Celebrities, Celebrity Deaths | featured news

Jill Clayburgh, whose Broadway and Hollywood acting career stretched through the decades, highlighted by her Oscar-nominated portrayal of a divorcee exploring her sexuality in the 1978 film "An Unmarried Woman," died Friday. She was 66.

Pioneering TV cartoon artist Alexander Anderson Jr., who created Rocky the flying squirrel and Bullwinkle the moose, has died. He was 90.

Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione died Wednesday of cancer at a Plano, Texas, hospital, his family said Wednesday night.

Tom Bosley, the patient, understanding father on television's long-running "Happy Days," has died.

Barbara Billingsley, who played the charming housewife and mom June Cleaver in the television show "Leave it to Beaver," has died at age 94, a family spokeswoman said Saturday.

Celebrities, fans, friends and family members will say goodbye to Tony Curtis during public funeral services to celebrate the movie star's life.

Actor Tony Curtis died today, his family says. He was 85. "My father leaves behind a legacy of great performances," actress Jamie Lee Curtis said.

Arthur Penn, who directed "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Miracle Worker," died after a long illness Tuesday night, his representative said.

Gloria Stuart, a 1930s Hollywood leading lady whose first significant role in nearly 60 years -- as the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron's 1997 Oscar-winning film about the ill-fated ocean liner -- earned her an Academy Award nomination, has died.

Eddie Fisher, whose huge fame as a pop singer was overshadowed by scandals ending his marriages to Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, has died. He was 82.