Our place to honor those actors, actresses and the many people behind the camera that have passed in 2022.
December 5th – Kirstie Alley (1951-2022)
Kirstie Alley Movies | Ultimate Movie Rankings
November 25th – Irene Cara (1959-2022)
October 14th – Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
October 11th – Angela Lansbury (1925-2022)
September 23rd – Louis Fletcher (1934-2022)
September 14th – Henry Silva (1928-2022)
September 14th – Irene Papas (1934-2022)
Irene Papas Movies in our Database Ranked – Movie (Year)
1st – Z (1969)
2nd – Zorba the Greek (1964)
3rd – Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Message, The (1976)
Moon-Spinners (1964)
Lion of the Desert (1980)
Brotherhood, The (1968)
Trojan Women, The (1971)
High Season (1987)
Sweet Country (1987)
11th – Battle of Sutjeska, The (1973)
September 13th – Jean Luc Godard (1930 – 2022)
Sadly we do not currently have a UMR Godard Page.
September 10th – Marsha Hunt (1917-2022)
August 12th – Wolfgang Petersen (1941-2022)
August 12th – Anne Heche (1969-2022)
August 8th – Olivia Newton-John (1948-2022)
August 6th – Clu Gulager (1928-2022)
July 31st – Nichelle Nichols (1932-2022)
July 25th – Paul Sorvino (1939-2022)
July 24th – David Warner (1941-2022)
July 23rd – Bob Rafelson (1933-2022)
July 9th – L.Q. Jones (1927-2022)
July 6th – James Caan (1940-2022)
June 12th – Philip Baker Hall (1931-2022)
May 28th – Bo Hopkins (1942-2022)
May 26th – Ray Liotta (1954-2022)
May 8th – Fred Ward (1922-2022)
April 20th – Robert Morse (1931-2022)
April 12th – Gilbert Gottfried (1955-2022)
April 7th – Nehemiah Persoff (1919-2022)
March 13th – William Hurt (1950-2022)
March 4th – Mitchell Ryan (1934-2022)
February 24th – Sally Kellerman (1937-2022)
February 13th – Ivan Reitman (1946-2022)
January 21st – Louie Anderson (1953-2022)
January 20th – Meat Loaf (1947-2022)
January 17th – Yvette Mimieux (1942-2022)
January 9th – Bob Saget (1956-2022)
January 9th – Dwayne Hickman (1934-2022)
January 6th – Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)
January 6th – Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022)
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Hello, been in long time since I visited your movie site. I was so sorry to hear that Sidney Poitier passed away. I thought he was a very good actor, enjoyed his movies. Sad to hear that he is gone. So many of the older stars have been missed. Thanks for your movie information in the past years and many many more years in the future. Take care and be well.
George Chakiras is 90. The oldest living Oscar winning actresses are Eva Marie Saint 97, followed by Lee Grant 95, Estelle Parsons 94, Joanne Woodward 91, and Rita Moreno at 90.
The oldest living singer to have a # 1 record on Billboard is Bill Hayes 96, who hit # 1 in 1955 with The Ballad of Davy Crockett. Tony Bennett, 95, had earlier # 1’s, pre 1955.
I found out thought TCM’s Youtube page and the comments about Bogdanovich that Sidney POoitier died today. He was a hero of mine. Rest in peace Mr. Poitier
Hey Flora. Such sad news. I found out while looking at something else on the internet in between classes. Wow 94…..he aged well. Rest in Peace.
Gene Hackman is now the oldest living Oscar winners for best actor and the earliest one to win, which previously Mr. Poitier held both titles. Mr. Hackman turns 92 this year. The only other 90 + actor to win best actor still alive is Robert Duvall who turned 91 during the week.
Hey Dan….good information on who now holds the title of oldest living Oscar winners. Sorry to see that Sidney had passed. A true Hollywood legend. Rest in Peace.
Sidney Poitier has passed. Below from ABC news.
Sidney Poitier, the Oscar-winning actor who brought a quiet dignity to his characters on screen and helped break down the color barrier in Hollywood, has died. He was 94 years old.
Poitier’s death was confirmed by two Bahamian ministers. Deputy Prime Minister Chester Cooper told ABC News he was “conflicted with great sadness and a sense of celebration when I learned of the passing of Sir Sidney Poitier.”
“Sadness that he would no longer be here to tell him how much he means to us, but celebration that he did so much to show the world that those from the humblest beginnings can change the world and that we gave him his flowers while he was with us,” he said.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell also told ABC News, “We’ve lost a great Bahamian and I’ve lost a personal friend.”
Poitier became the first Black man to win an Academy Award for best actor in 1964 for his role in “Lilies of the Field.” He was perhaps best known for his role as a Black doctor engaged to a white woman in 1967’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” in which he starred opposite Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
That same year, he portrayed his most successful character, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs in the Southern crime drama “In the Heat of the Night.” It was a role he would reprise in two sequels. He played an inner-city teacher in “To Sir, with Love,” his third film in 1967.
Born Feb. 20, 1927, in Miami while his Bahamian parents were visiting, Poitier spent most of his childhood in the Bahamas. As a teen, he was sent to live with one of his brothers in Miami, and at age 16, moved on his own to New York City. After working a series of menial jobs and a brief stint in the Army, he finally landed a spot at the American Negro Theatre in Harlem.
He made his film debut in 1950 in “No Way Out,” playing a doctor treating a white bigot. His breakthrough role came in 1955 playing a student in an inner-city school in “Blackboard Jungle.” He had earned his first Academy Award nomination for starring in the 1958 crime drama “The Defiant Ones” with Tony Curtis.
Other memorable roles included the musical “Porgy and Bess,” the film adaptation of “A Raisin in the Sun” and “A Patch of Blue.”
Starting in the 1970s, Poitier directed a number of films, including “Uptown Saturday Night” and “Let’s Do It Again” with Bill Cosby. In 1980, he directed the hit comedy “Stir Crazy,” starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.
After retiring from acting in 1997, he served as the non-resident Bahamian ambassador to Japan until 2007.
In 2002, 38 years after receiving his best actor Oscar, Poitier was given an honorary Academy Award for his “remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being.” In 2009, President Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honor.
Poitier is survived by six daughters, four of whom he had with first wife Juanita Hardy. He is also survived by his current wife Joanna Shimkus, the mother of two of his daughters, including actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier.
Hollywood mourned the passing of such an influential figure, with tributes from Whoopi Goldberg, Jeffrey Wright and Debbie Allen.
“He showed us how to reach for the stars,” Goldberg said in part. “My condolences to his family and to all of us as well.”
Wright called Poitier “a landmark actor” and “one of a kind.” He added, “What a beautiful, gracious, warm, genuinely regal man. RIP, Sir. With love.”
“SidneyPoitier, your last sunset with us is the dawn of many generations rising in the path of light you blazed,” Allen said. “We will always hold you in our hearts and forever speak your name.”
Hey Dan….good link and information on the late great Sidney Poitier. Sad sad news. RIP. This new page is getting way too much information so early in the year.