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Post by spiderwort on Jan 3, 2019 3:23:03 GMT
The 2018 obit thread has been retired. Please don't bump it.
Instead, post all 2019 obituaries here.
Sadly, we lost two talents today:
Bob Einstein, a.k.a Super Dave Osborne, passed away today, January 2, 2019, in Indian Wells, California at the age of 76. A writer, director, and actor, he was a two-time Emmy winner who began his career with The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1968 and worked until 2017 in Curb Your Enthusiasm. His younger brother, actor Albert Brooks, remembered him on twitter: “R.I.P. My dear brother Bob Einstein. A great brother, father and husband. A brilliantly funny man. You will be missed forever."
R.I.P. Mr. Einstein
We also lost Daryl Dragon of Captain and Tennille fame.
Singer, composer, and actor, Daryl Dragon, died today of renal failure at the age of 76. His ex-wife and partner in the Captain and Tennille singing team, Toni Tenille, was with him at the end.
R.I.P. Mr. Dragon
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 5, 2019 1:17:56 GMT
AMEN !!!
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Post by london777 on Jan 7, 2019 4:18:06 GMT
Daryl Dragon played will all the experimental movie-loving, rock & pop singer-songwriter keys players, from Neil Sedaka to Elton John ... and was a confidante to Brian Wilson. Those were better days, gone before us ....
Only after his recent death did I discover than Daryl Dragon was the son of Oscar-winning and prolific film-score composer Carmen Dragon, also a symphonic composer, conductor (most notably at the Rose Bowl) and enthusiast for introducing children to classical music. Carmen had six children, all active in music.
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Post by petrolino on Jan 8, 2019 6:21:35 GMT
Actor William Morgan Sheppard has died aged 86.
R.I.P.
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Post by MCDemuth on Jan 8, 2019 6:35:23 GMT
Actor William Morgan Sheppard has died aged 86.
R.I.P.
Yeah, the gruff looking actor with the deep scratchy voice who frequently guest starred on many TV shows & Movies... He appeared several times on various "Star Trek" shows & movies (He played Data's "Grandpa", in Season 2 of TNG)... (I think he was on) the original "MacGyver... And appeared on Doctor Who when the Doctor faced the Impossible Astronaut... He also played Sam's grandfather, who found Megatron, in the first Transformers film... Odds are, we all saw him in something, at one time or another... His son, is actor Mark Sheppard, who played Crowly, the King of Hell, of TV's Supernatural... RIP Sir, and Thank You for so many memories!
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 9, 2019 16:32:33 GMT
Morton Packard "Packy" Smith. Born September 28, 1941. Died December 17, 2018 but just reported. Nashville - beloved by family and friends; writer, publisher, producer, and renowned collector of Western movies and artifacts; possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of Hollywood movie and Nashville music history—died following a brief illness in Nashville on Monday, December 17, at the age of 77...Packy co-founded the Western Film Festival and more recently the Lone Pine Film Festival, where he was instrumental in obtaining guests and procuring rare movies shown at events over the last three decades. He served on the board of directors of the Museum of Western Film History, also in Lone Pine, and co-produced a season of the Roy Rogers "Happy Trails Theatre" television show for the Nashville Network...A Celebration of Life will be held on January 12, 2019, at The Pavilion at Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens at 11:00 a.m - 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations to Alive Hospice, Museum of Western Film History, the Democratic Party, or your favorite charity. Packy Smith obit from The Tennessean
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 10, 2019 23:49:21 GMT
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jan 11, 2019 0:18:48 GMT
God bless her for The Hired Hand and High Plains Drifter.
R.I.P. Verna
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 13, 2019 3:14:33 GMT
Jo Andres Jo Andres - American filmmaker, choreographer and artist. Died January 7, 2019 Shown here with Her Husband of 32 years, Steve Buscemi Andres first became known on the kinetic downtown New York performance scene of the 1980s for her film/dance/light performances, shown at The Performing Garage, La Mama E.T.C., P.S. 122, St. Marks Danspace, and the Collective for Living Cinema. As a filmmaker, Andres drew acclaim and awards for the 1996 film, Black Kites (1996), which aired on PBS and played several film festivals, including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, London and Human Rights Watch Film Festivals. Andres directed music and art videos, as well as her own film performance works. Andres was a dance' consultant to the acclaimed Wooster Group. She has been an artist in residence at leading universities, museums and art colonies, including Yaddo and The Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.
Andres recently created a series of cyanotype photographs, which can be seen on JoAndres.com
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 14, 2019 3:41:24 GMT
Stefanos Miltsakakis, Legendary Action Actor, Dies at 60
Greek Hollywood Reporter By Tasos Kokkinidis January 12, 2019
Hollywood just lost one of its best fighters – Stefanos Miltsakakis, the legendary Greek American fighter who became a popular bad guy in action movies, died at the age of 60 in Los Angeles on Wednesday. An excellent martial artist, Miltsikakis was suffering from heart problems lately.
Born in humble surroundings in Provatonas, a small village near the town of Alexandroupoli, northern Greece in 1959, he shot to fame fighting Jean-Claude van Damme in five Hollywood movies. “I remember fighting as soon as I started to walk,” he said in a TV interview in 2011. “I was raised in an environment where children were fighting, wresting with each other all day long.”
In 1973 he moved to America with his family, although they could not speak English. They settled in a studio apartment, shared with another Greek family, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He later described how as a teenager he was subject to discrimination: not speaking English and being culturally different, he was struggling to integrate himself with the local youth. After getting into trouble, the high school free-fighting trainer encouraged him to join the school team: this changed his life forever. He won a scholarship for the State University of North Carolina and became a fighter for the All-Americans team.
In 1984, at age 24, he was selected for the Greek team at the Olympics that year, but a knee injury just before the event forced him to abandon his Olympic dreams. This forced him to consider the idea of working in the world of cinema. In 1989 he got a small role in the film Cyborg, by Albert Pyun , where he had the chance to work with actor Jean-Claude Van Damme. He moved to Los Angeles and began a career of small character parts, especially in martial arts films. With Van Damme he collaborated again in Lionheart (where he plays a soldier on a jeep), in La Prova (where he plays a Greek wrestler), in Maximum Risk (where he plays a killer) and in Derailed (where he plays one of the hijackers).
But Miltsakakis was also a great fighter in real life. On September 27, 1999 he took part in the 9th Vale Tudo World Championship during which he won against judoka Joe Charles in 8:38 minutes, recording a personal record. In 2002 he participated in the 14th Vale tudo, where he won against Mariano Mendoza. He was also a world champion in “Pagration”, an ancient Greek sport combining wresting with boxing.
After his retirement in 2011 he set up a gym in Venice CA.
He will be sorely missed by his friends and all the people who knew him over the years. In a post on Facebook Stephen Brown writes: “With a heavy heart and swollen eyes we say goodbye for now to one of the greatest human beings that ever walked this earth. He was a mentor to so many of us who was blessed to have known him.”
MILTSAKAKIS, Stefanos Born: 3/8/1959, Provatonas, Greece, Died: 1/9/2019, Los Angeles California, U.S.A.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 15, 2019 15:49:26 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Jan 15, 2019 18:21:26 GMT
Character actor Paul Koslo has died at the age of 74.
R.I.P.
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Post by Stammerhead on Jan 19, 2019 12:00:34 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Jan 20, 2019 20:12:55 GMT
It's being reported that film producer Andrew Vajna has died at the age of 74.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jan 20, 2019 22:11:05 GMT
Lovely Boy!
R.I.P. Windsor.
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 21, 2019 4:43:35 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 23, 2019 21:10:57 GMT
Kaye Ballard - NYT link , VarietyKaye Ballard (1925 – Jan. 21, 2019) starred on the 1960s sitcom “The Mothers-in-Law” and was also a popular Broadway and nightclub performer. Ballard played a meddling mother-in-law alongside Eve Arden as they get too involved in their children’s marriage on the sitcom that ran on NBC from 1967 until 1969. Ballard was a singer who was the first to record “Fly Me to the Moon,” and she starred in many Broadway musicals including “The Golden Apple.” 1958 in The Girl Most Likely
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 23, 2019 21:27:07 GMT
Her big number: Lovely song.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 24, 2019 0:05:04 GMT
Doghouse6 Was listening to her in this earlier today … timing, eh ?
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jan 25, 2019 19:46:58 GMT
Dušan Makavejev ( 1932 – 25 January 2019) Acclaimed Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his ground-breaking films of Yugoslavian cinema in the 1960s and early 1970s, an era of cinematic creativity termed the Yugoslavian Black Wave. These films standout for their non-traditional approach to film making, their dark humour and their critical examination of the Yugoslav society at the time. Dušan Makavejev an original & outstanding cinematic artist .. R.I.P
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