Notable Deaths in March 2021
Jessica Walter
The acerbic, hilarious star of Arrested Development and Archer passed away at the age of 80. She had a lengthy career on stage, TV, and in movies, including playing the villainous sorceress Morgan le Fey in a TV pilot for a 1978 Doctor Strange TV series that didn’t get picked up. Nobody played overbearing, withering, and neurotic matriarchs better than Walter—nobody.
Yaphet Kotto
Yaphet Kotto told the world he turned down the roles of Lando Calrissian in Star Wars and Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. But his stardom is cemented by his role in Ridley Scott’s original Alien movie, and as the scene-stealing villain of the James Bond movie Live and Let Die. He died at 81, with no cause of death given.
