John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV

Creator of the audio drama Enter The House Between. One of the horror genre's "most widely read critics" (Rue Morgue # 68), "an accomplished film journalist" (Comic Buyer's Guide #1535), and the award-winning author of Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002), John Kenneth Muir, presents his blog on film, television and nostalgia, named one of the Top 100 Film Studies Blog on the Net.

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Tribute 2015: The Year We Lost Leonard Nimoy, Wes Craven and Christopher Lee

Below you will find a gallery of those we lost in 2015.

It was a devastating year for science fiction and horror movie fans, in particular, with the loss of luminaries such as Yvonne Craig, Wes Craven, Christopher Lee, Leonard Nimoy and Grace Lee Whitney.

As always, I have attempted to be thorough in this tribute, but no offense is intended if anyone has been left off the tribute list.

James Best

Yvonne Craig

Wes Craven

Jean Darling

Donna Douglas

Anita Ekberg

James Horner

George Clayton Johnson

Dean Jones

Jack Larson

Christopher Lee

Geoffrey Lewis

Robert Loggia

Al Molinaro

Taylor Negron

Leonard Nimoy

Maureen O'Hara

Amanda Peterson

Roddy Piper

Omar Sharif

Rod Taylor

Fred Thompson

Haskell Wexler

Grace Lee Whitney

John Kenneth Muir

award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).