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Charles Crichton Biography

Charles CrichtonAge: 89 British film director of The Lavender Hill Mob, among other comedies of the '40s and '50s. Most recently, Crichton was nominated for an Oscar for the farcical 1988…

Claire Trevor 2000 Deaths

Claire TrevorAge: 91 versatile character actress who won a 1948 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in Key Largo. She acted in nearly 70 films, including Dead End (1937) and…

Lila Kedrova 2000 Deaths

Lila KedrovaAge: 82 Russian-born, Oscar-winning actress who portrayed Madame Hortense in 1964's Zorba the Greek. She won a Tony for her role in the stage version. Other film credits include…

Ulla Isaksson 2000 Deaths

Ulla IsakssonAge: 83 novelist and screenwriter who collaborated with Ingmar Bergman on two films, Brink of Life and The Virgin Spring, which won the Foreign Film Oscar in 1960. Isaksson's…

Kasey Cisyk 1998 Deaths

Kasey Cisyksinger Cisyk was an opera-trained singer who found success singing popular commercial jingles including “Have You Driven a Ford Lately.” Cisyk also sang backup for Carly Simon and…

Shirley Clarke 1997 Deaths

Shirley Clarkefilmmaker An independent filmmaker, Clarke compared her work to Off-Broadway productions, offering experimental works that challenged convention. Her film The Connection, a…

Ralph Bradshaw White Biography

documentary cameramanDied: February 4, 2008 (Glendale, California) Best Known as: explorer and documentary cameraman who first filmed footage of the Titanic wreckage…

Tom Lantos Biography

congressmanDied: February 11, 2008 (Bethesda, Maryland) Best Known as: the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress Tom Lantos was a long time…

Kim Stanley 2001 Deaths

Kim StanleyAge: 76 versatile actress who bewitched Broadway audiences as a tomboy in Picnic, a spent chanteuse in Bus Stop, and a young single mother in The Traveling Lady. She earned Oscar…

Eileen Heckart 2001 Deaths

Eileen HeckartAge: 82 raspy-voiced television, film, and stage actress who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in Butterflies Are Free (1972). She frequently appeared in…