Ben Gazzara (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012) was an American film, stage, and Emmy Award winning television actor and director.
Ben Gazzara had an extensive career but a lot of men remember him as Brad Wesley (the bad guy) from Roadhouse (Starring Patrick Swayze).
In the 1950s, Gazzara starred in various Broadway productions, most notably Tennessee Williams' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, directed by Elia Kazan. He was nominated three times for the Tony Award. Gazzara had a long and varied acting career, with spells as an accomplished director, mostly in television. He directed Columbo episodes "A Friend in Deed" and "Troubled Waters".
Gazzara appeared in thirty-eight films—many for TV—in the 1990s. He worked with a number of renowned directors, such as the Coen brothers (The Big Lebowski), Spike Lee (Summer of Sam), David Mamet (The Spanish Prisoner), Walter Hugo Khouri (Forever), Todd Solondz (Happiness), John Turturro (Illuminata), and John McTiernan (The Thomas Crown Affair).
Ben Gazzara cause of death Ben Gazzara was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1999. On February 3, 2012, he died of pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York. Ben Gazzara 81 years old at the time of his death
Part 1 - Opening Night - Ben Gazzara & Gena Rowlands
Elaine Stewart (May 31, 1929 – June 27, 2011) was an American actress and model.
Stewart made her debut by winning Miss See in See Magazine in 1952, with measurements 34-25-36. She was in many magazines such as Playboy and Photoplay.
She had a supporting role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), as Laila. She appeared in other films, such as Brigadoon, Night Passage and The Adventures of Hajji Baba.
She is also known as the co-hostess on two 1970s game shows, Gambit with Wink Martindale and the nighttime edition of High Rollers with Alex Trebek, both produced by her husband.
Elaine Stewart cause of death Elaine Stewart died after a long illness. Elaine Stewart was 81 years old at the time of her death
Gambit (CBS) with Wink Martindale & Elaine Stewart
Jon D'Agostino (John P. D'Agostino Sr.) (June 13, 1929 – November 28, 2010) was an Italian-American comic-book artist best known for his Archie Comics work. As well, under the pseudonym Johnny Dee, he was the letterer for the lead story in the Marvel Comics landmark The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (March 1963), as well as other seminal Marvel comics.
D'Agostino is not the French comics artist Tony D'Agostino, a.k.a. Tony Dagos, whose early work was signed "D'Agostino". He is also not the concurrent early-Marvel letter John Duffy a.k.a. John Duffi, although he is listed as such in some databases.
Death of Jon D'Agostino Jon D'Agostino died of bone cancer in Ansonia, Conn. Jon D'Agostino was 81 years old at the time of his death
Jerrold Lewis "Jerry" Bock (November 23, 1928 – November 3, 2010) was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical Fiorello! and the Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist for the 1965 musical Fiddler on the Roof with Harnick.
Bock spoke at the funeral of 98-year-old Fiddler playwright Joseph Stein just 10 days before his own death.
Death of Jerry Bock Jerry Bock died of heart failure. Jerry Bock was 81 years old at the time of his death
Jacqueline Ruth "Ilene" Woods (May 5, 1929 – July 1, 2010) was an American singer and actress who voiced Cinderella in the 1950 classic film.
Woods sang for President Roosevelt at his home in Hyde Park. She also sang at the White House for President Truman, after singing for the soldiers and sailors of war.
In 2003, she was awarded a Disney Legends award for her voicework on the film Cinderella. One of her last film appearances was in Touched By An Angel as night nurse Cassie.
Death of Ilene Woods Woods died on July 1, 2010, at age 81, from causes related to Alzheimer's disease at a nursing home in Canoga Park. She did not recognize a lot of what was going on around her, but the nurses found that she was most comforted by "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes," so they played it for her as often as possible. Her husband, Ed Shaughnessy, told the Los Angeles Times. In addition to her husband of 47 years, she was survived by their son, a daughter from her first marriage, and three grandchildren.
Jimmy Ray Dean (August 10, 1928 - June 13, 2010) was an American country music singer, television host, actor, and businessman. Although he may be best known today as the creator of the Jimmy Dean Sausage brand, he first rose to fame for his 1961 country crossover hit "Big Bad John"; and became a national television personality in the 1960s. His acting career included a supporting role in the 1971 James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever. He lived near Richmond, Virginia and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010.
In 1969, Dean went into the sausage business, starting the Jimmy Dean Meat Co. He sold the company to Sara Lee Corp. in 1984.
Death of Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean died on June 13, 2010, of natural causes at his Henrico, Virginia home at the age of 81. He was survived by his wife Donna.
Pernell Elvin Roberts (May 18, 1928 – January 24, 2010) was an American television actor and singer. He was best known for his roles as Ben Cartwright's eldest son, Adam Cartwright, on the western series Bonanza (a role he played from 1959 to 1965), and as chief surgeon, Dr. John MacIntyre, the title character on Trapper John, M.D. (1979-1986).
Born: Pernell Elvin Roberts Waycross, Georgia, U.S. Died: Malibu, California, U.S.
He came to prominence playing Ben Cartwright's urbane eldest son, Adam, in the Western television series Bonanza. Despite the show’s success, he left after the sixth season in 1965 due to disagreements with the writers and a desire to return to legitimate theatre.
He was known for his activism, which included participation in the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, and pressuring NBC to refrain from hiring whites to portray minority characters.
Death of Pernel Roberts Roberts died of cancer at his home in Malibu, California on January 24, 2010, aged 81
Sam Butera (August 17, 1927 – June 3, 2009) was a tenor saxophone player best noted for his collaborations with Louis Prima and Keely Smith. Butera is frequently regarded as a crossover artist who performed with equal ease in both R & B and the post-big band pop style of jazz that permeated the early Vegas nightclub scene
Death of Sam Butera Sam Butera died in Las Vegas at age 81. Sam Butera had Alzheimer's Disease.
Danny La Rue, OBE (July 26, 1927 - May 31, 2009) was an Irish-born British entertainer known for his singing and drag impersonations.
Accolades He was made an OBE in the 2002 Queen's Birthday Honours List. Other accolades included Royal Variety Performance appearances in 1969, 1972 and 1978, Variety Club of Great Britain Showbiz Personality of the Year (1969), Theatre Personality of the Year (1970), Entertainer of the Decade (1979) and the Brinsworth Award from the EABF for his outstanding contribution to the entertainment profession and the community.
Death of Danny La Rue La Rue suffered a mild stroke in January 2006 and all of his planned performances were cancelled. He had several subsequent strokes. He died at his home shortly before midnight on 31 May 2009 after suffering from prostate cancer. His friend Annie Galbraith was with him at their home in Kent at the time of death
Personal life La Rue would often perform parts of his show in men's clothes, and was often seen out of costume on television. In later life, he was more candid about his private life, including his homosexuality. La Rue lived for many years with his partner and manager, Jack Hanson, until Hanson's death in Australia in 1985, following a stroke.
Howard Zieff (October 21, 1927 Los Angeles - February 22, 2009 Los Angeles) was an American director, television commercial director, and advertising photographer.
Zieff's films include The Main Event (1979), Private Benjamin (1980), Unfaithfully Yours (1984), The Dream Team (1989), My Girl (1991) and My Girl 2 (1994).
Zieff retired from directing after My Girl 2 was released as he became increasingly debilitated by Parkinson's disease.
Death of Howard Zieff Zieff passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at 8:10am on Sunday, February 22, his wife (renowned retired motion picture literary agent) Ronda Gomez-Quinones at his side.
Zieff grew up in Boyle Heights. He studied art for one year at Los Angeles City College, then dropped out in 1946 to join the United States Navy. He learned photography at the Naval Photography School in Pensacola, Florida and then, after his discharge, at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He became a commercial photographer in New York City in the 1950s, soon earning a reputation as one one of the city's best-known advertising photographers of the 1960s. His campaigns included "You Don't Have To Be Jewish" for Levy's rye bread, "Mamma Mia, that's a spicy meatball" for Alka-Seltzer, and ads for the New York Daily News, Polaroid, and Volkswagen.
Olga San Juan (March 16, 1927 - January 3, 2009) was a Brooklyn-born dancer and comedian of Puerto Rican extraction who was active in films primarily in the 1940s. She was dubbed the "Puerto Rican Pepperpot" for singing and dancing roles alongside Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, and others. In 1951, she starred on Broadway in the Lerner & Loewe musical, Paint Your Wagon.
She was married to actor Edmond O'Brien in 1948, divorcing him in 1976, with whom she had three children, including television producer Bridget O'Brien and Maria O'Brien and Brendan O'Brien, both of whom became actors.
She died at the age of 81 at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California of kidney failure stemming from a long-term illness.
Olga San Juan with Bing Crosby - I'll See You In Cuba (Blue Skies)
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Filmography Caribbean Romance (1943) Rainbow Island (1944) Bombalera (1945) Out of This World (1945) Duffy's Tavern (1945) Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945) The Little Witch (1945) Blue Skies (1946) Cross My Heart (1946) Variety Girl (1947) Are You With It? (1948) One Touch of Venus (1948) The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948) The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949) The Barefoot Contessa (1954) The 3rd Voice (1960)
Merry Christmas Singer of "Santa Baby" Eartha Kitt dies on Christmas Day 2008
Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American actress, singer, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her role as Catwoman in the 1960s TV series Batman, and for her 1953 Christmas song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world".
Death of Eartha Kitt Eartha Kitt died of colon cancer on Christmas Day, December 25, 2008. Ironically as she is mostly known for her Christmas hit Santa Baby.
Career Kitt started her career as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company and made her film debut with them in Casbah (1948). A talented singer with a distinctive voice, her hits include "Let's Do It", "Champagne Tatse", "C'est si bon", "Just an Old Fashioned Girl", "Monotonous", "Je cherche un homme", "Love for Sale", "I'd Rather Be Burned as a Witch", "Uska Dara", "Mink, Schmink", "Under the Bridges of Paris", and her most recognizable hit, "Santa Baby". Kitt's unique style was enhanced as she became fluent in the French language during her years performing in Europe. She had some skill in other languages too, which she demonstrates with finesse in many of the live recordings of her cabaret performances
Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
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Awards and nominations
Awards
1960 Hollywood Walk of Fame - 6656 Hollywood Boulevard.
2001 Annie Award for Best Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Featured Film - The Emperor's New Groove
2007 Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production - The Emperor's New School
2007 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program - The Emperor's New School
2008 Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production - The Emperor's New School
2008 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program - The Emperor's New School
Nominations
1966 Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama - I Spy
1978 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical - Timbuktu!
1996 Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Living Single
2000 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical - The Wild Party
2000 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical - The Wild Party
Filmography Casbah (1948) New Faces (1954) The Mark of the Hawk (1958) St. Louis Blues (1958) Anna Lucasta (1959) Saint of Devil's Island (1961) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965) (voice) Synanon (1965) All About People (1967) (short subject) (narrator) Up the Chastity Belt (1971) Friday Foster (1975) All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story (1983) The Serpent Warriors (1985) The Pink Chiquitas (1987) (voice) Dragonard (1987) Master of Dragonard Hill (1989) Erik the Viking (1989) Living Doll (1990) Ernest Scared Stupid (1991) Boomerang (1992) Fatal Instinct (1993) Unzipped (1995) Harriet the Spy (1996) Ill Gotten Gains (1997) I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998) The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998) (voice) The Emperor's New Groove (2000) (voice of Yzma) The Making and Meaning of We Are Family (2002) The Sweatbox (2002) (documentary) Anything But Love (2002) Holes (2003) On the One (2005) Preaching to the Choir (2005) Kronk's New Groove (2005) (voice of Yzma) And Then Came Love (2007)
Edie Adams (April 16, 1927 - October 15, 2008) was an American singer, Broadway, television and film actress and comedienne.
Edie Adams made sporadic appearances through the decades on television, including on Fantasy Island The Love Boat, Murder, She Wrote and Designing Women.
Death of Edie Adams Edie Adams died of cancer and pneumonia in Los Angeles, where she resided, aged 81
Husband Ernie Kovacs Edie Adams was married to Husband Ernie Kovacs for 8 years (1954 - 1962). Ernie Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962) was an American comedian whose uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his early death in an automobile accident. Such iconoclastic shows as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Uncle Floyd Show, Saturday Night Live and even Captain Kangaroo and Sesame Street, and TV hosts such as David Letterman are seen as having made use of Kovacs' influence.
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Adams starred on Broadway in Wonderful Town (1953) opposite Rosalind Russell (winning the Theatre World Award), and as Daisy Mae in Li'l Abner (1956), winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She played the Fairy Godmother in Rodgers and Hammerstein's original 1957 Cinderella broadcast. She played supporting roles in several well-known films in the 1960s, including "Miss Olsen" in The Apartment (1960). In 2003, as one of the last surviving headliners from the all-star movie, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, she joined actors Marvin Kaplan and Sid Caesar at 40th anniversary celebrations of the movie. She was also a favorite nightclub headliner. Adams "both embodied and winked at the stereotypes of fetching chanteuse and sexpot blonde".
Television Ernie in Kovacsland (1951) (canceled after 2 months) The Ernie Kovacs Show (1952–1956) Cinderella (1957) Lucy Meets the Moustache (1960) Take a Good Look (panelist from 1960–1961) Here's Edie (1963–1964) Evil Roy Slade (1972) Cop on the Beat (1975) Superdome (1978) Fast Friends (1979) The Seekers (1979) Make Me an Offer (1980) Portrait of an Escort (1980) A Cry for Love (1980) The Haunting of Harrington House (1981) As the World Turns (cast member in 1982) Shooting Stars (1983) Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (1984) Adventures Beyond Belief (1987) Jake Spanner, Private Eye (1989) Tales of the City (1993) (miniseries)
Filmography Showdown at Ulcer Gulch (1956) The Apartment (1960) Lover Come Back (1961) Call Me Bwana (1963) Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) The Best Man (1964) Made in Paris (1966) The Oscar (1966) The Honey Pot (1967) Up in Smoke (1978) Racquet (1979) The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980) Boxoffice (1982) Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
Harvey Herschel Korman (February 15, 1927 – May 29, 2008), was an American actor. He performed in television and movie productions in the U.S. since 1960. His big break was being a featured performer on The Danny Kaye Show, but he was probably best remembered for his performances on The Carol Burnett Show and in the comedy films of Mel Brooks, most notably Blazing Saddles.
Death of Harvey Korman Harvey Korman died on May 29, 2008 at UCLA Medical Center as the result of complications from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm he had suffered four months previously. Harvey Korman was 81 years old at the time of his death.
Korman was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Ellen (née Blecher) and Cyril Raymond Korman.[1] He was Jewish. He was married to Donna Ehlert (1960–1977) and they had two children together: Chris and Maria Korman. He married Deborah Korman in 1982. They have two daughters together, Kate and Laura Korman.
Career His early television work included voice-over work on Tom and Jerry and as the Great Gazoo on The Flintstones. He did voice work for the live-action movie The Flintstones as well as the animated The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue. He also starred in the short-lived Mel Brooks TV series The Nutt House.
Korman was nominated for six Emmy Awards, and won four (in 1969, 1971 (for Outstanding Achievement by a performer in music or variety), 1972, and 1974). He was also nominated for four Golden Globes, winning in 1975.
Personal life Korman was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Ellen (née Blecher) and Cyril Raymond Korman. He was Jewish. He was married to Donna Ehlert (1960–1977) and they had two children together: Chris and Maria Korman. He married Deborah Korman in 1982. They have two daughters together, Kate and Laura Korman.
Filmography Blazing Saddles (1974) — Hedley Lamarr Huckleberry Finn (1974) — The King of France The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) (deleted scene) Professor Balls High Anxiety (1977) — Dr. Charles Montague The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) — Chef Gormaanda, Krelman, and Toy Video Instructor Americathon (1979) — Monty Rushmore Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) — Captain Blythe First Family (1980) — U.N. Ambassador Spender History of the World, Part I (1981) — Count de Monet Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) — Professor Balls Radioland Murders (1994) Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) — Dr. Jack Seward Together Again: Conway & Korman (2006) (DVD) — in various skits
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