I asked my sports journalist friend Mike McCann to pitch hit for me (ha!), as “sports” and I will never be shipmates:   Bob Uecker , a...

Director and writer of high-style weirdness David Lynch , 78, died on Jan. 16, after years of emphysema. Lynch was known chiefly for his...

British actor Paul Danan , 46, died on Jan. 16. No cause was yet announced, but he was found hours before he was due in court on drug...

His family has just announced the death on Nov. 29 (from “natural causes”) of former child and teen actor Christian Juttner , 60. Born in...

TV writer and producer David W. Duclon , 74, died after a long illness at his home in Tennessee, on Jan. 15. Duclon wrote and/or produced...

French-born director Jeannot Szwarc , 85, died on Jan. 15. Szwarc moved to the US after working in commercials and screenwriting in...

British actor Christopher Benjamin , 90, died on Jan. 15. Benjamin started his career on stage and radio, acting frequently with the...

British stage, screen and TV actress Diane Langton , 77, died on Jan. 15. She appeared on the West End in such shows as Hair, A Chorus...

Rock singer Peter Forrest , who performed as P. Fluid (not to be confused with female singer Fluid P.) was found beaten to death in an...

Irish singer Linda Nolan , 65, died of cancer on Jan. 15. Along with her sisters Anne, Denise, Maureen, Coleen, and Bernie...

Endless Summer surfing star Mike Hynson , 82, died on Jan. 10. An Army brat, Hynson was already a star surfer when filmmaker Bruce Brown...

Character actor Robert Machray , 79, died on Jan. 12. As a stage actor, he appeared at the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, Hartford Stage,...

British actor and TV personality Tony Slattery , 65, died of a heart attack on Jan. 12. Slattery was a regular on the comedy improv show...

Dalyce Curry , 95, died in her Altadena home over the Jan. 11-12 weekend in the Eaton fire. According to her family (and ABC News), she...

Producer, director, and film preservationist Michael Schlesinger , 74, died of cancer on Jan. 9. Schlesinger produced and/or directed...

Child and teen actor Claude Jarman, Jr ., who won an Oscar for The Yearling , died on Jan. 12. He was 90. Jarman was a “civilian” when...

Soap-opera actress Leslie Charleson , 79, died on Jan. 12. She was best known for playing cardiologist Monica Quartermaine on General...

British costume designer Phyllis Dalton , 99, died on Jan. 9. Dalton won Oscars for her work on Dr. Zhivago  and Henry V , and also...

Former child performer Rory Sykes , 32, died on Jan. 8 at his home in Malibu, during the Palisades fire. His mother (and manager) Shelley...

Singer Sam Moore , of Sam & Dave, died on Jan. 10. He was 89. Sam was the higher voice and Dave Prater (who died in 1988) took the lower...