THE OBIT PATROL: 2017-05-07

Friday, May 12, 2017

Geoffrey Bayldon

Actor; best known as the beloved 'Catweazle' -- via the Guardian.

Georgia Collins

Actress and director -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Thursday, May 11, 2017

Anne Morrissy Merick

Journalist, editor, and new producer -- via the New York Times.

John Morton

Architect and designer -- via the Guardian. Created popular modern "flat-pack" furniture, and pioneered the development of the open-plan co-working space.

Stanley Weston

The man who thought of G.I. Joe -- via the Washington Post.

Curt Lowens

Actor -- via The Wrap. AKA Curt Lowenstein.

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Ustad Rais Khan

Master sitarist -- via the Times of India.

Almir Guineto

Sambista, or samba singer -- via O Globo.

Steve Sandor

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Svend Wam

Director and screenwriter -- via nrk.no.

Director and screenwriter; best known for Godzilla vs. Hedorah (Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster) -- via Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker. He worked his way up at Toho, and directed the special epic sort The Birth of the Japanese Islands, which played at Expo '70 in Osaka.

Dave Pell

Saxophonist and bandleader -- via the L.A. Daily Mirror.

Mary Tsoni

Actress and singer -- via Variety.

Christopher 'Big Black' Boykin

Performer -- via the New York Daily News.

Robert Miles

Trance producer and DJ -- via the Guardian.

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Thomas Melville

Melville third from right in photo.

Anti-war activist and writer, one of the 'Catonsville Nine' -- via the Washington Post.

George Shephard 'Shep' Houghton

Actor, singer, and dancer; the epitome of the 'background artist', the "Last of the Nobodies' -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. He was a largely non-speaking extra in nearly 200 films and TV shows, beginning with von Sternberg's silent crime masterpiece "Underworld" in 1927, all the way to an "Ellery Queen" episode in 1976. Here's a link to Max Weinstock's great interview with him for the L.A. Review of Books in 2014. He danced in many Busby Berkeley pictures, "The Wizard of Oz," "Gone With the Wind," "The Big Sleep," "Some Like It Hot," "Spartacus," and many more.

Bill Bryson

Country and bluegrass bassist -- via legacy.com.

Joanna Brouk

Composer -- via Pitchfork.

Travis Francis

Conductor -- via todesanzeigenportal.ch.

Agnes Giebel

Soprano -- via Slipped Disc. One of the great Bach interpreters.

Dorothy Dorow

Soprano -- via the Telegraph.

Cel Revuelta

Bassist best known fr his work with Black Flag -- via Ptichfork.

Mary Betten

Actress and comedian -- via legacy.com.

Troy Walcott

Actor and comedian -- via legacy.com.

Monday, May 8, 2017

Edwin Sherin

Award-winning director of stage, television, and film -- via the New York Daily News. He directed Howard Sackler's "The Great White Hope" on Broadway, an much more theater, much New York television, and only two films. However, one of them was the interesting "Valdez is Coming" with Burt Lancaster.