RIP George Eastman

 George Eastman (Luigi Montefiori), an actor of spaghetti western but not only

Among his films were Pupi Avati and Fellini, he was 83 years old

 

ilNordEst.

May 20, 2026

Italian actor and screenwriter George Eastman (stage name of Luigi Montefiori) died yesterday, May 19 at Gemelli Medical Center in via Bagliasco in Rome, home of the hospice of the Catholic University at the age of 83. Luigi Montefiori has starred in numerous spaghetti westerns and genre films, as well as having played one of the legendary poker players in the Christmas Gift film by Pupi Avati. His name in films such as "Boot Hill" and "Hate Your Neighbor." He worked with Mario Bava and Joe D'Amato, then was a TV series writer such as "The Marshal Rocca" and "Honor and Respect". Ligurian origins, two meters high, former rugby player, Montefiori has had a career that has gone through numerous genres: western, horror, thriller, science fiction and popular television. He had chosen an American name sensing that he would take more hold on the audience. Born in Genoa on August 16, 1942, he moved to Rome and attended the Experimental Center of Cinematography under the guidance of Nanni Loy, except to abandon him almost immediately for the sets of Cinecittà. So he contributed to hits like Bill il taciturno (1967), Odia il prossimo tuo (1968), Preparati la bara! (1968), Il mio corpo per un poker (1968), La collina degli stivali (1969), Quel maledetto giorno della resa dei conti (1971), Amico, stammi lontano almeno un palmo (1972), Tutti per uno, botte per tutti (1973). He also worked in Mario Bava's “Angry Dogs” (1974), with Joe D'Amato, for whom he worked as a screenwriter and protagonist. He was also the character of the Minotaur in “Satyricon” by Federico Fellini (1969), the poker player in the diptych “Christmas Gift” (1986) and The “Christmas Rematch” (2004) by Pupi Avati, who also directed him in “Bordella” (1976), until an appearance in “King David” by Bruce Beresford (1985), but also in a moonlight night, by Lina Wertmuller (1989) In those years his activity focused on the production side of screenplays for famous series such as ‘The Team’ and ‘The Marshal Rocca’. Since the years as screenwriter of ‘La team’, ‘Il marshal Rocca’, ‘Il cuore nel pozzo’, has collaborated on the screenplay of the “White One”, but not only up to popular melodramas such as “Honor and Respect” and “Sin and Shame”. He leaves his three children Evelina, Arianna and Tommaso, his wife Manuela and his two grandchildren, Giulio, the son of the eldest Evelina, and Allegra, daughter of Arianna and singer Briga. (ANSA).

EASTMAN, George (Luigi Montefiore)

Born: 8/16/1942, Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Died: 5/20/2026, Rome, Lazio, Italy

 

George Eastman’s westerns – actor, writer:

Django Shoots First – 1966 (Jeff Kluster/Custer) [as George Eastman]

My Name is Pecos – 1966 (Kline/Clain henchman) [as Gigi Montefiore]

Django Kills Silently – 1967 (Bill/Django) [as George Eastman]

Django, the Last Killer – 1967 (Ramón /Chico) [as George Eastman]

Poker With Pistols – 1967 (Lucas) [as George Eastman]

Viva Django! – 1967 (Lucas) [as George Eastman]

Belle Starr – 1968 (Larry Blake/Blackie) [as George Eastman]

Hate Your Neighbor – 1968 (Gary Stevens)

Boot Hill – 1969 (Baby Doll) [as George Eastman]

The Unholy Four – 1969 (Hondo) [as Luca Montefiori) [writer]

The Ballad of Ben and Charlie – 1971 (Charlie Logan) [as George Eastman] [writer]

Bastard, Go and Kill – 1971 (Chaco) [as George Eastman]

Vendetta at Dawn – 1971 (Doctor George Benton/Sabata) – 1971 [as George Eastman]

The Call of the Wild – 1972 (Black Burton) [as George Eastman]

The Three Musketeers of the West – 1973 (Mac Athos/Mercathos) [as George Eastman]

Keoma – 1975 [writer]

Red Coat – 1975 [writer]

The New Land - !9?? [writer for TV series that was never made]

The Tiger from the River Kwai – 1975 (Sheriff Sam) [as George Eastman]

2020 Texas Gladiators - 1982 [director, writer as Alex Carver]

RIP Péter Scherer

 The Jászai Mari Award-winning artist was 64 years old.

Euro News

By Rita Konya

5/19/2026

 

Péter Scherer was born on 16 November 1961 in Ajka. In 1987, he graduated as a civil engineer from the Budapest University of Technology. In 1995 he received an acting diploma from the Hungarian Chamber of Actors. From 1984 to 1995 he was a member of the Arvisura Theatre Society.

Between 1995 and 1997 he worked as a freelance actor, and from 1997 to 2001 he was a member of the Bárka Theatre. Between 2002 and 2008 he was a member of the Krétakör company. He has been a freelancer since 2008, and a member of the Nézőművészeti Kft. since 2009. He often appeared in TV series and also worked a lot as a voice actor.

His main roles include Pilate (The Master and Margarita); Dávid Hornyák (Babelna); Claudius (Hamlet); Friar Francis (Much Ado About Nothing); Macduff (Macbeth); Béla Ormándi (A Midsummer Night's Dream); Lajos Matyik (Titanic Water Revue); N lad (Fun); Dokter (Tótferi); Prezli (Blue, Blue, Blue); Cardinal (Princess of Amalfi); Stage Manager (Six Actors Looking for an Author); Zoltán Csordás (The Bird of Danger); Red (My Homeland); Samrayev (Shirai); Oronte (Misanthrope); Heimdall/ Volker (The Nibelungen Housing Estate); Theseus (Fédra Fitness); The Ice (National Theatre); Papa Ubu (King Ubu and the Hungarians - Budapest Puppet Theatre).

He played in several films, including Kontroll, Argo, Magyar vándor, Valami Amerika, and Amerika Meg (The Lord Gave Me a Lantern in Pest).

His work has been recognized with numerous awards: in 1995 he received the Theatre Critics' Award, in 1999 the Film Critics' Award, in 2007 the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, and in 2009 he received the Mari Jászai Award. In 2020, he was awarded the Karinthy Ring, and in 2024, he was awarded the For Budapest Award. In 2025, he was awarded the Antal Páger Actor Award of the Makó Municipality.

Its company, the Nézőművészeti Kft., will hold a vigil on Tuesday evening from 9 p.m., the commemoration will be hosted by the B32 Gallery and Cultural Space. The organizers are waiting for everyone who would like to say goodbye with a candle, a quiet thought or personal presence, they wrote.

SCHERER, Péter

Born: 11/16/1961, Ajka, Hungary

Died: 5/19/2026, Budapest, Hungary

 

Peter Scherer’s western – actor:

Four Souls of Coyote (TV) – 2023 [Hungarian voice of Kacsa]

RIP Ann Robinson

 

Ann Robinson, Star of ‘The War of the Worlds,’ Dies at 96

The onetime stuntwoman got more mileage out of the 1953 sci-fi movie than "Vivien Leigh did on 'Gone With the Wind,'" she once said.

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

May 17, 2026

 

Ann Robinson, the red-haired actress who was memorably menaced by Martians in the spectacular 1953 sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds, has died. She was 96.

Robinson died Sept. 26 at her home in Los Angeles, her granddaughter, Tori Bravo, told The Hollywood Reporter. Her death had not been publicly revealed until now.

Born in Hollywood, Robinson had broken into the movies as a stunt performer and was an inexperienced contract player at Paramount Pictures when she auditioned for producer and effects wiz George Pal and then cast as library science teacher Sylvia Van Buren in War of the Worlds.

In the Oscar-winning film, based on the H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel, Sylvia and Pacific Tech professor Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry) try to figure out a way to defeat Martians who have landed in a small town outside Los Angeles and all over the planet, employing a fantastic heat-ray to inflict widespread destruction.

“The nations of the world mobilize their armed might rushing to defend the Earth against the unknown weapon of the super race from the Red Planet!” the narrator on the movie trailer exclaims. “Is there nothing that can stop the Martians’ death machines?”

In one creepy scene, a Martian places his long, skinny fingers on the shoulder of an unsuspecting Sylvia, but Clayton comes to the rescue and kills the creature with a hatchet.

“I always thought, ‘This guy might have been nice! Maybe we ruined a chance for peace because Gene Barry got overzealous and threw that hatchet,'” a playful Robinson told Tom Weaver in an interview for his 1994 book, Attack of the Monster Movie Makers.

“This Martian was just coming up behind me to tap me on the shoulder — he wasn’t aggressive, he wasn’t mean. Of course, the Martians had blown my uncle apart, along with a bunch of other people, but maybe this guy was the nice one who wanted to negotiate.”

Steven Spielberg invited Robinson and Barry to reprise that scene in his 2005 version of War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise.

“Steven was just so adorable,” she told Nick Thomas in 2016. “He came up behind me, squatted down and placed three fingers on my left shoulder and yelled, ‘Someone take my picture!’ Apparently, War of the Worlds was one of his favorite films growing up.

“They treated me like royalty,” she added. “My son, who was with me, told me he heard people saying, ‘She’s here, she’s here!’ after we arrived on the set. Then for the Ziegfeld Theater premiere, they flew me to New York first class, put me up in a beautiful hotel overlooking Central Park and arranged for a limousine to drive my family around. I waited 60 years to get that treatment!”

Robinson also played Sylvia on a few episodes of a 1988-90 War of the Worlds syndicated TV series.

“I’ve gotten more mileage out of War of the Worlds than Vivien Leigh did on Gone With the Wind,” she told Weaver.

Born on May 25, 1929, Robinson attended Hollywood High and Sacred Heart Academy in La Canada Flintridge. In one of her first movies, she doubled for June Havoc and got caught on a 15-foot barbed-wire fence trying to escape the Tehachapi state prison in The Story of Molly X (1949).

“I had lied like crazy to get the job, telling everybody how experienced I was!” she told Weaver. “I looked and thought to myself, ‘What have I got myself into?’ But when you’re that young and stupid, nothing fazes you.”

She also rode horses in Black Midnight (1949), starring Roddy McDowall, stepped in for Shelley Winters in Frenchie (1950) and served as an extra in A Place in the Sun (1951), for which director George Stevens gave her a line of dialogue.

Robinson joined the Circle Theatre in Hollywood, then was signed by Paramount for $125 a week as one of the studio’s “Golden Circle” of future stars.

After War of the Worlds and a loan-out to Columbia to work in the film noir The Glass Wall (1953), Paramount decided not to renew her contract. In 1954, she played an L.A. cop opposite Jack Webb in the first Dragnet movie and an alien queen on a syndicated kids sci-fi show, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger.

Robinson put show business on hold in 1957 when she ran off to Mexico to marry Jaime Bravo, a famous matador. That “blew my career right out of the water,” she told Weaver. “When I got back home, Hollywood had passed me by. I just ruined it, I blew it.” She and Bravo had two children before divorcing in 1967.

Robinson, however, did guest-star in the 1960s on many TV shows, including Perry Mason, Bachelor Father, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Peter Gunn, Death Valley Days and 77 Sunset Strip.

In addition to her granddaughter, survivors include a son, Jaime Bravo Jr., a director for ABC Sports and ESPN, and a grandson, Sammy.

ROBINSON, Ann

Born: 5/25/1929, Hollywood, California, U.S.A.

Died: 9/26/2025, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Ann Robinson’s westerns – actress:

Black Midnight – 1949 (girl serving punch at square dance)

Callaway Went Thataway – 1951 (hatcheck girl at Mocambo's)

The Cimarron Kid – 1952 (Stella)

Cheyenne (TV) – 1955, 1957 (Joan Carter, Paula Copeland)

Fury (TV) – 1955-1956 (Helen Watkins)

Gun Brothers – 1956 (Rose Fargo)

Gun Duel in Durango – 1957 (Judy)

Rawhide (TV) – 1960 (Julia Garcia)

The Texan (TV) - 1960 (Anne Carter)

Shotgun Slade (TV) - 1960 (Miss Baxter)

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV) - 1961 (Hetty Doane)

Sugarfoot (TV) - 1961 (Marie McTavish)

Death Valley Days (TV) - 1962 (Millie)

 

RIP Cris Derksen

 

Canadian music world mourns passing of talented and forward-thinking cellist Cris Derksen

People

By Charlie Smith

May 17, 2026

 

A dazzling Two-Spirit cellist with deep connections to Vancouver has died in a car crash in Northern Alberta. UBC-educated composer and performer Cris Derksen, 45, was driving home from her father’s funeral when the collision occurred. Derksen’s wife, Tuscaroran and Scottish Two-Spirit Iroqueer vocalist Rebecca Bensen, is reportedly in critical condition.

Derksen’s aunt Theresa Johnson wrote a tribute on Facebook to her niece.

“My extraordinary, gifted, radiant, cherished niece Cris may have left us prematurely, but her profound legacy and enchanting music will perpetually uplift me. There has to be a divine purpose why I had to bid farewell to her merely a week after laying my brother Bernie, her dad, to rest,” Johnson wrote. “She serenaded him with her cello one final time, and this poignant moment will forever be etched in my memory as a testament to her remarkable talent.”

In a separate post on Facebook, the AIM Booking Agency said that Derksen (she/they) was much more than a client—she was family.

“To know Cris was to know a force of nature,” the company stated over social media. “She was fiercely authentic and deeply generous, and she brought an uncompromising spirit to everything she touched. Her art was a reflection of her soul: poignant, powerful, grounded in heritage, and relentlessly innovative.”

Many others have also expressed their incredible sadness over the Toronto-based cellist’s sudden passing.

DERKSEN, Cris

Born: 4/20/1981, Mackenzie County, Alberta, Canada

Died: 5/16/2026, Alberta, Canada

 

Cris Derksen’s western – composer:

Shadow Trap – 2019

RIP Dennis Rush

 

Parade

By Andrea Reiher

May 14, 2026

 

Child Star Mourns Death of Fellow ‘Andy Griffith Show’ Actor and Close Friend

Former child actor Keith Thibodeaux is mourning the loss of fellow ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ actor Dennis Rush after decades of friendship and appearances together at Mayberry fan events.

Former child star Keith Thibodeaux is mourning the loss of fellow actor Dennis Rush, his longtime friend and former co-star from The Andy Griffith Show.

Thibodeaux, who famously played Little Ricky on I Love Lucy under the stage name Richard Keith, shared the news in an emotional Facebook post alongside a photo of the two actors together at a fan event.

“I just got word that my old buddy Dennis Rush, a fine actor and a great friend passed away,” Thibodeaux wrote. “What a shock.”

He continued by remembering Rush’s connection to The Andy Griffith Show, where the two appeared together as part of Opie Taylor’s (Ron Howard) circle of childhood friends.

“He was with us as one of Opie’s buddies,” Thibodeaux wrote. “He’s the one sitting down. I will miss him at the Andy Griffith festivals as we had so many stories to tell.”

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In a 2022 interview with WRAL, Rush said working on The Andy Griffith Show was “the best.”

“I got to be in eight episodes over about a two-and-a-half-year period. It was just the best of the best,” said Rush in the interview. He also said that he got his start playing James Cagney’s son in the movie Man of a Thousand Faces and that he and the Oscar-winning actor exchanged Christmas cards every year until Cagney died in 1986.

Thibodeaux also revealed that he had recently prayed with Rush after learning of his leukemia diagnosis.

“I’m just glad that I was able to pray with him last month at one of the festivals when he found out that he was diagnosed with leukemia,” he added. “Mayberry has lost a great citizen and a great friend!”

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Fans and former colleagues quickly filled the comments section with condolences. Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, wrote, “Sorry, Keith. Those decades long friendships are the best. He will save a nice place for you where he’s going, I’m sure.”

Another fan commented, “My condolences for the loss of a longtime friend. It seems there is much loss of our generation these days.”

Rush appeared in eight episodes of The Andy Griffith Show as Howie Pruitt, one of Opie Taylor’s close friends. Thibodeaux played Johnny Paul Jason, another recurring member of Opie’s group.

According to his IMDb biography, Rush was born in California in 1951 and appeared in a number of classic television series during the 1950s and 1960s, including Wagon Train, Laramie, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, The Lucy Show and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. His final listed acting credit came in 1966, but it sounds like he routinely attended Andy Griffith Show fan events.

RUSH, Dennis (Dennis E. Rush)

Born: 6/10/1951, California, U.S.A.

Died: 5/14/2026, San Diego, California, U.S.A.

 

Dennis Rush’s westerns – actor:

No Name on the Bullet – 1959 (Billy Chaffee)

The Deputy (TV) – 1959 (Timmy Jackson)

Wagon Train (TV) – 1960-1962 (Davey Adams, David Ivers)

Frontier Circus (TV) – 1962 (boy)

Gunsmoke (TV) – 1962 (kid)

Laramie (TV) – 1962-1963 (boy, Teddy)

RIP Claudine Longet

 

Claudine Longet, Singer-Actress Who Shot Skier Spider Sabich, Dies at 84

Married to Andy Williams, she recorded pop albums and starred with Peter Sellers in ‘The Party’ before being convicted of criminally negligent homicide.

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

May 14, 2026

 

Claudine Longet, the French-born singer, actress and ex-wife of Andy Williams who was at the center of a scandalous 1976 trial and media circus after she fatally shot her boyfriend, Olympic skier Spider Sabich, has died. She was 84.

Her death was reported Thursday by her nephew Bryan Longet. No details of her death were immediately available.

The enchanting, doe-eyed Longet recorded albums of breathy pop for A&M Records before she sang the Henry Mancini-Don Black song “Nothing to Lose” in Blake Edwards’ The Party (1968), in which she portrayed an aspiring actress alongside Peter Sellers.

A onetime Las Vegas showgirl, Longet had married “Moon River” crooner Williams in December 1961 and appeared on his long-running NBC variety show and Christmas specials, often with their three children.

After she and Williams divorced in 1975, Longet and the kids were living with the California-born Sabich at his chalet in Starwood, Colorado, when she shot him on March 21, 1976, in his bathroom with a .22-caliber German‐made gun that had been purchased by his father. She claimed the gun accidentally discharged as he was showing her how it worked.

Longet was with the 31-year-old Sabich in the ambulance when he died on the way to the hospital from a single gunshot wound to the abdomen. A month later, she was charged with reckless manslaughter and faced as many as 10 years in prison.

At her Aspen trial, Williams escorted her to and from the courtroom, testified on her behalf and provided legal assistance. “I thought it was unfair, I thought she was innocent, I thought it was an accident,” he told Cynthia Bowers in a 2009 interview for CBS Sunday Morning.

With the prosecution facing significant hurdles because of mishandled evidence and illegal search practices, a jury after four days of testimony and 3 1/2 hours of deliberations convicted Longet, 36, of criminally negligent homicide, a misdemeanor, in January 1977. She was given two years’ probation, fined $250 and sentenced to 30 days in jail (she was able to serve most of her sentence on weekends).

The Sabich family later filed a civil suit against Longet for $1.3 million, but the case was settled out of court. Longet agreed not to speak publicly about Sabich or the murder and to never publish a book about her life and the trial, and her career as a singer and actress was done.

Claudine Georgette Longet was born in Paris on Jan. 29, 1942. Her father was a businessman specializing in X-ray technology; her mother was a doctor. She was in a production of The Turn of the Screw when she was 10, then appeared on French television and in plays in Milan and Venice.

Hired by nightclub impresario Lou Walters (Barbara Walters’ father), Longet had moved to Las Vegas and was dancing in a Folies Bergère revue at the Tropicana in 1960 when she first met Williams alongside a highway in town.

“My manager and I were driving down there and we saw this lovely girl and her girlfriend, who was also quite pretty, pushing this car,” he told Bowers. “And so, being gallant — and also because they looked pretty good — we stopped to see if we could help them.”

They started dating, and after Williams proposed to her in Paris — she had returned home to her parents, who were alarmed that she was dating an older man — they wed at a church in Bel-Air on Dec. 15, 1961 (she was 19, he was 34).

In 1963, Longet appeared for the first time on The Andy Williams Show and acted on episodes of McHale’s Navy and Dr. Kildare. She later guest-starred on installments of Combat!, 12 O’Clock High, Mr. Novak and Hogan’s Heroes before playing a novelist named Nicole who has a romance with Ben Gazzara’s character on the first-season finale of NBC’s Run for Your Life.

On the May 1966 episode, Longet mimicked playing the guitar and sang an English-French version of the bossa nova song “Meditation.” That got her a contract at Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss’ new A&M label, which released “Meditation” as a single. Her first album, 1967’s Claudine, produced by Tommy LiPuma, sold more than a million copies.

She would record three more LPs for A&M before jumping to Williams’ new Barnaby imprint for 1969’s We’ve Only Just Begun. She and her husband separated around that time — “We just sort of grew apart, I was never home … it was all my fault, I just didn’t take care of my marriage,” he said — though she would continue to appear on his TV shows through 1974. (Her last album was 1972’s Let’s Spend the Night Together.)

Meanwhile, Longet also showed up in the 1965 McHale’s Navy feature and Massacre Harbor (1968) and on TV in The Name of the Game, The F.B.I., The Bold Ones, Love, American Style, Alias Smith and Jones and The Streets of San Francisco.

Longet and Williams were close friends of Robert F. Kennedy and his wife, Ethel, and they were watching his televised primary victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles upstairs in the senator’s suite on June 4, 1968.

After Kennedy was shot shortly after midnight in the hotel by Sirhan Sirhan, the couple joined RFK’s family and other friends at Good Samaritan Hospital, and they were there when he was pronounced dead on June 6, nearly 26 hours after the shooting.

Longet and Williams attended Kennedy’s funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York on June 8 — Williams and a choir performed “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” — and were on the funeral train that took his body to the Arlington National Cemetery in Washington for burial.

She and charismatic Vladimir “Spider” Sabich, who was the model for Robert Redford’s character in Downhill Racer (1969), first met in 1972 at a celebrity skiing exhibition in Bear Valley, California.

At the time of the shooting, they had been living together for a couple of years but their relationship was on the rocks, as she wrote in her diary. (Since officers failed to attain a search warrant, that evidence was inadmissible in court.)

After her sentencing, Longet told reporters she was not bitter. “Because of the many cards and letters I’ve received, the prayers, I feel very good about everybody,” she said.

Her case was spoofed on Saturday Night Live in April 1976 when sportscasters played by Chevy Chase and Jane Curtin offered play-by-play of skiers being “accidentally shot” by Longet while competing in “The Claudine Longet Invitational” in Vail, Colorado. Announcer Don Pardo would read an apology on the air the next week.

The Rolling Stones also recorded a derisive song called “Claudine” for Some Girls that didn’t make it on their 1978 album, apparently for legal reasons.

Longet and one of her defense attorneys, Ronald Austin, moved in together shortly after her sentencing — he was married with two children at the time — and they wed in June 1985, remaining in the Aspen area on a 5.4-acre estate for years before moving to Hawaii.

She had three children with Williams, sons Christian and Bobby (who was named for RFK) and daughter Noelle, who reportedly died in 2023.

LONGET, Claudine (Claudine Georgette Longet)

Born: 1/29/1942, Paris, Île-de-France, France

Died: 5/14/2026, Oahu, Hawaii, U.S.A.

 

Claudine Longet’s western – actress:

Alias Smith and Jones (TV) – 1971 (Michelle Monet)

RIP Donald Gibb

 

'Revenge of the Nerds'

Actor Donald Gibb Dead at 71

TMZ

May 12, 2026

 

Donald Gibb -- best known for playing the lovable brute "Ogre" in the "Revenge of the Nerds" franchise -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

Gibbs' son, Travis, tells TMZ ... Donald passed Tuesday evening due to health complications. He says he died at his home in Texas, where he was surrounded by family, including his kids, who loved him deeply.

We're told his death was not sudden, as Donald had been battling ongoing health issues.

Travis and his family tells us ... Donald loved the Lord and his family, friends and fans with all his heart, and they ask for prayers and privacy during this difficult time. They add that their father will be deeply missed and forever remembered.

Donald became a cult icon in the 1980s thanks to his role as the intimidating --but oddly endearing -- fraternity brother in "Revenge of the Nerds" as well as its sequels. His towering presence and comedic timing made "Ogre" one of the most memorable characters in the franchise.

Beyond that breakout role, Gibb built a steady career in film and television, appearing in projects like "Bloodsport," "U.S. Marshals," and "Hancock." He often played tough-guy roles, leaning into his imposing stature, but those who worked with him knew him as a kind and down-to-earth person off-screen.

Donald was 71.

RIP.

GIBB, Donald (Donald Richard Gibb)

Born: 8/4/1954, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 5/12/2026, Texas, U.S.A.

 

Donald Gibb’s westerns – actor:

Savate – 1999 (Cody Johnson)

Durango Kids – 1999 (Mountain Man Morris