin as lead vocalist of The Temptations and sang on many of the group's enduring hits, including "Cloud Nine" and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"

March 12, 1948 – February 2, 2018

July 1, 1952 – February 3, 2018

June 7, 1928 – February 3, 2018

March 28, 1941 – February 3, 2018

March 25, 1931 – February 4, 2018

October 2, 1934 – February 4, 2018

June 20, 1940 – February 4, 2018

Tony-winning actor and member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company who was most widely known for his two-time Emmy-nominated role as Martin Crane on the hit TV sitcom 'Frasier' (1993-2004); made his stage debut in Chicago in 1977 and was then persuaded by fellow actor John Malkovich to join the Steppenwolf ensemble; went on to win the Clarence Derwent Award and the Theatre World Award for his work with Steppenwolf, and earned a Tony Award for his performance in the 1986 Broadway revival of John Guare's 'The House of Blue Leaves'; made his screen debut in the early 1980s and had supporting roles in many popular films prior to being cast in 'Frasier,' including Norman Jewison's 'Moonstruck' (1987), John Sayles' 'Eight Men Out' (1988), Cameron Crowe's 'Say Anything...' (1989), the Coen brothers' 'Barton Fink' (1991) and 'The Hudsucker Proxy' (1994), and Wolfgang Petersen's 'In the Line of Fire' (1993); played Martin Crane on 'Frasier' for the show's entire 11-season run, earning Emmy nominations for the role in 1999 and 2003 and Golden Globe nominations in 1994 and 2001, in addition to sharing a 2000 SAG Award and nine SAG nominations for Outstanding Ensemble; continued doing film work while 'Frasier' was in production, lending support in Rob Reiner's 'The American President' (1995), Gregory Hoblit's 'Primal Fear' (1996), Edward Burns' 'She's the One' (1996) and Greg Berlanti's 'The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy' (2000), providing voice-over work in 'The Iron Giant' (1998), 'Antz' (1998) and 'Atlantis: The Lost Empire' (2001), and playing the lead role in Terry Green's 'Almost Salinas' (2001); made only occasional screen appearances after 'Frasier' ended in 2004, most notably playing the title character's father in Peter Hedges' film 'Dan in Real Life' (2007), reteaming with Rob Reiner for the romantic comedy 'Flipped' (2010) and taking on the recurring roles of CEO Walter Burnett on the HBO drama 'In Treatment' and as waiter Roy in the TV Land comedy 'Hot in Cleveland'; made his final on-screen appearance in a 2015 episode of the British detective drama 'Foyle's War'

October 3, 1947 – February 6, 2018

Poet, essayist, internet pioneer, cyber-libertarian political activist, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Freedom of the Press Foundation, retired cattle rancher, occasional actor, and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead

July 9, 1932 – February 6, 2018

June 10, 1941 – February 7, 2018

Musician and character actor who was drummer for acts such as Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, Bob Dylan, Trini Lopez and Johnny Rivers, and whoappeared in over 130 films and television shows, notably recurring as Pete Bilker on the sitcom 'Home Improvement' and as Rodney "Hot Rod" Dunham on the FX drama 'Justified'; also recurred as Chester on the sitcom 'Flo,' played Chris Farber in 'V' and 'V: The Final Battle,' and appeared on TV shows such as 'Charlie's Angels,' 'The Incredible Hulk,' 'M*A*S*H,' 'T.J. Hooker,' 'The A-Team,' 'In the Heat of the Night,' 'Baywatch,' 'Step by Step,' 'Married with Children,' 'Northern Exposure,' 'Boy Meets World,' 'Entourage,' 'Workaholics' and 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'; film credits include 'Stir Crazy' (1980), 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas' (1982), 'National Lampoon's Vacation' (1983), 'Starman' (1984), 'Extreme Prejudice' (1987), 'The Couch Trip' (1988), 'Total Recall' (1990), 'Drop Zone' (1994), 'Sling Blade' (1996), 'The Fighting Temptations' (2003) and 'Penny Dreadful' (2006)

July 27, 1967 – February 7, 2018

December 13, 1953 – February 7, 2018

June 11, 1955 – February 8, 2018

May 16, 1960 – February 8, 2018

August 18, 1958 – February 9, 2018

Baritone-voiced actor known for his Emmy-winning role as Freddy Hayes on the Netflix drama 'House of Cards' and for his roles on the HBO dramas 'The Wire' and 'Oz' as Norman Wilson and Martin Querns, respectively

April 8, 1931 – February 9, 2018

Handsome actor best known for his roles as Steve Archer in Douglas Sirk's 'Imitation of Life' (1959), Julius Caesar in Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus' (1960) and Sam Loomis in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' (1960)

August 30, 1969 – February 9, 2018

September 19, 1969 – February 2018 (body found on February 9, 2018)

Innovative, Oscar-nominated composer who scored such films as Denis Villeneuve's 'Prisoners' (2013), 'Sicario' (2015) and 'Arrival' (2016) and James Marsh's 'The Theory of Everything' (2014)