Tom Skerritt, star of Alien, Top Gun and Picket Fences, dies at 93
The Detroit-born Air Force veteran played Captain Dallas in Alien, Viper in Top Gun and won an Emmy as the small-town sheriff of Picket Fences. He died in Seattle of natural causes.
Category: Film & TV
Fedir Stryhun, actor and longtime head of Lviv’s Zankovetska Theatre, dies at 86
A Shevchenko Prize laureate who played more than 100 stage roles, from Bohdan Khmelnytsky to King Lear, he ran one of Ukraine's oldest drama theatres for over three decades. He died in Lviv after a long illness.
Jeff Baena, writer and director of Life After Beth and Horse Girl, dies at 47
Jeff Baena co-wrote I Heart Huckabees, then made a string of off-beat independent comedies, several of them starring his wife, Aubrey Plaza. He was found dead at his home in Los Angeles in January 2025.
Francis Duru’s death caps a hard year for Nollywood as actors turn to public appeals for medical bills
Francis Duru is the latest of more than a dozen Nollywood actors to die in 2026, as ailing stars crowdfund their treatment and the Actors Guild of Nigeria calls for legal protection.
Francis Duru denied a viral illness video four months before his death
In June 2026, Francis Duru told fans a viral clip showing him looking frail was the work of 'merchants of darkness'. Four months later, his family announced he had died after a brief illness.
Francis Duru’s films: from Rattlesnake to Netflix, the roles that defined his career
From the young Ahanna in Amaka Igwe's Rattlesnake to a Netflix hit almost three decades later, these are the films that defined Francis Duru's career.
Francis Duru, Nollywood veteran of Rattlesnake and Blood Money, dies at 57
Francis Duru, the Nigerian actor known as Ahanna in the 1995 film Rattlesnake and a former interim president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, has died at 57 after a brief illness, his family said.
Kwame Dzokoto, Efiewura actor and Edziban host, dies after collapsing during radio discussion in Tarkwa
Seth Kwame Dzokoto, the comic actor known as Judge Koboo in Efiewura and host of TV3's Edziban, has reportedly died after collapsing during a radio panel discussion in Tarkwa on Thursday, October 22, 2026.
Richard O’Sullivan, star of Man About the House and Robin’s Nest, dies at 82
As Robin Tripp, the trainee chef sharing a flat with two women, Richard O'Sullivan was one of the biggest stars of 1970s British comedy. A stroke in 2003 ended his career, and he spent his last 23 years in a care home for entertainers.
Jeremy Thomas, Oscar-winning producer of The Last Emperor, dies at 77
The independent producer behind The Last Emperor, which won nine Oscars, spent fifty years making films with Bertolucci, Cronenberg, Oshima and Gilliam. His last film was due to premiere three days after his death.