Terrence O’Hara Dies: ‘NCIS,‘ ‘Smallville’ & ‘Angel’ TV Director Was 76

Robert Joseph “Bob” Dowling, the former publisher and editor in chief of The Hollywood Reporter for 17 years, died December 30 after a short illness. He was 83.

James J. Murakami, an art director, production designer and set designer on numerous film and television projects, died Dec. 15 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 91 and suffered complications from a fall, according to his wife.

Jaclyn Philpott has been named executive director of the Association of Film Commissioners International – a newly created post that she’ll assume on January 3. As the new leader of the organization, she succeeds former AFCI President Eve Honthaner, who stepped down in September for personal reasons.

Ronald Dennis, the Broadway performer who indelibly played dancer “Richie Walters” in the original 1975 cast of A Chorus Line and introduced one of the show’s musical highlights in “Gimme The Ball,” died Dec. 17 following a lengthy illness. He was 78.

Dino Danelli, the drummer who was the backbone of blue-eyed soul hitmakers The Rascals (nee The Young Rascals) has died at age 78.

Officially Mr. and Mrs.! Bachelor alum Seinne Fleming married longtime love Doug Fillmore in Belmond Cap Juluca, Anguilla.

DJ Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, who is best known for his appearances on the Ellen Degeneres Show, has died at the age of 40.

Stephen Boss, better known as DJ tWitch of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, died Tuesday in a Los Angeles hotel room at the age of 40, reportedly by suicide.

A shocking loss. Stephen “tWitch” Boss has died at the age of 40, Us Weekly confirms.

Albert Brenner, a production designer and/or art director on such films as Bullitt, The Turning Point, Pretty Woman and Backdraft who racked up five career Oscar nominations, has died. He was 96. The Mirisch Agency told Deadline he died December 8 in his sleep.

Norm Pattiz, the founder of the Westwood One syndicated programming network, died Dec. 6 at age 79.

Paul Silas, who won three NBA championships and was a College Basketball Hall of Famer, died Sunday at age 79, his family confirmed. No cause of death was revealed.

Georgia Holt, best known as Cher’s mother but an actress, model, and singer in her own right, has died. Cher confirmed the death on social media. Holt was 96 and no details on her death were given, although it was previously revealed she was hospitalized with pneumonia earlier this year.

“I had never heard of this guy, and I would be the kind of person who would know about the most prolific serial killer in the U.S.,” The Good Nurse director Tobias Lindholm said of the real-life Charles Cullen, played by Eddie Redmayne in the Netflix film.