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The Voice of Scooby-Doo’s Velma, Pat Stevens, is Dead

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Pat Stevens was a leading voice actress who was best known for her role as Velma in Scooby-Doo cartoons from 1974 to 1979. Stevens was born in Linden, New Jersey on September 16, 1945. She aspired to a career in show business from an early age, and performed as an actress and dancer on the New… [Continue Reading]

Radio Producer Himan Brown is Dead

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Himan Brown worked the radio industry from the late 1920s, and went on to produce such radio and television series as Inner Sanctum, Lights Out, and CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Brown was born on July 21, 1910, the son of Russian immigrants from the Ukraine. He began working in radio in the late 1920s, reading… [Continue Reading]

Disembodied Actress Eugenia Paul is Dead

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Actress Eugenia Paul was featured in a handful of films and television productions in the 1950s. She co-starred with scream queen Allison Hayes in the 1957 voodoo horror film The Disembodied as native girl Mara. She was born Eugenia Popoff in Dearborn, Michigan in 1935. She trained as a dancer before settling in Hollywood in the… [Continue Reading]

Werewolves on Wheels Director Michel Levesque is Dead

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Michel Levesque worked in the film industry as a production designer and art director from the late 1960s. He was best known as writer and director for the 1971 biker horror film Werewolves on Wheels. Levesque was born in Pennsville, New Jersey on August 22, 1943. He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s… [Continue Reading]

Child Star Gary Coleman is Dead

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Gary Coleman was a leading child actor who starred in the hit sitcom Diff’rent Strokes from 1978 to 1986. Coleman was born in Zion, Illinois, on February 8, 1968, and was adopted as an infant. He appeared in local commercials as a child, and his on-screen chemistry brought him to Hollywood. He was originally cast… [Continue Reading]

Thundercats Writer Steve Perry Murdered

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Steve Perry wrote for comic books from the 1970s and was one of the original writers for the cartoon adventure series Thundercats in the mid-1980s. Perry was born on December 12, 1954.  He became interested in writing at an early age, and was penning science fiction tales for publication by the early 1970s.  He soon… [Continue Reading]

Bill DuBay, Longtime Warren Comic Editor and The Rook Co-Creator, is Dead

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By Harris Lentz, III Bill DuBay served as editor of Warren Publishing’s comic magazines, with several short interruptions, from 1972 until the line folded in 1983.  He was also co-creator of the time-traveling adventurer Restin Dane, known as the Rook, for a story in Eerie in 1978, and oversaw the character’s short-lived solo series.   DuBay was… [Continue Reading]

British Model and Actress Pamela Green is Dead

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By Harris Lentz, III British model Pamela Green was a blonde bombshell who appeared in little to nothing in magazines and short films from the mid-1950s. She is most notable for her role as a scantily-clad victim of a homicidal photographer in the controversial 1960 thriller Peeping Tom.  Director Michael Powell cast her as the ill-fated… [Continue Reading]

Stuntman Danny Aiello, III is Dead

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By Harris Lentz, III Danny Aiello, III was the son of character actor Danny Aiello II, and a leading stuntman in films and television for over 30 years. He was born in Bronx, New York, on January 27, 1957, and began his career in films in the late 1970s, appearing in the small role of… [Continue Reading]

David Durston, I Drink Your Blood Director, is Dead

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By Harris Lentz, III Filmmaker David E. Durston was best known as the director and writer of the 1970 horror exploitation film I Drink Your Blood, about a Manson-esque gang of Satanic hippies who become bloodthirsty maniacs after being fed rabies-tainted meat pies.  He was also featured onscreen in the cult classic in the role of… [Continue Reading]

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