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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
Robert Benton, 1932 – 2025
Film director and screenwriter Robert Benton , 92, died on May 11. Benton wrote and/or directed such hits as Kramer vs. Kramer (which...
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Steve Pepoon, 1956 – 2025
TV writer Steve Pepoon , 68, died of heart disease on May 3. He wrote episodes for shows both hilarious and dire: The Simpsons (he won...
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Leila Negra, 1930 – 2025
German singer and actress Leila Negra , 95, died on May 13. The mixed-race Negra (a British black father and a white/Creole German...
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Samuel French, 1980 – 2025
Actor Samuel French , 45, died of cancer on May 9. French was best known as FBI agent Robinson in Martin Scorsese’s 2023 Killers of the...
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John Edwards, 1944 – 2025
Soul and pop singer John Edwards , 80, died on May 11. He began singing in German clubs when he was in the Army; back in the US, Edwards...
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Rosanna Norton, 1944 – 2025
Costume designer Rosanna Norton , 80, died on May 7. She was Oscar-nominated for her work on Tron , and also worked on Terence Malick’s...
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Denise Alexander, 1939 – 2025
General Hospital actress Denise Alexander , 85, died on March 5. Alexander played Dr. Lesley Williams from 1965-84 (with frequent guest...
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Greg Cannom, 1951 – 2025
Makeup artist Greg Cannom , 73, died on May 9. Cannom won Oscars for his work on Vice, Mrs. Doubtfire, Dracula , and for developing a...
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Lainie Miller, 1941 – 2025
Actress and Hollywood union negotiator Lainie Miller, 84, died on May 6. The Canadian-born Miller had small roles in The Graduate (as a...
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Nathaniel Pelletier, 1971 – 2025
Transportation supervisor and actor Nathaniel "Nate" Pelletier , 53, died on April 11, it was announced this week. (He died “suddenly,...
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James Foley, 1953 – 2025
Film director James Foley , 71, died of brain cancer earlier this week, his family announced on May 8. His films may not have been...
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WifiSkeleton, 2003 – 2025
Rapper Jeremiah Justin Simms , who performed as WifiSkeleton , 21, died of a drug overdose on May 5; he had just posted on Instagram that...
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Millena Brandão update
I have been following up on this story, as a Girl Reporter should. Now it seems that the cause of poor 11-year-old Millena Brandão’s...
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James Baker, 1954 – 2025
Australian punk-rock drummer, singer and songwriter James Baker , 71, died of cancer on May 5. I must admit I had never heard of Baker...
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Millena Brandão, ca. 2014 – 2025
Multiple news sites are reporting the death (possibly from dengue fever) of Brazilian child actress Millena Brandão , 11, on May 2. They...
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Charley Scalies, 1940 – 2025
Character actor Charley Scalies , 84, died on May 1. He was best known as tough guys "Horseface" Pakusa on The Wire and as Tony’s...
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Alessandro Quasimodo, 1939 – 2025
Italian actor Alessandro Quasimodo , 85, died on May 2. (No, I am not just covering him because his name was Quasimodo, though that is ...
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Jim Smith, 1954 – 2025
The death of animator Jim Smith , 70, was announced on May 3 on the Animation Magazine website; no other sources yet to prove that he is...
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Kirk Medas, ca. 1992 – 2025
Reality TV star Kirk Medas , 33, died on May 2 of necrotizing pancreatitis. Medas costarred on the MTV show Floribama Shore (which you...
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Tania Marie Caringi, 1986 – 2025
Fashion model Tania Marie Caringi , 38, died in Rome on May 1 (Italian news sources refer mysteriously to a “rapid illness”). The...
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Jean-François Davy, 1945 – 2025
French producer, director, and actor Jean-François Davy , 79, died on May 2. The native Parisian was interested in films from an early...
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Ruth Buzzi, 1936 - 2025
Comic actress Ruth Buzzi , best known for her work on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In , died on May 1. She was 88. The rubber-faced actress got...
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Jill Sobule, 1959 – 2025
Singer and songwriter Jill Sobule , 66, died in a house fire while staying with friends near Minneapolis on May 1. Sobule’s biggest hits...
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Priscilla Pointer, 1924 – 2025
Actress Priscilla Pointer (no relation to the singing sisters, but the mother of actress Amy Irving) died on April 28. She was 100. The...
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Cora Sue Collins, 1927 - 2025
1930s child actress Cora Sue Collins , 98, died on April 27. Collins made her film debut in 1932, and through the decade costarred with...
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Hudson’s Bay Company, 1670 – 2025
Hudson’s Bay , the Canadian-owned department store chain, announced it will be closing its remaining six stores by June. "Hudson's Bay...
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Damien Thomas, 1942 – 2025
Egyptian-born British actor Damien Thomas , 83, died on April 18. Thomas had a loyal following from his horror roles ( Twins of Evils,...
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Jiggly Caliente, 1980 – 2025
Bianca Castro , who performed as Jiggly Caliente , died on April 27; her family said, “Due to a severe infection, she was hospitalized...
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Philip Lowrie, 1936 – 2025
British actor Philip Lowrie , who played Dennis Tanner on Coronation Street from 1960-2014 (with a 50-year gap!), died on April 25. He...
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David Thomas, 1953 – 2025
Rocker David Thomas , 71, died on April 23. The singer (and occasional guitarist/trombonist) belonged to the “proto punk” (or...
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Lar Park Lincoln, 1961 – 2025
Actress Lar Park Lincoln , 63, died of breast cancer on April 22. She was a rising young starlet ( Friday the 13th: The New Blood,...
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Lulu Roman, 1946 – 2025
Country comedienne and singer Lulu Roman , 78, died on April 23. Abandoned to an orphanage as a baby, by the time she was a teen, she was...
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Gerard Kennedy, 1932 – 2025
Australian actor Gerard Kennedy , 93, died on April 21. Kennedy was a rising actor when cast in TV’s Hunter , a secret-agent show. His...
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Nino Tempo, 1935 – 2025
Multi-instrument musician and singer Nino Tempo , 90, died on April 12. He and his sister, April Stevens (who died in 2023) won a 1964...
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Waltraut Haas, 1927 – 2025
Austrian actress and singer Waltraut Haas , 97, died on April 23. She became a star in Willi Forst’s 1947 film Counsellor Geiger , and...
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Sophie Nyweide, 2000 – 2025
Child actress Sophie Nyweide , 24, died on April 14. Her family danced around the cause of death, but it seems to have been an...
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Will Hutchins, 1930 – 2025
Actor Will Hutchins , best known as TV’s Sugarfoot (1957-61), died on April 21. He was 94. The L.A. native went to UCLA, taking cinema...
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Mizuki Itagaki, 2000 – 2025
Japanese actor and singer Mizuki Itagaki , 24, has been found dead in Tokyo, after having been missing since January. Itagaki, who had...
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Patrick Adiarte, 1943 – 2025
Filipino-born dancer and actor Patrick Adiarte , 81, died on April 16. The son of dancer Purie Adiarte, Patrick appeared with his mother...
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Wink Martindale, 1933 - 2025
Cherubic game-show host Winston “Wink” Martindale , 91, died on April 15. From the 1970s-90s, Martindale hosted such shows as Gambit,...
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Jean Marsh, 1934 - 2025
Jean Marsh , best-known as the co-creator and star of Upstairs, Downstairs , died on April 13. She was 90. A rising young stage, screen...
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Nicky Katt, 1970 – 2025
Actor Nicky Katt , 54, hanged himself in his L.A. apartment on April 8. Katt worked frequently for such directors as Richard Linklater,...
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Pilita Corrales, 1937 – 2025
Filipina singer and actress Pilita Corrales , 87, died on April 12. A superstar both in her own country and Australia (where she...
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Suzanne Rand, 1949 – 2025
Comedienne Suzanne Rand , 75, died on April 2. She and her partner (professional, not personal) John Monteith, were a popular duo in the...
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Ted Kotcheff, 1931 – 2025
Canadian film and TV director Ted Kotcheff , 94, died on April 10. Kotcheff started his career as a director with the Canadian...
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Lucy Markovic, 1998 – 2025
Australian model Lucy Markovic , 27, died on April 10, after undergoing surgery for an arteriovenous malformation in her brain. She was...
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Mike Berry, 1942 – 2025
British actor and singer Mike Berry , 82, died on April 11. The brother of drag performer Bette Bourne, Berry became a minor pop star in...
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Luis Solís, 1964 – 2025
I finally found some info on the poor sax player who died in the April 8 roof collapse of the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, along...
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Lenny Welch, 1938 – 2025
Singer Lenny Welch , 86, died on April 8. Welch began recording in 1960, having success with such new songs and covers as "Since I Fell...
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Mario Ernesto Sánchez, 1947 – 2025
Actor Mario Ernesto Sánchez , 78, died on April 10. Born in Cuba, he moved to the US after the Castro Revolution, in the “Operation Pedro...
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