RIP Sigifredo Vega

 

Sigifredo Vega, famous Colombian actor and recognized in the world of anime, died at the age of 77

The actor, who suffered from cancer and osteoarthritis, faced serious financial and family problems in his later years

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By Daniel Esteban Reyes Espinosa

June 29, 2024

 

Colombian actor Sigifredo Vega passed away on June 29, 2024, at the age of 77, after facing a long battle with cancer. The news was confirmed by SCG Colombia through its Instagram account, highlighting her prolific career in television, theater and dubbing.

Vega, originally from Bogotá, accumulated a career of more than 45 years in the world of entertainment. He is widely remembered for his role as Filemón Barragán in the telenovela Pasión de Gavilanes and his participation in other important productions such as Amar y Vivir and Los Victorinos.

In addition, Vega lent his voice to characters in animated series and video games, thus strengthening his presence in the dubbing industry.

According to information shared by the television program La Red, the actor suffered from cancer that metastasized to several organs, along with degenerative osteoarthritis that aggravated his health condition in recent years.

In a statement, SCG Colombia said: “Today, with deep regret, we say goodbye to our dear partner Sigifredo Vega. Known for his unforgettable role in ‘Pasión de Gavilanes,’ he left an indelible mark on every character he played.”

In addition to his artistic impact, Vega went through a difficult personal period that involved economic and family problems. In an interview conducted three years ago, she said she had no contact with her daughters, who lived abroad, and mentioned that she lived in a room in Bogotá due to an economic crisis.

The death of Sigifredo Vega marks the end of a significant career that left a legacy in Colombian television and dubbing.

The world of Vega dubbing

With an extensive and varied career, Vega participated in multiple theater and television productions, consolidating himself as a figure with a notable career in the country. Among her recognized works are dubbing in various series and radio soap operas, where her voice became synonymous with quality and professionalism.

The voice demos available online show Sigifredo Vega's versatility in different characters and vocal registers. These include archives of notable appearances such as The Graduate (1967), WOW NPC Pandaren Gruff Male, and Supa Strikas Big Bo. His voice left an unmistakable mark on the dubbing industry.

The actor left a relevant legacy in the artistic community of his country. The news of his death has been received with great sorrow by colleagues and followers who recognize his contribution to the world of entertainment and culture.

These are his acting, radio and dubbing participations

The Colombian actor FUE was known for his work in the field of anime, having lent his voice to characters such as Satan Aoi in The War of Sakura (2000) and Sakura Taisen: Ouka Kenran (1997-1998). Other notable roles in anime series include Dantarion in Web Diver (2001), Doctor in Dinozaurs (2000), Satotz in Hunter X (1999), and multiple roles in Samurai X (1997).

In anime films, Yanaka participated in the Colombian dubbing of Street Fighter II: The Movie (1994), playing a bookie, a gang member, and other additional voices. He has also been a part of several animated series, including his role as Santa Claus in The Cuphead Show! (2022), Spong in The Secret Show (2007) and Katana in Shuriken School (2006-2008). His contributions span diverse characters, such as Big Bo and Nacos in Super Strikas (2012-present), Gorgious Klatoo in "Space Goofs" (2005-2006) and Stripes in "Little Robots" (2004).

On television, he worked on series such as On The Road playing Yu Guoqing, and 13 Reasons Why (2017-2020), where he voiced two judges. He was also the presenter and additional vocals on COPS (1989-2020), and appeared as Stuart on Haven (2010-2015).

In film, Yanaka voiced characters such as Talbot in To the Mat (2011) and Captain in House of the Dead (2003). Other notable roles include Walter Huxley in Preggoland (2014), Russell in Inside (2012), and Captain Flint in Treasure Island (2012). His versatility has allowed him to work on a wide range of films over the years.

He has also worked in animated films, playing characters such as Tor in Crossing the Moebius Line (2005), the King of Atlantis in Raiders of the Titanic (2004) and the Duke of Camden in The Legend of the Titanic (1999). Yanaka has lent her voice to documentaries such as Extraordinary Dogs (2011) and popular video games such as StarCraft II (2010) and World of Warcraft (2004), showcasing her talents in a variety of mediums.

In addition, his participation as an actor and voice actor covers nearly 100 national and international productions.

SIGIFREDO, Vega (Sigifredo Vega Pinango)

Born: 1/1/1947, Bogota, Colombia

Died: 6/29/2024, Bogota, Colombia

 

Sigifredo Vega’s western – actor:

Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa (TV) – 2007 (Matias)

RIP Claudio Mancini

 Claudio Mancini, the former boxer producer who worked with Sergio Leone and shot Mario Brega, has died

He was 96 years old and there are many anecdotes about him, perhaps true, perhaps not. An unrivalled craftsman of cinema, he worked with the greatest directors

 

la Republica

By Alberto Crespi

June 29, 2024

Table in a production office. On one side sits Claudio Mancini, producer. On the other, Mario Brega, actor. Both Romans. Both former boxers. Both extraordinary characters. Brega is negotiating for a role in Leone's next film, almost certainly Once Upon a Time in the West (he had just played a major part in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly). He demands higher pay. Maybe too high. At one point, from under the table, Mancini shoots him. A gunshot between the feet. Brega doesn't get upset. He looks at Mancini and says: "To Cla', what are you doing, are you shooting me?" And Mancini: "And I'll shoot you, yes, you've broken the f**** to ask all these deaf people".

Claudio Mancini died yesterday in Rome at the age of 96. He was born in Rome in 1928. When we interviewed him, years ago, he was living in Casal Palocco, in a beautiful villa. After the interview, he took us to visit the wine cellar. In the cellar others have a tavern, a bar, a fireplace, a table for dinners with friends. He had all the boxing equipment: boxing gloves, sack, punching ball. He was already eighty years old or so, and he kept fit like that. He was an extraordinary man, a craftsman of cinema without equal, a mine of anecdotes that maybe were true, maybe not.

This is a piece based on the oral history of Italian cinema, and that's why the quotation marks are in Romanesco, because Mancini only spoke in Romanesco. Many things may not be true. Also the shootout with Brega (which, for the record, in Once Upon a Time in the West, is not there, who knows why?...). But as John Ford says in The Man Who Killed Liberty Valance, when the legend becomes reality, print the legend.

Mancini lived in the historic center of Rome when there were still no pizzas by the slice or sushi-bar. He lived on the streets, like all the children of the 1930s and the immediate post-war period. "My favorite game was stone-throwing. I liked it so much, he threw the serci at the other regazzini. The other wonderful game was the cinema, where mom parked us for whole afternoons, it was our nursery. Cinema made me feel great. And then I saw the stones there too, how much I liked the boys of Paal Street." He started out in the cinema as an electrician's assistant, then did everything: extra, organizer, inspector and production secretary, sometimes director of photography, self-employed producer. He just missed being a director.

Sergio Leone was his friend, his point of reference, his god: "I had a love/hate relationship with him. How he pissed me off!' Ten, twenty, a hundred takes! But for the pursuit of perfection. Once Upon a Time in America was born from a sequence that he always recounted, and then he didn't shoot. Sergio didn't know how to write, but he told films like no one else. The scene looked like this: detail of a man's eyes, very close-up. The car pulls away, we see that this man is on the shoulders of two other men who are supporting him. The car gets out and we see that the man's feet are stuck in a block of concrete. Still without a break, we see that the two guys take the man near the bank of a river and throw him into the water. The car follows him, descends underwater and we see many other concrete blocks from which skeletons emerge. It was too difficult to make. Today, with digital, it would be a game."

Mancini worked with everyone. He did many productions by Ponti and De Laurentiis who stuck him to the ribs of the directors to help and control them. He went to Yugoslavia with David Lean for the inspections of Doctor Zhivago (later they did it in Spain). He went to America on many occasions. A story by Giuliano Montaldo: "Mancini and Leone were producing A Genius, Two Cronies, a Chicken, a comic western directed by Damiano Damiani. Filming took place in Arizona. Damiani ran out of time, the production was in danger of being cancelled and Mancini called Sergio: come, this has been wrapped, we need your help. Sergio took me with him to shoot second unit scenes, action, shootouts, horseback riding, while Damiani worked with the actors. We ended up in Monument Valley, with Sergio saying to me all excitedly: 'To Giulia', but 'o senti, 'o senti?'. And I: To You, but what must I hear? Him: 'John Ford, don't you feel the ghost of John Ford?' I just felt very hot. We shoot in the desert and Mancini has arranged a crazy catering, food and drink for the whole crew. While everyone is eating, a pick-up truck arrives, a Navajo gets out – we were on their reservation – and asks for water to drink. They kick him out in a bad way. The Navajo doesn't flinch: he walks over to the van, opens the door, picks up a Winchester from the windshield, walks back to the crew and fires at the caterer. Everyone under the table, everyone behind the rocks: except Mancini. Claudio goes to the Indian, snatches the Winchester from him and in pure Roman he tells him: 'But you're mad, you're going to kill me all for catering, but he's going to be killed'. The Indian, always imperturbable, goes away."

As a producer he made In the Year of the Lord by Gigi Magni: "Magni was almost a rookie, but he did very well. Initially, we only had to cast unknown actors. Then, for the role of Pasquino, Nino Manfredi enters the film. To which, Gigi and I if we look: ahò, since Nino is there, let's all like them! And so we take Sordi, Tognazzi, Hossein, the Cardinale. And Magni handled them like a tamer. The film was complicated, we had to shoot in the center of Rome covering the asphalt with dust, hiding the road signs. Great experience."

Mancini was the oral history of Italian cinema personified. You could spend hours listening to him. Also for the series "print the legend", he claimed to have invented the nickname "Monnezza" because when he went to visit Tomas Milian for the first time "he opened the door for me all filthy, covered with dirty laundry, like a fruit seller near my house that we called 'er monnezza'". I wonder if that's true. Look for his interviews on Youtube, there are several, a world will open up to you. Among his last engagements there had also been the work on Montalbano and the confirmation of his death came to us from Francesco Bruni and Carlo Degli Esposti. Condolences to the family, to the many children who all work in the cinema.

MANCINI, Claudio

Born: 3/24/1928, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died: 6/29/2024, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Claudio Mancini westerns: - executive producer, assosciate producer, producer, general manager production supervisor, actor:

Once Upon a Time in the West – 1968 (Harmonica’s brother)

Duck You Sucker – 1971 (execution squad leader) [production supervisor, associate producer]

My Name is Nobody – 1973 [executive producer]

The Genius – 1975 [general manager, producer]

Buddy Goes West – 1981 [executive producer]

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things – 2006 [himself]

RIP Bud Smith

 

Bud S. Smith Dies: Academy Award Film Editing Nominee For ‘The Exorcist’ And ‘Flashdance’ Was 88

Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated film editor, died last Sunday at his home in Studio City, California, from respiratory failure after a prolonged illness. He was 88.

DEADLINE

By Bruce Haring

June 29, 2024

 

Smith’s death was confirmed by his wife, dialogue editor Lucy Coldsnow-Smith.

During his five decades as an editor, Smith was a two-time Academy Award nominee, scoring bids in 1975 for William Friedkin’s horror classic, The Exorcist, which Smith shared with Evan A. Lottman and Norman Gay, and in 1984 for Adrian Lyne’s Flashdance

Smith won the BAFTA award for best editing for Flashdance and a career achievement award from the American Cinema Editors in 2008.

His credits also included Putney Swope, Cruising, Sam Raimi’s Darkman, Robert Towne’s Personal Best and Poltergeist II: The Other Side.

In the 1990s, Smith was a film doctor and consultant, most often on the slate at Universal Pictures under exec Casey Silver.

Born on Dec. 6, 1935, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Smith’s first credit came in 1965 for the TV film “The Bold Men.” He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2012.

He is survived by his wife of 33 years, Lucy.

Variety first reported his death.

SMITH, Bud (Bud S. Smith)

Born: 12/6/1935, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Died: 6/23/2024, Studio City, California, U.S.A.

 

Bud Smith’s westerns – film editor:

Dundee and the Culhane (TV) – 1967

Greaser’s Palace - 1972

RIP Martin Mull

 

Martin Mull Dies: ‘Clue’ & ‘Roseanne’ Star Was 80

DEADLINE

By Peter White

June 28, 2024

 

Martin Mull, who played Colonel Mustard in Clue, Roseanne’s boss Leon Carp in the ABC comedy Roseanne and starred with Fred Willard on Norman Lear’s Fernwood 2 Nite, died Thursday at his home. He was 80.

The news was revealed by his daughter Maggie Mull, an exec producer on Family Guy.

“I am heartbroken to share that my father passed away at home on June 27th, after a valiant fight against a long illness. He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials. He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny. My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and—the sign of a truly exceptional person—by many, many dogs. I loved him tremendously,” she wrote.

Mull broke into acting with his role in Norman Lear’s soap spoof Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and its spinoff Fernwood 2 Night after being a country songwriter and musical comedian.

Mull co-starred on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman as Barth Gimble, the husband of Louise Lasser’s titular character – before Hartman got tired of her spouse and stabbed him to death with a Christmas ornament.

“So he was off the series,” director Louis J. Horvitz told The TV Academy Foundation in 2008. “Norman [Lear] decided Martin was so good he wanted to give him another series. So Barth became Garth, his twin brother, and he now was going to do a parody of the local talk show. And because our studio was on Fernwood Avenue in Hollywood, Norman called it Fernwood 2 Nite.”

He went on to have roles in Taxi and Golden Girls before starring on Roseanne, on which he recurred from Seasons 3-9 as Leon Carp, who first was Roseanne’s (Roseanne Barr) boss at the diner and later her business partner at The Lanford Lunchbox. He was a series regular on Fox’s short-lived 2013 sitcom Dads, playing the father of star Seth Green’s character. He also co-starred in Fox’s 2018-19 sitcom The Cool Kids, opposite David Alan Grier, Leslie Jordan and Vicki Lawrence..

Mull’s dozens of TV credits are included recurring as the goofy detective Gene Parmesan on Arrested Development and a guest turn on Veep for which he earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor.

In film, in addition to starring alongside Tim Curry in 1985’s Clue, he starred in Paramount’s 1980 film Serial as well as roles in Mr. Mom and Mrs. Doubtfire.

His last role was in Apple’s The Afterparty.

Mull also released a number of stand-up and musical comedy albums during his career, two of which – 1977’s I’m Everyone I Ever Loved and the following year’s ­Sex & Violins – dented the Billboard 200 chart. They also included a compilation disc titledNo Hits, Four Errors: The Best of Martin Mull and Your Living Room, which spawned the single “Dueling Tubas.” That parody of the instrumental hit “Dueling Banjos” from Deliverance cracked the Billboard Hot 100 for a few weeks in 1973.

MULL, Martin (Martin Eugene Mull)

Born: 8/18/1943, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Died: 6/27/2024, 

Martin Mull's westerns - actor:

Tall Tales & Legends (TV) - 1986 (Governor Ambrose Peasley)

How the West Was Fun - 1994 (Bart Gafooley)

The Ranch (TV) - 2016-2020 (Jerry)

RIP Kinky Friedman

 

Richard “Kinky” Friedman — the provocative and flamboyant Texas satirist who mounted a spirited campaign for governor in 2006 — has died. He was 79.

Friedman launched a boisterous campaign for governor in 2006, decades after forming the band Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys.

The Texas Tribune

By Joshua Fechter and Emily Foxhall

June 27, 2024

 

Friedman died at his longtime home at Echo Hill Ranch in Medina, his friends Cleve Hattersley said in an interview and Kent Perkins said on social media. He had Parkinson’s disease, Hattersley said.

Friedman ran for governor against Republican incumbent Rick Perry in 2006. Despite a colorful campaign and heavy media attention, Friedman finished fourth in the race. He also ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for agriculture commissioner in 2010 and in 2014.

Friedman was known for his outsized persona, pithy one-liners and signature look: curly hair poking out from beneath a black cowboy hat, cigar in hand.

"He was a communicator. An unusual, but very pointed and poignant communicator," Hattersley said. "He could bring you to tears on stage. He could make you roll on the floor in laughter."

Friedman gained a reputation as a provocateur. In the early 1970s, he formed the satirical country band Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys — which penned songs like “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore” and “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed.” Later, he published novels that often featured a fictionalized version of himself, including “Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola” and “Armadillos and Old Lace.”

In politics, Friedman staked out unusual positions at the time for someone seeking statewide office in Texas, like legalization of marijuana and casino gambling. He supported same-sex marriage in 2006, long before the Supreme Court legalized it nationally, quipping, “I support gay marriage because I believe they have right to be just as miserable as the rest of us.”

Hattersley said Friedman's irreverence gave voice to more ideas.

"Right now we're in kind of a time in society where word usage is being suppressed, and language is being codified almost to the point of hieroglyphics and so much is being left out," Hattersley said. "Kinky never left anything out.”

FRIEDMAN, Kinky (Richard Samet Friedman)

Born: 11/1/1944, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Died: 6/27/2024, Medina, Texas, U.S.A.

 

Kinky Friedman’s western – actor:

Palo Pinto Gold – 2009 (Governor of Texas)

RIP Bill Cobbs

 

New York Post

By Lauren Samer

June 26, 2024

 

Veteran actor Bill Cobbs has died at age 90.

Cobbs passed away on Tuesday night at his home in Riverside, CA, of unannounced causes, according to TMZ.

His brother, pastor Thomas G. Cobbs, shared the news on Facebook on Wednesday.

“We are saddened to share the passing of Bill Cobbs,” he wrote.

On Tuesday, June 25, Bill passed away peacefully at his home in California,” Thomas continued.

“A beloved partner, big brother, uncle, surrogate parent, godfather and friend, Bill recently and happily celebrated his 90th birthday surrounded by cherished loved ones. As a family we are comforted knowing Bill has found peace and eternal rest with his Heavenly Father.”

Cobbs had recently celebrated his milestone birthday on June 16.

A prolific character actor, Cobbs had a 50-year-career with nearly 200 credits to his name, including roles in “Air Bud,” “The Bodyguard” and “New Jack City.” In “Night At the Museum,” he played a security guard opposite Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney.

He wasn’t in his first movie until he was 40, finding success later in life.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Cobbs served in the U.S. Air Force as a radar technician for 8 years before his Hollywood career.

He began acting in Cleveland’s Karamu House, a historic black theater that hosted premieres of Langston Hughes’ plays.

He also worked as a car salesman before moving to New York at age 36 to try his luck — and ultimately succeed — as an actor. During that time, he supported himself by driving a cab, among other jobs.

He made his big screen debut in 1974 when he was 40, in “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.”

On the small screen, Cobbs had roles in a wide range of popular shows, including, “Walker, Texas Ranger,” “One Tree Hill,” “The Drew Carey Show,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D,” the Matthew Perry sitcom “Go On,” “The Gregory Hines Show,” and “The Sopranos.”

Cobbs won a Daytime Emmy at the age of 86 for Outstanding Limited Performance in a Daytime Program for the childrens’ show “Dino Dana.”

“We ask for your prayers and encouragement during this time,” his brother wrote on Facebook.

COBBS, Bill (Wilbert Francisco Cobbs)

Born: 6/17/1934, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

Died: 6/25/2024, Riverside, California, U.S.A.

 

Bill Cobbs’ western – actor:

Walker, Texas Ranger (TV) – 1997 (Gino Costa)

RIP Spencer Milligan

 

Spencer Milligan, ‘Land of the Lost’ Star, Dies at 86

He played park ranger dad Rick Marshall on the Sid and Marty Krofft classic before exiting in a financial dispute.

Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

June 25, 2024

 

Spencer Milligan, who starred for Sid and Marty Krofft as the park ranger and widowed father Rick Marshall on the iconic Saturday morning kids show Land of the Lost, has died. He was 86.

Milligan died April 18 at his home in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, his family announced.

Milligan played the heroic father of youngsters Will Marshall (Wesley Eure) and Holly Marshall (Kathy Coleman) on the first two seasons of NBC’s Land of the Lost, which featured a mix of live-action and stop-motion animated dinosaurs. On the sci-fi show, the family is caught in an earthquake while on a rafting trip and propelled into an alternative universe.

Milligan got famous with his likeness appearing on Land of the Lost products like lunch boxes, toys and coloring books, but he quit the show because he said he wasn’t getting paid for that. “We had a difference of opinion, let’s put it this way,” he told the Associated Press in 2009. “I thought it was only fair that everyone should get their fair share.”

At the start of the third season, Milligan was replaced by Ron Harper, who came aboard as Rick’s brother, Jack. The writers explained all this by having Rick sucked through a time doorway and then Jack stumbling upon his niece and nephew after having embarked on a search to find them.

Spencer James Milligan was born on Sept. 10, 1937, in Oak Park, Illinois. He attended Lyon’s Township High School, trained at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and received a nice notice for his turn in Come Back, Little Sheba on a Windy City stage in 1960.

After serving in the U.S. Army through 1966, Milligan studied acting with Lee Strasberg in New York and with Joan Darling in Los Angeles and made his onscreen debut as a party host in the future in Woody Allen’s Sleeper (1973).

Milligan later showed up episodes of such shows as Gunsmoke, Baretta, McCloud, The Bionic Woman, Alice, The Dukes of Hazzard, Police Squad! and The New Mike Hammer.

MILLIGAN, Spencer (Spencer James Milligan)

Born: 9/10/1937, Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.A.

Died: 4/18/2024, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

 

Spencer Milligan’s westerns – actor:

Gunsmoke (TV) – 1975 (Jinx Tobin)

Barbary Coast (TV) – 1976 (Williams)

Father Murphy (TV) – 1981 (Arnie Winkler)

The Yellow Rose (TV) – 1984 (Alton Prine)

RIP Phil Savenick

 

Instagram

By Alison Martino

6/21/2024

 

Our community has lost a very, dear friend today. Phil Savenick was a fixture in this city and a wonderful historian and friend, to many of us. I’m at a loss of words to describe how wonderful and important Phil was. He was the only historian I knew that encouraged me the way he did. A true mentor.

Last year I interviewed Phil for my Robinson’s Gardens segment on spectrum news beautifully produced by @makefreshproductions. Phil gave us the most wonderful interview. I’m posting a few minutes here from that memorable segment.

SAVENICK, Phil (Phillip P. Savenick)

Born: 1/9/1952, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Died: 6/21/2024, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Phil Saveneck’s western – producer, writer:

100 Years of the Hollywood Western - 1994

RIP Evans Evans

 

Evans Evans Dies: ‘Bonnie And Clyde’ Actor, Widow Of Director John Frankenheimer Was 91

DEADLINE

By Greg Evans

June 20, 2024

 

Evans Evans, a character actor who’d made some minor forays into television when she was cast in what would become her most remembered role as a kidnap victim in 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde, died Sunday, June 16. She was 91.

Additional details were not available. Her death was announced in a public obituary.

Born in Bluefield, West Virginia, on November 26, 1932, Evans was resident of Sherman Oaks, California, the widow of director John Frankenheimer. The two wed on December 13, 1963, and remained married until his death on July 6, 2002.

After a string of single appearances on such ’60s episodic TV programs as The Donna Reed Show, Wagon Train, Death Valley Days and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Evans was cast in what would become her signature role for 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde: As Velma Davis, she and scene partner Gene Wilder, in his big screen debut, portrayed two young lovebirds who, while kissing on their front porch, notice that a group of hoodlums is stealing Eugene’s car.

Irate, Eugene and Velma take off after the thieves, then think better of it and turn back, at which point the thieves – who happen to be Bonnie (Faye Dunaway), Clyde (Warren Beatty) and the rest of the Barrow Gang, playfully turn and give pursuit. The outlaws kidnap the initially terrified couple, but soon all involved are having a good old time, driving, ordering take-out burgers, and laughing (or not) at the stale jokes of Buck Barrow (Gene Hackman).

At one point, Velma shocks Wilder’s Eugene Grizzard by blurting her true age – 33. The lark soon comes to an abrupt halt when Eugene mentions that he is an undertaker, a disclosure that upsets the death-obsessed Bonnie. The excursion, one of the film’s lighter and most genuinely comedic scenes, ends on a melancholy note as a panicked looking Bonnie demands that the young couple be kicked out of the car and left standing, with their burgers, on the side of some dark, distant road.

The film would be the high point for Evans’ career, as she appeared in small roles in a handful of projects through the ’70s and, in 1989, Dead Bang, a film directed by her husband Frankenheimer.

Evans appeared on Broadway three times in the late 1950s and early 1960s: First in 1957’s The Dark at the Top of the Stairs; then A Distant Bell (1960) and, that same year, The 49th Cousin.

EVANS, Evans

Born: 11/26/1932, Bluefield, West Virginia, U.S.A.

Died: 6/16/2024, Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.A.

 

Evans Evans westerns – actor:

Gunsmoke (TV) – 1961 (Jenny)

Death Valley (TV) – 1963 (Lou Tazette)

Redigo (TV) – 1963 (Hope)

The Virginian (TV) – 1963 (Phyllis Carter)

Wagon Train (TV) – 1963 (Melody Drake)

RIP Donald Sutherland

 

Donald Sutherland Dies: Revered Actor In ‘Klute’, ‘Ordinary People’, ‘Hunger Games’ & Scores Of Others Was 88

DEADLINE

By Erik Pedersen

June 20, 2024

 

Donald Sutherland, the beloved actor who starred in scores of films from The Dirty Dozen, MASH and Klute to Animal House and Ordinary People to Pride & Prejudice and The Hunger Games franchise and won an Emmy for Citizen X, died Thursday in Miami after a long illness. He was 88.

The 2017 Honorary Oscar recipient also is the father of Emmy-winning 24 and Designated Survivor actor Kiefer Sutherland and veteran CAA Media Finance exec Roeg Sutherland. CAA confirmed the news to Deadline.

In some of his most well-known roles, he perfected a laconic, wry and dead-serious delivery as such characters as the cool-headed amateur murder investigator John Klute, opposite Jane Fonda’s terrified, erratic call girl Bree Daniels, in Klute; as the Hawkeye Pierce in the film MASH, where he played opposite Elliott Gould’s cut-up Trapper John; and in Nicolas Reog’s Don’t Look Now as skeptical John Baxter, who does not believe the claims of wife Laura (Julie Christie) that their recently dead daughter is reaching out from the other side.

In one early change-of-pace characterization, Sutherland played a sadistic fascist in Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1976 epic 1900, in which his character gleefully swings a child by the heels, bashing the boy’s head against a wall.

Born on July 17, 1935, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Donald Sutherland amassed some 200 film and TV credits spanning more than 60 years, from guesting on episodes of 1960s series including Suspense, The Avengers, Court Martial and The Odd Man to last year’s Paramount+ drama Bass Reeves. His big break in movies came with Robert Aldrich’s star-packed 1967 World War II drama The Dirty Dozen, playing Vernon Pinkley opposite Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, George Kennedy, Telly Savalas and others. A hit in theaters, it remains a seminal American war movie.

His next big role was as Capt. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce in Robert Altman’s 1970 Korean War dramedy MASH. The alternatively harrowing and hilarious film earned five Oscar nominations including Best Picture, winning for Ring Lardner Jr.’s biting screenplay, and fueled the 1972-83 CBS series in which Alda Alda played Hawkeye.

Sutherland followed that with another star-laden war movie, 1970’s Kelly’s Heroes, playing Sgt. Oddball alongside Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, Savalas and others. That led to perhaps his biggest star turn, in the 1971 Alan J. Pakula crime drama Klute. He starred opposite Fonda as New York Detective John Klute, who is hired to find a chemical company executive who has disappeared. Fonda won her first Oscar for the role, and Andy Lewis & Dave Lewis were nominated for their Original Screenplay.

Sutherland’s next big movie was Nicolas Roeg’s psychological thriller Don’t Look Now, which he followed up with the 1974 international espionage comedy S*P*Y*S, reteaming with Gould, and 1975’s Hollywood-set Day of the Locust. Starring with William Atherton, Karen Black and Burgess Meredith, he played accountant Homer Simpson, who covets Black’s aspiring actress Faye Greener.

With his film career in high gear, Sutherland starred in yet another big-name war movie in The Eagle Has Landed (1976), with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall, and then had a small role in the 1977 John Landis-directed farce The Kentucky Fried Movie, penned by future Airplane! filmmakers David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker.

1978 would see Sutherland headline three disparate films: heist comedy The Great Train Robbery with Seaon Connery and Lesley-Anne Down; horror thriller remake Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum; and the beloved early-’60s fraternity romp Animal House, also directed by Landis

He had a supporting but key role in the latter, playing Faber College English lit Professor Dave Jennings. His deadpan character bores his classes with lectures on John Milton in one scene and is sleeping with student Katy (Karen Allen) in the next. She was the girlfriend of Boon (Peter Riegert), one of the Delta Chi fraternity members. The cast also included John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Stephen Furst, Bruce McGill, KEvin Bacon, Amadeus Oscar winner Tom Hulce and John Vernon.

Sutherland won a Golden Globe for the television movie Path to War, an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for his performance in the miniseries Citizen X. His extensive television credits also include The Undoing, Trust, Dirty Sexy Money, and The Pillars of the Earth, among many others.

Sutherland is survived by his wife Francine Racette; sons Roeg, Rossif, Angus, and Kiefer; daughter Rachel; and four grandchildren. A private celebration of life will be held by the family.

SUTHERLAND, Donald (Donald McNichol Sutherland)

Born: 7/17/1935, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Died: 6/20/2024, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

 

Donald Sutherland’s westerns – actor:

Alien Thunder – 1974 (Dan Candy)

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (TV) – 1994 (Captain William Marsden)

Cold Mountain – 2003 (Reverend Monroe)

Dawn Rider – 2012 (Cochrane)

Forsaken – 2014 (Reverend Samuel Clayton)

Lawman: Bass Reeves (TV) – 2023 (Judge Parker)

RIP Anthea Sylbert

 

Anthea Sylbert, Costume Designer on ‘Chinatown,’ ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and ‘Shampoo,’ Dies at 84

Variety

By Carmel Dagan

June 18, 2024

 

Anthea Sylbert, an Oscar-nominated costume designer who worked on some of the signature films of the late 1960s and 1970s, including “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Carnal Knowledge,” “Chinatown,” “Shampoo,” “Julia” and “King Kong,” and a producer later in her career on a number of films starring Goldie Hawn, has died. She was 84.

Her death was confirmed by Robert Romanus, who directed a documentary about her life.

Sylbert also served as an executive at United Artists and Warner Bros., at a time when there were few women in the C-suites of Hollywood. She also worked repeatedly with director Mike Nichols, both onscreen and onstage, and was Oscar-nominated for her costuming on period films “Chinatown” (1974) and “Julia” (1977).

Assessing Sylbert’s work on “Chinatown,” GlamAmor, a website dedicated to the history of fashion in film, said in 2012: “Sylbert crafted clothes for Faye Dunaway that work within the warm palette of the film while also referencing noir predecessors like ‘Double Indemnity’ and ‘Mildred Pierce.’ She effectively brings both the highs and lows of 1930s style to life through each character’s costumes in the movie.”

Nicholson was so fond of his wardrobe from “Chinatown” that he made a special effort to keep it.

Sylbert was the costume designer on 21 films, including period pieces “Carnal Knowledge,” with Nicholson and Art Garfunkel; “Chinatown”; Mike Nichols’ “The Fortune,” starring Warren Beatty and Nicholson; “The Last Tycoon,” starring Robert De Niro; “Julia,” starring Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave; Norman Jewison’s “F.I.S.T.,” starring Sylvester Stallone. Other films included Elaine May’s “The Heartbreak Kid” and “A New Leaf,” as well as “The Day of the Dolphin,” directed by Nichols.

In 1977, Sylbert joined Warner Bros. as VP of special projects; a year later she was named vice president of production at the studio. In 1980, she was appointed VP of production at United Artists. In 1982, she became became an independent producer in partnership with Goldie Hawn. (The two women may have met on the set of “Shampoo,” in which Hawn co-starred with Warren Beatty and Sylbert did the costumes.) Together they produced the Hawn vehicles “Protocol” (1984), “Wildcats” (1986), “Overboard” (1987) and “Criss Cross” (1992) as well as the Steve Martin starrer “My Blue Heaven” (1990); Lasse Hallstrom’s “Something to Talk About,” starring Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid; and 1997 TNT telepic “Hope,” directed by Hawn.

As an executive producer of the 1995 HBO biopic “Truman,” starring Gary Sinise, she shared an Emmy for outstanding television movie.

With husband Richard Romanus, Sylbert penned two Lifetime telepics, 1998’s “Giving Up the Ghost” and 1999’s “If You Believe,” the latter of which she also exec produced.

Anthea Sylbert was born in New York City on Oct. 6, 1939. She was educated at Barnard College and the Parsons School of Design in New York.

She had her big screen debut as a costume designer on Arthur Hiller’s contemporary comedy “The Tiger Makes Out,” starring Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson. She collaborated with then-husband Paul Sylbert, the production designer on that 1967 film; on 1971 comedic road movie “The Steagle,” which he wrote and directed; and on 1972’s “Bad Company,” a Western directed by Robert Benton. But she actually had a productive working relationship with production designer Richard Sylbert, Paul’s twin brother, with whom she worked on some eight films, starting with “Rosemary’s Baby” and including “Chinatown.”

Richard Sylbert died in 2002.

Anthea Sylbert was also a costume designer for the stage, including, for director Nichols, two Broadway productions — Neil Simon’s “The Prisoner of Second Avenue,” starring Peter Falk and Lee Grant, in 1971 and Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing,” starring Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons, in 1984, drawing a Tony nomination for the latter. She also designed costumes for a New York production of musical “The Fantasticks.”

Sylbert was interviewed for the 2008 documentary “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.”  She won a career achievement award for film at the Costume Designers Guild Award in 2005.

She moved to Greece later in her life. Her second husband, actor Richard Romanus, whom she married in 1985, died in December 2023.

SYLBERT, Anthea

Born: 10/6/1939, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 6/18/2024, Skiathos, Greece

 

Anthea Sylbert’s westerns – costume designer:

Bad Company – 1972

The Cowboys - 1972

RIP Lynn Fainchtein

Lynn Fainchtein, Music Supervisor of ‘Amores Perros’ and ‘Roma,’ Dead at 61

The music director and producer passed away early Friday (March 1) in Madrid, Spain, where she lived.

Billboard

By Natalia Cano

3/1/2024

 

Mexican music director and producer Lynn Fainchtein, known for her work as music supervisor on films such as Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros and Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, died on Friday (March 1) at the age of 61 in Madrid, Spain, where she lived, informed the record label Casete, which she co-founded.

A cause of death has not been disclosed; a spokesperson for Casete told Billboard Español that he had no information at this time. An outpouring of messages of condolences from musicians, cultural institutions, filmmakers, journalists, actors and personalities of the music and film industry in Mexico flooded social networks during the early hours of Friday, when news of her passing broke.

“Rest in peace Lynn Fainchtein, a beacon of light and music. May the best soundtrack always accompany you,” said Alejandra Frausto, Mexico’s Secretary of Culture, on her X account.

“‘Que Viva Mexico’ forever with your musical supervision, dear Lynn Fainchtein. In ‘Roma,’ ‘Babel,’ with ‘Abel,’ or with ‘Precious,’ ‘Los adioses’ (or goodbyes) are always sad,” wrote the Filmoteca de la UNAM, using titles of films in which the artist worked.

Fainchtein studied psychology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), but for more than three decades, she served as an innovative broadcaster, film, radio and television producer.

In her early days, she worked as an announcer for the local Mexico City station Rock 101, where she met Mexican filmmaker Iñárritu, who was then working in advertising and voice-overs. Eventually, she became one of his closest collaborators in his award-winning film career.

With Iñárritu, she worked as music supervisor on all of his films, including the Oscar-nominated (and/or Oscar-winning) Bardo, The Revenant, Birdman, Biutiful, Babel, 21 Grams and Amores Perros.

“Alejandro always starts working on the music when he is almost finished with the script. For him, music is as important as production, art, wardrobe, makeup. He is a director who works on music a long time before and takes it as a very important part of his projects,” said Fainchtein in an interview with Billboard Español in December 2022.

In 2018, she served as music supervisor for Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, winner of the Golden Lion at the 75th Venice International Film Festival and Academy Awards for best director, best foreign language film and best cinematography.

In 2022, Cuarón invited Lynn to oversee and create the music for his first television series for Apple TV+, Augustus, which would premiere this year, starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline and Sacha Baron Cohen, according to her official website.

She was head of programming and news producer for MTV LATAM until 2000. In 2012 she co-founded the independent record label Casete with musician and producer Camilo Lara, Héctor Reyes Guevara and Paco Arraigada.

As music supervisor and producer, she participated in numerous films and shows for Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Apple, Fox and Star+, among many other studios. She also collaborated regularly with La Corriente del Golfo, the production company founded by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, where she supervised the music for Abel, Déficit, J.C. Chávez and Mr. Pig.

Among her other major projects are David France’s Oscar-nominated documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, Patricia Riggen’s The 33, Luis Estrada’s ¡Qué Viva México, La Dictadura Perfecta and El infierno, as well as Jonás Cuarón’s most recent film, Chupa, released on Netflix in 2023.

Last year, Fainchtein supervised the music for Perdidos en la Noche, by fellow award-winning Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

FAINCHTEIN, Lynn (Lynn Fainchtein Steider)

Born: 3/9/1963, Mexico

Died: 3/1/2024, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

 

Lynn Fainchtein’s western – music supervisor:

The Revenant - 2015

RIP Tony Mordente

 

Actor, Dancer, Choreographer, and Director Tony Mordente Dies at Age 88

Mordente appeared in the Broadway, West End, and film adaptations of West Side Story.

Broadway World

By Stephi Wild

June 14, 2024

 

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that actor, dancer, director, and choreographer Tony Mordente has died at age 88.

Mordente was born on December 3, 1935, in Brooklyn, New York and began dancing at the age of 13.  His early career would include training at the High School of Performing Arts and American Ballet Theater School which led to the launch of his Broadway career. 

Mordente appeared in the Broadway and West End productions of West Side Story, as well as the film adaptation. While making the film, he met Chita Rivera, to whom he previously was married. The pair had a daughter, actress, singer, and dancer, Lisa Mordente, before they were divorced in 1966.

Mordente's other Broadway credits include L'il Abner and Bye Bye Birdie. Also on Broadway, he choreographed Here's Where I Belong and served as assistant choreographer on  Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Television acting credits include Combat! and The Outer Limits. He also choreographed television variety shows, including The Ed Sullivan Show and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. His television directing credits include Rhoda, Matlock, Walker, Texas Ranger, The A-Team, The Love Boat, 7th Heaven, The Practice, Busting Loose, Love, Sidney, Family Ties, Day by Day, M*A*S*H, and Burke's Law, among others.

MORDENTE, Tony (Anthony Charles Mordente Jr.)

Born: 12/3/1935, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 6/11/2024, Henderson, Nevada, U.S.A.

 

Tony Mordente’s western – director:

Walker, Texas Ranger (TV) – 1993-1998

RIP Ilva Niño

Ilva Niño, actress who played Mina in 'Roque Santeiro', dies at the age of 90

The artist became famous for the catchphrase that the Widow Porcina (Regina Duarte) used to call her. Ilva has had a long career in theater, film, and television.

Globo

6/12/2024

 

Actress Ilva Niño, the maid Mina from the soap opera "Roque Santeiro", died in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday (12), at the age of 90.

Ilva had been hospitalized at the Quali Hospital in Ipanema since May 13, when she underwent heart surgery.

Ilva was married to Luiz Mendonça and had a son, Luiz Carlos Niño, both deceased.

The actress has had a vast career on television, with more than 30 soap operas and several series appearances.

The body is expected to be cremated on Thursday, but the place and time had not yet been set at the time of this report's last update.

Actress Ilva Niño was born in the city of Floresta, Pernambuco, on November 15, 1933. He started in the performing arts when he was attending the Normal School and participated in a Greek theater course taught by Ariano Suassuna. She ended up acting in the author's amateur production of Sophocles' "Antigone."

From there, she fell in love with theater and began her career in the Popular Culture Movement during the government of Miguel Arraes, in the early 1960s.

With the coup of 1964, she went to live with her husband in Rio de Janeiro The two already knew the city, as they had performed at a theater festival in the then capital of the country with "O Auto da Compadecida", in 1957, a play that gave the award for best author to Ariano Suassuna.

Ilva also acted in the plays "O Berço do Hero" and in "O Pagador de Promessas", by Dias Gomes.

With the hiring of the writer by Globo, the actress continued with him and did several works: "Verão Vermelho", from 1969; "Bandeira 2", from 1971; "The Goofy," 1972; "Gabriela", from 1975; "Pecado Capital", from 1975 — when she played the mother of Betty Faria and Elizangela's characters —; "Sem Lenço, sem Documento", from 1977, and "Feijão Maravilha", from 1979.

Popular success came with "Roque Santeiro", in 1985, when she played Mina, the maid and confidant of the widow Porcina.

In the 1980s, Ilva Niño established herself as one of the best-known artists on television. In addition to Roque Santeiro, she acted in "Água Viva", 1980; "Partido Alto" (1984); "The Other", 1987; "Baby on Board" (1988) and "Sex of Angels" (1989).

Ilva Niño also participated in Globo's first miniseries, "Lampião e Maria Bonita", from 1982, by Aguinaldo Silva and Doc Comparato. She played Odete, Maria Bonita's mother.

The actress continued acting in the 1990s and 2000s, with "Pedra sobre Pedra", from 1992; "Tropicaliente", 1994; and "Love Story" (1995). She was also in "Suave Veneno" and "Terra Nostra", both from 1999; "Porto dos Milagres", 2001; "Senhora do Destino", from 2004; "Soul Mate", 2005"; and "Seven Sins" (2007).

In 2009, Ilva Niño was in "Cat's Bed". Two years later, in 2011, she was the mother of the cangaceiro played by Domingos Montagner, in "Cordel Encantado". The artist pointed out that it was a different work from Maria Bonita's mother.

"It was really enchanted, it's another relationship of the cangaço, it wasn't that relationship of Lampião, it was more fantasy, more cordel. You watch the whole soap opera and the cangaceiros don't kill a person, they don't shoot anyone, they don't use the gun for anything," the actress said.

The actress is on the air in the reprise of the soap opera "Cheia de Charme", from 2012. She also did the second version of 2013's "Saramandaia" and the 2015 season of "Workout."

About having played many maids, Niño highlighted the importance of the category.

In 2016, the actress promoted the reopening of the Teatro Niño de Artes Luiz Mendonça, in Lapa, in the central region of Rio. Closed for 2 years, the place reopened its doors with the proposal of bringing to the area a space for the exhibition of theatrical and musical shows.

The Teatro Niño de Artes Luiz Mendonça is a tribute to the playwright and director Luiz Mendonça, who died in 1995.

NINO, Ilvo (Ilva Niño Mendonça)

Born: 11/15/1934, Floresta, Peinambuco, Brazil

Died: 6/12/2024, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

Ilva Niño’s western – actress:

Bloody Destiny (TV) – 1982 (Odete)

RIP Fatma Karanfil

 

Master actress Fatma Karanfil passed away.

En.Haberler

6/4/2024

Fatma Karanfil, the veteran actress who made a name for herself with her role in the TV series "Aşk-ı Memnu", passed away in the hospital where she was receiving cancer treatment.

Actress Fatma Karanfil, who played the role of Şayeste in the TV series Aşk-ı Memnu, which aired between 2008 and 2010, had been undergoing cancer treatment for a long time. Sad news came from the actress, whose condition worsened and who was intubated in the past days.

"HER LIGHT WILL NEVER GO OUT, IT WILL ALWAYS SHINE IN OUR HEARTS"

The news of the death of Fatma Karanfil, who passed away at the age of 72, was also announced by her manager. Aslı İslamoğlu, in her post on Instagram, said, "We have learned with deep sorrow the death of our esteemed actress Fatma Karanfil. Fatma Karanfil, who was one of the respected names in Turkish cinema and theater, and who was awarded many awards for her successful projects throughout her artistic career, was not only admired for her acting skills but also for her elegance, hard work, and humanity. While experiencing the deep sadness of this loss, we pray for mercy from Allah for Fatma Karanfil and offer our condolences to her family and all her loved ones. Her light will never go out, it will always shine in our hearts and in the world of art. May her soul rest in peace, dear Fatma Karanfil. This is announced to the entire art community and the public."

WHO IS FATMA KARANFİL?

Fatma Karanfil was born on February 3, 1952, in Eskişehir. After completing her education at the Language and Culture Center, she started her cinema career by winning third place in the Ses Magazine competition in 1968. Karanfil, who married Ali Kocatepe in 1975 but later divorced, received textile training in London between 1976 and 1980. Despite being diagnosed with breast cancer, she overcame the disease and returned to the stage in 2001.

She gained popularity again with her role in the TV series Aşk-ı Memnu, which aired on Kanal D in 2008. Throughout her career, she was awarded many awards. In 1968, she was chosen as the Artist of the Year by the Izmir Journalists Association, and in 1972, she was also awarded the same prize by the Ankara Journalists Association. Karanfil has appeared in many films and TV series such as Yusuf's Mother, Farewell, Kınalı Kuzular: Son Nefes, Kınalı Kuzular: Reşit Paşa Vapuru, Kınalı Kuzular: Üç Kardeş, My Mother-in-Law, Gülpare, Kınalı Kuzular: Nişanlıya Verilen Söz, Three Women, What Will Happen to the Children, Traces on the Beach, Married and Childless, Don't Let the Kids Know, Kınalı Kar, A Woman Makes, The Love of a Bully, Fugitives.

KARANFIL, Fatma

Born: 2/3/1952, Eskisehir, Turkey

Died: 6/4/2024, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Fatma Karanfil’s western – actress:

Cesur kabaday - 1969

RIP Murat Soydan

 

Murat Soydan, the 'Young Boy' of the 70s, passed away

Yeşilçam's master actor Murat Soydan died at the age of 83. The news of the death of Soydan, the 'Young One' of the 70s, was announced by his daughter Mehveş Soydan on social media

Oksijen

6/11/2024

 

Yeşilçam's master actor Murat Soydan died at the age of 83. Soydan's daughter Mehveş Soydan shared the sad news: "We lost my dear father. Our condolences."

Who is Murat soydan?

Veteran actor Murat Soydan, whose real name is Rüçhan Tercan, was born on October 2, 1940 in the Üsküdar district of Istanbul. He attended primary and secondary school in Lüleburgaz and high school in Edirne. He came to Istanbul for university. While studying at the Academy of Economic Sciences, he also graduated from the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music. In 1966, he won the competition opened by the magazine "Perde" together with Tanju Korel and moved to cinema.

Murat Soydan, who started his artistic career in cinema in 1966 with the movie "Kolsuz Kahraman", starred in nearly 200 films. The artist, who also acted in TV series, was the president of the Cinema Actors Association for a while. Murat Soydan, one of the "Young" actors of the 1970s, shared the lead role with Türkân Şoray and Hülya Koçyiğit in many films. Murat Soydan published a book about his life and films in 2016.

Murat Soydan, who starred in 221 films, was the president of the Cinema Actors Association for a while. In 1972, 9. He won the Best Actor Award at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival for his role in the movie Persecution.

SOYDAN, Murat (Rüçhan Tercan)

Born: 10/2/1940, Istanbul, Turkey

Died: 6/11/2024, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Murat, Soyoan’s westerns – actor:

Krallarin Ofkesi – 1970

Olum Fermani – 1970 (Bill)

RIP Tony Lo Bianco

Tony Lo Bianco, 'The French Connection' actor, dead at 87

Tony Lo Bianco dead at 87 after cancer battle

FOX News

By Stephen Sorace

June 12, 2024

 

Tony Lo Bianco, best known for his role in the Academy Award-winning film "The French Connection," has died. He was 87.

Lo Bianco died Tuesday night at his horse farm in Maryland after a battle with prostate cancer, representatives for the actor confirmed to Fox News Digital.

"His beloved wife, Alyse, was by his side," the representative said in an email.

Lo Bianco was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1936. A former Golden Gloves boxer, he would go on to act in theater, film and television, famously portraying mobster Sal Boca in William Friedkin’s "The French Connection." The film, which also starred Gene Hackman and Roy Schieder, was released in 1971 and won five Academy Awards.

Lo Bianco was also known for playing the role of "lonely hearts killer" Raymond Fernandez in the 1970 crime film "The Honeymoon Killers." He would appear on screen alongside Richard Gere in "Bloodbrothers" and Clint Eastwood in "City Heat."

Lo Bianco acted in 102 films during his career, according to his website. His last film was the 2022 Ray Romano-directed comedy "Somewhere in Queens."

Lo Bianco also acted on stage, earning a Tony Award nomination in 1983 for his portrayal of Eddie Carbone in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s "A View from the Bridge." He won an Obie Award for his role in an off-Broadway production of "Yanks-3, Detroit-0, Top of the 7th" in 1975.

His television credits include "Police Story," "Jesus of Nazareth," "Marco Polo," "The Twilight Zone," "Murder, She Wrote," and "Law and Order."

Lo Bianco was also involved in many charitable organizations throughout his life, including the United Service Organizations (USO), Building Homes for Heroes, The Wounded Warrior Project, the National Italian American Foundation, Sons of Italy in America, among others.

His support of U.S. veterans led him to produce and narrate a tribute video called "Just a Common Soldier." The video has received over 22 million views and received two Emmys, according to Lo Bianco's website.

Lo BIANCO, Tony (Anthony Lo Bianco)

Born: 10/16/1936, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 6/12/2024, Poolesville, Maryland, U.S.A.

 

Tony LoBianco’s westerns – director, actor:

Goldenrod – 1976 (Jesse Gifford)

The Secret Empire – 1979 [director]

Walker, Texas Ranger (TV) – Tony Ferrelli)

RIP Françoise Hardy

 

Françoise Hardy, the idol of the yé-yé, has died at the age of 80

Françoise Hardy has passed away at the age of 80, her son Thomas Dutronc announced on Tuesday evening. From Salut les copains to the 2020s, the singer, inseparable from her husband Jacques Dutronc, has crossed the eras and rubbed shoulders with the greatest.

Dernieres Nouvelles d’Alsace

By V.M.M.

June 10, 2022

 

The singer of the yé-yé, Françoise Hardy, has died at the age of 80, her son Thomas Dutronc announced on Facebook. She was suffering from cancer and said she had suffered a lot in recent years.

Already in 2021, she confided that she "felt close to the end": "Since the diagnosis, radiotherapies and immunotherapies have had nightmarish side effects that are ruining my life and weakening me more and more." And in 2023, she campaigned for the legalization of assisted dying, affirming her desire to "leave as soon and as quickly as possible."

"I am a miracle worker." In an interview given in June 2016, Françoise Hardy did not beat around the bush. In no uncertain terms, she recounted her remission from cancer of the lymphatic system. She was enjoying her 17 kilos after a hell at 39 kilos. "I'm a big don!" she laughed, as if to convince her audience.

However, after 28 albums (her latest, Personne d'autre, dates back to 2018) and more than 60 years of career, it was hard to find her really changed. Always that androgynous twig with bangs that eats his eyes. Melancholic voice. Sad look.

A referendum night

Françoise, the unloved, grew up convinced that she was insignificant, suffering from the absence of a bisexual father married to a woman other than her mother.

Writing is his catharsis. So when her face appeared on television on a referendum night in the fall of 1962, she hummed her own words: "All the boys and girls my age... »

The general public discovered Miss Hardy. Paris Match chose her two months later to make its front page.

Fashion Idol

Consecrated as the new idol of song, she joined the yé-yé wave and her Salut les Copains generation and fell in love with the band's photographer, Jean-Marie Périer.

Mini-skirt, boots, her look inspires Courrèges, Paco Rabanne, Saint-Laurent... She wears the most expensive mini-dress in the world or the timeless tuxedo for them. Mick Jagger is making eyes at him. She embodies his ideal woman.

A Personal Message to Jacques

Her slender beauty crossed paths with the camera of Claude Lelouch, then unknown, who made her shoot one of the first scopitones, the ancestor of music videos. Roger Vadim noticed her and made her film debut.

In 1967, his life was turned upside down in Corsica. The sentimental Françoise falls under the spell of the unfaithful Dutronc. "I don't fall in love often. But each time, I like one-way. I always meet boys who only think about themselves. Very self-centered. She then sang Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux, taken from a poem by Aragon.

Two years later, Serge Gainsbourg composed How to Say Goodbye for her and Michel Berger wrote a personal message for her in 1973: "If you believe one day that you love me..."

A masochistic relationship

“It did me a lot of good to put into words the frustrations and pains of my personal life, but it was also a message as beautiful and moving as possible that I was sending to the object of my torment,” Françoise Hardy told AFP in 2021.

With Jacques, her inseparable double, she maintains a fusional and masochistic relationship that leads to a marriage and a son, Thomas. Between them, it’s life and death.

In their large Parisian apartment, they are on a separate floor. In Corsica, Jacques has been living with another woman for 20 years. But these two remain inseparable. They will never divorce. “If one of the two dies, the other will not take long to follow,” she confided to Marc-Olivier Fogiel on her couch in February 2016.

Each one claims in the press to have “long” relationships with other people. However, the bond that unites them remains stronger.

Over the years, Françoise Hardy has developed a speciality other than music: astrology. She has published several books on the subject.

Two resurrections

When she was diagnosed with cancer in 2004, Françoise Hardy took it philosophically. The artist is in the middle of a winning comeback after turning her back on music for a while, convinced that she "couldn't do better".

She is coping well with her first chemotherapy. Weary! His general health is gradually deteriorating. In the spring of 2015, after falling in her shower, she fell into a coma. Thomas urges Jacques to come to his bedside.

"This is the end," say the doctors. They are mistaken. She woke up three weeks later: "I came back to life, but it's very strange, because I think there would have been a coherence in me dying at that moment."

"Illness destroys the mind"

In January 2024, his friend Etienne Daho confided, in the show En Aparté, that "it's very hard not to be able to do anything to relieve your suffering. It's very difficult. I think she doesn't deserve an ending like that really, well, no one deserves an ending like that... She is really in a state of suffering that pains me enormously. »

"Illness destroys the mind," she said in Paris Match at the end of 2023. "With age, after rays that hit the head, which was the case with my 55 radiotherapies, you lose the memory of too many things and the lack of balance reduces the possibility of moving as much as possible."

As she wrote in 1988, in Partir quand même, co-written with Jacques Dutronc: "Leave anyway, leave first, leave the stage in a last effort before saying 'I love you', let the trap close, leave anyway."

The icon bowed out on that June night. Françoise, how can I say goodbye to you?

HARDY, Françoise (Françoise Madeleine Hardy)

Born: 1/17/1944, Paris, Île-de-France, France

Died: 6/11/2024

 

Françoise Hardy’s westerns – actress, singer:

A Fistful of Songs – 1966 (performer) [sings: “Parla mi di te”]

The Man Who Came from Cher (TV) – 1969 (Suzanne) [sings: “Comment te dire adieu”]

RIP Betty Ann Rees

 

Betty Anne Rees, Actress in ‘The Unholy Rollers’ and ‘Sugar Hill,’ Dies at 81

She also appeared on 'The F.B.I.,' ‘My Three Sons,’ ‘Mannix,’ ‘Lou Grant’ and many other shows.

The Hollywood Reorter

By Mike Barnes

June 8, 2024

 

Betty Anne Rees, who portrayed tough women who weren’t very nice in The Unholy Rollers and Sugar Hill, two 1970s offerings from the B-movie factory American International Pictures, has died. She was 81.

Rees died Monday at her home in Hemet, California, after a series of falls and a possible stroke, her niece, Kathleen Loucks, told The Hollywood Reporter. She also was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the early 1990s.

The Ohio native played Janet Ingram, the secretary for Fred MacMurray’s Steve Douglas, on the last of My Three Sons’ 12 seasons in 1971-72. (Abby Dalton was Janet on an episode three years earlier.)

In The Unholy Rollers (1972), directed by Vernon Zimmerman, Rees portrayed Mickey Martinez, a star of the Los Angeles Avengers roller derby team who does not get along with popular new player Karen Walker (1970 Playboy Playmate of the Year Claudia Jennings).

The film, executive produced by Roger Corman and edited by Martin Scorsese, was rushed into production to take advantage of the publicity generated by MGM’s big-budget roller derby movie, Kansas City Bomber, starring Raquel Welch.

Paul Maslansky’s cult blaxploitation film Sugar Hill (1974) starred Marki Bey as Diana “Sugar” Hill, a woman who enlists a voodoo priestess (Zara Cully of The Jeffersons) to bring back long-dead African slaves to take revenge on the Southern mob boss (Robert Quarry) responsible for her fiancé’s death.

As Celeste, the mobster’s racist girlfriend, Rees gets into a fight in a bar with Sugar and (spoiler alert) gets carried off by the zombies at the end.

Elizabeth Anne Rees was born on April 14, 1943, in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Her father, James, was an attorney who owned racehorses, and her mother, Margaret, was a homemaker.

She graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1961 and attended the University of Miami before studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse and appearing on the daytime soap operas General Hospital and The Doctors. In New York, she roomed with future Benson star Caroline McWilliams, later the wife of Michael Keaton.

Rees showed up on a 1966 episode of the ABC series Shane, starring David Carradine, then made her way onto two films released the following year, The Cool Ones and Banning.

Rees went on to appear on such other shows as Adam-12, Medical Center, Mannix, Mod Squad, The F.B.I., Police Woman, S.W.A.T., The Streets of San Francisco, Lou Grant, Barnaby Jones and, in 1978 for her last credit, The Incredible Hulk.

Later, she ran Gloria Marshall Figure Salons, designed kitchens and was said to have invented a goofy ’80s gift for bosses called the “Executive Teething Ring.”

In addition to her niece, survivors include her sister, Barbara; her nephew, Brian; and her cats, Honey Bear and Lovey, who need a home. (Please email Loucks at keloucks620@gmail.com if you can help.)

Rees never married, but her niece said she had a romance in the 1960s with Art Modell, who had recently acquired the NFL’s Cleveland Browns.

REES, Betty Ann

Born: 4/14/1943, Shaker Heights, Ohio, U.S.A.

Died: 6/3/2024, Hemet, California, U.S.A.

 

Betty Ann Rees’ westerns – actress:

Shane (TV) 1966 (Rose)

Bearcats! (TV) – 1971 (Katherine Costello)

RIP Danny Welton

 

Chabad Mt. Olive Cemetery

June 4, 2024

 

Danny Welton, known to many as a legendary harmonica virtuoso and entertainer, passed away on June 3^rd, 2024, in Pasadena, California.

Born Myron Daniel Welton on March 20^th, 1930, in Cleveland, OH Danny’s remarkable talent and passion for music shaped his 90 yearlong illustrious music and entertainment career.

Throughout his life, Danny collaborated with some of the greatest talents in the industry, leaving an indelible mark on the world of music and entertainment. As a harmonica virtuoso, he worked alongside icons such as Henry Mancini, Laurinda Almeda, Les Baxter, David Rose and Steve Rawlins. His contributions earned him a Grammy nomination and established him as a respected figure in the music community.  

Beyond music, Danny’s versatility as an entertainer extended to the realms of comedy and film and TV acting. He shared the stage with luminaires like Milton Berle and Victor Berge, showcasing his comedic talent and musical prowess on cruise ships worldwide. As an actor, Danny’s performances captivated audiences in films such as “The Wild One,” starring Marlon Brando, and “Meet Danny Wilson,” alongside Frank Sinatra. His harmonica melodies added depth and emotion to each role, leaving a lasting impression on cinema history.

Danny’s legacy as a musician, entertainer, and beloved friend will continue to resonate with all who had the privilege of knowing him. His harmonica melodies will echo in the hearts of music enthusiasts, his performances immortalized on screen, and his memory cherished by those who were touched by his presence.

WELTON, Danny (Myron Daniel Welton)

Born: 3/20/1930, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

Died: 6/3/2024, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.

 

Danny Welton’s western – actor:

Hoedwon – 1950 (contestant)