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Deaths in Film & TV on April 5

  • 1951 Edward Rigby, British actor (Star Look Down, Young & Innocent), dies at 72
  • 1960 Alma Kruger, actor (Made For Each Other), dies at 88
  • 1968 Lois Andrews [Lorraine Gourley], American actress (Dixie Dugan, Meet Me After the Show, The Desert Hawk), dies of lung cancer at 44
  • 1969 Shelby Storck, American television producer, dies at 52
  • 1972 Isabel Jewell, American actress (Gone With The Wind), dies at 64
  • 1974 William Hudson, actor (I Led 3 Lives), dies at 49
  • 1975 Inez Courtney, American stage and screen actress (The 13th Man; Crime Ring; The Raven), dies at 77

Howard HughesHoward Hughes (1905-1976)

American reclusive billionaire, filmmaker and aviator, dies at 72

Howard Hughes
  • 1985 Arthur Negus, English antiques expert and broadcaster (Antiques Roadshow), dies at 82
  • 1988 Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor and director (Juggler), dies
  • 1993 Divya Bharti, Indian actress in Hindi and Telugu movies (Shola Aur Shabnam; Deewana), dies at 19 of injuries and internal bleeding after falling from balcony of her 5th-floor apartment
  • 2001 Brother Theodore, German-American comedian, dies at 94
  • 2005 Debralee Scott, American actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - "Cathy"; Angie), dies at 52

Charlton HestonCharlton Heston (1923-2008)

American actor (The Ten Commandments; Ben-Hur; Planet of Apes)Ben-Hur), dies at 84

Charlton Heston
  • 2014 John Pinette, American comedian and actor (The Punisher, Junior), dies from an pulmonary embolism at 50
  • 2015 Richard Dysart, American actor (Leland MacKenzie-LA Law, The Last Days of Patton), dies at 86
  • 2018 Isao Takahata, Japanese anime film director, screenwriter and producer (Grave of the Fireflies, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya), dies of lung cancer at 82
  • 2020 Honor Blackman, English actress (Goldfinger, The Avengers), dies at 94
  • 2021 Paul Ritter [Simon Paul Adams], British actor (Friday Night Dinner; Chernobyl; Quantum of Solace), dies of a brain tumor at 54
  • 2022 Bobby Rydell [Ridarelli], American pop singer ("Wild One"; "Wildwood Days"), and actor (Bye Bye Birdie), dies of pneumonia at 79 [1]


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