An actor or someone who worked on a film or some other type of media has DiedDuringProduction, before the work was released, but they will still get credit for their contributions.

This is pointing out those who died and contributed to a media project released after their death.

They often happen to be [[InMemoriam dedicated to those who died]].

See also PosthumousCollaboration, which is when a work is created using material created by a participant who died before production was finished (or even started, in some cases), and SwanSong (the creator's final work before their death).

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Creator/KinryuArimoto, who voiced Tomomi Masaoka, died on February 1, 2019, weeks before the release of ''Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem: First Guardian'' where Masaoka was one of the main characters.
* Takeo Chii, who voiced the bamboo cutter in ''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya'', succumbed to heart failure on July 29, 2012. The film was released two years after his death.
* Toei Animation producer Yoshifumi Hatano, who produced the first 61 episodes of ''Manga/SlamDunk'', died of oral cancer on February 28, 1995. Episodes 58 through 61 premiered after his death.
* Creator/PhilHartman recorded for the English dub of ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService''. He received a posthumous credit when the movie was released to VHS a few months after his wife Brynn killed him in a murder-suicide.
* Creator/YouInoue had died in 2003, before the ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam: A New Translation'' {{Compilation Movie}}s were created, but she was nevertheless credited as portraying Sayla Mass for the character's cameo in the third thanks to the use of archived audio of the character.
* Shoko Ikeda, whom was a character designer and animator for Creator/KyotoAnimation, and was among her 36 colleagues tragically killed in the 2019 arson attack, remains credited as character designer for third season of ''Literature/SoundEuphonium'', with Kazumi Ikeda assuming the duties as new character designer and chief animation director.
* Mia Ikumi, who died of a hemorrhage in March 2022, is credited for her work on ''[[Anime/TokyoMewMew Tokyo Mew Mew New]]'', as she wrote the manga the show is an adaptation of.
* Creator/UnshoIshizuka voiced the narrator in the anime adaptation of ''Literature/UlyssesJeanneDArcAndTheAlchemistKnights'', which premiered two months after his death from esophageal cancer.
* The final four episodes of the ''Literature/ChromeShelledRegios'' anime adaptation were broadcast shortly after production coordinator Tetsuya Koiso's death.
* Bob Magruder, who voiced the narrator and Igneel in Funimation's dub of ''Manga/FairyTail'', managed to complete all of his dialogue for the sixth season before he died in January 2015. Thus, he's given a posthumous credit for the fifteenth Blu-ray/DVD release.
* Creator/LuisAlfonsoMendoza recorded all his lines as Higuma in Netflix's Latin Spanish dub of ''Anime/OnePiece'', a year before he was tragically murdered in February 2020. The dub premiered in October of that year. Creator/PedroDAguillonJr, Gan Fall's voice actor, passed away in February 2022, three months before the Skypiea arc was released on Netflix.
* Lisa Michaelson, the voice of Satsuki in the Streamline dub of ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'', died in a car crash four years before said dub would see a wide release in North America.
* Creator/YukoMizutani voiced Ikuko Tsukino in ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal''. Although she lost her battle with breast cancer on May 17, 2016, Mizutani recorded her lines months in advance.
* Despite Takamura Mukuo dying of cancer on June 9, 1992, he's still given an art design credit for all five seasons of ''Anime/SailorMoon''.
* Creator/IchiroNagai, the voice of Karin in the ''Franchise/DragonBall'' series, managed to complete all of his dialogue for ''[[Anime/DragonballZKai Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters]]'' before dying of a heart attack on January 27, 2014. His work was released posthumously.
* ''Anime/PerfectBlue'' was released shortly after editor Harutoshi Ogata's death.
* Ritsuko Okazaki's vocals were retained in Yuji Nomi's arrangement of "Friendship" for the anime adaptation of ''Manga/SayILoveYou'', which premiered eight years after the former's death.
* Creator/BobPapenbrook died of chronic lung complications on March 17, 2006, over one month before ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' was released in North America.
* Tomiko Suzuki voiced Jirachi in ''Anime/PokemonJirachiWishmaker'', which was released 12 days after her fatal heart attack.
* Creator/TakeshiShudo, who wrote ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', is credited as a writer for both ''Anime/PokemonIChooseYou'' and ''Anime/MewtwoStrikesBackEvolution'', despite his 2010 death, due to them being remakes that use his original dialogue.
* Yasuhiro Takemoto, the director of the first season of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' was one of the victims of the Creator/KyotoAnimation arson attack while the second season was in pre-production. He was posthumously credited as series director of the second season alongside his successor Tatsuya Ishihara.
* Tokuma Shoten founder Yasuyoshi Tokuma is given a credit as chief executive producer for ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', having been involved in the early stages of production before his September 2000 death.
* Nippon Television Network chairman Seiichiro Ujiie served as a member of the production committee for ''Anime/FromUpOnPoppyHill'' and was the executive producer of ''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya'', both of which came out after his death.
* Yuuji Yamaguchi worked as a storyboard artist under his Shun Yashiro penname for several episodes of ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'', which were all released after his death.
* Creator/OsamuTezuka who wrote and illustrated ''Manga/{{Unico}}'', is given a posthumous credit as co-writer for ''Manga/UnicoAwakening''. An upcoming [[ContinuityReboot 2024 manga reboot]] by Samuel Sattin and Creator/{{Gurihiru}}.
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[[folder:Films — Animation]]
* Voice actor and radio personality Frank "Dink" Trout voiced the King of Hearts in ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'', released one year after his death.
* Creator/RoddyMcDowall voiced the queen's adviser in ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', which was released a month after his death.
* For ''WesternAnimation/{{Charlotte|2021}}'', Creator/HelenMcCrory voiced Paula Salomon-Lindberg and passed away from breast cancer on April 16, 2021. The film premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2021, then was released in Canada and France in 2022.
* While ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' was in DevelopmentHell in the late 1930s, Kay Nielsen helped create concept art for the proposed production. When the film went into full production in the 1980s, Nielsen's work was used as inspiration for the film's design, and he received a posthumous "visual development" credit (Nielsen passed away in 1957, 32 years before the film's release).
** Ben Wright, who voiced Grimsby, passed away due to complications from heart surgery in July 1989. He managed to finish all his character's dialogue days before passing away.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'':
** [[Creator/DisneysNineOldMen John Lounsbery]] died a year before the release of the film, which he co-directed.
** Also, Joe Flynn, the voice of Mr. Snoops, died three years before it was released.
* John Fiedler appeared in two more films after his death in 2005, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kronk's New Groove]]'' and ''[[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie]]''. He never finished recording all of Piglet's dialogue for the latter, [[FakeShemp so Travis Oates recorded those lines for him]].
* George O'Hanlon and Creator/MelBlanc died during the production of ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie''. Creator/JeffBergman filled in for them as George Jetson and Mr. Spacely to record lines they hadn't recorded yet.
* Creator/AnneBancroft died three years before the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'':
** Creator/VincentPrice died in 1993, a year before the film's North American premiere. He had recorded his dialogue ''twenty years before''.
** Also five of the veteran animators who worked on the film, Ken Harris, Art Babbitt, Emery Hawkins, Grim Natwick, and Cliff Nordberg, had since passed away; all except Natwick were credited in "The Princess and the Cobbler" cut.
** Similarly, actors Anthony Quayle, Clinton Sundberg, Eddie Byrne, Ramsay Williams, Creator/KennethWilliams and Felix Aylmer also died during the film's production span, all of them having also recorded their dialogues years before.
* Creator/JoeRanft died in 2005, before the releases of ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'' (for which he was a writer, co-director, and the voice of Red) and ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'' (for which he was an executive producer).
* Creator/BernieMac died three months before the release of ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa''.
* Creator/FredMoore died in 1952, but he was credited on ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' and the [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts shorts]] ''The Simple Things'', ''Football (Now and Then)'' and ''Casey Bats Again''.
* Creator/JimVarney passed away in 2000, nearly a year and a half before the release of ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' in which he provided the voice of Cookie. Additional dialogue that had yet to be recorded prior to his death was provided by Steve Barr.
* [[UsefulNotes/NoteworthyLooneyTunesStaff Rod Scribner]] died in 1976. The ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' movie ''WesternAnimation/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown'', which he provided animation for, was released a half year later.
* Creator/{{Mako}} died more than one year before the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'', on which he voiced Splinter. Greg Baldwin filled in for the lines Mako was unable to record.
* Animator Don Williams, who was best known for his work for Creator/WalterLantz and ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', passed away in 1980; two films he had worked on prior to his death, ''WesternAnimation/TheGrinchGrinchesTheCatInTheHat'' and ''WesternAnimation/HeidisSong'', were both released in 1982.
* Creator/OrsonWelles voiced Unicron in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'', which was released about a year after his death.
* Creator/JoeAlaskey, who voiced the Wizard of Oz, Butch, and Droopy in ''[[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Tom and Jerry: The Wizard of Oz]]'', reprised all these roles in the sequel ''Tom and Jerry: Return to Oz'', which was released several months after his death.
* Verna Felton (who voiced Winifred Hathi the Elephant) died of a stroke on December 14th, 1966, a year before the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'' just one day before the death of the film's producer Creator/WaltDisney.
* Joseph Kaufmann who voiced the main character Michael Corleone in ''WesternAnimation/HeavyTraffic'' was killed in a plane crash two weeks before the film was released in theaters.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'': Animator Cliff Nordberg died in 1979. This film, which was his last project for Disney, was released two years later.
* Creator/MaryKayBergman died in 1999, but ''WesternAnimation/BaltoIIWolfQuest'' came out in 2002. Her fox character is one of her last credited roles.
** The direct-to-video film ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheAlienInvaders'' was released almost one year after her suicide.
** She also did Jessie's yodeling voice in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', which had its debut screening on November 13, 1999, two days after her suicide.
** She was also the voice of Si in ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTrampIIScampsAdventure'', a direct-to-video sequel released in 2001.
* Both of child actress Creator/JudithBarsi's voice-over roles for Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' were released after she was murdered by her father, the former was released 4 months after and the other a year later.
* The Polish dub of ''WesternAnimation/MinionsTheRiseOfGru'' was released in 2022, a year after Mr. Perkins' voice actor, Miłogost Reczek, passed away.
* Creator/DonRickles, who voiced Toys/MrPotatoHead in the ''Franchise/ToyStory'' series, died of kidney failure in April 2017, two years before the release of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4''. He had not recorded any new dialogue for the movie prior to his death, yet Creator/{{Pixar}} was reluctant to recast the role. With the blessing of Rickles's estate, a [[FakeShemp new performance]] was constructed using years' worth of unused recordings from Rickles portraying the character.
* Pixar gave a similar posthumous credit to Creator/PaulNewman reprising his role as Doc Hudson in ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'', released almost ten years after his death, with his performance consisting of unused dialogue from the [[WesternAnimation/Cars1 first film]].
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' animator Russ Dyson committed suicide in 1956; several cartoons he worked on were released after his death, including ''Wideo Wabbit'', ''The Honey-Mousers'', ''WesternAnimation/BostonQuackie'', and ''Tabasco Road''.
* Pat Buttram voiced the Possum Park Emcee in ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', which was released a year after his death.
* Creator/MiguelFerrer passed away on January 19, 2017. ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract'', in which he voiced Deathstroke, was released three months later. In an eerie coincidence, his involvement in the film was announced on the same day he died.
* Lisa Michelson, the voice of Satsuki in the Streamline dub of ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'' died in a car accident in 1991, three years before said dub got a theatrical release in North America.
* Mary Wickes, who voiced Laverne in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', succumbed to surgical complications in October 1995. By the time of the film's release, Wickes had completed most of her dialogue, but a few additional lines were done by Jane Withers, who later voiced Laverne in the direct-to-video sequel.
* Joseph Calleja, aka Joe C. of Music/KidRock, passed away from celiac disease in November 2000. He appeared in ''Film/OsmosisJones'', released a year later, as the backup singer for Kidney Rock.
* The ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' movie ''WesternAnimation/CliffordsReallyBigMovie'' was released seven months after the death of Creator/JohnRitter, who voiced the titular character.
* Audrey Wells died of ovarian cancer two years before the release of ''WesternAnimation/OverTheMoon'', which she wrote the screenplay for. The ending credits of the film included a dedication to Wells.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheLongHalloween'' features the late Creator/NayaRivera as the voice of Selina Kyle/Catwoman. She died in July 2020, over a year before release.
* Thea White, the voice of Muriel Bagge from ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', passed away over a month before the release of ''WesternAnimation/StraightOuttaNowhereScoobyDooMeetsCourageTheCowardlyDog'', in which she reprised her role. A dedication to White appears at the end credits of the film.
* Animator and director John Hubley worked on two films that were released after his death from a heart attack, ''WesternAnimation/ADoonesburySpecial'' and ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'', the first was released 8 months after his death and the latter a year later, he was meant to direct the entirety of ''Watership Down'', but due to his death early in production, the only sequence he directed was the opening with the abstract character designs.
* Creator/ZeroMostel passed away in 1977. ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'', in which he voiced Kehaar the seagull, was released a year later.
* The 2022 animated adaptation of ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidRodrickRules'', had Ed Asner providing the voice of [[Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid Grandpa Heffley]]. The film was released to Disney+ on December 2, 2022, over a year after his passing.
** A year later, the sequel, ''WesternAnimation/DiaryOfAWimpyKidChristmasCabinFever'', featured professional wrestler Wrestling/BrayWyatt[[note]]credited under his real name, Windham Rotunda[[/note]] as a prison guard in Greg's ImagineSpot. This was his only film role, as he died in August 2023, four months before the film's December 2023 release.
* The Polish dub of ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' was released three months after Rabbit's voice actor, Ryszard Nawrocki died.
* Disney employee Peter Young died while ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' and ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' were in production, and he received screen credits for both. Young signed on to co-direct the latter a month before his passing.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' features a credit for Creator/SatoruIwata as the "Former President of Creator/{{Nintendo}}". While he was involved with early negotiations with Creator/SonyPicturesAnimation to get the movie off the ground, he died well before the movie began development.
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[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
* French actor Creator/{{Bourvil}} passed away on September 23, 1970. His last two films, ''Film/AtlanticWall'' and ''Film/LeCercleRouge'', were released on October 14 and October 20 of that year respectively.
* Creator/JeanPierreCassel passed away in 2007. ''Film/AsterixAtTheOlympicGames'', in which he played Panoramix/Getafix, came out in 2008.
* Creator/NatalieWood [[DiedDuringProduction died during the production]] of ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'' on November 29, 1981. The film came out in 1983.
* Creator/BrandonLee was credited on ''Film/TheCrow'', the film whose set [[FatalMethodActing he died on]].
* Creator/PhilHartman received a posthumous credit on ''Film/SmallSoldiers''.
* Creator/EdwardGRobinson died five months before the release of ''Film/SoylentGreen''.
* Creator/SpencerTracy died six months before the release of ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner''.
* Johann Johannsson, the composer of ''Film/Mandy2018'', died shortly after the film's premiere in Sundance Festival, but before the theatrical release of it. The film is dedicated to him.
* Music/WhitneyHouston died six months before ''Film/{{Sparkle}}'' came out. The movie had been in DevelopmentHell since TheNineties.
* Creator/JonathanWinters was credited on ''[[Film/TheSmurfs The Smurfs 2]]'', which was released three months after his death.
* Creator/RaulJulia died two months before ''Film/StreetFighter'' was released.
* Creator/BernieMac and Music/IsaacHayes (who had a cameo role) both died within a day of each other 3 months before ''Film/SoulMen'' premiered. The movie was re-edited to have a lighter tone and had a tribute added to the credits sequence out of respect to them.
** Mac also made an appearance in ''Old Dogs'', which was released over a year after his death.
* ''Film/TheStrongestManInTheWorld'' was released in 1975, a year after Joe Flynn's death.
* Creator/ChrisFarley was credited for ''Film/AlmostHeroes'' and ''Film/DirtyWork'' which were released after his death from a drug overdose.
* ''Centennial Summer'' was released after the death of its composer, Jerome Kern.
* "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" from ''The Strip'' was one of the Academy's nominees for Best Original Song of 1951. The song was written by Oscar Hammerstein II, Bert Kalmar, and Harry Ruby; Kalmar died in 1947, though the song was not a PosthumousCollaboration: it was actually a CutSong from ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'' salvaged from the MGM trunk.
** While on posthumous songwriting noms, Howard Ashman died four months before ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' was released, and while ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' was still in production (forcing Alan Menken to make extra songs with another lyricist, Tim Rice). ''Beast'' got Ashman three noms and one win ([[AwardBaitSong "Beauty and the Beast"]]), and ''Aladdin'' another one year later ("Friend Like Me", losing to one of the Rice compositions, "A Whole New World").
* Jill Clayburgh died six months before ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}'' opened.
* Creator/HeatherORourke died four months before ''Film/PoltergeistIII'' was released. The film was dedicated to her memory.
* Creator/HeathLedger died on January 22nd, 2008. Two films he had starred in were released posthumously. They are ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'', released in America on July 18th, 2008 and January 8th, 2010, respectively. Though in the latter's case, Ledger was replaced for various scenes with Creator/JohnnyDepp, Creator/ColinFarrell, and Creator/JudeLaw as his character travels through a dream world.
* ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum: Secret of the Tomb'', released December 2014, was the last live-action film role for Creator/MickeyRooney and Creator/RobinWilliams, who had died in April and August of that year respectively. Williams also had a posthumous voice role in ''Absolutely Anything''.
* Creator/AlanRickman died in January 2016, four months before the ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'' was released. So, even if his role is voice-only, [[BillingDisplacement he's billed third overall (two above]] [[Creator/MiaWasikowska the actress playing the title character).]]
* Creator/AntonYelchin died in June 2016, two months before the premiere of ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', in which he plays Chekov. The movie was dedicated to him, as well as Spock's actor [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries from the original series]], Creator/LeonardNimoy (who died before production started).
* Creator/CarrieFisher passed away in December 2016, almost a year before the release of ''Franchise/StarWars'' Episode VIII: ''Film/TheLastJedi'' in December 2017. The end credits include a dedication. She's also present in ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' through unused footage from ''Film/TheForceAwakens''.
* ''Film/TheBFG'', which was released in July 2016, was Melissa Mathison's last screenplay before her death in November 2015.
* Creator/BruceLee passed away a month before ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' was released, also ''Film/GameOfDeath'' which he had been working on prior to his death was released 5 years later with the story rewritten and many of his scenes were composed of stock footage from his previous films.
* Creator/DouglasAdams is credited as executive producer for ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'', which entered production in 2003 - two years after Adams' death.
* Music/{{Aaliyah}} died in a plane crash six months before ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'' was released.
* Creator/StanLee died before the releases of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse movies ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' as well as the GrandFinale of the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' titled ''Film/DarkPhoenix''. The two MCU films each had one of his famous once-per-Marvel-movie cameos, while ''Dark Phoenix'' had him credited as an executive producer.
* Creator/DonaldPleasence passed away seven months before ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers'' was released, where he reprised his role as Dr. Loomis a final time.
* Creator/JohnRitter's final film role was in ''Film/BadSanta'', where he played the mall manager. The film was dedicated to his memory.
* Mike Kellin who played the head camp counselor Mel in ''Film/SleepawayCamp'' passed away from cancer three months before the film’s release.
* Creator/JohnCandy worked on three movies that were released after his 1994 death. All are dedicated to his memory:
** He starred in ''Film/CanadianBacon'' which had its ending altered out of respect.
** He was working on ''Film/WagonsEast'' at the time of his death. However, he had completed most of his scenes.
** He directed the film ''Hostage For A Day'' and had a cameo.
* An odd example of this happened with the 2019 documentary ''Goalie''. The film was originally meant to be a MadeForTVMovie aired on Creator/{{CBC}} on June 15, 2019, but had a short, limited theatrical release in March 2019. It featured Sean [=McCann=] (well-known for starring in ''Night Heat''), who died as a result of heart problems he had been suffering for most of his life two days before its television premiere.
** He also appeared in the movie ''Defining Moments'' as a shopkeeper. That film was released 2 years after he died.
* A similar scenario happened to Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman, who had two films (''God's Pocket'' and ''A Most Wanted Man'') premiere at film festivals a month before his tragic death but go into wide release afterwards.
* Again with ''Varda by Agnes'', the final film by legendary French director Creator/AgnesVarda, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival a month before her passing, but went into general release afterwards.
* Creator/PeterSellers died before ''Film/TrailOfThePinkPanther'' even started filming. His scenes consist entirely of cut footage and alternate takes from previous movies in the franchise.
* Richard Jordan died shortly after filming on ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}'' completed. In a strange coincidence, the production crew learned of his demise while they were doing post-production work on his character's death scene.
* ''Film/LastNightInSoho'' features Creator/DianaRigg, who died in September 2020. The film was released on October 22, 2021. She also appeared in the MiniSeries ''Series/BlackNarcissus'', also released a few months after her passing, and her second episode of ''[[Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall2020 All Creatures Great & Small]]'', "A Tricki Case", first aired 12 days after her passing.
* ''Film/MaRaineysBlackBottom'' was released on December 18, 2020, a few months after the death of Creator/ChadwickBoseman on August 28.
* Creator/JamesGandolfini died in spring 2013 before his last films, ''Film/EnoughSaid'' and ''The Drop'', were released.
* ''Film/AirBuddies'' was released after the deaths of not one but two actors who had minor roles: Creator/DonKnotts and Creator/PatrickCranshaw. The movie is dedicated to both of them.
* 1982's ''Paradis pour tous'' was the last film in which Creator/PatrickDewaere appeared, it was released one month after his death.
* ''Janis & John'' was released three months after the death of Creator/MarieTrintignant in August 2003.
* Creator/JamesDean died before ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'' and ''Film/{{Giant}}'' premiered.
* Creator/ClarkGable died days after filming ''Film/TheMisfits'', which was released a few months later.
* ''Film/TheDead'' was released almost four months after Creator/JohnHuston's death in 1987.
* ''Film/EyesWideShut'' was released four months after Creator/StanleyKubrick's death in 1999.
* ''Film/TaxiDriver'' and ''Film/{{Obsession}}'' were both released after Music/BernardHerrmann's death in December 1975.
* ''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'' was released one month after Creator/CaroleLombard's death in a plane crash in 1942.
* ''Film/ACrimeInParadise'' was the last film in which actor Roger Crouzet played. He passed away in 2000, while the film was released in 2001. Also, Creator/SachaGuitry died in 1957, and he's credited alongside Sébastien Japrisot for the script, since the film is TheRemake of Guitry's ''La Poison''.
* ''Bullet'', ''Gridlock'd'' and ''Gang Related'' were all released after Music/TupacShakur's murder.
* Creator/CameronBoyce suffered a fatal seizure just a month before the premiere of ''Film/{{Descendants}} 3'', in which he reprised his role as Carlos De Vil. Disney cancelled the red carpet premiere they had scheduled for it in light of his death and instead made a donation to one of Boyce's charities. The original airing had the film start with a dedication to him and the credits had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASPcV3IpENI a montage of his film works and his personal life.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': Producer Gregg Hoffman died shortly after the release of ''Film/SawII''. James Wan and Leigh Whannell dedicated ''Film/SawIII'' to Hoffman's memory, with the new character Mark Hoffman being named after him, and he received a posthumous production credit for every film in the series up to ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}''.
* ''Film/OffTheRails2021'' was released over a year after its lead actress Creator/KellyPreston died from breast cancer.
* About 2021's ''Film/CryMacho'', credited co-screenwriter N. Richard Nash died in 2000. He wrote a script in 1975 that he couldn't adapt and turned it into a novel, which was eventually brought to the screen by Creator/ClintEastwood.
* ''More Than Ever'' was the last film with Creator/GaspardUlliel in its cast and was released in November 2022, several months after his death (which happened in January 2022 due to a ski accident).
* Two films that Creator/OrsonWelles had in the works but never finished before his death in 1985 (thanks to some extremely TroubledProduction) were eventually cobbled together and released years after his passing: an adaptation of ''Literature/DonQuixote'' in 1992 and ''Film/TheOtherSideOfTheWind'' in 2018, both retaining his directorial credit.
* ''Film/AHiddenLife'' was released over two years after the passing of Creator/MichaelNyqvist and ten months after the passing of Creator/BrunoGanz.
* Will Ryan, the voice of Grubby in the ''Toys/TeddyRuxpin'' franchise, died on November 19, 2021. The documentary ''Ken Forsse: Come Dream With Me Tonight'', which featured interviews with him, was released in January 2022.
* ''Film/RomperStomper'' was released seven months after Daniel Pollock, who played skinhead Davey, committed suicide by walking in front of a train in April 1992.
* Dame Creator/AngelaLansbury died in October 2022 a few weeks before the release of the final film she appeared in, ''Film/GlassOnion'' (the sequel to the whodunnit ''Film/KnivesOut'').
* Creator/RayLiotta died in May 2022. One of his final films, ''Film/CocaineBear'', was released nine months later in February 2023.
* Music/JamesHorner, who created the score for the first ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' film, died in 2015. However, he's still credited in ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'' as the composer of the original themes, while Simon Franglen is credited as the main composer.
* Brian Goldner, the late CEO of Creator/{{Hasbro}}, is credited as a producer on ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves''. The movie was released almost a year and a half after his death.
* Creator/LanceReddick passed away just one week before the release of ''Film/JohnWickChapter4'', where he reprised his role as series regular Charon. He also reportedly filmed his scenes for the currently in post-production ''Ballerina'' spin-off. His death also came several months before the October release of ''Film/TheCaineMutinyCourtMartial'', which is also a posthumous release for director Creator/WilliamFriedkin (who died two months before).
* Creator/GaspardUlliel died in January 2022. ''Film/MoreThanEver'' was released in November 2022.
* Creator/MartyFeldman died from a heart attack during production of ''Film/{{Yellowbeard}}''. The end credits include the dedication, "For Marty".
* Creator/GlendaJackson passed away in June 2023. Her final film, ''Film/TheGreatEscaper'', is due to release on October 6, 2023.
* Ernest Jay died before ''Film/DoctorAtLarge'' was released, but still received a credit for playing Sir Charles Hopcroft.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Creator/JudithBarsi was credited on the ''Series/GrowingPains'' GrandFinale in a flashback, three years after her murder.
* One of the leads on the HBO series ''Series/SiliconValley'', Creator/ChristopherEvanWelch, died of lung cancer in December 2013, 4 months before the series' premiere. At the time of his death, only 5 of the 8 planned episodes had been shot. According to show creator Creator/MikeJudge, instead of recasting him, his character was written out of the last few episodes. They did a proper death and funeral for his character in the next season.
* The 2017 revival of ''Series/TwinPeaks'' features several deceased actors who either appear in archival footage from the original series (as with Frank Silva) or filmed their scenes for Season 3 before their passing (as with Catherine E. Coulson, Creator/MiguelFerrer, and Warren Frost). One notably unique case reuses archival footage of Music/DavidBowie as Phillip Jeffries from ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe'', but at Bowie's own request, his voice is overdubbed by an actual Louisianan actor (presumably due to Bowie's dissatisfaction with his own attempt at a Louisianan dialect). Some of the episodes in which these characters appear are dedicated to their memory.
* Several episodes of ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' that were made after composer Johnny Costa died credit him for music. This is because the showrunners were able to reuse some of the songs he had already composed, most notably the piano tune that plays before the theme song starts.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** Several sketches featuring Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch being performed by Caroll Spinney premiered throughout season 50, well after he had died. This is caused by the show being prone to reusing older segments in new episodes and most episodes being filmed a year in advance.
** Both Creator/JimHenson and puppeteer Richard Hunt (who passed away in 1992) were credited among the ''Sesame Street'' puppeteers through 2001 and 2000, respectively, although the final sketches Henson recorded aired before his death.
** In the Jerry Nelson tribute episode, the Count's dialogue at the end is cobbled together from Nelson's outtakes.
* Joe Raposo died on the day the second episode of ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'', a show which he wrote several songs for, aired. All episodes of the series have his name in the credits, being that he wrote the theme song and performed and wrote several musical numbers in the first season.
* The final six episodes of ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' aired in the United States three years after Lynne Thigpen, the voice of Luna, died from a cerebral hemorrhage.
* ''Series/TheDistrict'': Lynne Thigpen died of cancer during season 3. Her character appeared in episodes after her death before [[TheCharacterDiedWithHer dying with her]].
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': "Our Selena is Dying" is based on a story written by Creator/RodSerling which was never produced during his lifetime. The script was written by Creator/JMichaelStraczynski but Serling received the story credit when it was made in 1988, 13 years after his death.
* Happened to Creator/JonathanDemme, who died the same day an episode of the miniseries ''Series/ShotsFired'' that he directed aired.
* Some episodes of ''Series/SneakyPete'' featuring Ricky Jay aired a year after he died.
* Creator/ZeroMostel was the only guest star on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' to pass away between the taping of his episode and it airing.
* The last TV production Creator/MarieTrintignant starred in, ''Colette, une femme libre'', was released in April 2004. A FakeShemp had to be used in some scenes.
* The fifth and final season of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' aired after Creator/ElisabethSladen's passing.
* French actor Creator/GaspardUlliel died on January 19, 2022 from a ski accident in the French Alps. He appeared in Creator/MarvelStudios' ''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}'' as Anton Mogart / Midnight Man, which premiered in March of that year.
* Creator/RayLiotta passed away in his sleep on May 26, 2022. He completed his scenes for ''Series/BlackBird'', in which he played the father of Creator/TaronEgerton's character, shortly before his death.
* ''Series/TheOrville'':
** Creator/NormMacdonald died on September 14, 2021 from acute leukemia. He voiced a secondary character named Yaphit (the character was entirely CGI except for a single scene where Macdonald appeared in person). The actor completed his scenes for the first episode of season 3, but Yaphit is absent for the rest of the season. The episode was dedicated to the actor.
** Creator/LisaBanes was killed in a hit-and-run on June 14, 2021, after completing her scenes for two episodes of season 3, and was likewise mentioned in a dedication.
* Creator/KevinConroy died one year after he recorded his interview for Creator/EricBauza 's ''Stay Tooned'' docu series.
* Creator/LanceReddick played Zeus in the first season of ''Series/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians2023'', which he completed before his passing in March 2023.
* Creator/RayStevenson previously performed voicework for the ''Franchise/StarWars'' character Gar Saxon. When the time came for his live-action portrayal of Baylan Skoll for ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'', he passed away from illness several months before the show's release.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': The final two episodes of season 3, which aired in 2023, featured Creator/MajelBarrett, who'd passed away in December 2008, as the voice of [[spoiler:the rebuilt ''Enterprise''-D computer]] via archival audio.
* ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'':
** Original announcer Johnny Olson suffered a fatal stroke on October 12, 1985. The next week, host Creator/BobBarker paid tribute to Olson, informing the audience that his last shows would air in the weeks that followed. Afterwards, the show used several substitute announcers before choosing Rod Roddy as Olson's successor.
** Rod Roddy himself averted this as he would have substitute announcers fill in for him as he was battling cancer, and his last show would air a week before his death on October 27, 2003, and Bob Barker also paid tribute to him.
* A tragic example is Brenda Benet, who committed suicide on April 7, 1982, just a matter of days after finishing up her final scenes on ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'' before her character Lee [=DuMonde=] was PutOnABus. Benet's final two weeks on the show aired posthumously, and, rare for a SoapOpera, the character never [[TheOtherDarrin got a recast]].
* No less than ''twice'' in late 1977, Creator/{{CBS}} ended up premiering a special starring a music legend about six weeks after they died.
** ''Elvis in Concert'' debuted on October 3, after Music/ElvisPresley died on August 16.
** ''Music/BingCrosby's Merrie Olde Christmas'', the special where Crosby sang "Peace on Earth[=/=]Little Drummer Boy" with Music/DavidBowie, debuted on November 30, after Crosby passed away on October 14.
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[[folder:Music]]
* ''Dr. Demento Covered in Punk'' featured a cover of the novelty song "The Thing" sung by Creator/AdamWest. The album was released seven months after West passed away.
* Dolores O'Riordan of Music/TheCranberries was in London recording vocal tracks for the band's upcoming album when she drowned in her hotel's bathtub. Sometime later, the other band members went over her recordings and discovered she had recorded enough songs for a full album. They went back into the studio a few months later. The resulting album, ''In The End'', was released the following year, with the late O'Riordan credited as the vocalist and lyricist, after which the surviving members went their separate ways.
* Riley Green's 2019 single "I Wish Grandpas Never Died" features co-writer's credits for both of his grandfathers, who both died long before the song was recorded.
* Music/GarthBrooks' 2016 single "Baby, Let's Lay Down and Dance" was the last song that frequent collaborator Kim Williams wrote before his death. Kim died in February and the song was released in October.
* Music/PeterGabriel's 2002 song "Signal to Noise" was originally set to feature Pakistani Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as a featured vocalist, only for him to die from obesity complications before he got the chance to record anything in the studio. He did, however, do a live performance with Gabriel in the '90s, and his vocals were isolated from there for use on the studio version of the song; Khan is thusly credited with "Additional Vocals" in the liner notes for [[Music/UpPeterGabrielAlbum its parent album]].
* Music/ManicStreetPreachers' 2009 album ''Journal for Plague Lovers'' is built around rediscovered lyrics penned by rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards, who disappeared in 1995 and was officially presumed dead in 2008; Edwards is credited as the album's lyricist as a result.
* ''Music/LoveThisGiant'' by Music/DavidByrne and Music/StVincent gives poet Creator/WaltWhitman a writing credit on "The Forest Awakes", thanks to its lyrics being derived from his works; Whitman by this point had been dead for 120 years.
* In 2021, [[MilestoneCelebration to mark the 30th anniversary]] of Music/OzzyOsbourne's "Hellraiser" single, a special mashup version was produced, combining Ozzy's vocals with those by Music/{{Motorhead}} frontman and co-writer Lemmy Kilmister, who'd passed away in 2015, off Motorhead's own rendition into a duet.
* Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}:
** Their 1969 album ''Music/LetItBleed'' was the last to include founding member Music/BrianJones, who died on July 3, 1969, four months before its November 28, 1969 release.
** Their 1986 album ''Music/DirtyWork'' was the last to include founding member Ian "Stu" Stewart (who had been demoted to road manager and session musician because of contractual stipulations in 1963), who died from a heart attack on December 12, 1985, three months before its March 24, 1986 release.
** Their 2023 album, ''Hackney Diamonds'', was the last to include longtime drummer Charlie Watts, who had been the only member besides Music/MickJagger and Music/KeithRichards to have played on every Stones album and tour from 1963 until his death on August 24, 2021, two years before its October 20, 2023 release.
* Famously, Music/{{Sublime}}'s self-titled third album was released about two months after frontman Bradley Nowell died of a heroin overdose in 1996.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* The co-librettist of the 1946 Broadway musical ''St. Louis Woman'', Countee Cullen, died shortly before rehearsals began.
* Creator/CliffordOdets died during the first week of rehearsals of TheMusical adaptation of his play ''Theatre/GoldenBoy''. Odets nevertheless remained the only credited librettist until William Gibson, with considerable misgivings, agreed to rewrite the show during its troubled tryout.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Mike Pilotti worked in the colour animation cells for the first two games of ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' but was killed in an avalanche before the release of the second game, [[InMemoriam which was dedicated to him]].
* Creator/RobinSachs, voice of Zaeed in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' trilogy, died a month before the final DLC for the third game, ''Citadel'', was released.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' has a few examples, some of which relate to the HD [=ReMIX=] UpdatedRerelease versions.
** Creator/WayneAllwine passed away in May 2009, but completed voice work as WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse one final time for ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'' which was released the following fall, as well as for episodes of ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse''. Notably, Allwine is also credited for the ''Days'' cutscene movie in the ''I.5 HD [=ReMIX=]'' UpdatedRerelease alongside TheOtherDarrin Bret Iwan, who recorded Mickey’s lines for the scene’s extension in said movie.
** By contrast, the late Creator/ChristopherLee returned as [=DiZ=] in the original English release of the game but his lines were re-recorded by his understudy Creator/CoreyBurton for ''I.5'' to maintain vocal consistency with Burton’s performance as the character in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories''. Lee does receive a posthumous credit for his performance being retained in the ''II.5'' version of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', however.
** Other deceased voice actors whose performances in the series were credited posthumously for either the original release or rereleases include John Fiedler as Piglet from ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' in the [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI first game]], Creator/PatMorita as the Emperor of China from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' and Creator/GlennShadix as the Mayor of Halloween Town from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' in ''II'', and the first [[Creator/LeonardNimoy English]] and [[Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka Japanese]] voice actors for series BigBad Master Xehanort in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance Dream Drop Distance]]''.
* Creator/MiyuMatsuki passed away in October 2015 but managed to complete her voice work for Chihaya Mifune in ''VideoGame/Persona5'', which was released in September 2016.
* Creator/SatoruIwata passed away in June 2015, but still served and was credited as executive producer for a number of Creator/{{Nintendo}} titles that ended up being released posthumously, some coming out months or even ''years'' after his passing. Among the last was ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', nearly two years after he died. He was also credited in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' despite passing away before production on the film even began, though he was involved in the early negotiations with Creator/SonyPicturesAnimation back in 2014, a year before his passing. While plans with SPA soon faltered, it did not deter Nintendo from making a Mario movie.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem''
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates''. Creator/RokuroNaya, the Japanese voice of Gunter, passed away two months before the game was even announced, let alone released.
** Creator/PhileceSampler died of a heart attack on July 1, 2021. She voiced [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Niime]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'' (credited as "Robin Bell"), who was added to the game in February 2022.
** Creator/BillyKametz, the voice of Ferdinand von Aeigr in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', died of cancer on June 9, 2022, one day after the release of the ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'' demo, having completed his voice work reprising his role months beforehand.
* Creator/UnshoIshizuka passed away four months before the release of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', in which he voiced [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Incineroar]]. Before passing away, he also completed the voiceworks for Brad Wong in ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive6'' as well as [[Anime/CowboyBebop Jet Black]] in his appearance in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsT''.
* Parodied in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'', in where at the conclusion of an escape sequence, if any players have died or fallen down by the time everyone else has entered the escape vehicle. In place of "The survivors have escaped!", you get "In memory of: (name of fallen survivors)".
* Denis Akiyama, the English voice of Nobunaga Oda and the narrator in ''VideoGame/OnimushaWarlords'', died of cancer on June 28, 2018. The HD remaster, which featured the original English dialogue, was released nearly seven months after Akiyama's death.
* Creator/KeijiFujiwara voiced Kagutsuchi in the remaster of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', which wasn't even announced until three months after his death from cancer.
* Creator/HirotakaSuzuoki voiced Prisoner No. 1356 in ''VideoGame/Yakuza1''. His voice work was kept intact for ''Kiwami'', which was released over nine years after his death.
* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' makes a point of crediting deceased seiyuu whenever TheOtherDarrin isn't at play. For example, prior to Creator/KenNarita taking over the role of Bright Noa in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'', Creator/HirotakaSuzuoki was still credited for Bright's lines in the various games of the series. Notably, this only happens when the participating series itself uses TheOtherDarrin; otherwise SRW will use previously recorded clips and '''doesn't''' recast roles. Creator/ChiekoHonda is still credited whenever [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Elpeo Ple and/or Ple Two]] appear in games and Creator/YukoMizutani is still [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsCompact2 Excellen Browning]].
* Creator/MichaelKWilliams died from a drug overdose on September 6, 2021. He voiced Capt. Kimble "Irish" Graves in ''VideoGame/Battlefield2042'', which was released on November 19, 2021.
* At least four foreign voice actors died before the release of ''VideoGame/LegoStarWars: The Skywalker Saga'' on April 5, 2022. Two Brazilian voice actors died of COVID: Dario de Castro (Qui Gon Jinn) died on April 15, 2021, and Julio Chaves (Lando Calrissian) died on August 10, 2021. Georges Claisse (the French voice of Palpatine) died on November 15, 2021. Milogosz Reczek (the Polish voice of old Obi-Wan Kenobi) died on December 14, 2021.
* Ursula's voice actress Creator/PatCarroll passed away on July 30, 2022. The life-sim and adventure hybrid game ''VideoGame/DisneyDreamlightValley'' marked her final performance as [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ursula]] since she managed to record a few bits of dialogue for the game.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' PC game, like the last nine episodes of the show's second season, features Creator/{{Mako}} reprising his role as Uncle Iroh in spite of the game being released after his death. Much like "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheTalesOfBaSingSe The Tales of Ba Sing Se]]", the game includes [[InMemoriam a dedication to Mako's memory]].
* The ''Rehydrated'' remake of ''VideoGame/SpongeBobSquarePantsBattleForBikiniBottom'' retains the voice clips from the original game, and thus Creator/TimConway reprises his role as Barnacle Boy despite having passed away about a year before the remake was released.
* ''VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague'', released in 2024, marks the final performance of Creator/KevinConroy as Franchise/{{Batman}} after his passing in November 2022.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series composer Koichi Sugiyama died in September 2021, but composed the music for ''VideoGame/DragonQuestTreasures'', which released over a year later in December 2022, and was apparently involved in the upcoming ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXII'' in some capacity.
* A rare example of a posthumous song credit in a video game -- Akira Complex, an artist who contributed music to many games in the RhythmGame genre, committed suicide in June 2023. One of their songs, "Ether Second", was released in ''VideoGame/{{Maimai}} DX'' eight months later.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* The final chapter of ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'' was released “in loving memory of Palmer.” Palmer was the lead developer of the game, who died before the final chapter was made.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** Creator/MontyOum, the show's creator, was posthumously credited as a writer for most of Volume 3. He had passed away between volumes.
** Creator/BillyKametz provided some of Torchwick's lines in Volume 9, which was released ten months after his death.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Animator Jacques Muller passed away in November of 2018, The Looney Tunes Critic's commentary for ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' for which he participated in was released five months later.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Music/EarthaKitt recorded her voice for the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E10OnceUponATimeInSpringfield Once Upon a Time in Springfield]]", which aired more than a year after her death in December 2008.
** Writer Don Payne, who died in March 2013, was credited on the episodes "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E5LaborPains Labor Pains]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E8WhiteChristmasBlues White Christmas Blues]]".
** Creator/PhilHartman's last Simpsons appearance was playing Troy [=McClure=] in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E3BartTheMother Bart the Mother]]", which aired five months after his death in May 1998. The episode was dedicated to him and his characters Lionel Hutz and Troy [=McClure=] were retired.
** Music/MarvinHamlisch played a younger version of himself in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS24E4GoneAbieGone Gone Abie Gone]]", which aired 3 months after his passing in August 2012.
** Russi Taylor voiced Martin Prince for the final time in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS31E8ThanksgivingOfHorror Thanksgiving of Horror]]" which aired three months after her death.
** The final speaking appearance of Edna Krabappel in the episode “The Man Who Grew Too Much”, aired 5 months after Marcia Wallace’s death.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episodes "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E13StarvinMarvinInSpace Starvin Marvin in Space]]" and "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E15MrHankeysChristmasClassics Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics]]" credit Creator/MaryKayBergman, the original voice for most of the show's female characters, and aired after her suicide.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** Creator/CarrieFisher had the recurring role of Angela until she suddenly passed away in December 2016. According to Creator/SethMacFarlane, she recorded dialogue for at least two more episodes but had yet to decide what should happen to Angela afterwards. [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim Angela was killed off]], having died from swimming too soon after eating.
** Also happened to Ricky Garduno, one of the Platform/DummComics co-founders who worked on the show as a storyboard artist during seasons 9, 10 and 11. He passed away December, 2011. in Of the 13 episodes he was credited on, only two came out when he was still alive;[[note]]Foreign Affairs and Amish Guy[[/note]] the rest were broadcast posthumously.[[note]]Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Burning Down the Bayit, Forget-Me-Not, You Can't Do That on Television, Peter, Mr. And Mrs. Stewie, Family Guy Viewer Mail #2, Ratings Guy, The Old Man and the Big 'C', Lois Comes Out of Her Shell, Brian's Play and Valentines Day in Quahog[[/note]]
* The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' reintroduces StockFootage of the first four seasons' OpeningNarration, as well as a recreation of the scene from the end of Episode 1. This allowed Creator/{{Mako}} to be credited a final time years after his passing.
* Creator/TexAvery was in the middle of producing ''WesternAnimation/TheKwickyKoalaShow'' before he died. The show came out about a year later.
* [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Ted Cassidy]]'s last acting role before he died in 1979 was in ''[[WesternAnimation/FlashGordon1979 Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All]]'', which was not broadcast until 1982.
* Jean-Yves Raimbaud died before the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' was completed. He still receives creator credit on the show years later.
* Creator/AntonYelchin died in June 2016, six months before ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'' premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}}, in which he played main character Jim. He managed to record several seasons' worth of dialogue before Jim was recast for most of the third and final season along with later appearances in ''WesternAnimation/ThreeBelow'' by Yelchin's close friend Creator/EmileHirsch.
* The end credits of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' acknowledged David Rappaport (the original voice of Dr. Blight's computer assistant MAL), when the show premiered several months after he passed away.
* Michael Pataki, the voice of Creator/JohnKricfalusi's character George Liquor, passed away in 2010. His final project for him, ''WesternAnimation/CansWithoutLabels'', was released in June of 2019.
* Creator/JohnRitter voiced recurring character Eugene Grandy, Bobby's music teacher on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''. His last appearance in "Stressed For Success'' was released a year after his death.
* Creator/MickeyRooney guest-starred in the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "A Star Is Reborn" as one of the elderly producers who [[InkSuitActor looks like him]]. It was released a year after his death.
* 12 episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'' featuring Creator/StanFreberg voicing Dr. Whipple premiered in 2016, a year after his death.
* Cinar's revival of ''[[WesternAnimation/SimonInTheLandOfChalkDrawings2002 Simon In The Land of Chalk Drawings]]'' premiered almost a year after its narrator, [[Series/MrDressup Ernie Coombs]], died.
* Several ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episodes featuring David Doyle as Grandpa Lou were broadcast after his death, with the final episode he recorded being the Season 5 premiere.
* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':
** Creator/ElizabethMontgomery voiced a Western barmaid in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE13Showdown Showdown]]", which was first broadcast on September 12, 1995, almost four months after she died.
** Creator/RoddyMcDowall's last performance as the Mad Hatter was in the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS3E2KnightTime Knight Time]]", which aired on October 10, 1998, exactly one week after his passing.
* In the Italian dub of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersWarForCybertronTrilogy'', Roberto Draghetti (Optimus Prime) died on July 24, 2020, a week before the show's premiere.
* ''WesternAnimation/LittleBill'' aired its final episode six months after the death of Gregory Hines, who voiced Little Bill's father.
* Albert Jelenic finished recording his lines for his InkSuitActor character in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' special ''Where Exactly on the Globe is Carl Sanpedro?'' shortly before he passed away. The episode wound up airing eight months after his death.
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheRoadsterRacers'' "Hi, Jinx!", which featured Creator/RussiTaylor as Minnie Mouse, was the first episode to air after her death.
* The sequel series ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseFunhouse'' had Will Ryan reprise his role as Willie the Giant in "Bottled Up!", which aired on December 3, 2021. Ryan died on November 19, 2021, a few weeks before.
* Arthur Q. Bryan's last appearance as Elmer Fudd in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Person To Bunny" premiered five months after his death.
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool'' was released nine months after the death of Marilyn Schreffler, who voiced Winnie Werewolf.
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheAlienInvaders'' was released eleven months after Creator/MaryKayBergman's passing; it being her final performance as Daphne.
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndGuessWho'' aired an episode guest starring Creator/AlexTrebek five days after his passing.
* Despite Anna Dewdney passing away in the Fall of 2016 of breast cancer, she's still credited on the ''WesternAnimation/LlamaLlama'' Netflix series, which was based on the original books written by her. However she's only credited for some episodes of Season 1 which are adaptations of the books.
* Creator/EdAsner passed away on August 29th, 2021, three days before the premiere of ''WesternAnimation/DugDays'' where he reprises his role as [[WesternAnimation/{{Up}} Carl Fredricksen]]. Creator/DisneyPlus later added a memorial card to Asner for the first episode a few months after its release.
* Polly Lou Livingston passed away around four months before the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeDistantLands'' special "Together Again" aired, which featured her last performance as the character Tree Trunks.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** The episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E11WhaleOfABirthdayKarateIsland Karate Island]]" was released six months after Creator/PatMorita's death.
** Another episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS9E2PatrickManGarysNewToy Patrick-Man!]]" came out four months after Creator/ErnestBorgnine's passing on July 8th, 2012, making it Mermaid Man's final speaking role.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' concluded with a two-part episode titled "Spider Wars", which featured Spider-Man defeating his alternate self Spider-Carnage by summoning an alternate reality counterpart of his deceased Uncle Ben. Ben Parker's voice actor Brian Keith had passed away seven months before the finale aired.
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'': Chadwick Boseman reprised the role of T'Challa for three episodes of season 1, which debuted a year after his death in August 2020.
* A Hungarian dub for ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' was produced in 2004 but bizarrely not released until 2022. Attila Vári and Gábor Garamszegi, who had both dubbed supporting roles, passed away in 2021.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'': Creator/GilbertGottfried, the voice of Digit, passed away from ventricular tachycardia on April 12, 2022. An Arbor Day special called "Buzz and the Tree", which featured Gottfried as Digit, premiered not even a month later, on April 29, 2022. Another animated production featuring Gilbert's posthumous work in a secondary role, ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatLegendsCageMatch'', is slated for release on October 2023.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Before Creator/TaraStrong became the voice of Timmy Turner for the series proper, Creator/MaryKayBergman voiced Timmy for the original ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts, with the last four ("The Zappys", "Scout's Honor", "The Really Bad Day" and "Super Humor") airing after her suicide.
* The 2011 computer-animated Franchise/LooneyTunes short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQlTud9mc8k&t=138s "I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat"]] (shown before ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeetTwo'') and 2012 animated short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJynH1Ky_hI&t=173s "Daffy's Rhapsody"]] (shown before ''Journey 2: The Myterious Island'') had Creator/MelBlanc reprising the roles of WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck via archive audio from Looney Tunes albums from the 1950s. Only Creator/BillyWest (WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd) and Creator/JuneForay (Granny) were able to provide new dialogue in both shorts.
* The 2013 Disney animated short ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse'' (shown before ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'') had Creator/WaltDisney, Marcelite Garner, and Billy Bletcher reprising their roles as WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse, and WesternAnimation/{{Pete}} for the short. While the short almost relied entirely on archive audio, Creator/RussiTaylor was brought in to record three lines for Minnie Mouse. Pete's non-recycled dialogue for the short was also provided by Will Ryan.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Creator/{{Mako}} performed his final lines as Uncle Iroh in the last nine episodes of the second season, which aired about two months after his passing. One of those episodes, "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheTalesOfBaSingSe The Tales of Ba Sing Se]]", notably included [[InMemoriam a dedication to Mako]].
* The Season 3 episode of ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'' titled "A Matter of Loaf and Boeuf" was released a year after Creator/EdAsner's passing. The episode was dedicated to him since his character (Ambrose Brandenham) returned in the episode.
* The ''WesternAnimation/HaileysOnIt'' episode "The Wild, Wild Mess" aired on June 8, 2023, almost a year after the death of Creator/BillyKametz, who voices a biker named "Road Rash" in it.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': The Hulu revival episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS8E6IKnowWhatYouDidNextXmas I Know What You Did Next Xmas]]" has Music/{{Coolio}} voice Kwanzaa-bot one last time, the episode being released less than a year after his death.
* As many people who get their wishes granted through Make A Wish have life-threatening illnesses, this sometimes happens to people who have appeared via a MakeAWishContribution. For instance, Amy Volkert, who appeared in the ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'' episode "Night of the Living Plush", died three months before the episode aired on television.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/HenryHugglemonster'' starring Creator/JoanRivers aired a year after her passing.
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