In Memoriam 2022: Singers, Dancers, Actors, Writers, Directors

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In memoriam 2022: a personal list of some of the artists the world lost in 2022

Name	Dates	Age	Description
Max Riebl	26 June 1991 – 30 April 2022	30	Australian countertenor
Oleksandr Shapoval	9 February 1975 – 12 September 2022	47	Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer with the National Opera of Ukraine. Killed in battle.
Anne Heche	25 May 1969 – 11 August 2022	53	American actress
Irene Cara	18 March 1959 – 25 November 2022	63	American singer, songwriter, and actress known for the 1980 musical film Fame, and for singing Flashdance… What a Feeling in 1983
Bob Saget	17 May 1956 – 9 January 2022	65	American stand-up comedian, actor, and television host
Leslie Jordan	29 April 1955 – 24 October 2022	67	American actor, comedian, writer, and singer known for his Southern drawl in Will & Grace and American Horror Story
Ray Liotta	18 December 1954 – 26 May 2022	67	Actor best known for Goodfellas and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams.
Hilary Mantel	6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022	70	British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs, and short stories. Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: the first was for her 2009 novel Wolf Hall
Kirstie Alley	12 January 1951 – 5 December 2022	71	American actress best known for TV's Cheers and the Look Who's Talking films
Maria Ewing	27 March 1950 – 9 January 2022	71	American opera singer
William Hurt	20 March 1950 – 13 March 2022	71	1980s foremost leading men in movies such as Broadcast News, Body Heat, and The Big Chill.
Robbie Coltrane	30 March 1950 – 14 October 2022	72	Scottish actor and comedian. Of his hundreds of roles, he's best known for Hagrid in the Harry Potter series
John Aler	4 October 1949 – 10 December 2022	73	American lyric tenor who performed in concerts, recitals, and operas.
Mariana Nicolesco	28 November 1948 – 14 October 2022	73	Romanian operatic soprano
Olivia Newton-John	26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022	73	British-Australian singer, actress and activist. A pop and country singer Physical, You're the One That I Want, and Sandy in the film version of Grease
Thierry Mugler	21 December 1948 – 23 January 2022	73	French fashion designer who designed signature looks for Michael Jackson, Madonna, Grace Jones, and David Bowie
Dennis Waterman	24 February 1948 – 8 May 2022	74	English actor and singer. He was best known for his tough-guy roles in television including The Sweeney and Minder, and the musical Windy City
Meat Loaf	27 September 1947 – 20 January 2022	74	Rock superstar best known for Bat Out of Hell album and his appearance in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Ivan Reitman	27 October 1946 – 12 February 2022	75	Czechoslovak-born Canadian filmmaker. He was best known for his comedies Meatballs, Stripes, and Ghostbusters
Roberto Masotti	1947 – 25 April 2022	75	Italian photographer, with his partner Silvia Lelli he was the official photographer at La Scala from 1979 until 1996
Bob LuPone	29 July 1946 – 27 August 2022	76	American actor and artistic director, brother of actress Patti LuPone and original Zach in A Chorus Line
Michail Jurowski	25 December 1945 – 19 March 2022	76	Russian conductor, based in Germany
Radu Lupu	30 November 1945 – 17 April 2022	76	Romanian pianist
Catherine Spaak	3 April 1945 – 17 April 2022	77	French-born Italian actress and singer
Patricia Ruanne	3 June 1945 – 1 November 2022	77	British ballerina, ballet mistress, teacher, repetiteur, and director; created the role of Juliet in Nureyev's production of Romeo and Juliet
Patrick Demarchelier	21 August 1943 – 31 March 2022	78	French fashion photographer.
Ronnie Spector	10 August 1943 – 12 January 2022	78	Singer with 1960s hits as Be My Baby, Baby I Love You and Walking in the Rain as the leader of the girl group the Ronettes
Bill Bryden	12 April 1942 – 5 January 2022	79	Scottish stage and film director and screenwriter
Ruth Madoc	16 April 1943 – 9 December 2022	79	British actress best known as Gladys Pugh in the BBC comedy Hi-de-Hi!
Vangelis	29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022	79	Greek composer best known for his Academy Award-winning score for Chariots of Fire, and Blade Runner
David Warner	29 July 1941 – 24 July 2022	80	English actor who worked in film, television and theatre
Yvette Mimieux	8 January 1942 – 18 January 2022	80	1960s film star of Where the Boys Are, The Time Machine and Light in the Piazza.
Anne Howells	12 January 1941 – 18 May 2022	81	British mezzo-soprano
Wolfgang Petersen	14 March 1941 – 12 August 2022	81	German filmmaker best known for World War II submarine epic Das Boot
James Caan	26 March 1940 – 6 July 2022	82	American actor. He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather, also Funny Lady and Misery
Lynda Baron	24 March 1939 – 5 March 2022	82	English actress, best known for playing Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the BBC comedy series Open All Hours
Peter Bogdanovich	30 July 1939 – 6 January 2022	82	American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian. Director of The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc? and Paper Moon
Simon Preston	4 August 1938 – 13 May 2022	83	English organist, conductor, and composer.
Issey Miyake	22 April 1938 – 5 August 2022	84	Japanese fashion designer
Sally Kellerman	2 June 1937 – 24 February 2022	84	Oscar and Emmy-nominated American actress known for Margaret Hot Lips Houlihan in Robert Altman's 1970 film MASH
Angelo Badalamenti	22 March 1937 – 1 December 2022	85	American composer best known for scores for David Lynch productions Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive
Azio Corghi	9 March 1937 – 17 November 2022	85	Italian composer, academic teacher and musicologist.
Joanna Simon	20 October 1936 – 19 October 2022	85	American mezzo-soprano, her father Richard L. Simon, was the founder of the Simon & Schuster publishing company, her younger sister is Carly Simon
Peter Bowles	16 October 1936 – 17 March 2022	85	English television and stage actor best remembered for his roles in sitcoms
Barry Cryer	23 March 1935 – 25 January 2022	86	English writer, comedian, and actor
David Lloyd-Jones	19 November 1934 – 8 June 2022	87	British conductor and co-founder of Opera North
Harrison Birtwistle	15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022	87	English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas
Jerry Lee Lewis	29 September 1935 – 28 October 2022	87	Rock ‘n' roll pioneer known for Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Letizia Battaglia	5 March 1935 – 13 April 2022	87	Italian photographer and photojournalist
Michael Hampe	3 June 1935 – 18 November 2022	87	German theatre and opera director, and Intendant
Tony Walton	24 October 1934 – 2 March 2022	87	British set and costume designer known for theatre and film All That Jazz, Mary Poppins, Murder on the Orient Express
Louise Fletcher	22 July 1934 – 23 September 2022	88	Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won her an Academy Award
Raymond Briggs	18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022	88	English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author best known for The Snowman and When the Wind Blows
Bob Rafelson	21 February 1933 – 23 July 2022	89	American film director, writer, and producer known for Five Easy Pieces and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Liane Daydé	27 febbraio 1932 – 21 marzo 2022	89	French ballerina and actress, étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet in the 1950s
Nichelle Nichols	28 December 1932 – 30 July 2022	89	American actress, singer, and dancer who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood as Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek television series
Teresa Berganza	16 March 1933 – 13 May 2022	89	Spanish mezzo-soprano, known for Rossini's Rosina and Cinderella and Bizet's Carmen as well as recitals
Loretta Lynn	14 April 1932 – 4 October 2022	90	Kentucky coal miner's daughter who became a pillar of country music
Monica Vitti	3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022	90	Italian actress in several award-winning films by Michelangelo Antonioni during the 1960s, but then began making comedies
Robert Morse	18 May 1931 – 20 April 2022	90	American actor who starred in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on stage and screen
Ezio Frigerio	16 July 1930 – 2 February 2022	91	Italian costume designer and art director.
Jean-Louis Trintignant	11 December 1930 – 17 June 2022	91	French film legend regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era
Jean-Luc Godard	3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022	91	Enfant terrible of the French New Wave cinema with films including Breathless
Josephine Tewson	26 February 1931 – 18 August 2022	91	An English stage and television actress. She was best known for her roles in British television sitcoms, such as Keeping Up Appearances
Josephine Veasey	10 July 1930 – 22 February 2022	91	British mezzo-soprano, particularly associated with Wagner and Berlioz roles
Nino Cerruti	25 September 1930 – 15 January 2022	91	Italian businessman and stylist who founded his own haute couture house in 1967 in Paris
Antonietta Stella	15 March 1929 – 23 February 2022	92	Italian operatic soprano, one of the most prominent Italian spinto sopranos of the 1950s and 1960s
Daniele Barioni	6 September 1930 – 5 November 2022	92	Italian tenor from 1950s until 1970s: leading tenor at the Met between 1956 and 1962
George Crumb	24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022	92	American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music
Bernabé Marté	14 November 1928 – 18 March 2022	93	Spanish tenor and husband of Montserrat Caballé
Bernard Cribbins	29 December 1928 – 27 July 2022	93	Beloved British entertainer whose seven-decade career ranged from Carry On comedies to children's television
Estelle Harris	22 April 1928 – 2 April 2022	93	George Costanza's short-fused mother on Seinfeld and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the Toy Story franchise
Filippo Crivelli	27 March 1928 – 6 February 2022	93	Italian theatre and opera director
Irene Papas	3 September 1929 – 14 September 2022	93	Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films
Marilyn Bergman	10 November 1928 – 8 January 2022	93	Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with husband Alan Bergman on The Way We Were, How Do You Keep the Music Playing? and hundreds of other songs
Sidney Poitier	20 February 1927 – 6 January 2022	94	American actor, film director, and diplomat who in 1964 was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor
Beryl Grey	11 June 1927 – 10 December 2022	95	British ballerina known for her theatrical glamour, exceptional technical ability and international appeal
Joseph Horovitz	26 May 1926 – 9 February 2022	95	Austrian-born British composer and conductor best known for his 1970 pop cantata Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo
June Brown	16 February 1927 – 3 April 2022	95	British actress best known as chain-smoking Dot Cotton on the British soap opera EastEnders
Angela Lansbury	16 October 1925 – 11 October 2022	96	British actor known for Broadway musicals Mame, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, many films and Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote
Peter Brook	21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022	97	British theatre and opera director known for Carmen, Mahabharata, Marat/Sade, the film Lord of the Flies.
Leslie Phillips	20 April 1924 – 7 November 2022	98	British actor best known for his smooth, upper-class comic roles and as the voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter movies
Renato Balestra	3 May 1924 – 26 November 2022	98	Italian fashion designer
William Kraft	6 September 1923 – 12 February 2022	98	American composer, percussionist, and conductor
Ned Rorem	23 October 1923 – 18 November 2022	99	American composer of contemporary classical music and writer, best known for his 500 art songs
Henry Danton	30 March 1919 – 9 February 2022	102	British dancer, teacher, and stager of classical ballet creating leading roles most notably in Frederick Ashton's Symphonic Variations partnering Moira Shearer
Ann Hutchinson Guest	3 November 1918 – 9 April 2022	103	American authority on dance notation and movement analysis, based in the UK
Marsha Hunt	17 October 1917 – 7 September 2022	104	One of the last surviving actors from Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s

Gramilano( Editor )

Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.

His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.