2001
- 01/11 Ignacy Machowski (age 80), who played
Prof. Orloff in the movie in episode 211- FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS.
- 01/21 Joseph O'Conor (age 84), who played
Prof. Hendricks in the movie in episode 909- GORGO.
- 01/28 Sally
Mansfield
(age 77), who played Vena Ray in the episodes of TV's "Rocky Jones,
Space Ranger" that were used to create the movies in episodes 413-
MANHUNT IN SPACE and 417- CRASH OF MOONS.
- 02/06 Titus Moede a.k.a. Moody
(age 62), who played Frankie Bonnie in the movie in episode 609- THE
SKYDIVERS and the radio listener in the movie in episode 812- THE
INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP
ZOMBIES. He also did the sound for the movie in episode 621- THE BEAST
OF YUCCA FLATS.
- 02/07 Robert "King" Moody (age 71), who played
the alien captain in the movie in episode 404- TEENAGERS FROM OUTER
SPACE.
- 02/12 Tiberio Mitri (age 74), who played
one of Valmont's henchmen in the movie in episode 1013- DIABOLIK.
- 02/16 Howard W. Koch
(age 84), director of the movie in episode 112- UNTAMED
YOUTH.
- 03/02 Peggy
Converse (age 95), who played Mrs. Obringer in
the movie in episode 702- THE BRUTE MAN and Aunt Flavia McIntire in
the movie in episode 805- THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE.
- 03/06 Carl Don (age 90), who played
Cochem and Von Green in the movie in episode 321- SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE
MARTIANS.
- 03/09 Giancarlo Prete a.k.a. Timothy Brent
(age 58), who played Strike in the movie in episode 705- ESCAPE
2000.
- 03/12 Roswell A. Hoffman (age 95), who did the
optical printing for the movie THIS ISLAND EARTH, riffed in MST3K: THE MOVIE.
- 03/24 Harry Eisen (age 79), music track editor
for the movie in episode 419- THE REBEL SET.
- 03/26 Diane Sayer (age 63), who played
Midge in the movie in episode 615- KITTEN WITH A WHIP.
- 03/27 Anthony Dexter
(age 88), who played Luther Blair in the movie in episode 416- FIRE
MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE, Dr. Luis Vargas in the movie in episode 524-
12 TO THE MOON and Herron in the movie in episode 902- THE PHANTOM
PLANET.
- 03/31 Luciana Giussani
(age 72), who, with her sister Angela, created the
comic book character Diabolik and whose stories were used
in the movie in episode 1013- DIABOLIK.
- 04/03 Ron Phipps (age 70), production
accountant for the movie in episode K09- PHASE IV.
- 04/12 Norman Houle (age 76), art director for
the movie in episode 815- AGENT FOR H.A.R.M.
- 04/15 Monroe Askins (age 85), cinematographer
for the movies in episodes 317- VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA
SERPENT and 420- THE HUMAN DUPLICATORS.
- 04/16 Giacomo
Gentilomo (age 92), director/screenwriter of the
movie in episode 410- HERCULES AGAINST THE MOON MEN.
- 04/17 Terry Scully (age unknown), who played Steve in the movie in episode 901- THE PROJECTED MAN.
- 04/27 Milton Kleinberg (age 79), editor of the
short ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON shown in episode 701- NIGHT
OF THE BLOOD BEAST.
- 05/13 Bettie Biery (age 80), music editor of
the episodes of TV's "Gemini Man" shown in episode 814-
RIDING WITH DEATH.
- 05/19 Mike Sammes (age 73), one of the singers
of the theme song from the TV series "Stingray" featured
in episode K01- INVADERS FROM THE DEEP.
- 06/23 Paul Schreibman (age 92), American
producer for the movie in episode 211- FIRST SPACESHIP ON
VENUS.
- 06/26 Bill a.k.a. William Bryant (age 76), who played Dr. Ralph Martin in the movie in episode 210- KING DINOSAUR
and a trucker in the movie in episode 305- STRANDED IN SPACE.
- 07/19 Paul Beeson (age 79), cinematographer of the movie in episode 111- MOON ZERO TWO.
- 07/22 Austin Green (age 93), who appeared in the movie in episode 206- RING OF TERROR.
- 07/29 Alex Nicol (age
85), director of the movie in episode 912- THE SCREAMING
SKULL, in which he also played the gardener Mickey.
- 08/05 Tim McCrory (age 80), process
photographer of the movie in episode 804- THE DEADLY
MANTIS.
- 08/06 Robert Dunham
(age 70), who played King Antonio of Seatopia in the movie in episode 212-
GODZILLA VS. MEGALON and Captain Martin in the movie THE GREEN SLIME
riffed in MST3K's pilot.
- 08/10 James F. Liles (age 78), who did the
special photographics effects for the movie in episode
K20- THE LAST CHASE.
- 08/25 John
Chambers (age 78), the movie's make-up artist in
episode 420- THE HUMAN DUPLICATORS.
- 09/12 Nathanael Leon (age 85), who played a vampire in the movie in episode 624- SAMSON VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMEN.
- 09/16 Samuel Z.
Arkoff (age 83), co-producer of twelve MSTed
movies including episodes 309- THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN
and 809- I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF.
- 09/17 Barbara Drew (age 85), who played
Mrs. Packard in the movie in episode 409- THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN.
- 09/29 Risto Orko (age 102), producer of the
movie "Sampo" shown in episode 422- THE DAY THE EARTH
FROZE.
- 10/17 Jay
Livingston (age 86), who, with Ray Evans, wrote
those catchy songs in the movie in episode 507- I ACCUSE MY PARENTS.
- 10/18 Paul B. Radin
(age 88), producer of the movie in episode K09- PHASE IV.
- 10/24 Kim Gardner
(age 55), member of The Birds who performed in the movie in episode
905- THE DEADLY BEES.
- 11/16 Maurice Vaccarino
(age 88), production manager for the movie in episode 315- TEENAGE CAVE
MAN. He was also the assistant director for the movies in
episodes 902- THE PHANTOM PLANET and 912- THE SCREAMING SKULL.
- 11/24 William Read
Woodfield (age 73), producer/screenwriter for the
TV-movie in episode 614- SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL.
- 12/11 Alan Fennell (age 65), screenwriter for
the episodes of the TV series "Stingray" shown in episode
K01- INVADERS FROM THE DEEP.
- 12/22 Lance Fuller (age 73), who played Dr.
Ted Erickson in the movie in episode 808- THE SHE-CREATURE and Brack in THIS
ISLAND EARTH, riffed in MST3K: THE MOVIE.
- 12/26 Paul Landres (age 89), editor for the
movie in episode 611- LAST OF THE WILD HORSES.
- 12/30 Anatoli Kunatsky (age 93), who played
the bandit chieftain in the movie "Morozko" shown in
episode 813- JACK FROST.
- 12/31 Denny Arnold (age 67), stuntman in the movie in episode 512- MITCHELL.
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