Friday, June 30, 2023
Alan Arkin, an Oscar-winning actor for “Little Miss Sunshine” with a body of work that spans seven decades of stage and screen acting, died June 29 at his home in Carlsbad, Calif, Variet…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:50AMTuesday, June 13, 2023
Cormac McCarthy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who endured decades of obscurity and poverty before film versions of “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country for Old Men” and “The R…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:35PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
Raquel Welch, the actor who became an icon and sex symbol thanks to films like “One Million Years B.C.” and “Three Musketeers,” has died, her manager confirmed to Variety. She was 82…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:14PMWednesday, April 6, 2022
Nehemiah Persoff, who appeared as Barbra Streisand’s rabbi father in “Yentl” and had roles in hundreds of films and TV series including “Some Like It Hot” and “Twins,” died Tue…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMFriday, November 26, 2021
Stephen Sondheim, the dominant voice in American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century and the composer with the most Tony Awards, has died. He was 91. His shows, from the c…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PMWednesday, September 22, 2021
Melvin Van Peebles, the influential filmmaker behind “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song,” and father of director and actor Mario Van Peebles, has died. He was 89. “Sweet Sweetback” …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:03PMThursday, September 16, 2021
Jane Powell, who starred as an angelically visaged young actress in a number of MGM musicals including “Royal Wedding” and “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” during the 1940s and ’5…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:54PMSaturday, July 24, 2021
Jackie Mason, the sometimes-controversial standup comedian who unapologetically embraced Jewish themes and political incorrectness, achieving a national profile through a series of successfu…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:49PMSunday, June 13, 2021
Film and TV actor Ned Beatty, who was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in "Network" and appeared in a number of the most significant American films of the 1970s, has died. He w…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 11:19PMFilm and TV actor Ned Beatty, who was Oscar nominated for his supporting role in “Network” and appeared in a number of the most significant American films of the 1970s, has died. He was …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:19PMSaturday, May 29, 2021
Gavin MacLeod, a sitcom veteran who played seaman “Happy” Haines on “McHale’s Navy,” Murray on “Mary Tyler Moore” and the very different, vaguely patrician Captain Stubing on �…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:57PMTuesday, May 18, 2021
Charles Grodin, best known for the neurotic comic wit he demonstrated in such films as “The Heartbreak Kid,” “Heaven Can Wait” and “Midnight Run” and for his role in the “Beeth…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:50PMTuesday, May 11, 2021
Actor, producer and director Norman Lloyd, best known for his title role in Hitchcock’s “Saboteur” and as Dr. Daniel Auschlander on NBC’s “St. Elsewhere” and famously associated …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:43PMSaturday, May 1, 2021
Olympia Dukakis, a character actress best known for her Oscar-winning supporting turn in Norman Jewison’s “Moonstruck” and for her role as the wealthy widow in “Steel Magnolias,” h…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:35PMThursday, March 25, 2021
Jessica Walter, an Emmy-winning actress known for her work as the stalker in Clint Eastwood’s “Play Misty for Me,” and for the TV series “Arrested Development” and “Archer,” di…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:52PMFriday, February 5, 2021
Christopher Plummer, the Canadian-born Shakespearean actor who starred in films including “The Sound of Music” and “Beginners,” died on Friday morning at his home in Connecticut. He …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:58PMTuesday, February 2, 2021
Emmy and Tony winner Hal Holbrook, an actor best known for his role as Mark Twain, whom he portrayed for decades in one-man shows, died on Jan. 23. He was 95. Holbrook’s personal assistant…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00AMThursday, January 28, 2021
Emmy- and Tony-winning actress Cicely Tyson, who distinguished herself in theater, film and television, died on Thursday afternoon. She was 96. “I have managed Miss Tyson’s career for ov…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:05PMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Larger-than-life musical stage personality Carol Channing, who immortalized the characters of Lorelei Lee in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and Dolly Gallagher Levi in “Hello, Dolly!,” h…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:48AMSunday, June 17, 2018
Martin Bregman, producer of Al Pacino films “Serpico,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “Scarface” and “Sea of Love,” died Saturday. He was 92. His wife C…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:21AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
Steven Hill, who starred for years as District Attorney Adam Schiff on “Law & Order” and decades earlier played the leader of the Impossible Missions Force before Peter Gra…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:40PMMonday, April 18, 2016
Doris Roberts, a character actress who labored honorably both on stage and screen for years before finding the perfect vehicle for her talents, the hit sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07PMTuesday, March 29, 2016
Actress and singer Shannon Bolin Kaye died Friday, March 25, in New York City at the age of 99. Bolin played the middle-aged, Midwestern wife in the original Broadway production and subsequ…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:49PMSunday, March 13, 2016
Jack F. Lee (born John Francis Lee), musical director of both stage and screen, died March 2 in his home at the age of 86. Lee was one of Broadway’s leading conductors and musical directo…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03PMTuesday, February 16, 2016
Character actor Robert Beecher, builder of the Horseshoe Stage Theatre, died of natural causes on February 12 in Burbank, Calif. He was 91. Beecher was typically cast as “heavies” — ga…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:03PMTuesday, February 2, 2016
Director and writer Edward Parone, who was a mentor to many of the promising young playwrights in 1960s New York, including Edward Albee and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), died at his home in N…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:48PMTuesday, January 26, 2016
Actor Abe Vigoda, best known for his roles as mobster Tessio in “The Godfather” and as Detective Sgt. Fish in TV’s “Barney Miller” and a spinoff series in which he starred, has die…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:02PMThursday, January 14, 2016
British actor Brian Bedford died on Wednesday, after a two-year battle with cancer, in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 80. Bedford, known most recently for his stint as Lady Bracknell in a 20…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:32PMFriday, December 4, 2015
Thom Thomas, a writer for stage, TV and film, succumbed to acute leukemia on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 80. Thomas had recently co-written, with Iris Rainer Dart, the book for “B…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:38PMMonday, November 30, 2015
The Rob Reiner-directed, William Goldman-scripted film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel “Misery” premiered 25 years ago today (read the original Variety review here). Kat…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:21PMFriday, November 20, 2015
James Prideaux, a prolific playwright and television writer, died on Wednesday, November 18, in West Hills, California, as a result of a major stroke. He was 87. Early in his career, Prideau…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37PM 
