Film Tv Deaths Date 2010 | History by KabAstro

Tom Brookshier (1931-2010)

Jan 29 American football defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles) and broadcaster (CBS), dies of cancer at 78

Feb 1 David Brown, American film producer ("The Sting", "Jaws", "Cocoon"), dies at 93

Jack Brisco (1941-2010)

Feb 1 American pro wrestler (NWA World Heavyweight Champion 1973–75), dies from complications of open heart surgery at 68

Feb 3 Frances Reid, American actress (Days of Our Lives, The Andromeda Strain), dies at 95
Feb 5 Ian Carmichael, British actor (Private's Progress, I'm All Right Jack), dies at 89
Feb 13 John Reed, British comic actor and singer (Gilbert & Sullivan; D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1951-79), dies after a stroke on his 94th birthday
Feb 16 Wan Chi Keung, Hong Kong soccer striker (32 caps; South China AA, Seiko SA) and actor, dies from nasopharyngeal carcinoma at 53
Feb 17 Kathryn Grayson [Zelma Hedrick], American vocalist and actress (Anchors Aweigh, Kiss Me Kate), dies of natural causes at 88
Feb 26 Richard Devon, American character actor (Magnum Force, Battle of Blood Island), dies at 83
Mar 1 Kristian Digby, British television presenter and director, dies at 32
Mar 4 Angelo Poffo, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
Mar 4 Etta Cameron, Danish singer and actor (b. 1939)
Mar 4 Nan Martin, American actress (b. 1927)
Mar 4 Roger Newman, British-born American actor and television writer (b. 1940)
Mar 10 Corey Haim, Canadian actor (Silver Bullet, Lucas, License to Drive), dies of pneumonia at 38
Mar 11 Merlin Olsen, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and actor (Father Murphy), dies of cancer at 69
Mar 14 Peter Graves [Aurness], American actor (Mission Impossible, Airplane!, Stalag 17), dies from a heart attack at 83
Mar 18 Fess Parker, American actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller), dies at 85
Mar 24 Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter, voice actor, and director (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), dies at 79
Mar 25 Pål Bang-Hansen, Norwegian film critic and television personality (b. 1937)
Mar 28 June Havoc [Ellen Evangeline Hovick], Canadian-born American stage and screen actress, dies at 97
Mar 31 Shirley Mills, American actress (b. 1926)

John Forsythe (1918-2010)

Apr 1 American actor (Charlie's Angels, Dynasty), dies at 92

Apr 2 Chris Kanyon, American pro wrestler (WCW/WWF World Tag Team C'ship), dies from suicide at 40
Apr 6 Corin Redgrave, British actor (Excalibur, A Man For All Seasons), dies at 70
Apr 10 Dixie Carter, American actress (Designing Women; The Edge of Night), dies at 70
Apr 12 Palito [Reynaldo Hipolito], Filipino slap-stick comedian and actor, dies at 76
Apr 12 Peter Haskell, American actor (Bracken's World, Rituals), dies at 75
Apr 25 Dorothy Provine, American actress (The Roaring 20's; That Darn Cat: Who's Minding The Mint?), and singer, dies of emphysema at 75
May 1 Danny Aiello III, American film and television stunt performer, stunt coordinator, and actor, dies of pancreatic cancer at 53
May 1 Helen Wagner, American actress (Mister Peepers; As The World Turns), dies of natural causes at 91

Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010)

May 2 British-American actress (Gods and Monsters, Georgy Girl), dies of cancer at 67

May 4 Ernie Harwell, American baseball broadcaster (Detroit Tigers, 1960-2002), dies at 92
May 4 Zvonimir Levačić - Ševa, Croatian humorist and entertainer (b. 1943)
May 7 Adele Mara [Adelaida Delgado], American actress, singer and dancer (Cool Million; Wheels), dies at 87
May 9 Lena Horne, American actress and Grammy Award-winning singer (Cabin in the Sky; Stormy Weather; The Wiz), dies at 92
May 23 Simon Monjack, English actor, producer, and writer (b. 1970)
May 24 Ray Alan, English ventriloquist and television entertainer (Lord Charles), dies at 79
May 24 Tapen Chatterjee, Bengali actor from India (b. 1937)
May 25 Michael H. Jordan, businessman and former CEO PepsiCo and CBS Corporation (b. 1936)
May 26 Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television personality (People are Funny), dies at 97
May 26 Jean Constantin, Romanian actor (b. 1928)
May 27 Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator (The Adventure of Sudsakorn), dies at 81
May 28 Eddie Barth [Edward Bartholetti], American actor and voiceover artist nicknamed "Mr. Gravel" for his raspy vocals (Shaft, Simon & Simon), dies at 78
May 28 Gary Coleman, American actor (Diff'rent Strokes), dies at 42

Dennis Hopper (1936-2010)

May 29 American actor and director (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider), dies at 74

May 31 Brian Duffy, British photographer and film producer (b. 1933)
May 31 Merata Mita, New Zealander filmmaker (Mauri, Patu!), dies at 67
May 31 William A. Fraker, American cinematographer (b. 1923)
Jun 3 Rue McClanahan, American actress (The Golden Girls), dies at 76
Jun 6 Ladislav Smoljak, Czech director, actor and screenwriter (An Uncertain Season), dies of cancer at 78
Jun 7 Adriana Xenides, Australian TV personality (b. 1956)
Jun 7 Stuart Cable, Welsh rock drummer (Stereolab), and broadcaster, choles to death on his own vomit at 40
Jun 13 Jimmy Dean, American country and rockabilly singer ("Big Bad John"), television host (Jimmy Dean Show), actor (Diamonds Are Forever), and sausage maker, dies at 81
Jun 15 Bekim Fehmiu, Yugoslavian actor (Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro), dies of suspected suicide at 74
Jun 18 Trent Acid [Michael Verdi], American professional wrestler, dies of a drug overdose at 29
Jun 19 Ursula Thiess [Schmidt], German actress (Monsoon, Bengal Brigade, Americano), dies at 86
Jun 23 Pete Quaife, British rock bassist (The Kinks, 1963-69 - "Sunny Afternoon"), and cartoonist, dies of kidney failure at 66
Jun 25 Alan Plater, English playwright and screenwriter, dies of cancer at 75
Jun 30 Elliott Kastner, American film producer (Bobo, Big Sleep), dies at 80
Jun 30 Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor, and K-pop and J-pop singer, takes his own life at 32
Jul 1 (Jacqueline) "Ilene" Woods, American radio singer and actress (Disney's Cinderella), dies from complications of Alzheimer's disease at 81
Jul 2 Laurent Terzieff, French actor (Head Over Heels, Milky Way), dies at 75
Jul 6 Jan Blokker, Dutch journalist, editor (VPRO; de Volkskrant), novelist, and screenwriter, dies at 83
Jul 12 Buff Cobb [Patrizia Cobb Chapman], American actress and TV personality (Masquerade Party), dies at 82
Jul 16 James Gammon, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Nick-Nash Bridges), dies at 70
Jul 18 Bernard Giraudeau, French actor (L'Annee des Meduses), screenwriter, and director, dies of cancer at 63
Jul 19 Cécile Aubry, French actress (The Black Rose), author (Belle et Sébastien), television screenwriter and director, dies at 81
Jul 23 Daniel Schorr, American broadcast journalist (CBS), dies at 93
Jul 25 Redford White, Filipino comedian (b. 1955)
Jul 27 Maury Chaykin, American-born Canadian actor (b. 1949)
Aug 1 Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director, dies at 100
Aug 7 Manon Alving, Dutch actress (The Assault, Short American), dies at 87

Patricia Neal (1926-2010)

Aug 8 American actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses) and wife of Roald Dahl, dies at 84

Aug 10 David L Wolper, American television and film producer (Roots; The Thorn Birds; Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; Welcome Back, Kotter), dies at 82
Aug 12 Paul Ryan Rudd, American stage and screen actor, dies at 70
Aug 13 Lance Cade, American pro wrestler who was WWE Tag Team Champion (with Trevor Murdoch) 2005, dies from accidental drug overdose at 29
Aug 14 Abbey Lincoln [Anna Wooldridge], African-American jazz vocalist, songwriter, actress (Nothing But a Man), and civil rights activist, dies at 80
Aug 15 James J. Kilpatrick, American newspaper journalist and columnist (60 Minutes), dies at 89
Aug 21 Conny Stuart [Cornelia van Meygard], Dutch cabaret performer, and actress, dies at 96
Aug 21 Nancy Dolman, Canadian actress and comedienne (b. 1950)
Aug 24 Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director, dies at 46
Aug 27 Luna Vachon, Professional Wrestler (b. 1962)
Aug 28 William P. Foster, notable band director and founder of the Marching 100 of Florida A&M University
Aug 30 Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (La Menace), dies of cancer at 67
Sep 3 Robert Schimmel, American stand-up comedian, dies after a car accident at 60
Sep 4 Paul Conrad, American cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84), dies at 86
Sep 7 Glenn Shadix, American actor (Beetlejuice), dies in a fall at 58
Sep 11 Harold Gould, American character actor (The Sting, The Golden Girls, Rhoda, Big Bus), dies at 86
Sep 11 Kevin McCarthy, American actor (Invasion of Body Snatchers, Death of a Salesman), dies of pneumonia at 96
Sep 12 Claude Chabrol, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
Sep 21 Geoffrey Burgon, British jazz trumpeter, and film, television and concert composer (City Adventures), dies at 69
Sep 25 Art Gilmore, American radio and television announcer (Highway Patrol), and actor, dies at 98

Gloria Stuart (1910-2010)

Sep 26 American actress (Titanic) and founder of the Screen Actors Guild, dies from respiratory failure at 100

Sep 29 Greg Giraldo, American comedian (Comedy Central Roast), dies of an overdose at 44

Tony Curtis (1925-2010)

Sep 29 American actor (The Defiant Ones; Some Like It Hot; Spartacus), dies at 85

Oct 4 Norman Wisdom, English comedian (Kraft Music Hall, Trouble In Store), dies at 95
Oct 5 Mary Leona Gage, American beauty pageant winner and actress (b. 1939)
Oct 6 Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1966)
Oct 6 Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
Oct 6 Lex van Delden, Dutch actor (Soldier of Orange), dies at 63
Oct 7 Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor (b. 1966)
Oct 14 Carla Del Poggio [Maria Luisa Attanasio], Italian stage and screen actress (Variety Lights; Immortal Melodies), dies at 84
Oct 14 Simon MacCorkindale, English actor (Falcon Crest, Manimal), dies of bowel cancer at 58
Oct 15 Johnny Sheffield, American actor (Boy-Tarzan Finds a Son), dies at 79
Oct 16 Barbara Billingsley, American actress (Leave it to Beaver), dies at 94
Oct 19 Graham Crowden, Scottish stage, screen, and radio actor (O Lucky Man!; A Very Peculiar Practice), dies at 87
Oct 19 Tom Bosley, American actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote, Fiorello!), dies at 83
Oct 25 Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (b. 1957)
Oct 27 Denise Borino, American actress (b. 1964)
Oct 27 James Wall, American actor and stage manager (b. 1917)
Oct 28 Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (b. 1959)
Oct 28 James MacArthur, American actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0), dies at 72
Oct 28 Michael Sharvell-Martin, British stage and screen character actor (Dave Allen At Large), dies of esophageal cancer at 66
Oct 29 George Hickenlooper, American documentary filmmaker, dies at 47
Oct 30 Édouard Carpentier, French-Canadian pro wrestler (NWA 1956-57, WWA heavyweight champion), dies of a heart attack at 84
Nov 1 Charlie O'Donnell, American radio and game show announcer (American Bandstand; Wheel of Fortune, 1975-80, & 1989-2010), dies of congestive heart failure at 78 [1]
Nov 4 Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer, dies of cancer at 50
Nov 5 Jill Clayburgh, American actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough), dies of Leukemia at 66
Nov 10 Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (King Kong), dies at 91
Nov 11 Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (b. 1911)
Nov 11 William Edwin Self, American actor and television producer (b. 1921)
Nov 13 Luis García Berlanga, Spanish filmmaker (b. 1921)
Nov 16 Ronni Chasen, American film publicist (b. 1946)
Nov 21 Norris Church Mailer, American model and widow of Norman Mailer (b. 1949)
Nov 23 Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (b. 1937)
Nov 23 Joyce Howard, British film actress (b. 1922)
Nov 26 Palle Huld, Danish actor (b. 1912)
Nov 28 Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor (Spy Hard, Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun), dies of pneumonia at 84
Nov 29 Alfred Masini, American television producer (b. 1930)
Nov 29 Mario Monicelli, Italian film director (b. 1915)
Dec 2 Ron Santo, American Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman (9 x MLB All Star; 5 x Gold Glove; Chicago Cubs), dies from bladder cancer at 70
Dec 5 Alan Armer, American television producer and director (b. 1922)
Dec 5 Don Meredith, American NFL quarterback. 1960-68 (Dallas Cowboys, 3 x Pro Bowl), broadcaster (Monday Night Football), and actor, dies of a brain hemorrhage at 72
Dec 7 Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor (The Blue Lagoon, Crocodile Dundee II), dies at 82
Dec 14 Neva Patterson, American actress (The Seven Year Itch, Taxi, Nichols), dies rom complications from a broken hip at 90

Blake Edwards (1922-2010)

Dec 15 American writer and director (10; SOB; Breakfast at Tiffany's), dies at 88

Dec 20 Steve Landesberg, American comedian and actor (Barney Miller - "Dietrich"), from colon cancer on at 74
Dec 21 David Hennessy [Lord Windlesham], British politician (C) (Leader of the House of Lords 1973-4) and TV executive, dies at 78
Dec 22 Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (b. 1921)
Dec 28 Billy Taylor, American jazz pianist (Birdland), orchestra leader (David Frost Show) and broadcaster (NPR), dies after a heart attack at 89 [1]
Dec 29 Bill Erwin, American actor (b. 1914)
Dec 30 Michael Allinson, British-American stage and film actor (Man of the Century; Syriana), dies at 90
Dec 30 Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (b. 1927)