In memoriam: actors and TV figures we lost in 2019

Remembering 150 people from the world of film and television who died in 2019, most recent first, with the work they are best known for.

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Martin West

31 Dec 2019 · aged 82

Acting

Marie Devereux

30 Dec 2019 · aged 79

Acting

Elizabeth Sellars

30 Dec 2019 · aged 98

Acting

Nicole Desailly

29 Dec 2019 · aged 99

Acting

Sebastián Ferrat

29 Dec 2019 · aged 41

Acting

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Anne Butler

29 Dec 2019 · aged 83

Acting

Jack Sheldon

27 Dec 2019 · aged 88

Acting

Kushal Punjabi

27 Dec 2019 · aged 37

Acting

Art Sullivan

27 Dec 2019 · aged 69

Acting

Sue Lyon

26 Dec 2019 · aged 73

Acting

Galina Volchek

26 Dec 2019 · aged 86

Acting

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Vitaliy Doroshenko

23 Dec 2019 · aged 78

Acting

Keishiro Kojima

23 Dec 2019 · aged 87

Acting

Tony Britton

22 Dec 2019 · aged 95

Acting

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Drew Eliot

19 Dec 2019 · aged 88

Acting

Claudine Auger

18 Dec 2019 · aged 78

Acting

Meng Li

17 Dec 2019

Acting

Nicky Henson

15 Dec 2019 · aged 74

Acting

Anna Karina

14 Dec 2019 · aged 79

Acting

Gita Siddharth

14 Dec 2019

Acting

Randy Colley

14 Dec 2019 · aged 69

Acting

Yekaterina Durova

13 Dec 2019 · aged 60

Acting

Gerd Baltus

13 Dec 2019 · aged 87

Acting

Tatsuo Umemiya

12 Dec 2019 · aged 81

Acting

Danny Aiello

12 Dec 2019 · aged 86

Acting

Marie Fredriksson

9 Dec 2019 · aged 61

Acting

René Auberjonois

8 Dec 2019 · aged 79

Acting

Caroll Spinney

8 Dec 2019 · aged 85

Acting

Ron Leibman

6 Dec 2019 · aged 82

Acting

Yang Hong Wu

5 Dec 2019 · aged 62

Acting

Robert Walker Jr.

5 Dec 2019 · aged 79

Acting

Natalie Trundy

5 Dec 2019 · aged 79

Acting

Wolfgang Winkler

5 Dec 2019 · aged 76

Acting

Manuel Tejada

4 Dec 2019 · aged 79

Acting

Azucena Hernández

4 Dec 2019 · aged 59

Acting

Hanna Polk

4 Dec 2019 · aged 56

Acting

Richard Easton

2 Dec 2019 · aged 86

Acting

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D.C. Fontana

2 Dec 2019 · aged 80

Writing

Michael Lai Siu-Tin

1 Dec 2019 · aged 73

Acting

Shelley Morrison

1 Dec 2019 · aged 83

Acting

Makio Inoue

29 Nov 2019 · aged 80

Acting

Tiny Ron

28 Nov 2019 · aged 72

Acting

Jonathan Miller

27 Nov 2019 · aged 85

Directing

Godfrey Gao

27 Nov 2019 · aged 35

Acting

Bala Singh

27 Nov 2019 · aged 67

Acting

Gary Rhodes

26 Nov 2019 · aged 59

Acting

Claude Earl Jones

25 Nov 2019 · aged 86

Acting

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Francisco Silva

25 Nov 2019 · aged 89

Acting

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James Belchamber

25 Nov 2019 · aged 93

Acting

Goo Ha-ra

24 Nov 2019 · aged 28

Acting

Joan Staley

24 Nov 2019 · aged 79

Acting

Davyd Babaiev

23 Nov 2019 · aged 76

Acting

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Gary Conway

22 Nov 2019

Directing

Michael J. Pollard

20 Nov 2019 · aged 80

Acting

Midori Kiuchi

18 Nov 2019 · aged 69

Acting

Rowland Davies

18 Nov 2019

Acting

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Phil Hahn

17 Nov 2019 · aged 87

Writing

Fred Mella

16 Nov 2019 · aged 95

Acting

Yukihiro Takiguchi

13 Nov 2019 · aged 34

Acting

Arthur Marks

13 Nov 2019 · aged 92

Directing

Niall Tóibín

13 Nov 2019 · aged 89

Acting

Raymond Poulidor

13 Nov 2019 · aged 83

Acting

Darlene Kardon

13 Nov 2019 · aged 91

Acting

Tadashi Nakamura

11 Nov 2019 · aged 89

Acting

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William Wintersole

5 Nov 2019 · aged 88

Acting

Gay Byrne

4 Nov 2019 · aged 85

Acting

Virginia Leith

4 Nov 2019 · aged 94

Acting

María Baxa

4 Nov 2019 · aged 73

Acting

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David Levinson

4 Nov 2019 · aged 80

Production

Aleksandr Mironov

2 Nov 2019 · aged 58

Acting

Marie Laforêt

2 Nov 2019 · aged 80

Acting

Brian Tarantina

2 Nov 2019 · aged 60

Acting

Tatyana Nadezhdina

2 Nov 2019 · aged 87

Acting

Johannes Schaaf

1 Nov 2019 · aged 86

Directing

Rudy Boesch

1 Nov 2019 · aged 91

Acting

Hatsuo Yamaya

31 Oct 2019 · aged 85

Acting

Bernard Slade

30 Oct 2019 · aged 89

Writing

Shōhei Yamamoto

30 Oct 2019 · aged 81

Acting

John Witherspoon

29 Oct 2019 · aged 77

Acting

Annick Alane

28 Oct 2019 · aged 94

Acting

Jana Drbohlavová

28 Oct 2019 · aged 78

Acting

Pascale Roberts

26 Oct 2019 · aged 89

Acting

Robert Evans

26 Oct 2019 · aged 89

Production

Kaoru Yachigusa

24 Oct 2019 · aged 88

Acting

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A.J. Dunn

22 Oct 2019 · aged 36

Crew

Jerry Fogel

21 Oct 2019 · aged 83

Acting

Billie Zöckler

18 Oct 2019 · aged 70

Acting

Bill Macy

17 Oct 2019 · aged 97

Acting

John Clarke

16 Oct 2019 · aged 88

Acting

Sulli

14 Oct 2019 · aged 25

Acting

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Christa Mühl

14 Oct 2019 · aged 72

Directing

Douglas Hedge

14 Oct 2019

Acting

Carlo Croccolo

12 Oct 2019 · aged 92

Acting

Jin Nakayama

12 Oct 2019 · aged 77

Acting

Robert Forster

11 Oct 2019 · aged 78

Acting

Marie-José Nat

10 Oct 2019 · aged 79

Acting

Helen Shingler

8 Oct 2019 · aged 100

Acting

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Reg Watson

8 Oct 2019 · aged 93

Creator

Krishnamoorthy

7 Oct 2019 · aged 55

Acting

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Jack Bontekoe

7 Oct 2019

Acting

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Eugène Saccomano

7 Oct 2019 · aged 83

Acting

Rip Taylor

6 Oct 2019 · aged 88

Acting

Diahann Carroll

4 Oct 2019 · aged 84

Acting

Stephen Moore

4 Oct 2019 · aged 81

Acting

James Schmerer

4 Oct 2019 · aged 81

Writing

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Lewis Dauber

3 Oct 2019 · aged 70

Acting

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Alan Zaslove

2 Oct 2019 · aged 91

Directing

Tarık Ünlüoğlu

1 Oct 2019 · aged 68

Acting

Karel Gott

1 Oct 2019 · aged 80

Acting

André Gaillard

30 Sep 2019 · aged 91

Acting

Alexander Davion

28 Sep 2019 · aged 90

Acting

Luis Ospina

27 Sep 2019 · aged 70

Directing

Rob Garrison

27 Sep 2019 · aged 59

Acting

Malwine Moeller

26 Sep 2019 · aged 95

Acting

Rodrigo Obregón

25 Sep 2019 · aged 67

Acting

Venu Madhav

25 Sep 2019 · aged 49

Acting

Linda Porter

25 Sep 2019 · aged 86

Acting

Cassandra Waldon

25 Sep 2019 · aged 56

Acting

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Jimmy Nelson

24 Sep 2019 · aged 90

Acting

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Robert Hunter

23 Sep 2019 · aged 78

Acting

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Rut Speer

22 Sep 2019 · aged 83

Acting

Sid Haig

21 Sep 2019 · aged 80

Acting

Jan Merlin

20 Sep 2019 · aged 94

Acting

Charles Gérard

19 Sep 2019 · aged 96

Acting

Cokie Roberts

17 Sep 2019 · aged 75

Acting

Colette Castel

17 Sep 2019 · aged 82

Acting

Roberto Leal

15 Sep 2019 · aged 67

Acting

Jean Heywood

14 Sep 2019 · aged 98

Acting

Takis Spyridakis

14 Sep 2019 · aged 61

Acting

Paul Cronin

13 Sep 2019 · aged 81

Acting

John Wesley

8 Sep 2019 · aged 72

Acting

Robert Axelrod

7 Sep 2019 · aged 70

Acting

Chan Sing

4 Sep 2019 · aged 82

Acting

Carol Lynley

3 Sep 2019 · aged 77

Acting

Peter Lindbergh

3 Sep 2019 · aged 74

Acting

Joji Abe

2 Sep 2019 · aged 82

Writing

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Edo Zanki

1 Sep 2019 · aged 66

Acting

Valerie Harper

30 Aug 2019 · aged 80

Acting

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James Cellan Jones

30 Aug 2019 · aged 88

Directing

Gordon Bressack

30 Aug 2019 · aged 68

Writing

Terrance Dicks

29 Aug 2019 · aged 84

Writing

Michel Aumont

28 Aug 2019 · aged 82

Acting

Ray Henwood

28 Aug 2019 · aged 82

Acting

Nancy Holloway

28 Aug 2019 · aged 86

Acting

Max Berliner

26 Aug 2019 · aged 99

Acting

Fernanda Young

25 Aug 2019 · aged 49

Writing

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Robert Randolph Caton

24 Aug 2019 · aged 69

Acting

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Wolfram Mucha

23 Aug 2019 · aged 77

Acting

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Viktor Vlasov

22 Aug 2019 · aged 65

Acting

Augusto Larreta

21 Aug 2019 · aged 93

Acting