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Ken Nightingall, who had a long career in the biz as a boom operator and spawned his own cosplay phenomenon among Star Wars fans, has died at the age of 92. AMPS, the Association of Motion Picture Sound, confirmed the news, saying Nightingall passed away at his UK home on Tuesday (May 19). Oscar-winning Gravity and Bla…

David Hayman, a Canadian music supervisor with extensive film and television credits, has died at age 42. His death was confirmed by his company, but no cause was immediately available. Hayman was chief music supervisor and creative director for Toronto’s Supergroup Sonic Branding Co. “Yesterday we said goodbye to our…

Former World Wrestling Entertainment star Shad Gaspard was found dead Wednesday on a Los Angeles beach after going missing in a swimming accident over the weekend, authorities said. He was 39. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office confirmed to Deadline that a body discovered along the shoreline near…

John Mahon, an actor, director and writer who played a police chief in 1997’s L.A. Confidential and, as a language lab director in one of the creepiest moments of The Exorcist revealed that recorded demon gibberish was in fact backwards English, died of natural causes at his Los Angeles home on May 3. He was 82. The…

Marty Cohen, a longtime editor and post-production chief who worked on more than a dozen Steven Spielberg films for Amblin and DreamWorks and whose producing credits include such hits as The Hunger Games?and Godzilla, has died. He was 67. An Amblin spokesperson said Cohen died May 17 of natural causes after a long…

Lynn Shelton’s death at 54 over the weekend drew a number of tributes from her many friends in the business. None was more personal, heartfelt and moving than a remembrance from Marc Maron, her frequent collaborator and romantic partner. He dedicated his popular WTF?podcast to Shelton today. “I haven't been too…

Gregory Tyree Boyce, who played Tyler Crowley in?Twilight, was found dead last week along with his girlfriend in a Las Vegas condominium, local police told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He was 30. Few details were announced, but Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Larry Hadfield told the paper that Boyce and…

Ken Osmond, who played obsequious troublemaker Eddie Haskell on TV’s Leave It to Beaver, has died, his manager confirms. Osmond was 76. "He was an incredibly kind and wonderful father,” his son, Eric, said in a statement. “He had his family gathered around him when he passed. He was loved and will be very missed." The…

Prolific French actor Michel Piccoli, well known for his memorable performances in seminal European movies Le Mépris (Contempt) and Belle De Jour, has died aged 94 his family has confirmed to French media. Piccoli starred in more than 200 movies during an acclaimed stage and screen career which began in the late 1940s…

Geno Silva, an actor best known for his role as The Skull in Brian De Palma’s Scarface died on May 9 in Los Angeles of complications from frontotemporal degeneration. He was 72. Silva was born in Albuquerque, NM, on January 20, 1948. He went on to have a career on stage and screen. In Scarface (1983), his Skull is one…

Director Lynn Shelton’s collaborator and romantic partner Marc Maron has issued a statement on her death, saying doctors tried hard to save her. “She collapsed yesterday morning after having been ill for a week,” Maron said. “There was a previously unknown, underlying condition. It was not Covid 19. The doctors could…

Phyllis Ann George, the 50th winner of the iconic Miss America pageant, pioneering sportscaster, and former First Lady of Kentucky, died Friday following a long struggle with a blood disorder. George was born June 25, 1949, in Denton, Texas. She attended the University of North Texas for three years until being…