In Memoriam 2013 - Movie & TV personalities who passed away this year
by Geroellheimer | created - 31 Dec 2012 | updated - 08 Mar 2014 | PublicI won't take everyone. Only the ones I know.
101. Bonnie Franklin
Actress | One Day at a Time
Bonnie Franklin, of the freckled, fair-skinned, hazel-eyed, rosy-cheeked, carrot-haired variety, could light up a room with her buoyant, folksy personality, but she could be quite serious in a take-charge manner when it came to purposeful acting work. It took Norman Lear and a highly popular TV ...
102. Jim Kelly
Actor | Enter the Dragon
With his funky Afro hairstyle, super cool attitude and superb karate skills, Jim Kelly was instantly identifiable, and one of the top martial arts film stars of the early 1970s. After appearing in a minor film role, Kelly's second screen effort was as one of the invited guests to the deadly Han's ...
103. Patricia Blair
Actress | Daniel Boone
Actress Patricia Blair was born on January 15, 1933, in Fort Worth, Texas, but grew up in Dallas. She first entered the world of entertainment as a young teenage model, eventually represented by the Conover Agency. She apprenticed in summer stock before Warner Bros. discovered her for films after ...
104. Reinhard Brock
Actor | Underworld
Reinhard Brock was born on November 1, 1951 in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Underworld (2003), Lost Horizon (2010) and The Simpsons: Hit & Run (2003). He died on December 8, 2013 in Germany.
105. Lou Reed
Soundtrack | V for Vendetta
He formed the group The Velvet Underground with Welsh multi-instrumentalist John Cale, second guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Maureen Tucker in New York in 1965. The group soon became a part of Andy Warhol's Factory scene, which housed a great number of the most freaked and experimental ...
106. George Jones
Soundtrack | Ad Astra
George Jones was born on September 12, 1931 in Saratoga, Texas, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for Ad Astra (2019), Only the Brave (2017) and Crazy Heart (2009). He was married to Nancy Sepulveda, Tammy Wynette, Shirley Ann Corley and Dorothy Bonvillion. He died on April 26, 2013 in ...
107. Peter O'Toole
Actor | Lawrence of Arabia
A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. Upon leaving school, he decided to become a...
108. Joan Fontaine
Actress | Suspicion
Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement, to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her paternal grandfather's family was ...
109. Audrey Totter
Actress | The Unsuspected
One is certainly hard-pressed to think of another true "bad girl" representative so closely identifiable with film noir than hard-looking blonde actress Audrey Totter. While she remained a "B"-tier actress for most her career, she was an "A" quality actress and one of filmdom's most intriguing ...
110. Linden Chiles
Actor | The Green Hornet
Linden Chiles was born on March 22, 1933 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Green Hornet (1966), Old Friends (2010) and Fly Away Home (1996). He was married to Cynthia Jean Coles, Mona Lee Schussman and Rosemary Kelly. He died on May 15, 2013 in Topanga, California, USA.
111. Katherine Woodville
Actress | Star Trek
Katherine Woodville was born on March 12, 1938 in Ewell, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Mission: Impossible (1966) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1960). She was married to Edward Albert, Jerrold Freedman, Patrick Macnee and Michael Julian Anderson Wenn. She died on ...
112. Maxine Stuart
Actress | The Twilight Zone
Maxine Stuart was born on June 28, 1918 in Deal, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for The Twilight Zone (1959), Private Benjamin (1980) and NYPD Blue (1993). She was married to David Shaw, Frank Maxwell and Alfred Gordon. She died on June 6, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
113. Iain Banks
Writer | The Business
Iain Banks was born on February 16, 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for The Business, Complicity (2000) and Consider Phlebas. He was married to Adele Hartley and Annie Blackburn. He died on June 9, 2013 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, UK.
114. Elroy Schwartz
Writer | The Six Million Dollar Man
Elroy Schwartz was born on June 23, 1923 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), Get Smart (1965) and Dusty's Trail (1973). He died on June 14, 2013 in Palm Desert, California, USA.
115. Gary David Goldberg
Writer | Family Ties
Gary David Goldberg was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 25, 1944. After a prolonged and checkered collegiate career, which began at Brandeis University in 1962 and ended at San Diego State University in 1975 (with many other schools in between), he moved to Hollywood to try to make it as a ...
116. Victor Lundin
Actor | Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Victor Lundin was born on December 8, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964), Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960) and Batman (1966). He was married to Amelia Pryharski and Christa Friedlander. He died on July 2, 2013 in Los Angeles, ...
117. Paul Jenkins
Actor | Chinatown
Paul Jenkins was born on August 2, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Chinatown (1974), Sneakers (1992) and Network (1976). He was married to Sally Kemp. He died on July 1, 2013 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
118. Cory Monteith
Actor | Glee
Cory Monteith was born on May 11, 1982 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada as Cory Allan Michael Monteith. He was an actor, known for playing the singing jock Finn on the American TV show Glee (2009) and films such as Monte Carlo (2011), and Final Destination 3 (2006). He died on July 13, 2013 in Vancouver...
119. Dennis Burkley
Actor | Hollywood Homicide
Dennis Burkley was born on September 10, 1945 in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Hollywood Homicide (2003), Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) and Tin Cup (1996). He was married to Laura Burkley. He died on July 14, 2013 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, ...
120. Lisa Robin Kelly
Actress | That '70s Show
She first made her acting debut at age 21 in a 1992 episode of Married... with Children (1987), and went on to guest-star in many popular television shows, such as Murphy Brown (1988), The X-Files (1993), Sisters (1991), and Silk Stalkings (1991), and appeared in many obscure, straight-to-video/TV ...
121. August Schellenberg
Actor | Black Robe
August Schellenberg was born on July 25, 1936 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Black Robe (1991), The New World (2005) and Free Willy (1993). He was married to Joan Karasevich. He died on August 15, 2013 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
122. Richard Matheson
Writer | Jaws 3-D
Born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, Richard Burton Matheson first became a published author while still a child, when his stories and poems ran in the "Brooklyn Eagle". A lifelong reader of fantasy tales, he made his professional writing bow in 1950 when his short story "Born of Man and ...
123. Larry Pennell
Actor | Bubba Ho-Tep
Larry Pennell was born on February 21, 1928 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Bubba Ho-Tep (2002), Quantum Leap (1989) and Our Man in Jamaica (1965). He was married to Patricia Throop. He died on August 28, 2013 in the USA.
124. Ole Ernst
Actor | Flugten
Ole Ernst graduated from Odense Teater in 1967 where shortly afterwards he was hired as a stage-actor. Ernst had his debut playing Chino in Westside Story (1965). In 1969 he jumped from Odense Teater to Det Kongelige Teater where he continued stage-acting until 1976. Ernst performed in a lot of ...
125. Bill Wallis
Actor | Brazil
Bill Wallis was born on November 20, 1936 in Guildford, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Brazil (1985), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) and The Bourne Identity (1988). He was married to Karen Mills and Jean Spalding. He died on September 6, 2013 in Bath, Somerset, England, UK.
126. Walter Schmidinger
Actor | Caspar David Friedrich - Grenzen der Zeit
Walter Schmidinger was born on April 28, 1933 in Linz, Austria. He was an actor, known for Caspar David Friedrich - Grenzen der Zeit (1986), Opera Ball (1998) and Hölderlin-Comics (1994). He died on September 28, 2013 in Berlin, Germany.
127. Jay Robinson
Actor | The Robe
Character actor Jay Robinson owned a pair of the narrowest, cruelest-looking eyes in 1950s Hollywood. To complement them was an evil-looking sneer, crisp and biting diction and a nefarious-sounding cackle. These were all draped upon a lean, bony physique that could slither about menacingly like a ...
128. Amidou
Actor | Spy Game
Little known by the general public, Moroccan-born Amidou can nevertheless boast an onstage and on screen career spanning almost five decades. Appearing in French films most of the time, he also worked in Morocco, in Tunisia and in American action movies like William Friedkin's 'The Sorcerer' and '...
129. Audrey Totter
Actress | The Unsuspected
One is certainly hard-pressed to think of another true "bad girl" representative so closely identifiable with film noir than hard-looking blonde actress Audrey Totter. While she remained a "B"-tier actress for most her career, she was an "A" quality actress and one of filmdom's most intriguing ...
130. Ronald Biggs
Actor | Prisoner of Rio
Ronald Biggs was born on August 8, 1929 in Stockwell, Lambeth, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Prisoner of Rio (1988), The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980) and Die Toten Hosen & Ronnie Biggs: Carnival in Rio (Punk Was) (1991). He was married to Raimunda de Castro ...
131. Joseph Ruskin
Actor | Smokin' Aces
Joseph Ruskin was born on April 14, 1924 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Smokin' Aces (2006), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and The Scorpion King (2002). He was married to Barbara Greene and Patricia Herd. He died on December 28, 2013 in Santa Monica, ...
132. Gisela Fritsch
Actress | Benjamin Blümchen
Works mainly as a voice actress.
German dubbing voice of Judy Dench, Susan Sarandon, Fanny Ardant, Catherine Deneuve, Karen Black, Linda Evans
Famous for her voice as "Karla Kolumna" in the German "Benjamin Blümchen" and "Bibi Blocksberg" series, a very popular children radio play in Germany.
Married ...
133. James Avery
Actor | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Although known as the uncle/patriarch and judge "Philip Banks" on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990), James Avery was a classically trained actor and scholar. A native of Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, he joined the US Navy after graduating high school and served in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969. Upon...
134. John S. Ragin
Actor | Earthquake
John S. Ragin was born on May 5, 1929 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Earthquake (1974), Quincy M.E. (1976) and The Parallax View (1974). He was married to Frances A Rasmussen. He died on April 14, 2013 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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