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Possibly the greatest of TV stars, Robert Culp.

I'll remember Culp most for his numerous appearances on Columbo.

Hickey and Boggs, which he directed as well as acted in, is one of the best crime films of the 1970s, and an equal to Altman's The Long Goodbye, and one of the best examples of the "one-off director" (See Night of the Hunter, Electra Glide in Blue, Der Verlorene, etc.). Never really saw any of I SPY, but that film alone made me a long time fan.

Demon With A Glass Hand is my first and foremost thought.

Paul Dunlap, composer on several Sam Fuller films.

Dennis Hopper soon to be?

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Jeez

edit: Although I was unaware he was battling cancer so maybe this isn't a surprise

mikebowes wrote:Dennis Hopper soon to be?

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/kt ... 2840.story" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Fkj4vLIqo

He looks very ill here.

It's really sad seeing him so frail, but oh boy, what a class act still and a very deserving recognition of a life in film.

Thanks for the link.

Ira Skutch, legendary gameshow producer/director.

Jazz guitarist Herb Ellis.

Jaime Escalante, the teacher who inspired Stand and Deliver.

David Mills, writer on The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Street, and the upcoming Treme.

For an instant i thought David Simon died, because my eye saw David and The Wire first...

Typical, and just after I mentioned his role in Topaz! I'm not a big fan of The Trouble With Harry but don't forget that major Hitchcock role either, as well as his characters in Escape From Fort Bravo and In Cold Blood.

I've just noticed Matt's mention a couple of pages earlier of the composer Paul Dunlap who died on the 11th March, with a career spanning from The Baron of Arizona through to Gorp! He scored many Sam Fuller films along with Baron of Arizona: The Steel Helmet, Park Row, Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss.

Plus many 50s westerns including John Wayne's Big Jim McLain, and lots of the classic 50s AIP pictures such as I Was A Teenage Werewolf/Frankenstein, Blood of Dracula and How To Make A Monster.

Eugene Terre'blanche, the leader of the right wing AWB party in South Africa and main subject of two Nick Broomfield documentaries, The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife (1991) and His Big White Self (2006) has apparently been murdered.

Takeo Kimura, art director & production designer for Seijun Suzuki amongst others.

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Takeo Kimura, art director & production designer for Seijun Suzuki amongst others.

Almost 92 and he wrote and directed two feature length films only in the past couple years, and that's in addition to art-directing almost non-stop since World War II. While he worked on 99% percent of Suzuki's films from 1963 on, that makes up only a small fraction of his filmography. I'm losing hope that any of his directorial stuff will make it over here (outside of a couple film festival appearances) but he'd done a number of great non-Suzuki films which have been released in various formats, English-friendly. I can recommend Velvet Hustler, Sandakan No. 8, Fire Festival, Tampopo, Zipang and the Mike Hammer trilogy. (I've not seen a couple of those but I'll especially recommend Zipang as a sort of off the wall Tsui Hark-style epic in the spirit of his his work with Suzuki.) Over the years he'd also done a couple Roman Pornos, two films for the Art Theatre Guild, an anime and one part of a international omnibus promoting a Nissan car. Not to mention a whole lot of Nikkatsu Action films, some of which are likely to show up in the next Nikkatsu Eclipse set. I wish more of his stuff was available over here but I'm surely glad for the stuff I've seen. He and Suzuki would never have gotten as crazy as they did if they hadn't been matched up, and I dare say that Japanese film--film in general, really--would have been the poorer, and less crazy, for it. I salute this prolific, eclectic, creative, old dude.

Mario Garbuglia, production designer for Visconti's The Leopard.