Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 2 October 2010:

Gloria Stuart, actress (Titanic), 100.

George Blanda, NFL football player (Oakland Raiders), after a brief illness, 83.

Buddy Morrow, trombonist ("Night Train"), 91.

Arthur Penn, film director (Bonnie and Clyde), of congestive heart failure, 88.

Tony Curtis, actor (Some Like It Hot), of cardiac arrest, 85.

Greg Giraldo, comedian (Comedy Central roasts), of an accidental prescription drug overdose, 44.

Clifford B. Hicks, children's author (Alvin Fernald books), of natural causes, 89.

Joe Mantell, actor (Marty), of pneumonia, 94.

Stephen J. Cannell, TV writer/producer ("The A-Team"), of complications from melanoma, 69.