2009 in Film - Notable Deaths

Notable Deaths

Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 2 Steven Gilborn 72 USA Actor Dunston Checks In • Evolution • Alien Resurrection • Nurse Betty • Private Parts • The Brady Bunch Movie
3 Pat Hingle 84 USA Actor Splendor in the Grass • Hang 'Em High • Batman • The Land Before Time • Shaft • Norma Rae • Sudden Impact • Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby • The Quick and the Dead • Baby Boom
5 Ned Tanen 77 USA Producer The Breakfast Club • St. Elmo's Fire • Sixteen Candles
6 John Scott Martin 82 UK Actor The Meaning of Life • Pink Floyd The Wall • Ali G Indahouse • Little Shop of Horrors
8 Don Galloway 71 USA Actor The Big Chill • Clifford
12 Claude Berri 74 France Director, Producer, Writer Jean de Florette • Manon des Sources • Le Poulet • Tess • Germinal
13 Patrick McGoohan 80 Ireland Actor, Writer Braveheart • Escape from Alcatraz • Treasure Planet • The Phantom • A Time to Kill • Scanners • The Three Lives of Thomasina • Ice Station Zebra
14 Ricardo Montalbán 88 Mexico Actor, Director Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan • The Naked Gun • Escape from the Planet of the Apes • The Ant Bully • Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams • Cannonball Run II
14 Angela Morley 84 USA Composer Watership Down • The Little Prince • The Slipper and the Rose • When Eight Bells Toll • Captain Nemo and the Underwater City • The Looking Glass War • Friendships, Secrets and Lies • Let's Be Happy
18 Kathleen Byron 88 UK Actress Saving Private Ryan • The Elephant Man • Black Narcissus • Emma
21 Charles H. Schneer 88 USA Producer Jason and the Argonauts • Clash of the Titans • The 7th Voyage of Sinbad • Mysterious Island • It Came from Beneath the Sea
25 Kim Manners 58 USA Producer, Director, Production Manager, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Actor Valdez Is Coming • Halls of Anger
February 6 James Whitmore 87 USA Actor Planet of the Apes • The Shawshank Redemption • Tora! Tora! Tora! • The Majestic
6 Philip Carey 83 USA Actor Operation Pacific • Pushover • Mister Roberts
12 George Grenville 88 USA Film Editor Iron Eagle • Wrong is Right • Looking for Mr. Goodbar • Bite the Bullet
20 Robert Quarry 83 USA Actor Count Yorga, Vampire • Dr. Phibes Rises Again
22 Howard Zieff 81 USA Director Private Benjamin • My Girl • The Dream Team
27 Alan Saunders 68 USA Actor Annie Hall • Cop and a Half
March 1 Joan Turner 86 USA Actress In Her Shoes • All About the Benjamins
4 Horton Foote 92 USA Screenwriter To Kill a Mockingbird • Baby the Rain Must Fall • The Trip to Bountiful • Of Mice and Men (1992) • Tender Mercies
13 Betsy Blair 85 USA Actress Marty • A Double Life • Another Part of the Forest • The Snake Pit
15 Ron Silver 62 USA Actor, Director Ali • Reversal of Fortune • Timecop • Silkwood • Find Me Guilty
18 Natasha Richardson 45 UK Actress Nell • The Parent Trap • Maid in Manhattan • Patty Hearst • Evening • Wild Child
21 John Franklyn-Robbins 84 UK Actor Vanity Fair • The Golden Compass • Lionheart
29 Maurice Jarre 84 France Composer Lawrence of Arabia • Doctor Zhivago • Ghost • The Longest Day • Fatal Attraction • Gorillas in the Mist • Witness • Taps • Dead Poet's Society • A Passage to India • The Last Tycoon • Top Secret! • Ryan's Daughter • Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome • The Mosquito Coast • The Island at the Top of the World • Prancer
29 Monte Hale 89 USA Actor, Singer Giant
April 1 Miguel Ángel Suárez 69 Puerto Rico Actor Bananas • Stir Crazy • Under Suspicion • Angel • Che: Part One
1 Lou Perryman 67 USA Actor The Texas Chain Saw Massacre • Poltergeist • The Blues Brothers
4 Jody McCrea 74 USA Actor, Producer Lafayette Escadrille • Cry Blood, Apache • Beach Party • Muscle Beach Party • Bikini Beach • Beach Blanket Bingo • How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
5 Wouter Barendrecht 43 Netherlands Producer The Goddess of 1967 • Springtime in a Small Town • Last Life in the Universe • Pleasure Factory
9 Shakti Samanta 83 India Director, Producer Aradhana • Kati Patang • Amar Prem
10 Yevgeny Vesnik 86 Russia Actor The Adventures of the Elektronic
12 Marilyn Chambers 57 United States Actress, producer Rabid • Behind the Green Door
20 Peter Rogers 95 UK Director Carry On film series
21 Daniel Melnick 77 USA Producer Altered States • Blue Streak • Universal Soldier: The Return • Straw Dogs • All That Jazz • L.A. Story • Footloose
22 Ken Annakin 94 UK Director Swiss Family Robinson • The Longest Day • Battle of the Bulge • Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
22 Jack Cardiff 94 UK Cinematographer-Director Black Narcissus • The Red Shoes • A Matter of Life and Death • War and Peace • The African Queen • The Prince and the Showgirl • The Vikings • Sons and Lovers
25 Beatrice Arthur 86 USA Actress Lovers and Other Strangers • Mame • The Golden Girls • Maude
27 Feroz Khan 69 India Actor Tarzan Goes to India • Dharmatma • Qurbani • Janbaaz
May 1 Danny Gans 52 USA Actor, Entertainer Bull Durham
4 Dom DeLuise 75 USA Actor, Comedian, Film Director History of the World, Part I • Spaceballs • Robin Hood: Men in Tights • All Dogs Go to Heaven • An American Tail • The Muppet Movie • The Cannonball Run • The Twelve Chairs • Blazing Saddles • The End • Smokey and the Bandit II • Hot Stuff • Oliver & Company
4 Jane Randolph 93 USA Actress Railroaded! • Cat People • The Curse of the Cat People
7 Mickey Carroll 89 USA Actor The Wizard of Oz
18 Wayne Allwine 62 USA Voice actor/third voice of Mickey Mouse, Sound effects editor Who Framed Roger Rabbit • Fantasia 2000 • A Goofy Movie • The Great Mouse Detective • The Black Cauldron • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier • Splash • Three Men and a Baby • Alien Nation • Innerspace
20 Lucy Gordon 28 UK Actress Perfume • Serendipity • Spider-Man 3
28 Mort Abrahams 93 USA Producer Planet of the Apes • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
June 3 David Carradine 72 USA Actor Kung Fu • Death Race 2000 • Bound for Glory • Bird on a Wire • Kill Bill • Crank: High Voltage
3 Shih Kien 96 China Actor The Young Master • Enter the Dragon
21 Lorena Gale 51 Canada Actress The Butterfly Effect • Fantastic Four • The X-Files: I Want to Believe • Ernest Goes to School • Traitor • Halloween: Resurrection • The Exorcism of Emily Rose • Agent Cody Banks • The Fly II • The Day the Earth Stood Still
23 Ed McMahon 86 USA Actor The Incident • Fun with Dick and Jane • Bewitched • Full Moon High • Butterfly
25 Farrah Fawcett 62 USA Actress Logan's Run • The Cannonball Run • Extremities • The Apostle • Dr. T & the Women
25 Michael Jackson 50 USA Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Producer The Wiz • Captain EO • Moonwalker • Michael Jackson's Ghosts • Men in Black II • Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls • This Is It
29 Jan Rubes 89 Canada Singer, Actor Witness • One Magic Christmas • Dead of Winter • The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick • D2: The Mighty Ducks
30 Harve Presnell 75 USA Actor Fargo • Saving Private Ryan • Face/Off • Patch Adams • Paint Your Wagon • Old School • The Family Man • Evan Almighty • The Chamber • Flags of our Fathers • The Legend of Bagger Vance • Mr. Deeds • The Unsinkable Molly Brown
July 1 Karl Malden 97 USA Actor A Streetcar Named Desire • On the Waterfront • Baby Doll • Birdman of Alcatraz • Gypsy • Patton• One-Eyed Jacks • How the West Was Won • Kiss of Death • I Confess
4 Brenda Joyce 92 USA Actress Tarzan and the Amazons • Tarzan and the Leopard Woman • Tarzan and the Huntress • Tarzan and the Mermaids • Tarzan's Magic Fountain
10 Zena Marshall 83 UK Actress Dr. No • Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines • The Terrornauts
17 Walter Cronkite 92 USA News Anchor, Actor We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
26 Traugott Buhre 80 Germany Actor Derrick • Tatort • Anatomy
26 Clayton Hill 78 USA Actor Dawn of the Dead • The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
31 Jean-Paul Roussillon 78 France Actor Monsieur de Pourceaugnac • Une hirondelle a fait le printemps • Playing 'In the Company of Men' • Kings and Queen • A Christmas Tale
August 6 John Hughes 59 USA Director, Writer, Producer National Lampoon's Vacation • Ferris Bueller's Day Off • Weird Science • The Breakfast Club • Sixteen Candles • Pretty in Pink • She's Having a Baby • Planes, Trains and Automobiles • Uncle Buck • Home Alone • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York • Flubber
9 John Quade 71 USA Actor, Stuntman The Outlaw Josey Wales • 92 In The Shade • The Sting • Every Which Way But Loose
13 Les Paul 94 USA Musician, Songwriter, Actor The Dream Catcher
26 Sadie Corre 91 USA Actress, Dancer Return of the Jedi • Brazil • Who Framed Roger Rabbit • The Rocky Horror Show • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang • Willow • The Dark Crystal • ]
28 Wayne Tippit 76 USA Actor Nurse Betty • JFK • Taps • The Dream Team
September 7 Frank Coghlan, Jr. 93 USA Actor The Public Enemy • Adventures of Captain Marvel
6 Michael Davison 48 USA Miscellaneous Kick-Ass • Knowing • National Treasure: Book of Secrets • Next • The Sorcerer's Apprentice • Season of the Witch • Bad Lieutenant • Dick Tracy • Bangkok Dangerous
8 Ray Barrett 82 Australia Actor Australia • The Sundowners • The Reptile • Heaven's Burning • Thunderbirds Are Go • Where the Green Ants Dream
12 Larry Gelbart 81 USA Author, Screenwriter, Producer Tootsie • Oh, God! • Blame It on Rio • Bedazzled • Neighbors • Rough Cut
14 Patrick Swayze 57 USA Actor, Dancer, Singer-songwriter Dirty Dancing • Road House • Ghost • Point Break • Red Dawn • The Outsiders • Grandview, U.S.A. • Steel Dawn • Next of Kin • Waking Up in Reno • Black Dog • Donnie Darko • 11:14 • Keeping Mum • Tall Tale • Youngblood • Christmas in Wonderland
14 Henry Gibson 73 USA Actor The Burbs • Nashville • Innerspace • The Blues Brothers • Gremlins 2: The New Batch • Charlotte's Web • Bio-Dome • Tom and Jerry: The Movie
17 Dick Durock 72 USA Actor, Stuntman Swamp Thing • Stand by Me • The Enforcer • Any Which Way You Can • Die Hard with a Vengeance
21 Robert Ginty 60 USA Actor, Director The Exterminator • Coming Home • Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
October 10 Sean Lawlor 55 Ireland Actor Trojan Eddie • Titanic • Braveheart • In the Name of the Father
13 Al Martino 82 USA Actor, Soundtrack The Godfather • The Godfather: Part III • Snow Day
14 Collin Wilcox 74 USA Actress To Kill a Mockingbird • Jaws 2 • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
17 Douglas Blackwell 85 UK Actor Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves • Labyrinth • Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar • The Ipcress File • The Bunker
19 Joseph Wiseman 91 Canada Actor Dr. No • Viva Zapata! • The Unforgiven
November 4 David Tree 94 USA Actor Goodbye, Mr. Chips • Pygmalion
16 Edward Woodward 79 UK Actor Breaker Morant • The Wicker Man
17 Tony Kendall 72 Italy Actor Machine Gun McCain
December 3 Richard Todd 90 UK Actor The Hasty Heart • Stage Fright • The Dam Busters • A Man Called Peter
4 Bryan O'Byrne 78 USA Actor Gunfight in Abilene • Marnie • The Shakiest Gun in the West • The Million Dollar Duck • Gus • Love at First Bite • The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again • Zapped! • Spaceballs
9 Gene Barry 90 USA Actor The War of the Worlds • Thunder Road
16 Roy E. Disney 79 USA senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, nephew of Walt Disney Fantasia 2000
17 Jennifer Jones 90 USA Actress Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing • Duel in the Sun • Since You Went Away • The Song of Bernadette • Love Letters • A Farewell to Arms
17 Dan O'Bannon 63 USA Screenwriter, Director, Actor Dark Star • Alien • Heavy Metal • Blue Thunder • Lifeforce • The Return of the Living Dead • Invaders from Mars • Total Recall • Screamers
20 Brittany Murphy 32 USA Actress, Singer Clueless • Just Married • Girl, Interrupted • 8 Mile • Sin City • The Dead Girl • Uptown Girls • Riding in Cars with Boys • Spun • Happy Feet • Little Black Book • Don't Say a Word • Summer Catch
20 Arnold Stang 91 USA Actor The Man with the Golden Arm Alakazam the Great • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World • Hello Down There • Hercules in New York • Ghost Dad • Dennis the Menace
22 Michael Currie 81 USA Actor Sudden Impact • The Dead Pool • Halloween III: Season of the Witch • Firefox • Any Which Way You Can • G.I. Jane
30 Perry Wilson 93 USA Actress The Matchmaker • Fear Strikes Out


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