ROBERT CARTLAND - British Actor in Doctor Who in the 1960s

British character actor Robert Cartland died on July 14, 2011. He was 89.  He was born in Hackney, England, in 1922. He began his career on stage in the late 1940s, and was featured in the 1948 film "A Gunman Has Escaped. He was best known for his roles on television in such episodes as "Dead Giveaway", "Maigret", "Legend of Death", "Doomwatch", "The Adventurer", "Whodunnit?", "Great Mysteries", "Spy Trap", and "Convington Cross".  Cartland was the voice of Rill in the 1965 William Hartnell "Doctor Who" serial "Galaxy 4", and was Malpha, a Dalek ally, in the subsequent one-off, "Mission to the Unknown".  Cartland was also featured in the 1983 film "The Ploughman’s Lunch" and the 1984 television production "Squaring the Circle".

NORMA EVERHARDT - Leading Lady of 1958's "The Return of Dracula"

Actress Norma Everhardt, who was best known as the leading lady in the 1958 horror film "The Return of Dracula", died of a stroke in a New York City hospital on September 16, 2011. She was 82.  Everhardt was born in Oakhurst, New Jersey, in 1929. She began her career as a model while in her teens with John Robert Powers. She relocated to Hollywood in 1951, where she was soon appearing in films and television. She was featured in small roles in the films "Sailor Beware" (1952) and "Jumping Jacks" (1952). She was featured in 1953’s "Problem Girl", before marrying French actor Claude Dauphin in 1955. She subsequently starred in the cult classics "Live Fast, Die Young" (1958) and "The Return of Dracula" (aka "Curse of Dracula") (1958) as Rachel Mayberry, opposite Francis Lederer as the Vampire Count. Everhardt was also seen on television in episodes of "Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok", "Captain Gallant of the Foriegn Legion", "Whirlybirds", "Telephone Time", "State Trooper", "Dragnet", "The Lawless Years", "The Best of the Post", and "Hogan’s Heroes". She largely retired from the screen in the 1960 and remained married to Dauphin until his death in 1978.

NICO MINARDOS - Veteran Character Actor in Films and Television

(fr. The Twilight Zone Museum)

Character actor Nico Minardos died in Los Angeles on August 27, 2011. He was 81.  Minardos was born in Athens, Greece, on February 15, 1930. He studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and graduated from the University of California in Los Angeles. He began his acting career in the early 1950s, and was a contract player at 20th Century Fox. He appeared in numerous films during his career, including "Monkey Business" (1952), "The Ten Commandments" (1956), "Ghost Diver" (1957), "Day of the Evil Gun" (1968), "Cannon For Cordoba" (1970), and "Assault On Agathon" (1977) which he also produced. He appeared frequently on television from the mid-1950 through the mid-1980s, with roles in episodes of "Soldiers of Fortune", "Broken Arrow", "Have Gun-Will Travel", "Whirlybirds", "Maverick", "Five Fingers", "Adventures in Paradise", "Sugarfoot", "Route 66", "The Case of the Dangerous Robin", "The Rebel", "Hawaiian Eye", "Twilight Zone" as the Doctor in the 1962 episode "The Gift", "77 Sunset Strip", "Naked City", "The Rogues", "Perry Mason", "Burke’s Law", "Ben Casey", "Daktari", "The Flying Nun", "It Takes a Thief", "The Name of the Game", "Mod Squad", "The Immortal", "Mission: Impossible", "Ironside", "Primus", "The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries", "The Greatest American Hero", "The A-Team", and "Simon & Simon". Minardos survived a canoe accident in September of 1966 while filming the television movie "High Jugle". He and actor Eric Fleming (the star of tv's "Rawhide") were thrown into the Huallaga River in Peru when their canoe capsized. He was able to swim to shore but Fleming drowned in the mishap. Minardos was also seen in the the tele-films "The Challengers" (1970) and "River of Mystery" (1971). He largely retired in the 1980s, but was the subject of Owen Prell’s 2010 documentary film "Finding Nico".



DERRETT LEE - Starlost Production Coordinator

Film and television producer Derrett Lee died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July 5, 2011. He was 64.  Lee was born in Toronto on August 19, 1946. He was a producer of the 1973 Canadian film "The Hard Part Begins", and served as production coordinator for the short-lived syndicated sci-fi television series "The Starlost" starring Keir Dullea. He was later associate producer for the 1983 horror film "American Nightmare".

JACK ADLER - DC Comics Cover Artist and Production Manager

Comic book artist and executive Jack Adler died in New York City on September 18, 2011. He was 91.  Adler was born in Manhattan, New York, on July 1, 1917. He began working at DC Comics in 1946, working in production and as a colorist. He served as assistant production manager from 1960 to 1975, and was production manager and vice president of production from 1975 until his retirement in 1981. He was also cover artist for numerous DC Comics titles during his tenure there, including "Western Comics", "Tomahawk", "All-Star Western", "Big Town", "Strange Adventures", "G.I. Combat", "Our Fighting Forces", "Mystery in Space", "Showcase", "Sea Devils", "Blackhawk", "Green Lantern", "Detective Comics", and "Challengers of the Unknown".

PAUL E. HUNT, 67 - Cult Film Producer and Director

Film producer and director Paul Edward Hunt, who was noted for his work in B films in the 1960s and 1970s, died of a heart attack in Redondo Beach, California, on September 13, 2011. He was 67.  Hunt was born in Redondo Beach on October 14, 1943. He was making surfboards when he was cast in a small role as a surfer in the 1964 film "North Swell". He directed "The Psychedelics" in 1966, and also helmed, and frequently produced, wrote, and photographed, the films "The Harem Bunch" (1968), "You" (1968), "Wild, Free & Hungry" (1969),"Fusion" (1970), "Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns" (1971), and "California Country" (1973). He was also producer of the films "Surfari" (1967), "Blow the Man Down" (1968), "All the Way Down" (1968), "Tropic of Scorpio: (1968), "The Pleasure Machines" (1969), "House of a Thousand Dreams" (1969), "The Toy Box" (1971), "Erika's Hot Summer" (1971), and Orson Welles' unfinished "The Other Side of the Wind" (1972), and was seen in small roles in "Four Kinds of Love" (1968), "Mantis in Lace" (aka "Lila") (1968), "The Scavengers" (1969), and "The Other Side of the Wind" (1972). He produced, directed, wrote, and was featured in the 1973 science fiction film "The Clones". He produced and directed the films "Home Grown" (1974) and "Woman in the Rain", and directed, scripted, and appeared in the 1977 western "The Great Gundown".

He was featured in the 1988 film "The 13th Floor", and produced, directed, and wrote the 1987 horror film "Twisted Nightmare". He produced "Demon Wind" in 1990, and produced, directed, and wrote 1993's "Merlin", and appeared onscreen as the Mayor. He was involved with David Carradine's film "Mata Hari", starring daughter Callista Carradine, which has been in production for over 25 years.

FRANCES BAY - Leading Character Actress

Actress Frances Bay, who began her acting career later in life in films and television, died in a Tarzana, California, hospital on September 15, 2011. She was 92.  She was born in Mannville, Canada, on January 23, 1919. She was an aspiring actress in her youth, and occassionally performed on the radio Winnipeg and Toronto. After marrying her childhood sweetheart, Charles Bay, she abandoned her acting career to raise a family in the United States. She rekindled her interest in acting while living in New York in the early 1970s. She became a familiar face in films and television after moving to Los Angeles later in the decade. She made her film debut as a sweet elderly lady in the 1978 comedy "Foul Play" with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. She was featured in numerous films over the next thirty years, including "Chilly Scenes of Winter" (1979), "The Attic" (1980), "Double Exposure" (1983), "The Karate Kid" (1984), and "Nomads" (1986). She was featured as Aunt Barbara in David Lynch’s 1986 film "Blue Velvet", and became one of his repertory players, appearing in the film "Wild At Heart" (1990), and television’s "Twin Peaks" (1990) and the film sequel "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" (1992) as Mrs. Tremond.  Her other film credits include "Big Top Pee-wee" (1988), "Twins" (1988), "The Karate Kid, Part III" (1989), "Arachnophobia" (1990), "The Grifters" (1990), "The Pit and Pendulum" (1991), "Critters 3" (1991), "Single White Female" (1992), "Inside Monkey Zetterland" (1992), "The Paper Boy" (1994), John Carpenter’s "In the Mouth of Madness" (1994), "Happy Gilmore" (1996) as Adam Sandler’s Grandma, "Krippendorf’s Tribe" (1998), "Inspector Gadget" (1999), "Stranger Than Fiction" (2000), "The Movie Hero" (2003), "A Freudian Image" (2003), "The Red Scarf" (2006), "Ring Around the Rosie" (2006), "Repo Chick" (2009), and "Bare Knuckles" (2010). She was also seen in the tele-films "Topper" (1979), "Murder In Texas" (1981), "Second Sight: A Love Story" (1984), "Police Story: Monster Manor" (1988), "By Way of the Stars" (1992), "Brave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive" (1992), "Rossini’s Ghost" (1996), "Annie’s Point" (2005), and "Oh, Baby" (2005). Her other television credits include episodes of "Hart to Hart", "Remington Steele", the "Faerie Tale Theatre" production of "Little Red Riding Hood" (1983) as Granny, "Happy Days" in the recuring role of Grandma Nussbaum, "Amazing Stories" as Mrs. Santa Clause in the episode "Santa ‘85", "Santa Barbara", "T.J. Hooker", "Alien Nation", "ALF", "Normal Life", "Equal Justice", "Tales From the Crypt", "Over My Dead Body", "Father Dowling Mysteries", "Hunter", "Quantum Leap", "Baby Talk", "Who’s the Boss?", "L.A. Law", "Middle Ages", "The X-Files", "Platypus Man", "The Marshal", "Murder, She Wrote", "Diagnosis Murder", "Seinfeld" as the elderly woman Jerry steals a loaf of marble rye from, "C-16: FBI", "Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction", "Da Vinci’s Inquest", "The Hughley’s" in the recurring roles of Mrs. Fitch, "ER", "Passions", "Charmed",  "Cavemen", and "Grey’s Anatomy". Bay also starred as Aunt Ginny in the comedy series "The Middle" from 2009 until 2011. Her right leg was amputated below the knee after being struck by a car in Glendale in 2002 but she continued her career after her recovery. She also was seen frequently on the local stage. Bay was widowed in 2002.

CLIFF ROBERTSON - Oscar-Winning Star of "Charley"

Academy Award winning actor Cliff Robertson died in a Long Island, New York, hospital on September 10, 2011. He was 88.  Robertson was born in Los Angeles on September 9, 1923, the heir to a ranching fortune. He was raised by his materal grandmother after his mother died when he was young. He served in the Merchant Marine during World War II, and attended Antioch College in Ohio after his discharge. He subsequently moved to New York City with aspirations to be a playwright, but soon found himself appearing on stage instead. He became a familiar face on early television, and was the star of the juvenile science fiction series "Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers" from 1953 to 1954. He was also seen in episodes of "Hallmark Hall of Fame", "Kraft Theatre", "Wagon Train", "The Untouchables", "Playhouse 90", "Riverboat", "The Dick Powell Theatre", and "The United States Steel Hour". He made his film debut in 1955’s "Picnic" opposite Kim Novak. He was also featured in the films "Autumn Leaves" (1956), "The Girl Most Likely" (1958) opposite Jane Powell, the World War II drama "The Naked and the Dead" (1958), "Gidget" (1959) as the Big Kahuna with Sandra Dee, "Battle of the Coral Sea" (1959), "Underworld U.S.A." (1961), "The Interns" (1962), and "Sunday In New York" (1963). He starred in the 1957 Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ "Orpheus Descending". He was chosen to play John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film version of the future president’s World War II heroics in "PT 109". He also starred in the films "The Best Man" (1964) as Sen. Joe Cantwell, "Masquerade" (1965), "Up From the Beach" (1965), "The Honey Pot" (1967), and "The Devil’s Brigade" (1968). He also continue to perform frequently on television with roles in the series "Outlaws", "Bus Stop", "Ben Casey", "Alcoa Premiere", "Twilight Zone" (in the episodes "The Dummy" and "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim"), "The Eleventh Hour", the pilot episode of "The Outer Limits" ("The Galaxy Being"), "The Greatest Show on Earth", "Suspense", "Breaking Point", "Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In", "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre", and "Bracken’s World". He starred as western-themed Bat-villain Shame in several episodes of the "Batman" series in the mid 1960s. His role in a 1961 episode of "The United States Steel Hour" entitled "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon" earned him an Emmy nomination as a mentally disabled man who undergoes a surgical prodedure to increase his intellect. Robertson bought the rights to the story, based on Daniel Keyes’ "Flowers for Algernon", and starred in the 1968 film adaptation, "Charley", by Stirling Silliphant. He earned the Academy Award for his performance. He starred in Robert Aldrich’s "Too Late the Hero" in 1970, and produced, directed, wrote, and starred in the modern western rodeo film "J.W. Coop" in 1971. He was outlaw Cole Younger in 1972’s "The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, and stunt pilot Ace Eli in "Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies" (1973). He also appeared in the films "Man on a Swing" (1974), "Out of Season" (1975), "Three Days of the Condor" (1975), "Shoot" (1976), "Midway" (1976) as Commander Carl Jessop, "Obsession" (1976), Brian De Palma’s thriller "Obsession" (1976), "The Little Prince" (1979) as the voice of the Pilot, "The Pilot" (1980) which he also directed, and the 1980 horror film "Dominique". He also starred in television productions of "The Man Without a Country" (1973) as Philip Nolan, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1974), "Return to Earth" (1976) as Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, "Washington: Behind Closed Doors" (1977), "Overboard" (1978), and "Two of a Kind" (1982). Robertson precipitated a major scandal in Hollywood in 1977 after learning that a $10,000 check had been sent payable to him from Columbia Pictures for work he had not done, and had been deposited in another account with his forged signature. The subsequent exposure that Columbia head David Begelman had perpetrated the fraud against Robertson and several other individuals involved in the film industry, resulted in Begelman's conviction on charges of grand theft and forgery. Begelman received a minor fine and probabtion, but Robertson became victim of an unofficial blacklist by the studios because of his role in exposing the scandal.                  He starred on television as Dr. Michael Ransom on the prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest" from 1983 to 1984, and returned to the films as Alex Terson in 1983’s science fiction film "Brainstorm", which starred Natalie Wood in her final role. Robertson’s other film credits include "Class" (1983), "Star 80" (1983) as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner in the tale of ill-fated Playmate Dorothy Stratten, starring Mariel Hemingway, "Shaker Run" (1986), "Malone" (1987), "Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken" (1991), "Wind" (1992), "Renaissance Man" (1994), John Carpenter’s "Escape from L.A." (1996) as the President, "Assignment Berlin" (1998), "Mach 2" (2001), "Falcon Down" (2001), "The 13th Child, Legend of the Jersey Devil" (2002) which he also wrote, and 2004’s adaptation of Stephen King’s "Riding the Bullet". His later television credits include the tele-films "The Key Rebecca" (1985), "Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story" (1986), "Ford: The Man and the Machine" (1987) as Henry Ford, "Dead Reckoning" (1990), and "Judith Krantz’s Dazzle" (1995). He was featured in an episode of 1999’s reboot of "The Outer Limits", and was Hal Malloy in the short-lived 2003 series "The Lyon’s Den". He became best known to a new generation as Ben Parker, the ill-fated uncle of soon-to-be super-hero Peter Parker (played by Toby Maguire) in Sam Raimi’s 2002 film adaptation of the comic book icon "Spider-Man". Despite perishing in the first film, he returned in the sequels "Spider-Man 2" (2004) and "Spider-Man 3" (2007) in flashback sequences. Robertson was married to actress Cynthia Stone from 1957 to 1960, and to actress and heiress Dina Merrill from 1966 to 1986.

ANDY WHITFIELD - Star of "Spartacus: Blood and Sand"

Welsh-born Australian actor Andy Whitfield, who starred in the Starz cable series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand", died of non-Hodgkin Lymphomia in Sydney, Australia, on September 11, 2011. Whitfield was born in Amlwch, Wales, in 1974, and settled in Australia in 1999. He worked as a fashion model, and also appeared on television in episodes of "All Saints", "The Strip", "Packed To The Rafters", and "McLeod’s Daughters". He starred in the 2007 film "Gabriel" and appeared in 2010’s "The Clinic". He starred in the cable series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" for it’s first season in 2010. He was preparing to continue in the role of the gladiator hero when he was diagnosed cancer, and was replaced by Liam McIntyre.

JAG MUNDHRA - Indian Film Director

Indian film director Jag Mundhra, who helmed a handful of horror films and erotic thrillers in the United States in the late 1980s and 1990s, died in Mumbai, India, on September 2, 2011. He was 62.  He was born in Nagpur, India, on October 29, 1948. He studied engineering in college in India before coming to the United States to continue his studies. He switched to marketing, and earned a doctorate with a thesis on the marketing practices of Hollywood and Bollywood. He taught at California State University in the late 1970s before embarking on a career as a filmmaker. His initial films include the dramas "Suraag" (1982) and "Kamla" (1984). He began directing a string of exploitation thrillers later in the decade that included "Halloween Night" (aka "Hack-O-Lantern") (1988), "Open House" (1988), "Eyewitness to Murder" (1989), "The Jigsaw Murder" (1989), "Night Eyes" (1990), "Last Call" (1991), "Legal Tender" (1991),

 "The Other Woman" (1992), "Wild Cactus" (1993), "L.A. Goddess" (1993), "Tropical Heat" (1993), "Sexual Malice" (1994), "Improper Conduct" (1994), "Irresistible Impulse" (1996), "Shades of Gray" (1997), "Tainted Love" (1998), "Tales of the Kama Sutra" (2000), "Monsoon" (aka "Tales of the Kama Sutra 2: Monsoon" (2001), "Private Moments" (2005), "Provoked: A True Story" (2006), "Backwaters" (aka "Betrayed by Passion") (2006), "Natasha: Revenge Is Sweet" (2007), "Shoot on Sight" (2007), "Apartment: Rent At Your Own Risk" (2010), "Chase" (2010), and "Naughty @ 40" (2011).

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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).