Monday, September 13, 2010

Jaroslaw Kukulski


Songwriter -- via thenews.pl

Gus Williams

Aboriginal singer -- via ABC News

Charles Ansbacher

Orchestra conductor -- via the Boston Globe

E.C. Tubb

Prolific science-fiction author -- via the British Science Fiction Association. His output is prodigious -- more than 140 novels and more than 230 short stories and novellas. Here's one list of his pen names --
Chuck Adams, Stuart Allen, Anthony Armstrong, Ted Bain, Alice Beecham, Anthony Blake, L. T. Bronson, Raymond L. Burton, Julian Carey, Morley Carpenter, Judy Cary, Julian Cary, J. F. Clarkson, Norman Dale, Robert D. Ennis, James Evans, James Farrow, James R. Fenner, R. H. Godfrey, Charles S. Graham, Charles Grey, Volsted Gridban, Alan Guthrie, D. W. R. Hill, George Holt, Gill Hunt, Alan Innes, E. F. Jackson, Gordon Kent, Gregory Kern, King Lang, Mike Lantry, P. Lawrence, Chet Lawson, Nigel Lloyd, Robert Lloyd, Frank T. Lomas, Ron Lowman, Arthur Maclean, Carl Maddox, Philip Martyn, John Mason, Carl Moulton, L. C. Powers, M. L. Powers, Edward Richards, Paul Schofield, John Seabright, Brian Shaw, Roy Sheldon, John Stevens, Eric Storm, Andrew Sutton, Edward Thomson, Ken Wainwright, Frank Weight, Douglas West, Eric Wilding and Frank Winnard.

Harold Gould ak Harold V. Goldstein

Memorable actor of stage and screen -- via the Washington Post

Safah Abdul Hameed

Iraqi TV journalist -- via the BBC.

Ronald W. Walters

Political analyst and scholar -- via AP.

Alberto Graves Chakussanga

Angolan journalist and broadcaster -- via Committee to Protect Journalists

Ludvig Eikaas

Norwegian artist -- via Dagbladet.no.

Lewis Nkosi

Author, journalist and critic -- via Times Live

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Swarnalatha

Award-winning film playback singer -- via thebollywoodactress.com.

FYI: a playback singer is one who pre-records songs for use in Bollywood films. While Hollywood, etc. has come to rely on post-dubbing of singing voices for those of film actors not quite up to stuff, in Bollywood the recorded songs are played back, and mimed and lip-synched to, by the actors in a given shot.

Peter Gubser

Scholar, author and humanitarian -- via the Washington Post

Susan Kerchmar

Cafe owner with a remarkable life story -- via the Elyria, Ohio Chronicle-Telegram. Another striking aspect of this obituary is that it is written by one of the most talented and respected obituarists of the day, Alana Baranick. The depth and richness of the story, and the care with which photographic illustrations have been contributed by the family, carefully captioned and displayed, gives this obituary a thoroughness and three-dimensionality that vividly evokes the person portrayed.

Joseph Gelberman

Rabbi and psychotherapist -- via belief.net. He was "a pioneer of the interfaith movement," and a Holocaust survivor.

Rebel Randall aka Alaine Brandes

Model and actress -- via Final Farewell Forum and glamourgirlsofthescreen.com.

Billie Mae Richards

Voice actor -- via the CBC.She will be best remembered as the voice of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in the 1964 Rankin/Bass stop-motion animated TV special.

Kei Tani aka Yasuo Wantanabe


Comedian, actor and musician -- via the Japan Times.

Kevin McCarthy

Actor on stage and film and television -- via the L.A. Times. He will be best remembered for his role in the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

Pogo Poge aka Morgan Branch White


This incredibly popular, wacky and personable Denver DJ made the reputation of KIMN-AM -- via the Denver Post. An entire generation grew up listening to him during the early days of rock 'n' roll.

Claude Chabrol

Brilliant French film director, and a member of the fabled New Wave -- via the New York Times.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Friday, September 10, 2010

Irwin Silber

Journalist, editor, publisher, political activist -- via AP. Most importantly, he co-founded Sing Out ! magazine with Pete Seeger and Alan Lomax, and spent the bulk of his life collecting, preserving and promoting American music of the vernacular --labor songs, folk songs, protest songs, and music and lyrics that defined every period of American history.

Nana Kweku Addai aka Agyaaku

Notable highlife singer -- via Ghana News

Thomas Guinzburg

Editor and publisher, and co-founder of the Paris Review -- via the New York Times

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Jenny Alpha

Singer and comedienne -- via Le Figaro

Rich Cronin

Singer/songwriter -- via MTV. Best known for his work with LFo and his big hit, "Summer Girls."

Roderick Brydon

Conductor and artistic director of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra -- via the Guardian

Mitch Faber


Northern California-based blues guitarist -- via Bananas at Large

Murali

Film actor -- via the Hindu

Riad al-Saray

Iraqi journalist -- via the BBC. The number of journalists killed in Iraq since 2003? 230.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Jefferson Thomas

One of nine students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957 -- via the New York Times. A brave guy.

David Dortort

Writer for film and TV, and producer whose claim to fame will always be his creation of "Bonanza" -- via the L.A. Times


And hey, remember "The High Chaparral"? He created that, too.

Sam Sittipong Kalayanee

Activist, humanitarian worker, photographer, documentary filmmaker;  most recently involved with the Oscar-nominated film "Burma VJ" -- via the Irrawaddy

Michael Burn

Author and journalist -- via BBC News. He was initially enamored of Nazi Germany, but then became a war hero and survived the infamous Colditz prison. And he later became a left-winger, and came to terms with his bisexuality as well, according to this story in the Telegraph.

Corneille

Painter -- via the New York Times

Glenn Shadix

Character actor best known for his work with Tim Burton -- via the Birmingham News

Clive Donner

Director best known for "The Caretaker," "What's New, Pussycat?" and the George C. Scott "Christmas Carol" -- via the Guardian