CHARLES S. DUBIN - Veteran Television Director

Television director Charles Dubin died in Brentwood, California, on September 5, 2011.  He was 92.  Dubin was born in New York City on February 1, 1919.  He trained with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in the early 1940s, and performed in comedy and musical acts in the Catskills.  He also served as a stage manager on the New York stage, before embarking on a career as a television director in 1950.  He helmed such early television series as "Crime With Father", "Pultzer Prize Playhouse", and "Tales of Tomorrow"(including the episodes "The Dark Angel", "The Crystal Egg", "The Search for the Flying Saucer", and "The Little Black Bag").  Dubin was blacklisted in 1952 after he decline to testify about his political beliefs before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He returned to directing for television later in the decade, and helmed the 1957 film "Mister Rock and Roll", about disc jockey Alan Freed.  He was again the victim of a blacklist while directing the NBC gameshow "Twenty-One" in 1958, which became the center of the quizshow scandals. He again returned to television in the early 1960s, where he continued his long career directing episodes of "The Defenders", "Tarzan", "The New People", "Ghost Story/Circle of Fear", "Kung Fu", "Ellery Queen", "Man From Atlantis", "Tabitha", "Charlie’s Angles", "Hawaii 5-O", "Kojak", and "Supertrain".  His other television credits incled Rogers’ and Hammerstein’ musical version of "Cinderella" (1965) which earned him an Emmy nomination, "Murder Once Removed" (1971), "Death In Space" (1974), "The Tenth Level" (1976), "The Deadly Triangle" (1977), "Roots: The Next Generations" (1979), "Topper" (1979), "The Gathering Part II" (1979), and "Born to the Wind" (1982). He directed the 1976 film "Moving Violation". He was best known for helming over 40 episodes of the popular television series "M*A*S*H" from 1976 to 1983, garnering three Emmy Award nominations, He also directed episodes of "Herbie, The Love Bug", "Small & Frye", "Jennifer Slept Here", "Murder, She Wrote", "Starman", and "Sledge Hammer!".

FRANK WARNER - Oscar-Winning Sound Editor for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

Film sound designer and editor Frank Warner, who earned a special Academy Award for his work on 1977’s "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", died in Sedona, Arizona, on August 31, 2011.  He was 85.  Warner was born in Los Angeles in 1926.  He worked with the Armed Forces Radio in China as a U.S. Marine during World War II.  He began working for CBS Network Radio after the war, and became an editor for film and television in the early 1950s. He worked on the television series "Dragnet" throughout the decade, and was a sound editor for the series "Honey West" and "I Spy" in the 1960s. He was sound editor for numerous films during his career including "Hour of the Gun" (1967), "The Scalphunters" (1968), "Hell in the Pacific" (1968), "They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!" (1970), "Little Big Man" (1970), "Kotch" (1971), "Harold and Maude" (1971), "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (1973), "Mr. Majestyk" (1974), "The Trial of Billy Jack" (1974), "Taxi Driver" (1976), "Murder By Death" (1976), Steven Spielberg’s "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), "Coming Home" (1978), "Goin’ South" (1979), "Being There" (1979), "Raging Bull" (1980), "True Confessions" (1981), "The King of Comedy" (1982), "Barbarosa" (1982), "Rocky III" (1982), "Iceman" (1984), "St. Elmo’s Fire" (1985), "Roxanne" (1987), "Hot to Trot" (1988), and "Everbody’s All-American" (1988).  Warner received the lifetime achievement award from the Motion Picture Sound Editors in 1988, and retired the following year.

COLIN HARVEY - British Sci-Fi Writer

British science fiction writer Colin Harvey died of a stroke on August 15, 2011. He was 50.  Harvey was born in Cornwall, England, on November 11, 1960. His first novel, "Vengeance", was published in 2001, and was followed by "Lightning Days" (2006), "The Silk Palace" (2007), "Blind Faith" (2008), "Winter Song" (2009), and "Damage Time" (2010). His short fiction was collected in the 2009 volume "Displacement".

L.A. BANKS - Novelist Creator of "The Vampire Hunter Legend" series

Novelist Leslie Esdaile Banks, who was best known for "The Vampire Huntress Legend" series of dark fantasy, died of cancer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 2, 2011. She was 51.  Banks was born in Philadelphia on December 11, 1959. She began her career writing columns for local newspapers and magazines. She was penning romance novels from the mid-1990s, with such titles as "Sundance" (2996), "River of Souls" (2001), "Still Waters Run Deep" (2002), "Sisters Got Game" (2004), "Take Me There"  (2006), and "Better Than" (2008).  She also wrote the crime novels "Betrayal of the Trust" (2004), "Blind Trust" (2005), "Shattered Trust" (2006), and "No Trust" (2007). Writing as LA Banks, she began "The Vampire Huntress Legend" series with "Minion" in 2003, and continued with "The Awakening" (2004), "The Hunted" (2004), "The Bitten" (2005), "The Forbidden" (2005), "The Damned" (2006), "The Forsaken" (2006), "The Wicked" (2007), "The Cursed" (2007), "The Darkness" (2008), "The Shadows" (2008), and "The Thirteenth" (2009). The early novels were optioned for a film version, and were adapted by Dynamite for a comic book series. She also wrote the "Crimson Moon" series, which included the novels "Bad Blood" (2008), "Bite the Bullet" (2008), "Undead on Arrival" (2009), "Cursed to Death" (2009), "Never Cry Werewolf" (2010), and "Left for Undead" (2010), and the "Dark Avengers" ebooks, "Finders Keepers" (2008) and "Loser's Weepers" (2008).



EVE BRENT - Starred as Jane to Gordon Scott's Tarzan in the 1950s

Actress Eve Brent, who starred as Jane in two Tarzan films in the 1950s, died in a Sun Valley, California, hospital on August 27, 2011.  She was 82.  She was born Jean Ann Ewers in Houston, Texas, in 1930. She began her career in radio and local television, before moving to Hollywood in the early 1950s. She was originally billed as Lean Lewis, and appeared in such films as "Female Jungle" (1955), "The Storm Rider" (1957), "The Garment Jungle" (1957), "Journey to Freedon" (1957), "Gun Girls" (1957), the cult classic "The Bride and the Beast" (1958) with a script by Ed Wood, and "The Sad Horse" (1959). She starred as Jane to Gordon Scott’s Tarzan in the films "Tarzan’s Fight For Life" and "Tarzan and the Trappers" in 1958.  The latter was three episodes of a proposed Tarzan television series edited together for a film release.  She was also a prolific television performer from the mid-1950s appearing in episodes of "Death Valley Days", "Annie Oakley", "Adventures of Superman", Boris Karloff’s "The Veil", "The Case of the Dangerous Robin", "Checkmate", "Burke’s Law", "Emergency!", "Finder of Lost Loves", "Tales from the Crypt", "Twin Peaks", "Weird Science", "Roswell", and "JAG".  She continued to appeare often in films throughout her career, with roles in "Cage of Evil" (1960), "Mara of the Wilderness" (1965), "Coogan’s Bluff" (1968), "Airport" (1970), "The Barefoot Executive" (1971), "The Todd Killings" (1971), "The White Buffalo" (1977), "Fade to Black" (1980) as Aunt Stella, "BrianWaves" (1983), "Going Berserk" (1983), "Date with an Angel" (1987), "The Green Mile" (1999), "Garfield" (2004), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008), and "Hit List" (2011). She was married to Michael Ashe, her fifth husband, from the early 1980s until his death in 2008, and was frequently billed as Eve Brent Ashe later in her career.

MARC HANNIBAL - Actor and singer

Actor and singer Marc Hannibal died in Salem, Oregon, on July 23, 2011.  He was 80.  He was born Frank Charles Hannibal, Jr. in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1931.  He joined the Harlem Globetrotters in 1954, and toured with them for two years.  He began performing as a singer in the 1960s, recording two albums and headlining nightclubs across the country.  He also guest starred in episodes of such television series as "Ironside", "The Name of the Game", "Mission: Impossible", "Columbo", "McMillan & Wife", "McCloud", "Switch", and "Kojak".  He appeared in the tele-films "The Brotherhood of the Bell" (1970), "A Death of Innocents" (1971), and "The Strangers in 7A" (1972). Hannibal was featured in several films during his career including "The Grasshopper" (1969), "Airport" (1970), "The Man From O.R.G.Y." (1970), "Fools" (1970), "Three Fantastic Supermen" (aka "Super Stooges vs. The Wonder Women") (1975) as Moog, the African Superhero, and "Deliver Us From Evil" (1977).

　

YEKATERINA GOLUBEVA - Russo-French Actress

Russian actress Yekaterina Golubeva died in Paris, France, on August 14, 2011.  She was 44.  Golubeva was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, on October 9, 1966.  She began her film career in the mid-1980s, and was originally billed as Katia Golubeva.  She was married to Lithuanian film director Sharunas Bartas, who directed her in "Three Days" (1991) and "Few of Us" (1996).  She moved to Paris after her divorce from Bartas in the 1990s, where she appeared in Claire Denis' "I Can't Sleep" (1994), Leos Carax's "Pola X' (1999) with Guillaume Depardieu, "Twentynine Palms" (2002), and "The Intruder" (2004).