Who Died Today 2020
Jeremy Bulloch, the English actor, career spanned nearly five decades. He gained recognition for originating the physical portrayal of Boba Fett in the Star Wars franchise, appearing as the character in the films The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). Bulloch would return to the…
Scott Marshall Smith, the screenwriter whose credits included the Robert De Niro films Men of Honor and The Score, has died, his family said Tuesday. He was 62. Smith was finishing work on his latest movie, the psychological thriller Wasatch when he suffered a stroke.…
SourceMSN: Bob Kaliban, a veteran voice actor and former president of the New York branch of the Screen Actors Guild, died December 12. He was 87. Kaliban’s voice-over career spanned over 50 years and thousands of commercials, but he perhaps was…
Microsoft News: Carol Sutton, whose half-century long acting career spanned stage, movies, and television, died Thursday at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans. She was 76 and died of coronavirus infection complications, said Tommye Myrick, a friend and local theater director. “Among…
Charley Pride, a 2000 inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame and a three-time Grammy winner, Pride, was not the first country performer to cross racial lines: Harmonica player Deford Bailey was an early featured artist on the Grand…
Marguerite Ray, an actress who had a 10-year stint on The Young and the Restless and was a regular on Redd Foxx’s 1980s Sanford and Son sequel series, has died recently at the age of 89. The East Bay Times posted an obituary for Ray…
ANTA MONICA, Calif.: Alex Olmedo, who won the Wimbledon and Australian Championships singles titles in 1959 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, has died. He was 84. Citing Olmedo’s son, Alejandro Jr., the Hall of…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Ray Perkins, the former Alabama receiver which replaced Bear Bryant as Crimson Tide’s coach and started the transition with the New York Giants, led to two Super Bowl titles, died Wednesday in Tuscaloosa. He was 79. The…
Terry D. Porter, Writer’s Guild of America agent and founder of The Terry Porter Agency, died Monday, December 7, of heart failure in Sun City West, AZ. His wife, Claire Hutchinson, announced Terry D Porter’s death. Since 1990, Porter was…
Former MVP Dick Allen, one of baseball’s most feared hitters in the late 1960s and a star in Philadelphia and Chicago, died Monday at his home in Wampum, Pennsylvania, his family announced on Twitter. A seven-time All-Star, Allen was dominant…
Natalie Desselle Reid was an American actress who performed in several films, including Def Jam’s How to Be a Player and Cinderella. She also acted in the television series Built to Last and For Your Love, and for three seasons, she played Janie Egins on Eve. Natalie Desselle Reid died…
PARIS (Reuters) – Former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, a key architect of European integration in the early 1970s, has died at the age of 94 after contracting COVID-19. Giscard, France’s leader from 1974 to 1981, had recently been hospitalized…
