(Films in red bold face are films the Academy Award was won for that film maker.)
Susan Backlinie - Actress - Died May 12thm 2024 - I saw her in Jaws (1973), Two Minute Warning (1976), 1941 (1971), The Great Muppet Capper (1981)
Susan Buckner - Actress - Died May 2nd, 2024 - I saw her in The First Nudie Musical (1976), Grease (1978), and Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989)
Dabney Coleman - Actor - Died May 17th, 2024 - I saw him in The Towering Inferno (1974), Midway (1976), North Dallas Forty (1979), How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980), 9 to 5 (1980), Modern problems (1981), Young Doctors in Love (1982), Tootsie (1982), WarGames (1983), The Muppets Take Manahattan (1984), The Man with One Red Shoe (1985), Dragnet (1987)
Roger Corman - Producer / Director / Actor - Died May 9th, 2024 - I saw his films The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Raven (1963), The Terror (1963), X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes (1963), The Haunted Palace (1963), The Dunwich Horror (1970), Godfather Part II (1974), Death Race 2000 (1975), Cannonball! (1976), Grand Theft Auto (1977), The Brood (1979), The Howling (1981), Saturday the 14th (1981), Time Walker (1982), Swing Shift (1984), Transylvania Twist (1989), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Apollo 13 (1995), Scream 3 (2000), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Rachel Getting Married (2008),
Michael Culver - Actor - Died March 13th, 2024 - I saw him in From Russia with Love (1963), Thunderball (1965), and The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Shelley Duvall - Actress - Died July 11th, 2024 - I saw her in Annie Hall (1977), The Shining (1980), Popeye (1980), Time Bandits (1981), and Roxanne (1987)
Tony McFarr - Actor / Stuntman - Died May 13th, 2024 - I saw him in Rock of Ages (2012), Jurassic World (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Cell (2016), Passengers (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Jumangi: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), Ant-man and the Wasp (2018)
Joe Flaherty - actor - Died April 1st 2024 - I saw him in 1941 (1979), Used Cars (1980), Heavy Metal (1981), Stripes (1981), Johnny Dangerously (1984), One Crazy Summer (1986), Innerspace (1987), Who's Harry Crumb (1989), Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Louis Gossett Jr. - Actor - Died March 29th, 2024 - I saw him in A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Skin Game (1971), Travels with my Aunt (1972), An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Jaws 3-D (1983), Enemy Mine (1985), Iron Eagle (1986), Firewalker (1986), The Principal (1987), Diggstown (1992)
Gary Graham - Actor/Film Maker - Died January 22nd, 2024 - I saw him in The Hollywood Knights (1980) and The Jackel (1997)
Barnard Hill - Actor - Died May 5th, 2024 - I saw him in Ghandi (1982), The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), Titanic (1997), The Scorpion King (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), Gothika (2003), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Valkyrie (2008)
Glynis Johns - Actress - Died January 4th, 2024 - I saw her in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Ref (1994), and While you were Sleeping (1995)
Harry Johnson - Actor - Died January 2nd, 2024 - I saw him in Real genius (1985) and Robocop (1987)
Richard Lewis - Actor - Died February 27th, 2024 - I saw him in Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Martin Mull - Actor - Died June 27th, 2024 - I saw him in My Bodyguard (1980), Mr. Mom (1983), Clue (1985), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Bob Newhart - Actor - Died July 18th, 2024 - I saw him in In & Out (1997), Horrible Bosses (2011), and Elf (2033)
Zack Norman - Actor - Died April 27th, 2024 - I saw him in Ragtime )1981), Romancing the Stone (1984), Cadillac Man (1990)
Christian Oliver - Actor - Died January 4th, 2024 - I saw him in Valkyrie (2008)
Chita Rivera - Actress - Died January 30th, 2024 - I saw her in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), and Chicago (2002)
Barbara Rush - Actress - Died March 31st, 2024 - I saw her in When Worlds Collide (1951), It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Adrian Schiller - Actor - Died April 3rd, 2024 - I saw him in A Cure for Wellness (2016)
O.J. Simpson - Actor - Died April 11th, 2024 - I saw him in The Towering Inferno (1974), Capricorn One (1977), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (1988), The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991), Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
Donald Sutherland - Actor - Died June 20th, 2024 - I saw him in The Dirty Dozen (1967), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), MASH (1970), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Klute (1971), The Eagle has Landed (1976), The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Great Train Robbery (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Eye of the Needle (1981), Heaven Help Us (1985), The Rosary Murders (1987), The Trouble with Spies (1987), Lock Up (1989), Backdraft (1991), JFK (1981), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), The Puppet Masters (1994), Disclosure (1994), Citizen X (1995), Outbreak (1995), A Time to Kill (1996), Cold Mountain (2003), Sleepwalkers (2007)
Robert Towne - Writer / Actor - Died July 1st, 2024 - I saw him in Shampoo (1975) / I saw films he wrote - Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Chinatown (1975), The Yakuza (1975), Shampoo (1975), Orca (1977), Heaven can Wait (1978), Frantic (1988), The Two Jakes (1990), The Firm (1993), Mission: Impossible (1996), Mission: Impossible II (2000)
M. Emmet Walsh - Actor - Died March 20th, 2024 - I saw him in Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971), Serpico (1977), Slap Shot (1977), Airport 1977 (1977), The Jerk (1979), Cannery Row (1982), Blade Runner (1982), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), Missing in Action (1984), Fletch (1985), Wildcats (1986), Critters (1986), Back to School (1986), Sunset (1988), The Mighty Quinn (1989), Narrow Margin (1990), A Time to Kill (1996), Knives Out (2019)
Carl Weathers - Actor - Died February 1st, 2024 - I saw him in Magnum Force (1973), Rocky (1976), Serpico (1976), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Force 10 From Navarone (1978), Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky IV (1985), Predator (1987), and Action Jackson (1988)
