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Actors Who Died on May 2

  • 1973 Alan Carney [David Boughal], American actor (Zombies on Broadway, Take it from Me), dies at 61
  • 1980 George Pál, Hungarian-American film director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons), dies at 72
  • 1982 Helmut Dantine, Austrian-American actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies of a heart attack at 64
  • 1982 Hugh Marlowe [Hipple], American actor (All About Eve, Ellery Queen), dies from a heart attack at 71
  • 1985 Hal LeRoy [John LeRoy Schotte], American vaudeville, Broadway and film dancer (Ziegfeld's Follies of 1931), dies at 71 after surgery
  • 1990 David Rappaport, American 3'11' actor (Wizard; LA Law), shoots himself at 38
  • 1992 Joey Cuevas, American movie dancer, dies at 34
  • 1992 Philip Dunne, American screenwriter (How Green Was My Valley; The Robe), dies of cancer at 84
  • 1995 Michael Hordern, British actor (Watership Down, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold), dies from kidney disease at 83
  • 1998 Gene Raymond [Raymond Guion], American actor (Paris 7000, Love on a Bet, Fireside Theater), dies from pneumonia a 89
  • 1998 Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949)
  • 1999 Oliver Reed, English actor (Big Sleep), dies of a heart attack at 61 during a break from filming the movie "Gladiator" in Malta
  • 2001 Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (Goodfellas), dies at 39
  • 2001 Ted Rogers, British comedian and game show host (3-2-1), dies after emergency open-heart surgery at 65
  • 2002 John Nathan-Turner, English television producer (b. 1947)
  • 2007 Brad McGann, New Zealand film director and screenwriter (b. 1964)
  • 2008 Beverlee McKinsey (née Magruder), American actress (Another World, 1972-80 - "Iris Carrington"; Guiding Light, 1984-92 - "Alexandra Spaulding"), dies from kidney transplant complications at 72

Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010)

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

  • 2017 Vincent Baggetta, American actor (Lou-Chicago Story), dies at 72
  • 2018 Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress, dies at 93
  • 2018 Wolfgang Völz, German actor, dies at 87
  • 2021 Bob Abernethy, American journalist and newscaster (NBC News Encore; PBS - Religion & Ethics Newsweekly), dies at 93
  • 2021 Jacques d'Amboise, American ballet dancer, and choreographer (NYC Ballet Company, 1949-84), actor (Seven Brides For Seven Brothers), and educator (founded National Dance Institute, 1976), dies from stroke complications at 86 [1]