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Lisa Blount -- no doubt best remembered by most for An Officer and a Gentleman, horror fans will know her from Carpenter's Prince of Darkness and her small but memorable role in Dead and Buried. She and her husband won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short in 2002.

Yes, she is sort of kept out of the action for most of Prince of Darkness, but gets the creepiest moment of the film with the brief glimpse of her character on the other side of the mirror reaching out as the light from the real world flickers and dies. Plus of course the starring role in the 'dream of the future' beaming a vision of evil from the far off year of 1999!

I also notice that she was in that Philip Noyce film Blind Fury - the Zatoichi inspired film starring Rutger Hauer.

And Lamont Johnson - I hope Criterion might do an edition of The Last American Hero some time.

James McArthur (Danno on the original "Hawaii Five-0").

Gerald Kenny (best known, most recently, for playing Bunny in Extras).

antnield wrote:Gerald Kenny (best known, most recently, for playing Bunny in Extras).

Sad news, his turn on Extras was fantastic - I remember watching this and laughing for hours after.

Chris Udvarnoky, the "good" twin from Robert Mulligan's The Other (1972).

George Hickenlooper, director of "Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse."

Denise Borino-Quinn (Ginny Sack on "The Sopranos").

"Wheel of Fortune" announcer Charlie O'Donnell.

Monica Johnson.

Markson wrote:Monica Johnson.

Sad to hear. Those Brooks comedies were wonderful and really pioneered the kind of low-key approach to humor that so many shows (CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, BORED TO DEATH, etc.) revel in these days.

Her AMERICATHON, by the way, was just announced as a Warner Archive Release.

Composer Jerry Bock.

John Crawford (last September 21st but just reported today).

Arthur Bernard Lewis (TV writer best known for the 'Who Shot JR?' "Dallas" episode).

Shirley Verrett.

reno dakota wrote:Jill Clayburgh

RIP Hilly

Everyone go watch Starting Over right now. I'll wait

reno dakota wrote:Jill Clayburgh

I loved her. I don't think I've ever seen a bad performance from Clayburgh, and she wasn't in that many good movies. She had some decent late-career TV parts, including as Ally McBeal's mother.

Martin Baum, agent, producer and former president of ABC Pictures.

Dino de Laurentiis.

One of the few producers whose 'notorious flops' were often far more interesting and daring than many other producer's successes! In some cases the projects could be howlingly demented, yet the material chosen always seemed to be full of ideas. For example even if we discount Manhunter and Dune as easy choices, I find Maximum Overdrive and Silver Bullet still remain entertaining on repeat viewings even though neither are probably anyone's idea of a 'great', or even good film! Ditto for Barbarella!

Yes, bad taste was practically his calling card, but never simple vulgarity. Even his worse films have the sense of high-class trash, and he also knew to surround himself with talented people, leading to some daring films along the way. And until the mid-90s, there was hardly another producer with as "colorful" a resume.

If only for the woefully misunderstood and underrated pair of Mandingo and Year of the Dragon, which I could hardly see anyone else having produced, my hat's off to him. Ditto Blue Velvet, where the mix of sex and violence would have probably turned away most people, his high-low taste allowed him to not only produce it, but give Lynch free rein.