Deaths in the 2000s

Lawrence Carra

1909–2006 (age 97)

Homewood Cemetery

Lawrence Carra (1909–2006) was a drama professor and director who spent decades shaping the Carnegie Mellon University...

Walt Harper

1926–2006 (age 80)

Homewood Cemetery

Walt Harper (1926–2006) was a Pittsburgh jazz pianist and club owner who kept the city's jazz scene vibrant for decade...

Robert R. Merhige, Jr.

1919–2005 (age 86)

Hollywood Cemetery

Robert R. Merhige Jr. (1919–2005) was a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ...

Chuck Noe

1924–2003 (age 79)

Hollywood Cemetery

Chuck Noe (1924–2003) was an American college basketball coach best remembered for leading the University of Louisvill...

Dave Ames

1937–2009 (age 72)

Hollywood Cemetery

Dave Ames (1937–2009) was a Portsmouth native whose life is commemorated with a gravesite at Hollywood Cemetery in Ric...

Cyd Charisse

1922–2008 (age 86)

Hillside Memorial Park

Cyd Charisse (1922–2008) was a glamorous Hollywood dancer and actress best known for her performances in MGM musicals ...

Sandy Baron

1936–2001 (age 65)

Hillside Memorial Park

Sandy Baron (1936–2001) was a Brooklyn-born comedian and character actor who appeared on stage, television, and in fil...

Shelley Winters

1920–2006 (age 86)

Hillside Memorial Park

Shelley Winters (1920–2006) was an Academy Award-winning actress whose career spanned film noir, drama, and television...

Suzanne Pleshette

1937–2008 (age 71)

Hillside Memorial Park

Suzanne Pleshette (1937–2008) was an actress best known for playing Emily Hartley on 'The Bob Newhart Show'.

Jerry Goldsmith

1929–2004 (age 75)

Hillside Memorial Park

Jerry Goldsmith (1929–2004) was an Academy Award-winning film and television composer celebrated for scores such as 'P...

Ruth Handler

1916–2002 (age 86)

Hillside Memorial Park

Ruth Handler (1916–2002) was a businesswoman who co-founded Mattel and created the Barbie doll.

Nell Carter

1948–2003 (age 55)

Hillside Memorial Park

Nell Carter (1948–2003) was a Tony-nominated singer and actress who starred in 'Gimme a Break!' and brought powerhouse...

Aaron Spelling

1923–2006 (age 83)

Hillside Memorial Park

Aaron Spelling (1923–2006) was a television producer behind hits like 'Charlie's Angels,' 'Dynasty,' and 'Beverly Hill...

Abby Mann

1927–2008 (age 81)

Hillside Memorial Park

Abby Mann (1927–2008) was a Philadelphia-born screenwriter and producer best known for scripting the film Judgment at ...

Stan Winston

1946–2008 (age 62)

Hillside Memorial Park

Stan Winston (1946–2008) was a Richmond-born special effects and makeup artist who created iconic creatures for films ...

Howard Morris

1919–2005 (age 86)

Hillside Memorial Park

Howard Morris (1919–2005) was a Bronx-born actor and director beloved for his comedic work on Your Show of Shows and T...

Poldek Pfefferberg

1913–2001 (age 88)

Hillside Memorial Park

Poldek Pfefferberg (1913–2001) was a Kraków-born Holocaust survivor whose advocacy helped ensure Oskar Schindler’s ...

Frances R. Spaeth

1907–2001 (age 94)

Hillside Cemetery

Frances R. Spaeth (1907–2001) of Jersey City was a lifelong local resident memorialized at Hillside Cemetery.

Raymond A. Brown

1915–2009 (age 94)

Holy Name Cemetery

Raymond A. Brown (1915–2009) was a renowned civil rights attorney who defended high-profile clients including Attica p...

William D. McDowell

1927–2007 (age 80)

Holy Cross Cemetery

William D. McDowell (1927–2007) of Newark was a dedicated local resident laid to rest at Holy Cross Cemetery.

Edward J. Sharkey

1925–2007 (age 82)

Holy Cross Cemetery

Edward J. Sharkey (1925–2007) of New Jersey is remembered as a longtime regional resident buried at Holy Cross Cemeter...

Francisco Salati

1915–2004 (age 89)

Holy Cross Cemetery

Francisco Salati (1915–2004) of Gioi was an Italian-born resident whose life concluded with burial at Holy Cross Cemet...

Edward L. Whittemore

1908–2002 (age 94)

Greenwood Union Cemetery

Edward L. Whittemore (1908–2002) was an American novelist best known for his surreal Arkadian trilogy of fantasy works...

William Van Til

1911–2006 (age 95)

Highland Lawn Cemetery

William Van Til (1911–2006) is remembered by descendants after being laid to rest at Highland Lawn Cemetery.

John Edwin Smith

1921–2009 (age 88)

Grove Street Cemetery

John Edwin Smith (1921–2009) was an American philosopher and longtime Columbia University dean noted for his work in p...

DJ AM

1973–2009 (age 36)

Hillside Memorial Park

DJ AM (Adam Goldstein, 1973–2009) was a Philadelphia-born DJ and music producer credited with bringing turntablism bac...

Ralph E. Winters

1909–2004 (age 95)

Hillside Memorial Park

Ralph E. Winters (1909–2004) was a Toronto-born film editor who earned Oscars for King Solomon’s Mines and Ben-Hur.

Irving Brecher

1914–2008 (age 94)

Hillside Memorial Park

Irving Brecher (1914–2008) was a New York City-born screenwriter and producer who wrote for the Marx Brothers and crea...

Army Archerd

1922–2009 (age 87)

Hillside Memorial Park

Army Archerd (1922-2009) was a Bronx-born entertainment columnist for Variety who chronicled Hollywood gossip for decade...

Norman Panama

1914–2003 (age 89)

Hillside Memorial Park

Norman Panama (1914-2003) was a Chicago-born screenwriter-director best known for his collaborations with Melvin Frank o...

Gene Barry

1919–2009 (age 90)

Hillside Memorial Park

Gene Barry (1919-2009) was a New York-born actor famed for starring roles in television series such as Bat Masterson and...

Milton Berle

1908–2002 (age 94)

Hillside Memorial Park

Milton Berle (1908-2002) was a pioneering New York comic actor whose television work earned him the nickname "Mr. Televi...

George Sidney

1916–2002 (age 86)

Hillside Memorial Park

George Sidney (1916-2002) was a Queens-born film director and producer noted for lavish musicals like Show Boat and Anni...

Julius J. Epstein

1909–2000 (age 91)

Hillside Memorial Park

Julius J. Epstein (1909-2000) was a New York screenwriter who co-wrote the Academy Award-winning screenplay for Casablan...

Bernie Brillstein

1931–2008 (age 77)

Hillside Memorial Park

Bernie Brillstein (1931-2008) was a New York-born talent manager and producer who guided the careers of Jim Henson and n...

Tom Poston

1921–2007 (age 86)

Hillside Memorial Park

Tom Poston (1921-2007) was a Columbus-born character actor beloved for his turns on sitcoms such as The Bob Newhart Show...

Julius Shulman

1910–2009 (age 99)

Hillside Memorial Park

Julius Shulman (1910-2009) was a Brooklyn-born architectural photographer whose images helped define the look of mid-cen...

Lew Wasserman

1913–2002 (age 89)

Hillside Memorial Park

Lew Wasserman (1913-2002) was a Cleveland-born talent agent and studio executive who helped build MCA and reshape Hollyw...

Stephen Ailes

1912–2001 (age 89)

Indian Mound Cemetery

Stephen Ailes (1912-2001) was a Romney-born lawyer who served as U.S. Secretary of the Army under President Lyndon B. Jo...

Robert P. Abelson

1928–2005 (age 77)

Grove Street Cemetery

Robert P. Abelson (1928-2005) was a New York-born psychologist at Yale whose research illuminated attitudes and quantita...

Shizuo Kakutani

1911–2004 (age 93)

Grove Street Cemetery

Shizuo Kakutani (1911-2004) was an Osaka-born mathematician celebrated for the Kakutani fixed-point theorem and contribu...

Walter Feit

1930–2004 (age 74)

Grove Street Cemetery

Walter Feit (1930-2004) was a Vienna-born mathematician noted for the Feit-Thompson theorem in group theory.

Virginia Graeme Baker

1994–2002 (age 8)

Ivy Hill Cemetery

Virginia Graeme Baker (1994-2002) was a Washington, D.C.-born child whose tragic drowning led to the Virginia Graeme Bak...

Paul Laszczynski

1952–2001 (age 49)

Holy Cross Cemetery

Paul Laszczynski (1952–2001) of Baltimore was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery.

Zhanetta Valentinovna Tsoy

1968–2001 (age 33)

Holy Cross Cemetery

Zhanetta Valentinovna Tsoy (1968–2001) of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery.

Louis R. Rocco

1938–2002 (age 64)