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.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Bill Blackbeard
"Author, editor, anthologist and ardent accumulator" -- via the New York Times. He did much to preserve and analyze comic strips.
Apoostolos Santas
Resistance hero -- via the Sydney Morning Herald. He and another tore down the Nazi flag atop the Acropolis in December of 1941.
Friday, April 29, 2011
William Campbell
Character actor par excellence -- via Memory Alpha. Starting with small roles in big pictures such as "The High and the Mighty" and bigger roles in a score of B-movies, including Westerns, war films, prison movies and the like, he made a run in a number of grade-Z horror flicks that later became cult favorites -- "Dementia 13," "Blood Bath" and "Portrait in Terror."
He scored big with two distinctive roles in the original "Star Trek" TV series -- as Trelane in "The Squire of Gothos"
and Koloth in "The Trouble with Tribbles."
He scored big with two distinctive roles in the original "Star Trek" TV series -- as Trelane in "The Squire of Gothos"
and Koloth in "The Trouble with Tribbles."
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Yolande Palfrey
Actress -- via Doctor Who Online. May be best remembered for her role as The Blind Girl in the original BBC TV production of "Pennies from Heaven."
Elmer Lynn Hauldren
Advertising copywriter and spokesperson -- via the Chicago Tribune. Forever memorable as the "Empire Carpet guy."
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Eldon Davis
Architect -- via the L.A. Times. He refined and perfected the Space-Age, Californian, car-culture-friendly "Googie" style.
Phoebe Snow aka Phoebe Ann Laub
Singer, guitarist and songwriter -- via MSNBC. Her absolutely unique and beautiful voice is unforgettable. Her biggest hit was "Poetry Man"; she gave up music full-time in order to take care of her disabled child for more than three decades.
Poly Styrene aka Marian Joan Elliott-Said
Musician, songwriter and lead singer for X-Ray Specs -- via contactmusic.com. Her complete unconventionality and straight-ahead lyrical attack made her a prototypical punk. Like the rest of us, she grew up and went through changes (she was later diagnosed with schizophrenia, and later still became an adherent of Hare Krishna). Still, the album "Germ Free Adolescents" is a perfect artifact of its time, and a musical milestone. Thanks, Marian!
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