Category Archives: Obituaries

Rene Victor, an American actress best known for her role as Abuelita in the Disney animated film “Coco” and her performance as Lupita on the Showtime drama “Weeds,” has died. T...

James Lowe, who fronted the psych-garage-pop group the Electric Prunes in the late 1960s, best known for their top 10 hit “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night),” died May 22 at age 82 his ...

Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on seminal TV comedy “MASH,” died Friday at her home in New York City. She was 87.  Her rep Harlan Boll said th...

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...