Celebrities who died in 2022: Musicians, actors, entertainers

WASHINGTON — “She was a wonderful human being, wonderful talent, had millions of fans and I’m one of them,” wrote Dolly Parton of nation music legend Loretta Lynn this fall. “I miss her dearly as we all will.”

Lynn, 90, was one in every of many singers, musicians and film stars who died in 2022. Among them: Sidney Poitier, the primary Black actor to win the Oscar for finest lead efficiency; Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, remembered by the band for his “musical spirit and infectious laughter;” singer Naomi Judd, whose dying got here someday earlier than her induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; and comic Bob Saget, whose dying shocked followers and fellow “Full House” actors in January.

Others in the world of arts and leisure who died in 2022 embrace rock famous person Meat Loaf, singer-actors Olivia Newton-John and Irene Cara; “Sesame Street” actors Bob McGrath and Emilio Delgado; rappers Coolio and Takeoff; and actors Angela Lansbury, Leslie Jordan, Tony Dow, Kirstie Alley, Nichelle Nichols, Ray Liotta, Irene Papas, Sally Kellerman, Anne Heche, Bernard Cribbins and Yvette Mimieux.

Here’s a take a look at a number of the leisure greats we misplaced this yr, organized by date. 

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Peter Bogdanovich, 82. The ascot-wearing cinephile and director of Nineteen Seventies black-and-white classics like “The Last Picture Show” and “Paper Moon.” Jan. 6.

Sidney Poitier, 94. He performed roles of such dignity and intelligence that he remodeled how Black folks have been portrayed on display screen, turning into the primary Black actor to win an Oscar for finest lead efficiency and the primary to be a high box-office draw. Jan. 6.

Marilyn Bergman, 93. The Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with husband Alan Bergman on “The Way We Were,” “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” and a whole bunch of different songs. Jan. 8.  

Bob Saget, 65. The actor-comedian recognized for his position as beloved single dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House” and because the wisecracking host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” Jan. 9.

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Dwayne Hickman, 87. The actor and community TV government who regardless of quite a few achievements all through his life would all the time be remembered fondly by a technology of child boomers for his position as Dobie Gillis. Jan. 9.  

Ronnie Spector, 78. The cat-eyed, bee-hived rock ‘n’ roll siren who sang such Nineteen Sixties hits as “Be My Baby,” “Baby I Love You” and “Walking in the Rain” because the chief of the lady group the Ronettes. Jan. 12.

Fred Parris, 85. The lead singer of the Fifties concord group the Five Satins and composer of the traditional doo-wop ballad “In the Still of the Night.” Jan. 13. 

Ralph Emery, 88. He turned often called the dean of nation music broadcasters over greater than a half-century in each radio and tv. Jan. 15.

Yvette Mimieux, 80. The blond and blue-eyed Nineteen Sixties movie star of “Where the Boys Are,” “The Time Machine” and “Light in the Piazza.” Jan. 17. 

Meat Loaf, 74. The rock famous person cherished by tens of millions for his “Bat Out of Hell” album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as “Paradise By the Dashboard Light,” “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” and “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That).” Jan. 20.  

Louie Anderson, 68. His four-decade profession as a comic and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning efficiency as mother to twin grownup sons in the TV collection “Baskets.” Jan. 21.

Howard Hesseman, 81. He performed the radio disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on the sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati” and the actor-turned-history trainer Charlie Moore on “Head of the Class.” Jan. 29.  

Ashley Bryan, 98. A prolific and prize-winning youngsters’s creator and illustrator who advised tales of Black life, tradition and folklore in such acclaimed works as “Freedom Over Me,” “Beautiful Blackbird” and “Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum.” Feb. 4.

Lata Mangeshkar, 92. A legendary Indian singer with a prolific, groundbreaking catalog and a voice acknowledged by greater than a billion folks in South Asia. Feb. 6.

Betty Davis, 77. A daring and pioneering funk singer, mannequin and songwriter of the Nineteen Sixties and ‘70s who was credited with inspiring then-husband Miles Davis’ landmark fusion of jazz and extra modern sounds. Feb. 9.

Bappi Lahiri, 69. A preferred Bollywood singer and composer who received tens of millions of followers together with his penchant for feet-tapping disco music in the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. Feb. 15.

Mark Lanegan, 57. The singer whose raspy baritone and darkly poetic songwriting made Screaming Trees a necessary a part of the early Seattle grunge scene and introduced him an acclaimed solo profession. Feb. 22.

Sally Kellerman, 84. The Oscar and Emmy nominated actor who performed Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in director Robert Altman’s 1970 movie “MASH.” Feb. 24.  

Emilio Delgado, 81. The actor and singer who for 45 years was a heat and acquainted presence in youngsters’s lives and a uncommon Latino face on American tv as fix-it store proprietor Luis on “Sesame Street.” March 10.

Traci Braxton, 50. A singer who was featured along with her household in the truth tv collection “Braxton Family Values.” March 12.

William Hurt, 71. His laconic charisma and confident subtlety as an actor made him one of many Eighties foremost main males in films corresponding to “Broadcast News,” “Body Heat” and “The Big Chill.” March 13.  

Brent Renaud, 50. An acclaimed filmmaker who traveled to a number of the darkest and most harmful corners of the world for documentaries that transported audiences to little-known locations of struggling. Killed in Ukraine when Russian forces opened hearth on his car. March 13. 

Taylor Hawkins, 50. For 25 years, he was the drummer for Foo Fighters and finest pal of frontman Dave Grohl. March 25.

Estelle Harris, 93. She hollered her approach into TV historical past as George Costanza’s short-fused mom on “Seinfeld” and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” franchise. April 2.  

June Brown, 95. She performed the chain-smoking Cockney matriarch Dot Cotton on the British cleaning soap opera “EastEnders” for 35 years. April 3.

Bobby Rydell, 79. A pompadoured heartthrob of early rock ’n roll who was a star of radio, tv and the film musical “Bye Bye Birdie.” April 5.

Gilbert Gottfried, 67. The actor and legendary standup comedian recognized for his uncooked, scorched voice and crude jokes. April 12. 

Liz Sheridan, 93. She performed doting mother to Jerry Seinfeld on his hit sitcom. April 15.

Robert Morse, 90. An actor who received a Tony Award as a hilariously brash company climber in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” and a second one a technology later because the sensible, troubled Truman Capote in “Tru.” April 20. 

Naomi Judd, 76. Her household harmonies with daughter Wynonna turned them into the Grammy-winning nation stars The Judds. April 30. 

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Mickey Gilley, 86. A rustic singer whose namesake Texas honky-tonk impressed the 1980 movie “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots. May 7. 

Fred Ward, 79. A veteran actor who introduced a gruff tenderness to tough-guy roles in such movies as “The Right Stuff,” “The Player” and “Tremors.” May 8.

Ray Liotta, 67. The actor finest recognized for taking part in mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball participant Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams.” May 26.  

Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, 60. Keyboardist for British synth pop giants Depeche Mode for greater than 40 years. May 26. 

Ronnie Hawkins, 87. A brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who turned a patron of the Canadian music scene after transferring north and recruiting a handful of native musicians later often called the Band. May 29.

Ann Turner Cook, 95. Her cherubic child face was recognized the world over as the unique Gerber child. June 3.  

Jim Seals, 80. He teamed with fellow musician “Dash” Crofts on such Nineteen Seventies soft-rock hits as “Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl” and “We May Never Pass This Way Again.” June 6. 

Jean-Louis Trintignant, 91. A French movie legend and newbie race automotive driver who earned popularity of his starring position in the Oscar-winning movie “A Man and a Woman” half a century in the past and went on to painting the brutality of growing older in his later years. June 17.

Mark Shields, 85. A political commentator and columnist who shared his perception into American politics and wit on “PBS NewsHour” for many years. June 18.

James Caan, 82. The curly-haired powerful man recognized to film followers because the hotheaded Sonny Corleone of “The Godfather” and to tv audiences as each the dying soccer participant in the traditional weeper “Brian’s Song” and the on line casino boss in “Las Vegas.” July 6.  

Tony Sirico, 79. He performed the impeccably groomed mobster Paulie Walnuts in “The Sopranos” and introduced his tough-guy swagger to movies together with “Goodfellas.” July 8.

Larry Storch, 99. The rubber-faced comedian whose lengthy profession in theater, films and tv was capped by his “F Troop” position as zany Cpl. Agarn in the Nineteen Sixties spoof of Western frontier TV exhibits. July 8.  

William “Poogie” Hart, 77. A founding father of the Grammy-winning trio the Delfonics who helped write and sang a mushy lead tenor on such traditional “Sound of Philadelphia” ballads as “La-La (Means I Love You)” and “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time).” July 14.

Taurean Blacque, 82. An Emmy-nominated actor who was recognized for his position as a detective on the Eighties NBC drama collection “Hill Street Blues.” July 21.  

Paul Sorvino, 83. An imposing actor who specialised in taking part in crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in “Goodfellas” and the NYPD sergeant Phil Cerreta on “Law & Order.” July 25.

Tony Dow, 77. As Wally Cleaver on the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver,” he helped create the favored and lasting picture of the American teenager of the Fifties and 60s. July 27.  

Bernard Cribbins, 93. A beloved British entertainer whose seven-decade profession ranged from the bawdy “Carry On” comedies to youngsters’s tv and “Doctor Who.” July 27.

Nichelle Nichols, 89. She broke limitations for Black ladies in Hollywood as communications officer Lt. Uhura on the unique “Star Trek” tv collection. July 30.  

Pat Carroll, 95. A comedic tv mainstay for many years, Emmy-winner for “Caesar’s Hour” and the voice of Ursula in “The Little Mermaid.” July 30.

Judith Durham, 79. Australia’s people music icon who achieved international fame because the lead singer of The Seekers. Aug. 5.  

Olivia Newton-John, 73. The Grammy-winning famous person who reigned on pop, nation, grownup modern and dance charts with such hits as “Physical” and “You’re the One That I Want” and received numerous hearts as everybody’s favourite Sandy in the blockbuster movie model of “Grease.” Aug. 8.

Lamont Dozier, 81. He was the center title of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland staff that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave” and dozens of different hits and helped make Motown a necessary file firm of the Nineteen Sixties and past. Aug. 8.  

Wolfgang Petersen, 81. The German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic “Das Boot” propelled him right into a blockbuster Hollywood profession that included the movies “In the Line of Fire,” “Air Force One” and “The Perfect Storm.” Aug. 12.

Anne Heche, 53. The Emmy-winning movie and tv actor whose dramatic Hollywood rise in the Nineteen Nineties and achieved profession contrasted with private chapters of turmoil. Aug. 14. 

Bob LuPone, 76. As an actor, he earned a Tony Award nomination in the unique run of “A Chorus Line” and performed Tony Soprano’s household doctor, and likewise helped discovered and lead the influential off-Broadway theater firm MCC Theater for almost 40 years. Aug. 27.

Charlbi Dean, 32. The South African actor and mannequin who had a breakout position in “Triangle of Sadness,” which received this yr’s high prize on the Cannes Film Festival. Aug. 29. 

Marsha Hunt, 104. One of the final surviving actors from Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age of the Thirties and Forties who labored with performers starting from Laurence Olivier to Andy Griffith in a profession disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist. Sept. 7. 

Ramsey Lewis, 87. A famend jazz pianist whose music entertained followers over a greater than 60-year profession that started with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and made him one of many nation’s most profitable jazz musicians. Sept. 12.

Jean-Luc Godard, 91. The iconic “enfant terrible” of the French New Wave who revolutionized widespread cinema in 1960 together with his first characteristic, “Breathless,” and stood for years among the many movie world’s most influential administrators. Sept. 13.

Irene Papas, 93. The Greek actor and recording artist famend for her dramatic performances and austere magnificence that earned her distinguished roles in Hollywood films in addition to in French and Italian cinema over six many years. Sept. 14.  

Henry Silva, 95. A prolific character actor finest recognized for taking part in villains and difficult guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and different movies. Sept. 14.

Louise Fletcher, 88. A late-blooming star whose riveting efficiency because the merciless and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” set a brand new commonplace for display screen villains and received her an Academy Award. Sept. 23.

Pharoah Sanders, 81. The influential tenor saxophonist revered in the jazz world for the spirituality of his work. Sept. 24.

Coolio, 59. The rapper was amongst hip-hop’s greatest names of the Nineteen Nineties with hits together with “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage.” Sept. 28.

Kevin Locke, 68. An acclaimed Native American flute participant, hoop dancer, cultural ambassador and educator. Sept. 30.

Sacheen Littlefeather, 75. The actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award for “The Godfather” on his behalf in an indelible protest of Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans. Oct. 2.

Loretta Lynn, 90. The Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a girl in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of nation music. Oct. 4.

Judy Tenuta, 72. A brash standup who cheekily styled herself because the “Love Goddess” and toured with George Carlin as she constructed her profession in the Eighties golden age of comedy. Oct. 6.

Jody Miller, 80. Her hit “Queen of the House” received the 1966 Grammy Award for finest nation efficiency by a girl. Oct. 6.

Anita Kerr, 94. A Grammy-winning singer and composer whose vocal group the Anita Kerr Singers supplied the luxurious backdrop to the Nashville Sound. Oct. 10.

Angela Lansbury, 96. The scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved limitless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV collection “Murder, She Wrote.” Oct. 11.

Robbie Coltrane, 72. The baby-faced comic and character actor whose a whole bunch of roles included a crime-solving psychologist on the TV collection “Cracker” and the light half-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” films. Oct. 14.

Joanna Simon, 85. An acclaimed mezzo-soprano, Emmy-winning TV correspondent and one of many three singing Simon sisters who embrace pop star Carly. Oct. 19.

Lucy Simon, 82. The composer who acquired a Tony nomination in 1991 for her work on the long-running Broadway musical “The Secret Garden.” Oct. 20.

Leslie Jordan, 67. The Emmy-winning actor whose wry Southern drawl and flexibility made him a comedy and drama standout on TV collection together with “Will & Grace” and “American Horror Story.” Oct. 24.

Julie Powell, 49. A meals author who turned an web darling after running a blog for a yr about making each recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” resulting in a e book deal and a movie adaptation. Oct. 26.

Jerry Lee Lewis, 87. The untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous expertise, power and ego collided on such definitive information as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and sustained a profession in any other case upended by private scandal. Oct. 28.

Takeoff, 28. A rapper finest recognized for his work with the Grammy-nominated trio Migos. Nov. 1. 

George Booth, 96. A prize-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker who with manic affection captured the timeless comedy of canines and cats and the human beings one way or the other in cost of their properly being. Nov. 1.

Aaron Carter, 34. The singer-rapper who started performing as a baby and had hit albums beginning in his teen years. Nov. 5.

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Leslie Phillips, 98. The British actor finest recognized for his roles in the bawdy “Carry On” comedies and because the voice of the Sorting Hat in the “Harry Potter” films. Nov. 7.

Jeff Cook, 73. The guitarist who co-founded the nation group Alabama and steered them up the charts with such hits as “Song of the South” and “Dixieland Delight.” Nov. 8.

Gal Costa, 77. The singer was an icon in the Tropicalia and Brazilian widespread music actions and loved an almost six-decade profession. Nov. 9.

Kevin Conroy, 66. The prolific voice actor whose gravely supply on “Batman: The Animated Series” was for a lot of Batman followers the definitive sound of the Caped Crusader. Nov. 10.

Gallagher, 76. The long-haired, smash-’em-up comic who left a path of laughter, anger and shattered watermelons over a decadeslong profession. Nov. 11.

John Aniston, 89. The Emmy-winning star of the daytime cleaning soap opera “Days of Our Lives” and father of actress Jennifer Aniston. Nov. 11.

Robert Clary, 96. A French-born survivor of Nazi focus camps throughout World War II who performed a feisty prisoner of battle in the inconceivable Nineteen Sixties sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes.” Nov. 16.

Jason David Frank, 49. He performed the Green Power Ranger Tommy Oliver on the Nineteen Nineties youngsters’s collection “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.” Nov. 19.

Wilko Johnson, 75. The guitarist with British blues-rock band Dr. Feelgood who had an sudden profession renaissance after being recognized with terminal most cancers. Nov. 21.

Irene Cara, 63. The Oscar, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy successful singer-actor who starred and sang the title lower from the 1980 hit film “Fame” after which belted out the era-defining hit “Flashdance … What a Feeling” from 1983′s “Flashdance.” Nov. 25.

Freddie Roman, 85. The comic was a former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene. Nov. 26.

Christine McVie, 79. The British-born Fleetwood Mac vocalist, songwriter and keyboard participant whose cool, soulful contralto helped outline such classics as “You Make Loving Fun,” “Everywhere” and “Don’t Stop.” Nov. 30.

Julia Reichert, 76. The Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker behind “American Factory” — typically known as the “godmother of American independent documentaries” — whose movies explored themes of race, class and gender, typically in the Midwest. Dec. 1.

Bob McGrath, 90. An actor, musician and youngsters’s creator broadly recognized for his portrayal of one of many first common characters on the youngsters’s present “Sesame Street.” Dec. 4.

Kirstie Alley, 71. A two-time Emmy winner whose roles on the TV megahit “Cheers” and in the “Look Who’s Talking” movies made her one of many greatest stars in American comedy in the late Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties. Dec. 5.

Angelo Badalamenti, 85. The composer finest recognized for creating otherworldly scores for a lot of David Lynch productions, from “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” to “Mulholland Drive.” Dec. 11.  

Stephen “tWitch” Boss, 40. The longtime and beloved dancing DJ on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and a former contestant on “So You Think You Can Dance.” Dec. 13. 

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Shirley Eikhard, 67. The singer-songwriter who equipped songs for Cher, Emmylou Harris, Anne Murray, Chet Atkins and located lasting fame penning Bonnie Raitt‘s Grammy-winning 1991 hit “Something to Talk About.” Dec. 15.

Thom Bell, 79. The Grammy-winning producer, author and arranger who helped good the “Sound of Philadelphia” of the Nineteen Seventies with the ingenious, orchestral settings of such hits because the Spinners’ “I’ll Be Around” and the Stylistics’ “Betcha by Golly, Wow.” Dec. 22.