Lynn Stalmaster, who was the first casting director to receive an Academy Award, died today at home in Los Angeles. He was 93 and his death was confirmed by Laura Adler of the Casting Society of America.
Stalmaster had a legendary vision for casting. He is credited with moving Dustin Hoffman into The Graduate…
James E. Gunn, a prolific author and editor in science fiction, died Dec. 23 in Lawrence, Kansas, He was 97 and his death was announced by the University of Kansas, where he taught and later founded the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.
Gunn's story The Immortals is one of his best-known works. The 1962…
Brayden Smith, who just last month was featured in a special Jeopardy! video tribute to the late Alex Trebek, died unexpectedly Feb. 5 in Las Vegas. He was 24.
His death was announced today by his mother Debbie Smith. A cause of death was not disclosed.
"We are heartbroken to share that our dear Brayden Smith recently…
Frank Moreno, who was known for screening films at Cannes for Roger Corman's New World Pictures to purchase and distribute in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, died Wednesday in Florida. He was 82 and died after a brief battle with cancer, according to his daughter.
Moreno was a promoter for such Art films as…
Robert B. "Bob" Steuer, a film production and distribution executive for more than 50 years, died Friday, Feb. 5 of dementia complications at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, CA. He was 86. Â
Born in New Orleans on November 18, 1934, he graduated from Tulane University and joined the U.S…
Katherine Creag, a reporter for New York’s WNBC and familiar presence on the station’s morning news program Today in New York, died unexpectedly last night. She was 47.
Her death was announced today by WNBC. A cause had not been determined, with WNBC noting that Creag had not been ill and was working as recently as…
Larry Robins, a longtime manager who most recently segued to producing with Netflix’s Sex/Life, died January 23 in Los Angeles of multiple myeloma. He was 75.
His death was announced by wife Catherine Scott.
After moving to Los Angeles from Toronto in 1969, Robins, as president of his One B Management, focused his…
Chick Corea, an American jazz pioneer, composer, keyboardist and bandleader, died Tuesday, according to a post on his Facebook page. He was 79. The Facebook statement says Corea died from “a rare form of cancer which was only discovered very recently.”
Corea was the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the…
Hustler founder Larry Flynt has died at 78. The Washington Post confirmed the news with his brother Jimmy. No cause of death was given.
Flynt made his fortune with Hustler magazine and associated businesses, but he made a name for himself by challenging cultural norms. He unapologetically called himself “a…
Joe Allen, whose self-named restaurant on W. 46th Street in Manhattan’s theater district has been a sort of commissary-slash-clubhouse for Broadway folks – and that fans who love them – since opening in 1965, died Sunday at an assisted living facility in Hampton, N.H. He was 87.
His death was confirmed by son Taylor…
UPDATED with Diana Ross reaction: Mary Wilson, a founding member of the legendary Motown group the Supremes, died suddenly at her home in Henderson, NV. She was 76.
Her friend and publicist Jay Schwartz confirmed the news but did not disclose the cause of death.
Motown founder Berry Gordy called Wilson a trailblazing…
French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, who has penned the scripts for films including The Unbearable Lightnessof Being and That Obscure Object of Desire, has died. His daughter Kiara Carrière told AFP that the screenwriter died on Monday of natural causes at his Paris home. He was 89.
Throughout his decades-long…
