Actors and Actresses Who Died in 2002

2002 Calendar

Jan 22 Sheldon Allman, American-Canadian actor, singer, and songwriter (Nevada Smith, Harris Against the World), dies at 77
Jan 24 Peter Gzowski 'Mr Canada', Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, dies of emphysema at 67
Jan 29 Harold Russell, Canadian actor (Best Years of Our Life, Dogtown), dies from a heart attack at 88
Feb 1 Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (Touch of Class; Mozambique), dies at 76
Feb 1 Irish McCalla, American actress and artist (Sheena Queen of Jungle), dies of a brain tumor and stroke complications at 73
Feb 4 George Nader, American actor (Robot Monster, Away All Boats), dies at 80
Feb 11 Barry Foster, British actor (b. 1931)

Feb 15 New Zealand actor (Ares-Hercules), dies at 38 after falling from a prop tower

Feb 21 Harold Pruett, American actor (Sybil, Embrace of the Vampire), dies of a drug overdose at 32
Feb 21 John Thaw, British stage and screen actor (Inspector Morse), dies of cancer at 60
Feb 26 Lawrence Tierney, American actor (Abduction, Dillinger, Reservoir Dogs), dies of pneumonia at 82

Feb 28 Mary Stuart, American actress (Jo-Search for Tomorrow), dies at 75
Mar 4 Claire Davenport, English actress (The Elephant Man), dies at 68
Mar 4 Eric Flynn, British actor and singer (b. 1939)
Mar 17 Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (Family Matters, The Brother from Another Planet), dies from diabetes at 90
Mar 23 Eileen Farrell, American soprano (I Got A Right To Sing The Blues; Metropolitan Opera, 1960-66) and film voice (Interrupted Melody), dies at 82
Mar 25 Kenneth Wolstenholme, British BBC football commentator, dies at 81

Mar 27 Austrian-American filmmaker (Stalag 17: Some Like It Hot; The Lost Weekend; The Apartment), dies of pneumonia at 95

Mar 27 English comedian, actor (10; Arthur; Bedazzled), jazz pianist, and composer, dies of progressive supranuclear palsy and pneumonia at 66

Mar 29 Rico Yan, Philippine film & TV actor (Gimik), dies of acute pancreatitis at 27
Mar 31 Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928)
Apr 2 Jack Kruschen, Canadian character actor (The Apartment, Busting Loose), dies at 80
Apr 4 Harry L. O'Connor, Czech film stuntman
Apr 7 John Agar, American actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, Fort Apache), dies at 81
Apr 8 María Félix, Mexican actress (Doña Bárbara), dies at 88
Apr 15 Dave King, British comedian (Kraft Music Hall), actor (The Long Good Friday), and pop singer ("Memories Are Made of This"), dies at 72
Apr 16 Robert Urich, American actor (Spenser: For Hire), dies of cancer at 55
Apr 25 Michael Bryant, British actor (Sakharov, Girly), dies at 74
Apr 26 Del Sharbutt, American radio and TV announcer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 90

Apr 29 Lor Tok [Sawong Supsamruay], Thai comedian and actor (Ngern, Ngern, Ngern), dies at 88
May 2 John Nathan-Turner, English television producer (b. 1947)
May 5 George Sidney, American film director (b. 1916)
May 10 Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe), dies at 81
May 12 Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit), dies after surgery at 22
May 13 Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (Mother and Son), dies at 76
May 16 Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (b. 1968)
May 18 David "Davey Boy" Smith, English professional wrestler (WWF Intercontinental Championship; British Bulldogs), dies of a heart attack at 39
May 25 Patricia "Pat" Coombs, British comedienne and actress (Carry On Again Doctor, Cranford), dies at 75
Jun 5 Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (The Young Doctors), dies at 89
Jun 26 Dolores Gray [Sylvia Dolores Finkelstein], American Tony Award-winning stage and screen singer and actress (Designing Woman; Kismet; Destry Rides Again), dies of a heart attack at 78
Jun 29 François Périer [Pillu], French actor (Gervaise, Fantasia, Les Mains Sales), dies at 82
Jun 29 Rosemary Clooney, American singer ("Come On-a My House") and actress (White Christmas), dies of lung cancer at 74
Jul 5 Katy Jurado, Mexican actress, 1st Latin actress to win a Golden Globe (High Noon, Broken Lance), dies at 78
Jul 6 John Frankenheimer, American film director (The Birdman of Alcatraz; The Manchurian Candidate), dies at 72
Jul 8 Ward Kimball, American animator (one of Disney's Nine Old Men), dies at 88

Jul 9 American actor (In the Heat of the Night; The Pawnbroker; The Illustrated Man), dies of pneumonia at 77

Jul 23 Reginald "Leo" McKern, Australian actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared), dies of health complications at 82
Jul 24 Maurice Denham, British actor (Mr Love, Damn the Defiant), dies at 92
Aug 3 Carmen Silvera, Canadian-born British actress ('Allo 'Allo!), dies of lung cancer at 80
Aug 5 Chick Hearn, American basketball broadcaster (called 3,338 LA Lakers games), dies at 85
Aug 5 Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
Aug 15 Kyle Rote, American college football HOF halfback (SMU; 4 × Pro Bowl; NY Giants) and broadcaster (WNEW, NBC, WNBC New York), dies at 74
Aug 16 Jeff Corey [Arthur Zwerling], American actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men), dies at 88
Aug 18 Dean Riesner, American film and television screenwriter (Bill and Coo), dies at 83
Aug 22 Mark Bucci, American opera, theater, and film composer and lyricist (1959 Arts & Letters Award), dies at 78
Aug 25 William Warfield, American concert bass-baritone singer and actor (Show Boat), dies from neck injuries suffered in a fall at 82
Aug 29 Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (To Serve Them All My Days), dies at 82
Aug 29 Paul Tripp, American TV host (Mr I Magination), songwriter (Tubby the Tuba), and children's book writer (Rabbi Santa Claus), dies at 91
Aug 30 J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
Aug 31 Lionel Hampton, American Jazz vibraphone player, pianist, drummer, and actor, dies from congestive heart failure at 94
Sep 5 John "Jackie" Kelk, American actor and stand-up comedian (The Aldrich Family, The Adventures of Superman), dies of a lung infection at 79
Sep 7 Katrin Cartlidge, English actress (Career Girls), dies of an illness at 41
Sep 7 Michael Elphick, British stage and screen actor (Gorky Park; Boon), dies of a heart attack at 55
Sep 11 Kim Hunter [Janet Cole], American actress (A Streetcar Named Desire; Planet of the Apes), dies of a heart attack at 79
Sep 14 LaWanda Page [Alberta Peal], American actress (Sanford & Son - "Aunt Esther"), dies of complications from diabetes at 81
Sep 16 James Gregory, American actor (My Favorite Martian, Barney Miller), dies at 90
Sep 23 Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan pioneer radio broadcaster, dies at 75
Oct 3 Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (b. 1943)
Oct 4 André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (Benvenuta), dies at 76
Oct 4 William "Buddy" Lester, American comedian and actor (Barney Miller, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 85
Oct 8 Phyllis Calvert [Bickle], British actress (Crash of Silence, The Man in Grey), dies at 87
Oct 9 Charles Guggenheim, American film director and producer (b. 1924)
Oct 10 Teresa Graves, American actress (Laugh-in, Get Christie Love!), dies in a fire at her home at 54
Oct 11 Dina Pathak [Gandhi], Indian Gujarati theatre actress, director and activist (President of National Federation of Indian Women, 1994-2002), dies of a heart attack at 80
Oct 13 Dennis Patrick, American actor (Dear Dead Delilah, Dallas, Rituals), dies in a house fire at 84
Oct 13 Keene Curtis, American character actor (The Rothschilds, Cheers, Amanda's), dies at 79
Oct 14 Norbert Schultze, German songwriter (Lili Marleen), opera and film score composer and reformed propagandist, dies at 91
Oct 18 Kam Fong Chun, American actor (Hawaii Five-0, Magnum, P.I.), dies of lung cancer at 84
Oct 20 Barbara Berjer, American soap opera actress (Another World), dies at 82
Oct 20 Bernard Fresson, French actor (Hiroshima Mon Amour), dies at 71
Oct 23 Marianne Hoppe, German theater and film actress (Der Schimmelreiter), dies at 93
Oct 24 Mary Jeanette "Peggy" Moran, American actress (Double Date, Horror Island), dies from injuries at 84

Oct 25 Irish actor (A Man Called Horse, This Sporting Life) and singer ("MacArthur Park"), dies of Hodgkin's disease at 72

Oct 28 Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
Oct 29 Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
Oct 30 Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
Oct 31 Raf Vallone, Italian actor (A View From the Bridge), dies at 86
Nov 2 Tonio Selwart [Antonio Selmair-Selwart], German actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja), dies from natural causes at 106
Nov 3 Jonathan Harris [Charasuchin], American stage and screen character actor (The Bill Dana Show - "Mr. Phillips"; Lost In Space - "Dr Zachary Smith"), dies at 87
Nov 4 Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker (Yor, the Hunter from the Future), dies at 72
Nov 5 Stan Burns, American television screenwriter (The Tonight Show, 1954-57; Get Smart; The Carol Burnet Show; The Flip Wilson Show; Dean Martin Roasts), dies of heart failure at 79

Nov 7 Margaret "Peg" Phillips, American actress (Northern Exposure -"Ruth-Anne"; ER; 7th Heaven), dies of lung disease at 84
Nov 9 Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
Nov 10 Michel Boisrond, French film director and screenwriter, dies at 81
Nov 14 Eddie Bracken, American actor (Summer Stock, Young & Willing), dies at 87
Nov 18 James Coburn, American actor (Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven), dies at 74
Nov 22 Adele Jergens, American actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man), dies at 84
Nov 22 Parley Baer, American radio, film and television character actor (Gunsmoke; The Andy Griffith Show - "Mayor Stoner"), dies at 88
Nov 25 Karel Reisz, Czech-British filmmaker and director (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; The French Lieutenant's Woman; Who'll Stop the Rain), dies at 76
Nov 29 Daniel Gélin, French actor (Obsession; Napoléon; The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)), dies of kidney failure at 81
Nov 29 George "Two Ton" Harris, American professional wrestler, dies of a heart attack at 75
Nov 30 Tim Woods, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
Dec 3 Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)

Dec 5 American sports broadcasting executive (President ABC Sports - Monday Night Football; ABC News), dies of prostate cancer at 71 [1] [2]

Dec 12 Brad Dexter [Boris Milanovich], American actor (Macao, The Magnificent Seven), dies of emphysema at 85
Dec 14 Ruth Kobart [Kahn], American actor and singer (King's Quest VII, Forum), dies at 78
Dec 17 James Hazeldine, British stage and screen actor (London's Burning), dies of an aortic dissection at 55
Dec 22 Kenneth Tobey, American actor (The Thing from Another World, Innerspace, Whirlybirds), dies of natural causes at 85
Dec 25 William T. Orr, American actor (The Big Street), and television producer (Cheyenne), dies at 85
Dec 27 George Roy Hill, American Academy Award-winning film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; The Sting; Slap Shot; A Little Romance; The World According to Garp), dies from complications of Parkinson's disease at 81
Dec 30 Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)

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