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RIP Roger Corman

film director/producer Roger Corman, nicknamed “King of the Bs” and “The Pope of Pop Culture,” whose career in Hollywood spanned eight decades, died May 11. He was 98.

Corman movies blended with MST3K’s tone perfectly, and episodes featuring his movies were among the best.

Corman produced and/or directed the movies in episodes […]

RIP Bernard “Gonna Sink this B*th” Hill Dies

We rarely note the passing of a famously riffed character, but we’re making an exception here to note the passing of actor Bernard Hill, perhaps best known as King Theoden in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, and who is known to MSTies as the actor played the captain in captain […]

Edgar Lansbury, RIP

Manhattan — Edgar Lansbury, the Tony-winning producer and younger brother of actress Angela Lansbury, died May 2 at his home here. He was 94

He worked on Broadway and movie versions of “The Subject Was Roses” and ‘Godspell’ and on a revival of ‘Gypsy’ that starred his sister.

He died Thursday at […]

RIP Lorena Velázquez

— Mexican actress Lorena Velázquez died April 11. She was 86.

With a career that spanned more than 300 productions, Velázquez was a stellar figure in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and continued her legacy on television. She was crowned Miss Mexico in 1960, although she declined to represent the country […]

RIP Eckart Dux

Sassenburg, Germany — German actor and voice artist Eckart Dux died April 9 at his home here. He was 97.

He had numerous roles in German theatre in Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. He also had many roles as a character actor in film and television. MSTies will remember him as Rosencrantz […]