Robert Day
Can't believe I'm posting this before Tom Weaver did: Robert Day, director of First Man into Space, The Haunted Strangler, and Corridors of Blood, died March 17 at age ninety-four. He did many other...
View ArticleColin Dexter
Colin Dexter, who wrote the INSPECTOR MORSE series of novels, LEWIS, AND ENDEAVOUR series died today.
View ArticleChuck Barris
From THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, Chuck Barris has died at the age of 87. Obit HERE.
View ArticleFred Weintraub
Fred Weintraub, former owner of the storied folk music/comedy club The Bitter End who went on to produce Hollywood action flicks (including ENTER THE DRAGON and BLACK BELT JONES), passed away early...
View ArticleSib Hashian: Boston Drummer
http://www.missingscoop.com/2017/03/23/sib-hashian-boston-drummer/
View ArticleLola Albright -- THE MONOLITH MONSTERS
http://www.ohio.com/entertainment/movies/akron-native-lola-albright-glamorous-hollywood-actress-dies-at-age-92-1.755852
View ArticleTony Russel - WILD WILD PLANET, WAR OF THE PLANETS, etc.
Interviewed by Mike Barnum in VIDEO WATCHDOG #128.http://obits.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/lvrj/obituary.aspx?n=tony-russo&pid=184692254
View ArticleDenis McGrath
Canadian TV writer (Stargate: Universe, Republic of Doyle, etc.) producer and blogger, who was the original producer for SPACE, Canada's version of the SyFy Channel, as well as the host of Space Bar,...
View ArticleJean Rouverol
She was at the Memphis Film Festival several years ago so I know I'm not the only CHFBer to have met her. She was fun to talk to ... but then, somehow, it came up that I once interviewed Jean Porter...
View ArticleHoward Leeds
Producer of such TV shows as MY LIVING DOLL, THE GHOST AND MRS MUIR, SMALL WONDER, DIFF`RENT STROKES, THE BRADY BUNCH, THE FACTS OF LIFE, SILVER SPOONS. Also wrote scripts for these and BEWITCHED,...
View ArticleComposer Alessandro Alessandroni
Friend Tom Betts over at WESTERNS...ALL'ITALIANA! reports the death of composer Alessandro Alessandroni. He was 92 years old. Famous for his skilled whistling accompaniment to Ennio Morricone's iconic...
View ArticleJames Cozart
2017 continues to take a dump on film scholars and preservationists. James Cozart, long-time film archivist at the Library of Congress, passed away Saturday night. James was not as well known as...
View ArticleDarlene Cates
Actress Darlene Cates has died. She was best known as Bonnie Grape, the family matriarch in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? I thought she was just outstanding in that role, and as a morbidly obese woman,...
View ArticleLee Farr
I called him a week ago, because he's in an episode of THE VEIL and I was hoping he'd talk to me about Boris Karloff. No wonder he never returned my call. I guess the obit writer (probably a family...
View ArticleChristine Kaufmann
Mrs. Tony Curtis for a while (and his co-star in a couple movies).http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442304/reference
View ArticleColin Dexter Passes, Age 86. RIP
[I just moved this post from the "Favorite Whodunit Films" thread to here. I think it makes more sense to have its own thread.] This may interest (and sadden) those of us on this thread who like...
View ArticleBarbara Hale
It was just posted on WE-TV, that Barbara Hale has passed. She was 94. While I cut my baby fangs on Count Dracula....I was literally fed IN UTERO by ERLE STANLEY GARDNER!A truly Beautiful...
View ArticleThe Susan Hart NOT Dead Thread
Just got the news from a Facebook monster movie fan page that Susan Hart passed away yesterday at the age of 75. This was confirmed on her IMDB page.
View ArticleRadley Metzger
"Adult film" producer-director -- and also, due to his friendship with Richard Gordon, the director of the 1977 CAT AND THE CANARY with Honor Blackman, Carol Lynley, Honor Blackman, Wendy Hiller,...
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