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- Mark Eden was born on 14 February 1928 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Pleasure Girls (1965) and London Belongs to Me (1977). He was married to Sue Nicholls, Diana Eden and Joan Le Mesurier. He died on 1 January 2021.Died of Alzheimer's disease in England.
1928-2021 (92 years old)
1 January - Jean Panisse was born on 17 March 1928 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was an actor, known for Manon des sources (1952), L'ombre rouge (1981) and An Angel on Wheels (1959). He died on 1 January 2021 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.Died of covid-19 in Marseille, France.
1928-2021 (92 years old)
1 January - Seizô Fukumoto was born on 3 February 1943 in Kami, Japan. He was an actor, known for The Last Samurai (2003), Uzumasa Limelight (2014) and 13 Assassins (2010). He died on 1 January 2021 in Kyoto, Japan.Died of lung cancer in Kyoto, Japan.
1943-2021 (77 years old)
1 January - George Gerdes was born on 23 February 1948 in Queens, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Bats (1999) and Hidalgo (2004). He died on 1 January 2021 in Glendale, California, USA.Died of brain aneurysm in Glendale, California.
1948-2021 (72 years old)
1 January - Floyd Little was born on 4 July 1942 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was married to Joyce and DeBorah. He died on 1 January 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.Died of cancer in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1942-2021 (78 years old)
1 January - Gerald F. Gough was born on 12 August 1931 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Broadcast News (1987), Guarding Tess (1994) and Homicide: Life on the Street (1993). He died on 1 January 2021 in Roseville, California, USA.Died in Roseville, California.
1931-2021 (89 years old)
1 January - Vladimir Korenev was born on 20 June 1940 in Sevastopol, Krymskaya ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Amphibian Man (1961), Ya - aktrisa (1980) and Much Ado About Nothing (1973). He was married to Aleftina Konstantinova. He died on 2 January 2021 in Moscow, Russia.Died of covid-19 in Moscow, Russia.
1940-2021 (80 years old)
2 January - Paul Westphal was born on 30 November 1950 in Torrance, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Space Jam (1996), Forget Paris (1995) and Four Square Miles to Glory. He was married to Cindy Lou Paden. He died on 2 January 2021 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.Died of brain cancer in Scottsdale, Arizona.
1950-2021 (70 years old)
2 January - Actor
- Writer
- Composer
Gerry Marsden was born on 24 September 1942 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Zodiac (2007), Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) and Beast (2017). He was married to Pauline Behan. He died on 3 January 2021 in Arrowe Park, Merseyside, England, UK.Died of a blood infection in Arrowe Park, England
1942-2021 (78 years old)
3 January- Writer
- Director
- Producer
AnnaRose King was born on 12 September 1985 in Manhattan, New York, USA. She was a writer and director, known for Good Enough (2016), American Viral (2014) and Spanish Rice (2013). She was married to Michael Telis. She died on 3 January 2021 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.Died of lung cancer in Manhattan, New York.
1985-2021 (35 years old)
3 January- Music Department
- Actor
- Writer
Anil Panachooran was born on 20 November 1965 in Kayamkulam, India. He was an actor and writer, known for Kammara Sambhavam (2018), Cocktail (2010) and Oru Mexican Aparatha (2017). He was married to Maya. He died on 3 January 2021 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.Died of cardiac arrest in Thiruvananthapuram, India.
1966-2021 (55 years old)
3 January- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Eric Dickey was born on 7 July 1961 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for One Night, Cappuccino (1998) and Friends and Lovers (2005). He died on 3 January 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Died of cancer in Los Angeles, California.
1961-2021 (59 years old)
3 January- The sexy Barbara Shelley was born Barbara Kowin on February 13, 1932 in London, England. With her beautiful looks and stature, she worked as a model during her salad days. Her film career began in Italy in the mid-1950s in such tempting fare as Luna nova (1955) and Nero's Mistress (1956), but when this seemed like she was going to remain in the minor ranks, she returned to England to attempt to better her career. After appearing in the minor sex farce The Little Hut (1957) with Stewart Granger, David Niven and Ava Gardner, Barbara caught notoriety in the title role of Cat Girl (1957), a low budget production in which she played a woman possessed by a family curse who develops psychic links with a leopard.
This paid off and she quickly evolved into a popular Gothic glamour woman at Hammer Studios. Starting things off with The Camp on Blood Island (1958) and Blood of the Vampire (1958), the lovely actress proceeded to stake out her own lucrative territory in the horror genres. Through the 1960s, she co-starred in the classic Village of the Damned (1960), along with The Shadow of the Cat (1961), The Gorgon (1964), The Secret of Blood Island (1965), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967). However, Barbara's film career had fallen aside by the late 1960s and she turned to television.
In her retirement, she pursued interior decorating. Whether playing female monsters or their intended victims, Barbara played them straight and handled them all with requisite style and grace. For this, she was occasionally seen by motion picture fans at conventions as an integral figure of camp horror history.Died of covid-19 in London, England.
1932-2021 (88 years old)
3 January - Actress
- Producer
- Art Department
Kristine Crown was born on 8 November 1982 in Manila, Philippines. She was an actress and producer, known for Criminal Minds (2005), Shades (2013) and The Singing Surgeon (2007). She died on 3 January 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Died of complications from surgery in Los Angeles, California.
1982-2021 (38 years old)
3 January- Actress
- Producer
- Music Department
Heung-Kam Lee was born on 13 January 1932 in Shunde District, Guangdong Province, China. She was an actress and producer, known for Yu nu shen tou (1967), Ni xi de ji (1976) and Pin fok chun kei (1984). She was married to Chung-Kwan Siu. She died on 4 January 2021 in Hong Kong, China.Died of Alzheimer's disease in Hong Kong, China.
1932-2021 (88 years old)
4 January- Actress
- Producer
The second daughter of manufacturing executive Oscar Blum and his wife Dorothy, Tanya Roberts was born 1949 in Manhattan and grew up in the elite Westchester County suburbs Scarsdale and Greenburgh. Tanya reportedly dropped out of high school, got married and hitchhiked around the country until her mother-in-law had the marriage annulled. She met psychology student Barry Roberts while waiting in line to see a movie. A few months later, she proposed to him in a subway station, and they were married. She studied acting under Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen. In her early years in New York, she supported herself as an Arthur Murray dance instructor and by modeling. She appeared in off-Broadway productions of "Picnic" and "Antigone", and in television commercials for Ultra Brite, Clairol and Cool Ray sunglasses.
In 1977, Tanya and her husband -- by then a scriptwriter -- moved to Hollywood. She began appearing in made-for-TV films including Pleasure Cove (1979), Zuma Beach (1978), and Waikiki (1980). Her film debut was in The Last Victim (1976). After appearing in several minor films, her first big break came when she was selected as the last Angel on the final season of Charlie's Angels (1976), and was featured on the cover of People magazine (02/09/1981). The attention she garnered helped secure her most significant film roles: The Beastmaster (1982) (and posed for the cover and an inside spread in Playboy magazine to promote the film), the title role in Sheena (1984) and as a Bond girl in A View to a Kill (1985). She continued to appear in films, though mainly direct-to-video and direct-to-cable features. She was featured in the CD computer game The Pandora Directive (1996) and had a recurring lead role in the television series That '70s Show (1998). Widowed in 2006, Tanya Roberts died of sepsis from a urinary tract infection in 2021.Died of sepsis due to urinary tract infection in Los Angeles, California.
1949-2021 (71 years old)
4 January- Actor
- Soundtrack
Karl Heinz Vosgerau was born on 16 August 1927 in Kiel, Germany. He was an actor, known for Wie ein Blitz (1970), Die Wächter (1986) and M.E.T.R.O. - Ein Team auf Leben und Tod (2006). He was married to Sabine. He died on 4 January 2021 in Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany.Died in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
1928-2021 (92 years old)
4 January- Lanky, balding, intense American character actor of Puerto Rican ancestry, born in New York's Spanish Harlem. Deserted by his parents, Sierra was brought up by an aunt in a rough, predominantly Irish neighbourhood from the age of six. Though briefly tempted by gang life as a teenager, he took up acting classes after accompanying a friend to an audition and ended up playing Shakespearean roles with the National Shakespeare Company and in the New York Shakespeare Festival (playing, among many other parts, Macbeth and Romeo), as well as appearing off-Broadway. He later said "I would have been happy if I continued to do that for the rest of my life". However, in 1969, Sierra decided to move to Hollywood and began acting in episodic television where he was initially typecast as Latino heavies or cops.
Sierra made his breakthrough in the role of Julio Fuentes on NBC's Sanford and Son (1972), his character the perennial butt of bigoted jokes from the show's cantankerous lead, played by Redd Foxx. He then appeared in the original cast of the police sitcom Barney Miller (1975) as the passionate, proudly Puerto Rican Detective Sergeant Chano Amenguale. Written out of the show at the end of season two, he had further recurring roles in serial television, frequently alternating between comedy and drama. These included the short-lived hospital sitcom A.E.S. Hudson Street (1977), the controversial but hugely popular parody Soap (1977) (as South American counter-revolutionary "El Puerco"), Hill Street Blues (1981) (as Assistant District Attorney Alvarez), Zorro and Son (1983) (as garrison commander Paco Pico, one of the hero's chief antagonists), Miami Vice (1984) (as Don Johnson's erstwhile boss Lou Rodriguez, killed off by a hitman in episode four -- in fact, Sierra opted to leave the show because he disliked Miami) and the science fiction series Something Is Out There (1988) (as Captain Victor Maldonado). His numerous, varied and often highly entertaining guest appearances have included supporting roles as a Native American renegade on Gunsmoke (1955), a mutated religious leader living underneath irradiated New York in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), a professor of anthropology helping Mulder and Scully track down the Jersey Devil in The X-Files (1993), a Cardassian member of the sinister Obsidian Order on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), an Italian priest in John Carpenter's Vampires (1998) and an Iraqi gunboat captain in the Rambo spoof Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993).
Sierra made his home in Laguna Beach, California, where he died of cancer on January 4 2021 at the age of 84.Died of stomach and liver cancer in Laguna Woods, California.
1937-2021 (83 years old)
4 January - Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
James Greene was born on 19 May 1931 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for What a Girl Wants (2003), Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Johnny English (2003). He died on 5 January 2021 in the UK.Died of an illness in the UK.
1931-2021 (89 years old)
5 January- Classically handsome John Richardson began his career with small roles in British movies at the end of the 1950s. His first role of note was opposite Barbara Steele in the gothic horror classic Black Sunday (1960), directed by Mario Bava. His massive success was Don Chaffey's One Million Years B.C. (1966) with Raquel Welch, produced by Hammer Films. Later, following the steps of some other actors, he went on to appear in various Italian movies such as Umberto Lenzi's horror movie Eyeball (1975), Michele Soavi's The Church (1989) and many others. Richardson's great passion was collecting automobiles and he sometimes appeared in movies as long as an automobile was included in the contract. But his recent movies filmed in the 1980s convinced him to retire from acting completely. He was a noteworthy photographer with no interest whatsoever in looking back on his career in cinema. John Richardson passed away from complications of COVID-19 on January 4, 2021, only two weeks away from his 87th birthday.Died of covid-19.
1934-2021 (86 years old)
5 January - Adrien Dorval was born on 22 March 1963 in Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Shanghai Noon (2000), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) and The Chronicles of Riddick (2004). He was married to Angela Cruikshank. He died on 5 January 2021 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.Died in Vancouver, Canada.
1963-2021 (57 years old)
5 January - Actor
- Director
- Additional Crew
English stage and screen actor, the son of J. Arthur Rank scriptwriter Sidney Derek Salamon and housewife Sarah Sotnick. David was schooled in Edinburgh, studied drama at the Sorbonne and began his acting career in the mid-50s on the Shakespearean stage (at the London Old Vic in Henry V, Julius Caesar, Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Winter's Tale). He first appeared on screen from 1957 in BBC TV productions, had a recurring supporting part in the science fiction series The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962) and made his motion picture breakthrough as a resentful youth in Loss of Innocence (1961) (opposite Susannah York in her first leading role). During the 60s, David worked both in front and behind the camera (as a director) for BBC television. He subsequently became a free-lancer, working out of New York and setting up shop in Amsterdam where he had established a film production company in 1977. Latterly, he also took on voice-over work. David was married to the actress Jacqueline Chan between 1962 and 1989.Died in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1931-2021 (90 years old)
5 January- Phil Harvey was born on 11 May 1921 in Emporia, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Touch of Evil (1958), The Tarnished Angels (1957) and The Land Unknown (1957). He died on 5 January 2021 in Ojai, California, USA.Died in Ojai, California.
1921-2021 (99 years old)
5 January - Actor
- Additional Crew
Rugged Sicilian-born actor who came to international notice after playing Ferrari racing ace Nino Barlini in John Frankenheimer's high octane blockbuster Grand Prix (1966). His charismatic performance saw Sabato nominated for a Golden Globe Award as Most Promising Newcomer. During the 1970s, he starred in a slew of low-budget Italian language productions, predominantly spaghetti westerns and crime thrillers, essaying villains (Crime Boss (1972)), heroes (Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)) and anti-heroes (Thunder Over El Paso (1972)) with equal verve. By the mid-80s, Sabato and his family had relocated to California where he devoted more time to painting and family life while continuing to star in international co-productions, typically action films like the futuristic Escape from the Bronx (1983), The Wild Team (1985) and High Voltage (1998). His last work on screen consisted of several appearances in the soap The Bold and the Beautiful (1987) , which also featured his son Antonio Sabato Jr...Died of covid-19 in Los Angeles, California.
1943-2021 (77 years old)
6 January- James Cross was born on 29 September 1921 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland. He died on 6 January 2021 in Seaford, England, UK.Died of covid-19 in Seaford, England.
1921-2021 (99 years old)
6 January