Category Archives: Obituaries

Robert Wilson, an experimental theater stage director, playwright, founder and artistic director of The Watermill Center, died on July 31. He was 83. Wilson's death was confirmed on his personal websi...

Wallis Annenberg, the prominent Los Angeles philanthropist who backed institutions including the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, died Monday in Los Angeles. She was 8...

Tom Lehrer, the sardonic singer-songwriter-pianist who rose to national fame after his dark, tartly funny topical songs were used on the comedic '60s TV news show "That Was the Week That Was," has die...

Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who had one of the biggest pop-jazz instrumental crossover hits of all time with “Feels So Good” in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 84. The death was reported ...

Gary Smith, the Emmy-Award-winning producer behind numerous television specials and live events, died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 90. Born in 1935, Smith studied scenic design at Carne...

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Theodore “Theo” Huxtable across all eight seasons of “The Cosby Show,” has died in an accidental drowning, according to reports. He was 54. Per...

Alan Bergman, the Oscar-, Grammy- and Emmy-winning songwriter whose lyric-writing partnership with his wife Marilyn lasted more than six decades and produced such hits as “The Windmills of Your ...

Connie Francis, the chart-topping pop singer of ’50s and ’60s classics like “Stupid Cupid,” “Where the Boys Are” and the recently TikTok viral “Pretty Little ...

David Kaff, the British actor and musician known for playing keyboardist Viv Savage in Rob Reiner's "This Is Spinal Tap," died on Friday. He was 79 years old. No cause of death has been officially con...

Thierry Ardisson, a staple of the French television landscape for nearly four decades who ruffled feathers as an iconoclastic journalist, host and producer of often explosive talk shows, died on Tuesd...