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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
Liam Byrne, ca. 2001 – 2025
Who would have thought that jumping off an Alp could hurt a fellow? Not poor Liam Byrne , 24, who died on June 21, when his Rocky the...
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Lynn Hamilton, 1930 – 2025
Actress Lynn Hamilton ( Sanford & Son, Generations ) died on June 19. She was 95. Hamilton studied acting in Chicago, and made her...
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Valentina Talyzina, 1935 – 2025
Russian actress Valentina Talyzina , 90, died on June 21. Talyzina graduated from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts, and joined the...
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Jack Betts, 1929 – 2025
Character actor Jack Betts (sometimes billed under the Henry Willson-esque name Hunt Powers), died on June 19. He was 96. Betts made his...
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Gailard Sartain, 1946 – 2025
Character actor Gailard Sartain , 78, died on June 17. He was a local (Tulsa) TV celebrity when a Hee Haw manager spotted him, and he...
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Cavin Yarbrough, 1954 – 2025
Singer Cavin Yarbrough (Yarbrough and Peoples), 72, died of heart disease on June 19. He and his wife, Alisa Peoples, recorded such ‘80s...
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Lou Christie, 1943 – 2025
Pop-rock singer and songwriter Lou Christie ("Lightnin' Strikes," "I'm Gonna Make You Mine"), 82, died on June 18. Under producer Nick...
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Anne Burrell, 1969 – 2025
Chef and TV personality Anne Burrell , 55, was found dead in her Brooklyn home on June 17. No cause of death has yet been determined....
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Dave Scott, 1972 – 2025
Choreographer Dave Scott , 52, died on June 16. Scott was dancing in a club when discovered by hip-hop artist Rob Base’s manager, and he...
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Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, ca. 1986 – 2025
Fashion designer Arthur Folasa Ah Loo , 39, was shot to death at a Salt Lake City “No Kings” march on June 14 (a man was threatening the...
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David Hekili Kenui Bell
Actor David Hekili Kenui Bell , seen in the just-opened Lilo & Stitch , died on June 15. No one seems to have any idea how old he was or...
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Betsy Gay, 1929 – 2025
1930s-40s actress and country singer Betsy Gay , 96, died on June 13. The daughter of a show-biz couple, she got her start in Our Gang...
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Topsy Küppers, 1931 – 2025
German-born Austrian actress and singer Topsy Küppers , 93, died on June 14. Topsy “jes’ growed” in Aachen, took dramatic lessons at the...
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Sunjay Kapur, 1971 – 2025
Sunjay Kapur only had a faint connection to the show business (he was the ex-husband of Bollywood star Karisma Kapoor), but the...
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Terry Louise Fisher, 1946 – 2025
TV writer and producer ( L.A. Law, Cagney & Lacey ) Terry Louise Fisher , 79, died on June 10. Fisher started her own career in L.A. law,...
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Clifton Jones, 1937 – 2025
Jamaican-born British TV actor Clifton Jones , 87, died in London on June 4. Moving to London in 1956, he began his career onstage and...
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Pik-Sen Lim, 1944 – 2025
Malaysian-born British actress Pik-Sen Lim , 80, died on June 9. Lim moved to London as a teen to take acting classes, and got her big...
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Beans Morocco, 1934 – 2025
Character actor Beans Morocco , another “oh, him! ” familiar face, died on May 29. He was 91. Born Daniel Ernest Barrows, he got his...
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Ananda Lewis, 1973 – 2025
TV host Ananda Lewis , 52, died of cancer on June 11. A Little Miss San Diego beauty queen, Lewis quickly found herself an agent and...
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Paul Thomas, 1949 – 2025
Porn actor and director Paul Thomas , 76, died on June 10, according to the site XBIZ . Thomas appeared onstage in Hair and Jesus...
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Harris Yulin, 1937 – 2025
Stage, screen and TV character actor Harris Yulin , 87, died on June 10. He was seen on Broadway in Watch on the Rhine, A Lesson from...
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Roland Curram, 1932 – 2025
British actor Roland Curram , 92, died on June 1. The darkly handsome Curram played gay characters in the film Darling and the soap...
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Brian Wilson, 1942 – 2025
Beach Boy Brian Wilson , 82, died on June 11. Along with Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Al Jardine, the group (founded in 1961)...
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Chris Robinson, 1938 – 2025
Actor Chris Robinson , 86, died on June 9. He began his career as an extra and occasional stuntman in the late 1950s, working his way up...
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Sly Stone, 1943 – 2025
Funk-rock star Sly Stone , 82, died on June 9. The singer, songwriter, and musician (guitar, piano, harmonica) was the front man for Sly...
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Frederick Forsyth, 1938 – 2025
British thriller novelist Frederick Forsyth , 86, died on June 9. Best-known for The Day of the Jackal (made into a 1973 film), Forsyth...
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Pippa Scott, 1935 – 2025
Perky red-haired actress Pippa Scott , 89, died on May 22. The daughter of actress Laura Straub and playwright/screenwriter Allan Scott,...
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Marise Wipani, 1964 – 2025
New Zealand-born actress Marise Wipani died on her 61st birthday, on June 6. The beauty-pageant winner first came to notice as New...
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Arthur Hamilton, 1926 – 2025
Songwriter Arthur Hamilton (“Cry Me a River”), 98, has died, it was announced on June 4. The son of songwriter Jack Stern, Hamilton was...
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Enzo Staiola, 1939 – 2025
Italian child actor Enzo Staiola , 85, died on June 4. He was cast in Vittorio De Sica’s classic The Bicycle Thief (1948), in which he...
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Edmund White, 1940 – 2025
Novelist Edmund White , 85, died on June 3. An early openly gay novelist (he beat Armistead Maupin by a few years and was Much More...
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Jonathan Joss update
The Jonathan Joss murder gets mysteriouser and mysteriouser. Joss’s husband says the killer was a homophobic neighbor who shouted slurs...
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Barbara Ferris, 1939 – 2025
British actress Barbara Ferris , 85, died on May 23. She started her career as a model and dancer (appearing in, among other shows, Bob...
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Koby Falks, 1982 – 2025
Australian “adult content creator” Anthony Cox, who performed as Koby Falks , died on May 28. No cause is given, but most of the reports...
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Jonathan Joss, 1965 – 2025
Jonathan Joss , who voiced John Redcorn in King of the Hill , was shot to death outside his San Antonio home on June 1, allegedly after...
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Devin Lee Harjes, 1983 – 2025
Actor Devin Lee Harjes , 41, died of cancer on May 27, just three months after having been diagnosed. The Texas native studied martial...
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Renée Victor, 1953 – 2025
Actress Renée Victor , 72, died on May 30 (some sources give her birthdate as 1938, which is quite a jump from 1953). Victor was best...
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Valerie Mahaffey, 1953 – 2025
Actress Valerie Mahaffey , 72, died on May 30. The whisper-thin Mahaffey, with her quavery voice (I could never tell her from Julie...
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Loretta Swit, 1937 – 2025
Loretta Swit , who played “Hot Lips” Houlihan on TV’s M*A*S*H , died on May 30. She was 87. Swit was a rising young stage and TV actress...
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Richard Nichols, 1935 – 2023
Violently cute child actor Richard Nichols , 87, died on Oct. 1, 2023 (his death went unreported in the press at the time). Nichols, with...
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Joanne Gilbert, 1932 – 2025
Singer and actress Joanne Gilbert , 92, died on April 16. The daughter of songwriter Ray Gilbert, she was working as a singer at the...
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Peter Kwong, 1952 - 2025
Actor Peter Kwong died on May 27 at age 73. The L.A. native was a trained dancer and martial-arts artist; he fought against Asian...
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Ena Hartman, 1932 – 2025
Model and actress Ena Hartman , 93, died on April 16. Hartman owned and worked in her own restaurant when she was discovered by a...
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Ed Gale, 1963 – 2025
Actor Ed Gale , 61, died in Los Angeles on May 27. At 3’ 4” tall, Gale knew he was never going to be a leading man, but, he said, “at the...
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James McEachin, 1930 – 2025
The multi-careered James McEachin , 94, died on Jan. 11, according to the always on top of things Mike Barnes at The Hollywood Reporter...
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Taina Elg, 1930 – 2025
Finnish-born dancer and actress Taina Elg , 95, died on May 15. A ballet dancer from an early age, she performed with the Finnish...
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Phil Robertson, 1946 – 2025
Phil Robertson , TV’s Duck Dynasty patriarch and founder of Duck Commander (a hunting and outdoor recreation supply company), died on...
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Marcel Ophuls, 1927 – 2025
German-born French documentarian Marcel Ophuls , 97, died in France on May 24. His greatest film was the 1969 The Sorrow and the Pity ,...
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Peter David, 1956 – 2025
Prolific sci-fi/fantasy writer Peter David , 68, died on May 24 after years of ill health. David wrote for such TV series as X-Men,...
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eShakti, 2011 – 2025
I was just about to order a long cotton summer jacket from my favorite online retailer, eShakti ; I was having a hard time getting the...
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