Character actor Charles Lane dies at 102
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Charles Lane, the prolific character actor whose name was little known, but whose bespectacled face and crotchety persona made him instantly recognizable to generations of movie-goers, has died, his son said Tuesday. He was 102.
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Barry Morse, who played a detective pursuing the wrongly accused Dr. Richard Kimble in 1960s TV series "The Fugitive," has died, his son said Tuesday. He was 89.
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Law and Order and Dirty Dancing actor Jerry Orbach dies of prostate cancer at the age of 69.
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Arts & entertainment: Controversial comedian, whose jokes saw him banned around the country, dies aged 76.
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Broadway star Nathan Lane won a  thunderous ovation on Tuesday when he stepped in at the last  moment to replace Hollywood veteran Richard Dreyfuss in the  London premiere of the hit musical "The Producers."
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John Vernon, a stage-trained character actor who played cunning villains in film and TV and made his comedy mark as Dean Wormer in "National Lampoon's Animal House," has died. He was 72.
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Actor Lane Garrison of the popular  U.S. television show "Prison Break" was in a car accident late  on Saturday that killed a 17-year-old boy and injured two other  teenagers, Beverly Hills police said on Sunday.
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Actor Glenn Ford died on Wednesday   in his Beverly Hills home, police said. He was 90.
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Director Gerard Oury, a cultural icon of France whose decades-old comedies remain hits today, has died, local officials at his Riviera home said Thursday. He was 87.
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Comic actor Charles Nelson Reilly, a lauded Broadway performer and campy game show guest in the 1970s and 1980s, has died in Los Angeles, a representative for the actor said on Monday.
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&quot;Superman&quot; actor Christopher Reeve, who became a committed campaigner for spinal cord research after being paralysed in a riding accident nine years ago, has died of heart failure, his publicist says.
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Christopher Reeve, who portrayed a hero in the &quot;Superman&quot; films and embodied one as an advocate for spinal cord research after being paralyzed in an accident, has died.
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Actor John Inman, most famous for the comedy Are You Being Served?, dies aged 71.
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Actor Glenn Ford, a handsome and  quiet character actor who made his mark in big films like  "Gilda" and "The Big Heat," died on Wednesday in his Beverly  Hills home, police said. He was 90.
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Charles Lane was a veteran character actor whose lean frame and stern features were familiar to millions of movie and television fans, most of whom, it is safe to say, never knew his name.
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Novelist and gay rights activist Joseph Hansen, whose highly successful mystery series featured one of the genre's first openly homosexual investigators, Dave Brandstetter, has died at age 81 after a long illness, friends said on Monday.
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US actor Glenn Ford dies aged 90, at his home in Beverly Hills.