RIP Ernesto Gómez Cruz

 

Renowned Mexican actor Ernesto Gómez Cruz dies

The Mexican art world is in mourning with the death of Ernesto Gómez Cruz, one of the pillars of acting.

People Espanol

By Carolina Amézquita Pino

April 7, 2024

 

The artistic world of Mexico is in mourning for the loss of who was considered one of its great actors, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, who died on April 6, at the age of 90. It was the National Association of Actors of Mexico that was in charge of announcing the death of this celebrity.

"The National Association of Actors regrets the sensitive death of our colleague Ernesto Gómez Cruz," the guild reported on its Instagram and X accounts. "Our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. The artistic community in Mexico today suffers the loss of a great artist and colleague. May Ernesto Gómez Cruz rest in peace."

Gómez Cruz was born in Veracruz, Mexico, on November 7, 1933. His first professional job was as a photographer; Later, through a friend, he was introduced to the dramatic arts. Thus, he moved to the Aztec capital where he studied acting at the National Institute of Fine Arts. Although he had musical interests, he discarded them because he considered that he did not have enough preparation.

He made his film debut in 1967 with the film Los caifanes, where his performance as El Azteca earned him the national Silver Goddess Award. Subsequently, he would obtain other awards and recognitions such as the Ariel.

From then on, the famous man began an important career in the seventh art with titles such as The Barefoot Eagle, Tivoli, Canoe, Acts of Marusia, Kill the Lion; Portrait of a Married Woman and The Alley of Miracles, among others.

On television, the actor starred in the telenovela El padre Gallo and, in addition, he was part of the cast of other melodramas such as Mi segunda madre, La candidata, Mi adorable maldición and Por amar sin ley, to mention just a few.

At the moment, the causes of death of Ernesto Gómez Cruz, who is survived by his daughters Guadalupe and Victoria, are unknown.

CRUZ, RNESTO Gómez

Born: 11/7/1933, Veracruz, Verazcruz, Mexico

Died: 4/6/2024, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico

 

Ernesto Gómez Cruz’s westerns – actor:

Zapata – 1970

La generala – 1971 (Feliciano’s accomplice)

Reed: Insurgent Mexico – 1972 (Pablo Seanze)

La muerte de Pancho Villa – 1974

Pasajeros en transito – 1978 (Jobito)

La Guerra es un buen negocio – 1983 (Ramiro Vidal)

El guerrillero del norte – 1983

Dos pistoleros violentes – 1985

Zapata en Chinameca – 1987 (Panceracio Rodriguez)

La sangre de un valiente – 1993 (Viejo Resendez)

El vuelo del águila – (TV) 1994–1995 (Benito Juárez)

Bamdidas – 2006 (witch)

RIP Cole Brings Plenty

 

Cole Brings Plenty, ‘1923’ Actor, Found Dead at 27 After Being Reported Missing

The actor's uncle Mo Brings Plenty, who also stars in 'Yellowstone,' took to social media earlier this week to ask the public for assistance finding him.

The Hollywood Reporter

By Carly Thomas

April 5, 2024

 

Cole Brings Plenty, an actor in Paramount+’s 1923 who was reported missing earlier this week, has died. He was 27.

The sheriff’s office in Johnson County, Kansas, shared in a news release that deputies were called to Homestead Lane at approximately 11:45 a.m. Friday in reference to an unoccupied vehicle. Authorities said they were searching the area when they “discovered a deceased male in a wooded area away from the vehicle,” who was later identified as Cole.

A cause of death was not immediately available, but the sheriff’s office said it was an ongoing investigation.

On Tuesday, Cole’s uncle Mo Brings Plenty, who also stars in Yellowstone, took to Instagram to ask the public for assistance finding the actor who hadn’t been seen since Sunday in Kansas. The Lawrence Police Department confirmed that he was wanted following an alleged domestic violence incident on March 31.

According to police, officers responded to reports of a female screaming for help on Sunday at an apartment but before they arrived at the scene the suspect had already fled on foot. Authorities said traffic cameras identified Cole as the fleeing suspect, which led police to submit an affidavit to the local district attorney for the arrest of Cole following the incident. “We’ve identified him as the suspect, have probable cause for his arrest, and issued an alert to area agencies,” the Lawrence Police Department wrote in a release on Tuesday.

Authorities in Lawrence have since updated that they’re also at the scene in Johnson County “supporting family and investigators” following Cole’s death.

Later on Friday, Mo took to his social media, writing, “I am deeply saddened to confirm that my son, Cole, has been found and is no longer with us. We want to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone for the prayers and positive thoughts you sent for Cole. We would also like to thank everyone who came to walk beside us as we searched for my son and provided the resources we needed to expand our search areas. I learned this week how many people knew the goodness in Cole’s heart and loved him.”

The post continued, “During this incredibly difficult time, we ask for privacy as we process our grief and figure out how we move forward. Please know we appreciate you and appreciate your understanding.”

Mo had also continued to post on social media throughout the week, asking fans to be on the lookout for Cole. His Instagram post on Thursday said, “We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone in the community who has contributed their time, resources, and support in helping us search for the missing person. Your efforts have not gone unnoticed, and we are truly thankful for your cooperation and dedication during this challenging time.”

Cole appeared in two episodes of the Yellowstone prequel series 1923 last year, as well as in the shows Into the Wild Frontier and The Tall Tales of Jim Bridger

BRINGS PLENTY, Cole

Born: 1996, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.

Died: 4/4/2024, Edgerton, Kansas, U.S.A.

 

Cole Brings Plenty’s westerns – actor:

Into the Wild Frontier (TV) – 2023-2024 (Native American, Shawnee warrior)

1923 (TV) 2023 (Pete Plenty Clouds)

The Tall Tales of Jim Bridger (TV) – 2024 (Crow warrior)

RIP Christopher Durang

 

Christopher Durang Dies: Playwright With A Genius For The Absurd Was 75

DEADLINE

By Greg Evans

April 3, 2024

 

Christopher Durang, one of American’s most acclaimed and accomplished playwrights whose works like Beyond Therapy, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and the Tony-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike were as incisive as they were absurdly comic, died Tuesday night at his home in Bucks County, PA. He was 75.

The office of his agent, Patrick Herold, confirmed that the playwright died peacefully at his home. The cause, according to Durang’s husband John Augustine, was complications from logopenic primary progressive aphasia.”

Durang had been diagnosed with the illness – a form of Alzheimer’s disease that impedes the ability to process language – in 2016. He remained largely out of the public spotlight since his condition was made public in 2022.

In February, New York’s Dramatists Guild announced that the playwright would receive its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award on May 6, placing Durang on a prestigious roster alongside such past awardees as John Guare, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Miller.

Born Christopher Ferdinand Durang on January 2, 1949, Durang soared to fame with his beloved (and controversial) 1980 play Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, winning that year’s Obie Award for Best Playwright.

The public breakthrough of Sister Mary Ignatius followed a celebrated student career at the Yale School of Drama, where he began friendships and collaborations with classmates and future theater luminaries Sigourney Weaver, Albert Innaurato and Wendy Wasserstein. His first professional production, co-authored with Innaurato, came in 1974: The Idiots Karamazov, starring then-student Meryl Streep, earned a review in The New York Times in which Durang and Innaurato were deemed “Yale’s response to Tom Stoppard and Vladimir Nabokov.”

Other plays soon followed, including, in 1976, the Off Broadway farce Titanic starring Weaver and, as part of the same bill, Das Lusitania Songspiel, co-written by and co-starring Durang and Weaver.

The following year, Durang’s A History of the American Film was presented on Broadway, earning him a Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical. In 1979, Durang and Weaver rewrote Das Lusitania Songspiel and presented it at Westside Arts Theatre Off Broadway. The cabaret-style revue, which satirized Brecht and Weill as well as then-current shows including Evita, earned Durang and Weaver Drama Desk nominations.

Durang’s watershed year was 1980, when his one-act play Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You opened at the Ensemble Studio Theatre Off Off Broadway, receiving rave reviews and numerous accolades. The following year, the sharply satiric comedy, in which the title character presents a lecture on the basics of Catholicism only to be interrupted by four of her former students, moved to Off Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons.

The play was as controversial as it was successful: The talk-show host Phil Donahue presented a full hour of his national show to a discussion of the play. The original Off Broadway engagement, originally starring Elizabeth Franz, ran for more than two years, with replacement stars including Nancy Marchand, Mary Louise Wilson, Kathleen Chalfont, Patricia Gage and Lynn Redgrave.

Durang followed Sister Mary Ignatius in 1981 with the Off Broadway hit Beyond Therapy starring Weaver and Stephen Collins, with direction by Jerry Zaks. A revised version was staged the following year on Broadway in a production starring Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow and newcomer David Hyde Pierce. The comedy, about two New Yorkers who seek to strengthen their relationship with the assistance of their respective psychiatrists, has been staged innumerable times around the world; a widely panned 1987 film version directed (and largely rewritten) by Robert Altman was largely disowned by the playwright, who called the project “a very unhappy experience and outcome.”

The Altman film notwithstanding, the 1980s saw Durang solidify his lofty place in the theatrical pantheon, with such widely staged works as Baby With The Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo and Laughing Wild. Durang continued his winning streak through the 1990s (Sex and Longing, Betty’s Summer Vacation) and into the 21st century (his Miss Witherspoon was a 2006 Pulitzer finalist).

Durang saw what was perhaps his crowning achievement in 2012, with Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, a modern-day comedy about three adult siblings that borrowed freely (and hilariously) from Chekhov. Following original stagings at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey and Off Broadway at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, the play transferred to Broadway in 2013 with a cast that included Weaver, Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen and, in a Tony-nominated star-making performance, Billy Magnussen. The play won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play.

In addition to playwriting, Durang was a frequent performer on the cabaret circuit and appeared as an actor in such films as The Secret of My Success (1987), Mr. North (1988), Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989), In The Spirit (1990), HouseSitter (1992) and The Cowboy Way (1994).

In 1993 he performed, along with Julie Andrews, Stephen Collins, Michael Rupert and Rachel York, in the popular Off Broadway Sondheim revue Putting It Together.

In a 1986 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by his longtime friend and collaborator Weaver, Durang participated with Weaver in two sketches. In the 1987 TV special Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin starring Carol Burnett, Carl Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams, Durang contributed a sketch titled “The Funeral” that featured Burnett as a grieving widow and Williams as an obnoxious intruder at her husband’s wake. Williams won an Emmy for the special.

Durang is survived by his husband John Augustine. Services will be private. There will an announcement regarding plans for a memorial at a future date.

DURANG, Christopher (Christopher Ferdinand Durang)

Born: 1/2/1947, Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Died: 4/3/2024, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

 

Christopher Durang’s western – actor:

The Cowboy Way – 1994 (waiter)

RIP Türker İnanoğlu

 

Türker İnanoğlu lost his life 

Producer and film director Türker İnanoğlu died in the hospital where he was taken after a sudden illness.

TRT Haber

4/3/2024

 

The announcement was made by Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, social media He did it from his account.

In his post, Koca said, "Producer and film director Türker İnanoğlu, one of the famous names of our art world, died after he could not be saved despite the interventions made in the hospital where he was taken after his sudden illness. I wish him God's mercy and condolences to his relatives. As his loved ones, our pain is great."

Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Ersoy also made a statement on his social media account regarding the death of İnanoğlu, the famous producer, director and entrepreneur who made important films in Turkish cinema, "It is with great sadness that I learned the news of the death of Türker İnanoğlu, the doyen of Turkish cinema, director, screenwriter, producer and winner of the Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Award."

Minister Ersoy said, "God's mercy on the deceased; I would like to express my condolences to his family and our entire art community."

İnanoğlu will be sent off on his last journey on April 4

A ceremony will be held for İnanoğlu on April 4 at 10:00 a.m. at Tim Show Center. Then, following the noon call to prayer, the funeral prayer will be held at Levent Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha Mosque.

İnanoğlu, who made important films in Turkish cinema, will be buried in the family cemetery in Kanlıca after the funeral prayer.

Turker Inanoglu

Born in Karabük in 1936, Türker İnanoğlu entered the field of cinema as an assistant director in 1957 while he was a student at the School of Applied Fine Arts.

İnanoğlu, who worked as an assistant to famous directors such as Ömer Lütfi Akad and Nişan Hançer, started directing in 1959 with the movie "Senden Separate Yasam".

In 1960, İnanoğlu founded his own film production company called Erler Film.

It broke new ground in the history of Turkish television

İnanoğlu, who produced and directed many films in a short time, introduced video to Turkey by establishing Milli Video Film Inc. in 1979 and broke new ground by starting the distribution of video cassettes for the first time in Turkey.

Later, in 1985, İnanoğlu established a television studio called National Radio and Television, where he made many television productions.

The television program "İcraat İçinden", initiated by İnanoğlu on TRT, has gained an important place in Turkish political history and television broadcasting. The prime minister of the time, Turgut Özal, appeared on this program once a month and explained the government's actions to the public.

İnanoğlu, who also left his mark on the period when private television channels began, founded ATV, one of Turkey's first private television channels, in 1994.

İnanoğlu, who owns Atlas Cinema in Beyoğlu, Kent Cinema in Şişli and Boğaziçi Cinema in Kavacık, opened Türker İnanoğlu Maslak Show Center (TİM) in 2005.

Producer of "Paradise Neighborhood" and "Back Streets"

Throughout his career, İnanoğlu produced 84 films and TV series and directed 71 of these productions.

İnanoğlu, who has made many memorable Yeşilçam films, has recently produced the series "Cennet Mahallesi", "Arka Sokak" and "Akasya Durağı", which left their mark on Turkish television.

Some of Türker İnanoğlu's popular productions are as follows:

"Zubuk", "Arabesque", "Blood Money", "Kara Murat: Fatih's Bouncer", "Bird of Fortune", "Vurgun", "Farewell", "Fadime", "Hafiz Yusuf Efendi", "Yumurcak", "Keriz", "Ömerchip", "Two Captives", "Paradise Neighborhood", "Arka Streets", "Akasya Stop"

INANOGLU, Türker

Born: 5/18/1936, Karabük, Turkey

Died: 4/2/2024, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Türker İnanoğlu’s westerns – producer, director:

Kader bagi – 1967 [producer, director]

Ringo Kazim – 1967 [producer, director]

The Little Cowboy – 1973 [producer]

RIP Lynn Loring

 

Lynn Loring, ‘Search for Tomorrow’ Actress Turned Producer and Top Television Executive, Dies at 80

She produced ‘Mr. Mom’ at Aaron Spelling’s company and while at MGM/UA thought ‘In the Heat of the Night’ would make a great series and that Carroll O’Connor should star in it.

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

April 2, 2024

 

Lynn Loring, who appeared as a young actress on Search for Tomorrow, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and The F.B.I. before becoming one of the highest-ranking female executives in Hollywood at the time, has died. She was 80.

Loring died Dec. 23 at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center after a series of chronic illnesses, her son, Chris Thinnes, told The Hollywood Reporter. Her family chose not to make public her death until now.

Loring also acted in a few movies, including Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass (1961), Pressure Point (1962) and, alongside then-husband Roy Thinnes, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969).

When she was 7, Loring joined the new CBS soap opera Search for Tomorrow in September 1951 for the first of its 35 seasons. She would portray Patti Barron, daughter of Mary Stuart’s Joanne Gardner, for a decade until she graduated from the Calhoun School for Girls and entered Barnard College when she was 14.

She starred on the 1962-63 CBS/Desilu sitcom Fair Exchange, which revolved around American and English families who trade daughters for a year (Loring’s Patty Walker moves to London, while her counterpart, played by Judy Carne, comes to New York). It started out as a one-hour comedy, was canceled and then renewed as a half-hour show — all in the same season.

Loring portrayed the girl beatnik Edwina “Eddie” Kegel, a romantic interest of male beatnik Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver), on two episodes of CBS’ The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis in 1962 and was the daughter of Efrem Zimbalist Jr.’s Inspector Lewis Erskine on the first season (1965-66) of ABC’s The F.B.I.

After leaving acting in 1975 to raise her family, Loring returned to show business four years later as a casting director on the NBC telefilm The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang and on the network’s big-budget flop, Supertrain.

She then joined Aaron Spelling Productions, first as a producer on telefilms including 1979’s The Return of Mod Squad and 1981’s The Best Little Girl in the World — a film about anorexia — then as a vice president of development and talent, motion pictures and television.

In the latter capacity, she produced Mr. Mom (1983), starring Michael Keaton. The comedy was a huge success, grossing more than $120 million on a $5.5 million budget.

Loring exited in 1985 to become a development executive at MGM-UA Television, and she came up with the idea to turn the Oscar best picture winner In the Heat of the Night into a TV series, according to Carroll O’Connor, who starred as Chief Bill Gillespie on the show.

“She said to Fred Silverman one day, ‘I think In the Heat of the Night would make a good series, I would like to see you produce it for us, and I would like you to get Carroll O’Connor to play the chief,” the actor recalled in 1999.

Loring was named president of the division — second in command to MGM/UA Television Productions chairman and CEO David Gerber — in 1989, becoming one of the highest-ranking female execs in Hollywood at the time.

“I don’t look at it as something I’ve accomplished for all womanhood,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 1990. “But in my position, I have an obligation to stand up and be counted. I’m not looking to be a spokesperson for women, but I find what I say matters, and that excites me.”

Lynn Eileen Zimring was born in Manhattan on July 14, 1943. Her father, Charles Zimring, was a New York shipyard owner, and her mother, Barbara Loring, a publicist.

She started modeling when she was 3 and was still just a kid when she starred on commercials for RCA Victor as a sort of junior Betty Furness. While working on New York-based Search for Tomorrow, she had a second gig as the daughter of the title character on the 1953-54 ABC sitcom The Jean Carroll Show.

After Search, Loring was an in-demand guest star, showing up on such shows as Wagon Train, The Eleventh Hour, Gunsmoke, The Defenders, Daniel Boone, Perry Mason, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Big Valley, Burke’s Law, The Wild Wild West, Bonanza, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Mod Squad and Police Woman.

She left MGM/UA in the mid-1990s and became an independent producer.

Loring married Thinnes in 1967 and appeared with him on his ABC sci-fi series The Invaders and in a couple of telefilms before they divorced in 1984. She then wed late attorney Michael Bergman in 1988.

Survivors also include her daughter, Casey-Leigh.

LORING, Lynn (Lynn Eileen Zimring)

Born: 7/14/1944, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Died: 12/23/2023, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A

 

Lynn Loring’s westerns – actress:

Wagon Train (TV) – 1962 (Kathy Jenings)

Gunsmoke (TV) – 1963 (Maybelle)

Daniel Boone (TV) – 1964 (Tekawitha McLeod)

The Big Valley (TV) – 1965 (Maybelle)

Bonanza (TV) – 1966 (Laurie Ferguson)

A Man Called Shenandoah (TV) – 1966 (Jocelyn Moore)

The Wild Wild West (TV) – 1966 (Carma Vasquez)

Lancer (TV) – 1968, 1970 (Jessamie)

Black Noon (TV) – 1971 (Lorna Keyes)

RIP Joe Flaherty

 

Joe Flaherty Dead: ‘Freaks & Geeks’ Star Dies at 82

The actor, who had starred in SCTV and had notable cameos in movies like 'Happy Gilmore' has passed away at 82 years old.

Hollywood Life

By: James Crowley

April 2, 2024

 

Joe Flaherty died at 82 years old, late on Monday, April 1. The comedic actor had starred in tons of classic movies and shows throughout the 70s into the 90s. Following the news of his passing, tributes poured in from many of his co-stars and others who had looked up to him for his years of work.

Joe’s passing was shared by Mad Men star Joel Murray, who acted alongside him in 1986’s One Crazy Summer. “We’ve lost another of my idols. RIP Joe Flaherty,” he tweeted. Jennifer Tilly also shared her memories of working with him on X. “Joe Flaherty played my dad in The Wrong Guy. I was so thrilled to be able to work with him. His performance was pitch perfect. A great comedian. Gone too soon,” she wrote.

Joe’s passing comes about a month after members of Second City, the iconic improv comedy group, organized a fundraiser to support him while he was ill, according to 800 Pound Gorilla Media. Fellow comedy icon Martin Short spoke about how the actor’s health had taken a turn in a statement about the fundraiser. “Our beloved SCTV cast member, Joe Flaherty, is very ill. Joe is aware of the gravity of his failing health and would like to spend whatever time he has left at home rather than in a facility,” he said. “We are writing to our friends because we believe SCTV meant something to you, and that would not be the case if it were not for Joe Flaherty. He was a mentor, a director, and an inspiring improviser who gave us many of the tools we are still using in the careers he helped kickstart. And he made us all laugh! We believe that you would want to know about Joe’s condition and, perhaps, even want to contribute towards his home care.”

Born in Pittsburgh in 1941, Joe’s career in comedy began at the legendary Second City in Chicago. After spending time in Chicago, he moved to Toronto, and he was part of the original cast of the cult-classic sketch comedy show SCTV. The series came to an end in 1984.

Aside from his sketch work, Joe made appearances in various sitcoms and movies. He’s had small roles in many classic movies, such as appearing as the Western Union employee in Back to the Future Part II. He also played the heckler during one of the big games for Happy Gilmore. In 1999, he joined the cast of Freaks and Geeks where he played the father Harold Weir. It’s one of his most well-known performances.

Joe’s final acting credit was in 2014, when he appeared as his beloved character Count Floyd in the short film Nightlife.

The actor was married to Judith Dagley for 22 years, but they divorced. The couple had two children: Gabriel and Gudrun, who is also an actress and writer, per TV Line.

FLAHERTY, Joe (Joseph A. O’Flaherty)

Born: 6/21/1941, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Died: 4/1/2024, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

Joe Flaherty’s western – voice actor.

Home on the Range – 2004 [English voice of Jeb]

RIP Barbara Baldavin

Barbara Baldavin, Actress on ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Medical Center,’ Dies at 85

She later was involved in casting on such series as ‘Dynasty,’ ‘Matt Houston’ and ‘Trapper John, M.D.’

 

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

April 1, 2024

 

Barbara Baldavin, who appeared on three episodes of the original Star Trek and recurred on Medical Center before working in the casting department on shows including Dynasty and Trapper John, M.D., has died. She was 85.

Baldavin died Sunday of congestive heart failure at her home in Manhattan Beach, her son Marc D’Agosta told The Hollywood Reporter.

Baldavin portrayed phaser control officer Angela Martine on two first-season episodes of NBC’s Star Trek in 1966. On the first one, her wedding to Starfleet officer Robert Tomlinson (Stephen Mines) — with William Shatner‘s Capt. Kirk presiding — was interrupted by a Romulan attack.

She then returned as Lt. Lisa, a communications officer and court reporter, on the series finale, “Turnabout Intruder,” which aired in June 1969.

Baldavin played Nurse Holmby on 51 episodes during the last six seasons (1970-76) of CBS’ Medical Center, starring Chad Everett and James Daly. She had appeared as another character on the first season.

In the 1980s, she worked in the casting departments of shows including Hagen — Everett’s series follow-up to Medical Center — Square Pegs, Matt Houston, Dynasty, Finder of Lost Loves and Trapper John, M.D.

A native of Quincy, Massachusetts, Baldavin started acting while attending El Camino College in Torrance, California, and she studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute.

She also showed up on episodes of Rawhide, The Fugitive, Insight, Columbo, Mannix, Adam-12, Toma, The F.B.I., McMillan & Wife, Bronk, Baretta, Barnaby Jones, Charlie’s Angels, Fantasy Island, Vega$ and more.

Baldavin worked as an instructor at Dawn Wells‘ Film Actor’s Boot Camp. She and the late Gilligan’s Island star were great friends and shared a birthdate: Oct. 18, 1938.

Survivors include another son, Joseph, and her grandchildren, Casandra and Justine. Her former husband was Joseph D’Agosta, who served as casting director on Star Trek and other Desilu series.

BALDAVIN, Brabara (Barbara Joanne Baldavin)

Born: 10/18/1938, Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Died: 3/?31/2024, Manhattan Beach, California, U.S.A.

 

Barbara Baldavin’s westerns – actress:

Rawhide (TV) – 1964 (daughter)

Wild Rovers - 1971