Here we go again.
Surely you don’t need to be reminded, but 2022 was a tough year. Feels like there’ve been a whole bunch of those lately, doesn’t it? You really start to feel the weight of it when you’re compiling, in my case, or reading over, in your case, a big memorial post like this one. It’s worth doing, for sure, in both of our cases but it’s not easy. Take heart: We can get through it, together. Just warning you.
This is going to hurt…
Every year, Daily Grindhouse reserves space for a moment to remember many of the notable people we lost that year and to reflect upon what the creations of their lives meant to us. Usually, we post it on the last day of the year, just because to post it any sooner would be kind of a jinx. No website wants to have to update a post with corrections, but most of all not with updates about fresh losses. This year, we are defying superstition and releasing this to the world before 2022 is done, hoping against hope that we don’t have to add anything before 2023 rolls in. We are doing it for only one reason: Normally this feature, if only up for a day, gets swept away and overlooked, and we don’t want anyone’s memory to be overlooked if we have anything to say about it. We aim to remember not only the most famous, but also as many quote-unquote bit players and below-the-line names as we can, along with folks from entertainment areas other than film and sports, like comics and fine art. As always, if anyone notices any names we may have failed to include, please drop us a note and we will happily and speedily update.
Neal Adams
American comic book legend
Meat Loaf (born Martin Lee Aday)
American rock singer and actor
Ralph Ahn
American actor and son of Korean independence activist Dosan Ahn Chang-ho
Cynthia Plaster Caster (Cynthia Albritton)
American visual artist and …collector
Kirstie Alley
American actress
Louie Anderson
American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and game show host
John Aniston
American actor and famous father
Asha the Elephant
Brian Augustyn
American comic book editor and writer
Nicki Aycox
American actress and musician
Angelo Badalamenti
Brooklyn-born film composer and conductor
Kirk Baily
American actor
Rebecca Balding
American actress
Takeoff (born Kirsnick Khari Ball)
American rapper
James Bama
American artist
King Louie Bankston
American rock and roll musician from New Orleans
Jeff Barnaby
Canadian film director, writer, composer, and film editor
Joanna Barnes
American actress and writer
Eddie Basinski
American professional baseball infielder
Jules Bass
American director, producer, lyricist, composer, and author
Greg Bear
American writer and illustrator
Thom Bell
American producer and songwriter for the Spinners, the Delfonics, and the Stylistics
Marilyn Bergman
American lyricist, songwriter, and Oscar-winning composer
Judd Bernard
American film producer and screenwriter
Anne D. Bernstein
American cartoonist, illustrator, comics editor and magazine and animation writer
Grand Daddy I.U. (born Ayub Bey)
American rapper and Juice Crew member
David Birney
American actor and director
Robert Blalack
Panamanian-born American mass-media visual artist and producer and co-founder of Industrial Light & Magic
Pasha Bleasdell
American model and star of music videos
Eric Boehlert
American journalist, writer, and media critic
Peter Bogdanovich ComSE
American film director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and historian
Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff
French twins and television hosts
Matilda The Hun (Deanna Booher)
American pro wrestler
George Booth
American cartoonist
William G. Borchert
American screenwriter and author
Stephen “tWitch” Boss
American freestyle hip hop dancer, choreographer, actor, and television personality
John Bowman
American television writer and producer
Valerie Boyd
American writer and academic
jaimie branch
American jazz trumpeter and composer
Traci Braxton
American singer, reality television personality, and radio personality
Raymond Briggs CBE
English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author
Val Broeksmit
American whistle-blower
Peter Brook CH CBE
English theater and film director
Gary Brooker
English singer, pianist, and founder and lead singer of Procol Harum
Johnny Brown
American actor and singer
Tame One (born Rahem Brown)
Jersey-born hip-hop legend and graffiti artist from Newark’s Artifacts and Boom Skwad
Ashley Bryan
American childrens book author
Joyce Bryant
American singer, dancer, and civil rights activist
Oris Buckner III
American police detective and whistle-blower
Danny Bulanadi
Filipino comic book illustrator
Reverend Calvin O. Butts III
American academic administrator and senior pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church, the largest Black church in New York City
James Caan
Bronx-born movie star and icon
Colin Cantwell
American concept artist and director
Mira Calix (born Chantal Francesca Passamonte)
South African-born, British-based audio & visual artist and musician
Jule Campbell
American magazine editor and mastermind of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Irene Cara
American singer and actress
Peter Caras
American illustrator
Patrick Carlin
American comedy writer and famous brother
Thomas Carney
head barman of New York’s famous Elaine’s
Carleton Carpenter
American film, television and stage actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist
Pat Carroll
American actress and comedian
Uncle Jack Charles
Australian stage and screen actor and activist
John R. Cherry III
American film director & screenwriter and creator of Ernest P. Worrell
Marvin J. Chomsky
American director and producer
Roseanna Christiansen
American actress
Paul Coker Jr.
American illustrator
Robbie Coltrane OBE
Scottish actor and comedian
Kevin Conroy
American actor and Batman
José Luis Cortés
Cuban bandleader
Gal Costa
Brazilian singer of tropicalia music
Zuri Craig
singer and America’s Got Talent finalist
Travis Crawford
American film writer and festival curator
Mike Cross
American singer-songwriter and musician
Julee Cruise
American singer, songwriter, and actress
Jessie Lee Daniels
founding member of the R&B group Force MDs
Betty Davis
American singer, songwriter, and model
Mike Davis
American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian
Len Dawson
American football quarterback
Charlbi Dean Kriek
South African actress and model
Popcorn Deelites
star of SEABISCUIT
Joey DeFrancesco
American jazz trumpeter
Brenda Deiss
former NASA secretary and unexpected movie star
Simon Deitch
American comic book creator
Emilio Delgado
American actor and “Sesame Street” neighbor
Ruggero Deodato
Italian film director and trailblazer
Doris Derby
American activist, documentary photographer, and educator
Joan Didion
American writer
Tony Dow
American actor, film producer, director, and sculptor
Denise Dowse
American actress and director
Lamont Dozier
American singer, songwriter, and record producer
Shonka Dukureh
American actress and singer
Sonya Eddy
American actress
Ralph Eggleston
American animator, art director, storyboard artist, and production designer at Pixar Animation Studios
Barbara Ehrenreich
American author and political activist
Lars Eighner
American author and memoirist
Ned Eisenberg
American actor
Queen Elizabeth II
British celebrity
Charles E. Entenmann
Zack Estrin
American television producer
Dr. Paul Farmer
American medical anthropologist and physician
Andrew “Fletch” Fletcher
English keyboard player and founding member of Depeche Mode
Louise Fletcher
American actress
Jake Flint
American country singer
Leo Fong
Chinese-American actor, martial artist, boxer, and minister
Farrah Forke
American actress
Jason David Frank
American actor and mixed martial artist
Budd Friedman
American actor & comedian and founder of the Improv
Charles Fuller
American playwright and Pulitzer winner
Ron Galella
American paparazzo
Gallagher
enemy of watermelons
Jeff German
Las Vegas investigative reporter
Vincent Gil
Australian film and television actor
Sam Gilliam
American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist
Clarence Gilyard Jr.
American university professor, actor, and author
Jean-Luc Godard
French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic
Goldee (Pie-O-My)
Gilbert Gottfried
American stand-up comedian and actor, New Yorker, probably the funniest man ever
Ron Goulart
American comics expert
Alan Grant
British comic book writer
Helen Grayco
American singer and actress
DJ Kay Slay (born Keith Grayson)
New York City disc jockey
Justin Green
American cartoonist and “father of autobiographical comics”
Joseph Greene
American comics creator
Robyn Griggs
American musical theater, television, and film actress
Vincenzo Grosso
American journalist
Clu Gulager
American original
Barbara Maier Gustern
American vocal coach and singer
Mike Hagerty
American movie and television actor
Patrick Haggerty
American country singer & songwriter and trailblazer
Phillip Baker Hall
American character actor
Scott Hall
American professional wrestler
Terry Hall
British-born frontman of The Specials
Duncan Hannah
American visual artist and author
Estelle Harris
American actress and comedienne
William Hart
American singer and lyricist and leader of the Delfonics
Jim Hartz
American television personality, columnist, and reporter
Robert C. Harvey
American author, critic and cartoonist
Rosa Lee Hawkins
American singer and member of The Dixie Cups
Taylor Hawkins
American musician
Anne Heche
American actress and cultural trailblazer
Duncan Henderson
American film producer, assistant director, and production manager
Brad William Henke
American actor and former pro football player
D.H. Peligro (Darren Henley)
American punk-rock drummer
Paul Herman
American actor
Kymberly Herrin
American model and actress
Howard Hesseman
American actor
Dwayne Hickman
American actor and television executive, producer and director
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
American novelist, essayist, poet, and educator
Joan Hodges
widow of Hall of Famer and World Series-winning Mets manager and Dodgers great Gil Hodges
Bo Hopkins
American character actor
Marsha Hunt
American actress, model, and activist
William Hurt
American actor
Antonio Inoki
Japanese professional wrestler, martial artist, and politician
Gregory Itzin
American character actor
Coolio (born Artis Leon Ivey Jr.)
American rapper
Sid Jacobson
American writer and editor of children’s comic books, popular music, fiction, biography, and non-fiction comics
Joni James (born Giovanna Carmella Babbo)
American pop singer
Maxi Jazz (born Maxwell Fraser)
British musician, rapper, singer, songwriter, DJ, and cofounder of Faithless
Cristóbal Jodorowsky
Mexican-French actor, writer, painter, playwright, trainer, and tarologist
Mable John
American blues vocalist and Motown’s first female solo artist
Syl Johnson
American blues and soul singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer
Jomo
Western Lowland silverback gorilla
L.Q. Jones (born Justus Ellis McQueen Jr.)
American character actor and director
Leslie Jordan
American actor, comedian, writer, singer, and supernova of joy
Naomi Judd
American singer and actress
Max Julien
American actor, screenwriter, and 1970s icon
Kim Jung Gi
South Korean illustrator and cartoonist
Kathryn Kates
American actress
Margaret Keane
American artist and painter
Jack Kehler
American character actor
Sally Kellerman
American actress and singer
Ken Kelly
American fantasy artist
Leonard Kessler
American children’s book author
Ioane John King
New Zealand-born actor
William Klein
American-born French photographer and filmmaker
Jak Knight
American actor, comedian, and writer
Kobayashi Masahiro
Japanese writer and director
Joanne Koch
executive director of Film at Lincoln Center
Alice Koh
documentary film producer
Aline Kominsky-Crumb
American underground comics artist
Cheslie Kryst
American television correspondent, model, and beauty pageant winner
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
Australian film actress, Aboriginal activist and politician
Mantas Kvedaravicius
Lithuanian filmmaker, anthropologist, and archaeologist
Natalia LL (Natalia Lach-Lachowicz)
Polish artist
Art Laboe
American-Armenian disc jockey, songwriter, record producer, and radio station owner
Alan Ladd Jr.
American film industry executive and producer
Kathy Lamkin
American film actress
Mark Lanegan
American singer, songwriter, and poet
Angela Lansbury DBE
Irish-British and American film, stage, and television veteran
Alex Law
Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, and producer
Jethro Lazenby
Australian actor and model
Q Lazzarus (born Diane Luckey)
American singer
Garry Leach
British comics artist
Gene LeBell
American martial artist, stunt performer, actor, and professional wrestler
Lee Jihan
Korean actor and singer
Sara Lee
American professional wrestler
Keith Levene
English musician and founding member of The Clash and Public Image Ltd.
Jerry Lee Lewis
American singer, songwriter, and pianist
Ramsey Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer, and radio personality
Ray Liotta
New Jersey-born movie star
Sacheen Littlefeather
American actress, model, and Native American civil rights activist
Sterling Lord
American literary agent, editor, and author
Margarita Lozano
Spanish actress known for her career in Italian films
Mike Luckman
Forbidden Planet co-founder
(on the far right, beside Neal Adams)
Bob LuPone
American actor and theater artistic director
Busi Lurayi
South African actress
Loretta Lynn
American singer-songwriter
Patricia MacLachlan
American children’s writer
Lata Mangeshkar
Indian playback singer
Hilary Mantel DBE FRSL
British writer of historical fiction
Mary Mara
American television and film actress
Stuart Margolin
American film actor and TV director
Javier Marías
Spanish author, translator, and columnist
Hiram Maristany
American photographer
Héctor “Tito” Matos
Puerto Rican percussionist, educator, and champion of plena and bomba
Dan McCafferty
Scottish frontman of Nazareth
Pat McCallum
co-founder and longtime editor-in-chief of Wizard magazine
Bob McGrath
American actor, singer, and “Sesame Street” neighbor
Dale McRaven
television writer and creator of ‘Perfect Strangers’ and ‘Mork & Mindy’
Christine McVie
English vocalist, keyboardist, and songwriter for Fleetwood Mac
Burt Metcalfe
Canadian-American film and television producer, director, screenwriter, and actor
Jean-Claude Mézières
French bandes dessinées artist and illustrator
Ron Miles
American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and composer
Jody Miller
American country music singer
Yvette Mimieux
American film and television actress
Sue Mingus
American record producer and band manager
Massimo Morante
Italian musician and guitar player for the Italian rock band Goblin
Tommy Morgan
American harmonicist and session musician
Robert Morse
American actor
Moses J. Moseley
American actor, writer, and model
Roger E. Mosley
American actor, director, and writer
James Mtume
American jazz and R&B musician, songwriter, record producer, activist, and radio personality
Kitten Natividad
Mexican-American film actress and exotic dancer
Nolan Neal
American singer
Gary Nelson
American television and film director
Olivia Newton-John AC DBE
British-Australian singer, actress, and activist
Thích Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Thi?n Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet, and teacher
Ni Kuang
Hong Kong-American novelist and screenwriter
Nichelle Nichols
American icon, actress, singer, and dancer
Jim Nisbet
American author
Diane Noomin
American underground comics artist
Monty Norman
British composer, musician, and singer
Declan O’Brien
American film and television writer and director
Terrence O’Hara
American film actor and TV director
Robert Vincent O’Neil
American screenwriter, film director, and playwright
Kevin O’Neill
English comic book illustrator
Claes Oldenburg
Swedish-born American sculptor
Bill Norton Olsen
president of independent American home entertainment company Code Red DVD
Don Orehek
American cartoonist
LaShun Pace
gospel singer–songwriter and evangelist
Carlos Pacheco
Spanish comic book illustrator
Tom Palmer Sr.
American comic book artist
Irene Papas
Greek actress and singer
Mimi Parker
American singer and drummer for the band Low
Ric Parnell
English rock drummer
Virginia Patton Moss
American actress
Lindsey Pearlman
American actress
Everett Peck
American illustrator, cartoonist, and animator
Pelé (born Edson Arantes do Nascimento)
Brazilian professional footballer, legend, icon
George Pérez
Bronx-born comic-book legend
Jacques Perrin
French actor and film producer
Wolfgang Petersen
German film director, producer, and screenwriter
Sidney Poitier KBE
Bahamian-American actor, film director, and ambassador
Gerald Potterton
British–Canadian director, writer, producer, and animator
Andrew Prine
American film, stage, and television actor
Albert Pyun
Hawaiian-born American filmmaker
Isidoro Raponi
Italian mechanical effects artist
Teddy Ray
American comedian
Régine (born Rachelle Zylberberg)
Founder of Chez Régine, the world’s first discotheque
Ivan Reitman
Czechoslovak-born Canadian filmmaker
Brent Renaud
American journalist, documentary filmmaker, and photojournalist
Richard Roat
American character actor
Marty Roberts, of Marty & Elayne
American singer
PnB Rock (born Rakim Hasheem Allen)
American rapper and singer
Hurricane G (born Gloria Rodríguez)
Puerto Rican-American rapper
Freddie Roman
Queens-born American stand-up comedian and former dean of The Friars Club
Ned Rorem
American composer
Betty Rowland
American burlesque dancer and actress
Bill Russell
American pro basketball player and literal legend
Mitchell Ryan
American film, television, and stage actor
Bobby Rydell
American pop singer and actor
Sumy Sadurni
Spanish photographer
Bob Saget
American stand-up comic, actor, director and television host
Tim Sale
American comic book artist
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
Tyler Sanders
American actor
Mike Schank
AMERICAN MOVIE star
Klaus Schulze
German electronic music pioneer, composer, and musician
Jim Seals
American musician
Jean-Jacques Sempé
French cartoonist
George Shapiro
American talent manager and television producer
Earnie Shavers
American professional boxer
Gauraa Shekhar
writer and editor
Liz Sheridan
American actress
Henry Silva
American character-actor legend
Calvin Simon
co-founder of Parliament-Funkadelic and Rock & Roll Hall-of-Famer
Roslyn Singleton
American singer and America’s Got Talent contestant
Tony Sirico
American actor
Mary Alice (born Mary Alice Smith)
American television, film, and stage actress
Alfred Sole
American production designer, film director, producer, and writer
Paul Sorvino
American actor and opera singer
Catherine Spaak
French-born Italian actress and singer
Ronnie Spector
American singer and co-founder and frontwoman of The Ronettes
Carol Speed
American actress, singer-songwriter, and author
Amy Stechler
American documentary filmmaker
John Steiner
English actor
Ben Stern
American radio engineer and famous father
Gerald Stern
American poet, essayist, and educator
Jim Stewart
American record executive and co-founder of Stax Records
Austin Stoker
Trinidadian-American leading man
Larry Storch
American actor and comedian
Jean-Marie Straub
French film director
Peter Straub
American novelist and poet
Al Strobel
American actor and icon of “Twin Peaks”
The Amazing Johnathan (John Szeles)
American comedian and magician
Akira Takarada
Japanese film actor
Takashi Ishii
Japanese film director, screenwriter, and manga artist
André Leon Talley
American fashion journalist, stylist, creative director, and Vogue editor
Alain Tanner
Swiss film director
Joe E. Tata
American television actor
Judy Tenuta
American comedian, actress, and comedy musician
Jack Thomas
longtime Boston Globe journalist
Timmy Thomas
American R&B singer, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer
Jean-Louis Trintignant
French actor
Douglas Trumbull
American film director and innovative visual effects supervisor
Kenneth Tsang
Hong Kong actor
Bill Tull
American prop master
Joe Turkel
American character actor
Gaspard Ulliel
French actor
Vangelis (born Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou)
Greek composer and film-score innovator
Tom Veitch
American writer, comic book creator, novelist, and poet
Dan Vitale
American comedian and SNL survivor
Leon Vitali
English actor and Kubrick collaborator
Monica Vitti
Italian actress and cinema icon
Lars Vogt
German classical pianist, conductor, and academic teacher
Lenny Von Dohlen
American television, film, and stage actor
Bob Wall
American actor and martial artist
Barbara Walters
American broadcast journalist and television personality
Tony Walton
British set and costume designer
Jimmy Wang Yu
Hong Kong-Taiwanese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter
Fred Ward
American character actor
David Warner
English film, television, and theater actor
Greg Webster of the Ohio Players
American drummer
Kenneth Welsh
Canadian film and television actor
Vivienne Westwood
English fashion designer and businesswoman and punk-fashion pioneer
Charles White III
American illustrator and designer
Maury Wills
American professional baseball player and manager
Michael Wilmington
Chicago film critic
Don Wilson of The Ventures
American musician
James Winburn
American actor, director, and iconic stuntman
Albert Woodfox
American activist
Andrew Woolfolk
Earth, Wind, and Fire Saxophone Player
Yoshishige Yoshida
Japanese film director
Qiao Yu
Chinese lyricist
Chor Yuen
Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, and actor
Ron Zimmerman
American producer and writer
P-22
American mountain lion
Tell the people you love that you love them. Do it today.
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