Obituaries


Actor Peter Graves Dies
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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...

Actor Corey Haim Dies
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Actor Corey Haim (1971-2010) came to fame in the late 1980s with his starring role in The Lost Boys, and was a three-time Saturn Award nominee...

Actress Nan Martin Dies
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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, aka David Severn, dies
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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 Dies
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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 Dies
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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...

Actress Caroline McWilliams Dies
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Actress Caroline McWilliams (1945-2010) was best known for her roles on Soap and Benson, was married to Michael Keaton, and appeared in...

British character actor Lionel Jeffries dies
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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/nostalgist Jim Harmon dies
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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...

British comic actor Ian Carmichael dies
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British comic actor Ian Carmichael (1920-2010) was best known for playing Bertie Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey, but also appeared in...

Phillip Klass, aka sf author William Tenn, dies
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Phillip Klass (1920-2010) who wrote sf as William Tenn, was SFWA's Author Emeritus in 1999 and a WorldCon Guest of Honor in 2004...

Actress Frances Reid Dies
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Actress Frances Reid (1914-2010) was best known for her four-decade role on Days of Our Lives, but also appeared in The Andromeda Strain...

Film and stage producer David Brown dies
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Film/stage producer David Brown (1916-2010) produced four Best Picture nominees, including Jaws...

Author Kage Baker Dies
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Author Kage Baker (1952-2010) had been battling cancer. She was the 2004 winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award...

Actress Zelda Rubinstein Dies
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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...

Actress Jean Simmons Dies
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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...

Actor Pernell Roberts Dies
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Actor Pernell Roberts (1928-2010) was Ben Cartwright's eldest son on Bonanza, and then the title character on Trapper John MD...

Japanese author/translator/fan Takumi Shibano dies
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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 dies
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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...

Animator Art Clokey Dies
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Animator Art Clokey (1921-2010) created Gumby...

Actor Conard Fowkes Dies
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Actor Conard Fowkes (1933-2009) was a staunch supporter of actors' rights, and appeared in Dark Shadows...

Television producer David Gerber dies
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Television producer David Gerber (1923-2010) won an Emmy and a Peabody, worked on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and The Man Who Fell to Earth...

Fan/bibliographer Mark Owings dies
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Mark Owings (1945-2009) was one of the founders of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, and a bibliographer of several authors...

Actress Alaina Reed-Amini Dies
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Actress Alaina Reed-Amini (1946-2009) was a regular on Sesame Street for 12 years, after starting out as a singer. She moved on to...

Actor Arnold Stang Dies
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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...
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