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, Variety ha…
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 Road" broug…
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. She ca…
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 Tuesday in San Lu…
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…
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" was a grou…
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 '50s, has di…
Jackie Mason, the sometimes-controversial standup comedian who unapologetically embraced Jewish themes and political incorrectness, achieving a national profile through a series of successfu…
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…
Film 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 83. …
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 "The Love Boat,…
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 "Beethoven" movies, …
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 with Orson W…
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," has died. S…
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," died Wednesday i…
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 was 91. …
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, …
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 over 4…
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!," has died.…
Martin Bregman, producer of Al Pacino films “Serpico,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “Scarface” and “Sea of Love,” died Saturday. He was 92. His wife C…
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…
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,…
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 subse…
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…
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" " gangster…