Bassist -- via treasureislandoldies.blogspot.com.
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.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Paulette Dubost
Actress -- via Hollywoodland. She made more than 250 movies over a 56-year period. Her most famous roles include Lisette in "The Rules of the Game," Ginette in "Hotel du Nord," Josephine in "Lola Montes," "The Last Metro" and "May Fools". Renoir, Carne, Ophuls, Truffaut, Malle -- not too shabby!
John Dunning
Film producer -- via the Hollywood Reporter. He provided key support in the early careers of directors such as David Cronenberg and Ivan Retiman.
Daniel Webster Litwhiler
All-Star outfielder -- via ESPN. In 1942, he did two things no Major Leaguer had done before -- he had an error-free season, and he stitched together the fingers of his glove.
Leslie Le Quesne
Professor of surgery whose work beyond the surgical theater helped raise patient survival rates, and helped develop the intensive care unit -- via the Telegraph.
Alastair Reid
Brilliant and entirely overlooked TV director -- via the Independent. Among his accomplishments -- the original TV version of "Traffik," "Tales of the City," and the adaptation of "Nostromo" that David Lean could not pull off!
John Larson
Trumpeter best known for his work with the Ides of March -- via the Chicago Sun-Times. Remember the shattering horn work on the hit song "Vehicle"? John.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Frank Driggs
Writer, historian, record producer and collector of jazz photos -- via the New York Times.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
David Pressman
Director on stage and in television, and actor -- via the New York Daily News. A prominent and well-respected Broadway and live-TV director, he was blacklisted during the McCarthy era; he survived and thrived in later years.
Enid Cheavens Schantz
Printer and bookstore owner -- via the Denver Post. With her husband Tom, an owner of the wonderful Rue Morgue bookstore in Boulder. An award-winning champion of mystery and detective fiction. I bought a lot of my Raymond Chandler, and my first Dashiell Hammett, there!
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Kurt Sanderling
Conductor -- via the L.A. Times. Little-known due to his isolation behind the Iron Curtain, he was a marvelous interpreter of Shostakovich.
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