Film Tv Deaths Date 2024 | History by KabAstro

Carl Weathers (1948-2024)

Feb 1 American football player, actor (Rocky films (I-IV); Street Justice; The Mandalorian), and director, dies at 76

Feb 2 Don Murray, American actor (Bus Stop; Advise & Consent; Endless Love), dies at 94 [1]
Feb 2 Stefan Yanev, Bulgarian soccer midfielder (Cherno More Varna 228 games) and broadcaster (BNT; 17 books on Bulgarian football), dies at 84
Feb 2 Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, American operatic soprano, and actress (Diva), dies of cancer at 75 [1]
Feb 7 Mojo Nixon [Neill McMillan, Jr.], American musician ("Elvis Is Everywhere") and actor, dies of cardiac event at 66 [1]

Kenneth Mitchell (1974-2024)

Feb 24 Canadian actor (Star Trek: Discovery), dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 49

Feb 26 Ole Anderson, American pro wrestler (founding member of influential stable "The Four Horsemen"; PWI Tag Team of the Year 1975, 77 with Gene Anderson), dies at 81

Richard Lewis (1947-2024)

Feb 27 American comedian and actor (Anything But Love; Robin Hood: Men in Tights; Curb Your Enthusiasm), dies of a heart attack at 76 [1]

Mar 2 John Okafor, Nigerian Nollywood actor and comedian, dies at 62 [1]
Mar 3 Chris Mortensen, American sports journalist (ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday Night Countdown, SportsCenter, ESPN Radio), dies from throat cancer at 72
Mar 3 Eleanor Collins [Elnora Proctor], Canadian jazz and standards singer, and television personality, regarded as Canada’s “first lady of jazz”, dies at 104
Mar 7 Steve Lawrence [Sidney Leibowitz], American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pop singer ("Go Away Little Girl"; Steve and Eydie), and actor (The Lonely Guy; The Blues Brothers), dies of complications of Alzheimer's disease at 88
Mar 13 Dan Wakefield, American novelist (Going All The Way; New York In The Fifties), journalist (The Atlantic, 1968-81), and screenwriter, dies at 91
Mar 19 M. Emmet Walsh, American character actor (Blade Runner; Wildcats; Blood Simple; Knives Out), dies at 88 [1]
Mar 21 Ron Harper, American actor (Planet of the Apes (TV series); Wendy and Me), dies at 91
Mar 22 Jean-Paul Vignon, French actor and singer, dies of liver cancer at 89
Mar 29 Louis Gossett Jr, American Emmy and Academy Award-winning stage and screen actor (Roots; An Officer and a Gentleman; Diggstown), dies at 87 [1]
Mar 31 Barbara Rush, American stage and screen actress (Peyton Place - "Marsha"; It Came From Outer Space; Flamingo Road), dies at 97 [1]
Apr 1 Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and actor (SCTV; Freaks and Geeks), dies at 82 [1]
Apr 12 Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist (PBS, 1975-95; NBC Weekend News, 1965-67), and novelist, dies at 93 [1] [2]
Apr 18 Spencer Milligan, American actor (Land of the Lost), dies at 86
Apr 21 Alex Hassilev, Russian-American folk singer, guitarist, banjo player (The Limeliters), actor, and record producer, dis of cancer at 91
Apr 24 Bob Cole, Canadian sports broadcaster (CBC - Hockey Night in Canada), dies at 90
May 9 Roger Corman, American film, producer, director (Little Shop of Horrors; The Raven), and Hollywood mentor, dies at 98 [1]
May 12 David Sanborn, American Grammy Award-winning jazz and session saxophonist (David Bowie - "Young Americans"; David Letterman Show), dies of prostate cancer at 78 [1]
May 16 Dabney Coleman, American Emmy Award-winning character actor (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - "Mayor Jeeter"; 9 to 5; Buffalo Bill; Boardwalk Empire), dies at 92 [1]
May 23 Morgan Spurlock, American director and documentary producer (Super Size Me), dies of cancer at 53 [1]
Jun 2 Janis Paige [Donna Mae Tjaden], American stage and screen actress (The Pajama Game; Silk Stockings; Trapper John, M.D.), dies at 101
Jun 11 Françoise Hardy, French pop singer, songwriter ("Je Suis D’Accord", "Comment te Dire Adieu"). and actress, dies of cancer complications at 80 [1]
Jun 11 Howard Fineman, American journalist and political commentator (Newsweek; NBC News; AOL Huffington Post Media Group), dies of pancreatic cancer at 75
Jun 12 Tony Lo Bianco, American stage and screen actor (The French Connection; A View From the Bridge; Hizzoner!), dies of prostate cancer at 87 [1]
Jun 18 Anouk Aimée [Nicole Dreyfus], French actress (La Dolce Vita; 8 1/2; A Man and A Woman), dies at 92 [1]
Jun 20 Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor (The Dirty Dozen; M*A*S*H (film): Ordinary People; The Hunger Games films), dies at 88 [1]
Jun 25 Bill Cobbs [Wilbert F. Cobbs], American actor (Night at the Museum; The Color of Money; I'll Fly Away; Star Trek: Enterprise), dies at 90 [1]
Jun 25 Sika Anoa'i, American pro wrestler (WWF Tag Team C'ship x 3 with brother Afa as the Wild Samoans), dies at 79
Jun 26 (Richard) "Kinky" Friedman, American country rocker ("Ride 'Em Jewboy"), and humorist, dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 79 [1]
Jun 27 Martin Mull, American comic singer-songwriter and character actor (Fernwood 2-Night; Roseanne; Clue), dies at 80 [1]
Jun 29 Doug Sheehan, American actor (Knots Landing, 1983-87 - "Ben": General Hospital, 1979-82 - "Joe Kelly"), dies at 75
Jul 1 Robert Towne (né Schwartz), American Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Chinatown: The Last Detail; Shampoo), and director (Personal Best; Tequila Sunrise), dies at 89 [1]
Jul 5 Jon Landau, American Academy Award-winning film producer (Titanic; Avatar; Avatar: The Way of Water), dies of cancer at 63