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Helene Zollo Lentz, accordionist, toe dancer, businesswoman, film fan, and my mother, died of pneumonia and complications from surgery at a Memphis, Tennessee hospital on June 7, 2010 at age 86. Helene was born in Memphis on August 7, 1923, the daughter of Dominic and Mary Zollo. She studied dance and accordion as a child,… [Continue Reading]
Robert Gary worked in films and television as a script supervisor from the 1950s onward. He worked on most of the Star Trek television series during his career, including the original series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. Gary was born in Illinois in 1920. He was… [Continue Reading]
Japanese actor Kei Sato was best known for his roles as screen villains. He starred in Kaneto Shindo’s 1964 horror film Onibaba, and was a ghost samurai in the supernatural thriller Kwaidan (1964). He was also featured as Chief Editor Gondo in Godzilla 1985 (1984). Sato was born in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan, on December 21, 1928. … [Continue Reading]
Actress Rue McClanahan was best known for her role as lusty Southern belle Blanche Devereaux on the television sitcom The Golden Girls. She had a successful career on stage, film and television for over fifty years. She was born Eddi-Rue McClanahan in Healdton, Oklahoma on February 21, 1934. She studied theater at the University of… [Continue Reading]
Actress Phyllis Douglas began her career in films as a child, making her screen debut as the young Bonnie Blue Butler, daughter of Rhett and Scarlett, in the classic Gone with the Wind in 1939. She was featured onscreen atop a horse in a scene with Clark Gable. She returned to the screen as an… [Continue Reading]
Actor Steve Drexel appeared in a handful of films in the 1960s and 1970s, starring as David in the 1963 horror film Terrified and as Dr. Oscar Roscoe in the 1966 cult classic Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You. He was born Ernest Joseph Caringi in Mechanicville, New York on December 23,… [Continue Reading]
Eddie Barth was a veteran character actor who was a familiar face on television from the early 1960s, guest-starring in episodes of such series as The Twilight Zone, The Invaders, The Bionic Woman, The Incredible Hulk, Whiz Kids, Mike Hammer, and Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Barth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 29, 1931. He co-starred… [Continue Reading]
William A. Fraker was a leading cinematographer in films from the late 1960s, photographing such films as Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby and the 1977’s Exorcist II: The Heretic. He earned six Academy Award nominations during his career for his work on Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), the fantasy classic Heaven Can Wait (1978) starring Warren… [Continue Reading]
Peter Keefe adapted the Japanese anime series Go Lion and Dierugger for American audiences as the popular syndicated series Voltron in the mid-1980s. He also wrote an episode of the television horror anthology series Tales from the Darkside in 1987, and created the French-U.S. animated co-production Denver, the Last Dinosaur in 1988. He teamed with Brian… [Continue Reading]
Dennis Hopper’s long film career began with the 1955 teen angst classic Rebel Without a Cause with James Dean, and he helped usher in Hollywood’s New Wave as director and star of the counterculture anthem Easy Rider in 1969. He later became a respected character actor, specializing in such off-beat villains as the drug-addicted, obscenity-spouting Frank… [Continue Reading]
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