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The Persuaders! Video 40th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition in HD 2011
To mark the 40th anniversary of THE PERSUADERS (PG), Network has commissioned a High Definition digital restoration of all 24 episodes for a new Blu-ray edition of the series with brand new special features
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David Andrew Leo Fincher USA
Anglonautes > Arts > Movies > David Fincher
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John Cleese UK
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/video/2015/sep/17/
Paul Abbott UK
creator of Shameless and State of Play
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/28/paul-abbott-uk-tv-drama
Peter Bowker UK
screenwriter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jul/21/
Bill Cosby USA
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Norman Milton Lear USA 1922-2023
From left, Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker, Rob Reiner as Mike Stivic and Sally Struthers as Gloria Bunker Stivic in Norman Lear’s “All in the Family.”
Credit...CBS, via Getty Images
Rob Reiner Remembers Norman Lear: We’ve Lost ‘a Real Champion of America’ With “All in the Family,” Lear “tapped into something that nobody had ever done before or even since,” the star of the hit sitcom said. NYT Dec. 6, 2023
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George Maharis USA 1928-2023
ruggedly handsome New York-born stage actor who went on to become a 1960s television heartthrob as a star of the series “Route 66” (...)
Mr. Maharis’s greatest fame arose from the role of Buz Murdock, one of two young men who traveled the country in a Corvette convertible, finding a new adventure and drama (and usually a new young woman) each week on CBS’s “Route 66.”
In a 2012 reappraisal of the show, the New York Times critic and reporter Neil Genzlinger praised the literary quality of the scripts and commented,
“This half-century-old black-and-white television series tackled issues that seem very 21st century.”
Several actors who went on to greater renown appeared on the show including Martin Sheen, Robert Redford, Robert Duvall and Barbara Eden.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/
Albert Kenneth Westbury UK 1927-2023
Cinematographer who played a key role in bringing a dreamlike quality to many scenes in the BBC drama Pennies from Heaven
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/21/
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/21/
William Martin Gulager, better known as Clu Gulager USA 1928-2022
On TV, he played Billy the Kid on the “The Tall Man” and was seen on the long-running “The Virginian.”
His movies ranged from “The Last Picture Show” to “Elf.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/
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Nichelle Nichols USA 1932-2022
She was among the first Black women to have a leading role in a TV series.
She later worked with NASA to recruit minorities for the space program.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/
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https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2022/jul/31/
Robert Dean Stockwell USA 1936-2021
Dean Stockwell (...) began his seven-decade acting career as a child in the 1940s and later had key roles in films including “A Long Day’s Journey Into Night” in 1962 and “Blue Velvet” in 1986, while also making his mark in television, most notably as the cigar-smoking Al Calavicci on the hit science fiction series “Quantum Leap,”
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Mr. Stockwell had a hot-and-cold relationship with acting that caused him to leave show business for years at a time.
But he nonetheless amassed more than 200 film and television acting credits from 1945 to 2015, as well as occasional stage roles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2021/nov/09/
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Betty Marion White Ludden USA 1922- 2021
Betty White was on TV since the beginning of TV.
And in an industry where it's often about being young and hot, White got more popular the older she got.
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for two characters:
The first was Sue Ann Nivens from the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
White called the character "your sickeningly sweet neighborhood nymphomaniac."
And then there was the naïve Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls, whose greatest disappointment was losing her hometown's Butter Queen pageant due to "churn tampering."
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/31/
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JoAnna Cameron USA 1948-2021
born Patricia Kara Cameron)
Ms. Cameron, who broke into the movies in 1969 with a small part in a Bob Hope film, blazed a trail when she arrived on the small screen as Isis in September 1975, two months before Lynda Carter made her first appearance as Wonder Woman. “The Bionic Woman,” starring Lindsay Wagner, began in January 1976.
“Isis” starred Ms. Cameron as Andrea Thomas, a high school science teacher who had acquired the powers of Isis, the Egyptian goddess of healing and magic.
Running with the speed of a gazelle, flying like a falcon and displaying superhuman strength, she used her extraordinary powers to fight crime.
The series ran on CBS from 1975 to 1977; reruns were later syndicated as “The Secrets of Isis.”
Ms. Cameron’s other television roles included appearances on “Columbo,” “Marcus Welby, M.D.” and “The Bold Ones: The New Doctors.”
A lithe brunette, she also received tremendous exposure as a television model for scores of commercial products.
The Guinness Book of World Records said in 1979 that she had appeared in more than 100 commercials on network television, more than anyone else in advertising history.
Advertisers spent more than $100 million “using JoAnna as the beauteous centerpiece of their commercials for cosmetics, shampoo, wine, beer, pantyhose and breath freshener,” TV Guide reported in 1979, adding that “she certainly has a face that can sell a product.”
Ms. Cameron was outdoorsy and athletic, and she appeared in commercials skiing, scuba diving, piloting a jet, driving a racecar and romping through a field of flowers. She flew with the Blue Angels and worked to promote the United States Navy.
But many of her other commercials were for personal products. In an ad for pantyhose, she struck a Mrs. Robinson-like pose. In a cigarette spot, she smoked. She also made a brief foray into directing commercials, but did not enjoy it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/
Lionel Blair Canada, UK 1928-2021
born Henry Lionel Ogus
Lionel Blair (...) had a seven-decade long career as an actor, dancer, entertainer and presenter
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/nov/04/
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William Garson Paszamant USA 1964-2021
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Michael Kenneth Williams USA 1966-2021
As Omar Little on “The Wire,” David Simon’s five-season epic on HBO that explored the gritty underworld of corruption, drugs and the police in Baltimore, Mr. Williams played perhaps the most memorable character in a series many consider among the best shows in television history.
As a swaggering lone wolf in a story largely defined by continuing battles between the police and various crime bosses and crews, Omar was one of prime-time’s pre-eminent antiheroes in a TV era defined by them.
He was also gay and openly so in the homophobic, coldblooded world of murder and drugs, a groundbreaking portrayal of Black masculinity on television.
“I saw a lot of homophobia in my community,” Mr. Williams told The New York Times in 2019.
“Omar definitely helped soften the blow of homophobia in my community, and it opened up a dialogue, definitely.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/
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Eddie Asner USA 1929-2021
burly character actor who won seven Emmy Awards — five of them for playing the same character, the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, introduced on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” — and later starred in film hits like “Up” and “Elf” —
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Mr. Asner also served as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1981 to 1985 and was active in political causes both within and beyond the entertainment industry.
The issues he supported over the years included unionism (in particular the air traffic controllers’ strike of 1981) and animal rights;
those he protested against included the American military presence in El Salvador.
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/29/
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Gavin MacLeod USA 1931-2021
born Allan George See
Gavin MacLeod (...) tasted stardom after years as a journeyman actor when he landed roles on two of the most successful television series of the 1970s and ’80s — as the news writer Murray Slaughter on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and Capt. Merrill Stubing on “The Love Boat” —
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/
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Robert Conrad USA 1935-2020
born Conrad Robert Falk
Mr. Conrad, known for tough guy roles, played a secret agent in a mid-1960s television series that transplanted James Bond-style plots into an Old West setting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/
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Margaret Ann Lipton USA 1946-2019
angel-faced actress who starred in “The Mod Squad” and made a television comeback in the “Twin Peaks” series
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when she achieved instant stardom on the ABC police drama “The Mod Squad” (1968-73), one of the first prime-time series to acknowledge the existence of the hippie counterculture and an early example of multiracial casting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/
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Annie Jeffreys Carmichael USA 1923-2017
sophisticated blond actress and singer who played a glamorous ghost in the 1950s television series “Topper”
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“Topper,” seen on CBS from 1953 to 1955, was based on the 1937 film of the same name starring Cary Grant and Constance Bennett as a young couple, George and Marion Kerby, who die in an accident and come back to haunt their old house, now occupied by a stodgy banker, just for fun.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/
Ty Hardin USA 1930-2017
Ty Hardin was best known for his role as the gunslinger Bronco Layne.
Photograph: Credit Warner Bros.
Ty Hardin, Star of ‘Bronco’ Western, Dies at 87 NYT AUG. 6, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/
Ty Hardin USA 1930-2017
born Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr.
Ty Hardin (...) roamed the West searching for adventure in the television series “Bronco” in the late 1950s and early ’60s
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In a television landscape crowded with gunslingers like Sugarfoot, Cheyenne, Lucas McCain (the Rifleman) and Bret Maverick, Mr. Hardin carved a niche playing Bronco Layne, a soft-spoken loner slow to anger but quick on the draw and skilled in the saddle.
“There ain’t a horse that he can’t handle, that’s how he got his name,” a line in the show’s theme song went.
First introduced on the series “Cheyenne” in 1958, Bronco, formerly a captain in the Confederate Army, held various jobs as he traveled — Army scout, deputy sheriff, wagon-train master, undercover post-office agent and miner among them — and encountered colorful historical characters along the way, notably Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hicko and Jesse James (played by James Coburn).
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/
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Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy UK 1925-2017
Actor who starred on TV in All Creatures Great and Small and became associated with the role of Winston Churchill
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/aug/03/
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Roger George Moore UK 1927-2017
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Mary Tyler Moore USA 1936-2017
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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/25/
https://www.npr.org/2013/05/26/
Donald James Marshall USA 1936-2016
one of the first black actors to have a starring role on an American network television series, as a spaceship’s efficient, levelheaded first officer stranded on a mysterious planet on “Land of the Giants”
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“Land of the Giants,” which ran from 1968 to 1970 on ABC, was a science-fiction adventure about the passengers and crew of a small suborbital aircraft that crash-lands on a planet inhabited by humanoids 70 feet tall and house cats the size of King Kong.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/
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Agnes Nixon USA 1922-2016
born Agnes Eckhardt
celebrated creator and writer of television soap operas, who introduced uterine cancer, venereal diseases, child abuse, AIDS and other societal terrors into the weekday fantasy worlds of millions of daytime viewers
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In a career that paralleled the rise, enormous popularity and gradual decline of soap operas in the last half of the 20th century, Ms. Nixon fashioned many of television’s most popular daytime shows, drawing on a rich imagination to find the great and small human dramas lurking just below the surface of American life.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/
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Steven Hill USA 1922-2016
(born Solomon Krakowsky)
Steven Hill (..) originated imposing lead roles on two notable television series, “Mission: Impossible” in the 1960s and “Law & Order” in the 1990s
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/
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Elizabeth Howland USA 1941-2016
Beth Howland (...) made high anxiety an art form as the ditsy, accident-prone waitress Vera Louise Gorman on the 1970s and ’80s sitcom “Alice”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/
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Ronald Balfour Corbett UK 1930-2016
Ronnie Corbett, right, with Ronnie Barker in 1977.
Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
Ronnie Corbett obituary The Guardian Thursday 31 March 2016 13.45 BST Last modified on Friday 1 April 2016 12.17 BST http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/mar/31/ronnie-corbett-obituary
actor and comedian who became a national treasure as partner to Ronnie Barker in The Two Ronnies http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/mar/31/ronnie-corbett-obituary
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James Wilkes Noble USA 1922-2016
actor best known for his role as the absent-minded governor on the hit 1980s sitcom “Benson”
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From 1979 to 1986, Mr. Noble played Eugene Gatling, the well-meaning but somewhat bumbling governor of an unnamed state, on the ABC series “Benson.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/
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Earl Henry Hamner Jr. USA 1923-2016
Earl Hamner Jr. (...) drew on warm memories of his Depression childhood in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to create the enormously popular 1970s television series “The Waltons”
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Mr. Hamner was a novelist and television writer with eight episodes of “The Twilight Zone” to his credit when, in 1971, he took an incident from his novel of a decade earlier, “Spencer’s Mountain,” and rewrote it as a television special.
“The Homecoming: A Christmas Story,” about a close-knit mountain family waiting for the arrival of their father on Christmas Eve in 1933, drew strong ratings, and CBS picked it up as a series, “The Waltons,” with Mr. Hamner credited as creator and executive producer.
Because it was scheduled in the same time slot as “The Flip Wilson Show” on NBC, many CBS executives predicted a quick death, but viewers loved the clan — John-Boy, played by Richard Thomas, was based on Mr. Hamner — and its simple values of hard work and family unity.
Mr. Hamner wrote only a few episodes of the series but was closely involved in creative decisions and provided the voice-over narration that began and ended each show.
“The Waltons,” first broadcast in September 1972, won six Emmy Awards for its first season.
It ran for nine years and more than 200 episodes, carrying the family’s story forward from 1933 to 1946.
It lived on for decades thereafter in several specials that reassembled most of the original cast, including “A Walton Wedding” (1995) and “A Walton Easter” (1997).
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/
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Peter Brown USA 1935-2016
(born Pierre Lind de Lappe)
Peter Brown (...) had starring roles in two television westerns in the 1950s and ’60s and later acted in soap operas
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/
David Smyrl USA 1935-2016
actor best known for his role as Mr. Handford, the retired firefighter who ran Hooper’s Store, on the long-running PBS children’s show “Sesame Street”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/
Leonard James Schleifer USA 1920-2016
versatile television director whose career spanned the industry’s first four decades and reflected the evolution of television programming
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Mr. Sheldon directed episodes of some 100 series in virtually every genre, including classic episodes of “The Twilight Zone” (among them “I Sing the Body Electric” and “A Penny for Your Thoughts”), 44 episodes of the hit series “The Millionaire” and a full season of “The Bing Crosby Show,” a short-lived family sitcom.
The series he worked on ranged from “Death Valley Days” to “The Patty Duke Show.”
In 1967 alone, he directed episodes of “Ironside,” “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” “Petticoat Junction,” “My Three Sons,” “That Girl,” “The Fugitive” and “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color.”
His first credited directing job was for “Mr. Peepers” (1952), starring Wally Cox, for which Mr. Sheldon hired a young unknown, Tony Randall.
His last was an episode of “Sledge Hammer!” (1986), a police-show parody on ABC.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/
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Joe Santos USA 1931-2016
sturdily built, unpretentious character actor who had a memorable role as the overworked detective Dennis Becker on the popular 1970s drama “The Rockford Files”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/
Larry Richard Drake USA 1949-2016
longtime actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as a developmentally disabled character on the television drama “L.A. Law”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/
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Meade Howard Horton Jr. USA 1924-2016
ruggedly handsome actor who found television stardom in 1957 as the scout Flint McCullough on “Wagon Train” but who resisted being typecast in westerns as he pursued a parallel career as a singer
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/
George Gaynes USA 1917-2016
born George Jongejans in Helsinki, Finland
George Gaynes (...) played a grouchy foster parent on the 1980s sitcom “Punky Brewster,” the beleaguered commandant in seven “Police Academy” films and a soap opera star with a crush on Dustin Hoffman in drag in the Hollywood hit “Tootsie”
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With his baritone voice, chiseled good looks and versatility as a character actor and singer, Mr. Gaynes appeared in hundreds of episodes of sitcoms and dramas on television, 35 Hollywood and made-for-TV films, and many plays, musical comedies and operas in New York and Europe.
Critics often applauded his work in supporting roles, and his face became familiar to millions of Americans.
But he never achieved leading man stardom.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/
Catherine Elizabeth Coulson USA 1943-2015
classically trained actress who won fans on television as the enigmatic Log Lady in the cult series “Twin Peaks”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/
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Martin Sam Milner USA 1931-2015
actor who broke out of supporting movie roles as the quintessential clean-cut young man to achieve television stardom as one of two road-hungry bachelors in “Route 66” and later as a veteran police officer in “Adam-12”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/
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Joyce Audrey Botterill UK 1939-2015
sprightly British actress and comedian who rocketed to pop culture fame as the “sock it to me” girl on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” a landmark of television zaniness, before her career was derailed by drug arrests and a near-fatal automobile accident
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/
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Melody Patricia Patterson USA 1949-2015
winsome actress best known for playing Wrangler Jane on the sitcom “F Troop” in the 1960s
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On “F Troop,” a comedy set in the Old West that ran on ABC from 1965 to 1967, Ms. Patterson played a feisty postmistress and storekeeper for a squadron of scheming incompetents at Fort Courage, a fictional Army outpost.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/
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Alan David Yorkin / Bud Yorkin USA 1926-2015
Bud Yorkin, who broke into television as a repairman and less than a decade later teamed with the producer Norman Lear to create pioneering, provocative and singularly successful satirical series including “All in the Family”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/
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Richard Leland Bare USA 1913-2015
director whose career began during World War II and who became a Hollywood mainstay in the early days of television
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/
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Richard Allen Dysart USA 1929-2015
character actor who specialized in lawyers, doctors and other authority figures — most notably Leland McKenzie, the founding partner of the law firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney & Kuzak, on the soapy-serious prime-time drama “L.A. Law” —
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/
Geoffrey Bond Lewis USA 1935-2015
actor who appeared alongside Clint Eastwood in a string of films in the 1970s and ’80s
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Mr. Lewis was an Eastwood regular, starting as a tough guy in “High Plains Drifter” (1973).
He went on to appear in “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” (1974), “Every Which Way but Loose” (1978), “Bronco Billy” (1980), “Any Which Way You Can” (1980) and “Pink Cadillac” (1989), often playing a sidekick or a lighter comedic role.
He and Mr. Eastwood last worked together on “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” in 1997.
Mr. Lewis also had hundreds of other film and television roles.
He appeared on television series like “Falcon Crest,” “Magnum P.I.” and “My Name Is Earl,” and in action movies like “10 to Midnight,” gangster films like “Dillinger,” horror pictures like Rob Zombie’s “The Devil’s Rejects” and westerns like “My Name Is Nobody” and “They Died With Their Boots On.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/
James Best USA 1926-2015
James Best as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, with his dog, Flash.
CBS
James Best 1926-2015
born Jewel Franklin Guy
James Best (...) played the oafish sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on the hit television comedy “The Dukes of Hazzard ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/
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http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/apr/08/
Donna Douglas USA 1932-2015
From left: Donna Douglas, Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan and Max Baer Jr., in 1963 on the popular show “The Beverly Hillbillies.” CBS
Donna Douglas, the Fairest ‘Beverly Hillbilly,’ Dies at 82 NYT JAN. 2, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/
Donna Douglas 1932-2015
born Doris Smith
Donna Douglas (...) played the shapely, blue-eyed daughter of the suddenly wealthy mountaineer Jed Clampett on “The Beverly Hillbillies,” the wildly popular television sitcom of a half-century ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/
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Theodore Jonas Flicker USA 1930-2014
writer and director who led an influential improvisational theater troupe in New York in the 1960s, wrote and directed the comic film “The President’s Analyst” and helped create the sitcom “Barney Miller”
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/
Ann Bradford Davis USA 1926-2014
comic actress best known as the wistful, wisecracking live-in maid on the long-running ABC sitcom “The Brady Bunch”
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From 1969 to 1974, Ms. Davis played the eternally good-natured, reliably self-deprecating Alice Nelson, who kept house for and dispensed cornball advice to a wholesome blended California family of eight on one of the perkiest prime-time series of its era.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/
Kate O’Mara UK 1939-2014
born Frances Meredith Carroll
British actress who played the scheming sister of Joan Collins’s character on the 1980s prime-time soap opera “Dynasty” and another scheming sister on the BBC sitcom “Absolutely Fabulous”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/31/arts/television/
James Rebhorn USA 1948-2014
character actor who appeared in dozens of popular movies and television shows and recently starred on the Showtime hit “Homeland” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/movies/james-rebhorn-character-actor-dies-at-65.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/movies/
James Ellis Northern Ireland, UK 1931-2014
(James Ellis) played Bert Lynch in BBC police drama Z-Cars and appeared in shows ranging from Doctor Who to Nightingales http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/mar/09/james-ellis
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/mar/09/
Ralph Harold Waite USA 1928-2014
multifaceted actor who became etched in the American imagination as the craggy-faced, big-hearted patriarch of a rustic, Depression-era clan in the popular 1970s television series, “The Waltons”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/
David Joseph Madden USA 1931-2014
comic actor who played the child-hating agent on the hit 1970s sitcom “The Partridge Family”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/
James Avery USA 1945-2013
James Avery (...) played Will Smith’s pompous but well-meaning uncle on the popular 1990s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/arts/television/james-avery-fresh-prince-actor-dies-at-68.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jan/01/
Lewis Collins UK 1946-2013
Lewis Collins (...) played Bodie in all 57 of the show's episodes from 1977 and 1983
(...)
During that time he formed one half of Britain's answer to Starsky and Hutch, a crime-fighting duo called Bodie and Doyle who worked for a shadowy criminal intelligence agency, CI5, headed by Gordon Jackson's strait-laced George Cowley.
At its height, The Professionals was watched by 12 million viewers a week, and Collins became a heart-throb. He was even considered to replace Roger Moore as James Bond. http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/nov/28/lewis-collins
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/nov/28/
Anthony Peter Musante USA 1936-2013
rugged-looking American actor who was seen on television, in films and on stage in the United States and Europe for over 50 years but who was probably best known for a TV series he left after one season
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/
Lisa Robin Kelly USA 1970 (?)-2013
actress best known for her recurring role on the hit sitcom “That ’70s Show” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/arts/television/lisa-robin-kelly-actress-dies-at-43.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/
Verla Eileen Regina Brennen USA 1932-2013
smoky-voiced actress who had worked in show business for more than 20 years before gaining her widest attention as a gleefully tough Army captain in both the film and television versions of “Private Benjamin”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jul/31/
Dennis Farina USA 1944-2013
Dennis Farina (...) spent 20 years as a police officer in Chicago before he began patrolling Hollywood as a character actor, starring as a detective on the television shows “Law & Order” and “Crime Story” and sometimes crossing into crime, as he did in the movie “Get Shorty”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/
Gary David Goldberg USA 1944-2013
writer and producer who created warmhearted television shows, most notably “Family Ties,” a leading comedy of the 1980s that propelled Michael J. Fox to stardom
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/
Jean Stapleton USA 1923-2013
born Jeanne Murray
character actress whose portrayal of a slow-witted, big-hearted and submissive — up to a point — housewife on the groundbreaking series “All in the Family” made her, along with Mary Tyler Moore and Bea Arthur, not only one of the foremost women in television comedy in the 1970s but a symbol of emergent feminism in American popular culture
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/
Jane Nebel Henson USA 1934-2013
former wife of Muppets creator Jim Henson who was influential in the creation of the popular U.S. TV puppet program http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/04/02/arts/02reuters-janehenson.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/04/02/
Bonnie Gail Franklin USA 1944-2013
Bonnie Franklin ('s) portrayal of a pert but determined Ann Romano on the television show “One Day at a Time” in the 1970s and ’80s spun laughter out of the tribulations of a divorced woman juggling parenting, career, love life and feminist convictions http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/arts/television/bonnie-franklin-actress-dies-at-69.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/
Raymond Patrick Cusick UK 1928-2013
The iconic shape of the Daleks – the most enduring villains from the BBC's long-running television science-fiction series Doctor Who – came from the imagination of the designer Raymond Cusick (...).
The famous domed silhouette, with three protuberances – eyestalk, sucker arm and gun – and distinctive spherical skirt decorations, has retained its shape even into the current incarnation of the show. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/feb/24/raymond-cusick
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/feb/24/
Conrad Stafford Bain USA 1923-2013
accomplished stage and film actor who was best known for a late-career role on television as the white adoptive father of two poor black boys on the long-running comedy “Diff’rent Strokes”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/
Jack Klugman USA 1922-2012
rubber-mugged character actor who leapt to television stardom in the 1970s as the slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison on “The Odd Couple” and as the crusading forensic pathologist of “Quincy, M.E.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/
Larry Hagman USA 1931-2012
Larry Hagman's portrayal of one of television’s most beloved villains, J.R. Ewing, led the CBS series “Dallas” to enormous world popularity
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/nov/24/larry-hagman-obituary-jr-dallas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/nov/24/larry-hagman-dallas-jr
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/24/larry-hagman-dallas-dies-jr
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/arts/television/
Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn 1920-2012
Had it not been for his short stature and elf-like face, the actor Clive Dunn (...) would have liked to play juvenile lead parts.
But his loss was the audience's – especially the television audience's – gain.
Though he was master of all sorts of old-man parts, he will be remembered with most affection as Lance Corporal Jones in the BBC television send-up of life in the wartime Home Guard, Dad's Army (1968-77) http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/nov/07/clive-dunn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/nov/07/clive-dunn
Digby Wolfe USA 1929-2012
writer and actor whose acerbic wit, absurdist sensibility and political edge helped shape “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” the zany collage of televised comedy that captured the tumultuousness of the 1960s
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/
Paul Bogart USA 1919-2012
puppeteer who bumbled into the new medium of television in 1950 and rose to be an Emmy-winning director known for popular shows like “All in the Family” and “The Defenders”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/
Philip Madoc UK 1934-2012
The actor Philip Madoc (...) became one of Wales's best-known faces through playing villains and officers on television for half a century.
His rich, sonorous voice was heard to marvellous effect when he took the role of King Lear in a 2007 BBC radio broadcast: it was as ideal for Shakespeare as it was for light comedy or reciting the prose of Dylan Thomas, at which he was masterly. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/mar/05/philip-madoc
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/mar/05/
Phillip Bruns USA 1931-2012
familiar-face character actor best known on television as the cigar-chomping hard-hat dad on the 1970s soap-opera parody “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/
Robert Hegyes USA 1951-2012
Robert Hegyes played Juan Epstein, the Sweathog voted Most Likely to Take a Life, on the 1970s sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/
Betty (Elizabeth Mary) Driver UK 1920-2011
Betty Driver (...) was a gutsy and durable comic actor who meant one thing to young audiences and quite another to those who could remember the second world war and the years immediately after it.
To the youthful, she will be remembered as Betty Turpin (later Betty Williams), the barmaid, shoulder to cry on and wife of the policeman Cyril Turpin in Granada television's Coronation Street, whose cast she joined in 1969. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/oct/15/betty-driver
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/oct/15/betty-driver
Daniel Thomas Frazer USA 1921-2011
character actor whose Hell’s Kitchen upbringing prepared him for a long run of roles as a blue-collar type or a cop, most notably as the beleaguered supervising officer Capt. Frank McNeil on “Kojak”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/
Alan Grigsby Sues USA 1926-2011
His father raised racehorses, requiring him to move the family frequently, uprooting Alan and his brother, John, from one school after another.
Alan Sues served in the Army in Europe during World War II.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/
Hal Kanter USA 1918-2011
Emmy-winning comedy writer, director and producer known for creating “Julia,” the first television series to center on the life of a black professional woman
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/
Charles Samuel Dubronevski USA 1919-2011
Charles S. Dubin's career as a daring director in television’s early years stalled after he refused to answer questions before Congress about Communist involvement, then robustly rebounded as he went on to direct more episodes of “M*A*S*H” than anyone else
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/
Sherwood Charles Schwartz USA 1916-2011
Sherwood Schwartz created “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch,” two of the most affectionately ridiculed and enduring television sitcoms of the 1960s and ’70s
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/
John Sullivan UK 1946-2011
John Sullivan created the sitcoms Only Fools and Horses, Citizen Smith and Roger Roger
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/23/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/23/
Madelyn Pugh USA 1921-2011
with her writing partners for the classic sitcom “I Love Lucy“ she concocted zany scenes in which the harebrained Lucy dangles from a hotel balcony, poses as a sculpture or stomps and wrestles in a vat full of grapes
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/
Sol Saks USA 1910-2011
he wrote the first episode of “Bewitched,” the popular sitcom about a suburban housewife skilled in the uses of enchantment
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/
Frank Deasy 1960-2009
TV scriptwriter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/sep/20/
Troy Kennedy Martin UK 1932-2009
TV and film scriptwriter
https://www.theguardian.com/media/organgrinder/2009/sep/16/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/sep/16/
Stephen J. Cannell USA 1941-2010
Stephen J. Cannell was one of television’s most prolific writers and series creators. His work encompassed the “The Rockford Files” and “Wiseguy” to “The A-Team” and “The Greatest American Hero”
For 30 years, beginning in the early 1970s and extending through the 1990s, television viewers could hardly go a week without running into a show written by Mr. Cannell.
His writing credits include more than 1,000 episodes of various series, primarily crime dramas, and he is listed as the creator of almost 20 series — some long-running hits like “The Rockford Files,” and “The Commish,” others quick flame-outs like “Booker. ” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/arts/television/02cannell.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/
Jackson Clark Gillis USA 1916-2010
prolific writer of TV drama
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/
Harold Vernon Goldstein USA 1923-2010
a widely recognizable character actor in film and television who specialized, especially late in his career, in playing suave, well-dressed gentlemen in popular sitcoms http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/arts/14gould.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/
Mary Fickett USA 1928-2011
Mary Fickett acted in theater, film and prime-time television before becoming a legend among followers of the daytime drama “All My Children” as Ruth Martin, a nurse unafraid to speak her mind
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/
Margaret Tyzack UK 1931-2011
a stalwart British actress who won myriad awards for her stage performances, including a Tony, but who was best known in the United States for her roles in the public television series “The Forsyte Saga” and “I, Claudius” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/arts/margaret-tyzack-british-actress-dies-at-79.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/
Peter Michael Falk USA 1927-2011
Peter Falk marshaled actorly tics, prop room appurtenances and his own physical idiosyncrasies to personify Columbo, one of the most famous and beloved fictional detectives in television history http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/arts/television/peter-falk-columbo-actor-dies-at-83.html
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/oct/19/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/
Alan Frederick Plater UK 1935-2010
Playwright and author of TV dramas including The Beiderbecke Affair and Fortunes of War
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/jun/25/alan-plater-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/25/alan-plater-tributes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/25/alan-plater-dies
Allan Manings USA 1924-2010
writer and creator of television shows
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/
Barbara Ann McNeese 1930-2011 an actress with a familiar if not famous face on television for half a century, who appeared on nearly 80 television series that spanned much of the medium’s history http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/television/barbara-stuart-tv-actress-is-dead-at-81.html
Elisabeth Sladen 1948-2011 a favourite companion of BBC television's great time traveller, Doctor Who http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/20/doctor-who-fantasy
Michael Tolan (born Seymour Tuchow) 1925-2011 actor who became a recurring presence on television in the 1960s and ’70s after walking away from film and Broadway but who returned to the stage to help found the American Place Theater, a successful Off Broadway house
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/television/04tolan.html
Charles Edward Sellier Jr. 1943-2011 producer and director of family-friendly films and television shows and creator of the popular 1970s NBC series “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/television/04seiller.html
Donald Kirshner 1934-2011
music publisher of Brill
Building hits http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/arts/music/19kirshner.html
Albert Franklin Rucker Jr. / Clay Cole USA 1938-2010
his dance program “The Clay
Cole Show” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/arts/television/24cole.html
Lamont Johnson Jr. USA 1922-2010
Emmy-winning television
director (...)
Mr. Johnson, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/arts/television/27johnson.html
Horace Paul Picerni 1922-2011
prolific television and screen actor best known as Agent Eliot Ness’s right-hand man in the hit 1960s series “The Untouchables” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/arts/television/21picerni.html
Anne Francis (born Ann Marvak) 1930-2011
She was best known for her roles in the 1950s science-fiction film “Forbidden Planet” and the 1960s television series “Honey West” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/arts/04francis.html
James Gordon MacArthur 1937-2010
James MacArthur played Danno, the boyish-looking but hard-driving sidekick on the long-running television detective show “Hawaii Five-O” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/arts/television/29mccarthur.html
Thomas Edward Bosley 1927-2010
Mr. Bosley is probably best
known for his decade,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/arts/television/20bosley.html
Barbara Billingsley (born Barbara Lillian Combes) 1915-2010
as June Cleaver on the television series “Leave It to Beaver”
[ 1957-1963 ] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/arts/television/17billingsley.html
Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz) 1925-2010
a classically handsome movie star
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/movies/01curtis.html
Joseph Mantel / Joe Mantell, actor 1915-2010
a familiar figure on television beginning in the 1950s,
In the movies he appeared in “Onionhead,” with Andy Griffith, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/arts/01mantell.html
Davy Crockett > Fess Elisha Parker Jr, actor 1924-2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/mar/18/fess-parker-obituary
Moyra Fraser, actor 1923-2009
On television, http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/dec/15/moyra-fraser-obituary
TV actor > Mike Doyle http://nytimes.com/2009/06/03/arts/television/03doyl.html
Patrick Joseph McGoohan actor, writer and director 1928-2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jan/14/television2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery/2009/jan/15
Aaron Spelling USA 1923-2006
one of the most powerful cultural figures of the television age, whose influence - like his programmes - spread across the globe
(...)
The man behind hits such as Charlie's Angels, Dynasty, Starsky and Hutch, Hart to Hart, Fantasy Island and Beverly Hills 90210,
Spelling made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the 'most prolific TV producer of all time'.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jun/25/
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jun/25/usnews.broadcasting
William Dennis Weaver USA 1924-2006
Dennis Weaver (s') portrayal of Deputy Chester Goode in the classic television western "Gunsmoke" made him the favorite sidekick of the early television era
(...)
The lanky Mr. Weaver became famous for his limping deputy with a drawl, the buddy of Marshal Matt Dillon, a portrayal for which he won an Emmy in 1959.
But he starred in nine television series.
From 1955 to 1964, he was on "Gunsmoke," the longest-running prime-time drama series on television.
He also starred in "Gentle Ben," from 1967 to 1969, playing Tom Wedloe, an Everglades ranger who adopts a black bear as a pet.
He went from nerd to sex symbol in "McCloud," playing Sam McCloud, a New Mexico deputy marshal on loan to the New York City police, who sometimes rode his horse through the city streets.
"McCloud," which was broadcast from 1970 to 1977, earned him two Emmy nominations.
Mr. Weaver also had leading roles in 40 motion pictures, including Orson Welles's 1958 film "Touch of Evil," and the 1971 classic "Duel," directed by a young Steven Spielberg, made for television but released theatrically in Europe.
In it he played the prey of a murderous truck, with an unseen driver.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/
https://www.nytimes.com/watching/titles/duel - 1971
Patrick Barry Sullivan USA 1912-1994
Barry Sullivan (...) acted in "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" and other plays on Broadway and also had roles in many films and television shows
(...)
a rugged-looking leading man who first appeared on stage in the late 1930's and in films in the 1940's, played a fugitive war criminal in the 1969 television series "Night Gallery," an anthology of the supernatural directed by Steven Spielberg.
He also appeared in "Ford Theater," "Suspense," "Bonanza," "The Streets of San Francisco" and "Cannon," and was a regular in the series "The Man Called X" (1955-56), "Harbourmaster" (1957-58), "The Tall Man" (1960 to '62) and "The Road West" (1966-67).
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/08/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/08/
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