Andrzej Wajda
I admit it. I never saw a movie he made. But I know he was probably Poland's most acclaimed filmmaker.https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/10/andrzej-wajda-obituary
View ArticleAustin Kalish, 95
He and his wife, Irma, wrote a whole bunch of sitcoms in the sixties and seventies. The obituaries are emphasizing the Maude episode where she decided to get an abortion. But they also wrote the F...
View ArticleMichiyo Yasuda, Color Designer for Studio Ghibli, 77
Anyone familiar with the animated films of Studio Ghibli will immeaditially realize the level of importance that would be associated with contributions of Michiyo Yasuda to those productions. She...
View ArticlePatricia Barry -- THRILLER, etc.
She was in two or three THRILLERs (including a good one, "A Wig for Miss Devore"), and did a commentary for the DVD. Also in THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS as a frightened maid, CROWHAVEN FARM, etc. R.I.P.
View ArticleJohn Vulich, 55
Makeup effects for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and others.http://variety.com/2016/film/news/john-vulich-dead-buffy-x-files-1201887277/
View ArticleGary Dubin
A familiar face from JAWS 2, voiced THE ARISTOCATS, etc. My favorites were his couple of GREEN ACRES episodes, RIP and F...
View ArticleBritish TV legend Jean Alexander
Sad news in the UK, Jean Alexander has died aged 90. Best known for playing Hilda Ogden in the long running Coronation street from 1964 to 1987, and to fans of Last of the Summer Wine as Auntie...
View ArticleTed V. Mikels
Steve Kaplan of Alpha Video tells me that TVM has gone on to his rewards.
View ArticleMy Mom, 75
My Mom, Darlene Jeanne Satterlee, passed into the eternities Sunday, October 16th, 2016 at about 10:23 pm Central Time. She had been diagnosed with Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer and had been responding...
View ArticleEddie Applegate
Eddie Applegate, who played the boyfriend of Patty Duke on THE PATTY DUKE SHOW, died Oct. 17 after a long illness. He appeared in the 2003 movie, EXORCISM.
View ArticlePierre Etaix
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/14/pierre-etaix-obituaryI recognized the name because he is in David Robinson's pictorial book. THE GREAT FUNNIES. But I never saw him in anything. Unlike...
View ArticleTandra Quinn: MESA OF LOST WOMEN's Tarantella
... died yesterday. She also played mad scientist Robert Shayne's mute maid in THE NEANDERTHAL MAN. She's on the cover of the McFarland book in which I interviewed her, I TALKED WITH A ZOMBIE....
View ArticleKevin Meaney
Stand-up comic and voice actor. Was in movie BIG. And did an episode of BEYOND BELIEF FACT OR FICTION.
View ArticleMrs. Hugh Beaumont
I wrote to her in Minnesota, asking her for an interview, two weeks ago. I just found out that she died about one week ago. I'll take that as a no.Kathryn Adams co-starred in some B Westerns and,...
View ArticleSteve Dillon
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/steve-dillon-dead-comic-book-artist-preacher-creator-died-in-nyc-w446282
View ArticleTom Hayden
AOL is reporting that political activist, member of the California state legislature, and former husband of Jane Fonda has died at age 76.
View ArticleBobby Vee
Bobby Vee, the singer songwriter who got his start filling in for the ill fated Buddy Holly, died today. He was 73. Vee, who only a week before Holly was killed, had formed a band with some friends,...
View ArticleThe World Has Lost Another Comics Genius
Jack T. Chick, the great artist/writer of scary religious comics has died, appropriately enough, on Sunday, at age 92. An unsung pioneer of both propaganda and horror, he was a genre unto himself....
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