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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 20, 2017 18:38:17 GMT
Actress and singer Nati Mistral has passed away at the age of 88 in Madrid, Spain. Mistral became one of the great stars of the musical during the Golden Age of Cinema, appearing in 'Maria Fernanda La Jerezana' (1947), 'Currito De La Cruz' (1949), 'Cabaret' (1953) and 'The Lovers Of Toledo' (1953). Tributes are being paid across the world of musical theatre. Nati Mistral R.I.P.
'Scuse me, but that appears to be a photo of Dolores del Rio. |
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Post by petrolino on Aug 20, 2017 18:42:42 GMT
'Scuse me, but that appears to be a photo of Dolores del Rio. Wrong picture - thanks.  |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 20, 2017 18:52:11 GMT
'Scuse me, but that appears to be a photo of Dolores del Rio. Wrong picture - thanks. Ah, now that looks like Nati Mistral (although it's always a pleasure to gaze upon the exquisite features of del Rio, no matter the occasion). |
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Post by petrolino on Aug 20, 2017 19:28:45 GMT
Ah, now that looks like Nati Mistral (although it's always a pleasure to gaze upon the exquisite features of del Rio, no matter the occasion). An honest mistake on my part, thanks so much for the correction Doghouse. |
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 21, 2017 23:52:34 GMT
Science fiction author Brian Aldiss, dead at 92. Original stories for AI: Artificial Intelligence and Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound. Also occasional actor. Brian Aldiss |
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Post by petrolino on Aug 25, 2017 21:06:26 GMT
Master cinematographer Ramananda Sengupta has passed away at the grand old age of 101. Sengupta was one of India's most talented cameramen, working with the great Bengali filmmakers Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. Sengupta also assisted Claude Renoir in shooting Jean Renoir's Bengali drama 'The River' (1951).
Playwright and author Thomas Meehan has died at the age of 88. Meehan contributed to several of Mel Brooks' creative projects, the two friends writing together in the studio, for the stage and behind the screen.
Novelist Gordon Williams has died aged 83. Williams' novel 'The Siege Of Trencher’s Farm' (1969) was filmed by Sam Peckinpah in the 1970s as 'Straw Dogs' (1971). The Scotsman generally declined offers of film work though he did help to bring the work of crime writer Ruth Rendell to the screen with 'Tree Of Hands' (1989).
Actor Jay Thomas has died at the age of 69. Thomas appeared regularly on American television. He also worked in films from time to time, appearing in 'Straight Talk' (1992), 'Mr Holland's Opus' (1995) and 'Monkey Business' (1998).
The filmmaker Alain Berberian has died aged 64. Berberian directed several hit comedy features in France including 'Paparazzi' (1998) and 'The Corsican File' (2004).
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Post by petrolino on Aug 25, 2017 21:15:32 GMT
Bea Wain has passed away at the age of 100. Wain appeared in 'The Dipsy Doodler' (1940) with big band leader Larry Clinton & His Orchestra. Bea Wain Rest in Peace
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Post by petrolino on Aug 26, 2017 11:30:45 GMT
Rejean Ducharme, playwright, novelist and screenwriter, has died aged 76. Ducharme was a major figure on the Quebec arts scene.
Rejean Ducharme R.I.P.
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Post by neurosturgeon on Aug 27, 2017 7:38:31 GMT
Tobe Hooper, the horror director best known for helming “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and “Poltergeist,” died Saturday in Sherman Oaks, Calif., according to the Los Angeles County Coroner. He was 74. The circumstances of his death were not known.
The 1974 “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” became one of the most influential horror films of all time for its realistic approach and deranged vision. Shot for less than $300,000, it tells the story of a group of unfortunate friends who encounter a group of cannibals on their way to visit an old homestead. Though it was banned in several countries for violence, it was one of the most profitable independent films of the 1970s in the U.S. The character of Leatherface was loosely based on serial killer Ed Gein.
Hooper also directed the 1986 sequel “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2,” which took a more comedic approach, as part of his Cannon Films deal.
The 1982 “Poltergeist,” written and produced by Steven Spielberg, also became a classic of the genre. The story of a family coping with a house haunted by unruly ghosts starred JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson. The film was a box office success for MGM and became the eighth-highest grossing film of the year.
After “Poltergeist,” Hooper directed two movies for Cannon Films, “Lifeforce” and “Invaders from Mars,” a remake of the 1953 alien movie.
His 1979 CBS miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling novel “Salem’s Lot” is considered by many fans to be a high-water mark in televisual horror. Combining the intrigue of a nighttime soap opera with the gothic atmosphere of a classic horror film, the two-part program was eventually reedited and released theatrically throughout Europe.
He continued working in television and film throughout the 1990s and 2000s, but none of the films had the impact of his early works. His last film, the 2013 “Djinn,” was set in the United Arab Emirates and produced by Image Nation. His other more recent works included “Toolbox Murders,” “Mortuary” and two episodes of “Masters of Horror.”
Among his other works was the music video for Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself.” In 2011 he co-authored a post-modern horror novel titled “Midnight Movie” in which he himself appeared as the main character.
Willard Tobe Hooper was born in Austin, Texas and taught college before starting out in documentaries.
He is survived by two sons.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 27, 2017 12:01:16 GMT
Tobe Hooper, the horror director best known for helming “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and “Poltergeist,” died Saturday in Sherman Oaks, Calif., according to the Los Angeles County Coroner. He was 74. The circumstances of his death were not known. I'm feeling sad, contemplative, upon just hearing this breaking news; little over a month ago, we lost Tobe Hooper's friend and fellow horror filmmaker George Romero. I'll be looking to read tributes over the next few days to Hooper, who like Romero, was one of America's greatest, most influential filmmakers. My thoughts are with his friends and family. Here's an obituary in 'Variety' : Tobe Hooper (1943 -2017)
"His death follows the July 17 passing of George Romero, whose Night of the Living Dead launched flesh-eating zombies as a genre staple. There will certainly be an outpouring of remembrances by filmmakers inspired by Hooper and we’ll add those tributes when they come in ..."
- Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline
Thanks for the movies, Tobe, and thanks for the memories. Tobe Hooper Rest in Peace |
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Post by petrolino on Aug 28, 2017 12:46:18 GMT
Mireille Darc, one of France's most stylish performers, has passed away at the age of 79 following a long period of illness. Darc was a natural comedienne with a deft touch who worked with the filmmakers Roger Vadim, Michel Boisrond, Andre Cayatte, Jean-Luc Godard, Edouard Molinaro, Gerard Pires, Michel Audiard, Yves Robert and Jacques Deray. She also appeared in many films directed by Georges Lautner. Darc abandoned cinema in the late 1980s before entering television in the 1990s where she continued to work for the next two decades. An indelible image of Darc (as femme fatale Christine) in a daring low-cut black dress in the comic mystery 'The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe' (1972) has become one of the defining images in French cinema. She will be greatly missed. Thanks for the movies and thanks for the laughter, Ms Darc. Mireille Darc Rest in Peace
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Post by petrolino on Aug 28, 2017 13:09:23 GMT
American character actress Viola Harris has died at the age of 91. Harris remained a working actress for more than 75 years.
Hungarian character actress Lenke Loran has died at the age of 90. Loran appeared in many films at home during a movie career that spanned 8 decades.
Wildlife filmmaker Alan Root has died aged 80. Root, who lived and worked in Kenya, lent his filming experience to several productions in Africa. He was once married to conservationist and filmmaker Joan Root who passed away in 2006.
Italian opera singer Enzo Dara has died aged 78. Dara co-starred in 'The Barber Of Seville' (1973).
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Post by petrolino on Aug 30, 2017 22:02:31 GMT
The filmmaker Karoly Makk has passed away at the age of 91. Makk was born in Berettyoujfalu, Hungary on December 22nd, 1925. His parents owned a cinema so he was raised under the umbrella of film. As a filmmaker, Makk encountered many obstacles and was forced to deal with suppression at the hands of strict political censors. Despite these difficulties, he persisted, creating some of the great works of European cinema. He also directed several international co-productions including 'Lily In Love' (1984) starring Christopher Plummer, Maggie Smith and Elke Sommer, and 'The Gambler' (1997) which features double Oscar-winner Luise Rainer's final big screen performance. Margit Dajka & Marianne Krencsey in 'Liliomfi' (1954)
I've been fortunate to see some of Makk's films from different points in his career; 'Love' (1971), 'Another Way' (1982) and 'A Long Weekend In Pest And Buda' (2003) are intimate, intrusive and incisive - the work of a master filmmaker. I sincerely hope I'm able to see more.
Thanks for the movies. Karoly Makk Rest in Peace |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 1, 2017 1:50:44 GMT
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-anderson-dead-six-million-855240 Richard Anderson, who portrayed Oscar Goldman, the head of a secret scientific government organization, on the 1970s series The Six Million Dollar Man and its spinoff, The Bionic Woman, died Thursday. He was 91. Anderson, who was mentored by nice guy Cary Grant and received a huge career boost when he was cast in Stanley Kubrick’s anti-war classic Paths of Glory (1957), died at his home in Beverly Hills, publicist Jonathan Taylor announced. A frequent authority figure onscreen, Anderson also portrayed a colonel in another notable war film, the Rod Serling-scripted Seven Days in May (1964), and he operated on Rock Hudson, the second time much to Hudson’s dismay, in another John Frankenheimer film, the sci-fi thriller Seconds (1966). As an MGM contract player who started out in the mailroom, Anderson appeared early in his career in such films for the studio as The Magnificent Yankee (1950), Scaramouche (1952), Escape From Fort Bravo (1953) and Forbidden Planet (1956). He then moved to Fox and played Joanne Woodward’s mama’s-boy boyfriend in The Long, Hot Summer (1958). In the highly rated, two-part episode that brought a thrilling end to the 1960s ABC series The Fugitive, Anderson portrayed the brother-in-law of Richard Kimble (David Janssen). He also was Police Lt. Steve Drumm on the final season of CBS’ Perry Mason and Santa Luisa Police Chief George Untermeyer on ABC’s Dan August, starring Burt Reynolds. After three popular Six Million Dollar Man telefilms in 1973, the Universal TV property was given steady life as an ABC series in January 1974. On the show, Anderson played the chief of the fictional Office of Scientific Intelligence and the boss of Steve Austin (Lee Majors), a NASA astronaut who is injured in a crash and “rebuilt” (at a cost of about $29 million in today’s dollars), becoming a secret agent. Anderson also is heard in the show’s action-packed introduction: “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, we have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man.” --- Born on Aug. 8, 1926, in Long Branch, N.J., Anderson and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was 10. After graduating from University High School and serving a 17-month stint in the Army during World War II, he studied at the Actors Laboratory in L.A. Anderson was working on an NBC show called Lights, Camera, Action in 1949 when, out of the blue, he received a phone call from Grant. “My wife [Betsy Drake] and I saw you on television. We think you’re pretty good, particularly in comedy. Why don’t you come to the studio for lunch?” he said of the invitation in the 1991 book, Evenings With Cary Grant. “I met him on the set of Crisis. I’ll never forget it. He said, ‘I’d like to help you. You’re a very good actor.’” That led to a screen test and a contract at MGM, where Anderson stayed for six years and made nearly 30 films. He then appeared on a loan-out to United Artists for Paths of Glory, playing Major Saint-Auban, the heartless prosecuting attorney who wants three soldiers court-martialed for cowardice, in the acclaimed World War I drama. “That film changed my whole career,” he said. 
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 1, 2017 15:19:29 GMT
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shelley-berman-dead-comic-actor-719716?utm_source=twitterShelley Berman, the wildly popular “sit-down” comic of the late 1950s and ’60s who, after his career came unhinged following an outburst caught on camera, concentrated on acting and played Larry David’s father on Curb Your Enthusiasm, has died. He was 92.  A standout in a golden era of comedy that included other observational masters like Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Bob Newhart, Berman died early Friday morning at his home in Bell Canyon, Calf., according to a post on his official Facebook page. He had a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. Inside Shelley Berman, his live record released in 1959, became the first comedy album to go gold (reaching sales of 500,000 units) and was the first non-musical recording to win a Grammy Award. The Chicago native trained as a serious actor before jumping into comedy as a nightclub performer. His signature bit was to sit cross-legged on a bar stool, act as if he were on the telephone and improvise long, complicated, one-sided conversations. Inside Shelley Berman featured a classic seven-minute riff on drunken regret, “The Morning After the Night Before” (“My tongue is asleep and my teeth itch. Where is my Alka-Seltzer?”), and another routine about people’s pornographic-level love of buttermilk. He “typified the everyman who regularly cracked under social pressures and couldn’t quite stay ‘normal,’” Ethan Thompson wrote in the 2010 book, Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture. As an actor, Berman was memorable as a guy who has some dirt on presidential candidate Cliff Robertson in Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (1964); as the misanthropic Archibald Beechcroft, who wills everyone in the world to be just like him (to his eventual dismay), in a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone; and as a hilariously senile judge on Boston Legal.
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Post by petrolino on Sept 1, 2017 17:32:27 GMT
Sweet home, Chicago. Shelley Berman R.I.P. |
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Post by petrolino on Sept 1, 2017 20:18:19 GMT
Playwright Ann Jellicoe has passed away at the age of 90. Jellicoe's play 'The Knack... And How To Get It' was filmed by Richard Lester in 1965.
It's been reported that actor Alan Cassell has died aged 85. Cassell appeared in Bruce Beresford's films 'Money Movers' (1978), 'The Club' (1980), 'Breaker Morant' (1980) and 'Puberty Blues' (1981).
Actor Janne Carlsson has died aged 80. Carlsson appeared opposite Swedish superstar Christina Lindberg in 'Exposed' (1971) and headlined Lasse Aberg's popular military comedy 'Repmanad' (1979).
Independent producer Julie 'J.D.' Disalvatore has died aged 51. Disalvatore produced comedies and dramas about gay life.
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Post by petrolino on Sept 1, 2017 20:18:57 GMT
Film director and screenwriter Egon Gunther has died aged 90 following a long period of illness. Gunther played a pivotal role in helping reunite East and West Germany culturally, having been granted permission to work on both sides of the wall. Among his popular works were 'Farewell' (1968), 'Lotte In Weimar' (1975) and 'Rosamunde' (1990).
"One of the greats of German cinema has left us today. I personally also feel Egon Günther's death as a great loss. And now the director has left us such important works as" Lotte in Weimar "and" The Sorrows of Young Werther ". This is a sad day for the state capital, for the German cinema and for all the people who have grown up with their wonderful films."
- Mayor Jann Jakobs of Postdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Egon Gunther R.I.P.
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Post by petrolino on Sept 1, 2017 20:25:35 GMT
Ballerina Janine Charrat has passed away at the age of 93. Charrat was born on July 24th, 1924, in Grenoble, France and later moved to Paris with her family. She became an overnight sensation when she appeared at the age of 12 in Jean Benoit-Levy's 'Ballerina' (1937). A prodigious talent, Charrat went on to make a series of short films showcasing her ballet skills and became one of artistic dance's top choreographers.
Janine Charrat R.I.P.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 1, 2017 20:35:47 GMT
Playwright Ann Jellicoe has passed away at the age of 90. Jellicoe's play 'The Knack... And How To Get It' was filmed by Richard Lester in 1965. It's been reported that actor Alan Cassell has died aged 85. Cassell appeared in Bruce Beresford's films 'Money Movers' (1978), 'The Club' (1980), 'Breaker Morant' (1980) and 'Puberty Blues' (1981). Actor Janne Carlsson has died aged 80. Carlsson appeared opposite Swedish superstar Christina Lindberg in 'Exposed' (1971) and headlined Lasse Aberg's popular military comedy 'Repmanad' (1979). Independent producer Julie 'J.D.' Disalvatore has died aged 51. Disalvatore produced comedies and dramas about gay life. ![]()  Janne Carlsson. It's so typically Swedish as long they live they are treated like trash, when they die they suddenly becomes beloved. |
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