Amazing, subversive, voyeuristic, outsider photographer -- via pdnonline.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.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Hannah Kodicek aka Zuzana Oprsalova
Hannah Kodicek, right, with Rosta Cerny and puppets for the show Once Upon a Time. Photograph: Picasa |
Yoshiko Tanaka aka Yoshiko Odate
Singer and actress -- via Japan Today. Originally a ember of the famous girl group The Candies, she cemented her acting reputation with her role as Yasuko in Imamura's 1989 "Black Rain."
Nicholas Selby
Actor -- via scotsman.com. He played Winchester in the 1965 BBC "Wars of the Roses," Duncan in Polanski's "Macbeth," Raleigh in "Elizabeth R" and Warleggen in "Poldark."
Gerald Perry Finnerman
Director of photography -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. The cinematographer on the original "Star Trek" series, he worked on "Kojak," "Moonlighting," "Mission: Impossible" and many others.
Larry "Bo," "Bobo" Osborne
MLBer played for the Tigers, Senators -- via sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com.
Myrna Dell aka Marilyn Adele Dunlap
Actress -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.She worked extensively in film, working mainly in B pictures, including some of the entries in The Falcon private detective series and comedy shorts with both Edgar Kennedy and Leon Erroll. (She can be seen briefly in more "significant" films such as "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo," "The Spiral Staircase" and "The Furies.")
Here she is in the magnificently crummy 1951 Western, "The Bushwhackers." She's in good company -- here's a treasure trove of character actors: John Ireland, Lawrence Tierney, Wayne Morris, Jack Elam, Lon Chaney Jr. and Dorothy Malone!
Here she is in the magnificently crummy 1951 Western, "The Bushwhackers." She's in good company -- here's a treasure trove of character actors: John Ireland, Lawrence Tierney, Wayne Morris, Jack Elam, Lon Chaney Jr. and Dorothy Malone!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Chris Hondros
Photojournalist -- via the New York Times. An incredibly talented, gutsy, determined pro.
Orrin Tucker
Bandleader -- via the New York Times. One of the last of the dance band leaders of the interwar period, he specialized in "sweet" jazz.
Tim Hetherington
Photographer and film director -- via the New York Times. The co-creator of the acclaimed combat documentary "Restrepo" was killed by mortar fire while covering conflict in Misurata, Libya.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Elisabeth Sladen
Actress -- via the BBC. Will remember her fondly in her role as one of the most memorable and durable of BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who's companions, the intrepid journalist Sarah Jane Smith.
Violet Cowden
Aviatrix -- via the L.A. Times. One of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, during World War II. Her amazing story is outlined in a documentary by two friends of mine -- Mark and Christy Bonn's "Wings of Silver: The Vi Cowden Story."
Monday, April 18, 2011
Kent Morrill
Early rock icon of the American Northwest, singer with the Fabulous Wailers -- via Oregon Music News.
Richard Tuck
Curator of the "museum of fun" Playland-Not-at-the-Beach -- via the Contra Costa Times.
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