Else Blangsted, a Holocaust survivor who went on to a 35-year career as a film music editor who worked with some of the industry’s most successful directors, producers and composers – Robert Redford, Steven Spielberg, Quincy Jones, Dave Grusin, Sydney Pollack, among others – died Friday, May 1, from natural causes at her home in Los Angeles. […]
Mort Fallick, a picture editor with credits including Love at First Bite and TV’s Moonlighting, has died. He was 86. Fallick died Wednesday of kidney failure at the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, his daughter, Allison Mupas, announced. In the 1960s, Fallick launched CineMetric, a fully integrated production and […]
Brian Dennehy, the regular-guy actor whose bulldog build, good-guy demeanor and no-nonsense approach meshed in an array of memorable roles for film, television and the theater, has died. He was 81. Dennehy died Wednesday night of natural causes in New Haven, Connecticut. “It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away […]
Longtime TV and film editor Susan Kesler died Thursday, March 19, following a brief battle with ovarian peritoneal cancer. She was 60. Kesler started out in the business as an apprentice editor on The Love Boat and Dynasty, two of the most popular TV shows in the late 1980s. Her career blossomed to include working as an assistant editor on such TV series as The X-Files, Crossing Jordan, Heroes, Alphas, Falling Skies […]
Max von Sydow, the tall, blond Swedish actor who cut a striking figure in American movies but was most identified with the signature work of a fellow Swede, the director Ingmar Bergman, died on Sunday. He was 90. His wife, Catherine von Sydow, confirmed the death in an emailed statement. No cause was given. […]
Kirk Douglas, the intense, muscular actor with the dimpled chin who starred in Spartacus, Lust for Life and dozens of other films, helped fatally weaken the blacklist against suspected Communists and reigned for decades as a Hollywood maverick and patriarch, died Wednesday, his family said. If you asked Kirk Douglas who broke the Blacklist, his answer was always emphatic. His decision, in 1960, to include Dalton Trumbo’s name on the credits of […]
Buck Henry, the legendary screenwriter behind The Graduate and What’s Up, Doc? who also co-created Get Smart; Henry scored a pair of Oscar nominations — one for his and Calder Willingham’s adapted screenplay for The Graduate and another for directing with Warren Beatty the 1978 movie Heaven Can Wait. He also won a writing Emmy in 1967 for […]
Amid the chaos that was 2019, show business lost some major players. There were icons of the big screen (Peter Fonda, Doris Day) and TV (Valerie Harper, Rip Torn, Tim Conway), along with groundbreaking directors (John Singleton, Stanley Donen […]
Tim Boyle, a veteran recording engineer and scoring mixer, died December 22 of liver cancer in Sherman Oaks, his daughter Briget Boyle said. He was 71. Boyle worked with such entertainers as Quincy Jones, the Rolling Stones, Peter […]
Vojtech Jasny, an award-winning director from Czechoslovakia who made more than 50 films, has died. He was 93. Jasny passed away Friday, according to The Associated Press. The director was best known for his 1968 film, All My Good […]
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