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Post by spiderwort on May 29, 2022 12:48:25 GMT
Yesterday saw the passing of three actors: English Patricia Brake, Hungarian Peter Haumann, and American Bo Hopkins. May they all RIP.
Patricia Brake 1942-2022
Remembered by the BBC
Peter Haumann 1941-2022
Bo Hopkins 1938-2022
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Post by stryker on May 30, 2022 8:08:38 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Jun 2, 2022 18:32:26 GMT
American television and film director Gary Nelson has left us at the age of 87 or 88, on May 25th. He was Emmy nominated for the TV mini-series Washington: Behind Closed Doors 1977. He has directed many television series, including Get Smart, Gunsmoke, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Patty Duke Show, Gilligan's Island and Happy Days. In addition, he directed six feature films, Molly and Lawless John 1972, Santee 1973, Freaky Friday 1976, The Black Hole 1979, Jimmy the Kid 1982 and Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold 1986. He also directed many television movies, including Murder in Coweta County 1983 starring Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith. His last directorial work was 19 episodes of the TV-series Early Edition 1997 - 2000. R.I.P. Gary Nelson
(No obituary could be found at the time of this writing)
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Post by teleadm on Jun 3, 2022 11:20:32 GMT
American songwriter and record producer Paul Vance has left us at the age of 92, on May 30th. His most successful song compositions, all written with Lee Pockriss, included "Catch a Falling Star", "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini", and "Tracy". With over 300 recorded songs, he co-wrote (with Lee Pockriss) such hits as "Catch a Falling Star," recorded in 1957 by Perry Como, which topped Billboard's "Most Played By Jockeys" chart and became one of Como's signature songs, and "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," recorded in 1960 by Brian Hyland, which rose to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. He got the idea for "Itsy Bitsy Bikini" because his daughter was too shy to wear a bikini in public. The song was a Top 10 hit in other countries around the world. In 1959, Vance and Pockriss released a single for Columbia Records as 'Lee and Paul,' a novelty tune called "The Chick." Vance and Pockriss also provided English lyrics for the song "Calcutta". "What Will Mary Say", a Top 10 hit for the singer Johnny Mathis in 1963, was written by Vance with Eddie Snyder and many other tunes. His music appears on over 80 soundtracks. R.I.P. Paul Vance
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 7, 2022 23:11:01 GMT
Roger Scholes (1950 - 5 June 2022) Acclaimed Australian independent film and television producer, director, writer, script editor, cinematographer has passed away down in the Australian island state of Tasmania aged 72. In 1982 Scholes came to prominence directing and editing a short film The Franklin River Blockade an environmental documentary. Throughout the 80's he worked with his writer/film producer partner, Katherine Scholes, on a number of documentaries before writing and directing his first feature film The Tale of Ruby Rose (1987). The film won four critics prizes at the Venice Film Festival in 1987 including Best Actress and Best Director. In 1988 Roger and Katherine formed their production company, Edward Street Films. Together they produced numerous documentaries. Of his 20 released films many have received critical acclaim. The documentary Home of the Brave won First Prize at the 1993 International ITVA American Film Awards, First Prize at the 1992 Mobie Awards, the documentary The Valley won Best Film – Media at the 1992 Atom Awards and a 1992 United Nation Media Peace Award, the cinema feature The Coolbaroo Club won the 1996 Human Rights Award for Media and the Honourable Mention at the 1993 Columbus International Film Festival, the 3 hour teleseries The Human Journey won the 2000 Eureka Prize for Science Media and Best Film - Education at the 2000 Atom Awards. The Passionate Apprentices (2008) Is an intimate heartwarming tale of three artisans and their apprentices keeping old skills alive in a quiet valley in Tasmania, in the shadow of Sleeping Beauty Mountain... Roger also worked as a lecturer and tutor for many cinematic institutions including the Australian Film Television and Radio School, the VCA film school, Film Victoria, the Australian Film Commission, Screen Tasmania, Latrobe University and has served as a board member for the Swinburne Film School and Screen Tasmania. With such an outstanding career in the Australian film industry behind the camera, in education and politics, inspirational Roger Scholes will always be remembered and honoured... R.I.P Roger Scholes
In the wild and isolated wilderness of the Tasmanian highlands, Ruby Rose is overcome by her phobic fear of darkness. Ruby cries out to the elemental spirits that surround her. She is driven to take a harrowing journey out of the mountains to seek help from her lost grandmother. On location 1987 with Melita Jurisic (Ruby Rose)
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Post by jervistetch on Jun 11, 2022 2:08:40 GMT
Julee Cruise, an actress and singer whose vocals are so familiar to fans of David Lynch and “Twin Peaks” in particular, has passed away at age 65. She is remembered here at Pitchfork: Julee Cruise
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Post by teleadm on Jun 13, 2022 9:56:23 GMT
India-born American costume designer May Routh has left us at the age of 87, on June 1st. A fashion illustrator turned renowned costume designer who brought iconic looks to such films as The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976, My Favorite Year 1982 and Being There 1979. Other movies included The Last Remake of Beau Geste 1977, Ghost Story 1981, Splash 1984, Newsies 1992, Ronin 1998 and Reindeer Games 2000. She was nominated for two Emmy Awards, 1991 for Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter and 1996 for Andersonville. She is remembered by Hollywood Reporter R.I.P. May Routh
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Post by jervistetch on Jun 13, 2022 20:33:04 GMT
Beloved character actor Philip Baker Hall has passed away at age 90. He is remembered here at The Hollywood Reporter: Philip Baker HallHis filmography is astounding but he may be best known for his portrayal of Mr. Bookman the Library Cop on what is possibly the funniest episode of Seinfeld ever.
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Post by marianne48 on Jun 13, 2022 21:04:14 GMT
Beloved character actor Philip Baker Hall has passed away at age 90. He is remembered here at The Hollywood Reporter: Philip Baker HallHis filmography is astounding but he may be best known for his portrayal of Mr. Bookman the Library Cop on what is possibly the funniest episode of Seinfeld ever. Not a big fan of Seinfeld, but his performance on this episode was the funniest of the entire series. R.I.P.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 15, 2022 4:45:23 GMT
American television and theatre actress Janet De Gore has left us at the age of 92, on June 11th. She starred in the legal drama television series The Law and Mr. Jones 1960 - 1962, where she played the role of Abraham Lincoln Jones' (James Whitmore) secretary "Marsha Spear". She began her career in 1950, as she starred in the Broadway play The Member of the Wedding, where she played the role of "Janice". Later in her career, she appeared in television programs, as her credits includes, The Real McCoys, 77 Sunset Strip, Sugarfoot, The Outer Limits, Perry Mason, Branded, and The Farmer's Daughter. She retired from acting in 1966. R.I.P. Janet De Gore
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Post by teleadm on Jun 16, 2022 11:02:22 GMT
Scottish-born Australian actor Tommy Dysart has left us at the age of 87. on June 7. High-profile early roles included appearances in Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Phoenix Five, and several roles in the Crawford Productions police drama series Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police and Cop Shop. He appeared briefly in the series Prisoner in the early 1980's, where he played what is perhaps his best-known acting role, that of vicious and cold prison officer Jock Stewart. He appeared in many feature films, including The Man from Snowy River (1982), Bliss (1985), Garbo (1992), and Flynn (1996). In the 1990's he appeared in a well-remembered television commercial advertisement for the Yellow Pages where he calls a series of mechanics about his problematic Goggomobil. He is remembered by Daily Mail UKR.I.P. Tommy Dysart
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Post by Rufus-T on Jun 16, 2022 19:12:22 GMT
Beloved character actor Philip Baker Hall has passed away at age 90. He is remembered here at The Hollywood Reporter: Philip Baker HallHis filmography is astounding but he may be best known for his portrayal of Mr. Bookman the Library Cop on what is possibly the funniest episode of Seinfeld ever. One of the funniest guest appearance on Seinfeld
Also appeared in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Magnolia (1999)
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Post by teleadm on Jun 17, 2022 17:07:31 GMT
French actor, filmmaker and racecar driver Jean-Louis Trintignant has left us at the age of 91, on June 17th. One of the most gifted French dramatic actors of the post-war era, known for his starring roles in many classic films of European cinema. He worked with many prominent auteur directors, including Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Claude Chabrol, Bernardo Bertolucci, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieślowski and Michael Haneke. He rose to prominence during the French New Wave period, making a critical and commercial breakthrough in And God Created Woman (1956), followed by a starmaking romantic turn in A Man and a Woman (1966), and The Great Silence (1968). He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1968 Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in The Man Who Lies and the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Costa-Gavras's Z. His other notable films include, My Night at Maud's (1969), The Conformist (1970), Three Colours: Red (1994) and The City of Lost Children (1995). He won the 2013 César Award for Best Actor for his role in Michael Haneke's Amour. And God Created Women and A Man and a WomanHe is remembered by Hollywood ReporterR.I.P. Jean-Louis Trintignant
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Post by teleadm on Jun 17, 2022 23:41:21 GMT
We might as well say goodbye to an old friend, Internet Explorer is now beyond life support since June 15th, the date of it's last update. Cornering 95% of the search machine browser market in 2003 it went downhill from there. Soon you will be seen in the same forgotten graveyard as AltaVista and Ask Jeeves. R.I.P. Old Friend!
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 18, 2022 0:42:24 GMT
We might as well say goodbye to an old friend, Internet Explorer is now beyond life support since June 15th, the date of it's last update. Cornering 95% of the search machine browser market in 2003 it went downhill from there. Soon you will be seen in the same forgotten graveyard as AltaVista and Ask Jeeves. R.I.P. Old Friend! Netscape has had a lantern in the crypt window for its old frenemy for many years.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 22, 2022 4:59:20 GMT
American film, television, and stage actress Maureen Arthur has left us at the age of 88, on June 15th. She appeared in numerous movies and television programs from the late 1950's through the early 1990's as well as on Broadway. In 1967, in arguably her most prominent single movie role, she portrayed Hedy La Rue in the film version of the Broadway hit How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. In 1969, she co-starred with Don Knotts in the screwball comedy The Love God?, and with Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason and Jane Wyman in the romantic comedy How to Commit Marriage. On television, she appeared in Bourbon Street Beat, The Red Skelton Hour, Perry Mason, Branded, I Spy, The Monkees, The Flying Nun, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Love, American Style, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Sanford and Son, Alice, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, Murder, She Wrote, The Red Hand Gang as child-kidnapper Lola, and Matlock. She is remembered by Hollywood Reporter R.I.P. Maureen Arthur
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Post by teleadm on Jun 22, 2022 17:56:10 GMT
American musician, singer and songwriter Brett Tuggle has left us at the age of 70, on June 19th. (complications from cancer) Perhaps best known for his keyboard playing with Fleetwood Mac and the David Lee Roth band. He co-wrote "Just Like Paradise" that can be heard on soundtracks and he co-wrote "Burnin' in the Third Degree" for The Terminator 1984. He is remembered by People MagazineR.I.P. Brett Tuggle
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Post by teleadm on Jun 22, 2022 18:05:37 GMT
American actor, playwright, director, and composer James Rado has left us at the age of 90, on June 21st. (cardio respiratory arrest) Perhaps best known as the co-author, along with Gerome Ragni, of the 1967 musical Hair. He and Ragni were nominated for the 1969 Tony Award for best musical, and they won for best musical at the 11th Annual Grammy Awards. A movie version of Hair was released in 1979. He is remembered by Hollywood ReporterR.I.P. James Rado
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Post by teleadm on Jun 22, 2022 18:18:06 GMT
British-born Australian actress Carol Raye has left us at the age of 99, on June 19th. She was known for her career, spanning some seven decades from the late 1930's, firstly as a film star and theatre performer in the United Kingdom in which she would star, and often dance and sing, in such movies as Song of Romance, Strawberry Roan 1945 and Waltz Time 1945, after which she briefly worked in Kenya, before immigrating to Australia, where she became notable for her small screen roles. She was also known as the producer and original star of the iconic TV satire The Mavis Bramston Show alongside Gordon Chater and Barry Creyton, as well as a semi-regular star of soap opera Number 96 as Baroness Amanda von Pappenburg, a wealthy socialite from Heidelberg, Germany, who regularly arrives at the iconic "96" to visit her nephew Don Finlayson, portrayed by Joe Hasham. She is remembered by TV Tonight AustraliaR.I.P. Carol Raye
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Post by teleadm on Jun 27, 2022 11:36:09 GMT
American pianist, film score composer, and conductor Artie Kane has left us at the age of 93, on June 21st. As a pianist in Hollywood studios, he worked with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, John Williams, and Quincy Jones. He composed the music for over 250 television shows. Some of his works for television include Wonder Woman, Vegas, Hotel, Dynasty, Matlock, A Question of Guilt, and Man Against the Mob. He also composed the film scores for five motion pictures including The Bat People 1974, Looking for Mr. Goodbar 1977, Eyes of Laura Mars 1978, Night of the Juggler 1980, and Wrong Is Right 1982. He is remembered by VarietyR.I.P. Artie Kane
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