RIP in 2014

With 2015 now underway, it's time to briefly take a look back at all the people that the film industry has lost in the last 12 months. Apologies that this post is a few days late - I've recently returned from ringing in the New Year in London with my fiancee and a couple of good friends, and have needed most of the weekend to recover

Here is a rundown of individuals in the film world (and a few from elsewhere) who have passed away in 2014, many of whom I've paid tribute to on this blog. Feel free to drop me a comment below if I've overlooked anyone.

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January 3 - Saul Zaentz, American producer (Amadeus), Alzheimer's disease, 92.
January 6 - Larry D. Mann, American actor (The Sting), natural causes, 91.
January 14 - Richard Sheppard, American producer (Breakfast at Tiffany's), kidney failure, 86.
January 15 - Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (Only Fools and Horses), pancreatic cancer, 69.
January 16 - Harvey Bernhard, American producer (The Omen), cause of death unknown, 89.
                   - Hal Sutherland, American animator (Sleeping Beauty), complications from a gall
                     bladder issue, 84.
January 23 - Justin 'JewWario' Carmical, American internet reviewer, suicide by shooting, 42.
January 26 - Margery Mason, American actress (The Princess Bride), natural causes, 100.
February 1 - Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor (The Black Hole), complications from
                     pneumonia, 81.
February 2 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (Capote), acute mixed drug intoxication, 46.
February 9 - Gabriel Axel, Danish actor and director (Babette's Feast), died in his sleep, 95.
February 12 - Sid Caesar, American actor and comedian (Grease), short illness, 91.
February 15 - Christopher Malcolm, British actor (Highlander), cancer, 67.
February 16 - Jimmy Murakami, Japanese director (When The Wild Blows), cause of death
                       unknown, 80.
February 24 - Harold Ramis, American actor, writer and director (Ghostbusters), vasculitis, 69.
March 1 - Alain Resnais, French director (Night and Fog), cause of death unknown, 91.
March 14 - Tony Benn, British Labour MP (1950-2001), cause of death unknown, 88.
March 15 - Clarissa Dickson Wright, British chef and TV personality (Two Fat Ladies), cause of
                   death unknown, 66.
March 17 - Oswald Morris, British cinematographer (Oliver!), cause of death unknown, 98.
March 28 - Lorenzo Semple, Jr., American screenwriter (Flash Gordon), natural causes, 91.
March 30 - Kate O'Mara, British actress (Doctor Who), short illness, 74.
April 10 - Sue Townsend, British author (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole), stroke, 68.
April 17 - Gabriel García Márquez, Columbian Nobel Prize-winning author (Love in the Time of
                 Cholera), pneumonia, 87.
April 29 - Bob Hoskins, British actor (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?), pneumonia, 71.
May 7 - Tony Genaro, American actor (Tremors), natural causes, 72.
May 12 - H. R. Giger, Swiss surrealist artist (Alien), injuries from a fall, 74.
May 18 - Gordon Willis, American cinematographer (The Godfather), cancer, 82.
May 26 - Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor (Peeping Tom), Alzheimer's disease, 86.
June 8 - Dennis Lewiston, British cinematographer (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), cause of death
              unknown, 80.
June 9 - Rik Mayall, British comedian and actor (The Young Ones), heart attack, 56.
June 14 - Francis Matthews, English actor (Captain Scarlet & The Mysterons), short illness, 86.
June 17 - Patsy Byrne, English actress (Blackadder II), cause of death unknown, 80.
June 24 - Eli Wallach, American actor (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), natural causes, 98.
July 5 - Rosemary Murphy, American actress (To Kill A Mockingbird), esophageal cancer, 89.
July 9 - Ken Thorpe, British composer (Superman II), cause of death unknown, 90.
July 30 - Dick Smith, American make-up artist (The Exorcist), natural causes, 92.
August 11 - Robin Williams, American comedian and actor (Aladdin), suicide by hanging, 63.
August 12 - Lauren Bacall, American actress (The Big Sleep), stroke, 89.
August 24 - Richard Attenborough, British actor, producer and director (Gandhi), long illness, 90.
September 1 - Gottfried John, German actor (GoldenEye), cancer, 72.
September 4 - Joan Rivers, American comedienne, actress (Spaceballs) and TV presenter, cardiac
                        arrest, 81.
September 10 - Richard Kiel, American actor (The Spy Who Loved Me), heart attack, 74.
September 12 - Sir Donald Sinden, English actor (The Day of the Jackal), prostate cancer, 90.
September 20 - George Sluizer, Dutch filmmaker (The Vanishing), cardiovascular disease, 82.
October 14 - Elizabeth Peña, American actress (Jacob's Ladder), cirrhosis, 55.
October 19 - Lynda Bellingham, British actress (Doctor Who), colon cancer, 66.
October 25 - Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist (Cream), liver disease, 71.
November 12 - Warren Clarke, British actor (A Clockwork Orange), short illness, 67.
November 19 - Mike Nichols, American director (The Graduate), cardiac arrest, 83.
November 27 - Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer, vertebral artery dissection leading to
                          subarachnoid haemorrhage, 25.
                       - P. D. James, English crime novelist (The Children of Men), cause of death unknown,
                          94.
December 2 - Gerry Fisher, British cinematographer (Highlander), cause of death unknown, 88.
December 21 - Billie Whitelaw, English actress (The Omen), cause of death unknown, 82.
December 22 - Joe Cocker, British singer, lung cancer, 70.
                      - Joseph Sargent, American director (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three), heart
                         disease, 89.

Daniel