VETERAN CBS NEWSMAN JOSEPH WERSHBA DEAD AT 90

Broadcast news pioneer Joseph Wershba, who worked with Ed Murrow on his historic See It Now broadcasts that helped bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s and was one of the original 60 Minutes producers, died on May 14 in New York at age 90, the network said Monday. Cause of death was pneumonia. [...]

VETERAN ACTOR/DIRECTOR JACKIE COOPER DEAD AT 88

Jackie Cooper, whose history in the movie business probably predated that of any other living film star, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 88. He first appeared in short films at the age of 6, then joined the ragged tykes in the early Our Gang comedy shorts a year later. At the age of [...]

I LOVE LUCY WRITER PUGH DAVIS DEAD AT 90

Madelyn Pugh Davis, one of the three writers of the groundbreaking I Love Lucy sitcom, died Wednesday in Los Angeles at age 90. In an obituary, today’s (Friday) New York Times quoted Davis as saying in a 1993 interview that she and fellow writers Jess Oppenheimer, who produced the show, and Bob Carroll Jr. “weren’t [...]

TEEN MAG PUBLISHER LAUFER DEAD AT 87

Charles Laufer, who launched a publishing empire based on teen fan magazines that often featured pictures of shirtless androgynous boys who were “stars” only in the magazines themselves, has died at age 87. His daughter Teena Naumann said that her father died on April 5 in Northridge. His magazines included Tiger Beat and Fave, which [...]

DIRECTOR SIDNEY LUMET DEAD AT 86

Sidney Lumet, whose career as a director began during the Golden Age of Television sixty years ago and continued into the 21st century, died in New York today (Saturday) at the age of 86. In 1951 he landed his first job as a director at CBS on the live weekly drama Casey, Crime Photographer, starring [...]

50′S STAR FARLEY GRANGER DEAD AT 85

Farley Granger, the handsome leading man who had a meteoric career in Hollywood in the late ’40s and early ’50s but became disillusioned with the studio system and ultimately found success performing in live television dramas in the ’60s and on Broadway in the ’70s and ’80s, died Sunday in New York at age 85. [...]

PIN-UP STAR JANE RUSSELL DEAD AT 89

Jane Russell, whom industrialist Howard Hughes made famous overnight with his sexy advertising campaign for The Outlaw in 1943, died Monday in Santa Maria, CA of respiratory failure at age 89, her son, Buck Waterfield, disclosed. Hughes, who owned RKO, the studio that released The Outlaw, and produced and directed the movie, featured the buxom [...]

LAST TANGO STAR DEAD AT 58

Maria Schneider, who at 19 co-starred with Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s X-rated Last Tango in Paris , has died in Paris at age 58. Although she also starred opposite Jack Nicholson in 1975′s The Passenger, she was never able to live down the scandalous publicity that followed the release of Tango. “I wanted to [...]

JAMES BOND COMPOSER JOHN BARRY DEAD AT 77

British composer-conductor John Barry, best known for creating the theme and soundtracks for the early James Bond movies, has died in London at age 77. The BBC said that Barry had been stricken by a heart attack. During his career, Barry won five Oscars (Born Free — score and song — The Lion in Winter, [...]

JACK LALANNE, TV’S LONGTIME FITNESS COACH, DEAD AT 96

Veteran fitness guru Jack LaLanne, who famously remarked that dying would damage his image, has died of pneumonia at his home in Morro Bay, CA at age 96. Far from harming his image, his death evoked widespread expressions of admiration for his contributions to physical fitness and overall good health. In the early ’50s, LaLanne [...]

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