Deaths in Film & TV on June 29

Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967)

American actress (The Girl Can't Help It), dies in a car crash at 34

1968 Kitty Kelly, American actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66
1973 Tin-Tan [Germán Valdés], Mexican actor, singer and comedian (Spanish dubbing of The Jungle Book, The Aristocats), dies from cancer at 57
1975 Jerry Verno, British actor (River of Unrest, Ourselves Alone, Sweeney Todd), dies at 79
1976 Leonora Summers [Lillian Hill], American vaudeville and silent film actress [Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ; Hoboken To Hollywood), dies at 78
1978 Bob Crane, American DJ and actor (Hogan's Heroes; The Donna Reed Show), murdered at 49
1986 Ida Mae McKenzie, American actress, dies at 75
1986 Robert Drivas [Choromokos], American stage and screen actor (Cool Hand Luke; Illustrated Man; Our Private World), and theater director, dies of AIDS complications at 50

Lana Turner (1921-1995)

American pin-up model and actress (Peyton Place; The Postman Always Rings Twice; Imitation of Life), dies of cancer at 74

1995 Roy Rowland, American film director, dies at 84
1996 Pamela Mason [Ostrer], British actress, author and talk-show host (Lady Possessed), dies of heart failure at 78
1997 William Hickey, American actor (Prizzi's Honor, The Nightmare Before Christmas), dies of emphysema at 69
1999 Allan Carr, American film producer and director (Grease, Happiest Millionaire), dies at 62
2000 Coen Flink, Dutch actor (Pastorale 1943, Havinck, Honneponnetje), dies at 68
2000 Il Mattatore [Vittorio Gassman], Italian actor, director and screenwriter (Scent of a Woman, War & Peace), dies at 77
2002 François Périer [Pillu], French actor (Gervaise, Fantasia, Les Mains Sales), dies at 82
2002 Rosemary Clooney, American singer (Come On-a My House) and actress (White Christmas), dies of lung cancer at 74

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003)

American actress (Adam's Rib, On Golden Pond), dies of natural causes at 96

2006 Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
2007 Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (Yi Yi), dies of cancer at 59
2007 Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
2008 Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (b. 1942)
2009 Joe Bowman (marksman), American sharpshooter, Hollywood consultant, famed bootmaker & master showman (b. 1925)
2018 Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian actress, dancer, and singer (Nine, Grand Hotel), dies of colon cancer at 85

Carl Reiner (1922-2020)

American comedian, actor, screenwriter (Your Show Of Shows; 2000 Year Old Man; The Dick Van Dyke Show), director (The Comic; The Jerk), and author, dies at 98