Screenwriter Dan O'Bannon
Aliens vs Predator - Requiem
Alien vs. Predator
Alien: Resurrection
Alien³
Total Recall
Aliens
Invaders from Mars
Lifeforce
The Return of the Living Dead
Blue Thunder
Heavy Metal
Dead & Buried
Alien
Dark Star

Somebody actually wrote Heavy Metal?

Wow, I've not seen a single film listed.

If we turned the sound all the way down would you watch the first two Alien movies (those are the only two really good movies on the list)?

VAM

I think Return of the Living Dead is a great zombie flick.

And I have seen more of them than I like to admit.

In a related gripe, news organizations really need to be careful how they introduce non-death news pieces for people not generally in the news. NPR just did this:

Charles Gibson, 34-year veteran of ABC news, two-time host of Good Morning America and most recently anchor of World News...retired today.

Of course, up to the end there I assumed he'd died. That's happened to me a couple times recently. "Mel Brooks, who started his career as a writer on the Sid Caesar show and hit sitcoms and followed that up with a successful career making satirical movies today...received a Kennedy Center Honor."

The tip off with NPR is obits usually start with something along the lines of, "In sadder news today..."