Definite List of Deceased Actors from Ghostbusters Franchise

Ruth Oliver was born on 16 April 1910 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Trapper John, M.D. (1979) and Password (1961). She was married to ? Oliver and George Gercke. She died on 3 October 1988 in Burbank, California, USA.

Pretty, demure-looking Janet Margolin was born in New York City in 1943 and educated at the New York High School of Performing Arts. The long-haired brunette was discovered for films by director Frank Perry as she was making great strides as a teen on Broadway. He saw her in the play "Daughter of Silence," for which she earned a Tony nomination, and took her immediately to Hollywood, casting her as the schizophrenic lass in David and Lisa (1962) opposite Keir Dullea. She bowled over the critics. The movie, which was praised for its handling of delicate, mature subject matter, should have paved the way to stardom for Janet but strangely didn't. She churned out uneventful second leads in such notable fare as Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), and Nevada Smith (1966). Though she had better luck with her ingenue roles in Enter Laughing (1967) and Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run (1969), the offers starting drying up by decade's end and she turned to TV work. Woody used her again, albeit briefly, in Annie Hall (1977). After a brief first marriage, Janet met and married actor Ted Wass of TV's Soap (1977) and Blossom (1990) fame. Janet was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and died at age 50.

Winston May was born on 3 February 1937 in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), A Little Sex (1982) and Happy Hell Night (1991). He died on 29 April 1994 in New York City, New York, USA.

Louise Troy was born on 9 November 1933 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Ghostbusters II (1989), The Swimmer (1968) and The United States Steel Hour (1953). She was married to Douglas Seale and Werner Klemperer. She died on 5 May 1994 in New York City, New York, USA.

Roger Grimsby was born on 23 September 1928. He was an actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Bananas (1971) and Nothing But Trouble (1991). He died on 25 June 1995 in New York City, New York, USA.

Hardworking actor with a 64-year career on and off Broadway, in television and films. His characterization of Permes Lykos on "Captain Video and His Video Rangers" is considered to be a precursor to the Mr. Spock role as an alien on the later "Star Trek" television and film series.

He had no formal training but began acting in a Chicago high school in "Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", achieving a foamy-mouthed transformation by slipping Alka-Seltzer tablets into his mouth. He was a very active member of Actors Equity and married his actress-girlfriend so they could share living quarters during a touring stage play with propriety. Though that play closed after two performances, the marriage lasted through 61 years.

His stage roles included "Three Sisters" with Katharine Cornell and Judith Anderson, "The Best Man" with Melvyn Douglas, "Macbeth", and as the Secretary of State in Larry Gelbart's 1989 staging of "Mastergate", and he was Captain Vere in the first staging of "Billy Budd".

Frances E. Nealy was born on 14 October 1918 in San Diego, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Ghostbusters (1984), WarGames (1983) and Colors (1988). She died on 23 May 1997 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Stanley Grover was born on 28 March 1926 in Woodstock, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Executive Decision (1996) and Being There (1979). He was married to Linda Glavey. He died on 24 August 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Eda Reiss Merin was born on 31 July 1913 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) and The Black Cauldron (1985). She was married to Sam Merin. She died on 31 March 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

The British classical actor/producer/director Douglas Seale enjoyed a 65-year transatlantic career that included stage, films and television. Born in 1913 the son of Robert Henry Seale and his wife Margaret Law Seale, he was educated at Rutlish, a boys' comprehensive school in West Wimbledon. He displayed an early penchant and skill for art but leaned toward the theatre after receiving encouragement by a teacher who saw his performance in a school play. He studied for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and took his first professional curtain bow at London's Embassy Theatre in a production of "The Drums Begin" in 1934. He then appeared in repertory until the outbreak of WWII. He served with the British Army in 1940 and was commissioned in the Royal Signals.

Following demobilization in 1946, Seale joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theater Company for two seasons at Stratford-on-Avon. He extended his noble talents to include stage producing, which included "Caesar and Cleopatra" at the Birmingham Repertory Theater; Shakespeare's "King John" at Stratford-on-Avon and Stratford, Ontario; "Henry V" in Stratford, Connecticut, and "King Lear" at the Old Vic. As a noted director, he helmed such plays as "King Lear" for the Marin Shakespeare Festival in San Francisco; "A Doll's House" and "Look Back in Anger" in Cleveland, and "The Winslow Boy" in New York.

In later years Seale focused again on performing. He made his Broadway acting debut at age 60 with "Emperor Henry IV" in 1973, followed by "Frankenstein," "The Dresser," and "The Madwoman of Chaillot." Among his other roles included Oliver Seaton in "A Family and a Fortune" and Reverend Shannon in "The Night of the Iguana. He is (arguably) best remembered for his 1983 Broadway performance as Selsdon Mowbray, the inebriated thespian who consistently misses his cues in the deft stage-within-a-stage comedy "Noises Off." His hilarious performance earned him a Tony Award nomination for "featured actor" in a play. Denholm Elliott played the role in the 1992 film. An occasional on-camera performer blessed with booming, mellifluous tones, Seale was had a featured role in the film Amadeus (1984) and provided the voice of the Sultan in Disney's animated feature Aladdin (1992). In addition, he offered "old man" appearances in such popular film fluff as Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) (as Santa Claus), Ghostbusters II (1989), Almost an Angel (1990), Mr. Destiny (1990), For Love or Money (1993), and, his last, Palookaville (1995). Over the years he occasionally played spry gents on such TV shows as "Cheers" and "The Golden Girls." One of his final stage roles was as aging vaudevillian Billy Rice in the 1996 revival of John Osborne's play "The Entertainer."

Seale was divorced from Elaine Wodson and Joan Geary, his third wife was stage actress and three-time Tony Award nominee Louise Troy, who died of breast cancer in 1994. A Manhattanite at the time of his death, he died at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City at age 85 and was survived by two sons, Jonathan and Timothy.

Paddi Edwards was born on 8 March 1931 in Bristol, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Hercules (1997), The Little Mermaid (1989) and Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982). She died on 18 October 1999 in Encino, California, USA.

Tommy Hollis was born on 22 March 1954 in Jacksonville, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Malcolm X (1992), Ghostbusters (1984) and Léon: The Professional (1994). He died on 9 September 2001 in New York City, New York, USA.

Michael P. Moran was born on 8 February 1944 in Yuba City, California, USA. He was an actor, known for A Perfect Murder (1998), Ghostbusters II (1989) and Scarface (1983). He died on 4 February 2004 in New York City, New York, USA.

Wilhelm Von Homburg (A.K.A. Norbert Grupe) was born in Berlin, Germany. He started out his career as a wrestler during the fifties in Germany where he earned his fame. He also toured the States. Homburg's stage name was Prinz Wilhelm Von Homburg. In the early sixties, he shifted from wrestling to boxing. Between 1962 and 1970, he was in the light heavyweight and the heavyweight class.

In Hollywood, he made his debut on the popular television show "Gunsmoke", as "Otto". The director Andrew V. McLaglen, had writer John Meston write the episode inspired by Wilhelm's life as a boxer. The production flew Wilhelm in from Germany to the U.S. for a special appearance of the "Gunsmoke" episode "The Promoter". Later, Wilhelm had a recurring role on Television show "The Wild Wild West".

Wilhelm is best known for playing "Vigo the Carpathian" in the big hit movie "Ghostbusters ll". His other movies includes, to name a few, "Die Hard", "Diggstown", "The Package", "Eye of The Storm", "In The Mouth of Madness", "The Devil's Brigade", "The Wrecking Crew", and "Stroszek".

Wilhelm made headlines after his controversial appearance on German T.V. at the Z.D.F. Sport Studio, after the reporter Rainer Günzler had made some rude, snide remarks about his boxing career and his private life.

In 2000, German film-maker Gerd Kroske produced a prize-winning documentary on Wilhelm's life called Der Boxprinz (2002).

In his later years, Wilhelm lived in the beautiful Malibu/Santa Monica Mountains, together with his dog 'Kiss'. Wilhelm Von Homburg died of prostate cancer in March, 2004 on the Villa Estate of his close friend in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Ric Mancini was born on 16 April 1933 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) and Ed Wood (1994). He was married to Marilyn Chris. He died on 26 May 2006 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

Walter Flanagan was born on 4 October 1928 in Ponta, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Ghostbusters II (1989), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) and Shakedown (1988). He died on 25 July 2007 in Houston, Texas, USA.

Paul Trafas was born on 6 September 1949 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984) and The Renegades (1983). He died on 2 December 2012.

Born on November 21, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, Harold Allen Ramis got his start in comedy as Playboy magazine's joke editor and reviewer. In 1969, he joined Chicago's Second City's Improvisational Theatre Troupe before moving to New York to help write and perform in "The National Lampoon Show" with other Second City graduates including John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray. By 1976, he was head writer and a regular performer on the top Canadian comedy series SCTV (1976). His Hollywood debut came when he collaborated on the script for National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) which was produced by Ivan Reitman. After that, he worked as writer with Ivan as producer on Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) and acted in the latter three. Harold Ramis died on February 24, 2014 at age 69 from complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis.

Born an entertainer, Casey reigns from Michigan, the same birthplace for fellow Shaggy voice actor Matthew Lillard (whom both Casey and Matthew do a very fine, smashing job voicing the iconic character). Debuted as a radio operator and legendary disc jockey in his early days, he was the greatest and most likely the best one seen in recent years. Having an iconic voice and a set of vocal cords, Casey pleased the audience through radio and voice. Casey hit the big time in the early 60's with voicing both major and minor roles in television series, until Hanna-Barbera released, then later debuted, the same role he characterized his career off of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, in which he had the pleasure of working with legendary voice actors Don Messick and Hal Smith. For over 3 decades, he co-founded and hosted American Top 40, which aired the top songs of the week. In his later years, he spent his time with his friends and family, in the way he could showcase with love, passion, and voicing. He died on June 15th, 2014. He was 82 years old. He will be forever missed in the hearts of fans around the world.

John Ring was born on 14 March 1932 in New York, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) and The Hard Way (1991). He died on 29 August 2014 in New Jersey, USA.

Mordecai Lawner was born on 9 June 1928. He was an actor, known for Annie Hall (1977), Raw Deal (1986) and Ghostbusters II (1989). He was married to Eugenia Thornton. He died on 27 November 2014 in New York City, New York, USA.

Joe Franklin was born on 9 March 1926 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Broadway Danny Rose (1984) and The Boys Behind the Desk (2000). He was married to Lois Meridan. He died on 24 January 2015 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

Danny began his career in entertainment by performing standup comedy at the Comedy Store in both Los Angeles and New York City locations; specializing in Archie Bunker and Rodney Dangerfield impersonations. He then was hired by the Miller Brewing Company for several years where he worked as a voice-over and impersonation for various commercials. A member of the Screen Actors Guild; Danny had made appearances in films such as Ghostbusters, Police Academy III, Like Mike and television shows such as Miami Vice.

Mary Ellen Trainor was born in Chicago, Illinois. She appeared in many feature-films of the 1980s, notable characters include, Elaine, the kidnapped sister of Kathleen Turner and the catalyst for the entire plot in Romancing the Stone (1984), Dr. Stephanie Woods (LA Police Psychiatrist) in in all four Lethal Weapon (1987) films, Mrs. Walsh Mikey and Brand's (Sean Astinand Josh Brolin) mom in The Goonies (1985), news reporter Gail Wallens in Die Hard (1988) and Ricochet (1991).

Murray Rubin was born on 6 June 1925 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Walk Like a Man (1987) and St. Elsewhere (1982). He died on 10 September 2015.