In Memoriam 2016

101. Jim Harrison

Writer | Wolf

Jim Harrison was born on December 11, 1937 in Grayling, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Wolf (1994), Revenge (1990) and Legends of the Fall (1994). He was married to Linda King. He died on March 26, 2016 in Patagonia, Arizona, USA.

102. Howard Berk

Writer | Columbo

Howard Berk was born on July 22, 1924 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Columbo (1971), Target (1985) and Mission: Impossible (1966). He died on March 27, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

103. James Noble

Actor | 1776

The son of a Dallas wholesale coal dealer, Noble spent much of his youth attending pool halls and movie houses. He retained his expertise with a pool cue throughout his life, while his stronger interest in acting (fueled by movies) manifested itself in local stage productions and drama studies at ...

104. Roger Cicero

Actor | Hilde

Roger Cicero was born on July 6, 1970 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Hilde (2009), Großstadtrevier (1986) and Stefanie feat. Roger Cicero: Would you (2008). He died on March 24, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.

105. Richard Bradford

Actor | The Untouchables

Richard Bradford was born on November 10, 1934 in Conroe, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Untouchables (1987), The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) and More American Graffiti (1979). He was married to Eileen Elliott. He died on March 22, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

106. Patty Duke

Actress | Valley of the Dolls

Patty Duke was born Anna Marie Duke on December 14, 1946 in Elmhurst, Queens County, New York, to Frances Margaret (McMahon), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a cab driver and handyman. She was seven eighths Irish and one eighth German. Her acting career began when she was introduced to her ...

107. Tom Whedon

Producer | The Golden Girls

Tom Whedon was born on August 3, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Golden Girls (1985), The Electric Company (1971) and Between the Lions (1999). He was married to Pamela Merriam Webber and Ann Lee Jeffries. He died on March 23, 2016 in the USA.

108. Margaret Blye

Actress | The Italian Job

Margaret "Maggie" Blye attended the University of Texas, before transferring to UCLA in her senior year. She was quickly spotted by a talent agent, and the agent booked Maggie for her first audition in the Oscar-nominated film "Summer and Smoke" starring Geraldine Page. Maggie went on to ...

109. Douglas Wilmer

Actor | Octopussy

Douglas Wilmer was born on January 8, 1920 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Octopussy (1983), Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and El Cid (1961). He was married to Anne Harding and Elizabeth Joan Melville. He died on March 31, 2016 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK.

110. Hans-Dietrich Genscher

Actor | Steiners Sketchparade - Lachen ist die beste Medizin

He grew up as the son of the lawyer Kurt Genscher and the farmer's daughter Hilde Kreimein in Reideburg, then in nearby Halle, where the family moved in 1933. In 1943 he was drafted into the Second World War as an anti-aircraft assistant after leaving school at a high school in Halle. He was later ...

111. Don Francks

Actor | Heavy Metal

A man who has many irons in the entertainment fire, hirsutely handsome Canadian actor, vocalist and jazz musician Don Francks (also known as "Iron Buffalo") was born Donald Harvey Francks on February 28, 1932, in Vancouver, British Columbia. One can, with confidence, add drummer, poet, motorcyclist...

112. Chus Lampreave

Actress | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios"

Chus Lampreave was born on December 11, 1930 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She was an actress and writer, known for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Volver (2006) and Broken Embraces (2009). She was married to Eusebio Moreno de los Ríos. She died on April 4, 2016 in Almería, Almería, ...

113. Rita Lafontaine

Actress | La grande séduction

Rita Lafontaine was born on June 8, 1939 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003), Le retour (1996) and Le soleil se lève en retard (1977). She was married to Jacques Dufour. She died on April 4, 2016 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

114. Erik Bauersfeld

Actor | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Erik Bauersfeld was born on June 28, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) and Crimson Peak (2015). He died on April 3, 2016 in Berkeley, California, USA.

115. Merle Haggard

Soundtrack | Wag the Dog

Merle Haggard was born on April 6, 1937 in Bakersfield, California, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for Wag the Dog (1997), The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) and Jack Reacher (2012). He was married to Theresa Ann Lane, Debora J Parret, Leona Bell Williams, Bonnie Owens and Billie ...

116. Hendrikje Fitz

Actress | In aller Freundschaft

Hendrikje Fitz was born on September 15, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, West Germany. She was an actress, known for In aller Freundschaft (1998), Ripley's Game (2002) and Tatort (1970). She died on April 7, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.

117. Bob Windham

Actor | WWWF Championship Wrestling

Bob Windham was born on November 25, 1941 in Sweetwater, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for WWF Championship Wrestling (1972), WCW Worldwide (1975) and WWE Raw (1993). He was married to Julia. He died on April 7, 2016 in Tampa, Florida, USA.

118. Jonathan Rechner

Actor | WWE SmackDown

Jonathan Rechner was born on April 11, 1972 in Nutley, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for WWE Smackdown! (1999), Eastern Championship Wrestling (1993) and I Spill Your Guts (2012). He was married to Gayle Schechter. He died on April 12, 2016 in Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey, USA.

119. Anne Jackson

Actress | The Shining

Anne Jackson was born on September 3, 1925 in Millvale, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for The Shining (1980), Dirty Dingus Magee (1970) and CBS Playhouse (1967). She was married to Eli Wallach. She died on April 12, 2016 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

120. Gareth Thomas

Actor | Blake's 7

Gareth Thomas was born on February 12, 1945 in Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for Blake's 7 (1978), Torchwood (2006) and Knights of God (1987). He was married to Linda. He died on April 13, 2016 in the UK.

121. Ilija Ivezic

Actor | Zlatne godine

Ilija Ivezic was born on July 20, 1926 in Ricice, Gracac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was an actor and producer, known for Zlatne godine (1994), Marsal (1999) and Mathias Sandorf (1979). He died on April 14, 2016 in Zagreb, Croatia.

122. Doris Roberts

Actress | Everybody Loves Raymond

Doris Roberts was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Ann (Meltzer) and Larry Green. She was raised in New York, and took her stepfather's surname. Roberts was a 20-year veteran of the Broadway stage before she began appearing steadily in character roles in film and on television during the 1970s. A ...

123. Rod Daniel

Director | WKRP in Cincinnati

Rod Daniel was born on August 4, 1942 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was a director and producer, known for WKRP in Cincinnati (1978), Teen Wolf (1985) and K-9 (1989). He was married to Martha (Marti) C. Mueller. He died on April 16, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

124. Karl-Heinz von Hassel

Actor | Tatort

Karl-Heinz von Hassel was born on February 8, 1939 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Faust (1960) and Wie eine Träne im Ozean (1970). He was married to Karin von Hassel. He died on April 19, 2016 in Hamburg, Germany.

125. Chyna

Actress | Frank McKlusky, C.I.

Chyna had been called "The First Lady of Sports Entertainment". Her accomplishments went far beyond the wrestling ring and anyone's guess. Before exchanging body slams, modeling for top magazines and guest-starring on hundreds of shows,

Chyna was a shy girl who was born Joan Marie Laurer in ...

126. Guy Hamilton

Director | Live and Let Die

Typically British stiff-upper-lip war dramas and action adventure laced with moments of sophisticated comedy were Guy Hamilton's trademark. The son of a British diplomat, he spent most of his youth with his family in France, seemingly destined to be groomed for a career in the diplomatic service. ...

127. Prince

Soundtrack | Under the Cherry Moon

Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Mattie Shaw, a jazz singer and social worker, and John L. Nelson, a lyricist and pianist. His father's stage name was "Prince Rogers". His parents were both from African-American families from Louisiana. They separated during his youth, ...

128. Madeleine Sherwood

Actress | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Madeleine Sherwood was born on November 13, 1922 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), The Changeling (1980) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). She was married to Robert Sherwood. She died on April 23, 2016 in Lac Cornu, Quebec, Canada.

129. Rudolf Wessely

Actor | Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman

Rudolf Wessely was born on January 19, 1925 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor and writer, known for Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman (2001), Bartleby (1963) and Das Schwein - Eine deutsche Karriere (1995). He was married to Marguerite Wood. He died on April 25, 2016 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

130. Arne Elsholtz

Writer | X312 - Flug zur Hölle

Arne Elsholtz was born on August 14, 1944 in Pritzwalk, Brandenburg, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for X312 - Flight to Hell (1971), The Vengeance of Doctor Mabuse (1972) and Code Name: Wild Geese (1984). He died on April 26, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.

131. Wolfgang Hess

Fitzcarraldo

Wolfgang Hess was born on September 1, 1937. He was an actor, known for Fitzcarraldo (1982), Felidae (1994) and Making Contact (1985). He died on April 27, 2016 in Zürich, Switzerland.

132. Uwe Friedrichsen

Actor | Maximilian von Mexiko

Uwe Friedrichsen was born on May 27, 1934 in Altona (now Hamburg), Germany. He was an actor, known for Maximilian von Mexiko (1970), Elephant Boy (1972) and John Klings Abenteuer (1965). He was married to Ute Papst and Nathalie Emery. He died on April 30, 2016 in Hamburg, Germany.

133. Ugo Adinolfi

Actor | Un corpo caldo per l'inferno

Ugo Adinolfi was born on April 1, 1943 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. He was an actor, known for Un corpo caldo per l'inferno (1969), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) and On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (1967). He died on April 26, 2016 in Rome, Italy.

134. William Schallert

Actor | Innerspace

The son of Edwin Schallert, drama editor of the "Los Angeles Times" and the dean of West Coast critics, William Schallert became interested in an acting career while at UCLA in 1942. After graduation, he became involved with the Circle Theater (eventually becoming one of its owners) and made his ...

135. Peter Behrens

Composer | Mother's Meat & Freud's Flesh

Peter Behrens was born on September 4, 1946 in Sanderbusch, Lower Saxony, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Mother's Meat & Freud's Flesh (1984), Tausend Augen (1984) and Manta - Der Film (1991). He died on May 11, 2016 in Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony, Germany.

136. Gene Gutowski

Producer | Repulsion

Gene Gutowski was born on July 26, 1925 in Lwów, Lwowskie, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was a producer and production manager, known for Repulsion (1965), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) and The Pianist (2002). He was married to Joanna Smaga, Dorota Puzio, Corinna Liddell, Judy Wilson and ...

137. Elisa Mainardi

Actress | Malabimba

Elisa Mainardi was born on July 27, 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress. She died on May 8, 2016 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

138. Madeleine Lebeau

Actress | Casablanca

Madeleine Lebeau was born on June 10, 1923 in Antony, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. She was an actress, known for Casablanca (1942), 8½ (1963) and Gentleman Jim (1942). She was married to Tullio Pinelli and Marcel Dalio. She died on May 1, 2016 in Estepona, Malaga, Spain.

139. Abel Fernandez

Actor | The Untouchables

Abel Fernandez was born on July 14, 1930 in East Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Untouchables (1959), Steve Canyon (1958) and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958). He died on May 3, 2016 in Whittier, California, USA.

140. Erika Berger

Actress | Total Normal

Erika Berger was born on August 13, 1939 in Munich, Germany. She was an actress, known for Total Normal (1989), Lilli Lottofee (1992) and Scheidungsgericht (1995). She was married to Richard Mahkorn and ???. She died on May 15, 2016 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

141. Lino Toffolo

Actor | Un'anguilla da 300 milioni

Lino Toffolo was born on December 30, 1934 in Venice, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for Un'anguilla da 300 milioni (1971), When Women Had Tails (1970) and When Women Lost Their Tails (1972). He died on May 16, 2016 in Venice, Veneto, Italy.

142. François Maistre

Actor | Le fantôme de la liberté

François Maistre was born on May 14, 1925 in Demigny, Saône-et-Loire, France. He was an actor, known for The Phantom of Liberty (1974), Belle de Jour (1967) and Les brigades du Tigre (1974). He was married to Aurore Chabrol and Anne-Marie Coffinet. He died on May 16, 2016 in Sevran, ...

143. Alexandre Astruc

Director | Les mauvaises rencontres

Born in Paris on July 13th 1923, Alexandre Astruc is the son of a couple of journalists. Very good at school, he attended a preparatory school for Polytechnique but finally became both a law and an arts graduate. First a literary critic, he soon specialized as a film critic and worked for various ...

144. Alan Young

Actor | Mister Ed

Alan Young was born in Northern England in 1919, but his Scots father moved the family to Edinburgh, Scotland, when Young was a toddler and then to Canada when Young was about 6 years old. As a boy, he suffered from severe asthma, which kept him bedridden for long periods of time but encouraged his...

145. Burt Kwouk

Actor | The Return of the Pink Panther

Burt Kwouk was a British actor, who was best known for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films, and for playing Mr Ling in the third James Bond film, Goldfinger.

Kwouk was born in Warrington, but was brought up in Shanghai. He made his film debut in the 1957 film Windom's Way. In Goldfinger (1964...

146. Buck Kartalian

Actor | Planet of the Apes

Buck Kartalian was born on August 13, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Planet of the Apes (1968), The Rock (1996) and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972). He was married to Margaret Poloshjian and Mary E. Bannister. He died on May 24, 2016 in Mission Hills, ...

147. Angela Paton

Actress | Groundhog Day

Paton was described as a "natural comic" and one of the "legends of the local stage" of San Francisco. She is a veteran of the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), and also one of A.C.T.'s leading actresses in its first few seasons. After leaving A.C.T. in the early 1970s, Paton and her husband ...

148. Giorgio Albertazzi

Actor | L'année dernière à Marienbad

For French art film lovers, Giorgio Albertazzi appeared out of nowhere and literally fascinated them in Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's unidentified object known as Last Year at Marienbad (1961). Elegant, seductive, with a hypnotizing Italian accent, he tried to persuade an elegant, ...

149. Muhammad Ali

Actor | The Greatest

Muhammad Ali beat more champions and top contenders than any heavyweight champion in history. He defeated heavyweight kings Sonny Liston (twice), Floyd Patterson (twice), Ernie Terrell, Jimmy Ellis, Ken Norton (twice), Joe Frazier (twice), George Foreman and Leon Spinks. He defeated ...

150. Peter Shaffer

Writer | Amadeus

Peter Shaffer was born on May 15, 1926 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Amadeus (1984), Equus (1977) and The Public Eye (1972). He died on June 6, 2016 in County Cork, Ireland.

151. Theresa Saldana

Actress | The Commish

Theresa Saldana was born on August 20, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Commish (1991), Raging Bull (1980) and I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978). She was married to Phil Peters and Alfredo J. Feliciano Jr.. She died on June 6, 2016 in Beverly Grove, Los ...

152. Marina Malfatti

Actress | Tutti i colori del buio

Marina Malfatti was born on April 25, 1933 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for They're Coming to Get You! (1972), Il prato macchiato di rosso (1973) and Sherlock Holmes (1968). She was married to Umberto La Rocca. She died on June 8, 2016 in Rome, Italy.

153. Janet Waldo

Actress | The Jetsons

Janet Waldo provided the quintessential voice of the swooning, overly dramatic teenager for numerous generations -- from the 1940s swinging babysitters to the 1960s groovy chick. A bouncy, perennially-youthful brunette, Janet Marie Waldo was born on February 4, 1919, in Grandview, Washington, and ...

154. Mihaly 'Michu' Meszaros

Actor | Waxwork

Diminutive 2'9" actor and circus performer Mihaly 'Michu' Meszaros was born in 1939 in Budapest, Hungary. Meszaros performed for the Hungarian National Circus prior to coming to America in the 1970s. Not surprisingly, he portrayed circus midgets in both "Big Top Pee-wee" and "Warlock: The ...

155. Lidia Biondi

Actress | Letters to Juliet

Lidia Biondi was born on February 3, 1941 in Leghorn, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress and assistant director, known for Letters to Juliet (2010), Eat Pray Love (2010) and Rome (2005). She died on May 16, 2016 in Rome, Italy.

156. Ronnie Claire Edwards

Actress | The Dead Pool

Ronnie Claire Edwards was born on February 9, 1933 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for The Dead Pool (1988), The Waltons (1972) and The American Parade (1974). She was married to Bill Record and Robert K. Sands. She died on June 14, 2016 in Dallas, Texas, USA.

157. Ann Morgan Guilbert

Actress | Grumpier Old Men

Ann Morgan Guilbert was best known to television audiences as the Rob and Laura Petrie's neighbor Millie Helper on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) and as Fran Fine's feisty Grandma Yetta on The Nanny (1993). She gave memorable performances in film and television and on stage throughout her ...

158. Yumi Shirakawa

Actress | Chikyû Bôeigun

Yumi Shirakawa joined Toho when she was just 19, in 1956. By the end of the year, Toho had catapulted the beautiful actress into her first starring role, alongside Kenji Sahara in RODAN (Sora no Daikaiju Radon, 1956). Director Ishiro Honda took a shine to her and cast her in several of his ...

159. Lois Duncan

Writer | I Know What You Did Last Summer

Lois Duncan was born on April 28, 1934 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer, known for I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) and Down a Dark Hall (2018). She was married to Don Arquette and Joseph "Buzz" Cardozo. She died on June 15, ...

160. Rubén Aguirre

Actor | Chespirito

Rubén Aguirre was a Mexican actor. He is best remembered for his characterization of Profesor Jirafales in the Televisa's television show El Chavo. Aguirre also participated in another well known television show of the era, El Chapulín Colorado, albeit less frequently.

Aguirre died on 17 June 2016, ...

161. Ron Lester

Actor | Varsity Blues

Ron Lester gained celebrity status at an early stage in his career, but his draw in Hollywood seemed to be based on one physical characteristic: his weight. Obese since 5 years old, by the time he was 30 years old, Ron weighed 508 pounds. Hollywood hired him as the lovable fat kid but his health ...

162. Anton Yelchin

Actor | Star Trek

Anton Yelchin was an American actor, known for playing Bobby in Hearts in Atlantis (2001), Chekov in the Star Trek (2009) reboot, Charlie Brewster in the Fright Night (2011) remake, and Jacob in Like Crazy (2011).

He was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, USSR, to a Jewish family. His ...

163. Gerald Paradies

Actor | Back to Gaya

Gerald Paradies was born on March 23, 1956 in Germany. He was an actor, known for Boo, Zino & the Snurks (2004), Star Wars: Rebels (2014) and Die Wicherts von nebenan (1986). He died on June 20, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.

164. Harry Rabinowitz

Music_department | Masters of the Universe

Harry Rabinowitz was born on March 26, 1916 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a composer and actor, known for Masters of the Universe (1987), Time Bandits (1981) and Death and the Maiden (1994). He was married to Mary (Mitzi) Cooper Scott and Lorna Thurlow Anderson. He died on June 22, 2016 in ...

165. Götz George

Actor | Der Totmacher

Götz George, born in Berlin in 1938, is the son of the famous actor Heinrich George and his wife, the actress Berta Drews. After first appearances on the stage of Berlin's Hebbel Theater during his childhood, Götz George was trained as an actor by the recognized teacher Else Bongers. At the age of ...

166. Giuseppe Ferrara

Director | Il caso Moro

Giuseppe Ferrara was born on July 15, 1932 in Castelfiorentino, Tuscany, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Il caso Moro (1986), Bambini nell'acquedotto (1960) and La città del malessere (1973). He died on June 25, 2016 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

167. Bud Spencer

Actor | ...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo!

Bud Spencer, the popular Italian actor who starred in innumerable spaghetti Westerns and action-packed potboilers during the 1960s and 1970s, was born Carlo Pedersoli on October 31, 1929, in Naples. The first Italian to swim the 100-meter freestyle in less than a minute, Spencer competed as a ...

168. Nicole Courcel

Actress | Papa, maman, la bonne et moi...

Nicole Courcel was born Nicole Marie-Anne Andrieux, the daughter of a journalist, in the Parisian suburb of Saint Cloud. Some of her early childhood was spent in Catholic boarding schools (an unhappy experience) and with her grandmother (much happier) in the small township of Martel (renowned for ...

169. Stuart Nisbet

Actor | In the Heat of the Night

Character actor Stuart Nisbet was born on January 17, 1934 in Los Angeles, California. The son of Emmet and Hazel Nisbet, Stuart grew up in Bakersfield, California before eventually moving to and settling down in Glendale, California. Nisbet studied acting at both Los Angeles City College and ...

170. Michael Cimino

Director | The Deer Hunter

Michael Cimino studied architecture and dramatic arts; later he filmed advertisements and documentaries and also wrote scripts until the actor, producer and director Clint Eastwood gave him the opportunity to direct the thriller Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974). But his biggest success was The Deer...

171. Roger Dumas

Actor | L'homme de Rio

Roger Dumas was born on May 9, 1932 in Annonay, Ardèche, France. He was an actor, known for That Man from Rio (1964), Code Name: Tiger (1964) and Our Agent Tiger (1965). He was married to Marie-José Nat. He died on July 2, 2016 in Paris, France.

172. Noel Neill

Actress | Superman Returns

Minnesota-born Noel Neill's ambition was to be a journalist like her father, the editor of a Minneapolis newspaper. However, she was hired by Bing Crosby to sing at the Turf Club at the race track in Del Mar, California (Crosby was one of the owners). Shortly thereafter, in 1941, she was signed to ...

173. Teddy Rooney

Actor | Shirley Temple's Storybook

Teddy Rooney was born on April 12, 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958), General Electric Theater (1953) and The Ransom of Red Chief (1959). He was married to Carol A. Enright. He died on July 2, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

174. John McMartin

Actor | Blow Out

John McMartin was born on August 21, 1929 in Warsaw, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Blow Out (1981), All the President's Men (1976) and No Reservations (2007). He was married to Cynthia Baer. He died on July 6, 2016 in New York City, New York, USA.

175. Martina Servatius

Actress | Verbotene Liebe

Martina Servatius was born on October 30, 1954 in East Berlin, East Germany. She was an actress, known for Verbotene Liebe (1995), Tatort (1970) and Familie Neumann (1984). She was married to Karl Jürgen Sihler. She died on July 4, 2016 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.

176. Miriam Pielhau

Actress | Cinema TV

Miriam Pielhau was born on May 12, 1975 in Heidelberg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Cinema TV (1997), Der letzte Bissen (2007) and Zepp (2007). She was married to Thom. She died on July 12, 2016 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

177. Corrado Farina

Director | ...hanno cambiato faccia

Corrado Farina's first fiction film was an 8mm short he wrote, directed and starred in when he was 20 years old. He went on to direct around 20 such films, spanning such genres as horror, SF, war, comedy and drama. After graduating in law, he was hired as a copywriter in the advertising agency ...

178. Emma Cohen

Actress | Novela

Emma Cohen was born on November 21, 1946 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She was an actress and writer, known for Novela (1963), Al otro lado del espejo (1973) and Estudio 1 (1965). She was married to Fernando Fernán Gómez. She died on July 11, 2016 in Madrid, Spain.

179. Jacques Rouffio

Writer | Le sucre

Jacques Rouffio was born on August 14, 1928 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was an assistant director and writer, known for Le sucre (1978), 7 morts sur ordonnance (1975) and Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur (1986). He died on July 8, 2016 in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

180. Robin Hardy

Director | The Wicker Man

Robin Hardy was born on October 2, 1929 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Wicker Man (1973), Forbidden Sun (1988) and The Fantasist (1986). He was married to Victoria. He died on July 1, 2016 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK.

181. Norman Abbott

Director | The Last of the Secret Agents?

Norman Abbott was born on July 11, 1922 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966), Get Smart (1965) and The Jack Benny Program (1950). He was married to Grace Hartman and Gayle Dominique. He died on July 9, 2016 in Valencia, ...

182. Hector Babenco

Director | Carandiru

Hector Babenco was born on February 7, 1946 in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and writer, known for Carandiru (2003), Pixote (1980) and Foolish Heart (1998). He was married to Bárbara Paz, Xuxa Lopes and Raquel Arnaud. He died on July 13, 2016 in São Paulo, São Paulo, ...

183. Ossy Kolmann

Actor | Der Salzbaron

Ossy Kolmann was born on January 10, 1928 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor, known for Der Salzbaron (1994), Calafati Joe (1989) and Bilanz des Jahres (1957). He was married to Elfriede. He died on July 18, 2016 in Vienna, Austria.

184. Garry Marshall

Actor | A League of Their Own

Garry Kent Marshall (November 13, 1934 - July 19, 2016) was an American actor and filmmaker. He started his career in the 1960s writing for The Lucy Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show before he developed Neil Simon's 1965 play The Odd Couple for television in 1970. He gained fame for creating Happy ...

185. Klaus Spürkel

Actor | Tatort

Klaus Spürkel was born on February 26, 1948 in Freiburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Schwarz Rot Gold (1982) and Oh Gott, Herr Pfarrer (1988). He was married to Elisabeth Fünfgeld. He died on July 20, 2016 in Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, Baden-Würtemberg, Germany.

186. Jerry Doyle

Actor | Babylon 5

Jerry Doyle was born on July 16, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Babylon 5 (1993), Captain Simian & The Space Monkeys (1996) and Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998). He was married to Andrea Thompson. He died on July 27, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

187. Vivean Gray

Actress | Picnic at Hanging Rock

She was born Jean Vivra Gray in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, the eldest of four children of Allan, a fish merchant, and his wife, Doris, and attended Thrunscoe girls' school. The family moved to Kingston upon Thames, in south-west London, in the 30s but was evacuated back to Cleethorpes in ...

188. Gloria DeHaven

Actress | The Thin Man Goes Home

Gloria Mildred DeHaven was born on July 23, 1925 in Los Angeles to vaudeville headliners Carter and Flora DeHaven. Her parents made sure their daughter would be educated at the very best private schools. They also indulged her ambition to be in show business by packing her off to the Mar-Ken ...

189. David Huddleston

Actor | The Big Lebowski

David Huddleston was born on September 17, 1930 in Vinton, Virginia, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Big Lebowski (1998), Blazing Saddles (1974) and The Producers (2005). He was married to Sarah C. Koeppe and Carole Ann Swart. He died on August 2, 2016 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

190. Barry Jenner

Actor | Family Matters

Barry Jenner was born on January 14, 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Family Matters (1989), Enough Said (2013) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993). He was married to Suzanne Hunt and Susan Harney. He died on August 9, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

191. Sagan Lewis

Actress | St. Elsewhere

Sagan Lewis was born on November 30, 1952 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for St. Elsewhere (1982), Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and About Schmidt (2002). She was married to Tom Fontana. She died on August 7, 2016 in New York City, New York, USA.

192. Norman Twain

Producer | Lean on Me

Norman Twain was born on September 13, 1930 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Lean on Me (1989), Standing Room Only (1976) and Scar (2007). He was married to Deanna Deignan and Sandra Church. He died on August 6, 2016 in Los Angeles, USA.

193. Kenny Baker

Actor | Time Bandits

Kenny Baker was born on August 24, 1934 in Birmingham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Time Bandits (1981), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) and The Elephant Man (1980). He was married to Eileen Baker. He died on August 13, 2016 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK.

194. Fyvush Finkel

Actor | Picket Fences

Fyvush Finkel was born on October 9, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Picket Fences (1992), Nixon (1995) and A Serious Man (2009). He was married to Gertrude (Trudi) Lieberman. He died on August 14, 2016 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

195. Arthur Hiller

Director | Love Story

Arthur Hiller was born on November 22, 1923 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was a director and producer, known for Love Story (1970), The Hospital (1971) and See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989). He was married to Gwen Hiller. He died on August 17, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

196. Jack Riley

Actor | Spaceballs

Cleveland-born comedy actor Jack Riley (on December 30, 1935) switched his career interest from baseball to acting after obtaining a radio job, writing and performing skits while attending John Carroll University. He toured military bases throughout the world in comedy shows after being drafted in ...

197. Steven Hill

Actor | Law & Order

Born in Seattle, Washington, in 1922, as Solomon Krakovsky, to Russian Jewish immigrants, Hill became interested in the theater as a little boy. After graduation from high school, he served in the Naval Reserve (1940-44). From there, he worked alongside a young, unknown star Marlon Brando in "A ...

198. Marvin Kaplan

Actor | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Marvin Kaplan was born on January 24, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Wild at Heart (1990) and The Great Race (1965). He was married to Rosa Felsenburg. He died on August 25, 2016 in Tarzana, California, USA.

199. Harry Fujiwara

Actor | Spectrum Wrestling

Japanese-American professional wrestler, manager and trainer as Mr. Fuji. He debuted on December 15, 1964 as Mr. Fujiwara in Hawaii. He won his first title when he and Curtis Iaukea defeated Lord James Blears and Neff Maivia for the NWA Hawaii Tag Team Championship. He would go on to compete for ...

200. Gene Wilder

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

When he was 11, he wanted to be a comedian like Sid Caesar. Then, when he was 15 and saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman,' he decided he would be a comedy actor and found that Mel Brooks was a great influence on his screen writing. He combined both talents with directing in The World's Greatest...