Pianist -- via the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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, July 25, 2012
Carmela Sbarro
Pizza-making matriarch -- via The Gothamist.
Gennaro and Carmela Sbarro, and assistants at the original Sbarro's Salumeria at 65th Street and 17th Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. |
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Herbert Vogel
Chad Everett aka Raymon Lee Cramton
Actor -- via the L.A. Times. Best remembered as Dr. Joe Gannon on TV's "Medical Center," and for this amazing and disturbing scene in "Mulholland Dr."
Angharad Rees
Actress -- via the BBC. Best remembered for her role as Demelza in "Poldark." She also featured prominently in the Hammer horror film "Hands of the Ripper."
Sherman Hemsley
Actor -- via Yahoo News. A comedic icon, he will be best remembered for playing obnoxious curmudgeons -- George Jefferson on "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons," and the deacon in "Amen." A show that lasted 11 seasons, good and bad, the phrase "'Sup, Weezy?" is an indelible part of my vocabulary.
A talented pro -- and hey, did you know he was really into Gentle Giant? That's pretty cool.
Now he's in that dee-luxe apartment in the sky. Thanks, Sherman.
A talented pro -- and hey, did you know he was really into Gentle Giant? That's pretty cool.
Now he's in that dee-luxe apartment in the sky. Thanks, Sherman.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Frank Pierson
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Simon Ward
A damn good actor -- via the Telegraph. He didn't work a lot, but I think he was one of the best of our time. He played the lead role in "Young Winston," and actually pulls Churchill off. He was the Duke of Buckingham in Lester's "Three Musketeers" trilogy. He played Vereker in "Zulu Dawn." He even made it into a Hammer film, playing assistant to Peter Cushing in "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed." More recently he worked in TV series such as "Judge John Deed" and "The Tudors." Always fun to watch --
Ginny Tyler aka Merrie Virginia Erlandson
Voice artist and Mouseketeer -- via the L.A. Times. A Disney Legend, she voiced, among many others -- Olive Oyl, various animals in "The Sword and the Stone" and "Mary Poppins," Jan in "Space Ghost," Polynesia the parrot in "Doctor Doolittle," Casper the Friendly Ghost (TV series), and all the female characters in the first 13 episodes of "Davey and Goliath."
Bob Gamm
Inventor of the KangaROO shoe, the first shoe with a pocket in it -- via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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