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Actors Who Died on June 21

  • 1957 Donald MacBride, American vaudeville, stage and screen character actor (Topper Returns; The Seven Year Itch; My Friend Irma - "Mr. Clyde"), dies of a heart ailment at 63
  • 1966 Anthony Craxton, British TV producer, dies at 48
  • 1979 Julian Orchard, English actor (Perfect Friday, Bless this House), dies at 49
  • 1983 Anton van de Velde, Belgian writer and director (Tijl), dies at 87
  • 1987 Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur, businessman, electrical engineer, TV commercial actor (b. 1914)
  • 1989 Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist and TV host (Amsterdamned), dies at 70
  • 1993 Frank Moro, Cuban American actor, dies at 49
  • 1993 Jerry Strivelli, actor (Out for Justice, Lock Up), dies at 61
  • 1995 Kenneth Lamb, English broadcaster, dies at 71
  • 1997 Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, producer, and director (Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman), dies at 65

Carroll O'Connor (1924-2001)

American actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night), dies of a heart attack at 76

  • 2001 Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
  • 2013 Edgeworth Blair "Elliott" Reid, American actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies from heart failure at 93
  • 2019 William Simons, Welsh actor (Heartbeat - "PC Alf Ventress"), dies at 78
  • 2022 James Rado [Radomski], American stage actor, playwright, director, and composer (Hair; Rainbow), dies at 90