The former Stone Temple Pilots frontman died in his sleep in early December. Weiland, who was also the frontman for Velvet Revolver and was on tour with his latest band, The Wildabouts, was 48.
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The famed maestro of horror died in September at age 76 after a battle with brain cancer. Craven wrote and directed the first Nightmare on Elm Street and helmed the first four Scream movies.
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James Horner, the consummate film composer known for his heart-tugging scores for Field of Dreams, Braveheart and Titanic, died June 22 in a plane crash. He was 61.
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Christopher Lee, the mystical British actor whose haunting, intimidating performances as Count Dracula, the Frankenstein monster and Fu Manchu made him an icon of horror films and the cinematic embodiment of villainy, died June 7. He was 93.
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Sawyer Sweeten, best known for playing the role of Geoffrey Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996 to 2005, died April 23 of suspected suicide. He was 19.
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Richard Corliss, longtime film critic for Time magazine, died April 23 after suffering from a stroke one week prior. He was 71.
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Windell Middlebrooks, famous for his role as the delivery man in several Miller High Life commercials, died March 10. He was 36.
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Sam Simon, the nine-time Emmy Award-winning comedy writer and producer who helped develop The Simpsons, made millions after leaving the show in 1993 and then donated his riches to charity, died March 9. He was 59.
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Orrin Keepnews, a Grammy-winning jazz producer, journalist and record executive, launched several record labels, earning a Trustees Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 2004. He died Mar. 1 at his home in El Cerrito, Calif., at age 91.
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Minnie Minoso, who was major league baseball's first black player in Chicago in 1951, died March 1. He was 92.
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Leonard Nimoy was best known for his long and prosperous run as Star Trek's Spock. Nimoy tweeted in January that he had lung disease and signed the tweet with "LLAP," an acronym for his character's catchphrase, "Live Long and Prosper." He died Feb. 27 at age 83.
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Richard Bakalyan was the quintessential tough guy character actor who sparred with Jack Nicholson and shot Faye Dunaway in Chinatown — just one of his many dozens of appearances in films and on television. Bakalyan played juvenile delinquents, cops and gangsters as well as several henchmen on TV’s Batman during his more than a half-century in show business. He died Feb. 27 at Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira, N.Y., at age 84.
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Clark Terry was a longtime jazz musician and educator and the star of Keep on Keepin' On. He made an even bigger impact in the 1960s as the first-ever African-American staff musician at NBC, where he spent 12 years as a featured horn player in The Tonight Show band. He died Feb. 21 at age 94.
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Marshall Schlom was a Hollywood script supervisor for four decades who worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kramer, Mike Nichols and all the top directors of his day. Schlom’s incredible body of work includes Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), William Wyler’s Funny Girl (1968) and Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show (1971), among others. He died Feb. 21 at age 86 of complications from a fall at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills.
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Bruce Sinofsky was a documentary film director who frequently collaborated with Joe Berlinger. Sinofsky and Berlinger co-directed the Paradise Lost trilogy, centered on the West Memphis Three. They earned an Oscar nomination for 2011's Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory. He died Feb. 21 at age 58 after a battle with diabetes.
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Ahmad Givens, known as "Real," was the star of VH1's dating series Real Chance of Love. After a long battle with stage-four colon cancer since 2013, Givens died Feb. 21 at age 33.
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Raul R. Rodriguez was an artist and designer best known for his breathtaking floats seen for years at the Tournament of Roses Parade. Rodriguez won more Tournament of Roses awards than any other designer in the 125-year-plus history of the splashy Pasadena event, publicist Harlan Boll said. He presented his 500th design in 2012, and his last parade appearance came Jan. 1, 2013, when he and his hyacinth macaw, Sebastian, rode the Dole float. He died Feb. 18 of cardiac arrest at his home in Pasadena at age 71.
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Lorena Rojas was a popular Mexican soap opera and movie actress. The actress battled cancer since 2008 and died Feb. 16 at age 44 in Miami surrounded by loved ones.
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Stan Chambers was a local TV broadcast legend whose reporting career at KTLA spanned more than six decades. Chambers joined KTLA, then a fledgling station, Dec. 1, 1947, and continued to report until his retirement on his 87th birthday Aug. 11, 2010. Chambers died Feb. 13 at age 91 at his Holmby Hills home surrounded by family.
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Rhonda Glenn became the first woman to serve as a full-time sportscaster for a national network when she worked as an anchor for ESPN in 1981. After ESPN, she spent 17 years as a golf historian and manager of media operations for the U.S. Golf Association before retiring in May 2013. Glenn had been battling cancer and died Feb. 12 in a hospital in Gainesville, Fla., at age 68.
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Movita Castaneda was the second of Marlon Brando’s three wives and appeared in such films as Mutiny on the Bounty opposite Clark Gable and Fort Apache with John Wayne. Castaneda played Tehani, a beautiful Tahitian who marries one of the insurgent sailors, in the 1935 version of Mutiny on the Bounty. The film was remade in 1962 with Brando, then Castaneda’s husband, playing the Gable role of Fletcher Christian. She died Feb. 12 in a Los Angeles rehabilitation center after suffering a neck injury and was believed to be 98.
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Gary Owens was a radio and TV announcer and voiceover artist who will always be remembered as the voice of the seminal NBC comedy series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. He died Feb. 12 due to complications from diabetes, from which he had suffered since the age of 8, at his home in Encino, Calif.
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Bob Simon was a veteran 60 Minutes correspondent whose career spanned five decades. Simon won 27 Emmys for covering major stories including the Vietnam War, violence in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1971, the Gulf War and the Olympics. In 1991, he spent 40 days in an Iraqi prison alongside three other members of the CBS News team and turned the experience into the 1992 book Forty Days. He died Feb. 11 in a car crash in Manhattan at age 73.
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Ed Sabol was the founder of NFL Films and made pro football look like “a Hollywood movie.” Sabol founded NFL Films in 1962 after filming his son Steve Sabol’s high school football games. In August 2011, Ed Sabol was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio — one of the few people to be inducted who never played or coached — and introduced by his son. During his tenure, which spanned 1964 through 1995, NFL Films won 52 Emmy Awards. Sabol died Feb. 9 at age 98 at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Pola Miller was an award-winning filmmaker and documentarian who served on the boards of Women in Film and the American Film Institute Associates. Miller was born Pola Chasman in 1928 in New York City. Both her parents taught English at the University of Maine — her father as a professor — and they later ran a school for continuing education in New York. She died Feb. 8 in Los Angeles at age 86.
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Joe Voci, former vp comedy programming at CBS who also oversaw production of The Wonder Years, died Feb. 8 of brain cancer at age 51.
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Larry Daniels was a popular stand-up comic of the 1950s and ’60s who appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and at the famed Copacabana nightclub in New York City. He suffered from Alzheimer’s and died Feb. 6 at the Los Angeles Jewish Home in Reseda.
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Richard Bonehill, an expert swordsman and horseman who played a stormtrooper, Rebel soldier and many other characters in the Star Wars universe, died Feb. 5 at age 67.
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Mary Healy was an actress and singer who teamed with Peter Lind Hayes for a husband-and-wife comedy act that sparkled on the radio and television, in films and on the stage for more than 50 years. Healy and Lind starred in the 1953 musical fantasy film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., written by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and produced by Stanley Kramer. Their 1958 Broadway comedy Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? was produced by Leland Hayward, who a year later produced The Sound of Music for the stage. She died Feb. 3 at age 96 of natural causes in Calabasas, Calif.
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Stewart Stern, screenwriter of Rebel Without a Cause, died Feb. 2 at Seattle's Swedish Hospital at age 92 after battling a brain tumor.
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Marion Billings was the renowned New York movie publicist and champion of Martin Scorsese early and throughout his career. She worked with Scorsese on films including Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Goodfellas (1990). Billings died Feb. 1 at age 91 at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, N.J.
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Than Wyenn, a busy character actor whose lengthy list of credits includes the films Imitation of Life and Splash and a memorable episode of The Twilight Zone, died Feb. 1 at the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home in Woodland Hills at age 95.
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Ann Mara was the matriarch of the NFL's New York Giants for the past 60 years. She, along with her children, owned 50 percent of the Giants since the death of her husband, Hall of Famer Wellington Mara, in 2005. While she was not active in daily operations, her opinion was valued greatly. The grandmother of actresses Kate and Rooney Mara died Feb. 1 at age 85 after slipping in front of her home in Rye, N.Y., during an ice storm and suffering a head injury two weeks prior.
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Edward DeBlasio was a prolific writer-producer who had a hand in nearly half the episodes of the steamy ABC primetime soap opera Dynasty. DeBlasio, an entertainment journalist before he turned to show business, also wrote and produced for the NBC dramas In the Heat of the Night, starring Carroll O’Connor, and Police Woman, toplined by Angie Dickinson. He died Feb. 1 at age 88 in Studio City after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Lizabeth Scott played an aloof and alluring femme fatale in such film noir classics as I Walk Alone, Pitfall and Dark City. Scott, a sultry blonde with a smoky voice in the mold of Lauren Bacall, played nightclub singers in 1947's I Walk Alone opposite Burt Lancaster and in William Dieterle's Dark City, a 1950 release that marked Charlton Heston's first major Hollywood role. She died Jan. 31 at age 92 of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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Geraldine McEwan, a BAFTA-winning actress who was known for many roles including playing the famous Agatha Christie detective Miss Marple in 12 TV episodes, died Jan. 30 of a severe stroke at age 82.
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Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced "King of Kitsch" whose music and verse recordings won him an Oscar nomination and made him one of the best-selling poets in history, died Jan. 29 at age 81.
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Joe Franklin hosted a bargain-basement TV talk show in New York for four decades and was often credited with developing the standard TV talk show format. Franklin started out with the afternoon show Joe Franklin — Disk Jockey on the ABC local station in 1951 and did his last show, then airing on WOR after midnight, in 1993. He claimed that he had hosted 300,000 guests during his career and never missed a show. He died Jan. 24 at age 88 of prostate cancer in a hospice in Manhattan.
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Peggy Charren was an activist whose campaign for improved educational TV for kids culminated with the landmark Children’s Television Act becoming law in 1990. Frustrated with the quality of kids TV available to her two young children, Charren brought together parents at her home outside Boston in 1968 for a quest that would lead to the formation of the nonprofit Action for Children’s Television organization. It would eventually have more then 20,000 members. She suffered from vascular dementia for several years and died Jan. 22 at age 86 at her home in Dedham, Mass.
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Ruth Manchester, a fashion designer who introduced Enkalure nylon knit fashions to the industry and was known for her eponymous line in the mid-1960s, died Jan. 21 at age 93.
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Richard McWhorter, a longtime assistant director and unit production manager who served alongside the likes of King Vidor, Frank Capra and Cecil B. DeMille and was on hand when movie directors met to form a guild in 1936, died Jan. 18 at age 100.
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Tony Verna, a television director and producer who invented instant replay for live sports games 51 years ago, died Jan. 18 at his Palm Desert, Calif., home after battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He was 81. Verna introduced the concept of instant replay during the Army-Navy football game on Dec. 7, 1963, after developing a method to cue the tape to pinpoint the play he wants to immediately air again.
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Alan Hirschfield, a former entertainment executive who helped make the 1970s movies Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Taxi Driver, died Jan. 15 of natural causes at age 79. Hirschfield was the chief executive of Columbia Pictures from 1973-78 and was chairman of 20th Century Fox from 1982-86.
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Layne Tom Jr. played a son of Charlie Chan in three movie mysteries featuring the famous, fictional, Honolulu-born detective. Tom first appeared in the popular crime series opposite Warner Oland in Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) as Charlie Chan Jr. The story, with the Berlin Summer Games as its backdrop, had his brother, No. 1 son Lee Chan (Keye Luke), competing as a swimmer. Tom was said to be the only "son" to work alongside both Charlie Chan portrayers, Oland and Sidney Toler. He died Jan. 14 at age 87 at his home in Huntington Beach, Calif.
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H. Wesley Kenney, an Emmy Award-winning producer and director of soap operas who helmed every episode of the tumultuous 1974-75 season of All in the Family, died Jan. 13 at age 89. Kenney, who worked on the daytime serials Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless and General Hospital, had suffered a heart attack on Christmas Eve after a visit to his daughter's home.
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Anita Ekberg, who parlayed a Miss Sweden title into an acting career that peaked with her performance as Sylvia, an unattainable dream woman, in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, died Jan. 11 in a hospital outside of Rome at age 83. A scene from the movie in which Ekberg danced uninhibitedly in the Fountain of Trevi is one of the cinema's most sensual sequences.
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Valerie Stevenson, a singer and actress who starred on the short-lived 1980s CBS musical series Dreams, died Jan. 10 of liver disease at age 52.
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Celebrated Italian director Francesco Rosi, a Palme d'Or winner, died in Rome on Jan. 10 at age 92. The filmmaker died in his sleep after suffering from a severe case of bronchitis. The Naples-born director was a key figure of 1960s and '70s post-neorealist cinema alongside Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gillo Pontecorvo, Ettore Scola and the Taviani brothers. As an outspoken voice against Italy’s postwar corruption, Rosi's early films tackled many controversial topics.
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Taylor Negron, known for roles in numerous TV shows and films including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, died of cancer Jan. 10 at age 57. Negron played the pizza guy in Fast Times. He also appeared in such films as Stuart Little, The Last Boy Scout, Angels in the Outfield and Better Off Dead and on TV series including Friends, Seinfeld, ER and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Brian Clemens, the British scriptwriter and producer responsible for the popular TV shows The Avengers, The New Avengers and The Professionals, died Jan. 10 at age 83. Although known mostly for his creating the '60s and '70s favorites The Avengers, New Avengers and The Professionals, Clemens also worked on U.K. TV shows including Bergerac, The Baron, The Persuaders!, The Adventure, Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense and Bugs.
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Samuel Goldwyn Jr., the heir to a Hollywood dynasty and a movie executive who made a name for himself in his own right, died Jan. 9 of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at age 88. Goldwyn's Samuel Goldwyn Co., founded in 1979, pioneered the business model for indie productions by exploiting low budgets and guerrilla marketing tactics. He was known for championing promising directors early in their careers, including Ang Lee (1993's The Wedding Banquet) and Kenneth Branagh (1989's Henry V).
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Lowell "Bud" Paxson, a radio and TV entrepreneur who helped popularize home shopping as creator of the Home Shopping Network and PAX TV, died Jan. 9 at age 80.
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Rod Taylor, the suave Australian native who came to Hollywood and starred in such films as The Birds and The Time Machine, died Jan. 7, four days shy of turning 85. Taylor's big breakthrough came with his starring turn in The Time Machine, director George Pal's 1960 adaptation of the H.G. Wells 1895 sci-fi classic. He also played the heroic Mitch Brenner in Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic The Birds, coming to the aid of Tippi Hedren, and starred opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in another 1963 release, The V.I.P.s.
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Stuart Scott, an entertaining and enthusiastic anchor on ESPN’s SportsCenter since 1993, died Jan. 4 at age 49 of cancer. Scott, known for his catchphrases “Boo-yah!” and “cool as the other side of the pillow,” also was a regular contributor to ESPN's pre- and postgame coverage of the NFL and ESPN/ABC’s NBA games
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Bernard Williams, the British producer who worked on such films as A Clockwork Orange, Ragtime and Star Trek: Generations, died Jan. 4 of cancer in Lake Arrowhead, Calif., at age 72. Williams also produced Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) and five other films directed by Frank Oz.
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Bill Hart, a rugged actor and stuntman who specialized in Western action films like The Wild Bunch and doubled for Glenn Ford for more than two decades, died Jan. 2 at age 80 after a short battle with cancer at his home in Northridge, Calif. Hart (pictured with Johnny Cash on a 1993 episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) was often seen as a renegade, hood, barfly or brawler on more than 150 movies and TV shows during his long career.
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Donna Douglas, best known for her role as the tomboy, critter-loving Elly May Clampett on the 1960s fish-out-of-water CBS sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, died on New Year’s Day at age 82. Douglas also co-starred opposite Elvis Presley in the 1966 film Frankie and Johnny and stood out as the hospitalized woman underneath the bandages in the memorable 1960 Twilight Zone episode "The Eye of the Beholder."
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Beau Kazer, who portrayed Brock Reynolds on the long-running CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, died Dec. 30 in his sleep in Thousand Oaks, Calif., at age 63. Kazer played the lawyer son of Katherine Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper) starting in 1974. He left the show in the early 1980s but returned to Genoa City on several occasions through 2013. He came back twice for his mother’s funeral (however, it was his mother’s look-alike that had died the first time).
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Terry Becker, who starred on TV’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and played a condemned man in a memorable episode of The Twilight Zone, died Dec. 30 at age 93 (the news broke in January). Becker portrayed Chief Petty Officer Francis Ethelbert Sharkey on 71 episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Starring Richard Basehart and based on Irwin Allen’s 1961 adventure film, it aired on ABC from 1964-68. Becker also directed and produced episodes of the ABC series Room 222.
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Bob Bardo was an executive in charge of production at Dick Clark Productions who worked for the company for nearly two decades. As “executive in charge” for DCP, Bardo was involved in the expansion of the Academy of Country Music Awards, American Music Awards, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and the Golden Globe Awards. He was a confidant to Dick Clark and Fran La Maina, and his responsibilities continued to grow under Allen Shapiro, Mike Mahan and Orly Adelson until he left the company in 2013. Bardo died Dec. 20 in Studio City at age 71.
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Robert Kinoshita, a production designer and art director who designed the iconic robots for the 1956 science fiction classic Forbidden Planet and the 1960s TV series Lost in Space, died at age 100. Kinoshita died Dec. 9 at a nursing care facility in Torrance, Calif. (news of his death broke in January).
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Ann Zane Shanks, a photojournalist, author and producer and director for television and the stage, died May 11 of breast cancer. Her work was published in Time, Look, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Redbook and Woman’s Day, and her work appeared in exhibitions
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John Nash Jr., a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and inspiration for the film A Beautiful Mind, and his wife, Alicia Nash died on May 23, when their taxi crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86.
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Michael Blake, who wrote the screenplay for Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves, died May 2 at age 69.
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Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor in the Charles Manson trial and best-selling author of Helter Skelter, died of cancer on June 6. He was 80.
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Anne Meara, a four-time Emmy nominee and half of the famous comedy team Stiller & Meara, has died in late May. She was 85. She also was Ben Stiller's mother.
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Errol Brown, the lead singer and co-founder of '70s funk band Hot Chocolate, died May 6. He was 71. Brown is credited with the group's biggest hit, "You Sexy Thing."
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Beau Biden, Attorney General of Delaware and son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, died on May 30 after a battle with brain cancer. He was 46.
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Audree Norton, the first deaf actress to appear in a featured role on an American network and a founding member of The National Theatre of the Deaf, died April 22. She was 88.
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Barbara Dreyfus, an executive at Will Packer Productions, died May 15.
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Blues Legend B.B. King died May 14 at the age of 89. “The Thrill is Gone” is the song for which he is most known.
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Friday the 13th actress Betsy Palmer died on May 29 in a hospice care center. She was 88.
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Bob Rubin, a longtime legal, business and home entertainment executive with Universal and Sony, died on June 1 after battling brain cancer. He was 60.
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Choya Shane, who was James Drury’s double on NBC’s The Virginian, died on May 8 due to complications from emphysema. He was 80.
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Dave Goldberg, the CEO of SurveryMonkey and husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, died May 1. He was 47.
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Dennis Sheehan, U2’s longtime tour manager and friend, was found dead in his hotel room in West Hollywood on May 27. He was 68.
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Donald Wrye, the writer and director of Ice Castles, a movie that starred Lynn-Holly Johnson and Robby Benson, died on May 15 in his sleep. He was 80.
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John Compton, an actor who appeared on Mildred Pierce and starred in the TV crime series, The D.A.’s Man died on May 12 of natural causes. He was 91.
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Hall of Fame wrestler Dusty Rhodes died on June 11. He was 69.
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Tony award winner Elizabeth Wilson had roles in notable films including The Birds, The Addams Family and The Graduate. Wilson died May 9 at age 94.
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Gilbert Lewis, a character actor who played the kindly King of Cartoons on the first season of Pee-wee’s Playhouse, died on May 7. He was 79.
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Grace Lee Whitney is best known for her portrayal of Yeoman Janice Rand on the original Star Trek (1966) series. She died May 1, at the age of 85.
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Hiroshi Koizumi, an actor who appeared in the early Godzilla films, died on May 31 from pneumonia. He was 88.
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Jim Bailey, a self-proclaimed “character actor” who did impersonations of female celebrities like Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland and Peggy Lee died on May 30 from a heart attack due to complications from pneumonia. He was 77.
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Jim Ed Brown, a member of the country band The Browns and star of the Grand Ole Opry, died on June 11 after a battle with lung cancer. He was 81.
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Joanne Copeland, the second wife of Johnny Carson and a confidante of Truman Capote, died May 8. She was 83.
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John H. Ward, an associate producer on the sitcom Charles in Charge starring Scott Baio, died on May 11 after a long illness. He was 73.
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John Simes, a veteran Hollywood publicist who represented clients such as Debbie Reynolds, Dustin Hoffman and Sammy Davis Jr., died on May 2. He was 86.
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John Stephenson, the voice of Mr. Slate on The Flintstones and Fancy-Fancy on Top Cat, died on May 15 after battling Alzheimer’s. He was 91.
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Maria Elena Velasco was a Mexican film and television actress, best known for her portrayal as “La India Maria,” a comedic character based on a stereotypical Mexican indigenous woman. She died on May 1, 2015 at age 74.
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Marcus Belgrave, a famous jazz trumpeter who has shared the stage and studios with Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Dizzy Gillespie and Aretha Franklin, died on May 24 due to heart failure. He was 78.
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Mary Ellen Mark, a famed photographer who has contributed her work to magazines like Rolling Stone, Life, Vogue, and Vanity Fair, died on May 25. She was 75.
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Richard Johnson, a British actor recognized from his films The Haunting and The Pumpkin, died on June 6 in London after a short illness. He was 87.
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Michael King, co-creator of King World Productions, home of the Oprah Winfrey Show, died on May 27 due to complications of pneumonia. He was 67.
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Nick Harris, co-founder of The Story Foundation and a veteran literary agent, died on May 26 at his home after battling cancer. He was 49.
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Nigel Terry, an English actor who starred as King Arthur in John Boorman's 1981 medieval drama Excalibur, died on April 30. He was 69.
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Ornette Coleman, a jazz legend, died on June 11 due to a heart attack. He was 85.
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Paul Raley, writer and producer of ABC’s Grace Under Fire and a comedian who was a regular on David Letterman’s daytime show, died on June 6. He was 71.
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Pete Fatovich, an NBC control-room worker who has worked on shows such as The Jack Paar Show, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night With David Letterman, has died on May 27 due to pancreatic cancer. He was 84.
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Philip Perlman, who played a regular patron on the long-running sitcom, Cheers, died on April 29. He was 95.
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Philip S. Goodman — who wrote and directed for film, television and the theater — died May 2. He was 89 and was best known for We Shall Return, Japan Reaches for the 21st Century and Rocky King, Detective.
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Reynaldo Rey, an actor and comedian who appeared in Friday and White Men Can’t Jump, died on May 28 due to complications of a stroke. He was 75.
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Oscar-winning producer Robert Chartoff, who produced films such as Rocky, Raging Bull, and The Right Stuff, died on June 10 after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 81.
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British actor Ron Moody, who was nominated for a best-actor Oscar and won a Golden Globe for his role as Fagin in the musical Oliver!, died on June 11. He was 91.
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Joshua Ozersky, a food writer whose works could be found in the Wall Street Journal and Food & Wine, died May 27. He was 47.
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Singer Ben E. King, best known for his iconic 1961 single “Stand by Me,” died April 30. He was 76.
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Wally Cassell, a film favorite who played Cotton Valletti, one of Jimmy Cagney’s gang members, in the thriller White Heat, died on April 2 at his home in Palm Desert. He was 103.
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William Bast, an Emmy-nominated screenwriter for film and television who co-created The Colbys, a spinoff of ABC’s popular primetime soap Dynasty, died May 4. He was 84.
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William Bronder, an actor who appeared in Rob Reiner’s film Stand by Me, died at Northridge Hospital Medical Center on May 6. He was 84.
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Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra, known for his record 10 World Series Championships with the New York Yankees, died on Sept. 22 of natural causes. He was 90.
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Cynthia Robinson, a trumpeter and vocalist in the '70s band Sly and the Family Stone, died of cancer on Nov. 23. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member was 71.
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YouTube star Caleb Logan Bratayley died on Oct. 1 of natural causes. According to police, the 13-year-old died in his Maryland home after suffering an "unknown medical emergency."
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Cant Buy Me Love actress, Amanda Peterson, died on July 5. Her father told TMZ that she was found in her Greeley, Colorado home. She was 43.
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Dean Jones — who starred in classic Disney comedies such as That Darn Cat!, The Shaggy D.A., and The Love Bug — died on Sept. 1 from complications with Parkinson's disease. He was 84.
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Happy Days actor Al Molinaro, died on Oct. 29. His son confirmed Molinaro's death to TMZ, saying that his dad had gallstones and elected not to have a surgical procedure because of his age. He was 96.
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Morgan Freeman's step-granddaughter E'Dena Hines died on Aug. 16. According to police, she was found in front of her home with multiple stab wounds in her torso. She was 33.
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Author E.L. Doctorow died on July 21 at a hospital in New York due to complications of lung cancer. He was 84.
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Ed Hardy designer, Christian Audigier, died on July 9 due to cancer. He was 57.
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Omar Sharif, the Egyptian matinee idol who enthralled audiences around the world with his performances in Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, died on July 10 of a heart attack. He was 83. It was previously reported that Sharif was battling Alzheimer's.
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Jackass star and uncle to Bam Margera, Vincent "Don Vito" Margera, died on Nov. 15 due to kidney and organ failure after waking up from a coma. He was 59.
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Melissa Mathison, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Steven Spielberg's E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial, died on Nov. 11. She was 65.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter and director, Frank D. Gilroy, died Sept. 12 from natural causes. He was 89.
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Belgian auteur Chantal Akerman, an icon among European experimental filmmakers, died on Oct. 5. She was 65 and had just debuted her latest film, No Home Movie, the previous month at the Locarno Film Festival.
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One Life to Live star Nathaniel Marston died on Nov. 11 after a car accident that left him in critical condition weeks before. He was 40.
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Civil rights leader Julian Bond died at his vacation home in Florida on Aug. 15 after a quick illness. He was 75.
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The daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, Bobbi Kristina Brown, died on July 26 after she was found unconscious in a bathtub in late January. She was 22.
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Former New York Giants player and Monday Night Football host, Frank Gifford, died on Aug. 9 of natural causes at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was 84.
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Professional wrestler and TV actor "Rowdy" Roddy Piper died in his sleep on July 30. He was 61.
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The Artist's Uggie the dog died in mid-August due to a cancerous tumor in his prostate. He was 13.
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Ingrid Sischy, the former editor-in-chief of Interview, died July 24 in New York due to breast cancer. She was 63.
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The Waltons, Dallas and Knots Landing producer Merv Adelson died on Sept. 8. He was 85.
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Hollywood makeup artist Jake Bailey was found dead in his L.A. home in an apparent suicide on Oct. 23. He was 37.
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Eight Is Enough star Dick Van Patten died due to complications from diabetes on June 23. He was 86.
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Former Republican senator and Law & Order actor, Fred Thompson, died on Nov. 1 in Nashville after a recurrence of lymphoma. He was 73.
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Batmobile designer George Barris died in his sleep on Nov. 5. He was 89.
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How Green Was My Valley, Miracle on 34th Street and The Quiet Man actress, Maureen O'Hara, dubbed "The Queen of Technicolor," died on Oct. 24 at her home in Boise, Idaho. She was 95.
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Producer Jerry Weintraub died on July 6 of cardiac arrest. He was 77.
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Legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint, died in early November after suffering a heart attack following a concert he performed in Spain. He was 77.
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Sopranos actor, John “Cha Cha” Ciarcia, died on Nov. 21 at NYU Langone Medical Center after suffering from a brief illness. He was 69.
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Best-selling British author Jackie Collins died on Sept. 19 due to breast cancer. She was 77.
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Game show host Jim Perry, who presided over popular NBC competitions Card Sharks and Sale of the Century in the 1970s and '80s died on Nov. 20, 2015 at his home in Ashland, Oregon after a five-year battle with cancer. He was 82.
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David Canary, who for nearly three decades played twin brothers Adam and Stuart Chandler on the ABC soap opera All My Children, died of natural causes on Nov. 16 at an assisted living facility in Wilton, Conn. He was 77.
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George Clayton Johnson — the celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer who wrote the first aired episode of Star Trek, seven episodes of The Twilight Zone and the novel on which Logan’s Run is based — died on Christmas Day of bladder and prostate cancer at a veteran's hospital in North Hills, Calif. He was 86.
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Marjorie Lord, who starred as the cheery and supportive wife Kathy Williams on the showbiz-centered hit sitcom Make Room for Daddy/The Danny Thomas Show, died at 97 of natural causes, on Nov. 28 at her home in Beverly Hills.
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Robert Loggia, the veteran actor whose portrayal of a seedy detective in the 1985 Joe Eszterhas film Jagged Edge earned him an Academy Award nomination, died at 85 on Dec. 4 at his home in Los Angeles after battling Alzheimer's for the past five years.
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Meadowlark Lemon, the "clown prince" of basketball's barnstorming Harlem Globetrotters, whose blend of hook shots and humor brought joy to millions of fans around the world, died at 83 on Dec. 27 in Scottsdale, Ariz. The cause of death is unknown.
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Haskell Wexler, the socially conscious two-time Academy Award winner who lensed Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and many other masterpieces, died at 93 in his sleep at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Dec. 27. One of the most influential American cinematographers of all time, Wexler also worked on American Graffiti (1973), The Best Man (1964), and In the Heat of the Night (1967).
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Martin E. Brooks, best known for his portrayal of the scientist Dr. Rudy Wells on the '70s ABC series The Six Million Dollar Man and its spinoff, The Bionic Woman, died of natural causes on Dec. 7 in Studio City. He was 90.
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Murray Weissman, the dean of Oscar consultants who spearheaded the awards campaigns for seven best picture winners over 50 years, died on Dec. 28. He was 90.
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Heavy metal icon and Motorhead frontman Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister died from cancer on Dec. 28. He was 70.
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