Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Merv Conn

Accordionist -- via the Washington Post.

Joe Bodolai

Comedy writer and producer -- via Huffington Post.

Ted Markland

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. May be best remembered for playing Reno in the TV Western series "High Chaparral."

Helen Frankenthaler

Painter -- via the New York Times.

Satyadev Dubey

Director, actor and writer for stage and screen -- via the Times of India.

Bob Hare

Proprietor of the Insomniac, a key coffeehouse in early West Coast counterculture -- via the L.A. Times.

Walt Ketchum

Did a lot of things to make a living, but he loved to play the trumpet -- via the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

John Geddes Lawrence Jr.

Medical technologist; a plaintiff in a landmark gay-rights legal case -- via San Diego Gay and Lesbian News.

Ed Roman

Luthier -- via the Washington Post.

Jacob Goldman

Physicist who established Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, vital to the development of the personal computer -- via the New York Times.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Bill Morrison

Playwright and writer for radio -- via the Guardian.

Ernest Mehew

World's foremost expert on Robert Louis Stevenson -- via the Telegraph.

Maurice Huggett

Proprietor of the Phoenix Artist Club - via the Telegraph.

Hugh Carless

Career diplomat who accompanied Eric Newby to Afghanistan in 1956, an expedition that formed the substance of the classic travel memoir, Newby's "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush" -- via the Telegraph.

David Spancer

Script coordinator, video editor -- via legacy.com.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Yoshimitsu Morita

Film director -- via the Chicago Tribune. Directed such well-regarded works as "The Family Game," "And Then" and "Paradise Lost."

Don Sharp

Film director -- via the New York Times. Best known for his efforts for Hammer films, including "The Kiss of the Vampire" and "The Face of Fu Manchu."

Warren Hellman

Financial whiz, civic leader, philanthropist, amateur athlete, bluegrass lover and musician, and founder of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival -- via the New York Times.

Heidi Helen Davis

Director, actress and teacher -- via the L.A. Times.

Ronnie Wolfe aka Harvey Ronald Wolfe-Luberoff

Comedy writer for stage, radio and TV -- via the Telegraph.