RIP Lenor Banks

Advocate

June 23, 2020

Lenore Elizabeth Evans "Nonie" Banks died June 17, 2020 from complications following surgery. She was born in New Orleans to Niles Pelham Evans and Mary Ellen Llewellyn Evans on December 31, 1931. The family moved to Baton Rouge when she was 8 years old and she resided there for the rest of her life, except for 3 years in Chicago. She was a graduate of LSU where she earned a Bachelor Degree in Education and English, a Masters in Speech and Bachelor of Music. She fulfilled all the requirements for Doctorate in Speech except a dissertation. She taught speech at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Baton Rouge High School and English to foreign students at LSU (English Language and Orientation Program) She was an award winning actress and singer at the Baton Rouge Little Theatre (where her picture appears on the Wall of Fame) Nonie was member of the Screen Actors Guild and appeared in over 40 movie and television productions. Music was an important part of Nonie's life. She was a member of the Music Club, the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and her church choirs and other musical groups. She performed for special occasions and she visited nursing homes and assisted living facilities to sing for the residents, sometimes singing some of the thousands for which she wrote the lyrics. Nonie was preceded in death by her parents and is survived by husband Roderick K, Banks, sister Virgina E. Carradine, brother Robert L. Evans (Janice) sons Roderick E. Banks and Frederick T. Banks, daughter-in-law Patrica J. Banks, four grandchildren Aleksandra B. Coursey (Mike), James T. Banks (Charity), Molly E. Banks, and Roderick J. Banks and six great grandchildren. Visitation will be held at Rabenhorst Funeral Home, 825 Government St. from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, Friday, June 26, 2020 with religious services following at 1:30 pm at First United Methodist Church (face masks and social distancing required at the church). Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Park, In lieu of flowers please make donations to First United Methodist Church Sanctuary Renovation Fund or to your favorite charity.

BANKS, Lenor (Lenor Elizabeth Evans)

Born: 12/31/1931, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.

Died: 6/17/2020, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.

Lenor Banks’ western – actress:

Walker, Texas Ranger (TV) – 1994 (Billie Lou)

RIP Mark Glamac

Mark Glamack, Emmy-Nominated Animator, Dies at 73

Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

6/19/2020

He served six terms as a governor with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Mark Glamack, an Emmy-nominated animator who worked on such projects as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, All Dogs Go to Heaven and Life With Louie, has died. He was 73.

Glamack died May 29 in a hospital in Baldwin Park, California, of complications from the herbicide Agent Orange, from which he was exposed during service as a U.S. Army medic in the Vietnam War, attorney Richard Sigler announced.

Glamack also served six terms as a governor of the animation branch of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Born and raised in Rochester, New York, Glamack started his career at Walt Disney Studios working on The Jungle Book (1967), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), The Wonderful World of Disney and EPCOT, among other projects, followed by stints at Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, Film Roman, HBO and MGM.

A writer, producer, director and artist, he worked on characters including She-Ra: Princess of Power, Oliver Twist, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, The Incredible Hulk, Sonic the Hedgehog, Tom & Jerry, Dyno-Mutt, The Flintstones and G.I. Joe.

He was nominated for an Emmy in 1999 for his work on the Fox Kids program Life With Louie, starring Louie Anderson.

For ATAS, Glamack served on the budget, awards, activities and membership committees. He completed his last term as a governor in 2002.

He wrote, illustrated and published the 2007 family-friendly novel The Littluns and the Book of Darkness, a Dove Award winner.

He never married and had no children.

GLAMACK, Mark

Born:  2/14/1947, Rochester, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 5/29/2020 Baldwin Park, California, U.S.A.

Mark Glamack’s western – animator:

C B Bears (TV) – 1977

RIP Claus Biederstaedt

Actor Claus Biederstaedt is dead

Archyde

June 22, 2020

German actor and voice actor Claus Biederstaedt is dead. He died on Thursday at the age of 91, his son confirmed yesterday. “We are very thankful that he died peacefully in his asleep,” he said. Previously, the “image was reported” on the death of the actor.

Biederstaedt was in the 1950s with films like “Charley’s Aunt” at the side of the famous Heinz Rühmann. For the film “Fireworks” with the then 16-year-old Romy Schneider in front of the camera. For his canvas, The Great Temptation (1951) debut he was with the Federal film prize as best young actor award. Overall, he appeared in around 60 movies.

Appeared in over 200 television broadcasts

In the 1960s and 1970s Biederstaedt appeared in more than 200 TV productions, including series such as “Derrick”, “The Black Forest Clinic” and “The Old”.

Also as a synchronous speaker Biederstaedt was successful, among other things, he lent Hollywood greats such as Marlon Brando, Yves Montand, James Garner and Paul Newman in his voice. Later, he focused on the Theater and was still appearing on the stage at an advanced age.

In the past few years it had become quiet around Biederstaedt, after he was diagnosed with tongue cancer. Doctors had to amputate two-thirds of the tongue. The cancer he had defeated, but, said the son. Now, he died shortly before his 92nd birthday.

BIEDERSTAEDT, Claus

Born: 6/28/1928, Staigard. Pomerania, Germany

Died: 6/18/2020, Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany

Claus Biederstaedt’s westerns – actor, voice dubber:

Maverick (TV) – 1957-1962 [German voice of James Garner]

Frontier Doctor (TV) – 1958-1959 [German voice of Rex Allen]

Fury (TV) – 1959 [German voice of Paul Picerni]

Bonanza (TV) – 1966 [German voice of Don Collier]

Chuka – 1967 [German voice of Rod Taylor]

Payment in Blood - 1967 [German voice of Guy Madison]

Mexikanische Revolution (TV) – 1968 (Jose Maria Gonzales)

Pancho Villa – 1968 [German voice of Yul Brynner]

Shalako – 1968 [German voice of Stephen Boyd]

Shotgun – 1968 [German voice of Mimmo Palmara]

High Chaparral (TV) – 1967, 1969-1970 [German voice of Robert Lansing, John Vernon,

     William Sylvester, Ken Mayer]

Ned Kelly – 1969 [German voice of Bruce Barry]

Chisum – 1970 [German voice of Glenn Corbett]

One Little Indian – 1973 [German voice of James Garner]

Burning Daylight (TV) – 1975 (Erzhaler)

Bret Maverick (TV) – 1978 [German voice of James Garner]

Bret Maverick (TV) – 1981-1982 [German voice of James Garner]

Streets of Laredo (TV) – 1995 [German voice of James Garner]

RIP William Hale

Los Angeles Times

June 20, 2020

Emmy Award-winning film and television director passed away in Woodland Hills, Calif. Hale was born in Rome, Georgia to Alma and William Hale. As a college freshman, he worked as an announcer on an Atlanta television station. While watching movies on his night shift, he was inspired to become a film director. After graduating USC film school in Los Angeles, Hale's student film on the Watts Towers caught director George Stevens' eye. Stevens hired Hale to direct the second unit on The Greatest Story Ever Told, beginning a creative mentorship that propelled Hale's career. In the mid-1960's, Hale began directing feature films and TV movies for Universal Studios. Among those films were How I Spent My Summer Vacation, which starred Robert Wagner, Peter Lawford, and Jill St. John. In a fan letter from a young Steven Spielberg praising Hale's film, Spielberg wrote, "I'd like to express how much I truly admire your masterful handling of the show. Each reel manifested itself as the work of sheer talent. I was totally beside myself in admiration of your tremendous dexterity in directing." Other films and television shows Hale directed during that period were Journey To Shiloh, with James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, and Harrison Ford, Run For Your Life with Ben Gazzara, and numerous episodes of Night Gallery and Kojak. During the 1970's, Hale directed a string of successful television series, including The FBI, The Invaders, The Streets of San Francisco and Barnaby Jones. He went on to direct several award-winning mini-series. Notable were Murder in Texas, Lace, People Like Us, and The Murder of Mary Phagan, winning a Peabody Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series (1988).Among the many wonderful actors Hale directed were Helen Mirren, Jack Lemmon, Ava Gardner, Robert Mitchum, Eva Marie Saint, Omar Shariff, Sam Elliot, Angela Lansbury, Andy Griffith, Farah Fawcett and Michael Douglas. Hale is survived by his wife, Trudy Hale of Virginia, and his daughter and son, Tempe and Charlie Hale of Los Angeles. A celebration of his life will be held at a future date to be announced.

HALE, William

Born: 7/11/1931, Rome, Georgia, U.S.A.

Died: 6/10/2020, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.A.

William Hale’s westerns – director:

Cheyenne (TV) – 1955

The Virginian (TV) – 1966

Gunfight in Abilene – 1967

Journey to Shiloh – 1968

Lancer (TV) – 1968-1969

RIP Jean Brousseau

The actor Jean Brousseau is no longer

Radio-Canada

6/18/2020

Actor Jean Brousseau died at home in Montreal on Wednesday at the age of 90.

Father of journalist François Brousseau, the deceased was known in the world of theater and television, especially for the role of Dr Jérôme in the series Les Belles Histoires des Pays d'en haut (from the end of the 1950s to the beginning of the years 1970). We will see him, among other things, playing with Andrée Champagne, who died two weeks ago at the age of 80.

He was also part of the distribution of the Duplessis series by Denys Arcand in 1977, in which he played Paul Gouin. We will also see him in the role of Esdras Jobin in the series Boogie-Woogie 47 by Claude Jasmin in 1980-82.

It was at the beginning of the 1960s, in Montreal, that Jean Brousseau embraced theater as a classical actor by tackling, among other things, Ce fou de Platonov by Tchekhov and Le Pélican . We will see it later in Françoise Loranger's Medium Saignant , where he shared the spotlight with Jean Duceppe, or in Le Misanthrope by Molière, embodying Philinte.

Mr. Brousseau also participated in several Telethéâtres broadcast on Sunday evening on public television.

In 1965, he created on Radio-Canada the role of the madman imagined by Michel Tremblay in Le Train , 1964 prize of Young authors of Radio-Canada, with which the Quebec writer made himself known for the very first time, four years before the famous Sisters-in-law.

Jean Brousseau also has fifteen performances in cinema, notably in Les Mains nettes by Claude Jutra in 1958, Je suis loin de toi mignonne by Claude Fournier in 1976, Black Robe by Bruce Beresford in 1991.

Mr. Brousseau worked for the Union des artistes du Québec, where he was on its steering committee before becoming its president in 1974-75. He was also one of the architects of the first convention on the dubbing of films and series in Quebec.

BROUSSEAU, Jean

Born: 9/8/1929, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Died: 6/17/2020, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jean Brousseau’s westerns – actor:

Tomahawk – 1957 (D’Avignon)

Black Rober – 1991 (Champlain)

RIP Patrick Poivey

Daily Hind News

June 16, 2020

He was a cult voice, that of Patrick Poivey. The French actor, essential voice of the hexagonal dubbing (or post-synchronization as he preferred to name the exercise), left us this Tuesday June 16 at the age of 72 years. Tom Cruise, Kyle MacLachlan, Don Johnson and obviously Bruce Willis are among the actors who were able to rely on the unique stamp of the actor.

Passed by the Cours Simon and the Conservatoire, Patrick Poivey immersed himself in the world of dubbing in the early 70s. Very active in the studio for cinema and television, he illustrated himself on a few films (Massacre with a chainsaw, Apocalypse Now, Tron, The Thing …) and outstanding series (Riptide, Supercopter), before his path crosses that of Bruce Willis.

Since the Claire de Lune series in 1985, his stamp has been inseparable from the career of the American actor, whom he has dubbed on more than 70 films. With the exception of a few feature films (including Le Cinquième Elément), Patrick Poivey and his unique laugh accompanied the star, notably, of course, on the “Yippee Ki Yay” from the Die Hard franchise.

During his vocal career who crossed five decades, Patrick Poivey also dubbed Tom Cruise on ten feature films (including Top Gun and Rain Man), Don Johnson (from Deux cops à Miami à Watchmen), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Desperate Housewives), Michael Biehn (Terminator), Mickey Rourke (9 1/2 weeks), Daniel Day-Lewis (The Last of the Mohicans), Charlie Sheen (Wall Street) or even his brother Emilio Estevez (Young Guns).

Very active in theater, television, radio and advertising, Patrick Poivey had recently participated in the short film We got dubbed alongside other famous dubbing actors. A tasty appearance that you can find in the video below. In the documentary The voices of legendary dubbing accompanying the short film, Patrick Poivey addressed this sympathetic message to the new generation: “If you want to dub, be actors. Go to a drama class near your home, play comedy with your partner and have fun!”

POIVEY, Patrick

Born: 2/18/1948, Paris, Île-de-France, France

Died: 6/16/2020,

Patrick Poivey’s westerns – voice actor:

They Call Me Trinity (DVD) – 1980 [French voice of Terence Hill]

Trinity is STILL My Name (DVD) – 1980 [French voice of Terence Hill]

Davy Crockett (TV) [French voice of Davy Crockett]

Young Guns – 1988 [French voice of Emilio Estevez]

Lucky Luke (TV) – 1991 [French voice of Fritz Sperberg]

Young Guns II – 1992 [French voice of Emilio Estevez]

Far and Away – 1992 [French voice of Tom Cruise]

Deadwood (TV) – 2005-2006 [French voice of Michael Harney]

Django Unchained – 2012 [French voice of Don Johnson]

Sweetwater – 2013 [French voice of Luce Rains]

The Ridiculous 6 – 2015 [French voice of Harvey Keitel]

RIP Pat Brymer

Pat Brymer, Gopher Puppeteer on 'Caddyshack,' Dies at 70

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

6/16/2020

He also worked on 'Team America' and built famed ventriloquist Shari Lewis a new Lamb Chop.

Pat Brymer, a well-known puppeteer and puppet builder who manipulated Bill Murray's irrepressible nemesis, that pesky gopher, for Caddyshack, has died. He was 70.

Brymer died April 12 after a battle with cardiomyopathy at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, family friend Stephen Dolainski told The Hollywood Reporter. The coronavirus pandemic delayed the announcement of his death.

Brymer created an updated version of the woolly Lamb Chop character for renowned puppeteer and ventriloquist Shari Lewis. In the 1990s, they collaborated on the PBS shows Lamb Chop's Play-Along and The Charlie Horse Music Pizza and on Lamb Chop on Broadway.

Brymer also served as principal puppeteer on Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Team America: World Police (2004), for which he also "portrayed" Baxter, the bartender and limo driver.

His credits included such other features as Short Circuit (1986), My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988), So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993), Extreme Movie (2008) and Carving a Life (2017), a 1995 episode of The Nanny and the "McDonaldland" ad campaign for the fast food chain.

James Patrick Brymer was born on March 17, 1950, in Highland Park, Illinois. After four years studying theater at Illinois State University, he moved to St. Louis to work for Sid and Marty Krofft's puppet theater at Six Flags Over Mid-America, building puppets and walk-around characters and performing as a puppeteer.

He worked with the brothers on many other projects, including on the kids TV series The Banana Splits and the Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour, on a Las Vegas show that starred Raquel Welch and on puppets for an Atlanta indoor amusement park launched by the Kroffts.

It was Star Wars veteran John Dykstra who led the team that built the animatronic Bushwood Country Club gopher that bedeviled Murray's Carl Spackler in Caddyshack (1980), but it was Brymer, as the principal puppeteer, who gave him life.

He launched Pat Brymer Creations in 1983 to design puppets and characters for commercials, TV shows and promotions. He also taught puppet-building workshops through the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry, for which he served as a board member and treasurer.

Survivors include his partner of 47 years, husband James T. McDermott. A remembrance of his life will be held at a later date.

BRYMER, Pat (James Patrick Brymer)

Born: 3/17/1950, Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.A.

Died: 4/12/2020, Burbank, California, U.S.A.

Pat Brymer’s western – puppet rigger, wrangler:

The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth: Big Mouth Gulch – 1995