Eva Maria Daniels, the Icelandic producer and film festival favorite behind such recent indie dramas as What Maisie Knew, Hold the Dark and Joe Bell, has died. She was 43. Daniels died Friday in London after a battle with cancer, her friend and publicist Jessie Cohen told The Hollywood Reporter. …

Lawrence Turman, the principled Oscar-nominated producer of The Graduate who was behind other films including The Great White Hope, Pretty Poison, American History X and the last movie Judy Garland ever made, has died. He was 96. Turman died Saturday at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, his family …

Dean Smith, who won a gold medal as a sprinter at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics before becoming a top-notch Hollywood stunt performer who worked on a dozen films starring John Wayne, has died. He was 91. Smith died Saturday at his home in Breckenridge, Texas, after a battle with cancer, …

Noreen Nash, a starlet of the 1940s and ’50s who appeared in such notable films as The Southerner, Giant and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold, has died. She was 99. Nash died Tuesday of natural causes at her home in Beverly Hills, her oldest son, Lee …

Harry Belafonte, the actor, producer and singer who made calypso music a national phenomenon with “Day-O” (The Banana Boat Song) and avid supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. who used his considerable stardom to draw attention to civil rights issues and injustices around the world, has died. He was 96. …

Michael Lerner, the busy Oscar-nominated character actor who had memorable turns as bombastic types in Barton Fink, Harlem Nights, Eight Men Out and so much more, has died. He was 81. Lerner died Saturday night, according to an Instagram post from his nephew, Sam Lerner, who is also an actor …

Sharon Acker, the Canadian actress who portrayed Lee Marvin’s unfaithful wife in the 1967 neo-noir classic Point Blank and the right-hand woman Della Street opposite Monte Markham on a rebooted Perry Mason in the 1970s, has died. She was 87. Acker died March 16 in a retirement home in her …

Norman Steinberg, the Emmy-winning screenwriter who teamed with Mel Brooks on Blazing Saddles and My Favorite Year and wrote for the Michael Keaton-starring Mr. Mom and Johnny Dangerously, has died. He was 83. Steinberg died March 15 at his Hudson Valley home in upstate New York, his family announced. Steinberg …

Robert Blake, who performed the crazed real-life killer Perry Smith in Truman Copote’s In Chilly Blood and the favored TV cop Tony Baretta earlier than a sensational Hollywood homicide trial destroyed his profession, has died. He was 89. Blake, who obtained his begin as a toddler star within the Forties …

Chaim Topol, the spirited Israeli actor and singer who, one season following one other, portrayed Tevye the milkman in Fiddler on the Roof on levels all world wide and in an Oscar-nominated flip in Norman Jewison’s 1971 movie adaptation, has died. He was 87. The Related Press, citing Israeli leaders, …

Ted Donaldson, who starred as Bud Anderson on the unique radio model of Father Is aware of Greatest and as Neely Nolan within the beloved household drama A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the primary function directed by Elia Kazan, has died. He was 89. Donaldson died Wednesday of problems from …

Ricou Browning, who took to the water because the menacing Gill-Man in Creature From the Black Lagoon and because the artistic pressure behind the unique Flipper film and TV present, has died. He was 93. Browning died Monday of pure causes at his residence in Southwest Ranches, Florida, his daughter Kim …