Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Harry Morgan aka Harry Bratsburg

Brilliant character actor in film and television, and on stage -- via the New York Times. He was in the original cast of Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy" in 1937. He went on to many supporting roles in films, notably in "The Ox-Bow Incident." He went on to appear in early TV sitcoms such as "December Bride" and "Pete & Gladys." He will be best remembered for playing Joe Friday's sidekick Bill Gannon on "Dragnet," and Col. Potter for many years on "M*A*S*H."




Maimoni Raisom Goswami aka Indira Goswami aka Maimoni Baideo

Writer, editor, poet, scholar and peace negotiator -- via the Assam Times.

Manon Cleary

Artist -- via the Washington Post.

Michal Friedman

Singer and anime voice actress -- via halifax.openfile.ca/blog.

Jane Schimel

Director of commercials -- via Variety.

Andrew Kazdin

Classical music producer -- via the New York Times.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Judy Lewis

Actress and psychologist -- via the New York Times. The secret love child of Loretta Young and Clark Gable.

Helen Forrester aka June Bhatia

Memoirist -- via the Telegraph.

Sister Valsa John

Nun -- via the The Hindu.

Tom Roady

Percussionist -- via Greenville Online.

Don DeVito

Record producer -- via the New York Times.

Dev Anand

Bollywood star -- via NDTV.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Alan Sues

Comedian and actor -- via the New York Times. Best known for his membership in the cast of TV's "Laugh-In."

Bill McKinney

Actor -- via E Online. Best known for playing villains and crazy guys in such movies as "Deliverance," "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," "The Outlaw Josey Wales," and numerous Clint Eastwood films.

Noel Cunningham

Chef and restaurateur -- via the Denver Post.

Marion Holmes DeFore

Vocalist -- via the New York Daily News.

Vasily Alekseyev

Champion weightlifter -- via the New York Times.

Sid Smith

Local "character" -- via the Austin Statesman.

Richard Morant

Actor -- via the Telegraph.

Barry Llewellyn aka Barrington Llewellyn aka Bebo

Singer and songwriter; co-founder of the vital Jamaica rocksteady/reggae group the Heptones -- via the Guardian.


Art Hillery

Jazz pianist -- via ejazznews.com.

Walter Doniger

Screenwriter and director -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.