Deaths: April 26

1. George Jones

Soundtrack | Ad Astra

George Jones was born on September 12, 1931 in Saratoga, Texas, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for Ad Astra (2019), Only the Brave (2017) and Crazy Heart (2009). He was married to Nancy Sepulveda, Tammy Wynette, Shirley Ann Corley and Dorothy Bonvillion. He died on April 26, 2013 in ...

2. Aarón Hernán

Actor | Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell

Aarón Hernán was born on November 20, 1930 in Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell (1988), Los Pardaillan (1981) and Marisol (1996). He was married to Edith Sánchez. He died on April 26, 2020 in Mexico City, Mexico.

3. Ann Davies

Actress | Summer Comedy Hour

Ann Davies was born on November 25, 1934 in Hornchurch, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Summer Comedy Hour (1965), The Sculptress (1996) and Peter's Friends (1992). She was married to Richard Briers. She died on April 26, 2022 in the UK.

4. Anthony J. Hilder

Director | Bohemian Grove

Anthony J. Hilder was born on November 30, 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Bohemian Grove (2011), The Hideous Sun Demon (1958) and M Squad (1957). He died on April 26, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

5. Augusto Roa Bastos

Writer | Alias Gardelito

Augusto Roa Bastos was born on June 13, 1917 in Asunción, Paraguay. He was a writer, known for Alias Gardelito (1961), Shunko (1960) and El terrorista (1962). He was married to Iris Giménez and Muñeca Duarte Rodi. He died on April 26, 2005 in Asunción, Paraguay.

6. Bessie Love

Actress | The Broadway Melody

Bessie Love was born in Texas. Her cowboy father moved the family to Hollywood, where he became a chiropractor. As the family needed money, Bessie's mother sent her to Biograph Studios, hoping she would become an actress. D.W. Griffith saw she was pretty and had some acting talent, and put her in ...

7. Bijay Mishra

Writer | Moner Moto Mon

Bijay Mishra was born on July 16, 1936 in Niligiri, Balasore, Odisha, British India. He was a writer, known for Moner Moto Mon (1998). He died on April 26, 2020 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

8. Broderick Crawford

Actor | All the King's Men

Broderick Crawford is best remembered for two roles: his Oscar-winning turn as Willie Stark in All the King's Men (1949) and as Chief Dan Mathews on the syndicated TV series Highway Patrol (1955). He was also memorable as Judy Holliday's vulgar partner in Born Yesterday (1950), roles both actors ...

9. Carlos Regazzoni

Self | Sábado Bus

Carlos Regazzoni was born on December 1, 1943 in Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut, Argentina. He died on April 26, 2020 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

10. Carmine Coppola

Composer | Apocalypse Now

Composer, conductor, arranger and flautist, educated at the Manhattan School of Music (BA, MA) and Juilliard (on scholarship) (MM). He was first flautist for Radio City Music Hall from 1934 to 1936, the Detroit Symphony from 1936 to 1941, the NBC Toscanini Orchestra from 1942 to 1948 and staff ...

11. Celia Johnson

Actress | Brief Encounter

Celia Johnson was an English actress, once nominated for an Academy Award. Johnson was born in the town of Richmond, Surrey in 1908. Richmond was incorporated into Greater London in 1965, as part of an administrative reform. Celia's parents were John Robert Johnson and Ethel Griffiths. Neither of ...

12. Charles Neville

Actor | Ricochet

Charles Neville was born on December 28, 1938 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Ricochet (1991), Treme (2010) and Posse (1993). He was married to Kristin. He died on April 26, 2018 in Huntington, Massachusetts, USA.

13. Claudio Risi

Director | Pugni di rabbia

Claudio Risi was born on November 12, 1948 in Bern, Switzerland. He was a director and assistant director, known for Pugni di rabbia (1991), Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani (1984) and Yesterday - vacanze al mare (1985). He died on April 26, 2020 in Rome, Italy.

14. Conrado San Martín

Actor | Il duca nero

Conrado San Martín was born in Higuera de las Dueñas, Avila in 1921. The son of a landowner, he wanted to be an agricultural engineer but civil war changed his plans. He was an amateur boxer until a movie maker went to the gymnasium where he trained searching for men to play a fighting scene in a ...

15. Count Basie

Soundtrack | Pearl Harbor

The famed composer ("One O'Clock Jump", "Two O'Clock Jump", "Jumpin' at the Woodside"), pianist, songwriter and bandleader began as an accompanist to vaudeville acts. He joined the Bennie Moten orchestra in Kansas City, later organizing his own orchestra and performing on radio. In 1936 he came to ...

16. Edward Arnold

Actor | You Can't Take It with You

Edward Arnold was born as Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider in 1890, on the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of German immigrants, Elizabeth (Ohse) and Carl Schneider. Arnold began his acting career on the New York stage and became a film actor in 1916. A burly man with a commanding style ...

17. Elina Bystritskaya

Actress | Tikhiy Don

Elina Bystritskaya was a Soviet - Russian actress, known as Aksinya in Quiet Flows the Don (1957) by director Aleksandr Gerasimov.

She was born Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya on April 4, 1928, in Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union. Her father, Avraam Petrovich Bystritsky, was a notable medical doctor in ...

18. Ellen Schwiers

Actress | Helden

Ellen Schwiers was born on June 11, 1930 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Arms and the Man (1958), 1900 (1976) and Doktor Martin (2007). She was married to Peter Jacob. She died on April 26, 2019 in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany.

19. Emily McLaughlin

Actress | General Hospital

Known to her generation as the "Queen of Daytime Soaps", Ms. McLaughlin's place in the history of the network soap opera cannot be overestimated. She was not only one of the founding cast members of General Hospital (1963) in 1963 (speaking the series' first line), but it was her negotiation with ...

20. G.J. Arnaud

Writer | Les longs manteaux

G.J. Arnaud was born on July 3, 1928 in Camargue, France. He was a writer, known for Les longs manteaux (1986), Zone rouge (1986) and Le coeur froid (1977). He died on April 26, 2020 in La Londe-les-Maures, Var, France.

21. Gianfranco Parolini

Writer | I fantastici 3 $upermen

Gianfranco Parolini was born on February 20, 1925 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Three Fantastic Supermen (1967), This Time I'll Make You Rich (1974) and The Secret of the Incas' Empire (1987). He died on April 26, 2018 in Rome, Italy.

22. Giulietto Chiesa

Writer | Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11

Giulietto Chiesa was born on September 4, 1940 in Acqui Terme, Piedmont, Italy. He was a writer, known for Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 (2007), Identitas - Uguali ma diversi (2019) and The Summit (2012). He died on April 26, 2020 in Rome, Italy.

23. Gypsy Rose Lee

Actress | Belle of the Yukon

Born Rose Louise Hovick in Seattle, Washington, in 1911, but called Louise from early childhood, Gypsy Rose Lee was the daughter of a mild-mannered businessman and a restless, fiery young woman named Rose, who was determined to get out of Seattle and make a life for herself and her daughter in show...

24. Helen Eileen Beardsley

Self | To Tell the Truth

Helen Beardsley was born Helen Eileen Brandmeir, the ninth in a family of ten children in Seattle, Washington on April 5, 1930. She grew up in Seattle where Helen trained to be a nurse at Providence Hospital. At age 19 Helen married Navy man Richard (Dick) Dale North on June 30, 1949.

Helen and Dick...

25. Henri Weber

Actor | Les jours venus

Henri Weber was born on June 24, 1944 in Leninabad, Tajikistan, USSR. He was an actor and writer, known for Les jours venus (2014), Générations 68 (2008) and À mort la mort! (1999). He was married to Fabienne Servan-Schreiber. He died on April 26, 2020 in Avignon, Vaucluse, ...

26. Herb Voland

Actor | Airplane!

Herb Voland was born on October 2, 1918 in New Rochelle, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Airplane! (1980), Play of the Week (1959) and The Love God? (1969). He was married to Betty Jean Carlton and Laura Elizabeth Hale. He died on April 26, 1981 in Riverside, California, USA.

27. Irene Ryan

Actress | The Beverly Hillbillies

Before becoming known to millions as Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Irene Ryan was already an established vaudeville, radio and movie actress, though not as famous prior to her television stint. She accompanied Bob Hope on his famous military tours and she was known as "the gal who makes...

28. Jack Valenti

Self | This Week

Texas born, Harvard educated, Jack Valenti has led several lives; a wartime bomber pilot, advertising agency founder, political consultant, White House Special Assistant, movie industry leader. In his current role as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Motion Picture Association of America,...

29. Jacqueline Brookes

Actress | The Good Son

Jacqueline Brookes was born on July 24, 1930 in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for The Good Son (1993), The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) and Sea of Love (1989). She died on April 26, 2013 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

30. Jayne Meadows

Actress | City Slickers

One of four children (two older brothers, one younger sister) born to American missionaries, Jayne Meadows (née Jane Cotter) was born September 27, 1919, in China. The family returned to the US in the early 1930s wherein Jayne was forced to learn the English language, speaking Chinese and other ...

31. Jessie Lawrence Ferguson

Actor | Darkman

Jessie Lawrence Ferguson was born on June 8, 1942 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Darkman (1990), Prince of Darkness (1987) and Boyz n the Hood (1991). He died on April 26, 2019 in Palmdale, California, USA.

32. Jim Davis

Actor | Big Jake

Tall, rangy Jim Davis spent much of his early career in westerns mainly at Republic Pictures. The Missouri-born and -raised Davis' relaxed, easygoing manner and Southern drawl easily fit most moviegoers' image of the cowboy and Republic put him in a ton of them over the years (the fact that, unlike...

33. John Beal

Actor | The Firm

John Beal was born James Andrew Bliedung on August 13, 1909, in Joplin, Missouri. The son of a department store owner and concert pianist, he began acting in school and church plays and decided to pursue it as a career following his B.S. degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. The ...

34. John Cossette

Producer | The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards

John Cossette was born on February 22, 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer, known for The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards (2011), Young Jeezy: A Hustlerz Ambition (2011) and Big Break (1990). He was married to Rita. He died on April 26, 2011 in Malibu, California, USA.

35. Jonathan Demme

Director | The Silence of the Lambs

Jonathan Demme was born on February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Rachel Getting Married (2008) and Philadelphia (1993). He was married to Joanne Howard and Evelyn Purcell. He died on April 26, 2017 in ...

36. Juan Carlos Olivas

Actor | 2033

Juan Carlos Olivas was an actor, known for 2033 (2009), Pamela por amor (2008) and Kipatla (2012). He died on April 26, 2018 in Madrid, Spain.

37. Julio Bracho

Director | Crepúsculo

Julio Bracho was born on July 17, 1909 in Durango, Durango, Mexico. He was a director and writer, known for Twilight (1945), Rosenda (1948) and Cantaclaro (1946). He was married to Rosenda Monteros and Diana Bordes. He died on April 26, 1978 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.

38. Louis De Santis

Actor | Aux frontières du possible

Louis De Santis was born on April 19, 1927 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Aux frontières du possible (1971), Une histoire inventée (1990) and Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore (1999). He died on April 26, 2022 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

39. Lucille Ball

Actress | I Love Lucy

The woman who will always be remembered as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo was born Lucille Desiree Ball on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York, the daughter of Desiree Evelyn "DeDe" (Hunt) and Henry Durrell "Had" Ball. Her father died before she was four, and her mother worked ...

40. Madge Evans

Actress | Dinner at Eight

Lovely Madge Evans was the perennial nice girl in films of the 1930s. By then, she had been in front of the camera for many years, starting with Fairy Soap commercials at the age of two (she sat on a bar of soap holding a bunch of violets with the tag line reading "have you a little fairy in your ...

41. Marcel Ospel

Self | Arena

42. Maria Schell

Actress | Superman

Maria Schell studied in a religious institution in Colmar (Haut-Rhin, France). She received a dramatic training in Zurich, Switzerland. To pay her studies, she was a secretary there. Besides being a film star; Maria appeared in plays in Zurich, Basel, in Vienna (Josefstad Theater), Berlin, Munich (...

43. Mason Adams

Actor | Son in Law

Mason Adams was well known for playing Pepper Young on the popular radio soap opera series Pepper Young's Family throughout the 1940 and 1950s. He was also heard on most of the successful radio programs during radio's "Golden Age." In the 1970s, Adams was frequently heard on Himan Brown's CBS ...

44. Maurice Poli

Actor | Sandokan, la tigre di Mompracem

Maurice Poli was born on December 2, 1933 in Zarzis, French Protectorate of Tunisia [now Tunisia]. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Sandokan the Great (1963), Caligula's Slaves (1984) and Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970). He died on April 26, 2020 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

45. May McAvoy

Actress | The Jazz Singer

Silent-screen star May McAvoy was born in an upscale area of New York City. Her well-to-do family owned and operated a large livery stable situated where the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel now stands. She initially wanted to be a teacher but became intrigued with show business after watching a friend ...

46. Otto Mellies

Actor | Halt auf freier Strecke

Otto Mellies was born on January 19, 1931 in Stolp, Pomerania, Germany [now Slupsk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Stopped on Track (2011), Kabale und Liebe (1959) and Minna von Barnhelm (1962). He was married to Luise Bergner . He died on April 26, 2020 in Zeuthen, Brandenburg, ...

47. Pablo Podestá

Actor | Mariano Moreno y la revolución de Mayo

Pablo Podestá was born on November 22, 1875 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was an actor, known for Mariano Moreno y la revolución de Mayo (1915) and Tierra baja (1912). He died on April 26, 1923 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

48. Peter H. Hunt

Director | Great Performances

Peter Hunt was born and raised in Pasadena, California. His career began at age eight on the stage of the Pasadena Playhouse. He went on to study at the Hotchkiss School, Yale, and the Yale School of Drama, where he received a Master's Degree. Before becoming a director, he worked for a number of ...

49. Phoebe Snow

Soundtrack | Running with Scissors

Phoebe Snow was born on July 17, 1950 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Running with Scissors (2006), Kicking and Screaming (1995) and Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom (2008). She was married to Philip Kearns. She died on April 26, 2011 in Edison, New Jersey, USA.

50. Reijo Taipale

Soundtrack | Kid Svensk

Reijo Taipale was born on March 9, 1940 in Miehikkälä, Finland. He was an actor and composer, known for That Special Summer (2007), Adult Camp (2015) and The Match Factory Girl (1990). He died on April 26, 2019 in Helsinki, Finland.

51. Sidney James

Actor | Carry on Cleo

The star of the Carry On series of films, Sid James originally came to prominence as sidekick to the ground breaking British comedy actor Tony Hancock, on both radio and then television. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa and named Solomon Joel Cohen, James arrived in England in 1946, second wife ...

52. Steve Paul

Die Another Day

Steve Paul is known for Die Another Day (2002), Safe (2012) and TC 2000 (1993).

53. Stirling Silliphant

Writer | In the Heat of the Night

Detroit-born Stirling Silliphant (born Sterling Dale Silliphant) was the son of a Canadian immigrant. The family moved to California when he was about two. He grew up in Glendale and graduated from the University of Southern California in 1938. During World War II he was an army lieutenant, and ...

54. Vaughn Taylor

Actor | Psycho

Reedy, balding, often bespectacled American character actor with pencil-thin moustache, once described as the man with TV's 'most deceptive face'. He looked like - and was - a certified public accountant, graduate from Northeastern University. A struggling actor in his youth, he worked in stock, ...