2020 Passings
Film actors, producers, directors and others who died in 2020
Kirk Douglas (age 103) - Spartacus - Obit BBC News
Max von Sydow (age 90) - The Seventh Seal - Obit Northern Echo UK
Dawn Wells (age 82) - Gilligan's Island TV Show - Obit Los Angeles Times
Ennio Morricone (age 91) - film composer (for example, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) - Obit BBC News
Brian Dennehy (age 81) - The Belly of an Architect - Obit Herald Scotland
Carl Reiner (age 98) - The Dick Van Dyke Show - Obit Fox News
Diana Serra Cary - "Baby Peggy" (age 101) - silent film star - Obit Fox News
Olivia de Havilland (age 104)
- Gone with the Wind - Obit Variety
Wilford Brimley (age 85) - The Thing (John Carpenter version) - Obit Sacramento CBS
Chadwick Boseman
(age 42) - Marvel Comics' The Black Panther movie - UK Guardian
Rhonda Fleming (age 97) - Cry Danger - Obit WFTV
Fred Willard (age 86) - Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - Obit Northern Echo
Honor Blackman (age 94) - James Bond films - Obit BBC News
Kelly Preston (age 57) -
Jerry Maguire - Obit Scotsman
Sean Connery (age 90) - James Bond films - Obit Variety
Terry Jones (age 77) - Monty Python - Obit NY Times
Orson Bean (age 91) - Anatomy of a Murder - Obit LA Times
Buck Henry (age 89) - comedy writer - Obit CBS News Los Angeles
Stuart Whitman (age 92) - Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines - Obit Fox News
Shirley Knight (age 83) - As Good as it Gets, Sweet Bird of Youth - Obit Dallas News
Jerry Stiller (age 92) - Zoolander - Obit Washington Post
Diana Rigg (age 82) - The Avengers TV show - Obit BBC News
Lyle Waggoner (age 84) - Wonder Woman TV Show - Obit Pittsburgh Gazette
A shorter list of some of these actors and their accomplishments is at Turner Classic Movies - In Memoriam
From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age.
This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories (Turner Classic Movies)
What's Recent
Winner of the 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book Award
Longlisted for the 2020 Moving Image Book Award by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation
Named a 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award Finalist by the Theatre Library Association
The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics (Hollywood Legends Series)
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