John G. Avildsen, who won an Oscar for directing the original “Rocky” (1976), starring Sylvester Stallone, and also directed all three of the original “Karate Kid” films, has died in Los Angeles. He…
Film producer and financier John Heyman, who founded influential British agency International Artists and the World Group Companies, died Friday in New York, his family told Variety via statement. He…
Roger Moore, the handsome English actor who appeared in seven films as James Bond — the most of any Bond actor — and as Simon Templar on "The Saint" TV series, has died in Switzerland after a short…
Dina Merrill, a beautiful, blonde actress with an aristocratic bearing known as much for her wealthy origins, philanthropy, and marriage to actor Cliff Robertson as for her work in film and…
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme died Wednesday in New York of cancer complications, his publicist told Variety. He was 73 years old. Demme is best known for directing “The Silence of the Lambs,”…
Noreen Fraser, a producer of television shows including "Entertainment Tonight," ABC's "Home Show," and "The Richard Simmons Show" who devoted her life to raising money for cancer research, died on…
Film historian Robert Osborne, the effervescent primetime host of Turner Classic Movies since the cabler's inception in 1994, has died. He was 84. TCM’s general manager Jennifer Dorian released a…
Richard Schickel, the longtime film critic for Time magazine who also wrote 37 books, mostly on film, and directed a number of documentaries on film subjects, died on Saturday in Los Angeles of…
John Hurt, the wiry English actor who played a drug addict in “Midnight Express,” Kane in “Alien,” the title character in “The Elephant Man,” and Winston Smith in “1984” has died. He was 77. He died…
Television great Mary Tyler Moore, the beloved star of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," died Wednesday in Connecticut, her publicist confirmed. She was 80. “Today, beloved…
William Peter Blatty, the novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter most famous for landmark horror film "The Exorcist" as well as the director of two films, "The Ninth Configuration" and "The Exorcist…
