Obituaries


Actor Mark Ritts Dies
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Actor Mark Ritts (1946-2009) was the guy in the rat suit on Beakman's World...

Spanish actor/writer/director Paul Naschy dies
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Spanish film actor/writer/director Paul Naschy (1934-2009) was the king of Spanish horror films...

Actor Gene Barry Dies
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Actor Gene Barry (1919-2009) starred in the 1953 War of the Worlds before being typecast on television as Bat Masterson...

Author Harry C. Crosby, aka Christopher Anvil, dies
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Harry C. Crosby Jr. (1925-2009), better known as Christopher Anvil, wrote more than 100 stories, many in his "Federation of Humanity" or "Colonization Series"...

Irish actor Richard Todd dies
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Irish-born actor Richard Todd (1919-2009) was nominated for an Academy Award in 1949, participated in the D-day invasion and then acted in its film version, The Longest Day, and appeared in Doctor Who...

Agent Don Congdon Dies
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Literary agent Don Congdon (1918-2009) will be remembered for his long association with Ray Bradbury...

British author Robert Holdstock dies
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British fantasy author Robert Holdstock (1948-2009) won the World Fantasy Award for Mythago Wood, four British Science Fiction Awards, another World Fantasy Award, and was the author of...

Director Paul Wendkos Dies
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Director Paul Wendkos (1925-2009) will be remembered for his early film, Gidget, and also...

Actor Dennis Cole Dies
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Actor Dennis Cole (1940-2009) starred in Felony Squad, and appeared in...

British actor Edward Woodward dies
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British actor Edward Woodward (1930-2009) is best known as the star of The Equalizer, for which he won a Golden Globe. His other appearances include...

Rocket launcher Thomas J. O'Malley dies
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Thomas J. O'Malley (1915-2009) was the man who pushed the button to launch John Glenn into space...

Comic-magician Carl Ballantine dies
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Comic-magician/actor Carl Ballantine (1917-2009) built himself a career as a failed magician...

San Diego ComicCon founder Shel Dorf dies
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Sheldon L. "Shel" Dorf (1933-2009) was a comic artists before he founded the San Diego ComicCon in 1970...

Author Louise Cooper Dies
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British fantasy author Louise Cooper (1952-2009) wrote The Time Master trilogy and nearly 80 other novels for adults and children...

Actor Lou Jacobi Dies
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Actor Lou Jacobi (1913-2009) debuted on the stage in Toronto at age 11, and appeared in film, television, and on the stage on both sides of the Atlantic...

Artist Don Ivan Punchatz Dies
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Artist Don Ivan Punchatz (1936-2009) was a prolific illustrator of book and magazine covers, as well as the video game Doom...

Actress Collin Wilcox Dies
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Actress Collin Wilcox (1935-2009) co-starred in To Kill a Mockingbird and "The Member of the Wedding", but also had roles in...

Actor Joseph Wiseman Dies
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Actor Joseph Wiseman (1918-2009) will be remembered as the first Bond villain, the title character in Dr. No...

Composer Vic Mizzy Dies
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Composer Vic Mizzy (1916-2009) composed and performed the theme to The Addams Family...

Hollywood producer Daniel Melnick dies
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Hollywood producer and studio executive Daniel Melnick (1932-2009) produced television shows and films from the age of 19, including Get Smart, Altered States, Roxanne...

Comic artist George Tuska dies
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Comics artist George Tuska (1916-2009) worked on many titles from the 1940 to the 1990s, including The X-Men, Captain Marvel, and Superman...

Artist Edward Valigursky Dies
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Artist Edward Valigursky (1926-2009) was most active in sf during the 1950s and 1960s...

Wrestler/actor Lou Albano dies
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Wrestler/actor Lou Albano (1933-2009) was instrumental in the merging of rock music and professional wrestling, and parlayed his wrestling into a film and television career...

Actress/model Mimi Weddell dies
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Actress/model Mimi Weddell (1915-2009) only began her acting and modeling careers after the death of her husband, in 1981, but had several...

German Publisher Reinhard Mohn Dies
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Reinhard Mohn, Bertelsmann, Random House, Bantam Double Dell, Ballantine, Bantam, Del Rey, Delacorte, Doubleday, Spectra
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