2001 in Film - Notable Deaths

Notable Deaths

Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 1 Ray Walston 86 USA Actor Fast Times at Ridgemont High • The Sting • The Apartment • My Favorite Martian • Popeye • House Arrest
5 Nancy Parsons 58 USA Actress Porky's • Steel Magnolias • Sudden Impact • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
10 Jacques Marin 81 France Actor Marathon Man • Charade • How to Steal a Million • The Greatest Story Ever Told • Shaft in Africa • The Island at the Top of the World • Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo • Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
15 Bob Braun 80 USA Actor Die Hard 2 • Defending Your Life
18 Al Waxman 65 Canada Actor The Hurricane • Heavy Metal • Critical Care • Iron Eagle IV • Atlantic City • Meatballs III: Summer Job
27 Joseph O'Conor 90 UK Actor Oliver! • Elizabeth • The Forbidden Quest
30 John Prebble 85 UK Screenwriter Zulu • Mysterious Island • White Feather
31 Bert Williams 78 USA Actor The Usual Suspects • Cobra • 10 to Midnight • Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment • Wanda Nevada
February 4 Tony Steedman 73 UK Actor Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure • Scrooged • Mrs Dalloway • Split Second
6 Dale Evans 88 USA Actress Bells of San Angelo • In Old Oklahoma • My Pal Trigger
10 Lewis Arquette 65 USA Actor Scream 2 • Tango & Cash • Little Nicky • Waiting for Guffman
11 Sy Gomberg 82 USA Screenwriter When Willie Comes Marching Home • Summer Stock • The Wild and the Innocent • Bloodhounds of Broadway • Joe Butterfly
16 Howard W. Koch 84 USA Producer Airplane! • The Odd Couple • The Manchurian Candidate • Dragonslayer • Ghost
18 Dale Earnhardt 49 USA NASCAR Driver, Actor Stroker Ace • BASEketball
19 Stanley Kramer 87 UK Director, Producer Judgment at Nuremberg • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner • Inherit the Wind • The Caine Mutiny • Ship of Fools • Oklahoma Crude •The Pride and the Passion • The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
20 Rosemary DeCamp 90 USA Actress Yankee Doodle Dandy • Saturday the 14th • 13 Ghosts • Blood on the Sun • Jungle Book
March 6 Kim Walker 32 USA Actress Say Anything... • Heathers • A Reason to Believe
8 Edward Winter 63 USA Actor The Parallax View • From the Hip • A Change of Seasons • The Boston Strangler
9 Richard Stone 38 USA Composer, Music Editor Platoon • Ferris Bueller's Day Off • Witness • Cujo • The Big Easy • Dolores Claiborne • Top Secret! • Pretty in Pink
12 Morton Downey, Jr. 67 USA Actor Predator 2 • The Silencer • Driving Me Crazy
12 Robert Ludlum 73 USA Author, Producer The Bourne Identity
13 John A. Alonzo 66 USA Cinematographer, Actor Scarface • Chinatown • Harold and Maude • Star Trek Generations • The Magnificent Seven • Sounder • Norma Rae • Cool World • Overboard • Deuces Wild
15 Ann Sothern 92 USA Actress A Letter to Three Wives • The Whales of August • Crazy Mama • Chubasco • Sylvia
16 Norma MacMillan 79 Canada Actress Head over Heels • Big Bully • Big Business
19 Mentor Huebner 79 USA Art and Visual Illustrator Blade Runner • Dune • Flash Gordon • Dracula • King Kong • The Thing • Harlem Nights • Uncommon Valor • So I Married an Axe Murderer
22 William Hanna 90 USA Animator, Producer, Director The Flintstones • Scooby-Doo • Jetsons: The Movie
23 Sully Boyar 77 USA Actor Dog Day Afternoon • Prizzi's Honor • The Jazz Singer • The Panic in Needle Park
24 Tambi Larsen 77 India Art Director Hud • Thunderbolt and Lightfoot • Heaven's Gate
April 1 Larry Tucker 66 USA Screenwriter Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice • I Love You, Alice B. Toklas • Alex in Wonderland
7 David Graf 50 USA Actor Police Academy • The Brady Bunch Movie
7 Beatrice Straight 86 USA Actress Network • Poltergeist • The Nun's Story • Two of a Kind
16 Michael Ritchie 62 USA Director Fletch • The Bad News Bears • The Golden Child • The Candidate • The Fairy Godmother
20 Maria Karnilova 80 USA Actress The Unsinkable Molly Brown • Married to the Mob
27 Jack Murdock 78 USA Actor Rain Man • Big Top Pee-wee • Psycho III • Altered States
28 Ken Hughes 79 UK Screenwriter Chitty Chitty Bang Bang • Cromwell • Alfie Darling
May 2 Gina Mastrogiacomo 39 USA Actress Goodfellas • The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear • Jungle Fever
3 Ernie Wheelwright 61 USA Actor The Longest Yard • The Greatest • Trackdown • Wildcats
12 Richard Davison 40 USA Special Effects and Makeup Artist Jurassic Park • Terminator 2: Judgment Day • Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles • Planet of the Apes • Congo • Godzilla • Life • How the Grinch Stole Christmas
13 Eddra Gale 79 USA Actress The Graduate • 8½ • The Maltese Bippy
13 Jason Miller 62 USA Actor The Exorcist • Rudy • Toy Soldiers • The Nickel Ride
13 Ralph Tabakin 79 USA Actor Good Morning, Vietnam • Bugsy • Sphere • Diner
14 Peter Griffith 74 USA Actor Halloween
16 Joe Baker 72 UK Actor Dumb and Dumber • Pocahontas • Robin Hood: Men in Tights • The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again • Waxwork
22 Whitman Mayo 70 USA Actor Boyz n the Hood • The Main Event • The Black Klansman
24 Ruby Payne 90 UK Actress Radio Days • Author! Author!
26 Anne Haney 67 USA Actress Mrs. Doubtfire • Liar Liar • Psycho • The American President • The Out-of-Towners • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil • Hopscotch • Forces of Nature
27 Ramon Bieri 71 USA Actor Badlands • The Andromeda Strain • Ghosts of Mississippi • The Frisco Kid • Vibes • The Sicilian
June 2 Imogene Coca 92 USA Actress Vacation • Under the Yum Yum Tree
3 Anthony Quinn 86 Mexico Actor Lawrence of Arabia • The Guns of Navarone • Zorba the Greek • Viva Zapata! • The Ox-Bow Incident • Last Action Hero • La Strada • The 25th Hour • Mobsters • Lust for Life
7 Leonard Tepper 61 USA Actor Home Alone 2: Lost in New York • Awakenings
15 Henri Alekan 92 France Cinematographer Roman Holiday • Wings of Desire
21 Carroll O'Connor 76 USA Actress Kelly's Heroes • Cleopatra • Point Blank • Return to Me • Hawaii
24 Peter Bourne 77 USA Actor Meteor • I'll Take Sweden
26 Paul Berry 39 UK Animator The Nightmare Before Christmas • James and the Giant Peach • Monkeybone
27 Jack Lemmon 76 USA Actor The Apartment • Glengarry Glen Ross • Some Like It Hot • JFK • The Odd Couple • The Fortune Cookie • Airport '77 • Hamlet • Grumpy Old Men • Save the Tiger • The China Syndrome • Tribute • Mister Roberts • The Legend of Bagger Vance
July 2 Jack Gwillim 91 UK Actor In Search of the Castaways • Clash of the Titans • Patton • A Man for All Seasons • Battle of Britain
3 Mordecai Richler 70 Canada Author, Screenwriter No Love for Johnnie • Fun with Dick and Jane
7 Molly Lamont 91 South Africa Actress The Awful Truth • Scared to Death • The Jungle Princess • Murder at Monte Carlo
13 Eleanor Summerfield 80 UK Actress Scrooge • The Watcher in the Woods • Some Will, Some Won't
August 3 Christopher Hewett 79 UK Actor The Producers • Ratboy • The Lavender Hill Mob • Pool of London
14 Missy Cleveland 41 USA Actress Blow Out • Cheech & Chong's Next Movie • True Confessions
20 Kim Stanley 76 USA Actress The Right Stuff • Séance on a Wet Afternoon
23 Kathleen Freeman 82 USA Actress Shrek • Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult • Hercules • The Blues Brothers • I'll Be Home for Christmas • Ferngully: The Last Rainforest • Joe Dirt • Hocus Pocus • Dragnet
25 Aaliyah 22 USA Actress, Singer Anastasia • Queen of the Damned
September 2 Troy Donahue 65 USA Actor The Godfather II • Cry-Baby • A Distant Trumpet • Grandview, U.S.A.
3 Merrill Connally 80 USA Actor Close Encounters of the Third Kind • The Sugarland Express • Rush
9 Tommy Hollis 47 USA Actor The Professional • Ghostbusters • Malcolm X • Primary Colors • Joe's Apartment • Moonstruck
12 Victor Wong 74 USA Actor The Last Emperor • Big Trouble in Little China • Tremors • Seven Years in Tibet • 3 Ninjas • Bloodsport
13 Barbara Matera 72 UK Costume Designer 101 Dalmatians • The Addams Family • The Great Gatsby • Ironweed • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
16 Samuel Z. Arkoff 83 USA Producer The Amityville Horror • Blackula • The Last Man on Earth • Invasion of the Saucer Men • Dragonfly
28 Martin Garner 74 USA Actor Twilight Zone: The Movie • Chances Are • Till There Was You
29 Gloria Foster 67 USA Actress The Matrix • Leonard Part 6 • The Comedians • City of Hope
October 9 Herbert Ross 74 USA Director Footloose • Goodbye, Mr. Chips • I Ought to Be in Pictures • Steel Magnolias • The Turning Point • The Goodbye Girl • Play It Again, Sam • The Secret of My Success
19 Ray Lovejoy 62 UK Film Editor Aliens • 2001: A Space Odyssey • Batman • Krull • The Shining • Lost in Space
19 Jeffrey P. Grant 56 USA Actor All the President's Men • P.I. Maloney • Against All Odds • Wall Street • Of Saints and Sinners • Clear and Present Danger • Air Force One • The Patriot
26 Eugene Jackson 58 USA Actor Cimarron • Escape from Alcatraz • American Gigolo
29 Maura Fay 43 Australia Casting Director Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones • Darkness Falls • Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles • Mr. Nice Guy
November 12 Albert Hague 82 Germany Actor Fame • Space Jam • The Story of Us
14 Charlotte Coleman 33 UK Actress Four Weddings and a Funeral • The Revengers' Comedies • The Young Poisoner's Handbook • The Man with Rain in His Shoes • Faeries
29 George Harrison 58 UK Singer, Actor, Producer A Hard Day's Night • Help! • Life of Brian
December 1 Danilo Donati 74 Italy Costume/Production Designer Life Is Beautiful • Flash Gordon • Romeo and Juliet • Red Sonja
15 Wilkie Cooper 90 UK Cinematographer Jason and the Argonauts • Land Raiders • The 7th Voyage of Sinbad • Stage Fright • Mysterious Island
16 Roy Brocksmith 56 USA Actor Total Recall • Scrooged • It Runs in the Family • Tango & Cash • The Hudsucker Proxy • Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey • Arachnophobia
26 Nigel Hawthorne 72 UK Actor Amistad • Tarzan • Demolition Man • Gandhi • The Madness of King George • The Black Cauldron
29 Robert Patten 76 USA Actor Twelve O'Clock High • Airport • Westworld • Black Sunday
31 Eileen Heckart 82 USA Actress Heartbreak Ridge • Butterflies Are Free • The First Wives Club • Zandy's Bride • The Bad Seed • Burnt Offerings

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