Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Claude Stanley Choules
Last combat veteran of World War II -- via MSNBC. His experience made him a pacifist.
Marian Mercer
Actress in a splendid variety of roles -- via the New York Times. A wry comedian, she specialized in sassy, energetic and arch roles. She won a Tony for her work in the original production of "Promises, Promises." She did improv, Shakespeare, Williams, TV commercials, all with impeccable, crisp professionalism.
Jackie Cooper aka John Cooper Jr.
Actor, director and producer in film and television -- via TMZ. Best known as a child actor in part of the Our Gang series, and in a string of films with Wallace Beery ("The Champ," "Treasure Island"). On growing up, he worked on TV and eventually began producing and packaging shows. Later, he directed many TV episodes. He had one last memorable series of outings as editor Perry White in the original Superman feature film series.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Yvette Vickers aka Yvette Vedder
Actress -- via the L.A. Times. Her period of stardom included an early spread in Playboy, and roles in cheesy sci-fi classics "The Attack of the 50-Foot Woman" and "Attack of the Giant Leeches."
Monday, May 2, 2011
Bill Blackbeard
"Author, editor, anthologist and ardent accumulator" -- via the New York Times. He did much to preserve and analyze comic strips.
Apoostolos Santas
Resistance hero -- via the Sydney Morning Herald. He and another tore down the Nazi flag atop the Acropolis in December of 1941.
Friday, April 29, 2011
William Campbell
Character actor par excellence -- via Memory Alpha. Starting with small roles in big pictures such as "The High and the Mighty" and bigger roles in a score of B-movies, including Westerns, war films, prison movies and the like, he made a run in a number of grade-Z horror flicks that later became cult favorites -- "Dementia 13," "Blood Bath" and "Portrait in Terror."
He scored big with two distinctive roles in the original "Star Trek" TV series -- as Trelane in "The Squire of Gothos"
and Koloth in "The Trouble with Tribbles."
He scored big with two distinctive roles in the original "Star Trek" TV series -- as Trelane in "The Squire of Gothos"
and Koloth in "The Trouble with Tribbles."
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Yolande Palfrey
Actress -- via Doctor Who Online. May be best remembered for her role as The Blind Girl in the original BBC TV production of "Pennies from Heaven."
Elmer Lynn Hauldren
Advertising copywriter and spokesperson -- via the Chicago Tribune. Forever memorable as the "Empire Carpet guy."
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