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Eve's Obits
"People are dying who never died before!"
Just-breaking show business obituaries from Eve Golden, film and theater historian, magazine writer and editor, and former obit writer for The Everett Collection.
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Recent Obits
Floyd Levine, 1932 – 2025
Character actor Floyd Levine , 93, died on Aug. 24. Levine supported himself as a cab driver while starting out his acting career; by the...
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Verónica Echegaray, 1983 – 2025
Spanish movie and TV star Verónica Echegaray , 42, died of cancer in her home town of Madrid on Aug. 24. Echegaray trained at the Royal...
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Reggie Carroll, ca. 1973 – 2025
Comedian and actor Reggie Carroll , 52, was shot to death in Mississippi on Aug. 20 (a suspect has been taken into custody). Known as...
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Tom Ladshaw, 1960 – 2025
I just learned from my friend Trav S.D. (check out his Travalanche site at https://travsd.wordpress.com/ ) of the death of magician and...
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Jerry Adler, 1929 – 2025
Character actor and director Jerry Adler , 96, died on Aug. 23. Adler was best known for his TV work; he played "Hesh" Rabkin on The...
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Diego Borella, ca. 1978 – 2025
Assistant director Diego Borella , 47, dropped dead on Aug. 22 of an apparent heart attack in Venice’s Hotel Danieli while filming the...
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Luz, 1993 – 2025
Japanese singer Kōji Tatewaki , who performed as Luz , died of as-yet unknown causes on Aug. 19. He was 32. Born in Fukui Prefecture to...
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Norma Nolan, 1938 – 2025
Argentinian beauty queen Norma Nolan , 87, died on Aug. 20. Born in Venado Tuerto to Irish and Italian parents, Nolan moved to Buenos...
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Dave Ketchum, 1928 – 2025
Comic character actor Dave Ketchum ( Get Smart ) died on Aug. 10. He was 97. As Agent 13 on Get Smart , he was hidden in mailboxes,...
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Michael "Tunes" Antunes, 1940 – 2025
Saxophonist Michael "Tunes" Antunes (Eddie and the Cruisers), 85, died on Aug. 19. Antunes was best known for playing with the rock band...
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A passel of online influencers!
My stars and garters, there are so many social media influencers, Tik-Tokers and gamers dead that I have to usher them all into one obit....
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Elon Dershowitz, 1961 – 2025
Film producer Elon Dershowitz , 64, died of a stroke on Aug. 17. The son of lawyer Alan Dershowitz (who defended Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey...
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Joe Caroff, 1921 – 2025
Graphic designer Joe Caroff died on Aug. 17. He was one day short of his 104 th birthday. After serving in the military (stationed in...
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Debebe Eshetu, ca. 1942 – 2025
Ethiopian actor and civil-rights figure Debebe Eshetu , 83, died on Aug. 17. He trained at the Budapest School in Hungary, and by the...
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Terence Stamp, 1938 – 2025
British actor Terence Stamp , 87, died on Aug. 17. One of the rough and tumble New Breed of ‘60s actors, the London-born Stamp began his...
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Ronnie Rondell, Jr., 1937 - 2025
Actor and stuntman Ronnie Rondell, Jr. , 88, died on Aug. 12. The son of actor and director Ronald Rondell (and the father of two...
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Tomo Sakurai, 1971 – 2025
Japanese voice actress Tomo Sakurai , 53, died of cancer on Aug. 13. Sakurai first came to fame with the singing group Lemon Idol, then...
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Tristan Rogers, 1946 – 2025
Soap star Tristan Rogers , 79, died of cancer on Aug. 15. Born in Melbourne, he got his start in Australian TV, and moved to the US in...
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Dan Ziskie, 1944 – 2025
Character actor Dan Ziskie , 80, died on July 21. Ziskie got his start with Detroit’s Second City comedy group. Moving to New York, he...
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Kseniya Alexandrova, 1994 – 2025
Russian beauty queen, model, and TV personality Kseniya Alexandrova , 30 died in an Aug. 12 car accident in the Tver region. She was a...
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Nicolas Beaucaire, ca. 1973 – 2025
French stage, screen and TV actor Nicolas Beaucaire , 52, killed himself while hospitalized for depression, it was announced on Aug. 14....
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Lorna Raver, 1943 - 2025
Actress Lorna Raver , 81, died on May 12, The Hollywood Reporter announced today (Aug. 13). The stage, screen at TV actress was best...
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Danielle Spencer, 1965 – 2025
Child actress Danielle Spencer ( What’s Happening!! ), 60, died of cancer on Aug. 11. The daughter of actor Tim Pelt, she was a neophyte...
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Ray Brooks, 1937 – 2025
British actor Ray Brooks ( The Knack …and How to Get It, EastEnders ) died on Aug. 9. He was 86. Brooks started his career in regional...
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Louise Downe, 1937 – 2025
Actress and screenwriter Louise “Bunny” Downe , 88, has died, it was announced on Aug. 8. A psychiatry student at the University of...
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Jon Miyahara, 1941 – 2025
Character actor Jon Miyahara ( Superstore ), 83, has died, it was announced on Aug. 7. Miyahara played the (mostly) silent Brett, one of...
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Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, ca. 1992 – 2025
Irish-born fashion designer Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra , 33, was found dead on a boat in the Montauk (Long Island) Yacht Club on Aug. 5....
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Kelley Mack, 1992 – 2025
Actress Kelley Mack ( The Walking Dead , Universal ), 33, died of cancer on Aug. 2. Mack began working in commercials as a child, and...
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Alfie Wise, 1943 – 2025
Character actor Alfie Wise , 82, died on July 22. Wise made his TV debut in 1972, and over the next 30 years was seen in The Sandy Duncan...
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Jane Morgan, 1924 – 2025
Singer and actress Jane Morgan , 101, has died, it was announced on Aug. 4. As a pop and big band singer, Morgan first found success in...
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Loni Anderson, 1945 – 2025
Blonde bombshell Loni Anderson , 79, died in a Los Angeles hospital on August 3. A hometown beauty queen, she began appearing on TV in...
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White House Rose Garden, 1902 – 2025
I know I have been inserting more politics on this site, and I don’t like it any more than you do. But what’s a girl to do when...
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Jeannie Seely, 1940 – 2025
Country-western singer and songwriter Jeannie Seely , 85, died on Aug. 1. Dubbed “Miss Country Soul,” she appeared at the Grand Ole...
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1969 – 2025
I try not to get political herein, but the Corporation for Public Broadcasting just (Aug. 1) announced that it is shutting down because...
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Cécile Dionne, 1934 – 2025
Cécile , one of the famous Dionne Quintuplets , died on July 28. She was 91. Born in Canada into a world fraught with the Depression and...
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Robert Wilson, 1941 – 2025
Avant-garde playwright and director Robert Wilson , 83, died on July 31. Wilson studied architecture and art, then moved to theater,...
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David Argue, 1959 – 2025
Australian actor David Argue died of cancer on July 30. He was 65. He began his career costarring in the TV series The Restless Years ,...
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Adriana Asti, 1931 – 2025
Italian actress Adriana Asti , 94, died in Rome on July 31. She made her first success onstage in Luchino Visconti’s The Crucible...
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June Wilkinson, 1940 – 2025
British blonde bombshell June Wilkinson , 85, died on July 21. By the age of 15, Wilkinson was dancing topless at London’s Windmill...
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Alon Abutbul, 1965 – 2025
A third Beach Death! Israeli-born actor Alon Abutbul collapsed and died at Dor-HaBonim Beach on July 29. He was 60. Though most of his...
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Jock McDonald, ca. 1956 – 2025
Irish punk rocker Jock McDonald , 69, died in a swimming accident on July 26 at Bundoran Beach, in County Donegal. McDonald was the front...
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Tom Lehrer, 1928 – 2025
Musical-parody genius Tom Lehrer , 97, died on July 26. To those of us brought up on Tom Lehrer and Allan Sherman records (and can still...
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Alexander Bernstein, 1955 – 2025
Alexander Bernstein , son of conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre, died on July 22. He was 70....
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Marlene Warfield, 1941 – 2025
Actress Marlene Warfield , 83, died on April 6, it was just announced. From the 1970s through early this century, she had some splashy...
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Jules Walter, 1929 – 2025
Actor and activist Jules Walter , 96, has died, his family announced this week. Born in Antigua and raised in the US, Walter worked for...
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Rene Kirby, 1955 – 2025
IBM worker turned sometimes actor Rene Kirby , 70, died on July 11, of multiple causes: Kirby was born with spina bifida, and had been...
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Cleo Laine, 1927 – 2025
British singer Cleo Laine , 97, died on July 24. She often collaborated with her husband (from 1958 till his death in 2010), composer and...
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Tony Peers, 1947 – 2025
British TV actor Tony Peers ( Emmerdale, Coronation Street ), 78, died on July 24. In addition to his stage work and a handful of movies...
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Chuck Mangione, 1940 – 2025
Smooth-jazz musician Chuck Mangione , 84, died on July 22. Mangione played with Art Blakey’s band in the 1960s, and with his brother Gap...
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Hulk Hogan, 1953 – 2025
Wrestling super-star and actor Hulk Hogan , 71, died of an apparent heart attack at his Florida home on July 24. Through the wrestling...
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