Pictures: Recent notable pop culture deaths
Robert Loggia poses for a portrait Jan. 22, 2009, during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Loggia, who played drug lords and mobsters and danced with Tom Hanks in āBig,ā has died at age 85.
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Former Sen. Fred Thompson, a folksy former Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee who appeared in feature films and television including a role on āLaw & Order,ā died Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015, his family said. He was 73.
(Steve Helber / AP)Maureen OāHara, the flame-haired Irish movie star who appeared in classics ranging from the grim āHow Green Was My Valleyā to the uplifting āMiracle on 34th Street,ā died in her sleep on Oct. 24, 2015, at her home in Boise, Idaho. She was 95.
(Chris Pizzello / AP)Jean Darling and Joe Cobb in, āNoisy Noises,ā an Our Gang comedy, later to be known as The Little Rascals. Darling died in Rodgau, Germany at the age of 93, according to the New York Times.
(CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty Images)Baseball Hall of Famer and former New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra died at the age of 90 of natural causes on September 22, 2015.
(JASON SZENES / EPA)Jack Larson, right, who was better known as the cub reporter Jimmy Olsen in the television series āAdventures of Superman,ā died at age 87.
(ABC / Getty Images)Wes Craven, whose āNightmare on Elm Streetā and āScreamā movies made him one of the most recognizable names in the horror film genre, has died at 76. Cravenās family said in a statement that he died in his Los Angeles home Sunday after battling brain cancer.
(Matt Sayles / AP)In this April 2, 2005 file photo, Wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper gestures to the crowd after being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame at the Induction Ceremony in Universal City, Calif. The WWE said Piper died Friday, July 31, 2015. He was 61.
(MATT SAYLES / Associated Press)Alex Rocco, the character actor best known for playing the bespectacled Las Vegas mobster Moe Greene in āThe Godfather,ā has died, his daughter announced on July 18, 2015. He was 79.
(Matt Sayles / AP)Burt Shavitz, a former beekeeper, is the Burt behind Burtās Bees. The co-founder behind Burtās Bees died on July 5, 2015 at the age of 80.
(Robert F. Bukaty / AP)Amanda Peterson, best known for her role in the 1987 romantic comedy āCanāt Buy Me Love,ā died on July 5 in Greeley, Colo. She was 43.
(Ron Galella, Ltd. / WireImage)Dick Van Patten, the genial comic actor best known as the patriarch of TVās āEight is Enough,ā died on June 23. He was 86.
(Rene Macura/AP)British actor Christopher Lee, known for his roles in numerous horror movies, as well as the āLord of the Ringsā trilogy, died at 93 on June 8, 2015.
(Anonymous / AP)Prior to his surrender to U.S. forces in 2003, Tarik Aziz was known as the diplomatic symbol of the Iraqi government, the man Saddam Hussein deployed to convey his message to the world. He had been in custody since his surrender. He was 79. Full obituary
(Peter Dejong / Associated Press)Actress and philanthropist Mary Ellen Trainor, who appeared in every āLethal Weaponā film and played the mother in āGoonies,ā died at her home in Montecito, Calif., on May 20. She was 62.
(ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images)Actress and comedian Anne Meara died May 23, 2015 at the age of 85. She was married to Jerry