ABC film critic Joel Siegel dead at age 63
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Joel Siegel, the upbeat and often joyous film critic for ABC television's "Good Morning America" for 26 years, died on Friday at age 63 after a long battle against colon cancer, the network said.
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Edward Yang, who won best director in 2000 at the Cannes Film Festival and was known for his realistic portrayals of modern Taiwan, has died of complications from colon cancer, a film industry consultant said Sunday. He was 59.
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Hollywood lost one of its music legends last night with the death of Elmer Bernstein, 82, an Oscar-winning composer who wrote the scores for more than 200 films over five decades, including such classics as The Magnificent ...
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Jerry Orbach, the actor best known for his role as Detective Lennie Briscoe in the police drama series &#39;Law &amp; Order&#39;, has died from cancer.
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Laszlo Kovacs, one of  Hollywood&#39;s most influential and respected directors of  photography, died Saturday night in his sleep. He was 74.
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LOS ANGELES  - Russ Meyer, who pioneered &quot;sexploitation&quot; films, died on Saturday, Sept. 18 at the age of 82.
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John McWethy, a retired ABC News correspondent who had to flee the Pentagon after the 2001 attacks but continued reporting live, died Wednesday after a skiing accident. He was 61
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Coley Wallace, who knocked out Rocky Marciano in an amateur bout and played Joe Louis in two movies has died. He was 77.
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Jerry Orbach, the laconic, sharp-edged Lennie Briscoe of &quot;Law &amp; Order&quot; who came to symbolize New York City as much as any actor of his generation, died yesterday at age 69.
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Gary Webb, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who wrote a controversial series of stories linking the CIA to crack cocaine trafficking in Los Angeles, has died at age 49.
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R.W. Apple Jr., 71 , a New York Times war correspondent who distinguished himself in Vietnam and became an influential political writer and roving epicure, died Oct. 4 at his home in Washington. He had thoracic cancer.
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Ad man Jay Schulberg, who put creamy  mustaches on celebrities to sell milk and made it seem risky to  leave home without American Express traveler's checks, died on  Wednesday at age 65.
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The director of controversial cult film Man Bites Dog has died aged 38, it is reported.
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HAVANA -- Former CIA agent Philip Agee, a critic of U.S. foreign policy who infuriated American intelligence officials by naming purported agency operatives in a 1975 book, has died, state media reported Wednesday. He was 72.
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LOS ANGELES  - Laszlo Kovacs, one of Hollywood's most influential and respected directors of photography, died Saturday night in his sleep. He was 74.
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Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," died Sunday. He was 75.
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Actor Jerry Orbach, who earned a  reputation as the quintessential New Yorker through his work in  films and as a longtime star of the "Law & Order" television  series, has died from prostate cancer. He was 69.