Passages

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Al Martino

[flyonthewall2983]

Lou Albano

[domino harvey]

Cuing up "Captain Lou"

[GaryC]

Actor, TV director and producer Barry Letts, best known as the producer of Doctor Who 1970-74, the Jon Pertwee era.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Cuing up "Captain Lou"

Anyone besides me watching the Super Mario Bros. Super Show in his memory? It hasn't aged well (now that I've grown up, I can see it just was an other eighties cartoon meant to sell a product), but damn they're good memories.

[Murdoch]

Anyone besides me watching the Super Mario Bros. Super Show in his memory? It hasn't aged well (now that I've grown up, I can see it just was an other eighties cartoon meant to sell a product), but damn they're good memories.

While I didn't watch an episode, I did watch the opening credits/theme song on youtube. It was fun just to see Capt. Lou dancing while that terrible song played.

[dad1153]

Jules Power, creator/producer of the original "Mr. Wizard" (NBC) as well as "Discovery" (ABC) children's show.

[Antares]

George Tuska

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rosanna Schiaffino

[Polybius]

George Tuska

One of those guys (like Werner Roth and Don Heck, just to name a couple) who sometimes get lost in the shuffle of Marvel history.

[HerrSchreck]

Anyone besides me watching the Super Mario Bros. Super Show in his memory? It hasn't aged well (now that I've grown up, I can see it just was an other eighties cartoon meant to sell a product), but damn they're good memories.

While I didn't watch an episode, I did watch the opening credits/theme song on youtube. It was fun just to see Capt. Lou dancing while that terrible song played.

I always remember him with the band NRBQ during an appearance on the great old Uncle Floyd Show, singing with the band their tribute song, entitled--curiously-- Captain Lou Albano! I wish they had not only that appearance but a lot more full episodes.. hell seasons... of Floyd.

Mr. Bill... OH NOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Joseph Wiseman

Joseph Wiseman, a longtime stage and screen actor most widely known for playing the villainous title character in "Dr. No," the first feature film about James Bond, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 91.

His daughter, Martha Graham Wiseman, confirmed the death, saying her father had recently been in declining health.

[MichaelB]

Ludovic Kennedy - primarily a highly distinguished British television journalist, but also with two important film connections: Ten Rillington Place (1970) was based on his research, and he had a very long and by all accounts extremely happy 56-year marriage to The Red Shoes' Moira Shearer, which lasted until her death in 2006.

He also presented very possibly the scariest television programme I've ever seen in my life. A Guide to Armageddon went out in the BBC's QED strand on 26 July 1982, and consisted of a scrupulously dispassionate account of precisely what a nuclear war between the US and Russia (which seemed highly plausible at the time) would entail in terms of collateral damage. Kennedy's intro, in which he stressed that the programme "is not trying to make any political point", has permanently lodged itself in my mind.

(You can watch it on YouTube if you're feeling masochistic, but this version is the later one without Kennedy's intro).

[fdm]

Vic Mizzy

[colinr0380]

Joseph Wiseman

[fdm]

Collin Wilcox-Paxton

[Props55]

The article doesn't mention Paxton's work as founder of a regional theatre group which performed for decades around Highlands. I had the pleasure of working with her in 1987 when she had a small bit in the Hallmark production of FOXFIRE with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Standing behind the counter of a small country store I at first thought she was a local getting her 15 minutes of fame. Yet she looked vaguely familiar and seemed too briskly professional to be a neophyte. Finally I broke down and asked producer Dorothea Petrie where I could possibly have seen her before. She smiled and said, "Perhaps you saw her in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD?" Instantly I realized who she was! It's one of those performances that everyone remembers. She's also quite memorable in that very weird adapation of Ray Bradbury's THE JAR produced for ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS.

[fdm]

Soupy Sales...

[colinr0380]

Troy Kennedy-Martin original writer of Z-Cars, Edge of Darkness (the TV series), the original Italian Job, Kelly's Heroes and, ahem, contributor to screenplay of Red Heat.

[ellipsis7]

Troy Kennedy Martin, author of the brilliant The Italian Job.

Already recorded some while back - but glad to repeat again IMHO Troy was a great man who gave me generously professional help and advice twice several years apart, both when I needed it...

[esl]

Actor Lou Jacobi Dies at 95

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yoshiro Muraki

Art director and production designer Yoshiro Muraki died of heart failure at his home in Setagaya, Tokyo, on Monday night. He was 85.

Muraki was known for working on many films by director Akira Kurosawa, including "Kagemusha" in 1980 and "Ran" in 1985, both of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction. Before those, Muraki received a joint nomination for the same award in 1970 for his contribution to "Tora! Tora! Tora!," as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Costume Design for "Yojimbo" in 1961.

Besides the Kurosawa movies he worked on, Muraki's credits include Shiro Moritani's "Japan Sinks" in 1973 and Kon Ichikawa's "47 Ronin" in 1994.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

How terrible. On all the It's Wonderful to Create shorts, he's always the most energetic and youthful one they interview. I specifically remember in the Ran interview, he must in his late seventies but he's happily wearing a Guns N' Roses shirt. Not to even mention how much his sets contributed to Kurosawa's films.

[Perkins Cobb]

Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez, one of the great Spanish character actors and the star of Carlos Saura's Peppermint Frappe and The Garden of Delights.

[Antares]

Norton Buffalo