Friday, 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 09:37PMThursday, November 19, 2015
Theatrical producer Don Gregory died of a stroke at his home in Boca Raton, Florida, on November 5. He was 80. Gregory most recently produced the 2014 Broadway revival of “Harvey” star…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:40AMMonday, November 2, 2015
Barbara Andreadis, nee Hamilton, founder of the the Andreadis Talent Agency, died Friday, Oct. 30, in New York City. She was 81. She spent 30 years helping other actors achieve their dreams …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:41PMMonday, October 26, 2015
Leon Bibb, a folk singer, Tony-nominated Broadway performer and civil rights activist, died on Friday in Vancouver. He was 93. Bibb appeared on Broadway a number of times, making his debut a…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:51PMSaturday, October 17, 2015
Barbara Meek, a veteran member of the Trinity Square Repertory Company in Providence, R.I., and an actress on television, died unexpectedly in Providence on October 3, 2015. She was 81. Meek…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:46AMTuesday, July 21, 2015
Oscar- and Tony-nominated character actor and folk singer Theodore Bikel, who originated the role of Captain von Trapp in “The Sound of Music” on Broadway and starred in “Fiddler on th…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:06PMMonday, June 15, 2015
John Leonard Colenback, an actor best known for his role as the debonair Dr. Dan Stewart on “As the World Turns” (1966-73 and 1976-79), died May 12 in West Hollywood, Calif. He w…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:28PMSunday, May 24, 2015
Anne Meara, the Emmy- and Tony-nominated comedian long paired personally and professionally with Jerry Stiller and the mother of actor-director Ben Stiller, died Saturday, her husband and so…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMFriday, May 15, 2015
Singer-guitarist B.B. King, the “King of the Blues” who helped define his genre’s electrified postwar sound and became the music’s best-known international ambassador, has died. He w…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:48AMThursday, May 7, 2015
John Simes, a longtime Hollywood agency and studio publicist whose clients over the years included Debbie Reynolds, Rosemary Clooney, the Harlem Globetrotters, Dustin Hoffman, Sammy Davis Jr…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26PMSunday, March 29, 2015
Stage and screen director Gene Saks, who helmed many Neil Simon plays on Broadway and won Tonys for the Cy Coleman-Michael Stewart musical “I Love My Wife” plus Simon’s “Brighton Bea…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:47PMMonday, October 27, 2014
Joy Silver died at home in Scarborough, N.Y. on October 24, 2014, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. She was 89. Under the stage name Joy Saunders, she made her Broadway debut in the co…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:18PMMonday, October 6, 2014
Geoffrey Holder, a dancer, choreographer, an actor (famously in the James Bond film “Live and Let Die”) and a two-time Tony winner for “The Wiz” who was famous for hi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:36PMThursday, September 4, 2014
Raunchy, gravelly-voiced and self-deprecating comedian Joan Rivers, who rose from Greenwich Village standup to occasional host of “The Tonight Show” and star of TV’s “…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:58PMTuesday, August 12, 2014
Lauren Bacall, the sultry blonde siren who became an overnight star via a memorable film debut at age 19 opposite Humphrey Bogart in Howard Hawks’ “To Have and Have Not,” died Tuesd…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:57PMMonday, July 7, 2014
George Morrison, an acting teacher and director who trained, worked with, and inspired great actors including Gene Hackman, Edie Falco, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Klugman, Sandy Dennis, Judy Colli…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:46PMWednesday, June 25, 2014
Tony- and Emmy-winning actor Eli Wallach, a major proponent of “the Method” style of acting best known for his starring role in Elia Kazan’s film “Baby Doll” and for his role as vi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:07AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Mitchell Jason, who appeared onstage, in films and on TV, died in Doylestown, Penn., on March 11. He was 92. Jason studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, acted in numerous Br…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:33PMWalter Roy Beery, an actor who appeared in numerous television shows but whose first love was the theater, died at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif., on April 6 from complications of lymphoma…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:18PMSunday, April 6, 2014
Mickey Rooney, the pint-sized actor who was one of MGM’s giant box office attractions in the late ’30s and early ’40s, has died, sources confirm. He was 93. As adept at comedy as drama…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:01PMFriday, March 7, 2014
Sheila MacRae, a film, TV and stage actress who played Alice Kramden, wife of bus driver Ralph Kramden, on musical-comedy episodes of “The Honeymooners” featured as part of ̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:02PMWednesday, February 12, 2014
Sid Caesar, one of the first stars created by television via his weekly live comedy program “Your Show of Shows,” has died at 91. TV host Larry King announced the news on Twitter. Caesar…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMThursday, January 9, 2014
Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:49PMMonday, December 9, 2013
Oscar-nominated actress Eleanor Parker, best known today for her role as the Baroness, the lady friend of Captain Von Trapp who loses out to Julie Andrews’ Maria in 1966 film “The Sound …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:59PMFriday, November 22, 2013
Marc Breaux, choreographer for the films “Mary Poppins,” “The Sound of Music” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” who also occasionally directed films, died Tue…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:47PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
Marta Heflin, who was associated with director Robert Altman during a stage and film career that included starring in Altman pic “A Perfect Couple” and appearing in the helmer…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Singer-actress Deanna Durbin, who was the highest-paid female star in Hollywood in 1947 but permanently exited the movie biz the next year at the age of 26, has died, her fan club announced …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:53PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
Character actor Alan Fudge, best known for recurring roles in TV series including "Man From Atlantis," "Eischied" "Paper Dolls" and, most recently, "7th Heaven," died Oct. 10 in Los Angeles …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:17AM 
