Scott's Movie Comments

Alphabetical Listing of Posthumous Tributes

For no particular reason, here is a list of all the individuals to whom I have paid tribute, either briefly or at length, upon their passing, in my weekly columns.


A
Aaliyah
Ian Abercrombie
Forrest J. Ackerman
Cecily Adams
Don Adams
Douglas Adams
Edie Adams
Mason Adams
Richard Adler
Chantal Akerman
Moustapha Akkad
Eddie Albert
Edward Albert
Norman Alden
Tom Aldredge
William Aldrich
Frank Aletter
Corey Allen
Jay Presson Allen
Phillip Richard Allen
Steve Allen
June Allyson
Robert Altman
Anicee Alvina
Bob Anderson [child actor]
Bob Anderson [fencing master]
Carl Anderson
Gerry Anderson
Michael Anderson
Patty Andrews
Tige Andrews
Theo Angelopoulos
Susan Anspach
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michael Apted
Army Archerd
Samuel Z. Arkoff
R.G. Armstrong
Beatrice Arthur
William Asher
Luke Askew
James Aubrey
Doe Avedon


B
Parley Baer
Frank Bailey
Conrad Bain
Roy Ward Baker
Carl Ballantine
J.G. Ballard
Anne Bancroft
Joseph Barbera
Bebe Barron
Gene Barry
John Barry
John Barrymore Jr.
Billy Barty
Alan Bates
Frances Bay
Dick Beals
Orson Bean
Henry Beckman
Barbara Bel Geddes
Doris Belack
Remy Belvaux
Peter Benchley
Paul Benedict
Richard Rodney Bennett
Frances Bergen
Ingmar Bergman
Milton Berle
Elmer Bernstein
Claude Berri
Fred Berry
Bernardo Bertolucci
Zina Bethune
Turhan Bey
W. Watts Biggers
Richard Biggs
Barbara Billingsley
Maeve Binchy
Billie Bird
Joey Bishop
Anita Bjork
Mr. Blackwell
Lucille Bliss
Roberts Blossom
Lisa Blount
Lloyd Bochner
Jerry Bock
Paul Bogart
Joseph Bologna
Ernest Borgnine
Tom Bosley
Sam Bottoms
Scotty Bowers
David Bowie
Jimmy Boyd
Peter Boyle
Eddie Bracken
Ray Bradbury
Jonathan Brandis
Christian Brando
Marlon Brando
John Brascia
Peter Breck
Eve Brent
Roy Brewer
Jean-Claude Brialy
Steve Bridges
Richard Briers
Richard Bright
Don Briscoe
Charles Bronson
David Brown
James Brown
Phil Brown
Roscoe Lee Browne
Carole Bruce
Argentina Brunetti
Phil Bruns
Chris Bryant
Larry Buchanan
Jeremy Bulloch
Sonny Bupp
Leo Burmester
Ronnie Burns
Iris Burton
Red Buttons
Jean Byron
Kathleen Byron


C
Michael Cacoyannis
Frank Cady
Peter Caffrey
Mercedes Cambridge
Hamilton Camp
William Campbell
Vincent Canby
Stephen J. Cannell
Frank Capra Jr.
Jack Cardiff
Harry Carey Jr.
Ron Carey
George Carlin
Kitty Carlisle
Ian Carmichael
Art Carney
David Carradine
Janet Carroll
Jim Carroll
Julius Carry
Johnny Carson
Dixie Carter
Nell Carter
Bernie Casey
Johnny Cash
Jean-Pierre Cassel
William Castleman
Christopher Cazenove
James Cellan Jones
Claude Chabrol
Marilyn Chambers
Sidney Chaplin
Ben Chapman
Cyd Charisse
Annette Charles
Ray Charles
Maury Chaykin
Robert F. Chew
Chao-Li Chi
Tim Choate
Linda Christian
Sam Chwat
Diane Cilento
Leonardo Cimino
Bob Clark
Dick Clark
Arthur C. Clarke
Jill Clayburgh
John Clive
Rosemary Clooney
Anne V. Coates
Brian Cobby
Bob Cobert
James Coburn
Imogene Coca
Ruth Cohen
Gene Colan
Dennis Cole
Gary Coleman
Richard Collins
Jack Colvin
Betty Comden
Jeff Conaway
Joe Connelly
Sean Connery
T.S. Cook
Alistair Cooke
Jackie Cooper
Kevin Corcoran
Noreen Corcoran Jeff Corey
Pat Corley
Alain Corneau
Norman Corwin
George P. Cosmatos
Robert Costello
Catherine Coulson
Alexander Courage
Hazel Court
Nicholas Courtney
Franklin Cover
Fred Crane
Wes Craven
Geoffrey Crawley
Richard Crenna
Michael Crichton
Judith Crist
Walter Cronkite
Hume Cronyn
Robert Culp
Dan Curtis
Ray Cusick


D
Suso Cecchi D’Amico
John Daly
Gerard Damiano
Denise Darcel
Danielle Darrieux
Jules Dassin
Hal David
John Howard Davies
Don Davis
Madelyn Pugh Davis
Ossie Davis
Tom Davis
Marpessa Dawn
Richard Dawson
Laraine Day
Philippe de Broca
Yvonne De Carlo
Fred De Cordova
Jimmy Dean
Dan DeCarlo
Frances Dee
Sandra Dee
Calvert DeForest
Mike deGruy
Dino DeLaurentiis
Dom DeLuise
Sam Denoff
Bob Denver
Guillaume Depardieu
Brad Dexter
Don Diamond
Terrance Dicks
Phyllis Diller
Roy E. Disney
Ivan Dixon
Tamara Dobson
Solveig Dommartin
Troy Donahue
Donal Donnelly
Clive Donner
Robert Donner
James Doohan
David Dortort
Roy Dotrice
James Dougherty
Charles Douglas
Mike Douglas
Phyllis Douglas
Jerry Doyle
Christian Drake
Alice Drummond
William Duell
David Dukes
Michael Clarke Duncan
Stephen Dunham
Clive Dunn
Dominick Dunn
Charles Durning
David E. Durston
Michael Dwyer
John Dye


E
Fred Ebb
Roger Ebert
Buddy Ebsen
Louis Edmonds
Blake Edwards
Elizabeth Eis
Jack Elam
Dana Elcar
Robert Ellenstein
Biff Elliot
Stephen Elliott
David Ellis
Harlan Ellison
John Entwistle
Nora Ephron
Tony Epper
R. Lee Ermey
Bill Erwin
Jaime Escalante
Dale Evans
Michael Evans
Mike Evans
Ray Evans
Robert Evans
Chad Everett


F
Stanley Fafara
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Peter Falk
Jinx Falkenburg
Jamaa Fanaka
James Farentino
Richard Farnsworth
Joseph Farrell
Howard Fast
Farrah Fawcett
Irving Fein
Ralph Ferraro
Mel Ferrer
Miguel Ferrer
Mary Fickett
John Fiedler
Margaret Field
Jon Finch
William Finley
John Finnegan
Gunnar Fischer
Ion Fiscuteanu
Eddie Fisher
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Simon Fitzmaurice
Richard Fleischer
John Flynn
Nina Foch
James Fogle
Horton Foote
June Foray
Glenn Ford
John Forsyth
Conard Fowkes
Anthony Franciosa
Anne Francis
Arlene Francis
Steve Franken
John Frankenheimer
Leslie Frankenheimer
Frank Frazetta
Stuart Freeborn
Al Freeman Jr.
Kathleen Freeman
Jonathan Frid
David F. Friedman
David Froman
Annette Funicello
Mira Furlan
Stephen Furst


G
Antonio Gades
Don Galloway
James Gammon
Ron Gans
Herb Gardner
Beverly Garland
Betty Garrett
Robert Gary
Larry Gelbart
Anthony George
Steve Gerber
Aleksei German
Estelle Getty
Alice Ghostley
Robin Gibb
Henry Gibson
William Gibson
Nelson Gidding
Pamela Gidley
John Gielgud
Dick Giordano
Annie Girardot
Paul Gleason
Bob Godfrey
William Goldman
Jerry Goldsmith
Joel Goldsmith
David Zelag Goodman
Dody Goodman
Al Gordon
Bruce Gordon
Susan Gordon
Frank Gorshin
Michael Gough
Harold Gould
Robert Goulet
Martin Grace
Don Grady
Farley Granger
Johnny Grant
Peter Graves
Charles Gray
Charles H. Gray
Gary Gray
Spalding Gray
Kathryn Grayson
Adolph Green
David Greene
Merv Griffin
Andy Griffith
Charles B. Griffith
George Grizzard
David Groh
Bob Guccione
Tonino Guerra
Val Guest
Alec Guinness


H
Buddy Hackett
Earle Hagen
Larry Hagman
Arthur Hailey
Corey Haim
Conrad L. Hall
Sam Hall
Peter Halliday
Bernie Hamilton
Anne Haney
William Hanley
William Hanna
Edward Hardwicke
Mickey Hargitay
Curtis Harrington
Richard Harris
George Harrison
Harry Harrison
June Haver
June Havoc
Nigel Hawthorne
Isaac Hayes
John Heard
Eileen Heckart
Neal Hefti
Robert Hegyes
Levon Helm
David Hemmings
Sherman Hemsley
Paul Henning
Katharine Hepburn
David Hess
Charlton Heston
George Hickenlooper
Arthur Hill
Debra Hill
George Roy Hill
Henry Hill
Wendy Hiller
Earl Hindman
Connie Hines
Gregory Hines
Pat Hingle
Peter Hobbs
Gregg Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Celeste Holm
William Hootkins
Bob Hope
Delores Hope
Neil Hope
Mike Hopkins
Dennis Hopper
Lena Horne
Bernard Horsfall
Whitney Houston
Rance Howard
Faith Hubley
Barnard Hughes
Geoffrey Hughes
John Hughes
Peter Hunt
Bill Hunter
Kim Hunter
John Hurt
Ruth Hussey
Betty Hutton
Bruce Hyde


I
Akira Ifukube
Shohei Imamura
Teddy Infuhr
Sally Insul
Dan Ireland
Steve Irwin


J
Michael Jackson
Lou Jacobi
Gualtiero Jacopetti
Blas Jaramillo
Maurice Jarre
Charles Jarrott
Sybil Jason
Lionel Jeffries
Walter M. Jeffries
Peter Jennings
Roy Jenson
Michael Jeter
Steve Jobs
Charles H. Joffe
Caroline John
Van Johnson
Ollie Johnston
Christopher Jones
Chuck Jones
Jennifer Jones
Robert Earl Jones
Kathryn Joosten
Erland Josephson
Katy Jurado


K
Pauline Kael
Stanley Kamel
Michael Kamen
Hal Kanter
John Karlen
Fred Karlin
Alex Karras
Leonard Kastle
Andreas Katsulas
Elia Kazan
John B Keane
Howard Keel
Bob Keeshan
Keiko
Jack Keller
David Kelly
Rachel Kempson
Barbara Kent
Shell Kepler
Deborah Kerr
John Kerr
Irvin Kershner
Ken Kesey
Hank Ketcham
Evelyn Keyes
Michael Kidd
Margo Kidder
Ward Kimball
Aron Kincaid
Cammie King
Zalman King
Lloyd Kino
Bruno Kirby
Durwood Kirby
Phyllis Kirk
Kyoko Kishida
Eartha Kitt
Werner Klemperer
Jack Klugman
Frederick Knott
Don Knotts
John Knowles
Andrew Koenig
Winrich Kolbe
Harvey Korman
Laszlo Kovacs
Sammi Kane Kraft
Stanley Kramer
Sylvia Kristel
Jack Kruschen
Joe Kubert
Andrew J. Kuehn
Kay E. Kuter


L
Don LaFontaine
Mick Lally
Hedy Lamar
Martin Landau
Charles Lane
Hope Lange
Frances Langford
Ring Lardner Jr.
S. John Launer
Arthur Laurents
John Phillip Law
Marc Lawrence
Heath Ledger
Davey Lee
Peggy Lee
Stan Lee
Lance LeGault
Ernest Lehman
Janet Leigh
Jack Lemmon
Peter Lennon
Len Lesser
Ira Levin
Judy Lewis
George Lindsey
Art Linklater
Larry Linville
Tony Lip
Jay Livingston
David Lloyd
Calvin Lockhart
Robert Loggia
Herbert Lom
Julie London
Perry Lopez
Dorothy Loudon
Linda Lovelace
Robert Ludlum
Sidney Lumet
Richard Lynch


M
Federica Sagor Maas
Bernie Mac
James MacArthur
Simon MacCorkindale
Darryl Macdonald
Norm MacDonald
Philip Madoc
Mako
Karl Malden
Al Mancini
Nino Manfredi
Abby Mann
Delbert Mann
Irene Manning
Marcel Marceau
Nancy Marchand
Stan Margulies
Chris Marker
Malcom Marmorstein
Kenneth Mars
Garry Marshall
Barney Martin
Dick Martin
Hugh Martin
Nan Martin
Al Martino
Arthur Marx
Hilary Mason
Anna Massey
Kerwin Mathews
Bob Mathias
Walter Matthau
Matt Mattox
Bobby Mauch
Lois Maxwell
Virginia Mayo
Kevin McCarthy
Rue McClanahan
Kevin McClory
Pat McCormick
Tex McCrary
Angela McEwan
Darren McGavin
Patrick McGoohan
Dorothy McGuire
T.P. McKenna
Leo McKern
Bill McKinney
Allyn Ann McLerie
Ed McMahon
Barbara McNair
Ralph McQuarrie
Meredith McRae
Russell Means
Don Medford
Mariangela Melato
Breno Mello
Sid Melton
Allan Melvin
Sue Mengers
Ismail Merchant
Russ Meyer
Paul Michael
Diana Millay
Ann Miller
Arthur Miller
Claude Miller
Jason Miller
David Mills
John Mills
Jan Miner
Anthony Minghella
Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees
Vic Mizzy
Mario Monicelli
Eva Monley
Ricardo Montalban
Dudley Moore
Robin Moore
Stephen Moore
Jeanne Moreau
Bill Morey
Harry Morgan
Pat Morita
Yoshimitsu Morita
Ennio Morricone
Howard Morris
Barry Morse
Richard Mulligan
Robert Mulligan
George Murdock
Brittany Murphy
Jack Murphy
Mary Murphy
Tom Murphy
Jan Murray
Lou Myers


N
N!xau
Stu Nahan
Charles Napier
Silvio Narizanno
Patricia Neal
Ronald Neame
Barry Nelson
David Nelson
Lois Nettleton
John Neville
David Newman
Paul Newman
David Ngoombujarra
Leslie Nielsen
Andre Noble
Philippe Noiret
Yoshitaro Nomura
Sheree North
William Norton
Louis Nye
Sven Nykvist
Lena Nyman


O
Vince O’Brien
Carroll O’Connor
Donald O’Connor
Mark O’Donnell
Maureen O’Hara
Michael O’Hare
Dan O’Herlihy
Ron O’Neal
Jimmy O’Neill
Peter O’Toole
Lorenzo Odone
Ken Ogata
Soon-Tek Oh
Merlin Olsen
Lupe Ontiveros
Jerry Orbach
Baby Marie Osborne
Nagisa Oshima
Cliff Osmond
Buck Owens


P
Jack Paar
Manuel Padilla Jr.
Joy Page
Jack Palance
Ron Palillo
Fess Parker
Gordon Parks
Robert Pastorelli
Michael Pataki
Neva Patterson
Randy Pausch
Gregory Peck
Kim Peek
Karen Pendleton
Chris Penn
Frank Peppiatt
Willie Maxine Perry
Brock Peters
House Peters Jr.
Joseph Pevney
Julia Phillips
Kate Phillips
Lloyd Phillips
Peg Phillips
Paul Picerni
Frank Pierson
Harold Pinter
Marie-France Pisier
Ingrid Pitt
Suzanne Pleshette
Martin Poll
Sydney Pollack
Renato Polselli
Gillo Pontecorvo
Carlo Ponti
Pete Postlethwaite
Tom Poston
Addison Powell
Carroll Pratt
Ingo Preminger
Harve Presnell
Dory Previn
Robert Prosky
Dorothy Provine
David Prowse
Richard Pryor


Q
Anthony Quinn
Francesco Quinn


R
Meinhardt Raabe
Deborah Raffin
Carlo Rambaldi
Joey Ramone
Johnny Ramone
Tony Randall
Jane Randolph
John Randolph
Thurl Ravenscroft
Irving Ravetch
Gene Anthony Ray
Peggy Rea
Ronald Reagan
Corin Redgrave
Lynn Redgrave
Joyce Redman
Jerry Reed
Alaina Reed-Amini
Christopher Reeve
Dana Reeve
Steve Reeves
Charles Nelson Reilly
Estelle Reiner
Seymour Reit
Brad Renfro
Sidney Reznick
Madlyn Rhue
Candice Rialson
John Rich
Beah Richards
Natasha Richardson
Mordecai Richler
Ken Richmond
Alan Rickman
Leni Riefenstahl
Wolf Rilla
Rosa Rio
Dino Risi
John Ritter
Emmanuelle Riva
Jason Robards
Christopher Robbins
Richard Robbins
Pernell Roberts
Cliff Robertson
Dale Robertson
Jerry Robinson
Eugene Roche
Jean Rochefort
Charles Rocket
Majel Barrett Roddenberry
Percy Rodrigues
Nicolas Roeg
Fred Rogers
Kasey Rogers
Eric Rohmer
Alex Romero
George A. Romero
Reginald Rose
Stuart Rosenberg
Leonard Rosenman
Aaron Ruben
Zelda Rubinstein
Herbert Rudley
Raúl Ruiz
Harold Russell
Jane Russell
Ken Russell
Nipsey Russell
Tim Russert
Ann Rutherford
John P. Ryan


S
Bruno S.
Andrew Sachs
Robin Sachs
Sol Saks
Soupy Sales
Johnny Sands
Pablo Santos
Joseph Sarno
Michael Sarrazin
Andrew Sarris
Tura Satana
Ann Savage
Harris Savides
Furio Scarpelli
Roy Scheider
Vincent Schiavelli
Hubert Schlafly
John Schlesinger
Maria Schneider
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Daniel Schorr
Leonard Schrader
Budd Schulberg
Julius Schwartz
Sherwood Schwartz
Paul Scofield
Ettore Scola
Gordon Scott
Martha Scott
Ronald Searle
Harry Secombe
Erich Segal
Johnny Sekka
William Self
Charles Sellier Jr.
Maurice Sendak
Michel Serrault
Glenn Shadix
Alan Sharp
Don Sharp
Moira Shearer
Johnny Sheffield
Sidney Sheldon
Adrienne Shelly
Patty Shepard
Dinah Sheridan
Robert Sherman
George Sidney
Joanne Siegel
Joel Siegel
Alan Sillitoe
Joan Micklin Silver
Ron Silver
Jean Simmons
Joe Simon
Simone Simon
Doris Singleton
Penny Singleton
Vilgot Sjoman
Elisabeth Sladen
Bubba Smith
Dick Smith
Lane Smith
Carrie Snodgrass
Brett Somers
Ann Sothern
Aaron Spelling
John Spencer
Wendie Jo Sperber
Mickey Spillane
Victor Spinetti
Ron Sproat
Robert Stack
Richard Stahl
Arnold Stang
Florence Stanley
Kim Stanley
Harry Dean Stanton
Frank Stapleton
Maureen Stapleton
Ray Stark
Simonetta Stefanelli
Joseph Stefano
William Steig
Rod Steiger
Joseph Stein
Fred Steiner
Jan Sterling
Robert Sterling
Leonard Stern
Warren Stevens
Barbara Stewart
Viola Stimpson
Ann Mason Stockton
Dean Stockwell
Leonard Stone
Peter Stone
Gale Storm
Beatrice Straight
John Strauss
Barbara Stuart
Elaine Stuart
Gloria Stuart
Mel Stuart
William Styron
Donna Summer
Patrick Swayze
Allen Swift
Lela Swift
Eric Sykes


T
Iwao Takamoto
Mary Tamm
Daniel Taradash
Elizabeth Taylor
Joan Taylor
Phyllis Thaxter
Lorna Thayer
Lynne Thigpen
Hunter S. Thompson
Sada Thompson
Ron Thornton
Ingrid Thulin
Maureen Toal
Kenneth Tobey
Richard Todd
Michael Tolan
Sy Tomashoff
Jenny Tomasin
Lupita Tovar
Frederick Treves
Dick Tufeld
Ginny Tyler
Susan Tyrrell
Margaret Tyzak


U
Miyoshi Umeki
Robert Urich
Leon Uris
Peter Ustinov


V
Roger Vadim
Sigrid Valdis
Jack Valenti
Alida Valli
Theo van Gogh
Randy Van Horne
Theadora Van Runkle
Jim Varney
Robert Vaughn
Consuelo Velazquez
Gwen Verdon
John Vernon
Yvette Vickers
Gore Vidal
Peter Viertel
Abe Vigoda
Alan Vint
Petro Vlahos
Kurt Vonnegut
Andréas Voutsinas
John Vulich


W
Helen Wagner
Kit Wain
Garry Walberg
Claudine Walker
Ray Walston
Evelyn Ward
Simon Ward
Jack Warden
Herta Ware
Ruth Warrick
Dale Wasserman
Lew Wasserman
Dennis Weaver
Dawn Wells
Eudora Welty
Ned Wertimer
Lina Wertmüller
Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Connie Wexler
Haskell Wexler
Robert White
James Whitmore
Richard Widmark
Jack Wild
Billy Wilder
Gene Wilder
Andy Williams
Trevor Williams
Nicol Williamson
Dick Wilson
Paul Winchell
William Windom
Paul Winfield
Gary Winick
Michael Winner
Stan Winston
Gloria Winters
Shelley Winters
Norman Wisdom
Robert Wise
Digby Wolfe
David L. Wolper
John Wood
Margaret Ruth Wood
Ilene Woods
Edward Woodward
Fay Wray
J. Madison Wright
Teresa Wright
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyman
Dana Wynter


Y
Isuzu Yamada
Peter Yates
Harrison Young
Philip Yordan
Susannah York
Matthew Yuricich


Z
Richard Zanuck
Rosel Zech
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Norma Zimmer
Laura Ziskin
Vilmos Zsigmond