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Actors Who Died on January 13

  • 1937 Martin Elmer Johnson, American adventurer and filmmaker, dies at 52
  • 1956 Lyonel Feininger, German-American cartoonist and painter, dies at 84
  • 1958 Edna Purviance, American actress (Charlie Chaplin, Sunnyside), dies at 61
  • 1958 Jesse L. Lasky, U.S. film producer (b. 1880)
  • 1961 Blanche Ring, American singer ("In The Good Old Summer Time"), and stage and screen actress, dies at 89
  • 1962 Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (The Ernie Kovacs Show), dies in a car crash at 42
  • 1969 Wilton Graff, American actor (Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn), dies at 65
  • 1971 Henri Tomasi, French conductor, classical and film music composer (Requiem for Peace; The Silence of the Sea), dies at 69
  • 1976 Margaret Leighton, British actress (The Go-Between, The Night of the Iguana), dies of multiple sclerosis at 53
  • 1982 Marcel Camus, French film director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69
  • 1983 Arthur Space, actor (Doc Weaver-Lassie), dies of cancer at 74
  • 1983 John McHugh, actor (Unspeakable), dies of a heart attack at 69
  • 1989 Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51
  • 1992 Yvonne Bryceland, South African stage actress (Road to Mecca), dies of cancer at 66
  • 1995 Maxwell Henley Harris, Australian poet and publisher (Critics), dies at 73
  • 1996 Denise Grey [Edouardine Verthuy], actress (Julietta), dies at 99
  • 2001 Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor, singer (2gether), and cancer research fundraiser, dies of respiratory failure at 16
  • 2002 Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster), dies at 85
  • 2002 Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman, reputed model for Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (b. 1897)
  • 2002 Ted Demme, American film director, dies at 38
  • 2003 Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
  • 2005 Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915)
  • 2007 Doyle Holly, American comedian and musician (Buckaroos), dies at 70
  • 2009 Patrick McGoohan, American-born Irish actor, writer, and director (The Prisoner; Secret Agent/ Danger Man), dies at 80
  • 2011 Ellen Stewart, American actress, director and founder of La Mama Theatre Group, dies at 91
  • 2012 Richard Threlkeld, American newscaster (CBS News), dies at 74
  • 2016 Brian Bedford, English actor (Anthony-Coronet Blue), dies at 80
  • 2017 Dick Gautier, American stage and screen actor (Get Smart - "Hymie"; Bye Bye Birdie; When Things Were Rotten), dies at 85
  • 2018 Tzimis Panousis, Greek musician, stand-up comedian, and radio presenter, dies of a heart attack at 63
  • 2024 Joyce Randolph (née Sirola), American actress (The Honeymooners - "Trixie Norton"), dies at 99 [1]
  • 2024 Tom Shales, American Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic (Washington Post, 1977-2010), and author (Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live), dies of COVID-19 complicated kidney failure at 79 [1]