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=== FRESH GRAVES ===
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*'''MILLER, Dick (Richard Miller)''' - 12/25/1928, Bronx, New York City, New York
*'''BACS, Ferenc''' - 6/19/1936, Sibic.Nagyszeben, Romania - 4/16/2019, Budapest, Hungary
- 1/30/2019, Toluca Lake, California, U.S.A.


Dick Miller, a prolific screen actor best known for his role as Murray Futterman in the 1984 classic horror film “Gremlins,” has died. He was 90. His career spanned more than 60 years, Miller made hundreds of on screen appearances, beginning in the 1950s with legendary director and producer Roger Corman. It was then that he starred as Walter Paisley – a character the actor would reprise throughout his career – in the cult classic “A Bucket of Blood,” before going on to land roles on projects such as “The ‘Burbs,” “Fame” and “The Terminator.” Dick wrote the story for the Euro-western “Four Rode Out” (1970) directed by John Peyser it starred Sue Lyon and Pernell Roberts.
Ferenc Bács, aka Francisco Bács was born on June 19, 1936, in Sibiu, Romania, and died on April 16, 2019, he was a Hungarian actor, winner of the Jaszai Grand Prize. Ferenc graduated in 1960 from the Hungarian-language courses of the “Szentgyorgyi István” Theater Institute in Targu Mures and was, then employed an actor at the National Theater in Târgu Mures. He went to Hungary in 1977, where he played one season on stage theatres in Miskolc and Győr respectively, then at the Budapest Comedy Theater from 1979 to 1987. Ferenc taught at the Academy of Dramatic Art and Film in Budapest. He has worked as a theatre actor and has performed many roles in cinema and television. Bács appeared in one Euro-western: “The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians” (1978).




*'''CLAMAN, Barbara''' - 6/28/1929, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. - 1/17/2019, Winsted, Connecticut, U.S.A.
*'''HAYNES, Roberta (Roberta Arline Schack)''' - 8/19/1927, Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.A. - 4/4/2019, Delray Beach, Florida, U.S.A.


American casting director Brbara Claman died in Winsted, Connecticut on January 17, 2019. She was 89 years-old. Born in Brooklyn, New York on June 28, 1929. As a casting director her credits included three Albert Brooks films, the TV shows ‘Silk Stalkings’, ‘Santa Barbara, and the Euro-TV series ‘The New Zorro (1990-1993) and ‘Tales of the Wild’ (1994) ‘The New Zorro’.
Roberta Haynes, who starred opposite Gary Cooper in the South Pacific-set 1953 movie Return to Paradise, has died. She was 91. Haynes died in Delray Beach, Florida on April 4, 2019. Born Roberta Schack on August 19, 1927, in Wichita Falls, Texas, she and her family moved to Los Angeles when she was a child. She appeared on Broadway in 1950 in The Madwoman of Chaillot with John Carradine and then with Lee J. Cobb in The Fighter (1952), which took place in Mexico. In 1957, she starred on live television with Roger Moore in a Matinee Theatre adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and played a South Seas princess in the movie adventure Hell Ship Mutiny. Haynes guest-starred on TV shows including Climax!, Lawman, Johnny Staccato, The F.B.I. and Falcon Crest and appeared in such other films as Point Blank (1967), The Adventurers (1970), Pete 'n' Tillie (1972) and Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989). She worked at the Cinecitta film studio in Rome in the mid-1960s and as a vice president for television at 20th Century Fox in the '70s, and she went on to produce several telefilms. Haynes also was writing screenplays and pitching projects up until her death, Roberta played Polly in 1970’s “Valdez is Coming”.




*'''HENNEY, Del (Del Joseph Henney) - 7/24/1935, Anfield, Liverpool, England, U.K. - 1/14/2019, U.K.
*'''CELA, Paloma (María Luisa Cela Molinero)''' - 3/4/1946, Madrid, Madrid, Spain - 3/30/2019, Madrid, Madrid, Spain


British actor Del Henney who is best remembered for his appearance as Charlie Vennerin 1971’s “Straw Dogs” and his many TV appearances died January 14, 2019 in the U.K. He was 83. Born in Anfield, Liverpool on July 24, 1935, he was educated at the Liverpool Collegiate before joining the army. He then subsidized his love of amateur dramatics with various manual jobs and it was whilst washing dishes that he was encouraged by a fellow employee (Jimmy Tarbuck, impressed by Henney’s deft impressions of American film stars) to consider a professional acting career. He guested in many popular televisions series of the period, including three parts in ‘Z-Cars’ (1970/72/78), two in ‘The Professionals’ (1978/83) and three in ‘Juliet Bravo’ (1980/82/84). He played the lead character’s father in ‘A Woman of Substance’ (1985) and ‘DI Cossall in Resnick’ (1992/93) and popped up in everything from ‘The Expert’ (1968) to ‘Midsomer Murders’ (2001). He was especially memorable as a smoothly arrogant criminal in ‘The Sweeney’ (1975) and an affable colonel who becomes a cold instrument of murder in ‘Doctor Who’ (Resurrection of the Daleks, 1984). Henny appeared as The Mad Trapper in the TV 1972 film documentary of the same name.
Veteran Spanish theater, film and television actress Paloma Cela died in La Paz Hospital in Madrid, Spain on Saturday March 30, 2019, She turned 76 on March 4th of this year. Born  María Luisa Cela Molinero, she began her career as a model of leading figures such as Balenciaga or Asunción Bastida, before making the leap to film with Ozores in films such as “Operación Secretaria” (1966) and “Operación cabaretera” (1967) ), both with José Luis López Vázquez and Gracita Morales. Her relationship with the Madrid director would be extensive and would lead her to participate in other titles such as “Operation Mata Hari” (1968) or “Objective: bi-ki-ni” (1969).  Cela also acted along with other directors like Giulio Petroni “Terepa ... Viva la revolución”, (1969), Basilio Martín Patino “Del amor y otros soledades”, (1969), Robert Parrish “A Town Called Hell, (1971) and more recently, Santiago Segura “Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella”, (2001).




*'''MARKS, Richard''' 11/10/1943, New York City, New York, U.S.A. - 12/31/2018, U.S.A.
*'''RIMMER, Shane''' - 5/28/1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 3/29/2019, England, U.K.


Richard Marks, four-time Oscar-Nominated film editor, Died on December 31, 2018 at 75. Born on November 10, 1943, in New York City, Marks was nominated along with Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg and Lisa Fruchtman for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) — contracted for six months, he spent three years on that project, much of that time in the Philippines — and for the Brooks classics Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987) and As Good as It Gets (1997). He was sound editor on the 1971 Euro-western ‘Doc’ starring Stacy Keach and Faye Dunawway.
Shane Rimmer the voice of Thunderbirds’ Scott Tracy died at his home in England on March 29, 2019. He was 89. The Canadian-born actor emigrated to the UK in the late 1950s and performed as a cabaret singer before landing his role in Thunderbirds. Rimmer appeared in over 100 films including the hits Dr Strangelove, The Spy Who Loved Me, Star Wars, Gandhi, Out of Africa and Batman Begins. He is probably best known for playing Scott Tracy, the daring and suave pilot of Thunderbird 1, from 1964-66. Rimmer appeared as Seth Harper in the 1966 Euro-western TV series ‘Dr. Who: The Gunfighters’ episode.


*'''BRENNICKE, Michael''' - 10/5/1949, Munich, Bavaria, Germany - 3/25/2019, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
German voice actor Michael Brennicke died in Munich, Bavaria, Germany on March 25, 2019.  He was 68. The son of actor and director Helmut Brennicke and the actress Rosemarie Lang and brother of the radio presenter Thomas Brennicke Brennicke was born in Munich on October 5, 1949.. He was the German dubbing voice of such actors as Chevy Chase, Dustin Hoffman and Adriano Celentano. German film and TV audiences were familiar with his bass voice on ZDF broadcasts. He was also the voice of Kabel 1. Brennicke was the advertising voice for Jack Daniels whiskey. In 2009, Michael received the synchronous listener award The Silhouette in the Best Dialogue Book category for a series alongside Carina Krause for Battlestar Galactica. He is the father of an adopted daughter, actress  Nadeshda (born in 1973). Michael was the German voice of actor Antonio Cantafora in 1971’s “Black Killer”.
*'''WALKER, Scott (Noel Scott Engel)''' - 1/9/1943, Hamilton, Ohio, U.S.A. - 3/22/2019, London, England, U.K.
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.
*'''COHEN, Larry (Lawrence G. Cohen)''' - 7/15/1941, Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York, U.S.A. - 3/23/209, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.A.
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).




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Revision as of 14:11, 17 April 2019

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...

sorted by their last names:

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z|}

FRESH GRAVES

  • BACS, Ferenc - 6/19/1936, Sibic.Nagyszeben, Romania - 4/16/2019, Budapest, Hungary

Ferenc Bács, aka Francisco Bács was born on June 19, 1936, in Sibiu, Romania, and died on April 16, 2019, he was a Hungarian actor, winner of the Jaszai Grand Prize. Ferenc graduated in 1960 from the Hungarian-language courses of the “Szentgyorgyi István” Theater Institute in Targu Mures and was, then employed an actor at the National Theater in Târgu Mures. He went to Hungary in 1977, where he played one season on stage theatres in Miskolc and Győr respectively, then at the Budapest Comedy Theater from 1979 to 1987. Ferenc taught at the Academy of Dramatic Art and Film in Budapest. He has worked as a theatre actor and has performed many roles in cinema and television. Bács appeared in one Euro-western: “The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians” (1978).


  • HAYNES, Roberta (Roberta Arline Schack) - 8/19/1927, Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.A. - 4/4/2019, Delray Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

Roberta Haynes, who starred opposite Gary Cooper in the South Pacific-set 1953 movie Return to Paradise, has died. She was 91. Haynes died in Delray Beach, Florida on April 4, 2019. Born Roberta Schack on August 19, 1927, in Wichita Falls, Texas, she and her family moved to Los Angeles when she was a child. She appeared on Broadway in 1950 in The Madwoman of Chaillot with John Carradine and then with Lee J. Cobb in The Fighter (1952), which took place in Mexico. In 1957, she starred on live television with Roger Moore in a Matinee Theatre adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and played a South Seas princess in the movie adventure Hell Ship Mutiny. Haynes guest-starred on TV shows including Climax!, Lawman, Johnny Staccato, The F.B.I. and Falcon Crest and appeared in such other films as Point Blank (1967), The Adventurers (1970), Pete 'n' Tillie (1972) and Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989). She worked at the Cinecitta film studio in Rome in the mid-1960s and as a vice president for television at 20th Century Fox in the '70s, and she went on to produce several telefilms. Haynes also was writing screenplays and pitching projects up until her death, Roberta played Polly in 1970’s “Valdez is Coming”.


  • CELA, Paloma (María Luisa Cela Molinero) - 3/4/1946, Madrid, Madrid, Spain - 3/30/2019, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Veteran Spanish theater, film and television actress Paloma Cela died in La Paz Hospital in Madrid, Spain on Saturday March 30, 2019, She turned 76 on March 4th of this year. Born María Luisa Cela Molinero, she began her career as a model of leading figures such as Balenciaga or Asunción Bastida, before making the leap to film with Ozores in films such as “Operación Secretaria” (1966) and “Operación cabaretera” (1967) ), both with José Luis López Vázquez and Gracita Morales. Her relationship with the Madrid director would be extensive and would lead her to participate in other titles such as “Operation Mata Hari” (1968) or “Objective: bi-ki-ni” (1969). Cela also acted along with other directors like Giulio Petroni “Terepa ... Viva la revolución”, (1969), Basilio Martín Patino “Del amor y otros soledades”, (1969), Robert Parrish “A Town Called Hell, (1971) and more recently, Santiago Segura “Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella”, (2001).


  • RIMMER, Shane - 5/28/1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 3/29/2019, England, U.K.

Shane Rimmer the voice of Thunderbirds’ Scott Tracy died at his home in England on March 29, 2019. He was 89. The Canadian-born actor emigrated to the UK in the late 1950s and performed as a cabaret singer before landing his role in Thunderbirds. Rimmer appeared in over 100 films including the hits Dr Strangelove, The Spy Who Loved Me, Star Wars, Gandhi, Out of Africa and Batman Begins. He is probably best known for playing Scott Tracy, the daring and suave pilot of Thunderbird 1, from 1964-66. Rimmer appeared as Seth Harper in the 1966 Euro-western TV series ‘Dr. Who: The Gunfighters’ episode.


  • BRENNICKE, Michael - 10/5/1949, Munich, Bavaria, Germany - 3/25/2019, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

German voice actor Michael Brennicke died in Munich, Bavaria, Germany on March 25, 2019. He was 68. The son of actor and director Helmut Brennicke and the actress Rosemarie Lang and brother of the radio presenter Thomas Brennicke Brennicke was born in Munich on October 5, 1949.. He was the German dubbing voice of such actors as Chevy Chase, Dustin Hoffman and Adriano Celentano. German film and TV audiences were familiar with his bass voice on ZDF broadcasts. He was also the voice of Kabel 1. Brennicke was the advertising voice for Jack Daniels whiskey. In 2009, Michael received the synchronous listener award The Silhouette in the Best Dialogue Book category for a series alongside Carina Krause for Battlestar Galactica. He is the father of an adopted daughter, actress Nadeshda (born in 1973). Michael was the German voice of actor Antonio Cantafora in 1971’s “Black Killer”.


  • WALKER, Scott (Noel Scott Engel) - 1/9/1943, Hamilton, Ohio, U.S.A. - 3/22/2019, London, England, U.K.

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.


  • COHEN, Larry (Lawrence G. Cohen) - 7/15/1941, Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York, U.S.A. - 3/23/209, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.A.

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).


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