Deaths 2022

Deaths 2021

Deaths 2020

Deaths 2019

Deaths 2018

Deaths 2017

Deaths 2016

Deaths 2015

Deaths 2014

Deaths 2013

Deaths 2012

Deaths 2011

Deaths 2010

Deaths 2009


Full list by date of death

Mark Forest

Actor/bodybuilder/singer

Born - 6 January 1933, New York City, USA
Died - 7 January 2022

Tall, dark-haired, muscular, third-generation Italian-American strongman and actor. Born Lorenzo Degni, he followed friend and fellow bodybuilder Steve Reeves into movies, enjoying a few years in Italian sword-and-sandal movies, before re-training as an opera singer for the remainder of his career: The Egyptian (1954), Goliath and the Dragon/The Revenge of Hercules (1960), Son of Samson (1960), Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (1961), Death on the Arena (1962), Goliath and the Sins of Babylon (1963), Hercules Against the Mongols (1963), Hercules Against the Barbarians (1963), Maciste, Gladiator of Sparta (1964), The Lion of Thebes (1964), Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun (1964), The Magnificent Gladiator (1965) and Kindar the Invulnerable (1965), his last.