*Famous Men : R.I.P. List #1

Date of Birth 7 June 1958, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Date of Death 21 April 2016, Paisley Park, Minnesota, USA

Birth Name Prince Rogers Nelson

Nicknames The Purple One His Royal Badness Skipper The High Priest of Pop The Prince of Funk The Artist Formerly Known as Prince

Height 5' 2" (1.57 m)

Spouses: Manuela Testolini (31 December 2001 - 2006) (divorced)

Mayte Garcia (14 February 1996 - 14 February 1999) (annulled) (1 child)

Trade Marks: In song titles, usually replaces "to," "two," or "too" with "2"; "for" with "4"; and "you" with "U." (Example: "I Would Die 4 U.") Colourful outfits and raunchy lyrics High heels Odd shaped guitars High pitched Voice Short stature

[16 October 1996]. Son, with Mayte Garcia, born with the rare skull disease Pfeiffer's syndrome and unable to breathe without a ventilator. The child was taken off life support on 23 October and died.

Prince was diagnosed with epilepsy as a child, and had seizures through his early childhood. However, it wasn't until 2009 in an interview with PBS's Travis Smiley that Prince openly talked about this, one of very few celebrities to go public about their experience as someone living with epilepsy. He also credited epilepsy with motivating him to become a performer.

Date of Birth 27 November 1948 , Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

Date of Death 31 December 2013 , Los Angeles, California, USA

Height 6' 5" (1.96 m)

Trade Mark Often plays characters in legal or high-level professional fields Beard Deep Booming Voice Towering Height and broad Frame

Personal Quotes You are only an actor if you absolutely love it and can not do anything else. Starving for your art is great in your 20s, but it's not so great at 35. It has to be absolute love. You can't worry about being a movie star or anything else. Just love. That's it.

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

Date of Birth 29 August 1923, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Date of Death 24 August 2014, Northwood, Hillingdon, London, England, UK

Birth Name Richard Samuel Attenborough

Nickname Dickie, Bunter.

Height 5' 7" (1.7 m)

He died in Denville Hall care home in Northwood, London, on August 23, 2014, at lunchtime, five days before 91st birthday. He moved into the care home because of his failing health, in March 2013. His wife, Sheila, had been based there since June 2012.

According to his brother David Attenborough, Before his death, Richard was no longer able to walk and gets about in a wheelchair. However, he still had all his other faculties about him, and was still as gregarious as ever.

12/26/04: Members of his family - daughter Jane, son-in-law Michael Holland, grandchildren Sam, Lucy and Alice and Michael's mother Jane - were holidaying in Phuket, Thailand, when the area was hit by the South Asian tsunami on Boxing Day 2004. Lord Attenborough lost his daughter, her mother-in-law and his 14-year-old granddaughter Lucy in the tragedy. His elder granddaughter, 17-year-old Alice, was seriously injured and his son-in-law and grandson survived unscathed.

[on Kevin Kline] A complex character, a total chameleon - and an engaging and bewitching man. He can charm the birds off the trees, but he is also terribly shy.

Diana (Diana Hawkins) and I went to see E.T. in Los Angeles shortly before all the awards and we used language, when we came out, to the extent of saying 'we have no chance - E.T. should and will walk away with it'. Without the initial premise of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the film would be nothing. Therefore it's a narrative film but it's a piece of narration rather than a piece of cinema, as such. E.T. depended absolutely on the concept of cinema and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I'm very fond of, is a genius. I think E.T. is a quite extraordinary piece of cinema. [on the competition between Gandhi (1982) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) at the 1983 Academy Awards]

1978: Officially retired from acting. He agreed to make a return to acting in Jurassic Park (1993), saying he was a huge admirer of Steven Spielberg and always felt bad that Gandhi (1982) had won the best picture award instead of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Spielberg had previously wanted to cast him as Tootles in Hook (1991), however, he'd been busy directing Chaplin (1992) at the time.

Date of Birth 14 September 1977 , Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden

Date of Death 13 May 2014 , Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Nickname Malle

Personal Quotes: I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

Date of Birth 26 July 1926, Powderly, Kentucky, USA

Date of Death 6 April 2015, Hickory, North Carolina, USA (complications from pneumonia)

Birth Name Jewel Franklin Guy

Nickname Jimmy

Height 6' 1" (1.85 m)

Spouces: Dorothy Best (15 August 1986 - 6 April 2015) (his death)

Jobee Ayers (1959 - 1977) (divorced) (2 children)

Date of Birth 4 February 1936 , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Date of Death 15 March 2014 , New York City, New York, USA (cancer)

Birth Name David Norris Brenner

Spouse (2) Tai Babilonia (7 March 2011 - 15 March 2014) (his death) Elizabeth Slater (19 February 2000 - 2001) (divorced) (2 children)

Personal Quotes: You know you're getting old when... you start to dress in more than six colors.

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

Date of Birth 9 March 1921, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death 14 July 2012, Sag Harbor, New York, USA

Birth Name Donald Alan Brinkley

Spouse Marge Brinkley (21 April 1962 - 14 July 2012) (his death) Lois Annette Beard (? - ?) (divorced) 2 children

His wife, Marge Brinkley passed away seven weeks after his death.

Date of Birth 8 September 1922 , Yonkers, New York, USA

Date of Death 12 February 2014 , Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name Isaac Sidney Caesar

Height 6' (1.83 m)

Spouse: Florence Caesar (17 July 1943 - 3 March 2010) (her death) (3 children)

Personal Quotes: After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself.If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. And people looked at me and said, 'Gee, that's like Uncle David', or 'That's like a friend of mine'. And they related through that. I didn't make fun of them. I made fun of me.

Date of Birth 2 November 1944, Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, France

Date of Death 7 October 2013, Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France (cancer)

Date of Birth 12 April 1947, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Date of Death 1 October 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Birth Name Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.

Spouse Alexandra Marie Llewellyn (26 July 1999 - his death) Wanda Thomas (1969 - 1999) (divorced)

Trade Mark

Realistic, carefully researched stories about the military and terrorism

Personal Quotes

Wars are begun by frightened men.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Success will ruin your life.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

Date of Birth 12 July 1934, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA

Date of Death 27 Febuary 2013, Fort Worth, Texas, USA (Bone Cancer)

Birth Name Jr. Harvey Lavan Cliburn

Date of Birth 20 May 1944, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK

Date of Death 22 December 2014, Crawford, Colorado, USA (lung cancer)

Birth Name John Robert Cocker

Nicknames The Sheffield Soul Shouter The One and Only

Height 5' 8½" (1.74 m)

Spouse: Pam Baker (11 October 1987 - 22 December 2014) (his death)

Quotes: Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?

It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

Date of Birth 24 July 1909, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date of Death 2 February 1953, New York City, New York, USA (complication of surgery)

Birth Name Harry Ueberroth

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Spouse Ilona Massey (1941 - 16 December 1942) (divorced) Gwen Herman (? - ?) Priscilla Lawson (? - ?) Sandra Lucas (? - ?) Betty Dodero (? - ?)

Trivia

Uncle of former Commissioner of Baseball Peter Ueberroth.

Date of Birth 28 February 1923, Highland Falls, New York, USA

Date of Death 24 December 2012, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA (natural causes)

Nickname Chuck

Height 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Spouse Mary Ann Amelio (1973 - 24 December 2012) (his death)

Personal Quotes

[about arriving at Omaha Beach on D-Day] It's hard to describe what we all went through that day, but those of us who were there will understand. We were frightened all the time. My sergeant said 'are you scared, son?' and I said 'yes, I am', and he said 'that's good, it's good to be scared', he said 'we all are'. This guy in the boat, he turned to me and he threw up all over me, and I got seasick. He was scared. You're not thinking about anything, you're just thinking about you hope that shell that just went off isn't going to hit this boat. Even the guys who had seen a lot of action before, and this was my first time, they were just as ashen as I was, and I was frightened to death. I was the second man off my barge and the first and third men got killed. First guy the ramp went down, the guy fell and I tried to leap over him and I stumbled and we both slipped into the water. We were supposed to be able to walk into shore but they didn't bring us far enough. And I was in 60 feet of water with a 60 pound pack on, so I let it all go.

[on reaching Omaha Beach after falling in the water] I came up and I didn't have a helmet, a rifle, nothing. I hit the beach, the guys pulled me in who were already there, I'd lost everything; but they said 'you'll find plenty of them on the beach, rifles, helmets, that belong to nobody'. Nobody knew where we were supposed to go, there was nobody in charge, you were on your own. All around me people were being shot at, I saw bodies all over the place; but you didn't know if they were alive or dead, they were just lying there.

[about D-Day] We got behind this tank to protect ourselves; we're holding our own when they called us over to them. I asked the sergeant 'you want me to go first or you go first?' He said 'you go first, I'll be right behind you'. I heard an explosion, and I turned around, and his torso was here, and his body was over there.

There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about. There's terror and repulsion in us, the terrible spot that we don't talk about. That place no one knows about -- horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say: "He couldn't carry it." They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana.

Date of Birth 12 January 1946, San Rafael, California, USA

Date of Death 5 August 2013, Los Angeles, California, USA (leukemia)

Personal Quotes [on being told he could study music] I don't remember it too well, but my mother told me I went crazy. I ran around saying, 'Get me a piano! Get me a piano!'

Date of Birth 23 January 1907 , White Plains, New York, USA

Date of Death 7 June 1968 , Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer)

Date of Birth 18 June 1942, Urbana, Illinois, USA

Date of Death 4 April 2013, Chicago, Illinois, USA (cancer)

Birth Name Roger Joseph Ebert

Height 5' 5½" (1.66 m)

Spouse Chaz Ebert (18 July 1992 - his death)

Personal Quotes

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.

Old theatres are irreplaceable. They could never be duplicated at today's costs - but more importantly, their spirit could not be duplicated because they remind us of a day when going to the show was a more glorious and escapist experience. I think a town's old theatres are the sanctuary of its dreams.

We Americans like to see evil in terms of guns and crime and terrorists and drug smuggling - big, broad immoral activities. We rarely make movies about how one person can be personally cruel to another, through their deep understanding of what might hurt the other person the most.

[on why his movie ratings are relative, not concrete] It doesn't work that way because people should be smart enough to listen to what Richard Roeper and I say instead of looking at the dumb thumbs and the dumb stars because there are gradations and contexts that go on.

A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.

It's saying something about a director's work when the most well-rounded and socialized hero in any of [Tim Burton's] films is Pee-wee Herman.

One thing I've discovered is that I love my job more than I thought I did, and I love my wife even more!

The point is not to avoid all Stupid Movies, but to avoid being a Stupid Moviegoer.

American films are usually about one or two stars and a handful of well-known character actors, while Europeans are still capable of pitching in together for an ensemble piece.

There was a time when the feature was invariably preceded by a cartoon, and audiences smiled when they heard the theme music for "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" from Warner Bros. Cartoons have long since been replaced by 20 minutes of paid commercials in many theaters, an emblem of the greed of exhibitors and their contempt for their audiences. In those golden days, the cartoon (and even a newsreel and a short subject) was a gift from the management.

Now that I no longer do the red carpet, I can say with pride I never once asked anyone, 'What are you wearing?'

I have the sense that younger Hollywood is losing the instinctive feeling for story and quality that generations of executives possessed. It's all about the marketing.

I'm not opposed to 3-D as an option. I'm opposed to it as a way of life for Hollywood, where it seems to be skewing major studio output away from the kinds of films we think of as Oscar-worthy.

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

A common misconception is that Gene and I never agree. The truth is more often than not we do agree. Some films are obviously good or obviously bad. That just leaves the ones in the middle for Gene to be wrong about.

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images. Others see it more like 'action painting', and we've seen a lot of discussion in recent years about what J. Hoberman and others have called 'post-photographic cinema', in which computers have replaced cameras, and animation has replaced photography, as the primary means of creating images on the screen.

Date of Birth 31 May 1922, Ealing, London, England, UK

Date of Death 6 October 1992, Ibiza, Spain (AIDS)

Birth Name Denholm Mitchell Elliott

Height 5' 10¾" (1.80 m)

Spouse Susan Robinson (15 June 1962 - 6 October 1992) (his death) 2 children Virginia McKenna (1 March 1954 - 18 June 1957) (divorced)

A bisexual, he tested HIV positive in 1987 and was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988.

His wife Susan, born March 7th, 1942 in Cleveland, died from injuries from a fire in her one bedroom flat April 12, 2007 in north London. Her neighbour, journalist Rob Lyons, tried to save her during the fire and was able to move her from her wheelchair down to the street waiting for the ambulance to arrive, she died a day later.

His daughter Jennifer was addicted to heroin and she hanged herself 2003.

Some sources state that he acquired the AIDS virus from a blood transfusion. However, his widow Susan documented their open marriage and her husband's bisexuality in her book "Denholm Elliott: Quest for Love", published two years after his death.

Rather than recast the role of Marcus Brody in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), director Steven Spielberg and writer David Koepp created a new character, Charles Stanforth, played by Jim Broadbent. The passing of Marcus Brody is acknowledged several times in the film, with a portrait of him hanging in the hallway outside Indy's classroom, a statue of him in a University courtyard, and a malt shop named "Brody's.".

Personal Quotes

I like actors - such as Margaret Rutherford and Peter Lorre - who aren't afraid to over-act like real people. When I take a job I can always come up with ten different ways of doing the part. But I'll always choose the flashiest one. You've got to dress the window a bit.

I'm often given parts that aren't as big as they are colorful, but people remember them. When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like 'Hamlet'.

Date of Birth 19 January 1939, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date of Death 3 January 2014, Burbank, California, USA (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)

Birth Name Phillip Jason Everly

Height 6' (1.83 m)

Spouse (3)

Patrice Yvonne Arnold (23 August 1999 - 3 January 2014) (his death)

Patricia Mickey (15 July 1972 - 22 December 1978) (divorced) (1 child)

Jacqueline Alice Ertel (12 January 1963 - 1970) (divorced) (1 child)

One-half of the singing duo, The Everly Brothers.

Date of Birth 29 February 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date of Death 22 July 2013, Scottsdale, Arizona

Height 6' (1.83 m)

Spouse Patricia (1970 - 1980) (divorced) 3 sons

Trade Mark

Smooth voice with a distinct Chicago accent.

His moustache.

Personal Quotes

Some people approach acting with all these things in their head, making it more complicated than it needs to be, way too cerebral. I don't want to know that an actor lived in a cave for 12 days so that he could prepare for a part.

Date of Birth 11 May 1928, Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death 9 May 1997, Paris, France (heart attack)

Spouse Jacqueline Ferreri (? - 9 May 1997) (his death)

Died 2 days short of his 68th birthday.

Many of his films were black comedies or satirical observations of social conventions and middle-class sexual mores. He was at times criticised for his stridently bleak view of human nature.

Date of Birth 2 March 1941, Caterham, Surrey, England, UK

Date of Death 28 December 2012, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK

Height 5' 11" (1.80 m)

Personal Quotes

I never wanted to be a big star. I usually do one film a year, so I always have enough money to enjoy myself and keep myself out of the public eye. It's a very pleasant life, not one of great ambition.

Date of Birth 6 April 1966

Date of Death 19 June 2013, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (prostate cancer)

Spouse Lysa Flynn (2000 - his death) 3 children

Date of Birth 18 June 1910, Flemington, New Jersey, USA

Date of Death 10 August 1979, Panorama City, California, USA

Birth Name John Nicholas Foran

Height 6' 2¼" (1.89 m)

Spouse Susanne Rosser (1951 - 10 August 1979) (his death) 4 children Carole Gallagher (1 January 1943 - 18 May 1945) (divorced) 1 child Ruth Piper Hollingsworth (6 June 1937 - 19 December 1940) (divorced) 2 children

Trivia

Buried at the San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California.

In the last decade of his life he worked almost exclusively in television commercials.

Date of Birth 29 February 1920, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA

Date of Death 16 June 2006, Oxnard, California, USA (emphysema)

Nickname Turo

Height 5' 10½" (1.79 m)

Lived in New Zealand for many years but wished to return to California during the last stages of his illness.

Date of Birth 7 April 1939, Tenterden, Kent, England, UK

Date of Death 31 August 2013, MS Queen Elizabeth at sea between England and Portugal (heart attack)

Birth Name David Paradine Frost

Height 5' 11½" (1.82 m)

Spouse Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard (19 March 1983 - his death) 3 children Lynne Frederick (25 January 1981 - 1982) (divorced)

Trade Mark

Greeting viewers with "Hello, good evening and welcome."

Date of Birth 18 September 1961, Westwood, New Jersey, USA

Date of Death 19 June 2013, Italy (cardiac arrest)

Birth Name James J. Gandolfini Junior

Nickname Jim

Height 6' 0½" (1.84 m)

Spouse Deborah Lin (30 August 2008 - his death) Marcy Wudarski (March 1999 - 18 December 2002) (divorced) 1 child

Trade Mark

Best remembered as mob boss Tony from "The Sopranos" (1999)

Plays characters who are brutish yet charming

Discreet smile

Large, chunky bear-like frame

Personal Quotes: [on the 'Sopranos' project] I read it. I liked it. I thought it was good. But I thought they would have to hire some good-looking guy, not George Clooney but some Italian George Clooney, and that would be that. But they called me and they said can I meet David [Chase] for breakfast at nine a.m. At the time I was younger and I stayed out late a lot, and I was like, 'Oh, for *beep*'s sake. This guy wants to eat breakfast? This guy's going to be a pain in the ass.

[on acting] It is an odd way to make a living. Putting someone else's pants on and pretending to be someone else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.

"I'm a neurotic mess. I'm really basically just like a 260-pound Woody Allen".

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260-pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295-pound now.

I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go, 'Blah, blah, blah, blah'. - on why he rarely does interviews

I thought, I've never been the lead before. They're gonna hire somebody else. But I knew I could do it. I have small amounts of Mr. Soprano in me. I was 35, a lunatic, a madman. - on his reaction to "The Sopranos" pilot script.

It's been a great opportunity, but I don't have much trepidation about it ending. I think it's more than time. Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people. As much as I've explored this guy, I don't know what else to really do with him. I've been in one place for 10 years. That's enough. It's time for me to do other things. - about ending "The Sopranos"

Date of Birth 7 April 1928 , Norman, Oklahoma, USA

Date of Death 19 July 2014 , Los Angeles, California, USA (Natural Causes)

Birth Name James Scott Bumgarner

Nickname "Slick" - as a teen

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Spouse: Lois Fleishman Clarke (17 August 1956 - 19 July 2014) (his death) (2 children)

Trade Marks: His voice was heard at the beginning of every The Rockford Files (1974) episode on the outgoing message for Jim Rockford's answering machine. Deep gravelly voice. Personally honest, wisecracking, self deprecating, reluctant, naturally masculine hero.

James Garner passed away on July 19, 2014, at age 86, just one month before he would've celebrated his 58th Wedding Anniversary with his wife, Lois.

He survived a number of health problems, from a knee operation, to a bleeding ulcer, to quintuple bypass heart surgery, to a fall and to a stroke.

James had English and some German ancestry. James's maternal grandfather, Charles Bailey Meek, was described in James's New York Times obituary as a "full-blooded Cherokee". However, James's grandfather had no documented Native American ancestry, and Charles Meek and his own parents, Thomas Jefferson Meek and Delilah Frances Bailey, were all listed as "White" on United Censuses.

Personal Quotes: [When he entered Hollywood High School at the time his gym teacher recommended him for his modeling job]: I made 25 bucks an hour! That's why I quit school. I was making more money than the teachers. I never finished the ninth grade.

(on Steve McQueen) Steve was my neighbor for some time, I called him "Crazy McQueen", because, quite frankly, he was crazy. We were friends, but he wanted to play my part in Grand Prix (1966) and because of that we didn't talk for four years. He wasn't a great actor, but he was a star - McQueen had probably the highest amount of star quality I've ever seen in an actor.

I'm a Spencer Tracy-type actor. His idea was to be on time, know your words, hit your marks and tell the truth. Most every actor tries to make it something it isn't looks for the easy way out. I don't think acting is that difficult if you can put yourself aside and do what the writer wrote.

[on his conflicts with Warner Brothers, in relation to his contractual obligations to the television series Maverick (1957)] They really stuck it to me. I was young and dumb. I said a couple things about being under contract that they didn't like, like that I felt like a ham in a smokehouse. They were waiting to get back at me by laying me off. We went to court and got out of my contract. I didn't want somebody in an office guiding my career. If I had a failure, I wanted it to be my failure. If I had a success, I wanted it to be my success.

About everything I ever have done, in the way of lawsuits against studios, I've won them all, because I was right every time.

Marriage is like the Army; everyone complains, but you'd be surprised at the large number of people who reenlist.

[Asked if he would ever do a nude scene] I don't do horror films.

Born: 1922

Date of Death: 28 August 2013, Hollywood, California, USA (heart attack)

Date of Birth 31 July 1947, Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Date of Death 28 March 2013, University Hospital, Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK (complications following heart surgery)

Height 5' 9" (1.75 m)

Personal Quotes

'I hate being the subject of photographs.

I've always hated the way I looked...

Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.

(On Uncle Vernon from the Harry Potter movies) "Vernon distrusts Harry completely and is always concerned that he is going to do something strange at any moment. That is Vernon's biggest fear - he doesn't want anything strange happening that the neighbours might see."

If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart. 'That's for being so lucky, you bastard!' I would shout. And then, hit them again, if you can.

Date of Birth 21 September 1931, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Date of Death 23 November 2012, Dallas, Texas, USA

Birth Name Larry Martin Hagman

Nickname Mad Monk of Malibu Hag

Height 6' 1" (1.85 m)

Spouse Maj Axelsson (18 December 1954 - present) 2 children (his death)

Trade Mark

Cowboy Hat

His gleaming smile.

Southern accent.

Smoky, gravelly voice.

I spent five years in England, I went over there with my mother in the show South Pacific and I just love it. I go back there three or four times a year. I joined the American airforce because the Korean war was going on at one time and I got my call up papers and I was supposed to report back to the United States and get my ass shot off in Korea which I didn't think was a smart idea and not only that I couldn't understand what the war was all about, I guess a lot of people could at that time but I still can't even more than I can the Vietnam war, so anyhow I enlisted in the American airforce and I was stationed in London for four years which was pretty good because I never gave up my civilian apartment in St Johns Wood. I got married, met a Swedish girl there, we've been married 46 years now.

(On the infamous "Who Shot J.R?" episode): "Before that fateful shot rang out, I was merely bemused by the success of the character. Villainy could be fun, and that's how I played it. And if it worked. I mean I couldn't go down to the corner to pick up my copy of the Sunday New York Times without running into some nubile creature with "J.R. for President" emblazoned across her chest. Now a higher, shriller note had been added. People who once merely wanted J.R.'s autograph demanded to know who shot him as if it were their birthright, and were angry and upset when I told them, truthfully, that I didn't know."

[referring to his choice of final resting place for his ashes] I want to be spread over a field and have marijuana and wheat planted and harvest it in a couple of years and then have a big marijuana cake, enough for 200 or 300 people. People eat a little of Larry.

7 May 1951, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA

Date of Death 26 January 2012, Metuchen, New Jersey, USA (heart attack)

Nickname Bob

Height 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Was the first of two main cast members of Welcome Back, Kotter (1975) to pass away in 2012. The second was Ron Palillo, who coincidentally also passed away from a heart attack

Date of Birth 26 May 1940, Elaine, Arkansas, USA

Date of Death 19 April 2012, New York, New York, USA (throat cancer)

Birth Name Mark Lavon Helm

Height 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Date of Birth 23 July 1967 , Fairport, New York, USA

Date of Death 2 February 2014 , Greenwich Village, New York, USA (drug overdose)

Nickname Phil Height 5' 9½" (1.77 m)

Trade Mark Characters often run through a large range of emotions His sluggish, almost listless way of talking

Hoffman was found dead, reportedly from a drug overdose, in his Manhattan apartment on February 2, 2014, exactly one day after the death (from pneumonia) of another Best Actor Oscar winner, 83-year-old Maximilian Schell (for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Personal Quotes: (On quitting drinking at age 22) I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.

[on 'The Master'] L. Ron Hubbard is the reference, but it isn't L. Ron Hubbard. There are things he does that are referenced in Hubbard's life, but ultimately there is no adherence to that fact. We took liberties because he is a fictional character.

[on Capote (2005)] I knew that it would be great, but I still took the role kicking and screaming. Playing Capote took a lot of concentration. I prepared for four and a half months. I read and listened to his voice and watched videos of him on TV. Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character. With Capote, the part required me to be a little unbalanced, and that wasn't really good for my mental health. It was also a technically difficult part. Because I was holding my body in a way it doesn't want to be held and because I was speaking in a voice that my vocal cords did not want to do, I had to stay in character all day. Otherwise, I would give my body the chance to bail on me.

My passion to develop as an actor didn't have anything to do with people knowing me. I had no idea that would happen. To become famous, to become a celebrity is something that I thought happened to other people.

Film is a very uncomfortable medium for an actor. It's just not conducive to doing what actors do. The first few days of shooting are like you just getting over the fact that your there. These people and the camera over the shoulder and the light and the boom - you're just going crazy trying to find some kind of center of relaxation and then you can get into a rhythm and it can be very satisfying. If you do good work and it's on film, that's a very satisfying thing. - 2006.

The stage can be more satisfying because you spend a lot of time rehearsing, and film is more technical. In the end it just depends on the work and the director. I do like the world of the theater though.

"Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money.You have to love it." - On his advice to aspiring actors.

Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.

[on The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)] Playing Freddie Miles was really easy. It was one of those parts you know exactly what you're doing. The character is not beating around the bush at all. His main action is to expose Tom Ripley as a phoney.

On my down time I do a lot of nothing. I just kinda read, run and hang out with friends because I haven't had a lot of it lately. I just try to do a lot of nothing. Go to some sports. I like to play tennis. I travel a lot with my work now so if you are travelling all the time you don't want to travel you want to stay home. And when you stay home you really don't want to do too much because you've been going out and getting up early and staying out late all the time. So you just do very little.

My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And,the actual acting of it.

[on getting his part in The Big Lebowski (1998)] It's the Coen brothers, and you never think you're going to get to work with people like that. I thought I'd never get the part. So I wanted to do something very weird. I went in and started ranting and raving and they were laughing their asses off. I was petrified but, I figured, at least they laughed a lot.

It's not by going into 'the business,'. The business can't be a thought. You get a foothold because you want to get a foothold as an artist. Your desire, your intensity, has to be about being a great actor or a great painter or a great musician. If that's strong enough, it'll lead you to good teachers and to places where you'll learn. For me, the business wasn't a thought. I was doing a play, and a friend in the play said, 'My manager is here tonight and she wants to meet you.' And I said, 'Oh.' And that's how I got a manager.

"It was an incredibly honest, unique, specific and personal story of addiction. He lives to feed the beast and it gets him farther away from reality, intimacy and life.To me, it's not even about gambling. It's about a man and how he behaves in this pressurized world he has created for himself. There is no relief for this guy. It's about a man who cuts off his feelings at the same time his girlfriend [Minnie Driver] comes at him harder. Life comes at him harder, too, but he can only think about his addiction." - On his role in Owning Mahowny.

I think Magnolia is one of the best films I've ever seen and I can say that straight and out and anybody that disagrees with me I'll fight you to the death. I just think it is one of the greatest films I've ever been in and ever seen.

Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I'm unhappy. Then it's a miserable existence. I'm putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn't do anything, I feel so ashamed. I'm afraid I'll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn't. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can't always feel comfortable with when I'm living my own life, you know? Because it's make- believe.

Sometimes I'm working on a film and someone will ask me if I'm having fun. And I'm tempted to tell them the truth: No, absolutely not. Having no fun here at all. You know what's going to be fun? When it's done, and I've done a *beep* good job, and I know people are getting something out of that. I'll have a lot of fun then. A ton of it.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

"Other people disagree with me, but Scent of a Woman really was my breakthrough. I was working in the prepared foods section of a deli when I was cast in that movie, and I've never had a non-acting job since. That's amazing".

To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that's a thing people don't understand. It is that exhausting. If you're doing it well, if you're concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head..And I don't think that should get any easier". -- On acting.

Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can, in the hope that people who ordinarily turn their heads in disgust instead think, 'What I thought I'd feel about that guy, I don't totally feel right now' ". -- On his responsibility as an actor.

"Not only couldn't I get a job as an actor, I couldn't hold down the temporary non- acting jobs I managed to get. I got fired as a waiter in restaurants and as a lifeguard at a spa" --On his life before films "If I hadn't gotten into Scent of a Woman (1992), I wouldn't be where I am today. It's been a domino effect ever since".

"Being unemployed is not good for any actor, no matter how successful you are. You always remember what it feels like to go to the unemployment office, what it feels like to be fired from all those restaurants".

A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has.

Date of Birth 14 August 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Death 22 June 2015, Santa Barbara, California, USA (Plane Crash)

Birth Name James Roy Horner

Personal Quotes (1) I had no idea who Jerry Goldsmith or John Williams were before I did The Hand (1981). I'm sure that I was influenced by Goldsmith's large orchestral scores when I started out, and that was because the people who employed me wanted that kind of sound. I wasn't in a position to say, 'Go to Hell!'

Date of Birth 12 September 1931, Saratoga, Texas, USA

Date of Death 26 April 2013, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (hypoxic respiratory failure)

Birth Name George Glenn Jones

Nickname No-Show Jones Possum

Height 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Date of Birth 10 November 1924 , Ashley, Pennsylvania, USA

Date of Death 16 January 2014 , Washington, USA (kidney failure)

Birth Name Russell David Johnson

Nickname The Professor

Height 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Spouses: Constance Dane (18 May 1982 - 16 January 2014) (his death)

Kay Cousins Johnson (23 July 1949 - 20 January 1980) (her death) (2 children)

Edith Cahoon (1943 - 1948) (divorced)

With the death of Bob Denver on September 2, 2005, he was the last surviving male cast member of Gilligan's Island (1964).

Immortalized by the obscure Canadian band Show Business Giants in their song, "I Can't Get Russell Johnson Off My Mind", from their 1995 album "Let's Have a Talk With the Dead".

Son David died of AIDS at age 39 on October 27, 1994. Before and especially after David's death, Johnson devoted a great deal of his time to AIDS fund-raising.

Personal Quotes Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.

"It used to make me upset to be typecast that way. But as the years have gone on, I have given in. I am the Professor, and that's the way it is. The show has brought a lot of joy to people, and that's not a bad legacy" -- Russell Johnson, referring to his role on Gilligan's Island (1964).

Gunsmoke (1955), Wagon Train (1957), The Dakotas (1963)-- you name a western, I did it. I was always the bad guy in westerns. I played more bad guys than you can shake a stick at until I played the Professor. Then I couldn't get a job being a bad guy.

Date of Birth 27 April 1932 , Detroit, Michigan, USA

Date of Death 15 June 2014 , Los Angeles, California, USA (Lewy Body Disease)

Birth Name Kemal Amin Kasem

Height 5' 6" (1.68 m)

Spouses: Jean Kasem (21 December 1980 - 15 June 2014) (his death) (1 child)

Linda Myers (1969 - 20 November 1980) (divorced) (3 children)

Trade Mark: Distinctive dramatic voice and for decades, he had provided the voice of Shaggy Rogers on the various "Scooby-Doo" animated series and also a veteran DJ and the original host of the "American Top 40" radio show.

Personal Quotes: Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

Date of Death 9 August 2014 , Weston, Connecticut, USA (cancer)

Spouse: Mary (1963 - his death) (2 children)

Veteran soap opera actor, Charles Keating, has died at the age of 72. He had been fighting cancer. Keating has starred on daytime dramas “All My Children,” “Port Charles” and “Another World.” His work as Carl Hutchins on “Another World” garnered the actor an Emmy in 1996. His extensive credits include the films “The Thomas Crown Affair,” “The Bodyguard” and “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.” He has appeared on television shows “Alias,” “Xena: Warrior Princess” and “Hercules.

Date of Death 29 June 2013, San Diego, California, USA (cancer)

Birth Name James M. Kelly

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Spouse Marilyn Dishman (January 1967 - January 1968) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

International Middle Weight Karate Champion (1971)

Was first interested in karate after leaving the University of Louisville as a freshman and moving to Lexington; began studying martial arts under karate instructor Parker Sheldon

Became a professional tennis player in 1975, rising to No. 2 in California in the senior men's doubles rankings and reaching the state's top ten in senior men's singles.

Date of Birth 19 December 1943 , Manchester, England, UK

Date of Death 14 June 2014 , England, UK

Birth Name Roger Michael Kelly

Sam Kelly, a British actor whose career in television, theater and film spanned four decades, died Saturday. He was 70. Kelly died peacefully on Saturday morning after a long illness bravely fought.

Date of Birth 13 September 1939, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Date of Death 10 September 2014, Fresno, California, USA

Birth Name Richard Dawson Kiel

Height 7' 1½" (2.17 m)

Spouses: Diane Rogers (1974 - 10 September 2014) (his death) (4 children)

Faye Daniels (1960 - 1973) (divorced)

Once said that people are always confusing him with André the Giant, Fred Gwynne ("Herman Munster" from The Munsters (1964)), or Ted Cassidy ("Lurch" from The Addams Family (1964)), all of whom are deceased.

Original choice to play the title character in the television series The Incredible Hulk (1978). After 2 days of filming it was decided that he was not "bulky" enough for the role. He was paid for the two movies of the week and replaced by Lou Ferrigno. He was happy this happened because he only had sight in one eye and the full contact lenses were bothering him.

He is best known for playing Jaws, a giant and seemingly unstoppable assassin with steel teeth who battled James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

Date of Birth 10 August 1931 , Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Date of Death 12 December 2013 , Thousand Oaks, California, USA

Birth Name Thomas Robert Laughlin

Spouse: Delores Taylor (15 October 1954 - 12 December 2013) (his death) (3 children)

Trained in hapkido karate by karate master Bong Soo Han.

Tom's movie Billy Jack (1971) cost $800,000 to make and grossed over $65 million.

Has done extensive research on Jungian psychology and alternative cancer therapy treatments.

Was a running back for the University of Minnesota football team, and later tried out for the old Chicago Cardinals in the NFL.

Date of Birth 30 October 1938, Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA

Date of Death 16 October 2013, Los Angeles, California, USA (mesothelioma)

Birth Name Edward Matthew Lauter II

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Spouse Mia (26 May 2006 - his death) Marnie (1985 - ?) 2 children

Date of Birth 27 May 1922, Belgravia, London, England, UK

Date of Death 7 June 2015, Chelsea, London, England, UK (heart failure)

Birth Name Christopher Frank Carandini Lee

Nickname Chris

Height 6' 5" (1.96 m)

Gitte Lee (17 March 1961 - 7 June 2015) (his death) (1 child)

Trade Mark (5) Deeply melodic basso voice Frequently plays imposing, menacing villains

Roles in Hammer Horror films

Personal Quotes:

One day, I hope somebody will sum up my career thus: "He was different." That would satisfy me.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

[on Peter Cushing] He really was the most gentle and generous of men. I have often said he died because he was too good for this world.

[on how he was cast as the monster in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)] I was asked to play the creature chiefly because of my size and height which had effectively kept me out of many pictures I might have appeared in during the preceding ten years. Most British stars flatly refused to have me anywhere near them in a film, because I was easily the tallest man around.

I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning.

(on his friendship with Peter Cushing) I don't want to sound gloomy, but, at some point of your lives, every one of you will notice that you have in your life one person, one friend whom you love and care for very much. That person is so close to you that you are able to share some things only with him. For example, you can call that friend, and from the very first maniacal laugh or some other joke you will know who is at the other end of that line. We used to do that with him so often. And then when that person is gone, there will be nothing like that in your life ever again.

More often than not sports a beard. Especially in recent years

Towering height and slender frame

ate of Birth 11 October 1925, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Date of Death 20 August 2013, Detroit, Michigan, USA (complications from stroke)

Birth Name Elmore John Leonard Jr.

Nickname Dutch

Spouse Christine Kent (19 August 1993 - ?) (divorced) Joan Leanne Lancaster (15 September 1979 - 13 January 1993) (her death) Beverly Claire Cline (30 July 1949 - 24 May 1977) (divorced) 5 children

Personal Quotes

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

[his first rule of writing dialog] If it sounds written, it's wrong.

[about the adaptation of his book "Get Shorty"] All the adaptations of my books all sucked. This one [Get Shorty (1995)] got it right for once.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me, "I don't want to show my work to anybody". Well, what are you doing it for?

[on film versions of his work] I don't remember all the bad ones. I know "The Big Bounce" was bad, though, and they made it twice. It wasn't bad enough the first time [The Big Bounce (1969)]. I don't think anybody in the picture knew what they were doing. The second time they made it [The Big Bounce (2004)], they shot it in Hawaii. They would cut to surfers when they ran out of ideas.

[on the process of writing] There isn't any secret. You sit down and you start and that's it.

Date of Birth 3 December 1922, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death 16 February 2011, Burbank, California, USA (pneumonia)

Birth Name Leonard King Lesser

Height 6' 1" (1.85 m)

Spouse Janice Burrell (21 July 1954 - 30 June 1982) (divorced) 2 children

Date of Birth 29 October 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Death 26 September 2012, Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California, USA(suicide?)

Lewis, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles after he either fell or jumped off a roof to his death at a home where an 81-year-old woman was found dead. 28-year-old Lewis is also suspected of killing the woman, who owned the house.

Date of Birth 12 February 1940, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death 19 June 2012, Yucca Valley, California, USA (heart attack)

Birth Name Richard Hugh Lynch

Height 6' (1.83 m)

Found dead in his home in Palm Springs, California on June 19, 2012 by actress Carol Vogel. She had not heard from him for several days and went to check on him. Finding his front door ajar, she entered and found him on his kitchen floor.

His body was donated to medical science.

He is survived by his sisters, Carole J. Taylor and Cathy L. Jones; his brother, Barry J. Lynch. He is predeceased by his son, Christopher Lynch. A memorial service was held at Hollywood Forever Funeral Home on June 24, 2012.

Personal Quotes "I've always felt like a thoroughbred without the proper track to run on."

Date of Birth 17 December 1931 , Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death 16 January 2014 , near Jacksonville, Florida, USA (congestive heart failure and kidney failure )

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Was living in hospice care at the time of his death.

Date of Birth 12 February 1939, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date of Death 20 May 2013, Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany (bile duct cancer)

Birth Name Raymond Daniel Manczarek Jr.

Height 6' 0½" (1.84 m)

Spouse Dorothy Manzarek (21 December 1967 - present) 1 child

Trade Mark

Would incorporate the works of Coltrane and other jazz artists into his organ solos. (The Coltrane allusion specifically refers to block and minor chord vamping behind long instrumental solos and is associated with Coltrane's 1960 version of "My Favorite Things" and its influence on The Doors' "Light My Fire".)

His glasses

Personal Quotes

Maybe, maybe we can make the world a better place to live and to love and to get high...'cause it sure ain't that now, man!

When I got the call to say Jim [Jim Morrison] had died in Paris I refused to take it seriously. Our manager, Bill Siddons, flew to Paris to establish the truth--but by the time he got there Jim had been buried. The coroner said that death was due to a hemorrhage brought on by a heart attack, which was caused by taking a too-hot bath after a heavy drinking spree.

I miss him [Jim Morrison] every day. What great company he was. Talk about going to the pub and having a couple of beers with the guy--Morrison was perfect. He's been haunting me for some 40 years now, and I miss him every day.

[on collaborating with slide-guitar master 'Roy Rogers (III)' (qv]] It's simple. You just change focus and adjust your mind. It's as easy as taking off your Giants cap and putting on your Dodgers cap. Everybody loves a blues show. Republicans and Democrats alike love the blues

I'm just a '60s kind of guy. It's all love and peace. People say all my playing still sounds like The Doors, but did I sound like The Doors or did The Doors sound like me?

Date of Birth 3 March 1923, Queens, New York, USA

Date of Death 21 March 2005, Studio City, California, USA (cancer)

Spouse Catherine Martin (1942 - 21 March 2005) (his death) 2 children

The father of a son and a daughter. His daughter died of cancer in 2002.

Is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Date of Birth 3 January 1926, Holloway, London, England, UK

Date of Death 8 March 2016, Coleshill, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Birth Name George Henry Martin

Nickname The Fifth Beatle

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Spouses: Judy Lockhart Smith (June 1966 - 8 March 2016) (his death) (2 children)

Jean "Sheena" Chisholm (3 January 1948 - 25 February 1965) (divorced) (2 children)

Trade Marks: Deep authoritative voice and received pronunciation English accent His sophisticated production style - he is responsible for some of the Beatles' most famous sounds Bringing classical methods and orchestrations into pop recordings

Along with producing the Beatles' recordings, Martin often joined them on the playing end, adding keyboards to their lineup - thus becoming the real "Fifth Beatle" if there ever was one.

Date of Birth 7 March 1958 , Harlow, Essex, England, UK

Date of Death 9 June 2014 , Barnes, London, England, UK

Birth Name Richard Michael Mayall

Height 5' 11" (1.8 m)

Spouse: Barbara Robbin (1985 - 9 June 2014) (his death) (3 children)

Personal Quotes: One of my hobbies is people-watching. I love to sit outside a cafe watching people go by. I use things that I see in different characters that I play.

I'm a difficult person to interview. Everything I have to say is in my performance. I don't like to give too much away.

I'm not trying to do anything spectacular except to change the fabric of our society and bring down the Government.

I was always a show-off and liable to get over-excited. But I have got it under control. I now find people who can't control their energy very funny.

It hasn't happened to me yet, but I would now take a job simply to earn money for my family.

Born: Joel Albert McCrea November 5, 1905 in South Pasadena, California, USA

Died: October 20, 1990 (age 84) in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Birth 10 November 1939, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, USA

Date of Death 22 October 2012, Porcupine, S.D. USA

"You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically correct. Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. And if you notice, I put "American" before my ethnicity. I'm not a hyphenated African-American or Irish-American or Jewish-American or Mexican-American."

Height 6' 1" (1.85 m)

Born: Ralph Rathgeber November 21, 1920 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Died: August 5, 1988 (age 67) in Woodland Hills

Date of Birth 28 December 1931, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Date of Death 6 September 2015, Carlsbad, California, USA (after a long illness)

Birth Name Martin Sam Milner

Height 6' 1" (1.85 m)

Spouse: Judith Bess Jones (23 February 1957 - 6 September 2015) (his death) (4 children)

Married singer and actress Judith Bess Jones on February 23, 1957. They had four children together: two daughters, Amy and Molly; and two sons, Stuart and Andrew. Amy, the eldest daughter, died of acute myeloid leukemia in 2004.

Died peacefully on a Sunday night at his home in Carlsbad, California, surrounded by his family.

His forthright manner and wholesome looks made him a popular choice to play cops, military officers, and other authority figures. His role as veteran patrol officer Pete Malloy in Adam-12 (1968) inspired generations of kids to become cops. He got letters from policemen thanking him for Adam 12. Los Angeles Chief of Police, Charlie Beck, said Adam-12 (1968) and Martin Milner "embodied the spirit of the LAPD to millions of viewers. His depiction of a professional and tough yet compassionate cop led to thousands of men and women applying to become LAPD officers, including me." [2015/09/07].

He has played the same character (Officer Peter Malloy) in four different series: Dragnet 1967 (1967), Adam-12 (1968), The D.A. (1971) and Emergency! (1972).

Milner's memorial service occurred six days after his passing in Oceanside, California with Law Enforcement and community members paying tribute to him.

Personal Quote: I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything turned out.

Date of Birth 6 August 1917, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

Date of Death 1 July 1997, Santa Barbara, California, USA (lung cancer and emphysema)

Birth Name Robert Charles Durman Mitchum

Nickname Mitch Old Rumple Eyes

Height 6' 1" (1.85 m)

He was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea by wife Dorothy Mitchum and neighbor Jane Russell. At Mitchum's insistence, no memorial service was held.

Died one day before his The Big Sleep (1978) co-star James Stewart.

Date of Birth 24 June 1919, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Date of Death 30 October 2015, Glendale, California, USA (gall bladder infection)

Birth Name Umberto Francesca Molinaro

Spouses: Betty Farrell (17 October 1981 - 30 October 2015) (his death)

Jacqueline Martin (1948 - 24 June 1980) (divorced) (1 child)

Died on Happy Days co-star Henry Winkler's 70th birthday.

Personal Quote: [about his Hollywood career[ I spent 20 years here before I got anything going, and from that I got lucky. It takes a lot of luck in show business, too

Date of Birth 11 May 1982, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Date of Death 13 July 2013, Vancouver, Canada (apparent drug-overdose)

Birth Name Cory Allan-Michael Monteith

Height 6' 3" (1.91)

In June 2011, Monteith told Parade Magazine that during his teens, he had what he characterized as a "serious" drug problem. It started at around age 13.

(March 2013) Entered Rehab for substance addiction

(April 2013) left rehab and reunited with Lea Michele at LAX

Date of Birth 2 January 1969, Jay, Oklahoma, USA

Date of Death 31 August 2013, Nebraska, USA

Birth Name Tommy David Morrison

Nickname The Duke

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Spouse Dawn Gilbert (17 September 2001 - November 2007) (divorced) 1 child Dawn Gilbert (17 September 1996 - November 1998) (annulled) 1 child Dawn Freeman (18 May 1996 - September 2000) (divorced)

Personal Quotes

(On boxing): "It was a life changing experience. Very interesting and something I look forward to doing again. Acting is a different challenge."

(On how he sexually-contracted HIV): "Wilt Chamberlain had nothing on me. Infidelity was one of my biggest battles in life. I couldn't overcome it. It probably helped my first marriage crumble."

Date of Birth 20 June 1925, Kingston, Texas, USA

Date of Death 28 May 1971, near Roanoke, Virginia, USA (plane crash)

Birth Name Audie Leon Murphy

Height 5' 8" (1.73 m)

I never liked being called the "most decorated" soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did--guys who were killed.

[fellow US Army officer about Murphy] Don't let that baby face fool you, that's the toughest soldier in the Third Division.

[on his acting career] I'm working under a great handicap . . . no talent.

[of his role as himself in To Hell and Back (1955)] I don't think I'm the type. Maybe Tony Curtis would do.

Date of Birth 6 March 1931, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Date of Death 25 October 2013, Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer)

Birth Name Hal Brett Needham

Spouse Ellyn Wynne Williams (31 December 1996 - his death) Dani Crayne (29 June 1981 - August 1987) (divorced)

Trade Mark

His films feature many stunts (car chases, fights, etc)

Usually ends his films by showing outtakes during the credits

Personal Quotes

[on Burt Reynolds] Burt's a very private person. And he has the capacity for loyalty and caring. Here's a man who has made it okay and he forgets no one he's ever cared for -- men or women. He certainly has tried to keep me from breaking my neck in all the years I've been doubling him.

[on stuntman for John Wayne in In Harm's Way (1965)] Otto [Preminger] treated the cast like they were dirt, except Wayne. The crew hated him. I thought, 'If I ever become a director, I don't ever want to do that crud. Yeah, I learned a lot of things from those big, big directors. And a lot of it was what I didn't want to do.

Date of Birth 1 August 1957, Glendale, California, USA

Date of Death 10 January 2015, Los Angeles, California, USA (liver cancer)

Birth Name Brad Stephen Negron

Nickname Tay

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Date of Birth 26 March 1931, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Date of Death 27 February 2015, Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, USA (end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)

Birth Name Leonard Simon Nimoy

Nickname Lenny

Height 6' 0½" (1.84 m)

Spouse: Susan Bay (1 January 1989 - 27 February 2015) (his death)

Sandi Nimoy (21 February 1954 - 1987) (divorced) (2 children)

Trade Mark: Deep baritone voice Mr. Spock on Star Trek (1966) and eight of the Star Trek films

On February 15, 2015, he was rushed to UCLA Medical Center for severe chest pains after a call to 911. According to accounts, he has been in and out of hospitals for the "past several months".

His final Tweet, posted 4 days before his death, was "A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP" (Live Long and Prosper).

Leonard Nimoy passed away on February 27, 2015, a month away from what would have been his 84th birthday on March 26.

Date of Birth 31 March 1932, Okayama, Japan

Date of Death 15 January 2012,

Spouse Akiko Koyama (? - his death)

Trade Mark

Frequently casts Kei Satô

Personal Quotes

My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.

Born: William Joseph Patrick O'Brien November 11, 1899 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Died: October 15, 1983 (age 83) in Santa Monica, California, USA

Pat was a great personal friend of fellow Irish-American actor James Cagney, from the early days of their career right up to Pat's death in 1983.

His final acting role was as a guest star in an episode of "Happy Days" (1974). The show was set in Milwaukee, WI, which was O'Brien's home town.

Date of Birth 2 August 1932 , Connemara, County Galway, Ireland

Date of Death 14 December 2013 , London, England, UK

Birth Name Peter Seamus O'Toole

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Trade Marks Frequently plays real life characters Bold blue eyes Deep smooth voice Often plays rebels Known in his youth for his blond hair and striking good looks Roles in Shakespearean adaptions Excellent speaking voice

Was friends with fellow Irish actor Richard Harris. After Harris died, his family hoped that O'Toole would replace him as Professor Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).

Personal Quotes (14) I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.

Noel Coward (to O'Toole): "If you'd been any prettier, it would have been Florence of Arabia".

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

"Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!" (on receiving a lifetime achievment at the 75th Academy awards March 23, 2003.)

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

The nicest buttocks in the world are in Ireland. Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

For a young actor it was intimidating. But! You look into the eyes and you see actors know actors. It's like playing jazz. You really have to go there with your trumpet and compete.

Books have been written about that so-called renaissance at the Royal Court Theatre. Bollocks. I watched this appalling bunch of strange young men creeping around, talking pompously. I enjoyed it. The only thing that wasn't enjoyable was in the green room. I said, 'Can I have a drink?' 'We have lemon juice, apple juice, still or sparkling.' I said, 'No, I want a drink. No drink?' I said, 'All right, I'm *beep* off. I'll be back.' A man with earphones said, 'No! No!' Eventually this vodka was smuggled in. - On The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003)

[on Ursula Andress] I've had luck with my leading ladies. The real shocker was Ursula Andress, with whom I made What's New Pussycat (1965). She's a bloody sex symbol and all that, and yet she's one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. A real mother hen, looking after everybody.

[on Katharine Hepburn] I worship that bloody woman. I've never enjoyed working with anyone so much in my whole life, not even Richard Burton. There were no problems, not a one.

[on Sophia Loren] Sophia is gorgeous, a marvelously put together machine. But she's a grievous card sharp; in Naples, they're born with a pack of cards. Give her a nudge and she's the funniest woman in the world. A helluva woman!

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs, which is why I chose it.

[re his Lord Jim (1965) performance] It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure. It was a juvenile lead part and I've decided bow at 33 that I'll never become another aging juvenile.

Date of Birth 23 December 1918, India

Date of Death 10 October 2013

Height 5' 4" (1.63 m)

This elderly, diminutive Indian man was "discovered" by director Wes Anderson and has become a popular character actor by the age of 80.

Date of Birth 21 June 1954, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

Date of Death 8 March 2004, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (accidental heroin overdose)

Birth Name Robert Joseph Pastorelli

Nickname Bobby

Height 5' 10" (1.78 m)

His drug overdose death occurred at the time the authorities were in the stages of reopening the investigation into the shooting 1999 death of his girlfriend, 25yr old Charemon Jonovich ,who was found dead in their home. Police think she accidentally shot herself. Pastorelli was not a suspect, but a "person of interest". The case, initially ruled an accident or suicide, was subsequently closed after his death.

Personal Quote: You do a show and go home and don't realize the impact you're having. Then one day you're returning Christmas presents at a mall in New Jersey and you hear people behind you talking. You think, 'Oh, yeah. I do that TV thing. Yeah.'

Date of Birth 1920

Date of Death 17 November 2011, Rancho Santa Fe, California, USA

Birth Name John Lane Paxton

Spouse Mary Lou (? - 17 November 2011) (his death) 4 children

Date of Death 5 April 2014 , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Height 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Trade Marks: His love for eating His walk

Personal Quotes: My cholesterol count has a comma.

[on performing in Las Vegas] It doesn't matter if I lose money at the tables, 'cause I can always make it up at the buffet. $2.98 breakfasts? Hell, I can eat $2.98 worth of toast! I go up to the Prime Rib table and say 'Hit me!'"

I kind of consider myself ahead of the curve. Or the curves, if you will. It's a common ground that people share: everybody eats. And everybody has an opinion about food.

Date of Birth 18 March 1927, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death 26 September 2003, New York City, New York, USA (natural causes)

Birth Name George Ames Plimpton

Nickname Prince of Cameos

Height 6' 4" (1.93 m)

Spouse Sara Whitehead Dudley (31 December 1991 - 26 September 2003) (his death) Freddy Medora Espy (28 March 1968 - 1988) (divorced) 4 children

Personal Quotes

(Regarding his acting career): "I don't think I'd ever get anything more than a very small role. 'The Prince of the Cameos,' they might call me."

The worst thing that can happen to your career is to be shot out in an open field. You've got to be in the right position to die dramatically, against a wall, near something to hang onto. Never close your eyes. Glaze them. You can't go wrong bringing something down with you when you fall. A tablecloth is excellent. Preferably with a meal on it.

Date of Birth 31 March 1918, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death 20 August 2013, Santa Monica, California, USA

Date of Birth 12 January 1926 , Perryville, Texas, USA

Date of Death 16 December 2013 , Mount Pleasant, Texas, USA (pancreatic cancer)

Birth Name Noble Ray Price

Nickname The Cherokee Cowboy

Spouses: Janie Mae (11 June 1970 - his death)

Betty Berthena Greb (Linda Powers) (1957 - 1969) (divorced) (1 child)

Was closely identified with country music's Nashville Sound that was popularized in the 1960s, though critics also consider him a fine keeper of traditional country music.

Had a long string of hits on Billboard magazine's country singles chart from 1951 to 1982, including eight No. 1 hits.

Born: William Claude Rains November 10, 1889 in Camberwell, London, England, UK

Died: May 30, 1967 (age 77) in Laconia, New Hampshire, USA

He designed his own tombstone. It reads: "All things once/Are things forever,/Soul, once living,/lives forever.

Date of Birth 21 November 1944 , Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date of Death 24 February 2014 , Chicago, Illinois, USA (complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis)

Birth Name Harold Allen Ramis

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Spouses: Erica Mann (7 May 1989 - 24 February 2014) (his death) (2 children) Anne Ramis (2 July 1967 - 27 March 1984) (divorced) (1 child)

Personal Quotes: On the death of friend Douglas Kenney in 1980: Doug probably fell while he was looking for a place to jump.

It's hard for winners to do comedy. Comedy is inherently subversive. We represent the underdog as comedy usually speaks for the lower classes. We attack the winners.

Well, I never made big films to make big films; the scale's been appropriate to the content.

Well, for me, it's the relationship between comedy and life - that's the edge I live on, and maybe it's my protection against looking at the tragedy of it all. It's seeing life in balance. Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny, if seen from a comedic point of view.

I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently suggest or guide or inspire or contribute whatever I can to their effort. It's not like I'm gonna tell Robert De Niro how to act - but I could provide him with useful anecdotal material from my own life or other people I've known, or actual psychological information, or insights into his character. The technique's up to him. But, there are ways to gently urge an actor to pick up the pace or slow it down or focus more, to go bigger or smaller. Some actors are very open right at the beginning - they say, "You only need four words with me: "Bigger, smaller, faster, slower".

Everything we see has some hidden message. A lot of awful messages are coming in under the radar - subliminal consumer messages, all kinds of politically incorrect messages...

Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

[on whether he and Bill Murray would consider doing a third Ghostbusters movie] "My attitude is generally like Bill's old attitude -- there's no point unless it has some interesting quality or something to say about the subject. Personally, I don't rule it out. I'm skeptical, but maybe it'll work".

"At first, I would get mail saying, 'Oh, you must be a Christian because the movie [Groundhog Day (1993)] so beautifully expresses Christian belief'. Then, rabbis started calling from all over, saying they were preaching the film as their next sermon. And the Buddhists! Well, I knew they loved it because my mother-in-law has lived in a Buddhist meditation centre for 30 years and my wife lived there for five years".

..remarks to the New York Times on the ecumenical popularity of Groundhog Day (1993).

[During the 20-year Ghostbusters reunion commentary on the "Ghostbusters" DVD] "Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier [Laurence Olivier] knew it, Brando [Marlon Brando] knew it".

Date of Birth 1941

Date of Death 30 March 2013

Spouse Karen Ichiuji-Ramone (14 April 1984 - his death) 1 child

Date of Birth 2 March 1942, Freeport, New York, USA

Date of Death 27 October 2013, Long Island, New York, USA

Birth Name Lewis Alan Reed

Height 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Spouse Laurie Anderson (12 April 2008 - his death) Sylvia Morales (14 February 1980 - 1994) (divorced) Betty (9 January 1973 - ?) (divorced)

Trade Mark Unabashed New Yorker's viewpoint Sunglasses

Personal Quotes

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

We had vast objections to the whole San Francisco scene. It's just tedious, a lie and untalented. They can't play and they certainly can't write . . . You know, people like Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead are just the most untalented bores that ever came up. Just look at them physically, I mean, can you take Grace Slick seriously? It's a joke! It's a joke! The kids are being hyped.

[on colleague John Cale] I only hope that one day John will be recognized as . . . the Beethoven or something of his day. He knows so much about music, he's such a great musician. He's completely mad--but that's because he's Welsh.

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy. And no matter what happens, keep counting. I personally like it when I can feel that I'm actually moving the beads when I'm counting. And once you make it to a minute, see if you can do a minute-and-a-half. Eventually you can do it without the beads.

[2007, on the release of his album "Hudson River Wind Meditations"] It's geared up to help to you to focus. I call it centering. I use the music all the time. I leave it on all day because living in the city it has an intriguing ability to absorb the outside sound and kind of weave that into itself somehow. So a car horn or a fire engine--all this background noise - just somehow filters into it in a nice way. I'm not sure that I know why, but I know that it does that.

If I don't do [t'ai chi] my body really hurts. It just starts aching and hurting. It's terrible. To me it's candy. It's my idea of fun. But it requires the tenacity of a lion. Otherwise it shows and you're in class and you're the one going in the wrong direction. But if you tag into it, it's beyond belief. It makes me feel great in every way. It gives you tons of energy. It makes you very strong, very balanced and very focused. It's good for everything.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

I didn't get in it for the money, and I'm the same way now. I do it for me. Because I like doing it.

[April 1977, in "Melody Maker"] It's been a long time since I spoke to any journalists. They are a species of foul vermin. I wouldn't hire people like you to guard my sewer. Journalists are morons. Idiots. I don't perform to idiots. Journalists are ignorant and stupid.

Date of Birth 22 July 1932, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Date of Death 20 October 2014, Kent, Connecticut, USA

Birth Name Oscar Aristides Renta Fiallo

Spouses: Annette Reed (26 December 1989 - 20 October 2014) (his death)

Françoise de Langlade (31 October 1967 - 17 June 1983) (her death)

Born: January 21, 1987 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Died: June 2, 2015 (age 28) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Date of Birth 23 September 1920 , Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death 6 April 2014 , USA

Birth Name Ninian Joseph Yule Jr.

Nicknames The Mick The Mickster

Height 5' 2" (1.57 m)

Spouse (8) Jan Rooney (28 July 1978 - 6 April 2014) (his death)

Carolyn Hockett (27 May 1969 - 24 January 1975) (divorced) (2 children)

Margaret Lane (10 September 1966 - 14 December 1967) (divorced)

Carolyn Mitchell (1 December 1958 - 31 January 1966) (her death) (4 children)

Elaine Devry (18 November 1952 - 18 May 1958) (divorced)

Martha Vickers (3 June 1949 - 25 September 1952) (divorced) (1 child)

B.J. Baker (30 September 1944 - 3 June 1949) (divorced) (2 children)

Ava Gardner (10 January 1942 - 21 May 1943) (divorced)

Trade Marks: Best known in his youth for playing Andy Hardy with Judy Garland as the female lead in cheerfully naive musicals that usually ended with the characters putting on an impromptu musical show. In his senior years, he often played an cheerful old mentor with a youthful spirit.

Short stature and Raspy voice

Personal Quotes: I was aware, even at age three, that my father had a penchant for going out by himself after a show, then returning at dawn with a nervous grin on his face. I could only guess, from my mother's angry reactions that he was doing something that hurt her very much. She kept talking about my dad's "floozies" - which I took to be another name for "bartender." You see, I thought my dad had a problem with Punch, not with Judy.

When I was nineteen years old I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.

There was, in fact, a standard studio recipe. Take one young actress, pluck her eyebrows, cap her teeth, shape her hairline, pad as required and throw her into the ring with Andy Hardy. Then wait and see. If the public responded, the starlet became a star.

I lost $2 at Santa Anita and I've spent $3 million trying to get it back!

Sure, I love the chicks. I love 'em all. But when you're nuts about too many, how can a guy settle down to one?

I don't get caught between lesbians and gays. If you can't say something nice about someone, just shut your mouth.

I never knew anything about anyone being gay in Hollywood when I was working in the studios. Did you know that? They weren't in closets, they were in safes.

[on his lifelong friend and frequent co-star, Judy Garland] Judy turned to drugs because she was in pain and because drugs made her feel good. As one of the MGM kids, she'd been treated for most of her life to magical, instant, solutions to everything . . . She could never accept herself so she was always on the run.

I was a 14-year-old boy for 30 years.

People say, "How can you be married eight times?" But I played the hand dealt me the way I was supposed to. I was friendly with most of my ex-wives. My God, there's a Mickey Rooney's Former Wives Marching Band!

[on his marriages] When I say "I do", the Justice of the Peace replies, "I know, I know". I'm the only man in the world whose marriage license reads, "To Whom it May Concern". But to have been married eight times is not normal. That's only halfway intelligent.

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you. There'll never be another me . . . And there'll never be another show like this!

[asked if he would marry all of his eight wives again] Absolutely. I loved every one of them.

Born: February 2, 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA Died: July 15, 1986 (age 87) in Los Angeles, California, USA

3 Stooges Foil

Date of Birth 15 November 1952, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Date of Death 20 May 2011, Seminole, Florida, USA (heart attack)

Birth Name Randall Mario Poffo

Spouse Lynn Payne (10 May 2010 - 20 May 2011) (his death) Elizabeth Hulette (30 December 1984 - 18 September 1992) (divorced)

Trade Mark

Wrestling finishing move "The Flying Elbow Drop"

Deep husky voice Always wears sunglasses and a bandana

Trademark move: Double Axe Handle from the top rope

Ring entrance music: "Pomp and Circumstance"

Personal Quotes

Ooooohhhh yeah, dig it?

Need a little excitement? Snap into a Slim Jim! Ooooooooooooooh Yeah!

Date of Birth 28 September 1957, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death 11 October 2012 USA (Unknown)

"I light a room and let the people inhabit it, as opposed to lighting the people. It's more organic. You want to protect the people you're working with, and there's a constant battle between the best light for their face and the best light for the story. You don't want to get to the point where the audience notices the light."

Date of Birth 8 December 1930 , Vienna, Austria

Date of Death 1 February 2014 , Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria (pneumonia)

Height 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Spouse (3) Iva Mihanovic (20 August 2013 - 1 February 2014) (his death) Iva Mihanovic (20 August 2013 - 1 February 2014) (his death) Natalya Andreychenko (1985 - 2005) (divorced) (1 child)

Personal Quotes: [on Marlene Dietrich] You won't believe it, but the lady is extremely funny.

[on directing movies] It's more fulfilling than acting, but it's also more wounding to get bad reviews as a director than an actor.

When asked by journalists in Vienna (his family's home) what I enjoy most about living and working in North America, I answered, "Freedom." The reporters told me, "We're sorry, Mr. Schell; but it needs to be something else, because we can't print that." So I rest my case.

I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes.

Date of Birth 3 May 1919 , Patterson, New York, USA

Date of Death 27 January 2014 , New York City, New York, USA (natural causes)

Height 6' 3" (1.91 m)

Spouse Toshi Seeger (20 July 1943 - 9 July 2013) (her death) (4 children)

Quotes: [excerpt from testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee: August 18, 1955] I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or the color of their skin or situation in life. I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers. And I am proud that I never refused to sing for anybody.

[further testimony] I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known. I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American. I will tell you about my songs, but I am not interested in telling you who wrote them. I will tell you about my songs, and I am not interested in who listened to them.

[I receive letters] asking if I will come and accept an award someplace. This is a more general letter: "Dear so and so, thank you for your invitation, but...." A big word "but." I work hard on these letters: "My lefty reputation kept me out of the spotlight, but now I've blown my cover. I have to say no to all sorts of good people who want me to listen to their CD, read their book...."

(About his songs) "Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I." - (Interview: "Rolling Stone Magazine"; April 13, 1972)

People wanting autographs. I have a special form letter that starts off: "I wish I could persuade you that collecting autographs is one of the more foolish ways we can spend our precious days. There are important things needing to be done in every community." How can people be brought together to do these important things? I've tried with banjos and boats.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

To every thing {turn, turn, turn} There is a season [turn, turn, turn] And a time for every purpose under heaven.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more of what Russia made of it than Christianity is what churches make of it. But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me.

If there's something wrong, speak up!

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

Born: August 1, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA Died: April 28, 2013 (complications from Alzheimer’s) in Tarzana, California USA

In 1974 he produced and directed an unsold sitcom pilot for NBC called "Moose". The plot concerned the misadventures of three teen-aged boys growing up in a small town just before the outbreak of World War II.

Born in 1946

Date of Death 28 January 2014 , Calabasas, California, USA (prostate cancer)

Member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Executives Branch) [2003-]; elected president of AMPAS by the board of governors [18 August 2009].

Date of Birth 5 May 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Death 13 July 2012, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name Sage Moonblood Stallone

Nickname Stoney

Height 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Spouse Starlin Wright (1 May 2007 - March 2008) (annulled)

Son of Sylvester Stallone and first wife Sasha Ash

Born: Rodney Stephen Steiger April 14, 1925 in Westhampton, New York, USA

Died: July 9, 2002 (age 77) in Los Angeles, California, USA

Born: April 21, 1914 in Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Died: August 22, 2013 England, UK (Natural Causes)

Date of Birth 11 April 1947 , Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Date of Death 28 June 2014

Bianca Ferguson (1983 - 28 June 2014) (his death) (3 children)

Sandra Taylor (1969 - 1980) (divorced) (1 child)

Date of Birth 11 January 1930, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death 7 January 2015, Beverly Hills, California, USA (heart attack)

Birth Name Rodney Sturt Taylor

Height 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Spouse (3) Carol Kikumura (15 October 1980 - 7 January 2015) (his death)

Mary Beth Hilem (1 June 1963 - 18 September 1969) (divorced) (1 child)

Peggy Williams (1951 - 1954) (divorced)

Rod Taylor fell down about two weeks before his death and was hospitalized. He returned home, and he subsequently had a heart attack and died in his bed at his home in Beverly Hills, CA, surrounded by his family and friends.

20th Century-Fox considered him for the astronaut role of Colonel George Taylor in 1968's Planet of the Apes (1968) but, perhaps seeking a bigger box office name, gave the part to Charlton Heston. And was originally considered for the role of Roper in Enter the Dragon (1973) but was thought to be too tall, compared to the actor he'd be sharing many action scenes with, Bruce Lee -- the part eventually played by John Saxon.

Taylor had completely retired from acting when Quentin Tarantino offered him the role of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Inglourious Basterds (2009). At first Taylor declined the part, suggesting that Tarantino should cast Albert Finney (who had played Churchill to great acclaim in The Gathering Storm (2002)), but eventually the director talked him into it.

Personal Quote: "Pretending to still be the tough man of action isn't dignified for me any more. There comes a time when you're over the hill and there are plenty of great looking younger actors who can take your place. The action stars of today are making some wonderful films. There are no 'I could do it better' feelings in me. The younger they come, the better they get. That's why Olympic records are broken." (from a 1987 interview)

Date of Birth 1969

Date of Death 1 April 2014

Date of Birth 5 March 1874, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, UK

Date of Death 18 October 1965, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (arteriosclerosis)

Birth Name Travers John Heagerty

Height 5' 4½" (1.64 m)

Spouse Amy Forrest-Rhodes (? - 1954) (her death) (first) Ann G. Murphy (nurse) (? - ?)

Trivia

Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Holly Terrace entrance, Hall of Inspiration, directly across from W.C. Fields.

Fondly remembered as Clarence, James Stewart's guardian angel ("angel second class"), in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Date of Birth 13 October 1912, Prievidza, Hungary (now Slovakia)

Date of Death 16 October 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA (leukemia)

Birth Name Kornel Lajos Weisz

Height 6' 1" (1.85 m)

Spouse Jean Wallace (4 September 1951 - 1981) (divorced) 1 child Patricia Knight (21 September 1937 - 30 August 1951) (divorced) 1 child

Spoke Hungarian, French, German, English, Italian, and Russian.

At his death he was editing his autobiography, "My Very Wilde Life, " and working on a sequel to his acclaimed film The Naked Prey (1966).

Date of Birth 3 December 1927, Wall Lake, Iowa, USA

Date of Death 25 September 2012, Branson, Missouri, USA (bladder cancer)

Birth Name Howard Andrew Williams

Nickname "The Emperor of Easy" The King of Christmas

Height 5' 6½" (1.69 m)

[on his support of ex-wife Claudine Longet after she shot to death her lover, skier Spider Sabich, in 1976] "I had to be there for her. She is the mother of my children. And we never stopped being friends. I still accept her story that the shooting was accidental. Bing Crosby's wife once told me that she was amazed that I had taken so much trouble to help Claudine after we divorced. I said that anybody would have done the same thing, and she said, "Bing wouldn't." I think she meant that Bing was a very rigid guy, and once you had screwed up, you were off his list. Well, that's not the kind of guy I am."

"Don't like him at all. I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing. One is registered as a Communist. Obama (Barack Obama) is following Marxist theory. He's tak

Date of Birth 23 July 1901, Rolfe, Iowa, USA

Date of Death 6 December 1992, Los Angeles, California, USA (natural causes)

Birth Name Norton Earl Worden

Height 6' 1½" (1.87 m)

Spouse Emma Louise Eaton (1940 - 6 January 1977) (her death)

Trade Mark

Manic characters of frequently questionable mental stability