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American producer, director, writer, film and TV actor Luke Perry died March 4, 2019 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, California, from complications of a stroke he suffered last week. He was 52. Born Coy Luther Perry III in Mansfield, Ohio on October 11, 1966. Luke had a prolific acting career on TV and in movies -- getting his start in the early '80s -- and became a household name on '90210.' After that, his career exploded. Most recently he's had a starring role as Archie's dad on CW's hit show, "Riverdale." Perry also filmed a role in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Charles Manson movie, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." He appeared in a number of TV westerns including two TV Euro-westerns: “Johnson County War” 2002 as Harry Hammett and was a voice actor on the 1997-1998 animated TV series ‘The Legend of Calamity Jane’. | American producer, director, writer, film and TV actor Luke Perry died March 4, 2019 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, California, from complications of a stroke he suffered last week. He was 52. Born Coy Luther Perry III in Mansfield, Ohio on October 11, 1966. Luke had a prolific acting career on TV and in movies -- getting his start in the early '80s -- and became a household name on '90210.' After that, his career exploded. Most recently he's had a starring role as Archie's dad on CW's hit show, "Riverdale." Perry also filmed a role in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Charles Manson movie, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." He appeared in a number of TV westerns including two TV Euro-westerns: “Johnson County War” 2002 as Harry Hammett and was a voice actor on the 1997-1998 animated TV series ‘The Legend of Calamity Jane’. | ||
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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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RIP Scott Walker. Songwriter and producer Scott Walker, the powerful pop singer turned avant-garde adventurist who influenced singers like David Bowie and Thom Yorke, has died at age 76. Walker died Friday March 22, 2019 in London, England. Born Noel Scott Engel in Hamilton, Ohio on January 9, 1943, rose to fame in the Walker Brothers with John Maus and Gary Leeds. The group, whose acclaim rivaled the Beatles in Britain, released several hits, including “Make It Easy On Yourself” and “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore.” Walker continued his career as a solo artist with the release of four albums, Scott, Scott 2, Scott 3 and Scott 4, before the Walker Brothers reformed for one final release. The musician has released numerous works in recent years, including the solo album Bish Bosch in 2012, Soused, a collaboration with sunn o))) in 2014, and the score for last year’s Natalie Portman-starrer Vox Lux. Walker will remember best by Euro-western fans for singing “A Rope and a Colt” the title song for Robert Hossein’s 1969 “Cemetery Without Crosses”, one of the best songs of the genre.
Larry Cohen, the avant-garde writer and director who made his mark in the horror and blaxploitation genres with such innovative cult classics as “It's Alive”, “God Told Me To”, “Black Caesar and Hell Up in Harlem”, died at his Beverly Hills home on March 23, 2019. He was 77. Lawrence G. Cohen was born on July 15, 1941, in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. The family moved to the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, and he would hustle movie ticket money by offering to carry groceries for tips. Cohen graduated from City College of New York in 1963 with a degree in film studies. After landing a job at NBC as a page, he gave himself a crash course in the art of producing teleplays, and by his early 20s, he was writing television scripts. Cohen broke into TV in 1958 with an adaptation of Ed McBain's crime novel The Eighty Seventh Precinct for Kraft Television Theatre. Over the next decade, he would pen episodes for ‘Zane Grey Theatre’, ‘Surfside 6’, ‘Checkmate’, ‘The Fugitive’ and ‘The Defenders’. He created ‘Branded’, which ran for two seasons (1965-66) and starred the 6-foot-6 Connors as a disgraced officer unjustly drummed out of the cavalry for cowardice. "My intellectual concept of the show is that it's like a Shakespearean tragedy," Cohen said in a 1965 interview for TV Guide. "You must have a great man to experience true tragedy. That's why I like Chuck Connors so much in this part. He's so big — he's the tallest underdog in the west." He followed that with ‘The Invaders’, though is only lasted two seasons (1967-68), ‘The Invaders’ gained cult status and paved the way for shows such as ‘The X-Files’. Cohen's first feature screenplay was for the sequel “Return of the Magnificent Seven” (1966), and that was followed by scripts for “Daddy's Gone A-Hunting” (1969), “Scream Baby Scream” (1969) and “El Condor” (1970).
French actor and dubber William Sabatier, who was the French voice of Marlon Brando and Karl Malden, and had also sometimes doubled John Wayne, died Sunday March 17, 2019, in Limoges at the age of 95, announced his son Jean-Michel. In the cinema, William Sabatier was in the casting of Jacques Becker's "Golden Helmet", Costa-Gavras "Bay Slayer", "A Season in Hell" by Nelo Risi, "The Horologist of St. Paul" by Bertrand Tavernier, "The Chinese in Paris" by Jean Yanne or "Flic Story" by Jacques Deray. On television, William Sabatier, recurring comedian of the series "Au Théâtre tonight", has played in about forty series and TV movies. He was also the French voice of Gene Hackman, James Mason, Richard Harris, Martin Landau and Anthony Quinn in more than 200 feature films from the 1950s to the mid-2000s, including "Ben Hur" and "Apocalypse Now". Sabatier was the French voice of Jesus Puente in “Adios Gringo” (1964); Ettore Manni in “Ringo’s Golden Pistol” (1967); Mario Brega in “The Great Silence” (1958); Gastone Moschn in “Drop Them or I’ll Shoot” (1969); Toshiro Mifune in “Red Sun” (1971); Buff Douthitt “Lucky Luke” (1991).
American born Canadian actor Aron Tager died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on February 28, 2019. He was 84. Born in Brooklyn, New York on June 30, 1934, he appeared in many films, such as X-Men, Murder at 1600, and The Salem Witch Trials. In TV, he was a member of the repertory cast of the A&E TV series: A Nero Wolfe Mystery, and like in film, he appeared in minor roles in countless shows, such as At the Hotel, Earth: Final Conflict, and Relic Hunter. Tager also performed many voices for characters in animated children and adult shows over the years, including Kranky Kong in Donkey Kong Country, which is undoubtedly where most gamers will know him from. He was also an acclaimed artist and was married to actress Ann Page. Tager appeared in the 1995 Euro-TV series “Tales of the Wild – Kazan” as McCready and was also the voice of various characters in the animated TV series; The Legend of White Fang (1992-1994).
French actor and singer Jacques Bodoin died in Dieulefit, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France on March 8, 2019 only 18 days before his 98th birthday. Born in Dieulefit, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France on March 26, 1921 Bodoin was famous from the 1950s to the 1980s for his sketches, his participation in television and radio, his appearances in the cinema and dubbing, including of the character of Pollux with the accent "british" in "The magic carousel", Jacques Bodoin made his debut in 1945 with the “Companions of Music”. He was the dean of the songwriters, who brought a great modernity to the art of songwriting, "Jacques Mailhot, director of the Théâtre des Deux Ânes, told AFP. Bodoin had been a famous theater player until the 1980s. Bodoin was married to actress Micheline Dax who passed away in 2014 at the age of 90. Dax was the French voice of Calamity Jane in the 1971 French animated film “Lucky Luke: Daisy Town” while Jacques Bodoin was the French voice of Clem.
French composer and pianist Jacques Loussier, a great architect of the rapprochement between jazz and classical music, died Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at the age of 84, the news was confirmed by his wife Elizabeth. Loussier was born on October 26, 1934 in Angers, France. "Jacques Loussier had this idea of genius at the time to adapt Bach in jazz, and he was successful all over the world. The music of Johann Sebastian Bach swings a lot and it is maybe our first jazzman", told Pascal Anquetil, a journalist at Jazz Magazine. In addition to the work of Johann Sebastian Bach, he had also adapted other great masters of classical music such as Vivaldi, Ravel, Satie, Debussy and Schumann. He also created a recording studio in Miraval, in the south of France, where worked Pink Floyd and The Cure. His lone Euro-western credit was as composer on the 1966 West German TV film ‘Geronimo und die Räuber’.
American producer, director, writer, film and TV actor Luke Perry died March 4, 2019 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, California, from complications of a stroke he suffered last week. He was 52. Born Coy Luther Perry III in Mansfield, Ohio on October 11, 1966. Luke had a prolific acting career on TV and in movies -- getting his start in the early '80s -- and became a household name on '90210.' After that, his career exploded. Most recently he's had a starring role as Archie's dad on CW's hit show, "Riverdale." Perry also filmed a role in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Charles Manson movie, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." He appeared in a number of TV westerns including two TV Euro-westerns: “Johnson County War” 2002 as Harry Hammett and was a voice actor on the 1997-1998 animated TV series ‘The Legend of Calamity Jane’.
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