Remembering Norm Macdonald, Michael K. Williams and More Celebrities Who Died in 2021: Photo Gallery

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The end of any year is good cause for us to look back at those we lost, and in the world of entertainment, there was a lot of heartbreak, as valuable and important voices went silent.

The list of those who passed away in 2021 includes beloved TV stars like Michael K. Williams, Willie Garson, and Ed Asner, the respected directors of Lethal Weapon and Big Little Lies, and great writers such as Larry McMurtry and Joan Didion.

Below, see their photos along with the many other artists whose contributions to film and television will not be forgotten anytime soon. (You can also see a gallery of musicians we lost in 2021 here.)

Siegfried & Roy, photo via Getty

Siegfried Fischbacher, 81 (January 13th)
Siegfried of Vegas act Siegfried and Roy

Larry King in Larry King Live: Disaster in the Gulf Telethon (CNN)

Larry King, 87 (January 23rd)
Television and radio host

Hal Holbrook on Later with Bob Costas (NBC)

Hal Holbrook, 95 (January 23rd)
Actor, All the President’s Men, Into the Wild, Lincoln

Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman, 94 (January 27th)
Actor, The Last Picture Show, Young Frankenstein

Cicely Tyson, photo via Television Academy

Cicely Tyson, 96 (January 28th)
Actor, The Trip to Bountiful, Fried Green Tomatoes

Dustin Diamond in Saved By the Bell (NBC Universal)

Dustin Diamond, 44 (February 1st)
Actor, Saved by the Bell

Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer, 91 (February 5th)
Actor, The Sound of Music, Beginners

Yaphet Kotto in Alien (20th Century Fox)

Yaphet Kotto, 81 (March 15th)
Actor, Alien, Homicide: Life on the Street

George Segal

George Segal, 87 (March 23rd)
Actor, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Goldbergs

Jessica Walter as Lucille Bluth, photo via IFC

Jessica Walter, 80 (March 24th)
Actor, Arrested Development, Archer, Play Misty for Me

Craig “muMs” Grant in Oz (HBO)

Craig “muMs” Grant, 52 (March 24th)
Actor and poet, Oz, She’s Gotta Have It

Larry McMurtry, photo by Diana Walker/Getty Images

Larry McMurtry, 84 (March 25th)
Writer, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, Brokeback Mountain

Helen McCrory in Peaky Blinders (BBC Studios)

Helen McCrory, 52 (April 16th)
Actor, Peaky Blinders, the Harry Potter films

Olympia Dukakis in Tales From the City (Working Title Films)

Olympia Dukakis, 89 (May 1st)
Actor, Moonstruck, Steel Magnolias, Tales From the City

Charles Grodin, photo courtesy of NBC

Charles Grodin, 86 (May 18th)
Actor, The Heartbreak Kid, Midnight Run, Dave

Paul Mooney, photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage via Getty

Paul Mooney, 79 (May 19th)
Actor and comedian, The Buddy Holly Story, Bamboozled

Kevin Clark as Freddy “Spazzy McGee” Jones in School of Rock (Paramount)

Kevin Clark, 32 (May 26th)
Actor, School of Rock

Clarence Williams III in Twin Peaks (ABC)

Clarence Williams III, 81 (June 4th)
Actor, Purple Rain, Twin Peaks

Ned Beatty, photo courtesy of Everett Collection

Ned Beatty, 83 (June 13th)
Actor, Network, Deliverance

Richard Donner, photo via Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AFI

Richard Donner, 91 (July 5th)
Director, Superman, Lethal Weapon, The Goonies

Robert Downey Sr., photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images

Robert Downey Sr., 85 (July 7th)
Actor and director, Putney Swope, Boogie Nights, To Live and Die In L.A.

Jackie Mason, photo by Gary Friedman/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Jackie Mason, 93 (July 24th)
Comedian and actor, The Simpsons, The Jerk

Trevor Moore, photo courtesy of Comedy Central

Trevor Moore, 41 (August 7th)
Comedian, Whitest Kids U’ Know

Sonny Chiba in Kill Bill Volume 1 (Miramax)

Sonny Chiba, 82 (August 19th)
Actor, The Street Fighter, Kill Bill

Ed Asner, photo by Barry King/FilmMagic

Ed Asner, 91 (August 29th)
Actor, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Up

Michael K. Williams, photo by David Livingston/Getty Images

Michael K. Williams, 54 (September 6th)
Actor, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Lovecraft Country

Norm Macdonald, photo courtesy of NBC

Norm Macdonald, 61 (September 14th)
Comedian and actor, Saturday Night Live, Dirty Work

Melvin Van Peebles, photo by Pix/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Melvin Van Peebles, 89 (September 21st)
Director, writer, and actor, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Terminal Velocity

Willie Garson in …And Just Like That (HBO Max)

Willie Garson, 57 (September 21st)
Actor, Sex and the City, White Collar, John From Cincinnati

Roger Michell, photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images

Roger Michell, 65 (September 22nd)
Director, Notting Hill, My Cousin Rachel

Granville Adams in Oz (HBO)

Granville Adams, 58 (October 10th)
Actor, Oz, Homicide: Life on the Street, Empire

Peter Scolari, photo by Tommaso Boddi/WireImage. via Getty Images

Peter Scolari, 66 (October 22nd)
Actor, Newhart, Bosom Buddies, Girls

James Michael Tyler in Friends (NBC)

James Michael Tyler, 59 (October 24nd)
Actor, Friends, Episodes

Peter Aykroyd in Saturday Night Live (NBC)

Peter Aykroyd, 65 (November 6th)
Comedian and actor, Saturday Night Live, Coneheads, Nothing But Trouble

Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet (De Laurentiis Entertainment Group)

Dean Stockwell, 85 (November 7th)
Actor, Quantum Leap, Blue Velvet, Battlestar Galactica

Dominic Orlando (Playwrights’ Center)

Dominic Orlando, 57 (November 17th)
Writer, Mindhunter, The OA

Lou Cutell in Seinfeld (NBC)

Lou Cutell, 91 (November 21st)
Actor, Seinfeld

Photo by Douglas Elbinger/Getty Images

Stephen Sondheim, 91 (November 26th)
Broadway composer and lyricist, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Dick Tracy

Jonshel Alexander (left) and Quvenzhané Wallis, photo by Skip Bolen/Getty Images for Fox Searchlight Pictures

Jonshel Alexander, 22 (November 27th)
Actor, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Martha De Laurentiis, photo by Vladimir SmirnovTASS via Getty Images)

Martha De Laurentiis, 67 (December 4th)
Film producer, Breakdown, Hannibal, U-571

Lina Wertmüller, photo via Wikimedia Commons

Lina Wertmüller, 93 (December 9th)
Director, Seven Beauties, Swept Away

Anne Rice, photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images

Anne Rice, 80 (December 11th)
Author, The Vampire Chronicles

Joan Didion, photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images

Joan Didion, 87 (December 23)
Writer, Play It As It Lays, A Star Is Born

Jean-Marc Vallée, photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

Jean-Marc Vallée, 58 (December 25th)
Director, Dallas Buyers Club, Big Little Lies, Sharp Objects

Remembering Norm Macdonald, Michael K. Williams and More Celebrities Who Died in 2021: Photo Gallery
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