The actor who ballasted generations of independent and cult films took his last breath in an LA hospital on Friday, reported Variety. He had a high-profile role as manipulative cult leader Roman Grant on HBO polygamy drama "Big Love," which ran from 2006-11, and recently appeared as Carl Rodd in the "Twin Peaks" revival on Showtime.
1951: Actress Cassandra Peterson, best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, is born in Manhattan, Kansas.
Not every sci-fi movie or TV show gets its future predictions right. Here are eight times things didn't pan out as Hollywood guessed.
The line-up of slasher villains, serial killers and crazed maniacs at Halloween Horror Nights 2017 reads like a greatest hits of movie and television terror: "The Shining," "American Horror Story," "The Walking Dead," "Friday the 13th," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre.," "A Nightmare on Elm Street," "Saw" and "The Purge." One of my knocks on Horror Nights has always been there is not enough to do for the teeming hordes that descend on Universal Studios Hollywood for the annual seasonal event.
He's just turned 70, and is winning critical acclaim all over the world, but don't expect Sam Neill to start acting his age. A few days out from from the Emmy Awards, where he's nominated in the outstanding narrator category for his work on documentary series Wild New Zealand , the Kiwi actor showed he was still capable of poking fun at himself.
Editor's note: Every week we ask people around the office a question to see what makes them tick. In light of the success of the movie "It," this week we wanted to know what their favorite Stephen King movie was.
Bette Midler had a little scare during her Hello Dolly! performance on Thursday night -- but the show must go on! The two-time Tony winner assured fans that all was well following the blunder, tweeting: "You may hear I was in a little accident on stage tonight; two set pieces collided, I had to make a run for it, and I fell. But I'm fine."
Bruce Campbell, a cast member in the Starz series "Ash vs. Evil Dead," poses for a portrait during the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Monday, Aug. 1, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. For Bruce Campbell, who's gone from iron-jawed B-movie icon to journeyman actor and back, fan love comes in cycles.
Harry Dean Stanton was widely loved around Hollywood, a drinker and smoker and straight talker with a million stories. Harry Dean Stanton, the shambling, craggy-face character actor with the deadpan voice who became a cult favourite through his memorable turns in Paris, Texas , Repo Man and many other films and TV shows, died Friday at age 91. Stanton died of natural causes at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his agent, John S. Kelly, told The Associated Press.