Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Roberto Risso aka Robert Rice aka Pietro Roberto Straub

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Jonathan Harner aka Scott A. Solano

Public health advocate -- via the Denver Post

Maureen Muggeridge

Geologist who discovered the world's largest diamond deposit -- via the Telegraph.

Marshall Lumsden

Writer and editor -- via the L.A. Times

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Sachi Shimizu

Broadway chorus performer -- via Broadway World.

Larry Evans

Chess master, and Grandmaster -- via the United States Chess Federation

Mimi Perrin

Jazz pianist, vocalist and translator -- via qobuz.com. Her biggest claim to fame will be as the founder of Les Double Six, a a capella group that covered jazz standards. Some of its members later developed the better-known Swingle Singers.

Harold Earl "Dutch" Bamberger

Played three games with the New York Giants in 1948 -- via Bill Schenley, http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries and the Reading, PA Eagle.

Mary Long Young

An affectionate and eloquent tribute from a loving child -- via the Knoxville News Sentinel and Legacy.com.

Frederick Alvin "Allie" Briggs

Doughnut shop owner and amateur baseball enthusiast -- via the Providence Journal. He was a friend of Ted Williams, and built a baseball diamond in his back yard, which he let teams play on free of charge.

Carol Sills Davis

Activist who fought racism and poverty -- via mlive.com.

Bernard Davies

Sherlock Homes scholar -- via the Telegraph.

Marcelino Camacho

Trade unionist who fought Franco -- via the Guardian.

Hugh Logan Blackett

Forester and forestry consultant -- via the Independent. He worked arduously to promote conservation and industry accountability.

Breck Wall aka Billy Ray Wilson

Comedian and producer of long-lived "Bottoms Up" burlesque review -- via the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Ektor Kaknavatos

Poet -- via enet.gr.

Amos Lavi

Actor -- via ynet.co.il.

Phillip "Flippy" Hoffman

Pioneer American surfer and textile manufacturer -- via the L.A. Times

Edmond Amran el Maleh

Writer -- via Agence Maghreb Arabe Presse.

Tetsuro Hoshino

Lyricist -- via ant-network.com.

Allan R. Sandage

Astronomer -- via Astronomy Now.

Fred Goldhaber

Educator and mentor to many LGBT youths -- via the New York Times.

Roberta Sykes

Activist, writer and professor -- via the Sydney Morning Herald.

You Dong-sook

Actor Tae-Hee One, director Eunhee Huh and actress Dong-Sook You attend the 'My Heart Beats' premiere during The 5th International Rome Film Festival at Auditorium Parco Della Musica on October 29, 2010 in Rome, Italy. [Getty Images]
Actress -- via the Joong Ang Daily.

Ronni Chasen

Hollywood publicist -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Here is a comprehensive tribute to her from Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood, with links to other related stories. This respected industry veteran was murdered in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Nov. 16. She was found in her crashed vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest.

Messy Mya aka Anthony M. Barre

Rapper/comedian -- via the New Orleans Times-Picayune. He was gunned down at St. Anthony and Rocheblave in the 7th Ward on Sunday night.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Jack LeMaire

Actor, musician and standup comic -- via Variety. He started off in vaudeville as a toddler; he played guitar with Dizzy Gillespie, among many others. He acted in TV -- he ended up playing Colonel Sanders for a few years.

Marie "Baby Marie" Osborne Yeats aka Helen Alice Myres

First child star of American film -- via Classic Images and groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries. After her early acting career, she moved on to stand-in work, and eventually became a highly regarded costumer on films such as "The Way WE Were" and "The Godfather: Part II."

Ed "Spanky" Kirkpatrick

Outfielder and pinch-hitter, primarily for the Angels -- via the L.A. Times

How can I miss you if you won't go away?

A story in Slate magazine today gives graphic evidence that life spans are lengthening across the globe, and that years in good health are increasing also. I present it as food for thought: do our medical advances jeopardize resources for the young? Is there a "just" length of life? And do these statistics bear up in the vast majority of the world, in which basic medical care isn't remotely commonplace?

Theodore W. Kheel

Labor negotiator -- via Bloomberg News.

Robert D. Jackson

Labor negotiator -- via the Kalamazoo News.

Roberto Pregadio

Composer and musician -- via lastampa.it. A prolific composer for film, his "Forgotten Pistolero" music (see video link below) is celebrated:

Donald McNarry

Miniature shipbuilder - via the Telegraph. The precision and verisimilitude of the his work made it highly prized by museums and private collectors.

Erik Knatterud

Teacher and cryptozoologist -- via Cryptomundo.

Lisa Michelle Kemp

Gospel singer -- via the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Sandra Archer

Actress who was an integral part of the San Francisco Mime Troupe -- via the San Francisco Chronicle.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Lone Isaksen

Ballerina who boldly moved into modern dance -- via the New York Times.

Robbins Barstow

Home-movie auteur -- via the New York Times. In his spare time, he created documentary narratives of his family; one, "Disneyland Dream," is now in elect company on the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

Coleman Jacoby aka Coleman Jacobs

Comedy writer -- via the New York Times. With Arnie Rosen, he wrote many episodes for Phil Silvers' "Sgt. Bilko" TV show, and created many of Jackie Gleason's greatest characters for him. Most memorably he paired Gleason with his great comic foil, Art Carney. When we think of the great writers of early TV, we think of the Simon brothers, Larry Gelbart, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner; Jacoby was one of many other unsung creatives who made us laugh.

Luis Garcia Berlanga

Film director -- via the Latin American Herald Tribune.

D V S Raju

Film producer -- via the Times of India.

Richard J. Bing

Cardiologist and composer -- via the L.A. Times.

Glen Howard GoodKnight III

Teacher was early American enthusiast of English fantasy literature -- via the L.A. Times.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Nancy Anderson

Former West Coast editor of Photoplay magazine -- via Variety. Her friends included John Wayne, Walt Disney and Elvis Presley.

Suharso Suhandinata

Badminton pioneer and icon -- via the Jakarta Post.

Danny Gould

Composer, songwriter, musician and film music executive -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Emmett Boaz

Radio host on WTJU-FM and traditional-music expert -- via readthehook.com.

Purushottama Lal aka P. Lal

Poet, publisher, writers' mentor and translator -- via merinews.com. He is best known for his complete English translation of the Mahabarata.

Addison Powell (Shelburne)

Actor on stage, in film and television -- via legacy.com and the Burlington Free Press. He won an Obie for his work in a production of "The Iceman Cometh." He could be seen in TV series as varied as "Gunsmoke," "Law and Order," "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Dark Shadows." Most memorably, he played an assassin in "Three Days of the Condor" and could be seen in fare such as the original "The Thomas Crown Affair."

Adam Pinsker

Arts administrator -- via the New York Times.

Nicholas Bornoff

Writer -- via the Independent. Apotheosized as "the Odysseus of Japanese sex" for his non-fiction work "Pink Samurai."

Sam Holmes

Extraordinary range of experiences: Pullman porter, Negro Leagues baseball player, manager for club whose members were excluded by others because of their faith -- via the Denver Post.

Henryk Gorecki

Composer -- via the Guardian. One of the great composers of the 20th century, albeit one of many whose use of atonality and serialism made their music irritating and incomprehensible to the general public. However, his Third Symphony, the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs," which testified to the Holocaust, became one of the greatest-selling compositions of the last 50 years. The public caught up with him.