Category Archives: Obituaries

Jeff Garcia, the voice actor best known for playing Sheen in the “Jimmy Neutron” franchise, died Wednesday, Variety has confirmed. He was 50. Garcia was taken off life support on Tuesday a...

Sophie Kinsella, the English author of the successful “Shopaholic” book series that was adapted into the 2009 film “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” has died. She was 55. As the B...

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who played evil sorcerer Shang Tsung in the “Mortal Kombat” franchise and appeared in “The Last Emperor,” “Licence to Kill” and “The Man...

Tammie Rosen, a staple of the indie film world who most recently worked at the Sundance Institute as chief communications officer, has died after a battle with cancer. She was 49 years old. “Tam...

David Matalon, a founding member of TriStar Pictures and producer of films like “What's Eating Gilbert Grape” and “Hear No Evil,” died on Dec. 2 in his Beverly Hills home, Vari...

Playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, a four-time Tony winner for his plays "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," "Travesties," "The Real Thing" and "The Coast of Utopia" and an Oscar winner fo...

Will Daws, the joint managing director of Plum Pictures who was a key fixture in the U.K. television community and created shows with James May and George Clarke, died suddenly in London on Monday. He...

Former Variety staffer Stu Levine, now a PR executive at NBCUniversal, was a close friend of publicity and communications exec Robert Pietranton, the Warner Bros. TV Group senior VP who died last week...

Todd Snider, a singer-songwriter who had been a leading light of the Americana music scene for three decades, captivating fans with songs like “Alright Guy,” has died at age 59. The news w...

Mary Cybulski, a script supervisor and still photographer whose credits included "Synecdoche, New York,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and “Life of Pi,” has died afte...