Actors and Actresses Who Died in 2012

2012 Calendar

Feb 3 Zalman King, American actor and director, dies from cancer at 69
Feb 5 Sam Coppola, American actor (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 79
Feb 6 Peter Breck, American actor (Black Saddle; Big Valley; Benji), dies at 82
Feb 7 Phil Bruns, American actor and writer (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - "George Shumway"), dies of natural causes at 80

Feb 11 American singer ("I Will Always Love You"; "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"), actress (The Bodyguard), and film producer (The Princess Diaries), dies from an accidental bathtub drowning at 48

Feb 12 David Kelly, Irish actor (Grandpa Joe-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Fawlty Towers), dies of pneumonia and lung cancer at 82
Feb 12 Marty Allen, American comedian (Allen & Rossi "Hello Dere"), dies at 95
Feb 12 Zina Bethune, American actress, dies from hit and run at 66
Feb 13 Russell Arms, American actor and vocalist (Your Hit Parade; "Cinco Robles"), dies at 92
Feb 15 Lina Romay, Spanish actress (Conan the Barbarian), dies at 57
Feb 16 Elyse Knox, American actress and model (Hit the Ice, Black Gold), dies at 94
Feb 21 Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive, dies at 89
Feb 23 Bruce Surtees, American cinematographer (Dirty Harry, Lenny), dies at 74
Feb 25 Erland Josephson, Swedish actor, dramatist and author (The Sacrifice, Utflykt), dies of Parkinson's disease at 88

Mar 1 Jerome Courtland, American actor (Tonka, Tharus), dies at 85
Mar 1 Phillip R. Allen, American stage and screen actor (Hardy Boys Mysteries - "Harry"; Star Trek III - "Captain Esteban"), dies at 72
Mar 2 Nydia Ecury, celebrated Afro-Dutch writer, translator and actress (Kantika pa Mama Tera), dies at 86
Mar 3 Leonardo Cimino, Italian-American actor (The Monster Squad, V, Dune, Waterworld, Hudson Hawk), dies from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 94
Mar 3 Ralph McQuarrie, American conceptual designer (Star Wars, E.T.), dies at 82
Mar 5 Philip Madoc, Welsh actor (The Life and Times of David Lloyd George), dies of cancer at 77
Mar 9 Peter Bergman, American comedian, dies from leukemia at 72
Mar 10 Erico Menczer, Italian cinematographer (Chosen, Miranda), dies at 85
Mar 14 Pierre Schoendoerffer, French Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter (The Anderson Platoon), dies from surgical complications at 83
Mar 19 Israel "Ulu" Grosbard, Belgian-born American actor and director (Straight Time, Georgia, Falling in Love), dies at 83
Mar 20 Mel Parnell, American MLB pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1947-56), coach, and broadcaster, dies from cancer at 89
Mar 24 Marion Marlowe, American singer ("The Man in the Raincoat"; Arthur Godfrey & His Friends), and actress, dies at 83
Mar 27 Warren Stevens, American actor (Richard Boone Show), dies from lung disease at 92
Mar 28 Harry Crews, American writer and actor (Indian Runner), dies from neuropathy at 76
Apr 4 Claude Miller, French director and screenwriter, dies at 70

Apr 14 John Herbert "Jonathan" Frid, Canadian actor (Barnabas Collins-Dark Shadows), dies of pneumonia at 87

Apr 18 American radio and television personality (American Bandstand), dies from a heart attack at 82

Apr 18 Robert O. Ragland, American film score composer (The Thing With Two Heads), dies at 80
Apr 19 Levon Helm, American drummer and singer (The Band - "Up On Cripple Creek"; "The Weight"), and actor (Coal Miner's Daughter; The Right Stuff), dies from throat cancer at 71
Apr 20 Peter Carsten, German actor and film producer actor (A Study in Terror, Mr Super Invisible), dies at 83
Apr 28 Patricia Medina, British actress (The Three Musketeers, High-Low), dies from natural causes at 92
Apr 30 George Murdock, American actor, dies at 81
May 6 George Lindsey, American actor (Andy Griffith Show -"Goober"), dies at 83
May 16 Doug Dillard, American country rock musician (The Dillards, Gene Clark, Dillard & Clark) and actor (Clem-Popeye), dies of a lung infection caused by a collapsed lung at 75
May 29 Mark Minkov, Russian Soviet theater and film score composer, dies at 67
May 31 Christopher Challis, British cinematographer (worked with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), dies at 93
Jun 2 Kathryn Joosten, American actress (Desperate Housewives), dies of lung cancer at 72
Jun 2 Richard Dawson, British-American actor, comedian, and game show host (Hogan's Heroes, Family Feud), dies from esophageal cancer at 79
Jun 8 Frank Cady, American actor (The Beverly Hillbillies; Petticoat Junction; Green Acres - all as "Sam Drucker"), dies at 96
Jun 11 Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress (Gone With The Wind; Whistling in the Dark), dies from heart disease at 94
Jun 14 Dumitru Capoianu, Romanian conductor and classical and film composer (The Little Man), dies at 82
Jun 18 Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor (A Hard Day's Night, Help!), dies from prostate cancer at 82 [1]
Jun 19 Richard Lynch, American actor, dies at 76 (body found on this date)
Jun 20 Andrew Sarris, American movie critic (Village Voice), dies at 83

Jun 27 Don Grady [Agrati], American actor (Robbie Douglas-My Three Sons), dies from cancer at 68
Jul 2 Ben Davidson, American actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R) and football player, dies from prostate cancer at 72
Jul 3 Andy Griffith, American actor, comedian, television producer, Southern gospel singer, and writer (Andy Griffith Show, Matlock), dies from a heart attack at 86
Jul 4 Eric Sykes, British radio, stage and television comedy writer, actor and director (Goon Show, Sykes and A...), dies at 89

Jul 8 American Academy Award-winning actor (Marty; From Here To Eternity; ; McHale's Navy; The Poseidon Adventure), dies from renal failure at 95

Jul 13 Richard Darryl Zanuck, American Academy Award-winning film producer, dies from a heart attack at 77
Jul 15 Celeste Holm, American actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve), dies at 95
Jul 18 Rajesh Khanna, Indian Bollywood actor officially titled "The First Superstar of Indian cinema", dies of kidney problems at 69
Jul 20 Simon Ward, English actor, dies at 70
Jul 20 Sir Alastair Burnet [James William Alexander Burnet], British journalist and broadcaster (News at Ten), dies at 84
Jul 22 Nan Merriman, American-Dutch singer (Arturo Toscanini NBC Orchestra), dies at 92
Jul 24 Chad Everett [Raymon Lee Cramton], American actor (Medical Center, Airplane II), dies from lung cancer at 75
Jul 24 Sherman Hemsley, American actor (All in the Family; The Jeffersons; Amen), dies from natural causes at 74
Jul 27 Geoffrey Hughes, British actor, dies from prostate cancer at 68
Jul 27 Norman Alden, American character actor (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden), dies from natural causes at 87
Jul 27 R G Armstrong [Robert Golden], American actor (Predator, Dick Tracey, T.H.E. Cat), dies of natural causes at 95
Aug 7 Judith Crist, American film critic (TV Guide, Today), dies at 90
Aug 10 Al Freeman Jr, American actor, dies at 78
Aug 11 Sid Waddell, English darts commentator (the 'Voice of Darts'; Granada, BBC, Sky Sports), dies from bowel cancer at 72
Aug 13 Johnny Pesky [Paveskovich], American MLB baseball infielder, 1942 & 1946-54 (Boston Red Sox, and 2 other teams), coach, manager, and broadcaster, dies at 92
Aug 14 Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (Nora, Fort Worth), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 92
Aug 14 Ron Palillo, American actor (Arnold Horshack-Welcome Back Kotter), dies from a heart attack at 63
Aug 16 William Windom, American actor, dies from heart failure at 88
Aug 19 Tony Scott, British film director and producer (Top Gun; Revenge; Days of Thunder), commits suicide at 68

Aug 26 A K Hangal, Indian freedom fighter and Bollywood character actor (Aaina, Sholay), dies of respiratory disease at 98
Aug 31 Max Bygraves [Walter William Bygraves], British actor (Charley Moon, Spare the Rod, Tom Brown's School Days), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 89
Sep 3 Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (The Green Mile), dies from respiratory failure at 54
Sep 6 Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer (Chariots of Fire, Dances with Wolves), dies from cancer at 71
Sep 9 Ron Taylor, Australian shark expert and cinematographer, dies from myeloid leukemia at 78
Sep 10 Lance LeGault, American actor (The A-Team - "Col. Decker"), dies of heart failure at 77
Sep 11 Sergio Livingstone, Chilean soccer goalkeeper who played 52 internationals (CD Universidad Católica) and TV personality (Televisión Nacional de Chile), dies at 92
Sep 16 John Ingle, American actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital), dies from cancer at 84

Sep 25 American pop singer ("Moon River"; "Days of Wine and Roses"), dies from bladder cancer at 84

Sep 26 Johnny Lewis, American actor, dies from injuries from a fall at 28
Sep 27 Herbert Lom, Czech-born British actor (Pink Panther, Dorian Gray), dies at 95
Sep 30 Turhan Bey [Sahultavy], Austrian-born actor dubbed "The Turkish Delight" (Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves), dies from Parkinson's disease at 90
Oct 9 Harris Savides, American cinematographer., dies from brain cancer at 55
Oct 13 Gary Collins, American actor (6th Sense, Home Show), dies from natural causes at 74

Oct 15 King of Cambodia (1941-55 and 1993-2004), Chief of State (1960-70), independence campaigner and film producer, dies from a heart attack at 89

Oct 17 Sylvia Maria Kristel, Dutch actress, dies from throat and liver cancer at 60
Oct 21 Dann Cahn, American film editor, dies of natural causes at 89
Oct 24 Anita Björk, Swedish actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People), dies at 89
Oct 31 Brian Cobby, British actor (Evita, The Nudist Story) and the first male voice of the British speaking clock, dies from health complications at 83
Nov 6 Clive Dunn, British actor (Dad's Army, The Avengers), dies from complications following an operation at 92
Nov 8 Lucille Bliss, American voice actress (Cinderella, The Secret of NIMH), dies from natural causes at 96
Nov 9 Bill Tarmey, English actor (Coronation Street), dies at 71
Nov 12 Deborah Raffin, American model, actress (The Ransom; 40 Carats; Touched By Love, 7th Heaven), and audiobook publisher, dies of leukemia at 59

Nov 25 Dinah Sheridan, British actress (Genevieve, The Railway Children, Don't Wait Up), dies at 92
Dec 7 Russ "Rusty" Thacker, American stage actor and singer, dies of cancer at 66
Dec 14 Kenneth Kendall, British broadcaster (BBC News, Treasure Hunt), dies from a stroke at 88
Dec 16 Laurier LaPierre, Canadian journalist, broadcaster and senator, dies at 83
Dec 24 Charles Durning, American actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie), dies from natural causes at 89

Dec 24 American actor (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus), dies at 90

Dec 24 Richard Rodney Bennett, English pianist, classical and film score composer (Four Weddings And A Funeral), dies at 76
Dec 26 Gerry Anderson, English television producer (Thunderbirds; Space:1999), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 83
Dec 27 Harry Carey Jr, American actor (Back to the Future Part III, Gremlins), dies from natural causes at 91
Dec 29 Jean Topart, French voice and film actor regarded as "one of the inimitable voices of French cinema" (Fantastic Planet), dies at 90

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