RIP Josefina de Luna

April 26, 2016, 10:10 am

The great Josefina de Luna died on April 25^th. She was born in Cadiz, Spain in 1921, but her childhood and youth were spent between Valencia and Barcelona, where she suffered the vicissitudes of war.

In 1939 Metro Goldwing Mayer asked her to audition for a dubbing position, and immediately she was hired. The following years were spent working under the orders of Marta Fábregas, sister of the great Elsa Fábregas, combining the functions of charitable dubbing and the theater. Collado wanted to hire her as a young lady in the company of Tina Gascó.

At that Josefina time was the voice of Ingrid Bergman, most of those overdubs have been lost- and a film of this great actress made in 1947 Fono Spain Madrid got in touch with her to offer her a contract, which she accepted and she moved to Madrid with her brother and her mother, where she currently lives.

Her main occupation in addition to her acting, is undoubtedly her broad career as a voice actress. Until today she was still prodigious, clean, able to go treble to bass and change laughter to tears, with a seemingly effortless voice.

de LUNA, Josefina

Born: 1921 Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain

Died: 4/25/2016, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Josefina de Luna’s westerns – voice actress:

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw – 1958 [Spanish voice of Jayne Mansfield]

The Sign of Zorro – 1962 [Spanish voice of Danielle de Metz]

Torrejón City – 1962 [Spanish voice of May Heatherly]

Gunfight at High Noon - 1963 [Spanish voice of Gloria Osuna]

Bullets Don’t Argue – 1964 [Spanish voice of Giulia Rubini]

Cavalry Charge – 1964 [Spanish voice of Diana Lorys]

The Last Tomahawk – 1964 [Spanish voice of Karin Dor]

7 Hours of Gunfire – 1964 [Spanish voice of Helga Sommerfield]

Duel in the Eclipse – 1965 [Spanish voice of Marisa Peredes]

Finger on the Trigger - 1965 [Spanish voice of Silvia Solar]

The Big Gundown – 1966 [Spanish voice of Maribel Martín]

Django Does Not Forgive – 1966 [Spanish voice of Evelin Therens]

The Hellbenders - 1966 [Spanish voice of Norma Bengell]

Vengeance of Pancho Villa – 1966 [Spanish voice of Maria Perschy]

Day of Anger – 1967 [Spanish voice of Yvonne Sanson]

Once Upon a Time in the West – 1968 [Spanish voice of Claudia Cardinale]

Zorro in the Court of England – 1969 [Spanish voice of Dada Gallotti]

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

These Damned Pounds of Gold – 1971 [Spanish voice of Dada Gallotti]

Sting of the West – 1972 [Spanish voice of Francesca Romana Coluzzi]

If You Shoot... You Live – 1974 [Spanish voice of Paula Pattier]

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RIP Arne Elsholtz

April 26, 2016, 5:26 pm

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Arne Elsholtz: Tom Hanks' German voice actor is dead

Spiegel online

04/26/2016

Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, Kevin Kline: all were spoken in the German version of their films by Arne Elsholtz. Now one of the most well-known voice actors of Germany has died.

His voice is almost as well known as the Hollywood counterparts: Arne Elsholtz is not only the German voice of Tom Hanks, but also synchronized Bill Murray, Kevin Kline - and the father in "Das kleine Arschloch". But German cinema audiences must continue now to do without the familiar voice. Elsholtz died in Berlin, his agency Sprecherdatei announced.

"Everyone knew Arne," said an agency spokeswoman. Elsholtz, born in 1944, had among others voiced Hanks in "Forrest Gump". He also dubbed Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day" (1993) and Kevin Kline in the German version of the comedy "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988). After health problems in 2008, he shared the synchronization of Hanks movies with the voice actor Joachim Tennstedt.

"He was said Otto Sander the only one who was allowed to smoke in the dubbing booth", says the CEO of the Berliner recording studios Live Live, Frank Willer. "And he always had while working, a good glass of white wine." Elsholtz enjoyed life to the fullest, spreading a good mood, donating champagne - chain and smoking. "He was a very human person. We will miss him," adds Willer.

TV viewers heard Elsholtz in commercials. His voice with many small nuances made any recording a highlight, informed his agency. The voice actor also had drama training.

ELSHOLTZ, Arne

Born: 1944, Germany

Died:4/26/2016, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Arne Elsholtz’s western – voice actor:

Shatterhand – 1963 [German voice of Alain Tissier]

A Place Called Glory - 1965 [German voice of Angel del Pozo]

Rampage at Apache Wells - 1965 [German voice of Petar Petrovic]

Ace High – 1967 [German voice of Irish family member2]

Let Them Rest - 1967 [German voice of Franco Citti]

Professionals for a Massacre – 1967 [German voice of Edd Byrnes]

Cemetery Without Crosses – 1968 [German voice of Philippe Baronnet]

Sartana – 1968 [German voice of Luigi Antonio Guerra]

Fistful of Lead - 1970 [German voice of Lou Kamante]

Have a Nice Funeral - 1970 [German voice of Aldo Berti]

A Bullet for a Stranger – 1971 [German voice of Chris Chittell]

The Return of Alleluia – 1972 [assistant director]

Challenge of White Fang - 1974 [German voice of John Steiner]

The Stranger and the Gunfighter – 1974 [German voice of Gene Collins]

Rustler’s Rhapsody - 1984 [German voice of Tom Berenger]

Silent Tongue - 1993 [German voice of Dermot Mulroney]

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RIP Marco Leto

April 27, 2016, 6:46 am

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RIP Marco Leto

Italian film, television director and screenwriter Marc Leto died in Rome on April 21^st. He was 85. Born in Rome on January 18, 1931, Leto started his career in the 1950s as an assistant director in a large number of films. Starting from 1965 he started a collaboration with RAI TV, for which he directed several serials and TV movies. After writing several screenplays, Leto made his film directorial debut in 1973, with the critically appreciated “Black Holiday”; in the following years he was active both in cinema and in television.

LETO, Marco

Born: 1/18/1931, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died: 4/21/2016, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Marco Leto’s westerns – screenwriter:

Dead Men Don’t Count - 1968

A Pistol for 100 Coffin – 1968

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RIP A. Martin Zweiback

April 27, 2016, 4:53 pm

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A. Martin Zweiback, ‘Grace Quigley’ Screenwriter, Dies at 85

Variety

By Marco McClendon

Screenwriter A. Martin Zweiback died last Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 85.

Zweiback got his first big break in Hollywood with the 1984 film “Grace Quigley,” starring Katharine Hepburn and Nick Nolte. Hepburn was visiting the home of George Cukor when Zweiback threw the film’s script over Cukor’s fence. By the time he made it home, he had a call from Hepburn waiting on his answering machine.

Directed by Tom Harvey, “Grace Quigley” was the first film where a director and writer edited a release of the finished film.

Zweiback’s other works include “Cactus in the Snow” (1971), which he directed, and “Gorp” (1980). He wrote screenplays for multiple TV series in the ’70s such as “Kung Fu,” “James at 16” and “The Paper Chase.”

He also wrote “Me Natalie,” Al Pacino’s first film, starring Patty Duke, who received a Golden Globe for the role.

“Me Natalie” received a WGA nomination for best drama written directly for the screen in 1970. In 2006, Zweiback won a New York International Independent Film and Video Festival award for best screenplay for “Grace Quigley.”

Mayor Tom Bradley proclaimed March 19, 1987, Screenwriter’s Day in honor of Zweiback.

ZWEIBACK, A. Martin

Born: 1931, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 4/23/2016, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.

A. Martin Zweiback’s westerns – screenwriter:

The Rifleman (TV) – 1963

Kung Fu (TV) - 1973

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RIP Donald E. Thorin

April 27, 2016, 8:45 pm

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RIP Donald E. Thorin

Hollywood cinematographer Donald E. Thorin died in Tucson, Arizona on February 8^th. He was 82.

Thorin was born in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1957, he went to Hollywood, and started working in the mailroom at 20th Century Fox. Later he moved to the camera department as camera loader, and started his cinematographer career as the 2nd camera assistant on “The Young Lions”.

He worked with Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman, Against All Odds), Michael Ritchie (The Golden Child, The Couch Trip), Martin Brest (Midnight Run, Scent of a Woman), and Steve Oedekerk (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Nothing to Lose).

He was also cinematographer on such well-known films as Sylvester Stallone's Lock Up and Tango & Cash, Whoopi Goldberg's Boys on the Side, Bette Midler's The First Wives Club, and Samuel L. Jackson's Shaft.

Thorin was the father of cameramen Donald E. Thorin Jr. and Jeffrey Thorin.

THORIN, Donald E. (Donald Eugene Thorin)

Born: 10/12/1934, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A.

Died: 2/8/2016, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.

Donald E. Thorin’s westerns – cameraman:

Hearts of the West – 1975

Comes a Horseman - 1978

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RIP James Carroll

April 28, 2016, 1:38 pm

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James Carroll, journeyman CBC actor and voice of Muskoka radio, dies ‘calm and beautiful’ at 60

National Post

By Jake Edmiston

April 28, 2016

James Carroll, the journeyman CBC actor who reinvented himself as a beloved, small-town radio personality in Ontario, died Wednesday afternoon at the age of 60.

For decades, Carroll was a fixture of the Canadian stage and screen world, best-known for his portrayal of Max Sutton on the long-running CBC series Wind at My Back (1996-2001).

Read the Post's full profile on James Carroll

From noon to 2 p.m., no one at this cottage country radio station wants to speak much on air anymore. It is James Carroll’s slot and he isn’t here to fill it.

“We just let the music go now. We’re waiting for him to return.”

More recently, Carroll left show business and moved to Huntsville, Ont., to be close to his daughter, where he fell in with the town’s fledgling community radio station.

In 2010, he signed on just to do the afternoon show, but soon became a driving force — taking on other shows and helping Hunters Bay Radio grow from an online operation in the basement of a house into a 60-person FM radio station covering much of Ontario’s Muskoka cottage country.

“He is the one voice that everybody knows,” station director Jeff Carter told the National Post recently.

Carroll, born in Pennsylvania, decided to live in Toronto after working there in a theatre production in the 1970s, friends said.

During his career, he worked as a stage manager for Toronto’s Second City improv club and acted in several feature films, including Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, opposite Shirley MacLaine.

“Just a lovely guy,” Canadian actor Neil Crone, who worked with Carroll on Wind at My Back, said in a recent interview. “He was one of those guys who loved to hang out, loved to talk to crew people (on set). He was such a people person.

“He’d get to know the carpenter, would get to know the props guys.”

After Carroll was diagnosed with cancer last year, the town rallied round him, hosting a tribute at a theatre and raising more than $22,000 through an online fundraiser. He was hospitalized in early April and died of complications from small cell lung cancer, said Shauna Leigh Taylor, a friend who was at his bedside.

“There was some breaks between his breathing. And I thought, ‘Oh why don’t we have the radio on in here?’ — in this beautiful room at the hospice in Huntsville,” she said.

Carroll listened as his friend, Canadian musician Wendell Ferguson, played a live set on Hunters Bay Radio. The station broke for commercial and Carroll’s voice came over the radio, a pre-taped ad for a pizza restaurant.

“As soon as James’ commercial was over, his heart stopped,” Leigh Taylor said. “Honestly, it was the most beautiful thing. So calm and beautiful.”

CARROLL, James

Born: 1956, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Died: 4/27/2016, Huntsville, Ontario, Canada

James Carroll’s western – voice actor:

Red Dead Redemption (VG) – 2010 [English voice of Norman Deek)

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RIP Wolfganf Hess

April 28, 2016, 4:48 pm

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Wolfgang Hess: German voice of Bud Spencer and Gimli is dead

IGN

By Sandro Odak

April 28, 2016

Bud Spencer mourns voice actors

The German voice actor and actor Wolfgang Hess is dead. This was announced by Bud Spencer on his official Facebook page. Italian star of beating comedies mourning on Facebook to his longtime German speakers.

More than 40 times Hess roles of Bud Spencer in Germany talked, among which are his most popular works with Terence Hill as Trinity Is Still My Name and Two as thick as thieves.

Wolfgang Hess was known primarily for its particularly smoky Reibeisenstimmen. He also spoke John Rhys-Davies as Gimli in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Less well known is that it also the Ent Treebeard lent his voice in the same films.

Wolfgang Hess was born in 1937 in Switzerland and died at the age of 79 years. He was mainly in the 70s and 80s, to a sought-after and often booked voice actors with more than 500 roles.

In addition to its spokesman activities Hess was also active as a stage actor in Munich, Zurich and Stuttgart. Earlier in his career, he shared the Bud-Spencer-rollers with two other speakers. After the death of Arnold Marquis he took over the job as the sole master speaker.

HESS, Wolfgang

Born: 1937, Switzerland

Died: 4/27/2016, Zurich, Switzerland

Wolfgang Hess’ westerns – voice actor.

Ride and Kill – 1963 [German voice of Renzo Palmer]

Black Eagle of Santa Fe – 1964 [German voice of Fernando]

A Fistful of Dollars - 1964 [German voice of Benny Reeves]

Massacre at Marble City – 1964 [German voice of Bruno Carotenuto]

Adios Gringo – 1965 [German voice of Ted Carter]

Blood for a Silver Dollar – 1965 [German voice of Nello Pazzifini]

Count Bobby, the Terror of the Wild West – 1965 [German voice of man at knife throwing]

El Rojo – 1966 [German voice of Raf Baldwin]

Sugar Colt – 1966 [German voice of James Parker]

Ace High – 1967 [German voice of Bud Spencer2]

God Forgives… I Don’t! – 1966 [German voice of José Canalejas]

The Big Gundown – 1967 [German voice of Fernando Sancho]

Little Rita of the West – 1967 [German voice of Gordon Mitchell]

Run, Man, Run – 1967 [German voice of Nello Pazzafini]

Boot Hill – 1969 [German voice of Woody Strode #1, Bud Spencer #2]

Sartana the Gravedigger – 1969 [German voice of Gordon Mitchell]

The Stranger’s Gundown – 1969 [German voice of Carlo Gaddi]

They Call Me Trinity – 1970 [German voice of Bud Spencer]

Black Killer – 1971 [German voice of Calogero Caruana]

Trinity is STILL My Name – 1971 [German voice of Bud Spencer]

The Return of Clint the Stranger – 1972 [German voice of Daniel Martin]

They Call Me Providence – 1972 [German voice of Gregg Palmer]

Carambola – 1973 [German voice of Paul Smith]

The Crazy Adventures of Len and Coby – 1974 [German voice of Paul Smith]

The White, The Yellow, the Black – 1974 [German video voice of Eli Wallach]

We are No Angels – 1975 [German voice of Paul Smith]

California – 1977 [German voice of Robert Hundar]

My Friend Winnetou (TV) – 1979 [German voice of Jose Antonio Marroz]

Troublemakers – 1994 [German voice of Bud Spencer]

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RIP Ugo Adinolfi

April 28, 2016, 5:23 pm

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RIP Ugo Adinolfi

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By Mario Adinolfi

The night is sleepless, I read your messages and I thank you. Losing a dad means losing the people who will love you for free, unconditionally, no matter what you do, forever. So it is an incalculable loss that only faith can comfort, knowing that he is now gone. Ugo Adinolfi was crossed by all possible tragedies: He was born under the bomb of World War II in 1943, in poverty, he lost a brother and a baby daughter in his early twenties, in poverty he married my mother when she moved from Salerno to Rome. He became an actor (60 films), leaving the movies "for the family". He obtained two degrees at the threshold of 40 years and became director of the state, the man most disciplined and honest that I've ever met. Three days after being retired, he suffered a massive coronary. Survived a few years until yesterday afternoon, when he fell asleep and didn't wake up anymore.

Ugo Adinolfi was one of those Italian actors that little is known about. He appeared in many co-production films with Spain, mainly for tax purposes among which were eighteen Euro-westerns between 1967 and 1971.

ADINOLFI, Ugo

Born: 4/1/1943, Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Died: 4/26/2016, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Ugo Adinolfi’s westerns – actor:

Killer Kid – 1967 (Ramirez henchman)

The Moment to Kill – 1967 (Forrester henchman)

Rick & John Conquer the West – 1967

The Wild and the Dirty – 1967 (Claude/Claudio ranchand)

Blood Calls to Blood – 1968 (Angel Face)

Full House for the Devil - 1968 (Meredith henchman)

Gatling Gun – 1968 (Ted Grant)

Kill Them All and Come Back Alone – 1968

The Long Day of the Massacre – 1968 (Alan Brothers)

The Mercenary – 1968 (land owner)

Sartana – 1968 [as Adinolfi Ugo]

Two Pistols for a Coward – 1968

The Law of Violence – 1969 (Sidney Garrett)

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis – 1969 (Lieutenant Bombardi)

A Man Called Apocalypse Joe – 1970 [as Hugo Adinolfi]

Bullet for a Stranger – 1971 (breeder)

Drummer of Vengeance – 1971

Guns for Dollars – 1971 (Pablito)

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RIP Gino Havens

April 30, 2016, 1:34 pm

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Geno Havens, Veteran Casting Director, Dies at 75

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

4/30/2016

He worked on films for George Lucas, Carl Reiner, Brian de Palma and Terrence Malick and helped jumpstart the careers of Dennis Quaid and Prince protégé Apollonia.

Geno Havens, a casting director whose credits include Carl Reiner's The Jerk and Brian de Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, has died. He was 75.

Havens died Friday of complications from a stroke at USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, screenwriter, producer and actor Kevin Bernhardt told The Hollywood Reporter. They were friends for 30 years and worked together on several films.

Havens helped launch the acting careers of Dennis Quaid and Bernhardt's ex-wife, Purple Rain co-star and Prince protege Apollonia.

Havens also served as casting director on such films as More American Graffiti (1979) — he was a dialogue coach on the George Lucas original — and Alligator (1980), written by John Sayles, and he helped secure actors for Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978).

Patrick "Geno" Havens studied acting at the University of Utah and later landed a job with a casting company led by Fred Roos and Mike Fenton.

Early on, he teamed with Blaxploitation directors Arthur Marks and Jack Hill on such films as Detroit 9000 (1973), Bucktown (1975), Switchblade Sisters (1975) and Friday Foster (1975), starring Pam Grier.

His résumé also includes the Robert Blake 1970s ABC series Baretta and the films Hardbodies (1984), Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985), Maniac Cop (1988), Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992) and The Last Days of Frankie the Fly (1996).

He more recently worked in casting and development with producer Elie Samaha and as a director of creative development for Timepiece Entertainment.

Havens, who stood less than 5-feet-tall, forged a career in Hollywood despite the fact that he was diagnosed with osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disorder characterized by bones that break easily, when he was 22-months-old.

"He never once talked about his physical problems," Bernhardt said. "He was an inspiration to anybody and everybody."

Survivors include a nephew.

HAVENS, Gino

Born: 1940, U.S.A.

Died: 4/29/2016, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Gino Havens’ western – casting director:

Centenial (TV) - 1978

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RIP Franco Di Giacomo

May 1, 2016, 5:28 pm

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Farewell to Franco Di Giacomo.

Mondospettacolo

By Ivan Zingariello

The great director of photography Franco Di Giacomo died yesterday, aged 83. More than 120 films to his credit, has worked with some of the greatest Italian directors, from Bertolucci to Ettore Scola, Taviani by Nanni Moretti. He was also president of A.I.C., The association of the authors of photography.

Originally as an amateur, he began his career as an assistant to Aldo Tonti, then became a fireman and eventually to a machine operator. Until 1970 he participated in various B-movies, but also in film that will remembered in the history of cinema. And 'in fact he was one of the operators of the epic "Cleopatra" with Liz Taylor, and also of "Marriage Italian Style" by Vittorio De Sica, as well as two films by Pasolini, "Uccellacci e uccellini" and "Porcile". However, he will be best remembered as a camera operator in the cult films of Sergio Leone, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "Once Upon a Time in the West", both under the orders of the master Tonino Delli Colli.

After years of playing he is called in 1969 by Salvatore Samperi who "promotes" him to the role of director of photography in his ill-fated "Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo". In the early alternate genre films like "Chi l’ha vista morire?" By Aldo Lado, "... and so scared "by Paolo Cavara and "When Women Had Tails" by Pasquale Festa Campanile in art films as "Trategia del ragno" by Bernardo Bertolucci, or "Nel nome del padre" by Marco Bellocchio, with whom he will also run "Marcia trionfale".

He also works with Dario Argento in "4 Flies on Grey Velvet", and continued with "La Tosca" by Luigi Magni, "Stardust" by Alberto Sordi, "Libera, amore mio!" the love of Mauro Bolognini, "L’anatra all’arancia" by Luciano Salce and "La stanza del vescovo" by Dino Risi. In the late 70s there is the boom of the films with Bud Spencer headed by former assistant Leone, Michele Lupo. Giacomo will "light up" four of them, from "They Called Him Bulldozer" to "Uno sceriffo extraterrestre… poco extra e molto terrestre!"

With the Taviani brothers the movies are even 5, including "The Night of the Shooting Stars" in 1983 that allowed him to win the David di Donatello, for which will receive four nominations for the next twenty years (and three silver ribbons). Always in the 80’s he carefully photographs Nanni Moretti's film "Sweet Dreams" and "The Mass is Ended", Damiano Damiani’s "Amityville Possession" and "The investigation", also that of "OIC Ciornie "Nikita Mikhalkov.

In the 1990s other collaborations, such as "The House of Smiles" by Marco Ferreri, "Marcellino" by Luigi Comencini and "Relatives Snakes" by Mario Monicelli. One of the most important films of the Di Giacomo's career, however, "The Postman" by Massimo Troisi and Michael Radford, who will win the Oscar for best foreign film. With "Romance of a Poor Young Man" which also began in 1995 a collaboration with Ettore Scola, then continued with "Dinner", "Unfair Competition" and "People of Rome." In 2000 he won the Flaiano Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2004 and ended his career as a cinematographer with the miniseries "Luisa Sanfelice" by the Taviani brothers, which followed four years after the last film, the little-known "Appointment in Unusual Hour" by Stefano Coletta.

In recent years he was also a professor of photography at the Academy ACT Multimedia Cinecittà.

Di GIACOMO, Franco

Born: 9/18/1932, Amatrice, Umbria, Italy

Died: 5/1/2016, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Franco Di Giacomo’s westerns – cinematographer, cameraman:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – 1966 [cameraman]

Once Upon a Time in the West – 1968 [cameraman]

Buddy Goes West – 1981 [cinematographer]

The Postman – 1994 [cinematographer]

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RIP Uwe Friedrichsen

May 2, 2016, 7:24 am

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Actor Uwe Friedrichsen is dead

Die Welt

5/2/2016

He was Uwe from "Sesame Street", the voice of Inspector Columbo. The actor Uwe Friedrichsen has died at the age of 81 years. He apparently died of a brain tumor.

The actor Uwe Friedrichsen is dead. He died Saturday at the age of 81 years in a Hamburg hospital, Ute Friedrichsen’s widow and artist agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur confirmed Monday.

Gustaf had the young mimes 1956 brought for his legendary "Faust" to the Hamburg Schauspielhaus. Friedrichsen was part of the ensemble for twelve years. He then worked as a freelance actor and appeared in numerous television productions, including in the economic crime series "Schwarz Rot Gold" and in "Sesame Street" next to Lilo Pulver and Horst Janson.

Respondent voice actors

Friedrichsen was also sought after for audiobooks and voice dubbing and lent among others his distinctive voice to American colleagues Peter Falk and Donald Sutherland. Born Friedrichsen 1934 the son of an engineer in Altona.

Even at school he had participated in numerous performances, but made for his parents sake teachings as import / export merchant. Alongside that he taught himself the acting itself and founded in 1953 with the innovative theater friends 53rd

His love was theater

1955 Ida honor Prinzipalin the Hamburger Kammerspiele, noticed him. A year later took him to Gustaf ans German Schauspielhaus. Although he worked much in film and television later, his love had always been the theater. So the actor was well into old age regularly and still on stage, including the Ernst German Theatre in Hamburg and at the Hamburger Kammerspiele.

Friedrichsen also enjoyed much success at the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater, where he slipped into the role of the legendary Hans Albers and in a Low German production of Goethe's "Faust" Mephistopheles played. The Hamburger Volksbühne appointed the actor with the Medical Representative Ute Pope had remarried and lived in Seevetal near Hamburg, for his 60th anniversary on stage as an honorary member.

Popular by "Schoeller's family"

Large popularity reached Friedrichsen, when he was cast in the television series "Family Schoeller Man" and the role of the detective in "John Klings Abenteuer" (1965-1970) took over. Until 1995, he played with brittle north German charms a customs investigator in the economic crime series "Schwarz-Rot-Gold".

Children in particular will remember his performances in "Sesame Street". Also in numerous "Tatort" -, "Derrick" - and "The Old Man" episodes where Friedrichsen was a welcome guest.

FRIEDRICHSEN, Uwe

Born: 5/27/1934, Altona, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Died: 4/30/2016, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Uwe Friedrichsen’s westerns – actor, voice actor:

The Treasure of Silver Lake – 1962 [German voice of Jozo Kovacevic]

Today We Kill… Tomorrow We Die! – 1967 [German voice of Montgomery Ford]

Guns of the Magnificent Seven – 1968 [German voice of Monte Markham]

Adios, Sabata - 1970 [German voice of Dean Reed]

Stadt ohne Sheriff (TV) – 1972 (Tex Ritter)

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RIP Sergio Vitier

May 3, 2016, 8:00 am

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Renowned Cuban musician Sergio Vitier dies

El Nuevo Herald

Renowned Cuban musician Sergio Vitier, son of the poetess Fina García Marruz, died Sunday in Havana, at age 68, because of a stroke, according to state media.

Sergio Vitier, awarded the National Music Prize 2014, was born into a family of prominent intellectuals and artists, which include his parents, writers Fina Garcia Marruz and Cintio Vitier, his uncle Eliseo Diego, and his brother Jose Maria, who is also a prominent composer and pianist.

The musical work of Vitier, considered a profound knowledge of popular traditions of the island, traveled the interpretation and composition of music for various events, from dance, theater, film and television, to scores formatted for symphonic orchestras.

As an author and guitarist he will be remembered for his contributions to the Group of Sound Experimentation of ICAIC, a musical ensemble that existed from 1969-1977, and was characterized by their search for new sounds, updating and technical and artistic rigor.

The musical work of Sergio Vitier was also highlighted in the development of soundtracks for film of the island, including those of the films "Capablanca" by filmmaker Manuel Herrera, "The brigadier" by Octavio Cortázar, "Caravan", by Rogelio Paris, and "Roble de olor," Rigoberto Lopez.

His discography includes the albums "Tributes", with which he won the Prize of the companies Recordings and Musical Editions (EGREM) in 1997 and the title "Crossing", "Our Song," for which he won awards for "Cubadisco" in 2000 and 2001 respectively, "From the Renaissance to the Rumba" and "Anniversary".

VITIER, Sergio

Born: 1/18/1948, Havana, Cub

Died: 5/1/2016, Havana, Cuba

Sergio Vitier’s western – composer:

En el umbral - 1995

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RIP Tracy Scott

May 3, 2016, 12:40 pm

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Tracy Scott, Megan Ellison’s Script Supervisor, Dies at 46

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

She managed continuity on the sets of such movies as 'Up in the Air,''American Hustle,''Whiplash,''Black Mass,''Her,''Foxcatcher' and 'Joy.'

Tracy Scott, a top-notch script supervisor who worked for producer Megan Ellison on American Hustle, Her, Foxcatcher and Joy, has died. She was 46.

Scott died Saturday at her parents' home in Lady Lake, Fla., her brother, Michael, told The Hollywood Reporter. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2015 and, after treatment and surgeries, was told in April that she had contracted liver cancer.

Scott had to leave the production of the Nash Edgerton film American Express, which was shooting in Mexico.

On Twitter, Ellison called Scott "a stunning soul and talent."

Scott also recently served on the crews for Whiplash (2014), Veronica Mars (2014), The Gambler (2014), Black Mass (2015) and Concussion (2015).

Scott was born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in Toledo, Ohio. She attended Miami (Ohio) University and then Watkins College of Art, Design & Film in Nashville, where she landed a gig as an intern on The Green Mile.

On that Frank Darabont film, Scott impressed script supervisor Susan Malerstein-Watkins, who encouraged her to come to Hollywood, and Scott moved west in 1999. She later worked on such films as Garden State (2004), Crossing Over (2009), The Proposal (2009), Up in the Air (2009) and Unthinkable (2010).

Scott's résumé also included the TV series Deadwood, Sons of Anarchy, True Blood, Wilfred and Happy Endings.

SCOTT, Tracy

Born: 1970, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.

Died: 4/30/2016 Lady Lake, Florida, U.S.A.

Tracy Scott’s western – script supervisor:

Deadwood (TV) – 2004-2006

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May 4, 2016, 9:37 am

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Ángel de Ándrés López has died.

Spanish Actors Guild Bulletin

May 4, 2016

The Spanish actor has died this afternoon, Wednesday May 4, 2016, at 64 years of age at his home in Madrid.

We say goodbye to the charismatic and well-known Spanish actor Angel of Andres Lópe, leaving an extensive filmography of work and dedication, one of the best known in the Spanish scene who devoted his life to television, film and theater actors.

He participated in various television series with large audiences such as ‘Cuéntame’, ‘Pelotas o más’ and more recently ‘Carlos, Rey Emperador’. One of his starring roles in the popular TV series was in Bootstrap in the role of Manolo.

In films he also focused part of his work as an actor to the orders of great directors in films like; “La Celestina”, “800 Bullets” anbd “Tapas”.

Among the various awards and recognitions is the Goya Awards nomination in 1988 for Best Supporting Actor for the film “Baton Rouge”.

De ANDRES LOPEZ, Ángel

Born: 10/23/1951, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Died: 5/4/2016, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Ángel de Ándrés López’s western – actor:

800 Bullets – 2002 (Cheyenne)

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RIP Ian Sander

May 5, 2016, 5:57 am

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Ian Sander, Executive Producer on 'Ghost Whisperer,' Dies at 68

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes, Lacey Rose

5/4/2016

He and wife Kim Moses were partners in the production company that also was behind the NBC series 'Profiler' and now has a pilot in contention at ABC.

Ian Sander, who with his wife Kim Moses executive produced the popular drama series Ghost Whisperer and Profiler, died Tuesday at home after suffering a heart attack. He was 68.

The couple, who married in 1994, signed a first-look deal with NBCUniversal International Television in December, and their Sander/Moses Productions has a drama pilot in contention at ABC. Spark, a genre soap that centers on the battle for power between two rival families and a rebellious young woman, is set in an alternate history where gas and coal fuel the world.

CBS’ Ghost Whisperer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, ran for five seasons from 2005-10. A big hit for the network on Friday nights, it played in syndication in more than 150 countries.

Sander and Moses authored a companion book, Ghost Whisperer Spirit Guide, and created Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side, a corresponding web series from a ghost’s point of view. They also organized a convention for paranormal-fanatic bloggers to help generate buzz. (A 2011 article in Forbes crowned them "Buzz Builders.")

Sander also produced the Dennis Quaid-starring films D.O.A. and Everybody’s All American, both released in 1988, and taught at USC.

A native of New York and the son of an insurance salesman, Sander graduated from the University of South California and attended Loyola Law School before launching a career as an actor. He appeared in the 1970 film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, in the 1971 Broadway play No Place to Be Somebody and on such TV series as The Mod Squad, Medical Center and The Rockford Files.

He segued into producing and received three Emmy nominations for his work on the 1990s NBC telefilm/drama series I'll Fly Away, starring Sam Waterston and Regina Taylor.

Sander also directed several episodes of I'll Fly Away, Profiler — which ran for four seasons on NBC — and CBS' short-lived Reckless, a cops-and-lawyers drama that he and his wife executive produced as well.

The duo also were behind Slam 360, a marketing agency that helps producers use the internet to attract viewers. And in 2015, they executive produced an original 20-minute film for the Marriott hotel chain called French Kiss, shot entirely in Paris.

Survivors also include children Aaron and Declan.

SANDER, Ian

Born: 11/22/1947, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 5/3/2016, Encino, California, U.S.A.

Ian Sander’s western – actor:

God’s Gun – 1976 (Red Clayton)

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RIP Abel Fernandez

Guerra & Gutierrez Mortuary

May 4, 2016

Abel Michael Fernandez, 85 of Whittier, California entered into eternal rest on May 3, 2016. Abel was born on July 14, 1930 to Guadalupe Alvirdez and Abel Gonzalez Fernandez in Los Angeles, California. Abel was Actor for the Movie Industry for over forty five years of his life.

Fernandez was a Yaqui/Mexican actor who played in movies from 1953 to 2002. He is best known for his role as Federal Agent William "Bill" Youngfellow on the 1959-1963 ABC Television series The Untouchables. He was the only cast member from the original Untouchables lineup in the series' 1959 "Scarface Mob" pilot, other than Robert Stack himself, to be cast for the series. His character is based on that of William Jennings Gardner , Native American member of the real-life Untouchables Federal squad. Abel was born in Los Angeles, California on July 14, 1930. His mother was a Yakaii Indian and his father, a Mexican Indian. Abel was the youngest of a large family, and sadly, lost his mother at birth. He attended Belmont High School in Los Angeles, (now Cathedral High School), and , at the age of 16, enlisted in the United States Army, eventually becoming a paratrooper. While there, he was the Middleweight Boxing Champ of Asiatic Forces. After his discharge, he became a professional boxer from 1950-1953. He studied acting and started in films in 1953. Fernandez has also appeared in dozens of TV series

Abel is survived by his children Delia, Elsa, Patrick and Tony. thirteen grandchildren, twelve great grandchildren; as well as many other family members and friends who will love and miss him.

May Abel Michael Fernandez rest in peace!

FERNANDEZ, Able (Abel Michael Gonzalez Fernandez)

Born: 7/14/1930, East Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Died: 5/3/2016, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Abel Fernandez’s westerns – actor:

Rose Marie – 1954 (Indian warrior)

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (TV) – 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958 (O-Ye-Tza, Quemado, Panjito)

Stories of the Century (TV) – 1954 (Yellow Hat)

Fort Yuma – 1955 (Mangus)

The Last Command – 1955 (Mexican soldier)

Many Rivers to Cross – 1955 (Slangoh)

Strange Lady in Town – 1955 (Apache)

Cheyenne (TV) – 1955 (Abel)

The Last Warrior – 1956 (Apache Medicine Man)

Gunsmoke (TV) – 1956, 1958, 1959 (Little Wolf, Indian, Nate)

Zane Grey Theater (TV) – 1956, 1959 (Indian, Cota)

The Adventures of Jim Bowie (TV) 1957 (Osceola)

Decision at Sundown – 1957 (Pete)

Union Pacific – 1958 (Chicoola)

Have Gun – Will travel (TV) – 1957, 1958 (bandit, Little Horse, guard)

The Saga of Andy Burnett (TV) – 1957-1958 (Chief Kiasak)

Wagon Train (TV) – 1957, 1959 (Indian, Tonino, Shoshone Leader)

Frontier Justice (TV) – 1958 (Indian)

Tales of Wells Fargo (TV) – 1958 (Big Cloud)

Bonanza (TV) – 1959 (Lean Knife)

Restless Gun (TV) – 1959 (Garcia)

U.S. Marshal (TV) – 1959

The Texica (TV) – 1959 (Juan)

Rio Conchos – 1964 (Mexican)

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (TV) – 1964 (Joseph)

Apache Uprising – 1965 (Young Apache Chief)

Daniel Boone (TV) – 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 (White Feather, Tafend, warrior, Bear Paw, sentry)

Appaloosa – 1966 (Mexican farmer)

Iron Horse (TV) – 1966 War Cloud)

Hondo – 1967 (Indian)

The Big Valley (TV) – 1968 (Apache)

The Virginian (TV) – 1968 (Sapewa)

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RIP Alina Moradei

May 6, 2016, 10:43 am

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Alina Moradei has died at age 88, the famous voice actress: she was the voice of the Lady in Yellow.

Il Fatto Quotidiano

May 6, 2016

The voice we hear coming to mind right away from Cabot Cove, the fictional town in Maine where lives Jessica Fletcher, the mystery writer-detective played by Angela Lansbury: in the Italian version, the voice of the Lady in yellow was, Alina Moradei. She died yesterday May 5th at the age of 88 years. Born in Chiavari in 1928, she has been dedicated to dubbing from the beginning of the 1950s: among the many actresses to whom she lent her voice were Maggie Smith, Katharine Hepburn and Cloris Leachman. Alina was also an actress and voice of Radio Rai.

MORADEI, Alina

Born: 3/8/1928, Chiavari, Genoa, Italy

Died: 5/5/2016, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Alina Moradei’s western – voice actress:

Grey Owl - 1999 [Italian voice of Stephanie Cole]

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RIP Cherylene Lee

May 7, 2016, 11:05 am

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RIP Cherylene Lee

San Francisco Chronicle

May 10, 2016

Cherylene Alice Lee was born in June 1953 in Los Angeles and passed away in March 2016 in San Francisco. She fought a very brave fight with stage 4 breast cancer for ten years. Cherylene started a prolific career as a child actress and dancer at age 3, dancing with Gene Kelly at age 5, and performing as a song and dance team in Las Vegas for three summers with her sister, Virginia Lee. She was featured in many TV series and films.

As an adult, Cherylene was part of the International Company of "A Chorus Line" and became an award-winning playwright, published poet, and storyteller. Among her many notable published works were ARTHUR AND LEILA, CARRY THE TIGER TO THE MOUNTAIN, LOST VEGAS ACTS, and YIN CHIN BOW. Her last and greatest work is her autobiography, JUST LIKE REALLY: AN UNCOMMON CHINESE AMERICAN MEMOIR, which she self-published in 2015. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Paleontology and from UCLA with an MS in Geology. As a writer, she was a fierce Words with Friends opponent.

Cherylene is predeceased by her father and mother, Dr. and Mrs. Edward Lee, and her brother, Warren Lee. She is survived by her loving sisters, Priscilla "Puggy" Lee and Virginia Latimer, in addition to two nieces and a nephew.

Donations in her honor may be made to community organizations that made a difference in the last ten years of her life.

1. UCSF Foundation, PO Box 45339, San Francisco 94145 (reference "B2802 Investigational Therapeutics in her memory").

2. Shanti's Margot Murphy Breast Cancer Program, 730 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109.

3. Breast Cancer Emergency Fund, 12 Grace St, Ste 300, San Francisco, CA 94103.

LEE Cherylene (Cherylene Alice Lee)

Born: 6/?/1953, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Died: 3/18, 2016, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

Cherylene Lee’s western – actress:

Stagecoach to Dancer’s Rock – 1962 (Ah Ling)

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RIP Phil Strassberg

May 7, 2016, 8:48 pm

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The Arizona Republic

May 8, 2016

Strassberg, Philip

89, passed away April 28, 2016. Philip was born August 3, 1926 in New York. He attended Yeshiva University in New York City. He started his career at the New York Daily Mirror as a copy boy and transitioned to becoming a consistent writer of many articles. He spent many years writing as well as conducting public relations. He worked with many famous people in show business and also was the manager of Little Anthony and the Imperials and The Chiffons. When he moved to Arizona he wrote for The Arizona Republic from 1970 thru 1975 covering film, television, and entertainment. Philip accomplished many things in his life and was quite persistent. Philip will be remembered as a wonderful father who single-handedly raised his son. He is survived by his son Aaron and daughter-in-law Heather as well as his three grandchildren and one great grandson. He is also survived by family and friends. He had a pleasant funeral at Paradise Memorial Gardens. Contributions in his memory can be sent to Temple Kol Ami: 15030 N. 64th St, Phoenix, AZ 85254.

STRASSBERG, Phil (Philip Strassberg)

Born: 8/3/1926, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 4/28/2016, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.

Phil Strassberg’s western – actor:

Guns of a Stranger – 1973 (Nathan Cryder)

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RIP Robert Roanne

May 8, 2016, 4:53 pm

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Death of Belgian actor Robert Roanne

Le Vif

5/7/2016

The Belgian actor Robert Roanne died Saturday afternoon at the age of 86 after a long and painful illness, told to Belga by his son, Eric Beysens. The Galleries Theatre lost its dean, a man who will be remembered as particularly humble, said David Michels, director of the cultural institution.

His real name Robert Beysens, the actor starred in hundreds of pieces, including the Théâtre des Galeries. The most famous is likely to remain the "Wedding Beulemans miss" in which he played Mr. Meulemeester.

The dean of the Theatre, whose career was long over fifty years, was a regular supporting roles. "It was a real chameleon," recalls David Michels. "He had the ability to interpret a multitude of characters." The two men, who lived side by side for decades, were still in touch. "We were called at the theater and back to the end of year festivities," says the director. "It's a double emotion, both professional and affective."

Robert Beysens played for the company Galeries before arriving in Brussels Theater, where performances are still opened on the boards of Beersel. During his long career, he has interpreted Mr Coppenolle in the famous play "Bossemans and Coppenolle". A role "he loved playing" and probably the one that has most marked, says Michels.

One we knew as Robert Roanne has also participated in several international tours, including Congo and Germany.

ROANNE, Robert (Robert Beyens)

Born: 9/28/1929, Antwerpen, Flanders BElgium

Died: 5/7/2016

Robert Roanne’s western – actor:

Far West - 1973

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