List of Famous people who died in 2011
Denise Provence
Denise Provence (1921–2011) was a French stage, film and television actress.
Herb Mitchell
Herbert L. Mitchell, Jr., credited as Herb Mitchell and sometimes Herb L. Mitchell, was an American actor, director, and teacher. He was a stockbroker before he made the switch to acting, appearing in films; stage plays such as The Fiddler on the Roof, in which he played the lead role of Tevye; television shows including The Practice, on which he had a recurring role; and commercials, including ones for stock brokerage firms Dean Witter Reynolds and Paine Webber. He was married twice and had five children.
Alfred Burke
Alfred Burke was an English actor, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Frank Marker in the drama series Public Eye, which ran on television for ten years.
Ricardo Watty Urquidi
Ricardo Watty Urquidi was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Tepic in Nayarit, Mexico.
Hanns Christian Schroeder-Hohenwarth
Enrico Luzi
Enrico Luzi was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1941 to 1980.
Sid Melton
Sidney Meltzer, known professionally as Sid Melton, was an American actor. He played the roles of incompetent carpenter Alf Monroe in the CBS sitcom Green Acres and Uncle Charlie Halper, proprietor of the Copa Club, in The Danny Thomas Show and its spin-offs. He appeared in about 140 film and television projects in a career that spanned nearly 60 years. Among his most famous films were Lost Continent with Cesar Romero, The Steel Helmet with Gene Evans and Robert Hutton, The Lemon Drop Kid with Bob Hope, and Lady Sings The Blues with Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams. He was a regular on The Danny Thomas Show and Green Acres, and appeared in flashback on several episodes of The Golden Girls as Salvadore Petrillo, the long-dead husband of Sophia and father of Dorothy.
Emanuele Gerada
Emanuele Gerada KC*HS was a Maltese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, a Vatican diplomat and titular Archbishop of Nomentum. One Maltese obituary recalled him as "a generous, well-read and intelligent man."
Nick LaTour
Edgar Daniel Nixon, Jr., better known by his stage name Nick LaTour, was an American television, film, and stage actor. LaTour was the son of African American civil rights leader Edgar Nixon. On February 28, 2011, LaTour died of cancer at the age of 82.
Hellmut May
Hellmut May was a figure skater who represented Austria at the Winter Olympics in 1936 and 1948.