RIP Billie Hayes aka Witchiepoo
Billie Hayes, best known for her performance as Witchiepoo in H.R. Pufnstuf, has died aged 96. Hayes played the over the top cackling witch for one season – and the […]
RIP Charles Beeson (updated)
Respected British television director Charles Beeson has died suddenly. Beeson helmed episodes of numerous fantasy series on either side of the Atlantic, including five episodes of Stephen Volk’s Afterlife, episodes […]
RIP Bewitched’s Bernie Kahn
American TV producer and writer Bernie Kahn has died aged 90. Kahn’s credits include multiple episodes of Bewitched as well as acting as story consultant for its short-lived sequel Tabitha. […]
RIP producer Chuck Fries
Chuck Fries, the veteran TV executive responsible for multiple genre shows over the years, has died aged 92. In his long career, Fries oversaw shows as diverse as The Amazing […]
RIP director Lyndon Chubbuck
American film and TV director Lyndon Chubbuck has died aged 67. Chubbuck worked on many TV series during the 1980s and 1990s including episodes of Werewolf, Friday the 13th: The […]
RIP director Monte Hellman
American director Monte Hellman has died aged 91. Although perhaps best known for his westerns, Hellman had a long association with the genre, starting as one of Roger Corman’s proteges. […]
RIP costume designer Anthony Powell
Costume designer Anthony Powell whose work graced movies for decades has died aged 85. During his long career, he contributed to various genre productions, including Hook and 102 Dalmatians, both […]
RIP Addams Family and Buck Rogers’ Felix Silla
Felix SIlla, best known for playing Cousin Itt in The Addams Family and the comical drone Twiki in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, has died aged 84. In addition […]
RIP Helen McCrory
British actress Helen McCrory has died, aged 52. Her husband, Damian Lewis, announced that she died this morning after battling cancer. McCrory’s genre credits include Interview with the Vampire, Frankenstein, […]
RIP Robert Fletcher
Star Trek costume designer Robert Fletcher has died, aged 98. Fletcher worked on the first four of the Star Trek film series, establishing the looks of various races, notably the […]
RIP Richard Conway
Special and visual effects designer, director and supervisor Richard Conway has passed away aged 79. Conway began his career working for AP Films/Century 21 on Stingray, Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet […]
RIP Joye Hummel Murchison Kelly
Wonder Woman writer Joye Hummel Murchison Kelly has passed away, aged 97. One of the writers of the original comic strip, her contributions were published under the house name “Charles […]
RIP Margaret Wander Bonanno
SF novelist Margaret Wander Bonanno has died aged 71. Michael Okuda passed on the news on social media. Bonanno was well known for her contributions to the Star Trek range […]
RIP Twin Peaks’ Walter Olkewicz
Walter Olkewicz, one of the stalwarts of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, has died aged 72. In addition to featuring in all the iterations of Lynch’s series as bartender and croupier […]
RIP Paul Ritter
Paul Ritter, whose genre work included the Harry Potter and 007 series, has died aged 54 from a brain tumour. The English stage and screen actor was perhaps best known […]
RIP Myra Frances
Myra Frances, best known to SFB readers for her appearances in Doctor Who and Survivors, has died aged 78. The news was broken by her widower. Peter Egan, on Twitter. […]
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