2006 in Film - Notable Deaths

Notable Deaths

Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 7 Jim Zulevic 40 USA Actor Let's Go to Prison • Matchstick Men
12 Stu Linder 74 USA Film Editor Rain Man • Good Morning, Vietnam • Bugsy • Quiz Show • Envy •Sphere
14 Shelley Winters 85 USA Actress Lolita • The Poseidon Adventure • The Diary of Anne Frank • Cleopatra Jones • Alfie • A Place in the Sun
19 Anthony Franciosa 77 USA Actor The Long, Hot Summer • City Hall • Tenebre • Death Wish II • A Hatful of Rain
24 Chris Penn 40 USA Actor Reservoir Dogs • Footloose • Rush Hour • Starsky & Hutch • Pale Rider • Corky Romano • True Romance
February 1 Roy Alon 63 UK Stuntman Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom • Children of Men • Troy • Die Another Day • Entrapment • Buffalo Soldiers • An American Werewolf in London • The Three Musketeers
3 Al Lewis 82 USA Actor They Shoot Horses, Don't They? • The Boatniks • Car 54, Where Are You?
9 Phil Brown 89 USA Actor Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope • Superman • Chaplin • The Pink Panther Strikes Again
13 Andreas Katsulas 59 USA Actor The Fugitive • Executive Decision • Next of Kin • Hot Shots! Part Deux • The Sicilian
17 Harold Hunter 31 USA Actor Kids • Kung Faux
18 Richard Bright 64 USA Actor The Godfather • Once Upon a Time in America • Red Heat • Two of a Kind
24 Don Knotts 81 USA Actor The Apple Dumpling Gang • The Shakiest Gun in the West • Pleasantville • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World • Chicken Little • Cannonball Run II • Big Bully • Gus • No Deposit, No Return • Hot Lead and Cold Feet
24 Dennis Weaver 81 USA Actor Duel • War Arrow • A Man Called Sledge • The Gallant Hours • Navy Wife • Touch of Evil
25 Darren McGavin 83 USA Actor The Omen • A Christmas Story • Airport '77 • The Natural • Billy Madison • Captain America • Raw Deal • No Deposit, No Return • Hot Lead and Cold Feet
March 2 Jack Wild 53 UK Actor Oliver! • Melody • Pufnstuf • Alice
7 Gordon Parks 93 USA Director Shaft • The Learning Tree • The Super Cops • Leadbelly
12 Joseph Bova 81 USA Actor Serpico • Pretty Poison • Once Upon a Mattress
13 Maureen Stapleton 80 USA Actress Reds • Airport • Lonelyhearts • Cocoon • Bye Bye Birdie • Nuts
17 Bob Papenbrook 50 USA Voice Actor Stranger than Fiction • Jeepers Creepers 2 • Digimon: The Movie
25 Richard Fleischer 89 USA Director Tora! Tora! Tora! • Doctor Dolittle • Fantastic Voyage • Soylent Green • Conan the Destroyer • 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea • The Jazz Singer • Million Dollar Mystery
29 Gretchen Rau 66 USA Set/Art Director Crocodile Dundee • Unbreakable • A River Runs Through It • The Shipping News • The Good Shepherd • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou • Memoirs of a Geisha
April 4 Gary Gray 69 USA Actor Meet Me in St. Louis • Gaslight • Heaven Can Wait
17 Henderson Forsythe 88 USA Actor Silkwood • Species II • Chances Are
22 Alida Valli 84 Italy Actress The Third Man • Inferno • The Long Absence • A Month by the Lake
May 8 George Lutz 59 USA Author, Screenwriter The Amityville Horror
10 Val Guest 94 USA Director, Screenwriter Casino Royale • The Abominable Snowman • 80,000 Suspects • Miss Pilgrim's Progress
14 Paul Marco 78 USA Actor Plan 9 from Outer Space • Hiawatha
24 Henry Bumstead 91 USA Art Director To Kill a Mockingbird • Vertigo • The Sting • Blood Work • Home Alone 3 • Vertigo • Million Dollar Baby • Slap Shot
27 Paul Gleason 67 USA Actor The Breakfast Club • Die Hard • Van Wilder • Trading Places • Not Another Teen Movie
June 8 Robert Donner 75 USA Actor Cool Hand Luke • El Dorado • High Plains Drifter • Hoot
16 Arthur Franz 86 USA Actor Invaders from Mars • Sands of Iwo Jima • The Caine Mutiny
18 Vincent Sherman 99 USA Director The Young Philadelphians • Mr. Skeffington • Harriet Craig • Nora Prentiss
23 Aaron Spelling 83 USA Producer, Actor Mr. Mom • The Spirit of St. Louis • The Mod Squad
25 Kenneth Griffith 84 UK Actor Four Weddings and a Funeral • Sky Riders • The Assassination Bureau • A Night to Remember
July 9 Amzie Strickland 87 USA Actress Pretty Woman • Shiloh • Tower of Terror
11 Barnard Hughes 90 USA Actor Tron • Midnight Cowboy • The Lost Boys • Doc Hollywood • Oh, God! • Cradle Will Rock
12 Kurt Kreuger 89 Germany Actor Sahara • The Enemy Below
13 Red Buttons 87 USA Actor Sayonara • Pete's Dragon • Stagecoach • The Longest Day • C.H.O.M.P.S.
19 Jack Warden 85 USA Actor Heaven Can Wait • Shampoo • All the President's Men • 12 Angry Men • Bullets Over Broadway • The White Buffalo
20 Robert O. Cornthwaite 89 USA Actor The War of the Worlds • Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
21 Mako Iwamatsu 72 Japan Actor Conan the Barbarian • The Sand Pebbles • Conan the Destroyer • Robocop 3 • The Hawaiians • Pearl Harbor • Rugrats in Paris: The Movie • Sidekicks • The Bird People in China • TMNT
27 Johnny Weissmuller Jr. 65 USA Actor THX 1138 • American Graffiti
28 Patrick Allen 79 Malawi Actor Dial M for Murder • Jet Storm • Dunkirk • Never Take Sweets from a Stranger • High Tide at Noon
August 7 Lois January 92 USA Actress The Wizard of Oz • The Pace That Kills
13 Tony Jay 73 UK Voice Actor, Actor The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Twins • Beauty and the Beast • Treasure Planet • Time Bandits
14 Bruno Kirby 57 USA Actor The Godfather Part II • City Slickers • When Harry Met Sally... • The Basketball Diaries • This is Spinal Tap • Stuart Little • Hoffa
16 Alan Vint 61 USA Actor Badlands • The Panic in Needle Park • Earthquake • Macon County Line
25 Joseph Stefano 84 USA Screenwriter Psycho • Two Bits
30 Glenn Ford 90 Canada Actor Cimarron • 3:10 to Yuma • Gilda • Blackboard Jungle • Superman • Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • The Courtship of Eddie's Father
September 4 Steve Irwin 44 Australia Wildlife Expert, Actor Happy Feet • The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
5 Hilary Mason 89 UK Actress Don't Look Now • Robot Jox • Haunted • Dolls
7 Robert Earl Jones 96 USA Actor The Sting • Witness • Trading Places • Sleepaway Camp
8 Frank Middlemass 87 UK Actor Barry Lyndon • Dreamchild
11 Pat Corley 76 USA Actor Coming Home • The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training • The Black Marble • The Onion Field
19 Elizabeth Allen 77 USA Actor Donovan's Reef • Star Spangled Girl • Cheyenne Autumn • Born for Trouble • Crimes and Misdemeanors • With Honors • Mixed Nuts
20 Sven Nykvist 83 Sweden Cinematographer Sleepless in Seattle • Chaplin • What's Eating Gilbert Grape • Born for Trouble • The Carey Treatment
23 Malcolm Arnold 84 UK Composer The Bridge on the River Kwai • The Belles of St Trinian's • The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
28 Hy Pyke 70 USA Actor Blade Runner • White House Madness
October 4 Tom Bell 40 UK Director Wish You Were Here • Feast of July
15 Derek Bond 86 UK Actor Uncle Silas • When Eight Bells Toll • Tony Draws a Horse • Christopher Colmbus
19 Phyllis Kirk 79 USA Actress House of Wax • Back from Eternity • Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
20 Jane Wyatt 96 USA Actress Boomerang • Gentleman's Agreement • None but the Lonely Heart
21 Milton Selzer 87 USA Actor Sid and Nancy • The Cincinnati Kid • Capricorn One • Tapeheads
November 1 Adrienne Shelly 40 USA Actress, Director Waitress • The Unbelievable Truth
2 Leonard Schrader 62 USA Screenwriter Kiss of the Spider Woman • Blue Collar • Naked Tango
8 Basil Poledouris 61 USA Composer Red Dawn • Robocop • Iron Eagle • Conan the Barbarian • The Hunt for Red October • Free Willy • Mickey Blue Eyes
10 Jack Palance 87 USA Actor Shane • City Slickers • Batman • Young Guns • Dragonslayer
14 John Hallam 65 UK Actor Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves • Flash Gordon • The Wicker Man • Young Guns • Sudden Fear • Tango & Cash
19 Jeremy Slate 80 USA Actor True Grit • The Born Losers • I'll Take Sweden • The Dead Pit • The Lawnmower Man
20 Robert Altman 81 USA Director, Screenwriter MASH • Nashville • The Player • Gosford Park • Dr. T & the Women • Short Cuts • Popeye • McCabe & Mrs. Miller • Fool for Love • Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
30 Shirley Walker 61 USA Composer, Orchestrator Apocalypse Now • Final Destination • Batman: Mask of the Phantasm • Willard • True Lies • Mystery Men • Dick Tracy • Backdraft • Scrooged • A League of Their Own • Darkman • Edward Scissorhands
December 1 Sid Raymond 97 USA Actor, Voice Actor of Baby Huey Two Much
4 Adam Williams 84 USA Actor North by Northwest • Fear Strikes Out • The Big Heat • The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
5 Michael Gilden 44 USA Actor Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi • Pulp Fiction • Under the Rainbow
12 Peter Boyle 71 USA Actor Young Frankenstein • Taxi Driver • Malcolm X • Red Heat • The Santa Clause • Monster's Ball • Honeymoon in Vegas • Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed • Dr. Dolittle
18 Joseph Barbera 95 USA Director, Producer, Actor The Flintstones • Jetsons: The Movie
25 James Brown 73 USA Singer, Actor Rocky IV • The Blues Brothers • The Tuxedo • Doctor Detroit • Undercover Brother

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