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Dennett, Craig & Pate Funeral Home and Cremation

July 20, 2018

SACO - Anthony M. Ray, 80, actor, producer and teacher died peacefully after a long illness on June 29, 2018. He lived in Saco, for the last 10 years, after retiring to Cape Neddick in the late 1980s.

Born in Washington, D.C., Nov. 24, 1937 to film noir director Nicholas Ray and writer Jean Evans, Tony grew up in New York City. In the city, he attended New York University and the New School for Social Research. Tony's first love was always acting; through his parents he had lived close to many of the big names of old Hollywood. He was a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse and a member of the Actor's Studio.

A creative mind, Tony followed in his father's footsteps by fashioning a distinguished career in theater, television and film. He was an actor and a producer. As an actor, he played leading roles in John Cassavetes'"Shadows", appeared on Broadway in Elia Kazan's "The Dark at the top of the Stairs" and was featured in the soap opera, "Search for Tomorrow." His film credits include assistant director positions with Stanley Kubrick on "Spartacus" and with John Huston on "The Misfits". As a producer, he had an extensive career. He was executive in charge of the East Coast Production for Twentieth Century Fox and producer in several successful film such as "The Rose" and "Unmarried Woman", which were both nominated for best picture. After leaving Hollywood and relocating to Maine, he created a film program at Emerson College, as well as directed the International Film and Television Workshop in Rockport, Maine. A frequent speaker, he shared his broad knowledge of the American film industry across the state. Tony was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Director's Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild.

Beyond the film and theater community, Tony was a longtime member of St. George's Episcopal Church in York Harbor, Maine and attended Trinity Episcopal Church in Saco. A service to celebrate Tony's life will be held in the Autumn.

Tony is survived by his loving wife and best friend, Eve; daughter, Kelsey; and son, Tony Jr.

RAY, Anthony (Anthony M. Ray)

Born: 11/24/1937, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Died: 6/29/2018, Saco, Maine, U.S.A.

Anthony Ray’s westerns – actor, assistant director, producer:

The True Story of Jesse James – 1957 (Bob Younger)

The Restless Gun (TV) – 1957 (Charlie)

Tombstone Territory (TV) – 1960 (Sam Edwards)

The Wide Country (TV) – 1963 (Stan Simpson)

Branded (TV) – 1965-1966 [assistant director]

Iron Horse (TV) – 1966-1968 [assistant director]

A Time for Killing – 1967 [assistant director]

The Outcasts (TV) – 1968-1969 [assistant director]

Valdez is Coming! – 1971 [assistant director]

Kid Blue – 1973 [assistant director]

Rancho Deluxe – 1975 [associate producer]

The actor Nino Fuscagni has died

Corriere dell’ Umbria

7/20/2018

Serafino "Nino" Fuscagni, died yesterday (Thursday, July 19), in Rome. The well-known actor and television host, younger brother of Charles, Rai's senior manager and director of Raiuno.

Known with pseudonyms "Juri McFee" and "Ray Scott" was born in Città di Castello on February 12, 1937. His greatest popularity came from TV, from numerous dramas and television miniseries. He made his debut in the cinema in the 1960s: he mainly played b-movies (peplum, musicarelli, spaghetti westerns, comedians, policemen, etc.).

Profound condolences and closeness to the family were expressed by the mayor Luciano Bacchetta: "The disappearance of Nino Fuscagni saddens us all, a real gentleman of the small and big screen that during his long and successful career has always held steady, with pride , the roots and the sense of belonging to his Città di Castello and to the many friends and acquaintances who knew him and appreciated him for his human qualities ".

The funeral will take place right in Città di Castello.

FUSCAGNI, Nino (Serafino Fuscagni)

Born: 2/12/1937, Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy

Died: 7/19/2018, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Nino Fuscagni’s westerns – actor:

Two Mafiamen in the Far West – 1964

Two Sergeants of General Custer - 1965

Thompson 1880 - 1966

Three Graves for a Winchester - 1966 (saloon owner)

Who Killed Johnny Ringo – 1966 (Ray Scott) [as Ray Scott]

Black Jack – 1968 (Peter)

A Colt in the Hand of the Devil – 1973 (Phil Scott)

Poster artist Macario Gómez Quibus dies, "Mac"

Cinemania

July 21, 2018

Artist of posters such as 'For a Few Dollars More', 'The Executioner' or 'The Big Family', the cartoonist Mac (Macario Gómez Quibus) dies at 92

As reported by several people close to the famous cartoonist and poster, the famous Mac has died at the age of 92 years.

Born in Reus, the city where he was born in 1926, the cartoonist Macario Gómez Quibus developed an impressive career making the Spanish versions of posters of great Hollywood hits such as “The Ten Commandments” and “Doctor Zhivago”, but also of Spanish films such as “El Verdugo”, “El Stroller” and “The Big Family” and several editions of the Sitges Festival.

In 2006, Filmoteca Española paid tribute to the artist's career with an exhibition in which 75 of his best-known works were seen, recognition that was joined by all kinds of international personalities, from Charlton Heston to Kirk Douglas to Salvador Dali.

In 2012, the short filmmaker David Muñoz (winner of the recent contest Japan and Spain, 150 years) made the documentary “Un chico de portada” around the figure of Mac.

Mac has been recognized in his country as the last great poster designer. More than 4,000 creations, including posters, guides, press pens and video covers, testify to his great artistic skills, which deserved recognition in Hollywood. Some of his most prominent posters are:

“Ivanhoe” (1952), “Moulin Rouge” (1953), “La tentación vive arriba” (1955), “Mientras Nueva York duerme” (1956), “Los Diez Mandamientos” (1956), “El zurdo” (1958), “La momia” (1959), “Carmen la de Ronda” (1959), “El Cid” (1961), “Pecado de amor” (1961), “Desde Rusia con amor” (1963), “El verdugo” (1963), “A Few Dollars More” (1965), “Doctor Zhivago” (1965), “Primera plana” (1974), “Lucky Luciano” (1974) and “Posse” (1975).

QUIBUS, Macari Gómez

Born: 3/8/1926, Reus, Tarragona, Spain

Died: 7/20/2018, Olesa de Montserrat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Macari Gómez Quibus’ western – poster artist:

Stagecoach - 1939

The Mark of Zorro - 1940

Angel and the Badman - 1947

Fort Apache - 1948

Yellow Sky - 1948

Rio Grande - 1950

Along the Great Divide - 1951

The Savage – 1952

Viva Zapata! - 1952

The Misfits – 1961

One-Eyed Jacks - 1961

Black Spurs - 1965

For a Few Dollars More – 1965

Los Cuatreros - 1965

The Big Gundown – 1966

Ride Beyond Vengeance - 1966

Hombre - 1967

Hang ‘Em High - 1968

Shalako - 1968

Macho Callahan - 1970

Pancho Villa - 1971

When Legends Die - 1972

Chino – 1973

High Plains Drifter - 1973

Showdown - 1973

Posse – 1975

The White, the Yellow, the Black - 1975

Cattle Annie and Little Britches - 1981

SRO Motorsports Promotion

July 19, 2018

SRO Motorsports Promotion is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of renowned racing illustrator Claude Viseur, who was best known by his pen name 'Clovis'.

Clovis illustrated great racing machines from many disciplines during a long and distinguished career. His work ranged from highly realistic representations to comic caricatures, but always retained his signature style and displayed his passion for the sport. He had remained active until very recently.

Among his final projects, Clovis was asked to illustrate the poster for the upcoming 70th edition Total 24 Hours of Spa. It was an honour that he accepted the request and deeply regrettable that he will not be able to see the race get underway a week from Saturday.

SRO Motorsports Promotion extends its condolences to Clovis’ family, friends, and many fans across the globe.

VISEUR, Claude

Born: 4/26/1946, Quaregnon, Belgium

Died: 7/19/2018, Mons, Belgium

Claude Viseur’s western – animator:

Lucky Luke: Daisy Town - 1971

dub actress María Dolores Gispert dies, unmistakable Spanish voice of Whoopi Goldberg

The veteran performer also voiced Pippi Longstocking, one of the replicants of Blade Runner and Kathy Bates. She also directed the dubbing of “The Color Purple” and “Schindler's List”.

Vertele

7/21/2018

The voice actress María Dolores Gispert , unforgettable voice in Castilian of stars like Whoopi Goldberg and Kathy Bates, has died at 84 years, informed by the union of artists of dubbing in Madrid.

Coming from a family of artists, the interpreter began her career as a child with locutions on Radio Barcelona, before moving to dubbing in the mid-forties, giving voice to children and young stars.

She participated in these works in films as recognizable as “Treasure Island” , “The Night of the Hunter” , I confess (in their corresponding redoblajes on the occasion of its broadcast on TVE during the seventies), “Irma la duce” , “Bonnie & Clyde”, “Una lagartija con piel de mujer”, Gunfight at the OK Corral”, “Sueños de seductor”, “Grease”, “Los caballeros de la moto”, “Blade Runner” (where she dubbed Joanna Cassidy) and “The Goonies”.

However, her most memorable works are, without a doubt, those she made voicing Whoopi Goldberg, from “The Color Purple” (one of the dubbing works she directed, along with that of “Schindler's List”). She lent her vocal chords up to 51 times, according to data from ElDoblaje.com, the last being in the romantic comedy “Soltera at 40”, which appears as her last work. She also took charge of adapting Kathy Bates in films such as “Titanic” and “Charlotte's Web.”

In television, her credits are equally numerous, although her two most recognizable works are those of ‘Pippi Longstocking’ in the seventies, where she doubled the iconic protagonist; that of Sarah Douglas in “V”; or that of Estelle, the ineffable representative of Joey Tribianni in ‘Friends’.

As an actress, she participated in the adaptation of “El conde de Montecristo de Novela”, as well as in other theater programs filmed as Ficciones and Estudio 1 .

GISPERT, María Dolores

Born: 3/22/1934, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Died: 7/21/2018, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

María Dolores Gispert’s westerns – voice dubber:

Oklahoma John – 1966 [Spanish voice of Carmen Gallén]

Viva Carrancho! – 1966 [Spanish voice of Ely Drago]

Sabata – 1969 [Spanish voice of a prostitute]

Sonora – 1969 [Spanish voice of Donatella Turri]

Doc – 1972 [Spanish voice of Hedy Sontag]

The Return of Clint the Stranger – 1973 [Spanish voice of Augusto Pescrini]

Alleluia and Sartana, Sons of God – 1974 [Spanish voice of Uschi Glas]

Blindman – 1980 [Spanish voice of Marisa Solinas]

Louisiana – 1985 [Spanish voice of Andréa Ferréol]

Ace High – 1990 [Spanish voice of Tiffany Hoyveld]

Patrick Williams, Emmy-Winning TV Composer, Dies at 79

Variety

By Jon Burlingame

July 25, 2018

Patrick Williams, who was best-known for his Emmy-winning television music but who was also a renowned and Grammy-winning big-band jazz leader and arranger, died Wednesday morning of complications from cancer at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 79.

Williams was among the most versatile composers of his generation, earning an Oscar nomination (for adapting opera in “Breaking Away,” 1979), four Emmys (for dramatic music including “Lou Grant,” 1980) and two Grammys (for arrangements including his classic jazz album “Threshold,” 1974) during more than 50 years of music-making in New York and Los Angeles.

In the middle of his most prolific period, scoring music for TV including “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Bob Newhart Show” and “The Streets of San Francisco,” he was also nominated for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his groundbreaking “An American Concerto” (1976) for jazz quartet and symphony orchestra.

He scored nearly 50 films, often memorable scores for movies that were not big hits, including “Casey’s Shadow,” “The Cheap Detective” and “Cuba” in the 1970s; “Used Cars,” “Swing Shift” and “All of Me” in the 1980s; “Cry-Baby,” “The Grass Harp” and “That Old Feeling” in the 1990s.

But his primary occupation was music for television, which ultimately earned him 22 Emmy nominations for such memorable 1970s and ’80s series as “The Streets of San Francisco,” “Columbo,” “Lou Grant,” and “The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd,” and such notable 1990s telefilms as “Decoration Day,” “Geronimo” and “Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long.” His miniseries, all in the ’90s and early ’00s, included “Jewels,” “Jesus,” “Blonde” and “Hercules.”

Williams had the most fun in the recording studio, working with top jazz musicians on both coasts to record contemporary big-band albums. His 19 Grammy nominations were mostly for his jazz compositions and arrangements, starting with the landmark “Threshold” LP and later including albums from his own 1980s Soundwings label featuring saxophonist Tom Scott, trombonist Bill Watrous, and his own big band.

“Pat’s charts have a lyrical quality that makes them fun to play, and they swing like hell,” Scott said in 2010. “Whenever I get a call, ‘Pat Williams needs you,’ I would do anything to be there, whether it was a record or a movie or a TV show.” Added flutist Hubert Laws: “I’ve always had the greatest respect for Pat and his writing ability, with the melody and harmony and rhythm. The spontaneity of it all really intrigues me.” Respected jazz writer Gene Lees once said: “Pat’s writing is breathtaking. He’s just one of the finest arrangers and composers who ever put pen to paper.”

Williams arranged and conducted Frank Sinatra’s final studio recordings, “Duets” I and II in the early 1990s, and later paid tribute to the singer and his favorite tunes in his own 1998 album “Sinatraland.” Williams arranged for a wide variety of other singers including Barbra Streisand, Jack Jones, Natalie Cole, Neil Diamond, Gloria Estefan, Michael Feinstein, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Patti Austin, Barry Manilow, Monica Mancini and Bette Midler.

He was also highly active in music education, lecturing around the country and serving for five years (2001 to 2006) as artistic director of the Henry Mancini Institute, which trains young musicians for careers in music. Several of Williams’ later orchestral works (including “Adagio for Orchestra,” “Memento Mei” and “August”) debuted during the institute’s annual summer sessions in Los Angeles.

Williams was born April 23, 1939 in Bonne Terre, Mo., graduated from Duke University in 1961 and did post-graduate work at Columbia University. He worked as a composer, arranger and producer in New York before moving to Los Angeles in 1968 to seek work in the film and TV arena.

During the 1970s and ’80s, Williams scored hundreds of episodes of network TV series, variously lending a warm, comic, jazzy or dramatic sound as needed. In his own music for records and the concert hall, he strove to combine jazz and classical elements in a smoother, more organic way than had been previously achieved by most composers.

Williams wrote an estimated 30 concert works including “Gulliver” with narration written by Larry Gelbart, and a ballet, “Ziji”; and jazz concertos for trombonist Bill Watrous, clarinetist Eddie Daniels, saxophonist Tom Scott; and pianist Dave Grusin and saxophonist Gerry Mulligan.

He received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from his alma mater, Duke University, in 2001. His last big-band album, 2015’s “Home Suite Home,” featured long pieces dedicated to his wife Catherine and his three children, Elizabeth, Greer and Patrick, all of whom survive him.

Survivors also include five grandchildren, a brother and a sister. A memorial celebration will be scheduled for later in the year.

WILLIAMS, Patrick (Patrick Moody Williams)

Born: 4/23/1939, Bonne Terre, Missouri, U.S.A.

Died: 7/5/2018, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A

Patrcik Williams’ westerns – composers:

The Virginian (TV) – 1968

Macho Callahan – 1970

Hitched (TV) – 1971

Lock, Stock and Barrel (TV) - 1971

Hardcase (TV) - 1972

The Deadly Trackers - 1973

Mrs. Sundance (TV) – 1974

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days – 1979

Geronimo (TV) - 1993

The 91-year-old artist excelled in radio, film, television and theater

La Nacion

By Marcelo Stiletano

July 26, 2018

María Concepción César arrived in fullness at the end of her long and fruitful life, from which she has just died. She was barely three months away from turning 92. In 2014 she confessed that she felt "splendid" and attributed that state of mind to the path chosen to carry out an artistic journey that never knew pauses or visible obstacles. "My intellectual and emotional life is very intense, I take great care of my career and my spirit, to passively live like a vegetable it is better to leave before," she said at the time.

She had a lot to do, to give and to share. She did it through television interviews, tributes and recognitions that helped us to build the portrait of one of the most splendid women that the Argentine show business industry had in all its history. She was able to show off in her heyday a figure of admirable and voluptuous natural beauty that became impossible to reach even for some of the most famous vedettes that were her contemporaries. But despite that sculptural profile, highlighted above all in the perfection of her legs, was not the theater of magazines the place in which most stood out. María Concepción César was a complete star, but the theater was her favorite place in the world. "I never left the theater, I never got out of it," she told LA NACION in 2008, while she was about to premiere at the Payró Interviú , a portrait of a great show diva who decides to retire from one day to the next. activity.

It seemed a paper written at first sight for her, but only in artistic fiction. In real life, as she recognized Alejandro Cruz in that interview, her existence was in the antipodes of that sort of simile Greta Garbo. She felt blessed by a full and intense life of constant activity in radio, theater, film and television. "I never wanted to stay in my twenties, life goes by, I am a woman who loves what she does, I love the theater, I love everything that is expression, I made beautiful things on television, I made musicals, many comedies, movies. I live my moments very quietly, "she said. Although she stopped to clarify that tranquility was relative. "No actress can live quietly if she does not work," she admitted.

She was born in the neighborhood of Floresta on October 25, 1926 as Concepción María Cesarano. She studied at the National Conservatory of Scenic Art of this city, with the guidance of Antonio Cunill Cabanellas, and made her debut in the cinema with a brief role in Pampa bárbara (1945), by Lucas Demare. Then came, between the 50s and the 70s, El crimen de Oribe, Rosaura at ten, La madrastra, The bar on the corner, María Magdalena, Hotel Alojamiento and Los chantas , in which a complete nude was animated with almost 50 years.

She had plenty of talent as an actress, singer and dancer, and she always managed to beat time by delivering all those facets, together or separately, in characters that went through several generations of her career. It went through classical works of Argentine and foreign authors (From Six Characters in Search of an Author , by Pirandello, to A Handsome from the 900 , from Eichelbaum and from El enfermo imaginario , from Moliére, to El conventillo de la paloma , from Vaccarezza) and triumphed in traditional musical comedies ( Can Can , Todos en París ) and modern ones like the Houdini directed by Ricky Pashkus in 2005.

She had an outstanding radio presence, when the Buenos Aires radio stations ensured the exclusivity of her great figures, as she did with Splendid. And it conquered a good part of its enormous popularity thanks to a constant presence in television, mainly of the hand of Alejandro Romay. Her first steps in the small screen were at the beginning of the 60s with Esquina de tango, together with Enrique Dumas, and in that decade she had her first great success as a star of Tropicana Club , a musical turned into a historical classic of our history television with Chico Novarro and Marty Cosens. Afterwards, there were innumerable participations in omnibus programs and shows (Sábado de la Bondad, Grandes valores del tango), specials (Alta comedia) and well-remembered fiction comedy (Todo el año es navidad) or soap operas (Vos y yo todo la vida, Master and Lord). Each appearance of María Concepción César as a permanent or occasional figure was a new sample of talent and interpretative versatility. No script was left small, no character seemed alien, distant, forced or artificial.

However, with so much prestige gained and so many recognitions harvested without breaks, she never wanted to keep more than a small sample of them in her home. "Do you know why the house is like this without photos or awards? Because I want my children to visit me when they see their mother, not to see the figure, I want that, because I have not been with them enough. She was a gorgeous girl who came out of a contract and got into another, at one point in my life I had to work a lot, it was to set standards for my children, I was a very young widow and there was no other possibility, more, it did not stop, "she said in that conversation with LA NACION.

After enjoying all kinds of successes, she chose to consecrate her life to her two sons and grandchildren, but never losing sight of her identity and her vocation. It reached that rare balance that so many artists crave and cannot reach. To have the pleasure of continuing with the performance while still receiving awards (she won the Konex, the Quinquela Martín, the Pablo Podestá, the Susini and a recognition granted by the National Congress in 1999) and at the same time devote all the time she wanted to her family and other things surely more personal and simpler. There she must have found the secret that allowed her to reach the end without losing any of his admirable splendor. She managed to see herself in all her photographs, those of her youth and those of recent times, to prove it: in each of them she never stopped smiling.

CESAR, María Concepción (María Concepción Cesarano)

Born: 10/25/1926, Floresta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Died: 7/26/2018, Buenos Aires, Argentina

María Concepción César’s western:

Pampa bárbara – 1945 (Luz González)

Albuquerque Journal

July 29, 2018

John Turner died June 14, 2018 at age 84. His wife, Dee Turner, said a reception will be held August 12, 2018 from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. in Corrales.

Active in a wide range of civic organizations, Turner was the second president of Corrales MainStreet, Inc. and made an unsuccessful run for State Representative in 1986. He was an officer with Friends of the Corrales Library as well. After 34 years with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), he retired in 1986 from a career as an air traffic controller and regional supervisor for New Mexico and parts of Arizona and Colorado. Turner was a volunteer in Corrales Fire Department, specializing as an emergency medical technician. After retirement, Turner also served 10 years as court bailiff for the 13th Judicial District.

He enjoyed acting in films and commercials. He appeared as a judge in the movie Appaloosa, and worked as an extra in Breaking Bad scenes.

He is survived by son J.R. and granddaughter Amber, as well as Deena Taylor and Larry Rolls, of Corrales; Vicki Taylor, of Rio Rancho; Valerie and Steve Schkade, of Austin; Karen, Gaylan and Larry Turner, of Valley Mills, Texas; and Dee.

TURNER, John

Born: 1935, U.S.A.

Died: 6/14/2018, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

John Turner’s western:

Appaloosa – 2008 (judge)

Voici

August 1, 2018

The TV world is in mourning. Actor Jean-Yves Chatelais died at the age of 63. The comedian was best known for his roles in TV series like Kaamelott or Ten Percent.

This is sad news. Actor Jean-Yves Chatelais passed away on Tuesday, July 31st at the age of 63. The announcement of his death was made on Twitter by Aude Briant, his companion. Jean-Yves Chatelais, 1953-2018. He died as he lived. Free. He will have illuminated the plateaux of his talent. And my life in love. Rest in peace Jean-Yves. I love you, "she wrote on the social network, mentioning the association for the right to die with dignity, chaired by Jean-Luc Romero, but also Jérôme Commandeur and Antoine De Caunes.

The ex-host of Canal + also paid tribute to the deceased comedian on Twitter by declaring: "Free, funny and infinitely talented. Tender condolences. A message answered by Alexandre Astier who played with Jean-Yves Chatelais in the Kaamelott series: "Senator ... Condolences," he soberly wrote, referring to his role as Roman Senator, Vibius Pisentius Petrus.

Indeed, if his name does not tell you anything, his face is not unknown to you since Jean-Yves Chatelais played in the most famous French television series. Besides Kaamelott, it has also been seen in Julie Lescaut, Les Cordiers, judge and cop, Josephine, guardian angel and more recently Speakerine. He especially scored Ten percent by playing the character of François Bréhier, the boss of Starmedia, the competing art agency of ASK, the center of the program in which runs every season many celebrities like Laura Smet, Isabelle Adjani, Julien Doré or Jean Dujardin.

Also actor of theater and dubbing, Jean-Yves Chatelais was also the French voice of actors such as Gabriel Byrne in Usual Suspects or Michael Madsen in Kill Bill and Sin City. In cinema, his last film was Je va mieux, released in 2017, the adaptation of the book by David Foenkinos.

CHATELAIS, Jean-Yves

Born: 1/1/1953, France

Died: 7/31/2018, Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Jean-Yves Chatelais’s western – voice actor:

Dances With Wolves – 1990 [French voice of Robert Pastorelli]

The Last Trapper – 2004 [French voice of Norman]

The Lone Ranger – 2013 [French voice of Tom Wilkinson]

Mary Carlisle, a perpetual ingenue in dozens of 1930s films, dies at 104

The Washington Post

By Adam Bernstein

August 1, 2018

Mary Carlisle, a Hollywood actress who enjoyed popularity in the 1930s as a wholesome ingenue in musical comedies opposite singer Bing Crosby, died Aug. 1 at a retirement community for actors in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles.

Her son, James Blakeley III, confirmed the death but did not provide an immediate cause. She was believed to be 104 but never confirmed her real age, even to her family. As a centenarian, she was known to tell visitors that her true age was “none of your business.”

With her blond hair, blue eyes and alabaster skin, Ms. Carlisle had the delicate beauty of an all-American porcelain doll. “This girl has the most angelic face I ever saw,” Universal studio production chief Carl Laemmle Jr. reportedly declared upon spotting the unknown Ms. Carlisle at the company’s canteen. “I’ve got to make a test of her right away.”

Ms. Carlisle appeared in more than 60 films in a career that lasted about a dozen years. Much to her dismay, she was typecast as the perpetual innocent, a decorative virgin.

She began with minor parts in prestigious films, playing a newlywed in the star-filled hit melodrama “Grand Hotel” (1932). That year, the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers selected her — along with starlets including Gloria Stuart and Ginger Rogers — as a “Wampas Baby Star,” which led to a publicity build-up that augured better roles. The parts were bigger but seldom better.

She was twice Lionel Barrymore’s daughter, in “Should Ladies Behave” (1933) and “This Side of Heaven” (1934). She played the title role opposite Buster Crabbe in the collegiate romance “The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” (1933) and also appeared in “It’s in the Air” (1935), a minor comic showcase for radio star Jack Benny. She was a damsel-in-distress in the old-dark-house story “One Frightened Night” (1935), made at a “poverty row” studio.

Ms. Carlisle was the object of Crosby’s crooning in “College Humor” (1933), “Double or Nothing” (1937) and “Doctor Rhythm” (1938), films that boosted her visibility but left her with little to do but smile adoringly at her co-star. Offscreen, she said, Crosby teasingly called her “Chubby” and “Bubbles.”

New York Times film critic Mordaunt Hall found Ms. Carlisle “ingratiating” as Will Rogers’s daughter of marrying age in “Handy Andy” (1934), and she held her own that year in a cast of scene-stealers in “Palooka,” a boxing comedy with Jimmy Durante, Stuart Erwin and Lupe Velez. She sang the Bert Kalmar-Harry Ruby ballad “One Little Kiss” to popular comedian Bert Wheeler in “Kentucky Kernels” (1934).

More frequently, she remained trapped in undemanding parts in minor features, among them the sports comedies “Hold ’Em Navy” (1937) and “Touchdown, Army” (1938). She retired from acting after starring in the low-budget horror film “Dead Men Walk” (1943) and for decades was manager of an Elizabeth Arden salon in Beverly Hills.

Gwendolyn Witter was born in Stockton, Calif., likely on Feb. 3, 1914, but some sources say 1912. She grew up with her mother in Los Angeles.

CARLISLE, Mary (Gwendolyn L Witter)

Born: 2/3/2014, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Died: 8/1/2018, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.A.

Mary Carlisle’s westerns – actress:

Montana Moon – 1930 (party girl)

Rovin’ Tumbleweeds – 1939 (Mary Ford)

ROTHSTEIN--Richard David,

The New York Times

April 22, 2018

J.D. (1943-2018), a screenwriter, died peacefully on April 16, 2018 at his home in Los Angeles. Richard was born in Torrington, CT, and grew up on Long Island. He attended Syracuse University, graduated from New York University and received his J.D. from Temple Law School. He is best known for being the creator of the HBO TV series, "The Hitchhiker", and for the original screenplay, "Universal Soldier", which was followed by three sequels in 1999, 2009 and 2012. He has written many screenplays and graphic novels in the science fiction/horror genre. He wrote passionately and assiduously up until the final months of his life. Richard is survived and dearly missed by his wife, Bushra of 46 years, his daughter, Sara and son-in-law, Grant Ross, his son, Joshua and daughter, Jessie, her husband, Nick Abbitt and four grandchildren, Grayson and Olivia Ross and Jordan and Elijah Abbitt. There will be a private family service in Los Angeles. In lieu of flowers, a donation can be made to the Saban Community Clinic, 8405 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048. sabancommunityclinic.org/ Donations.aspx. All donations will be used for the support of mental health clients.

ROTHSTEIN, Richard (Richard David Rothstein)

Born: 1943, Torrington, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Died: 4/16/2018, West Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Richard Rothstein’s western – writer:

Shoot the Sun Down - 1978

David Richard Berlatsky

July 21, 1933 - July 12, 2018

Los Angeles Times

August 4, 2018

David was born in Chicago, Illinois. After dropping out of high school he took the GED and joined the United States Air Force, where he became an Instrument Flight Instructor during the Korean War, serving in both Korea and Japan. After briefly studying pre-med at SMU, he had a short, but successful career as a Political Fund Raiser. David found his true calling becoming a Motion Picture and Television Film Editor. He spent the next forty years editing numerous motion pictures and prime-time television dramas. In 1974 David directed his first and only motion picture, "The Farmer.' In 1963 he joined the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, as a reserve deputy and was involved in the production of many of the department's training films. Although a voracious reader of history, his passion was flying and after acquiring his private pilot's license, he spent countless hours at the controls of his own plane. David had a great laugh and sense of humor. He is survived by his son, Derek Berlatsky, daughter, Andrea Berlatsky, grandson, Nicholas Berlatsky, great-grandchildren, Olivia Leigh and Jackson, sister, Linda Boykin, and brother, Kenneth Berlatsky. There will be no service. We ask those who knew and loved David to find their own way to honor his memory. Hi will be missed dearly.

BERLATSKY, David (David Richard Berlatsky)

Born: 7/21/1933, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Died: 7/12/2018, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.

David Berlatsky’s westerns – film editor:

Here Come the Brides (TV) – 1970

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid - 1973

Entertainment Weekly

By Jessica Shaw
August 5, 2018

Charlotte Rae, Mrs. Garrett on Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes, dies at 92

Charlotte Rae, best known as wise and lovable house mother Mrs. Garrett on The Facts of Life, died Sunday at her home in Los Angeles, representatives for the actress confirmed. She was 92.

Rae revealed she’d been diagnosed with bone cancer at the end of April 2017. “Last Monday, I found out I have bone cancer,” she said in a statement. “About seven years ago, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer — which is a miracle that they found it because usually, it’s too late. My mother, sister, and my uncle died of pancreatic cancer. After six months of chemotherapy, I was cancer-free. I lost my hair, but I had beautiful wigs. Nobody ever knew. So now, at the age of 91, I have to make up my mind. I’m not in any pain right now. I’m feeling so terrific and so glad to be above ground. Now I have to figure out whether I want to go have treatment again or opt for life.”

She continued to share her decision, “I love life. I’ve had a wonderful one already … I’ve had a great life, but I have so many wonderful things happening. I’d like to choose life. I’m grateful for the life I’ve already had.”

Born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rae got her start doing theater and radio (where she was told to drop her last name). She broke into television playing Sylvia Schnauser, the wife of Al Lewis’ Officer Leo Schnauser on Car 54, Where Are You? While she earned Tony nominations Pickwick, Morning Noon and Night, and an Emmy nom (Queen of the Stardust Ballroom), it wasn’t until 1978 when Norman Lear, a longtime fan, cast her in Diff’rent Strokes, that Rae’s career took off.

Rae played the kooky but kind housekeeper Edna Garrett, unmissable thanks to that mound of bright orange hair, on Diff’rent Strokes, and when she became a popular breakout character, Rae herself proposed the spin-off. That spin-off became The Facts of Life, a sitcom about a girls’ boarding school and their (once again) kooky and kind house mother. Rae’s Mrs. Garrett (or Mrs. G, as Nancy McKeon’s Jo liked to call her) helped guide the girls through every very special episode theme imaginable, from depression to dating, AIDS to alcohol. Rae left the show in 1986 for health reasons, and though Cloris Leachman stepped in as Mrs. Garrett’s sister, the show was canceled two years later.

Rae went on to guest star on TV shows like ER, Pretty Little Liars, Sisters, and The King of Queens, and appeared in movies such as Don’t Mess with the Zohan and Tom and Jerry: The Movie. Her final regular gig was voicing “Nanny” in the animated 101 Dalmations: The Series, which aired from 1997-98.

As much as she was beloved by TV watchers throughout the ‘80s, she remained associated with the beloved character of Mrs. Garrett thanks to reruns. In 2011, The Facts of Life cast reunited for the TV Land Awards, where she took home the Pop Icon award. That night, her Facts of Life costars Kim Fields and Nancy McKeon gave speeches in her honor. For the show’s 35th anniversary in 2014, they again got together for the closing night of PaleyFest in Los Angeles.

Rae shared many of her Hollywood experiences — including 44 years of sobriety and discovering that her husband, John Strauss, was bisexual — in her memoir, The Facts of My Life, released in 2015.

In her April 2017 statement, Rae also said, “At 91, every day is a birthday. [In my book] I want to tell everybody to celebrate every day, to savor the day and be good to yourself, love yourself, and then you can be good to others and be of service to others.”

RAE, Charlotte (Charlotte Rae Lubotsky)

Born: 4/22/1926, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Died: 8/5/2018, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Charlotte Rae’s western – voice actress:

Red Dead Redemption – 2010 [voice of local population]

Comic Strip co-writer Peter Richens dies at 65

'He was a huge talent who died too young'

Chortle

August 6, 2018

Pete Richens, who co-wrote more than two dozen of the Comic Strip films, has died at the age of 65.
Richens started working with the troupe – whose core members were Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle – at their live shows at the Raymond Revue Bar in Soho. There he would transcribe the comedians’ improvisations and create a coherent narrative from them.

His contribution to the group’s films was overshadowed by Richardson, who was the driving force behind the Comic Strip. However, Richens co-wrote 25 of the films, from the first, 1982’s Five Go Mad In Dorset, to the last, Redtop, in 2016 and occasionally made cameo appearances, most notably as a cheerful depressive in Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase.

In a 2010 interview, Richens said modestly: ‘Peter was the boss, I was just a mechanic who helped make his ideas work. We write either side of the same table. More grown-up writers work separately then get together. But we just slog it out.’

He also worked with Jenny Eclair on her 1997 series Jenny Eclair Squats.

She told Chortle: ‘I don’t think he ever quite got the credit he deserved. I wrote with him for a while in the late 1990s and learned a huge amount about structure, and digging deeper for a better punchline.

‘He was also a family friend and had very recently had a pacemaker fitted.’

‘Pete was a working-class boy from south London. He was a heroin addict before Channel 4 helped him get clean, and had problems. with alcohol but he also had the most phenomenal brain. He was a huge talent and died too young.’

RICHENS, Peter

Born: 8/18/1952, Devon, England, U.K.

Died: 8/6/2018, Devon, England, U.K.

Peter Richens’s western – writer:

A Fistful of Traveller’s Cheques (TV) - 1984

Goodbye to Jimmy il Fenomeno, a unique characteristic of Italian cinema

TGCOM 24

August 7, 2018

The actor died at the age of 86 in the Milanese nursing home where he had been hospitalized since 2003

Goodbye to Jimmy il Fenomeno (the phenomenon). The actor died at the age of 86 in the residence for the elderly in Milan where he’s lived since 2003. Luigi Origene Soffrano, his real name, has lent his face and his physicality to dozens of comedies. In the 1980s he was also seen on television, participating as Ezio Greggio's sidekick in "Drive In". In 2010 he had launched an appeal for the subsidy of the Bacchelli Law.

The grimaces, dialect and the tone of voice always made him stand out above his dialogue. From 1961, the year of " Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis " and " The Federale", his first roles, until 1998, the year of "Jolly Blu", his last interpretation, Jimmy il Fenomeno was a characterizing presence in dozens and dozens of films. In particular, in the golden age of Italian sex comedy, his was a practically fixed presence, so much so that bringing a complete filmography would be impossible. Suffice it to mention, among other titles, "Il monaco di Monza", "Fantozzi", "La liceale nella classe dei ripetenti", "Fico d'India", "Il bisbetico domato", "I fichissimi", "Innamorato pazzo", "Acqua e sapone", "Il ragazzo di campagna".

In "Drive In ", among other things, he interpreted, in a surreal sketch, " La casa per coniugi", won by the competitors of "Testa di quiz", of which Ezio Greggio was the conductor.

But Jimmy il Fenomeno had become a beloved character even outside the confines of cinema, so that for years he was a fixture of the transfer market, where the company used him, considering him a lucky charm. With the ongoing years and the infirmities and the end of a certain cinematographic genre, his parable finished badly. In the 1990s he moved from Rome to Milan, and in 2003, with serious physical problems that made it difficult to walk, he went to live in an old-age residence, "La casa per coniugi". In a state of poverty, he launched an appeal in 2010 to be granted the subsidy to the Bacchelli Law. His funeral will take place on Wednesday at 11 am.

il FENOMENO, Jimmy (Luigi Origene Soffrano)

Born: 4/22/1932, Lucera, Puglia, Italy

Died: 8/6/2018, Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Jimmy il Fenomeno’s westerns – actor:

$10,000 for a Massacre – 1967 (bartender)

The Longest Hunt – 1968 (Soldier in Doneghan's Army)

Robert Dix, Actor in 'Forbidden Planet' and 'Forty Guns,' Dies at 83

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

8/7/2018

A son of Oscar nominee Richard Dix of 'Cimarron' fame, he also starred in 'B' horror movies directed by Al Adamson.

Robert Dix, the son of a big-screen icon who made his own mark in Hollywood with appearances in dozens of films, including Forbidden Planet, Forty Guns and a succession of B-grade horror movies, has died. He was 83.

Dix died Monday of respiratory failure at a hospital in Tucson, Arizona, his wife, Lynette, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Dix was the youngest son (by 10 minutes) of Richard Dix, who made the transition from the silent era to talkies, received a best actor nomination in the best picture Oscar winner Cimarron (1931) and starred in the series of Whistler film noirs at Columbia Pictures in the 1940s.

His son, a contract player at MGM, played Crewman Grey, who gets zapped by the id monster, in the groundbreaking sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet (1956).

Robert Dix later transitioned to 20th Century Fox, where he portrayed the youngest of the three heroic Bonnell brothers (Barry Sullivan and Gene Barry were the others) for director Sam Fuller in Forty Guns (1957), starring Barbara Stanwyck. And he was Frank James, the brother of an outlaw, in Young Jesse James (1960).

In 1969 alone, the handsome Dix starred as psychos in the low-budget horror films Blood of Dracula's Castle, Satan's Sadists and Five Bloody Graves (1969) — he also wrote that one — then toplined Hell's Bloody Devils and Horror of the Blood Monsters in 1970 releases.

"When you actually have to develop the inner life of a character who was nuts, that was an interesting challenge," he told author Tom Weaver. "In both cases, I recall, it came off pretty believably — I had people comment in the positive regarding it. It was a stretch for me, and in the final analysis it was good experience."

(Those five films were all directed by Al Adamson, who years later would be found murdered and buried under a hot tub in Indio, California.)

While in New Orleans doing research for a movie about Cajun customs, Dix discovered that Roger Moore, a buddy from his days at MGM, was there filming Live and Let Die (1973). After a night on the town, the 007 star put Dix to work in an uncredited role as an FBI agent who gets knifed and then placed in a casket during a Bourbon Street parade.

Born in Los Angeles on May 8, 1935, Dix was raised in a home in Beverly Hills and on a ranch in Malibu. As a youngster, he worked at the local market, delivering groceries to the likes of Jimmy Stewart, Jimmy Durante and Robert Cummings.

In September 1949, when he was just 14, his father, then 56, died of a heart attack. Four years later, his twin brother, Richard Dix Jr., died in a logging accident. His mother remarried, and he did not get along with his stepfather, food magnate Walter Van De Kamp (co-founder of Lawry's the Prime Rib, which opened in Beverly Hills in 1938).

Dix studied acting at the National Academy of Theater Arts in Pleasantville, New York, then, through his friend Tom Tannenbaum — the son of the mayor of Beverly Hills who had become an MGM exec — was signed to a seven-year deal at the studio when he was 18.

He appeared in small roles in seven 1955 films, including The Glass Slipper, Interrupted Melody, Love Me or Leave Me and I'll Cry Tomorrow.

Dix's stay at that studio, however, was short-lived. "I did two years on the contract until television came along and wiped out all the contract players," he said in a 2010 interview. He then showed up on such TV Westerns as Gunsmoke, Death Valley Days, The Rifleman and Rawhide and, with Casey Kasem, in the 1969 biker flick Wild Wheels.

For his role in Deadwood '76 (1965), Dix said he went to the Western Costume Co. in Hollywood and got the same coat and vest that his father had worn in Badlands of Dakota (1941).

In 2016, Dix completed work on a movie from Gila Films called The Last Frankenstein, which is now listed as "in postproduction" on IMDb. (Back in 1958, he had played a cop in Richard Cunha's low-budget Frankenstein's Daughter.)

In addition to his wife, survivors include his children Jana and Robert, two grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

A funeral service will take place at 10 a.m. Friday at Russellville-Dragoon Cemetery in Cochise County, Arizona.

DIX, Robert (Robert Warren Brimmer)

Born: 5/8/1935, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Died: 8/6/2018, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.

Robert Dix’s westerns – actor, producer, assistant director, screenwriter:

Forty Guns – 1957 (Chico Bonell)

Death Valley Days (TV) – 1959 (Lt. Benjamin Drysdale)

Frontier Doctor (TV) – 1959

Lone Texas – 1959 (Carpetbagger)

Mackenzie’s Raiders (TV) – 1959 (Capt. Fitch)

The Rifleman (TV) – 1959 (Dave Clay)

Sky King (TV) – 1959

26 Men (TV) – 1959 (Lodise)

13 Fighting Men - 1960

Young Jesse James – 1960 (Frank James)

Gunsmoke (TV) – 1961 (Spotted Wolf/Jamie)

The Little Shepard of Kingdom Come - 1961

Rawhide (TV) – 1962 (Kano)

Deadwood ’76 – 1965 (Wild Bill Hickok)

Five Bloody Graves – 1969 (Ben Thompson) [producer, screenwriter]

Cain’s Way – 1970 (Amison) [assistant director]

The Red, White and Black – 1970 (Walking Horse)

Actor Étienne Chicot is dead

In a nearly 45 year career, he had multiple the roles in cinema, television and theater. He’s died at the age of 69.

Le Point

8/8/2018

He was one of the familiar faces of French fiction and a recognizable voice. French actor, composer and screenwriter Étienne Chicot died on Tuesday August 7th at the age of 69, announces Le Film Français. His first notable role, after including a training course Simon in Paris, he found in 1979. He played the billionaire Zero Janvier who has the blues of the businessman in the musical Starmania, Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon, were alongside including France Gall.

Étienne Chicot goes throughout his life playing multiple roles in film and television - 120 films, 40 TV series and a dozen plays according to the accounts of the Parisian - during a career of 45 years. He can be seen in Robin Davis' War of Fonts in 1979, Claude Miller's Deadly Hike in 1983, Ron Howard's Da Vinci Code in 2006, and Dany Boon's Supercondriac in 2014.

Molière of the comedian in a supporting role

On television, he appeared in Navarro, Louis the Brocante, Nicolas Le Floch, Chefs but also Au théâtre tonight. Étienne Chicot will also found consecration on the boards, he is also rewarded with a comedian's role in a second role in 1989 for his performance in A Absence Loleh Bellon. In a 2014 interview with the Parisian, he said: "I have the best job in the world with the advantage to be able to choose my roles. I salute the destiny that propelled me into this delicious world."

CHICOT, Étienne (Étienne Gilbert Chicot)

Born: 5/5/1949, Fécamp, Seine-Inférieure, France

Died: 8/7/2018, France

Étienne Chicot’s western – actor:

The Killer – 2017 (Monsieur Blanchard)

David Landsberg, 'CPO Sharkey' Actor and 'Cosby' Writer, Dies at 73

The Hollywood Reporter
August 8, 2018

David Landsberg, an actor, screenwriter and producer who appeared opposite Don Rickles on CPO Sharkey and penned and produced episodes of Bill Cosby’s CBS sitcom, has died. He was 73.

Landsberg died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from complications that arose from surgery for esophageal cancer, his daughter, Caryn O'Neill, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Landsberg also wrote and/or produced episodes of Blossom, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Herman's Head, Fantasy Island, The New Love Boat and The John Larroquette Show and co-created with Brenda Hampton (7th Heaven) a 1994 CBS sitcom called Daddy's Girls, starring Dudley Moore, Harvey Fierstein and Keri Russell.

The Brooklyn native portrayed the shy U.S. Navy recruit Skolnick on the 1976-78 NBC sitcom CPO Sharkey, and on the big screen, he was seen in Coming Attractions (1978) opposite Bill Murray; Love at First Bite (1979), starring George Hamilton; Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979), with Patrick Swayze; The Jerk (1979) with Steve Martin; and Shoot the Moon (1982), starring Albert Finney and Diane Keaton.

He and Lorin Dreyfuss, older brother of Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, co-wrote and co-starred in the feature comedies Detective School Dropouts (1986) and Dutch Treat (1987), and Landsberg wrote and produced Sex Tax: Based on a True Story (2010).

Born Sept. 3, 1944, Landsberg attended Plainedge High School in North Massapequa, N.Y., served in Vietnam with the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1968 and graduated from the University of Maryland in 1970 with a degree in business and marketing.

After working at a large advertising firm in New York, he decided to pursue an acting career and landed gigs in dinner theater and on commercials and PBS series in Maryland.

Landsberg made his national onscreen debut on CPO Sharkey, and in 1978 on Rhoda, he played a guy who goes on a mismatched blind date with Valerie Harper's character. He went on to guest-star on Bosom Buddies, The Love Boat, Eight Is Enough, Hart to Hart and Hello, Larry, among other shows.

He also was the voice of the dad Mr. Griff on the Disney Playhouse animated series Stanley.

Landsberg worked on Cosby, the comedian's follow-up to The Cosby Show that aired on CBS from 1996 to 2000.

In addition to his daughter, survivors include his son Daniel (and his wife, Candice); brother Joseph (and his wife, Judy); granddaughters Carly, Bettie and Siouxsie; nieces Jodi and Kristen; and nephews Michael and Bryan.

A memorial service will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday at Mount Sinai in the Hollywood Hills. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital or to the Veterans Administration.

LANDSBERG, David

Born: 9/3/1944, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 8/5/2018, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

David Landsberg’s western – voice actor:

Stanley’s Dinosaur Round-Up – 2006 [voice of Mr. Griff]

Richard H. Kline, Cinematographer on 'Camelot,''Body Heat' and 'King Kong,' Dies at 91

The Hollywood Reporter
By Mike Barnes

August 8, 2018

Richard H. Kline, the two-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer who shot such films as Camelot, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Body Heat and the 1976 remake of King Kong, has died. He was 91.

Kline died of natural causes on Tuesday in Los Angeles, his daughter Rija Kline Zucker told The Hollywood Reporter.

Kline collaborated with director Robert Wise on The Andromeda Strain (1971) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and partnered with Richard Fleischer on The Boston Strangler (1968), Soylent Green (1973), The Don Is Dead (1973), Mr. Majestyk (1974) and Mandingo (1975).

He worked on more than 40 features in all, also including Hang 'Em High (1968), The Mechanic (1972), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), The Fury (1978), Who'll Stop the Rain (1978), The Competition (1980), Death Wish II (1982), Breathless (1983), All of Me (1984), Howard the Duck (1986) and his final film, Meet Wally Sparks (1997).

His father was cinematographer Benjamin H. Kline (Danger Street, Fireside Theatre, dozens of Westerns), and one of his uncles, Phil Rosen, co-founded the American Society of Cinematographers in 1919 and served as its first president.

"I'm actually the fourth member of my family to be a part of the ASC," he said in an interview shortly after he was named the recipient of the society's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. "My father was a member, and my other uncle, Sol Halperin, was also a president. I guess you could say I was genetically predestined to become a cameraman.”

Kline assisted and operated the camera on more than 200 films before becoming a director of photography in 1963. He earned his Oscar nominations for the lavish musical Camelot (1967) and for King Kong.

Based on the hit Broadway musical, Camelot, directed by Josh Logan, was shot on location in Spain and on huge sets built on the Warner Bros. lot. In one of his toughest challenges, Klein figured out how to light a wedding scene between Arthur (Richard Harris) and Guenevere (Vanessa Redgrave) that featured more than 1,000 candles.

The finale of King Kong, meanwhile, was filmed at the foot of the Twin Towers in New York with some 30,000 people on the scene to see the giant ape hit the pavement.

"There was an excitement in the air," Kline said in the ASC interview. "It became very difficult to control the crowd at the end, and they literally tore [animatronics expert Carlo] Rambaldi's Kong apart. They wanted souvenirs, and someone even stole his eyes, which were the size of bowling balls."

Born in Los Angeles on Nov. 15, 1926, Kline, with the help of his dad, landed a job in the camera department at Columbia Pictures after he graduated from high school in 1943. He worked as a slate boy on Cover Girl (1944), starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly.

After a stint in the U.S. Navy from 1944-46, he assisted cinematographer Charles Lawton Jr. on The Lady From Shanghai (1947), written and directed by Orson Welles, who also starred in the pic. He then manned the camera on Three Stooges shorts and on such films as Around the World in 80 Days (1956), A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962).

Kline learned that to light a room, "I'd always start with the windows as my source and then marry the rest [of my approach] to them," he said. "You have to start with the basics and then see where they lead."

Kline became a cinematographer in 1963 when he was hired for the MGM-NBC drama series Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus as a high-school teacher. He worked on that show for its two seasons, then shot the 1966 pilot for NBC's The Monkees.

His first feature was a failed TV pilot that was turned into Chamber of Horrors (1966), directed by Hy Averback.

Though the noirish Body Heat (1981), directed by Lawrence Kasdan, was set during a steamy Florida summer, Klein noted that it was actually filmed during one of the coldest winters the state ever had.

"There's a scene where William Hurt is just in his skivvies out on the back deck of a house, and it was freezing cold. Goosebumps were our biggest problem," he said.

Survivors also include his son Paul and four grandchildren.

KLINE, Richard (Richard Howrd Kline)

Born: 11/15/1926, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Died: 8/7/2016, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Richard Kline’s westerns – cameraman, cinematographer:

Klondike Kate - 1943[cameraman]

Cow Town – 1950 [cameraman]

Count Three and Pray - 1955 [cameraman]

Face of a Fugitive - 1959 [cameraman]

Shotgun Slade (TV) - 1960 [cinematographer]

Hang ‘Em High – 1968 [cinematographer]

When Legends Die - 1972 [cinematographer]

Ronald Taylor BSC “Ronnie” 1924-2018

British Cinematographer

August 7, 2018

British Cinematographer is saddened to hear of the passing of respected operator and cinematographer, and former BSC President, Ronnie Taylor BSC last Friday (3rd August) at the age of 93. Our thoughts are with Ronnie’s family during this difficult time.

Ronnie and his career featured last year in the ‘Clapperboard’ section of British Cinematographer magazine (Issue 80 – March 2017).

At age 18, looking for a career, Ronnie decided to study for a radio operator’s certificate with Marconi with the plan to go to sea. He was successful but in the meantime, one of his parents’ neighbours happened to be Jack Swinburne, studio manager at Gainsborough Studios in Shepherd’s Bush who took young Ronnie into the studio and showed him how films were made. He was hooked and shortly joined the studio as a clapper boy on the film The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) photographed by Freddie Young OBE BSC. Because by then World War II was in full swing and young men were being called up, Ronnie found himself promoted to focus puller quite soon after on the film The Man In Grey (1942) photographed by Arthur Crabtree.

Ronnie was himself called up shortly after and his Marconi certificate gained him a position as radio operator in the Merchant Navy mostly on convoys across the North Atlantic, which he described as “pretty nasty”. Returning to civilian life, Ronnie found himself operating on Boys In Brown (1949) at Pinewood where he first met the lead actor, Richard Attenborough who would have a defining influence on Ronnie’s career later.

In 1952, operating on Secret People directed by Thorold Dickinson and shot at Ealing Studios, Ronnie met his future wife Mary Devetta and was quickly married shortly after, as Ronnie had been offered a 2-year contract to work in Brazil by his friend, cinematographer, Chick Fowle BSC and past president Bob Huke BSC. He and Mary spent the next 2 years living in Brazil and working for the Vera Cruz Company until unfortunately, the company over-extended itself and was forced to close.

Back in Britain in 1955, Ronnie established himself as a note-worthy operator on a number of pictures before working with Freddie Francis BSC on Virgin Island (1958 directed by Pat Jackson), forming a relationship which produced three of the most iconic films of the 1960s: Room At The Top (1959), Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (1960) and the classic The Innocents (1961) directed by Jack Clayton, one of the earliest films to be made in England in CinemaScope and black and white which garnered critical praise for its camerawork.

A number of films followed and in 1958 saw the beginning of his interest in Spain as he was thinking of living there. En route to Madrid, he met with Robert Krasker BSC and John Harris BSC who were shooting The Fall Of The Roman Empire (1958) and offered Ronnie the second unit to photograph. At the end of that Ronnie managed to spend 17 weeks on holiday in Marbella with his wife in a German built caravan.

In 1969 Ronnie was reunited with his old friend, Richard Attenborough, who was about to direct his first feature, Oh! What A Lovely War, along with cinematographer Gerry Turpin BSC, and this was to cement their friendship, which become influential later.

Ronnie operated on three films for director Ken Russell, The Devils (1971) photographed by David Watkin BSC, Savage Messiah (1972) photographed by Dick Bush BSC and Tommy (1975) also photographed by Dick Bush BSC. When Dick left Tommy after a disagreement, Ronnie took over and this was the genesis of him moving into lighting himself. But before that, Ronnie operated on a number of films including the legendary Star Wars (1977) photographed by Gil Taylor BSC. At the time, Ronnie said, “most of the crew thought it was a load of rubbish but it turned out quite differently!”

His friendship with Richard Attenborough took an interesting turn when he was asked to take over the cinematography of Ghandi (1982) as the original cinematographer, Billy Williams OBE BSC, had become incapacitated. The end result was an Oscar for both Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor and the BSC Best Cinematography award.

Ronnie continued as cinematographer occasionally shooting commercials and working again with director, Richard Attenborough, on A Chorus Line (1985) and Cry Freedom (1987) for which he garnered a BAFTA nomination followed by Sea Of Love (1989) for director Harold Becker, which he considered some of his best work.

Shooting a commercial in Australia, Ronnie teamed up with Dario Argento a young up and coming Italian director who was noted for successful horror films. Ronnie shot three films with Dario, the last of which Sleepless (2001) became Ronnie’s last film before he retired. He purchased a property with swimming pool in Ibiza one of the Balearic Islands of Spain and moved there permanently.

Ronnie is survived by his two daughters, Tracey Taylor and Nikki Watson plus his two grandchildren.

BSC President from 1990 – 1992.

TAYLOR, Ronnie (Ronald Tauylor)

Born: 10/27/1924, Hampstead, London, England, U.K.

Died: 8/3/2018, Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain

Ronnie Taylor’s western – cameraman:

The Return of a Man Called Horse - 1976

RIP Anthony Ray

RIP Nino Fuscagni

RIP MAC (Macari Gómez Quibus)

RIP Clovis (Claude Viseur)

RIP María Dolores Gispert

RIP Patrick Williams

RIP María Concepción César

RIP John Turner

RIP Jean-Yves Chatelais

RIP Mary Carlisle

RIP Richard Rothstein

RIP David Berlatsky

RIP Charlotte Rae

RIP Peter Richens

RIP Jimmy il Fenomeno

RIP Robert Dix

RIP Étienne Chicot

RIP David Landsberg

RIP Richard Kline

RIP Ronnie Taylor