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Post by petrolino on Aug 3, 2019 21:56:17 GMT
Documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker has died aged 94.
Thanks for making some remarkable films and shining a light on so many important issues, Mr. Pennebaker ... you were an inspiration.
Bob Dylan & D.A. Pennebaker
R.I.P.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 3, 2019 21:59:41 GMT
Hanna Dunowska has died at the age of 60.
Thanks for the movies, Ms. Dunowska.
Hanna Dunowska & Ewa Salacka
R.I.P.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 3, 2019 22:03:47 GMT
Actress Ludmila Laczynska has died at the age of 96.
R.I.P.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 5, 2019 18:32:42 GMT
Australian-born composer Barrington Pheloung has left us at the age of 65, on July 31. Composer of over 75 soundtracks for movies and television series since 1987. BBC ObituaryR.I.P. Barrington Pheloung
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Post by wmcclain on Aug 5, 2019 22:34:21 GMT
Australian-born composer Barrington Pheloung has left us at the age of 65, on July 31. Composer of over 75 soundtracks for movies and television series since 1987. BBC ObituaryR.I.P. Barrington PheloungLoved his music for Morse, Lewis, etc.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 6, 2019 22:06:35 GMT
RIP actor Barry Coe Barry Coe, 84, of Sun Valley, Idaho, passed away in Palm Desert, Calif., on July 16, 2019. He passed away peacefully with his family by his side, after a courageous battle with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS—a bone marrow disease). Barry is survived by his loving wife of 60 years, Jorunn Kristiansen Coe “UE,” whom he met in the summer of 1959, beginning a love-at-first-sight love affair continuing to his last breath. Barry is also survived by his three children and their spouses. Coe spent one episode as a regular on Bonanza. In the fall of 1962, Bonanza was entering its fourth season as the No. 2 show on the tube. But not all was well. Pernell Roberts had left the series so Barry Coe was cast as Clay Stafford, a new hired hand. But as filming of the first story went on, there was trouble, mainly Michael Landon felt threatened by Coe's good looks. Thus, his tenure was over even before it began. Barry has been described as “ahead of his time” in health and wellness, film industry and business. He is remembered by many for his involvement with acting and filmmaking, but he was also active behind the scenes producing and in related businesses.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 6, 2019 22:19:19 GMT
Barry Coe as Rodney Harrington in PEYTON PLACE (1957)
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Post by petrolino on Aug 9, 2019 17:58:11 GMT
Filmmaker Roberto Bodegas has died at the age of 86.
R.I.P.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 9, 2019 17:59:05 GMT
Filmmaker J. Om Prakash has died at the age of 92.
R.I.P.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 9, 2019 18:00:25 GMT
Actor George Whaley has died aged 85.
R.I.P.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 9, 2019 18:02:37 GMT
Filmmaker Jean-Pierre Mocky has died at the age of 86.
Thanks for the movies.
Jean-Pierre Mocky & Fernandel
R.I.P.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 9, 2019 18:06:04 GMT
Visual effects designer Danny Gordon Taylor has died aged 69.
R.I.P.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 9, 2019 19:28:22 GMT
Filmmaker Jean-Pierre Mocky has died at the age of 86.
Thanks for the movies.
Jean-Pierre Mocky & Fernandel
R.I.P.
R.I.P Jean-Pierre MockyFive of his most available movies: Un drôle de paroissien aka Thank Heaven for Small Favors 1963 La grande frousse aka The Big Scare 1964 À mort l'arbitre! aka Kill the Referee 1984 Le miraculé 1987 Bonsoir 1994
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Post by petrolino on Aug 10, 2019 19:34:54 GMT
Costume designer Piero Tosi has died aged 92.
R.I.P.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 14, 2019 12:49:56 GMT
Canadian-born actress Barbara March has left us at the age of 65, on August 11. Barbara March obituaryR.I.P. Barbara March
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 14, 2019 15:53:50 GMT
Edward Lewis, Producer of 'Spartacus,' 'Missing' and 'Grand Prix,' Dies at 99
The Hollywood Reporter By Mike Barnes 8/12/2019
He helped blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo clear his name and shared an Oscar nomination with his late wife, Mildred Lewis.
Edward Lewis, who helped break the Hollywood Blacklist by employing Dalton Trumbo on Spartacus and shared an Oscar nomination with his wife, Mildred Lewis, for producing Costa-Gavras' Missing, has died. He was 99.
Lewis died July 27 at his home in Los Angeles, his daughter Susan Lewis told The Hollywood Reporter. Mildred died April 7 at age 98, she also revealed, and she was his "indispensable partner" for 73 years as they worked together on movies, musicals and novels.
Edward Lewis also produced or executive produced nine films directed by John Frankenheimer, including the classics Seven Days in May (1964), Seconds (1966) — he hired blacklisted actor John Randolph on that one — and Grand Prix (1966).
For Spartacus (1960), Lewis arranged for Trumbo to write the screenplay, based on the 1951 novel by Howard Fast (like Trumbo, Fast also was blacklisted), with the producer serving as Trumbo's "front" as he presented the script to Universal Studios. (The screenwriter had been writing under pseudonyms for years.)
Only after Universal had spent $8 million making the movie did Lewis reveal the true author of the screenplay. When the studio agreed to the proper credit, Trumbo wrote that Lewis had "risked his name to help a man who'd lost his name."
Spartacus star Kirk Douglas, who executive produced the film through his Bryna Productions, also receives a wealth of credit in getting Trumbo his due. Lewis, however, did not go to any lengths to publicize his role. "It was part of his dignity and the values that he had," his daughter said.
Other Lewis-produced films written by Trumbo included The Last Sunset (1961), Lonely Are the Brave (1962) — those two, like Seven Days in May, starred Douglas, too — and Executive Action (1973).
He and his wife produced Missing (1982), which starred Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek and earned writer-director Costa-Gavras an Oscar for adapted screenplay. The thriller won the Palme d’Or at Cannes but lost out at the Academy Awards to Gandhi for best picture.
He also assisted executive producer Mildred on the Hal Ashby cult classic Harold and Maude (1971), starring Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort.
Lewis' other notable producing efforts included The List of Adrian Messenger, directed by John Huston and starring Douglas; the 1983 ABC miniseriesThe Thorn Birds, starring Richard Chamberlain; Crackers (1984), directed by Louis Malle; and his final film, The River (1984), starring Spacek and Mel Gibson.
Born on Dec. 16, 1919, in Camden, New Jersey, Edward Lewis at age 16 entered Bucknell University, where he competed as a boxer and wrestler and belonged to the Jewish fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu. After a brief stint in dental school, he served as a captain during World War II.
Moving to Los Angeles after the war, he married Mildred in 1946, and they collaborated on the screenplay adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's The Lovable Cheat (1949), featuring Buster Keaton. (Edward also co-produced the movie.)
In 1952, he produced 20 installments of the pioneering CBS anthology series Schlitz Playhouse.
He and Frankenheimer also worked together on The Fixer (1968), The Extraordinary Seaman (1969), The Gypsy Moths (1969), I Walk the Line (1970), The Horsemen (1971) and The Iceman Cometh (1973).
With Mildred and in consultation with Angela Davis, Lewis wrote the screenplay for Brothers (1977), a fictional account of the George Jackson story that starred Bernie Casey and examined racial injustice in the American prison system.
He also authored, with Mildred, the books Heads You Lose (2002) and Masquerade (2006) as well as several plays and musicals. One, Ring-a-Ring-a-Rosy, was awarded the Harold Prince Musical Theater Prize in 1995.
Edward and Mildred were actively involved in civil rights causes, working with Cesar Chavez to facilitate the establishment of the United Farmworkers of America's headquarters in La Paz, California, hosting fundraisers and organizing a Hollywood Bowl fundraiser for the 1968 Poor People's Campaign.
Avid travelers and art collectors, they loaned part of their collection to LACMA for exhibition.
In addition to his daughters Susan and Joan, survivors include sons-in-law Robert and David and grandchildren Maya and Lewis.
LEWIS, Edward Born: 12/16/1919, Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A. Died: 7/27/2019, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 17, 2019 0:53:06 GMT
Peter Fonda has died at the age of 79.
See you on the other side ...
"I am very sad. He was my sweet-hearted baby brother. The talker of the family. I have had beautiful alone time with him these last days. He went out laughing."
- Jane Fonda
R.I.P.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 17, 2019 14:43:37 GMT
Actress Lily Leung has died at the age of 90.
Comic book artist Ernie Colon has died at the age of 88. Colon contributed artwork to televison and films during his career.
Theatre actor Tonu Aav has died aged 80.
Performer Vidya Sinha has died at the age of 71.
Film director Gjergj Xhuvani has died at the age of 55.
Character player Ningali Lawford has died; some sources say she was 52 years of age, others that she was 51.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 17, 2019 14:47:02 GMT
Teresa Ha has died at the age of 81.
R.I.P.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 17, 2019 16:36:11 GMT
Brazilian actor João Carlos Barroso has left us at the age of 69, on August 12. a notise in PortugueseR.I.P. João Carlos Barroso
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