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In Memorium (Ian Gelder, ‘GoT’s Kevan Lannister, Dies at 74)
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Christine Cavanaugh, the famed voice actress who brought to life Dexter on Dexter’s Laboratory and Chuckie on Rugrats, died Dec. 22 at age 51.
Cavanaugh began her acting career in 1988, landing her first major role in 1991 as Goslyn Duck from Dark Wing Duck. Along with her most beloved roles of Chuckie and Dexter, she also voiced Marty Sherman in The Critic (1994-1995) and the eponymous pig in Babe (1995), among many other film and TV critics.
The cause of Cavanaugh’s death was not stated in her obituary, which was published online Tuesday in the Los Angeles Times. The actress divorced her husband Kevin James Cavanaugh in 1985 and retired from her voice acting career in 2001. She did not have children, but was godmother to one of her childhood friends’ daughters, according to the obituary.
“Many know of her from the roles she played, but in each role there was a part of her showing through that the ones who truly knew her could see. The childlike awe of the world, humor to deal with the unpleasantness of reality, strength to deal with the challenges we all face, and intelligence to know when to act or accept what fate had allowed,” the obituary said. “Christine lived her life the way she wanted. Accolades, notoriety, and recognition were not the reason for her interest in entertainment, it was for the love of entertainment, to make people smile.”
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Christine's voice is all over my childhood on so many shows throughout the 90's. She was way too young.
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Edward Herrmann Dies
Edward Herrmann, an Emmy-winning character actor best known for his seven-season run on Gilmore Girls and his long run as the voice of the History Channel, died today at a New York hospital where he was being treated for brain cancer. He was 71. The actor’s manager, Robbie Kass, told Deadline Herrmann died a year after being diagnosed with a Stage 4 glioblastoma brain tumor. “Besides being an accomplished actor, Ed was also a true gentleman and a scholar, as well as being an incredibly kind and decent man,” Kass said. “He will be sorely missed.”
Herrmann worked in TV and films for more than 40 years, racking up more than 120 credits. He began his career on the big screen in such movies as The Paper Chase, The Great Gatsby and The Great Waldo Pepper before landing the role of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1976 ABC telefilm Eleanor And Franklin, playing the future president from age 20 to 50 opposite Jane Alexander. The movie won 11 Emmys and six other noms, one of which was the first of five for Herrmann during his career. He reprised the role the following year for Eleanor And Franklin: The White House Years, which also scored a slew of Emmys and noms including a second for Herrmann. We would play America’s only four-term president again in the 1982 film adaptation of Annie and later narrated the 2005 documentary FDR: A Presidency Revealed. He revisited the character yet again in 2014, voicing Roosevelt in the Ken Burns docu The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. Meryl Streep voiced Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Washington, D.C., native continued to work steadily into the current decade, appearing in films including Best Picture Oscar-nominated Reds, The Purple Rose Of Cairo, The Lost Boys, Born Yesterday and Nixon and such TV fare as M*A*S*H, Homicide: Life On The Street and recurring roles on St. Elsewhere (earning a pair of Emmy noms for guest actor), Oz and The Practice, for which he earned his lone Emmy statuette in 1999. The next year, Herrmann began the role that would define his career, playing family patriarch Richard Gilmore on Gilmore Girls, which ran for six seasons on the WB and one on the CW. He appeared in all 154 episodes of the series alongside Lauren Graham, Alexis Blidel and
Herrmann also was a busy voice-over actor, doing commercials, dozens of audiobooks and numerous TV projects. In 1999, he hosted History’s Lost And Found, a History Channel series on the whereabouts of famous artifacts. The gig led to the actor becoming the go-to voice on dozens of History programs on subjects ranging from politics, wars and revolutions to people, places and nature.
The 6-foot-5 actor also had a career on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1976). He earned a Tony nom for the 1983 drama Plenty. He appeared on the Great White Way in a half-dozen shows from 1972-98.
Earlier this month, Herrmann filed a $14.5 million lawsuit against CohnReznick, a Manhattan-based accounting firm. He claimed negligence and malpractice by the company and its predecessors over two decades that cost him millions. The papers say Herrmann and his wife Star could owe more than $1 million in taxes, penalties and interest because tax returns filed in the past half-dozen years by CohnReznick and their personal accountant had “massive errors on nearly every line.”
Herrmann is survived by his second wife, Star; daughters Ryan and Emma; and stepson Rory.
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Herrman will always be Max from The Lost Boys to me. Damn, that's two actors from my childhood that died days apart, both of cancer. Two down, one more to fall...
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Taylor Negron, Comedian & Actor, Dead At 57 After Long Battle With Cancer
Sources are confirming that comedian Taylor Negron has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 57. Chuck Negron, Taylor’s cousin, of the ’70s band Three Dog Night, released an online video with the sad news today saying, “I want to inform you that my cousin Taylor Negron just passed away. His mother, his brother Alex and my brother Rene and his wife Julie were all there with him. May he rest in peace.”
Negron was born in Glendale, CA on August 1, 1957, the son of Lucy (née Rosario) and Conrad Negron, Sr., a former mayor of Indian Wells, CA. He studied with Lee Strasberg and even had a private comedy seminar with Lucille Ball. Negron interned for Ball when she was 68 years old and he was 19. Negron told KCET last May, “I learned from Lucy that you never get what you really want and you have to be flexible.” Further adding what he gained from her, “What I learned from her was what she learned from Buster Keaton – know your props, know what you’re doing, know where the exit is, know the entrances, know where the camera is. Get there early. Know everyone on the set. Do not pull any funny business. Be a professional.” Negron started stand-up when he was in high school, getting a spot at the Comedy Store and began cutting his teeth as an extra in movies. He made his full film acting debut in 1982’s soap satire Young Doctors in Love as a love-struck, pill-popping, dancing intern. He was also renowned for playing Mr. Pizza Guy in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Rodney Dangerfield’s son-in-law in Easy Money. Negron told KCET, “I became the alternative everyman in movies.”
He played the villain Milo in 1991’s The Last Boy Scout. Said Negron on the role in the same KCET interview, “It wasn’t a stretch, but it came as a surprise to me, because Bruce Willis, Tony Scott and Joel Silver had this idea in their head. So when they [url=#]offered[/url] me the part, I thought it was a joke and they had made a mistake in the printing — that I was going to play the first goombah to the left. I realized very early on that Joel and dear, dear Tony Scott really cared about appearances, so with great detail they blonded my hair and gave me that asymmetrical ’60’s cut. It was like Hitler, only softer. I wore Dolce & Gabbana clothing and I looked so strange and otherworldly, and just by the sheer virtue of the fact that I had a gun in my hand, that did all the acting for me.”
It was hard not to spot Negron in any film as his credits were numerous in a melange of cult pics such as Punchline, One Crazy Summer, Angels in the Outfield, Nothing But Trouble, Stuart Little and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. He even reprised his role as the peeved [url=#]Pizza[/url] Guy in Amy Heckerling’s 2012 film Vamps.
In TV, Negron started off with appearances as himself on 1970’s The Dating Game, and made a reputation as a hysterical guest star on 2001’s Hollywood Squares. On TV he also guest-starred frequently, playing both comedy and gravitas on a slew of hit series including Hill Street Blues, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Ben Stiller Show, Seinfeld, ER, Hope and Gloria, Party of Five, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Zoey 101 and The [url=#]Wizards[/url] of Waverly Place.
Negron recurred in eight episodes of The Hughleys as Chuck Ballard. Close your eyes and think back and you’ll remember Negron as the prosaic E! spokesperson during their late 1980s interstitial when the channel first launched, exclaiming every single vowel pronunciation of “Eeee.” In 1995, he landed the role of arrogant, narcissistic TV station manager Gwillem Blatt on NBC’s sitcom Hope & Gloria. The show’s co-creator Cheri Steinkellner praised Negron to the L.A. Times saying, “He’s so hugely unique and funny, they totally broke the mold when they made him…He’s like no one on TV, unless he replicates himself–which I wouldn’t be surprised if he could.” Negron met Hope & Gloria creators Cheri and Bill Steinkellner in 1978 when they were partners in the Comedy Store Players.
For several years, Negron was a fixture in the Los Angeles comedy scene, appearing at Un-Cabaret (where he is considered one of the monologue’s shows original members), The Moth and Comedy Central Stage’s Sit-n-Spin among many other shows. He also performed in fellow comedians’ projects such as Melinda Hill’s web series Romantic Encounters. Negron won best award for the series from LA webfest.
In 2008 Negron wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being Taylor Negron – A Fusion of Story and Song directed by opera director David Schweitzer and co-starring singer/songwriter Logan Heftel, which debuted at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival. The show also played the 2009 Best of New York Solo Festival at the SoHo Playhouse and at the Barrow Street Theater.
Negron’s comedy essays have been published in the anthology Dirty Laundry (Phoenix Books) and Love West Hollywood: Reflections of Los Angeles (Alyson Books). Another one of Negron’s notable plays included Gangster Planet, a four character domestic comedy set during the 1992 L.A. riots, which was staged in 1993 and 2002. He directed theater as well.
In addition, painting was also a passion of Negron’s. He was on the board of LACMA and back in May had a solo exhibition of 17 pieces of work on display at the Laemmle Royal’s “Art in the Art House” series. Negron billed them “Snow Paintings” as he created them while he was stuck in his New York City apartment during last year’s harsh winter (the painting entitled “Snow Monica” is to the right). Negron described himself as bi-coastal, but at point during the ’90s said he split his time between L.A. and a 700-year-old house in the French countryside, where his neighbor was comedian pal Richard Belzer.
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Damn, Negron was always one of my favorite 80's and 90's character actors but he will forever be Spicoli's pizza man the most.
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I remember him mostly from How I Got Into College, as the mailman dealing with the maniacal students waiting for their college acceptance letters. lol.WyldeMan wrote:Damn, Negron was always one of my favorite 80's and 90's character actors but he will forever be Spicoli's pizza man the most.
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Only thing I remember him from is the irate restaurant owner from Friends.
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Did no one on here watch The Last Boy Scout?
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Ben Woolf Dies; ‘American Horror Story’ Actor Was 34
Ben Woolf, the American Horror Story: Freak Show actor who was severely injured in a Hollywood traffic accident, died today. He was 34. Woolf’s agency confirmed his death to Deadline.
The actor, who stood 4-foot-4, was struck in the head by the side mirror of a passing car Thursday at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Gramercy Place. He was taken to at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in critical condition. Police told Deadline the driver pulled over and remained at the scene and was not facing any charges.
Woolf played Meep in three episodes of American Horror Story this past season. He appeared in indie horror features Haunting Charles Manson, Dead Kansas and Unlucky Charms.
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He only died because of his height.......a passenger mirror to the head instead of the body. That's sad.
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Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was 83.
His wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, confirmed his death, saying the cause was end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Mr. Nimoy announced last year that he had the disease, which he attributed to years of smoking, a habit he had given up three decades earlier. He had been hospitalized earlier in the week.
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His artistic pursuits — poetry, photography and music in addition to acting — ranged far beyond the United Federation of Planets, but it was as Mr. Spock that Mr. Nimoy became a folk hero, bringing to life one of the most indelible characters of the last half century: a cerebral, unflappable, pointy-eared Vulcan with a signature salute and blessing: “Live long and prosper” (from the Vulcan “Dif-tor heh smusma”).
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Mr. Nimoy, who was teaching Method acting at his own studio when he was cast in the original “Star Trek” television series in the mid-1960s, relished playing outsiders, and he developed what he later admitted was a mystical identification with Spock, the lone alien on the starship’s bridge.
Yet he also acknowledged ambivalence about being tethered to the character, expressing it most plainly in the titles of two autobiographies: “I Am Not Spock,” published in 1977, and “I Am Spock,” published in 1995.
In the first, he wrote, “In Spock, I finally found the best of both worlds: to be widely accepted in public approval and yet be able to continue to play the insulated alien through the Vulcan character.”
“Star Trek,” which had its premiere on NBC on Sept. 8, 1966, made Mr. Nimoy a star. Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the franchise, called him “the conscience of ‘Star Trek’ ” — an often earnest, sometimes campy show that employed the distant future (as well as some primitive special effects by today’s standards) to take on social issues of the 1960s.
His stardom would endure. Though the series was canceled after three seasons because of low ratings, a cultlike following — the conference-holding, costume-wearing Trekkies, or Trekkers (the designation Mr. Nimoy preferred) — coalesced soon after “Star Trek” went into syndication.
The fans’ devotion only deepened when “Star Trek” was spun off into an animated show, various new series and an uneven parade of movies starring much of the original television cast, including — besides Mr. Nimoy — William Shatner (as Capt. James T. Kirk), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), George Takei (the helmsman, Sulu), James Doohan (the chief engineer, Scott), Nichelle Nichols (the chief communications officer, Uhura) and Walter Koenig (the navigator, Chekov).
When the director J. J. Abrams revived the “Star Trek” film franchise in 2009, with an all-new cast — including Zachary Quinto as Spock — he included a cameo part for Mr. Nimoy, as an older version of the same character. Mr. Nimoy also appeared in the 2013 follow-up, “Star Trek Into Darkness.”
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His zeal to entertain and enlighten reached beyond “Star Trek” and crossed genres. He had a starring role in the dramatic television series “Mission: Impossible” and frequently performed onstage, notably as Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof.” His poetry was voluminous, and he published books of his photography.
He also directed movies, including two from the “Star Trek” franchise, and television shows. And he made records, on which he sang pop songs, as well as original songs about “Star Trek,” and gave spoken-word performances — to the delight of his fans and the bewilderment of critics.
But all that was subsidiary to Mr. Spock, the most complex member of the Enterprise crew: both a colleague and a creature apart, who sometimes struggled with his warring racial halves.
In one of his most memorable “Star Trek” episodes, Mr. Nimoy tried to follow in the tradition of two actors he admired, Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff, who each played a monstrous character — Quasimodo and the Frankenstein monster — who is transformed by love.
In Episode 24, which was first shown on March 2, 1967, Mr. Spock is indeed transformed. Under the influence of aphrodisiacal spores he discovers on the planet Omicron Ceti III, he lets free his human side and announces his love for Leila Kalomi (Jill Ireland), a woman he had once known on Earth. In this episode, Mr. Nimoy brought to Spock’s metamorphosis not only warmth and compassion, but also a rarefied concept of alienation.
“I am what I am, Leila,” Mr. Spock declared. “And if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone else’s.”
Born in Boston on March 26, 1931, Leonard Simon Nimoy was the second son of Max and Dora Nimoy, Ukrainian immigrants and Orthodox Jews. His father worked as a barber.
From the age of 8, Leonard acted in local productions, winning parts at a community college, where he performed through his high school years. In 1949, after taking a summer course at Boston College, he traveled to Hollywood, though it wasn’t until 1951 that he landed small parts in two movies, “Queen for a Day” and “Rhubarb.”
As part of the Yiddish Book Center Wexler Oral History Project, Leonard Nimoy explains the origin of the Vulcan hand signal used by Dr. Spock, his character in the Star Trek series.
Video by Yiddish Book Center on Publish Date February 27, 2015. Photo by Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project.
He continued to be cast in little-known movies, although he did presciently play an alien invader in a cult serial called “Zombies of the Stratosphere,” and in 1961 he had a minor role on an episode of “The Twilight Zone.” His first starring movie role came in 1952 with “Kid Monk Baroni,” in which he played a disfigured Italian street-gang leader who becomes a boxer.
Mr. Nimoy served in the Army for two years, rising to sergeant and spending 18 months at Fort McPherson in Georgia, where he presided over shows for the Army’s Special Services branch. He also directed and starred as Stanley in the Atlanta Theater Guild’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” before receiving his final discharge in November 1955.
He then returned to California, where he worked as a soda jerk, movie usher and cabdriver while studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. He achieved wide visibility in the late 1950s and early 1960s on television shows like “Wagon Train,” “Rawhide” and “Perry Mason.” Then came “Star Trek.”
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Mr. Nimoy returned to college in his 40s and earned a master’s degree in Spanish from Antioch University Austin, an affiliate of Antioch College in Ohio, in 1978. Antioch College later awarded Mr. Nimoy an honorary doctorate.
Mr. Nimoy directed two of the Star Trek movies, “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” (1984) and “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” (1986), which he helped write. In 1991, the same year that he resurrected Mr. Spock on two episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Mr. Nimoy was also the executive producer and a writer of the movie “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.”
He then directed the hugely successful comedy “Three Men and a Baby” (1987), a far cry from his science-fiction work, and appeared in made-for-television movies. He received an Emmy nomination for the 1982 movie “A Woman Called Golda,” in which he portrayed the husband of Golda Meir, the prime minister of Israel, who was played by Ingrid Bergman. It was the fourth Emmy nomination of his career — the other three were for his “Star Trek” work — although he never won.
Mr. Nimoy’s marriage to the actress Sandi Zober ended in divorce. Besides his wife, he is survived by his children, Adam and Julie Nimoy; a stepson, Aaron Bay Schuck; and six grandchildren; one great-grandchild, and an older brother, Melvin.
Though his speaking voice was among his chief assets as an actor, the critical consensus was that his music was mortifying. Mr. Nimoy, however, was undaunted, and his fans seemed to enjoy the camp of his covers of songs like “If I Had a Hammer.” (His first album was called “Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock’s Music From Outer Space.”)
From 1995 to 2003, Mr. Nimoy narrated the “Ancient Mysteries” series on the History Channel. He also appeared in commercials, including two with Mr. Shatner for Priceline.com. He provided the voice for animated characters in “Transformers: The Movie,” in 1986, and “The Pagemaster,” in 1994.
In 2001 he voiced the king of Atlantis in the Disney animated movie “Atlantis: The Lost Empire,” and in 2005 he furnished voice-overs for the computer game Civilization IV. More recently, he had a recurring role on the science-fiction series “Fringe” and was heard, as the voice of Spock, in an episode of the hit sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”
Mr. Nimoy was an active supporter of the arts as well. The Thalia, a venerable movie theater on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, now a multi-use hall that is part of Symphony Space, was renamed the Leonard Nimoy Thalia in 2002.
He also found his voice as a writer. Besides his autobiographies, he published “A Lifetime of Love: Poems on the Passages of Life” in 2002. Typical of Mr. Nimoy’s simple free verse are these lines: “In my heart/Is the seed of the tree/Which will be me.”
In later years, he rediscovered his Jewish heritage, and in 1991 he produced and starred in “Never Forget,” a television movie based on the story of a Holocaust survivor who sued a neo-Nazi organization of Holocaust deniers.
In 2002, having illustrated his books of poetry with his photographs, Mr. Nimoy published “Shekhina,” a book devoted to photography with a Jewish theme, that of the feminine aspect of God. His black-and-white photographs of nude and seminude women struck some Orthodox Jewish leaders as heretical, but Mr. Nimoy asserted that his work was consistent with the teaching of the kabbalah.
His religious upbringing also influenced the characterization of Spock. The character’s split-fingered salute, he often explained, had been his idea: He based it on the kohanic blessing, a manual approximation of the Hebrew letter shin, which is the first letter in Shaddai, one of the Hebrew names for God.
“To this day, I sense Vulcan speech patterns, Vulcan social attitudes and even Vulcan patterns of logic and emotional suppression in my behavior,” Mr. Nimoy wrote years after the original series ended.
But that wasn’t such a bad thing, he discovered. “Given the choice,” he wrote, “if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock.”
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Damn, he was a cool old dude. Rest Well Spock.
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So sad! But he lived a good long life. May he rest in peace.
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Damn, I'm not even a Trekkie, but he was like a sci fi icon. Sad.
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RIP Mr. Nimoy, you lived long and prospered.
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I am watching E! and the bottom had a ticker scroll by that said William Shatner stated he won't be able to attend Leonard Nimoy's funeral because he is currently in Florida attending the Red Cross Ball.
Did William Shatner not get along with Leonard Nimoy? Are they not friends?
Did William Shatner not get along with Leonard Nimoy? Are they not friends?
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Tyger wrote:Damn, I'm not even a Trekkie, but he was like a sci fi icon. Sad.
Yup, same reaction I had. I was never a Trekkie but he seemed like even as SciFi royalty he always came across extremely humble and very approachable. I remember hearing everybody raving about working with him on Fringe as the great William Bell. While he'll always be Spock to most, as a Fringe fanatic, he's Belly to me.
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joey con carne wrote:I am watching E! and the bottom had a ticker scroll by that said William Shatner stated he won't be able to attend Leonard Nimoy's funeral because he is currently in Florida attending the Red Cross Ball.
Did William Shatner not get along with Leonard Nimoy? Are they not friends?
He's bsaically an asshole.
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joey con carne wrote:I am watching E! and the bottom had a ticker scroll by that said William Shatner stated he won't be able to attend Leonard Nimoy's funeral because he is currently in Florida attending the Red Cross Ball.
Did William Shatner not get along with Leonard Nimoy? Are they not friends?
You had the exact same reaction as most folks but Shatner took to Twitter to explain everything for most of the day as he answered whatever his followers asked him about his relatiponship with Nimoy. I've actually always thought Shatner was a colossal asshole and I despise the guy as an actor but I thought the way he was attacked for this and the way he handled it showed me a different side of the guy, he's not as bad as I'd always thought.
Shatner’s Twitter Storm Of A Leonard Nimoy Funeral Tribute
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R.I.P. Daniel von Bargen Dies At Age 64
Very sad news today as it’s being reported that actor Daniel von Bargen has passed away at age 64 after battling a long illness. No other details of his death have been released yet.
Von Bargen was known to horror fans as Nix from Lord Of Illusions as well roles in The Faculty, Thinner, The X-Files, and The Silence Of The Lambs. He was also known for his roles in comedies such as Seinfeld and Supertroopers.
In 2012, von Bargen seriously injured himself after shooting himself in the temple in a suicide attempt. He was distraught that his diabetes required the amputation of two toes.
I’ve always enjoyed seeing von Bargen act, especially because Lord Of Illusions is one of my favorite horror films. This is a very sad day.
Rest in peace, Mr. von Bargen. I hope you have found solace and comfort.
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Damn, I never heard about the suicide attempt. Seems like he had a very rough time. Rest Well Von Bargen.
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I read about that yesterday. The suicide attempt and amputation was a surprise to me as well.
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Wow.
That actor has been in so many films I've seen.
RIP
That actor has been in so many films I've seen.
RIP
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ForeverBlu wrote:Wow.
That actor has been in so many films I've seen.
RIP
Same. I saw him in The Majestic just a few nights ago.
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Damn! May he rest in peace.
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Rusty Cunt wrote:ForeverBlu wrote:Wow.
That actor has been in so many films I've seen.
RIP
Same. I saw him in The Majestic just a few nights ago.
I was channel surfing last week and caught a few minutes of that one too, it was one of his scenes actually.
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Actor Windell Middlebrooks, whose TV resume included roles on Body of Proof and Scrubs, died Monday at the age of 36, TMZ reports. The cause of death is not yet known.
In addition to his series regular role on Body of Proof, where he portrayed medical examiner Curtis Brumfield for the show’s three-season run, Middlebrooks had a knack for playing security guards — first as Scrubs’ Captain Duncook, then as Kirby Morris on the Disney Channel’s The Suite Life on Deck.
Middlebrooks’ Suite Life co-star Debby Ryan tweeted a memorial message following his death:
The actor also held multiple guest-star gigs, on shows including It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Cougar Town and Parks and Recreation.
Most recently, Middlebrooks appeared as the straightforward Delivery Guy in a Miller High Life commercial campaign; one of the spots can be viewed below.
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Damn, so young.
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
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Alberta Watson Dies: ’24’ Actress Was 60
Canadian actress Alberta Watson, perhaps best known for her recurring role as Erin Driscoll on Fox’s drama 24, has died. Watson died Saturday in Toronto after a long battle with cancer, said her agent Pam Winter. She was 60.
Over a nearly 40-year career, Watson appeared in dozens of TV shows and feature films, including TV series King Of Kensington, Hill Street Blues, The Equalizer, Law & Order, and hit cable series La Femme Nikita. But it was her role on the fourth season of Fox’s 24 that she is best remembered. As Driscoll, the new director of the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit, one of her first decisions was to fire Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland).
Following 24, she played Sen. Madeline Pierce in the The CW’s Nikita in 2011-12. That turned out to be her final acting role.
Her feature film credits include 1997’s The Sweet Hereafter, The Lookout (2007) and most recently Helen in 2009.
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Damn, in her final acting role she got blown up on Nikita.
I liked her in what little I'd seen of her work. RIP.
I liked her in what little I'd seen of her work. RIP.
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I knew her mostly from 24 and then Nikita. She played the "Amanda" role in the original La Femme Nikita TV series on USA.
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Well known and respected Canadian actress.
RIP...
RIP...
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Character actor Geoffrey Lewis, known for his long working relationship with Clint Eastwood, a slew of roles in TV and film and as the father of actress Juliette Lewis, died April 7 at his home in Woodland Hills, CA. He was 79.
Frequently appearing in Westerns during his early career, he is best known as a frequent fixture of Eastwood’s films. His appearances include Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, Any Which Way You Can, Thunderbolt And Lightfoot, and High Plains Drifter. He also had a supporting role on the short-lived Alice spinoff Flo, from 1980-81, for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination. He appeared in such films as Night Of The Comet and Maverick and TV shows including Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Hawaii Five-O.
Born in 1935 in San Diego, Lewis spent his childhood in Rhode Island before moving back to California with his family at age 10. Lewis was a longtime member of the Church of Scientology, for which he credited his career success.
Along with his daughter Juliette, he is survived by his wife Paula and nine other children.
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Another one of the great character actors gone. Rest Well.
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James Best passed away a day air two ago. He was Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane on the original Dukes of Hazzard series.
That dude was massive to me growing up. My all time favourite TV show.
That dude was massive to me growing up. My all time favourite TV show.
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Rusty Cunt wrote:James Best passed away a day air two ago. He was Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane on the original Dukes of Hazzard series.
That dude was massive to me growing up. My all time favourite TV show.
Oh wow, Roscoe P Coltraine too!?!? I wonder who the third will be.
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I just found out Robert Z'dar passed away in March of this year. Man, I liked his work. Probably discussed in the past and I missed it as usual.
"I will bring you his head and I will place it on your piano."
"I will bring you his head and I will place it on your piano."
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joey con carne wrote:I just found out Robert Z'dar passed away in March of this year. Man, I liked his work. Probably discussed in the past and I missed it as usual.
I hadn't actually heard that Robert Z'dar had passed. He was one of those actors who's name I never knew but good lord did he have one memorable mongoloid head.
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Sawyer Sweeten Of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' Dies Of Possible Suicide
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Sawyer Sweeten, an actor best known for his role as one of the young twins on hit sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died of a possible suicide, his manager Dino May has confirmed. He was 19.
According to Radar Online, who first reported the news, he was visiting family in Texas, where he is believed to have shot himself on the front porch.
Sweeten played Geoffrey Baron on "Everybody Loves Raymond," which ran from 1996-2005 on CBS. He acted alongside his twin brother, Sullivan, and their real-life sister, Madylin, who played Ally Baron.
Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle and Monica Horan also starred in the comedy.
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Never saw the show but damn kid, 19? It was probably over a break up, they always are at that age.
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Actress and comedian Anne Meara died Saturday from natural causes, her family confirmed today. The Emmy and Tony nominated wife of Jerry Stiller, and mother to their son, actor-comedian Ben Stiller, was 85. In a statement released to the Associated Press, the family described Jerry Stiller as Meara’s “husband and partner in life.”
“The two were married for 61 years,” the statement said, “and worked together almost as long,”
Born in Brooklyn in 1929, Meara was raised Roman Catholic, but converted to reform Judaism six years after her 1954 marriage to Jerry Stiller. The pair were members of the improv troupe The Compass Players, later known as Second City, eventually creating the comedy duo Stiller and Meara. Stiller and Meara enjoyed success in the 1960s, becoming staples of variety tv, including regular appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. In the 1970s, with variety shows declining in popularity, the pair moved on to other projects, including a short-lived comedy show which aired after Saturday Night Live in the DC market, and series of humorous commercials for Blue Nun Wine. The duo also starred in a short-lived sitcom together, The Stiller and Meara Show, in 1986.
In addition, Meara enjoyed success as actress in her own right. She starred in the short-lived 1975 CBS-series, Kate McShane, for which she received an Emmy nomination, and had recurring role on Rhoda, as the title character’s close friend Sally Gallagher. She went on to costar on the first three seasons of Archie Bunker’s Place, as Veronica Rooney.
Her television career picked up steam again beginning in the late 1980s. She held a recurring role as the Tanner family’s grandmother on Alf, and later wrote an episode. From 1992-1999, she was a regular cast member on the ABC Soap Opera All My Children. In 1999, she appeared on The King of Queens as Veronica Olchin, Mother of Patton Oswalt’s character, and returned to the role occasionally from 2003-2007. From 2002-2004, she appeared as Mary Brady on Sex and the City, reprising the character for the 2008 film. Her other television appearances include Oz, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Will and Grace, and In The Heat of the Night, among many others.
Meara also enjoyed success as a dramatic actress on stage, making her Broadway debut in 1956, in a revival of A Month in the Country, directed by Michael Redgrave. She would go on to be nominated for the Best Featured Actress Tony Award for her 1993 appearance in Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie. Her many film credits include The Out-of-Towners, The Boys from Brazil, Awakenings, Reality Bites, Kiss of Death, and Zoolander.
Aside from their comedy act, Meara and Stiller frequently worked together, often appearing on one another’s television shows as ex or current spouses. Among them, Stiller occasionally guested opposite Meara on both Rhoda and Archie Bunker’s Place, while Meara’s appearances on King of Queens saw her character eventually married to Stiller’s.
She is survived by her husband, by son Ben Stiller and daughter Amy Stiller, and several grandchildren.
Mathematician John Nash, Subject Of ‘A Beautiful Mind’, Dies In Car Crash
Nobel prize-winning mathematician John F. Nash Jr., subject of Ron Howard’s Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, was killed Saturday in a car crash in New Jersey along with his wife, Alicia. Nash was 86.The couple had just returned to the US from Norway, where Nash was awarded the Abel Prize by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The driver of their taxi lost control of the vehicle during an attempt to pass another car, hitting the guard rail and a third vehicle, local law enforcement said. Nash and his wife were ejected from the car.Born in 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia, Nash attended undergraduate school at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (today part of Carnegie-Mellon), and received his PhD from Princeton. For several summers in the 1950s he was a consultant for the RAND corporation, and eventually went on to teach at both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and much later in life, Princeton.Considered one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, Nash’s brilliance was apparent early on, and in fact, the letter of recommendation to graduate school written for Nash by his mentor consisted of a single sentence – “This man is a genius.” During the 1950s he had groundbreaking achievements in several disciplines, including differential geometry, and partial differential equations. But it was his pioneering work in game theory that would earn him his greatest acclaim.His 1950 doctoral dissertation on non-cooperative games described what came to be known as the Nash Equilibrium, a situation in which it is not possible to predict the outcome of multiple decision-makers if their decisions are studied in isolation from one another; instead, the decision-making of all parties must be taken into account. The concept has been applied to a number of varying fields, including geopolitics, sports, and business. For this work, Nash would eventually win the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.Nash’s personal life was famously complicated and troubled, however. In the early 50s, he fathered a child out of wedlock, but abandoned the mother and child after she became pregnant. He also had same sex relationships, and in 1954 was arrested for indecent exposure in Santa Monica, California, as part of an entrapment operation aimed at gay men, an event that cost him his consultancy at RAND. He married his wife Alice in 1957, though their relationship and his career was almost derailed early-on by Nash’s struggles with mental illness. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1959, he would spend the 1960s in and out of psychiatric hospitals, often disappearing for months at a time. During this period, he and Alicia divorced, though the two remained close.Nash began a slow recovery after 1970. Boarding with his now ex wife in New Jersey, he stopped experiencing delusional episodes, though he continued to be a solitary and somewhat unapproachable figure, known more for wandering the Princeton campus, where he became known to students as “the Phantom of Fine Hall”. By the 1990s, however, he had recovered enough that he was able to resume teaching and accept his Nobel Prize. The Nashes rekindled their relationship in the 1990s, and remarried in 2001.Nash’s experience with and eventual recovery from mental illness was dramatized in Ron Howard’s 2001 film, which starred Russell Crowe as Nash and Jennifer Connelly as Alice. Though it received numerous accolades, including four academy awards, the film was also criticized by some for omitting certain aspects of Nash’s life, including his first child and bisexuality, and for oversimplifying the Nash Equilibrium.Nash is survived by his sons John David Stier and John Charles Martin Nash, and his sister, Martha Nash Legg.
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Actor/Comedian Reynaldo Rey Dead at 75 From Stroke Complications
Actor and comedian Reynaldo Rey passed away Thursday at the age of 75 as a result of complications from a stroke.
Rey, who was born Harry Reynolds in Sequoyah County, Okla., was known for his roles in movies such as Friday, White Men Can't Jump and Harlem Nights, as well as TV shows like BET’s Comic View, The Bernie Mac Show and 227. Rey got his start in comedy under the mentorship of Redd Foxx, who managed him for 12 years. Rey opened for Foxx for more than 15 years during his time in Las Vegas.
According to TMZ, Rey had a stroke last year and started having complications in January. Rey's wife, Evelyn, was by his side at the time of his death.
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Mary Ellen Trainor Dies: Actress In ‘Lethal Weapon’ Pics, ‘Die Hard’ & ‘Goonies’
Mary Ellen Trainor, who appeared a number of big films in the 1980s and ’90s including all four Lethal Weapon pics, has died. She was 62. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, a longtime friend and college classmate, confirmed that Trainor died May 20 at home in Montecito, CA.
After making her screen debut in a Season 1 episode of Cheers, Trainor was cast in the 1984 Michael Douglas-Kathleen Turner pic Romancing The Stone. The action-adventure romp was helmed by Trainor’s then-husband Robert Zemeckis, and she later would appear in three more of his films — Back To The Future II, Death Becomes Her and Forrest Gump — before their 2000 divorce. During that stretch, Trainor appeared in a slew of movies including The Goonies, The Monster Squad, Die Hard, Ghostbusters II, Action Jackson — starring her fellow San Diego State alum Carl Weathers — Scrooged and all four Lethal Weapon films as psychologist Stephanie Woods.
The San Francisco native also made her mark on the small screen. She was a regular on the 1996-97 ABC drama Relativity and recurred on Fox’s Roswell and Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, playing the title character’s mom on the final two seasons of the latter. She also was a mother in The Goonies and Monster Squad. Other TV credits include Remington Steele, Crazy Like A Fox and Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories.
Trainor also starred in a holiday-themed fan-favorite episode of the HBO horror anthology Tales From The Crypt. In the first episode to adapt a story from the truly creepy 1972 movie, Trainor played a woman who has offed her husband — with a hearty “Merry Christmas, you son of a bitch” — when Santa Claus comes to the door. But she knows him to be in reality a psychotic killer who has just escaped from an asylum. Of course, she can’t call the cops, having plunged a fireplace poker into her spouse’s melon. But leave it to her cute little daughter — who just can’t resist letting Santa in the house.
Trainor continued to work through the ’90s and into the 2000s, appearing in such films as Little Giants, Congo, Anywhere But Here, Moonlight Mile and Freaky Friday.
Survivors include her son Alex and siblings Ned, Jack, Barbara and Carolyn. A memorial service is set for 11 AM on June 19 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Montecito.
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