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UK television director Christopher Barry, best known for his work on Doctor Who.

Shirley Temple.

The Self-Styled Siren wrote a great appreciation for Wee Willie Winkle. Surprisingly good film, particularly for this moment which she discusses in her post.

Leonard Knight, visionary folk architect and outsider artist, creator of the Salton Sea adjacent Salvation Mountain. Anyone who lives remotely near Los Angeles and has never been to this incredible landmark owes themselves a visit.

Didn't realize Sid Caesar was still alive.

Jimmy Murakami.

antnield wrote:Jimmy Murakami.

Very sad to hear. The Snowman and especially When The Wind Blows (with its use of animated characters over real sets, all the better to show the deterioration of the world after the bomb and the flimsiness and impermanence of human existence) are beautifully animated.

We also shouldn't forget that Murakami directed (along with an uncredited Roger Corman) Battle Beyond The Stars, inspired by Star Wars and which was one of Corman's biggest budgeted productions, the special effects sequences of which inevitably got recycled again and again as stock footage in New World Pictures' later films!

The woman who painted in Green Acres, Mary Grace Canfield. Also Devo guitarist, Bob Casale.

A mere slip of a girl next to Alice Herz-Sommer, who was until the weekend the oldest known Holocaust survivor at 110.

As for film connections, she's been featured in more than one of Christopher Nupen's documentaries - We Want the Light (2004) and Everything Is a Present (2009), the latter being specifically about her, and she's also the subject of Malcolm Clarke's The Lady in Number 6 (2013), which is up for a documentary Oscar.

mfunk9786 wrote:Harold Ramis

What? No!

I hadn't heard he had been ill for the last few years. What a shame. He was hilarious on the early seasons of SCTV, beloved on GHOSTBUSTERS and became a decent director, too. RIP.

Goddammit, he was a great comic talent on early SCTV in addition to his film work

mfunk9786 wrote:Harold Ramis

Oh no.

While I was introduced to him thanks to the Ghostbusters movies, I'm always fond of Groundhog Day.

Very, very sad!

Groundhog Day is one of my favorites.

Huge blow to see this news this morning. I'm so thankful that I had a few chances to talk with him and tell him what his work meant to me, not just the usual suspects, but especially the overlooked Stuart Saves His Family. What a towering comedy mind we've lost, and one of the nicest people to make a career in this cut-throat business.

Paco de Lucía, whose film work included Carlos Saura's Carmen and Stephen Frears' The Hit.