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Wallender author Henning Mankell has died of cancer at 67. His internationally best-selling detective novels were adapted for television in his native Sweden as well as by British television, there, starring Kenneth Branagh. Mr. Mankell wrote some 40 novels, 11 of which featured Inspector Kurt...

John Guillerman, Britsh-born director known for big-budget action films, The Blue Max, The Towering Inferno, Skyjacked, and King Kong, has passed at 89. Other well-known films include two Tarzan movies, Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile and the blaxploitation feature, Shaft in Africa. A World...

Catherine Coulson, American stage and screen actor, perhaps best known as the "Log Lady" on Twin Peaks and the prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, has passed away at 71. Ms. Coulson was a favorite of director David Lynch, and was scheduled to continue her character in the upcoming Showtime...

Jack Larsen, actor, producer and playwright, Jimmy Olsen on television's first Superman series, has died at 87. Later on, he played "Old Jimmy Olsen" in an episode of Lois and Clark, and played a bartender in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns. Mr. Larsen also produced several of his longtime...

Frank Gilroy, award-winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter, perhaps best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning,The Subject Was Roses, has died at 89. He wrote several screenplays, including The Gallant Hours, Desparate Characters, The Only Game in Town, and From Noon Til Three with...

Former child star Dickie Moore, who began acting at 11 months in 1927, has died at age 89. He was one of The Little Rascals, was the title character in Oliver Twist, and gave Shirley Temple her first screen kiss. As an adult he appeared in a number of films including Out of the Past, The Member...

Judy Carne, perhaps best known as the "Sock it to Me" girl in Laugh-In, died September 3rd at the age of 76. Ms. Carne made numerous television appearances on shows like 12 O'Clock High and I Dream of Jeannie, made-for-tv movies like QBVII, and three threatical films, including The...

Jean Darling, who starred in Our Gang as a child of 4, as well as many other silents, has died at 93. Ms. Darling also performed in the Broadway production of Carousel.

Martin Milner, an actor on stage, screen, television and radio, perhaps best known for his television work, starring in two successful series, Route 66 and Adam 12, has died at 83. Mr. Milner also appeared in a number of films, including Sweet Smell of Success, Gunfight at the OK Corral, and...

Actor Dean Jones, star of The Love Bug, That Darn Cat, The Ugly Dachshund, and other Disney films, has died at 84, a victim of Parkinson's disease. Mr. Jones also appeared on Broadway and on television in short-lived shows like Herbie the Love Bug and Beethovan, and appeared in such non-Disney...

Wes Craven, the film director famous for reinventing the youth horror genre with Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream movies, has died at 76, after a battle with brain cancer. In addition to his famous horror films, Mr. Craven directed Meryl Streep in Music of the Heart, which earned her an...

Melody Patterson, perhaps best known as Wrangler Jane on F Troop, has died at 66. She also appeared on other 60s television shows like the Monkees, Adam 12, Hawaii 5-0, and Green Acres, as well as a handful of films including Blood and Lace and The Angry Breed. Ms. Patterson's F Troop costar...

Bud Yorkin, film and television director, producer and writer, perhaps best known for directing 70s sitcoms like All in the Family and Good Times, is dead at 89. He directed a number of films including Come Blow Your Horn, Divorce American Style, Start the Revolution Without Me, and executive...

Jack Gold, British film, theatre and television director, has died, on August 9th at age 85. His many films include, Aces High, The Reckoning, The Medusa Touch, The Naked Civil Servant, The Bofurs Gun, Escape From Sobibor, and personal favorite, Who? He worked regularly with John Thaw, and...

Frank Gifford, one of the most popular sportscasters in television history, is dead at 84. Best known for ABC's Monday Night Football, he also made guest appearances on shows like The San Pedro Bums and Coach. Mr. Gifford was also the hero of Frederick Exley's classic novel, A Fan's Notes.

Colleen Gray, luminous, talented star of screen and television, is dead. She starred in many films, as varied as Red River, Arrow in the Dust, The Leech Woman, and P.J. As a queen of noir, she starred in such films as Kiss of Death, Nightmare Alley, The Sleeping City, Kansas City Confidential...

Cilla Black, who enjoyed a 50-year showbusiness career, starring in several music shows in England, is dead at 72. Ms. Black, whose real name was Priscilla White, is probably best known for the songs, "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "You're My World."

Nova Pilbeam, classic child actress, dead at 95, 7/13, best known for two Hitchcock 30s thrillers, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Young and Innocent.

Theodore Bikel, Oscar and Tony nominated star of stage, screen, and television, dead at 91. Perhaps best known for Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof, he made many films after his debut in The African Queen, including The Defiant Ones, My Fair Lady, The Russians are Coming, Sands of the Kalihari...

Alex Rocco, dead at 79, long career in film and television, best known as Moe Green in The Godfather, personal favorites, the bent cop in cult favorite Detroit 9000, and as Scalise in The Friends of Eddie Coyle.

George Coe, dead at 86, SNL alumnus and prominently featured in of dozens of movies like Best Seller, Kramer v. Kramer, Blind Date.

Star of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago dead at 83.