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R.I.P. Kevin Conway of Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse

Actor Kevin Conway had 80 screen credits to his name, appearing with the likes of Sylvester Stallone in F.I.S.T. and PARADISE ALLEY, Kevin Costner in THIRTEEN DAYS, Bruce Willis in MERCURY RISING, Chevy Chase in FUNNY FARM, Michael Keaton in...

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R.I.P. Dyanne Thorne, star of Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS

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We've lost one of the grindhouse / drive-in era's most popular icons, as the sad word has come out that actress Dyanne Thorne passed away on January 28th. Born in Greenwich, Connecticut in either 1936 or 1943 (there seems to...

R.I.P. Slaughter High director George Dugdale, husband of Caroline Munro

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We have some sad news to share today, as genre icon Caroline Munro has informed her fans that her husband George Dugdale passed away on January 14th. Munro has packed a lot of memorable work into a career that has...

R.I.P.: Virginia Leith of The Brain That Wouldn’t Die

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Virginia Leith didn't do a ton of acting during her twenty-seven years in the film industry, and hadn't done any screen acting at all in the last thirty-nine years, but she did work on some notable projects. She made her...

R.I.P.: Robert Forster has passed away at age 78

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Sad news broke over the weekend with the announcement that prolific actor Robert Forster passed away on Friday, October 11th, after a short battle with brain cancer. The day he passed away also happened to be the same day his...

R.I.P. Filmmaker and FX artist Ryan Nicholson

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I remember being on Facebook a few years ago when the news broke that filmmaker / special effects artist Ryan Nicholson had collapsed right after a project he was working on wrapped. As it turned out, that incident was the...

R.I.P.: Sid Haig has passed away at the age of 80

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Cinema has lost one of its coolest character actors, as this morning brings the said news that the great Sid Haig has passed away at the age of 80. Haig's wife Susan posted on his official Instagram page that he...

R.I.P.: Lane Carroll of Romero’s The Crazies has passed away

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Lane Carroll only had four acting roles over the course of a career that lasted about eight years, but each of those roles were notable in some way. Under the name Holle K. Winters, she worked with Russ Meyer on...

R.I.P. Peter Fonda

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Peter Fonda passed away at the age of 79 last Friday, 50 years after the release of the film that he will always be primarily remembered for, EASY RIDER. His family released a statement saying: It is with deep sorrow...

R.I.P.: David Hedison, star of the original The Fly, has passed away

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Actor David Hedison wasn't a fan of most of the projects he worked on, saying a lot of movies he had been in were "pictures you never want to see again", but he certainly never seemed to be hurting for...

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