Celebs who Died in 2016
by thomaslevesque1992 | created - 03 Feb 2016 | updated - 29 Dec 2016 | Public
101. Kevin Meaney
Actor | Big
Kevin Meaney was born on April 23, 1956 in Valhalla, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Big (1988), Uncle Buck (1990) and The Nightmare Room (2001). He was married to Mary Ann Halford and Leanne Coronel. He died on October 21, 2016 in Forestburgh, New York, USA.
102. 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.
103. Michael Massee
Actor | The Crow
Michael Massee was born on September 1, 1952 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Crow (1994), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). He was married to Ellen Sussdorf. He died on October 20, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
104. Lloyd Berry
Actor | Jumanji
Lloyd Berry was born on November 11, 1926 in St. James, Manitoba, Canada. He was an actor, known for Jumanji (1995), Scary Movie (2000) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007). He was married to Kazumi Alice. He died on July 12, 2016 in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
105. Gary Dubin
Actor | The AristoCats
Gary Dubin was born on May 5, 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The AristoCats (1970), Jaws 2 (1978) and Pump Up the Volume (1990). He was married to Marietha Zumaran. He died on October 8, 2016 in Burbank, California, USA.
106. John Hostetter
Actor | Heartbreak Ridge
John Hostetter was born on October 6, 1946 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987). He was married to Del Louise Appleby. He died on September 2, 2016 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA.
107. Ken Thompson
Self | Dateline NBC
108. Hazel Shermet
Actress | Love at First Bite
Hazel Shermet was born on August 1, 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Love at First Bite (1979), A Star Is Born (1954) and The Patty Duke Show (1963). She was married to Larry Rhine. She died on October 27, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
109. Curtis Hanson
Director | L.A. Confidential
After small films like The Bedroom Window (1987) and Sweet Kill (1972), Curtis Hanson went on to direct major features including The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), The River Wild (1994) and the Academy Award-winning L.A. Confidential (1997). Setting his sights on another city, Hanson was ...
110. Max Alexander
Actor | Roxanne
Born Michael Drelich on the East Coast, Max Alexander (sometimes credited as Maxwell Alexander) is a big-sized American stand-up comedian who also works for television (Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart (1994), "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992), "Hollywood Squares" (2004)) and played a few ...
111. Alexis Arquette
Actress | Pulp Fiction
Alexis Arquette (born Robert Arquette) (death: September 11, 2016) was an American actress. Arquette was born in Los Angeles, the fourth of five children of Lewis Arquette, an actor and director, and Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (Nowak), a Jewish actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, ...
112. Leslie H. Martinson
Director | Batman: The Movie
Leslie H. Martinson was born on January 16, 1915 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for Batman: The Movie (1966), Mission: Impossible (1966) and Hot Rod Girl (1956). He was married to Connie Martinson. He died on September 3, 2016 in Los Angeles, ...
113. Bill Nunn
Actor | Spider-Man 3
Commanding performer Bill Nunn made his feature debut in fellow Morehouse College graduate Spike Lee's School Daze (1988), but really etched himself into moviegoers' minds as a formidable screen presence in his second film with Lee, Do the Right Thing (1989), playing Radio Raheem, whose ...
114. Hugh O'Brian
Actor | The Shootist
Hugh O'Brian had the term "beefcake" written about him during his nascent film years in the early 1950s, but he chose to avoid the obvious typecast as he set up his career.
O'Brian was born Hugh Charles Krampe on April 19, 1925, in Rochester, New York, to Ohio-born parents Edith Lillian (Marks) and ...
115. Lady Chablis
Actress | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Lady Chablis was born on March 11, 1957 in Quincy, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Partners (1999) and Stranded with Cash Peters (2005). She died on September 8, 2016 in Savannah, Georgia, USA.
116. James Stacy
Actor | Cagney & Lacey
Born Maurice William Elias in Los Angeles, James Stacy is the son of a Lebanese immigrant father and an American-born mother of Irish-Scottish descent. As a teen, Stacy first aspired to play professional football but settled on a career in the movies after a friend coaxed him into taking some ...
117. Charmian Carr
Actress | The Sound of Music
Charmian Carr was born Charmian Farnon on December 28, 1942. She got her name because, supposedly, her father liked the name after reading William Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra". Charmian was the name of one of Cleopatra's maids. She was the second of three daughters. Her mother, Rita Oehmen,...
118. Joy Viado
Actress | MNL 143
Joy Viado was born on April 10, 1959 in Manila, Philippines. She was an actress, known for MNL 143 (2012), Ang TV Movie: The Adarna Adventure (1996) and ZsaZsa Zaturnnah Ze Moveeh (2006). She died on September 10, 2016 in Quezon City, Philippines.
119. C. Martin Croker
Actor | Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Clay Martin Croker was the son of Marion Winchell Croker (1924-2004) and Ouida Thelma Martin (1925-2017). He showed talent for drawing at a very early age; no blank piece of paper stayed that way long. His first love was of dinosaurs, then Godzilla, Gamera, Ultraman and eventually comic book ...
120. Fritz Weaver
Actor | Creepshow
Fritz Weaver, the American actor, was born on January 19, 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served in Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II, breaking into acting in the early 1950s. He made his Broadway debut in October 1955 in "The Chalk Garden," which ...
121. Larkin Malloy
Actor | Big Daddy
Larkin started working as a professional actor in 1974 on the New York stage where he was a founding member of the off-off-Broadway company ATA. After playing starring roles at the Arena Stage in Washington, the Goodman Theater in Chicago, he did a season of classics at the famed Guthrie Theatre in...
122. Ann Emery
Actress | Billy Elliot: The Musical Live
Ann Emery was born on March 12, 1930 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Billy Elliot (2014), Rentaghost (1976) and The Dick Emery Show (1963). She died on September 28, 2016 in the UK.
123. Shawty Lo
Actor | Livewires
Shawty Lo was born on March 31, 1976 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Livewires (2016), P-Valley (2020) and Bello FiGo: Non Pago Affitto (2016). He died on September 21, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
124. Arnold Palmer
Actor | Return to Campus
Arnold Palmer was born on September 10, 1929 in Youngstown, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Return to Campus (1975), Call Me Bwana (1963) and Arnold Palmer: Course Strategy (1989). He was married to Kathleen Gawthrop and Winifred Walzer. He died on September 25, 2016 in Pittsburgh, ...
125. Darren Seals
Self | #bars4Justice
126. Seamon Glass
Actor | Deliverance
Seamon Glass was born on September 26, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Deliverance (1972), This Is Not a Test (1962) and Hawken's Breed (1988). He was married to Yan Zhang and Phyllis Diana Bleecker. He died on July 12, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
127. Kim McGuire
Actress | Cry-Baby
Born in 1956 in New Orleans, LA, Kim McGuire was an actress, best known for playing Mona "Hatchet-Face" Malnorowski in John Waters' Cry-Baby (1990). Her other films include Disturbed (1990) and Acting on Impulse (1993). In 1997, after passing the State Bar exam, she began working as an attorney in ...
128. Lisa Gaye
Actress | Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Lisa Gaye was born on March 6, 1935 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), Hawaiian Eye (1959) and How to Marry a Millionaire (1957). She was married to Bently Clyde Ware. She died on July 14, 2016 in Houston, Texas, USA.
129. Bill Cardille
Actor | Night of the Living Dead
Bill Cardille is a native of Sharon Pennsylvania. "Chilly Billy" as he is affectionately known, started his broadcast career in 1952 in Erie, PA at WICV Channel 12. He later made Pittsburgh his home in 1957 signing on WIIC Channel 11 (now known as WPXI) and starred as the host for several ...
130. Joe Napolitano
Assistant_director | Brooklyn's Finest
Joe Napolitano was born on November 22, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for Brooklyn's Finest (2009), Blow Out (1981) and The Untouchables (1987). He was married to Elizabeth Gast. He died on July 23, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, ...
131. Marni Nixon
Actress | The Sound of Music
"Loverly" soprano Marni Nixon ensured herself a proper place in film history although most moviegoers would not have recognize her had they passed her on the street. But if you heard her, that might be a horse of a different color. She was one of those unsung heroes (or should I say "much sung" ...
132. Tim LaHaye
Writer | Left Behind
Tim LaHaye was born on April 27, 1926 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Left Behind (2014), Left Behind III: World at War (2005) and Welcome to the Basement (2012). He was married to Beverly LaHaye. He died on July 25, 2016 in San Diego, California, USA.
133. Youree Dell Harris
Actress | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Youree Dell Harris was born on August 12, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002), Becoming Psychic (2010) and Hotline (2014). She died on July 26, 2016 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
134. 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.
135. Ken Barrie
Soundtrack | Sharks' Treasure
Ken Barrie was born on January 9, 1933 in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sharks' Treasure (1975), Emily (1976) and The Silent Scream (1979). He was married to Doreen Pye. He died on July 29, 2016 in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
136. 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 ...
137. 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 ...
138. 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...
139. 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.
140. Jonathan D. Krane
Producer | Battlefield Earth
Jonathan D. Krane has been a force for change in the film industry. A graduate of both St. John's College and Yale University School of Law, his background in classical studies and law paved the way for him to identify five fundamental principles as its foundation. Implementing theories based on ...
141. 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.
142. Ricci Martin
Actor | Just Tell Me You Love Me
Ricci Martin was born on September 20, 1953 in Beverly Hills, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Just Tell Me You Love Me (1978), Martin and Lewis (2002) and Rock Concert (1973). He was married to Annie Rassmussen. He died on August 3, 2016 in Kamas, Utah, USA.
143. Elliot Tiber
Writer | Taking Woodstock
Elliot Tiber was born in 1935 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Taking Woodstock (2009), High Street (1976) and Marée basse (1975). He died on August 3, 2016 in Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
144. 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.
145. John McLaughlin
Actor | Mission: Impossible
John McLaughlin was born on March 29, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Mission: Impossible (1996), Independence Day (1996) and Dave (1993). He was married to Christina Vidal McLaughlin and Ann Dore. He died on August 16, 2016 in Washington, District of ...
146. 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 ...
148. 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 ...
149. 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.
150. Joy Brown
Self | Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
151. Darrell Ward
Self | Ice Road Truckers
Darrell Ward was born on August 13, 1964 in Montana, USA. He died on August 28, 2016 in Montana, USA.
152. Jon Polito
Actor | The Crow
A veteran of nearly 100 films, Jon Polito is most recognized for his work with The Coen brothers, as well as his many television appearances as a series regular and guest star. Notable motion picture roles include: Millers Crossing, Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Crow, Blankman, and The...
153. Fred Hellerman
Composer | Lovin' Molly
Songwriter ("Kisses Sweeter than Wine", "I Never Will Marry"), composer, author and singer, educated at Brooklyn College (Bachelor of Arts degree) and Columbia University. He served in the US Coast Guard during World War II, and co-founded the Weavers folk-singing group, for which he also sang and ...
154. Kacey Jones
Self | WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Kacey Jones died on September 1, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
155. Jerry Heller
Producer | Raising Genius
Jerry Heller is best known for managing west coast rap supergroup and gangster rap pioneers NWA and Eazy E and was a co-founder and CEO of Ruthless Records.
Jerry Heller can be counted as one of the select few in the music industry who has had a significant role in shaping trends and musical ...
156. Eddie Applegate
Actor | Easy A
Eddie Applegate was born on October 4, 1935 in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Easy A (2010), The Patty Duke Show (1963) and Rain from Stars (2013). He was married to Tanya Kay Maniatty, Elsie Elizabeth Buettner and Betty Jenkins. He died on October 17, 2016 in Los Angeles, ...
157. Jane Alderman
Casting_department | Backdraft
Jane Alderman was born on August 15, 1939 in the UK. She was a casting director and actress, known for Backdraft (1991), Ordinary People (1980) and The Break-Up (2006). She died on October 23, 2016 in the USA.
158. Margit Bara
Actress | Zápor
Margit Bara was born on June 21, 1928 in Cluj, Romania [now Cluj-Napoca, Romania]. She was an actress, known for Zápor (1961), Jacob the Liar (1974) and Csempészek (1958). She was married to Dezsõ Gyarmati and Géza Halász. She died on October 25, 2016 in Budapest, Hungary.
159. Fern Buchner
Make_up_department | Zelig
Fern Buchner was born on March 22, 1929. She was an actress and costume designer, known for Zelig (1983), The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993). She died on September 23, 2016 in Henderson, Nevada, USA.
160. Florence Henderson
Actress | The Brady Bunch
Florence Henderson was considered by protocol executive Jerold Franks, CSA to be "...one of the most generous stars I have ever worked with." Los Angeles, New York and all parts of the country, Florence has helped raise millions of dollars for various charitable organizations.
Jerold Franks, friend ...
161. Robert Vaughn
Actor | The Magnificent Seven
Robert Francis Vaughn was born on November 22, 1932 at Charity Hospital in New York City, the son of show business parents, Marcella Frances (Gaudel) and Gerald Walter Vaughn. His father was a radio actor and his mother starred on stage. Robert came to the public's attention first with his ...
162. Leonard Cohen
Soundtrack | Watchmen
Leonard Cohen was born on September 21, 1934 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was a music artist and composer, known for Watchmen (2009), Night Magic (1985) and Natural Born Killers (1994). He died on November 7, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
163. Ron Glass
Actor | Serenity
Ron Glass was born on July 10, 1945 in Evansville, Indiana, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Serenity (2005), Barney Miller (1975) and Firefly (2002). He died on November 25, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
164. Julie Gregg
Actress | The Godfather
Julie Gregg was born on January 24, 1937 in Niagara Falls, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) and Man of La Mancha (1972). She died on November 7, 2016 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
165. Sharon Jones
Soundtrack | The Great Debaters
Born Sharon Lafaye Jones in Augusta, Georgia, she moved to New York City at an early age. With a gifted voice, performing gospel songs in Church, since childhood, she has only recently received acclaim by the public and her peers in the areas of Soul, Funk and Rhythm and Blues. Until the late 90s ...
166. Frank Konigsberg
Producer | Nine 1/2 Weeks
Frank Konigsberg is the most respected talent management and television producers in the world. He was born in 1933. He graduated from various law schools.
He started his career as a lawyer for CBS, and later for the International Famous Agency and become Bing Crosby's agent. In 1975, he joined ICM ...
167. Evgeniy Lazarev
Actor | Iron Man 2
Evgeniy Lazarev was born on March 31, 1937 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Iron Man 2 (2010), Duplex (2003) and The Sum of All Fears (2002). He was married to Akhmatova Obrucheva. He died on November 18, 2016 in Krasnogorsk, Krasnogorskiy rayon, ...
168. Tom Neyman
Actor | Manos: The Hands of Fate
Tom Neyman was born on November 23, 1935 in Brownsville, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966), Manos Returns (2018) and Hands: The Fate of 'Manos' (2015). He was married to Kay Elizabeth Wade, Phyllis A. Steele, Jacqueline Neyman and Jackey Reace Lumpkin. He died ...
169. Janet Wright
Actress | The Perfect Storm
Janet Wright was born in 1945 in England and grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was raised in a family of theatre actors. Her siblings are: Anne Wright, John Wright and Susan Wright. Janet had the chance to work with her two sisters, Susan and Anne, in the theater play "Les Belles ...
170. Keo Woolford
Actor | The Haumana
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Keo has starred as the King of Siam in a revival of The King and I at the London Palladium in London's West End, playing over 350 performances opposite Elaine Paige and Josie Lawrence. In New York City and Los Angeles, he appeared in numerous productions, ...
171. Don Calfa
Actor | The Return of the Living Dead
Don is probably best remembered for his role as "Ernie Kaltenbrunner" in the 1985 comedy horror The Return of the Living Dead (1985). Don's career spans over 40 years in both film and TV. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Ozone Park Queens, and later West Hempstead, Long Island, Don Calfa ...
172. Peter Vaughan
Actor | Straw Dogs
A true character actor in the best sense of the word, offbeat British thespian Peter Vaughan's hefty frame could appear intimidating or benevolent; his mere presence menacing or avuncular. Adept at playing both sides of the law, his characters usually possessed a strange, somewhat wary countenance ...
173. John Glenn
Actor | Frasier
John Glenn was an Officer of United States Marines with the rank of Major before chosen to become part of the Mercury 7 program.
He was awarded five Distinguished Flying Crosses. Made record setting Coast to Coast flights in the late 1950s.
He named his spacecraft (capsule) Friendship 7 and it is on ...
174. Alan Thicke
Soundtrack | Growing Pains
Alan Thicke was born on March 1, 1947 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Growing Pains (1985), Raising Helen (2004) and The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009). He was married to Tanya Callau, Gina Marie Tolleson and Gloria Loring. He died on December 13, 2016 ...
175. Bernard Fox
Actor | Titanic
Endearing, bushy-whiskered Welsh character actor whose screen repertoire seemed to consist for the better part of variations on a similar theme, namely stereotypical stiff-upper-lip or bumbling British gents. The son of an actress and an actor-manager and on stage from early childhood, Fox began ...
176. George Michael
Soundtrack | Beverly Hills Cop II
George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in Finchley, north London, in the United Kingdom, to Lesley Angold (Harrison), a dancer, and Kyriacos Panayiotou, a restaurateur. His father was a Greek Cypriot, and his mother was of English background. He first discovered fame as a musician ...
177. Ricky Harris
Actor | Heat
Ricky Harris was born October 5, 1965 in Long Beach, California as Richard George Harris II. He was an actor known for roles in Everybody Hates Chris (2005-2009), Bones (2001), Moesha (1996-2001), Poetic Justice (1993), and Dope (2015). He gained fame after appearing on HBO's Def Comedy Jam in the ...
178. Liz Smith
Actress | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Liz Smith found fame as an actress at an age when most people are considering retirement. It was a long road to eventual stardom, during which she struggled to raise a family after a broken marriage. She became best known for her roles in The Vicar of Dibley (1994) and The Royle Family but her ...
179. George S. Irving
Actor | The Year Without a Santa Claus
George S. Irving was born on November 1, 1922 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974), Live from Lincoln Center (1976) and Pinocchio's Christmas (1980). He was married to Maria Karnilova. He died on December 26, 2016 in Manhattan, New ...
180. Richard Adams
Writer | Watership Down
Richard Adams spent his first 52 years in relative anonymity. And when he did complete a book that he wrote, he struggled to find anyone to publish it.
Richard George Adams was born on 9 May 1920, in Newbury, Berkshire. He was the son of a country doctor and was brought up in the rolling countryside...
181. Carrie Fisher
Actress | Star Wars
Carrie Frances Fisher was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California, to singers/actors Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. She was an actress and writer known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return ...
182. Debbie Reynolds
Actress | Singin' in the Rain
Debbie Reynolds was born Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso, Texas, the second child of Maxine N. (Harmon) and Raymond Francis Reynolds, a carpenter for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Her film career began at MGM after she won a beauty contest at age 16 impersonating Betty Hutton. Reynolds wasn't a ...
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