Tag: obituary
70s Rewind: Remembering George Segal, Genre Guy
The actor struck complex chords as a leading man in the 1970s.
Sir Roger Moore Has Passed Away
Sir Roger Moore, best known for portraying James Bond in seven installments of the spy series, has died, according to his official Twitter account. He was 89. Moore's screen career dated back to the 1940s and gained momentum through the...
Filmmaker Jonathan Demme Has Passed Away
Jonathan Demme, who won an Academy Award for directing The Silence of the Lambs, has died, according to Indiewire and other sources. He was 73. When he was making a film in England, Roger Corman hired Demme as a unit...
Rest In Peace, Robin Hardy, Director Of THE WICKER MAN, 1929-2016
Robin Hardy, director of one of the all time great horror films, The Wicker Man has passed on at the age of 86. Born in Surrey, England, Hardy started his career with the National Film Board of Canada, before going...
RIP Alan Rickman
Cancer has been busy in the pop cultural world in the first couple weeks of 2016. Stage and Movie star (and silky-voiced villain) Alan Rickman has succumbed to a battle with cancer at aged 69.Depending on your age (and geographical...
RAVENOUS Director Antonia Bird Passes Away At 54
Very sad new today with reports out of the UK that Ravenous director Antonia Bird has passed away at the age of 54. Though there is no official word yet on the cause of death I was personally in touch...
Director Ted Post, 95, Has Died
Ted Post, who directed Clint Eastwood Westerns, the weird cult classic The Baby, and the sequels Magnum Force and Beneath the Planet of the Apes, has died. He was 95. His name may not be instantly familiar, but Post was...
Rest In Peace, Elmore Leonard
The literary world has lost a giant with word that iconic crime novelist Elmore Leonard has passed away in a Detroit area hospital from complications of a stroke suffered last month. The author of Jackie Brown, Get Shorty, 3:10 To...
Jim Kelly, Known For ENTER THE DRAGON, Dead At 67
Jim Kelly, an International Karate champion and Bruce Lee's co-star in the seminal martial arts flick Enter the Dragon, died yesterday. Though there has been no official report of his death and the circumstances surrounding it have not been released, the announcement...
Director David R. Ellis Has Passed Away
Sad news from Hollywood today. Veteran action director and former stuntman David R. Ellis has passed away in South Africa while preparing for his new film KITE which was slated to start shooting soon. He was 60. No news on...
