She won the award for her performance as Linda Loman in a 1999 Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” and played the matriarch Kate Jerome in two Neil Simon comedies.
Category: Deaths (Obituaries)
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Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 83
An advocate for women’s reproductive health, she started one of the world’s smallest pharmaceutical companies to bring an emergency birth-control method to market.
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Jim Avila, Former ABC News Correspondent, Dies at 70
He spent almost two decades at the network, covering a wide range of court cases and the White House. He was also at the center of a defamation lawsuit over “pink slime.”
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William Rataczak, Co-Pilot of Flight Hijacked by D.B. Cooper, Dies at 86
He was a witness to one of the most riveting unsolved crimes in American history, which inspired scores of conspiracy theories and obsessed amateur sleuths.
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Sally Kirkland, Scene-Stealing Actress, Dies at 84
She received an Oscar nomination for the 1987 film “Anna” but spent much of her prolific career as a go-to supporting actress in movies like “The Sting” and “JFK.”
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Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Star Known for ‘Ran’ and Other Classics, Dies at 92
He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema and starred in films by Akira Kurosawa and other directors of that era.
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Ken Parker, Who Sought to Reinvent the Guitar, Dies at 73
An inveterate tinkerer, he built groundbreaking guitars that were displayed in art galleries and played by Joni Mitchell, Trent Reznor and many others.
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Peter Watkins, Provocateur With a Movie Camera, Dies at 90
His Oscar-winning 1965 film “The War Game” depicted a post-nuclear-attack England, one of his many fictionalized docudramas against war and repression.
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Pauline Collins, 85, Dies; Stage and Screen Star of ‘Shirley Valentine’
She often played a particularly British character: a bubbly yet resilient woman facing down the corrosive effects of everyday modern life.
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John Russell Taylor, 90, Dies; Cultural Critic and Hitchcock Biographer
A prolific journalist and author, he wrote the only authorized biography of Alfred Hitchcock and heaped early praise on the future Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.
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Diane Ladd, Oscar-Nominated Actress and Mother of Laura Dern, Dies at 89
She was a three-time Oscar contender playing strikingly different characters, in once case starring alongside her daughter and fellow nominee, Laura Dern.
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Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead Singer, Dies at 78
She helped shape the band’s sound in the 1970s, a decade that took the band to new heights.