Vaughn's Summaries

Art/ Entertainment Summaries
Motion Pictures

Top Movie Stars' Death Dates
Chronological List - Over 1,000 Listed

20^th Century          21^st Century   
1900 - 1999 . . . 2000 - 2018

(This page is not intended for small screens.)
by Vaughn Aubuchon

Here is a chronological list of the death dates of Top Movie Stars. Birth date, age at the time of passing, and cause of death are also given. Also included are Top Mature Stars Still Living.
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Most Recent Deaths

Jul. 8, 2018
Aug. 1, 2018
Aug. 16, 2018
Sep. 6, 2018
Sep. 16, 2018
Oct. 23, 2018
Nov. 24, 2018

Tab Hunter
Mary Carlisle
Aretha Franklin
Burt Reynolds
Peter Donat
James Karen
Ricky Jay

2000 - 2005 - 2010 - 2015

2018

Notes
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Major Stars Still Living

Cemeteries of the Stars

Deaths by Decade
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While we have been merrily living our lives, take a look at those who have left us.
The numbers in parentheses, following a name, are Star Power rankings from Wikipedia,
- both for actors (1-25)
- and for actresses (1-25). I have added about 950 others, whom I have deemed worthy of inclusion.

As a reminder of the sands of time passing through the hourglass, what better reference points than the passing of those familiar to us all.
Humble yourself - your time will eventually come, as well.

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Famous Movie Star Passing Dates Table - 21^st Century

Year
Died

Movie Star Name

2000

Nancy Coleman
Hedy Lamarr
Marceline Day
Claire Trevor
Sir John Gielgud (g)

Dec. 30, 1912
Nov. 9, 1914
Apr. 24, 1908
Mar. 8, 1910
Apr. 14, 1904

Jan. 18, 2000
Jan. 19, 2000
Feb. 16, 2000
Apr. 8, 2000
May 21, 2000

unspecified
natural causes
natural causes
respiratory failure
respiratory infection

NY
crem
crem
crem
crem

Walter Mathau
Sir Alec Guinness (b)
Loretta Young
Jean Peters
Julie London
Billy Barty
Jason Robards

Oct. 1, 1920
Apr. 2, 1914
Jan. 6, 1913
Oct. 15, 1926
Sep. 26, 1926
Oct. 25, 1924
Jul. 26, 1922

Jul. 1, 2000
Aug. 5, 2000
Aug. 12, 2000
Oct. 13, 2000
Oct. 18, 2000
Dec. 23, 2000
Dec. 26, 2000

cardiac arrest
liver cancer
ovarian cancer
leukemia
stroke, then decline
heart failure
lung cancer

WVM
UK
HCC
HCC
FLH
FLG
crem

2001

Ann Sothern

Jan. 22, 1909

Mar. 15, 2001

heart failure

ID

Anthony Quinn
Peggy Cartwright
Jack Lemmon
Jane Greer
Troy Donahue

Apr. 21, 1915
Nov. 14, 1912
Feb. 8, 1925
Sep. 9, 1924
Jan. 27, 1936

Jun. 3, 2001
Jun. 12, 2001
Jun. 27, 2001
Aug. 24, 2001
Sep. 2, 2001

pneumonia
?
colon cancer
cancer
heart attack

RI
CA
WVM
WVM
crem

2002

George Nader (g)
Lawrence Tierney
Joe Cobb

Oct. 19, 1921
Mar. 15, 1919
Nov. 7, 1916

Feb. 4, 2002
Feb. 26, 2002
May 21, 2002

cardiac, pneumonia, cerebral
pneumonia
?

FLC
crem
FLG

Katy Jurado
Rod Steiger
Kim Hunter
Richard Harris
Eddie Bracken
James Coburn

Jan. 16, 1924
Apr. 14, 1925
Nov. 12, 1922
Oct. 1, 1930
Feb. 7, 1915
Aug. 31, 1928

Jul. 5, 2002
Jul. 9, 2002
Sep. 11, 2002
Oct. 25, 2002
Nov. 14, 2002
Nov. 18, 2002

kidney failure, lung disease
pneumonia
heart attack
Hodgkins disease
surgery complications
heart attack

Mex.
FLH
unk.
crem
crem
WVM

2003

Richard Crenna
Horst Buchholz
Wendy Hiller
Robert Stack
Martha Scott
Gregory Peck (12)
Hume Cronyn
Katharine Hepburn (1)

Nov. 30, 1926
Dec. 4, 1933
Aug. 15, 1912
Jan. 13, 1919
Sep. 22, 1912
Apr. 5, 1916
Jul. 11, 1911
May 12, 1907

Jan. 17, 2003
Mar. 3, 2003
May 14, 2003
May 14, 2003
May 28, 2003
June 12, 2003
June 15, 2003
June 29, 2003

pancreatic cancer
pneumonia
natural causes
cancer, heart attack
natural causes
pneumonia
prostate cancer
natural causes

crem
Ger.
crem
WVM
MO
CA
unk.
CT

Buddy Ebsen
Bob Hope
Charles Bronson
Donald O'Connor
Penny Singleton
Jeanne Crain
Alan Bates

Apr. 2, 1908
May 29, 1903
Nov. 3, 1921
Aug. 28, 1925
Sep. 15, 1908
May 25, 1925
Feb. 17, 1934

Jul. 6, 2003
Jul. 27, 2003
Aug. 30, 2003
Sept. 27, 2003
Nov. 12, 2003
Dec. 14, 2003
Dec. 27, 2003

pneumonia
natural causes
Alzheimer's, pneumonia
congestive H.F.
stroke
heart attack
pancreatic cancer

crem
CA
VT
FLH
CA
CA
UK

2004

Ann Miller
Mercedes McCambridge
Frances Dee
Jan Sterling
Peter Ustinov
Tony Randall
Ronald Reagan

Apr. 12, 1923
Mar. 16, 1916
Nov. 26, 1909
Apr. 3, 1921
Apr. 16, 1921
Feb. 26, 1920
Feb. 6, 1911

Jan. 22, 2004
Mar. 2, 2004
Mar. 6, 2004
Mar. 26, 2004
Mar. 28, 2004
May 17, 2004
June 5, 2004

cancer
natural causes
stroke
broken hip, strokes
heart failure
pneumonia
Alzheimer's

HCC
crem
unk.
UK
Swit.
NY
CA

Marlon Brando (4)
Fay Wray
Janet Leigh
Rodney Dangerfield
Howard Keel
John D. Barrymore

Apr. 3, 1924
Sep. 15, 1907
Jul. 6, 1927
Nov. 22, 1921
Apr. 13, 1919
Jun. 4, 1932

Jul. 1, 2004
Aug. 8, 2004
Oct. 3, 2004
Oct. 5, 2004
Nov. 7, 2004
Nov. 29, 2004

pulmonary fibrosis, CHF
natural causes
cardiac arrest
surgery complications
colon cancer
cancer

crem
HF
WVM
WVM
crem
crem

2005

Virginia Mayo
Sandra Dee
Teresa Wright
Ruth Hussey
Eddie Albert
Anne Bancroft

Nov. 30, 1920
Apr. 23, 1942
Oct. 27, 1918
Oct. 30, 1911
Apr. 22, 1906
Sep. 17, 1931

Jan. 17, 2005
Feb. 20, 2005
Mar. 6, 2005
Apr. 19, 2005
May 26, 2005
Jun. 6, 2005

CHF, pneumonia
kidney disease
heart attack
appendectomy
pneumonia
uterine cancer

CA
FLH
CT
CA
WVM
NY

June Haver
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Barbara Bel Geddes
Constance Cummings
Jean Parker

Jun. 10, 1926
Nov. 24, 1913
Oct. 31. 1922
May 15, 1910
Aug. 11, 1915

Jul. 4, 2005
July 17, 2005
Aug. 8. 2005
Nov. 23, 2005
Nov. 30, 2005

respiratory failure
Alzheimer's
lung cancer
natural causes
strokes

HCC
NY
crem
crem
FLH

2006

Shelley Winters
Anthony Franciosa
Don Knotts
Dennis Weaver
Darrin McGavin
Robert Sterling

Aug. 18, 1920
Oct. 25, 1928
Jul. 21, 1924
Jun. 4, 1924
May 7, 1922
Nov. 13, 1917

Jan. 14, 2006
Jan. 19, 2006
Feb. 24, 2006
Feb. 24, 2006
Feb. 25, 2006
May 30, 2006

heart failure
stroke
lung cancer
cancer
natural causes
natural causes, shingles

CA
crem
WVM
crem
HF
unk.

June Allyson
Red Buttons
Jack Warden
Glenn Ford
Phyllis Kirk
Jane Wyatt
Jack Palance
Peter Boyle

Oct. 7, 1917
Feb. 5, 1919
Sep. 18, 1920
May 1, 1916
Sep. 18, 1927
Aug. 12, 1910
Feb. 18, 1919
Oct. 18, 1935

Jul. 8, 2006
Jul. 13, 2006
Jul. 19, 2006
Aug. 30, 2006
Oct. 19, 2006
Oct. 20, 2006
Nov. 10, 2006
Dec. 12, 2006

respiratory failure
high blood pressure
heart and kidney failure
strokes
cerebral aneurysm
natural causes
natural causes
multiple myeloma

crem
crem
crem
CA
VA
CA
crem
NY

2007

Yvonne De Carlo
Betty Hutton
Calvin Lockhart

Sep. 1, 1922
Feb. 26, 1921
Oct. 18, 1934

Jan. 8, 2007
Mar. 11, 2007
Mar. 29, 2007

natural causes
colon cancer
stroke

crem
CA
unk

Barry Nelson
Roscoe Lee Browne
Gordon Scott
Mala Powers

Apr. 16, 1917
May 2, 1922
Aug. 3, 1926
Dec. 20, 1931

Apr. 7, 2007
Apr. 11, 2007
Apr. 30, 2007
Jun. 11, 2007

not disclosed
stomach cancer
cardiovascular disease
leukemia

PA
crem
NY
FLG

Charles Lane
Michel Serrault
Miyoshi Umeki
Jane Wyman
Alice Ghostley
Marcel Marceau
Lois Maxwell

Jan. 26, 1905
Jan. 24, 1928
May 8, 1929
Jan. 5, 1917
Aug. 14, 1923
Mar. 22, 1923
Feb. 14, 1927

Jul. 9, 2007
Jul. 29, 2007
Aug. 28, 2007
Sep. 10, 2007
Sep. 21, 2007
Sep. 22, 2007
Sep. 29, 2007

natural causes
cancer
cancer
natural causes
colon cancer, strokes
unspecified
bowel cancer

CA
FR
MO
FLC
AR
FR
crem

Bobby Mauch
Deborah Kerr
Laraine Day

Jul. 6, 1921
Sep. 30, 1921
Oct. 13, 1920

Oct. 15, 2007
Oct. 16, 2007
Nov. 10, 2007

unspecified
Parkinson's
natural causes

crem
UK
FLH

2008

Maila Nurmi (Vampira)
Brad Renfro
Lois Nettleton
Suzanne Pleshette
Heath Ledger
Robert DoQui
Roy Scheider
Paul Scofield
Richard Widmark

Dec. 11, 1922
Jul. 25, 1982
Aug. 16, 1927
Jan. 31, 1937
Apr. 4, 1979
Apr. 20, 1934
Nov. 10, 1932
Jan. 21, 1922
Dec. 26, 1914

Jan. 10, 2008
Jan. 15, 2008
Jan. 18, 2008
Jan. 19, 2008
Jan. 22, 2008
Feb. 9, 2008
Feb. 10, 2008
Mar. 19, 2008
Mar. 24, 2008

natural causes
heroin overdose
lung cancer
cancer, respiratory failure
polypharmacy
"natural causes"
multiple myeloma
leukemia
unspecified

HF
TN
NY
CA
crem
IP
crem
UK
CT

Charlton Heston
June Travis
Hazel Court
Joy Page
Julie Ege
John Phillip Law
Harvey Korman
Mel Ferrer
Bobby J. Anderson
Cyd Charisse
George Carlin
Dody Goodman

Oct. 4, 1923
Aug. 7, 1914
Feb. 10, 1926
Nov. 9, 1924
Nov. 12, 1943
Sep. 7, 1937
Feb. 15, 1927
Aug. 25, 1917
Mar. 6, 1933
Mar. 8, 1922
May 12, 1937
Oct. 28, 1914

Apr. 5, 2008
Apr. 14, 2008
Apr. 15, 2008
Apr. 18, 2008
Apr. 29, 2008
May 13, 2008
May 29, 2008
Jun. 2, 2008
Jun. 6, 2008
Jun. 17, 2008
Jun. 22, 2008
Jun. 22, 2018

Alzheimer's, pneumonia
stroke
heart attack
stroke, pneumonia
breast cancer
pancreatic cancer
aortic aneurysm
heart failure
cancer
heart attack
heart failure
natural causes

CA
IL
crem
FLH
Nor.
crem
CA
crem
crem
CA
crem
NJ

Evelyn Keyes
Bernie Mac
Isaac Hayes
Roberta Collins
Michael Pate
Jerry Reed
Anita Page
Paul Newman

Nov. 20, 1916
Oct. 5, 1957
Aug. 20, 1942
Nov. 17, 1944
Feb. 26, 1920
Mar. 20, 1937
Aug. 4, 1910
Jan. 26, 1925

Jul. 4, 2008
Aug. 8, 2008
Aug. 10, 2008
Aug. 16, 2008
Sep. 1, 2008
Sep. 1, 2008
Sep. 6, 2008
Sep. 26, 2008

cancer, Alzheimer's
sarcoidosis, pneumonia
stroke
drug overdose
pneumonia
emphysema
natural causes
lung cancer

unk.
IL
TN
FLH
crem
TN
HCC
crem

Robert Arthur
Guillaume Depardieu
Edie Adams
Paul Benedict
Nina Foch
Van Johnson (g)
Eartha Kitt

Jun. 18, 1925
Sep. 17, 1938
Apr. 20, 1924
Aug. 25, 1916
Jan. 17, 1927
Apr. 7, 1971
Apr. 16, 1927

Oct. 1, 2008
Oct. 13, 2008
Oct. 15, 2008
Dec. 1, 2008
Dec. 5, 2008
Dec. 12, 2008
Dec. 25, 2008

heart failure
pneumonia
cancer, pneumonia
unknown
myelodysplastic syndr.
natural causes
colon cancer

WA
Fran.
FLH
crem
FLG
crem
crem

2009

Edmond Purdom
Pat Hingle
Patrick McGoohan
Ricardo Montalban
Susanna Foster
Kathleen Byron
James Whitmore
Betsy Blair
Ron Silver
Natasha Richardson

Dec. 19, 1924
Jul. 19, 1924
Mar. 19, 1928
Nov. 25, 1920
Dec. 6, 1924
Jan. 11, 1921
Oct. 1, 1921
Dec. 11, 1923
Jul. 2, 1946
May 11, 1963

Jan. 1, 2009
Jan. 3, 2009
Jan. 13, 2009
Jan. 14, 2009
Jan. 17, 2009
Jan. 18, 2009
Feb. 6, 2009
Mar. 13, 2009
Mar. 15, 2009
Mar. 18, 2009

heart failure
myelodysplastic synd.
brief illness
congestive H.F.
"unexpectedly"
"poor health"
lung cancer
cancer
esophageal cancer
skiing accident

Italy
crem
crem
HCC
NY
unk
crem
crem
NY
NY

Jody McCrea
Jane Bryan
Bea Arthur
Dom DeLuise
David Carradine
Farrah Fawcett
Gale Storm

Sep. 6, 1934
Jun. 11, 1918
May 13, 1922
Aug. 1, 1933
Dec. 8, 1936
Feb. 2, 1947
Apr. 5, 1922

Apr. 4, 2009
Apr. 8, 2009
Apr. 25, 2009
May 4, 2009
Jun. 3, 2009
Jun. 25, 2009
Jun. 27, 2009

heart attack
"lengthy illness"
cancer, unspecified
kidney failure, cancer
auto-erotica or murder?
anal cancer
natural causes

crem
CA
crem
crem
FLH
WVM
crem

Karl Malden
Beverly Roberts
Paul Burke
Henry Gibson
Patrick Swayze

Mar. 22, 1912
May 19, 1914
Jul. 21, 1926
Sep. 21, 1935
Aug. 18, 1952

July 1, 2009
Jul. 13, 2009
Sep. 13, 2009
Sep. 14, 2009
Sep. 14, 2009

natural causes
natural causes
leukemia, lymphoma
cancer
pancreatic cancer

WVM
FLG
unk
crem
crem

Joseph Wiseman
Lou Jacobi
Richard Todd
Gene Barry
Jennifer Jones

May 15, 1918
Dec. 28, 1913
Jun. 11, 1919
Jun. 14, 1919
Mar. 2, 1919

Oct. 19, 2009
Oct. 23, 2009
Dec. 3, 2009
Dec. 9, 2009
Dec. 17, 2009

natural causes
unspecified
cancer
fall while in care
natural causes

crem
unk
UK
CA
FLG

40

190 - 740

115

110

40

198

50

Movie Star Name

2010

Jean Simmons
Kathryn Grayson
Peter Graves
Fess Parker
Robert Culp
June Havoc

Jan. 31, 1929
Feb. 8, 1922
Mar. 18, 1926
Aug. 16, 1924
Aug. 16, 1930
Nov. 8, 1912

Jan. 22, 2010
Feb. 17, 2010
Mar. 14, 2010
Mar. 18, 2010
Mar. 24, 2010
Mar. 28, 2010

lung cancer
in her sleep
heart attack
natural causes
heart attack (or fall)
natural causes

crem
crem
crem
CA
CA
crem

John Forsythe
Lynn Redgrave
Lena Horne
Dennis Hopper

Jan. 29, 1918
Mar. 8, 1943
Jun. 30, 1917
May 17, 1936

Apr. 1, 2010
May 2, 2010
May 9, 2010
May 29, 2010

pneumonia
breast cancer
heart failure
prostate cancer

CA
NY
crem
NM

Patricia Neal
Kevin McCarthy
Gloria Stuart
Tony Curtis

Jan. 20, 1926
Feb. 15, 1914
Jul. 4, 1910
Jun. 3, 1925

Aug. 8, 2010
Sep. 11, 2010
Sep. 26, 2010
Sep. 29, 2010

lung cancer
natural causes
respiratory failure
cardiac arrest

CT
crem
crem
NV

Johnny Sheffield
Barbara Billingsley
James MacArthur
Jill Clayburgh
Leslie Nielsen

Apr. 11, 1931
Dec. 22, 1915
Dec. 8, 1937
Apr. 30, 1944
Feb. 11, 1926

Oct. 15, 2010
Oct. 16, 2010
Oct. 28, 2010
Nov. 5, 2010
Nov. 28, 2010

fall, heart attack
polymyalgia
natural causes
leukemia
pneumonia

crem
WSM
NY
crem
FL

2011

Anne Francis
Susannah York
Jane Russell
Elizabeth Taylor (7)
Farley Granger (b)

Sep. 16, 1930
Jan. 9, 1939
Jun. 21, 1921
Feb. 27, 1932
Jul. 1, 1925

Jan. 2, 2011
Jan. 15, 2011
Feb. 28, 2011
Mar. 23, 2011
Mar. 27, 2011

pancreatic cancer
bone marrow cancer
respiratory failure
congestive H.F.
natural causes

crem
crem
PO
FLG
crem

Jackie Cooper
Dana Wynter
James Arness
Peter Falk

Sep. 15, 1922
Jun. 8, 1931
May 26, 1923
Sep. 16, 1927

May 3, 2011
May 5, 2011
Jun. 3, 2011
Jun. 23, 2011

old age (sic)
congestive H.F.
natural causes
Alzheimer's

VA
crem
FLG
WVM

Anna Massey
Googie Withers
Linda Christian
Sybil Jason
Cliff Robertson

Aug. 11, 1937
Mar. 12, 1917
Nov. 13, 1923
Nov. 23, 1927
Sep. 9, 1923

Jul. 3, 2011
Jul. 15, 2011
Jul. 22, 2011
Aug. 23, 2011
Sep. 10, 2011

cancer
old age
colon cancer
natural causes
natural causes

unk
PO
FLC
FLH
NY

Barbara Kent
Harry Morgan
Denise Darcel

Dec. 16, 1907
Apr. 10, 1915
Sep. 8, 1924

Oct. 13, 2011
Dec. 7, 2011
Dec. 23, 2011

old age
pneumonia
ruptured aneurysm

PO
crem
crem

2012

Ben Gazzara
Warren Stevens

Aug. 28, 1930
Nov. 2, 1919

Feb. 3, 2012
Mar. 27, 2012

pancreatic cancer
lung disease

crem
crem

Patricia Medina
Ann Rutherford

Jul. 19, 1919
Nov. 2, 1917

Apr. 28, 2012
Jun. 11, 2012

natural causes
heart failure

VA
HCC

Ernest Borgnine
Celeste Holm
Chad Everett
Tony Martin
R. G. Armstrong
Phyllis Thaxter
William Windom
Phyllis Diller
Herbert Lom
Turhan Bey

Jan. 25, 1917
Apr. 29, 1917
Jun. 11, 1936
Dec. 25, 1913
Apr. 7, 1917
Nov. 20, 1919
Sep. 28, 1923
Jul. 17, 1917
Sep. 11, 1917
Mar. 30, 1922

Jul. 8, 2012
Jul. 15, 2012
Jul. 24, 2012
Jul. 27, 2012
Jul. 27, 2012
Aug. 14, 2012
Aug. 16, 2012
Aug. 20, 2012
Sep. 27, 2012
Sep. 30, 2012

renal failure
heart attack
lung cancer
natural causes
natural causes
Alzheimer's
congestive H.F.
unspecified
in his sleep
Parkinson's

crem
crem
crem
HMP
crem
crem
crem
PO
unk
crem

Larry Hagman
Jack Klugman
Charles Durning
Harry Carey, Jr.

Sep. 21, 1931
Apr. 27, 1922
Feb. 28, 1923
May 16, 1921

Nov. 23, 2012
Dec. 24, 2012
Dec. 24, 2012
Dec. 27, 2012

throat cancer
prostate cancer
natural causes
natural causes

crem
WVM
VA
WVM

2013

Patti Page
Patty Andrews
Dale Robertson

Nov. 8, 1927
Feb. 16, 1918
Jul. 14, 1923

Jan. 1, 2013
Jan. 30, 2013
Feb. 27, 2013

unannounced
natural causes
lung cancer, pneum.

CA
WVM
crem

Annette Funicello
Jonathan Winters
Deanna Durbin
Esther Williams

Oct. 22. 1942
Nov. 11, 1925
Dec. 4, 1921
Aug. 8, 1921

Apr. 8, 2013
Apr. 11, 2013
Apr. 20, 2013
Jun. 6, 2013

complications of MS
natural causes
natural causes
in her sleep

FLH
crem
unk
PO

Eileen Brennan
Michael Ansara
Karen Black
Julie Harris

Sep. 3, 1932
Apr. 15, 1922
Jul. 1, 1939
Dec. 2, 1925

Jul. 28, 2013
Jul. 31, 2013
Aug. 8, 2013
Aug. 24, 2013

bladder cancer
prolonged illness
ampullary cancer
congest. heart failure

crem
FLH
CA
unk

Jean Kent
Paul Walker
Eleanor Parker
Audrey Totter
Peter O'Toole
Joan Fontaine

Jun. 29, 1921
Sep. 12, 1973
Jun. 26, 1922
Dec. 20, 1917
Aug. 2, 1932
Oct. 22, 1917

Nov. 30, 2013
Nov. 30, 2013
Dec. 9, 2013
Dec. 12, 2013
Dec. 14, 2013
Dec. 15, 2013

fall
car crash
pneumonia
stroke
a "long illness"
natural causes

unk
FLH
PO
don.
crem
crem

2014

Juanita Moore
Maximilian Schell
Shirley Temple (18)
Sid Caesar
Ralph Waite
James Rebhorn
Patrice Wymore (Flynn)

Oct. 19, 1914
Dec. 8, 1930
Apr. 23, 1928
Sep. 8, 1922
Jun. 22, 1928
Sep. 1, 1948
Dec. 17, 1926

Jan. 1, 2014
Feb. 1, 2014
Feb. 10, 2014
Feb. 12, 2014
Feb. 13, 2014
Mar. 21, 2014
Mar. 22, 2014

natural causes
sudden illness
natural causes
short illness
age-related illness
melanoma
natural causes

IP
Aus.
CA
CA
NY
unk
FLG

Mickey Rooney
Mary Anderson
Bob Hoskins
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
Mona Freeman
Herb Jeffries
Martha Hyer
Ruby Dee
Carla Laemmle
Eli Wallach

Sep. 23, 1920
Apr. 3, 1918
Oct. 26, 1942
Nov. 30, 1918
Jun. 9, 1926
Sep. 24, 1913
Aug. 10, 1924
Oct. 27, 1922
Oct. 20, 1909
Dec. 7, 1915

Apr. 6, 2014
Apr. 6, 2014
Apr. 29, 2014
May 2, 2014
May 23, 2014
May 25, 2014
May 31, 2014
Jun. 11, 2014
Jun. 12, 2014
Jun. 24, 2014

natural causes
natural causes
pneumonia
natural causes
"a long illness"
heart failure
undisclosed
natural causes
104 years old
98 years old

HF
FLH
unk
CT
crem
crem
FLG
crem
CA
crem

James Garner
James Shigeta
Robin Williams
Lauren Bacall (20)
Sir Richard Attenborough
Richard Kiel
Sir Donald Sinden
Polly Bergen

Apr. 7, 1928
Jun. 17, 1933
Jul. 21, 1951
Sep. 16, 1924
Aug. 29, 1923
Sep. 13, 1939
Oct. 9, 1923
Jul. 14, 1930

Jul. 19, 2014
Jul. 28, 2014
Aug. 11, 2014
Aug. 12, 2014
Aug. 24, 2014
Sep. 10, 2014
Sep. 12, 2014
Sep. 20, 2014

natural causes
in his sleep
suicide, asphyxiation
stroke
illness
broken leg
prostate cancer
natural causes

unk
HI
PO
FLG
unk
CA
UK
unk

Renee Asherson
Virna Lisi
Luise Rainer

May 19, 1915
Nov. 8, 1936
Jan. 12, 1910

Oct. 30, 2014
Dec. 8, 2014
Dec. 30, 2014

old age
cancer
pneumonia

UK
It.
crem

2015

Donna Douglas
Rod Taylor
Anita Ekberg
Lizabeth Scott
Mary Healy
Louis Jourdan
Leonard Nimoy
Sally Forrest

Sep. 26, 1933
Jan. 11, 1930
Sep. 29, 1931
Sep. 29, 1922
Apr. 14, 1918
Jun. 19, 1921
Mar. 26, 1931
May 28, 1928

Jan. 1, 2015
Jan. 7, 2015
Jan. 11, 2015
Jan. 31, 2015
Feb. 3, 2015
Feb. 14, 2015
Feb. 27, 2015
Mar. 15, 2015

pancreatic cancer
heart attack
"a long illness"
CHF
natural causes
he was old
COPD
cancer

LA
FLH
Swe.
crem
NV
WVM
HMP
CA

James Best
Geoffrey Lewis
Jayne Meadows
Anne Meara
Christopher Lee
Dick Van Patten

Jul. 26, 1926
Jul. 31, 1935
Sep. 27, 1919
Sep. 20, 1929
May 27, 1922
Dec. 9, 1928

Apr. 6, 2015
Apr. 7, 2015
Apr. 26, 2015
May 23, 2015
Jun. 7, 2015
Jun. 23, 2015

pneumonia
natural causes
natural causes
natural causes
respiration, heart
diabetes

unk
unk
FLH
unk
unk
FLH

Diana Douglas
Omar Sharif
Nova Pilbeam
Theodore Bikel
Coleen Gray
Dean Jones
Judy Carne
Jean Darling
Martin Milner
Dickie Moore

Jan. 22, 1923
Apr. 10, 1932
Nov. 15, 1919
May 2, 1924
Oct. 23, 1922
Jan. 25, 1931
Apr. 27, 1939
Aug. 23, 1922
Dec. 28, 1975
Sep. 12, 1925

Jul. 3, 2015
Jul. 10, 2015
Jul. 17, 2015
Jul. 20, 2015
Aug. 3, 2015
Sep. 1, 2015
Sep. 3, 2015
Sep. 4, 2015
Sep. 6, 2015
Sep. 7, 2015

cancer
heart attack
cancer
natural causes
natural causes
Parkinson's
pneumonia
natural causes
heart failure
natural

?
Egy.
unk
HMP
WVM
unk
unk
unk
unk
unk

Joan Leslie
Marty Ingels
Maureen O'Hara
Betsy Drake
Rex Reason
Margorie Lord
Robert Loggia
Wayne Rogers

Jan. 26, 1925
Mar. 9, 1936
Aug. 17, 1920
Sep. 11, 1923
Nov. 30, 1928
Jul. 26, 1918
Jan. 3, 1930
Apr. 7, 1933

Oct. 12, 2015
Oct. 21, 2015
Oct. 24, 2015
Oct. 27, 2015
Nov. 19, 2015
Nov. 28, 2015
Dec. 4, 2015
Dec. 31, 2015

unannounced
stroke
in her sleep
old age
bladder cancer
natural causes
Alzheimer's
pneumonia

HCC
unk
VA
unk
-
unk
WVM
unk

2016

Richard Libertini
David Bowie (b)
Alan Rickman
Dan Haggerty
Abe Vigoda
Frank Finlay
George Gaynes
George Kennedy
Nancy Davis
Adrienne Corri
Richard Bradford
Rita Gam
Ken Howard
Maggie Blye
Garry Shandling
Patty Duke

May 21, 1933
Jan. 8, 1947
Feb. 21, 1946
Nov. 19, 1941
Feb. 24, 1921
Aug. 6, 1926
May 3, 1917
Feb. 18, 1925
Jul. 6, 1921
Nov. 13, 1930
Nov. 10, 1934
Apr. 2, 1927
Mar. 28, 1944
Oct. 24, 1942
Nov. 29, 1949
Dec. 14, 1946

Jan. 7, 2016
Jan. 10, 2016
Jan. 14, 2016
Jan. 15, 2016
Jan. 26, 2016
Jan. 30, 2016
Feb. 15, 2016
Feb. 28, 2016
Mar. 6, 2016
Mar. 13, 2016
Mar. 22, 2016
Mar. 22, 2016
Mar. 23, 2016
Mar. 24, 2016
Mar. 24, 2016
Mar. 29, 2016

cancer
liver cancer
pancreatic cancer
spinal cancer
in his sleep
heart failure
old age
natural causes
CHF
coronary artery dis.
none given
respiratory failure
none given
cancer
heart attack
ruptured intestine

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

Doris Roberts
Prince
Madeleine Sherwood
Marie Lebeau
William Schallert
Burt Kwouk
Anton Yelchin

Nov. 4, 1925
Jun. 7, 1958
Nov. 13, 1922
Jun. 10, 1923
Jul. 6, 1922
Jul. 18, 1930
Mar. 11, 1989

Apr. 17, 2016
Apr. 21, 2016
Apr. 23, 2016
May 1, 2016
May 8, 2016
May 24, 2016
Jun. 19, 2016

natural causes
fentanyl overdose
undisclosed
after broken thigh
peripheral neuropathy
cancer
crushed by Jeep

-
-
-
-
-
-
HF

John McMartin
Gloria DeHaven
David Huddleston
Kenny Baker
Marvin Kaplan
Gene Wilder
Jon Polito
Hugh O'Brian
Bill Nunn

Aug. 21, 1929
Jul. 23, 1925
Sep. 17, 1930
Aug. 24, 1934
Jan. 24, 1927
Jun. 11, 1933
Sep. 1, 1950
Apr. 19, 1925
Oct. 20, 1953

Jul. 6, 2016
Jul. 30, 2016
Aug. 2, 2016
Aug. 13, 2016
Aug. 25, 2016
Aug. 28, 2016
Sep. 1, 2016
Sep. 5, 2016
Sep. 24, 2016

cancer
stroke
heart & kidney dis.
lung condition
natural causes
Alzheimer's
multiple myeloma
in his sleep
leukemia

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

Robert Vaughn
Lupita Tovar
Peter Vaughan
Alan Thicke
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Michele Morgan
Carrie Fisher
Debbie Reynolds

Nov. 22, 1932
Jul. 27, 1910
Apr. 4, 1923
Mar. 1, 1947
Feb. 6, 1917
Feb. 29, 1920
Oct. 21, 1956
Apr. 1, 1932

Nov. 11, 2016
Nov. 12, 2016
Dec. 6, 2016
Dec. 13, 2016
Dec. 18, 2016
Dec. 20, 2016
Dec. 27, 2016
Dec. 28, 2016

acute leukemia
heart disease
old age
aortic dissection
heart attack
natural causes
cardiac arrest
stroke

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

2017

Miguel Ferrer
Mary Tyler Moore
Barbara Hale
Mike Connors
John Hurt
Bill Paxton
Robert Osborne (g)
Lola Albright

Feb. 7, 1955
Dec. 29, 1936
Apr. 18, 1922
Aug. 15, 1925
Jan. 22, 1940
May 17, 2017
May 3, 1932
Jul. 20, 1924

Jan. 19, 2017
Jan. 25, 2017
Jan. 26, 2017
Jan. 26, 2017
Jan. 27, 2017
Feb. 25, 2017
Mar. 6, 2017
Mar. 23, 2017

throat cancer
multiple ailments
COPD complicat.
leukemia
pancreatic cancer
heart surgery
natural causes
fall, decline

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

Don Rickles
Clifton James
Don Gordon
Lorna Gray
Curt Lowens
Michael Parks
Powers Boothe
Dina Merrill
Roger Moore
Elena Verdugo
Roger Smith
Glenne Headly
Adam West
Stephen Furst
Skip Homeier
Michael Nyqvist

May 8, 1926
May 29, 1920
Nov. 13, 1926
Jul. 26, 1917
Nov. 17, 1925
Apr. 24, 1940
Jun. 1, 1948
Dec. 29, 1923
Oct. 14, 1927
Apr. 20, 1925
Dec. 18, 1932
Mar. 13, 1955
Sep. 19, 1928
May 8, 1954
Oct. 5, 1930
Nov. 8, 1960

Apr. 6, 2017
Apr. 15, 2017
Apr. 24, 2017
Apr. 30, 2017
May 8, 2017
May 9, 2017
May 14, 2017
May 22, 2017
May 23, 2017
May 30, 2017
Jun. 4, 2017
Jun. 8, 2017
Jun. 9, 2017
Jun. 16, 2017
Jun. 25, 2017
Jun. 27, 2017

kidney failure
diabetes
old age
old age
old age
undisclosed
cardiac arrest
Lewy body demen.
liver and lung cancer
old age
Parkinson's
pulmonary embolism
leukemia
diabetes
spinal myelopathy
lung cancer

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

Elsa Martinelli
Martin Landau
John Heard
Leonard Landy
Sam Shepard
Jeanne Moreau
Robert Hardy
Glen Campbell
Joseph Bologna
Jerry Lewis
Mireille Darc
Richard Anderson
Gastone Moschin
Frank Vincent
Harry Dean Stanton
Bernie Casey
Anne Jeffreys

Jan. 30, 1935
Jun. 20, 1928
Mar. 7, 1945
Jul. 2, 1933
Nov. 5, 1943
Jan. 23, 1928
Oct. 29, 1929
Apr. 22, 1936
Dec. 30, 1934
Mar. 16, 1926
May 15, 1938
Aug. 8, 1926
Jun. 8, 1929
Apr. 15, 1937
Jul. 14, 1926
Jun. 8, 1939
Jan. 26, 1923

Jul. 8, 2017
Jul. 15, 2017
Jul. 21, 2017
Jul. 26, 2017
Jul. 27, 2017
Jul. 31, 2017
Aug. 3, 2017
Aug. 8, 2017
Aug. 13, 2017
Aug. 20, 2017
Aug. 28, 2017
Aug. 31, 2017
Sep. 4, 2017
Sep. 13, 2017
Sep. 15, 2017
Sep. 19, 2017
Sep. 27, 2017

cancer
internal bleeding
after back surgery
not yet stated
AML (Lou Gehrig's)
not disclosed
old age
Alzheimer's
pancreatic cancer
heart disease
bad heart, coma
not disclosed
kidney failure
heart surgery
old age
stroke
old age

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

Anne Wiazemsky
Danielle Darrieux
Robert Guillaume
John Hillerman
David Cassidy
Rance Howard
Rose Marie

May 14, 1947
May 1, 1917
Nov. 30, 1927
Dec. 20, 1932
Apr. 12, 1950
Nov. 17, 1928
Aug. 15, 1923

Oct. 5, 2017
Oct. 17, 2017
Oct. 24, 2017
Nov. 9, 2017
Nov. 21, 2017
Nov. 25, 2017
Dec. 28, 2017

breast cancer
from a fall
prostate cancer
cardiovascular disease
liver failure
West Nile, heart failure
old age

-
-
-
-
-
-
-

2018

Jerry Van Dyke
John Mahoney (g)
Nanette Fabray
David Ogden Stiers

Jul. 27, 1931
Jun. 20, 1940
Oct. 27, 1920
Oct. 31, 1942

Jan. 5, 2018
Feb. 4, 2018
Feb. 22, 2018
Mar. 3, 2018

congestive heart failure
as yet unannounced
old
bladder cancer

-
-
-
-

Chuck McCann
R. Lee Ermey
Harry Anderson
Verne Troyer
Margot Kidder
Jerry Maren

Sep. 2, 1934
Mar. 24, 1944
Oct. 14, 1952
Jan. 1, 1969
Oct. 17, 1948
Jan. 24, 1920

Apr. 8, 2018
Apr. 15, 2018
Apr. 16, 2018
Apr. 21, 2018
May 13, 2018
May 24, 2018

congestive heart failure
pneumonia
strokes, influenza
alcoholism
suicide - drugs, booze
dementia, heart failure

-
-
-
-
-
FLH

Tab Hunter (g)
Mary Carlisle
Aretha Franklin
Burt Reynolds
Peter Donat

Jul. 11, 1931
Feb. 3, 1914
Mar. 25, 1942
Feb. 11, 1936
Jan. 20, 2018

Jul. 8, 2018
Aug. 1, 2018
Aug. 16, 2018
Sep. 6, 2018
Sep. 16, 2018

blood clot
old age
pancreatic cancer
cardiac arrest
diabetes

-
WVM
-
-
-

James Karen
Ricky Jay

Nov. 28, 1923
Jun. 26, 1946

Oct. 23, 2018
Nov. 24, 2018

cardiorespiratory arrest
as yet unannounced

-
-

name (b) - bisexual
name (d) - disputed
name (g) - gay
lesbian (l) - lesbian

0 - 59 = Too young, pre-2000
0 - 69 = Too young, post 2000
(arbitrary, just for reference)

If you wish to know more about an individual movie star,
I suggest you search Bing
for their wikipedia article, by typing in
"their name wiki", such as --->
jonathan winters wiki

Place of Death
Far and away, the city with the most actor deaths is Woodland Hills, CA in the San Fernando Valley. This is the location of the "Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital", where many elder actors and actresses reside.

40

190 - 740

115

110

40

198

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NOTES

1. Primarily Silent Screen Star names are shown in BOLD PINK, if most or many films made were silent (pre-1929).

2. Inclusion criteria - my whims. I can't include everybody.
  - Must have made at least one movie in the 1990s or earlier - there are exceptions
  - Faces that are familiar to me from my youth
  - Actors, actresses appearing in TCM movies on TV
  - Actors, actresses with impressive wikipedia articles

3. Natural Causes - People die of "natural causes", when they are very old, and there is no obvious cause. Or sometimes, it means, "We are not going to tell you the cause of death." In some cases, it is a euphemism for "it is not for you to know." We may not get to know the TRUE cause of death, for a variety of reasons (drugs, alcoholism, unpopular disease, depravity, protection of family reputation, etc.).

4. Interment - This column is new and incomplete, but I am adding to it over time.

5. For Birth Name, Birthplace, Filmography, Spouses, Short Bio and Place of Death, please refer to the appropriate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Name web page.
.

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Excellent Genes
Living Stars from the 1940's, 50s & 60s
Top Older Movie Stars Who Are Alive

Age

Age

Maude Adams -
Lassie Lou Ahern -
Anna Maria Alberghetti -
Lola Albright -
Julie Andrews -

70
94
79
91
79

Alan Arkin -

81

Carol Baker -
Brigitte Bardot -
Claire Bloom -
Ann Blyth -
May Britt -

83
80
84
86
81

Richard Beymer -
Robert Blake -
Pat Boone -

77
80
81

Diana Serra Cary -
("Baby Peggy")
Leslie Caron -
Carol Channing -
Joan Collins -
Anganette Comer -

96
-
83
94
81
76

Michael Caine -
George Chakiris -

81
81

Arlene Dahl -
Danielle Darrieux
Doris Day -
Olivia de Havilland -
Angie Dickinson -
Melinda Dillon -

90
100
93
98
84
75

Brian Dennehy -
Kirk Douglas (17) -

76
97

Britt Ekland -
Rhonda Fleming -
Jane Fonda -
Connie Francis -
Mitzi Gaynor -
Lee Grant -

72
91
77
76
83
87

Clint Eastwood -

Albert Finney -
Peter Fonda -

John Gavin -

84

78
74

84

Mariette Hartley -
Marsha Hunt -
Gloria Jean -
Anne Jeffries -
Glynis Johns -
Shirley Jones -

74
98
89
92
91
81

H

Gene Hackman -
George Hamilton -
Darryl Hickman -
Earl Holliman -
Anthony Hopkins -

84
76
83
87
76

Shirley Knight -
Mildred Kornman -
Angela Lansbury -
Joan Leslie -
June Lockhart -
Gina Lollobrigida -
Marjorie Lord -
Sophia Loren (21) -
Tina Louise -
Carol Lynley -

78
92
89
90
89
87
97
80
81
73

Sidney Kibrick -
Tommy Kirk -
Hardy Kruger -

89
73
87

Shirley MacLaine -
Dorothy Malone -
Ann-Margret -
Rose Marie -
Fay McKenzie -
Vera Miles -
Hayley Mills -
Yvette Mimieux -
Terry Moore -
Rita Moreno -

81
90
74
92
97
85
69
73
86
83

-

-

Julie Newmar -
Kim Novak -
Margaret O'Brien -
Nancy Olson -
Debra Paget -
Jane Powell -

82
82
78
86
81
86

Jack Nicholson -
Nehemiah Persoff -
Sidney Poitier (22)-

77
96
87

Eva Marie Saint -
Madeleine Sherwood -
Dame Maggie Smith -
Elke Sommer -
Stella Stevens -

90
92
80
74
76

R

George Segal -
Martin Sheen -
Terence Stamp -
Dean Stockwell -

80
74
76
78

Liv Ullman -
Mamie Van Doren -
Elena Verdugo -
Tuesday Weld -
Jane Withers -
Joanne Woodward -

76
84
90
71
89
85

George Takei -
Russ Tamblyn -
Rip Torn -
Robert Wagner -
Stuart Whitman -

78
79
83
84
87

All 76 women's ages above
updated on May 19, 2015.

All 39 men's ages above
updated on Jul. 29, 2014.

Do actresses outlive actors?
About 2-to-1, using this
actress/ actor comparison.

200 - 450

35

1

170

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Interment
Popular Cemeteries of
Movie Actors/ Actresses

California Burial Location

-

CC -

FLC -

FLG -

FLH -

HCC -

HMP -

HF -

IP -

VMP -

WVM -

WSM -

Calvary Cemetery . . . . . . . . . East L.A.

Forest Lawn . . . . . . . . . Cathedral City

Forest Lawn Memorial . . . . . Glendale

Forest Lawn . . . . . . . . Hollywood Hills

Holy Cross Cem. . . . . . . . . Culver City

Hillside Memorial Park . . . Culver City

Hollywood Forever . . . . . . Los Angeles

Inglewood Park . . . . . . . . . . Inglewood

Valhalla Memorial Park . N. Hollywood

Westwood Village Memorial Park

Woodlawn Cem. . . . . . . . Santa Monica

crem
don.
CA -
FR -
MA -
NY -
PO -
unk -

cremated
donated to medicine
California (other)
France
Massachusettes
New York
Pacific Ocean (cremated)
unknown

60

320 - 450

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Deaths by Decade

Deaths

Deaths per
Decade

1910 - 1919

3

3

-

1920-1924
1925-1929

17

20

1930-1934
1935-1939

37

57

1940-1944
1945-1949

55

112

1950-1954
1955-1959

73

185

1960-1964
1965-1969

105

290

1970-1974
1975-1979

134

424

1980-1984
1985-1989

146

570

1990-1994
1995-1999

133

703

2000-2004
2005-2009

170

873

2010-2014
2015-2019

144

1,017

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100

50

100

150 - 450

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Vaughn's Other
MOVIE-Related Pages

* Little Rascals Summaries

* Movie Stars Deaths

* Movie Studios Summaries

* Our Gang Filming Locations

* Top Movies

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