Richard Trumka, a third-generation coal miner who rose to power through the United Mine Workers, had become one of the most powerful labor leaders in the country and a key ally of Democrats in Washington […]
Norman Lloyd, who has died aged 106, had the privilege of working as an actor, director and producer with such towering figures as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir and Charlie Chaplin; they were also his close friends. […]
Joel Bender, who co-wrote and co-directed the 2014 documentary The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh and served as a film editor on The Amazing Race, has died. He was 72. Bender died in his sleep April 24 of natural causes in Los Angeles […]
Retired Sound Editor Kimberly Harris died on May 3 in Albuquerque New Mexico, according to her sister and her niece. She was 66. Harris had over 100 sound editing credits and won an Emmy for her work on 61*. She also won four awards for her work on Hacksaw Ridge. Her family will be holding a private […]
Diane Adler, the pioneering film editor who spent five seasons on The Rockford Files and cut other TV series including Kojak, Spenser: For Hire and Riptide, has died. She was 97. Adler died Thursday in Los Angeles, her family announced. […]
Larry McMurtry, who won an Oscar for penning Brokeback Mountain, earned a nomination for The Last Picture Show and authored books that spawned Emmy winner Lonesome Dove and Best Picture Oscar winner Terms of Endearment […]
When We Were Kings received special jury recognition at Sundance en route to winning the best documentary Oscar and a Spirit Award. The film tells the story of how Muhammad Ali reclaimed the heavyweight title in Kinshasa, Zaire, with […]
Michael Wolf Snyder, the production sound mixer for a number of film titles, including Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland has died by suicide, according to a Facebook post. The post explained Snyder’s death in “the hope that it could help others” […]
Alan Robert Murray, the supervising sound editor and decades-long collaborator with Clint Eastwood who earned Oscars for his work on the director’s American Sniper and Letters to Iwo Jima, died Wednesday, a source told The Hollywood Reporter. […]
Richard Bracken, a four-time Emmy-nominated film editor with credits including Ironside, Columbo, Rich Man, Poor Man and three Wes Craven movies, has died. He was 90. Bracken died Thursday of kidney failure in Chatsworth, California […]
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