British TV drama producer Catherine Wearing has died suddenly. She was 41.

Hollywood's honorary mayor dies

Johnny Grant, the avuncular honorary mayor of Hollywood, died Wednesday at his suite in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. He was 84.

Marie A. Fontana dies at 86

Marie A. Fontana, mother of TV writer/producer Tom Fontana, died Dec. 25 in Buffalo, New York, of natural causes. She was 86.

Casting director Dianne Ogden-Halder dies

Dianne Ogden-Halder, a talent coordinator, casting director and former assistant to Phil Spector who testified at his trial, died of undetermined causes Dec. 29 in Park City, Utah. She was 61.

Actor, director Kathryn Ish dies at 71

Actress and director Kathryn Ish died of cancer Dec. 31 in Santa Barbara, Calif. She was 71.

Marketing guru Grace Cianciotta dies

Film marketing expert Grace Cianciotta died Jan. 7 in Toronto after a battle with breast cancer. She was 43.

Composer Mort Garson dies at 83

Mort Garson, composer, arranger and accompaniest who co-wrote the hit "Our Day Will Come," died Jan. 4 of renal failure in San Francisco. He was 83.

MGM's Seymour 'Cy' Leslie dies

Seymour "Cy" Leslie, former chairman and CEO of MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group, died of heart failure Jan. 6 in Roslyn, N.Y. He was 85.

Makeup artist Shu Uemura dies

Shu Uemura, former Hollywood makeup artist and founder of the cosmetics brand that bears his name, died Dec. 29 of acute pneumonia. He was 79.

Industry vet Herbert Bayard Swope, Jr. dies

Veteran film/television/stage producer and commentator Herbert Bayard Swope, Jr. died Jan. 4 of natural causes in Palm Beach, Florida. He was 92.

TV vet Bill Idelson dies at 88

TV actor, writer and producer Bill Idelson died Dec. 31 in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 88.

Publicist Tom Miller dies at 85

Publicist Tom Miller died Dec. 6 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. following a brief illness. He was 85.

Publicist Constance L. Stone dies

Constance L. Stone, a pioneering publicist who repped large corporations, television producers and Los Angeles cultural institutions, died Dec. 19, in Cleveland, OH, from complications of Parkinson's disease. She was 79.

Louise Dann dies at 80

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Artist Joyce Carlson dies at 84

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Art director Harry Darrow dies at 57

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'Natural' screenwriter Dusenberry dies

Screenwriter and ad man Philip B. "Phil" Dusenberry, who co-wrote 1984's WGA-nommed Robert Redford baseball starrer "The Natural" and created such campaigns as GE's "We Bring Good Things to Life" and Pepsi's "The Choice of a New Generation," died Saturday at his Manhattan home, having suffered from lung cancer. He was 71.

Sun Daolin dies at 86

Veteran Chinese multihyphenate Sun Daolin has died at the age of 86 in a Shanghai hospital.

Sportscaster Stu Nahan dies at 81

Longtime Los Angeles sportscaster Stu Nahan, also familiar to movie fans for his appearances in the series of "Rocky" films, died Wednesday in Studio City. He was 81. He had battled lymphoma since being diagnosed in January 2006.

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Pianist Oscar Peterson dies at 82

Oscar Peterson, a virtuoso at the piano whose swinging style made him one of the most popular artists in jazz history, will be honored posthumously next month in Toronto at an annual gathering of the global jazz community.

Musician Ike Turner dies at 76

Ike Turner, the blues musician who laid a cornerstone in rock 'n' roll but whose abusive and criminal behavior overshadowed his musical accomplishments, died Wednesday at his San Marcos, Calif., home outside San Diego. He was 76.

Agent Freddie Fields dies at 84

Freddie Fields, the powerful 1960s talent manager and agent, who along with David Begelman founded the powerful Creative Management Associates, and later became a studio exec and producer, died Tuesday of lung cancer at his home in Beverly Hills.

CBS exec Roger King dies at 63

Roger King, CEO of CBS Television Distribution, died Saturday after suffering a stroke the day before at his home in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 63.

Daredevil Evel Knievel dies at 69

Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday.

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Teen idol Rick Nelson dies at 45

Rick Nelson, 45, the actor who grew up in front of millions of television viewers on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" and spent most of his career as a singer, was killed New Year's Eve in a plane crash near DeKalb, Texas.