Film and television makeup artist William J. "Bill" Tuttle (1912-2007) won an honorary Oscar for makeup in 1965—17 years before the category was established as a regular competition—for 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, and had numerous genre credits, including...
French actor Michel Serrault (1928-2007) was best known for his comic roles, including his breakout performance in La Cage aux Folles. His several genre appearances include...
Hungarian-born cinematographer László Kovács (1933-2007) became famous for his work on Easy Rider. His genre work includes Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ghost Busters, and...
Agent and former editor Perry H. Knowlton died on 6 July 2007 of natural causes resulting from Alzheimer's Disease. The 80-year-old was the former chairman and CEO of the Curtis Brown, Ltd. agency. Among his clients were...
Character actor Charles Lane (1905-2007) appeared in more than 300 movies and television episodes, usually in bit parts, and racked up an impressive resume, including...
Actor Kerwin Mathews (1926-2007) fought the skeleton as Sinbad in Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion classic, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. His other roles included...
Fred Saberhagen was the author of more than 65 books, including the Berserker series, the Swords series, and the novelization of Bram Stoker's Dracula...
Craig Walker was the vice president and senior editorial director of trade paperbacks for the publisher Scholastic. He died of cancer on 1 July 2007, aged 63...
Writer, editor, and sculptor Sterling E. Lanier died. He wrote the Hiero novels, two books about "Brigadier Ffellowes," and was a World Fantasy Award nominee.
British screenwriter Brian Finch was best known for his 151 episodes of Coronation Street, but he wrote several episodes of genre productions, including The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne and...
Movie reviewer Joel Siegel (1943-2007) died of cancer. He reviewed movies for New York City's Eyewitness News for 30 years, and for Good Morning America since 1982.
Walter James "Doc" Daugherty (1916-2007) was a charter member of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society and chairman of the 1946 World Science Fiction Convention.
Astronomer Kenneth L. Franklin (1923-2007) discovered the first sound emanating from another planet, and invented a watch that tells time in lunations for people on the Moon. He had been chairman of the Hayden Planetarium...
