More than 283,000 people around the world so far have died due to complications from the coronavirus, as cases of the deadly disease have topped 4 million in total.

The global pandemic has impacted millions around the world and shown no deference to celebrity or social status. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Prince Charles, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, Idris Elba, Daniel Dae Kim, NBA star Kevin Durant, Andy Cohen, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell, and embattled New York Knicks and New York Rangers owner James Dolan were all diagnosed with COVID-19 and later recovered. Other famous names have, unfortunately, not been as lucky. Ahead, a remembrance of the artists, performers, musicians, and other well-known names who have died due to complications from the coronavirus.

Roy Horn

Roy Horn, best known as one-half of the famed Las Vegas performing duo Siegfried & Roy, died on May 8 due to complications from coronavirus. He was 75. “Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,” Siegfried Fischbacher said in a statement. “From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried.”

Horn, whose given name was Uwe Ludwig Horn, met Fischbacher, a magician, on a cruise ship in 1960 when he was 15. (Fischbacher was five years older.) The act they later formed became part of the allure of Las Vegas, culminating in a lifetime contract to produce Siegfried & Roy at the Mirage Resort and Casino signed in 1990. The show was routinely cited as one of the most popular in the city through 2003, when tragedy struck after a tiger attacked Horn on stage. His injuries led to a stroke that left Horn partially paralyzed.

“I am very grateful, every day, for every breath I am taking,” Horn said in an interview in 2013. “That is my message to anyone who has had a stroke or a heart attack: Keep moving. Make progress. Pull yourself together, because you can do it.”

In his statement on May 8, Fischbacher referenced his partner’s capacity to soldier forward in the face of great adversity.

“Roy was a fighter his whole life including during these final days,” Fischbacher said. “I give my heartfelt appreciation to the team of doctors, nurses, and staff at Mountain View Hospital [in Las Vegas] who worked heroically against this insidious virus that ultimately took Roy’s life.”

John Prine

Bob Dylan considered folk singer John Prine, who died on April 7 at age 73 after being diagnosed with coronavirus, one of his favorite songwriters.

“Prine’s stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree,” Dylan said in a 2009 interview. “And he writes beautiful songs. I remember when Kris Kristofferson first brought him on the scene. All that stuff about ‘Sam Stone’ the soldier junky daddy and ‘Donald and Lydia,’ where people make love from 10 miles away. Nobody but Prine could write like that.”

Born in a suburb of Chicago, Prine cultivated a local following while playing at clubs Fifth Peg and Earl of Old Town. It was at the latter venue where Kristofferson essentially discovered Prine, after having been brought there in 1970 by fellow singer-songwriter Steve Goodman. “By the end of the first line, we knew we were hearing something else,” Kristofferson later said, according to Rolling Stone. “It must’ve been like stumbling onto Dylan when he first busted onto the Village scene.” It was Kristofferson who introduced Prine to Dylan. Over the next four decades, Prine became known as one of the most acclaimed songwriters of his generation. In 2016, he was honored with the PEN New England’s Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence Award.

“Who writes songs like that?” John Mellencamp said in tribute to Prine at the PEN Award ceremony four years ago. “Two people come to mind: God and John Prine. … John taught me a lot, whether he knew it or not. He was a natural-born earth-shaker. I know the record companies had no idea what to do with John Prine. ‘He’s not country, he’s not rock – what are we gonna do?’ And he said, ‘To hell with it. I’m gonna do what I’m gonna do.’ And he did.”

Prine was hospitalized in March after falling ill with coronavirus. According to his wife, Fiona Whelan Prine, he spent more than a week in the intensive care unit and was placed on a ventilator after developing pneumonia in both lungs.

In the aftermath of Prine's death, numerous celebrities paid tribute to his life and legacy, including Bruce Springsteen. “Over here on E Street, we are crushed by the loss of John Prine,” Springsteen wrote on Twitter. “John and I were ‘New Dylans’ together in the early 70s and he was never anything but the loveliest guy in the world. A true national treasure and a songwriter for the ages. We send love and prayers to his family.”

Troy Sneed

A two-time Grammy nominee who appeared in the Denzel Washington film The Preacher's Wife in 1996 before his own music career took off, Troy Sneed died on Monday from complications due to coronavirus. He was 52. “Troy was like a brother to me,” Mike Chandler, chief executive officer of Rejoice! Musical Soul Food radio network, said in a statement to CNN. “He was a businessman. He was a husband; he was a father. He was an industry leader so it's not just my loss it's a loss to the whole industry. He was one of the most talented men in our industry but more importantly Troy was a good person and he did a lot of good work. The world is going to miss him.”

Born in Florida, Sneed was a prolific recorder and producer (he formed a record label with his wife, Emily). His biggest chart hits included 2011's “My Heart Says Yes” and 2008's “Work It Out,” both of which peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Hot Gospel Songs chart.

Allen Daviau

Cinematographer Allen Daviau, who died on April 15 at age 77 after being diagnosed with coronavirus, had a way with creatures. He served as director of photography on Harry and the Henderson, Congo, Van Helsing, and, most famously, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. The 1982 Steven Spielberg blockbuster was one of many projects Daviau made with the director, including features The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun as well as Spielberg's segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie and an episode of Amazing Stories. Daviau earned five Oscar nominations in his career, for those aforementioned Spielberg movies as well as Barry Levinson's Avalon and Warren Beatty's Bugsy.

Said Kees van Oostrum, president of the American Society of Cinematographers, in a statement: “His commitment to teaching our craft and being very accessible for young cinematographers will forever be engraved in our memories. He will be remembered fondly for his sense of humor, his taste for the best of foods and his laugh that unmistakably marked his presence from far away.”

Ann Sullivan

A longtime Disney animator who worked in the paint lab or as a painter on many of the studio's biggest hits, including The Little Mermaid and The Lion King, through 2004, Ann Sullivan died due to complications from coronavirus on April 13. She was 91.

Sullivan is the third resident of the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement community in Woodland Hills, California, to die after a Covid-19 diagnosis. All told, as of April 14, 13 residents in total have contracted the disease. (Allen Garfield, who died recently, also lived on the Woodland Hills grounds.)

“Ann Sullivan was a remarkably gifted and resilient woman who chased her dream of life in California and work at Walt Disney and succeeded with grace and resiliency,” Motion Picture and Television Fund president and CEO Bob Beitcher told Deadline.

Sullivan is survived by four children, eight grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren, Deadline reported. Said her daughter Shannon, “My mom had a great sense of humor, was extremely positive, and touched everyone who was lucky enough to meet her. She loved to have a good time.”

Tim Brooke-Taylor

Tim Brooke-Taylor, a British comedy star for decades best known as being part of comedy trio The Goodies, died on April 12 at age 79 after being diagnosed with Covid-19.

“He was a funny, sociable, generous man who was a delight to work with. Audiences found him not only hilarious but also adorable. His loss at this dreadful time is particularly hard to bear,” fellow Goodie member Graeme Garden said in a statement.

Brooke-Taylor, Garden, and a third member, Bill Oddie, formed The Goodies after attending Cambridge University together. A television series focused on their comedy launched in 1970 and aired until 1982. Among the group's contemporaries and fans were Monthy Python co-founders Eric Idle and John Cleese.

Wrote Idle on Twitter, “I'm very saddened to hear of the loss of our old friend and fellow Pembroke alum Tim Brooke-Taylor. He and Bill Oddie auditioned me for the Pembroke Smoker in 1963, starting my career. I always thought him a wonderful man, funny, kind and generous. Merde. This fucking virus.”

Added Cleese, “Tim was a huge part of my early comedy life. ... He was a great performer and companion. I have just lost the will to be silly.”

Allen Garfield

A New Jersey-born performer who trained the prestigious Actors Studio in New York and co-starred in such '70s classics as The Conversation, The Candidate, and Nashville, Allen Garfield died on April 7 at age 80 after being diagnosed with coronavirus.

Garfield came to acting after brief stints as both a boxer and a journalist. “I thought I was either gonna be the first boxer-journalist, like a Hemingway character. I’d be like the Jewish Hemingway, right?” he said in a later interview. “Box and also write about boxing.” But soon after, he began acting and worked consistently for decades—other major films on his resume include Beverly Hills Cop II, The Stunt Man, and Dick Tracy. Garfield suffered a massive stroke in 2004, however, and—according to The Hollywood Reporter—had resided in an assisted living home ever since.

Of all his films, Garfield said it was Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation that he thought was best. “It said more about America and the eavesdropping menace in our society. It was, in my estimation, Francis Ford Coppola at the top of his game,” he said.

Charles Gregory

Renowned makeup artist Charles Gregory died from complications caused by Covid-19, his frequent collaborator Tyler Perry wrote April 8 on Instagram.

“The man was warm, loving and hilarious. We all loved to see him coming and hear his laughter,” Perry wrote. “It saddens me to think of him dying this way. My sincerest prayers are with his family.”

Gregory worked on numerous projects with Perry, including Madea Goes to Jail, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, and Why Did I Get Married Too?. He also traveled with Perry to outside projects in which the mogul appeared, serving as hairstylist for Perry during the production of Adam McKay's Vice. (The film's hair and makeup work, to which Gregory contributed, won an Oscar.) Gregory's most recent projects included Perry's recent Netflix film, A Fall from Grace, and the buzzy Sundance debut Zola, which A24 had scheduled for release in 2020.

Anthony Causi

A local hero who photographed some of the biggest moments in New York sports over the past 25 years, Anthony Causi died on April 12 due to complications from coronavirus. He was 48.

“Anthony Causi was our colleague, our friend, and a brilliant journalist,” New York Post editor-in-chief Stephen Lynch said in a statement. “He was, quite simply, one of the best sports photographers in New York City, capturing all the major moments of the past 25 years. Soft-spoken, funny, but most of all kind—he was respected by those he photographed and admired by those with whom he worked.”

Born in Brooklyn, Causi started his career at the New York Post in 1994 and photographed championship runs by the New York Yankees and New York Giants, creating memorable images that adorned the paper's back pages.

“He was a New Yorker. Anthony was passionate, he grinded, he cared and was caring, and he wore his heart on his sleeve. And it was a huge heart. I don’t know how it fit on his sleeve,” a representative for the New York Yankees said in a statement. “People gravitated towards him, but he had an edge to him and he never wanted to have the second-best photo of the day. On behalf of our entire organization, we will miss him and offer our heartfelt condolences to his family.” Notable sports figures who have paid tribute to Causi after his death include radio host Mike Francesa and former Yankees stars Curtis Granderson and Didi Gregorius. Cauci is survived by his wife and two children.

Terrence McNally

Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally died on March 24 in Florida at the age of 81 due to complications from the coronavirus. (McNally had a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and was previously a lung cancer survivor.) A prolific writer, McNally was perhaps best known the shows that won him honors from the Tony Awards: Master Class, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Love! Valor! Compassion!, and Ragtime. But he remained a vital writer even as he approached 80. His play Fire and Air debuted in 2018, and a revival of his 1987 play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune with Michael Shannon and Audra McDonald was staged last year. McNally received a lifetime achievement award from the Tonys in 2019 as well.

“Lifetime achievement, not a moment too soon,” McNally, who accepted the honor while wearing a nasal cannula, said in his speech last year. “I love my playwright peers: past, present, and especially future. You’re champing at the bit for your turn. Your diversity is long overdue and welcome. It’s a club with open admissions. The only dues are your heart, your soul, your mind, your guts. Your commitment to this ancient art form assures me that what we do matters. The world needs artists more than ever to remind us what kindness, truth, and beauty really are.”

Adam Schlesinger

The cofounder of critically acclaimed pop-rock band Fountains of Wayne and a prolific songwriter who won a Grammy and Emmys, Adam Schlesinger died on April 1 at age 52. He had been hospitalized after being diagnosed with COVID-19.

Schlesinger formed Fountains of Wayne with singer and guitarist Chris Collingwood in 1995, one year after he had cofounded another alt-rock band, Ivy. But it was a fictional group that launched the New York–born, New Jersey–raised Schlesinger into public consciousness: He wrote the Wonders’ hit “That Thing You Do!” in Tom Hanks’s directorial debut of the same name. The song was catchy, Beatles-esque smash: It hit No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 and scored Schlesinger an Oscar nomination in the best-original-song category.

“Before ‘That Thing You Do,’ I hadn’t written anything that anybody knew,” Schlesinger said to Consequence of Sound in 2016. “Then I had one thing that people knew, and then a few years on I had a couple other songs that people knew. When you’re just starting out and you want to be a songwriter, you want to be able to mention something that people have heard of.”

In the aftermath of That Thing You Do!, Fountains of Wayne would also find success, peaking from a commercial perspective in 2003 with “Stacy’s Mom,” the group’s biggest-selling single and a Grammy nominee for best-pop-vocal performance. (Its video was also memorable, with Rachel Hunter standing in for the titular mother.)

If that were all there was to Schlesinger’s résumé, it would still make him one of the more influential pop artists of the last 25 years. But he also wrote songs for a number of television shows and specials, including the Tony Awards (he won a pair of Emmys, in 2012 and 2013, for songs performed by Neil Patrick Harris on the Broadway telecast), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (his work on the show’s final season won an Emmy last year), and 2008’s Comedy Central special A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All (which won Schlesinger a Grammy Award). He was most recently working on a pair of musicals: Sarah Silverman’s adaptation of her memoir The Bedwetter and a stage version of the Fran Drescher CBS sitcom The Nanny, which reteamed him with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend cocreator and star Rachel Bloom.

Floyd Cardoz

Floyd Cardoz, a famed chef and restauranteur who competed won Top Chef Masters, died on March 24 at age 59 after being diagnosed with the coronavirus. In a sign of how quickly coronavirus patients can turn from symptomatic to critical, Cardoz posted a selfie from his hospital bed on Instagram just one week before his death.

Widely credited with bringing Indian cuisine into New York’s fine-dining scene, Cardoz was best known for the restaurant Tabla, which he co-owned with Danny Meyer and the Union Square Hospitality Group. The New York Times credited Cardoz with being the first chef born and raised in India to run a New York kitchen of that magnitude. “He was a super-taster, big-hearted, stubborn as the day is long,” Meyer said in a statement to the Times. “He never once lost his sense of love for those he’d worked with, mentored and mattered to.”

Cardoz won season three of Top Chef Masters, which aired in 2011. Representatives for Bravo, which produces the reality-cooking franchise, said in a statement to Deadline, “He was thoughtful, kind and his smile illuminated a room. He was an inspiration to chefs around the world and we offer our deepest sympathy to his family and friends.”

Mark Blum

New York theater actor Mark Blum, who costarred in 1980s classics like Desperately Seeking Susan and Crocodile Dundee, died in New York on March 25 after being diagnosed with COVID-19. He was 69. An Obie Award winner for the 1989 Off-Broadway show Gus and Al and a veteran of numerous Broadway productions, it’s likely most will remember Blum from any number of critically acclaimed and beloved television shows from the last four decades. A brief selection: St. Elsewhere, Miami Vice, Roseanne, New York Undercover, NYPD Blue, The West Wing, The Sopranos, and multiple episodes within the Law & Order franchise.

His most recent television work put Blum at the heart of the cultural conversation. He played Bill on HBO’s Succession, the former head of Waystar Royco’s parks division who left Tom Wambsgams (Matthew MacFadyen) sitting atop a powder keg of scandal (the entire back-half of season two was devoted to the fallout). And on the Netflix hit You, Blum costarred as Mr. Mooney, the abusive mentor and surrogate father figure to the show’s psychotic lead character, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley). He is next set to guest star on Billions when the Showtime series returns in May.

In a tribute posted to Instagram, Madonna, who starred in Desperately Seeking Susan, remembered Blum as a remarkable human being. “This is really tragic and my heart goes out to him, his family and his loved ones,” she wrote.

Maria Mercader

A longtime journalist at CBS, Maria Mercader died on March 29 due to complications from the coronavirus. Mercader, who was 54, had already been out on medical leave, according to CBS, before she was diagnosed with COVID-19.

“Even more than her talents as a journalist, we will miss her indomitable spirit,” Susan Zirinsky, CBS News president and senior executive producer, said in a statement, according to People. “Maria was part of all of our lives. Even when she was hospitalized—and she knew something was going on at CBS, she would call with counsel, encouragement, and would say ‘you can do this.’ I called Maria a ‘warrior,’ she was. Maria was a gift we cherished.”

Joe Diffie

Some of the biggest stars in country music mourned Joe Diffie after his death on March 29 at age 61. “I’m devastated by the loss of my friend,” singer Brad Paisley wrote on Twitter. “I can’t find adequate words. But the records he made, that voice, the twinkle in his eye, and our memories cannot be taken away by this disease.” Diffie was one of the best-selling country music artists of the ’90s, earning 17 Top 10 singles, including five No. 1 hits: “Home,” “If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets),” “Third Rock From the Sun,” “Pickup Man,” and “Bigger Than the Beatles.”

“One of the all-time GREAT vocalists,” wrote Trace Adkins, who featured with Diffie on a recent song by HARDY. “Joe Diffie was my friend. RIP, buddy.”

Alan Merrill

Alan Merrill was literally big in Japan—he was a rare Western singer to break out in the country in the ’60s and ’70s—but he’s best remembered for being the cowriter of “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll,” which later became a smash hit for Joan Jett. Merrill died on March 29. He was 69.

On Facebook, Merrill’s daughter, Laura, wrote that she saw him perform a couple of weeks before his death. “He played down the ‘cold’ he thought he had,” she wrote.

Merrill recorded “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll” in 1975 with his band, the Arrows. Six years later, Jett covered the track and it exploded. The song topped the charts and is regularly considered one of the best of the ’80s. “[It] was a knee-jerk response to the Rolling Stones’ ‘It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll,’” Merrill said in a 2009 interview. “I remember watching it on Top of the Pops. I'd met Mick Jagger socially a few times, and I knew he was hanging around with Prince Rupert Loewenstein and people like that jetsetters. I almost felt like ‘It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll' was an apology to those jet-set princes and princesses that he was hanging around with—the aristocracy, you know. That was my interpretation as a young man: Okay, I love rock and roll.”

Andrew Jack

A dialect coach who worked with the casts of some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters from the last 30 years, Andrew Jack died on March 31 at 76 from coronavirus complications. “Andrew Jack was as lovely as they come,” director J.J. Abrams, who worked with Jack while making Star Wars: The Force Awakens, wrote on Twitter. “He was so handsome, we had to cast him. Sending love to his friends and family. He will be missed.” Jack served as a dialect coach on both The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. He also had a voice role in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

But his science fiction and fantasy bona fides ran deep. In addition to a galaxy far, far away, Jack worked on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films and multiple features within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He was a dialect coach on many of Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond films too, and most recently, worked with Matt Reeves on The Batman, the Robert Pattinson–led reboot of the Caped Crusader’s story that was filming in England before the coronavirus pandemic forced production to go on a hiatus.

Ellis Marsalis

New Orleans jazz legend Ellis Marsalis, the father of musicians Wynton and Branford Marsalis, died on April 1 at the age of 85 after being admitted to the hospital with pneumonia-like symptoms. He had been tested for the coronavirus before his death (the results are still pending).

“He was the prototype of what we mean when we talk about New Orleans jazz,” New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell said in a statement. “He was a teacher, a father, and an icon—and words aren’t sufficient to describe the art, the joy and the wonder he showed the world. This loss cuts us deeply.”

Marsalis was a music educator as well as a deft performer, having taught not just his sons but also Harry Connick Jr. and Terence Blanchard, among many others.

Julie Bennett

Julie Bennett wasn’t a household name, but, for three decades, her voice was piped into homes around the country. She voiced Cindy Bear, the love interest to Yogi Bear in the widely popular Hanna-Barbera cartoons, and lent her dulcet tones to a number of other cartoons as well. As an actor, Bennett appeared on some of the most popular television shows of the 1950s, including Dragnet and Leave It to Beaver, and worked well into the 1980s. Bennett died on March 31 at 88 of complications from the coronavirus.

Lee Fierro

To residents of Martha's Vineyard, Lee Fierro was a local legend, a woman who spent decades mentoring more than 1,000 children at the local theater workshop. But to the millions of others who have watched Jaws, Steven Spielberg's 1975 thriller that launched the modern summer blockbuster, Fierro was Mrs. Kintner, the grieving and outraged mother who slaps Chief Brody (Roy Schneider) after her son is killed. It was announced on April 5 that Fierro had died at age 91 as a result of complications due to coronavirus.

“She was tickled by it. She found it really entertaining,” a local Martha's Vineyard resident Nicki Galland told the Martha's Vineyard Times about Fierro's Jaws fame. “She would say, ‘If you told me that’s what I’d be known for, I wouldn’t believe it.’ She had no screen training. She trained as a theater actor.” According to Galland, Fierro would often share an anecdote about her time making the film with a young Spielberg, who requested she exit one of her scenes with a little less flair for the dramatic. “Lee, you’re not on Broadway, tone it down. Tone it down,” Fierro would recall.

Fierro would reprise her role in 1987's Jaws: The Revenge (Spielberg didn't return for the sequels) and also appeared in the 2016 drama The Mistover Tale.

Fierro spent 40 years working with Island Theatre Workshop, a legacy the organization's current artistic director and board president hopes will outlast even Jaws. “I really want to make sure people remember there was more to Lee Fierro than that one scene, though she really did steal that scene from a lot of big actors,” Kevin Ryan said. “I want people to remember that she helped to build a community company that after 52 years is still here. As they’re closing around the country, we’re still here and that’s because of Lee Fierro’s dedication.”

Forrest Compton

Best known for a role on Gomer Pyle as well as starring on the long-running series The Edge of Night, Forrest Compton died on April 4 at the age of 94 from coronavirus complications. The type of actor who would have felt at home in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood vision of Tinseltown, Compton appeared as a guest star on multiple popular series from the 1950s through 1970s, including F.B.I., The Fugitive, Mannix, Mayberry R.F.D., and Johnny Ringo. He studied acting at Yale Drama School, where one of his classmates was the late Paul Newman.

Patricia Bosworth

A long-time Vanity Fair contributor, legendary biography writer, and actress, Patricia Bosworth died on April 2 at age 86 after being hospitalized and diagnosed with coronavirus. Bosworth wrote what are considered the definitive biographers of stars like Montgomery Clift and Jane Fonda. She worked up until falling ill, prepping and researching for a biography on Paul Robeson as late as March. As Vanity Fair contributor Mark Rozzo wrote in his remembrance of Bosworth, she also remained confident that the world would see coronavirus through to the other side. “Now another kind of experience for us,” she wrote Rozzo in mid-March. “This is a disaster, isn’t it? We will get through it. America will survive & hopefully we will have another president. I have to believe this!”

Hal Willner

Hal Willner, a fixture of the New York music scene and music producer on Saturday Night Live since 1980, died at age 64, weeks after tweeting about his coronavirus diagnosis. His death was reported April 7. “I always wanted to have a number one—but not this,” he wrote on March 28, before saying that his experience of the disease made him think og storytelling legends Arch Oboler and Rod Serling. His tweet included a map of the United States dotted with the spread of Covid-19 throughout the nation.

Willner produced albums with such iconic musicians as Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull (herself recently diagnosed with coronavirus), and Lucinda Williams, as well as a number of high profile tribute albums on a variety of subjects, including Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and music from vintage Disney films. For those records, he recruited some of the biggest names in recording, including Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, Chuck D, and Michael Stipe, among others. (Willner was currently working on a tribute album to T. Rex when he died.) In addition, Willner served as a music consultant or producer a number of major movies, including Robert Altman's Short Cuts, Adam McKay's Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and Step Brothers, and Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York. His work with Saturday Night Live spanned generations, and he contributed sketch music adaptations to episodes through the final one of 2020 thus far, with Daniel Craig as host. As Rolling Stone noted, Willner is also credited with helping launch the career of Jeff Buckley.

“I don’t know what inspires people now,” Willner said in a 2017 New York Times profile, part of a package called Lions of New York that highlighted major cultural icons who helped reignite the city in the 1970s and 1980s. “Maybe they don’t need to be inspired in that way. Do these last two generations have heroes? I’m not sure they do. I go to Avenue A now and listen to what people are talking about, and it isn’t culture. When John Lennon died I couldn’t go to work for two days. I wonder if they have someone that they look at like that—an author, a poet, whatever. Those are people who made us what we are. But then again, were we right?”

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