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With 2018 now ending, Gold Derby celebrates over 30 celebrities who died in the past 12 months. Tour our photo gallery above as we feature tributes to these entertainer losses from this past year.
Just a few of the people honored in our special photo gallery:
Actress and director Penny Marshall died December 17 at age 75. She became one of the biggest stars on TV in the 1970s and early 1980s with “Laverne and Shirley.” She then directed such blockbuster films as “Big,” “A League of Their Own” and “Awakenings.”
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Bernardo Bertolucci died on November 26 at age 77. His 1987 film “The Last Emperor” swept the Oscars, including for Best Picture and Best Director. Other movies in his career included “Last Tango in Paris,” “The Conformist,” “The Sheltering Sky” and “Little Buddha.”
Screenwriter William Goldman died on November 16 at age 87. He won Oscars for his screenplays of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men.” He also wrote the scripts for “The Princess Bride,” “Marathon Man,” “Misery,” “Chaplin” and “Maverick.”
Singer and musician Roy Clark died on November 15 at age 85. He was a co-host on the long-running variety series “Hee Haw,” a Grand Ole Opry member and an inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
Stan Lee, co-creator of many iconic superheroes, died on November 12 at age 95. For Marvel Comics and later many films and TV programs, his characters included Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America and the Avengers.
Burt Reynolds died on September 6 at age 82 in Florida. He was an Oscar nominee for “Boogie Nights” and an Emmy winner for “Evening Shade.” He was one of the top box office stars of the 1970s with movies such as “Deliverance,” “Smokey and the Bandit,” “The Longest Yard,” “Cannonball Run” and “Starting Over.”
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Playwright Neil Simon died August 26 at age 91. He wrote more than 50 Broadway plays, including “Barefoot in the Park,” “The Odd Couple,” “Biloxi Blues,” “Sweet Charity” and “Lost in Yonkers.” He wrote the screenplays for those adaptations as well as ones for “The Sunshine Boys,” “The Goodbye Girl” and “California Suite,” all of which brought him Oscar nominations (along with ‘Odd Couple’). He was a three-time Tony Award winner and recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.
Producer Craig Zadan died on August 20 at age 69. He and Neil Meron were executive producers of the Oscars in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Recent TV productions included “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Hairspray” and “The Sound of Music.” Films included “Footloose” and “Chicago.”
Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, died on August 16 at age 76. She won 18 Grammy Awards in her lengthy career among 44 total nominations. Hit songs included “Respect,” “Natural Woman,” “Spanish Harlem,” “Think,” “Chain of Fools” and “Freeway of Love.” She was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
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Actress Charlotte Rae died at age 92 on August 5. She was mostly known for her long-running role on “The Facts of Life,” a spin-off of “Diff’rent Strokes” for her character. That role of Edna Garrett brought her a second Emmy nomination in 1982. She also was a two-time Tony Award nominee for “Pickwick” (1965) and “Morning, Noon and Night” (1968).
Anthony Bourdain died in France on June 8 at age 61. The celebrity chef was best known for his CNN program “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” and the Travel Channel series “No Reservations.” While alive he won six primetime Emmys and one at the Daytime Emmys.
Actor, comedian and magician Harry Anderson died at age 65 on April 16. He was a three-time Emmy nominee for his starring role on the NBC comedy series “Night Court.” He also was the lead on “Dave’s World” and made memorable guest appearances on “Cheers.”
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Oscar-winning director Milos Forman died on April 13 at age 86. He won an Academy Award for directing “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975) and “Amadeus” (1984). Other films in his career included “Hair,” “Ragtime,” “Valmont,” “The People vs. Larry Flynt” and “Man on the Moon.”
Steven Bochco died on April 1 at age 74. The 10-time Emmy winner was the creator of such TV classics as “Hill Street Blues,” “L.A. Law,” “NYPD Blue” and “Doogie Howser, M.D.” He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1996.
Actor David Ogden Stiers died on March 3 at age 75. He was known for his long-running role as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on “M*A*S*H.” He received two Emmy nominations for that program. He was famous for his voice-over characters in “Beauty and the Beast,” “Pocahontas,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and “Spirited Away.”
Actress Nanette Fabray died at age 97 on February 22 in California. She won a Tony Award for the Broadway musical “Love Life” and three Emmy Awards for “Caesar’s Hour.” She was also known for the film musical “The Band Wagon” and TV appearances on “One Day at a Time,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” and many variety shows.
Actor John Mahoney died in Chicago at age 77 on February 4. His best known role was as Martin Crane for 11 seasons on “Frasier” opposite Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce. He received two Emmy Award nominations for that show. He performed in many stage plays and in the films “Say Anything,” “The American President,” and “Barton Fink.”
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