Deaths in Film & TV on February 2

1969 Boris Karloff [William H. Pratt], English actor (The Mummy, Frankenstein), dies of pneumonia at 81

1970 Lawrence Gray, American actor, dies at 71
1972 Jessie Royce Landis, actress (North by Northwest), dies at 67
1976 Johan Kaart, Dutch actor (My Fair Lady), dies at 78
1978 Wendy Barrie, British-American TV hostess (Wendy Barrie Show), dies at 65
1979 Jim Burke, Australian cricket batsman (24 Tests; record for most innings in a complete career without scoring a duck [44]) and broadcaster (ABC), dies of self inflicted gunshot wounds at 48
1981 Louise Lorraine, actress (Adventures of Tarzan), dies
1990 Joel Fluellen, American actor (Porgy and Bess, Burning Cross, Learning Tree), commits suicide at 82
1992 Bert Parks [Jacobson], TV host (Miss America), dies at 77
1994 Stephen Barclay, actor (Pride of the Plains), dies at 75
1995 Fred Perry, English tennis player/broadcaster (8-time Grand Slam singles winner), dies of broken ribs at 85

1995 Donald Pleasence, British actor (You Only Live Twice, Escape from New York, Halloween), dies from heart failure at 75

1996 Gene Kelly, American actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way) and dancer (Singin' in the Rain), dies of a stroke at 83

1996 Shamus Culhane, American animator, dies at 87
1997 Sanford Meisner, American actor and teacher, dies at 91
2004 Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924)
2007 Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (b. 1944)
2008 Katoucha, Guinean model and activist (b. 1960)
2008 Herbert "Barry" Morse, British-Canadian actor (The Fugitive, Space: 1999, Winds of War), dies at 89
2011 Defne Joy Foster, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ. (b. 1975)
2011 Margaret John, Welsh actress (b. 1926)
2013 John Kerr, American actor (South Pacific, Peyton Place, Pit & Pendulum), dies at 81

2014 Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (Capote, Moneyball) dies of a suspected drug overdose at 46

2015 Stewart Stern, American screenwriter (Rebel Without A Cause), dies at 92
2016 Bob Elliott, American comedian (Bob & Ray, Get a Life), dies at 92
2020 Ivan Král, Czech-American bass player, songwriter, record producer (Patti Smith; Iggy Pop; John Waite), and filmmaker, dies of cancer at 71