Sunday, July 19, 2015

Marlene Sanders

Journalist and broadcaster -- via the New York Times.



M.S.Viswanathan

Composer -- via Variety. AKA Manayangath  Subramanian Viswanathan, MSV.




Mansour Nariman

Oud player -- via BBC Persia.



Olaf Pooley

Actor and writer -- via kasterborous.com.



Randle Catron

Songwriter and preservationist -- via the Memphis Commercial Appeal.


Buddy Buie

Songwriter, music producer, and publisher -- via the Dothan Eagle. Wrote or co-wrote more than 300 songs. With James Cobb, wrote the hits "Spooky," "Traces," and "Stormy" for the Classics IV; wrote "So Into You" and "Imaginary Lover" for Atlanta Rhythm Section.















Dark Cloud

Writer, broadcaster, theater manager, and character -- via the Daily Camera. AKA Dick McLeod.




Claudia Alexander

Research scientist and NASA project manager -- via the L.A. Times. She oversaw the Galileo and Rosetta missions.

Gloria Bently

Soprano -- via the Chicago Tribune. AKA Gloria Lind, Gloria Linari. 

Ettore Stratta

Conductor and music producer -- via the New York Times.

Alex Rocco

Actor -- via Examiner. AKA Alexander Federico Petricone, "Bobo." A severely underrated performer who was so damn good. Best known for his portrayal of Moe Greene in "The Godfather," he was a former hood, associated with the Winter Hill Gang in Boston. According to Wikipedia, "(a)n unwanted advance toward Petricone's then girlfriend on Labor Day, 1961 touched off the Boston Irish Gang War of the 1960s."

Accordingly, he played a lot of wise guys, and was great at it. But he could do a lot more. See the interesting 1988 horror film "Lady in White." Rocco plays a heroic, regular-guy father with appeal and complexity. A real eye-opener as to what he could do on screen.








Thursday, July 16, 2015

Aubrey Morris

Actor -- via the Guardian. AKA Audrey Steinberg. Simply put, he was in everything. Immediately recognizable, he usually played either extremely pleasant or rather suspicious people. Here's a bit of a partial list: "Clockwork Orange," "Love and Death," The Wicker Man," "Lifeforce," and an insane amount of television.





Glenn Houle

Composer and conductor -- via Mountain News.

Javier Krahe

Singer and lyricist -- via El Pais.

Tom Skinner

Singer and songwriter -- via NewsOK.






Sheila Whitely

Musicologist and writer -- via the Manchester Evening News. AKA The Professor of Pop.

"Diamond" Dave Somerville

Lead singer of doo-wop greats The Diamonds -- via the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Trivia: He had a role on an episode of "Star Trek" (Matson in "The Conscience of the King," credited as "David-Troy") and co-wrote "(The Legend of) The Unknown Stuntman," which became the theme song for the TV series "The Fall Guy."

Somerville as Troy as Matson in "Star Trek."






Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Buddy Lively

Former MLB pitcher -- via Dignity Memorial. AKA Everett Aidan Lively, Red.


Mzee Ojwang

Actor -- via the Daily Nation (Kenya). AKA Benson Wanjau.


Bosse Larsson

TV presenter -- via Aftonbladet.

Chenjeral Hove

Poet and novelist -- via the Billings Gazette.


Mahlon Duckett

Former Negro Leagues player -- via philly.com.


Ozor Akubueze

Actor -- via pulse.ng.


Sami El-Adl

Actor, producer -- via Ahram.


David Masondo

Daniel Quinn

Actor -- via The Wrap.


David Aronson

Artist -- via the New York Times.


Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Tom Piccirilli

Writer -- via Locus Magazine.


Joan Sebastian

Singer and songwriter -- via the Latin Times.

Sergey Artsibashev

Actor -- via Interfax.


Hussein Fatal

Rapper -- via US magazine. AKA Bruce Edward Washington Jr., Dizza.




Diarmuid Mac an Adhastair

Actor -- via RTE News.

Patricia Crone

Scholar, writer and historian -- via minds.com.


Flora Carosello

Actress -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.


Charles Winick

Herbert Winters

Actor and dialogue coach -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. AKA Herbert Schwartz.


Caspar Bowden

Anti-surveillance activist -- via the Guardian.




Monday, July 13, 2015

Ernie Maresca

Lucita Soriano

Actress -- via ABS-CBN.

Michael Masser

Songwriter, composer, and producer -- via the Desert Sun . Wrote tons of hits, such as the "Theme from 'Mahogany'," "The Greatest Love of All," "Touch Me in the Morning," and such.




Delroy "Spider" Thompson

Sound engineer -- via the Jamaican Observer.


Peggy Cordero

Actress -- via La Tercera.