RIP Fred Nolan

 

Wild West History Association

June 17, 2022

 

WWHA regrets to announce the death of another of our charter members: Frederick William "Fred" Nolan (born March 7, 1931 in Liverpool) passed away at his home in Chalfont St. Giles, United Kingdom on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, at the age of 91.

The WWHA Journal will publish a tribute to Nolan in the September 2022 issue. Any WWHA member is invited to submit their memories of Fred, or a tribute to him, and any pictures of him, alone or in a group, by sending it to Journal editor Roy B. Young, royyoung@pldi.net. Deadline for submissions is July 1st. NOTE: we cannot publish every picture but will use as many as space allows.

Additionally, a tribute to historian/author Robert M. Utley will be part of the September issue. Bob was never a member of WWHA, but we want to honor his accomplishments in the field of Western American history. Tributes to Bob will also be welcome and must be submitted by July 1st.

The WWHA Roundup registrations have reached 125 and growing daily. We hope to see you in Rapid City, July 20-23. Registration forms may be found on the website: [http://www.wildwesthistory.org,]www.wildwesthistory.org, or on the last page of both the March and June WWHA Journal.

NOLAN, Fred (Frederick William Nolan)

Born: 3/7/1931, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, U.K.

Died: 6/16/2022, Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England, U.K.

 

Fred Nolan’s westerns – author, writer, editor, translator.

Sudden Strikes Back – 1966 [as Frederick H. Christian]

Sudden – Troubleshooter – 1967 [as Frederick H. Christian]

Sudden at Bay – 1968 [as Frederick H. Christian]

Sudden, Apache Fighter – 1969 [as Frederick H. Christian]

Sudden, Dead or Alive – 1970 [as Frederick H. Christian]

Lucky Luke – 1972-1974 [translator]

Find Angel – 1973

Kill Angel – 1973

Send Angel – 1973

Trap Angel – 1973

Hunt Angel – 1975

Frame Angel – 1975

Take Angel – 1975

Warn Angel – 1975

Stop Angel – 1976

Bad Blood: The Life and Times of the Horrel Bothers - 1994

Portraits of the Old West - 1997

The West of Billy the Kid – 1998

The Wild West: History, Myth and the Making of America – 2003

Standoff at Liberty - 2004 [as Daniel Rockfern]

Ride Out of Vengeance – 2005 [as Daniel Rockfern]

Ambush in Purgatory – 2005 [as Daniel Rockfern]

Long Ride into Hell – 2005 [Daniel Rockfern]

Ride Clear of Daranga – 2006 [as Daniel Rockfern]

Bad Day at Agua Caliente – 2006 [as Daniel Rockfern]

Massacre in Madison – 2006 [as Daniel Rockfern]

Showdown in Trinidad – 2007 [as Daniel Rockfern]

Shootout at Fischer’s Crossing – 2007 [as Daniel Rockfern]

Manhunt in Quemado – 2007 [as Daniel Rockfern]

The Billy the Kid Reader - 2007 [editor]

Pat Garrett’s: The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid – 2007 [editor]

Tascosa, Its Life and Gaudy Times – 2007

Duel in Cheyenne – 2008 [as Daniel Rockfern]

The Life and Death of John Henry Tunstall - 2009

The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History – 2009

Birth of a Legend: Billy the Kid & The Lincoln County War – 2011 [screenwriter]

Deep Trails in the Old West – 2011 [editor]

Trailblazing the Way West – 2015

Shoot Angel – 2016

Lucky Luke – [translator]

RIP Walter Maestosi

 

The last farewell to Walter Maestosi

Metro News

June 14, 2022

 

THEATER The actor Walter Maestosi, who divided himself between cinema, theater and television, combining his work as an interpreter with those of voice actor and theater director, died in Rome at the age of 87. The funeral was celebrated today in the Roman church of the artists in Piazza del Popolo.

The beginnings of Maestosi in the theater

Born in Rome on September 24, 1934, after graduating in law, Maestosi graduated in 1960 from the National Academy of Dramatic Art and began his career in theater, directed, among others, by directors Silverio Blasi , Guido Salvini , Orazio Costa , Edmo Fenoglio and Mario Landi , landing almost immediately also in the radio prose of Rai. Particularly active in this area, he participated for Radio Rai in more than a thousand productions including radio dramas, comedies and cultural programs of various kinds.

Widower of the actress Laura Gianoli (under whose direction he recorded the thirty-three songs of Dante's inferno in seven CDs), he was active as a voice actor mainly for the SAS. With the singer and actress Daniela Barra he was the promoter of the theatrical project dedicated to poetry Narciso and Eco. With the soprano Alma Manera , on the other hand, he interpreted and directed the recital written by Corrado Calabrò T'amo di due amori .

Between cinema and television

In the second half of the 1960s, Walter Maestosi became a well-known face of black and white television by participating in many Rai dramas, such as ‘Le inchieste del commissario Maigret’, ‘Ritorna il tenente Sheridan’, ‘Sheridan, squadra omicidi’, ‘Un certo Harry Brent’, ‘Nero Wolfe’, ‘La donna di picche’.

Walter Maestosi has also acted in the cinema: he appeared in about thirty films including ‘Ringo's Big Night’, ‘El Rojo’, ‘Kill Rommel’ and ‘The Long Cold Beach’.

He was also a voice actor: he lent his voice, among others, to Max von Sydow in ‘Kojak - Murderer on the Loose’,  ‘I'm Not Sleepy’,  ‘Druids - The Revolt’.

 

MAESTOSI. Walter

Born: 9/23/1934, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died: 6/12/2022, Rome, Lazio, Italy

 

Walter Maestosi’s westerns, actor, voice dubber:

In a Colt’s Shadow – 1965 (Mexican bandit)

El Rojo – 1966 (settler)

Ringo’s Big Night – 1966 (John Crowl)

Death Rides a Horse – 1967 [Italian voice of Romano Puppo]

Beyond the Law – 1968 [Italian voice of Carlo Gaddi]

Bronco Billy – 1980 [Italian voice of Geoffrey Lewis]

RIP Jean-Louis Trintignant

 

French cinema legend Jean-Louis Trintignant dies aged 91

 

France 24

6/17/2022

 

Jean-Louis Trintignant, who has died aged 91, was one of France's greatest actors whose life was plunged into tragedy by the murder of his daughter at the hands of her pop star boyfriend.

Trintignant was devastated when Marie, an actress, was beaten to death by rock star Bertrand Cantat in a hotel room in Lithuania in 2003.

Yet nine years later he returned in triumph in Michael Haneke's Oscar-winning "Amour", playing a man in his eighties struggling to look after his wife after a stroke.

It also won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival, where Trintignant made a final emotional return in 2019 aged 88 despite being weakened by cancer for a sequel of "A Man and a Woman", the 1966 love story that made his name.

'Forgiveness indispensable'

Marie's death -- and the subsequent murder trial -- sent shockwaves through France, where images of Trintignant sobbing at her funeral won him great sympathy.

The actor had lost another daughter, Pauline, when she was a baby.

But Trintignant refused to give in to bitterness. He forgave Cantat, the lead singer of the French band Noir Desir, when many others could not bring themselves to do so.

"I wish I had never met him, that my daughter hadn't met him. But she was deeply in love, and he was too, I think," he told AFP.

Asked if he could ever forgive, he replied, "Yes... Life is made up of things that escape us, so forgiveness is indispensable."

Childhood trauma

One of France's best-known and most prolific actors, Trintignant starred in some 130 films including such classics as Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colours: Red", Costa-Gavras' "Z" and Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Conformist".

His willingness to take on such demanding, difficult and often politically-charged roles has often been traced back to an early trauma.

Although he was born into a family of rich industrialists based in the Vaucluse region of southern France on December 11, 1930, his childhood idyll was shattered by World War II.

He was paraded through the streets alongside his mother by a mob who shaved her head for "sleeping with the Germans" the day his home town was liberated from the Nazis in 1944.

In a bitter irony, his father, a Resistance fighter, returned home in triumph with the American army later that day.

His family's passion for motor racing -- his uncle Maurice Trintignant was a Formula One legend -- was also to play an unexpectedly large role in his career.

Although his first big part was opposite Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim's then notorious "And God Created Woman" in 1956, Trintignant continued to race cars.

Even being sent as a young conscript to "pacify Algeria" as the former French colony fought for independence did not dim his passion, though he was sickened by the "violent hypocrisy" of the war.

Race driver

On his return he landed a role as a race driver in "A Man and A Woman". The driver, a widower, falls for widow Anouk Aimee who he meets as they drop off their children at a boarding school.

The 1966 love story has gone down in film legend for the "chabadabada, chabadabada" refrain of its theme tune, and made them both household names, winning two Oscars as well as the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Three years later Trintignant was himself to win best actor at Cannes for his incorruptible judge in the political thriller "Z" set in Greece during the military dictatorship.

He went on to be seen as one of the most gifted actors of the postwar generation, playing an array of traitors, thugs and crooks or ambiguous and perverted types.

Yet despite his success and versatility, Trintignant was a shy and reserved perfectionist, describing himself as "deeply inhibited with a perpetual bad conscience."

For every role he seemed to create a new personality, like the complex hero in Eric Rohmer's "My night at Maud's" (1969) or as the weak-willed man who becomes a fascist flunky in Bertolucci's "The Conformist" (1970).

Trintignant first married actress Stephane Audran, then film director Nadine Marquand, with whom he had three children -- Marie, Pauline and Vincent. The couple divorced and he then went to live with Mariane Hoepfner, a former race driver like himself.

TRINTIGNANT, Jean-Louis  (aka J.L. Trintignant, Jean Louis Trintignant) [12/11/1930, Piolenc, Vaucluse, France – 6/17/2022, Gard, France (old age)] – director, writer, film, TV, voice actor, nephew of race car driver Maurice Trintignant (Maurice Bienvenu Jean Paul Trintignant) [1917-2005], married to actress, singer Stéphane Audran (Colette Suzanne Dacheville) [1932-2018] (1954-1956), married to producer, director, writer, film editor Nadine Trintignant (Nadine Marquand) [1934-    ] (1961-1976) father of writer, actress, singer Marie Trintignant (Marie Joséphine Innocente Trintignant) [1962–2003], Pauline Trintignant [1969-1969], assistant director, writer Vincent Trintignant [1973-    ], married to race driver Marianne Hoepfner [1944-    ] (2000-2011), grandfather of assistant director, actor Roman Kolinka [1986-    ], actor Paul Cluzet [1992-    ], actor Jules Benchetrit [1998-    ].

The Great Silence – 1968 (Silenzio/Silenca)

Western, Italian Style – 1968 [archive footage]

 

RIP Jordi Varela

 

Jordi Varela dies., voice of the beloved Professor Layton and veteran voice actor in many video games

 

HOBBYCONSOLAS

By David Rodriguez

June 15, 2022

 

One of the benchmarks in Spanish video game dubbing, Jordi Varela, has recently passed away. The actor was known for giving life to the famous Professor Layton, among many other characters.

Today we are witnessing sad news for the national panorama of the video game industry. One of his most distinguished voice actors in our country has passed away. We are talking about Jordi Varela, one of the voices that filled the childhoods of many players.

Today, one of Professor Layton's fan accounts @LaytonEn has confirmed the terrible news that has quickly spread through the community and the fandom of this saga, where many have fondly remembered Varela.

And, of course, Jordi's voice has always been very recognizable thanks to the fact that he gave life to one of the most mythical characters in recent video game history.

This actor has been the voice in Spanish of Professor Hershel Layton, the protagonist of the Nintendo saga that made us bite our nails and give our brains a spin solving its mysteries for many years on Nintendo DS and 3DS.

In addition, Jordi Varela participated in a number of productions within the world of video games for several decades.

Some of his most important works were in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes giving voice to the mythical Stan Lee, in Dying Light as Jared and he has participated in projects such as Alien Colonial Marines, Vanquish or Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn.

Among his most recent dubs stands out that of Dying Light 2 , LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga giving voice to the Pau'ano Tion Medon and additional voices to many other characters or that of the successful Lost Ark giving voice to Luterra. 

From the Hobby Consolas team we offer our condolences to the family and friends of Jordi Varela. Your voice will always be remembered. 

Important adventures such as Professor Layton and the Mask of Prodigies , Professor Layton and the Specter's Call or Professor Layton and Pandora's Box will forever remain in our memory . D.E.P 

 

VARELA, Jordi (Jorge Varela)

Born: 19??, Spain

Died: 6/15/2022, Spain

 

Jordi Varela’s westerns – voice actor:

The Ballad of the Daltons – 2005 [Spanish voice of Mayor Thadeus Collins]

Lucky Luke – 2005 [narrator]

Wyatt Earp’s Revenge – 2012 [Spanish voice of Peter Sherayko]

Wind River – 2017 [Spanish voice of Apesanahkwat]

RIP Maria Montejo

 

infobae

June 15, 2022

 

Actress María Montejo, daughter of Carmen Montejo and mother of comedian Radamés de Jesús, died

The first actress retired from the show participated in successful telenovelas on Televisa such as “Cuna de Lobos”, “Serafín” and Mi Primer Amor”

On the afternoon of June 14, it was announced that the first actress retired from the Mexican show, María Montejo , died at approximately 7:00 p.m., Mexico time.

The first to report on the death of the actress, from great telenovelas on Televisa such as Cuna de Lobos , Serafín and Mi Primer Amor , was Hugo Alexander Maldonado who shared: “They report the death of actress María Montejo, daughter of actress Carmen Montejo (May he rest in peace) and mother of the comedian Radamés de Jesús," he wrote on his Twitter account.

Although at first the information went unnoticed, it would be the confirmation of his son , the comedian Radamés de Jesús , on social networks, with a nostalgic farewell message, who turned the news and the name of the first trending actress, because despite Being retired from acting since 2003, her time in the world of theater, cinema and popular unit programs such as Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real has returned to the collective memory of Mexicans.

Radamés de Jesús Piña González, who is a Mexican actor and comedian, did not hesitate to issue a moving message on his official Instagram account, where he expressed his feelings by mentioning that he regretted not having enjoyed the last moment they spent together, because nobody knows the death date that is had in life, as well as added that he loves her with a great feeling, placing a black and white photo of both giving each other a warm kiss.

“If I had known it was the last time we would see each other, I would have hugged you tighter. Mamita I love you and I am so far away , ”said the 50-year-old interpreter, who has also participated in major productions of the San Ángel television station such as Fuego en la sangre , Triunfo del amor , Alegrijes y rebujos and Clase 406 .

Who was Maria Montejo?

As part of the wave of great actors born in Mexico City, she was no exception; Daughter of the renowned actress of the Mexican Golden Cinema Carmen Montejo and Manuel González Ortega , the interpreter lived her childhood in some of the most iconic places in the country's capital such as Coyoacán, Xochimilco, the Zócalo and others.

Thanks to the influence of his mother, he quickly joined and studied at the Televisa Academy to start his career in various plays. Thanks to that school opportunity of hers, her time was good, but the great boom that her melodramas began to have in Mexico and other Latin American countries forced her to interact on the small screen.

Thus he reached 11 telenovelas in San Ángel , one being notoriously the most important in his career: Cuna de Lobos . The 1986 version written by Carlos Olmos , produced and directed by Carlos Téllez, which also starred Diana Bracho and Gonzalo Vega , with the antagonistic participation of María Rubio together with Alejandro Camacho , Rebecca Jones and Lilia Aragón , starring Carlos Cámara, Rosa María Bianchi and Carmen Montejo -his mother-. In it she played Doctor Cuellar .

Daughter of a Golden Cinema legend

María Teresa Sánchez González , or known by her stage name Carmen Montejo, was not only a Cuban-Mexican actress, writer and theater director, but also a well-known character thanks to her notable participation in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

After her unfortunate death in 2013 and prior to María's retirement, the diva's daughter spoke about the rumored problem of alcoholism that she suffered and that led her mother to leave the stage; once she started consuming alcohol, she didn't stop at any time, until she became addicted .

 

MONTEJO, Maria (María Teresa Sánchez González)

Born: 1948, Mexico City, F.D., Mexico

Died: 6/14/1922, Mexico City, F.D., Mexico

 

Maria Montejo’s western – actress:

El rey – 1976 (Cocinera)

RIP Betty Rowland

 

Instagram

By film-mewse

June 15, 2022

 

R.I.P and so long Betty Rowland, aged 106 in April 2022, the fresh-faced flame-haired stage artist dubbed ‘Ball of Fire’ who ruled supreme as one of burlesque's biggest stars.

An original Minsky's Girl, born in 1916, she was raised in Columbus, Ohio, and joined her sisters Dian and Roz Elle on the vaudeville circuit during the early 30s after her father’s fortunes were dashed during the Great Depression. By mid-decade the were working as a trio with their own act.

In 1935, Betty went solo, shorter than her sisters, she perfected a technique by moving her body in the style of a belly-dancer gave the impression she was taller. Her theme during her tenure at Minksy's nightclub in New York was "In the Mood".

Betty moved to Los Angeles in 1938 after New York City Mayor La Guardia cracked down on the appropriate conduct at the city nightspots after a friend of Betty was found to be performing without a G-string. She then became a staple of the Follies Theatre in Hollywood for the next 15 years whilst working on the occasional film.

In 1941, she attempted to sue Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn for using "Ball of Fire" as the title for a Howard Hawks film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper. It transpired that Oscar winning costume designer Edith Head had conceived Stanwyck’s wardrobe of beads, sequins and feathers from photos of Betty.

Admired by Howard Hughes and playboy Pat DiCico, she dated Orson Welles who offered her a role in the stage production of "Five Kings", but Betty passed it up. “Orson ditched me for Rita Hayworth. He had a thing about flame haired women; besides I didn't want to be a Hollywood starlet. I was happy working in burlesque earning $2000 a week ‘peeling’,” she said in 2016.

After Welles, she embarked on other tempestuous relationships, married twice, she helped run a series of bars before becoming a restaurant hostess in Santa Monica.

Betty spent her final years in a nursing facility in Brentwood, Cali., still with dyed red-hair and heavy false eyelashes, she would speak candidly to the sisters of her colorful past.

 

ROWLAND, Betty (Betty Jane Rowland)

Born: 1/23/9116, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.

Died: 4/?/2022, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Betty Rowland’s western – actress:

A Time for Dying – 1969 (Mamie’s girl)

RIP Tommy Dysart

 

Kingaziz.com

By Razak

June 15, 2022

 

Tommy Dysart Obituary, Funeral, Pictures, Burial, Memorial Service, Date, Time, Venue

Thomas Gibson Dysart billed, well known as Tommy Dysart, was a British-born Australian stage, television, and film actor, known for his appearances on television dramas and comedies and in character roles in films and miniseries.

Dysart graduated from NIDA in 1959, and started his career as a vocalist and performed in theatre.

In the early 1980s, Dysart appeared briefly in the series Prisoner, where he played what is perhaps his best-known acting role, that of vicious and cold prison officer Jock Stewart.

In the storyline, after being fired from the prison service, Stewart admitted to prisoner Judy Bryant that he was the one responsible for murdering her lesbian lover, fellow prisoner Sharon Gilmour.

This revelation brought to a close murder-mystery storyline in the series but launched a long-running story-arc where Bryant repeatedly escaped from prison in a succession of attempts to exact her revenge on Stewart.

Tommy Dysart Obituary

Thomas Gibson Dysart billed, well known as Tommy Dysart, was a British-born Australian stage, television, and film actor.

He was born on December 24, 1935, in Maryhill, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.

He passed away on June 15, 2022, at the age of 86.

Tommy Dysart Funeral, Pictures, Burial, Memorial Service, Date, Time, Venue

His funeral will be held very soon; the date, time, and venue are not yet out.

Funeral pictures will be ready whiles the funeral is undergoing or afterward, and a memorial service will be held as well.

 

DYSART, Tommy (Thomas Gibson Dysart)

Born: 12/24/1935, Maryhill, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, U.K.

Died: 6/15/2022, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

 

Tommy Dysart’s westerns – actor:

Ben Hall (TV) – 1975 (Haigh)

Luke’s Kingdom (TV) – 1976 (Lug)

The Last Outlaw (TV) – 1980 (superintendent)

Eureka Stockade (TV) – 1984 (Tom Kennedy)

Five Mile Creek (TV) – 1984 (Trantor)

The Man from Snowy River – 1982 (mountain man)

Snowy River: The McGreor Saga (TV) – 1995 (Mr. Couch)