Monday, December 16, 2013

Fred Scherer

Diorama painter -- via the New York Times.


Louis Waldon

Actor -- via the New York Times.

Glauco Mirko Laurelli


Director -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Sonia Fraser

Actor, writer, director, and therapist -- via the Guardian.


Chris Howland

TV and radio host -- via DW.

Ray Price

Country singer; one of the greats! -- via the Hollywood Reporter. LOVE ME some Ray Price.







Don Lund

Former MLB player -- via the Detroit Free Press


Rossana Podesta

Actress -- the National Enquirer.

Kees Brusse

Actor, director, and screenwriter -- via NRC Handelsblad.

Lynne Kieran

Singer; best known as a member of the Rounder Girls -- via esctoday.com.

Hung Sin-nui

Opera singer -- via the South China Morning Post.

Audrey Totter

Actress -- via Variety. One of the great, though less-known femme fatales from the classic American noir period. She appeared in classic potboilers such as "Women's Prison," "The Woman They Almost Lynched," "The Set-up," "The Lady in the Lake," and "The Unsuspected."





Sandor Szokolay

Composer -- via hvg.hu.

Jack Purcell

Trombonist and bandleader -- via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Nya Quesada

Actress -- via tn.com.ar.

Robert L. "Chick" Willis

Blues composer, guitarist, and singer -- via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.



Sunday, December 15, 2013

Tom Laughlin

Actor and filmmaker; man behind the "Billy Jack" films -- via the L.A. Times.












Joan Fontaine aka Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Sister of Olivia de Haviland, she won the Oscar for "Suspicion." Best in that, the Orson Welles' "Jne Eyre," and Hitchcock's "Rebecca."



Peter O'Toole

Actor -- via the New York Times. He said he imagined heaven as a series of smoky pub rooms. He turned down a knighthood.

Here are the top films for me -- "Lawrence of Arabia," "What's New, Pussycat?", "The Lion in Winter," "The Ruling Class," "Man Friday," "The Stunt Man," "My Favorite Year," "Masada," "Troy," "Venus."

























Thursday, December 12, 2013

Jim Hall

Guitarist -- via the New York Times.





Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Chet Krule aka Chester Krolewicz

Guitarist -- via ricksmusic.com.

Edward Kleinhammer

Trombonist -- via the Chicago Sun-Times.

Charles "Buddy" Bicknell

Former MLB player -- via legacy.com.

Danny Wells aka Jack Westelman

Actor -- via TV Guide.

Brian Torrey Scott

Writer, playwright, and filmmaker -- via the Brown Daily Herald.

Sister Mary Nerney

Advocate for women in prison -- via the New York Times.

George Werley

Former MLB pitcher -- via legacy.com.

Mary Riggans

Actress -- via The Herald.


Robert Allman

Bass-baritone -- via Limelight Magazine.

Lynne Hazelden

Background artist -- via starwarsaficionado.blogspot.com.

Bill Porter

Door-to-door salesman -- via the New York Times.

Larry Pennell

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. Best remembered for his guest role as Dash Riprock on "The Beverly Hillbillies."




Claire Grove

Radio drama producer -- via the Guardian. Most memorably, she staged the ENTIRE "Ulysses" for audio on Bloomsday, 2012.