Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Theodore Barrett "Ted" Hungary

Man of the streets -- via the Denver Post.


Paul Pojman

Teacher -- via the Towerlight.

Dinesh Thakur

Actor and director in film, television and on stage -- via the Hindu Business Online.

Tereska Szwarc Torres

Writer -- via the Telegraph.


Mat Domber

Jazz record label head -- via Jazz Times. His Arbors Records was a haven for under-recorded practitioners of classic jazz!




Leo Goeke

Tenor -- via Opera News.

Luis Goes

Singer -- via expresso.sapo.pt.

John Ingle

Actor -- via the L.A. Times. Best known for his portrayal of "scheming patriarch" Edward Quartermaine on the TV soap opera "General Hospital."

Loose Mohan aka Arumugam Mohanasundaram

Comedic actor -- via The Hindu. (The clip below uses the world's oldest cinema gag -- "L'Arroseur Arrose.")

Suthivelu aka Kurumaddali Lakshmi Narasimha Rao

Actor and comedian -- via The Hindu.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Sammi Kane Kraft

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Best known for her role in the remake of "The Bad News Bears."

Harris Savides

Cinematographer -- via indieWire. He did great work on films such as "Milk," "American Gangster," "Zodiac,"and "Elephant."



Robert J. Manning

Journalist and editor -- via the New York Times.

Irving Cohen

Maitre d'hotel of the Concord, in the Catskills; matchmaker -- via the New York Times.

Maurice S. Friedman

Translator and biographer of Martin Buber -- via the New York Times.

Jose Curbelo

Pianist, bandleader, and manager -- via the New York Times.

Ashbel Green

Editor -- via the New York Times.


Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Turhan Bey aka Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Sahultavy ak The Turkish Delight

Actor -- via the Guardian. Immensely and briefly popular during the period 1941-1953 in Hollywood, the svelte, swarthy-looking Bey played exotic villains and romantic heroes, mostly in the "sword and sandal" spate of Arabian-themed films that swept Hollywood during the period.



My favorite of his? "TheMummy's Tomb" --

Big Jim Sullivan aka James George Tomkins

Guitarist, composer; acclaimed U.K. session musician -- via the Guardian.

Bobby Hogg

Engineer, and last speaker of the Cromarty dialect of Scots English -- via CNN.

Yvonne Mounsey

Dancer and teacher -- via the New York Times.

Nguyen Chi Thien

Poet and political prisoner -- via the New York Times.


Samuel Marshall Grogan Jr.

Master builder of barbeque pits -- via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Alex Karras aka The Mad Duck

Athlete and actor -- via the L.A. Times. One of my favorite people of all time. A strong and brilliant defensive tackle, he excelled for the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Detroit Lions. George Plimpton's "Paper Lion" contains numerous achingly hilarious stories about Karras' incessant comedic sallies (although Karras was not with Detroit at the time, suspended that season for gambling on NFL games).

He took a fling as a professional wrestler. He started acting, and he turned out to be quite good. I love him in the 1973 TV movie "The 500-Pound Jerk." He was the inimitable Mongo in "Blazing Saddles":





He met actress Susan Clark when making "Babe," a TV movie about Babe Didrickson Zaharias. They married, and worked frequently together, most significantly on the sitcom "Webster."



He was on the early years of "Monday Night Football." He did great work in "Centennial," "Victor/Victoria," and "Against All Odds." He was inherently funny, and idiosyncratic. What a treat it was to be around when he was.