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...
Actress Brittany Murphy (1977-2009) had a long-standing voice role on King of the Hill, broke out in Clueless and 8 Mile, and appeared on SeaQuest DSV as a teenager...
Janet Fox (1940-2009) was the editor and publisher of Scavener's Newsletter, a monthly small-press market listings guide that appeared from 1984 to 2003...
Roy E. Disney (1930-2009), the last Disney family member working at the family company, was a nephew of Walt, and the guiding force behind the company's revived animation division...
