Category Archives: Obituaries

Peter Kwong, who played Rain, one of the three martial arts warlocks in John Carpenter’s 1986 action classic “Big Trouble in Little China,” has died in his sleep Tuesday night, accor...

Ed Gale, who made his film debut wearing the “Howard the Duck” suit and went on to play Chuckie in “Child’s Play” and two other films in the series, died Tuesday in Los A...

"Scream queen" Kathleen Hughes Rubin thrived for nearly a century in Hollywood. Despite her image as a sexy screen siren of the 1950s, she enjoyed an enduring marriage to producer Stanley Rubin, and w...

Marcel Ophuls, the renowned, Oscar-winning documentarian whose controversial and epic "The Sorrow and the Pity" was a worldwide success, has died. He was 97. His death was reported to the New York Tim...

The family of broadcaster, producer and long-time BBC executive Alan Yentob has announced he died on Saturday. He was 78. Yentob joined the BBC as a trainee in 1968 and went on to have a distinguished...

Phil Robertson, the patriarch of TV’s “Duck Dynasty” reality show, has died. He was 79. In December, Robertson’s family said on the “Unashamed With the Robertson Family&#...

Sacha Jenkins, the renowned hip-hop journalist and cultural historian who co-founded “Ego Trip” magazine and produced TV series and documentaries about Louis Armstrong and Wu-Tang Clan, ha...

Jeff Margolis, a TV producer and director who specialized in live events from the Oscars to the Emmys and SAG Awards, died Friday in Nashville, Tenn. He was 78. Over four decades, Margolis directed so...

Michael Alaimo, a theater and film actor known for his roles in “Space Jam” and the Oscar-nominated “The China Syndrome,” died Friday, May 2, in Burbank, Calif. He was 86. Alai...

George Coulam, the founder and longstanding owner of the Texas Renaissance Festival whose eclectic lifestyle and hunt for a successor were documented in the 2024 HBO docuseries “Ren Faire,”...