Posted on 12/29/2025 11:54:17 AM PST by Red Badger
This is a list of those notable entertainment figures who passed away in 2025. They are in order of date of death (and alphabetically within each date), except for the first entry, which will be the most globally high-profile death to date.
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Among the most notable showbiz vets we lost this year are:
Georgio Armani, fashion designer
Brigitte Bardot, actress/singer
Claudia Cardinale, actress
Richard Chamberlain, actor
Jimmy Cliff, musician/actor
Dharmendra, actor/producer
Marianne Faithfull, singer/songwriter/actress
Roberta Flack, singer/pianist
Connie Francis, singer/actress
Gene Hackman, actor
Hulk Hogan, professional wrestler
Diane Keaton, actress
Val Kilmer, actor
David Lynch, filmmaker
Michael Madsen, actor
Ozzy Osbourne, musician
Dame Joan Plowright, actress
Chris Rea, singer/songwriter/guitarist
Robert Redford, actor/director/producer
Rob Reiner, actor/director/producer
Terence Stamp, actor
Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright/screenwriter
Michelle Trachtenberg, actress
George Wendt, actor
Brian Wilson, musician
In loving memory of
ROBERT, a.k.a. "MANIAC"
and
MR. & MRS. NUNNALLY
Richard Chamberlain who played Allan Quatermain among other characters was gay in real life.
In the 1960s, Chamberlain did an album. He included a Burt Bacharach-Hal David song. It was a god song, but in Chamberlain’s hands it went nowhere fast. They gave it to Dionne Warwick, a surefire success. Nothing.
It lingered for seven years. Various singers tried it with no success. Finally Herb Alpert (the A in A&M Records) gave it to a band he had just signed. They’d won the Battle of the Bands. He told them to come up with a new arrangement, not to listen to any of the prior ones.
Those “kids” made the new arrangement of the song a hit and it made them household names.
It was called “Close to You.”
(George Wendt, actor)
I think George Costanza met him
backstage at “The Tonight Show’
There are many in Hollywood that people don’t know about, and it been that way since the beginning...........
Mick Abrahams, Jethro Tull original guitarist
I saw one of those Quatermain movies. Entertaining, but that’s more due to Cannon film productions. I never got why he was a star. No charisma.
I saw them on the Aqualung tour!..............
Are You Satisfied? (1956)
As was Tony Geary (who played General Hospital's Luke to Genie Francis' Laura), who also died recently (and is not on this list). The same day as Rob Reiner, in fact.
“Those hip musicians with their complicated shoes!”
RIP Ozzy
This AWFUL MOVIE was on last night
but I let it roll anyways (after “X-Files”)
Made for TV
“Meteor”
I had just suffered through “2012” which HAS to
be the worst disaster movie of all time (laughable)
Jason Greenspan, I mean George Costanza was one
of my favorite characters in ‘Seinfeld’ but
there is nothing where Jason Alexander isn’t George
Wendt’s brother used to live across the street from my brother. Big electric car advocate, back in the ‘90s.
Oh...
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