Monday, May 7, 2012

Felix Werder

Composer -- via the Australian Music Centre.

Willie French Lowery

Composer and singer -- via indyweek.com.

Guillermo Luna Varela, Gabriel Huge, Esteban Rodiguez and Irasema Becarra

Journalists -- via USA Today. Murdered and dismembered for reporting on the drug cartels.

Edith Bliss aka Eda Bliss

Singer and television host -- via the Telegraph (Australia).

Bob Stewart aka Isidore Steinberg

TV producer -- via the L.A. Times. A master of the game show, he created "The Price is Right," "What's My Line?", "Password," "The $10,000 Pyramid" and many others.

Margie Stewart

WWII pinup girl -- via the New York Times.

Yale Summers

Actor -- via Variety. Best remembered as Jack Dane in "Daktari."

Rich Ramirez

Comedian -- via laughspin.com.

Iraj Ghaderi

Film director and actor -- via nabz.com.


Digby Wolfe

Emmy-winning writer and actor -- via Variety.


Sunday, May 6, 2012

George "Goober" Lindsey

Actor and comedian -- via wsmv.com.








Jim McCrary

Rock photographer -- via the L.A. Times. As staff photographer for A & M Records, he took images that graced more than 300 album covers.

John Nickens Jr.

Civil engineer and clarinetist -- via the Sacramento Bee.

Gay Austin

Preschool educator -- via Berkeleyside.

Bill Pierce

Librarian and horticulturalist -- via the Sacramento Bee.

Friday, May 4, 2012

Adam Yauch aka MCA

Founding member of the Beastie Boys -- via the New York Times.





George Murdock

Actor -- via . He was equally at home playing authority figures (such as God, in "Star Trek V"), villains and creeps (Lt. Scanlon on "Barney Miller"). Prolific -- 51 years in the biz, 186 roles on film and TV.



Lloyd Brevett

Bassist for the Skatalites -- via the New York Times.

Rick Parson

He helped others -- via ohio.com.

Zvi Zeitlin

Violinist and teacher -- via the Slipped Disc.

Achala Sachdev

Actress --  the New York Daily News. Over the course of a 64-year career, she appeared in 144 films!

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Shanmuga Sundari

Actress and playback singer -- via mgrroop.blogspot.com.

Tufan Minnullin

Playwright and writer -- via russkiymir.ru.

Charles "Skip" Pitts

Soul, blues, funk, R & B and blues guitar great -- via the Commercial Appeal.





Marilynn Lovell Matz

Actress, singer, therapist and AIDS activist -- via Variety.


Kenny Roberts aka George S. Kingsbury Jr.

Singer -- via cmt.com.



Joel Goldsmith

Composer for film and television -- via Variety.

Buddy Saltzman

Drummer -- via artiewayne.wordpress.com. He played on a vast number of recordings, for among others, Peter Paul and Mary, Tim Hardin, Melanie, Ian & Sylvia, Janis Ian, Neil Diamond, Cyrkle, The Coasters, The Four Seasons, Frank Sinatra and Laura Nyro.




Larry Ruiz

Disability activist -- via the Denver Post.

David Weiss

Artist -- via the Guardian. Known for his long-term collaboration with fellow artist Peter Fischli.



Bill Granger

Journalist and novelist -- via the Chicago Sun-Times.