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Jim Begg, RIP

Our buddy Daddy-O has checked in with this sad news from a couple of weeks ago:

Actor, producer and voice actor Jim Begg died Friday, Feb. 15. He was 69. MSTies will remember him as baseball-obsessed henchman Larry in episode 204- CATALINA CAPER and as helpful townie Fatso in episode 523- VILLAGE OF […]

Maila Nurmi, RIP

Maila Nurmi, aka, Vampira, died Thursday, Jan. 10, in her sleep at her Hollywood home. She was 86. MSTies will recall that she appeared, buried under a ton of makeup, as the sorceress hag in the movie in episode 411 – THE MAGIC SWORD.

Born in 1921 in Finland, the model and […]

Bill Idelson, RIP

LOS ANGELES–Actor, writer and producer Bill Idelson died here Dec. 31 of complications from a June hip injury. He was 88. He is perhaps best remembered as Herman Glimsher, Sally’s longtime boyfriend on TV’s “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” MSTies may recall that he cowrote the screemplay to the movie in episode […]

Jeanne Carmen, RIP

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Jeanne Carmen, the “little country girl” who became a 1950s pinup and actress and hobnobbed with Frank Sinatra and other stars, died of lymphoma at her Orange County home on Thursday, Dec. 20. She was 77. MSTies will remember her as Lillibet in episode 112- UNTAMED YOUTH.

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Frank Capra Jr., RIP

PHILADELPHIA — Frank Capra Jr., a producer who helped build a major television and movie studio, died Wednesday, Dec. 19, at a hospital here after a long fight with prostate cancer. He was 73. MSTies will recall that he was an associate producer on the 1969 film “Marooned,” which Film Ventures international turned […]