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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Bo Hopkins, # 477 on the 2021 0racle of Bacon top 1000 has died.
From Variety.
Bo Hopkins, the actor who has appeared in classics like “American Graffiti,” “The Wild Bunch,” “Midnight Express” and “The Getaway,” died Friday. He was 80 years old.
Hopkins’ death was confirmed on the actor’s official website.
“It is with great sadness that we announce that Bo has passed away,” reads a statement on the website. “Bo loved hearing from his fans from around the world and although he was unable to respond to every email over the last few years, he appreciated hearing from each and every one of you.”
The actor was born William Hopkins in Greenville, S.C. on February 2, 1942.. He later changed his name to “Bo” in reference to the character he played in “Bus Stop,” his first off-Broadway play. After his father died when he was only nine years old, Hopkins was raised by his mother and grandmother. He later learned he was an adopted child and went on to meet his birth parents.
He joined the U.S. Army at the age of 16. After his service in the military, he decided to pursue a career in acting and gained experience in summer stock productions and guest spots in several TV episodes.
Well known for playing key supporting roles in a number of major studio films between 1969 and 1979, Hopkins got his start in feature films as “Crazy Lee” in the iconic 1969 western “The Wild Bunch.” He was subsequently hired by director Sam Peckinpah for another supporting turn as a bank robber in “The Getaway” (1972). Hopkins later starred in dozens of feature films, such as “White Lightning” (1973), “Posse” (1975), “The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing” (1973), “Midnight Express” (1978), “American Graffiti” (1973) and “The Bounty Hunter” (1989).
In addition to his work in film, Hopkins’ acting credits in TV include guest-starring on “The Rockford Files” (1974), “Charlie’s Angels” (1976), “The A-Team” (1983), “Hotel” (1983) and “Matt Houston” (1982). He was also featured on “Dynasty” in 1981.
Although he began his career playing heavy, trigger-happy cowboys or sadistic rednecks, he later evolved into more “law-abiding” roles as he got older. In 2020, Hopkins appeared in his final film, “Hillbilly Elegy,” directed by Ron Howard, his “American Graffiti” co-star.
Hopkins is survived by his wife of 32 years, Sian Eleanor Green; his son, Matthew Hopkins and his daughter, Jane Hopkins.
Hey Dan. Thanks for the news of his passing. I now have a page on him, and I have moved this comment to his new UMR page.
Bruce – Ray Liotta has died. He was 67. Rest in peace.
Hey Flora….thanks for the heads up on Ray Liotta. One of my fellow teachers came and shared that news. I spent the last two bells of school trying to process that information. Rest In Peace.
Tim Considine has died at 81. Est known for My Three Sons, he was in Disney movies like The Shaggy Dog and was a Mouseketeer. Rest in peace
I remember Tim married Meredith McCrea on My Three Sons on I think the first episode of the 1965/66 season and then he was never recruited again. Then a few episodes later they adopt Ernie.
Spin and Marty
Hey Flora….I saw that Mr. Considine had passed….along with Alan Ladd Jr. I did not have enough time to do a page on Considine, Ladd and Mitch Ryan. But all will be missed. Rest in Peace.
P.S., the guy who wrote the screenplay for Vigilante (mentioned in Frank’s obit), Richard Vetere, is a member at our pool.club.
Hey Dan….that is good information. Pool club? Do those still exist? I would have thought CoVid19 would have killed that. RIP.
Frank Pesce who made a number of the Oracle lists, ranking as high as # 561 before the switchover from IMDB to Wikipedia has died.
2 notable things about him:
He was featured in a movie about his own life called 29th Street back in 1991. Anthony Lapaglia played him and Danny Aiello played his father.
He is being buried in the same cemetery as my parents, home also to Billie Holiday, Lois Nettletown , Frankie Lymon of the Teenagers and a few career criminals and famous victims.
From Deadline.
Frank Pesce Dies: Actor In ‘Beverly Hills Cop’, ‘Top Gun’, ‘Midnight Run’ & Dozens More Was 75
By Erik Pedersen
Frank Pesce, a colorful character actor whose dozens of credits range from Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun and Midnight Run to Miami Vice, Matlock and Kojak, has died. He was 75.
His girlfriend Tammy Scher told Deadline that Pesce died February 6 in Burbank of dementia complications.
Born on December 8, 1946, in New York City, Pesce put the “character” in character actor. A longtime close friend of Sylvester Stallone, Tony Danza, the late Robert Forster and many other industry players, he was known for his big smile, big stories and bigger personality.
“They make movies about guys like me,” he always said. That quote — more about it below — will be written on his epitaph, Scher said.
Pesce began his screen career in the mid-1970s, guesting on such series as Police Story and Kojak and playing bit roles in the early Stallone films Rocky and Paradise Alley. He went on to work in film and TV steadily into the 2010s, with guest shots on hit shows including Cagney & Lacey, Knight Rider, The Greatest American Hero, Matlock, Who’s the Boss? and Miami Vice.
He’d already appeared in such films as American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love and Vigilante before playing a bar regular in the Don Simpson-Jerry Bruckheimer smash Flashdance. That led to his small but scene-making and likely most recognizable roles in the first two Simpson and Bruckheimer’s Beverly Hills Cop films — as a cigarette buyer in the wild opening scene of the first and as a hood Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley accuses of being a cop in the sequel.
Pesce went on to appear as a bartender in the Simpson-Bruckheimer juggernaut Top Gun and later as a bail jumper in the George Gallo-penned Robert De Niro-Charles Grodin action-comedy classic Midnight Run.
But back to Pesce’s “they make movies about guys like me” quote.
David Permut, the Oscar-nominated Hacksaw Ridge producer whose films also include Face/Off, Consenting Adults and the upcoming Chippendales, shared a typically atypical story about Pesce and 29th Street, the 1991 film based on the actor’s early life story that marked Gallo’s directing debut:
“One of the most memorable experiences I had was producing 29th Street, a film based on Frank’s early life in NYC when he wound up with a winning lottery ticket.
“I had sold Frank’s real-life story to United Artists and hired George Gallo to write the script, only to find out afterward that Frank also had sold his exclusive life rights to Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer at Paramount at the same time!
“I exploded at Frank, he then tried defend himself saying, “We’ll, there is no guarantee either studio would actually make the film after the scripts were developed, and a least I got two horses in the race, instead of just one.
“I was ready to kill him!
‘I called Don Simpson, who fortunately I had a good relationship with, and he actually laughed, and let it go. Thank God, because to this day, I never shared the story with John Goldwyn, who made the development deal with us at UA while he was head of production.”
20th Century Fox ultimate made the film, which Pesce co-wrote with James Franciscus and starred Dan Aiello as Frank Pesce Sr., Anthony LaPaglia as Frank Pesce Jr., Lance Kazan, Robert Forrester and Pesce playing the role of his real-life older brother Vito — a cop who kept losing his gun.
“To say Frank was one of a kind would be a gross understatement,” Permut added. “We shared our love and passion for film. He claimed to see more movies than Leonard Maltin and Roger Ebert combined.”
Along with Scher and his friends, Pesce is survived by his brother, Vito Pesce; nieces Vanessa Pesce and Danielle Pesce; and sister-in-law Catherine Pesce. He will be buried February 18 at Saint Raymond’s Cemetery in the Bronx.