Category Archives: Obituaries

Corey Parker, a versatile actor whose career spanned film, television and mentoring young performers, has died, according to TMZ. He was 60 years old. His family told TMZ that he died Thursday in Memp...

Alan Trustman, the Harvard-educated lawyer who pivoted to Hollywood and wrote the screenplays for the 1968 films “Bullitt” and “The Thomas Crown Affair,” has died. He was 95. T...

Stephen Hibbert, a writer and actor who went from the Groundlings to writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” and “Mad TV” to a cult role as the Gimp in “Pulp Fictio...

James G. Robinson, the former auto executive who co-founded Morgan Creek Entertainment with Joe Roth and had producing credits on films including “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” and “Tr...

Italian film critic and festival chief Giorgio Gosetti, who founded the Venice Film Festival's independently-run Venice Days, known as the Giornate Degli Autori in Italian, and held key roles in sever...

Sanford “Sandy” Wernick, the longtime talent manager of clients including Adam Sandler who became partner and senior executive VP at Brillstein Entertainment Partners, died Thursday in Ran...

Gary Dontzig, a writer and producer on the hit CBS sitcom “Murphy Brown,” died Feb. 23 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 79. His longtime writing partner, Steven Peterm...

Maria O'Brien, an acting coach and actor known for roles in films including 1975’s "Smile" and 1984’s "Protocol” and numerous TV appearances in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Feb....

Grammy-winning musician was the son of pioneering producer and talent scout John Hammond

Uncle Joe Benson, a towering voice in Los Angeles radio whose career spanned nearly four decades, died Feb. 24 due to Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's dementia and complications from a fall, his famil...