Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Eileen Nearne
An intelligence agent and radio operator in occupied France. She survived capture and torture by the Gestapo, and imprisonment in concentration camps. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre. A woman who risked her life, and sacrificed her mental well-being, in the Allied cause in World War II. Via the Telegraph
'As the World Turns'
54-year-old CBS soap opera, which broadcast its last episode today -- via Yahoo News. A brief blast from the New York Times about it as well. Irna Phillips, who is credited with creating the soap opera genre on radio in 1932, and who died in 1973, helped create this series. Only one of her creations, "Days of Our Lives," remains on the broadcast menu.
Can you name the three honored actors in this "As the World Turns" scene?
Can you name the three honored actors in this "As the World Turns" scene?
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Caterina Boratto
Italian actress in film and television -- via Leggo.it. She can be seen in "Juliet of the Spirits" (above), "8 1/2," "Castle Keep" and "Salo." She worked between 1937 and 1993 -- quite a long career!
Beatrice Sinclair
Hotelier whose venue became the inspiration for "Fawlty Towers" -- via the Telegraph
Arrow aka Alphonsus Cassell
Noted soca singer -- via Stabroek News. Soca is an acronym for soul calypso -- a fusion of lyrical calypso with an insistent, oftern electronic, beat. His biggest hit was "Hot, Hot, Hot."
Don Lang
Infielder for the Reds and the Cardinals -- via Jack Morris, Bill Schenley, alt.obits at google and the Ventura County Star. At the time of his death, one of the oldest living former major leaguers.
Al LaMacchia
Pitcher for the Browns and Senators (OK, and a noted baseball scout for decades afterward) -- via the L.A. Times
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
James E. Winner Jr.
Inventor and businessman best known as the creator of car-security device "The Club" -- via Business Journal
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Gary Corry
Radio writer and promotions director who created a vibrant, humorous alter ego, 'Red Neckseron' -- via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Edwin Newman
An excellent journalist and broadcaster, and a witty and erudite expert on the English language -- via the New York Times
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Mark Gordon
Chicago actor was a key part of the improvisational scene -- via the Hollywood Reporter. He can be seen in several early Woody Allen films.
Barbara Holland
Writer and essayist who gained greatest acclaim for her defense of smoking, drinking and other hedonisms -- via the New York Times.
Monday, September 13, 2010
E.C. Tubb
Prolific science-fiction author -- via the British Science Fiction Association. His output is prodigious -- more than 140 novels and more than 230 short stories and novellas. Here's one list of his pen names --
Chuck Adams, Stuart Allen, Anthony Armstrong, Ted Bain, Alice Beecham, Anthony Blake, L. T. Bronson, Raymond L. Burton, Julian Carey, Morley Carpenter, Judy Cary, Julian Cary, J. F. Clarkson, Norman Dale, Robert D. Ennis, James Evans, James Farrow, James R. Fenner, R. H. Godfrey, Charles S. Graham, Charles Grey, Volsted Gridban, Alan Guthrie, D. W. R. Hill, George Holt, Gill Hunt, Alan Innes, E. F. Jackson, Gordon Kent, Gregory Kern, King Lang, Mike Lantry, P. Lawrence, Chet Lawson, Nigel Lloyd, Robert Lloyd, Frank T. Lomas, Ron Lowman, Arthur Maclean, Carl Maddox, Philip Martyn, John Mason, Carl Moulton, L. C. Powers, M. L. Powers, Edward Richards, Paul Schofield, John Seabright, Brian Shaw, Roy Sheldon, John Stevens, Eric Storm, Andrew Sutton, Edward Thomson, Ken Wainwright, Frank Weight, Douglas West, Eric Wilding and Frank Winnard.
Chuck Adams, Stuart Allen, Anthony Armstrong, Ted Bain, Alice Beecham, Anthony Blake, L. T. Bronson, Raymond L. Burton, Julian Carey, Morley Carpenter, Judy Cary, Julian Cary, J. F. Clarkson, Norman Dale, Robert D. Ennis, James Evans, James Farrow, James R. Fenner, R. H. Godfrey, Charles S. Graham, Charles Grey, Volsted Gridban, Alan Guthrie, D. W. R. Hill, George Holt, Gill Hunt, Alan Innes, E. F. Jackson, Gordon Kent, Gregory Kern, King Lang, Mike Lantry, P. Lawrence, Chet Lawson, Nigel Lloyd, Robert Lloyd, Frank T. Lomas, Ron Lowman, Arthur Maclean, Carl Maddox, Philip Martyn, John Mason, Carl Moulton, L. C. Powers, M. L. Powers, Edward Richards, Paul Schofield, John Seabright, Brian Shaw, Roy Sheldon, John Stevens, Eric Storm, Andrew Sutton, Edward Thomson, Ken Wainwright, Frank Weight, Douglas West, Eric Wilding and Frank Winnard.
Alberto Graves Chakussanga
Angolan journalist and broadcaster -- via Committee to Protect Journalists
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Swarnalatha
Award-winning film playback singer -- via thebollywoodactress.com.
FYI: a playback singer is one who pre-records songs for use in Bollywood films. While Hollywood, etc. has come to rely on post-dubbing of singing voices for those of film actors not quite up to stuff, in Bollywood the recorded songs are played back, and mimed and lip-synched to, by the actors in a given shot.
FYI: a playback singer is one who pre-records songs for use in Bollywood films. While Hollywood, etc. has come to rely on post-dubbing of singing voices for those of film actors not quite up to stuff, in Bollywood the recorded songs are played back, and mimed and lip-synched to, by the actors in a given shot.
Susan Kerchmar
Cafe owner with a remarkable life story -- via the Elyria, Ohio Chronicle-Telegram. Another striking aspect of this obituary is that it is written by one of the most talented and respected obituarists of the day, Alana Baranick. The depth and richness of the story, and the care with which photographic illustrations have been contributed by the family, carefully captioned and displayed, gives this obituary a thoroughness and three-dimensionality that vividly evokes the person portrayed.
Joseph Gelberman
Rabbi and psychotherapist -- via belief.net. He was "a pioneer of the interfaith movement," and a Holocaust survivor.
Rebel Randall aka Alaine Brandes
Model and actress -- via Final Farewell Forum and glamourgirlsofthescreen.com.
Billie Mae Richards
Voice actor -- via the CBC.She will be best remembered as the voice of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in the 1964 Rankin/Bass stop-motion animated TV special.
Kevin McCarthy
Actor on stage and film and television -- via the L.A. Times. He will be best remembered for his role in the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
Pogo Poge aka Morgan Branch White
This incredibly popular, wacky and personable Denver DJ made the reputation of KIMN-AM -- via the Denver Post. An entire generation grew up listening to him during the early days of rock 'n' roll.
Claude Chabrol
Brilliant French film director, and a member of the fabled New Wave -- via the New York Times.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
William H. Goetzmann
Historian and writer -- via the New York Times. His "The West of the Imagination" is one of my favorite books.
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