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Thomas ‘Tom’ Pevsner a British producer, director and assistant director died on August 19th 2014. He was 87. Although born in Dresden, Germany he worked mostly in England as an assistant director. Tom was a production manager on two Euro-westerns: “Doc” (1971) and “The Spikes Gang” (1974). | Thomas ‘Tom’ Pevsner a British producer, director and assistant director died on August 19th 2014. He was 87. Although born in Dresden, Germany he worked mostly in England as an assistant director. Tom was a production manager on two Euro-westerns: “Doc” (1971) and “The Spikes Gang” (1974). | ||
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Legendary filmmaker Menahem Golan, co-founder of The Cannon Group production company and Israeli cinema pioneer, has died. He was 85. With cousin and partner Yoram Globus, Golan ran Cannon Films for a decade, releasing more than a dozen films a year in its prime. They bought the ailing company, which was launched in 1967, for $500,000 in 1979 and fueled an appetite for B-films that was created by the invention of the VCR. For a time, Cannon was on the brink of becoming the seventh Hollywood “major” studio. Golan produced more than 200 films including the action hits The Delta Force (1986) starring Chuck Norris and the Death Wish sequels top lined by Charles Bronson. Golan produced the Euo-westerns: God’s Gun and Kid Vengeance both starring Lee Van Cleef. | Legendary filmmaker Menahem Golan, co-founder of The Cannon Group production company and Israeli cinema pioneer, has died. He was 85. With cousin and partner Yoram Globus, Golan ran Cannon Films for a decade, releasing more than a dozen films a year in its prime. They bought the ailing company, which was launched in 1967, for $500,000 in 1979 and fueled an appetite for B-films that was created by the invention of the VCR. For a time, Cannon was on the brink of becoming the seventh Hollywood “major” studio. Golan produced more than 200 films including the action hits The Delta Force (1986) starring Chuck Norris and the Death Wish sequels top lined by Charles Bronson. Golan produced the Euo-westerns: God’s Gun and Kid Vengeance both starring Lee Van Cleef. | ||
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Stuntman and actor Szobor Cseh died this morning August 1, 2014, at age 71 after losing his battle with cancer. In 2012, the famous stuntman learned that he had contracted multiple myeloma, which is a form of bone marrow malignancy. In June of last year, he was admitted to a hospital Stunt Fundeni because of complications of the disease he was suffering. Cseh Szobor collaborated on more than 150 films and TV Feature, including 25 foreign productions and co-productions (Germany, France, USA, etc.), coordinating the action sequences and directing battles and fight scenes, falls, and acting in several memorable film roles. Szobor appeared in two Euro-westerns and one Euro-western TV series: 'The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians" (1978), "The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians" (1979) and "The Longstocking Tales' (TV) - 1969. | Stuntman and actor Szobor Cseh died this morning August 1, 2014, at age 71 after losing his battle with cancer. In 2012, the famous stuntman learned that he had contracted multiple myeloma, which is a form of bone marrow malignancy. In June of last year, he was admitted to a hospital Stunt Fundeni because of complications of the disease he was suffering. Cseh Szobor collaborated on more than 150 films and TV Feature, including 25 foreign productions and co-productions (Germany, France, USA, etc.), coordinating the action sequences and directing battles and fight scenes, falls, and acting in several memorable film roles. Szobor appeared in two Euro-westerns and one Euro-western TV series: 'The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians" (1978), "The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians" (1979) and "The Longstocking Tales' (TV) - 1969. | ||
Revision as of 14:18, 30 August 2014
KÜLOWThis page is our personal hall of fame. A reminder to us all that even though considered a B-genre, Spaghetti Westerns were full of great characters, played by great people. Many have passed away, and while we are young growing up re-watching all these classics, many more will probably leave us. May they be remembered. What follows, is a work-in-progress, a growing list of legends who have passed away...
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British actor and film director Richard Attenborough has died at the age of 90. He died at lunchtime on Sunday August 24th, his son told BBC News. Lord Attenborough was one of Britain's leading actors, before becoming a highly successful director. In a career that spanned six decades, he appeared in films including Brighton Rock, World War Two prisoner of war thriller The Great Escape and later in dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park. As a director he was perhaps best known for Gandhi, which won two Oscars. He also directed the modern day Euro-western Grey Owl (1999) starring Pierce Brosnan. Lord Attenborough had been in a nursing home with his wife for a number of years.
Michael A. Hoey, who wrote the screenplays for a pair of Elvis Presley films and was the architect behind the 1966 cult science-fiction movie The Navy vs. the Night Monsters, has died. He was 79. Hoey, the son of English actor Dennis Hoey — who played the bumbling Inspector Lestrade in the 1940s Universal Pictures series of Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce — died August 17, 2014 of cancer at his home in San Clemente, California. Hooey was the film editor for the 1996 Euro-western “The North Star” starring James Caan and Christopher Lambert.
Thomas ‘Tom’ Pevsner a British producer, director and assistant director died on August 19th 2014. He was 87. Although born in Dresden, Germany he worked mostly in England as an assistant director. Tom was a production manager on two Euro-westerns: “Doc” (1971) and “The Spikes Gang” (1974).
Günter Junghans who made more than 130 film and television appearances and had appeared in many character roles for DEFA died after a short illness on Sunday August 10, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. Junghans was born on 14 July 1941 in Leipzig, Germany. Among his most important early work includes the anti-war film "The Adventures of Werner Holt" (1965) and in Rainer Simons of the GDR leadership forbidden cinema drama "Jadup and Boel" (1980), which are discussed the everyday shortcomings of socialism, Junghans appeared with Kurt Bowe and Gudrun Ritter. His only Euro-western was as Heinrich Münchmeyer in the 1992 TV movie “Karl May”.
Legendary filmmaker Menahem Golan, co-founder of The Cannon Group production company and Israeli cinema pioneer, has died. He was 85. With cousin and partner Yoram Globus, Golan ran Cannon Films for a decade, releasing more than a dozen films a year in its prime. They bought the ailing company, which was launched in 1967, for $500,000 in 1979 and fueled an appetite for B-films that was created by the invention of the VCR. For a time, Cannon was on the brink of becoming the seventh Hollywood “major” studio. Golan produced more than 200 films including the action hits The Delta Force (1986) starring Chuck Norris and the Death Wish sequels top lined by Charles Bronson. Golan produced the Euo-westerns: God’s Gun and Kid Vengeance both starring Lee Van Cleef.
Stuntman and actor Szobor Cseh died this morning August 1, 2014, at age 71 after losing his battle with cancer. In 2012, the famous stuntman learned that he had contracted multiple myeloma, which is a form of bone marrow malignancy. In June of last year, he was admitted to a hospital Stunt Fundeni because of complications of the disease he was suffering. Cseh Szobor collaborated on more than 150 films and TV Feature, including 25 foreign productions and co-productions (Germany, France, USA, etc.), coordinating the action sequences and directing battles and fight scenes, falls, and acting in several memorable film roles. Szobor appeared in two Euro-westerns and one Euro-western TV series: 'The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians" (1978), "The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians" (1979) and "The Longstocking Tales' (TV) - 1969.
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