RIP Michael Tylo

 

Veteran Soap Star Michael Tylo Has Passed Away At The Age of 73

 SoapHub

By Michael Maloney

September 29, 2021

 

Soap veteran Michael Tylo, best known for his role as Quinton McCord on Guiding Light, has passed away at the age of 73. His death was announced by a work colleague where Tylo served as a teacher.

In Memoriam: Michael Tylo

“It is with tremendous sadness that the College of Fine Arts and Dean Nancy Uscher share the passing of beloved film professor, Michael Tylo,” read a statement on the University’s website.

“Michael Tylo was a beautiful and caring human being — he was so special,” said Uscher. “He was an exemplary friend, colleague, teacher, and artist. He had such a distinguished and rich career, but he was humble about his accomplishments. He loved his family dearly and lived a joyous life, but he left us way too soon. We will miss him greatly, but feel deep gratitude about all that Michael contributed to the College of Fine Arts, UNLV, and the world.” Tylo’s cause of death or his exact date of death is unknown at press time.

A Lengthy Soap Opera Career

After a brief run as Lord Peter Belton on Another World in 1980, Tylo was cast as Guiding Light’s enigmatic Quinton McCord, a mystery man who employed pregnant Nola Reardon (Lisa Brown) at his home. Quint and Nola went on to become a dynamic supercouple, re-enacting classic movie scenes (including Casablanca) before making their way to the altar.

Tylo exited GL in 1985 and moved on to play roles on All My Children (Matt Connolly) and General Hospital (Charlie Prince). In 1992, he was cast as twin brothers Alex “Blade” and Rick Bladeson opposite Brenda Epperson’s Ashley Abbott.

Tylo returned to GL as Quint when the show wrote in the real-life passing of his TV dad Bill Roerick (ex-Henry). The actor remained on the show until early 1997. His last soap opera role was that of attorney Sherman Gale on The Bold and the Beautiful in 2007. His handle was likely a nod to former Y&R writer and attorney Sherman Magidson.

In real life, Tylo was wed to actress Hunter Tylo (ex-Taylor Hayes, B&B) from 1987-2005. The two had met on the set of AMC in the mid-1980s where she played Robin. The couple had three children, Michael “Mickey,” Jr., who died in 2007, and daughters Izabella Gabrielle and Katya Ariel. In 2012, Tylo and wife Rachelle Tylo welcomed a daughter, Kollette “Koko.” Soap Hub sends sincere condolences to Michael Tylo’s family, friends, and fans at this difficult time.

TYLO, Michael (Michael Edward Tylo)

Born: 10/16/1948, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.

Died: 9/29/2021, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.

 

Michael Tylo’s westerns – actor:

Lonesome Dove (TV) – 1989 (Dee Boot)

Zorro (TV) – 1990-1991 (Alcalde Luis Ramone / Vincente Ramone)

Tommy Kirk 'Old Yeller' Star Dead at 79

 

TMZ

9/29/2021

Tommy Kirk -- best known for playing the kid role of Travis Coates in the 1957 Disney classic "Old Yeller" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Tommy's neighbor found him dead in his Las Vegas home around 8 PM on Tuesday. No foul play is suspected.

Tommy was a teenager when he got his big break in "Old Yeller" ... the story about a boy and his heroic dog. He was Disney's go-to kid actor to fill that All-American persona ... leading to roles in other Disney films, including "The Shaggy Dog, "Swiss Family Robinson" and "The Misadventures of Merlin Jones."

He was discovered in 1954 as a 13-year-old while performing opposite Will Rogers Jr. for the play "Ah, Wilderness!" at the Pasadena Playhouse. Legend has it, Tommy had auditioned for a role nobody else bothered to audition for, so he got it. He had only 5 lines in the play but it was enough for a talent agent to sign him and cast him in an episode of "TV Reader's Digest."

Tommy ultimately ended up getting cast in "The Mickey Mouse Club" ... and appeared in several other TV shows. But, there's no doubt his role in "Old Yeller" shot him to stardom.

But, his time with Disney didn't come without controversy. According to some reports ... Walt Disney personally fired Tommy in 1964 because the 21-year-old was gay.

ommy once said, "When I was about 17 or 18 years old, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn’t going to change. I didn’t know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career and maybe my whole acting career. It was all going to come to an end."

He added, "Eventually, I became involved with somebody and I was fired." Tommy was still cast in films after that, but he admitted they were some of the worst movies he ever made.

Despite the Disney fallout ... Tommy was inducted as a Disney Legend in 2006.

He was 79.

RIP

 

KIRK, Tommy

Born: 12/10/1949, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Died: 9/28/2021, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.

 

Tommy Kirk’s westerns:

Frontier (TV) – 1956 (Mike Austin)

Gunsmoke (TV) – 1956 (Jerry Pitcher)

The Peacemaker – 1956 (Tommy)

The Californians (TV) – 1957 (Billy Kilgore)

Old Yeller – 1957 (Travis Coates)

The Horsemasters (TV) – 1961 (Danny Grant)

Savage Sam – 1963 (Travis Coates)

My Namee is Legend - 1975

RIP Giulia Mafai

 

Giulia Mafai, costume designer and set designer of the great Italian cinema, has died. She was the sister of Miriam and Simona and witnessed the Shoah She was 91, she worked with De Sica, Mastroianni and Sophia Loren. As a young girl she suffered the abomination of racial laws

La Repubblica

September 26, 2021

Giulia Mafai, the third daughter of Mario Mafai and Antonietta Raphaël, sister of the journalist and writer Miriam and the communist senator Simona, both died years ago. Internationally renowned costume designer and set designer, she had therefore experienced firsthand the abomination of racial laws and subsequent persecution. A destiny that she shared with her mother, an extraordinary artist who will soon be remembered in an exhibition in preparation for the Galleria Nazionale in Rome, and with her older sisters.

In her career, Giulia Mafai has worked with various post-war directors and actors, from Vittorio De Sica to Mario Monicelli, from Sophia Loren to Marcello Mastroianni. And again, Elliott Gould, Harvey Keitel, Keith Carradine. She was the creator and curator of the Venice Carnival Laboratory from 1978 to 1985. She collaborated with the Pioneer between 1950 and 1951, publishing texts, illustrations and comics including "Sambo" (1951), "Do You Know Animals?" (1951) and "The King Called Donkey EEars" (1951).

A sculpture created in 1936, entitled The three sisters, immortalizes her together with Miriam and Simona: the writer reads a book, while Simona and Giulia listen attentively. “A simple and serene gesture, repeated who knows how many times in Jewish homes,” Giulia recently commented. "The story could end here, but the drama is upon us: in 1938 racist laws are enacted and all certainty, all sweetness, the dream of a future is destroyed in all Jewish homes."

Hence the decision to donate the work to the Shoah Museum Foundation, on the occasion of the past edition of the European Day of Jewish Culture. "To the memory of the lives destroyed before even starting to live, to the memory of all that could have been and that was destroyed by human cruelty, we place this memory", the message that accompanied this action.

Giulia Mafai was also the author of books. The Girl with the Violin, among others, focuses on her mother. An intimate and poignant testimony. “For years - she reads - I believed that my mother was absolutely unique, completely different from all mothers, from all women I had ever had the opportunity to meet. She is different in everything: in the language with an absurd accent and so abstrusely constructed, in the severe and without appeal judgments, in the uncommon appearance, in the lack of make-up, in the curious and extravagant way of dressing. In absolute indifference to the judgment of others." Be the reminder of her blessing.

MAFAI, Giulia

Born: 1/13/1930, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died: 9/26/2021, Rome, Lazio, Italy

 

Giulia Mafai’s westerns: costume designer, set decorator, production designer, art director, wardrobe:

The Ruthless Four – 1965 [costume designer]

Yankee – 1966 [costume designer, set designer]

Death Walks in Laredo – 1967 [set designer, wardrobe]

Two Faces of the Dollar – 1967 [production designer, set designer]

A Hole in the Forehead – 1968 [set designer, art drector]

I’ll Sell My Skin Dearly – 1968 [costume designer, production designer]

The Stranger’s Gundown -1969 [costume designer, set designer]

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack – 1970 [costume designer]

Shango – 1970 [art director]

Kill Django… Kill First – 1971 [costume designer, production designer]

RIP Jon Gregory

Jon Gregory, British Film Editor on ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral,’ ‘Secrets & Lies’ and ‘Three Billboards,’ Dies at 77

The Oscar nominee got his start at the BBC and collaborated often with directors Mike Leigh, Mike Newell and Martin McDonagh.

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

September 27, 2021

Jon Gregory, the Oscar-nominated British film editor known for his work on Secrets & Lies, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, has died. He was 77.

Gregory died Sept. 9, his agent, Sue Greenleaves, told The Hollywood Reporter. “He was the kindest, most unassuming and humble client ever, and an incredible editor,” she said. No cause of death was disclosed.

Gregory, who got his start in the scenery department at the BBC, worked with director Mike Leigh for more than 30 years, starting with High Hopes (1988) and on other films including Naked (1993), Palme d’Or winner Secrets & Lies (1996), Another Year (2010), Mr. Turner (2014) and Peterloo (2018).

“Of course, the director always has the final word, but through collaborating with Jon, a true artist in his own right, and trusting in his vision, qualities in the material were revealed that I might not otherwise have known were there,” Leigh wrote in a piece for The Guardian that was published Monday.

“Jon might say to me: ‘It’s Thursday; leave me to it, and don’t come back till Tuesday.’ I would duly show up on Tuesday, and he would say: ‘Look, I’ve totally recut this sequence, but if you don’t like what I’ve done, I can put it all back as it was.’ And with rare exceptions, Jon’s radical new version would be a total revelation.”

Gregory also collaborated with director Mike Newell on An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Donnie Brasco (1997), Pushing Tin (1999) and Four Weddings and a Funeral; with John Hillcoat on The Proposition (2005) and The Road (2009); and with Martin McDonagh on In Bruges (2008) and Three Billboards (2017), for which he received his Oscar nom.

Born on May 21, 1944, in what is now Pakistan, Gregory and his family moved to Bangalore, India and then in 1953 to England, where he attended Reigate School in Surrey. “The cinema was the only thing that interested me, so school suffered,” he said in 2018. “That’s the way I’ve always carried on, which is pretty irresponsible, really.”

Gregory didn’t need strong academic credentials to land a job on the scenery crew at the BBC, and it was there that he decided to become a film editor. He cut such TV programs as Play for Today, Open All Hours and Nancy Astor, then earned the first of his four BAFTA nominations for cutting the 1989 miniseries Traffik.

Gregory’s big-screen résumé also included Living Out Loud (1998), Beautiful Creatures (2000), Killing Me Softly (2002), Ned Kelly (2003), Penelope (2006) and Hysteria (2011).

Survivors include his second wife, Sue, his longtime partner whom he married last year; his children, Amanda and Claire; stepdaughter Sarah; and grandchildren Serenah, Summer, Kit, Gabriel J, Ava, Bodie, Asher, Gabriel and Erin.

“Jon is one of the best editors I’ve ever worked with,” two-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer Dick Pope said in 2019. “[His] editing is incredibly sympathetic to my cinematography. In the hands of a more ruthless editor, I wouldn’t get nearly such a crack at the visual side because I know it would be chopped up. But Jon lets things run. I’ve always loved working with Jon because I know that whatever I produce, he’ll make the most of it.”

GREGORY, Jon (Jon Henry Albert Gregory)

Born: 5/21/1944, Lahore, India

Died: 9/19/2021,

 

Jon Gregory’s westerns – film editor:

Ned Kelly – 2003

The Proposition – 2005

Slow West - 2015