Actor Peter Graves (1926-2010) was best known as the leader of the team on Mission: Impossible, but was also able to spoof himself in the Airplane! movies. His many genre appearances include...
Actress Nan Martin (1927-2010) was known for playing strong women and mothers, including Freddy Krueger's, and Counselor Deanna Troi's almost-mother-in-law...
British author David Storr Unwin (1918-2010) was a son of Allen & Unwin's Sir Stanley Unwin, and found his own fame as the children's author David Severn...
Artist Robert McCall (1919-2010) painted the future for NASA, the US Air Force, the US Postal Service, and films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Black Hole, Star Trek: The Motion Picture...
Actor Andrew Koenig (1968-2010) was found dead today, apparently of suicide. He was a supporting actor in Growing Pains, and the son of actor Walter Koenig...
British character actor Lionel Jeffries (1926-2010) played Dick Van Dyke's father in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, wrote and directed several movies, and worked with me...
Author Jim Harmon (1933-2010) was a prolific short story author in the 1950s and '60s, and a more successful nostalgist, writing about the Golden Age of Radio...
Actress Zelda Rubinstein (1933-2010) came to acting later in life, but will be remembered as the clairvoyant in the Poltergeist films and the organist in Sixteen Candles...
British-born actress Jean Simmons (1929-2010) received an OBE, one Emmy, and two Golden Globes. She was nominated for many other major awards, and appeared in many high-profile classics...
Takumi Shibano (1926-2010) was one of the founders of Japanese fandom, an author, and a translator, who was twice a Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention...
Editor and agent Knox Burger (1922-2010) bought Kurt Vonnegut's first published fiction for Collier's, then moved to book publishing, and then agenting...
Character actor Arnold Stang (1918 or 1925-2009) was a short, nerdy, nervous fellow who acted in a wide variety of roles over half a century, including co-starring in Arnold Schwarzenegger's first film...