Celebrity Death Certificates 3

Literally the last word for Hollywood trivia buffs, a celebrity death certificate is also strangely compelling. Its matter-of-fact reportage makes the famous ordinary, illuminating previously well-lit profiles with the unfiltered light of the everyday. A death certificate may also reveal information that stars concealed, such as actual birthdates. In California, death certificates are a matter of public record—a real mine of information. This follow-up to M.F. Steen’s previous two collections (2003 and 2005) reproduces in full 226 death certificates. Brief biographical notes are included, listing birth and professional name as well as notable film, television and entertainment credits.

M.F. Steen has been a funeral service provider for more than 40 years. In 1989, Gentleman’s Quarterly called Mr. Steen the “Mortician to the Stars.” He continues to serve families on a daily basis.

M.F. Steen

Format: softcover (8.5 x 11)
Pages: 267
Bibliographic Info: 226 death certificates
Copyright Date: 2010
pISBN: 978-0-7864-5935-3
eISBN: 978-0-7864-6013-7
Imprint: McFarland

Preface 1

Edie Adams 4
Stella Adler 5
Renée Adorée 6
Eddie Albert 7
Edward Albert 8
Peter Allen 9
Steve Allen 10–11
Robert Altman 12
Dana Andrews 13
Pier Angeli 14–15
Robert Armstrong 16
Edward Arnold 17
Bea Arthur 18
Agnes Ayres 19
Raymond Bailey 20
Suzan Ball 21
Gene Barry 22
Judith Barsi 23
Warner Baxter 24
Wallace Beery 25
Ralf Belmont 26
Bea Benaderet 27
Joey Bishop 28
Erma Bombeck 29
Frank Brill 30
Sorrell Brooke 31
Roscoe Lee Brown 32
Katherine Browne 33
Lenny Bruce 34
Smiley Burnette 35
Judy Canova 36
Kathryn Card 37
Ron Carey 38
George Carlin 39
Karen Carpenter 40–41
Allan Carr 42
Charles Chaplin, Jr. 43
Virginia Christine 44
Andy Clyde 45
Lee J. Cobb 46
Nicholas Colasanto 47
Chester Conklin 48
Darlene Conley 49
Chuck Connors 50
Richard Conte 51
Bert Convy 52
Merian C. Cooper 53
Wendell Corey 54
Aneta Corsault 55
Joseph Cotten 56
Mary Jane Croft 57
Pauline Curley 58
Esther Dale 59
Royal Dano 60
Richard Deacon 61
Yvonne DeCarlo 62
Sandra Dee 63
Don DeFore 64
Dom DeLuise 65
John Derek 66
Joe Derita 67
Jenny Dolly and Yansci
Dolly 68
Ann Doran 69
Mignon G. Eberhart 70
Herb or Herbert Edelman 71
Ross Elliott 72
Muriel Evans 73
Farrah Fawcett 74
Peter Finch 75
Larry Fine 76
George Fitzmaurice 77
Paul Fix 78
Wayland Flowers 79
Nina Foch 80
Glenn Ford 81
Michael Fox 82
Mary Frann 83–84
Friz Freleng 85
Bobby Fuller 86
Marvin Gaye 87
Will Geer 88
George Gershwin 89
Estelle Getty 90
Alice Ghostley 91
Jerry Giesley 92
Samuel Goldwyn 93
Thomas Gomez 94
Gerald Gordon 95
Leo Gordon 96
Sandra Gould 97
Robert Goulet 98
Sid Grauman 99
Sydney Greenstreet 100
Jane Greer 101
Merv Griffin 102
David Groh 103
William Haines 104
Conrad L. Hall 105
Carrie Hamilton 106
Neil Hamilton 107
Oliver Hardy 108
Vinton Hayworth 109
Ted Healy 110
Emmette Evan Heflin 111
Leona Helmsley 112
Margaux Hemingway 113–114
Shirley Hemphill 115–116
Charlton Heston 117
Dana Hill 118
Jonathan Hole 119
Fred Holliday 120
John Holmes 121
Edward Everett Horton 122
Betty Hutton 123
Michael Jackson 124–125
Brion James 126
Dennis James 127
Michael Jeter 128–129
Henry Jones 130
Spike Jones 131
Janis Joplin 132–133
Stanley Kamel 134
Andy Kaufman 135
Buster Keaton 136
DeForest Kelley 137
Edgar Kennedy 138
Eartha Kitt 139
Ted Knight 140
Harvey Korman 141
Elsa Lanchester 142
Carole Landis 143
Charles Lane 144
Harry Langdon 145
Charles Laughton 146
Stan Laurel 147
Anthony Lee 148–149
Philip Leeds 150
Queenie Leonard 151
Terry Lester 152
Oscar Levant 153
Peter Lorre 154
Allen Ludden 155
James Luisi 156
Charles Macaulay 157
Karl Malden 158
Louis Malle 159
Frederic March 160
Hal March 161
Herbert Marshall 162
Dick Martin 163
Roddy McDowall 164
Cameron Mitchell 165
Vic Mizzy 166
Ricardo Montalban 167
Elizabeth Montgomery 168
Harry Monty 169
Frank Morgan 170
Gary Morton 171
Richard Mulligan 172
Gene Nelson 173
Evelyn Nesbit 174
Paul Newman 175
Mabel Normand 176
Paul Novak 177
Merle Oberon 178
Dennis O’Keefe 179
Dick O’Neill 180
Bette Page 181
Jack Palance 182
Larry Parks 183
Robert Pastorelli 184–185
Anthony Perkins 186
Jean Peters 187
Charles Pierce 188
Suzanne Pleshette 189
Don Porter 190
Tom Poston 191
Richard Powell 192
Richard Pryor 193
Anne Ramsey 194
David Rappaport 195
Virginia Rappe 196
Gene Raymond 197
Steve Reeves 198
Charles Nelson Reilly 199
Duncan Renaldo 200
Brad Renfro 201–202
Stafford Repp 203
Marjorie Reynolds 204
Minnie Riperton 205
Theodore Roberts 206
Rochester 207
Charles Buddy Rogers 208
Roxie Roker 209
Gilbert Roland 210
Ruth Roman 211
Ruth Rose 212
Isabel Sanford 213
Ernest Schoedsack 214
Del Shannon see Charles
Weedon Westover
Sidney Sheldon 215
Jack Soo 216
Kenneth Steadman 217
Jess Stearn 218
McLean Stevenson 219
Anita Mary Stewart 220
Lewis Stone 221
Barry Sullivan 222
Patrick Swayze 223–224
Carl Switzer 225
William Taylor 226
Jess Kenneth Tobey 227
William Tuttle 228
Lee Van Cleef 229
Harry von Zell 230
Kim Anne Walker 231
Michael Wayne 232
Lawrence Welk 233
Charles Weedon Westover
(Del Shannon) 234
Richard Widmark 235
Dick Wilson 236
Arthur Wilson 237
Joy Windsor 238
Stanley Winston 239
Thelma Wolpa 240
Jane Wyatt Ward 241
Ed Wynn 242

Biographical Notes 243

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