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Colin Tarrant
January 26, 2012: Colin Tarrant, 59, British stage and screen actor. He was best known for playing Inspector Andrew Monroe in the long-running TV police drama The Bill.
Link: Daily Mail
Dick Tufeld
January 22, 2012: Dick Tufeld, 85, US actor and announcer best known as the voice of the Lost in Space robot, whose catchcry was "Danger, Will Robinson".
Link: LA Times
Ronald Searle
Billie Jo Spears
December 14, 2011: Billie Jo Spears, 74, US country singer whose biggest hit was Blanket on the Ground.
Link: Guardian
Joe Simon
December 14, 2011: Joe Simon, 98, US comic book artist, writer and editor who co-created Captain America with Jack Kirby.
Link: NY Times
Bill Tapia
December 2, 2011: Bill Tapia, 103, American ukulele player who performed with the likes of s Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Elvis Presley.
Link: BBC
Alan Sues
December 1, 2011: Alan Grigsby Sues, 85, US stage and screen actor and comedian best known for the TV show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. His characters included Big Al the sportscaster and Uncle Al the Kiddies' Pal. He was also in the classic Twilight Zone episode "The Masks".
Link: Wikipedia
Karl Slover
September 15, 2011: Karl Slover, 93, US actor who played one of the Munchins in the 1939 film musical The Wizard of Oz.
Link: BBC
Andrea True
November 7, 2011: Andrea True, 68, US disco singer, born Andrea Marie Truden, who began her entertainment career in adult films.
Links: LA Times
Jimmy Savile
October 29, 2011: Sir Jimmy Savile, 84, iconic British television and radio presenter. He presented the popular BBC programs Top Of The Pops and Jim'll Fix It for many years, and raised an enormous amount of money for charity through marathon running.
Link: Daily Mail; Wikipedia
Bubba Smith
Sherwood Schwartz
July 12, 2011: Sherwood Schwartz, 94, US television writer and producer who created the hit shows Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch.
Link: Wikipedia
Jay Dee Springbett
June 30, 2011: Jay Dee Springbett, 36, UK-born record company executive and former judge on Australian Idol,, found dead in his Sydney home.
Link: Age
Margaret Tyzack
June 25, 2011: Margaret Tyzack, 75, British actress known for her work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the TV mini series The Forsyte Saga, The First Churchills and I, Claudius.
Links: Telegraph
Roy Skelton
June 8, 2011: Roy Skelton, 79, British character and voice actor best known for his roles on TV's Rainbow and as one of the original Doctor Who Daleks.
Link: Telegraph
Keith Smith
June ?, 2011: Keith Smith, 94?, Australian radio and TV host who specialised in interviewing children, especially on his long-running Pied Piper show. He was also a prolific author.
Links: SMH
Leonard Stern
June 7, 2011: Leonard Stern, 87, US sitcome writer and producer best known for his work on Get Smart, The Honeymooners, The Phil Silvers Show and McMillan & Wife.
Link: BBC
Benny Spellman
June 3, 2011: Benny Spellman, 79, US R&B singer whose hits included the original version of Fortune Teller, which was later covered by the Rolling Stones.
Link: Wikipedia
Clarice Taylor
May 30, 2011: Clarice Taylor, 93, US actress and comic best known for playing the mother of Bill Cosby's character in The Cosby Show. She also had a recurring role on Sesame Street.
Link: Washington Post
Gil Scott-Heron
May 27, 2011: Gil Scott-Heron, 62, influential US musician and poet known as "the godfather of rap".
Link: BBC
Randy Savage
May 20, 2011: "Macho Man" Randy Savage, 58, US wrestler, born Randall Mario Poffo, in a car accident following a suspected heart attack.
Link: Wikipedia
Sada Thompson
May 4, 2011: Sada Thompson, 83, American stage and screen actress whose television roles included matriarch Kate Lawrence in the 1970s series Family.
Link: Wikipedia
Phoebe Snow
April 26, 2011: Phoebe Snow, 60, US singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 hit Poetry Man. She died as a consequence of a cerebral haemorrhage suffered in January.
Link: Wikipedia
Poly Styrene
April 25, 2011: Poly Styrene, 53, British punk rocker, born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, of cancer. She was a member of the band X-Ray Spex and a leader of the Riot Grrrl movement.
Link: LA Times
John Sullivan
April 23, 2011: John Sullivan, 64, British sitcom scriptwriter who created the long-running hit television show Only Fools and Horses.
Link: Guardian
Elisabeth Sladen
April 19, 2011: Elisabeth Sladen, 63, British star of the television series Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures, of cancer.
Links: Daily Mail
Michael Sarrazin
April 17, 2011: Michael Sarrazin, 69, Canadian actor, born Jacques Michel André Sarrazin, best known for his role opposite Jane Fonda in They Shoot Horses Don't They?
Link: Wikipedia
Sol Saks
April 16, 2011: Sol Saks, 100, US television and films scriptwriter best known for creating the 1960s TV series Bewitched.
Link: BBC
Helen Stenborg
March 22, 2011: Helen Stenborg, 86, American stage and screen actress.
Link: Wikipedia
Elizabeth Taylor
March 23, 2011: Elizabeth Taylor, 79, British-born Hollywood legend, of congestive heart failure. Her screen roles ranged from National Velvet to Cleopatra, via Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, but she also made headlines for her many marriages - and especially her romance with Welsh actor Richard Burton. She was also well respected for her work for AIDS charities.
Links: LA Times; Guardian