RIP John C. McLaughlin

February 6, 2017, 3:53 pm

Los Angeles Times

February 3, 2017

March 11, 1941 - January 23, 2017 John Clement McLaughlin, beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend, died on January 23 of cardiac arrest. He was 75. Born in Pawtucket, RI to Helen and John Joseph McLaughlin, he was the second child of a close Irish Catholic family. He graduated from Mount St. Charles Academy and St. Francis University. At 23 John exuberantly joined the Peace Corps, serving one year in Costa Rica and two in Sierra Leone, experiences that strongly impacted his life and worldview. In 1971 he headed to California to pursue an acting career, a dream that became a 45-year success, with appearances in film, television, theater and hundreds of commercials. John's kindness, generosity and ability to find humor in all things endeared him to countless friends and acquaintances. His wife Diana, daughter Molly, granddaughter Elcie, dog Pepper, and all his friends and family will miss his big laugh, gregarious spirit and enthusiasm for life. We will do our best, even now, to live life by his favorite line, "if you can't laugh you're out of business!" Goodbye big fella.

McLaughlin, John C. (John Clement McLaughlin)

Born: 3/11/1941, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S.A.

Died: 1/23/2017, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

John C. McLaughlin’s western – actor:

Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman (TV) – 1996 (Judge)

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RIP Gianfranco Plenizio

February 7, 2017, 3:06 pm

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La Repubblica

February 7, 2017

Gianfranco Plenizio, composer for Fellini and Mario Monicelli is dead

He wrote the music for "E la nave va" In the filmography of the Friulian musician, 76, also conducted for the Billy Wilder and Brian De Palma films

Gianfranco Plenizio, died today in Rome, aged 76, one of the most celebrated authors of soundtracks of the Italian cienema. Composer, conductor, an expert in nineteenth century Italian chamber music, Plenizio had collaborated with the excellence of Italian cinema by writing hundreds of soundtracks including those of “E la nave va” for Federico Fellini in 1983 and “Temporale Rosy” of Mario Monicelli in '79. Plenizio has also conducted the orchestra for the music of “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Luigi Comencini, and for the films of Pietro Germi, Ermanno Olmi, Luigi Magni, Marco Bellocchio, Ettore Scola, Elio Petri and Brian De Palma.

Born near Udine in 1941, he began his career as a pianist and then devoted himself to conducting. Debuted at twenty-five years of age with the Barber of Seville by Rossini conducted following the most prestigious orchestras in the world, from Santa Cecilia to the London Symphony. He has recorded for RCA, Memories, Fonit-Cetra, Sampaolo, Frequenz, Musikstrasse. Its African Suite for two flutes and piano was performed around the world including New York's Carnegie Hall.

Plenizio possessed the largest archive in the world of Italian Romance: Passionately research and rediscovery of the repertoire of vocal chamber music of the Italian nineteenth century and has written books and themes and recorded several CDs including Forbidden Music, dedicated to loving and erotic genre of living room romances. He was also one of the leading world experts in Havana cigars on which he wrote the volumes in Havana and Puro corazón habano. Dialogues purists.

PLENIZIO, Gianfranco

Born: 1/10/1931, Sedegliano, Udine, Italy

Died: 2/7/2017, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Gianfranco Plenizio’s westerns – composer:

Garter Colt – 1968 [composer]

Boot Hill – 1969 [conductor]

El Puro – 1969 [conductor]

They Call Me Trinity – 1970 [conductor]

Trinity is STILL My Name – 1971 [musical director]

The Three Musketeers of the West – 1973 [musical director]

White Fang to the Rescue – 1974 [conductor]

Red Coat – 1975 [conductor]

Spaghetti Western – 1975 [conductor]

Who’s Afraid of Zorro – 1975 [composer, conductor]

Zorro – 1975 [conductor]

Django Strikes Again- 1987 [composer]

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RIP Michael Flately

February 7, 2017, 7:53 pm

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WKBN

January 8, 2017

Michael D. Flatley, 64

Memorial services will be held at 6 pm Monday January 16th, 2017 at the Canfield United Methodist Church for Michael Flatley who died unexpectedly last Sunday. Michael was born November 16th, 1952 in Los Angeles, CA, the youngest son of John and Martha Flatley.

Michael was born and raised in Los Angeles CA where he attended Catholic school as a boy and was a child actor with Disney Studios. He was in many well-known shows such as Dennis the Menace, The Virginian, My Three Sons and the Disney movie "Follow Me Boys" with Fred MacMurray and Kurt Russell. He was a devout Los Angeles Dodger fan and also enjoyed cheering for the USC Trojans in football. Upon meeting his wife CJ he was converted into the "Moser way" and became a huge Ohio State Buckeye fan. He had a great love of the outdoors, golfing with good friends, and anything that put him on a river. The family spent many vacations white water rafting in North Carolina and tubing in California and Nevada. Mike was the one always willing to help and lend a hand. If you needed something his response was going to be "Absolutely, I would love to".

After moving to Florida from CA Mike earned a BA and a Master's Degree in Counselor Education from Florida Gulf Coast University. He spent over 25 years working as a substance abuse and juvenile counselor. Mike always said there were many he could not help but he did it for those he could. Over the years he helped hundreds of people, young and old, who struggled with addiction. He was employed locally over the years by the Youngstown Juvenile Justice Center, Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic, Valley Counseling and after retiring 2 years ago he still worked part time at Crossroads group home in Farrell PA.

Mikes greatest passion and pride were his two children Mikel and River. He spent countless hours with both and attended every sports event of theirs that he could. He would do anything for his children and saying he was a great dad would not nearly do it justice. He and CJ revolved their lives around the children. River and Mike regularly attended spring training in FL to see their Dodgers in Vero Beach as well as the Red Sox and Twins in Ft. Myers. Mike attended any cross country, track, or swim meet that he could and was so very proud of them both. He spent his last Saturday of life attending a high school swim meet of Mikel's.

Michael will be sadly missed by his wife of 21 years, Carla (CJ) Moser-Flatley whom he married June 21, 1996. His children; Mikel Flatley and River Flatley at home, son Jeff Nash, Cape Coral FL, daughter Jennifer Seratzki-Finegan, Cocoa FL and grandson Cailin Nash, Ft. Myers FL. His mother-in-law Evelyn Moser of Canfield and six loving brothers and sisters along with CJ's two sisters and brother; John (Jeannie) Flatley, Hilo HI, Terry (Virginia) Flatley, Santa Barbara CA, Nancy Flatley Morris, Minneapolis MN, Patrick (Judy) Flatley Sr., Santa Maria CA, Dennis Flatley, Santa Maria, Kathleen Flatley (Joe) Healey, Healdsburg CA., Elva Moser, Bloomfield NJ, Scott Moser, Livingston TN, Jill Herock (Larry), Canfield OH, and Luanne Clever, Littleton CO. Many nieces and nephews will miss their beloved Uncle Mike. He is preceded in death by his parents, Martha and John, and his father in-law Carl Moser.

Family and friends may call from 3-6 pm Monday at the church prior to services. The family requests that memorial contributions take the form of donations to Mikel and River's college fund, c/o The Michael Flatley Children Fund which has been set up at Huntington Bank, 10409 Main St., New Middletown, OH 44442

FLATLEY, Michael (Michael D. Flately)

Born: 11/16/1952, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Died: 1/8/2017, New Springfield, Ohio, U.S.A.

Michael Flately’s westerns – actor:

Wagon Train (TV) – 1962 (Tommy McGowan)

The Virginian (TV) – 1964 (Mike)

Laredo (TV) – 1966 (Dave)

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RIP Hugh Jamieson Jr.

February 9, 2017, 2:09 pm

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Dallas Morning News

February 8, 2017

JAMIESON, JR., Hugh Victor Hugh Victor Jamieson, Jr. passed away February 4, 2017. He was 92 years old. He was born in Dallas, Texas to Hugh Victor Jamieson, Sr. and Primrose Stanley Jamieson. Hugh served in the US Navy during WWII and was a Lieutenant JG, Naval Aviator, Carrier Based in South Pacific. He attended SMU; he was a Motion Picture Producer, Color Film Developing Machine Manufacture an early member of the Texas Maritime Museum, and a member of the board of directors, 2009 LaBella Award Recipient. He is preceded in death by his parents; wife, Gloria McCutcheon Jamieson. He is survived by his son Hugh Victor Jamieson III (Elizabeth) of Cary, North Carolina; brother, Bruce Stanley Jamieson of Dallas, Texas; grandchildren, Clinton A. Jamieson of Raleigh, North Carolina, and Elizabeth J. Gibson (Philip) of Olathe, Kansas; great-grandchildren, Grant Gibson, and Charlotte Gibson both of Olathe, Kansas; niece, Laura Jamieson Williamson (Don) of Plano, Texas; great-nieces, Lisa Williamson Crane (Rob), and Katie Williamson both of Dallas, Texas; many dear friends in Rockport and Key Allegro. The family would like to thank Cynthia Guthrie of AIM Hospice in Rockport, Texas and the dedicated caregivers who made Hugo's last days more comfortable, Stephanie, Sharol, Adriana, and Kristina. A memorial service will be held Friday, February 10, 2017 at 4:00 pm at St. Peters Episcopal Church in Rockport, Texas. Expressions of sympathy may be made by donations to The Aquarium at Rockport Harbor or AIM Hospice of Rockport, 703 E. Concho St. Rockport, Texas 78382. Arrangements entrusted to Charlie Marshall Funeral Home in Rockport, Texas 78382

JAMIESON, Jr. Hugh (Victor Hugh Victor Jamieson, Jr.)

Born: 1925, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.

Died: 2/4/2017, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.

Hugh Jamieson Jr.’s westerns – photographer, film editor.

Dude Ranch Harmony – 1949 [photography]

Rio Grande – 1949 [film editor]

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RIP Roy Forge Smith

February 9, 2017, 7:07 pm

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Deadline Hollywood

By Erik Pedersen

Roy Forge Smith Dies: ‘Monty Python And The Holy Grail’ & ‘Ghost Whisperer’ Production Designer Was 87.

Roy Forge Smith, a veteran production designer who worked on the classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail and two seasons of Ghost Whisperer, has died. He was 87. His friend and collaborator John Gray said Smith died February 6 but gave no other details.

“Roy was the master of doing things simply,” writer-director Gray said. “It’s the biggest and most important thing I learned from him (among many many things); in the midst of complexity, look for the simplicity.”

A two-time Art Directors Guild Award nominee for the telefilms Martin and Lewis (2002) and The Hunley (1999), Smith worked in film and television for more than 40 years, starting in TV at the BBC. Among his dozens of credits are Far From the Madding Crowd, Jabberwocky, Mrs. Soffel, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the early-’90s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy and the Mel Brooks films Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It.

During the past two decades, the London native worked in television, doing seven telefilms with Gray before handling production design for Ghost Whisperer for 44 episodes from 2005-07. Gray created the CBS drama starring Jennifer Love Hewitt as a small-town newlywed who could communicate with the spirits of the recently departed.

SMITH, Roy Forge

Born: 1929, London, England, U.K.

Died: 2/6/2017

Roy Forge Smith’s western – production manager:

Crossfire Trail (TV) – 2001

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RIP Stanley Kallis

February 10, 2017, 1:09 pm

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Stanley Kallis, Emmy-Winning Producer on Gritty NBC Series 'Police Story,' Dies at 88

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

2/10/2017

He helped develop the original 'Hawaii 5-0' and also produced for 'Mission: Impossible.'

Stanley Kallis, an Emmy-winning producer who worked on the classic television dramas Hawaii 5-0, Mission: Impossible and Police Story, has died. He was 88.

Kallis died Jan. 28 at his home in Laguna Beach, Calif., his family announced.

Kallis culminated three straight years of Emmy nominations for outstanding drama series by winning in 1976 for his work on NBC's Police Story, the gritty anthology drama created by real-life LAPD cop Joseph Wambaugh.

He also received noms for producing the 1977 ABC miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors, based on a book by John Ehrlichman, and the 1980 telefilm Amber Waves, starring Dennis Weaver, Kurt Russell and Mare Winningham.

Kallis worked with Hawaii 5-0 creator Leonard Freeman to develop the original incarnation of the CBS show, which debuted in 1968, and the pair plotted out two years of episodes, his family said.

Kallis joined Mission: Impossible in its third season and went on to produce 32 episodes of that CBS show, then returned to Hawaii 5-0 as an executive producer in 1970.

He produced and/or executive produced 63 episodes of Police Story, which ran for five seasons, from 1973-79. For storylines, in-depth interviews with police were recorded and writers then accompanied the cops in the field. "We found that human drama took priority over solving cases," Kallis said in a 1974 interview. "We also learned the human reason why police act as they do."

In the 1980s, Kallis produced the miniseries The Manions of America, which helped introduce Pierce Brosnan to American audiences; the George Burns telefilm Two of a Kind; and episodes of In the Heat of the Night and Columbo.

Kallis also wrote the 1984 HBO movie The Glitter Dome, which starred James Garner and John Lithgow as cops and was based on a Wambaugh novel.

Born in Kansas City, Mo., Kallis spent his early years being raised in New York City and on Long Island. When he was was 14, his father was hired as an art director at Paramount Studios and moved the family by train to Hollywood.

At UCLA, Kallis received his bachelor's and master's degrees in theater arts and landed a job as an assistant film editor.

From 1958-59, with backing from his father and brother, Kallis wrote and produced the B-movies The Hot Angel, Roadracers and Operation Dames. He wrote an episode of NBC's Wagon Train and then served as associate producer on ABC's The Law and Mr. Jones, starring James Whitmore. He then produced Dick Powell's anthology series at NBC.

Survivors include Lucetta, his wife for 66 years; daughters Karen (and her husband Tim), Laurie (Doug), Katherine (Floyd), Nicole (Paul) and Jennifer; grandchildren Shaun, Sabrina and Hunter; brother Albert; and sister-in-law Trudy. A celebration of his life is being planned.

Donations in his name may be given to the Santa Monica Westside Philharmonic Committee or the Nine O'Clock Players of the Assistance League of Southern California.

KALLIS, Stanley

Born: 1929, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A.

Died: 1/28/2017, Laguna Beach, California, U.S.A.

Stanley Kallis’ western – writer:

Wagon Train (TV) – 1959

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February 15, 2017, 6:39 am

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Y&R Alum Jay Bontatibus Passes Away After Lengthy Battle With Cancer At 52

News – Soap Buzz

February 14, 2017

Sad news to report this evening in the soap world. Soap Opera Digest divulged that former Y&R actor Jay Bontatibus passed away on February 12 in Los Angeles after a lengthy battle with cancer.

Bontatibus is best known for his portrayal of Tony Visacardi on the CBS sudser, a role he played from 1998-2000. In story, Tony fell in love with Megan Dennison (Ashley Jones) and was eventually was run over killed by her sister, Trisha Dennison (Sabryn Genet).

Later in his daytime career, Jay had recurring roles on General Hospital and Port Charles (ex-Andy, 2002-03) and was last seen on the soaps back in 2008 on Days of our Lives in the role of Rob.

Bontatibus was married to current Days of our Lives casting director and former Y&R casting director, Marnie Saitta from 2002 to 2005. Family and friends have supported Jay through his difficult and heartbreaking ordeal and have thanked the fans for their support.

Send your well-wishes and condolences to Jay’s family, and your remembrances of his soap opera career, in the comment section below.

BONTATIBUS, Jay (Jay Frederick Bontatibus)

Born: 7/31/1964, Cheshire, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Died: 2/12/2017, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Jay Bontatibus’ western – actor:

Walker, Texas Ranger (TV) – 2001 (Michael Viscardi)

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RIP Bruce Landsbury

February 15, 2017, 4:45 pm

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Bruce Lansbury, TV Producer and Brother of Angela Lansbury, Dies at 87

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

February 15, 2017

Bruce Lansbury, the veteran TV producer and writer known for his work on The Wild Wild West, Wonder Woman and Murder, She Wrote, which starred his older sister, Angela Lansbury, has died. He was 87.

The London-born Lansbury died Monday in La Quinta, Calif., after a battle with Alzheimer's disease, his daughter, Felicia Lansbury Meyer, told The Hollywood Reporter.

His survivors also include his twin brother, Edgar Lansbury; he produced the popular 1970s Broadway revival of Gypsy that starred their sister and worked on films including The Wild Party (1975), directed by James Ivory.

Lansbury also served as vp creative affairs for Paramount Television starting in the late 1960s, supervising such series as The Brady Bunch; Happy Days; The Odd Couple; Love, American Style; and Petrocelli.

Lansbury demonstrated a flair for sci-fi and fantasy at points during his career, especially early on.

He joined CBS' The Wild Wild West before its second season and assumed control of the futuristic Western in the summer of 1966 when the show's creator, Michael Garrison, died from injuries suffered in a fall in his home. Lansbury went on to produce 69 episodes of Wild Wild West before it was canceled in 1969 amid an outcry over violence on television.

Lansbury then guided 43 installments of CBS' Mission: Impossible (1969-72), 38 episodes of ABC-CBS' Wonder Woman (1977-79), 20 of NBC's Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979-80) and 21 of NBC's Knight Rider (1985-86).

He also created the short-lived 1973-74 CBS series The Magician, starring Bill Bixby; wrote for NBC's The Powers of Matthew Star; and produced the 1987 telefilm The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman and episodes of the 1977 NBC drama The Fantastic Journey.

Lansbury joined CBS' Murder, She Wrote at the start of the series' ninth season in 1992 and served as supervising producer on 88 episodes over four years, through the show's conclusion in May 1996. He also wrote 15 episodes.

Lansbury was the son of Irish-born stage actress Moyna Macgill and Edgar Lansbury, a politician and timber merchant. His grandfather was George Lansbury, a former Labor Party leader in England and a member of Parliament.

With the outbreak of World War II, he came to New York with his sister, brother and mother. The family then settled in Los Angeles in the mid-1940s, and he served in the U.S. Army and graduated from UCLA.

Lansbury began his career in the business at WABC-TV in Los Angeles and then worked in program development at CBS in Los Angeles and New York.

He married Mary Hassalevris in 1951 and remained with her until her 1996 death. In 1998, he married Gail England, and she survives him.

His other survivors include his other daughter Christiane; grandchildren Alexandra, Michael,

and her grandsons Robert and Jake.

Still going strong, Angela Lansbury, 91, solved 12 seasons' worth of crimes as the novelist/amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote. She also has won five Tony Awards and was nominated for three Academy Awards during her illustrious career.

LANDSBURY, Bruce (William Bruce M. Landsbury)

Born: 1/12/1930, London, England, U.K.

Died: 2/13/2017, La Quinta, California, U.S.A.

Bruce Landsbury’s westerns – producer, screenwriter:

The Wild Wild West (TV) – 1966-1969 [producer]

The Silent Gun (TV) – 1969 [producer]

Banjo Hackett: Roamin’ Free (TV) – 1975 [producer]

The Last Day (TV) – 1975 [producer]

Zorro (TV) – 1990-1991 [writer]

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RIP Warren Frost

February 17, 2017, 7:17 pm

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Warren Frost, Character Actor Known for ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Seinfeld,’ Dies at 91

Variety

By Cynthia Littleton

February 17, 2017

Warren Frost, the character actor best known for his role as Dr. Will Hayward on “Twin Peaks,” died Friday after a long illness at his home in Middlebury, Vt. He was 91.

Frost had recently come out of retirement to reprise his “Twin Peaks” role for the sequel to the ABC series that is set to debut on Showtime in May. Frost was the father of Mark Frost, the co-creator with filmmaker David Lynch of the revered mystery-fantasy franchise.

Warren Frost had a long career before and after the original “Twin Peaks.” He logged a memorable guest role on “Seinfeld,” playing the father of George Costanza’s finacee in five episodes. He also limned a recurring character on the Andy Griffith legal drama “Matlock” and had guest shots on series including “The Larry Sanders Show,” “L.A. Law” and “Murphy Brown.”

“We’re saddened today to announce the passing of our dear old dad, Warren Frost,” Mark Frost said. “From the Normandy shores on D-Day to his 50-year career on stage and screen, he remained the same humble guy from Vermont who taught us that a life devoted to telling the right kind of truths can make a real difference in the lives of others. We’re grateful to have shared him with the world for as long as we did.”

FROST, Warren (Warren Lindsay Frost)

Born: 6/5/1925, Essex Junction, Vermont, U.S.A.

Died: 2/17/2017, Middlebury, Vermont, U.S.A.

Warren Frost’s western – actor:

Death Valley Days (TV) – 1957 (John Chapman)

The Gray Ghost (TV) - 1957 (Captain Leonard Wood)

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RIP Pasquale Squitieri

February 18, 2017, 8:51 am

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Mourning in the cinema as screenwriter and director Squitieri has died

Il Mattino

February 18, 2017

Goodbye to Pasquale Squitieri. The director was born in Naples November 27, 1938, and he passed away this morning surrounded by the affection of his loved ones in the hospital Villa San Pietro in Rome. His death was made known by his brother Nicholas, his second wife Ottavia Fusco and daughter Claudia. The funeral will be held tomorrow in Rome from 11 to 6.

He began his film career in 1969 with “lo e Dio”, produced by Vittorio De Sica, and under the pseudonym William Redford which he also used in two films spaghetti western genre films. His career ended very early when Squitieri dedicated his life to current issues and reality in Italian society: Contacts between the Mafia and politics, drugs, terrorism, the "white deaths" and immigration. But his fame is mainly due to his historical and political films, some of which have earned him much criticism. This is the case of " Li chiamarono... briganti!", In 1999 he withdrew immediately from the industry under mysterious circumstances.

In 1971 he writers an open letter to L'Espresso about the case of Pinelli but over the years moves to the right, and in 1994 he became a senator in the National Alliance.

He was also famous in the 1970's for his relationship with the actress Claudia Cardinale with whom he has a daughter Claudia Squitieri born in 1979.

SQUITIERI Pasquale (aka William Redford)

Born: 11/27/1938, Naples, Campania, Italy

Died: 2/18/2017, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Pasquale Squitieri’s westerns – director, writer, actor

Django Defies Sartana – 1970 director, writer, actor

Vengeance Trail – 1971 director, writer

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RIP Josefina Leiner

February 18, 2017, 8:53 am

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Murió primera actriz, Josefina Leiner

Mundo Hispanico

2/12/2017

Actress of the Golden Age Josefina Noguera Escobar, better known as Josefina Leiner, passed away Thursday at 88 years of age.

The singer, who participated in films with Pedro Infante and Germán Valdés, died of natural causes in the company of her family, according to a statement.

Josefina participated in films like The children of Maria Morales, next to Pedro Infante, in 1952; Chucho, El Remendado, along with Germán Valdés "Tin Tan", in 1952; The Lunar of the Family, with Luis Aguilar and Sara Garcia, in 1953; The Physician of the Locas sharing scene with Germán Valdés "Tin Tan" and Rosita Arenas, in 1956; Pablo and Carolina, next to Irasema Dilián and Pedro Infante. In 1957; As well as Viva Jalisco, Que Es Mi Tierra, in the company of Manuel Capetillo, in 1961.

Her career began in 1953 with her participation in Sucedió in Acapulco, next to Martha Roth, Raúl Martínez and Domingo Soler.

In addition to her long career in the Golden Cinema, she also participated in the TV series Marcela (1962) with Felipe del Castillo and Bárbara Gil, as well as in Studio Raleigh with Pedro Vargas and Paco Malgesto.

LEINER, Joesfina (Josefina Noguera Escobar)

Born: 1929, Mexico

Died: 2/19/2017, Mexico

Josefina Leiner’s western – actress:

The Children of Maria Morales – 1952 (Lupe)

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RIP Gerald Hirschfeld

February 19, 2017, 1:37 pm

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In Memoriam: Gerald Hirschfeld, ASC (1921-2017)

The American Society of Cinematographers

February 16, 2017

It’s with great sadness that the ASC must report the passing of the Society’s most senior member, Gerald Hirschfeld, who was invited to join the organization in 1951. He died on February 13th at the age of 95.

Born April 25, 1921, in New York City, Hirschfeld was an avid moviegoer as a boy and developed an interest in photography. Self-taught, he began to learn his craft. “There were no film schools in those days, so I was always looking for new [photography] books, new information,” he told American Cinematographer in 2007. “By going to the movies, I gradually learned the styles of all the top Hollywood cameramen.”

Hirschfeld joined the U.S. Army at the age of 19. Serving at the Signal Corps Photographic Center during World War II, he was an assistant and operator for established Hollywood cinematographers including ASC members Leo Tover and Stanley Cortez. He later shot numerous training films, also doing process photography. “I entered the service as a still photographer and came out a cinematographer,” Hirschfeld said. After he was discharged, Tover became his mentor and helped him become established as a freelance cinematographer.

In 1949, Hirschfeld shot his first feature film, the crime picture C-Man — shot in just 11 days. After a few other feature and TV projects, he began to focus on shooting TV commercials, working at the NYC production house MPO Videotronics. “It was a great training ground because we encountered so many varied situations,” he described. And clients were impressed with his work — Hirschfeld soon became the busiest cameraman in New York City, and MPO made him a vice president in the rapidly growing company. There, he oversaw a dozen full-time camera crews and established an admired reputation for being a precise, exacting, perfectionist. Among his crew over the years were future ASC greats Owen Roizman (AC and operator) and Gordon Willis (operator).

“Jerry was a perfectionist and relentless on the set and I learned a lot from him,” Roizman would later describe.

“I was pretty tough, that’s true,” Hirschfeld noted. “But it was only because I was always trying to push myself, to learn a be a better cinematographer, and I expected the same work ethic from everyone around me.”

Hirschfeld’s reputation led to his first major feature assignment, shooting the Cold War drama Fail-Safe (1964) for director Sidney Lumet.

While he continued to work at MPO on high-end commercials, Hirschfeld would go on to shoot some 40 feature films, including The Incident (1967), Goodbye Columbus (1969), Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), Young Frankenstein (1974), Two Minute Warning (1976), The World’s Greatest Lover (1977), The Bell Jar (1979), Neighbors (1981), My Favorite Year (1982) and To Be or Not to Be (1986).

A natural educator, Hirschfeld penned numerous stories for American Cinematographer magazine over the years, carefully detailing his work in various productions, and later wrote the in-depth instructionals Image Control: Motion Picture and Video Camera Filters and Lab Techniques for the ASC Press and The Hand Exposure Meter Book (with co-author Bob Shell).

In 2004, Hirschfeld was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ashland Independent Film Festival, recognizing his 60 years of filmmaking experience.

Hirschfeld in his later years.

In 2007, Hirschfeld was honored with the President’s Award during the 21st annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards ceremony, for his contributions to advancing the art and craft of filmmaking. “I deeply appreciate this honor,” he said. “I also appreciate everything the ASC has done for me over the years.”

Hirschfeld is survived by his wife, Julia Tucker, and his sons Marc, Eric, Burt and Alec (the latter of which also became a respected operator and director of photography). He also has six grandchildren.

There is no further information about services at this time.

HIRSCHFELD, Gerald

Born: 4/25/1921, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 2/13/2017, Ashland, Oregon, U.S.A.

Gerald Hirschfeld’s western – cinematographer:

Doc – 1971

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February 19, 2017, 7:32 pm

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'One of the fathers of American film criticism': Time critic Richard Schickel dies at 84

Los Angeles Times

By Jeffrey Fleishman

February 19, 2017

Richard Schickel, whose erudite prose and piercing critiques made him one of America’s most important film critics in an era when cinema became increasingly ingrained in the cultural consciousness, died Saturday in Los Angeles from complications after a series of strokes, his family said. He was 84.

In a career spanning five decades, thousands of reviews and dozens of books, Schickel chronicled Hollywood’s changing landscape, from the days when studios reigned with stars such as Katharine Hepburn to the rise of independent directors who summoned a new wave of realism that distilled the yearnings of a turbulent nation. A reviewer for Time magazine, Schickel had a legion of followers; he could be incisive and at times bruising in praising or panning a film.

“He was one of the fathers of American film criticism,” said his daughter Erika Schickel, a writer. “He had a singular voice. When he wrote or spoke, he had an old-fashioned way of turning a phrase. He was blunt and succinct both on the page and in life.”

In his 2015 memoir “Keepers: The Greatest Films — and Personal Favorites — of a Moviegoing Lifetime,” Richard Schickel wrote: “I just like to be there in the dark watching something — almost anything, if truth be known. In this habit — I don’t know if it is amiable or a mild, chronic illness — I have been indulged by wives, girlfriends, just plain friends and children. Of course, a lot of the time I’m alone, unashamedly killing an evening, no questions asked.”

Schickel began his career as a critic in the 1960s, joining a generation of voices, including Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris, who were capturing Hollywood at a time of aesthetic and financial change. Movies were speaking to the country’s identity, its fabric, and film critics often found themselves reviewing not only cinema but the moods of society. In his 1967 review of Stanley Kramer’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” Schickel wrote of the interracial love story starring Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy and Hepburn:

“Where to begin discussing the ineptitude with which the nightmare is realized on screen. … Kramer is earnestly preaching away on matters that have long since ceased to be true issues.”

He took on other classics as well, describing “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946) as “close to travesty” and “The Maltese Falcon” (1941) as “cramped and static.”

But Schickel did not inflate the role of the critic or for that matter the importance of cinema. Movies at their best, he said, were a “joyous enterprise” and at their worst a “harmless addiction.”

"Richard was a giant of American film criticism, one of the last survivors of a golden age," Times film critic Kenneth Turan said. "No one could touch him for the high quality of his writing sustained over so many formats and so many years."

Schickel was a prodigious writer and documentary filmmaker. His 37 biographies, critiques and other books included an array of subjects: Gary Cooper, James Cagney, Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, D.W. Griffith and Elia Kazan. He wrote and worked on 37 documentaries, including “From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga” and “Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin.”

His review of “The Aviator” went like this: “Director Martin Scorsese soars triumphantly close to the sun, and unlike Icarus, never falters in his flight. An epically scaled biography of Howard Hughes, the mad genius of airplanes, movies and womanizing, this is filmmaking on a grand, rare, often curiously poignant scale, featuring a stunning performance by Leonardo DiCaprio as one of the great American nut cases.“

Born in Milwaukee in 1933, Schickel estimated that he had seen 22,590 movies in his lifetime. The first was Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in 1938. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964 and lectured at USC and Yale University.

He is survived by daughters Erika and Jessica; step-daughter Ali Rubinstein; and grandchildren.

SCHICKEL, Richard (Richard Warren Schickel)

Born: 2/10/1933, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Died: 2/18/2017, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Richard Schickel’s westerns – producer: director, writer:

Clint Eastwood on Westerns – 1992 [producer]

Eastwood & Co.: Making ‘Unforgiven’ – 1992 [producer, director, writer]

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RIP Richard McMillan

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The Toronto Star

February 21, 2017

RICHARD (RICK) McMILLAN Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. Missing him terribly and always are his crazy-for-him wife of 25 years, Anne Louise Bannon and his only child, Maggie McDaughter, of whom he was ridiculously proud. Rick is now reunited with his beloved parents, Frank and Mary McMillan and his dear, recently deceased brother Cooch (Frank) McMillan. Visitation will be held at HERITAGE FUNERAL CENTRE (50 Overlea Blvd., 416-423- 1000), on Wednesday, February 22, 2017 from 3 to 7 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be held on Thursday, February 23, 2017 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church (1810 Queen St. E.) at 11 a.m. Directions and online condolences may be found at www.heritagefuneralcentre.ca In lieu of flowers, please feel free to make a contribution to either The Canadian Actors Fund or to PAL (Performing Arts Lodge) in Toronto in Rick's name.

McMILLAN, Richard

Born: 1951, Beaverton, Ontario, Canada

Died: 2/19/2017, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Richard McMillan’s western – actor:

Promise the Moon – 1997 (Andrew Notman)

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February 22, 2017, 2:06 pm

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Gary Cartwright, teller of Texas stories, dies at 82

Houston Chronicle

By Alyson Ward

February 22, 2017

Texas writer Gary Cartwright died in Austin Wednesday at 82. The longtime Texas Monthly writer had a deep talent for storytelling, and he made his name telling the stories of Texans.

Cartwright studied journalism and government at Texas Christian University and wrote for Texas newspapers including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Dallas Morning News, as well as national magazines such as Esquire and Rolling Stone. But his writing for Texas Monthly made him a boldface name in his home state: One of the first writers hired when the magazine started in 1973, he retired as a senior editor in 2010.

In the '60s and '70s, Cartwright ran with the "Mad Dogs," an outlaw crew of hard-partying writers, journalists and others in and around Austin. His friends included Bud Shrake, Dennis Hopper, Jerry Jeff Walker, Larry L. King and Ann Richards, who would later be elected governor.

"Those years were a lot of fun," said Jan Reid, an author and longtime Texas Monthly writer who became a "junior member" of the crowd in the mid-'70s. "There were some casualties. But it was a great time to be young and getting started in the profession and having such a remarkable set of talented friends."

Cartwright made "one serious attempt" at writing fiction, Reid said, a novel about pro football called "The Hundred-Yard War.""But nonfiction was his gift, and he knew that."

He spent some time as a sportswriter, but he started his newspaper career on the police beat, Reid said. "He loved the chase, and that was a big part of what he went on to do."

Eventually, Cartwright specialized in-depth crime stories. Two of his most successful books were based on crime reporting he did for Texas Monthly: "Dirty Dealing," about drug smugglers on the Mexican border; and "Blood Will Tell," about the trial of Cullen Davis, the Fort Worth oilman who was acquitted of shooting his estranged wife and murdering her lover and her daughter. "Dirty Dealing" also became a TV movie.

Evan Smith, CEO of the Texas Tribune, first met Cartwright more than 25 years ago, when Smith was hired as editor of Texas Monthly.

Cartwright was an icon at the magazine by then, but "he never lorded his status over anybody there," Smith said. "He was not a prima donna. He was the exact opposite of that."

Instead, Smith said, Cartwright was the magazine's institutional memory, an invaluable link to a Texas that is fast disappearing.

"You'd go to Gary and say, 'Talk about the [Dallas] Cowboys in the [Tom] Landry days,' or 'Talk about Jack Ruby,' or 'Talk about the police in Dallas back in the day of [prosecutor] Henry Wade," Smith said. "Gary was a link to another time in Texas that was the backdrop for everything that was happening."

In his 2015 memoir, "The Best I Recall," Cartwright wrote frankly about his "careless" and occasionally violent decades of drinking, smoking and partying. That era of his life ended abruptly in 1988, when he had a heart attack and quintuple bypass surgery. The clean living he embraced became fodder for his book "HeartWiseGuy."

Cartwright married four times. His son, Mark Cartwright, died in 1997 of acute leukemia.

"He lived a hard life, and he lived in all the corners of it," Smith said.

As a writer, Cartwright "had great range and durability," Reid said. "I don't have any idea how many magazine articles he wrote, but it seemed like it was always rolling — a rolling, continuing panorama of where we're living."

CARTWRIGHT, Gary

Born: 8/10/1934, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.

Died: 2/22/2017, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

Gary Cartwright’s westerns – writer:

JW Coop – 1971

Pair of Aces - 1990

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RIP John Gay

February 23, 2017, 2:19 pm

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John Gay, Screenwriter on 'Run Silent Run Deep,' Dies at 92

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

2/23/2017

John Gay, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter best known for his work on Run Silent Run Deep, Separate Tables and The Courtship of Eddie's Father, has died. He was 92.

Gay, who began his six-decade career as an actor and writer during the Golden Age of Television, died Feb. 4 in Santa Monica, the WGA announced. He often was in demand by the top directors of the day, scripting projects for the likes of Robert Wise, John Huston, Vincente Minnelli and John Sturges.

Gay also earned an Emmy nomination for scripting Fatal Vision, a controversial NBC 1984 docudrama about the 1970 Jeffrey MacDonald murders that starred Gary Cole as the killer of his pregnant wife and two children.

After actor Burt Lancaster happened to catch one of his television shows, Gay was called to Hollywood and soon found himself on a soundstage watching Lancaster and Clark Gable as submarine commanders in his first screenplay, Run Silent Run Deep (1958), directed by Wise at United Artists.

Gay earned his Oscar nomination for co-writing, with playwright Terence Rattigan, the adapted screenplay for Separate Tables, the Delbert Mann drama that starred Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Wendy Hiller, David Niven and Lancaster. (Hiller and Niven won Oscars for their performances.)

Gay also penned the romantic comedy The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), which starred Glenn Ford as a widowed father and Ron Howard as his son.

His other feature credits include The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962), The Hallelujah Trail (1965), No Way to Treat a Lady (1968), The Power (1968), Sometimes a Great Notion (1970), Soldier Blue (1970), Pocket Money (1972), Hennessy (1975) and A Matter of Time (1976).

Born on April 1, 1924, in Whittier, Calif., Gay and his wife, Barbara, starred on Mr. and Mrs. Mystery, a series for WOR in New York for which he "wrote every episode and performed every beer commercial." That led to writing gigs on such network dramas as Playhouse 90, The Alcoa Hour, General Electric Theater, Lux Video Theatre and Goodyear Playhouse.

His TV résumé also includes the series Shadow of the Cloak and Espionage; the telefilms All My Darling Daughters, The Red Badge of Courage, The Amazing Howard Hughes, The Court Martial of George Armstrong Custer, Captains Courageous, Dial M for Murder and Inherit the Wind; and the miniseries Windmills of the Gods, Around the World in 80 Days, Blind Faith and Burden of Proof.

The Writers Guild of America West honored Gay — a guild member since 1958 — with its highest honor for television writing, the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award, in 1984; the Morgan Cox Award, for guild service, in 1992; and the Edmund H. North Award, for his "courageous leadership, strength of purpose and continuing selfless activity on behalf of the guild through the years," in 2003.

He also served on the WGAW's board of directors (1971-75, 1977-79), was a guild vice president (1985-87) and helped lead writers through several difficult negotiations.

During one WGA strike, he wrote Diversions and Delights, a one-man play that imagined Oscar Wilde delivering a talk to a Paris theater just before his death. It opened in 1978 on Broadway, starring Vincent Price, and went on to play around the world.

In 2008, Gay published his autobiography, Any Way I Can — 50 Years in Show Business, co-written with his daughter, Jennifer Gay Summers.

She survives him, as does another daughter, Elizabeth; son Lawrence; and three grandchildren. The family asks that donations be made to the Writers Guild Foundation in honor of him.

GAY, John

Born: 4/1/1924, Whittier, California, U.S.A.

Died: 2/4/2017, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.

John Gay’s westerns – screenwriter:

How the West Was Won – 1962

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters – 1962-1963

The Hallelujah Trail – 1965

Texas Across the River - 1966

Soldier Blue – 1970

The Red Badge of Courage (TV) - 1974

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February 24, 2017, 7:02 am

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Toronto Star

February 24, 2017

CHRISTOPHER JOHN WIGGINS Passed away peacefully at the Wellington Terrace in Elora, Ontario, on Sunday, February 19, 2017 in his 87th year. Predeceased by his wife Sandra Crysler-Wiggins. Chris is survived by 2 nephews and 1 niece. Chris started out as a banker in his home country of England before he began his acting career in Canada, where he moved in 1952. Wiggins is probably best recognized for his role as Jack Marshak, the benevolent, resourceful expert on the occult in the syndicated television horror show Friday the 13th: The Series, which ran from 1987 to 1990. Another well known role was Johann Robinson (Father) on Swiss Family Robinson. In addition to his television and film work, Wiggins was also a very popular radio actor, making over 1,200 appearances in various series over the years, particularly on CBC Radio. Wiggins also made numerous guest appearances on such CBC Radio programs as CBC Playhouse, Nightfall, Vanishing Point and dozens of others. Chris was also well known for his role as Cornelius in the animated series Babar which was appeared in 1989 on CBC and HBO. He won a Canadian Film Award in 1969 for best Actor for his role in The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar. Memorial Service for Chris will be held at the Graham A. Giddy Funeral Home & Chapel, 280 St. David St. South in Fergus, Ontario, on Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 3:00 p.m., with visitation 1 hour prior. Reception to follow the Service at the Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be directed to the Alzheimer Society. www.grahamgiddyfh.com

WIGGINS, Chris (Christopher John Wiggins)

Born: 1/13/1931, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, U.K.

Died: 2/19/1917, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Chris Wiggin’s westerns – actor:

Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (TV) – 1957 (Jess Adams)

R.C.M.P. (TV) – 1959 (Bush Pilot Watt)

Adventures in Rainbow Country (TV) – 1969 (Fred Vincent)

Tom Sawyer (TV) – 1977 (lawyer)

Welcome to Blood City – 1977 (Gellor)

Fish Hawk – 1979 (Marcos Biggs)

Tales of the Klondike (1979 (TV) – 1981

By Way of the Stars (TV) – 1992-1993 (Captain Harris)

Black Fox (TV) – 1995 (Ralph Holtz)

Black Fox: The Price of Peace (TV) – 1995 (Ralph Holtz)

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RIP Antonio Casale

February 24, 2017, 1:19 pm

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RIP Antonio Casale

Italian director, assistant director and actor Antonio Casale died February 4^th. He was 84 years-old. Casale was best known as an Italian character and supporting actor, who appeared in eight Italian spaghetti westerns-between 1965 and 1976, sometimes credited as Anthony Vernon. Casale is probably most famous throughout the world for his brief appearance in the role of the dying Bill Carson in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. He also appeared as the bounty hunter Hoak in the opening scene of “The Grand Duel” and in the role of one of the passengers on the coach that humiliates the protagonist Juan naively considering him only as an insignificant peon in “Duck You Sucker”. When the Euro-westerns were finished his face was often seen in police and crime films.

CASALE, Antonio

Born: 5/17/1932, Italy

Died: 2/4/2017, Italy

Antonio Casale’s westerns – actor:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – 1966 (Jackson/Bill Carson)

Ramon the Mexican – 1966 [assistant director]

Born to Kill - 1967 [assistant director]

Buckaroo – 1967 [assistant director]

Revenge for Revenge - 1968

Duck You Sucker – 1971 (Notary on Stagecoach) [as Anthony Vernon]

The Grand Duel – 1972 (Hoak) [as Antony Vernon]

A Man Called Blade - 1977 (Dahlman) [as Nino Casale]

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RIP Olive Dunbar

February 24, 2017, 4:52 pm

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Ithaca Journal

February 25, 2017

Olive Joann Dunbar (known privately as Jo Keene) was a stage, film and TV actress, born on March 30, 1925 to lawyer Harry C. Dunbar and Geneva Teague Dunbar in Wellesley Hills, Mass. At an early age, Jo (who identified herself with the heroine of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women) decided she wanted to be an actress. (Not surprisingly, her favorite performer was Katherine Hepburn, who memorably created the Alcott character on film). After finishing high school, with lessons in elocution, Olive was accepted at the Yale Drama School as an acting major, one of the youngest in the class of '46. She left after completing two of the three-year program because she had won a role in Philip Barry's Broadway play, The Joyous Season, making her debut in the company of Ethel Barrymore. Several stage performances followed, including the leading role in John van Druten's I Remember Mamma. Later, she went on tour with Gertrude Lawrence in several plays written and directed by Noel Coward. When a cross-country tour of an Archibald MacLeish play starring Raymond Massey ended in Los Angeles, she decided to remain there and soon found work in films (The First Monday in October, The Carey Treatment, The Lottery) and in many television shows, including a series with Fred MacMurray and another with Carroll O'Connor. She married William Keene, a New York radio actor who had migrated to Hollywood and the couple lived and worked there until his death. She returned to New York briefly and was persuaded by Richard Burdick, the son of her roommate at Yale, to move to a retirement community (Kendal at Ithaca) where she resumed her acting career at the Kitchen Theatre and helped to form another dramatic group, Icarus, with which she appeared for several seasons. Failing health forced her permanent retirement and she died on February 8, 2017, a month before her 92d birthday, mourned by all her friends.

DUNBAR, Olive (Olive Joann Dunbar)

Born: 3/30/1925, Wellsbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Died: 2/8/2017, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.

Olive Dunbar’s westerns – actress:

Invitation to a Gunfighter – 1964 (towns woman)

Death Valley Days (TV) – 1967 (Gita Schieffelin)

Laredo (TV) – 1967 (Mrs. Morton)

The Big Valley (TV) – 1969 (Eliza Grant)

Little House on the Prairie (TV)- 1974 (sales lady)

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RIP Babs Bram

February 25, 2017, 4:37 pm

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The Arizona Republic

February 26, 2017

Bram, Babette "Babs" 92, of Phoenix, Arizona passed away on February 7, 2017. Babette Bram went quietly to sleep in her home in Phoenix, Arizona, 7 February, 2017 at the age of 92. It was a peaceful finale for the dynamic, vivacious, fiercely intelligent force of nature that everyone knew as Babs. Her friends and colleagues, whether in the theatre or in real estate, all agreed that she was an unforgettable character.

Babette Flora Blum Bram was born 18 January 1925 in New York City, daughter of Solomon Blum and Frances Jacobs Blum. Babs grew up in New York City and Forest Hills, Queens. Her life-long love of music, theater and voice took her to the University of Michigan to major in the Dramatic Arts, graduating with the Class of 1945. After university, she soon relocated to Cleveland, Ohio, where in 1948 Babs met the love of her life, Robert H. Bram. They were married the following summer in 1949. Bob and Babs remained utterly devoted to each other for 60 years. Their early years together were marked by a lot of moves necessitated by Bob's career as a manufacturer's representative in the clothing industry. Along the way, their sons Richard and Robert came along in 1952 and 1956. Their eight years in Salt Lake City in the 1960s instilled in Babs an abiding love of the great outdoors of the Mountain West.

Every summer she would pack up the boys and head off on a journey to see the wonders of nature in the National Parks, especially Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. While her favorite athletic activity was swimming, she was proud of having learned to ski at the age of 37 so she could keep up with her boys. While in Salt Lake City, Babs began to develop her theatre career, performing on stages both amateur and professional. She also became active in the American Association of University Women chapter there and later in Phoenix. After their final relocation to Phoenix in 1969, her professional acting career blossomed. She became well known as a commercial and character actress, performing on stage, television and ultimately on the big screen.

Babs was a proud member of the Actors Equity, the Screen Actors Guild, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Babs appeared in made-for-TV movies as well as several episodes of the TV series "Little House on the Prairie" and "Father Murphy." At the age of 68 she had her first big screen role in the thriller "Red Rock West" with Nicolas Cage and Dennis Hopper. Babs embarked upon a second career in residential real estate in 1979, joining Russ Lyon Realty in 1984 where she remained for over 20 years. There she earned the love, admiration, and respect of her colleagues by her thorough knowledge of the ins and outs of the business. She was a member of Russ Lyon Realty's President's Club, Million-Dollar Roundtable, and the Scottsdale Association of Realtors. In their later years Babs and Bob discovered cruising and traveled extensively from Alaska to Antarctica, the Caribbean to the Mediterranean. Their happiest moments were at sea, exploring the world from the ships they sailed upon. Even after Bob's passing in early 2009, she continued to take cruises as long as she was able.

Babs was proud of her family and would often say that she "managed to raise two fine sons who married two fine women," Richard Bram, photographer, of London, England and wife Monika; and Robert Bram, landman in the oil and gas industry, of Littleton, Colorado and wife Laura.

Memorial donations may be made to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation http://sagaftra.foundation/#, the Alzheimer's Foundation of America https://www.alzfdn.org/ContributetoAFA/makeadonation.html, or the Tanenbaum Center for Inter-religious Understanding, https://tanenbaum.org/donate/

BRAM, Babs (Babette Flora Blum Bram)

Born: 1/8/1925, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 2/7/2017, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.

Babs Bram’s westerns – actress:

Little House on the Prairie (TV) – 1979 (dowager)

Father Murphy (TV) – 1981, 1982 (Lady, Consumer)

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