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Vicente Aranda.

Television director Marty Pasetta who helmed numerous Academy Award shows, AFI tributes, even Elvis Presley's ALOHA FROM HAWAII live TV special.

Eric Caidin, proprietor of the Hollywood Blvd. fixture Hollywood Book and Poster. Somehow, even though it's an uncommon name, it never dawned on me that the Criterion licensor the Caidin Trust originated with his father (an entertainment lawyer).

Jean-Luc Garbo wrote:Tanith Lee

Sad, but apparently she had been seriously ill for some time. I didn't know her personally (only interaction was her on a panel and me in the audience asking a question at the 2010 World Horror Convention in Brighton) but quite a few people on my Facebook list knew her very well, so you can imagine they're quite devastated right now.

Here's someone we neglected to mention a long while back: Christine Buchegger who passed away at the age of 71 on the 3rd March 2014, and who was the female lead in one of Bergman's German period films From The Life of the Marionettes.

GaryC wrote:

Jean-Luc Garbo wrote:Tanith Lee

Sad, but apparently she had been seriously ill for some time. I didn't know her personally (only interaction was her on a panel and me in the audience asking a question at the 2010 World Horror Convention in Brighton) but quite a few people on my Facebook list knew her very well, so you can imagine they're quite devastated right now.

I was a huge (and only slightly ashamed) Blake's 7 fan growing up, and the episodes she wrote ('Sarcophagus' and 'Sand') were two of the best.

Beau Biden, 46, from brain cancer.

A year younger than me. That family has taken a lot of grief over the years.

Seriously, can't imagine what it's like to lose so much of your family in those ways.

The Haunting's Richard Johnson.

Perkins Cobb wrote:The Haunting's Richard Johnson.

Also a string of great Italian horrors in the 70s and early 80s (though also one in the mid-60s: The Witch In Love) presumably arising from the horror name that The Haunting had given him: Beyond The Door and The Night Child, two of the better Exorcist copies and of course as the mad doctor in Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh-Eaters! Also a couple of Sergio Martino films, Island of the Fishermen (aka Screamers) and the Jaws inspired The Great Alligator! (By the way I love that trailer: "We're perfectly safe on dry land!", cut to a van running over a bunch of people!)

He's also the King in the BBC Shakespeare series adaptation of Cymbeline, disappearing for the majority of the play but bookending events. And the second husband in the film that Jack Clayton made after The Innocents, The Pumpkin Eater.

RIP Vincent Bugliosi

Ludvik Vaculik, dissident and Charter 77 signatory.

Mr. Vaculik was a key figure in the Czechoslovak underground publishing world in the 1970s and ’80s, helping to give voice to other dissident writers in the country who were banned by the government. He himself was censored for more than two decades, but still managed to write a series of influential articles, books and novels, including “The Guinea Pigs” (1970), “The Czech Dreambook” (1980) and “A Cup of Coffee With My Interrogator” (1987), which used humor and a developed sense of the absurd to distill the struggles of living under despotic circumstances.

Ron Moody.