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RIP Remo Capitani

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Farewell to Remo Capitani, protagonist spaghetti western with Terence Hill

 


He worked in They Call Me Trinity and many other films. A familiar face Quarticciolo


Il Messaggero
February 15, 2014



 

ROME - Yesterday was a sad day to Quarticciolo . Has anyone toyed with the photo that stood for years in the bar Accounts avenue Togliatti , a box with the smiling face of Remo Capitani. " Remus is gone, died on Friday - said with tears in his eyes Giancarlo Conte - everyone loved him to Quarticciolo ."


 


Remo Capitani, class , 1927, was one of the protagonists of the spaghetti western. He played the villain , Mezcal , in They Call Me Trinity . He began his career as a stuntman , then made ​​his way into the Spaghetti Western genre . Among the films that played Django the Bastard (directed by Sergio Garrone ) , W Django ! , The great duel. Also played a role in Gangs of New York.

CAPITANI, Remo (Reanto Capitani)
Born: 12/19/1927, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Died: 2/14/2014, Quarticciolo, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Remo Capitani's westerns - actor:

God Forgives... I Don’t! - 1966 (bartender)


Kill or be Killed – 1966 (deputy)


Up the MacGregors - 1966


Ace High - 1967 (Cangaciero)


Born to Kill - 1967


Cjamango - 1967 (Paco)


The Dirty Outlaws - 1967


Django the Last Killer – 1967(Mexican)


Django Kills Silently – 1967 (Mexican henchman)


Don’t Wait Dango… Shoot!- 1967


Face to Face - 1967 (Taylor gang member)


Killer Kid – 1967 (Vilar henchman)


Son of Django – 1967


Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die – 1967 (bartender)


Death Rides a Horse - 1968 (member of gold escort)


God May Forgive You, Not Me – 1968 (Smart henchman)


A Hole in the Forehead – 1968 (Mexican)


Once Upon a Time in the West – 1968 (surveyor)


Revenge for Revenge – 1968 (sheriff)


Saguaro - 1968 (stagecoach driver)


Sartana – 1968 (Lieutenant Miguel)


Tequila Joe – 1968 (Trianes henchman)


Viva Django! - 1968


Boot Hill - 1969 (Fisher henchman)


The Forgotten Pistolero- 1969


The Stranger’s Gundown – 1969 (man with dynamite)


The Beast - 1970 (sheriff)


They Call Me Trinity – 1970 (Mescal)


The Twilight Avengers – 1970 (Pedro Serrano)


The Unholy Four– 1970 (Jack)


The Ballad of Ben and Charlie - 1971 (José ‘Charro’ Gonzales)


Bastard, Go and Kill - 1971 (Sergeant Hernandez)


A Man Called Django! – 1971 (Sam)


Panhandle Calibre .38 – 1971 (El Tornado) [as Ray O’Connor]


Requiem for a Bounty Hunter – 1971 (Tony Cameron) [as Ray O’Connor]


The Grand Duel - 1972 (Saxon henchman) [as Ray O’Connor]


Gunmen and the Holy Ghost - 1972 (Diego d’Asburgo) [as Ray O’Connor]


Return of the Holy Ghost – 1972 (Diego D’Asburg) [as Ray O’Connor]


Bad Kids of the West - 1973 [as Ray O’Connor]


Three Cheers for Us – 1974 (Mr. Finocchioni) [as Ray O’Connor]


The Crazy Adventures of Len and Coby - 1974 (Gonzales) [as Ray O’Connor]


Porno Erotic Western – 1978 [as Ray O’Connor]


America in Rome (TV) - 1998 (Ray O’Connor)


Dov'è il west - 2001 - [narrator]




RIP Bob Harris

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Bob L. Harris, a member of the famed Ray Charles Singers choral group and the father of four-time Oscar-nominated actor Ed Harris, died Friday at his home in Evanston, Ill., after an extended illness. He was 91.

 

 


In 1985, while working in the bookstore at the Art Institute of Chicago, Bob Harris sent Jeffrey Potter’s To a Violent Grave, a biography of Jackson Pollock, to his son and suggested he make a film about the painter. "Maybe there's a picture in it," he said in a note. More than a decade later, Ed directed and received an Oscar nom for portraying the artist in the acclaimed Pollock (2000). His father played a veterinarian in the movie.


 


Earlier, Bob Harris sang with the Ray Charles Singers on The Perry Como Show and appeared on The Garry Moore Show, where he also performed in skits with Carol Burnett, Dom DeLuise and others in the cast.


 


Harris also was on The Fred Waring Show and The Martha Raye Show and, with Burnett, appeared in the telefilm Calamity Jane and on the short-lived CBS variety show The Entertainers.


 


He had small roles alongside his son in the 1996 telefilm Riders of the Purple Sage and in Appaloosa (2008), which Ed also co-wrote.


 


Bob Harris was born Oct. 11, 1922, in Walters, Okla., where his father owned a barber shop. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II with the 384th Field Artillery Division of the 103rd Infantry Division.


 


He graduated from the University of Oklahoma School of Engineering in 1947 and earned a degree from the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago two years later.



He later served as manager of the Oklahoma City Symphony, the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Symphony and the Orchestra of Illinois.

 


In addition to Ed and his wife, actress Amy Madigan, survivors include his wife of 66 years, Margaret; their other sons Paul and Robert; granddaughters Rebecca and Lily; another daughter-in-law Susan; and sister-in-law Mary.


 


A memorial will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday at Northminster Presbyterian Church in Evanston. Donations may be made to the church or to the Geneva Foundation.


 


 


HARRIS, Bob (Bob L. Harris)


Born: 10/11/1922, Walters, Oklahoma, U.S.A.


Died: 2/14/2014, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.


 


Bob Harris’ westerns – actor:


Riders of the Purple Sage (TV) – 1996 (Judge Callison)


Appaloosa – 2008 (Collier Brandt)


RIP Christopher Malcolm

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RIP Christopher Malcolm

 


TMZ


By TMZ staff


2/17/2014 8:05 AM PST


 


The actor who played Brad Majors in the original stage production of "The Rocky Horror Show" has died ... TMZ has learned.


 


Christopher Malcolm died Saturday February 15, 2013 at age 67 ... his death was first confirmed by his daughter on Twitter.


 


Malcolm originated the role of Brad in 1973 in the London production of RHS ... playing the newlywed groom who takes refuge with his wife Janet in the home of sweet transvestite Dr. Frank-N-Furter. The stage show was turned into a film in 1975 -- but without Malcolm -- the role of Brad was played by Barry Bostwick.


 


Malcolm was an accomplished Shakespearean actor who also appeared as starfighter pilot Zev Senesca in "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" ... and had numerous directing and producing credits.


 


Cause of death is unknown.


 


 


MALCOLM, Christopher


Born: 8/19/1946, Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K.


Died: 2/15/2104, London, England, U.K.


 


Christopher Malcolm’s westerns – actor:


The Desperados! – 1969 (Gregg0


Comic Strip Presents – A Fistful of Travellers Cheques (TV) – 1983 (café owner)


Rustlers’ Rhapsody – 198 (Jud)


RIP Toni Ucci

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Italian actor Toni Ucci passed away in Rome Sunday February 16th. He was 92. Born Antonio Ucci on January 13, 1922, he appeared in over 100 films and TV presentations from 1948 – 2000. A character and supporting actor, he’s probably best remembered for his work in Italian genre films (sex comedies, parodies, musicals, B-movies, crime films etc.). He appeared in such films as “The Voyage of Captain Fracassa” (1990), “Latin Lovers” (1965) “Totò e Cleopatra” (1963) and “Attenti... arrivano le collegiali!” (1975).


UCCI, Toni (Antonio Ucci)
Born: 1/13/1922, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Died: 2/16/2014, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Toni Ucci's westerns - actor:
The Terror of Oklahoma - 1959 (Joe)
Don’t Sing Shoot (TV) -1967.

RIP Robert J. Conley

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Wild Turkey and American Spirits: Remembering Robert J. Conley

 


Native American Times


By LISA SNELL


Monday, 17 February 2014 00:47


 


Robert J. Conley


December 29, 1940 – February 16, 2014


 


He drank his Wild Turkey “unmolested” (no ice or additives) and preferred his cigarettes the same way – smoking the chemical and additive free American Spirit brand. He always had a pack tucked into the pocket of his snap up plaid western shirt that he wore neatly tucked in to his Wrangler jeans. A pair of worn cowboy boots peeped out from the hems of those neatly pressed jeans - jeans that were kept in place by a set of ever present suspenders. A cowboy hat was usually set upon his brow, shading his lined and bespectacled face.


 


He was Robert J. Conley, Cherokee author, when we first met. He soon became “uncle Robert” and one of my favorite people after I married his nephew. At our wedding reception we left a small bottle of Wild Turkey next to Robert’s seat, much to his wife Evelyn’s dismay. It was a little joke on her and one that delighted Robert. Robert was always up for a drink, a joke and a laugh – even if the joke and laugh was at his expense.


 


His orneriness often elicited exasperated sighs from Evelyn and much laughter around the dinner table as he and my husband would tell stories on each other.


 


Robert walked on this morning, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014. There won’t be any new tales to tell or jokes to be made. We are left with the happy memories in our hearts and a shelf full of books with “By Robert J. Conley” or merely “CONLEY” printed along the spines. My favorite however, is “Cherokee Thoughts: Honest and Uncensored.” It’s a collection of essays that take on politics, life, culture, history and what it means to be a Cherokee. His wit is evident throughout and when you finish reading, you are left knowing who Robert was. What made him laugh, what made him angry, and what inspired him.


 


His first novel, “Back to Malachi,” was published in 1986. Since then, he had more than 70 books published, a collection of short stories, several reprints, and many books on tape. Robert also wrote the novelization of a screenplay, “Geronimo: An American Legend.”


 


Robert was a member of the Western Writers of America and won two Spur awards for his novels “Nickajack” and “The Dark Island. ” He won another Spur award for his short story “Yellow Bird: An Imaginary Autobiography,” published in “The Witch of Goingsnake.” In 1997, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Professional Writers Hall of Fame.



 

Do na da' go hv i, uncle Robert. We will see each other again. I’ll bring the Wild Turkey.


 


 


CONLEY, Robert J.


Born: 12/29/1940, Cushing, Oklahoma, U.S.A.


Died: 2/16/2014, Muskogee, Oklahoma, U.S.A.


 


Robert J. Conley’s western – himself:


The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy - 2006


RIP Mary Grace Canfield

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"Green Acres"' actress Mary Grace Canfield dies

 


The Associated Press


Monday, 02.17.14


 


SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Mary Grace Canfield, a veteran character actress who played handywoman Ralph Monroe on the television show "Green Acres," has died. She was 89.


 


Her daughter, Phoebe Alexiades, says Canfield died of lung cancer on Saturday at a hospice in the California coastal town of Santa Barbara.


 


Canfield had appearances on a number of TV shows during a four-decade career, including "General Hospital" and "The Hathaways." She was Harriet Kravitz on four episodes of the 1960s series "Bewitched."


 


But she was best known for her role of Ralph Monroe in some 40 episodes of "Green Acres," which ran from 1965 to 1971.


 


Monroe greeted folks in the town of Hootersville with a cheery "howdy doody," wore painters' overalls and was forever working on the Douglas family's bedroom with her brother, Alf.


 


 


CANFIELD, Mary Grace


Born: 9/4/1924, Rochester, New York, U.S.A.


Died: 2/15/2014, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.


 


Mary Grace Canfield's western - actress:


Wide Country (TV) – 1962 (organist)


RIP Rocky Moriana

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Rocco (Rocky) A. Moriana, best known for his work as sound supervisor and music supervisor for producers Danny Thomas and Aaron Spelling, died at his home in Calabasas, Calif., on February 5.

 


Moriana’s 100-plus screen credits starting with TV Series “Hennesey” and ended with “Beverly Hills, 90210.” In between were such notables as “Hazel,” “That Girl,” “My World and Welcome to It” (for which he was honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his contribution), “Barney Miller,” “The Rookies,” “S.W.A.T.,” “The Love Boat,” “Fantasy Island,” “Harper Valley P.T.A.,” “Family,” “Starsky and Hutch,” “Vegas,” ” Charlie’s Angels,” “Hart to Hart,” “Life With Lucy,” “The Love Boat,” “Nightingales,” “Dynasty,” “Melrose Place,” “7th Heaven” and “Savannah.”


 


Moriana also worked on such telepics and miniseries as “21 Hours at Munich,” “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,” “The Amazing Howard Hughes,” “James A. Michener’s Texas” (for which he received the Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award),”The Patricia Neal Story” and “Vows of Deception.”


 


Born in Willoughby, Ohio, to immigrant parents, Moriana attended and played football for Ohio University. His college career was interrupted by World War II, and he served in the Navy in the Pacific, stationed on Enewetak in the Marshall Islands, where he witnessed the first A-Bomb tests. Upon returning to civilian life, he attended USC, where he majored in film.


 


Moriana’s Hollywood life was also highlighted by his involvement with studio sports, including the Paramount and Desilu basketball teams, the Paramount softball team (winning the 1956 Paramount Champs trophy with Donald O’Connor), the Hal Roach Studios basketball team (awarded the 1956 L.A. Municipal Minor Division Studio League Champs trophy), and serving as captain of the (Dean) Martin and (Jerry) Lewis softball team.


 


Moriana is survived by his wife, Ardythe; a daughter and three sons; seven grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; and his brother. Rocky’s youngest son, James (Jimmy) Moriana, died last year.


 


 


MORIANO, Rocky (Rocco Anthony Moriano)


Born: 11/5/1927, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.


Died: 2/5/2014, Calabasas, California, U.S.A.


 


Rocky Moriano’s westerns – music editor, music supervisor:


The Guns of Will Sonnett (TV) – 1968-1969 [music editor]


Yuma (TV) – 1971 [music editor]


The Trackers (TV) – 1971 [music editor]


Texas (TV) – 1994 music supervisor]


RIP Robert M. Fresco

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RIP Robert Fresco

 



Variety

Staff


February 20, 2014 | 05:41PM PT



 

 


Robert M. Fresco, a writer of horror films who went on to win a 1969 Oscar for his documentary short “Czechoslovakia 1968,” died in Manhattan of cancer on February 14. He was 83.


 


The documentary short, produced, written and directed by Fresco and Denis Sanders, traced Czech history from WWI to the Prague Spring uprising of 1968. Much of the archival footage in the film had been smuggled out of then-Communist Czechoslovakia.


 


For public television in 1970, Fresco and Sanders produced the six-hour documentary “Trial: The City and County of Denver vs. Lauren R. Watson,” about the criminal case against a Black Panther Party member. At the time, only a few states including Colorado allowed cameras in the courtroom, and the docu is considered, as the New York Times described it, “the first complete account of a trial to be shown on American television.”


 


Robert Maurice Fresco was born in Burbank, Calif., to a family of Sephardic Jews who had emigrated from Turkey, and he served in the Army.


 


He began his show business career writing B movies such as “Tarantula” (1955), “The Monolith Monsters” (1957) and “The Alligator People” (1959). He also penned episodes of series including “Wagon Train,” “Bonanza” and “Science Fiction Theater.”


 


Also for television, he produced a 1972 adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s “To Be Young, Gifted and Black,” starring Ruby Dee and Blythe Danner.


 


Fresco taught courses in film, television and communications at Columbia University and Hofstra
University, among other places.

 


He is survived by his wife, Judith Dawidoff Fresco; two sons; and three grandchildren.


 


 


FRESCO, Robert M.


Born: 10/18/1930, Burbank, California, U.S.A.


Died: 2/14/2014, Manhattan, New York, U.S.A.


 


Robert M. Fresco’s westerns – screenwriter:


Wagon Train (TV) – 1959


Bonanza (TV) – 1962, 1963



RIP Clif Bole

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RIP Cliff Bole


The Desert Sun

February 22, 2014


Director/Producer Clifford John Bole died peacefully at his home in Palm Desert, Calif., on the morning of February 15, 2014. Born in San Francisco, Calif., Cliff grew up in the San Fernando Valley, Calif., where he developed an early passion for the profession that would become his life's work, playing in the back lots of studios, and sneaking in with friends to watch productions in progress; a self-described "Set Rat." Cliff began his professional life as a script clerk, advancing to script supervisor and production supervisor assignments before breaking into directing. One of his first positions was script supervisor on McHale's Navy in 1964. Best known for his directing work on Star Trek, Cliff directed twenty-five episodes of the first blockbuster series, The Next Generation, seven of Deep Space Nine and ten of Voyager. The Bolians, a race of aliens introduced in The Next Generation episode "Conspiracy," were named for him. Television series in which Cliff served as a director include: Baywatch, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, MacGyver, M.A.N.T.I.S., Matt Houston, Mission Impossible, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Spencer for Hire, Strike Force, The Six Million Dollar Man, The X Files, T.J. Hooker, and Vega$. In 2005, Cliff was recognized with a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars, 255 South Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, Calif. After retiring to the Coachella Valley, Cliff continued to make creative contributions to key local projects. He recently completed a documentary entitled Cars Under the Stars showcasing the popular event, El Paseo Cruise Night. Cliff was a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild. He also was a member of Desert Falls Country Club. An avid pilot, boater, golfer and dirt bike rider, Cliff was a frequent participant in races hosted by Viewfinder MC, an off-road motorcycle club headquartered in Southern California that was originally organized by Hollywood stuntmen. He maintained strong ties with the stunt community, including close friendships with Ronnie Rondell, Roy Snuffy Harrison and the late Hal Needham. Cliff served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Korea. He graduated from Harvard Military School and briefly attended USC. Cliff is survived by his wife, Brenda; his daughter, Stacey Bole Harrison of Granite Bay, Calif.; his son, Curtis Robert Bole of Santa Monica, Calif.; and two grandsons, Connor and Cole. In accordance with his wishes, Cliff's ashes will be scattered at sea. The family suggests that friends wishing to honor his memory contribute to a cancer research organization of their choice or visit his star in Palm Springs. A celebration of life will be held later in the year. Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries.

 


 


BOLE, Cliff (Clifford John Bole)


Born: 11/9/1937, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.


Died: 2/15/2014, Palm Desert, California, U.S.A.


 


Cliff Boles’ westerns – script supervisor, director, associate producer:


Showdown – 1963 [script supervisor]


Daniel Boone (TV) – 1967, 1968 [associate producer]


Guns of Paradise (TV) – 1989, 1991, 1992 [director]


The Young Riders (TV) - 1992


RIP Djoko Rosic

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Serbian-born Bulgarian actor Djoko Rosic died Friday evening at the Losenetz hospital in Sofia.
He underwent brain tumor surgery several weeks ago at the Pirogov hospital, according to reports of Sega daily.

Rosic was born on February 29, 1932 in Krupanj to a Serbian father and a Bulgarian mother.
In 1951, he moved to Bulgaria for political reasons. In 1957, he graduated what is today the University of National and World Economy in Sofia.

He worked as a journalist at the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) for 17 years.

Among the most notable films he starred in are The Eight (1969), Aesop (1970), My Father, the Housepainter (1974), The Truck (1980), The Queen of Turnovo (1981), Captain Petko Voivode (1981), 681 AD:The Glory of the Khan (1984), The Judge (1986), Time of Violence (1988).

In February 2010, Rosic was given the "Zlaten Vek" (Golden Century) award of Bulgaria's Culture Ministry for his outstanding contribution to Bulgarian cinema


ROSIC, Djoko
Born: 2/29/1932, Krupanj, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Died: 2/21/2014, Sofia, Bulgaria
 
Djoko Rosic's western - actor:
Death for Zapata - 1976 (Bathasar)

RIP Roger Hill

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Roger Hill, Who Played Cyrus in ‘The Warriors,’ Dies at 65

 


Variety


February 25, 2014 | 03:42PM PT


Carmel Dagan


 


 


Roger Hill, who played gang leader Cyrus in Walter Hill’s 1979 cult classic “The Warriors,” died Thursday in New York. He was 65.


 


Hill spent nearly 20 years as an actor, working mostly in theater. He was an early participant in the Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop and appeared in Off Broadway and touring productions of Charles Gordone’s “No Place to Be Somebody,” Ed Bullins’ “The Fabulous Miss Marie” and “Hamlet.”


 


But the role with which he made the biggest impression was the charismatic but doomed gang lord Cyrus in Paramount’s “The Warriors.” He also played Alec Lowndes on ABC’s “One Life to Live” from 1982-85.


 


In 2005 he filed a lawsuit of $250,000 against Rockstar Games for using his voice and depicting him in the videogame based on “The Warriors.”


 


Born and raised in New York City, Hill graduated from the City College of New York. In later years, he left acting and spent time working as a parttime librarian and writing poetry.


 


He is survived by his only son, film editor Chris W. Hill.


 


 


HILL, Roger


Born: 7/31/1948, Bronx, New York, U.S.A.


Died: 2/20/2014, New York City, New York, U.S.A.


 


Roger Hill’s western – actor:


The Leatherstocking Tales (TV) – 1984 (Chingachgook)


RIP Peter Haworth

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HAWORTH - John Peter 1927 - 2014 Peter passed away peacefully at Cedarview Lodge in North Vancouver on February 10, 2014 at the age of 86. Youngest child of the late Reginald and Florence Haworth and brother to the late Cyril Haworth. Lovingly remembered by his soul mate and dear wife Betty Muriel (nee Phillips). Fondly remembered by his nieces and nephew, friends and colleagues. Although Peter began his career as an English teacher, he became an outstanding actor, writer and documentarian. As a writer for CBC radio, his writings included the adaptation of plays by writers such as Chekhov, Ibsen, Brecht, and Shakespeare, documentary series on notable figures such as Captain Cook, Sir Ernest Macmillan, and William Morris and portraits of the great twentieth century actors and directors. As an actor, he performed on national radio, television and the stages of major Canadian theatres in plays by Shakespeare, Shaw, Wilde and many others. His final performance as an actor was at the Vancouver Playhouse in "An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde. Peter was a member of UBCP, ACTRA and was a lifetime member of the Writers' Guild. He was, also, presented with the Sam Payne Lifetime Achievement Award by the Union of BC Performers and is in the Walk of Fame at the Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver B.C. Peter's interest in classical music and literature was profound, both in depth of knowledge and spirit. His joy in listening to classical music and his love of literature remained with him and gave him much peace during his final years. A man with a charismatic smile, Peter will be missed dearly by his wife, Betty, his family, his friends and colleagues. The family wishes to acknowledge the caring and attentive staff of Cedarview Lodge in North Vancouver. For those who wish, a donation may be made in Peter's name to the Arts Way Program care of Cedarview Lodge. A memorial service will be planned for the spring.

 


 


HAWORTH, Peter (John Peter Haworth)


Born: 1927, Canada


Died: 2/10/2014, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


 


Peter Haworth’s western – actor:


The Overlanders (TV) – 1979 (Captain Pritchard)


RIP Juanita Bartlett

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According to the James Garner Facebook page producer, screenwriter Juanita Bartlett died during the night of February 25th. Bartlett was a television writer best known for ‘The Rockford Files’ and ‘The New Maverick’, both starring James Garner. Bartlett also worked on Garner's series ‘Nichols’, as well as ‘The Greatest American Hero’, ‘Scarecrow and Mrs. King’, and several others. Bartlett worked for Roy Huggins, Stephen J. Cannell, and Meta Rosenberg, and also became a producer as well as a writer. Huggins noted in a videotaped interview for the Archive of American Television that Bartlett was the only writer with whom he ever worked who changed the structure of some of Huggins' stories and actually improved them.

 


In 1986, Juanita Bartlett went on to create her own production company originally known as Jadda Productions. Jadda Productions' first production was the second season of ‘Spenser: For Hire’, and would later go on to produce the show ‘In the Heat of the Night’ when it premiered on March 6, 1988. When the second season of ‘In the Heat of the Night’ premiered, the production company was renamed Juanita Bartlett Productions. After the last ‘In the Heat of the Night’ movie aired after Hugh O'Connor died, Juanita Bartlett Productions no longer existed.


 


 


BARTLETT, Juanita


Born:19??, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.


Died: 2/25/2014, U.S.A.


 


Juanita Bartlett’s westerns – producer, screenwriter:


Bonanza (TV) – 1972 [screenwriter]


Alias Smith and Jones (TV) – 1972 [screenwriter]


Nichols (TV) – 1972 [screenwriter]


The Cowboys (TV) – 1974 [screenwriter]


Little House on the Prairie (TV) – 1974 [screenwriter]


The New Maverick (TV) 1978 [screenwriter]


No Man’s Land (TV) – 1984 [executive producer, screenwriter]


RIP Paco de Lucia

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Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia dies at 66
 
CNN

By Saeed Ahmed and Al Goodman
Wednesday February 26, 2014
 

 


World-renowned Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia has died aged 66 in Mexico, reportedly of a heart attack while playing with his children on a beach.


 


The death of one of the most celebrated flamenco guitarists was announced by the mayor's office in Algeciras, southern Spain, where he was born.


 


He is said to have died in the Mexican resort of Cancun.


 


Famous for a series of flamenco albums in the 1970s, he also crossed over into classical and jazz guitar.


 


He also worked on films by Spanish director Carlos Saura, notably appearing in his 1983 version of Carmen, which won a UK Bafta award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1985.


 


Algeciras is to hold two days of official mourning. Its mayor, Jose Ignacio Landaluce, called the musician's death an "irreparable loss for the world of culture and for Andalusia".


 


He had lived both in Mexico and in Spain in recent years.


 


'I knew every rhythm'


 


He was born Francisco Sanchez Gomez on 21 December 1947, the son of flamenco guitarist Antonio Sanchez, who was of Gypsy origin. He took his stage name in honour of his mother, Lucia Gomes.


 


It is believed he had played the guitar from the age of five.


 


"My family grew up with the Gypsies," the guitarist was quoted as saying in a 1994 article in Guitar Player.


 


"My father and all my brothers played guitar, so before I picked it up, before I could speak, I was listening. Before I started to play, I knew every rhythm of the flamenco. I knew the feeling and the meaning of the music, so when I started to play, I went directly to the sound I had in my ear."


 


At the age of 18 he recorded his first album in Madrid.


 


One of the great musical partnerships of his life was with the singer Camaron de la Isla, who died in 1992. The two men recorded albums in the 1970s, which inspired a New Flamenco movement.


 


In 2004, Paco de Lucia was awarded Spain's prestigious Asturias Prize for Art as the "most universal of flamenco artists".


 


The jury said at the time: "His style has been a beacon for young generations and his art has made him into one of the best ambassadors of Spanish culture in the world."


 


Among those he worked with outside Spain was British guitarist John McLaughlin.


 


News of his death became the top trend among Spanish users of Twitter. "Rest in peace," wrote one tweeter. "You'll teach the angels to play guitar!"


 


"One of my heroes died today," wrote another. "One of the best musicians ever."


 


 


de LUCIA, Paco (Francisco Sánchez Gómez)


Born: 12/21/1947, Algeciras, Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain


Died: 2/26/2014, Cancun, Juarez, Mexico


 


Paco de Lucia’s western – actor:


Hannie Caulder – 1971 (guitarist on veranda)

RIP Gail Gerber

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Gail Gerber, Actess in Elvis, Beach Films, Dies at 76

 


Variety


By Carmel Dagan


March 3, 2014



 

 

Actress-dancer Gail Gerber, a vivacious blonde with a shapely figure and a flair for comedy remembered most for her appearances in a few beach and Elvis films during the mid-’60s, died from complications of lung cancer in Sharon, Conn., on March 2. She was 76.


 


A Canadian, Gerber moved to Hollywood after in 1963 and quickly snagged the lead role in the play “Under the Yum Yum Tree.” She also appeared on TV series including “My Three Sons,” “Perry Mason” and “Wagon Train.” She made her film debut in “The Girls on the Beach” (1965), co-starring the Beach Boys, before her agent suggested she change her name and, as Gail Gilmore, she went on to appear opposite Elvis Presley in “Girl Happy” (1965) and “Harum Scarum” (1965). She then returned to the sands of Malibu to co-star with Edd “Kookie” Byrnes in “Beach Ball” (1965) before growing to gigantic proportions along with five other delinquent teenagers, including Beau Bridges and Tisha Sterling, who terrorize a town in “Village of the Giants” (1965).


 


Gerber had a minor role as a cosmetician in Tony Richardson’s black comedy “The Loved One,” and she met its screenwriter Terry Southern, who was riding high due to the success of his satirical novels “Candy” and “The Magic Christian” and the movie “Dr. Strangelove,” which he co-wrote. The two hit it off immediately and, despite their marriages to others, became inseparable. Gail even abandoned her acting career in 1966 to live with him in New York, then Connecticut, where she remained his longtime companion until his death in 1995. During that time she taught ballet for more than 25 years.


 


Gerber was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and began studying ballet at age 7; at 15 she became the youngest member of Les Grandes Ballets Canadiennes in Montreal. Quitting the ballet troupe in the late 1950s and abandoning a husband who was a jazz musician, she moved to Toronto to work as an actress. She appeared on stage and in many live CBC television dramas. As part of the act of vaudeville entertainers Smith and Dale (who were the basis for the Sunshine Boys), she appeared on “The Wayne and Schuster Show” and “The Ed Sullivan Show” before heading for Hollywood.


 


 


GERBER, Gail (Gail Gilmore)


Born: 10/4/1937, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada


Died: 3/2/2014, Sharon, Connecticut, U.S.A


 


Gail Gilmore’s western – actress


Wagon Train (TV) – 1964 (Kate Campbell)



RIP Tex Hill

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Thomas "Tex" J.G. Hill age 70, passed away February 28, 2014 at his home near Wickenburg, Arizona.

 


Tex was born February 20, 1944 in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He was raised in Vero Beach, Florida and attended schools there later serving in the U.S. Air Force. Following his military service he began a career in law enforcement in Del Rio, Texas and later served as Polic Chief in Ft. Stockton, Texas. He got his first exposure to the movie business in Texas and later relocated to California to pursue his ambitions in films and movies. He had worked in various films: "The Alamo", "Ballad of Cat Balou", "The Wild Bunch", "The Return of Josie Wales", "Return of the Magnificent Seven" and over 50 others. He starred as the Lone Ranger in one of the "Adventures of the Lone Ranger" Besides working in movies, Tex also worked in Circus and Concert industry as a "Singing Cowboy" he was very talented in Quick-draw shooting and knife throwing and a sharp-shooter. Tex was one of the last of the singing cowboys. He had participated in many "Western Music Festivals" He moved to Arizona in 1984 and began working with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. He retired from the film industry in 1995 and has been living near Wickenburg.


 


Tex was a member of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Posse. He enjoyed the outdoors, black-powder and muzzle loaders and riding horseback as well as writing. He has been published several times writing westerns and technical manuals. Tex is survived by his wife Claudia of Forepaugh, sons Shane Hill of Lockhart, Texas and Audie Murphy Hill of Del Rio, Texas and brother Patrick Callahan of Georgia and grandchilden: Trinity, Caitlin, Shane, Jr., and Scarlett.



Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 11:00 AM at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona with visitation on Monday, March 10, 2014 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the Wickenburg Funeral Home.


 

HILL, Tex (Thomas J.G. Hill)


Born: 2/20/1944, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.


Died: 2/28/2014, Wickenburg, Arizona, U.S.A.


 


Tex Hill’s westerns – producer, screenwriter, actor, stunts, SFX


The Saga of Hemp Brown – 1958 [stunts]


The Alamo – 1960 [stunts]


Return of the Lone Ranger – 1961 (Lone Ranger)


Stoney Burke (TV) – 1962-1963 [stunts]


Cat Ballou – 1965 [stunts]


Return of the Magnificent Seven – 1966 [stunts]


Ride to Hangman’s Tree – 1967 [stunts]


Bandolero! – 1968 [stunts]


Code of the Rangers – 1972 (Tex Ryan) [producer]


Centennial (TV) – 1978 (angry cowboy) [stunts]


Law of the Sixgun – 1978 [producer, screenwriter]


Code of Vengeance (TV) – 1985 (officer)


The Return of Josey Wales – 1986 (gunfighter in river) [stunts, SFX]


The Young Riders (TV) – 1990 (whipped thief)

RIP Altan Gunbay

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Veteran actor Altan Günbay died today March 3rd, 2014 at noon . He had appeared in over 100 movies and productions.

 


Altan , who was born in 1932 in Konya Günbay, was a member of the Movie Players Association (SOD is) and a member of the State Opera and Ballet artists .


 


SOD artists released a memo on his death, "Members of our artists are deeply saddened by the death of Altan Günbay. Parents and relatives, all in the theater and the arts around the world offer our condolences".


 


Altan Günbay, was born in Konya on January 19 1932. After graduating from high school in Germany he graduated from the Ankara State Conservatory.


 


He began his career in the Ankara State Opera and Ballet. Performing for the first time in 1954,


"Cavalleria Rusticana" and in the operas “Othello”, “Lucia”, and “Carmen”, he starred in 20 operas such as “Salome”. He appeared for over 30 years in the Istanbul State Opera beginning in 1969, as well as a solo artist and director and served as assistant manager .


 


In 1964 he began his feature film debut in "Scheherazade". He appeared in more than 250 films.
Once upon a time he was recognized as the Yul Brynner of Turkey, though he was not actually bald. It was  for the 1966 film "The Golden Child" that film director Mamdouh asked him to shave his
head and for the next 18 years he appeared bald.

 


Günbay Altan assumed many roles as villain in cinema and was very popular.


 


 


GUNBAY, Altan


Born: 1/19/1931, Konya, Turkey


Died: 3/3/2014, Istanbul, Turkey


 


Altan Gunbay’s westerns – actor:


Ringo Kid – 1967


Olmek var donmek yok – 1972


Namus ve silah - 1971


RIP Stanley Rubin

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Stanley Rubin dies at 96; prolific writer-producer of TV and film

 


Stanley Rubin helped lead the writers and producers guilds and was one of the first Emmy winners.


 



Los Angeles Times

By Bob Pool


March 4, 2014, 12:21 p.m.


 


There was a 69-year gap between the time that Stanley Rubin enrolled at UCLA in hopes of launching a writing career and 2006, when he actually graduated.


 


And during that seven-decade break in schooling, the prolific film and television writer and producer left his mark at nearly every studio in Hollywood, helped run the Writers Guild and Producers Guild and took home one of the first Emmys ever awarded.


 


Rubin, 96, died Sunday in his sleep at his home above the Sunset Strip, said actress Kathleen Hughes, his wife of 59 years.


 


Born Stanley Creamer Rubin on Oct. 8, 1917, in the Bronx, he was a teenager when he took a Greyhound bus across country to enroll at UCLA in 1933. After working as the editor of the school's Daily Bruin newspaper, he was a few units shy of graduating when he dropped out in 1937 to work for a weekly Beverly Hills newspaper owned by Will Rogers Jr.


 


From there he went to work in the Paramount Pictures mailroom, where his radio, TV and film career was launched. In 1949, the first year Emmys were awarded, he accepted the statue for best film made for television for an episode of "Your Show Time" episode titled "The Necklace."


 


By 1940 he had become a writer at Universal Studios; in 1946 he switched to Columbia Pictures, and in 1948 he moved to a producing job at NBC-TV. Rubin worked as a theatrical film producer for a variety of movie studios in the early 1950s before returning to television producing at CBS-TV. He moved back to TV production at Universal Studios in 1960, morphed to a TV producing post at 20th Century Fox in 1967 and then at MGM Studios from 1972 to 1977.


 


Along the way, he wrote 19 movies and produced more than two dozen feature and TV films including a 1955 Francis the Talking Mule comedy and James Coburn's breakthrough role in 1967's "The President's Analyst." Producing "River of No Return" in 1954, Rubin turned into a diplomat when he mediated between strict director Otto Preminger and mercurial star Marilyn Monroe.


 


After leaving MGM, he worked as an independent film producer. His last screen credit in 1990 was as co-producer for Clint Eastwood's "White Hunter Black Heart."


 


Hughes said her husband's favorite movie was "The Narrow Margin," a 1952 thriller about assassins stalking a woman taking a train from Chicago to Los Angeles to testify against the mob.


 


The movie's release was delayed when RKO Radio Pictures head Howard Hughes became enthused by the film and asked Rubin to reshoot it with an A-list cast instead of Marie Windsor starring as the woman and Charles McGraw playing a police detective trying to protect her. Rubin refused on grounds that the whole film would have to be recast and reshot.


 


Rubin could be stubborn when he stood up to studio chiefs, recalled a friend, film historian Alan K. Rode. He once refused when another studio head insisted that a fictional movie about Adolf Hitler escaping Nazi Germany and hiding in the U.S. be changed to a film about communists making nerve gas in the Midwest, said Rode, director of the Film Noir Foundation.


 


During World War II, Rubin served a stint with the Army's First Motion Picture Unit. He hammered out contracts for the Writers Guild and spent five years as president of the Producers Guild.


 


Rubin's decision to return to UCLA to make up his missing 14 units found students in a 2006 School of Theater, Film and Television history class in awe of him after they discovered who he was. They were shocked to learn that the grandfatherly man who always sat near the front of the class had been a genuine pioneer of radio, television and film.


 


Rubin's 20-page term report was about how advertisers, not networks, determined the content of 1940s radio shows.


 


"Most of the scripts I wrote ran about 120 pages," he confided to one of his young classmates. "So this was a piece of cake. But don't tell the professor."


 


Besides his wife, he is survived by daughter Angie, a film music editor; sons John, a documentary filmmaker; and Michael, who formerly worked in postproduction. Another son, Chris, died in 2008.


 


 


RUBIN, Stanley (Stanley Creamer Rubin)


Born: 10/8/1917, New York City, New York, U.S.A.


Died: 3/2/2014, Hollywood, California, U.S.A.


 


Stanley Rubin’s westerns – producer:


Destry - 1954


River of No Return – 1954


The Rawhide Years – 1955


Hotel de Paree (TV) – 1959


RIP Fritz Marquardt

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RIP Fritz Marquardt.

German theater director and actor Fritz Marquard passed away on March 4th. He was 85. Marquardt although mainly a stage actor did appear in over 30 films among which were two DEFA Euro-westerns: “Trail of the Falcon” (1968) appearing as a miner and “The Long Ride from School” (1982) as a horse thief.


MARQUARDT, Fritz
Born: 7/15/1928, Groß Friedrich, Brandenburg, Germany
Died: 3/4/2014, Pacewalk, Mecklenburg-Vorpommem, Germany

Fritz Marquardt's westerns - actor:
Trail of the Falcon - 1968 (miner)
The Long Ride from School - 1982 (horse thief)

RIP Wendy Hughes

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Actress Wendy Hughes dead at 61


 

The Sydney Morning Herald


By Daisy Dumas


March 8, 2014



 

Australian actress Wendy Hughes has died at the age of 61.

 


The Melbourne-born star of My Brilliant Career and longtime actor in the Network Ten drama State Coroner is understood to have died of cancer in Sydney early on Saturday morning.


 


Actor Bryan Brown announced the death to the audience of Sydney Theatre Company's Travelling North on Saturday afternoon, inviting theatregoers to honor the late actress with a standing ovation.


 


Working across TV, film and the stage, Hughes was one of Australia's best recognized actresses, sensationally appearing in The Graduate in Sydney in 2001 and in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 2007.


 


Peter Evans, co-artistic director at Bell Shakespeare, directed the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Pygmalion, in which Hughes most recently starred in 2012.


 


"She was a star, such a straight shooter, incredibly generous and incredibly down to earth," Evans said.


 


"She didn't suffer fools - you knew exactly where you stood with Wendy."


 


A collaborator with director Paul Cox, with whom she worked on Salvation, Hughes studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and in 1983 won the Australian Film Institute's Best Lead actress award for her role in Careful, He Might Hear You.


 


She had a daughter, Charlotte, with actor Chris Haywood, and a son, Jay, with restaurateur Patrick Juillet. Hughes was married for a short time to Sean Scully, whom she met while on tour with the play Butterflies are Free.


 


 


HUGHES, Wendy


Born: 7/29/1952, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Died: 3/8/2014, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


 


Wendy Hughes’ western – actress:


Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (TV) – 1993-1996 (Kathleen O’Neil/Kathleen McGregor)


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