TCM Remembers 2024 Predictions
by TrekFan1 | created - 4 months ago | updated - 1 week ago | PublicA list of those individuals whom I believe TCM will include in their year-end tribute for 2024, in order of when their deaths were reported. This is *not* the order I believe they will be presented in TCM's tribute.
A note on Paolo Taviani: Since Vittorio Taviani was left out of TCM Remembers 2018, it's very possible that his brother and filmmaking partner won't make the cut in this year's tribute. I'm thinking he will get in, however, simply because TCM Remembers seems to be getting more inclusive with each passing year.
1. Tom Wilkinson
Actor | Michael Clayton
Popular British character actor Tom Wilkinson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and came from a long line of urban farmers. He was the son of Marjorie (Percival) and Thomas Wilkinson. Economic hardships forced his family to move to Canada for a few years when Wilkinson was a child; then, ...
Actor
2. Glynis Johns
Actress | Mary Poppins
Glynis Johns was the daughter of actor Mervyn Johns. Best known for her light comedy roles and often playful flirtation, Glynis was born in South Africa while her parents were on tour there (her mother was a concert pianist) but was always proud of her Welsh roots and took delight in playing the ...
Actress / Singer
3. David J. Skal
Writer | The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
American film historian and documentary writer-producer; frequent on-camera commentator and occasional bit-part actor. Author of the books 'Hollywood Gothic', the definitive chronicle of Bram Stoker's Dracula in its journey from page to stage to screen; 'The Monster Show: A Cultural History of ...
Author / Film Historian
4. Laurie Johnson
Composer | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Prolific British composer who has written scores for over four hundred film and television series. Very much of the old school of film composers, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and his scores reflect this classical training in their complexity. The trademark Johnson sound is the...
Composer
5. Norman Jewison
Director | Jesus Christ Superstar
Norman Jewison was an award-winning, internationally acclaimed filmmaker who produced and directed some of the world's most memorable, entertaining and socially important films, exploring controversial and complicated subjects and giving them a universal accessibility. Some of his most well-known ...
Director / Producer
6. Sandra Milo
Actress | 8½
During the 1950s and 1960s bosomy, scintillating, dark-haired Tunisian leading lady Sandra Milo played bored patricians, manipulative mistresses and other enticing ladies of questionable morals with typical sensuous flare in scores of Italian and French productions.
Born Elena Liliana Greco in Tunis...
Actress
7. Chita Rivera
Actress | Chicago
An accomplished and versatile actress/singer/dancer, Chita Rivera has won two Tony Awards as Best Leading Actress in a Musical and received eight additional Tony nominations for an exceptional 10 Tony nominations. She recently starred in The Visit, the final John Kander/Fred Ebb/Terrence McNally ...
Actress
8. Carl Weathers
Actor | Predator
Carl Weathers was born on January 14, 1948, in New Orleans, Louisiana. A famous and successful football star at San Diego State, he played with the Oakland Raiders and retired from the sport in 1974, in order to give full attention to his goal: to be a real actor.
Weathers first played small parts ...
Actor
9. Don Murray
Actor | Bus Stop
Don Murray is an American actor. He is best known for playing Governor Breck, the authoritarian ruler in the science fiction film "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" (1972).
Murray was born in 1929 to Dennis Aloisius Murray and his wife Ethel Cook. Dennis worked as a dance director and stage ...
Actor
10. Michael Jayston
Actor | Nicholas and Alexandra
Michael was born in Nottingham where he was educated at Becket Roman Catholic Grammar School, West Bridgeford in Nottingham where he was known as Jimmy - his real name is Michael James - and where he was caned some 130 times. While that might have been a record, the one that went into the record ...
Actor
11. Mickey Gilbert
Stunts | The Last of the Mohicans
Mickey Gilbert was born on April 17, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an assistant director and actor, known for The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Waterworld (1995) and The Blues Brothers (1980). He was married to Yvonne Yrigoyen. He died on February 5, 2024 in Camarillo, California, USA.
Stuntman
12. Robert M. Young
Director | Alambrista!
Born in New York City. Made many award-winning documentaries including The Eskimo: Fight for Life (1970) and a documentary about the civil war in Angola. In 1978 he won the Camera d'Or at Cannes and Best Feature at San Sebastian for Alambrista! (1977).
Filmmaker
13. Micheline Presle
Actress | If a Man Answers
Elegant, dark-haired Parisian Micheline Presle (billed in the U.S. as Micheline Prelle) was the daughter of a businessman whose surname was Chassagne. Taking acting classes as a teen, she was discovered by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and cast in Jeunes filles en détresse (1939) (portraying ...
Actress
14. Charles Dierkop
Actor | The Sting
Charles Dierkop was born on September 11, 1936 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for The Sting (1973), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984). He was married to Joan Florence Addis. He died on February 25, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, ...
Actor
15. Richard Lewis
Actor | Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Richard Philip Lewis was born on June 29, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. He went to Dwight Morrow High School and Ohio State University, graduating in 1969 with a degree in marketing and communications. Lewis wrote ad copy in New Jersey while also writing jokes for ...
Actor / Comedian
16. Paolo Taviani
Director | La notte di San Lorenzo
Paolo Taviani studied liberal arts at the University of Pisa, becoming interested in the cinema after seeing Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (1946). After writing and directing short films and plays with his brother Vittorio, he made his first feature in 1962. The brothers have continued to work ...
Filmmaker (see note in description above)
17. David Bordwell
Actor | A expedicao Brasileira de 1916
David Bordwell was born on July 23, 1947 in Penn Yan, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for A expedicao Brasileira de 1916 (2006), Cinema Futures (2016) and The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery' (2009). He was married to Barbara Weinstein and Kristin Thompson. He died on February 29, ...
Film Theorist / Historian
18. M. Emmet Walsh
Actor | Blood Simple
Wonderfully talented, heavyset character actor (from New York, but regularly playing Southerners) M. Emmet Walsh has made a solid career of playing corrupt cops, deadly crooks, and zany comedic roles since the early 1970s.
Michael Emmet Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, to Agnes Katharine (Sullivan) and...
Actor
19. Paula Weinstein
Producer | The Perfect Storm
Paula Weinstein was born on November 19, 1945 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was a producer and executive, known for The Perfect Storm (2000), Blood Diamond (2006) and In the Heart of the Sea (2015). She was married to Mark Rosenberg. She died on March 25, 2024 in Manhattan, New ...
Producer
20. Fritz Wepper
Actor | Cabaret
Fritz Wepper was born on August 17, 1941 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor, known for Cabaret (1972), Der Kommissar (1969) and For Heaven's Sake (2002). He was married to Susanne Kellermann and Angela von Morgen. He died on March 25, 2024 in Gmund am Tegerseen, Bavaria, Germany.
Actor
21. Louis Gossett Jr.
Actor | An Officer and a Gentleman
Louis Gossett Jr. was one of the most respected and beloved actors on stage, screen and television and was also an accomplished writer, producer and director. Off-screen, he was a social activist, educator, and author dedicated to enriching the lives of others. He was the first African-American to ...
Actor
22. Barbara Rush
Actress | It Came from Outer Space
The epitome of poise, charm, style and grace, beautiful brunette Barbara Rush was born in Denver, Colorado in 1927 and enrolled at the University of California before working with the University Players and taking acting classes at the Pasadena Playhouse. It didn't take long for talent scouts to ...
Actress
23. Eleanor Coppola
Director | Bonjour Anne
Eleanor Coppola was born on May 4, 1936 in Long Beach, California, USA. She was a director and writer, known for Paris Can Wait (2016), Love Is Love Is Love (2020) and Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991). She was married to Francis Ford Coppola. She died on April 12, 2024 in ...
Filmmaker
24. Lourdes Portillo
Director | Las madres de la Plaza de Mayo
Lourdes Portillo was born on November 11, 1943 in Chihuahua, Mexico. She was a director and producer, known for The Mothers of the Plaza of Mayo (1985), Missing Young Woman (2001) and The Devil Never Sleeps (1994). She died on April 20, 2024 in San Francisco, California, USA.
Filmmaker
25. Hana Brejchová
Actress | Lásky jedné plavovlásky
Hana Brejchová was born on December 12, 1946 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Loves of a Blonde (1965), Amadeus (1984) and Nejkrásnejsí vek (1969). She was married to Jaroslav Barina. She died in April 2024 in the Czech Republic.
Actress
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