RIP Jean Hale

Jean Hale Coleman Dies: ‘Batman’ & ‘In Like Flint’ Actress Was 82

DEADLINE

By Tom Tapp

September 27, 2021

 

Jean Hale Coleman, who made more than 60 appearances in films and on TV staples of the ’60s and ’70s, has died. She was 82.

Her family said today that she died August 3 in Santa Monica.

For decades, Hale worked steadily on some of network TV’s biggest series including Bonanza, Hawaii Five-O, McHale’s Navy, My Favorite Martian, The Perry Mason Show, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Hogan’s Heroes, Cannon, The Wild Wild West and many others.

She also memorably played the Mad Hatter’s fetching paramour Polly, the hatcheck girl, in two episodes of the ABC’s iconic Batman series starring Adam West.

Hale was born December 27, 1938, in Salt Lake City to Doris Norrell and Stanton G. Hale. Her father was a major corporate leader of Mormon heritage and her great grandfather, Soloman Hale, owned a ranch with Brigham Young. She was raised in Darien, CT.

Hale was educated at the University of Utah and went on to attend Skidmore College. After college, she became a model for the Conover Agency and the Huntington Hartford Agency and studied at the acclaimed Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York, from which she also graduated.

At the Neighborhood Playhouse School she studied with Sydney Pollack and Martha Graham and alongside fellow students James Caan, Jerry Weintraub, Jessica Walter, Christopher Lloyd, Brenda Vaccaro, as well as future husband Dabney Coleman.

She and Coleman married in New York in 1961. They had three children, Kelly, Randy, and Quincy, before divorcing in 1984.

In the early 1960’s Hale was spotted by Sandra Dee’s agent Len Luskin walking down 5th Ave and, as a result, landed a contract with 20th Century Fox.

Her film roles include the 1967 spy parody In Like Flint — in which she co-starred opposite James Coburn — as well as Taggart, McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force, The Oscar and Roger Corman’s The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre opposite Jason Robards and George Segal.

In 1984, she started a production company, Coleman-Tanasescu Entertainment, with partner Gino Tanasescu before branching out on her own in 2000.

 

HALE, Jean (Carol Jean Hale)

Born: 12/27/1938, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.

Died: 8/3/2021, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.

 

Jean Hale’s westerns – actress:

Taggart – 1964 (Miriam Stark)

The Virginian (TV) – 1964, 1971 (Eileen Terry, Janet Lawrence)

Wagon Train (TV) – 1964 (Susan Dufee)

The Wild Wild West (TV) – 1965 (Marie Pincher)

The Legend of Jesse James (TV) – 1966 (Elizabeth)

The Loner (TV) – 1966 (Myra Bromley)

Bonanza (TV) – 1968 (Casey Collins)

RIP Basil Hoffman

 Basil Hoffman, ‘The Artist’ and ‘Ordinary People’ Actor, Dies at 83

He had more than 200 acting credits across stage, film and television.

The Hollywood Reporter

By Adiana Brockington

September 23, 2021

 

Basil Hoffman, who starred in the Academy Award-winning films The Artist and Ordinary People, has died. He was 83. 

Hoffman died Friday, his longtime friend and personal manager Brad Lemack announced.

He had more than 200 acting credits across film, television and stage. He appeared as Sloan in Ordinary People (1980) and as an auctioneer in The Artist (2011). Both dramas won best picture at the Oscars. Hoffman also had roles in the films My Favorite Year (1982), The Last Word (2017), All the President’s Men (1976) and Rio, I Love You (2014). Some of his television credits include recurring roles on the 1980s series Hill Street Blues and Square Pegs. 

He will appear posthumously as the lead in the upcoming feature Lucky Louie, now in postproduction.

Throughout his decades-long career, Hoffman worked with 14 Academy Award-winning actors including Dustin Hoffman, Liza Minnelli and Christopher Walken. He was also directed by Oscar-winning filmmakers Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg.

In between playing characters on screen, Hoffman worked as a coach and acting teacher. He wrote three books titled Cold Reading and How to Be Good at It, Acting and How to Be Good at It and Acting and How to Be Good at It: The Second Edition.

Born and raised in Houston, Hoffman attended Tulane University and graduated with a degree in economics. He eventually traveled to New York City to accomplish his dream of becoming an actor. In the Big Apple, he studied acting and trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He filmed commercials and small roles before moving to Los Angeles to land bigger parts.

HOFFMAN, Basil

Born: 1/18/1938, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

Died: 9/17/2021, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Basil Hoffman’s westerns’ – actor

Kung Fu (TV) – 1974 (teleger)

Comes a Horseman (1978) (George Bascomb)

The Electric Horseman 1979 (Toland)

Outlaws (TV) 1986 (driving instructor)

RIP Luid Gaspar

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9/22/2021

Spanish actor, writer, died in Madrid, Spain on September 21, 2021. He was 88. Gaspar appeared in some 1,500 supporting roles in films, TV but mostly as a dubber. His most memorable scene is often cut from Lee Van Cleef’s “The Big Gundown” (1966). Three outlaws are seen making their way through a mountain forest and when they reach the top they think they have met their guide Gulick but it’s lawman, bounty hunter Jonathan Corbett who awaits. Corbett, an honorable and fair man offers the three outlaws a chance to escape if they beat him to the draw in a duel. He puts three bullets on a log in front of the men and each one makes the decision to load his gun and try and outdraw Corbett. Two instantly draw and are slain but the third, the youngest of the bunch surrenders and as Corbett examine the dead outlaws young John O’Leary tries to shoot him in the back. Corbett knows this trick and is ready and shoots and kills his would be slayer. O’Leary is played by Luis Gaspar. Gaspar was born in Burgos, Spain on November 6, 1933 and appeared in five other Euro-westerns: “Dollars for a Fast Gun” in 1965 as Todd Martin; “A Stranger in Paso Bravo” (1966) as the bartender;  “Two Crosses at Danger Pass” (1967) as Mark/Marty/Matt), “Zorro the Lawman” (1969) and “The Black Wolf” (1980) as Ernesto.

GASPAR, Luis (Luis Gaspar Cortina)

Born: 11/6/1933, Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain

Died: 9/22/2012, Madrd, Madrid, Spain

 

Luis Gaspar’s westerns: - actor:

Dollars for a Fast Gun – 1965 (Todd Martin)

The Big Gundown – 1966 (John O’Leary)

A Stranger in Paso Bravo – 1966 (bartender)

Two Crosses at Danger Pass – 1967 (Mark/Marty/Matt)

Zorro the Lawman – 1969

Keoma – 1977 [additional voices]

The Valley of Gwangi – 1977 [Spanish voice of Mario De Barros]

The Black Wolf – 1980 (Ernesto)

Bronco Billy – 1980 [Spanish voice of Bill McKinney]

30 Winchesters for El Diablo – 1984 [additional Spanish voices]

Have a Good Funeral – 1984 [additional voices]

Lucky Luke (TV) – 1985 [Spanish voice of characters]

Wanda Nevada – 1990 [Spanish voice of Bert Williams]

The Man from Oklahoma (TV) – 1992 [Spanish voice of I. Stanford Jolley]

Davy Crockett: en el ojo del Huracan (TV) – 1993 [Spanish voice of Johnny Cash]

Navajo Joe – 1994 [Spanish voice of Gianni Di Stolto]

The Magnificent 7 (TV) – 1998 [Spanish voice of Ned Romero]

Grizzly Adams (TV) 2001 [Spanish voice of Joel Rooks]

Bandidas – 2006 [Spanish voice of Ismael Carlos East]