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.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Premysl Dobias
Jeweler and Holocaust survivor -- via the Telegraph. Though not Jewish, he helped operate an escape network for them, was captured by the Nazis, and suffered imprisonment in the concentration camps.
Maurice Sendak
Writer and illustrator -- via the New York Times. He does not need or deserve the qualification of the title "children's writer" -- he was simply one of the great writers and illustrators, one of the great storytellers, of all time.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Guillermo Luna Varela, Gabriel Huge, Esteban Rodiguez and Irasema Becarra
Journalists -- via USA Today. Murdered and dismembered for reporting on the drug cartels.
Bob Stewart aka Isidore Steinberg
TV producer -- via the L.A. Times. A master of the game show, he created "The Price is Right," "What's My Line?", "Password," "The $10,000 Pyramid" and many others.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Jim McCrary
Rock photographer -- via the L.A. Times. As staff photographer for A & M Records, he took images that graced more than 300 album covers.
Friday, May 4, 2012
George Murdock
Actor -- via . He was equally at home playing authority figures (such as God, in "Star Trek V"), villains and creeps (Lt. Scanlon on "Barney Miller"). Prolific -- 51 years in the biz, 186 roles on film and TV.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Buddy Saltzman
Drummer -- via artiewayne.wordpress.com. He played on a vast number of recordings, for among others, Peter Paul and Mary, Tim Hardin, Melanie, Ian & Sylvia, Janis Ian, Neil Diamond, Cyrkle, The Coasters, The Four Seasons, Frank Sinatra and Laura Nyro.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
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