List of notable brain tumor patients

A brain tumor is an abnormal growth of cells within the brain or inside the skull, and can be cancerous (malignant) or non-cancerous (benign). Just over half of all primary brain tumors are malignant; the rest are benign, though they may still be life-threatening. In the United States in 2000, survivors of benign primary brain tumors outnumbered those who had cancerous primary brain tumors by approximately 4:1. Metastatic brain cancer is over six times more common than primary brain cancer, as it occurs in about 10–30% of all people with cancer.^[1]

This is a list of notable people who have had a primary or metastatic brain tumor (either benign or malignant) at some time in their lives, as confirmed by public information. Tumor type and survival duration are listed where the information is known. Blank spaces in these columns appear where precise information has not been released to the public. Medicine does not designate most long-term survivors as cured.

The National Cancer Institute estimated 22,070 new cases of primary brain cancer and 12,920 deaths due to the illness in the United States in 2009. The age-adjusted incidence rate is 6.4 per 100,000 per year, and the death rate is 4.3 per 100,000 per year. The lifetime risk of developing brain cancer for someone born today is 0.60%. Only around a third of those diagnosed with brain cancer survive for five years after diagnosis. These high overall mortality rates are a result of the prevalence of aggressive types, such as glioblastoma multiforme. Nearly 14% of new brain tumor diagnoses occur in persons under 20 years of age.^[2]

Acting

Name	Life	Comments	Diagnosis	Survival	Reference
Tony Anholt	1941–2002	Actor with various television credits, including Space: 1999, The Protectors and Howards' Way	—	—	^[3]
Sam Bottoms	1955–2008	Actor who played in the movies Apocalypse Now and The Last Picture Show	Glioblastoma multiforme	—	^[4]
Patrick Cargill	1918–1996	British film and television actor who had been in ill health since being treated for a brain tumor and died a year later; his death was initially attributed to a hit-and-run accident	—	—	^[5]
Bert Convy	1933–1991	Stage, film and television actor and host	Glioblastoma multiforme	15 months	^[6]
Ross Davidson	1949–2006	Actor who played Andy O'Brien in the BBC soap opera EastEnders	Glioblastoma multiforme	20 months	^[7]
Sandy Duncan	1946–	Tony Award–nominated Broadway actress, television actress	—	1971–	^[8]
Linda Gary	1944–1995	Voice artist for Scooby-Doo and other animated series	—	—	^[9]
Brian Glover	1934–1997	Actor, professional wrestler and teacher	—	—	^[10]
Richard Greene	1918–1985	Actor who appeared in more than 40 movies and in the British television series The Adventures of Robin Hood	—	3 years	^[11]
Susan Hayward	1917–1975	Academy Award–winning film actress	—	2 years	^[12]
Edward Herrmann	1943–2014	Actor of stage, screen and film	Glioblastoma multiforme	1 year	^[13]
Richard Jordan	1937–1993	Actor of stage, screen and film	—	—	^[14]
Martin Kemp	1961–	Actor and former pop musician who is in the band Spandau Ballet	—	1995–	^[15]
Arthur Kennedy	1914–1990	Stage and film actor; Tony Award winner	—	—	^[16]
Lois Kibbee	1922–1993	Actress who played Geraldine Weldon Whitney Saxon on the television soap opera The Edge of Night	—	—	^[17]
Eugene Gordon Lee	1933–2005	Child actor who played Porky in the Our Gang (The Little Rascals) comedies	Metastatic tumor	—	^[18]
Katherine Locke	1910–1995	Broadway actress in the late 1930s	—	—	^[19]
Meredith MacRae	1944–2000	Television actress and host	—	—	^[20]
Victor Maddern	1926–1993	Supporting actor in films	—	—	^[21]
Joseph Maher	1933–1998	Irish-born stage actor, film and television character actor	—	—	^[22]
Irish McCalla	1928–2002	Film and television actress, eponymous role in the 1950s television series Sheena, Queen of the Jungle	—	Less than 18 months	^[23]
Heather Menzies	1949–2017	Film and television actress, role in the 1965 film The Sound of Music	—	Less than one month	^[24]
Buster Merryfield	1920–1999	British actor who played Uncle Albert in the BBC comedy Only Fools and Horses	—	—	^[25]
Bueno de Mesquita	1918–2005	Comedian, actor and stage artist, known for his ability to make funny faces; suffered from lung cancer (probable metastasis)	—	—	^[26]
Greg Morris	1933–1996	African American television actor (Mission: Impossible series)	—	—	^[27]
Pola Negri	1897–1987	Polish-American silent movie actress who played numerous femme fatale roles; refused treatment, died of pneumonia	—	2 years	^[28]
Tommy Noonan	1921–1968	Actor and Producer, best known for supporting role vs Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 film, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	—	8 months	^[29]
Jerry Paris	1925–1986	Actor and director; played Jerry Helper on the television series The Dick Van Dyke Show	—	—	^[30]
Pat Paterson	1910–78	Actress; wife of Charles Boyer	—	—	^[31]
Pat Paulsen	1927–1997	Comedian, featured on the Smothers Brothers television show in the 1960s	—	—	^[32]
Slim Pickens	1919–1983	Rodeo clown turned film actor (Dr. Strangelove)	—	—	^[33]^[34]
Kate Reid	1930–1993	Canadian actress of stage, film and television	—	—	^[35]
Mark Ruffalo	1967–	American film actor; an operation to remove a benign tumor caused him temporary partial paralysis.	Acoustic neuroma	2001–	^[36]
Irene Ryan	c. 1902–1973	Actress who played Granny in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies; she was never told of her tumor and died after suffering a stroke onstage while performing in Pippin in her Broadway debut	—	—	^[37]
Zachary Scott	1914–1965	American film actor, specializing in playing villains (Mildred Pierce)	—	—	^[38]^[39]
Alexis Smith	1921–1993	Canadian-born film, stage, musical theatre and television actress	—	—	^[40]
Michelle Stafford	1965–	Actress, played Phyllis Summers Abbott Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless	—	1985–	^[41]
Kathy Staff	1928–2008	British actress who played Nora Batty in Last of the Summer Wine	—	Less than 12 months	^[42]
Werner Stocker	1955–1993	Bavarian Film Award (Bayerischer Filmpreis) for Best Young Actors shared with Dana Vávrová for Herbstmilch; featured role in television's Highlander: The Series	—	—	^[43]
Tara Subkoff	1972–	American actress and designer; diagnosed in 2009. Successfully underwent surgery, but was left with permanent nerve damage and deafness in right ear.	Acoustic neuroma	—	^[44]
Kinuyo Tanaka	1909–1977	Japanese film actress and director	—	—	^[45]
Anya Taranda	1915–1970	Model, showgirl, actress and wife of the songwriter Harold Arlen	—	—	^[46]
Elizabeth Taylor	1932–2011	Academy Award–winning actress, star of numerous films	Meningioma	1997–2011	^[47]
Henry Victor	1892–1945	Character actor (played "Hercules" in the 1932 film Freaks)	—	—	^[48]^[49]
Bill Williams	1915–1992	Movie actor who played Kit Carson in the 1950s TV series Adventures of Kit Carson	—	—	^[50]
Jeff Winkless	1941–2006	Composer, television and voice actor	—	15 months	^[51]

Business

Name	Life	Comments	Diagnosis	Survival	Reference
James Batten	1936–1995	chief executive officer (CEO) of Knight-Ridder publishing.	—	1 year	^[52]
Raymond Bonham Carter	1929–2004	Banker who became a director of S. G. Warburg & Co. and the father of actress Helena Bonham Carter. He became quadriplegic and partially blind after an operation to remove a non-cancerous brain tumor.	—	25 years	^[53]
Mary Lou Jepsen	1965–	Technologist and businesswoman, with a focus on optics and electronics.	Pituitary tumor	many years	^[54]
Reginald Lewis	1942–1993	CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc, the first African-American-run company to have over $1 billion in annual sales.	—	—	^[55]
Gerry Pencer	1945–1998	Chief executive officer of Cott Beverages. Pencer and his family became significant philanthropists of brain tumor research and medicine.	Glioblastoma multiforme	8 months	^[56]
Rene Rivkin	1944–2005	Stockbroker convicted of insider trading	Multiple meningioma	—	^[57]
Dawn Steel	1946–1997	First female top executive of a major Hollywood studio	—	20 months	^[58]
Preston Robert Tisch	1926–2005	Businessman; former Postmaster General and half-owner of the New York Giants	—	—	^[59]

Film, television, and radio

Name	Life	Comments	Diagnosis	Survival	Reference
Alan Berg	1934–1984	Progressive talk radio host in Denver, Colorado who broadcast his program on KOA. He was murdered in 1984; his story formed the basis of the Oliver Stone film Talk Radio.	—	8 years	^[60]
Jack Brickhouse	1916–1998	Sports broadcast announcer	—	6 months	^[61]
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