Film director -- via publico.pt.
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.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Nagisa Oshima
Film director -- via the Guardian. An exceptionally subversive creator, he is best known for films such as "Death by Hanging," "In the Realm of the Senses," and "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence."
Monday, January 14, 2013
J. Mark Travis
Producer -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Responsible for filmed shows such as "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" and "Richard Pryor Live in Concert."
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Jon Finch
Actor -- via the Guardian. A highly gifted classical performer, he considered his best work to be in the BBC's "Complete Shakespeare" cycle for TV, in which he played Bolingbroke/Henry IV in "Richard II," "Henry IV Part I" and "Henry IV Part 2." He will be best remembered in films as the title character in Polnaski's "Macbeth," and as the falsely accused suspect in Hitchcock's "Frenzy."
Friday, January 11, 2013
Mariangela Melato
Actress -- via the BBC. Best known for her extensive work with Lina Wertmuller, starring in "Swept Away" and appearing in "The Seduction of Mimi" and "Love and Anarchy."
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Evan S. Connell
Novelist, poet, biographer, and short-story writer -- via the Kansas City Star. This criminally under-read writer composed at least two brilliant novels, "Mr. Bridge" and "Mrs. Bridge," as well as the brilliant Custer book, "Son of the Morning Star."
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Keiji Nakazawa
Manga artist and writer; survivor of Hiroshima -- via the L. A. Times. His best-known work, "Barefoot Gen," is a terrifying and graphic autobiographical work.
Paul Crauchet
Actor -- lci.tf1.com. Performed in many key French films of his era, including "Army of Shadows," "My Father's Glory/My Mother's Castle," and "Le cercle rouge."
Sheila McKinley
Singer -- via scotsman.com. With sister Jeanette (r.), pop duo who recorded "Sweet and Tender Romance."
Olga Zubarry aka Olga Adela ZubarriaÃn
Actress -- via clarin.com. Her big breakthrough came in the 1946 film "El Angel Desnudo" (The Naked Angel), in which her bared her back -- a shocking development in Latin American cinema at the time.
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