Turner Classic Movies always runs a poignant, often three-hanky short-form video depicting those actors, writers, producers, directors and other craftsmen and women of the stage, small and silver screen, who shuffled off this mortal coil. While this year's piece didn't feel as immediately hard-hitting as last year's (it seems we lost an awful lot of folks in 2014, and several in such heart-breakingly unexpected ways), there are still moments in the 2015 listing that smack of nostalgia and a sense of sizable loss to the film industry that tug at my heart and start the waterworks.
I know that not all of the names may be familiar on first glance, while the career longevity and enormous contributions of others will instantly go down in the annals of film history, but I'm sure if you check out everyone's body of work (there is an IMDB.com link for each), you will be sure to recognize something that has touched your life in one way or another, from the earliest days of Hollywood right up to contemporary blockbusters of today.
Chantal Akerman, Director/Writer/Actress
Gene Allen, Art Director/Production Designer
Harve Bennett, Writer/Producer
James Best, Actor
Theodore Bikel, Actor
Judy Carne*, Actress (3 September 2015)
Jack Carter*, Actor/Director (28 June 2015)
Wally Cassell, Actor
Movita Castaneda, Actress
Robert Chartoff, Director
Kevin Corcoran, Actor/Producer
Richard Corliss, Film Critic/Author
Yvonne Craig*, Actress (17 August 2015)
Wes Craven, Director/Writer
Jean Darling, Actress
Donna Douglas*, Actress (1 January 2015)
Betsy Drake, Actress/Screenwriter
Richard Dysart, Actor
Anita Ekberg, Actress
Leatrice Joy Gilbert, Actress/Author
Richard Glatzer*, Director (10 March 2015)
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Producer/Director
Coleen Gray, Actress
John Guillermin, Director
Gunnar Hansen*, Actor (7 November 2015)
Setsuka Hara, Actress
Mary Healy, Actress
Edward Herrmann, Actor (31 December 2014)
James Horner, Composer
Marty Ingels, Actor/Agent
Franco Interlenghi, Actor
Saeed Jaffrey, Actor
George Clayton Johnson*, Writer (22 December 2015)
Dean Jones, Actor
Louis Jourdan, Actor
Anne Kirkbride*, Actress (19 January 2015)
Christopher Lee, Actor
Joan Leslie, Actress
Andrew Lesnie, Cinematographer
Geoffrey Lewis, Actor
Virna Lisi, Actress
Robert Loggia, Actor
Patrick Macnee*, Actor (25 June 2015)
Don Mankiewicz*, Writer/Producer (25 April 2015)
D.M. Marshman, Jr., Screenwriter
Melissa Mathison, Screenwriter
Albert Maysles, Director
Anne Meara*, Actress/Writer/Producer (23 May 2015)
Martin Milner*, Actor/Producer (6 September 2015)
Al Molinaro*, Actor (30 October 2015)
Ron Moody, Actor
Dickie Moore, Actor
Leonard Nimoy, Actor/Director
Maureen O'Hara, Actress
Gary Owens, Actor, V.O.
Betsy Palmer, Actress
Amanda Peterson, Actress
Nova Pilbeam, Actress
Luise Rainer, Actress
Roger Rees*, Actor (10 July 2015)
Alex Rocco, Actor
Jack Rollins, Producer
Eldar Ryazanov*, Director/Writer (30 November 2015)
Joseph Sargent, Director (22 December 2014)
Lizabeth Scott, Actress
Omar Sharif, Actor
Sam Simon*, Producer/Writer/Animation (8 March 2015)
Bruce Sinofsky, Director
Stewart Stern, Screenwriter
Rod Taylor, Actor
Nigel Terry, Actor
Fred Thompson, Actor/U.S. Senator
Dick Van Patten, Actor
Jerry Weintraub, Producer/Actor
Colin Welland, Screenwriter/Actor
Haskell Wexler*, Cinematographer/Filmmaker (27 December 2015)
Elmo Williams, Editor
Elizabeth Wilson, Actress
George Winslow, Actor
Harris Wittels*, Producer/Writer (19 February 2015)
Ben Woolf*, Actor (23 February 2015)
Today's "stars" can't hold a single candle to this Universe that has since left us.
Rest in Peace.
*not included in TCM's video
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