by Simon de Bruyn, December 17, 2011 10:00 AM
This week celebrated Australian actor Harold Hopkins passed away at the age of 67 after a battle with cancer. Hopkins had major roles in classic Australian movies including Don's Party, The Club and Gallipoli, and also supported upcoming Australian filmmakers. In 1998 he took...
by Ard Vijn, November 28, 2011 5:29 AM
Last night the world lost one of its movie authors when famed British director Ken Russell died peacefully in his sleep, aged 84. Which seems somewhat at odds with his hellraiser public reputation, or his gloriously controversial filmography. Ken Russell...
by Hugo Ozman, September 18, 2011 7:56 AM
Frances Bay, the actress best known for playing Adam Sandler's grandmother in HAPPY GILMORE and the old lady whose loaf of marble rye bread was snatched off by Jerry in SEINFELD, has passed away. Bay worked as a radio actress...
by Al Young, August 22, 2011 4:41 PM
The son of Taiwanese film composer Shih Jei-Yong 史擷詠 (aka Shut Git-Wing) has shared the disheartening news via Reddit of his fathers death this morning. When conducting an orchestra performance on Friday, Jei-Yong collapsed from a heart attack and was...
by Hugo Ozman, August 5, 2011 7:48 AM
Annette Charles, who played Charlene 'Cha Cha' DiGregorio in the 1978 dance classic GREASE, has passed away. Charles acted in a number of television series, including THE FLYING NUN, GUNSMOKE, MOD SQUAD, BONANZA, THE BIONIC WOMAN, MAGNUM P.I. and...
by Hugo Ozman, August 4, 2011 3:35 AM
Bubba Smith, the former NFL and POLICE ACADEMY star, has passed away. The 6' 7" Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith played in the National Football League from 1967 to 1976, before moving into a film and television career. He started...
by Kurt Halfyard, March 23, 2011 10:46 AM
Likely one of the five most iconic actresses to ever grace the screen, Elizabeth Taylor dominated the screen in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and continued working steadily until the end of the 1980s (Go see her in Winterkills, an...
by J Hurtado, February 5, 2011 5:51 PM
We have lost another legend. Tura Satana may have only starred in a handful of films, but she has left an indelible impression on the world of exploitation cinema that will always be felt.She began as a nude dancer in...
by J Hurtado, December 16, 2010 8:58 PM
News is just floating in that one of the most respected genre filmmakers of the French/European horror scene has died.Jean Rollin, along with several other European filmmakers in the late 60's, began a trend of erotic and gothic horror films...
by Ard Vijn, August 24, 2010 5:33 PM
This is shocking news indeed: mere hours ago people at the Madhouse anime studio confirmed that legendary director Satoshi Kon has died, aged 46. Satoshi Kon worked on several anime classics under Katsuhiro Otomo and Mamoru Oshii, but is...
