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A 20-year-old neophyte actress whose sultry looks and demeanor won her instant acclaim and the heart of her co-star; a comedic whirlwind whose screen performances ranged from the frenetic to the poignant at the drop of a hat; an actor who went to child star to nonagenarian while working with everyone from Will Rogers to Ben Stiller; and the curly-topped moppet who (seemingly) single-handedly got America through the Great Depression. As the year draws to a close, MovieFanFare who like to take a moment to say a final farewell to these Hollywood icons and some of the other talented people–both in front of and behind the cameras–who passed away in 2014:
Actor/director Richard Attenborough (appeared in Jurassic Park and Miracle on 34th Street, directed Gandhi and Chaplin), 90
Actress Lauren Bacall (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep), 89
Actress Polly Bergen (Cape Fear, Kisses for My President), 84
Actor Sid Caesar (It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and TV’s Your Show of Shows), 91
Actress Ann B. Davis (TV’s Love That Bob and The Brady Bunch), 88
Actress Ruby Dee (A Raisin in the Sun, Do the Right Thing), 91
Actor James Garner (The Great Escape, TV’s Maverick), 86
Artist H.R. Giger (the Alien films), 74 
Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (Boogie Nights, Capote), 46
Actor/choreographer Geoffrey Holder (Live and Let Die, Annie),
84 
Actress Jan Hooks (Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, TV’s Saturday Night Live), 57
Actor Bob Hoskins (Mona Lisa, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), 71
Actress Martha Hyer (Sabrina, Some Came Running), 89
Actor Herb Jeffries (star of The Bronze Buckaroo and other all-black B Westerns), 100
Actor Russell Johnson (This Island Earth and TV’s Gilligan’s Island), 89
Actor Richard Kiel (007 foe Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker), 74
Actress Carla Laemmle (said the first lines in 1931’s Dracula), 104 
Actress Virna Lisi (How to Murder Your Wife, Queen Margot), 78
Writer/director Paul Mazursky (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, An Unmarried Woman), 84
Actress Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life, The Singing Nun), 99
Director Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Working Girl), 83
Actress Luise Rainer (won consecutive Best Actress Oscars for The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth), 104
Actor/filmmaker Harold Ramis (directed Caddyshack and Groundhog Dog, appeared in Stripes and Ghostbusters), 69
Writer/director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year At Marienbad), 91
Comedian/actress Joan Rivers (The Swimmer, Spaceballs), 81
Actor Mickey Rooney (the Andy Hardy film series, Night at the Museum), 93
Director Joseph Sargent (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, MacArthur), 89
Actor Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Freshman), 83
Producer Run Run Shaw (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Blade Runner), 106
Makeup artist Dick Smith (House of Dark Shadows, The Exorcist), 92
Actress Elaine Stritch (September, TV’s 30 Rock), 89
Actor Meshach Taylor (Mannequin, TV’s Designing Women), 67
Actress Shirley Temple (Heidi, The Little Princess), 85
Actor Eli Wallach (The Magnificent Seven, Good, the Bad, and the Ugly), 98
Actress Billie Whitelaw (Frenzy, The Omen), 82
Actor Robin Williams (Good Morning, Vietnam, Good Will Hunting), 63
Actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (Wait Until Dark, TV’s The F.B.I.), 95
Click on their names here to read our full-length tributes to Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple, and Robin Williams. Please feel free to share your memories of the above people–or mention someone we may have overlooked–in the comments below.