This is the start of an ongoing listing of passings of film-related people, some of whom will cite cited in the memorial next year.

This should not replace stand-alone discussions of significant figures as warranted. Hrowever, comments and additions are of course welcome.

James Whitmore was included in this year's, so the cutoff seems to have been February 6.

Recap on list - 8/6/09

Maxwell Anderson (writer)
Howard Zieff (director)
Robert Quarry (actor)
Horton Foote (writer)
Sydney Chaplin (actor)
Tullio Pinelli (writer)
Ron Silver (actor)
Millard Kaufman (writer)
Coy Watson Jr. (actor)
Betsy Blair (actress)
Jack Lawrence (music)
Natasha Richardson (actress)
Dorothea Holt Redmond (illustrator/designer)
Stephen Bach (executive)
Maurice Jarre (music)
Monte Hale (actor)
Jane Bryan (actress)
Jack Wrangler (actor)
Marilyn Chambers (actress)
Simon Channing Williams (producer)
Maxine Cooper (actress)
Jody McCrea (actor)
Jack Cardiff (cinematographer)
Ken Annakin (director)
Bea Arthur (actress)
Dom DeLuise (actor)
Sam Cohn (agent)
Bud Shrake (screenwriter)
Marc Rocco (director)
Charles "Bud" Tingwell (actor)
Oleg Yankovsky (actor)
Jane Randolph (actress)
David Carradine (actor)
Don Edmonds (director)
Allan King (director)
Ed McMahon (actor)
Farrah Fawcett (actress)
Michael Jackson (actor)
Gale Storm (actress)
Karl Malden (actor)
Harve Presnell (actor)
Charles Eastman (writer)
Brenda Joyce (actress)
Beverly Roberts (actress)
Steve Rothenberg (executive)
Harry Alan Towers (producer)
Budd Schulberg (writer)
John Hughes (director, writer)

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Maxwell ANDERSON - Writer (nominee)

Playwright best known for his play Tea and Sympathy. Also received to Oscar nominations for writing The Nun's Story and adapting his own play I Never Sang for My Father. Other credits include Until They Sail and The Sand Pebbles.

Howard ZIEFF - Director

Coming out of advertising (he made the famous "Mamma mia - that's-a some spicy meatball" ad that was the "where's the beef" of the time), he started with a quirky comedy, Slither, a gentle recreation of Hollywood western making, Hearts of the West, before getting into more mainstream star-driven comedies like House Calls, The Main Event and most famously Private Benjamin, as well as the remake of Preston Sturges' great Unfaithfully Yours.

He then went on to make three more "serious" but still sometime humorous films, The Dream Team, My Girl and My Girl 2.

Slither is basically unknown today, but its release in 1973 was regarded as a strong debut, and in retrospect seems like one of the better-enduring 1970s comedies. But Zieff readily adapted to more formulaic films, even if at his later best (Private Benjamin) he showed the ability to maximize the comedy side of his stars (it likely was Goldie Hawn's best role, and Eileen Brennan, Oscar nominated, was standout).


Robert QUARRY - Actor

With an active almost 5 decade career on TV, stage and film, and even an earlier supposed bit role in Hitch****'s Shadow of a Doubt, by far his best known role was as the distinguished, erudite Dracula in Count Yorga, Vampire and The Return of Count Yorga in the early 1970s.

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I will go ahead and sticky this thread so it doesn't get lost.

Thanks - was thinking of asking - that will make it far more likely to run all year (request - if it gets over 500, though, let it continue, since the point is to have the information there next February)

Paul Harvey. What a legend, and I think he is much worthy of a mention here. He will be missed greatly!

He has absolutely no relationship to anything this thread, or anything in this site, is about.

The opening line of this thread said:

"This is the start of an ongoing listing of passings of film-related people, some of whom will cite cited in the memorial next year."

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quote:

Originally posted by seanflynn:
He has absolutely no relationship to anything this thread, or anything in this site, is about.

The opening line of this thread said:

"This is the start of an ongoing listing of passings of film-related people, some of whom will cite cited in the memorial next year."

NOKD

Memoriam is spelled with an "a".

Thanks - I'll adjust

Horton FOOTE - Writer

Pulitzer prize winning playwright and two time Oscar winner (for adapting To Kill a Mockingbird and original screenplay for Tender Mercies).

Many other film credits and adapted versions of his works, including The Trip to Bountiful, Baby the Rain Must Fall, The Chase, Tomorrow.

He would have be 92 next week.

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Seanflynn ---

I have an idea. Why don't you just constantly update the first post in this thread with names of the deceased?

As the year progresses, not many posters are going to search through pages and pages of posts.

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Either that or keep a running list on the most current one - I'll go with you suggestion and also tag the thread with the most recent addition

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It's absolutely sad that Horton has died. My brother's school is having their 8th graders watch the film in a week or so.

If Horton Foote would have made it until June he might have lived long enough to see his first Tony win - his "Dividing the Estate" (a great production which closed a few months ago) is eligible for Best Play this year and will probably be nominated. It's a play from the eighties, but the revisions he did were extensive enough for them to qualify it as a new play - plus, I suspect, to give one of America's greatest playwrights a final shot at the Tony that had eluded him.

He will be missed.

RIP to a legendary and inspiring writer.
He was an Aries and a Dragon, a truly incredible combination.

OMG I had no idea Horton Foote died. How sad. I remember so well how happy he was when he rushed to the stage to receive his Academy Award for writing Tender Mercies back in 1983. What a wonderful who will be truely missed. R.I.P

Sydney Earle CHAPLIN - Actor

Tony-award winning actor (Bells Are Ringing), best known as the son of Charlie Chaplin.

Other movie and broadway credits include: Limelight, The Countess from Hong Kong, and Funny Girl (in which he starred opposite Barbara Streisand).

He was 82.

Actually Chaplin was on Broadway opposite Streisand in Funny Girl (and Tony nominated), but not in the movie. Apart from his dad's films and Howard Hawks' Land of the Pharoahs (opposite Joan Collins) his film career was fairly negligible, though clearly worth noting here.

Later in life he moved to Palm Springs and opened a restaurant bearing the family name.

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Originally posted by seanflynn:
Actually Chaplin was on Broadway opposite Streisand in Funny Girl (and Tony nominated), but not in the movie.

I put Funny Girl under "other movie and broadway credits," but I guess I should have made that point more clearer. Sorry.

Tullio PINELLI - Writer

Best known as a frequent part of Federico Fellini's film writing team, which earned his for Oscar nominations (I Vitelloni, La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 & 1/2), like many leading Italian screenwriters his credits were lengthy - more than 70 films, including ones directed by Roberto Rossellini, Pietro Germi and Mario Monicelli

Other Fellini screenplays co-written: Variety Lights, The White Sheik, Il Bidone, Nights of Cabiria, Juliet of the Spirits, Ginger and Fred, The Voice of the Moon.

He celebrated his 100th birthday last year.

Roberto Rossellini - L'Amore