Friday, February 21, 2014

Roy Alvarez

Actor -- via the Philippine Star.


Peter Desbarats

Journalist and writer -- via the Montreal Gazette.

Fernando Gonzalez Pacheco

Broadcaster, journalist, and actor -- via the Latin Times.

Gregorio Jimenez

Journalist -- via the Huffington Post.


Rowan LeCompte

Stained-glass artist -- via the Washington Post.

Maria Agatha Franziska Gobertina von Trapp

Singer and missionary; the last of the Trapp Family Singers of "Sound of Music" fame -- via salzburg.com.

Tomaž Pengov

Singer, songwriter, musician, and poet -- via rtvslo.si.

Olga Jevric

Sculptor -- via tanjug.rs.

Joseph Harb

Writer and poet -- via Alakhbar.

Chris Barry

TV director; helmed "Doctor Who" for 16 years -- via the Telegraph.

Maggie Estep

Writer, poet, and performer -- via the New York Times.

Ralph Waite

Actor best known for his role as the father of "The Waltons" -- via the New York Times.

William "Bunny Rugs" Clarke

Lead singer of reggae group Third World -- via Billboard.

Sean Potts

Tin-whistle player; original member of the Chieftains -- via theindependent.ie.



Ronnie Masterson

Actress -- via rte.ie.

Alice Babs aka Hildur Alice Nilsson

Singer and actress -- via the New York Times.



Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Ann Carter

Child actress; later teacher -- via Variety. She left performing after contracting polio. Her most important role was as the central character in the horror/fantasy "The Curse of the Cat People."

Louan Gideon

Actress -- via the Asheville Citizen-Times.

Del Donahoo

Broadcaster -- via cleveland.com.

Jeffrey G. Leonard Jr.

Doo-wop singer -- via legacy.com. As a member of Little Joey and the Flips, had a hit in 1962 with "Bongo Stomp."

Leonora Amar

Actress -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.




Leila Webster

Singer, actress, and comedian -- via the Belfast Telegraph. Her show-business career lasted -- wait for it -- 80 YEARS.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-26070713

Jean Miller

Actress, caterer, and artist -- via the Telegraph.

Kathryn Findlay

Innovative architect -- via the Guardian.



Juthika Roy

Singer -- via firstpost.com.



K. Lamar Alsop

Violinist (and whistler) -- via the New York Times.


Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Mary Grace Canfield

Actress; best known as Ralph Monroe on TV's "Green Acres" -- via the New York Daily News. A great deadpan comedian in America's unsung surrealist masterpiece of a TV show. As part of a squabbling, brotherly handyman team with her sibling Alf (Sid Melton), Ralph worked on the bedroom of the Douglases for six years without completing it. With music by the great Vic Mizzy!

Bob Casale

Guitarist for Devo -- via TMZ.





Nancy Holt

Artist -- via the New York Times.

Gwen Avery

Singer, songwriter, and activist -- via sfgate.com.






Eric Bercovici

Writer and producer for television --via Variety.

Anne Heyman

Activist who aided Rwandan orphans -- via the New York Times.

Maxine Kumin

Poet and writer -- via the New Yorker.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Isaac de Vega

Writer -- via culturayocio.diariodeavisos.com.

John Ragin

Actor -- via forestlawn.tributes.com.

Bruce Hoy



Dancer and choreographer -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Wu Ma

Actor, director, producer, and writer -- via the Straits Times. One of the most familiar faces of Hong Kong cinema, he appeared in more than 250 films, and directed 42, working with Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, and director Chang Cheh. His favorite role -- the Taoist ghosthunter Yin Chik-ha in "A Chinese Ghost Story."

Eduardo Coutinho

Director -- via the BBC.


Saturday, February 15, 2014

John Henson

Puppeteer; son of Jim Henson -- via seattlepi.com. The best-known Muppet he played was Sweetums, the giant ogre.