Passings

Deaths reported from Jan. 1 through Dec. 22. For a more comprehensive list, visit the Calendar Web site at https://www.calendarlive.com.

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Rolf Lieberman, led Paris, Hamburg operas, 88, Jan. 2

William Allyn, TV producer, 71, Jan. 3

Iron Eyes Cody, actor, environmentalist, 94, Jan. 4

Michel Petrucciani, jazz pianist, 36, Jan. 6

James Hammerstein, theater director, 67, Jan. 7

Harvey Miller, TV, film writer, 63, Jan. 8

Rick Bennewitz, TV director, 62, Jan. 9

Don Roberts, TV production designer, 64, Jan. 10

Betty Lou Gerson, voice of Cruella DeVil, 84, Jan. 12

Mark Edward Warren III, TV, film director, 60, Jan. 12

Jerzy Grotowski, theater director, 65, Jan. 14

Fredric Myrow, composer, musician, 59, Jan. 14

Frances Godowsky, painter, sister of George and Ira Gershwin, 92, Jan. 18

Lucille Kallen, writer for “Your Show of Shows,” 76, Jan. 18

Charles Brown, blues singer, pianist, 78, Jan. 21

Susan Strasberg, stage, film actress, 60, Jan. 21

Gabor Carelli, tenor, 83, Jan 22

Frederick Sommer, photographer, 93, Jan 23.

Bill Crofut, banjo player, 64, Jan. 25

Robert Shaw, choral conductor, music director, 82, Jan. 25

Jeanne-Marie Darre, French pianist, 93, Jan. 26

Charles Luckman, architect who designed Madison Square Garden, L.A.’s Forum and Convention Center, 89, Jan. 26

Lili St. Cyr, striptease artist of ‘30s and ‘40s, 80, Jan. 29

Huntz Hall, actor in Dead End Kids movies, 78, Jan. 30

Spencer A. Samuels, noted art dealer, 85, Jan. 30

Don Alex (Hector Alejandro Galindo Amezcua), director, writer of Mexican films, 93, Feb. 1

Norman Bluhm, second-generation abstract Expressionist painter, 78, Feb. 3 Herbert Kline, documentary filmmaker, 89, Feb. 5

Nicholas Krushenick, abstract painter, 70, Feb. 5

William Ludwig, screenwriter, 87, Feb. 7

Richard Boone, jazz trombonist, 68, week of Feb. 7

Bobby Troup, writer of song “Route 66,” actor, 80, Feb. 7

John “Jaki” Byard, jazz pianist, composer, 76, Feb. 11

Michael Higgins, glass artist, 90, Feb. 13

Doug Weston, Troubador club founder, 72, Feb. 14

Buddy Wayne Knox, rockabilly singer, 65, Feb. 14

Betty Roche, blues singer, 81, Feb. 16

Ottley Briggs, watercolor and collage artist, 76, Feb. 17

Gene Siskel, movie critic, 53, Feb. 20

Charles Allan Gerhardt, conductor, arranger, record producer, 72, Feb 22

Jose Quintero, Tony-winning theater director, founder of Circle-in-the-Square, 74, Feb. 26

Horace Tapscott, jazz pianist and composer, 64, Feb. 27

Dusty Springfield, singer dubbed “queen of white soul,” 59, March 2

Stephen R. Holtzman, digital art and music pioneer, 43, March 4

Del Close, actor, improvisational comedy pioneer, 64, March 4

Theodore “Teddy” McRae, jazz arranger, composer, 91, March 4

Richard Kiley, Tony- and Emmy-winning actor, 76, March 5

Lowell Fulson, blues singer-guitarist, 77, March 7

Stanley Kubrick, film director, 70, March 7

Peggy Cass, Tony-winning actress, 74, March 8

Muriel Bentley, ballet dancer, 82, March 8

Yehudi Menuhin, violinist, 82, March 12

Lucian Bloch, artist, photographer, 90, March 13

Garson Kanin, playwright, screenwriter, director, 86, March 13

Maud Morgan, artist, 96, March 14

Harry Callahan, photographer, 86, March 15

Ernest Gold, film composer, 77, March 17

Lillian McMurry, founder of blues label Trumpet, 78, March 18

Patrick Heron, abstract painter, 79, March 20

Charles Sawtelle, bluegrass guitarist, 52, March 20

David Strickland, actor on “Suddenly Susan,” 29, March 22

Joseph “Mighty Joe” Young, blues guitarist, 71, March 24

Margaret Mason, soap opera actress, 58, March 26

Brother John Sellers, blues, jazz, gospel singer, 74, March 27

Brock Speer, gospel singer, 78, March 29

Joe Williams, jazz singer with Count Basie, 80, March 29

Gary Morton, Lucille Ball’s second husband and producer, 74, March 30

Eva Cockroft, Venice muralist, 62, April 1

Lionel Bart, lyricist, composer of “Oliver!,” 68, April 3

Faith Domergue, actress, 74, April 4

Lucille Lortel, patron of nonprofit theater, producer of off-Broadway plays, 98, April 4

Red Norvo, jazz xylophone-marimba virtuoso, 91, April 6

Albert “Poppy” Popwell, actor, 72, April 9

Jean Vander Pyl, voice of Wilma Flintstone, 79, April 10

Boxcar Willie, country singer, 67, April 12

Don McGuire, actor, screenwriter, director, 80, April 13

Ellen Corby, actress, 87, April 14

Anthony Newley, actor, playwright, composer, singer, 67, April 14

Aubrey Shenck, film noir producer, 90, April 14

Vida Ratzlaff Hackman, conceptual artist, 64, April 15

Charles E. “Chuck” McKimson, animator who worked on Warner Bros. cartoons, 84, April 16

Skip Spence, member of Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, 52, April 16

Raghubir Singh, photographer, 56, April 18

Helen Lundeberg, artist, 91, April 19

Senor Wences (Wenceslao Moreno), ventriloquist, 103, April 20

Buddy Rogers, actor, 94, April 21

Melba Liston, jazz trombonist, 73, April 23

Ronald Alley, Tate Gallery curator, 73, April 25

Al Hirt, trumpeter, 76, April 27

Maria Stader, soprano, 88, April 27

Rory Calhoun, actor, 76, April 28

John Stears, visual effects wizard, 64, April 28

Donald Stewart, screenwriter, 69, April 28

Oliver Reed, actor, 61, May 2

Tibor Kalman, graphic designer, 49, May 2

Helen Taylor Sheats, artist, architect, 89, May 4

Earl Underwood, Leimert Park gallery co-founder, 47, May 6

Dirk Bogarde, actor, 78, May 8

Dana Plato, actress, 34, May 8

Leon Thomas, yodeling jazz singer, 61, May 8

Shel Silverstein, author, playwright, cartoonist, songwriter, 66, May 10

Richard D. Bunkall, artist, 45, May 12

Saul Steinberg, cartoonist, 84, May 12

Erle Loran, abstract artist, 93, May 13

A.E. Houghton Jr., “Twilight Zone” producer, 84, May 14

Jerry Wunderlich, set decorator, 74, May 14

Henry Jones, actor, 86, May 17

Bruce Fairbairn, rock music producer, 49, May 18

Lawrence W. Markes, comedy writer, 77, May 19

Edward H. Fickett, architect, 76, May 21

Francine Everett, singer, actress, 79, May 27

Elsie Krummeck Crawford, industrial designer, 86, May 29

Charles Pierce, impersonator of Hollywood grandes dames, 73, May 31

Mel Torme, singer, 73, June 5

Ernie Wilkins, jazz composer, saxophonist, 79, June 5

Ron Link, stage director, 54, June 7

James “Rosy” McHargue, jazz musician, 97, June 8

DeForest Kelley, actor, Dr. McCoy on “Star Trek,” 79, June 11

Julias Tobias, painter, sculptor, 83, June 16

Frank Tarloff, blacklisted screenwriter, 83, June 25

Gilman Kraft, publisher of Performing Arts magazines, 73, June 27

John Woolf, producer (“African Queen”), 86, June 28

Allan Carr, producer, 62, June 29

Dennis Brown, reggae singer, 42, July 1

Edward Dmytryk, director who named names during Hollywood blacklist era, July 1

Sylvia Sidney, actress, 88, July 1

Mario Puzo, author of “The Godfather,” 78, July 2

Igor Belsky, ballet choreographer, 74, July 3

Mark Sandman, lead singer, Morphine, 46, July 4

Joaquin Rodrigo, composer, 97, July 6

Stanley Soble, L.A. casting director, 59, July 6

Samuel Sanders, pianist, 62, July 9

Helen Forrest, big-band vocalist, 82, July 11

Everett Greenbaum, TV writer, 79, July 11

Stan Durwood, developed the multiplex cinema, 78, July 14

Dorothy J. Foote (a.k.a. Jean Jourdain), painter, 87, July 15

Richard Marion, actor, TV director, 50, July 19

Sandra Morse Gould, actress, best known as second Gladys Kravitz on “Bewitched,” also later voice of Betty Rubble, 73, July 20

Marguerite Cullman, significant investor in Broadway productions, 94, July 26

Harry “Sweets” Edison, jazz trumpeter, member of Count Basie Orchestra, 83, July 27

Werner Haftmann, former Berlin National Gallery director, 87, July 28

Anita Carter, singer, 66, July 29

Edward L. Palmer, helped develop “Sesame Street,” 66, Aug. 1

Alberto Gironella, Mexican painter, 70, Aug. 2

Leroy Vinnegar, jazz bassist, 71, Aug. 3

Kazuo Miyagawa, Kurosawa cinematographer, 91, Aug. 7

Victor Mature, actor, 86, Aug. 4

Bob Herbert, creator of Spice Girls, 57, Aug. 9

Anthony Radziwill, TV producer, 40, Aug. 10

Carlos Cachaca, samba composer, 97, Aug. 12

Frederick Hart, sculptor, 56, Aug. 13

August Cinquegrana, documentary filmmaker, 58, Aug. 15

Laura Anderson, artist, 96, Aug. 16

Bobby Sheehan, bassist in Blues Traveler, 31, Aug. 20

Leo Castelli, art dealer, 91, Aug. 22

Frederick E. Emmons, L.A. architect, 91, Aug. 23

Norman Wexler, screenwriter, 73, Aug. 23

George Sugarman, sculptor, 87, Aug. 25

Spiegle Willcox, jazz trombonist, 96, Aug. 25

Marguerite Chapman, actress, 81, Aug. 31

Charles Lowe, early TV producer and longtime manager and husband of Carol Channing, 87, Sept. 2 Allen Funt, creator of “Candid Camera,” 84, Sept. 5

Katie Webster, blues pianist and singer, 63, Sept. 5

Ruth Roman, actress, 75, Sept. 9

Alfredo Kraus, tenor, 71, Sept. 10

Tony Duquette, fabulist interior designer and artist, 85, Sept. 9

Beau Jocque, zydeco musician, 45, Sept. 10

Harry Crane, screenwriter and co-creator of TV’s “The Honeymooners,” 85, Sept. 13

Charles Crichton, British film director, 89, Sept. 14

Hank Palmieri, National Geographic filmmaker, 43, Sept. 18

Sal Salvador, jazz guitarist, 73, Sept. 22

George C. Scott, actor, 71, Sept. 22

Ivan Goff, screenwriter, co-creator of “Charlie’s Angels,” 89, Sept. 23

John Paul Jones, artist, 74, Sept. 25

Panos Koulermos, architect, 66, Sept. 26

Claude Bessy, writer and co-founder of punk magazine Slash, 55, Oct. 2

Dean O’Brien, movie, TV producer, 67, Oct. 2

Lee Richardson, actor, 73, Oct. 2

Bernard Buffet, painter, 71, Oct. 4

Art Farmer, jazz trumpeter, 71, Oct. 4

Emil Schumacher, German artist, 87, Oct. 4

Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer, 79, Oct. 6

Milt Jackson, jazz vibraphonist, 76, Oct. 9

George Forrest, Tony-winning composer, 84, Oct. 10

Edith R. Wyle, founder of Craft and Folk Art Museum, 81, Oct. 12

Josef Locke, Irish tenor inspired “Hear My Song,” 82, Oct. 15

Glen Payne, gospel singer, 72, Oct. 15

Ella Mae Morse, blues singer, 75, Oct. 16

Hamilton “Terry” Gilkyson, composer for Disney animated movies, 83, Oct. 15

Loren Zachary, patron of the arts, 85, Oct. 23

Hoyt Axton, singer, songwriter, actor, 61, Oct. 26

Abraham Polonsky, blacklisted film noir screenwriter who refused to name names, 88, Oct. 26

Albert J. Whitlock, visual effects artist, 84, Oct. 26

Frank DeVol, prolific TV composer, 88, Oct. 27

Robert Linn, composer, 74, Oct. 28

Ian Bannen, actor, 71, Nov. 3

Colin Rowe, historian and teacher of architecture, 79, Nov. 5

Lester Bowie, jazz trumpeter, 58, Nov. 8

Gwendolyn Gordy Fuqua, Motown records figure, 71, Nov. 8

Richard Martin, curator of costumes at Metropolitan Museum of Art, 52, Nov. 8

Felix Galimir, violinist, 89, Nov. 10

Mary Kay Bergman, voice of “South Park” mothers, 38, Nov. 11

Gaby Casadesus, French pianist, 98, Nov. 11

Thomas Pitfield, British composer, artist, 96, Nov. 11

John B. Brooks, jazz arranger, composer, 82, Nov. 13

Donald Mills, last member of Mills Brothers, 84, Nov. 13

Gene Levitt, TV writer, director (“Fantasy Island” et al), 79, Nov. 15

Jay Moloney, former super-agent, 35, Nov. 16

Frank Taylor, producer of “The Misfits,” 83, Nov. 16

Paul Bowles, writer, composer, 88, Nov. 18

Horst P. Horst, photographer, 93, Nov. 18

Doug Sahm, musician, 58, Nov. 18

Adele Balkan, costume designer, 92, Nov. 20

Quentin Crisp, writer, 90, Nov. 21

Charles Thomas, jazz pianist, 64, Nov. 23

Fred Ford, R&B; saxophonist, 69, Nov. 26

John Berry, blacklisted film director, 82, Nov. 29

Gene Rayburn, game show host, 81, Nov. 29

Charlie Byrd, jazz guitar virtuoso, 74, Nov. 30

Don “Sugarcane” Harris, rock violinist, 61, Nov. 30

Mike Ockrent, theatrical director, 53, Dec. 2

Enrique Cadicamo, tango composer, 99, Dec. 3

Madeline Kahn, actress, 57, Dec. 3

John Larkin, scat singer, 57, Dec. 3

Kenny Baker, jazz trumpeter, 78, Dec. 7

Rick Danko, rock bassist, singer, 56, Dec. 9

Paul Cadmus, artist, 94, Dec. 12

Leo Smit, pianist, composer, 78, Dec. 12

Grover Washington Jr., jazz-fusion saxophonist, 56, Dec. 17

Robert Bresson, French film director, 98, Dec. 18

Joe Higgs, reggae singer who fostered career of Bob Marley, 59, Dec. 18

Stanley Meyer, producer of TV’s “Dragnet,” 85, Dec. 18

Desmond Llewelyn, actor who played Q in Bond films, 85, Dec. 19

Hank Snow, country singer, 85, Dec. 20