Here is the list of biggest star we lost in 2011
Pete Postlethwaite
Oscar nominated British actor Pete Postlethwaite, who has been described by director Steven Spielberg as "the best actor in the world," died after a long battle with cancer on Jan. 2, 2011, at age 64. Postlethwaite was nominated for an Oscar for his role in the 1993 film "In The Name Of The Father."
Anne Francis
Anne Francis, the actress who played the love interest in the 1950s science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" died on Jan. 2, 2011, at age 80 in California. Francis died Sunday of natural causes at a local nursing home.
Susannah York
British actress Susannah York, one of the leading stars of British and Hollywood films in the late 1960s and early 1970s and an Academy Award nominee, died on Jan. 15, 2011, at the age of 72. York died of cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the 1969 classic "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
Maria Schneider
Maria Schneider, the French actress who was Marlon Brando's young co star in 1972's "Last Tango in Paris," died on Feb. 2, 2011. She was 58. Schneideralso starred alongside Jack Nicholson in the 1975 film "The Passenger" and the 1996 remake of "Jane Eyre."
Michael Gough
Michael Gough, the British actor best known for playing in a series of Batman movies, died on March 17, 2011. He was 94. Gough appeared as Alfred Pennyworth in four Batman films, from 1989 "Batman" to 1997.
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor, the violet eyed screen legend famed for her extraordinary beauty, her tumultuous personal life, including her many marriagesdied Wednesday, March 23, 2011, in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure. The actress, who won Oscars for her roles in "BUtterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," was 79.
Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper, the child movie star who won a best actor Oscar nomination at 9 for "Skippy" and grew up to play four "Superman" movies, died Tuesday, May 3, 2011, from an undisclosed illness at a Los Angeles hospital,. He was 88.
Peter Falk
Peter Falk, the American stage and screen actor who became identified as the rumpled detective title character on the long running series "Colombo," died on June 23, 2011. He was 83 and had suffered from Alzheimer's Disease.
Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home on July 23, 2011, at the age of 27. A coroner ruled in October that the "Back to Black" singer died from accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after weeks of abstinence
Cliff Robertson
Actor Cliff Robertson, who played John F. Kennedy in "PT 109," won an Oscar for "Charly" , died on Sept. 10, 2011. he died in Stony Brook, N.Y., of natural causes a day after his 88th birthday.
Steve Jobs
Apple co founder and chairman Steve Jobs died on Oct. 5, 2011, following complications from a rare form of pancreatic cancer. He was 56.
Harry Morgan
Emmy winning character actor Harry Morgan, whose , died on Dec. 7, 2011. He was 96. the actor died at his home in Brentwood, Calif., after suffering from pneumonia. |