Venetia Stevenson (born Joanna Venetia Invicta Stevenson)
(10 March 1938 – 26 September 2022)

Venetia Stevenson, an English-American model, actress and
daughter of Hollywood luminaries who appeared in films including Darby’s Rangers, Island of Lost Women and Horror
Hotel after being labeled “the most photogenic girl in the world”,
has died. She was 84.

According to her brother, actor and photographer Jeffrey Byron,
Stevenson died Monday at a health care facility in Atlanta, Ga.
(The Hollywood Reporter)

Estelle Louise Fletcher
(July 22, 1934 – September 23, 2022)

Actress Louise Fletcher, who won an Academy Award
for her portrayal as the heartless Nurse Ratched — one
of the most reviled characters in movie history — in
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, has died.

Her son stated Fletcher died Friday of natural causes at
her home in Montdurausse, France. She had survived
two bouts with breast cancer.

Fletcher with her Academy Award in 1954.

ED DANAHUE

Sofia Loren is 88 years young today.

As of 2022, Loren is one of the last surviving major
stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema and
is the only remaining living person on AFI ‘s list.

She holds the record for having earned seven David
di Donatello Awards for Best Actress. She has won
five special Golden Globes (including the Cecil B.
DeMille Award), a BAFTA Award, a Laurel Award, a
Grammy Award, the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the
Venice Film Festival and the Best Actress Award at the
Cannes Film Festival. In 1991, she received the Academy
Honorary Award for lifetime achievements.

  Henry Silva (September 15, 1926 – September 14, 2022)
    
    
    
 

Henry Silva, the rugged New York actor who portrayed heavies
and heroes of various ethnicities in a career highlighted by
turns in A Hatful of Rain, The Manchurian Candidate and
Johnny Cool, has died.

Silva died Wednesday of natural causes at the Motion Picture
& Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills.

Silva also played the Draconian commander “Killer” Kane in
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979).
(The Hollywood Reporter)

On August 30, 2003, the actor Charles Bronson, best known
for his tough-guy roles in such films as The Dirty Dozen
(1967) and  the Death Wish franchise (1974), died at the age
of 81 in Los Angeles.      

Bronson was born Charles Buchinsky on November 3, 1921,
in  Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, to Lithuanian immigrants. The
11th of 15 children, he worked in the Pennsylvania coal
mines as a teen and later served in the Army during World
War II. After the war, he worked a series of odd jobs and
took acting lessons. He had an uncredited part in the 1951
film You’re in the Navy Now, starring Gary Cooper, and a
small part (credited as Charles Buchinsky) in 1952’s Pat
and Mike, with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. In
the mid-1950s, he changed his name to Bronson because
he believed it wasn’t smart for an actor have a Russian-
sounding last name at a time when there was a strong anti-Communist sentiment in America. (history.com)