German director Kurt Maetzig died Aug. 8, according to this report from Reuters. He was 101. These European sources don’t often list the place and cause of death, but he was living in the German village of Wildkuhl and at age 101 we can surmise natural causes. In 1960 he directed “Der schweigende […]
ASHLAND, ORE.–Character actor Morgan Paull, who worked regularly in movies and TV from the 1970s into the 1990s, died here July 17, after having been diagnosed with stomach cancer. He was 67. Science fiction movie fans may recall his performance in the opening scene of “Blade Runner” as detective Holden, whom Harrison Ford’s […]
LOS ANGELES — Ernest Borgnine, who delivered an Academy Award-winning performance as the lonely Bronx butcher looking for love in the 1955 drama “Marty” and displayed his comic side in the 1960s as the star of the popular TV sitcom “McHale’s Navy,” has died July 8 of apparent kidney failure at Cedars-Sinai […]
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF.–Actor Richard Lynch, who employed his platinum hair and scarred face to play villainous characters in such films as “Bad Dreams” and “The Sword and the Sorcerer,” was found dead at his home Tuesday. He was 76. MSTies will remember him as Noel in the movie in episode 904- WEREWOLF. […] Rancho Mirage, Calif.–Stan Jolley, a production designer who was one of the original art directors who designed Disneyland and who later worked on Disney film and TV projects, died June 4 of gastric cancer at a hospice facility here June 4. He was 86. MSTies may recall that he was the production […]
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