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RIP Victor Holchak

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RIP Victor Holchak

 

Obituary

 

August 10, 1940 - September 5, 2014 Victor (Vic) Holchak, actor and sports journalist, passed away on September 5, 2014 in his home in West Hollywood, CA. He was born in South Central Los Angeles on August 10, 1940, to Victor A. Holchak and Norma Jean (Philen) Holchak, who both predeceased him. He graduated from Manual Arts High School in 1958 and attended Los Angeles City College. After graduating from LACC, he left for London to attend the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, to study acting and theatre craft. But as a high school student his interest was in sports and sports journalism. He became the High School Editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Sports Section at 14. The Herald sent him to cover the Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia in 1956, making him the youngest journalist to ever officially cover a Summer Olympics Games for a major news outlet. CBS sent him to Rome to cover the 1960 Summer Olympics, and he also covered the Summer Olympics as a journalist in Mexico City in 1968. He took time off from journalism and worked successfully as an actor for many years, but never gave up his true passion, sports. In the 1980's he was part of the 'team' chosen by the Los Angeles Dodgers to fly to Japan and help develop content for what came to be known as Diamond Vision, in Dodger Stadium. It was the precursor to the current DodgerVision. He began covering both the summer and Winter Olympics, and The World Track and Field Championships in the early 1980's for ABC Radio Sports. After a few years he created his own syndicated radio sports show called Vic Holchak's Cavalcade of Sports. He also traveled the globe covering track and field events creating content for an immediate update call-in telephone information show: 1-800/94-TRACK and 1-900/94-TRACK As an actor he created some buzz, as well. After finishing his training at RADA, he was hired as a member of the original acting company at the Meadow Brook Theatre in Rochester, MI, and, once back in LA, he became a member of The Company of Angels, the very first Equity Waiver Theater company in the US. He not only became a member, he was elected president, and produced some very good, award-winning plays. Audiences may remember The Angel's hilarious 1974 production of Georges Feydeau's "A Flea in Her Ear," which won almost every theatre award there was in LA that year. Vic played Ferraillon, and played him very well! He is still remembered as Jim Phillips on "Days of Our Lives." He guest starred on "The Hardy Boys,""Police Story,""Laverne & Shirley,""Police Woman,""Cannon,""Barnaby Jones,""Gunsmoke" (2),""The FBI" (2), "Ironside" (2), "The Mod Squad" (2), "Dan August" (2), and "The Young and the Restless," to name a few. He married actress Leslie Easterbrook in 1979, and they were divorced in 1988. They performed together on an episode of "Tattletales." Some may remember him as the manager of the Yankees. Not THE Yankees, but a very memorable softball team that played in the Broadway Show League in West Hollywood during the 80's. He was on the pitching staff and threw a mean medium-pitch fastball. Great team, great manager, minor scuffles and great fun for the team and the fans! He was also known around town as someone you didn't want to tangle with on the racquetball court or the basketball court. In his case, the punch matched the swagger. Vic was a bigger than life character. A man you could never quite figure out, but simply wanted to know. He stood 6'7," but tried to convince everyone he was only 6'6" because he was ostensibly too tall for TV (a lighting thing.) His favorite acting story: "I'm too tall to work with most folks, so I finally got a call to audition for a monster. Great! Can't be too tall for that. They told me right after my reading, "That was terrific, but you're just too short!" Let's dim the lights. He will be missed. Family and friends are gathering for a small graveside memorial on Wed. Oct. 29, 2014 at 12pm at Crestlawn Memorial Park, 11500 Arlington Ave., Riverside, Ca. 92505.

 

 

HOLCHAK, Victor

Born: 8/10/1940, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Died: 9/5/2014, West Hollywood, Californai, U.S.A.

 

Victor Holchak’s westerns – actor:

Gunsmoke (TV) – 1970, 1972 (Lieutenant, Tom Rickaby)


RIP Antonio Terenghi

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RIP Antonio Terenghi

 

Antonio Terenghi, father of Pedrito el Drito has died

 

Today we lost a the prolific cartoonist Antonio Terenghi, a part of history of the Italian comics, who drew many famous people of the 1950s and 1960s and created the unforgettable sheriff Pedrito el Drito and his nagging wife, Paquita, whose adventures were originally published in The Brat.

 

Born October 31, 1921, he made ​​his debut in the industry as a letterer for the publisher Edital while later, in 1954, he created a parody of Tarzan, Tarzanetto for the Milanese Dart, character by actor soon became the protagonist and which will subsequently be taken up by the Corriere dei Piccoli.

 

At the age of twenty he enlisted and was sent to Africa, where he remained a prisoner of the British for seven years. Back in Italy, he picked up where he left off working for several publishing houses. In thirty years, in the public eye beginning in 1951 with the adventures of Wimpy and Poldino. In the same year he made ​​his debut with Pedrito el Drito, one of the longest-running cartoons on which he worked other great artists such as Alfredo Castelli.

 

Despite being no longer young of age, in recent years Terenghi never moved away from the drawing board, and his career continued through all the years of this decade. Among the characters he created include Mac Keron, Gionni and the jeep-'umanizzata 'Geppina, Nuto the Wily, Ademaro the Corsair, Nita the Airhead, Gastone the Lazy, the Dapper Director of the Hiccups Della Sera, Teddy Sberla, Lucky Solomon, the Indian Caribou, Panterina, Slacker, the Dude Geo Brummel, the Chimpanzee Togo, Crows and Pik Pak, Marietta and Rio Mendoza.

 

We shook the family, friends and colleagues with our deepest condolences.

 

 

TERENGHI, Antonio

Born: 10/31/1921, Alano di Piave, Veneto, Italy

Died: 10/26/2014, Milan, Lombardy, Italy

 

Antonio Terenghi’s westerns – comic book artist, writer:

Pedrito el Drito – 1951

Rio Mendoza - 195?

L'indiano Caribù - 195?

RIP Fernando Mateo

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Long time voice actor and dubbing director Fernando Mateo died in Madrid on October 25. Mateo was known to most Spaniards as the voice of J.R. Ewing in the long running Dallas TV series. To Spanish Euro-western fans he is remembered as the voice of Brett McBain. In all Mateo voiced over 30 Euro-westerns, usually secondary actors and character actors. He was married to voice actress Mari Pe Castro.

 

 

MATEO, Fernando

Born: 19??, Spain

Died: 10/25/2014, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

 

Fernando Mateo’s westerns – voice actor:

Ride and Kill – 1963 [Spanish voice of José Canalejas]

Charge of the 7th – 1964 [Spanish voice of soldier]

A Fistful of Dollars - 1964 [Spanish voice of Baxter henchman, Mexican soldier]

The Secret of Captain O’Hara – 1964 [Spanish voice of Rafael Corés]

Seven from Texas – 1964 [Spanish voice of Alvaro de Luna]

For a Few Dollars More – 1965 [Spanish voice of Ricardo Palacios]

Hands of a Gunfighter - 1965 [Spanish voice of Lorenzo Robledo]

A Place Called Glory – 1965 [Spanish voice of Angel del Pozo]

Son of a Gunfighter – 1965 [Spanish voice of Andy Anza]

The Big Gundown – 1966 [Spanish voice of Fernando Sánchez Polack]

Dynamite Joe – 1966 [Spanish additional voices]

Fort Yuma Gold - 1966 [Spanish voice of Rick Piper]

Halleluja for Django – 1966 [Spanish voice of Enzo Fiermonte, Tom Felleghy]

The Hellbenders - 1966 [Spanish voice of Gino Pernice, cavalry sergeant]

A Taste for Killing – 1966 [Spanish voice of Frank Braña, Sanchez gang member]

The Tramplers – 1966 [Spanish voice of Romano Puppo]

The Trap – 1966 [Spanish voice of man at auction]

The Ugly Ones – 1966 [Spanish voice of Doug]

Beyond the Law – 1967 [Spanish voice of Al Hoosman]

Face to Face - 1967 [Spanish voice of Frank Braña]

Run, Man, Run – 1967 [Spanish voice of Rick Boyd]

Blood and Guns – 1968 [Spanish voice of Mario Daddi]

15 Scaffolds for a Killer - 1968 [Spanish voice of Álvaro de Luna]

Once Upon a Time in the West - 1968 [Spanish voice of Frank Wolff, Conrado San Martín,

      Antonio Molino Rojo, Cheyene henchman]

A Taste for Vengeance – 1968 [Spanish voice of Lorenzo Robledo]

Amen – 1969 [Spanish voice of unknown character]

A Bullet for Sandoval – 1969 [Spanish voice of Antonio Molina, Tuerto]

Garringo - 1969 [Spanish voice of Raf Baldassarre]

The Rebels of Arizona – 1969 [Spanish voice of gunfighter]

$20,000 for Every Corpse – 1969 [Spanish voice of Ralston henchman]

Santana Kills Them All – 1970 [Spanish voice of Raf Baldassarre]

Raise Your Hands, Dead Man, You’re Under Arrest – 1971 [Spanish voice of Aldo Sambrell]

These Damned Pounds of Gold – 1971 [Spanish voice of barber]

RIP Jane Kellem

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Jane Kellem Anderson died on 10/21/2014 after a long battle with cancer. She was a New York model in younger years and starred in two cult classic movies "The Thing With Two Heads" and "You'd Better Stop It Or You Will Go Blind." She appeared on the "Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" and is featured in his highlight reel. Jane has done a lot of charity work in her life. She was a terrific artist and her paintings grace many homes. She had a great sense of humor and laughed easily. Jane had that rare gift of enabling people to change their lives for the better. A long-time proud member of Alcoholics Anonymous, Jane sponsored many women and was a popular speaker. She is survived by her husband, Loren Anderson, her brothers Craig Kellem and Jim Kellem and her niece Kaitlin her nephews Joe Kellem, Richard and Jim Healy.

 

 

KELLEM, Jane (Jane Kellem Anderson)

Born: 19??, U.S.A.

Died: 10/21/2014 Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Jane Kellem’s western – actress:

The Quest (TV) – 1976 (saloon girl)

RIP Daniel Boulanger

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The writer Daniel Boulanger has died

 

Le Figaro

10/28/2014

 

Daniel Boulanger, writer, screenwriter and actor, the new Prix Goncourt in 1974 with "Whip check!" and has starred in films by Godard and Truffaut, died Monday evening at the age of 92 years, announced Tuesday Marie Dabadie, secretary of the Académie Goncourt.

 

Born January 24, 1922 in Compiègne, Oise, France, he was a member of the Académie Goncourt 1983 to 2008. The author of fifty books, news and drama, Daniel Boulanger published his first novels in the late 1950s, including L'Ombre and Le Gouverneur Polygame.

 

His work was often concerned with provincial society, and humbled in that he finds untapped wealth.

 

Awarded the Prize of the French Academy in 1971, Daniel Boulanger was also a screenwriter and dialogue writer for film and television ("Deux hommes dans la ville", by José Giovanni, in 1973, "Merveilleuse Angélique", by Bernard Borderie, in "L'Homme de Rio", by Philippe de Broca, in 1964, "Les Pétroleuses" (“The Legend of Frenchie King”), by Christian-Jacque in 1971).

 

Bald, stocky, very jovial, he also played several supporting roles during the New Wave, including generic set of "A bout de souffle", from "La Mariée était en noir", to "Domicile conjugal ou de "Tirez sur le pianiste".

 

BOULANGER, Daniel (Daniel Michel Auguste Boulanger)
Born: 1/24/1922, Compiègne, Oise, France

Died: 10/27, 2014, Paris, Île‑de‑France, France

 

Daniel Bloulanger’s western – screenwriter:

The Legend of Frenchie King – 1971

RIP Audrey Long

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Audrey Long: Screen star who became known for leading roles in several film noirs

 

The Independent

By Tom Vallance

October 29, 2014

 

 

Tall and blonde, with a patrician air, Audrey Long was a prolific B-movie actress, appearing in over 30 films in the decade commencing in 1942.

 

She played leading lady to John Wayne in the Western Tall in the Saddle, but she will be best remembered for her roles in two highly regarded film noirs of 1947, Anthony Mann’s Desperate and Robert Wise’s Born to Kill. After her acting career ended, she married Leslie Charteris, the writer who created the sleuth Simon Templar, “The Saint”.

 

The daughter of an Episcopalian minister, Long was born in Florida in 1922, and on graduation from high school won a scholarship to attend Max Reinhardt’s drama school in Hollywood. She made her screen debut in 1942 with unbilled roles as a student in The Male Animal and a receptionist in Yankee Doodle Dandy. Moving to New York, she became a model prior to making her Broadway debut in Reinhardt’s production of Irwin Shaw’s play Sons and Soldiers (1943). It starred Gregory Peck (just prior to Hollywood fame) and Geraldine Fitzgerald, but lasted for only 22 performances. Long then joined a touring company for the play Dark Eyes, in which she was seen by an RKO Pictures talent scout and given a contract.

 

In her first RKO film, A Night of Adventure (1944), she was a fashion designer who asks her estranged lawyer husband (Tom Conway) to defend a boyfriend who is accused of murder. Variety described her as “not only attractive, but hinting promise”. She then played a ranch owner battling the misogyny of cowboy John Wayne (who refuses to work for a woman) in Tall in the Saddle, directed by Edwin L Marin after Wayne unsuccessfully tried to persuade John Ford to direct the film.

 

In 1945 Long was given leading roles in a musical, Pan-Americana, and a Western, Wanderer of the Wasteland, then starred with John Loder in A Game of Death, a budget remake of the classic thriller The Most Dangerous Game. Directed by Robert Wise, its tale of a madman who hunts human prey with his hungry hounds, was effectively chilling – though Fay Wray’s screams from the 1932 version were said to have been dubbed over Long’s. During the film’s shooting, Long married its dialogue director, Eddie Rubin.

 

Wise directed her again in the minor classic Born to Kill (1947), in which she marries a vicious killer (Lawrence Tierney) who is desired by her sister (Claire Trevor). The great character actors Elisha Cook Jr and Esther Howard are among the reasons the film, considered by many in its day to be excessively brutal, is now esteemed. Wise later commented: “It got pretty badly attacked at the time, but by today’s standards, it is very mild... in terms of the dynamism of the story, it holds up very well.”

 

Desperate (1947), in which a truck-driver (Steve Brodie) and his pregnant wife (Long) have to go on the run to escape killers (led by a menacing Raymond Burr), gave Long a less glamorous role than usual, and brought her critical praise for her portrayal. The fim’s taut pace and the director’s imaginative use of light and shadow quickly established Desperate as an above-average B-movie.

 

In 1948, after moving to the less prestigious Monogram studio, Long played a secretary who reforms a crook in Perilous Waters; the princess who sponsors the composer Tchaikovsky in the ambitious Song of my Heart (José Iturbi played the piano on the soundtrack, but the film was not a success); and a small-town girl who goes to New York to find out who killed her actress sister in Stage Struck.

 

She was filmed in colour (albeit the inferior Cinecolor system) for her next two films, Adventures of Gallant Bess and Miraculous Journey, then received top billing for the first time in Homicide for Three (all also 1948), a breezy comedy-thriller in which newlyweds track down a killer. Warren Douglas, who played her husband, later stated: “Audrey was one of those wonderful little performers of the Forties who loved her profession and respected it by giving all she could to it.”

 

Among her better B-movies were Air Hostess, in which she raised laughs as a man-chasing stewardess, and Post Office Investigator (both 1949), which gave her a rare villainous role, one of her personal favourite parts. She was a foreign agent in David Harding, Counterspy (1950), and was effective as a snooty society lady in the musical The Petty Girl (1950). Her performance in Cavalry Scout (1951) prompted the Hollywood Reporter to assert that “Long shows further proof that she is an unusually good actress whose career is fast on the march upward.” But roles such as Frankie Laine’s girlfriend in Sunny Side of the Street (1951) and a schoolteacher out West in Indian Uprising (1952) hardly supported the journal’s optimism.

 

In 1951 Long divorced Rubin, charging desertion, and the following year she married the author Leslie Charteris, who had worked in Hollywood writing dialogue for Tarzan movies and the story for the Deanna Durbin vehicle Lady on a Train. He was best known, though, for creating the character of the debonair thief-turned-sleuth Simon Templar, known as the Saint, the hero of many stories, films and a television series in which he was played by Roger Moore.

 

Long was Charteris’s fourth wife, but the couple settled in London and their union lasted for 41 years until Charteris’s death in 1993.

 

Audrey Long, actress: born Orlando, Florida 12 April 1922; married 1945 Edward Rubin (divorced 1951), 1952 Leslie Charteris (died 1993); died London 19 September 2014.

 

 

LONG, Audrey

Born: 4/12/1922, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.

Died: 9/19/2014, Virginia Water, Surrey, England, U.K.

 

Audrey Long’s westerns – actress:

Tall in the Saddle – 1944 (Clara Cardell)

Wanderer of the Wasteland – 1945 (Jeanie Collinshaw)

Adventures of Gallant Bess – 1948 (Penny Gray)

Cavalry Scout – 1951 (Claire Conville)

Indian Uprising – 1952 (Norma Clemson)

RIP Dallas Mitchell

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RIP Dallas Mitchell

 

The Virginian Pilot

October 11, 2009

 

Dallas Midgette, actor for 40 years in television and motion picture dramas, known as Dallas Mitchell, died at home Sept. 13, 2009, with Shelia O'Brien his devoted sweetheart and "angel" of 23 years at his side. Sheila and a local priest helped Dallas fulfill his desire to be baptized, to receive other sacraments including the sacrament of the sick as he fought to survive cancer. The eternal beatific vision of God is surely his. Born Oct. 8, 1927, and reared in Norfolk's suburban Bayview area where he met his lifelong friend, Donald Grey, Dallas was educated at Holy Trinity, Granby and Maury High School and attended what is now Old Dominion University. Besides his beloved Sheila, he is survived by his son, "Chappy" (Elsa) and grandchild Michelle, Damon (Monti) and grandchildren "DJ" and Morgan, and daughter, Danielle Marsella (Joe) and grandchild, "Joey," all of California. Dallas was predeceased by his parents, Lucille and Lt. (Norfolk police) Dallas W. Midgette and his sister, Patsy M. Raspberry and her husband Eddie. Patsy and Eddie's children, Brenda Juel (Benny) and four grandchildren, Carol Millis (Joe) and two children and Carmon Pizzanello (Glenn) and two children, all reside in the Hampton Roads area. Left to cherish the memories they shared with Dallas, when he was still living locally, are his childhood sweetheart, Elaine Neblett (VanTongeren) of Yuma, Ariz., local friends, Donald Grey, Steve Eubank, Harold "Bobby" Gravaris, H.L. "Hank" Foiles, Joyce Zoby Foiles and Curtis Estes. During the World War II years from December 1941 to September 1945, everywhere, it was a "feverish" time and a period of passionate patriotism as Dallas and friends waited "to serve" their country. (No one in the U.S. believed the War would end before 1950. The atomic bomb changed that perspective). His friends and "dates" enjoyed the sounds of the big bands like Harry James, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers, Louie Prima, et al and danced, not only at local high schools and sorority and fraternity events, but occasionally at the Surf Club and the Cavalier Beach & Cabana Club with open air dance floors that extended onto the sandy beaches. During his hundreds of television and motion picture appearances, Dallas co-starred in the original "Star Trek" series as Lt. Tom Nellis and he appeared as "Danny" in the movie "Airport." He had character parts in made-for-television movies like "Face of Fear" and "Amelia Earhart" and in television series like "FBI,""Wagon Train,""Riverboat,""Gunsmoke,""Quincy," and "Kojack," to name a few. A memorial Catholic Mass took place Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, in St. Hedwig Catholic Church, Los Alamitos, Calif. Memorial donations may be made to St. Hedwig Catholic Church, 11482 Los Alamitos Blvd., Los Alamitos, CA 90720.

 

 

MITCHELL, Dallas (Dallas Midgette)

Born: 10/8/1927, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A.

Died: 9/13/2009, Los Alamitos, California, U.S.A.

 

Dallas Mitchell’s westerns – actor:

Colt .45 (TV) – 1959 (Joe Donnelly, Ben Thorpe)

Have Gun – Will Travel (TV) – 1959, 1961 (Tom, Ken, cowhand)

Gunsmoke (TV) – 1959, 1961, 1963 (cowboy, Bert, cowboy)

Riverboat (TV) – 1960 (Jerry Madden)

Cimarron Strip (TV) – 1968 (sergeant)

RIP Ian Fraser

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Ian Fraser, Music Director, Arranger Who Worked With Julie Andrews, Dies at 81
 
Variety
Jon Burlingame
10/31/2014
 
Ian Fraser, whose 11 Emmy Awards and 21 additional nominations made him the most-honored musician in television history, died of complications from cancer Friday morning at his home in Los Angeles. He was 81.

 

All of Fraser’s Emmy noms and wins were in the music direction category, for supervising and conducting television specials, including 14 of the annual “Christmas in Washington” events over the past 30 years.

 

Fraser was also in his 10th term as a governor of the Television Academy. He conducted the 1984, 1993 and 2002 Emmy shows, as well as the 1984 Oscar telecast, and served as musical director for many of the TV Academy’s Hall of Fame ceremonies.

 

He was also nominated for a 1970 Oscar for adapting Leslie Bricusse’s song score for “Scrooge.”

 

Fraser had long professional relationships with Bricusse as well as with Julie Andrews and with Anthony Newley.

 

Fraser was born in Hove, England, in 1933, and served in the Royal Artillery band and orchestra as pianist, harpist and military-band percussionist. In the late 1950s he worked as a pianist in London nightclubs and began a career as an arranger.

 

He first worked with singer-songwriter Anthony Newley in 1960, arranging his songs and adapting his theatrical ventures including, with Bricusse, “Stop the World — I Want to Get Off,” which he supervised and orchestrated for Broadway in 1962.

 

Also for Broadway, he later conducted Bricusse’s “Pickwick” in 1965 and Henry Mancini and Bricusse’s stage version of their film hit “Victor/Victoria” in 1995.

 

His film career began in 1965 as vocal supervisor for the musical “Doctor Dolittle” and as associate musical supervisor on “Goodbye Mr. Chips,” both of which sported Bricusse song scores.

 

Fraser’s professional association with Julie Andrews started with his work as vocal arranger for her 1972 ABC variety series. They later did five TV specials, two Christmas albums and two Broadway albums together, with Fraser arranging and conducting the music.

 

He served as musical director on dozens of TV specials beginning in the mid-1970s, many of them produced by the team of Dwight Hemion and Gary Smith.

 

He won Emmys for “America Salutes Richard Rodgers,” “Ben Vereen: His Roots,” “Baryshnikov on Broadway,” Linda Lavin’s “Linda in Wonderland,” “SAG 50th Anniversary Celebration,” two of the “Christmas in Washington” specials, “Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas,” a “Great Performances” Julie Andrews concert, the “American Teacher Awards” and the “52nd Presidential Inaugural Gala.”

 

Fraser was the last person to conduct “White Christmas” for Bing Crosby, on Crosby’s final TV special in 1977. He also scored several films including “Hopscotch,” “First Monday in October” and “Zorro, the Gay Blade.”

Survivors include his wife Judee, three children, five grandchildren, a brother and a sister.

 

Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society or Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer.

 

 

FRASER, Ian

Born: 8/23/1933, Have, England, U.K.

Died: 10/31/2014, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Ian Fraser’s western – composer:

Zorro the Gay Blade - 1981


RIP Augusto Martelli

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RIP Augusto Martelli

 

Specttacoli e Cultura

By Marco Molendini

November 3, 2014

 

He leaves at 74 Augusto Martelli, the multi-talented musician, who followed in his father's footsteps, his grandfather’s footsteps and  his great-grandfather recited by Eleonora Duse, his grandfather was violinist of Mascagni and his father, Giordano Bruno Martelli, a well-known jazz musician and conductor), composer, arranger, producer. Ill for some time, he emerged from a long silence as a professional musician, but continued to write music finally devoted himself to sacred songs, having done so much in his long career, including a slew of well-known jingle, acronyms that characterized TV channels of Fininvest and Mediaset then, by Telemike Bim Bam Boom, to The Price is Right, Casa Vianello, to Risatissima, as well as the official hymn of Milan. But Martelli, a native of Genoa, Milan adoption, in his life as a musician has also made other, as well as having a safe background avid listener of jazz and Brazilian music. In his resume there are hits like Djamballà, which was on the soundtrack of the film The Serpent God with Nadia Cassini as the protagonist, which was also successful abroad. He worked with a lot 'of the great interpreters of the Italian song as Jovanotti, Iva Zanicchi, Ornella Vanoni, Giorgio Gaber, Johnny Dorelli, Giuni Russo and as with Mina, who was married to Corrado Pani. Then Augusto had just started his career as a musician working for the record company re-Fi. Among the singers of the label was then Mina for which he composed and arranged several songs, So che non è così, Tu farai, Ero io, eri tu, era ieri, Una mezza dozzina di rose, e altre. He also arranged and conducted the orchestra for albums such as A year of love / And if tomorrow, Dedicated to my father and others. To halt the career of Augusto was the judgment, which became final in 2007, which sentenced him to one year and six months in prison for possession of child pornography pictures. He accused the lawyers which had defended him claiming to have stumbled in the investigation because he was investigating those trades, "In the manner of Father Di Noto."

 

 

MARTELLI, Augusto

Born: 3/15/1940, Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Died: 11/3/2014, Rome, Lazio, Italy

 

Augusto Martelli’s westerns – composer, singer:

Another Dollar for the McGregors – 1970 [composer],“Still Water” [singer]

Ballad of Death Valley – 1970 [composer], “A King for a Day” [singer]

RIP Renée Asherson

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Versatile actor who combined grace with gravity in her many roles over 65 years

 

The Guardian

By Michael Coveney

November 4, 2014

 

Renée Asherson, a vivacious and stylish actor, who has died aged 99, enjoyed a career on stage and screen spanning 65 years. She will be remembered as the French princess in Laurence Olivier’s wartime propaganda film version of Henry V, pertly trimming her garden roses while rehearsing the English words for delicate body parts.

 

She had made her screen debut earlier the same year, playing a small role in Carol Reed’s The Way Ahead (1944), Peter Ustinov’s script (from Eric Ambler’s story) showing how an army officer (David Niven) organised a bunch of disparate conscripts into a plausible fighting unit. She followed that with another war-time adventure, this time with more love interest, Anthony Asquith’s The Way to the Stars (1945), scripted by Terence Rattigan, in which she played John Mills’s girlfriend, with Michael Redgrave and Rosamund John as a more straightforwardly middle-class pair.

 

Asherson’s clarity of diction, open demeanour, bright blue eyes and retroussé nose were distinct physical hallmarks; she often seemed to combine the kittenishness of Vivien Leigh with the grace and watery-eyed gravity of Celia Johnson, as she progressed from leading Shakespearean roles at the Old Vic before the second world war to West End stardom soon after it. She played sisters to both those exemplary actors in two major productions: the London premiere, in 1949, of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, as Stella Kowalski to Leigh’s Blanche DuBois; and as the youngest of Chekhov’s Three Sisters in a 1951 revival featuring Johnson and Margaret Leighton as her siblings, as well as Diana Churchill, Harcourt Williams and Ralph Richardson.

 

Kenneth Tynan had already noted her pedigree as a “comely Juliet”, tormented and fragile, speaking in a “husky alto”, and as Bianca – “a syrupy puss, [who] gets her little behind well slippered” – in a raucous Taming of the Shrew led by Trevor Howard and Patricia Burke. Olivier was keen for her to join him at the Old Vic, but her career had taken a decisive turn elsewhere when she met the love of her life, the handsome film star Robert Donat, (the original Mr Chips) in a stage (and subsequent film) version of Walter Greenwood’s The Cure for Love in 1945.

 

She was born Renée Ascherson in London (dropping the “c” early in her acting career), the second daughter of Charles Ascherson, a businessman and bibliophile of German-Jewish extraction, and his second wife, Dorothy Wiseman. He had booked a honeymoon on the Titanic but had to cancel at the last minute due to an attack of appendicitis. Thus Renée arrived in the world, following her elder sister, Janet. Renée was scantly educated at Maltman’s Green girls’ school in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, and at finishing schools in Switzerland and France, due to ill health; she suffered from anorexia in her teenage years before deciding (to her mother’s dismay) to train for the stage, at Webber Douglas school in London.

 

She made her stage debut in 1935 in a small role in Romeo and Juliet, directed by John Gielgud, and soon became a fixture at the Birmingham Rep and other leading theatres, making her West End debut (while filming Henry V) in Enid Bagnold’s melodramatic backstage drama Lottie Dundass (1943) at the Vaudeville, with Ann Todd and Sybil Thorndike. When she met Donat, whose marriage had ended, they lived together in Three Kings Yard, Mayfair, behind the Savile Club, his home from home.

 

In John Boulting’s Festival of Britain film The Magic Box (1951), Donat played the pioneering photographer William Friese-Greene, while Asherson contributed a cameo among her peers, including Olivier, Thora Hird, Ustinov and Emlyn Williams. The couple married in 1953 when Donat completed his successful run in TS Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, but separated soon after; he was extremely ill with asthma, and became difficult to live with. Towards the end, Asherson unsuccessfully attempted a reconciliation. Donat died in 1958.

 

On stage, in 1969 Asherson appeared with Alastair Sim in Pinero’s The Magistrate, and with John Clements, Leighton and Hugh Paddick in Antony and Cleopatra, at Chichester; and as Mrs Parker in JB Priestley’s When We Are Married (with Peggy Mount and Fred Emney) at the Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford, in 1970. Her television credits accelerated through the decades, and included an Arnold Bennett serialisation of Clayhanger (1976), the first series of Tenko (1981), and Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden (1989), in which she played Mrs Bartholomew. Her best TV films were Rodney Bennett’s Edwin (1984), scripted by John Mortimer, in which she played the possibly unfaithful wife of Alec Guinness’s retired high court judge; and Jack Clayton’s brilliant Memento Mori (1992), a perfect adaptation of Muriel Spark’s macabre comedy of senility, in which she sparkled in a hand-picked company of Maggie Smith, Cyril Cusack, Peter Eyre, Hird, Michael Hordern, Zoë Wanamaker, Stephanie Cole and John Wood; this was a high watermark of television drama.

 

Never a lead, but always a special irregular, her films included Don Sharp’s Rasputin (1966, starring Christopher Lee), Douglas Hickox’s critic-baiting Theatre of Blood (1973), Richard Attenborough’s Grey Owl (1999, with Piers Brosnan), and Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others (2001), a spooky Henry James-inspired house haunting, starring Nicole Kidman, in which Asherson played an incredibly powerful scene, eyes glazed over, as an old medium at a seance (“Children, if you are dead, why do you stay in this house?”).

 

Mordant, witty and constantly sociable, Asherson spent her last years in apartments in London, and is survived by her nephew, the journalist Neal Ascherson, grandson of Renée’s father and his first wife.

 

 

ASHERSON, Renée (Dorothy Renée Ascherson)

Born: 5/19/1915, Kensington, London, England, U.K.

Died: 10/30/2014, London, England, U.K.

 

Renée Ascherson’s western - actress:

Grey Owl – 1999 (Carrie Belaney)

RIP Richard Schaal

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Richard Schaal dies at 86; character actor was a Second City pioneer

Los Angeles Times

By Chris Jones

November 5, 2014

 

Actor Richard "Dick" Schaal, a pioneer at the Second City comedy theater in Chicago and a familiar face from character roles on movies and television, including "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Rhoda," has died. He was 86..

 

Schaal died Tuesday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement home in Woodland Hills, said his daughter, actress Wendy Schaal. The cause was not disclosed.

 

“He was a great genius at that. You'd swear he could actually see the objects.”- Jeffrey Sweet, author of "Something Wonderful Right Away"

 

Born in Chicago in 1928, Schaal (pronounced SHAWL) was in the second cast of Second City, beginning in 1962. At the famed theater, he was known, in sketch-comedy parlance, as a "space man." In other words, whereas the fledgling company had more than its share of University of Chicago graduates prized for their wit and verbosity, Schaal not only had a more blue-collar sensibility but was also the rare but crucial guy who could physically enliven the scenes.

 

"Using mime, Dick could place 40 objects within a scene, remember where they all were, and then modify them," said Jeffrey Sweet, who wrote extensively about Schaal in "Something Wonderful Right Away," a history of the early years of Second City. "He was a great genius at that. You'd swear he could actually see the objects."

 

"His whole body was an instrument," Wendy Schaal said. "He was the one who really took off on working in the space. That was where the work could make the visible invisible. In his workshops, he would teach performers to explore what would happen to their body when handling objects."

 

Schaal was an intimate of the early developers of modern sketch comedy and improvisation, especially Paul Sills and Sills' mother, Viola Spolin. At Second City, he performed alongside such masters of the form as Del Close and Avery Schreiber. Schaal was, in many ways, the first performer to fall into what would become a regular Second City type: the regular Chicago guy, a role later filled by such performers as John Belushi and George Wendt.

 

Initially, Schaal had run his own construction company in Chicago. After finding himself in the audience for the first show at Second City, he founded his own rival comedy-improv company in the backroom of a restaurant in Chicago Heights. Bernie Sahlins, Sheldon Patinkin and Sills of the Second City troupe came to see the show. Sensing that Schaal had something they needed, they hired him for the second revue at Second City.

 

He did not stay long in Chicago. After a year or so, he made his way to New York, where he found work in improvisational theater and met actress Valerie Harper, who would become his second wife. They divorced in 1978, and he later married a third time.

 

Schaal had regular guest-starring roles on 1960s and '70s television, including "The Dick Van Dyke Show,""That Girl" and "The Bob Newhart Show."

 

He also appeared on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," which featured Harper as Rhoda, and two of that show's spinoffs, "Rhoda" and "Phyllis."

 

His notable film appearances include "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" (1966) and "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1972).

 

His daughter survives him.

 

 

SHAAL, Richard

Born: 5/5/1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Died: 11/4/2014, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.A.

 

Richard Shaal’s western – actor:

Tall Tales & Legends – 1986 (Bob)

RIP Ronald R. Grow

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RIP Ronald R. Grow

 

Producer, production manager, assistant director Ronald R. Grow died in Los Angeles on October 21, 2014. He was 74. Born in Los Angeles Ron began his career as a second assistant director on 1970’s “Catch 22”. He was probably best known for his work as a unit production manager on TV’s ‘7thHeaven’ from 1996-2002.

 

 

GROW, Ronald R. (Ronald Richard Grow)

Born: 4/13/1940, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Died: 10/31/2014, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Ronald R. Grow’s westerns – assistant director, unit manager, production manager:

The Apple Dumpling Gang – 1975 [unit manager]

Centennial (TV) – 1978 [assistant director]

Kung Fu (TV) – 1986 [production manager]

RIP Geula Nuni

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Israeli actress Geula Nuni from 1960's iconic film Sallah Shabati passes away

 

Israel News

By Ran Boker

11.10.2014

 

Israeli actress Geula Nuni passed away on Sunday night at age 72 and will be laid to rest Monday afternoon.

 

 

Nuni became famous in the 1960's for her role in the Israeli film Sallah Shabati in which she costarred with Chaim Topol and Gila Almagor. Sallah Shabati was one of the most successful films in Israeli history and centered on the chaos of Israeli immigration in the '60s.

 

 

NUNI, Geula

Born: 9/6/1942, Israel

Died: 11/9/2014, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

Geula Nuni’s western – actress:

Legacy of the Incas – 1965 (Graziella)

RIP Steve Dodd

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Local film legend Steve Dodd passes away

 

South Coast Register

By Adam Wright

November 11, 2014

 

ABORIGINAL actor and Korean War veteran Steve Dodd died on Monday morning.

 

Mr Dodd lived in St Georges Basin for more than 20 years but throughout his life, lived and worked around Australia.

 

For about 70 years he played the role of an indigenous Australian character in movies and advertisements.

 

Wikipedia credits his movie career to Chips Rafferty who in 1946 noticed Mr. Dodd on the set of The Overlanders and gave him a small role.

 

He later appeared alongside Jack Thompson in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.

 

By 1985 he had acted in 55 movies or TV series. Later films saw him on screen with Tom Selleck in Quigley Down Under and Keanu Reeves in The Matrix.

 

In 2013 he was awarded the Jimmy Little Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sydney Opera House.

 

Before his time on film he worked as a stockman, horse breaker and rodeo rider.

 

Mr. Dodd served two years in the Korean War with 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment.

 

In June this year Mr Dodd was the guest of honour at Shoalhaven High School’s NAIDOC Week celebrations. He unveiled a plaque in honour of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women who fought for their country.

 

Basin View residents Robin and Halyna Rossall considered themselves his family after striking up a friendship with Mr Dodd about 20 years ago.

 

“Halyna used to cook food and put it in his freezer. He loved her pea and ham soup,” Mr Rossall said.

 

“We became very good friends over the years.

 

“He was 85 years old but he was sharp mentally. Steve had a super personality.

 

“I’ve got a photo of him advertising Nike shoes. He told me he walked into the film studio naked but with Nikes on.

 

“The photographer said you can’t pose for the picture like that, so from behind his back he took a stuffed goanna and covered his privates.

 

“He had a marvellous sense of humour.

 

“He was a wonderful personality and such a great friend.”

 

A memorial service for Mr Dodd will be held on Monday at Blackett Park, St Georges Basin, at 11am.

 

 

DODD, Steve

Born: 6/1/1928, Dodnadatta, Australia

Died: 10/11/2014, Basin View, New South Wales, Australia

 

Steve Dodd’s westerns – actor:

The Overlanders - 1946

Quigley Down Under – 1990 (Kunkurra)

RIP Carol Ann Susi

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'The Big Bang Theory's' Carol Ann Susi dies at age 62
Zap2it
By Andrea Reiher

11/11/2014

                   

Television veteran Carol Ann Susi has died at the age of 62. A rep for the actress confirms to Zap2it that Susi passed away Tuesday (Nov. 11) after a brief battle with an aggressive form of cancer.

 

Working on TV for four decades, Susi has most recently become known as the voice of the unseen Debbie Wolowitz, Howard's mom, on "The Big Bang Theory." Her other recent credits include "Grey's Anatomy,""Ugly Betty" and the movie "Just Go With It."

 

As a teen, Susi studied acting HB Studio in New York and came to Los Angeles in the 1970s. Soon after, she was cast as Kolchak's secretary Monique Marmelstein on the hit ABC series "The Night Stalker." Dozens of TV appearances followed, including memorable turns on "Cheers,""Married ... With Children,""Seinfeld" and "Six Feet Under."

 

"'The Big Bang Theory' family has lost a beloved member today with the passing of Carol Ann Susi, who hilariously and memorably voiced the role of Mrs. Wolowitz," say Warner Bros. Television and "Big Bang Theory" producers Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Bill Prady in a statement. "Unseen by viewers, the Mrs. Wolowitz character became a bit of a mystery throughout the show's eight seasons.

 

"What was not a mystery, however, was Carol Ann's immense talent and comedic timing, which were on display during each unforgettable appearance. In addition to her talent, Carol Ann was a constant source of joy and kindness to all. Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with her family during this time, and we will miss her greatly."

 

Susi's rep also says that the Brooklyn native enjoyed "Doctor Who," Halloween horror mazes and the Magic Castle. She also frequently won blue ribbons for her culinary creations at the Los Angeles County Fair.

 

Susi is survived by her brother Michael and sister-in-law Connie.

 

 

SUSI, Carol Ann

Born: 2/2/1952, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 11/11/2014, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Carol Ann Susi’s western – actress:

Blood Red – 1988 (Segestra daughter)


RIP David Watson

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David Watson, Who Played Cornelius in 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes,' Dies at 74

 

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

November 11, 2014

 

He jumped in when Roddy McDowall was unavailable for the second film in the original film series

 

David Watson, who stepped in for Roddy McDowall to portray the chimpanzee archeologist Cornelius in the 1970 film Beneath the Planet of the Apes, has died. He was 74.

 

The British actor died on October 5 following a heart attack in New York, where he had been attending the opening night of the Broadway play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the U.K. newspaper The Stage reported.

 

McDowall played Cornelius in the original Planet of the Apes (1969) as well as in Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). He also was Cornelius' son Caesar in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) and another chimp, Galen, in a 1974 Planet of the Apes series for CBS.

 

But when McDowall was unavailable for Beneath the Planet of the Apes because of a scheduling conflict (he was in England directing the Ava Gardner-Ian McShane feature The Ballad of Tam Lin), Watson — who sounded much like McDowall underneath the mask and all that makeup — took over the role for that film only.

 

Watson earlier appeared on such 1960s TV series as Rawhide opposite Clint Eastwood, Never Too Young, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Time Tunnel and Daniel Boone, and he starred as Robin Hood (opposite McDowall as Prince John) in a 1968 musical for NBC. Later, he showed up on The Bionic Woman and in the 1988 telefilm Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake.

 

A native of London, Watson was a singer in nightclubs and on the cabaret scene before making a transition to acting.

 

 

WATSON, David

Born: 3/10/2940 London, England, U.K.

Died: 10/5/2014, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

 

David Watson’s westerns – actor:

Rawhide (TV) – 1965 (Ian Cabot)

Daniel Boone (TV) – 1968, 1969, 1970 (David Scott, Prince Louise

RIP Leigh Chapman

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Leigh Chapman, Actress and Screenwriter, Dies at 75

 

Variety

By Jon Burlingame

November 11, 2014

 

Leigh Chapman, the 1960s actress-turned-screenwriter who wrote “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry” and “The Octagon,” died Tuesday, Nov. 4 at her West Hollywood home, after an eight-month battle with cancer. She was 75.

 

Chapman was familiar to TV viewers as Sarah, Napoleon Solo’s efficient secretary in several 1965 episodes of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” She also did guest shots on several other mid-’60s series including “Combat,” “Dr. Kildare,” “McHale’s Navy” and “The Monkees.”

 

But she found her calling as a scriptwriter, starting in TV with “Burke’s Law,” “Mission: Impossible,” “It Takes a Thief,” “The Mod Squad” and “My Favorite Martian.” She penned six scripts for “The Wild Wild West,” one of which earned Agnes Moorehead her only acting Emmy.

 

Chapman soon graduated to feature-film work, mostly – and unusually for a female writer in the ’70s – in the action-adventure genre, notably with the Peter Fonda car-chase film “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.”

 

Subsequent writing credits included “Steel,” “Boardwalk,” “King of the Mountain,” “Impulse” and the Chuck Norris film “The Octagon.” She did uncredited work on “All the Marbles” and wrote the original treatment that eventually became the Isaac Hayes blaxploitation film “Truck Turner.”

 

Her final writing credits were the 1993 pilot for “Walker, Texas Ranger” and another first-season episode of the Chuck Norris series, although a creative dispute led her to substitute her mother’s name (Louise McCarn) in the credits for both.

 

She was born Rosa Lee Chapman in Kannapolis, N.C., in 1939, graduated from Winthrop College in Rock Hill, S.C., and moved to L.A. in the early 1960s, where her first job, as a secretary at the William Morris agency, led to the acting gigs; eventually the agency represented her as a writer.

 

In later years she took up underwater photography and her work was featured in a 2011 exhibit at Calumet Photography in Hollywood.

 

Survivors include two sisters and a brother.

 

 

CHAPMAN, Leigh (Rosa Lee Chapman)

Born: 3/29/1939, Kannapolis, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Died: 11/4/2014, West Hollywood, California, U.S.A.

 

Leigh Chapman’s westerns – actress, screenwriter:

Law of the Lawless – 1964 (saloon girl)

The Iron Horse (TV) – 1966 (Crystal Cochran)

The Professionals – 1966 (lady)

The Wild Wild West (TV) – 1966-1968 [screenwriter]

RIP Robert C. Stewart

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Houston Chronicle

By Staff

November 13, 2014

 

Robert Chisem Stewart Jr. On November 6, 2014, Robert Chisem Stewart Jr. received the reward he had worked for all of his life. Known to most as Bob, he was also affectionately referred to as WriterBobStewart, Uncle Bob, Dad, and Grandad. He was 75 at the time of his death. His residence the past 4 years has been in Spring, Texas with his son, daughter in law, and grandchildren. His last days were spent doing what he loved. He passed in his hotel room in Salem Massachussetts, while attending the Writers Unplugged Unconference. Although the exact cause of death is pending, it is believed to be a "medical incident", possibly heart failure or complications of diabetes. Bob was born in Woodsboro, Texas on December 17, 1938 to Robert Chisem Stewart Sr. and Edna Alta Culpepper Stewart. He grew up with a younger sister, Nancy and a much younger brother, Van. He graduated from Calhoun County High School in Port Lavaca, Texas in 1957. He was active in the high school band making all regional band and barely missing all state band his senior year. He was active in drama, playing leading roles in school plays, and competing with great success in district speech and drama tournaments. He was also active in the chess club and enjoyed success in high school chess tournaments. He subsequently attended Abilene Christian College (ACC), now known as Abilene Christian University (ACU), where he also appeared in school produced plays. He began with a major in bible, which he later switched to journalism. When only a few hours from completing his degree, he was offered a job at a daily newspaper, The Vernon Record, and thus began his illustrious career spanning decades. Bob's early years in journalism included times at The Borger News Herald, The Bryan Daily Eagle, The Dallas Times Herald, The Marshall News Messenger, The Laredo Times and the San Antonio Light. At a young age, while managing editor at The Bryan Daily Eagle, he was recognized by editor and publisher and state journalism societies as being the best in the state of Texas in several categories. Also while in Bryan, Bob's play "WHICH DEATH TO DIE?" was produced by the AGGIE PLAYERS and he wrote 2 scripts for the number one TV series "GUNSMOKE". During his nearly twenty years at the San Antonio light, he began to focus on entertainment news, developing the first TV book to accommodate the multiple channel listings that were needed for the new cable networks. He wrote the weekly cover story for the TV guide and a daily column for the TV section of the newspaper. He also enjoyed a number of years on the air with the local network affiliate Channel 12 KSAT doing movie reviews. He would rank the movies on a scale of 1-12 and give his "Bobservations". Following his work at the San Antonio Light, Bob worked freelance for People magazine, US magazine, Life magazine, and many others. He gave up his freelance status to work full time for People magazine for several years to wrap up a distinguished career in the field of journalism. During his career, Bob interviewed literally thousands of people, both famous and infamous, ranging from presidents, to serial killers, to movie stars. Bob's most relished interview ever was the day he interviewed Roy Rogers, his childhood hero. He stated that he could hardly speak and that Roy was everything he could ever want a hero to be. After retiring from People magazine, Bob began a career as an author, having four non-fiction books published:MAN TO MAN When the woman you love has breast cancer St Marten's Press 1989SACRIFICE Word Publishing 1990REVENGE REDEEMED Fleming H Revell 1991NO REMORSE Pinnacle Books 1996In recent years Bob has enjoyed the publishing of three fiction booksALIAS THOMAS A. KATT Solstice Publishing 2011HIDDEN EVIL Novel Concept Publishing 2011FIRST BORN Novel Concept Publishing 2013Recently, Bob received recognition from the Writer's Guild of America for his work in 1967 on scripts for Gunsmoke, named as one of WGA's 101 Best Written TV Series of the last 70 years. Above all else, Bob loved God. A close second was the time he had with his family. A loving and sacrificial husband, father, and grandfather he set an example of what a Godly man should be. Ever patriotic, he was never too busy to stop, and shake hands, and thank every law enforcement officer or any military personnel he saw. Bob was a faithful member of the Church of Christ and consistent in his involvement. He often preached sermons on Sundays, taught bible classes, and officiated weddings and funerals as a lay minister. He loved a good joke, especially if it involved an Aggie. It was often said "You will know if Bob doesn't like you if he doesn't tease you". He loved to watch his beloved Aggies football team and "bled maroon". He also was a big Dallas Cowboy fan and especially enjoyed assignments when he got to interview the Cowboy players. A dominating presence, he usually seemed to be in command of all situations. At his last writers "unconference" the night before he passed, Bob spoke on "Perseverence". All attending were thinking of persevering within the literary world……the fight to be published. The best lesson though from Bob Stewart was the perseverence and love that he showed seeing his wife Martha through 2 bouts with cancer. When Bob gave his word, he kept it. Bob is survived by his son Dr. Robert Chisem Stewart III and his spouse Kimberly Ann Stewart of Spring, Texas, his daughter Martha Liland Stewart of New York City, grandchildren Christina Leigh Stewart, Courtney (CA) Ann Stewart, and Robert Chisem Stewart IV, all of Spring, TX; sister Nancy Lee Giles of Corsicana, Texas, and beloved "kitty" Schyler, resident of "Grandad's Cabana."Preceding Bob in death are his wife of 50 years Martha Ann Oeding Stewart, and brother William Van Stewart. Viewing/visitation will be at 9:00 AM Friday. Funeral Service at 10:00 AM Friday , Nov. 14, 2104 at the Klein Chapel-Mausoleum 9714 FM 2920, Klein Texas, 77379 Officiating will be Minister Mark Davis from the Crestway Church of Christ in San Antonio, Texas. Pallbearers will include Brian Harris, Charlie Meyers, Bobby Stewart, and Ronnie Giles. The family thanks all of those from Bob's personal and professional life who have given so much support and love for WriterBob and his family!"Do not go softly into that night…………"LOVING………………..GIVING…..…………..FIERCE

 

 

STEWART, Robert C. (Robert Chisem Stewart, Jr.)

Born: 12/19/1939, Woodsboro, Texas, U.S.A.

Died: 11/4/2014, Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

 

Robert C. Stewart’s westerns – screenwriter:

Gunsmoke (TV) – 1965, 1966

RIP Ernest Kinoy

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Ernest Kinoy, ‘Roots’ Writer and Former WGA East President, Dies at 89

 

Variety

By Dave McNary

November 13, 2014

 

Emmy-winning writer Ernest Kinoy, who served as president of the Writers Guild of America East from 1969 to 1971, died Monday in Townshend, Vermont from complications from pneumonia. He was 89.

 

The New York native won Emmys for writing the 1964 “Blacklist” episode of the controversial CBS drama series “The Defenders,” which starred George C. Scott, and for the second segment of the ABC miniseries “Roots” in 1977.

 

His many other TV credits include the prestigious anthology skeins “Playhouse 90″ and “Studio One” as well as “Dr. Kildare,” “Naked City,” “Route 66″ and “The Untouchables.” In the 1970s and ’80s he wrote more than a dozen telepics, including episodes of 1978′s “Roots: The Next Generations.”

 

He was nominated for three other Emmys, notably for the 1981 TV movie “Skokie,” based on a march of neo-Nazis in the Illinois city. Kinoy had been taken as a POW during World War II and survived the Nazi concentration camp at Berga.

 

“We mourn his loss but celebrate his life,” said Michael Winship, WGA East president. “My most vivid memory of Ernie Kinoy is the phone calls he made to me during the 2007-08 Writers Guild strike in which he offered greatly valued advice, support and encouragement. This Emmy Award winner was an important member of the Guild East, a past president who received two of our highest awards: the Hunter Award for career achievement and the Jablow Award for devoted service to the union.

 

Winship continued: “It speaks to Ernie’s ardent belief in justice and civil liberty that this man, who as a Jewish World War II POW was sent to the brutal German concentration camp at Berga, would 35 years later find within himself the ability to write the moving teleplay ‘Skokie,’ the story of free speech and a neo-Nazi march through a Jewish community.”

 

Kinoy was married to Barbara Powers from 1948 until her death in 2007. They had two children.

 

 

KINOY, Ernest

Born: 4/1/1925, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 11/10/2014, Townshend, Vermont, U.S.A.

 

Ernest Kinoy’s westerns – writer, screenwriter:

Shane (TV) – 1966 [writer]

Buck and the Preacher – 1972 [writer, screenwriter]

RIP Fabrizio Trifone Trecca

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Fabrizio Trecca, host of the historic Better Living, has died aged 74

Today
By Staff
November 13, 2014

 

The TV world is mourning the death of Fabrizio Trecca, historical host of the Mediaset '' Better Living ''.

 

The announcement of his death at the age of 74 years, was given at the end of today's episode of the Forum, by the presenter Barbara Palombelli.

 

His gaffes on TV have gone down in history, especially when a prestigious guest who, for a number of reasons cut off his tie, after receiving a lot of abuse from Trecca. After leaving Mediaset in 1998, Trecca led broadcasts '' Living Well '' and '' Better Living ''. Trecca was also the personal physician of Silvio Berlusconi.

 

 

TRECCA, Fabrizio Trifone (aka T. F. Karter)

Born: 8/19/1940, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died: 11/12/2014, Rome, Lazio, Italy] – writer.

 

Fabrizio Trifone Trecca – western – screenwriter:

Shanghai Joe – 1973 (co) [as T.F. Karter]

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