Passings

A look at deaths in arts and entertainment from Jan. 1 through Dec. 19. For a more comprehensive list, check the Calendar Web site, www.calendarlive.com/passings.

Ray Walston, 86, actor, Jan. 1

Les Brown, 88, longtime bandleader, Jan. 4

Milan Hlavsa, 49, influential Czech rocker, Jan. 5

Nancy Parsons, 58, character actress, Jan. 5

Esteban Vicente, 97, Abstract Expressionist painter, Jan. 10

Denys Lasdun, 86, Modernist British architect, Jan. 11

Michael Williams, 65, Shakespearean actor, husband of Judi Dench, Jan. 11

Luis Bonfa, 78, Brazilian composer, guitarist, Jan. 12

Ted Mann, 84, former theater chain owner, film producer, Jan. 16

Virginia O’Brien, 81, actress, singer, Jan. 16

Al Waxman, 65, actor on “Cagney & Lacey,” Jan. 17

Morris Lapidus, 98, architect who designed opulent hotels, Jan. 18

Lloyd Schwan, 45, furniture and interior designer, Jan. 19

Paul Waigner, 56, Emmy- winning producer, Jan. 19

Stan Freeman, 80, pianist-singer, Oscar Levant impersonator, Jan. 20

Deirdre O’Donoghue, 53, radio host, Jan. 20

Arthur Friedman, 81, actor, director, UCLA educator, Jan. 23

Dick Whittinghill, 87, longtime L.A. radio disc jockey, Jan. 24

John T. Biggers, artist, educator who chronicled African American experience, Jan. 25

Frances Bible, 82, mezzo-soprano, Jan. 29

Rodolfo Morales, 75, Mexican artist, Jan. 30

Dorothy Collins Brown, 96, L.A. arts philanthropist, Feb. 1

Freddy Wittop, 89, Tony-winning costume designer, Feb. 2

Asuncion “Sonia” Capadocia, 65, founded Silayan Dance Company, Feb. 3

Charles C. Hirt, 89, choral pioneer, Feb. 3

Jesse Arreola, 31, Los Palominos drummer, Feb. 4

J.J. Johnson, 77, innovative jazz trombonist, composer, Feb. 4

Iannis Xenakis, 78, avant-garde composer, Feb. 4

Helene Keyssar, 57, film-TV author, producer, teacher, Feb. 5

Len Wayland, 80, TV character actor, Feb, 5

Inna Zubkovskaya, 77, dancer with Kirov Ballet, Feb. 5

Dale Evans, 88, singer, actress, widow of Roy Rogers, Feb. 7

Pauline Koner, 88, pioneer modern dancer, choreographer, Feb. 8

Lewis Arquette, 65, character actor, comedian, Feb. 10

Mine Okubo, 88, artist who chronicled life in relocation camps, Feb. 10

Sy Gomberg, 82, screenwriter who decried violence, Feb. 11

Sam Wiesenthal, 92, movie producer, Feb. 11

Arne Hasselqvist, 63, Swedish architect, Feb. 12

Charles B. FitzSimons, 76, Producers Guild executive, Feb. 14

Boris Goldovsky, 92, opera teacher, conductor, Metropolitan Opera radio commentator, Feb. 15

Burt Kennedy, 78, writer, director of westerns, Feb. 15

Howard W. Koch, 84, movie producer, director, executive, Feb. 16

Balthus (Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola), 92, French painter, stage designer, Feb. 18

Stanley Kramer, 87, socially conscious producer, director, Feb. 19

Rosemary DeCamp, 90, TV, radio, film actress, Feb. 20

George Hernandez, 46, a founder of L.A. Latino film festival, Feb. 20

Robert Weiskopf, 86, prolific TV sitcom writer, Feb. 20

John David Scott, 47, oboist, conductor, Feb. 21

Ralf D. Bode, 59, cinematographer, Feb. 27

Stan Margulies, 80, a producer of “Roots,” “The Thorn Birds,” Feb. 27

Albert Heschong, 82, production designer, March 1

Frankie Carle, 97, pianist, big-band leader, March 7

Ninette de Valois, 102, founder of Britain’s Royal Ballet, March 8

Maude Russell Rutherford, 104, singer, dancer in early black theater, March 8

Edward Winter, 63, character actor, March 8

Richard Stone, 47, Emmy-winning composer of cartoon music, March 9

William Hammerstein, 82, director, producer, scion of Broadway family, March 9

Palmer Schoppe, 88, L.A. painter, muralist who portrayed jazz musicians, March 11

Morton Downey Jr., 67, ‘80s talk-show host, March 12

Lancelot Victor Pinard, 98, calypso singer, March 12

S. Dillon Ripley II, 87, longtime secretary of Smithsonian Institution, March 12

John Alonzo, 66, cinematographer, March 13

Ann Sothern, 92, actress, March 15

John Phillips, 65, singer-songwriter, leader of the Mamas and the Papas, March 18

Anthony Steel, 80, British matinee idol, March 21

William Hanna, 90, pioneering animator, March 22

Wayne Jay Shilkret, 66, Southern California arts impresario, March 22

Esther Waggoner Robles, 93, L.A. art dealer, March 23

Johannes “Tambi” Larsen, 86, Oscar-winning art director, March 24

Larry Lansburgh, 89, maker of animal films for Disney, March 25

Jackie Kahane, 79, comedian who opened for Elvis Presley, March 26

Piotr Sobocinski, 43, cinematographer, March 26

John Lewis, 80, pianist, composer and leader of Modern Jazz Quartet, March 29

Theodore M. “Ted” McCarty, 91, influential in development of electric guitar as president of Gibson Guitar Co., April 1

Edwards Huntington Metcalf, 89, library benefactor, April 2

Lester “Big Daddy” Kinsey, 74, blues singer-guitarist, April 3

Beatrice Straight, 86, veteran actress, won Oscar for “Network,” April 7

Arthur Cantor, 81, theater producer, April 8

Maria Gaetana Matisse, 58, longtime New York gallery owner, modern art patron, April 8

Carol Keis, 44, stage actress noted for Actors Alley work, April 9

Graziella Sciutti, 68, soprano, opera director, April 9

Sandy Bull, 60, world-music pioneer who influenced rockers, April 11

Nyree Dawn Porter, 61, British TV, theater actress, April 11

Hiroshi Teshigahara, 74, Japanese director, April 14

Joey Ramone, 49, lead singer of pioneer punk band the Ramones, April 15

Peter Maag, 81, Swiss conductor, April 16

Michael Ritchie, 62, film director, April 16

Walter Stanton, 86, inventor of easily replaceable slide-in phonograph stylus, April 16

Billy Mitchell, 74, saxophonist with Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, April 18

George Slavin, 85, prolific movie, TV writer, April 19

Isaac “Ike” Cole, 77, pianist-composer brother of Nat King Cole, April 22

Ken Hughes, 79, screenwriter, director, April 28

Jonathan Bixby, 41, costume designer, April 29

Boozoo Chavis, 70, leading zydeco performer, April 29

Allan Sloane, 86, award-winning writer of TV, radio dramas, April 29

Billy Higgins, 64, jazz drummer, teacher, co-founder of World Stage, May 3

Morris Graves, 90, mystical painter, May 5

Gary Wissner, 37, movie production designer, May 6

Edwin Finckel, 83, composer, jazz pianist, educator, May 7

James E. Myers, 81, co-writer of “Rock Around the Clock,” May 9

Deborah Walley, 57, actress who starred in beach movies, May 10

Perry Como, 88, pop singer, May 12

Mario Delamo, 55, dancer in Martha Graham company, May 13

Salvador Garmendia, 72, writer helped create telenovelas, May 13

Jason Miller, 62, actor, Tony- and Pulitzer-winning playwright, May 13

Sacha Vierny, 81, French cinematographer, May 15

Maurice Noble, 91, animation layout artist, designer for Disney, Warner Bros., May 18

Herbert W. Browar, 83, TV producer, executive, May 19

Susannah McCorkle, 55, jazz, cabaret singer, May 19

Andrew Howard, 34, part of first openly gay couple to host radio show “Karel & Andrew,” May 21

Whitman Mayo, 70, actor who played sidekick on “Sanford and Son,” May 22

Jeannette Kerner, 85, character actress, May 25

Anne Haney, 67, character actress, May 26

Francis Bebey, 72, musician, composer of contemporary African music, May 28

Arlene Francis, 93, actress, TV personality, May 31

Steve Ettleson, 56, drummer who played with Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme, June 1

Russell Saunders, 82, Muscle Beach acrobat, movie stuntman, June 1

Imogene Coca, 92, versatile TV comedian, June 2

Vince Charles, 55, steel drummer for Neil Diamond, June 3

Anthony Quinn, 86, Oscar-winning actor, June 3

John Hartford, 63, songwriter of “Gentle on My Mind,” June 4

Aaron Green, 84, architect who collaborated with Frank Lloyd Wright, June 5

Yaltah Menuhin, 79, concert pianist, younger sister of violinist Yehudi Menuhin, June 10

Myrna Myron, 91, founder of L.A. landmark Myron’s Ballroom, June 10

Amalia Mendoza, 78, popular mariachi, ranchera singer, June 11

William C. Matney Jr., 76, first black correspondent for NBC News, June 13

Makanda McIntyre, 69, musician, leading figure in free jazz movement, June 13

Joe Darion, 90, lyricist who wrote “The Impossible Dream,” June 16

Diana Bellamy, 57, character actress, June 17

Marcelina “Marcy” Arroues Mulville, 90, a founder of the Pacific Symphony, June 18

Coney Woodman, 83, Central Avenue jazz musician, June 20

Carroll O’Connor, 76, actor best known as Archie Bunker, June 21

John Lee Hooker, 83, blues patriarch, June 21

Corinne Calvet, 76, French actress, June 23

Paul Schreibman, 92, entertainment lawyer helped bring “Godzilla” to U.S., June 23

Michael Angel Maynez, 77, founder of Ventura’s Plaza Players, June 24

Jack Lemmon, 76, actor, double Oscar and Emmy winner, June 27

Chet Atkins, 77, innovative country guitarist, producer, June 30

Joe Henderson, 64, jazz tenor saxophonist, June 30

Ernie K-Doe, 65, R&B; singer, July 5

A.D. Flowers, 84, Oscar-winning special effects artist, July 5

Roger Medearis, 81, artist of American Regionalism, July 5

Ichimura Uzaemon, 84, Kabuki icon, July 8

Louis de Rochemont III, 70, teacher, filmmaker behind landmark wide-screen documentary “Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich,” July 11

Marco Zanuso, 85, key postwar furniture designer, architect, July 11

Richard Pendleton Rogers, 57, documentarian, director of Harvard Film Center, July 14

Otto Wittmann, 89, pivotal art-world figure who guided Getty, Toledo museums, July 14

Ted Berman, 81, animator, director of Disney classics, July 15

Mimi Farina, 56, folk singer, July 18

Milton Gabler, 90, gifted promoter of jazz, rock, July 20

Steve Barton, 47, actor who originated Raoul in “The Phantom of the Opera,” July 21

Norman Hall Wright, 91, Disney animator, writer, July 21

Fanny Brennan, 80, French-born surrealist painter, July 22

Harold Land, 72, tenor saxophonist, influential in L.A. jazz scene, July 27

Italo Scanga, 69, neo-Dadaist, neo-Expressionist, neo-Cubist multimedia artist, July 27

Leon Wilkeson, 49, bass guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, July 27

Eric Bedford, 91, British government architect, July 28

Martin Stern Jr., 84, architect for Las Vegas casinos, Googie-style eateries such as L.A.’s Ships coffee shops, July 28

Alex Nicol, 85, film, TV, stage character actor, July 29

Ron Townson, 68, founding member of 5th Dimension pop group, Aug. 2

Christopher Hewett, 80, stage actor, TV’s “Mr. Belvedere,” Aug. 3

Jeanne Loriod, 73, virtuoso of ondes martenot electronic musical instrument, Aug. 3

Chris Williams, 31, leader of rock group Backbone69, Aug. 5

Stanislav Rostotsky, 79, Russian movie director, Aug. 10

Lester Pine, 84, TV, movie writer, Aug. 11

Pierre Klossowski, 96, French writer, artist, brother of painter Balthus, Aug. 12

Neil Cooper, 71, founder of ROIR rock and reggae record label, Aug. 13

Nicholas Orloff, 86, dancer, teacher, Aug. 14

Carlos Bueno, 60, painter, pivotal in Chicano movement in L.A., Aug. 18

Edmund J. Cambridge, 80, actor, director, co-founder of influential N.Y., L.A. acting schools, Aug. 18

Jack Elliott, 74, TV, movie arranger, composer, director of Henry Mancini Institute, Aug. 18

Betty Everett, 61, R&B; singer, Aug. 19

Walter Reed, 85, character actor, Aug. 20

Kim Stanley, 76, stage, film, TV actress, Aug. 20

Steven Izenour, 61, architect, co-author of “Learning From Las Vegas,” Aug. 21

Kathleen Freeman, 78, comedy character actress, Aug. 23

Frank Emilio Flynn, 80, pioneering Cuban jazz pianist, Aug. 23

Jane Greer, 76, film noir actress, Aug. 24

Aaliyah, 22, singer, actress, Aug. 25

John Chambers, 78, Oscar-winning special-effects makeup artist, Aug. 25

John Nelson, 85, jazz pianist, father of Prince, Aug. 25

Lawrence B. Marcus, 84, film, TV writer, Aug. 28

Paco Rabal, 75, Spanish actor, Aug. 29

Troy Donahue, 65, movie, TV heartthrob, Sept. 2

Jay Migliori, 70, key member of Supersax, Sept. 2

Pauline Kael, 82, provocative, influential film critic, Sept. 3

Maurice J. “Bud” Rifkin, 88, TV, radio producer, syndicator, Sept. 4

Thomas Ralph Fries, 47, editor, producer of TV movies, Sept. 10

Berry Berenson, 53, actress, Sept. 11

David Angell, 54, producer, co-creator of “Frasier,” Sept. 11

Alice Trillin, 63, writer, educator, TV producer, Sept. 11

Barbara Matera, 72, costume designer for movies, Broadway, ballet, Sept. 13

Dorothy McGuire, 85, actress, Sept. 13

Fred de Cordova, 90, “Tonight Show” producer, Sept. 15

Samuel Z. Arkoff, 83, prolific low-budget film producer, Sept. 16

Isaac Stern, 81, virtuoso violinist, teacher, Sept. 22

Robert Abel, 64, computer animation, graphics pioneer, Sept. 23

Jens Nygaard, 69, founder, conductor of Jupiter Symphony, Sept. 24

William Hitz, 92, prosecutor in “Hollywood 10” trials, Sept. 25

Evan Lottman, 70, film, TV editor, Sept. 25

Lani O’Grady, 46, talent agent, actress on TV’s “Eight Is Enough,” Sept. 25

Herman Berlinski, 91, composer of Jewish choral works, Sept. 27

Gloria Foster, 64, stage actress, Sept. 29

Manny Albam, 79, jazz arranger, teacher, Oct. 2

Pat Ast, 59, model, actress, Oct. 2

Zoltan Szekely, 97, violinist who played with Bela Bartok, Oct. 5

Charlotte Zelka, 71, concert pianist, founder of Pasadena’s Almont Ensemble, Oct. 6

Jeanette Segerstrom, 72, arts patron, Oct. 8

Dagmar (Virginia Ruth Egnor), 79, TV actress, Oct. 9

Herbert Ross, 76, director, choreographer, Oct. 9

Alton Wood, 89, partner, co-founder of Bob Baker Marionette Productions, Oct. 9

Luis Antonio Garcia Navarro, 60, conductor, Oct. 10

Otis Young, 69, first black co-star of TV western, Oct. 12

Frederick W. Ziv, 96, TV syndication pioneer, Oct. 13

Willam Farr Christensen, 99, dancer, choreographer, teacher, Oct. 14

Ralph Levy, 81, TV comedy director, teacher, Oct. 15

Etta Jones, 72, jazz singer, Oct. 16

Jay Livingston, 86, Oscar-winning songwriter, partner of Ray Evans, Oct. 17

Diana Van Der Vlis, 66, stage, TV actress, Oct. 21

Charles M. Kober, 78, architect, Oct. 22

Daniel Wildenstein, 84, French art dealer, scholar, Oct. 23

Alan L. Pultz, 64, longtime director of “General Hospital,” Oct. 25

Laszlo Halasz, 96, first New York City Opera music director, Oct. 26

Freyda Rothstein, 72, producer of TV movies, soap operas, Oct. 27

J.P. Miller, 81, movie, TV writer remembered for “Days of Wine and Roses,” Nov. 1

Edward Padula, 85, Broadway producer, Nov. 1

Alberta E. Siegel, 70, psychologist studied effects of TV violence, Nov. 3

Myra Kestenbaum, 69, violist with L.A. Chamber Orchestra, composer, Nov. 6

Anthony Shaffer, 75, playwright, screenwriter who penned “Sleuth,” Nov. 6

Albert Hague, 81, Broadway, TV composer, Nov. 12

Marlene Rasnick, 57, improvisational theater performer, director, instructor, Nov. 18

Ralph Burns, 79, Oscar-, Tony-, Emmy-winning arranger, jazz musician, Nov. 21

Gardner McKay, 69, TV actor, playwright, novelist, Nov. 21

Norman Granz, 83, jazz impresario fought for desegregated venues, owned Clef, Norgran, Verve, Pablo record labels, Nov. 22

Seydou Keita, 78 or 81, artist, master of photographic portrait, Nov. 22

Michael Hoffman, 59, publisher of fine-art photography books and Aperture magazine, Nov. 23

Rachel Gurney, 81, actress, appeared in TV’s “Upstairs, Downstairs,” Nov. 24

Melanie Thornton, 34, singer with La Bouche, Nov. 24

William Read Woodfield, 73, producer, writer, photographer, Nov. 24

Paul Hume, 85, Washington Post music critic, Nov. 26

Fei-Ping Hsu, 51, Chinese-born American pianist, Nov. 27

Doris Silverton, 73, TV writer, Nov. 27

Harry Sternberg, 97, artist, teacher, Nov. 27

Frederick Engel, 71, film producer, literary agent, Nov. 28

Budd Boetticher, 85, director of classic westerns, Nov. 29

George Harrison, 58, lead guitarist for the Beatles, Nov. 29

John Mitchum, 82, character actor, brother of Robert, Nov. 29

Danilo Donati, 75, costume, set designer for Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, Roberto Benigni, Dec. 1

Grady Martin, 72, Nashville studio musician, Dec. 3

George Hansen, 92, designer of swing-arm lamp, Dec. 4

Faith Hubley, 77, groundbreaking film animator, Dec. 7

Burnett Miller, 45, art dealer, Dec. 10

Barry H. Taper, 71, Music Center philanthropist, Dec. 10

Conte Candoli, 74, jazz trumpeter, featured in “Tonight Show” band, Dec. 14

Rufus Thomas, 84, blues patriarch, recorded Sun Records’ first hit, Dec. 15

Bianca Halstead, 36, Betty Blowtorch lead singer, Dec. 15

Stuart Adamson, 43, leader of Big Country rock group, Dec. 16

Roger Blocksmith, 56, character actor, Dec. 16

Lester Persky, 76, movie, TV miniseries producer, Dec. 16

Gilbert Becaud, 74, singer-songwriter, Dec. 18