In Remembrance...Celebrities In 2006.

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Tetsuro Tanba: July 17, 1922 - September 24, 2006

[imagel]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Tamba.jpg[/imagel]Legendary Japanese actor Tetsuro Tanba, veteran of over 200 hundred films, died of pneumonia on September 24th at the age of 84.

He will be missed.

In Remembrance.

 

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SF and fantasy writer John M. ('Mike') Ford , born 1957, has died at the age of 49. Ford was the author of several diverse and distinctive novels, including World Fantasy Award winning historical fantasy The Dragon Waiting (1983), Star Trek novels The Final Reflection (1984) and How Much for Just the Planet? (1987), SF Growing Up Weightless (1993), co-winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, and urban fantasy The Last Hot Time (2000). Ford won both the World Fantasy and Rhysling awards for long poem "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" (1988). His last book was short story collection Heat of Fusion and Other Stories (2004).

http://sfwa.org/news/2006/jford.htm
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008033.html#008033
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Ford

 

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http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/15616135.htm

Paul Vance, who wrote 'Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,' dies at 68

Weird update - the fellow who died had same name, claimed to have written the song but didn't. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,216160,00.html

Wow, fiction has nothing on what Real Life (tm) comes up with!

 

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SF and fantasy writer John M. ('Mike') Ford , born 1957, has died at the age of 49. Ford was the author of several diverse and distinctive novels, including World Fantasy Award winning historical fantasy The Dragon Waiting (1983), Star Trek novels The Final Reflection (1984) and How Much for Just the Planet? (1987), SF Growing Up Weightless (1993), co-winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, and urban fantasy The Last Hot Time (2000). Ford won both the World Fantasy and Rhysling awards for long poem "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" (1988). His last book was short story collection Heat of Fusion and Other Stories (2004).

http://sfwa.org/news/2006/jford.htm
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008033.html#008033
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Ford

 

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RIP Bao Fang (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

[imagel]http://www.monkeypeaches.com/pix/060923a.jpg[/imagel]Actor, director and screenwriter Pao Fong just passed away on 22nd in Hong Kong at the age of 84. Pao Foag was born in southern Chinese city Nanchang in 1922 and graduated from a law school at early 20s. In 1942, his acting career began with a series role on stage. In 1948, he moved to Hong Kong and for the next several decades, he starred in more than 50 films made by various local studios, including Thunderstorm and Qu Yuan. Since 1959, he directed more than a dozen films and man of them were written by himself.

In early 1980s, Pao joined TVB and appeared in many series made by the local station. Pao Fong retired from acting in 2000, after suffered from a serious stroke. He was awarded with an Long-Time achievement award by Hong Kong Film Critics Society and was named one of 100 Hundred Stars of 100 Years of Chinese Cinema last year. His wife, actress Liu Su who accompanied him for more than half century, passed away a few years ago. His son Peter Pau is a well-known cinematographer, whose work for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon gained him an Oscar few. His daughter Paw Hee-Ching is also an actress.

In Remembrance.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Edward Albert Dies

[imagel]http://www.variety.com/graphics/photos/muga/albert_edward.jpg[/imagel]Actor Edward Laurence Albert died Friday, Sept 22nd. He was 55.

His wife actress Kate Woodville said he had suffered from lung cancer for 17 months. Despite his illness he had tended to his ailing father, actor Eddie Albert, who died at the age of 97, May 26, 2005. His mother was actress Margo Albert and both parents were once black-listed.

In Remembrance.

 

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Bluegrass Dobro artist "Uncle Josh" dead at 79

Veteran Dobro musician Burkett Howard Graves, known as country music's "Uncle Josh," has died at 79, his family said on Monday.

A member of the International Bluegrass Music Association's Hall of Honor, Graves played with the Earl Scruggs Revue in the 1970s and contributed to albums by Kris Kristofferson,John Hiatt and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

He died on Saturday at his Nashville home and had been in ill health in recent years, his family said.

In Remembrance.

 

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Johnny Sekka

[imagel]http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2006/09/29/johnnysekka1.jpg[/imagel]Johnny Sekka, who has died in California at the age of 72, built a name for himself in films in London in the 1960s, breaking new ground at a time when substantial roles for black actors were hard to come by. In the 1970s, when British cinema was going through hard times, he moved to the United States, but the good parts were still hard to come by. In retrospect, his London period was his most rewarding.

In Remembrance.

 

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Actress Frances Bergen Dies at 84

[imagel]http://www.zap2it.com/media/photo/2006-10/25729035.jpg[/imagel]Frances Bergen, a former model and occasional actress and singer whose show business career took a back seat to her longtime role as the wife of beloved ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and the mother of their actress daughter Candice, has died. She was 84.

In Remembrance.

 

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Joseph Hayes, Tony Award-Winning Playwright, Dead at 88

Joseph Hayes, a playwright, novelist and producer who won the 1955 Tony Award for Best Play, for his suspenseful melodrama The Desperate Hours, died Sept. 11 in St. Augustine, FL, according to The New York Times.

Directed by Robert Montgomery (who won a Tony for Best Direction), The Desperate Hours was based on Mr. Hayes' novel of the same name, and starred Karl Malden, Mary Orr, Paul Newman and George Grizzard, among others.

In Remembrance.