In memoriam: actors and TV figures we lost in 2012

Remembering 150 people from the world of film and television who died in 2012, most recent first, with the work they are best known for.

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Tamara Dmitrieva

31 Dec 2012 · aged 86

Acting

Velta Līne

31 Dec 2012 · aged 89

Acting

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Domna Ganeva

30 Dec 2012 · aged 77

Acting

Hyōe Enoki

29 Dec 2012 · aged 84

Acting

Usagi Asō

28 Dec 2012 · aged 52

Acting

Jon Finch

28 Dec 2012 · aged 71

Acting

Harry Carey, Jr.

27 Dec 2012 · aged 91

Acting

Takashi Taniguchi

27 Dec 2012 · aged 65

Acting

Noriko Sengoku

27 Dec 2012 · aged 90

Acting

Gerry Anderson

26 Dec 2012 · aged 83

Creator

Jack Klugman

24 Dec 2012 · aged 90

Acting

Charles Durning

24 Dec 2012 · aged 89

Acting

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Valentin Kozachkov

24 Dec 2012 · aged 78

Directing

Cliff Osmond

22 Dec 2012 · aged 75

Acting

Daphne Oxenford

21 Dec 2012 · aged 93

Acting

Paul Crauchet

19 Dec 2012 · aged 92

Acting

Sándor Horváth

17 Dec 2012 · aged 80

Acting

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Rudolf Rudin

17 Dec 2012 · aged 83

Acting

Lynda Wiesmeier

16 Dec 2012 · aged 49

Acting

Alida Chelli

14 Dec 2012 · aged 69

Acting

Milo Quesada

12 Dec 2012 · aged 82

Acting

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Don Medford

12 Dec 2012 · aged 95

Directing

Ravi Shankar

11 Dec 2012 · aged 92

Sound

Galina Vishnevskaya

11 Dec 2012 · aged 86

Acting

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Toni Blankenheim

11 Dec 2012 · aged 90

Acting

Shoichi Ozawa

10 Dec 2012 · aged 83

Acting

Marla English

10 Dec 2012 · aged 77

Acting

Lisa Della Casa

10 Dec 2012 · aged 93

Acting

Jaganathan

8 Dec 2012 · aged 74

Acting

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Daphne Goldrick

7 Dec 2012 · aged 82

Acting

Makoto Satō

6 Dec 2012 · aged 78

Acting

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Mike Boyette

6 Dec 2012 · aged 71

Acting

Frigyes Hollósi

5 Dec 2012 · aged 71

Acting

Dave Brubeck

5 Dec 2012 · aged 91

Acting

Jeroen Willems

3 Dec 2012 · aged 50

Acting

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Fred Waugh

2 Dec 2012 · aged 80

Crew

Reinhold Weege

1 Dec 2012 · aged 62

Writing

Allen Joseph

30 Nov 2012 · aged 93

Acting

Dolores Donlon

30 Nov 2012 · aged 92

Acting

Dolores Mantez

30 Nov 2012 · aged 76

Acting

John Newton

28 Nov 2012 · aged 87

Acting

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Gloria Davy

28 Nov 2012 · aged 81

Acting

Larry Hagman

23 Nov 2012 · aged 81

Acting

Yashar Nuri

22 Nov 2012 · aged 61

Acting

Deborah Raffin

21 Nov 2012 · aged 59

Acting

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Don Perry

18 Nov 2012 · aged 81

Acting

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Neva Jane Langley

18 Nov 2012 · aged 79

Acting

Maxime Saury

14 Nov 2012 · aged 84

Sound

Ilya Oleynikov

11 Nov 2012 · aged 65

Acting

Senri Sakurai

10 Nov 2012 · aged 86

Acting

Mitsuko Mori

10 Nov 2012 · aged 92

Acting

Iurie Darie

9 Nov 2012 · aged 83

Acting

Lucille Bliss

8 Nov 2012 · aged 96

Acting

Roger Hammond

8 Nov 2012 · aged 76

Acting

Mitsutoshi Ishigami

6 Nov 2012 · aged 73

Writing

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James Lemp

6 Nov 2012 · aged 74

Acting

Leonardo Favio

5 Nov 2012 · aged 74

Directing

Koo Kam-Wah

4 Nov 2012

Acting

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Jang Min-ho

2 Nov 2012 · aged 88

Acting

Han Suyin

2 Nov 2012 · aged 95

Writing

Brad James

1 Nov 2012 · aged 51

Acting

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Susumu Ishikawa

29 Oct 2012 · aged 79

Acting

Merry Anders

28 Oct 2012 · aged 78

Acting

Shirley Ballard

27 Oct 2012 · aged 87

Acting

Göran Stangertz

27 Oct 2012 · aged 68

Acting

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Alan Kirschenbaum

26 Oct 2012 · aged 51

Writing

Montrose Hagins

24 Oct 2012 · aged 88

Acting

Anita Björk

24 Oct 2012 · aged 89

Acting

Russell Means

22 Oct 2012 · aged 72

Acting

Yash Chopra

21 Oct 2012 · aged 80

Directing

Karen Kim

21 Oct 2012 · aged 44

Acting

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Elizabeth Bell

21 Oct 2012 · aged 71

Acting

George McGovern

21 Oct 2012 · aged 90

Acting

Joe Melia

20 Oct 2012 · aged 77

Acting

Sylvia Kristel

18 Oct 2012 · aged 60

Acting

Wolfgang Menge

17 Oct 2012 · aged 88

Writing

Earle Lyon

16 Oct 2012 · aged 94

Production

John Clive

14 Oct 2012 · aged 79

Acting

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Kazuko Imai

14 Oct 2012 · aged 81

Acting

Gary Collins

13 Oct 2012 · aged 74

Acting

Goichi Yamada

13 Oct 2012 · aged 79

Acting

Norman Grabowski

12 Oct 2012 · aged 79

Acting

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Harry Valérien

12 Oct 2012 · aged 88

Acting

Marcos Paulo

11 Oct 2012 · aged 61

Acting

Alex Karras

10 Oct 2012 · aged 77

Acting

Race Gentry

10 Oct 2012 · aged 78

Acting

Ken Sansom

8 Oct 2012 · aged 85

Acting

Rafi Emeksiz

8 Oct 2012 · aged 52

Acting

Eduard Volodarskiy

8 Oct 2012 · aged 71

Writing

Claude Pinoteau

5 Oct 2012 · aged 87

Directing

Kuniko Igawa

4 Oct 2012 · aged 88

Acting

Austin Wai Tin-Chi

4 Oct 2012 · aged 55

Acting

Haruko Mabuchi

3 Oct 2012 · aged 75

Acting

Hideji Ōtaki

2 Oct 2012 · aged 87

Acting

Guan Shan

1 Oct 2012 · aged 79

Acting

Dirk Bach

1 Oct 2012 · aged 51

Acting

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Sahara Davenport

1 Oct 2012 · aged 27

Acting

Turhan Bey

30 Sep 2012 · aged 90

Acting

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Barbara Ann Scott

30 Sep 2012 · aged 84

Acting

Hebe Camargo

29 Sep 2012 · aged 83

Acting

Herbert Lom

27 Sep 2012 · aged 95

Acting

Johnny Lewis

26 Sep 2012 · aged 28

Acting

Andy Williams

25 Sep 2012 · aged 84

Acting

Thilakan

24 Sep 2012 · aged 77

Acting

Reynold Ismard

22 Sep 2012 · aged 65

Directing

Michael Rye

20 Sep 2012 · aged 94

Acting

Bernard Behrens

19 Sep 2012 · aged 85

Acting

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Renate Dissel

19 Sep 2012 · aged 69

Acting

Luc Barnier

18 Sep 2012 · aged 57

Editing

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Roman Korolyov

17 Sep 2012 · aged 40

Acting

John Ingle

16 Sep 2012 · aged 84

Acting

Pierre Mondy

15 Sep 2012 · aged 87

Acting

Winston Rekert

14 Sep 2012 · aged 63

Acting

Yaşar Şener

14 Sep 2012 · aged 86

Acting

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Jacques Antoine

14 Sep 2012 · aged 88

Creator

Radoslav Brzobohatý

12 Sep 2012 · aged 79

Acting

David Tao

12 Sep 2012 · aged 69

Acting

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Derek Jameson

12 Sep 2012 · aged 82

Acting

Lance LeGault

10 Sep 2012 · aged 77

Acting

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John Moffatt

10 Sep 2012 · aged 89

Acting

Leigh Hamilton

8 Sep 2012 · aged 62

Acting

Leszek Drogosz

7 Sep 2012 · aged 79

Acting

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Dorothy McGuire

7 Sep 2012 · aged 84

Acting

Viktoriya Fyodorova

5 Sep 2012 · aged 66

Acting

Maria Becker

5 Sep 2012 · aged 92

Acting

Michael Clarke Duncan

3 Sep 2012 · aged 54

Acting

Henri Fabiani

3 Sep 2012 · aged 93

Directing

Aleksandr Lebedev

2 Sep 2012 · aged 81

Acting

Vladimir Kurkov

2 Sep 2012 · aged 76

Acting

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Winrich Kolbe

1 Sep 2012 · aged 72

Directing

Lina Canalejas

1 Sep 2012 · aged 80

Acting

Joe Lewis

31 Aug 2012 · aged 68

Acting

Carlos Larrañaga

30 Aug 2012 · aged 75

Acting

Igor Kvasha

30 Aug 2012 · aged 79

Acting

Aurora Bautista

27 Aug 2012 · aged 86

Acting

Neil Armstrong

25 Aug 2012 · aged 82

Acting

Steve Franken

24 Aug 2012 · aged 80

Acting

Jerry Nelson

24 Aug 2012 · aged 78

Acting

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Maureen Toal

24 Aug 2012 · aged 81

Acting

Jean-Luc Delarue

23 Aug 2012 · aged 48

Acting

Jacqueline Plouffe

23 Aug 2012

Acting

Taketoshi Naitō

21 Aug 2012 · aged 86

Acting

Yoon In-ja

21 Aug 2012 · aged 89

Acting

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Georg Leber

21 Aug 2012 · aged 91

Acting

Phyllis Diller

20 Aug 2012 · aged 95

Acting

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Kazuyuki Hirokawa

20 Aug 2012 · aged 57

Directing

Tony Scott

19 Aug 2012 · aged 68

Directing

Scott McKenzie

18 Aug 2012 · aged 73

Acting

Uta Franz

17 Aug 2012 · aged 76

Acting

William Windom

16 Aug 2012 · aged 88

Acting