VALE 2022 – Movie Identities who Died in 2022.

The year 2022 served to remind us all that as the years roll by, stars we had grown up with, stars that had us believe they might somehow live on forever, were just as mortal as the rest of us, that time eventually catches up with everybody. Below is a list of prominent actors, actresses and directors who reached the end of life’s trail between January 1 and December 31, 2022.

                                                                           Date of death    Age at death   

SIDNEY POITIER (1927-2022)                  Jan 6 2022                   94          

An Oscar-winner for Lilies of the Field (1963). He was also quite brilliant in To Sir, with Love and In the Heat of the Night, both released in 1967.

PETER BOGDANOVICH (1939-2022)     Jan 6 2022                   82

Director of The Last Picture Show (1971) and Paper Moon (1973).

YVETTE MIMIEUX (1942-2022)              Jan 8 2022                   80

Played the female lead in The Time Machine (1960) opposite Rod Taylor.

DWAYNE HICKMAN (1934-2022)           Jan 9 2022                   87

Played Dobie in the TV series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959-63).

HARDY KRUGER (1928-2022)                 Jan 19 2022                 93

Played model airplane designer Heinrich Dorfmann in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), and as Kurt Muller in the 1962 John Wayne film Hatari!

MONICA VITTI (1931-2022)                      Feb 2 2022                  90

Italian actress who portrayed Giuliana in The Red Desert (1964).

SALLY KELLERMAN (1937-2022)          Feb 24 2022                84

Portrayed Major Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan in the movie M.A.S.H (1970).

TIM CONSIDINE (1940-2022)                   Mar 3 2022                  81

Former Disney juvenile star who played Mike Douglas in the TV series My Three Sons (1960-65). In Patton (1970) he portrayed the young soldier who gets slapped by the general.

WILLIAM HURT (1950-2022)                   Mar 13 2022                71

Oscar-winner for Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), and played Tom Grunick in Broadcast News (1987).

JUNE BROWN (1927-2022)                                    Apr 3 2022                  95

She portrayed Dot Cotton in EastEnders on British television for a total of thirty-one years!

BOBBY RYDELL (1942-2022)                   Apr 5 2022                  79

Pop singer who starred as Hugo Peabody in Bye Bye Birdie (1963).

ROBERT MORSE (1931-2022)                  Apr 20 2022                90

Starred as J. Pierpont Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967).

JOANNA BARNES (1934-2022)                 Apr 29 2022                87

Widow of Jack Warner, she played Claudia Marius in Spartacus (1960). She was also the fiancée of Hayley Mills’ father in The Parent Trap (1961).

FRED WARD (1942-2022)                          May 8 2022                 79

Co-starred as Earl Bassett alongside Kevin Bacon in Tremors (1990). In the 1983 feature The Right Stuff he memorably played astronaut Virgil ‘Gus’ Grissom.

RAY LIOTTA (1954-2022)                          May 26 2022               67

Starred as mobster Henry Hill in Goodfellas (1990), and was memorable as ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams (1989).

BO HOPKINS (1938-2022)                          May 28 2022               84

Portrayed Joe, the leader of the Pharaohs gang, in American Graffiti (1973).

JAMES CAAN (1940-2022)                         July 6 2022                  82

Portrayed Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972).

LARRY STORCH (1923-2022)                   July 8 2022                  99

Played Corporal Randolph Agarn in all 65 episodes of the TV series F Troop (1965-67).

L.Q. JONES (1927-2022)                              July 9 2022                  94

Played ‘Three-Fingered’ Jack in The Mask of Zorro (1998).

TAUREAN BLACQUE (1940-2022)          July 21 2022                82

Portrayed Detective Neal Washington in the TV series Hill Street Blues (1981-87).

DAVID WARNER (1941-2022)                  July 24 2022                80

Portrayed Jack the Ripper in Time After Time (1979), and Spicer Lovejoy in Titanic (1997). A prolific character actor with over two hundred big and small screen credits.

PAUL SORVINO (1939-2022)                    July 25 2022                83

Played Henry Kissinger in Nixon (1995). Father of actress Mira Sorvino.

TONY DOW (1945-2022)                             July 27 2022                77

He portrayed Beaver’s older brother Wally Cleaver in the TV series Leave it to Beaver (1957-63). Retired from acting to become a law enforcement officer.

PAT CARROLL (1927-2022)                      July 30 2022               95

She superbly provided the voice for Ursula the Sea Witch in Disney’s animated feature The Little Mermaid (1989).

NICHELLE NICHOLS (1932-2022)          July 30 2022                89

She played Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, the communications officer aboard the starship Enterprise, in the original TV series Star Trek (1966-69) in all 69 episodes.

SARA SHANE (1928-2022)                         July 31 2022                94

Starred as Angie Loring opposite Gordon Scott in Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure (1959).

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN (1948-2022)     Aug 8 202                   73

Singer/actress who starred as Sandy in the musical Grease (1978). She was a close friend of songstress Karen Carpenter.

ANNE HECHE (1969-2022)                                    Aug 11 2022               53

Starred opposite Harrison Ford as Robin Monroe in Six Days, Seven Nights (1998). Died following a car crash.

MARSHA HUNT (1917-2022)                     Sep 7 2022                  104

Portrayed Mary Bennet, the talentless singing sister in Pride and Prejudice (1940).

HENRY SILVA (1926-2022)                       Sep 14 2022                95

Supporting actor, usually playing ‘heavies’; played Chunjin in The Manchurian Candidate (1962).

IRENE PAPAS (1929-2022)                                    Sep 14 2022                93

She played Maria Pappadimos in The Guns of Navarone (1961).

ROBERT BROWN (1926-2022)                 Sep 19 2022                95

He starred as Jason Bolt in the TV series Here Come the Brides (1968-70).

LOUISE FLETCHER (1934-2022)             Sep 23 2022                88

Won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Nurse Ratched in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975).

ANGELA LANSBURY (1925-20220         Oct 11 2022                96

Starred as super-sleuth Jessica Fletcher in 264 episodes of Murder, She Wrote (1984-96). She was also memorable as Eleanor Shaw Iselin, the Soviet spy, in The Manchurian Candidate (1962).

ROBBIE COLTRANE (1950-2022)           Oct 14 2022                72

He portrayed Hagrid the Giant in the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise movies.

LESLIE PHILLIPS (1924-2022)                 Nov 7 2022                 98

British character actor whose chief claim to fame was his portrayal of Dr Tony Burke in two of the ‘Doctors’ films of the sixties.

ROBERT CLARY (1926-2022)                  Nov 16 2022               96

Became a household name for his portrayal of Louis LeBeau in the TV series Hogan’s Heroes (1965-71).

IRENE CARA (1959-2022)                         Nov 25 2022               63

She starred as Coco in the 1980 musical Fame.

KIRSTIE ALLEY (1951-2022)                   Dec 5 2022                  71

Starred as Caroline Sexton opposite Tim Allen in the 1997 comedy For Richer, or Poorer.She was also the star of        the Fat Actress TV series (2005).