RIP Edward Hermann

Edward Herman ‘Gilmore Girls’ star dead at 71

 

TMZ

12/31/2014

 

Edward Herrmann -- perhaps best known for playing Richard Gilmore on "Gilmore Girls" -- died this morning in a hospital in New York. He was 71.

 

Herrmann's family tells TMZ he had been battling brain cancer and had been in ICU for the last 3 1/2 weeks. Ultimately, things did not improve and his family decided to take him off the respirator.

 

Herrmann was married twice and and his second wife Star tells TMZ the actor leaves behind 3 children.

 

Herrmann was on "Gilmore Girls" for its entire run and recently appeared in several episodes of "The Good Wife." He was also nominated for an emmy for his portrayal of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the '70's ... was the head vampire in "The Lost Boys," and  famously starred alongside Macaulay Culkin in "Richie Rich."

 

 

HERMANN, Edward

Born: 7/21/1943, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

Died: 12/31/2014, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

 

Edward Hermann’s western – actor:

Redemption: For Robbing the Dead – 2011 (Governor Dawson)

RIP Stanley Neufeld

RIP Stanley Neufeld

  

Los Angeles Times

December 30, 2014

Stan Neufeld, who started in Hollywood in 1941 as an assistant director on Westerns produced by his father and who worked continuously in the business until he was 80 years old, except only for service in the Merchant Marine during World War II, passed away on December 26 in Eugene, Oregon at the age of 91. Stan was the son of Sigmund and Ruth Neufeld and was born in Hollywood in 1923. He was raised in Hollywood and spent every free moment on the sets of movies produced by his father in the 1930's until he graduated from Fairfax High School in 1941. He immediately went to work on the production side as an assistant director. He also graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy and served for almost three years as an engineering officer on ammunition ships in the Pacific during World War II. In 1945 after his discharge, he worked on such Oscar winning movies as All the King's Men and he worked with Orson Welles on Shanghai Lady. By 1950, he joined Gene Autry at Flying A Productions for 6 years where he worked on the many series produced there, including The Gene Autry Show and The Range Rider. He dreamed of becoming a production manager and was inspired by the legendary production manager, Bert Sternbach, and he took over from Bert on one of the earliest TV shows filmed in Canada in the mid 1950's, The Last of the Mohicans. Following his return to Hollywood and more movies and series, he moved to New York in 1960 to head the production unit for the Emmy winning series, Naked City. Stan received his first producing credit on Naked City and worked on dozens of movies and TV series for the next 40 years. He was known for his vast knowledge of how to make pictures and keep them under budget and on schedule. He was almost always the first one on the set and the last to leave in his total of 60 years in the business. As the years passed, Stan also took two positions which took him away from the set, the first at Orion Pictures where he supervised the production of its films, including at least two Oscar Best Picture winners. For his last assignment, he joined a bonding company where he decided what films to bond. Again, he was touched by Oscar when one of the films he bonded, The English Patient, won the Oscar for best picture. He had to travel to North Africa during production and loved being on the set once again. His career ended only when the bonding company closed. His retirement from the business marked the end of 90 years in the business between his Dad who started in 1911 and Stan who followed him in 1941. Stan's recollections of his incredible career can be seen on the Director's Guild website, and he will be remembered by the many people in the business whose lives he touched. Stan also found time to run marathons and was a champion in his age group until just prior to his 80th birthday. Stan is survived by his wife, Lesley, his son, Tim, his daughter-in-law, Gabie, his brother Sig, whose Hollywood career was equally successful, Sig's husband Patrick, his two granddaughters and their husbands, Pam and Dale, and Kathy and Dane, his great granddaughter, Maya, and his faithful dog, Rocky. He loved his family, his work and the picture business, and he will always be remembered not just for his hundreds of credits and marathon medals, but more important for the hundreds of people in the business for whom he was a mentor and an inspiration.Through many of them, he is still on the set every day.

 

 

NEUFELD, Stanley

Born: 1923, Hollywood, California, U.S.A.

Died: 12/26/2014, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

 

Stanley Neufeld’s westerns – production manager, director, assistant director:

Lightning Raiders – 1945 [assistant director]

Prairie Rustlers – 1945 [assistant director]

Gentlemen With Guns – 1946 [assistant director]

Terrors on Horseback – 1946 [assistant director]

Ghost of the Valley – 1946 [assistant director]

Prairie Badmen – 1946 [assistant director]

Overland Raiders – 1946 [assistant director]

Outlaws of the Plains – 1946 [assistant director]

Outcasts of Black Mesa – 1950 [assistant director]

The Silver Bandit – 1950 [assistant director]

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (TV) – 1951 [assistant director]

The Range Rider (TV) – 1951-1953 [assistant director]

The Gene Autry Show (TV) – 1951-1955 [assistant director]

Death Valley Days (TV) – 1953 [assistant director]

Annie Oakley (TV) – 1954-1957 [assistant director]

The Adventures of Champion (TV) – 1955-1956 [assistant director]

Buffalo Bill Jr. (TV) – 1955-1956 [assistant director]

The Three Outlaws – 1956 [assistant director]

Red Ryder (TV) – 1956 [assistant director]

Sheriffs of the USA (TV) – 1956 [director]

Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (TV) – 1957 [production manager, assistant director]

Wagon Train (TV) – 1959 [assistant director]

RIP Christine Cavanaugh

Legendary Cartoon Voice Dies ‘Rugrats’, ‘Dexter’s Lab’, ‘Babe’

 

TMZ

12/30/2014

 

Christine Cavanaugh -- the original voice of "Babe" the pig and Dexter from "Dexter's Laboratory" -- has died at the age of 51.

 

Cavanaugh passed away on December 22nd ... the details surrounding her death are unclear.

 

Christine's work is legendary ... providing the voice of countless iconic cartoon characters including Chuckie the red-headed baby from "Rugrats."

 

She also voiced characters from "Darkwing Duck," "Aladdin," "The Critic," "The Powerpuff Girls" and "The Wild Thornberrys."

 

Cavanaugh retired from voice acting in 2001. Her character in "Rugrats" was replaced by Nancy Cartwright -- who's most famous for voicing Bart Simpson.

 

Christine had no biological children -- but she was the godmother to the child of one of her close friends.

 

 

CAVANAUGH, Christine (Christine Josephine Sandberg)

Born: 8/16/1963, Layton, Utah, U.S.A.

Died: 12/22/2014, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Christine Cavanaugh’s western – voice actress:

Balto – 1995 (additional voices)

RIP Stephen Wooton

RIP Steve Wooten

 

Las Vegas Review-Journal

April 5, 2014

 

Steve Wootton, 68, resident of Henderson area, passed away on April 4, 2014 at the Nathan Adelson Hospice center after a bravely fought battle against Melanoma. He was born Stephen A. Wootton, July 8, 1945 in Southern California to Neville and Leah Wootton.

 

In the early days he was known as "Stevie Wootton", a cute, freckle-faced child actor seen on various television series (including the Jack Benny Show, This is Alice, Superman, and I Love Lucy) and many motion pictures until his early teens. He attended University of Portland where he met his first wife, Judith Gregori and received his Bachelor of Arts in Communication in 1967. He and Judy were married in 1968. They had three children, Kimberley, Matthew and Timothy. The couple later divorced in 1979.

 

Steve had a long career in insurance and management, starting at Allstate and later retiring from CNA in Chicago. While at CNA, he met his soul-mate, then Virginia Dickinson. The couple married July 21, 1990. About 10 years ago, Steve retired from his career in Chicago to the Henderson area to be closer to family in California and his brother and sister-in-law, Roger and Judy Wootton.

 

Steve loved good wine, golf, watching sports, his family and his grandchildren who affectionately called him "Papa". He was well loved by his friends and colleagues and had a good joke for every occasion. He was generous and loving to all who knew him.

 

He is survived by his wife Ginny; his brother Roger; his children Kim, Matt and Tim; his step-sons Jon and Jeffrey; and seven beautiful grandchildren they cherished together.

 

In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to the Melanoma Research Foundation (www.melanoma.org) or Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers (Fr. Joseph Fedora, M.M., Mission Account, Maryknoll, New York 10545 in Memory of Stephen Wootton).

 

A memorial service will be held at 11:00am on Tuesday, April 15 at Palm Mortuary, 7600 S. Eastern Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada. A reception to follow at Roger and Judy Wootton's.

 

 

WOOTON, Stephen (Stephen Arthur Wooton)

Born: 7/8/1945, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Died: 4/4/2014, Henderson, California, U.S.A.

 

Stephen Wooton’s westerns – actor:

Death Valley Days (TV) – 1954

At Gunpoint – 1955 (Joey Clark)

Red Sundown (TV) – 1956 (Chuck)

Star in the Dust – 1956 (boy)

Stranger at My Door – 1956 (‘Dodie’ Jarret)

My Friend Flick (TV) – 1956 (Teddy Wallace)

Bat Masterson (TV) – 1958 (Sandy)

Have Gun – Will Travel (TV) – 1958 (Jed Warren)

Buckskin (TV) – 1959 (Buford)

Riverboat (TV) – 1960 (Sam Dexter)

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV) – 1961 (Ollie Burton)

The Rifleman (TV) – 1962 (Willie)

RIP Rosella Towne

RIP Rosella Towne

 

Rosella Towne was an American film actress. She was born on January 20, 1918 in Youngstown, Ohio. Her film career began in 1937, after making a screen test for Warner Bros. and signing a contract for the studio. At first she made minor appearances in motion pictures such as Varsity Show, It's Love I'm After and Submarine D-1. In 1939, she got her first leading role when she was chosen to play the part of comic strip character Jane Arden in a film adaption. While touted by critics as a future star, Towne retired from show business after marrying screenwriter Harry Kronman. She died in late August 2014, aged 96.

 

 

TOWNE, Rosella

Born: 1/20/1918, Youngtown, Ohio, U.S.A.

Died: 8/?/2014, Hamden, Connecticut U.S.A.

 

Rosella Towne's westerns - actress:

Sons of the Plains - 1938

Cowboy from Brooklyn - 1938 (Panthea Landis)

Rocky Mountain Rangers - 1940 (Dorie Manners)

RIP Maximo Munzi

Cinematographer Maximo Munzi Dies at 57

 

Variety

By Carmel Dagan

December 23, 2014

 

Cinematographer Maximo Felipe Munzi, whose career spanned 30 years and included 104 films, died of pancreatic cancer December 16 in Los Angeles. He was 57.

 

Munzi worked in both film and television, and his efforts included “Looking for Mr. Right,” “A Lesson in Romance,” “Ring of Death,” “The Storm,” “Love’s Enduring Promise” and “The Christmas Card.”

 

His TV work appeared on NBC, Hallmark Channel, Lifetime, USA and Spike, among other networks.

 

Most recently, Munzi was employed at Larry Levinson Productions.

 

Bon in Buenos Aires, Maximo also spent time in Rome during his youth. Munzi moved to Los

Angeles in his early 20s to pursue his passion for filmmaking. He completed his education at Columbia College in Los Angeles and worked at the American Film Institute, where he honed his skills as a cinematographer.

 

Later he became an encouraging mentor to many young filmmakers.

 

Munzi is survived by his wife, Krisann Pappajohn; his children, Chiara, Lorenzo, and Cosima; his twin sister; and his younger brother.

 

A memorial service is planned for December 27 at 10:30 a.m. at Prince of Peace Episcopal Church at 5700 Rudnick Ave. in Woodland Hills. Donations may be made in Munzi’s name to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

 

 

MUNZI, Maximo (Maximo Felipe Munzi)

Born: 7/26/1957, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Died: 12/16/2014, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Maximo Munzi’s westerns – cinematographer:

Hard Ground (TV) - 2003

Love’s Enduring Promise (TV) – 2004

Avenging Angel (TV) – 2007

Love’s Everlasting Courage (TV) – 2011

Shadow on the Mesa (TV) - 2013

RIP Joseph Sargent

RIP Joseph Sargent

 

Variety

By Dave McNary

December 22, 2014

 

Joseph Sargent, director of “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” and winner of four Emmys and four DGA Awards, died Monday at his home in Malibu of complications from heart disease. He was 89.

 

Sargent worked until he was 84. His credits included “Something The Lord Made,” “Warm Springs” “MacArthur,” “The Incident,” “Playing For Time,” “Miss Rose White” “Miss Evers’ Boys” and “Love Is Never Silent.”

 

He and his wife Carolyn helped co-found Deaf Theatre West as also founded the Free Arts Clinic For Abused Children. He won a Genesis Award for “The Last Elephant.”

 

Sargent worked during his last decade as the senior filmmaker-in-residence for the directing program at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles and as the first professor of a masters program in film directing at Pepperdine University in Malibu, where Sargent and his wife Carolyn have resided for 40 years.

 

“When it comes to directing Movies for Television, Joe’s dominance and craftsmanship was legendary — for the past 50 years,” said Directors Guild of America president Paris Barclay.

 

“With eight DGA Awards nominations in Movies for Television, more than any other director in this category, Joe embodied directorial excellence on the small screen.” Barclay said. “He was unafraid of taking risks, believing in his heart that television audiences demanded the highest quality stories – whether chronicling uncomfortable historic events like the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study in ‘Miss Evers’

 

'Boys, or compelling personal stories about inspiring individuals like heart surgery pioneersAlfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas in ‘Something the Lord Made.’ His biographies demonstrated an exactitude for period accuracy while simultaneously infusing historical figures with true-to-life spirit and passion. Joe once said that he was ‘drawn to projects possessing ‘edge’ — material that can make some comment or contribution to the condition of man,’ and it is this ‘edge’ that is his enduring directorial legacy.”

 

He was born Giusseppe Daneiele Sorgente in Jersey City, New Jersey. He served as a teenage GI volunteer in Western Europe in World War II; after the war, he began studying as an actor studying at the Actors’ Studio.

 

He gained experience in episodic TV, first as an actor and finally getting directory opportunities in “Gunsmoke,” “Bonanza,” “Lassie,” “The Fugitive,” “Star Trek” and “The Man From Uncle. He won his first Emmy directing the pilot episode of “Kojak,” a film entitled “The Marcus-Nelson Murders.”

 

Sargent is survived by his widow Carolyn Nelson Sargent, two daughters, Lia Sargent and Athena Sargent Sergneri (from a prior marriage to Mary Carver), and by nieces Charlotte and Emma Nelson.

 

 

SARGENT, Joseph (Giuseppe Danielle Sorgente)

Born: 7/22/1925, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Died: 12/22/2014  Malibu, California, U.S.A.

 

Joseph Sargent’s westerns – actor, director:

Death Valley Days (TV) – 1956 (Reuben Bennett)

The Sheriff of Cochise (TV) – 1956, 1957 (Amon, Lattimer, Clem)

The Lone Ranger (TV) – 1957 (Jed Walker)

The Gray Ghost (TV) – 1957 (Nat)

Gunsmoke (TV) – 1957, 1959 (Shomer, drunk)

Tales of Wells Fargo (TV) – 1958 (Lou Dancher)

Zane Grey Theater (TV) – 1958, 1960 (Pete Hansen, Sergeant)

Johnny Ringo (TV) – 1959 (Chet)

Cimarron City (TV) – 1959 (Hank Rowe)

Gunsmoke (TV) – 1963, 1965 [director]

Bonanza (TV) – 1964 [director]

Buck and the Preacer – 1972 [director, replaced]

Streets of Laredo (TV) – 1999 [director]

RIP Brandon Stoddard

Brandon Stoddard, ABC Exec Who Shepherded ‘Roots,’ Dies at 77

 

Variety

By Cynthia Littleton

December 22, 2014

 

Brandon Stoddard, the longtime ABC exec who shepherded such landmark longform productions as “Roots” and “The Winds of War,” died Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 77.

 

Stoddard had a 25-year career at ABC, rising to entertainment president from 1985-89. He spent another six years as head of ABC Prods. before stepping down in 1995.

 

During his long run, Stoddard was an instrumental player in steering ABC’s success with large-scale miniseries productions. None was a bigger gamble than “Roots,” a gritty historical look at the journey of Africans into the slave trade in America that aired over eight consecutive nights in January 1977. The production and the impact it had as a cultural event remains a milestone for the medium.

 

Stoddard was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in March. After leaving ABC, Stoddard spent 10 years teaching graduate students at USC’s School for Cinema and Television.

 

Stoddard was a mentor and friend to a generation of TV execs including Bob Iger, producers Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner and Ted Harbert, now chairman of NBC Broadcasting.

 

“In many ways, I owe my career to Brandon. He taught me how to read a script, how to talk to writers and to above all, revere great characters and stories,” Harbert told Variety. “And we laughed.”

 

Iger, chairman-CEO of Disney, succeeded Stoddard as ABC Entertainment president in 1989.

 

“Brandon was a true maverick who was instrumental in transforming prime time television. His influence continues, and he will be missed by everyone who had the good fortune to know him,” Iger said.

 

Stoddard grew up in Southport, Conn., and attended Yale University. He initially pursued a career as an actor, but got discouraged and veered in law. He wound up in advertising at BBDO, which eventually led him to join ABC in 1970 overseeing daytime and children’s programming. He developed the enduring “Schoolhouse Rock” shorts designed to teach kids basic history, English and civics lessons such as how a bill becomes a law.

 

As he rose through the ranks at ABC, Stoddard moved into the longform arena where he helped bring “Roots” to the screen. ABC under Stoddard delivered epic, ambitious productions that were seen as “novels for television,” drawing on Stoddard’s high-brow taste in literary material and his equally strong skill at adapting it for mass appeal. Among the ABC productions of the era were “Rich Man, Poor Man,” “QBVII,” “The Thorn Birds” and “Masada.”

 

The 1983 WWII saga “The Winds of War” starring Robert Mitchum marked a peak of audience size and scope of the storytelling. But the 1988 sequel “War and Remembrance” marked the beginning of the end of the mega-miniseries as it was costly and not as successful as its predecessor.

 

Beyond the miniseries, Stoddard championed telepics that broke ground on controversial subjects, such as the nuclear drama “The Day After”; “Something About Amelia,” which tackled incest; and “Friendly Fire,” about the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

 

He also oversaw ABC’s feature film development efforts in the early 1980s. The division yielded the Oscar-nominated “Silkwood,” which started out as an ABC TV movie project; “The Flamingo Kid”; and “Prizzi’s Honor,” among other titles.

 

Stoddard was named ABC Entertainment president in 1985. While Stoddard was head of programming, ABC fielded such hits as “Roseanne,” “The Wonder Years,” “Moonlighting,” “Thirtysomething,” “China Beach,” “Max Headroom” and “Full House.” He also greenlit the pilot for “Twin Peaks” and oversaw the production of the cult-fave “My So-Called Life” during his time at ABC Prods.

 

Later in life, Stoddard turned to painting and had an exhibition of his works at Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station.

 

Survivors include his wife, Mary Anne Dolan, and two daughters.

 

 

STODDARD, Brandon

Born: 3/31/1937, Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.A

Died: 12/22/2014, Bel-Air, California, U.S.A.

 

Brandon Stoddard’s western – producer:

You Know My Name (TV) - 1999

RIP Udo Jurgens

Singer and entertainer Udo Jürgens has died at 80 years old

 

The Standard

By Karl Curse

December 21, 2014

 

Udo Jürgens was one of the biggest stars and entertainers German speaking countries. His music accompanied several generations. Now he died 80 years old.

 

Just as he was still there. On 30^th of September he was 80, and the album that he released this year, headlined the midst of life. This one took him off without a hint of a doubt. Udo Jürgens was the epitome of resilience. He seemed to be one where the age could not harm much. Well, the hair was dyed, but otherwise he was a seemingly never-ending energy beam whose concerts every time the two-hour mark blew as if it were half my age. Now, one of the largest and most successful musician and entertainer of the German-speaking world has died of heart failure.

 

The illusion of Unverwüsstlichkeit was a work and a career owed for the post-war period in this country is no comparison. Born in 1934 in Klagenfurt as Udo Jürgen Bockelmann he got from the great war just as much with that he earned him a permanent hearing loss, as he cashed a slap in the Hitler Youth.

 

World Stars and Song Contest

 

At 16, he won his first prize as a young composer, his first appearances he made as Udo Bolan band. In the 1960s, his career came in a roundabout journey. At that time he composed for Shirley Bassey Reach for the Stars, which was a worldwide hit for them. Jürgens had gone to the United States, had the Nachkriegsmief his home turned his back and played in New York with black musicians jazz. Back in Austria, he tried several times a song contest. Three attempts needed it, then in 1966, he took first place with Merci Chérie.

 

As a result Udo Jürgens was a superstar of the hit song. Although he did not like the idea, but he rarely escaped him. After all, Udo Jürgens could take credit for that, he enriched the tray to content that had not known the shallow ideal world genre before. He went on philistine funny (in this honorable house), sang in red poppy on drugs flowers and came back with Go and multiply in Bavaria even on the index, after church officials had excited about this song about overpopulation.

 

As they made their money but without the Udo Jürgens fans. This actually took to the streets, to hear her on the radio Udo. That was in the 1980s, and Jürgens was then already an institution. A bon vivant whose main residence is in Switzerland. He drove Rolls Royce, had comfortable secondary residences and enjoyed all the amenities that life brings with it a star. Four children from three mothers were a Kollateralsegen this lifestyle, stood to the Jürgens wholeheartedly: "Women love after all greyhounds."

 

Big wide world and Terry cloth

 

His albums were self-perpetuating, his songs were burning in the collective memory of several generations: But please with cream, with 66 years, 17 years, blonde hair, Greek wine or banners volatile Buenos Dias Argentina, which he had in 1978 written for the German national team, what is Austria of post retaliated in Cordoba.

 

Udo Jürgens is in his life composed over 1000 songs and have sold over 100 million records. He has title for Frank Sinatra written, sung by Sammy Davis Jr.. Around him the aura of the big wide world even then, when he jovially step at the end of his concerts in white terry cloth jacket for addition and it looked like the dad after Sonntagsbad. A mesh with effect. The ladies screamed, the men he seemed harmless. It made him a star next door. Somehow halt.

 

Small and big hopes

 

Finally, he sang so delightfully yes traceable songs. He formulated his music in small and large hopes and delivered with the guarantee that it's okay to indulge his dreams. Through his art he accompanied millions of people who went, as he said, a little way with them. The tied a huge audience for decades in him that made him unique in this country. "Real Stars are people who have accompanied a part of our lives with their art. They are annoyed about it every now and then, some find it horrible, but for the songs we have also recognized our time. This hand-in-hand with walking the audience, which is a value that is not just about out of the hat, "says Jürgens 2006 STANDARD . That does not sound modest, but it was true.

 

Collection attempts by politicians he resisted and rejected as a citizen of the world, the small of his spiritual Carinthian from openly. Even with feminism he made his peace. He said in an interview with the STANDARD five years ago that he now prefers to Alice Schwarzer was going to a good discussion than to make young ladies the yard. Thank you for the flowers.

 

With the times, man changes. And now he's gone. On Sunday Udo Jürgens is 80-year-old died in a Swiss hospital of heart failure. Previously, he collapsed while walking. This gave his management in a press release announced.

  

 

JURGENS, Udo (Udo Jürgen Bockelmann)

Born: 9/30/1934, Schloß Ottmanach, Carinthia, Austria

Died:12/21/2014, Münsterlingen, Switzerland

 

Udo Jurgens western – composer:

Montana Trap – 1975

RIP Ingvar Kjellson

Ingvar Kjellson is dead

 

DN.Kultur

By Emma Lofgren

December 20, 2014

 

A "unque" voice has been silenced and one of the largest Swedish actors has passed away. Ingvar

Kjellson have fallen asleep, 91 years old. "He should have gotten a lot more recognition than he actually did," says Kristina Calm DN.

 

Low-key, discreet and warm. Ingvar Kjellson will be remembered as one of the biggest actors. To theRoyal Dramatic Theatre, he came in 1964, and the total was over 140 roles on the national stage.

 

Ingvar Kjellson played in including Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" and "The Wild Duck".

 

He also made contributions in the comedy and farce and directed in recent years.

 

- He passed away quietly at Danderyd Hospital, there was no drama, says his son Jan Kjellson to news agency TT.

 

Ingvar Kjellson was 91 years.

 

Benny Fredriksson manage Kulturhuset. He arranged Ingvar Kjell's 90th birthday at the City Theatre last year and committed Kjellson of the last great role in The Cherry Orchard at the City Theatre, directed by Erik Stubø.

 

- Ingvar Kjellson belongs in the true sense of the greatest actors Sweden had. He could portray all possible roles and was a true character actor.

 

- The heat he had burned through, in a way that made him loved and beloved by the people.

 

Fredriksson call Ingvar Kjellson for "an amazing person and a role model."

 

- He was a very shy person. Listening and empathetic and sounded rather be talking than he talked himself. He met his wife, Meta Velander when she was fourteen and he was fifteen, and they admired and respected each other all their lives.

 

Playwright Kristina Calm remember especially when Kjellson and his wife Meta made ​​her piece Rut and Ragnar at the City Theatre.

 

- It was so incredibly funny, because he belonged to the same generation as Allan Edwall, as I wrote the piece from the beginning. He was jättejättebra. He was like one of those classic actor. The generation that he and Allan Edwall and Margareta Krook belongs, it is as unique. It is really really sad, but maybe you could not ask people to live all the time. I was really sad.

 

Kristina Calm describes it as a great experience to work with the couple Kjellson.

 

- It was such an odd occurrence in any way. I saw him in all all the sets at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. He should have gotten a lot more recognition than he received. He has done many great things with Ingmar Bergman.

 

Yvonne Lombard played long against Ingvar Kjellson at the Stockholm City Theatre.

 

- He was one of the first gang, when the City Theatre was on Wallingatan. It was a close-knit bunch, a permanent ensemble unlike now, when you do not recognize anyone in the hallways. He was wonderful to play against, a very good boy. We were very good friends, I have played a lot with Meta and met him very much.

 

Dramatic chief dramaturge Magnus Florin remember in Ingvar Kjellson a quiet, discreet and diligent person with an incredible dramatic breadth.

 

- It feels like he gave his voice and body to the theater for an unimaginably long time. At the same time, he was a very discreet and quiet person with great integrity and a world of its own. He was so amazing diligent and always active, it was like he always stood on stage, in a rehearsal room or wherever with the radio or television. It is difficult to understand how he could do so very much.

 

Florin's personal favorite is when Kjellson did the father of the Night is the mother 1983rd

 

- It was an outstanding remarkable role interpretation of a father figure.

 

Helena Bergström played by Ingvar Kjellson in his last great role in The Cherry Orchard at the City Theatre.

 

- I am proud that I got to play with this fantastic actor. He took very seriously his profession, and had a pride in speaking well, to his lines already on collation, which he did in "The Cherry Orchard". I feel truly humbled the knowledge and experience he had.

 

- And I hope we can evaluate all this and talk about how we can preserve it for future generations. To manage this vast knowledge.

 

Ingvar Kjellson also did a lot of film and television. Many may remember him as the eccentric Mon Cousin in "Hedebyborna", or from movies like "Raskenstam", "Swing it, ma'am" or Lasse Åberg "The involuntary Golfer". In addition, he made his voice to characters in animated films such as Prince John in Robin Hood.

 

- I will remember his voice as absolutely outstanding. When I was young, I admired him. I think it was one of the actors that made me start with the theater - I was so fascinated by his voice and his way of playing, says director Tobias Theorell.

 

- His voice had an incredibly own connotation and was a mix between precision, clarity, and at the same time wonderful DRAG. It's one of those voices that one would immediately recognize. He was truly one of our biggest actor, I think.

 

 

KJELLSON, Ingvar (Anders Ingvar Kjell)

Born: 5/20/1923, Kärna, Östergötlands län, Sweden

Died: 12/18/2014, Djursholm, Sweden

 

Ingvar Kjellson’s western – actor:

Wild West Story – 1963 (judge)

RIP Arthur Gardner

Hollywood producer Arthur Gardner dies at 104

 

Los Angeles Times

By Ryan Parker

December 20, 2014

 

Longtime Hollywood producer Arthur Gardner, a voting member of the motion picture academy as a centenarian, died Friday of natural causes at Sunrise Beverly Hills Assisted Living, said his son, Steven. He was 104.

 

Gardner joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences more than a half-century ago when he first became a producer.

 

The last film he produced was "Safari 3000" in 1982.

 

"He wouldn't do anything in life but be in the business," Steven said of his father's love for Hollywood.

 

Born Arthur Goldberg in 1910, Gardner was raised in Wisconsin and moved to Los Angeles in 1929 at 18 with dreams of becoming an actor. Like many Jewish actors at the time, he changed his name because of fears of anti-Semitism, he told The Times in an interview.

 

One of the first movies he was cast in was "All Quiet on the Western Front."  It was a small role, but during that time he met George Cukor, the filmmaker who would go on to direct "A Star Is Born" and "My Fair Lady," Gardner told The Times.

 

During World War II, he served in the Army's first motion picture unit, making educational and other films under Ronald Reagan. When the war ended, Gardner turned to producing, making his debut with a 1952 serial-killer B movie titled "Without Warning!"

 

During his career, Gardner worked with Chuck Connors and Barbara Stanwyck, as well as John Wayne on one of the actor's final films, 1974's "McQ."

 

“The Rifleman,” the popular 1950s Western television series, was one of Gardner's best-known works.

 

Johnny Crawford, who starred in the show along with Chuck Connors, told The Times he adored Gardner.

 

"He was just a class act," Crawford said. "I always admired him as a kid."

 

Crawford played Mark McCain, Lucas McCain's son, on the show that ran for five seasons on ABC.

 

"He was unlike so many other producers who were all business," Crawford said. "He was a wonderful guy."

 

Gardner, who according to Steven said he did not have a favorite movie but rather loved them all, was an active voter for the Academy until he was 100. That also happens to be the year he threw out the first pitch at Dodger Stadium.

 

 

GARDNER, Arthur (Arthur Goldberg)

Born: 6/7/1910, Marinette, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Died: 12/19/2014, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.A.

 

Arthur Gardner’s westerns – actor, producer:

Heart of the North – 1938 (Constable Larry Young]

The Dude Goes West – 1948 [assistant producer]

Bad Men of Tombstone – 1949 [assistant producer]

Zane Grey Theater (TV) – 1958 [producer]

The Rifleman (TV) – 1958-1963 [producer]

The Big Valley (TV) – 1965-1967 [producer]

Law of the Plainsman (TV) – 1959-1960 [producer]

Geronimo – 1962 [executive producer]

The Glory Guys – 1965 [producer]

The Scalphunters – 1968 [producer]

Sam Whiskey – 1969 [producer]

The Hunting Party – 1971 [executive producer]

The Honkers – 1972

RIP Giorgio Ardisson

RIP George Ardisson

 

L’Ortica

By Felicia Cagginelli

December 15, 2014

 

Cerveteri: has died at 83 years, the actor George Ardisson. His memory through the last interview

 

The actor Giorgio Ardisson had chosen to live in Cerveteri, known for numerous films and for being in the cinema "Zorro the Fox". The debut film of the blond actor, athletic and good looking thanks to Mauro Bolognini, who chose him for a secondary but important role in “Arrangiatevi!”  (You're on Your Own). His athletic prowess and his boldness to make his characters real made him ideal for adventure films and so called peplum-movies, for Spaghetti westerns and, especially, for the cult police/crime films exploiting the reckless adventures of secret agents like James Bond / 007, much in vogue in the early 1960s. George Ardisson, was born in Rocca, Canavese, Turin, Italy 1931 and died at his home in Cerveteri on December 11th.

 

 

ARDISSON, Giogio

Born: 12/13/1931, Rocca, Canavese, Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Died: 12/11/2014, Cerveteri, Rome, Lazio Italy

 

Giorgio Ardisson’s westerns – actor:

Massacre at Grande Canyon - 1963 (Tully/Rudy Dancer)

God May Forgive You, Not Me - 1968 (Cjamango McDonald)

A Man Called Amen - 1968 (Amen/Johnny)

Zorro the Fox - 1968 (Riccardo de Villaria/Don Diego/Zorro)

Chapaqua’s Gold - 1970 (Jack ‘Doc’ Harrison)

Django Defies Sartana - 1970 (Sartana)

RIP Loren Ewing

RIP Loren Ewing

 

Valley Daily Bulletin

December 18, 2014

 

William Russell Ewing, 77, passed away peacefully on December 2, 2014. He was born in Aberdeen, North Dakota to Loren and Leona Ewing on October 14, 1937. The family relocated to Southern California where Mr. Ewing was a 20th Century Fox Studio security guard. While spending time at the studios, William developed a strong interest in acting. He adopted the stage name of Loren Russell Ewing and joined the Screen Actors Guild. Loren was involved in numerous television series including Rawhide, Batman, Black Sheep Squadron and Chips. Movie roles included the Bermuda Triange and Across the Great Divide. While acting in a western film production in the 1970's he incurred a severe head injury which eventually ended his acting career. He moved to Upland where he met Bobbie Ruth Jordan and enjoyed a loving relationship for 40 years. He is survived by his companion, Bobbie, family and friends in Southern California. Loren is interred at Pomona Valley Memorial Park.

 

 

EWING, Loren (William Russell Ewing)

Born: 10/14/1937, Aberdeen, North Dakota, U.S.A.

Died: 12/2/2014, Pomona, California, U.S.A.

 

Loren Ewing’s westerns – actor:

Rawhide (TV) – 196?

Across the Great Divide – 1976 (Club)

The Oregon Trail (TV) – 1976 (Slim)

RIP Booth Colman

RIP Booth Colman

Los Angeles Times

By Staff

December 20, 2014

 

March 8, 1923 - December 15, 2014 Booth Colman, age 91, passed away in his sleep at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He was born in Portland, OR on March 08, 1923 to Sol and Sona Cohn. Booth is survived by his brother, Howard Cohn (Portland, OR) and has a predeceased sister, Sharlene Bender (Bellevue, WA). Booth is also survived by two nieces; Shellie Bender Lavaris (Bellevue, WA) and Susan Cohn Savage (Portland, OR), and two nephews; Scott Bender (Seattle, WA) and Stephen Bender (Bellevue, WA), as well as six great-grand nephews and a niece. Booth attended both the Universities of Washington and Michigan. He was a character actor whose early start was in radio. Booth was known for his many roles in television, stage, and movies; although, he was best known for his roles as Dr. Zaius in "The Planet of the Apes" TV series, and the recurring role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the stage adaptation of "A Christmas Carol." Booth was a humble man who possessed great wit and charm and was loved by the actors he shared the stage and screen with. Booth was a scholar who was well-versed in both history and early religions and had mastered at least five languages. Booth will be sorely missed by all who knew or came in contact with him. In lieu of flowers, the family requests consideration of a donation to Actors Fund of America, National Federation for the Blind, or United Jewish Appeal.

 

 

COLMAN, Booth

Born: 3/8/1923, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.

Died: 12/15/2014, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Booth Colman’s westerns – actor:

The Big Sky – 1952 (Pascal)

The Adventures of Jim Bowie (TV) – 1956 (Lantanac, Brissac, Jacques)

Broken Arrow (TV) – 1956, 1958 (Wilkins, Spruance)

The Gray Ghost (TV) – 1957 (Grady)

The Californians (TV) – 1959 (Ralph Keel)

Yancy Derringer (TV) – 1959 (Henry Duval)

Zorro (TV) – 1959 (Pineda)

The Comancheros – 1961 (hotel clerk)

The Rifleman (TV) – 1961 (Jeremiah)

Death Valley Days (TV) – 1961, 1962 (defense attorney, Dr. Frank Shelton)

Cheyenne (TV) – 1962 (Colonel Travers)

Have Gun – Will Travel (TV) – 1962 (Tyler)

Bonanza (TV) – 1962, 1964, 1966 (Henry P. Quince, Flint Durfee, Reverend Parley)

Temple Houston (TV) - 1963

Gunsmoke (TV) – 1963, 1972 (Gant, Rand)

Arizona Raiders – 1965 (Ohio Gazette editor)

The Wild Wild West (TV) – 1965 (Ambassador Xavier Perkins)

Daniel Boone (TV) – 1965, 1967, 1969 (High Private A. Slimpsey, Goverenor Patrick Henry,

Whitmore)

Iron Horse (TV) – 1967 (land investor)

The Virginian (TV) – 1970 (Jeff Turner, Mr. Compton)

Scandalous John – 1971 (Governor Murray)

Alias Smith and Jones (TV) – 1971 (Carlton)

Kung Fu (TV) – 1973 (sentinel)

Barbary Coast (TV) – 1975 (Dr. Mattwick)

How the West Was Won (TV) – 1979 (Kingsley)

RIP Virna Lisi

Italian Hollywood star Virna Lisi dies at 78

 

The Local

December 18, 2014

 

Italian actress Virna Lisi, who played opposite Hollywood stars including Frank Sinatra in the 1960s and later established herself an acclaimed character actress, has died at the age of 78.

 

Italian media quoted her son as saying that Lisi had passed away peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday, a month after being diagnosed with an incurable illness.

 

Born in Ancona in 1936, she was an established cinema and theatre actress before Hollywood producers looking for a new Marilyn Monroe came calling in the mid-1960s.

 

With Jack Lemmon she made How to Murder Your Wife in 1965 and followed up by starring alongside Tony Curtis in Not with my Wife, You Don't, and with Sinatra in Assault on a Queen the following year.

 

Reluctant to be restricted to love-interest roles based on her looks, she turned down the sexy part taken by Jane Fonda in Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968) and moved back to Europe after only three years of a seven-year contract with Paramount studios.

 

While in Hollywood, she maintained a parallel career in European cinema, notably playing a lead role in The Birds, the Bees and the Italians, which shared the top prize, the Palme d'Or, at the Cannes film festival in 1966.

 

After taking a break from acting in the early 1970s, Lisi successfully reinvented herself as a character actress with a broad range. Her portrayal of Catherine de' Medici in La Reine Margot (1994) saw her pick up both a French Cesar and the best actress award at Cannes.

 

She also worked extensively in television and made the last of her nearly 80 films, Il Piu Bel Giorno Della Mia Vita, in 2002.

 

She is survived by her son Corrado Pesci and three grandchildren. Her husband of 53 years, the architect Franco Pesci, died in 2013.

 

LISI, Verna (Virna Pieralisi)

Born: 11/8/1936, Jesi, Ancona, Marche, Italy

Died: 12/18/2014, Rome, Lazio, Italy

 

Virna Lisi’s westerns – actress:

White Fang - 1973 (Sister Evangelina)

Challenge to White Fang - 1974 (Sister Evangelina)

RIP Stu Erwin, Jr.

RIP Stu Erwin, Jr.

 

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

12/17/2014

 

Stu Erwin, a former drama development executive at Grant Tinker’s MTM Enterprises, died Nov. 22 at his home in Solana Beach, Calif., after a brief illness, his wife said. He was 82.

 

At MTM, a production company that had been known for hit comedies (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda), Erwin was instrumental in getting such noteworthy dramas as Hill Street Blues, Remington Steele, St. Elsewhere, Lou Grant and The White Shadow on the air.

 

He later worked as creative director for Tinker’s GTG Entertainment (Grant Tinker/Gannett), the home of Baywatch.

 

Earlier, Erwin supervised such network series as Marcus Welby, M.D. and McCloud as an executive at Universal Studios.

 

Erwin, who attended Beverly Hills High School and Brown University, began his career in show business as an associate producer on The Ed Sullivan Show, then ran the advertising division at Ralston Purina in St. Louis.

 

He was the son of actors Stuart Erwin and June Collyer, the real-life husband and wife who starred on the 1950-55 ABC comedy show Trouble With Father, later retitled The Stu Erwin Show. Erwin also starred as Joe Palooka in a 1934 film and was nominated for an Oscar for playing a hillbilly quarterback in Pigskin Parade (1936).

 

Survivors include his wife Diane, five children and their spouses and six grandchildren.

 

ERWIN, Jr., Stuart

Born: 9/15/1932, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Died: 11/22/2014, Solana Beach, California, U.S.A.

 

Stuart Erwin, Jrs. western - executive producer:

The Busters (TV) - 1975

RIP Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor, director of ‘Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat,’ dies at 70

 

Reuters

By: Lisa Schulz

December 15, 2014

 

LOS ANGELES — Robert “Bob” Taylor, an award-winning animator, producer and director best-known for animated TV series, including “Talespin,” and animated films, such as “The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat,” died Dec. 11 in Woodland Hills of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 70.

 

Born in Boston, Taylor began his career in animation in 1966 at Terrytoons in New York with Ralph Bakshi. He worked on Bakshi’s X-rated animated feature “Fritz the Cat,” and in 1974 directed sequel “The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat,” which played in competition in Cannes. He also worked with Bakshi as an animator on “Heavy Traffic,” “Coonskin” and “Wizards.”

 

Taylor went on to direct the animated film “Heidi’s Song” in 1982 and animated TV series, including Emmy award-winning “TaleSpin,” “Goof Troop,” “The Flintstone Kids” and “Challenge of the GoBots.” Though he was uncredited, it was well-known that Taylor was the co-director of Hanna-Barbera’s “Rock Odyssey,” which traced American history through a talking jukebox and was shelved for its graphic content.

 

After retirement, Taylor became an accomplished jazz guitarist. His son, Scott, followed his musical path as a composer for TV and film and lives in Joshua Tree, California.

 

Taylor is survived by five children, including his son and three grandchildren.

 

A memorial service will be held Saturday, Dec. 20 at 10 a.m. at the Oakwood Cemetery chapel in Chatsworth, California.

 

 

TAYLOR, Robert

Born: 1944m Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Died: 12/11/2014, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.A.

 

Robert Taylor’s western – animator:

The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound (TV) - 1988

RIP Mary Arden

RIP Mary Arden

 

New York Times

By Staff

December 15, 2014

 

Mary Dawne Arden, a former American actress and model, who worked in both Hollywood and Italy, died Saturday, December 13, 2014, at Calvary Hospital in Brooklyn. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and moved to NYC at the age of 12 to attend art school.

 

Mary Dawne had a successful modeling career in Europe and appeared in numerous Italian movies during the 1960s.

 

Arden modeled for the runway shows and top fashion magazine photographers for some of the world's greatest couture designers including Valentino, Yves St.Laurent, Christian Dior, Lanvin, and Karl Lagerfeld. She worked for and was on the cover of fashion magazines, including Italian Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Bellezza, L'Art et la Mode, Novita, Cosi, and Madam.

 

Her best known film role is Peggy Peyton in Blood and Black Lace, directed by Mario Bava. She also appeared as an uncredited cameo in Juliet of the Spirits. While in Italy, Mary Dawne also appeared in photo novels, including Sadistik. Arden has been credited for over a dozen roles in foreign and domestic films.

 

Arden spent four years in the Caribbean and Latin America as a marketing director and general manager for Helena Rubinstein International. Arden hosted and created fashion segments for the Channel 11 Noon News in Los Angeles California. She lived in Mexico City, where she taught at the modeling, self-improvement, and acting school that she created. With respected news anchor, Juan Lopez Moctezuma, she co-hosted television documentaries for Mexican Public Television and created special events for top designers for the leading department store El Palaccio de Hierro.

 

When Mary Dawne returned to NYC, she began her own marketing and body language consulting firm, Arden Associates. The firm has developed marketing, public relations, training and new product introductions for many fashion, cosmetic and consumer-product companies such as Elizabeth Arden, Clairol, Givenchy, Ralph Lauren, Tiffany and Co., May Co. California, Lanvin, Estee Lauder, and Lancome.

 

Mary Dawne appeared as a Communications Expert for the NBC Today Show, Weekend Edition as well as FOX 5 and CBS. Arden was on the faculty of New York University's Department of Culture and Communication, where she taught cross-cultural and business communication. She was also a member of the Commission for the Arts and Humanities in Education at NYU.

 

Arden is predeceased by her parents and former husband, Arthur A. Hansl. She is survived by her cousins Allan Ohaver, his wife Glenna and their children Dawn and Aaron, and Mike, his wife and their children Tamara and Kelly.

 

In memorial to Mary Dawne, please consider a donation to the Jarvie Commonweal Service. Jarvie partnered with Mary Dawne with extraordinary grace and compassion throughout her illness..

 

 

ARDEN, Mary (Mary Dawne Arden)

Born: 7/30/1933, St. Louis Missouri, U.S.A.

Died: 12/13/2014, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.

 

Mary Arden’s western – actress:

They Called Him Marcado - 1971

RIP Phil Stern

Phil Stern dies at 95; photographer to the stars

 

Los Angeles Times

By Dennis McLellan and Steve Chawkins

December 14, 2014

Phil Stern, a renowned photographer for Life, Look and other magazines who honed his skills as a World War II combat photographer but was best known for capturing Hollywood icons and jazz legends in unguarded moments, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 95.

 

His death was confirmed by Geoff Katz, his New York-based licensing representative. Stern, who reportedly suffered from emphysema and congestive heart failure, lived at the Veterans Home of California.

 

Among Stern's memorable Hollywood images during the heyday of his six-decade career:

 

— Marlon Brando, in jeans and black-leather jacket, striding across the outdoor set of "The Wild One."

 

— A bewildered-looking Marilyn Monroe with an impassive Jack Benny backstage at a benefit at the Shrine Auditorium.

 

— A young Sammy Davis Jr. seemingly defying gravity as he dances on a Hollywood Boulevard rooftop, the sky serving as a backdrop.

 

— A puffy-faced Judy Garland fussing with her hair during the filming of "A Star Is Born."

 

— John Wayne conferring with a cigar-chomping John Ford on the set of Wayne's "The Alamo."

 

Stern, who began shooting for Life in 1941, told the magazine in a 1993 interview that despite his access to Hollywood's elite, he was rarely a confidante of the stars he photographed.

 

"I was like the plumber who comes to fix your toilet, then you don't see him again," he maintained. Besides, he said, “I didn't care to know them, usually — so many of them were frankly a pain."

 

In the end, the blunt, sometimes gruff photographer viewed himself simply as a "hired paparazzo."

 

Sad to see his passing. Ironic to know Kodak pioneered the free-camera-pay-film plan that the shaving companies, and then printing companies adopted to a level.

 

For several decades, Stern also shot album covers for the Verve, Pablo and Reprise record labels; he and his camera were fixtures at recording sessions with Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and other jazz greats. In a recent conversation with The Times, Stern said his interest in photography emerged when he was 12 and his mother got him a free camera in a Kodak promotional giveaway.

 

“They offered any 12-year-old child a free, brand-new Kodak camera,” he recalled. “Those were box cameras. Of course, Eastman Kodak had an agenda here. They gave away free cameras, God knows how many, thousands of them, and the only place you could get film at that time was from Eastman Kodak. The sales of films, of course, skyrocketed after giving away these cameras.”

 

 

STERN, Phil

Born: 9/3/1919, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Died: 12/13/2014, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Phil Stern’s westerns – still photographer:

El Dorado – 1966

Take a Hard Ride – 1975

RIP Sergio Fiorentini

RIP Sergio Fiorentini 2

Coming Soon 

By Daniela Catelli

December 12, 2014

 

Those who grew up in the golden age of dubbing, with the great voices whose absence

today makes us prefer the films in their original language, surely remember the Mel Brooks Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles and Gene Hackman in films such as Superman, The Birdcage or the jury.

 

To give them their particular character actor's the voice was Sergio Fiorentini, who died in Rome on December 10 after a long illness.

 

He is most associated primarily with Gene Hackman, who he dubbed in 23 films. Many actors and the characters to which he gave their voice, is an impressive list, from Bill Cosby and Max Von Sydow to British television comedian Benny Hill, and many movies and TV series with Bud Spencer.

 

Fiorentini had starred as an actor in the cinema, even in such recent movies such as Io, loro e Lara di Carlo Verdone , Tutti al mare, Viva l'Italia e Una famiglia perfetta. Nel giugno di quest'anno. In June this year he completed the filming of a movie still unreleased, Il mio giorno by Stephen Usardi.

 

On TV he voiced such series as La piovra 7 , Il maresciallo Rocca (dove era il Brigadiere Cacciapuoti) e Distretto di Polizia (il padre di Mauro, il personaggio di Ricky Memphis), of the most famous.

 

His was a voice that we liked a lot and that there will no longer be able to hear.

 

 

FIORENTINI, Sergio

Born: 7/29/1934, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died: 12/11/2014, Rome, Lazio, Italy

 

Sergio Fiorentini's westerns - voice actor:

Sting of the West – 1972 [Italian voice of Morris]

Three Musketeers of the West – 1973 [Italian voice of Chris Huerta]

Trinity, the Clown, the Guitar – 1974 [Italian voice of Mimmo Poli

Take a Hard Ride – 1975 [Italian voice of Harry Carey, Jr.]

California – 1977 [Italian voice of unknown character]

Silver Saddle – 1977 [Italian voice of Philippe Hersent]

Tex and the Lord of the Deep – 1985 [Italian voice of Hugo Blanco]

They Call Me Renegade – 1987 [Italian voice of Donal Hodson]

Troublemakers – 1994 [Italian voice of Bud Spencer]