Sunday, March 4, 2012

Tonmi Lillman

Drummer -- via blabbermouth.net.

Ustad Shamim Ahmed Khan

Master of the sitar -- via the Times of India.

William Gay

Writer -- via the New York Times.

Peter Halliday

Actor -- via the Guardian.

Howard Kissel

Theatre critic -- via the New York Times.

James W. "Red" Holloway

Saxophonist -- via the L.A. Times.



Lina Romay aka Rosa María Almirall Martínez

Actress -- via Fangoria. Muse and companion to cult filmmaker Jess Franco, she starred in a number of the transgressive European horror/erotic features of the time.

Olivier Mathot aka Claude Plaut aka Oliver Mathews aka Oliver Matthau aka Claude Plaud

Film actor and director -- via westernsallitaliana.blogspot.com.

Al De Lory

Producer and arranger -- via the Tennessean.

Lydia Lamaison

Actress -- via the Buenos Aires Herald.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Laurie Main

Actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Frank Braña aka Francisco Braña Perez aka Frank Blank aka Francisco Brana aka Frank Brana aka Frank Branya aka Francisco Braña aka Paco Braña

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. A mainstay of spaghetti Western, horror and action genres, he racked up nearly 170 credits!

Pola Illery aka Paula Illiescu

Actress in silent and sound film -- via fan.tcm.com. She will be best remembered as the female lead in Rene Clair's groundbreaking 1930 early-sound musical, "Under the Roofs of Paris."

Jimmy Sabater

Master of boogaloo -- via the New York Times.



Adam Adamowicz

Concept artist for video games -- via the New York Times.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Kay Davis aka Katherine McDonald Wimp

One of Duke Ellington's great vocalists -- via the New York Times. She can be heard on classic tunes such as "Creole Love Call," "Transbluency," and "Lush Life."

http://growingbolder.com/media/entertainment/music/the-voice-of-the-duke-ellington-254618.html






Ronald Fraser

Historian -- via the New York Times. A "people's" historian who specialized in gathering oral histories.

Tristram P. Coffin

Folklorist and writer -- via the New York Times.

Zina Bethune

Actress, dancer and choreographer -- via the New York Times.



Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Davy Jones

Singer and actor -- via msnbc.com. First gaining notice as th original Artful Dodger in "Oliver!", he will be indelibly linked with The Monkees.





Jan Berenstain

Co-creator, with husband Stan, of the Berenstain Bears series of children's books -- via the New York Times.

Dick Anthony Williams

 Actor on stage ,and in film and television; theatrical producer -- via the New York Times.

Vitka Kovner

Jewish partisan who fought the Nazis - via the Jerusalem Post.

Wislawa Szyborska

Nobel Prize-winning poet, essayist and translator -- via the New York Times.

Charles Anthony aka Calogero Antonio Caruso

Tenor -- via the New York Times. This remarkable singer of comprimario roles holds the record for appearances at the Metropolitan Opera -- 2,928 times between March 6, 1954 and January 28, 2010.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Dorothy Previn aka Dorothy Langdan

Composer, lyricist and performer -- via the New York Times.

Neil Hope

Actor and lost soul -- via the New York Times. Although he died on Nov. 25, 2007, his death was not generally known until recently.

William B. Mills

Founder and director the Masterworks Choir -- via scnow.com.

Latif Ibrahim

Singer and actor -- via the New Traits Times.

Damien Bona

Writer on film -- via the L.A. Times.