Remembering the Classic Actors, Musicians and Celebrities We Loved & Lost in 2025

2025 Celebrity deaths collage
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What To Know

  • In 2025, the world mourned the loss of numerous beloved classic actors, musicians, directors, and cultural icons, including Gene Hackman, Robert Redford, Diane Keaton, Rob Reiner, and Hulk Hogan.
  • Notable musicians such as Ozzy Osbourne, Marianne Faithfull, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary, and Garth Hudson of The Band also passed away, marking the end of significant eras in music history.
  • These influential figures from film, television, and music were honored and remembered for their lasting contributions to entertainment and culture.

In 2025, many of our favorite classic performers took their final bow. Big-screen stars like Gene Hackman, Robert Redford, and Diane Keaton, as well as small screen icons like Richard Chamberlain, Leslie Charleson and Michelle Trachtenberg passed. We mourned directors like Rob Reiner and David Lynch, musicians like Ozzy Osbourne, Sly Stone, Marianne Faithfull, David Johansen, and Brian Wilson, cultural icons like Hulk Hogan, and more.

Read on to remember the bright lights we lost this year, honored them in the order in which they passed.

Wayne Osmond (73)

Born: Aug. 28, 1951
Died:
Jan. 1, 2025 (stroke)
Musician, the Osmond Brothers

American singing group the Osmonds at the Churchill Hotel in London, 29th October 1972. From left to right, they are brothers Wayne, Jay, Donny, Merrill and Alan. (Photo by Len Trievnor/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Osmonds —Wayne, Jay, Donny, Merrill and Alan. Len Trievnor/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images


Brenton Wood (83)

Born: July 26, 1941
Died:
Jan. 3, 2025 (natural causes)
Singer/Songwriter, “The Oogum Boogum Song,” “Gimme Little Sign”


Peter Yarrow (86)

Born: May 31, 1938
Died: Jan. 7, 2025 (bladder cancer)
Musician, Peter Paul & Mary, “Puff the Magic Dragon,” “Leaving on a Jet Plane.”

Peter, Paul and Mary

Courtesy of Everett Collection


Sam Moore (89)

Born: Oct. 12, 1935
Died: Jan. 10, 2025 (complications following surgery)
Musician/Singer, R&B group Sam and Dave, “Soul Man”


James McEachin (94)

Born: May 20, 1930
Died: Jan. 11, 2025
Actor, All in the Family, Every Which Way but Loose, Tenafly

TENAFLY

Sherman Weisburd/TV Guide/Courtesy Everett Collection


Leslie Charleson (79)

Born: Feb. 22, 1945           
Died:
Jan. 12, 2025 (sequelae of blunt head trauma)
Actress, General Hospital, Port Charles

ABC Photo Archives/Disney General

ABC Photo Archives/Disney General


Jack De Mave (91)

Born: Dec. 8, 1933
Died:
Jan. 16, 2025 (heart attack)
Actor, Wagon Train, Lassie

LASSIE

Everett Collection


David Lynch (78)

Born: Jan. 20, 1946
Died: Jan. 16, 2025 (cardiac arrest)
Director/Writer/Actor, Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet

INLAND EMPIRE, director David Lynch, on set, 2006.

Studio Canal/Everett Collection


Bob Uecker (90)

Born: Jan. 26, 1934
Died: Jan. 16, 2025 (lung cancer)
Sportscaster best known for calling Milwaukee Brewers games; Actor Major League, Mr. Belvedere

Bob Uecker

Gene Trindl / TV Guide / courtesy Everett Collection


Joan Plowright (95)

Born: Oct. 28, 1929           
Died:
Jan. 16, 2025 
Actress, A Taste of Home, Enchanted April

ENCHANTED APRIL, Joan Plowright

Miramax/courtesy Everett Collection


Jan Shepard (96)

Born: March 19, 1928
Died:
Jan. 17, 2025 (pneumonia)
Actress, King Creole

Jean Shepard, 1963

Everett Collection


John Sykes (65)

Born: July 29, 1959
Died: Jan. 20, 2025 (cancer)
Musician/ Guitarist, Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake


Garth Hudson (87)

Born: Aug. 2, 1937
Died:
Jan. 21, 2025 
Musician, the Band, “Up On Cripple Creek”

 THE BAND, US poster, from left: Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Rick Danko

Magnolia Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection


Olga James (95)

Born: Feb. 16, 1929
Died: Jan. 25, 2025 (complications following a fall)
Actress/Singer, Carmen Jones, The Bill Cosby Show

American singer Olga James

Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images


Marianne Faithfull (78)

Born: Dec. 29, 1946
Died:
Jan. 30, 2025
Singer, “As Tears Go By,” “Sister Morphine,” Actress, The Girl on a Motorcycle


David Edward Byrd (83)

Born: April 4, 1941
Died: Feb. 3, 2025 (pneumonia)
Famed 1960s psychedelic poster designer for the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane

 

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Tony Roberts (85)

Born: Oct. 22, 1939
Died: Feb. 7, 2025 (lung cancer)
Playwright/Filmmaker/Actor, Annie Hall, Play It Again, Sam

ROSETTI AND RYAN,

Everett Collection


Gene Hackman (95)

Born: Jan. 30, 1930
Died:
Approx. Feb. 18, 2025 (heart disease and Alzheimer’s)
Actor, The French Connection, Young Frankenstein, Hoosiers, Superman, The Quick and the Dead

THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, Gene Hackman, 1995,

TriStar/Courtesy Everett Collection


Lynne Marie Stewart (78)

Born: Dec. 14, 1946
Died: Feb. 21, 2025 (cancer)
Actress, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Always Sunny in Philadelphia

PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE, from left: Paul Reubens (as Pee-Wee Herman),

CBS /Courtesy Everett Collection


Roberta Flack (88)

Born: Feb. 10, 1937
Died:
Feb. 24, 2025 (cardiac arrest)
Muscian/Singer, “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”

Roberta Flack

Everett Collection


Michelle Trachtenberg (39)

Born: Oct. 11, 1985
Died: Feb. 26, 2025 (complications from diabetes)
Actress, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harriet the Spy

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Michelle Trachtenberg, (season 7), 1997-2003,

20th Century Fox Film Corp./Courtesy: Everett Collection.; Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty Images


David Johansen (75)

Born: Jan. 9, 1950
Died:
Feb. 28, 2025 (cancer)
Musician/ Vocalist of the New York Dolls, Buster Poindexter, “Hot Hot Hot”; Actor, Scrooged, Let It Ride

SCROOGED, David Johansen, Bill Murray, 1988

Everett Collection


Angie Stone (63)

Born: Dec. 18, 1961 |
Died: March 1, 2025 (car accident)
R&B Singer, female rap group The Sequence “Funk You Up,” “No More Rain (In This Cloud),”


Denise Alexander (85)

Born: Nov. 11, 1939
Died: March 5, 2025 (COPD)
Actress, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives

GENERAL HOSPITAL, Denise Alexander, (ca. early 1980s), 1963-.

ABC/Courtesy Everett Collection


Wings Hauser (77)

Born: Dec. 12, 1947
Died: March 15, 2025 (COPD)
Actor, Vice Squad, A Soldier’s Story

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, Wings Hauser

©CBS/courtesy Everett Collection


Jesse Colin Young (83)

Born: Nov. 22, 1941
Died:
March 16, 2025 (cardiovascular disease)
Musician/Singer, founder of the 1960s band Youngbloods


George Foreman (76)

Born: Jan. 10, 1949
Died: March 21, 2025 (undisclosed causes)
Professional boxer; pitchman for the George Foreman Grill

19 Apr 1991: George Foreman raises his arms as he weighs in before the fight against Evander Holyfield at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Mandatory

Rick Stewart/Allsport/Getty Images


Richard Chamberlain (90)

Born: March 31, 1934
Died: March 29, 2025
Actor, Dr. Kildare, The Thorn Birds, Shogun

DR. KILDARE, Richard Chamberlain, 1961-66

Everett Collection


Val Kilmer (65)

Born: Dec. 31, 1959
Died:
April 1, 2025 (pneumonia)
Actor, Tombstone, Top Gun, The Doors, Batman Forever

Val Kilmer, Top Gun

Paramount/ Everett Collection


Clem Burke (70)

Born: Nov. 24, 1954
Died:
April 6, 2025 (cancer)
Musician/ Drummer for Blondie


Jay North (73)

Born: Aug. 3, 1951
Died: April 6, 2025 (colorectal cancer)
Actor, Dennis the Menace

DENNIS THE MENACE, Jay North

Richard Hewett/TV Guide/courtesy Everett Collection


Jean Marsh (90)

Born: July 1, 1934
Died:
April 13, 2025 (complications of dementia)
Actress, Upstairs, Downstairs, Doctor Who, The Changeling, Willow, Return to OZ

RETURN TO OZ, Jean Marsh

Buena Vista/courtesy Everett Collection


Wink Martindale (91)

Born: Dec. 4, 1933
Died: April 15, 2025 (lymphoma)
Gameshow Host, Gambit, Tic-Tac-Dough, Trivial Pursuit

THE NEW TIC TAC DOUGH, host Wink Martindale

CBS/Courtesy: Everett Collection


Ruth Buzzi (88)

Born: July 24, 1936
Died:
May 1, 2025 (complications of Alzheimer’s)
Actress/Comedian, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The Garry Moore Show

ROWAN AND MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN, Ruth Buzzi

Everett Collection


Jill Sobule (66)

Born: Jan. 16, 1959
Died:
May 1, 2025 (house fire)
Singer/Songwriter, “I Kissed A Girl,” “Supermodel”


Joe Don Baker (89)

Born: Feb. 12, 1936
Died: May 7, 2025 (lung cancer)
Actor, Walking Tall, The Living Daylights, GoldenEye

EISCHEID, Joe Don Baker

Everett Collection


Charles Strouse (96)

Born: June 7, 1928
Died: May 15, 2025
Composer, Bye Bye Birdie, All in the Family, Annie, Bonnie and Clyde


George Wendt (76)

Born: Oct. 17, 1948
Died: May 20, 2025 (cardiac arrest)
Actor,  Cheers, The George Wendt Show

CHEERS, George Wendt, (1987), 1982-93,

NBC/Everett Collection


Rick Derringer (77)

Born: Aug. 5, 1947
Died:
May 26, 2025
Musician, “Hang On, Sloopy,” “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo,” frequently played with Edgar Winter.

OAKLAND - 1977: Rick Derringer

Richard McCaffrey/ Michael Ochs Archive/ Getty Images


Ed Gale (61)

Born: Aug. 23, 1963
Died: May 27, 2025
Actor, Child’s Play, Howard the Duck

Ed Gale

United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer via MovieStillsDB


Valerie Mahaffey (71)

Born: June 16, 1953
Died: May 30, 2025 (cancer)
Actress, Northern Exposure, ER, Desperate Housewives

A PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENT, Valerie Mahaffey

Palisades Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection


Loretta Swit (87)

Born: Nov. 4, 1937
Died: May 30, 2025 (natural causes)
Actress, M*A*S*H

MASH, (aka M*A*S*H), Loretta Swit

20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection


Jonathan Joss (59)

Born: Dec. 22, 1965          
Died:
June 1, 2025 (murdered)
Actor, Walker, Texas Ranger, voice of John Redcorn on King of the Hill

Jonathan Joss

Peacock/NBC; 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection


Chris Robinson (86)

Born: Nov. 5, 1938
Died: June 9, 2025 (heart failure)
Actor, General HospitalAnother World


Sly Stone (82)

Born: March 15, 1943
Died:
June 9, 2025 (COPD)
Musician, founder of Sly and the Family Stone, “Dance to the Music” and “Everyday People”

GOOD VIBRATIONS FROM CENTRAL PARK, Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone, (aired August 23, 1973).

Everett Collection


Harris Yulin (87)

Born: Nov. 5, 1937
Died: June 10, 2025 (cardiac arrest)
Actor, Doc, Scarface, Ozark

FINAL ANALYSIS

Warner Brothers/courtesy Everett Collection


Brian Wilson (82)

Born: June 20, 1942
Died: June 11, 2025 (respiratory arrest)
Musician, The Beach Boys

Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys at Oakland Coliseum Arena on December 15, 1976 in Oakland, California

Ed Perlstein/Redferns/Getty Images


Betsy Gay (96)

Born: Feb. 2, 1929
Died:
June 13, 2025
Actress, Our Gang, famous yodeler

Betty Gay

MGM


Anne Burrell (55)

Born: Sept. 21, 1969         
Died:
June 17, 2025 (suicide)
Celebrity Chef, Food Network’s Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, Worst Cooks in America

Chef Anne Burrell

Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images for NYCWFF


Lou Christie (82)

Born: Feb. 19, 1943
Died: June 18, 2025 (cancer)
Singer,  “Lightnin’ Strikes,” “Two Faces Have I,”


Bobby Sherman (81)

Born: July 22, 1943
Died: June 24, 2025 (kidney  cancer)
Musician, “Julie, Do Ya Love Me,”  “Easy Come, Easy Go;” Actor, Here Come the Brides

GETTING TOGETHER, Bobby Sherman

Everett Collection


Lalo Schifrin (93)

Born June 21, 1932
Died June 26, 2025 (pneumonia)
Composer of theme songs for Mission Impossible, Mannix


Rick Hurst (79)

Born: Jan. 1, 1946
Died:
June 26, 2025
Actor, The Dukes of Hazzard

Rick Hurst

Everett Collection


Kenneth Colley (87)

Born: Dec. 7, 1937
Died: June 30, 2025 (pneumonia)
Actor, Admiral Piett in Star Wars, Monty Python’s Life of Brian

Star Wars Empire Strikes back Kenneth Colley

Twentieth Century Fox via MovieStills DB


Julian McMahon (56)

Born: July 27, 1968
Died: July 2, 2025 (cancer)
Actor, Charmed, Nip/Tuck, Fantastic Four

NIP/TUCK, Julian McMahon

Warner Bros. Television/Courtesy Everett Collection


Michael Madsen (67)

Born: Sept. 25, 1957
Died:
July 3, 2025 (cardiac arrest)
Actor, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, Donnie Brasco

RESERVOIR DOGS, Michael Madsen

Miramax/courtesy Everett Collection


Tom Troupe (97)

Born: July 15, 1928
Died: July 20, 2025 (natural causes)
Character Actor: Kelly’s Heroes, Mission: Impossible, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

THE LION IN WINTER, from left, Carole Cook, Tom Troupe, Dallas Theater Center, Texas, 1971-72

Photo by Andy Hanson; Everett Collection


Malcolm-Jamal Warner (54)

Born: Aug. 18, 1970
Died: July 20, 2025 (drowning)
Actor, The Cosby Show, Malcolm & Eddie, Major Crimes 

THE COSBY SHOW, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 1984-92.

Everett Collection


Ozzy Osbourne (76)

Born: Dec. 3, 1948
Died: July 22, 2025 (heart attack)
Singer, Black Sabbath and solo artist; star of MTV’s The Osbournesaffectionately known as “the Prince of Darkness”

Rock and roll legend Ozzy Osbourne poses for a portrait in Los Angeles, California.

Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images


Hulk Hogan (71)

Born: Aug. 11, 1953
Died: July 24, 2025 (acute myocardial infarction)
WWE Wrestling champ

Hulk Hogan, 1987

Everett Collection


Eileen Fulton (91)

Born: Sept. 13, 1933
Died: July 14, 2025 (heart failure)
Actress, As the World Turns

Eileen Fulton, 1960s.

TV Guide/Courtesy Everett Collection


Connie Francis (87)

Born: Dec. 12, 1937
Died: July 16, 2025 (pneumonia)
Singer, “Who’s Sorry Now?,” “Pretty Little Baby”

Connie Francis, Looking For Love, 1964

Everett Collection


Chuck Mangione (84)

Born: Nov. 29, 1940
Died:
July 22, 2025
Musician/brass instrumentalist behind 1977 album Feels So Good


Loni Anderson (79)

Born: Aug. 5, 1945
Died: Aug. 3, 2025 (prolonged illness)
Actress, WKRP in Cincinnati, Nurses, Stroker Ace

WKRP IN CINCINNATI, Loni Anderson

Everett Collection


Jim Lovell (97)

Born: March 25, 1928
Died: Aug. 7, 2025
Astronaut, The Apollo 8 & 13 missions

Captain James A. Lovell Jr. of the US Navy, the pilot of the Gemini 7 space mission, December 1965.

Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images


David Ketchum (97)

Born: Feb. 4, 1928
Died:
Aug. 10, 2025 (heart failure)
Actor/screenwriter, Get Smart

David Ketchum promotional photo for the ABC tv series unsold pilot 'Where's the Fire?' (aka 'The Fireman's Ball').

Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images


Danielle Spencer (60)

Born: June 24, 1965
Died: Aug. 11, 2025 (cancer)
Actress, What’s Happening!!

WHAT'S HAPPENING!!, Danielle Spencer, (1986), 1976-79

Everett Collection


Tristan Rogers (79)

Born: June 3, 1946
Died: Aug. 15, 202 (lung cancer)
Actor, General Hospital

Tristan Rogers, Nov 1982.

Scott Enyart/TV Guide/Courtesy Everett Collection


Terence Stamp (87)

Born: July 22, 1938
Died: Aug. 17, 2025 (undisclosed)
Actor, Billy Budd, Superman, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

SUPERMAN II, Terence Stamp, 1980,

Warner Bros./courtesy Everett Collection.


Jerry Adler (96)

Born: Feb. 4, 1929
Died:
Aug. 23, 2025
Actor, Hudson Street, The Sopranos

The Sopranos

HBO/Everett Collection


Floyd Levine (93)

Born: Feb. 23, 1932
Died: Aug. 24, 2025
Actor, Kojak, Death Wish, Cagney & Lacey

Floyd Levine

YouTube; Tracy Robbins Instagram


Graham Greene (73)

Born: June 22, 1952
Died:
Sept. 1, 2025 (natural causes)
Actor, Dances With Wolves, 1883

NORTHERN EXPOSURE, Graham Greene, 1990-1995.

Spike Nannarello/Universal Television/Courtesy: Everett Collection


Claudia Cardinale (87)

Born: April 15, 1938
Died: Sept. 23, 2025
Actress, The Leopard, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Pink Panther

DAYS OF FURY, (aka ONE RUSSIAN SUMMER), Claudia Cardinale, 1973

Everett Collection


Giorgio Armani (91)

Born: July 11, 1934
Died: Sept. 4, 2025
Italian fashion designer

Giorgio Armani poses during the opening of his retrospective exhibition at the Baths of Diocletiano on May 5, 2004 in Rome, Italy.

Franco Origlia/Getty Images


Mark Volman (78)

Born: April 19, 1947
Died:
Sept. 5, 2025 (blood disease)
Musician, cofounder of the Turtles

200 MOTELS, Mark Volman, (of the Turtles and the Mothers of Invention), 1971

Everett Collection


Rick Davies (81)

Born: July 22, 1944
Died:
Sept. 6, 2025 (multiple myeloma)
Musician/ Singer and co-founder of Supertramp


Polly Holliday (88)

Born: July 2, 1937
Died: Sept. 9, 2025 (pneumonia)
Actress, Alice, Gremlins

FLO, Polly Holliday, 1980 - 1981.

Everett Collection


Bobby Hart (86)

Born: Feb. 18, 1939
Died:
Sept. 10, 202 (natural causes following a long illness)
Musician/ Songwriter, part of songwriting team Boyce and Hart, songwriter of many Monkees hits


Robert Redford (89)

Born: Aug. 18, 1936
Died:
Sept. 16, 2025 (natural causes)
Actor/Director, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, The Natural, Ordinary People; founder of the Sundance Film Festival; activist championing environmental causes

THE HOT ROCK, Robert Redford, 1972.

20th Century-Fox /courtesy Everett Collection


Sonny Curtis (88)

Born: May 9, 1937
Died: Sept. 19, 2025 (pneumonia)
Songwriter/ Musician with Buddy Holly and The Crickets; songwriter of “I Fought the Law” and “Love is All Around,” The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme song


Lee Weaver (95)

Born: April 10, 1930
Died: Sept. 22, 2025 (natural causes)
Actor, The Bill Cosby Show, Easy Street, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Lee Weaver in 'The Cosby Show'

NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images


Jane Goodall (91)

Born: April 3, 1934
Died: Oct. 1, 2025 (natural causes)

Scientist famous for her groundbreaking work studying of chimps for more than five decades

JANE'S JOURNEY, Jane Goodall, US poster art, 2010.

First Run Features/courtesy Everett Collection


Ed Williams (98)

Born: Nov. 26, 1926
Died: Oct. 2, 2025
Actor, Police Squad, Naked Gun movies

Police Squad Ed Williams and in 2018

ABC via Getty Images; Screengrab/YouTube/
Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters


Patricia Routledge (96)

Born: Feb. 17, 1929
Died: Oct. 3, 2025 (natural causes)
Actress, Keeping Up Appearances, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

KEEPING UP APPEARANCES, Patricia Routledge, 1990-95.

BBC/Courtesy: Everett Collection


Ted Hartley (100)

Born: Nov. 6, 1924
Died: Oct. 10, 2025 (undisclosed)
Actor, Peyton Place, High Plains Drifter

CHOPPER ONE, Ted Hartley, 1974.

Everett Collection


John Lodge (82)

Born: July 20, 1943
Died: Oct. 10, 2025
Musician/ Bassist of the Moody Blues

Musician John Lodge of the Moody Blues performs at the Nokia Theatre on November 1, 2013 in Los Angeles, California

Kevin Winter/Getty Images


Diane Keaton (79)

Born: Jan. 5, 1946
Died:
Oct. 11, 2025 (pneumonia)
Actress/Director, Annie Hall, The Godfather trilogy, Father of the Bride, Something’s Gotta Give

REDS, Diane Keaton, 1981.

Paramount Pictures/ Courtesy: Everett Collection.


Samantha Eggar (86)

Born: March 5, 1939
Died: Oct. 15, 2025 (chronic lymphocytic leukemia)
Actress, Doctor Doolittle, The Collector, The Brood

ANNA AND THE KING, Samantha Eggar

Everett Collection


Ace Frehley (74)

Born: April 27, 1951
Died: Oct. 16, 2025 (brain bleed following a fall)
Musician/ Lead guitarist and cofounder of KISS


Michael DeLano (84)

Born: Nov. 26, 1940
Died: Oct. 20, 2025 (heart attack)
Actor, Rhoda, Commando

FIREHOUSE, Michael Delano, 1973-74.

Everett Collection


June Lockhart (100)

Born: June 25, 1925
Died: Oct. 23, 2025 (natural causes)
Actress, Lassie, Lost in Space

LOST IN SPACE, June Lockhart, 1965-1968,

20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection


D’Angelo (51)

Born: Feb. 11, 1974
Died: Oct. 14, 2025 (cancer)
R&B artist, Brown Sugar, Voodoo


Dave Ball (66)

Born: May 3, 1959
Died: Oct. 22, 2025 (prolonged illness)
Musician/ Keyboard player for Soft Cell, “Tainted Love”


Dawn Little Sky (95)

Born: April 17, 1930
Died: Oct. 24, 2025
Actress/Disney Animation Artist, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Rawhide

Dawn Little Sky, Sioux actor, c. 1960s.

TV Guide/courtesy Everett Collection


Prunella Scales (93)

Born: June 22, 1932
Died: Oct. 27, 2025 (vascular dementia)
Actress, Fawlty Towers

Prunella Scales in 'Fawlty Towers'

©BBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection


Maria Riva (100)

Born: December 13, 1924
Died: October 29, 2025 (natural causes)
Actress/Writer, Daughter of Marlene Dietrich

Maria Riva

Everett Collection


Betty Harford (98)

Born: Jan. 28, 1927
Died: Nov. 2, 2025
Actress, The Paper Chase, Dynasty

DYNASTY - Betty Harford

ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images


Diane Ladd (89)

Born: Nov. 29, 1935
Died: Nov. 3, 2025 (acute on chronic hypoxic respiratory failure)
Actress, Chinatown, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart

Diane Ladd - 'Alice'

Everett Collection


Dick Cheney (84)

Born: Jan. 30, 1941
Died: Nov. 3, 2025 (pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease)
Politician

Dick Cheney

Tom Benitez – Pool/Getty Images


Danny Seagren (81)

Born: Nov. 15, 1943
Died: Nov. 10, 2025
Puppeteer/Actor Spider-Man on The Electric Company


Sally Kirkland (84)

Born: Oct. 31, 1941
Died: Nov. 11, 2025 (complications from dementia)
Actress, The Sting, The Way We Were, Anna

Sally Kirkland now and then split photo as she enters Hospice for dementia.

Everett Collection; Kevin Winter/Getty Images


Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield

Born: Nov. 16, 1962
Died: Nov. 20, 2025 (long-term respiratory issues)
Musician/ bassist and founder of the Stone Roses


John Eimen (76)

Born: Oct. 2, 1949
Died: Nov. 21, 2025 (prostate cancer)
Child Actor, Leave it to Beaver, McKeever and the Colonel

MCKEEVER AND THE COLONEL, MCKEEVER AND THE COLONEL, Scott Lane, John Eimen

Everett Collection


Jellybean Johnson (69)

Born: Nov. 19, 1956
Died: Nov. 21, 2025
Musician/Producer, drummer for Morris Day & the Time

ATLANTA, GA - NOVEMBER 17: Jellybean Johnson of The Original 7even, formerly known as The Time, perform during the Soul Train Awards 2011 at The Fox Theatre on November 17, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Chris McKay/FilmMagic/Getty


Jimmy Cliff (81)

Born: July 30, 1944
Died: Nov. 24, 2025 (complications due to a seizure and pneumonia)
Singer/Musician reggae star, “The Harder They Come,” “Hurricane Hattie”


Steve Cropper (84)

Born: Oct. 21, 1941
Died: Dec. 3, 2025
Musician/ Guitarist in house band at Stax Records, Booker T. & the M.G.’s


Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (75)

Born: Sept. 27, 1950
Died: Dec. 4, 2025 (complications due to a stroke)
Actor, The Last Emperor, Mortal Kombat

MORTAL KOMBAT, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Bridgette Wilson, 1995.

Everett Collection


Raul Malo (60)

Born: Aug. 7, 1965
Died: Dec. 8, 2025 (colon cancer)
Musician, the Mavericks

Raul Malo of The Mavericks

Josh Brasted/Getty Images


Jeff Garcia (50)

Born: May 3, 1975
Died: December 10, 2025 (multiple health complications including brain aneurysm and pneumonia)
Comedian/Voice Actor, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS

Everett Collection


Jim Ward (66)

Born: May 19, 1959
Died: December 10, 2025 (Alzheimer’s disease)
Voice Actor,  The Fairly OddParents

THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS

Nickelodeon / Courtesy: Everett Collection


May Britt (91)

Born: March 22, 1934
Died: Dec. 11, 2025 (natural causes)
Actress, The Blue Angel, War and Peace; Married to Sammy Davis Jr.

May Britt, ca. mid-1950s

Everett Collection


Carl Carlton (72)

Born: May 21, 1953
Died: December 14, 2025
R&B Singer, “She’s a Bad Mama Jama,” “Everlasting Love”


Anthony Geary (78)

Born: May 29, 1947
Died: Dec. 14, 2025 (complications from surgery)
Actor, Luke on General Hospital

GENERAL HOSPITAL, 1963-present, Genie Francis, Anthony Geary, in the wedding episode, 11/16-17/81

Everett Collection


Rob Reiner (78)

Born: March 6, 1947
Died:
Dec. 14, 2025 (murdered)
Actor/Writer/Director, All in the Family, Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally, Misery

ALL IN THE FAMILY, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers

Everett Collection


Gil Gerard (82)

Born: Jan. 23, 1943
Died: Dec. 16, 2025 (cancer)
Actor, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Airport ’77

BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY

Universal Television/ Courtesy: Everett Collection.


James Ransone (45)

Born: June 2, 1979
Died: Dec. 19, 2025 (suicide)
Actor, The Wire

MR. RIGHT,

Steve Dietl/Focus World/courtesy Everett Collection


Peter Greene (60)

Born: Oct. 8, 1965
Died: Dec. 12, 2025
Actor, Pulp Fiction, The Mask

THE RICH MAN'S WIFE

Hollywood Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection


Perry Bamonte (65)

Born: Sept. 3, 1960
Died: Dec. 24, 2025 (short illness)
Musician, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure from 1990 to 2005


Brigitte Bardot (91)

Born: Sept. 28, 1934
Died: Dec. 28, 2025
Actress/Singer/Sex Symbol/Animal Rights Activist

Brigitte Bardot, 1960s

Everett Collection

 

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Farewell 2025

January 2026

Celebrate the rich lives of the TV & Movie stars we lost in 2025 along with the music makers that created the soundtrack to our lives.

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