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American Actor Tom Heaton has died in Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada. He was 77. An actor, singer/songwriter and artist, Tom was born in 1940 and raised in the Bronx, NY when it was still a rural community. He appeared in 155 films and TV appearances from 1967 to 2009. Tom appeared in two Euro-westerns the TV series “Bordertown” (1989, 1990) and “Johnson County War” (2002). | American Actor Tom Heaton has died in Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada. He was 77. An actor, singer/songwriter and artist, Tom was born in 1940 and raised in the Bronx, NY when it was still a rural community. He appeared in 155 films and TV appearances from 1967 to 2009. Tom appeared in two Euro-westerns the TV series “Bordertown” (1989, 1990) and “Johnson County War” (2002). | ||
Revision as of 13:47, 29 January 2018
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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The actor Howard Lew Lewis, best known for his roles in Maid Marian and her Merry Men and Brush Strokes, has died in Edinburgh, Scotland on January 20, 2018. at the age of 76. Born in London on August 21, 1941, he played Rabies in all four series of children's comedy Maid Marian and her Merry Men, written by Tony Robinson beginning in 1989. Lewis was the voice of Obelix in the 1994 animated Euro-western “Asterix in America”.
Italian stage, film and TV actress Anna Campori died at her home in Trastevere, Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was 100 years old. Married to actor Pietro De Vico Pietro De Vico [1911-1999] since 1937, she joined his theatrical group and became the lead actress. After her time in the theater she appeared in over 70 films and television series gaining celebrity status as the grandmother Giovanna, la nonna del Corsaro Nero in the 1960s. Anna appeared in only one Euro-western as Irene Jefferson in the 1967 film “Rick and John, Conquerors of the West”.
American actress, screenwriter Jan Lowell died in Boynton Beach, Florida on January 16, 2018. She was 92. Jan was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 23, 1926, she became an actress and married and actor, writer Robert Lowell. Now husband and wife they formed the writing team J.R. Lowell and they were responsible for writing the English language version of the script for “A Fistful of Dollars.”
Hugh Wilson, Emmy-winning writer-producer and ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ TV series creator who also directed several features including The First Wives Club and the original Police Academy died January 14 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was 74. Born in Miami, Florida on August 21, 1943 Wilson also directed, wrote the screenplay and acted in the U.S.A./Spanish Euro-western comedy “Rustlers’ Rhapsody’ (1985).
Across a more than 50-year career, the UK-born Terence Marsh worked on a host of award-winning films with directors including David Lean, Sydney Pollack, John Huston, Carol Reed, Fred Zinnemann and Frank Darabont. He won two Oscars for his work as an art director on David Lean’s romantic epic Doctor Zhivago and Carol Reed’s 1968 musical Oliver!, and was nominated for three Baftas. Marsh was born in London, England on November 4, 1931 and died in Pacific Palisades, California on January 9, 2018. He was a draughtsman on 1961’s Euro-western: “The Singer Not the Song”.
Canadian actor Donnelly Rhodes died January 8, 2018 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. He was 80. He was best remembered for his roles in “Sidestreet” and “Da Vinci’s Inquest,” but western fans will remember him as Joe Slade in 1966’s “Gunfight at Abilene” starring Bobby Darin and Leslie Nielsen. Rhodes appeared in one episode of the the 1989 Euro-western TV series ‘Bordertown’ as John Quincy McGraw.
Zeljko Senečić a prominent Croatian film and theater director, stage designer, painter, interior designer and screenwriter died in Zagreb, Croatia on January 2, 2018. He was born in Zagreb on January 18, 1933 and studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He graduated in the class of Professor Marijana Detoni in 1956, and by 1960 he was an associate of the master workshop Krste Hegedušić. The stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts ended in 1960. Zeljko was art director on 1973’s “The Hellhounds of Alaska”.
Italian producer Giovanni Di Clemente died in a Rome hospital on January 2, 2018. The winner of the David di Donatello for "We hope it's a girl". Among his most famous films "I picari", "Parenti serpenti" and "Pacco doppio pacco e contropaccotto". Born Antonio Di Clemente in Rome in 1948 he received a special David di Donatello award for all of his productions in 1996. Di Clemente was a production secretary on the 1972 Euro-western: “Beyond the Frontiers of Hate” starring Jeff Cameron.
American Actor Tom Heaton has died in Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada. He was 77. An actor, singer/songwriter and artist, Tom was born in 1940 and raised in the Bronx, NY when it was still a rural community. He appeared in 155 films and TV appearances from 1967 to 2009. Tom appeared in two Euro-westerns the TV series “Bordertown” (1989, 1990) and “Johnson County War” (2002).
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