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FILE - In this June 19, 1997 file photo, actress-comedian Ellen DeGeneres, right, and actress Anne Heche arrive at the world premiere of the film "Face/Off," in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. It was 20 years ago that Ellen DeGeneres made history as the first prime-time lead on network TV to come out of the closet. The episode of "Ellen" was watched by a staggering 44 million viewers. It won an Emmy for writing, a Peabody as a landmark in broadcasting and numerous other accolades(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 14, 1997 file photo, Ellen DeGeneres kisses her Emmy backstage at the 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Pasadena, Calif. DeGeneres won the Emmy for outstanding writing in a comedy series for "Ellen." It was 20 years ago that Ellen DeGeneres made history as the first prime-time lead on network TV to come out of the closet. The episode was watched by a staggering 44 million viewers. It won an Emmy for writing, a Peabody as a landmark in broadcasting and numerous other accolades. (AP Photo/Kevork Djanzezian, File)
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Ivanka Trump, daughter and adviser of U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives for a dinner after she participated in the W20 Summit in Berlin Tuesday, April 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, pool)
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FILE - In this May 23, 2016, file photo, Johnny Depp arrives at the premiere of "Alice Through the Looking Glass" at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles. Some visitors to the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at California’s Disneyland got a surprise Wednesday, April 26, 2017, when Depp appeared as Captain Jack Sparrow inside the ride. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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Dutch King Willem-Alexander, right, dances to the music of a band as he celebrates his 50th anniversary on Kingsday in Tilburg, south central Netherlands, Thursday, April 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Dutch King Willem-Alexander dances to the music of a band as he celebrates his 50th anniversary on Kingsday in Tilburg, south central Netherlands, Thursday, April 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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FILE - In this May 20, 2014, file photo, former Indian politician and Bollywood actor Vinod Khanna, left, embraces Indian film actor turned politician Shatrughan Sinha in New Delhi, India. A hospital official says Khanna, a dashing Bollywood actor turned politician, has died of cancer in Mumbai. He was 70. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)
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FILE - In this May 20, 2014, file photo, former Indian politician and Bollywood actor Vinod Khanna, right, and Indian film actor turned politician Shatrughan Sinha pose for cameras as they arrive for the BJP parliamentary party meeting in New Delhi, India. A hospital official says Vinod Khanna, a dashing Bollywood actor turned politician, has died of cancer in Mumbai. He was 70. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2011, file photo, Bollywood actor Vinod Khanna attends the funeral of versatile Indian actor Shammi Kapoor in Mumbai. A hospital official says Vinod Khanna, a dashing Bollywood actor turned politician, has died of cancer in Mumbai. He was 70. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2008 file photo, Alicia Keys, left, performs with Kathleen Battle at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles. A Broadway producer has admitted scamming his friends and others into investing more than $165,000 in a nonexistent play about opera star Battle supposedly starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o. Roland Scahill pleaded guilty in New York on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, to grand larceny and fraud charges. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
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President Trump hands over his pen after signing his first executive order on Jan. 20, surrounded by the press. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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A supporter of SB562. s single-payer health care bill, holds up his sign as one of the bill's co-authors, state Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Garden, is seen on a large screen at a rally Wednesday, April 26, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. SB562 by Lara, and Sen. Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, that would guarantee health coverage with no out-of-pocket cost for all California residents, including people living in the country illegally is to be heard in the Senate Health Committee, Wednesday. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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FILE - In this combination photo, Jason Derulo, left, and Demi Lovato appear at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on March 5, 2017, in Inglewood, Calif. YouTube is launching a new music competition series for emerging artists featuring Derulo, Lovato and The Backstreet Boys. Ryan Seacrest Productions and Endemol Shine North America announced Wednesday that “Best.Cover.Ever” will debut on YouTube later this year. (Photos by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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Taraji P. Henson co-stars as mathematician Katherine Goble Johnson in "Hidden Figures," now available on 4K Ultra HD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
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Vic Morrow (February 14, 1929 - July 23, 1982) his credits include a starring role in the 1960s television series Combat!, prominent roles in a handful of other television and film dramas, and numerous guest roles on television. Morrow and two child actors were killed in 1982 by a stunt helicopter crash during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Morrow also gained notice for his roles in movies like Blackboard Jungle (1955), God's Little Acre (1958), Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), and The Bad News Bears (1976). In 1982 Morrow was cast in a feature role in Twilight Zone: The Movie, directed by John Landis. Morrow was playing the role of Bill Connor, a racist who is taken back in time and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: as a Jewish Holocaust victim, a black man about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, and a Vietnamese man about to be killed by U.S. soldiers. In the early morning hours of July 23, 1982, Morrow and two children, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le, and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were filming on location in California in what had been known as Indian Dunes, which is near Santa Clarita. They were performing in a scene for the Vietnam sequence, in which their characters attempt to escape from a pursuing U.S. Army helicopter out of a deserted Vietnamese village. The helicopter was hovering at about 24 feet (7.3 m) above them when pyrotechnic explosions damaged it and caused it to crash on top of them, killing all three instantly.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 February 2, 2014) Best known for his distinctive supporting and character roles typically lowlifes, bullies, and misfits Hoffman made many films from the early 1990s until his death at age 46. While he mainly worked in independent films, including The Savages (2007) and Synecdoche, New York (2008), Hoffman also appeared in Hollywood blockbusters, such as Twister (1996) and Mission: Impossible III (2006), and in one of his final roles, as Plutarch Heavensbee in the Hunger Games series (201315). The feature Jack Goes Boating (2010) marked his debut as a filmmaker. Hoffman was also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the off-Broadway LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995, where he directed, produced, and appeared in numerous stage productions. His performances in three Broadway plays True West (2000), Long Day's Journey into Night (2003), and Death of a Salesman (2012) all led to Tony Award nominations. Hoffman struggled with drug addiction as a young adult, and relapsed in 2013 after many years of sobriety. In February 2014, he was found dead with a syringe of heroin still in his arm, but the official cause of death was combined drug intoxication an unexpected event that was widely lamented in the film and theater industries. Remembered for his fearlessness in playing reprehensible characters, and for bringing depth and humanity to such roles, Hoffman was described in his New York Times obituary as "perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation"
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Paul Walker IV (September 12, 1973 – November 30, 2013) Walker began his career guest-starring in several television shows such as The Young and the Restless and Touched by an Angel. Walker gained prominence with breakout roles in coming of age and teen films such as She's All That and Varsity Blues (1999). In 2001, Walker gained international fame for his portrayal of Brian O'Conner in the street racing action film The Fast and the Furious (2001), and would reprise the role in five of the next six installments but died in the middle of the filming of Furious 7 (2015). He also starred in films such as Joy Ride (2001), Timeline (2003), Into the Blue (2005), Eight Below, and Running Scared (2006). Walker died in a single-vehicle collision on November 30, 2013, alongside friend Roger Rodas. Three films that he was involved in at the time were released posthumously: Hours (2013), Brick Mansions (2014), and Furious 7 (2015).
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Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 - 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his upper-class, macho image, hellraiser lifestyle, and "tough guy" roles. Notable films include The Trap (1966), Oliver! (1968), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), The Three Musketeers (1973), Tommy (1975), Lion of the Desert (1981), Castaway (1986), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) and Funny Bones (1995). For Gladiator (2000), his final film, Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. His last major successes were Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) (as the god Vulcan), Treasure Island (1990) (as Captain Billy Bones), and Peter Chelsom's Funny Bones (1995). His final role was the elderly slave dealer Proximo in Gladiator (2000), in which he played alongside Richard Harris, an actor whom Reed admired greatly both on and off the screen. The film was released after his death with some footage filmed with a double, digitally mixed with outtake footage. The film was dedicated to him. In addition to his posthumous BAFTA recognition, he shared the film's nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture with the rest of the principal players.
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Natalie Wood (July 20, 1938 - November 28 or 29, 1981) She was known for her screen roles in Miracle on 34th Street, Splendor in the Grass, Rebel Without a Cause, The Searchers, and West Side Story. She first worked in films as a child, then became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old. Wood began acting in movies at the age of four and, at age eight, was given a co-starring role with Maureen O'Hara in the classic Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street. As a teenager, her performance in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She starred in the musical films West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962), and received Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Her career continued with films such as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). During the making of the film Brainstorm, Wood drowned while on a weekend boat trip to Santa Catalina Island on board the Splendour. Many of the circumstances surrounding her drowning are unknown; it was never determined how she entered the water. She was with her husband Robert Wagner, Brainstorm co-star Christopher Walken, and the Splendour's captain, Dennis Davern, on the evening of November 28, 1981. Wood's body was recovered by authorities at 8:00 a.m. on November 29, one mile away from the boat, with a small inflatable dinghy, named the Valiant, found beached nearby.
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Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962. She continues to be considered a major popular culture icon. Monroe's troubled private life received much attention. She struggled with substance abuse, depression, and anxiety. She had two highly publicized marriages, to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, both of which ended in divorce. On August 5, 1962, in the middle of filming ‘Something's Got to Give’ she died at age 36 from an overdose of barbiturates at her home in Los Angeles.
