Angela Lansbury. Bill Russell. Loretta Lynn. The Queen. These are the entertainers, leaders, athletes and other notable people we lost this year.
, the baby-faced comedian and character actor whose hundreds of roles included a crime-solving psychologist on the TV series “Cracker” and the gentle half-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies, died Oct. 14, 2022. He was 72., the Emmy-winning star of the daytime soap opera “Days of Our Lives” and father of Jennifer Aniston, died Nov. 11, 2022, at age 89. John Aniston's acting credits included “Search for Tomorrow,” “The West Wing” and “Gilmore Girls.
Bogdanovich was heralded as an auteur from the start, with the chilling lone shooter film “Targets” and soon after “The Last Picture Show,” from 1971, his evocative portrait of a small, dying town that earned eight Oscar nominations and catapulted him to stardom., the influential filmmaker and producer behind many of the most beloved comedies of the late 20th century, from “Animal House” to “Ghostbusters,” died Feb. 12, 2022. He was 75.