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"Celebrities That Died in 2008"
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"2008 Celebrity Deaths"

2008 has seen the deaths of many much loved celebrities. The most famous; Heath Ledger, star of the biggest movie at the movie box office in over a decade, "The Dark Knight."

We have broken down the list of "2008 Celebrity Deaths" by month.

"2008 Celebrity Deaths By Month"

* A-List Celebrity

January 2008 Celebrity Deaths

1 Irena Górska-Damiecka 97 Actress

2 Brice Mack 90 Background Artist Fantasia • Peter Pan

5 Edward Klosinski 65 Cinematographer The Promised Land

10 Maila Nurmi 85 Actress Plan 9 from Outer Space

11 Murray Cohl 78 Producer

15 Brad Renfro 25 Actor The Client • Sleepers • Bully • Ghost World*

17 Allan Melvin 84 Actor

18 Ugo Pirro 87 Screenwriter Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion • The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

19 Suzanne Pleshette 70 Actress The Birds • The Bob Newhart Show*

20 Kevin Stoney 86 Actor

22 Roberto Gari 88 Actor

22 Heath Ledger 28 Actor Brokeback Mountain • The Dark Knight*

February 2008 Celebrity Deaths

2 Barry Morse 89 Actor The Fugitive (TV series)

8 Eva Dahlbeck 87 Actress Secrets of Women • A Lesson in Love • Smiles of a Summer Night

10 Roy Scheider 75 Actor Jaws • 2010 • Marathon Man • All That Jazz*

11 James Quinn 88 Producer, Administrator Herostratus • Overlord

14 Perry Lopez 76 Actor Chinatown

18 Alain Robbe-Grillet 85 Screenwriter, Director Last Year at Marienbad

19 David Watkin 82 Cinematographer Out of Africa • Chariots of Fire

21 Ben Chapman 79 Actor Creature from the Black Lagoon

March 2008 Celebrity Deaths

4 Leonard Rosenman 83 Composer Barry Lyndon • Bound for Glory

6 Gustaw Holoubek 84 Actor

11 Dave Stevens 52 Illustrator, Producer The Rocketeer

12 Erwin Geschonneck 101 Actor Jacob, the Liar

16 Ivan Dixon 76 Actor Hogan's Heroes

18 Anthony Minghella 54 Director, Screenwriter The English Patient • The Talented Mr. Ripley • Cold Mountain*

19 Paul Scofield 86 Actor A Man For All Seasons • Hamlet • The Crucible*

24 Rafael Azcona 81 Screenwriter Belle Époque

24 Richard Widmark 93 Actor Kiss of Death • Night and the City • Panic in the Streets • How the West Was Won*

25 Tony Church 77 Actor Tess • Krull

25 Abby Mann 80 Screenwriter Judgment at Nuremberg

31 Jules Dassin 96 Director The Naked City • Topkapi

April 2008 Celebrity Deaths

5 Charlton Heston 84 Actor Ben-Hur • Planet of the Apes • Touch of Evil • The Ten Commandments • El Cid*

8 Stanley Kamel 65 Actor Monk (TV Series)

9 Lloyd Lamble 94 Actor The Belles of St. Trinian's

14 Ollie Johnston 95 Animator Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs • Fantasia • Bambi • Pinocchio*

14 June Travis 83 Actress Ceiling Zero

15 Hazel Court 93 Actress The Raven • The Masque of the Red Death

18 Joy Page 83 Actress Casablanca

20 Bebe Barron 82 Music Composer Forbidden Planet

24 Tristram Cary 82 Composer The Ladykillers • Quatermass and the Pit • Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

29 Julie Ege 64 Actress On Her Majesty's Secret Service

May 2008 Celebrity Deaths

1 Bernard Archard 91 Actor Macbeth

1 Elaine Dundy 86 Actress

4 Fred Haines 72 Screenwriter, Director Ulysses • Steppenwolf

13 Jill Adams 77 Actress The Green Man • Private's Progress

13 John Phillip Law 70 Actor Barbarella • Danger: Diabolik

15 Alexander Courage 88 Composer, Orchestrator My Fair Lady • Some Like It Hot • Jurassic Park

15 Youssef Idilbi 32 Actor

16 Sandy Howard 80 Director, Producer Howdy Doody • Captain Kangaroo

18 Irma Córdoba 94 Actor Fuera de la ley • Atorrante

18 Joseph Pevney 96 Actor Female on the Beach • Tammy and the Bachelor • Man of a Thousand Faces

24 Tano Cimarosa 86 Actor Cinema Paradiso

24 Rob Knox 18 Actor Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

26 Sydney Pollack 73 Actor, Director, Producer Out of Africa • They Shoot Horses, Don't They? • Tootsie*

28 Earle Hagen 88 Composer, Orchestrator Call Me Madam • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

29 Harvey Korman 81 Actor Dracula: Dead and Loving It • Blazing Saddles • Herbie Goes Bananas*

June 2008 Celebrity Deaths

2 Mel Ferrer 90 Actor, Director, Producer Scaramouche • Lili • Wait Until Dark*

6 Bobby Anderson 75 Actor It's a Wonderful Life

6 Rudy Fernandez 56 Actor Atlantika

7 Dino Risi 91 Director Poveri ma belli • Profumo di donna

11 Jean Desailly 87 Actor La Peau Douce • Le Professionnel

15 Stan Winston 62 Director, Makeup Artist Terminator 2: Judgment Day • Jurassic Park • Aliens*

17 Cyd Charisse 86 Actress, Dancer The Band Wagon • Something's Got to Give • Singin' in the Rain • Brigadoon*

18 Jean Delannoy 100 Director La symphonie pastorale • Les amitiés particulières

22 George Carlin 71 Actor, Comedian Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure • Cars*

22 Dody Goodman 93 Actress Grease • Grease 2

23 John Furlong ~75 Actor Blazing Saddles • All the President's Men

24 William Vince 45 Producer The 4th Floor • Capote

July 2008 Celebrity Deaths

2 Elizabeth Spriggs 78 Actress Sense and Sensibility • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

4 Evelyn Keyes 91 Actress Gone with the Wind • Here Comes Mr. Jordan • The Jolson Story • The Seven Year Itch*

6 Nonna Mordyukova 82 Actress Commissar • The Diamond Arm

9 Charles H. Joffe 78 Producer Annie Hall • Manhattan • Hannah and Her Sisters*

18 Khosrow Shakibai 62 Actor Hamoun • Sara • Pari

22 Estelle Getty 84 Actress Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot • The Golden Girls (TV)*

25 Mikhail Pugovkin 85 Actor Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures • The Twelve Chairs • Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future

27 Youssef Chahine 82 Director Sira` Fi al-Wadi • Le Chaos

27 Marisa Merlini 84 Actress Pane, Amore e Fantasia • The Traffic Policeman

August 2008 Celebrity Deaths

9 Bernie Mac 50 Actor The Bernie Mac Show (TV) • Ocean's Eleven • Transformers*

10 Isaac Hayes 65 Actor, Singer Songwriter Dr. Dolittle 2 • Shaft • South Park*

11 George Furth 75 Actor Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • Blazing Saddles

11 Terence Rigby 71 Actor Get Carter • Tomorrow Never Dies • Elizabeth

September 2008 Celebrity Deaths

1 Don LaFontaine 68 Voice actor • Prolific and iconic voice-over actor featured in over 5,000 movie trailers

2 Bill Meléndez 91 Animator, Director Bambi • Fantasia • A Boy Named Charlie Brown

6 Anita Page 98 Actress Our Dancing Daughters • The Broadway Melody • Skyscraper Souls

19 David Jones 74 Director Betrayal • 84 Charing Cross Road • Jacknife

26 Paul Newman 83 Actor, Director Cat on a Hot Tin Roof • Hud • The Color of Money • Disney's Cars*

NOVEMBER 2008 Celebrity Deaths

4 Michael Crichton 66 Writer, Creator, Producer Jurassic Park • ER

* A List Celebrities!

2007 Celebrity Deaths - Below

Celebrity Deaths - January 2007

Norman Mailer - 84 - Author

Jane Wyman - 90 - Actress and former wife of President Ronald Reagan

Celebrity Deaths - February 2007

Anna Nicole Smith - 39 - Actress

Ian Richardson - 72 - Actor

Sidney Sheldon - 90 - Author

Celebrity Deaths - March 2007

Roscoe Lee Browne - 81- Actor

Kitty Carlisle Hart - 96 - Actress

Marcel Marceau - 84 - Mime

Celebrity Deaths - April 2007

Jack Valenti - 85 - Founder of MPAA

Celebrity Deaths - May 2007

Charles Nelson Reilly- 76- Actor

Beverly Sills - 78 - Acrtress

Tom Snyder - 71 - TV Talk Show Host

Celebrity Deaths - June 2007

None

Celebrity Deaths - July 2007

Joel Siegel - 63- Movie Critic

Tammy Faye Bakker Mesner - 65 - Gay Icon

Ingmar Bergman - 89 - His 1982 "Fanny And Alexander" won the Best Foreign Film Oscar

Brett Somers - 83 - Star of TV's 70s classic game show, "The Match Game"

Celebrity Deaths - August 2007

Merv Griffin - 82 - TV Talk Show Host & Creator of "Wheel Of Fortune" and "Jeopardy." Also, owner of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA, where the Golden Globe Awards are presented each year.

Dan Fogelberg - 56 - Singer

September

Jane Wyman - 90 - First wife of U.S. President Ronald Reagan

Lois Maxwell - 80 - First Ms. Moneypenny in the James Bond movie saga - and in subsequent 007 films

Michaelangelo Antonioni - 95 - Director

October

Deborah Kerr - 86 - Deborah Kerr was nominated six times in the category of Best Actress: * 1949 - Edward, My Son; * 1953 - From Here to Eternity; * 1956 - The King and I; * 1957 - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; * 1958 - Separate Tables; * 1960 - The Sundowners

Joey Bishop - 89 - Member of the Rat Pack, which included Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.

Lucianno Pavarotti - 72 - Opera singer

November

Ike Turner - 76 - Singer

Krrt Vonnegut - 85 - Author

Robert Goulet - 74 - Singer/Dancer

December

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By Tim Nasson
Publisher, Wild About Movies

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