PASSINGS

A selective look at deaths in arts and entertainment from Jan. 1 through Dec. 20. For a more comprehensive list, visit the Calendar Web site at www.calendarlive.com.

George Carl, vaudeville, circus, movie comedian, 83, Jan. 1

“Skipper Frank” Herman, ‘50s KTLA kids-show host, 83, Jan. 4

Henry Pleasants, critic who recognized jazz as serious music, 89, Jan. 4

Lucas Hoving, dancer, choreographer, teacher, 87, Jan. 5

Vic Schoen, composer, arranger, Andrews Sisters musical director, 83, Jan. 5

Roger Barr, sculptor, painter, 78, Jan. 7

Maxine Elliott Hicks, actress in films, TV, 95, Jan. 10

Sam Jaffe, production manager, agent, 98, Jan. 10

John Newland, actor, director, host of “One Step Beyond,” 82, Jan. 10

Barney Sanford Childs, experimental composer, 73, Jan. 11

Marc Frasier Davis, Disney animator, art teacher, 86, Jan. 12

Toshi Maruki, Japanese painter, 87, Jan. 13

Meche Barba, rumba dancer in Mexican films, 77, Jan. 14

Michael Webster, established Disney TV animation unit, 60, Jan. 15

James Card, Telluride Film Festival co-founder, film preservationist, 84, Jan. 16

Gene Harris, jazz pianist, 66, Jan. 16

Will “Dub” Jones, Coasters bass singer, 71, Jan. 16

Guy Della Cioppa, CBS TV and radio producer, 87, Jan. 17

Frances Drake, actress, 91, Jan. 17

Derek Anson Jones, director of the play “Wit,” 38, Jan. 17

Margarete Schuette-Lihotzky, pioneering architect, 102, Jan. 18

Josh Clayton-Felt, singer who led rock group School of Fish, 32, Jan. 19

Hedy Lamarr, actress, 86, Jan. 19

Don Abney, jazz pianist, studio musician, 76, Jan. 20

Carlo Cossutta, tenor, 67, Jan. 22

Friedrich Gulda, pianist, composer, 69, Jan. 27

Thomas “Beans” Bowles, Motown musician, 73, Jan. 28

Si Zentner, trombonist, bandleader, 82, Jan. 31

Gil Kane, comic-book artist whose creations include Spider-Man, the Hulk and Conan the Barbarian, 73, Jan. 31

Doris Kenner-Jackson, member of the Shirelles, 58, Feb. 3

Syd Cassyd, KTLA pioneer, founder of Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, 91, Feb. 4

John Vincent Imbragulio, founded Ace Record Co., 74, Feb. 4

Todd Karns, actor who appeared in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” 79, Feb. 5

Doug Henning, magician, 52, Feb. 7

“Lonesome” Dave Peverett, lead singer of Foghat, 56, Feb. 7

Christopher Rios, Grammy-nominated Puerto Rican rapper, 28, Feb. 7

Ervin Litkei, composer, 78, Feb. 8

Jim Varney, comedic actor, 50, Feb. 10

George Jackson, urban film, TV producer, 42, Feb. 11

Roger Vadim, French filmmaker, 72, Feb. 11

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, rhythm & blues singer, 70, Feb. 12

John Kuehne, Monkees bass player, 58, Feb. 12

Charles M. Schulz, “Peanuts” creator, 77, Feb. 12

William Swofford, singer known as “Oliver,” 54, Feb. 12

Olgita DeCastro Marino, sang with DeCastro trio, 64, Feb. 14

Susan Walker, Emmy-nominated TV producer, 50, Feb. 14

Lila Kedrova, won Oscar, Tony for “Zorba the Greek,” 82, Feb. 16

Miles White, costume designer on Broadway, 85, Feb. 17

John Hayter MacFadyen, concert hall designer, 76, Feb. 18

Friedenstreich Hundertwasser, painter, architect, 71, Feb. 19

Ofra Haza, Israeli pop music star, 41, Feb. 23

Bill Lewis Downer, music publisher, executive, 86, Feb. 26

Louisa Matthiasdottir, painter, 83, Feb. 26

George Duning, prolific film, TV composer, 92, Feb. 27

Dennis Danell, guitarist for Social Distortion, 38, Feb. 28

George Siravo, arranger for Frank Sinatra, composer, 83, Feb. 28

David Berman, costumer for films, plays, 90, March 2

Tommy Thompson, TV, movie producer, 73, March 3

Rick Jackson, TV executive, 48, March 5

Bill Daniels, cable TV, sports programming pioneer, 79, March 7

Margaret R. Harris, pianist, pioneering black conductor, 56, March 7

Fred Kelly, dancer, instructor, brother of Gene, 83, March 15

Roy Henderson, baritone, 100, March 16

Durward Kirby, versatile TV entertainer, 88, March 16

Stanley Ralph Ross, actor, writer, producer, 64, March 16

Lothrop Worth, cinematographer, 3-D pioneer, 96, March 16

Richard Fulton, proprietor of jazz coffeehouse 5th Street Dick’s, 56, March 18

Vivian Fine, composer of ballet scores, operas, 86, March 20

Jean Howard, Ziegfeld girl, Hollywood photographer, 89, March 21

Ed McCurdy, composer, folk singer, 81, March 23

DeMarcus Brown, head of University of the Pacific theater program, 99, March 24

Al Grey, jazz trombonist, 74, March 24

Sig Mickelson, first president of CBS News, 86, March 24

Jim Cash, professor, screenwriting partner of Jack Epps Jr., 59, March 25

Helen Martin, TV, film actress, 90, March 25

Ian Dury, punk rock singer, actor, 57, March 27

Martin Fried, theater director, 62, March 28

Gregory B. Shuker, documentary filmmaker, 67, March 29

Anna Sokolow, modern dance pioneer, 85, March 29

Giselle Freund, photographer, 91, March 31

Sy Weintraub, producer of Tarzan movies, 76, April 4

Bill Keene, L.A. weather, traffic reporter, 73, April 5

Alvaro Menendez Leal, Salvadoran playwright, 69, April 6

John F. Nolan, film, TV actor, 66, April 7

Don Balluck, actor, playwright, TV writer, 70, April 7

Claire Trevor Bren, Oscar-winning actress, arts patron, 90, April 8

Robert Emmett, Emmy-winning writer for “That Was the Week That Was” TV series, 78, April 8

Larry Linville, co-star of “MASH” TV series, 60, April 10

Carmen Dillon, British art director, 91, April 12

Arthur Morton, movie, TV composer, 91, April 15

Ross Littell, designer of furniture, textile patterns, 75, April 17

Betty O’Hara, jazz singer, musician, composer, 74, April 18

Neal Matthews Jr., member of Elvis Presley backup group the Jordinaires, 70, April 21

Alexander Cohen, Broadway producer, 79, April 22

Sean Fallon Walsh, film, TV actor, fostered interest in Irish performing arts, 65, April 24

Nicolaus Koni, sculptor, 89, April 25

David Merrick, Broadway producer, 88, April 25

Robert L. Zion, landscape architect, 79, April 25

Robert Lynn Batts Tobin, art collector, patron, 66, April 26

Vicki Sue Robinson, disco diva, 46, April 27

Antonio Buero Vallejo, Spanish playwright, 83, April 28

Gregory Gillespie, artist, 63, April 26

Roland Charles, photographer, 61, April 27

Mark Denis, Southland radio traffic reporter, 59, April 29

Timothy M. Kiley, longtime TV director, 74, April 29

Jonah Jones, jazz trumpeter, 90, April 30

Bill Woods, country musician, talent scout, 76, April 30

David Bryant, jazz bassist, 78, May 1

Steve Reeves, Mr. Universe who became movie strongman, 74, May 1

Teri Thornton, jazz vocalist, 65, May 2

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., actor, 90, May 7

Wilbur Brown, tenor saxophonist, 68, May 7

Stanley Boxer, artist, 73, May 8

Craig Stevens, actor, played TV’s “Peter Gunn,” 81, May 10

David Bretherton, Oscar-winning film editor, 76, May 11

Dong Kingman, watercolor painter, 89, May 12

Paul Bartel, film director, 61, May 13

Humberto Cane, influential Cuban musician, 82, May 13

Garrett Eckbo, landscape architect, 89, May 14

Ellis Kohs, USC composer, 84, May 17

John Paul Nickell, director during TV’s Golden Age, 84, May 17

Al Simon, TV producer, 88, May 18

Jean-Pierre Rampal, flutist, 78, May 20

Barbara Cartland, prolific British romance writer, 98, May 21

John Gielgud, actor, 96, May 21

Lucille Ellis Simon, art patron, collector, 88, May 23

Nicholas Clay, British actor, 53, May 25

Francis Lederer, character actor, 100, May 25

Alfred Levitt, painter, 105, May 25

Samuel Taylor, playwright, co-scripted “Vertigo,” “Sabrina,” 87, May 26

Robert Fryer, producer, former Ahmanson director, 71, May 28

Munio Takahashi Makuuchi, poet, artist known for origami, 65, May 29

Tex Beneke, bandleader, saxophonist, 86, May 30

Bill Thomas, Oscar-winning costume designer, 79, May 30

Tito Puente, Latin jazz bandleader, 77, May 31

Johnnie Taylor, singer, had hit with “Disco Lady,” 62, May 31

Joe Puma, jazz guitarist, 72, May 31

David Stary-Sheets, furniture designer, art dealer, 60, May 31

Leonard Baskin, sculptor, 77, June 3

Arnold Ross, modern jazz pianist, 79, June 5

Renee Mary Segerstrom, Orange County arts patron, 72, June 7

Jack Kroll, longtime Newsweek drama critic, 74, June 8

Irma Bowker, one of the original Rockettes, 89, June 9

Jacob Lawrence, painter, 82, June 9

George Segal, sculptor, 75, June 9

Frank Patterson, Irish tenor, 58, June 10

Judd Rose, CNN co-anchor, former ABC correspondent, 45, June 10

Robert J. Lurtsema, classical music radio host, 68, June 12

H. Frederick Davis, choral conductor, 91, June 13

Lorenzo Castelnuovo-Tedesco, artist, architect, 69, June 14

Bill Colleran, TV producer, director, 77, June 15

Nancy Marchand, actress, 71, June 18

Alan Hovhaness, composer, 89, June 21

Frances Yates, pianist, co-founder of L.A. chamber music Evenings on the Roof, 92, June 21

Jerome Richardson, jazz flutist, saxophonist, 79, June 23

David Tomlinson, British actor, 83, June 24

Herbert Fox, manager of classical music and theater performers, 82, June 29

Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, playwright, 77, June 29

Rik L Rik, pioneering punk rocker, 39, June 30

Michael “Cub” Koda, rock musician, 51, July 1

Ray Scherer, pioneering TV newsman, 81, July 1

Walter Matthau, actor, 79, July 1

Enric Miralles, Spanish architect, 45, July 2

Harold Nicholas, member of tap dance duo, 79, July 3

William David Kingery, key figure in modern ceramics, 73, July 7

Justin Pierce, skateboarder, actor in controversial film “Kids,” 26, July 10

Meredith MacRae, actress, star of “Petticoat Junction,” 56, July 14

Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone, 75, July 15

Paul Young, singer with Mike & the Mechanics, 53, July 15

Gene Portwood Jr., animator, computer artist, 66, July 17

Neuma Goncalves da Silva, Brazil’s first lady of samba, 78, July 17

Eyvind Earle, artist, Disney painter, 84, July 20

Bess Taffel, blacklisted screenwriter, 85, July 21

Claude Sautet, French film director, 76, July 22

Don Weis, film, TV director, 78, July 26

Virginia Admiral, artist, writer, mother of Robert De Niro, 85, July 27

Alex Stein, jazz radio pioneer, 81, July 27

G. Warren Schloat Jr., animator, 86, July 30

William Mercer, disc jockey for L.A., New York stations, 73, Aug. 1

Alec Guinness, actor, 86, Aug. 5

Nancy Vreeland, fund-raiser for L.A. cultural institutions, 57, Aug. 4

Maurice A. Thompson, directed “The Lucy Show,” 83, Aug. 7

Walter Chappell, art photography pioneer, 75, Aug. 8

Joan Marsh, actress, 86, Aug. 10

Milt Rosen, TV writer, 77, Aug. 11

Gary D. Clark, L.A. radio newsman, helped establish AP network, 61, Aug. 12

Loretta Young, actress, 87, Aug. 12

John Milford, character actor who helped design Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame, 72, Aug. 14

Mary K. Wells, “All My Children” writer, actress, 79, Aug. 14

A. Reynolds Morse, founder of Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla., 85, Aug. 15

Robert E. Swink, film editor, 82, Aug. 15

Beatrice Perham Krone, co-founder of Idyllwild arts school, 98, Aug. 20

Luis Amendolla Gasparo, Mexican watercolorist, 72, Aug. 21

Tomata du Plenty, lead singer of the Screamers, 52, Aug. 21

Robert Northshield, created “Sunday Morning” on CBS, 78, Aug. 21

Tatiana Riabouchinska, ballerina, teacher, 84, Aug. 24

Carl Barks, Donald Duck animator, writer, 99, Aug. 25

John Florea, Life photographer who became TV director, 84, Aug. 25

Jack Nitzsche, Oscar-winning songwriter, arranger, 63, Aug. 25

Charna Rickey, creator of outdoor sculptures, 77, Aug. 25

Rose Hobart, SAG official, blacklisted actress, 94, Aug. 29

Conrad Marca-Relli, artist who revolutionized collage, 87, Aug. 29

David M. Haskell, actor, starred in “Godspell,” 52, Aug. 30

Joseph H. Lewis, acclaimed director of B movies, 93, Aug. 30

Hideo Sasaki, landscape architect, 80, Aug. 30

Curt Siodmak, screenwriter who created “The Wolf Man,” other horror movies, 98, Sept. 2

Rebert Harris, pioneering gospel singer, 84, Sept. 3

Edward Anhalt, Oscar-winning screenwriter, 86, Sept. 5

Julius Schulman, violinist, 84, Sept. 9

Lester Novros, documentary filmmaker, USC professor, 91, Sept. 10

Stanley Turrentine, jazz saxophonist, 66, Sept. 12

Beah Richards, actress, 80, Sept. 14

Ellwood “Bud” Kieser, influential priest, producer, 71, Sept. 16

Paula Yates, British TV personality, 40, Sept. 17

James Elliott, LACMA curator who later worked at Berkeley museum, 76, Sept. 23

Dorr Bothwell, painter, pioneer printmaker, 98, Sept. 24

Richard Mulligan, actor, 67, Sept. 26

Carmen Robertson, ex-child actress, Ojai arts booster, 77, Sept. 26

Carl Sigman, composer-lyricist, 91, Sept. 26

Peter Gennaro, stage, TV choreographer, 80, Sept 28

Robert Allen, composer of popular songs, 73, Oct. 1

Benjamin Orr, bassist for the Cars, 53, Oct. 3

Cuco Sanchez, popular Mexican entertainer, 79, Oct. 5

Richard Farnsworth, actor, 80, Oct. 6

Dennis Sandole, jazz guitarist, mentored John Coltrane, 87, Oct. 7

David Dukes, character actor, 55, Oct. 9

Emile Kuri, Oscar-winning set decorator also worked on Disneyland, 93, Oct. 10

Sam O’Steen, film editor who worked on “Chinatown,” “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Cool Hand Luke,” 76, Oct. 11

William C. Fyffe, helped pioneer “happy talk” TV news format, 71, Oct. 12

Gordon T. Stulberg, studio executive, lawyer, 76, Oct. 12

Jean Peters, film, TV actress also married Howard Hughes, 73, Oct. 13

Britt Woodman, L.A. jazz figure, trombonist, 80, Oct. 13

William T. Hurtz, Disney animator, figure in historic Disney strike, 81, Oct. 14

Vincent Canby, New York Times film critic, 76, Oct. 15

Rick Jason, “Combat!” actor, 74, Oct. 16

Gwen Verdon, dancer, Tony-winning actress, 75, Oct. 17

Walter Shenson, Beatles movie producer, 81, Oct. 17

Julie London, torch singer, actress, 74, Oct. 18

Richard Hepburn, playwright, brother of Katharine, 89, Oct. 20

Frankie Crocker, influential disc jockey, 63, Oct. 21

Winston Grennan, innovative Jamaican drummer, songwriter, 56, Oct. 27

Irving W. Phillips, cartoonist, playwright, TV writer, 95, Oct. 28

Dorothy Hood, painter, 81, Oct. 29

Ted Roter, founder of Santa Monica Playhouse, 70, Oct. 29

Steve Allen, TV innovator, author, composer, 78, Oct. 30

Ring Lardner Jr., screenwriter, last of the Hollywood 10, 85, Oct. 31

David Frisina, longtime L.A. Philharmonic concertmaster, 86, Nov. 1

Mary Hunter Wolf, trailblazer in American theater, art, 95, Nov. 3

Amalia Hernandez, creator of Mexico’s Ballet Folklorico, 83, Nov. 4

Stephanie Lawrence, London musical actress, 50, Nov. 4

Frances Mercer, actress, 85, Nov. 5

Stanley Ellison Plummer, concert violinist, 73, Nov. 11

Joseph “Joe C.” Calleja, rapper toured with Kid Rock, 26, Nov. 16

Douglas Benton, producer of several TV detective series, 75, Nov. 16

Gaylord Carter, theater organist, composer, 95, Nov. 20

Christian Marquand, French actor, director, 73, Nov. 22

Bernard Vorhaus, blacklisted director, 95, Nov. 23

Harold Dicterow, L.A. Philharmonic violinist, 81, Nov. 27

Richard E. LeBlond Jr., led San Francisco Ballet, 76, Nov. 28

George C. Page, philanthropist founded La Brea museum, 99, Nov. 28

George Wells, Oscar-winning screenwriter, 91, Nov. 29

David W. Borst Sr., college radio pioneer, 82, Dec. 1

Hoyt Curtin, composer of cartoon music, including themes to “The Flintstones” and “The Jetsons,” 78, Dec. 3

Thomas Babe, historical playwright, 59, Dec. 6

Werner Klemperer, actor, played Col. Klink in “Hogan’s Heroes,” 80, Dec. 6

John Jay, maker of films about skiing, 84, Dec. 7

Marie Windsor, actress, 80, Dec. 7

Teresa Sterne, onetime head of Nonesuch Records, 73, Dec. 10

Don Devlin, film producer, 70, Dec. 11

Goetz Friedrich, director of Berlin opera company, 70, Dec. 12

Libertad Lamarque, singer, actress, 92, Dec. 12

George Montgomery, actor, sculptor, furniture maker, 84, Dec. 12

Tim O’Donnell, ABC News radio anchor, 57, Dec. 13

Pauline Curley, silent movie siren, 97, Dec. 16

Barney McNulty, pioneered use of the cue card, 77, Dec. 17

Nick Stewart, actor who played Lightnin’ on the “Amos ‘n’ Andy” TV show, founder of Ebony Showcase Theater, 90, Dec. 18

Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter, 41, Dec. 18

Milt Hinton, jazz bassist, photographer and documentarian, 90, Dec. 19

Roebuck “Pops” Staples, leader of Staples Singers, 83, Dec. 19

Rob Buck, lead guitarist of 10,000 Maniacs, 42, Dec. 19