Fantasy author Mary Hunter Schaub (1943-2009) was best known for her works in Andre Norton's Witch World, which included co-author one novel with Norton...
Character actor Jack Manning (1916-2009) started in radio serials, including The Green Hornet and The Shadow, before moving to the stage and then film and television...
Actor Paul Burke (1926-2009) was nominated for two Emmys for his work on The Naked City. He also made a bunch of genre appearances before his career abruptly ended...
Character actor and comedian Henry Gibson (1935-2009) came to fame on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, but then embarked on a long and varied career in film and on television...
Frank Coghlan, Jr. (1916-2009) will be remembered for playing the first comic book superhero's "secret identity" in film: he was Captain Marvel's Billy Batson...
South African actor Zakes Mokae (1935-2009) broke racial barriers on stage in his native land, before becoming an international actor, winning a Tony, and moving into television and film...
Writer/director/producer Larry Gelbart (1928-2009) will be remembered for M*A*S*H, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Tootsie, but he also had a hand in Oh, God! and Bedazzled...
Publisher Donald M. Grant (1927-2009) has been a small-press genre publisher nearly all his life, but his most enduring company is the current, eponymous publisher of illustrated, collectible volumes...
Character actor John Quade (1938-2009) appeared in several Clint Eastwood movies, Roots, and a bunch of genre films and television series. He got his start in the aerospace industry...
Actress Ruth Ford (1911-2009) started as a model, but soon became a film, television, and stage actress, and hosted artists of many stripes in her apartment...
Filmmaker John Hughes (1950-2009), who gave voice to a generation of angst-ridden teens with films like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off...
Radio and television announcer and actor Ken Roberts (1910-2009) was the announcer of radio's The Shadow with Orson Welles, the announcer of television's Candid Camera, and more...
We've received reports that agent Barbara Bova has died. More information when we have it...
Author, poet, and editor Gene Van Troyer (1950-2009) was born in the US, but lived in Japan, and was the driving force behind Speculative Japan...
