Burny Mattinson, who labored as an animator, director, producer and story artist throughout a 70-year profession because the longest-serving “castmember” within the historical past of The Walt Disney Co., has died. He was 87. Mattinson died after a brief sickness on Monday at a Canoga Park assisted dwelling facility in …

Walter Mirisch, the legendary independent-minded producer who’s the one individual to obtain the Academy of Movement Photos Arts & Sciences’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Irving G. Thalberg Award and an Oscar for finest image, has died. He was 101.  The affable Mirisch, who served 4 phrases as president of …

Hugh Hudson, who got here from the worlds of documentaries and promoting to make his function directing debut on the stirring Oscar finest image winner Chariots of Fireplace, one of the crucial admired British movies ever made, has died. He was 86. Hudson died Friday at Charing Cross hospital in …

Arnold Schulman, who landed Oscar nominations for his screenplays for Love With the Correct Stranger and Goodbye, Columbus and located success with a number of incarnations of his Broadway hit A Gap within the Head, has died. He was 97. Schulman died Saturday of pure causes at his dwelling in Santa Monica, his son, …

Melinda Dillon, who acquired supporting Oscar nominations for her turns in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Absence of Malice and portrayed the doting mother within the vacation perennial A Christmas Story, died Jan. 9, her household announced. She was 83.  Proper out of the gate, Dillon earned a …

Margie Duncan, a dancer and actress who stood in for her expensive good friend Debbie Reynolds in movies together with The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Second Time Round and The Singing Nun, has died. She was 92. Duncan died Jan. 3 after a quick sickness at her Porter Ranch house …

Sandra Seacat, the actress and influential acting coach who as a Lee Strasberg disciple taught the craft to the likes of Laura Dern, Mickey Rourke, Harvey Keitel, Common, Andrew Garfield, Michelle Williams and many others, has died. She was 86. Seacat died Tuesday of natural causes in Santa Monica, publicist …

Jean Veloz, the innovative Lindy Hop dancer who dazzled in Swing Fever and other Hollywood musicals of the 1940s, has died. She was 98. Veloz died Sunday at her home in Los Angeles, her friend, agent and manager Rusty Frank told The Hollywood Reporter. Frank co-produced the 2010 event A …

Carole Cook, who used a career boost from Lucille Ball to build a career that included three turns on Broadway and roles in Sixteen Candles and The Incredible Mr. Limpet, has died. She was 98. Cook died of heart failure on Wednesday, three days shy of her birthday, in Beverly …

Owen Roizman, the five-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer who partnered with director William Friedkin on the gripping film classics The French Connection and The Exorcist, has died. He was 86. Roizman, who additionally teamed with director Sydney Pollack on 5 movies, together with Three Days of the Condor (1975), Absence of Malice …