Deaths: May 11
by bcampos862 | created - 11 May 2017 | updated - 11 months ago | Public
1. Norman Lloyd
Actor | Dead Poets Society
Norman Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Sadie (Horowitz), a housewife and singer, and Max Perlmutter, a furniture store manager. His family was Jewish (from Hungary and Russia). He began his acting career in the theater, first "treading the boards" at Eva Le Gallienne...
2. Albert One
Self | Italo Disco Legacy
Albert One was born on April 23, 1956 in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. He died on May 11, 2020 in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy.
3. Alvar Aalto
Self | Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto, one of Finland's most famous people who reshaped architecture and furniture of public buildings on the basis of functionality and organic relationship between man, nature and buildings, is now called the "Father of Modernism" in Scandinavian countries.
He was born Hugo Alvar Henrik ...
4. Anita Das
Actress | Tapasya
Anita Das was an actress, known for Tapasya (1980), Agni Parikshya (2005) and Lakhmi Pratima (2007). She died on May 11, 2018 in Cuttack, Odisha, India.
5. Barbara Hutton
Her maternal grandfather, Frank W. Woolworth, founded the department store chain of the same name in New York at the turn of the century, with which he soon made a considerable fortune all over the world. Barbara Hutton therefore grew up in sheltered and wealthy circumstances. Her father died when ...
6. Barbara Knudson
Actress | The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Barbara Knudson was born on December 4, 1927 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. She was an actress, known for The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950), The Cry Baby Killer (1958) and Meet Danny Wilson (1952). She was married to William Henry. She died on May 11, 2014 in Nevada, USA.
7. Bob Marley
Soundtrack | I Am Legend
Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica, to Norval Marley and Cedella Booker. His father was a Jamaican of English descent. His mother was a black teenager. The couple were married in 1944 but Norval left for Kingston immediately after. Norval died in 1957, seeing...
8. Buddy Van Horn
Stunts | High Plains Drifter
Prolific American stunt man and occasional small part actor, formerly billed as Wayne Van Horn. The son of a veterinarian who ministered to animals at Universal studios, he first worked as a horse wrangler following a stint in the U.S. Army. This earlier expertise as a rider served him well after ...
9. Byron Morrow
Actor | Star Trek
Byron Morrow was born on September 8, 1911 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Trek (1966), Black Sheep Squadron (1976) and The Mysterians (1957). He was married to Zelda Maxine Friend and Dorothy Nicholas Morrow. He died on May 11, 2006 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, ...
10. Carlos Mujica
Self | Iglesia Latinoamericana
11. Catherine McLeod
Actress | The Outer Limits
Of Scottish descent, Catherine McLeod was a self-confessed movie fan as a child of the Depression. Born on July 2, 1921, in Santa Monica, California, she was a convent trained. She became a theater cashier in Dallas for a time before returning to Los Angeles and studying at an acting school. A ...
12. Cesar Gonzalez
Actor | Nacho Libre
Silver King is the son of the legendary luchadore wrestler Dr Wagner. He has been wrestling professionally since 1985. He started out wrestling in the Universal Wrestling Association under a mask, but lost that in a match with the legendary El Santo. He was part of the tag team "The Cowboys" with ...
13. David Bretherton
Editor | Cabaret
David Bretherton was born on February 29, 1924 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an editor, known for Cabaret (1972), Westworld (1973) and Clue (1985). He died on May 11, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
14. Dolores Sutton
Actress | The Trouble with Angels
Dolores Sutton was born in New York, New York on February 4, 1927 as Dolores Lila Silverstein to Benjamin and Mary Silverstein. She died on May 11, 2009. She graduated from NYU with a BA Philosophy, 1948. While working on her Masters in 1949, she wrote a radio script (Siblings), sold it to NBC, and...
15. Don Zimmerman
Self | The NFL on CBS
Don Zimmerman was born on November 22, 1949 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA. He died on May 11, 2020 in the USA.
16. Douglas Adams
Writer | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Born Douglas Noel Adams on March 11, 1952 in Cambridge. From 1959 until 1970 he went to Brentwood school in Essex, and his main interest was science. As a student in Cambridge he decided to hitch-hike through Europe to Istanbul, and in order to raise funds for this he took a lot of small jobs. In ...
17. Eddie Ugbomah
Actor | The Mask
Eddie Ugbomah was born on December 19, 1940 in Aboh, British Nigeria. He was an actor and director, known for The Mask (1979), Boulos 80 (1982) and Vengeance of the Cult (1984). He died on May 11, 2019 in Nigeria.
18. Fernando Soto
Actor | Campeón sin corona
Fernando Soto was born on April 15, 1911 in Puebla, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Campeón sin corona (1946), Extraña cita (1947) and El rayo de Jalisco (1962). He died on May 11, 1980 in Mexico City, Mexico.
19. Fidel Pintos
Actor | Mujeres que bailan
Fidel Pintos was born on August 28, 1905 in Argentina. He was an actor, known for Mujeres que bailan (1949), El hermoso Brummel (1951) and Somos novios (1969). He died on May 11, 1974 in Argentina.
20. Frankie Thomas
Actor | Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
This one-time wiry, curly-haired juvenile actor of 30s Depression era films grabbed major focus toward the end of his acting career as 50s space hero Tom Corbett on the smaller screen, then moved away from the limelight finally seeing his future in the cards.
He was born Frank M. Thomas, Jr. on ...
21. Gregorio Scalise
Self | Maurizio Costanzo Show
Gregorio Scalise was born on January 25, 1939 in Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy. He died on May 11, 2020 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
22. Harold Lederman
Actor | Back in the Day
Harold Lederman was born on January 26, 1940 in Bronx, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Back in the Day (2016), World Heavyweight Championship Fight: Muhammad Ali vs. Ken Norton (1976) and ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961). He was married to Eileen Brook. He died on May 11, 2019 in New ...
23. Héctor Sinder
Actor | Padre Coraje
Héctor Sinder was born on July 19, 1952 in Argentina. He was an actor, known for Padre Coraje (2004), The Rain Dance (2016) and Hermanos y detectives (2006). He died on May 11, 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
25. Howard Morton
Actor | The Munsters Today
Howard Morton was born on May 15, 1925 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Munsters Today (1987), Tarzan (1966) and Gimme a Break! (1981). He died on May 11, 1997 in Burbank, California, USA.
26. Hugo Romeo Guerra
Self | Fútbol de Primera
Hugo Romeo Guerra was born on March 18, 1966 in Canelones, Uruguay. He died on May 11, 2018 in Arrecifes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
27. Hutton Gibson
Self | Jeopardy!
Hutton Gibson was born on August 26, 1918 in Peekskill, New York, USA. He was married to Teddy Joye (Moore) Hicks and Anne Patricia Reilly. He died on May 11, 2020 in Thousand Oaks, California, USA.
28. Jean Nichol
Self | Y'a plein d'soleil
Jean Nichol was born on December 8, 1944 in Québec, Canada. He was married to Nancy Goulet. He died on May 11, 2020 in Canada.
29. Jean-Claude Brisseau
Director | Choses secrètes
Jean-Claude Brisseau was born on July 17, 1944 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Secret Things (2002), Sound and Fury (1988) and Céline (1992). He died on May 11, 2019 in Paris, France.
30. Jerry Stiller
Actor | The Heartbreak Kid
As the short, straight-man counterpart of the stellar husband-and-wife comedy team "Stiller & Meara", Jerry Stiller and wife Anne Meara were on top of the comedy game in the 1960s, a steady and hilarious presence on television variety, notably The Ed Sullivan Show (1948), on which they appeared 36 ...
31. Joan Chandler
Actress | Rope
Brunette, delicately featured leading lady who briefly made an impact through memorable back-to-back appearances in the films Humoresque (1946) and Rope (1948). Joan grew up in Butler, Pennsylvania, where her family had a car dealership. Her mother was a musician. Joan studied dancing at the ...
32. John Whitehead
Soundtrack | Free Guy
John Whitehead was born on June 2, 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a composer, known for Free Guy (2021), Carlito's Way (1993) and Creed (2015). He died on May 11, 2004 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
33. Johnny Hodges
Soundtrack | The Matrix
Composer ("I'm Beginning to See the Light"), saxophonist and songwriter who was educated in area public schools and then joined dance orchestras as a saxophonist. By 1927, he had joined the Duke Ellington band. He has made many recordings. Joining ASCAP in 1945, his other popular-song and ...
34. Josh Greenfeld
Writer | Harry and Tonto
Josh Greenfeld was born on February 27, 1928 in Malden, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Harry and Tonto (1974), Oh, God! Book II (1980) and Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II (1978). He was married to Foumiko Kometani. He died on May 11, 2018 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
35. June Preston
Actress | Anne of Green Gables
June Preston was a Hollywood child star who went on to become a distinguished opera singer and, at the tender age of 24, toured with The Metropolitan Opera "Stars of the Metropolitan Opera" tour in 1952 in the lead role of "Mimi" in La Bohème opposite Metropolitan star, Jan Peerce as Adolfo. On the...
36. Leigh Snowden
Actress | Kiss Me Deadly
The Tennessee-born Snowden (real name: Martha Lee Estes) was a movie actress and model who first made a splash on the Jack Benny TV show, sashaying across the stage at the San Diego Naval base. Twenty thousand sailors gave the curvy sweater-clad starlet a standing ovation that made headlines in "...
37. Lex Barker
Actor | Tarzan's Savage Fury
Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr. was a direct descendant of the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, and of Sir William Henry Crichlow, historical Governor-General of Barbados. Barker attended the Fessenden School and Phillips-Exeter Academy, where he excelled in football and track. He went to ...
38. Lúcio Mauro
Actor | Redentor
Lúcio Mauro was born on March 14, 1927 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. He was an actor and director, known for Redentor (2004), Feliz Natal (2008) and Terra Sem Deus (1963). He was married to Ray Luiza Araujo Barbalho and Arlete Salles. He died on May 11, 2019 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
39. Mikhail Alperin
Soundtrack | Our New President
Mikhail Alperin was born on November 7, 1956 in Ukraine, USSR. He was a composer, known for Our New President (2018), I Am from Nowhere (2002) and Brother Vengeance (2015). He died on May 11, 2018 in Oslo, Norway.
40. Miloslav Stingl
Self | Stingl - Malý velký Okima
Miloslav Stingl was born on December 19, 1930 in Bílina, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He died on May 11, 2020 in Prague, Czech Republic.
41. Moon Martin
Soundtrack | Just Like Heaven
Moon Martin was born on October 31, 1945 in Altus, Oklahoma, USA. He was a composer, known for Just Like Heaven (2005), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) and Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997). He died on May 11, 2020 in Encino, California, USA.
42. Nan Winton
Self | Living Today
Nan Winton was born on November 6, 1925 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK. She was married to Charles Stapley. She died on May 11, 2019 in Dorset, England, UK.
43. Peggy Lipton
Actress | Twin Peaks
She was a groovy and sexy icon of the late hippie era. To millions of TV viewers she became familiar as the reformed juvenile delinquent, turned undercover cop, Julie Barnes. With her expressive brown eyes and trademark long blonde hair, sylphlike Peggy Lipton was one third of a streetwise urban ...
44. Peggy Shannon
Actress | Deluge
Peggy Shannon was born Winona Sammon on January 10, 1907, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She attended Catholic school where she became friends with child actress Madge Evans. While visiting her aunt in New York sixteen year old Peggy was discovered by producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.. He hired her as a ...
45. Pua Magasiva
Actor | 30 Days of Night
Pua Magasiva was born on August 10, 1980 in Apia, Samoa. He was an actor, known for 30 Days of Night (2007), Samoan Wedding (2006) and Power Rangers Ninja Storm (2003) and Power Rangers DinoThunder (2004). He was married to Lizz Sadler and Kourtney Magasiva. He died on May 11, 2019 in Wellington, ...
46. René Muñoz
Actor | Fray Escoba
René Muñoz was born on February 19, 1938 in Havana, Cuba. He was a writer and actor, known for Fray Escoba (1961), Quinceañera (1987) and Un mulato llamado Martín (1975). He died on May 11, 2000 in Mexico City, Mexico.
47. Robert Cabal
Actor | Around the World in Eighty Days
Robert Cabal was born on April 7, 1917 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He was an actor, known for Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Rawhide (1959) and The Man Behind the Gun (1953). He died on May 11, 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
48. Roland Gräf
Director | P.S.
Roland Gräf was born on October 13, 1934 in Meuselbach, Thuringia, Germany. He was a cinematographer and director, known for P.S. (1979), Fallada: The Last Chapter (1988) and Der Tangospieler (1991). He was married to Christel Gräf and Christel Gräf. He died on May 11, 2017 in Potsdam, Brandenburg,...
49. Sol Yaged
Music_department | The Benny Goodman Story
Sol Yaged was born on December 8, 1922 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for The Benny Goodman Story (1956), Jazz Concert (1949) and I've Got a Secret (1952). He was married to Zelda. He died on May 11, 2019 in Coconut Creek, Florida, USA.
50. Susan Subtle
Self | The Mike Douglas Show
51. Timothy Carey
Actor | The Killing
Timothy Carey had one of the most unusual careers of all Hollywood character actors, obtaining full cult status for his portrayals of the doomed, the psychotic and the plain crazy. Carey's career was an "only in America" type of story, and he retains his status as a great American original many ...
52. Tissa Wijesurendra
Actor | Sihina Lowak Soya
Tissa Wijesurendra was born on April 4, 1949 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was an actor, known for Sihina Lowak Soya, Rupantharana (2014) and Hathara Denama Surayo (2008). He was married to Savithri. He died on May 11, 2020 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
53. Tommy Lewis
Actor | The Proposition
Tom E. Lewis was born and raised in South Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory amongst the Murrungun tribe where today their lands are federally protected. For much of his early life he worked as a bricklayer and stockman in order to make ends meet. However this was only a front for his real ...
54. Trevor Strnad
Actor | The Black Dahlia Murder: Everything Went Black
Trevor Strnad was born on May 3, 1981 in the USA. He was an actor, known for The Black Dahlia Murder: Everything Went Black (2007), The Black Dahlia Murder: Majesty (2009) and The Black Dahlia Murder Fool 'Em All (2014). He died on May 11, 2022 in the USA.
55. Ulla Sallert
Actress | Nyckeln och ringen
Ulla Sallert was born on March 27, 1923 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Nyckeln och ringen (1947), Régi nyár (1969) and Tappa inte sugen (1947). She was married to Franz von Lampe. She died on May 11, 2018 in Sweden.
56. William David Brohn
Music_department | Anastasia
William David Brohn was born on March 30, 1933 in Flint, Michigan, USA. He was a composer, known for Anastasia (1997), Live from Lincoln Center (1976) and Monkey Shines (1988). He died on May 11, 2017 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
57. Zlatko Bourek
Director | I videl sam daljine meglene i kalne
Zlatko Bourek was born on September 4, 1929 in Slavonska Pozega, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He was a production designer and director, known for I videl sam daljine meglene i kalne (1965), Cirkus Rex (1965) and The Cat (1971). He died on May 11, 2018 in Zagreb, Croatia.
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