Turner Classic Movies (TCM) continues its tradition of an elegant montage of the film industry folks we lost this year, both in front of and behind the camera. It’s a good reminder to check out a film or six… and don’t be surprised if you don’t get wistful with many movie memories.
As I’ve done since ’23, below is a list of all the folks who are listed, in order, with links to their IMDb pages (or similar) and, in some cases, additional remembrances.
- Richard Chamberlain (actor/singer)
- Homayoun Ershadi (actor)
- Joan Plowright (actress)
- Henry Jaglom (filmmaker)
- Taina Elg (actress/dancer)
- Olga James (singer/actress)
- Enzo Staiola (actor)
- Harris Yulin (actor)
- Don Hall (sound editor)
- Will Hutchins (actor)
- Michael Schlesinger (repertory executive)
- Shôji Ueda (cinematographer)
- George Folsey Jr. (editor/producer)
- Michael Roemer (director)
- Rosanna Norton (costume designer)
- Frances Doel (executive/producer/writer)
- Alan Bergman (lyricist)
- Barry Michael Cooper (writer)
- Paul Brincat (sound recordist)
- Jimmy Hunt (actor)
- Joe Hale (animator/producer)
- Roger Pratt (cinematographer)
- Graham Greene (actor)
- Masahiro Shinoda (director)
- Tatsuya Nakadai (actor)
- Greg Cannom (makeup artist)
- Udo Kier (actor)
- Arthur Cohn (producer)
- Jules Feiffer (cartoonist/writer)
- James Foley (director)
- Tony Roberts (actor)
- Penelope Milford (actress)
- Charles Shyer (writer/director)
- Adrianna Asti (actress)
- Michele Burke (makeup artist)
- Lea Massari (actress)
- Joe Don Baker (actor)
- Marlene Warfield (actress)
- Gailard Sartain (actor)
- Connie Francis (actress/singer)
- Christopher Newman (sound mixer)
- Claudia Cardinale (actress)
- Jonathan Kaplan (producer/director)
- Ted Kotcheff (director/producer)
- Stuart Craig (production designer)
- James Mitchum (actor)
- Wings Hauser (actor/writer)
- Samantha Eggar (actress)
- Lalo Schifrin (composer)
- David Johansen (actor/singer)
- Alfie Wise (actor)
- Neil Summers (actor/stuntman)
- Jack Lilley (actor/stuntman)
- Ronnie Rondell Jr. (actor/stuntman)
- Patrick Adiarte (actor)
- Kenneth Colley (actor)
- Peter Jason (actor)
- Adam Greenberg (cinematographer)
- Leslie Dilley (production designer)
- Joe Caroff (graphic designer)
- Robert McGinnis (artist/illustrator)
- Drew Struzan (artist/illustrator) and if you’re asking yourself, “Did he do that poster?” you can check.
- Renato Casaro (poster designer)
- Robert Benton (filmmaker)
- Bruce Glover (actor)
- Ku Feng (actor)
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (actor)
- Clive Revill (actor)
- P.H. Moriarty (actor)
- Gene Hackman (actor)
- Val Kilmer (actor)
- George Wendt (actor)
- Jeff Baena (writer/director)
- Phyllis Dalton (costume designer)
- Billy Williams (cinematographer)
- June Lockhart (actress)
- Jeannot Szwarc (director)
- Jackie Burch (casting director)
- Stanley R. Jaffe (producer)
- Geneviève Page (actress)
- Jean Marsh (actress/writer)
- Kathleen Hughes (actress)
- Sally Kirkland (actress/producer)
- Cora Sue Collins (actress)
- Marilyn Knowlden (actress)
- Lee Tamahori (director)
- Claude Jarman Jr. (actor)
- Marvin Levy (publicist)
- Olivia Hussey (actress)
- Bruce Logan (filmmaker)
- Tom Stoppard (writer/director) I had my own remembrance from the beginning of this month.
- Terence Stamp (actor)
- Peter Greene (actor)
- Michael Madsen (actor/producer)
- Joan O’Brien (actress/singer)
- Robert Redford (actor/filmmaker) plus TCM’s specific remembrance.
- Mark Peploe (writer/director)
- Roberto Orci (writer/producer)
- Diane Keaton (actress) plus the TCM remembrance.
- Rob Reiner (actor/filmmaker) The Guardian has a nice retrospective and TCM did a nice remembrance about a day after the awful news.
- Diane Ladd (actress)
- David Lynch (filmmaker) TCM also has a brief remembrance
There’s some figures that loom large for me and a lot of other folks in my generation to the extent that I’m sad the year got away from me before I could do some additional remembrances for many of these folks, but if watching this made you think “I should rewatch that film,” by all means, do so.