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Lake San Marcos, Calif—Flora Gordon, Bert I.Gordon’s wife and go-to special effects maven for many of his films died here January 26. She was 90. She got an “assistant technical effects” credit for the movies in episodes 313- EARTH VS. THE SPIDER and 319- WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST. She was uncredited […]
Award-winning and Oscar-nominated British stage, film and television actor Frank Finlay died at his home January 30. He was 89. Among hundreds of roles, he is well remembered as Porthos in the “Three Musketeers” films of the 1970s (alongside Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain and Michael York), and opposite Susan Penhaligon in the […]
Two men who were mentioned in MST3K host segments have passed away.
Most notably… Woodland Park, N.J.–They’ve updated isabevigodadead.com because sadly the hollow-eyed character actor, best remembered as the rumpled, over-the-hill Detective Fish on the comedy-drama “Barney Miller” (and for a memorable role in “The Godfather”) has died at his home here of […] BIG SUR, Calif.–Legendary cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, best known for “The Deer Hunter” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” died here January 1. He was 85.
The Hungarian-born Zsigmond helped define cinema’s American New Wave in the 1970s through iconic collaborations and a preference for natural light. He first gained renown for […] LOS ANGELES – Wayne Rogers, who portrayed wisecracking Army surgeon “Trapper John” McIntyre in the first three seasons of TV’s “M*A*S*H,” and who later became a respected financial analyst, died Dec. 31. He was 82.
MSTies will recall he was at the center of conversation in a host segment in episode 410- […] |
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