Category Archives: Obituaries

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...

John Beam, a football coach featured in Netflix’s sports docuseries “Last Chance U,” died Friday morning after being shot on an Oakland college campus Thursday. He was 66. A suspect ...

Sally Kirkland, the effervescent blonde actress who was Oscar-nominated for the independent film “Anna” in 1987, has died. She was 84. Her representative, Michael Greene, confirmed to Vari...

Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan’s most celebrated stage and screen actors who was a frequent collaborator of director Masaki Kobayashi and led Akira Kurosawa titles such as “Ran,” R...