Deaths in Film & TV on February 2

1952 Charles De Roche, actor (10 Commandments), dies at 72
1956 Charley Grapewin, American actor (The Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady), dies at 86
1963 Herman Bouber, Dutch actor and playwright (Sailor's Wives), dies at 77
1963 William Gaxton, American actor (Destry, Convoy), dies at 72
1969 Boris Karloff [William H Pratt], British actor (The Mummy, Frankenstein), dies 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, TV hostess (Wendy Barrie Show), dies at 65
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 (Wimbledon, 1934-36), 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 and dancer (Singin' in the Rain), dies at 83
1996 Shamus Culhane, 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