It’s time once again for TCM’s annual remembrance of film folk we’ve lost over the past year. I’ve taken to posting this every year, though there’s always the question of whether to wait until the new year or no (they generally release a first edition right around Yule and often tweak it early in January).
In any case, there’s plenty of faces you’ll recognize. Like last year, here’s an annotated with links in case you want to jump into looking at their filmography:
- Norman Jewison (filmmaker)
- Sergio Donati (writer)
- Anouk Aimée (actress)
- Jeannie Epper (stuntwoman)
- Dan Wallin (sound engineer)
- Bud S. Smith (editor/producer)
- Barbara Rush (actress)
- Marisa Paredes (actress)
- Morgan Spurlock (documentary filmmaker)
- Cass Warner (documentary filmmaker)
- Adam Somner (producer/assistant director)
- Anthea Sylbert (producer/costume designer)
- Frank Griffin (makeup artist/actor)
- Glynis Johns (actress)
- Kris Kristofferson (actor/singer/songwriter)
- Mark Damon (actor/producer)
- M. Emmet Walsh (actor)
- Robert Towne (writer/director)
- Shannen Doherty (actress)
- Alain Delon (actor)
- Richard M. Sherman (composer/lyricist)
- Quincy Jones (composer/producer)
- Bill Cobbs (actor)
- Teresa Gimpera (actress/model)
- Bernard Hill (actor)
- Shelley Duvall (actress/producer)
- Georgina Hale (actress)
- James B. Sikking (actor)
- Louis Gossett Jr. (actor)
- Bob Yerkes (stuntman)
- David J. Skal (film historian/critic)
- Richard Lewis (actor/comedian)
- Bob Newhart (actor/comedian) (I did my own remembrance earlier this year)
- David Seidler (writer)
- David Harris (actor)
- Julie Robinson Belafonte (actress)
- Dick Pope (cinematographer)
- Albert S. Ruddy (producer/writer)
- Carl Weathers (actor/director)
- John Amos (actor)
- Martin Mull (actor/comedian)
- Hana Brejchová (actress)
- Robert M. Young (filmmaker)
- Eleanor Coppola (filmmaker)
- Fred Roos (producer/casting director)
- Cindy Morgan (actress)
- Joe Flaherty (actor/comedian/writer)
- April Ferry (costume designer)
- Tony Todd (actor) (StarTrek.com has a remembrance)
- Keizō Murase (suitmaker/sculptor/modeler)
- Alec Mills (cinematographer)
- Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (composer)
- Martin Starger (producer)
- Mark Gustafson (animator/director)
- Lourdes Portillo (filmmaker)
- David Bordwell (film scholar)
- Jonathan Haze (actor)
- Cheng Pei-Pei (actress)
- John Ashton (actor)
- Maggie Smith (actress)
- Grant Page (stuntman)
- Conrad Palmisano (stuntman/stunt coordinator)
- Will Jennings (lyricist)
- Jon Landau (producer)
- Roger Corman (filmmaker) (I also did a remembrance earlier this year)
- Matt Sweeney (special effects artist)
- Jim Abrahams (director)
- Lynda Obst (producer)
- James Earl Jones (actor) TCM also did a quick, but wonderful solo remembrance earlier this year… and, of course, I did a brief one.
- Norman Spencer (producer/writer)
- Paul Morrissey (filmmaker)
- Richard Foronjy (actor)
- Barbara Leigh-Hunt (actress)
- Darryl Hickman (actor/writer/television executive)
- Joe Camp (director/writer)
- Mickey Gilbert (stuntman/stunt coordinator)
- Susan Backlinie (actress/stuntwoman)
- James Darren (actor/singer) (StarTrek.com has a remembrance)
- Nicholas Pryor (actor)
- Earl Holliman (actor)
- Elizabeth MacRae (actress)
- Chita Rivera (actress/singer/dancer)
- Don Murray (actor)
- Kathryn Grant (actress/singer)
- Bobby Banas (actor/dancer)
- Mitzi Gaynor (actress/singer)
- Teri Garr (actress)
- Tony Lo Bianco (actor)
- Barbara O. Jones (actress)
- Robert Watts (producer)
- Marshall Brickman (writer)
- Tom Wilkinson (actor)
- Sandra Milo (actress)
- Janis Paige (actress/singer)
- Dabney Coleman (actor)
- Donald Sutherland (actor)
- Gena Rowlands (actress)
Thank you for the list of folks featured in TCM Remembers 2024. Lots of work for you to do. I do appreciate it!