• Obituaries of Notable People in the Movies Category



  • Irving Brecher, 94 (1914 - 2008)

    Irving  Brecher

    LOS ANGELES - Irving Brecher, who wrote vaudeville one-liners for Milton Berle and scripted Marx Brothers movies, the TV and radio hit "The Life of Riley" and the Oscar-nominated musical "Meet Me in St. Louis," has died. He was 94. Brecher died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to his wife, Norma. Brecher was a teenager in New York when he got his first comedy writing...

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  • Maria Elena Marques (2008)

    Maria Elena Marques

    MEXICO CITY - Mexican actress Maria Elena Marques, who starred in the 1947 movie "The Pearl," has died at the age of 83, her children announced Wednesday. Marques played the long-suffering wife of a fisherman who finds a beautiful but ill-fated pearl in the film based on a book by John Steinbeck. The film won a Golden Globe award for the luminous cinematography of Gabriel Figueroa. ...

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  • Baldev Raj Chopra, 93 (1915 - 2008)

    Baldev Raj Chopra

    MUMBAI, India - Veteran Indian filmmaker B.R. Chopra, whose Bollywood career spanned five decades, died at home on Wednesday. He was 94. Ailments relating to old age caused Chopra's death, said Monika Bhattacharya, a spokeswoman for movie studio Yash Raj Films, run by his younger brother. Chopra was known for tackling socially relevant themes in Hindi-language films. One of his...

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  • John Daly, 71 (1937 - 2008)

    John  Daly

    Los Angeles - John Daly, a British-born producer of 13 Oscar-winning movies including "Platoon" and "The Last Emperor" who helped launch the careers of many A-list directors and actors, died Friday. He was 71. Daly, who was chairman of Film and Music Entertainment Inc., died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after struggling with cancer, said his daughter, Jenny Daly. ...

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  • Dina Cocea (2008)

    Dina  Cocea

    BUCHAREST, Romania -- Dina Cocea, one of this country's best known actresses, died of a heart attack on Tuesday, a director said, and one theater critic mourned the loss of "the queen of Romanian theater." She was 95. Cocea, who performed on the stage and in movies for more than 50 years, died at Floreasca hospital, where she had been admitted several days earlier with a pulmonary...

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