2008 in Film - Notable Deaths

Notable Deaths

Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
January 2 George MacDonald Fraser 82 UK Screenwriter Octopussy • The Three Musketeers • Red Sonja
4 Edward Richardson 63 USA Art Director Scarface • American Gigolo • Toys • Cat People
10 Vampira 86 Russia Actress Plan 9 from Outer Space • Sex Kittens Go to College
15 Brad Renfro 25 USA Actor Ghost World • The Client • Deuces Wild • The Jacket • Apt Pupil • The Cure
19 Suzanne Pleshette 70 USA Actress The Birds • 40 Pounds of Trouble • Spirited Away • Support Your Local Gunfighter • Blackbeard's Ghost • The Shaggy D.A.
22 Heath Ledger 28 Australia Actor The Dark Knight • Brokeback Mountain • 10 Things I Hate About You • Casanova • The Patriot • A Knight's Tale • The Brothers Grimm • The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus • Monster's Ball • The Four Feathers • I'm Not There • The Order
25 Christopher Allport 60 USA Actor To Live and Die in L.A. • The Lincoln Conspiracy • Invaders from Mars
February 2 Barry Morse 89 Canada Actor I Really Hate My Job • The Changeling • Asylum
9 Robert DoQui 73 USA Actor RoboCop • Coffy • Nashville • Cloak & Dagger
10 Roy Scheider 75 USA Actor Jaws • Marathon Man • The French Connection • All That Jazz • Klute • The Rainmaker • The Punisher • 2010 • Naked Lunch
12 Oscar Brodney 100 USA Screenwriter Harvey • The Glenn Miller Story • The Brass Bottle
12 David Groh 68 USA Actor The Return of Superfly • The Stoned Age • A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich
13 Lionel Mark Smith 62 USA Actor Magnolia • Spartan • The Postman Always Rings Twice • Homicide • Galaxina
14 Perry Lopez 76 USA Actor Chinatown • Kelly's Heroes • McLintock!
19 David Watkin 82 UK Cinematographer Out of Africa • Chariots of Fire • Moonstruck • Hamlet • Return to Oz • Help! • Jane Eyre
22 Dennis Letts 73 USA Actor Cast Away • A Perfect World • Infamous • Where the Heart Is • Secondhand Lions • Fire Down Below
28 John Bliss 77 USA Actor Intolerable Cruelty • Art School Confidential
March 4 Leonard Rosenman 83 USA Composer Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home • Barry Lyndon • Bound for Glory • RoboCop 2 • The Jazz Singer • Pork Chop Hill
16 Ivan Dixon 76 USA Actor A Patch of Blue
18 Anthony Minghella 54 UK Director, Screenwriter The English Patient • Cold Mountain • The Talented Mr. Ripley • The Reader • Breaking and Entering
19 Paul Scofield 86 UK Actor A Man for All Seasons • Hamlet • The Crucible • Quiz Show • Serpico
24 Richard Widmark 93 USA Actor Kiss of Death • Night and the City • Panic in the Streets • How the West Was Won• The Swarm• Coma• To the Devil a Daughter• No way Out• Garden of Evil• The Cobweb• Run for the Sun• Rollercoaster
25 Tony Church 77 UK Actor Tess • Krull
25 Abby Mann 80 USA Screenwriter Judgment at Nuremberg
31 Jules Dassin 96 USA Director The Naked City • Never on Sunday • Topkapi • The Canterville Ghost • The Naked City
April 3 Frosty Freeze 44 USA Singer, Actor Flashdance
5 Charlton Heston 84 USA Actor Ben-Hur • Planet of the Apes • Touch of Evil • The Ten Commandments • El Cid• The Greatest Show on Earth • Soylent Green • Airport 1975 • Omega Man • Earthquake • True Lies • Khartoum • Hamlet • Armageddon • Any Given Sunday • Midway • Two-Minute Warning • Major Dundee • Wayne's World 2
5 Alex Grasshoff 79 USA Director Young Americans
8 Stanley Kamel 65 USA Actor Domino • Inland Empire • Corvette Summer
9 Lloyd Lamble 94 Australia Actor The Belles of St. Trinian's
14 Ollie Johnston 95 USA Animator Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs • Fantasia • Bambi • Pinocchio
14 June Travis 93 USA Actress Ceiling Zero
15 Hazel Court 93 UK Actress The Raven • The Masque of the Red Death
18 Joy Page 83 USA Actress Casablanca • Bullfighter and the Lady
20 Bebe Barron 82 USA Music Composer Forbidden Planet
24 Tristram Cary 82 UK Composer The Ladykillers • Quatermass and the Pit • Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
29 Julie Ege 64 Norway Actress On Her Majesty's Secret Service • Up Pompeii
May 1 Bernard Archard 91 UK Actor Macbeth
1 Elaine Dundy 86 USA Actress
4 Fred Haines 72 USA Screenwriter, Director Ulysses • Steppenwolf
13 Jill Adams 77 UK Actress The Green Man • Private's Progress
13 John Phillip Law 70 USA Actor Barbarella • Danger: Diabolik • The Red Baron • The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
15 Alexander Courage 88 USA Composer, Orchestrator My Fair Lady • Some Like It Hot • Jurassic Park • The Ghost and the Darkness • Rudy
16 David Mitton 69 UK Writer, Producer, Director Thomas and Friends • TUGS • Thomas and the Magic Railroad
16 Sandy Howard 80 USA Director, Producer Howdy Doody • Captain Kangaroo
18 Irma Córdoba 94 Argentina Actor Fuera de la ley • Atorrante
18 Joseph Pevney 96 USA Actor Female on the Beach • Tammy and the Bachelor • Man of a Thousand Faces
19 Vijay Tendulkar 80 India Screenwriter Nishant • Aakrosh • Ardh Satya
22 Harry Lange 77 Germany Production designer 2001: A Space Odyssey • Moonraker • The Empire Strikes Back
24 Tano Cimarosa 86 Italy Actor Cinema Paradiso
24 Rob Knox 18 UK Actor Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
24 Dick Martin 86 USA Actor, Comedian Bartleby • Air Bud: Golden Receiver • Carbon Copy • The Glass Bottom Boat
26 Sydney Pollack 73 USA Actor, Director, Producer Out of Africa • They Shoot Horses, Don't They? • Tootsie • Breaking and Entering • Sliding Doors• The Firm • Havana • Three Days of the Condor • The Way We Were • Eyes Wide Shut
28 Earle Hagen 88 USA Composer, Orchestrator Call Me Madam • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
29 Harvey Korman 81 USA Actor Dracula: Dead and Loving It • Blazing Saddles • Herbie Goes Bananas• History of the World, Part I • High Anxiety• The Flintstones • Munchies
June 1 Ted Manson 81 USA Actor Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button • Fried Green Tomatoes • Runaway Jury • Gordy • Elizabethtown
2 Mel Ferrer 90 USA Actor, Director, Producer Scaramouche • Lili • The Sun Also Rises • A Time for Loving • Wait Until Dark • Lili Marleen
6 Bobby Anderson 75 USA Actor It's a Wonderful Life
6 Rudy Fernandez 56 Philippines Actor Atlantika
11 Jean Desailly 87 France Actor La Peau Douce • Le Professionnel
13 Tim Russert 58 USA Journalist
15 Stan Winston 62 USA Director, Makeup Artist Terminator 2: Judgment Day • Jurassic Park • Aliens • Predator • Iron Man • Avatar • Shutter Island • End of Days • Batman Returns • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull • G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra • Pumpkinhead • Edward Scissorhands • Friday the 13th Part III • The Wiz
17 Cyd Charisse 86 USA Actress, Dancer The Band Wagon • Something's Got to Give • Singin' in the Rain • Brigadoon • Silk Stockings
18 Jean Delannoy 100 France Director La symphonie pastorale • Les amitiés particulières
21 Kermit Love 91 USA Puppeteer, Costume Designer The Muppet Movie
22 George Carlin 71 USA Actor, Comedian Outrageous Fortune • Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure • Thomas and Friends • Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back • Scary Movie 3 • Tarzan II • Cars • Happily N'Ever After
22 Dody Goodman 93 USA Actress Grease • Private Resort • Splash • The Chipmunk Adventure • Cool as Ice
23 John Furlong 75 USA Actor Blazing Saddles • All the President's Men • Wyatt Earp • The Gumball Rally
24 William Vince 45 Canada Producer The 4th Floor • Capote • Push
29 Don S. Davis 67 USA Actor The 6th Day • Con Air • A League of Their Own • Hook • Look Who's Talking
July 2 Elizabeth Spriggs 78 UK Actress Sense and Sensibility • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
4 Evelyn Keyes 91 USA Actress Gone with the Wind • Here Comes Mr. Jordan • The Jolson Story • The Seven Year Itch
6 Nonna Mordyukova 82 Russia Actress Commissar • The Diamond Arm
7 Bruce Conner 74 USA Director A Movie • Marilyn Times Five • Crossroads
9 Charles H. Joffe 78 USA Producer Annie Hall • Manhattan • Hannah and Her Sisters
11 Breno Mello 76 Brazil Actor Black Orpheus
22 Estelle Getty 84 USA Actress Stuart Little • Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot • Mannequin
25 Randy Pausch 47 USA Author, Professor, Actor Star Trek
25 Mikhail Pugovkin 85 Russia Actor Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures • The Twelve Chairs • Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future
27 Youssef Chahine 82 Egypt Director Sira` Fi al-Wadi • Le Chaos
27 Marisa Merlini 84 Italy Actress Pane, Amore e Fantasia • The Traffic Policeman
29 Luther Davis 91 USA Screenwriter Kiss Them for Me • Lady in a Cage • Across 110th Street
August 7 Bernie Brillstein 77 USA Producer The Blues Brothers • Ghostbusters • The Cable Guy • Happy Gilmore
9 Bernie Mac 50 USA Actor Ocean's Eleven • Transformers • Bad Santa • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa • Mr. 3000 • Friday • Soul Men • Old Dogs
10 Isaac Hayes 65 USA Actor, Singer
and Songwriter		 Dr. Dolittle 2 • Shaft • South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut• Robin Hood: Men in Tights • Escape from New York
11 George Furth 75 USA Actor Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • Blazing Saddles • Bulworth • The Cannonball Run
11 Terence Rigby 71 UK Actor Get Carter • Tomorrow Never Dies • Elizabeth
21 Fred Crane 90 USA Actor Gone with the Wind
25 Randa Chahal 54 Lebanon Director The Kite
25 Marpessa Dawn 74 USA Actor Black Orpheus • Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel • Sweet Movie
31 Jerry Reed 71 USA Actor, Singer
and Songwriter		 Smokey and the Bandit • The Waterboy • Gator
September 1 Don LaFontaine 68 USA Voice actor Prolific and iconic voice-over actor featured in over 5,000 movie trailers
1 Michael Pate 88 Australia Actor, Director Thunder on the Hill • The Court Jester • Tim
2 Bill Meléndez 91 Mexico Animator, Director Bambi • Fantasia • A Boy Named Charlie Brown
6 Anita Page 98 USA Actress Our Dancing Daughters • The Broadway Melody • Skyscraper Souls
17 Humberto Solás 67 Cuba Director Lucía
19 Jun Ichikawa 59 Japan Director Tony Takitani
19 David Jones 74 UK Director Betrayal • 84 Charing Cross Road • Jacknife
26 Paul Newman 83 USA Actor, Director Cat on a Hot Tin Roof • Somebody Up There Likes Me • The Hustler • Hud • Sweet Bird of Youth • Cool Hand Luke • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • The Sting • The Color of Money • The Verdict • Cars• The Towering Inferno • Slap Shot • Twilight • The Outrage • Road to Perdition
27 Mahendra Kapoor 74 India Playback Artist Upkar • Hamraaz • Gumnaam
October 5 Ken Ogata 71 Japan Actor The Pillow Book • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters • The Ballad of Narayama
7 Peter Copley 93 UK Actor The Sword and the Rose • Shout at the Devil • Empire of the Sun
11 Mark Shivas 70 UK Producer A Man of No Importance • Regeneration • Hideous Kinky
13 Guillaume Depardieu 37 France Actor Tous les matins du monde • Pola X • De la guerre
15 Edie Adams 81 USA Actress The Apartment • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World • Up in Smoke
15 Nathan Davis 91 USA Actor Thief• Risky Business • Code of Silence • Tough Guys• Flowers in the Attic • Chain Reaction• Holes
18 Xie Jin 84 China Director Woman Basketball Player No. 5 • Legend of Tianyun Mountain • The Opium War
19 Rudy Ray Moore 81 USA Actor Dolemite • The Human Tornado
26 Delmar Watson 82 USA Actor Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
31 John Daly 71 UK Producer The Terminator • Platoon • The Falcon and the Snowman • The Last Emperor • Hoosiers
November 5 Michael Crichton 66 USA Writer, Producer, Director Jurassic Park • Congo • Twister • The Andromeda Strain • The First Great Train Robbery • Westworld
16 Reg Varney 92 UK Actor The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery • The Plank • On the Buses
17 Ennio de Concini 84 Italy Screenwriter War and Peace • Black Sunday • Divorce, Italian Style
19 John Michael Hayes 89 USA Screenwriter Rear Window • To Catch a Thief • Peyton Place
26 De'Angelo Wilson 29 USA Actor 8 Mile • Antwone Fisher
December 1 Paul Benedict 70 USA Actor This Is Spinal Tap • Waiting for Guffman • The Goodbye Girl • The Addams Family • Cocktail • Cold Turkey • Up the Sandbox
5 Nina Foch 84 USA Actress An American in Paris • Scaramouche • Executive Suite
8 Robert Prosky 77 USA Actor Outrageous Fortune • Dead Man Walking • Christine • Rudy • Broadcast News
11 Maddie Blaustein 48 USA Actress Pokemon: The First Movie • Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light • Jungle Emperor Leo
12 Van Johnson 92 USA Actor, Dancer A Guy Named Joe • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo • In the Good Old Summertime • Plymouth Adventure • Brigadoon
18 Majel Barrett-Roddenberry 76 USA Actress Mommy • Star Trek • The Black Orchid
20 Robert Mulligan 83 USA Director Fear Strikes Out • To Kill a Mockingbird • Summer of '42
25 Eartha Kitt 81 USA Actress, Singer The Emperor's New Groove • Holes • The Pink Chiquitas.

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