Film Actors who Died in 2010

Art Linkletter (1912 — 2010)  Radio and TV personality. Kids Say the Darndest Things

Kevin McCarthy (1914-2010) Actor. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Lena Horne (1917-2010) Actress, Singer.  Stormy Weather.

Tony Curtis (1925-2010)  Actor.   Some Like It Hot, Houdini, Defiant Ones, The Vikings, Spartacus, Operation Petticoat, The Great Imposter.

Dorothy De Borba (1925-2010) Child actress. Dorothy in  Our Gang.

Peter Graves (1926-2010) Actor.  TV’s Mission Impossible, Fantasy Island, 7th Heaven. Films Airplane! and Clonus Horror

Lionel Jeffries (1926-2010) Actor.  Camelot; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010) Actor.  Forbidden Planet; Airplane!; The Naked Gun

Tom Bosley (1927-2010)  Actor.  Happy Days; Father Dowling Mysteries

Eddie Fisher (1928-2010) Singer. Appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show, Dean Martin Comedy Hour, Andy Williams Show. Father of Carrie Fisher.

Ilene Woods (1929 – 2010) Singer, actress. Voiced Disney’s Cinderella.

Jean Simmons (1929-2010) Actress. Elmer Gantry, Hamlet (1948), Désirée, Guys and Dolls, The Big Country.  Voiced Grandma/Old Sophie  in Howl’s Moving Castle.

Robert Culp (1930-2010) Actor. I, Spy, Greatest American Hero, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Zelda Rubinstein (1933-2010)  Actress.  Poltergeist and sequels.

Cammie King (1934-2010) Actress.  Gone With the Wind. Voiced Faline in Disney’s Bambi.

Rue McClanahan (1934-2010) Actress.  Golden Girls.

Corey Allen (1934-2010) Actor, Director.  Star Trek franchise, Dallas

Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) Actor.  Easy Rider, True Romance, Speed,  TV Crash, TV 24, Rebel Without a Cause

James MacArthur (1937-2010)  Actor.  Swiss Family Robinson, Hawaii Five-0 (1968), The Young Stranger

Michael Pataki (1938-2010) Actor.  Happy Days, 1980s Mighty Mouse, 1970s Amazing Spider-Man, Ren & Stimpy

Pat Stevens (1945-2010) Actress.  Voice of Velma in 1970s Scooby-Doo and TV M*A*S*H.

Michelle Nicastro (1960 –  2010)  Singer, Actress.   Voice of Odette in the Swan Princess and sequels.  Ariadne in Merlin, Eponine  in Les Miserables

Shannon Tavarez (1999 – 2010) Actress.  Young Nala on Broadway

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Writers who died in 2010

Martin Gardner (1914 – 2010) Mathematician, Science Writer.  His annotation of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is highly entertaining.

Ruth Park (1917-2010) Author.  Playing Beatie Bow is an excellent time travel story.

J. D. Salinger (1919-2010) Author. Catcher in the Rye

Sid Fleischman (1920-2010) Author. The Whipping Boy. Newbery medal.

Patricia Wrightson (1921-2010) Author (fantasy). The Dark Bright Water. Hans Christian Anderson medal.

Donald H. Tuck (1922-2010) Bibliographer.  Hugo medal. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Eva Ibbotson (1925-2010) Author (fantasy).  Which Witch? and The Secret of Platform 13

Sharon Webb (1936 – 2010)  Author (fantasy). Earth Song trilogy

Erich Segal (1937 – 2010) Author and Academician. Love Story

Harvey Pekar (1939-2010) Comics writer. American Splendor and Our Cancer Year.

Stephen Joseph Cannell (1941 – 2010)  Mystery writer and TV show creator.  Appeared most recently in the TV show Castle.

Takeshi Shudo (1949-2010) Main writer for Pokemon.

John Steakley (1951-2010) Author (sci-fi and horror).  Armor and Vampire$ (much, much, much better than the film by John Carpenter).

Stephen Perry (1954 – 2010)  Scriptwriter. Thundercats cartoon and comics.

Jennifer Rardin (1965-2010) Author (paranormal fiction). Jaz Parks series.

Obituaries

Martin Gardiner – Telegraph; Scientific American

Ruth Park – Guardian

J. D. Salinger – NYTimes

Sid Fleischman – Washington Post; NYTimes

Patricia Wrightson – Times

Donald H. Tuck -  Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Eva Ibbotson -  Independent; Telegraph

Sharon Webb – Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Erich Segal – Washington Post;  Guardian

Harvey Pekar – Blog.Cleveland; Newsweek

Stephen Joseph Cannell – NYTimes

Takeshi Shudo - Suite 101

John Steakley –   Dallas News

Stephen Perry – Tampa Bay Online

Jennifer Rardin – Guardian

The Secret of Platform 13

Filmmakers Who Died in 2010

There are other filmmakers who died this past year.  But these people made cinema that means something to me.  Listed by year of birth.

Bill Littlejohn (1914 –2010) Animator.  Peanuts and Garfield specials.

Roy Ward Baker (1916-2010) Director. Don’t Bother to Knock (1952), A Night to Remember (1958), Quatermass and the Pit (1967)

Dino De Laurentiis (1919-2010) Producer. Barbarella (1968), Flash Gordon (1980), and Conan the Barbarian (1982).

Alexander Anderson (1920-2010) Co-creator of the Rocky and Bullwinkle characters.

Douglas Argent (1921-2010) TV Producer and Director.  Many shows, Fawlty Towers among them.

Art Clokey (1921-2010)  Stop-motion animator.  Created Gumby.

Blake Edwards (1922-2010)  Director.  Operation Petticoat (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Pink Panther (1963), A Shot in the Dark (1964)

Arthur Penn (1922-2010) Director. Miracle Worker (1962), Bonnie & Clyde (1967), Little Big Man (1970).

Dede Allen (1923-2010)  Film editor.  The Hustler (1961), Bonnie & Clyde (1967), Serpico (1973), The Breakfast Club (1985).

Irvin Kershner (1923-2010) Director. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Never Say Never Again (1983).

Yoshinobu Nishizaki (1934-2010) Creator of the Space Battleship Yamato series.

John Jeffries, Sr. (1936-2010) Production and Set Designer.  The original Star Trek, JAG, Matlock.

Carl Macek (1951-2010)  Producer of English dubbed anime. First English dub of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbor Totoro.

Sally Menke (1953-2010) Film editor.  Collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on all his films.

Corey Haim (1971-2010) Actor.  Lucas (1986), Lost Boys (1987),  License to Drive (1988).

Artists and Comics-Makers Who Died in 2010

Listed by their birth dates.

Robert McCall (1919– 2010)  Known for space-related art.  Worked on 2001: A Space Odyssey; and painted for NASA, EPCOT, The Pentagon.

Peter O’Donnell (1920 – 2010) Wrote the adventure comic Modesty Blaise; and wrote Gothic novels under the name Madeleine Brent.

Howard ‘Howie’ Post (1926-2010) Artist.  Harvey comics.

Mike Esposito (1927-2010) Artist.  Co-designed 2006 Wonder Woman stamp.  Classic Spider-Man and Archie comics.

Frank Frazetta (1928-2010) Influential fantasy artist.

John D’Agostino Sr. (1929-2010) Artist.  Archie comics.

Joe Messerli (1930 – 2010)  Designed the logo for The Twilight Zone;  animated for Hana Barbara.

Al Williamson (1931 -2010) Artist.  Flash Gordon, Secret Agent X-9

Dick Giordano (1932 – 2010)  Artist and DC editor.

John Schoenherr (1935-2010)  Won the Caldecott Medal for Owl Moon written by Jane Yolen.

Harvey Pekar (1939-2010) wrote the autobiographical comics American Splendor and Our Cancer Year.  American Splendor was made into a film starring Paul Giamatti in 2003.

John Hicklenton (1967-2010) Artist. Judge Dredd

Obituaries

John D’Agostino Sr. – USA Today

Mike Esposito – Newsday

Frank Frazetta – The Guardian.  An interview from The Comics Journal.

Dick Giordano -  New York Times.  Newsarama

John Hicklenton – The Comics Reporter

Robert McCall – Space.com

Joe Messerli – Lambiek

Peter O’Donnell – The Guardian

Harvey Pekar – New York Times

Howie Post – North Jersey.com

John Schoenherr -  New York Times. His son’s post.

Al Williamson – The Comics Reporter.  The Guardian.

People of Note Who Died in 2010

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Everett Bleiler (1920 – 2010)  Editor, Bibliographer, worked at Dover

Knox Burger (1922– 2010).  Literary agent. Published Kurt Vonnegut‘s first short story.  Clients included Donald Westlake, Ray Bradbury, Jack Finney, John Steinbeck and Louis L’Amour.

Howard Zinn (1922-2010) Historian. Peoples History of the United States (1980)

Benoît Mandelbrot (1924-2010), Mathematician.  Made a study of fractals (and coined the term).

Dorothy “Dottie” Kamenshek (1925 – 2010)  Baseball athlete.  Her career inspired the movie, A League of their Own.

Joan Sutherland (1926-2010) Coloratura soprano.  Known as La Stupenda. Best known for her role of  Lucia.  She was a vital part of the 20th century bel canto revival.

Jaime Escalante (1930-2010) High school math teacher.  The movie Stand and Deliver (1987) is based on his inspirational work with students.  There is also an entertaining book, Escalante: The Best Teacher in America by Jay Mathews about his work.

Obituaries

Everett. F. Bleiler – Locus Magazine

Knox Burger – New York Times

Howard Zinn – The Guardian

Benoît Mandelbrot – New Scientist

Dottie Kamenshek - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Joan Sutherland – New York Times

Jaime Escalante – Washington Post

early 2010 movie releases

Just some movies releasing in the beginning of the year that I’d like to see.  Some of these I’ll watch at home.

Daybreakers – SF Horror.  Scientist opposes the dominant species: vampires. I like some mad scientist in my vampire flicks.

When in Rome – Romantic Comedy. Girl in Rome pursued by unlikely suitors. I like Rome on film and have a soft spot for Kristen Bell. seen

Lightning Thief – Fantasy Adventure.  Teen tackles the Olympians.  I’m a sucker for Greco-Roman mythology.

Wolfman – Horror.  Please, let it be anything but embarrassing & lame.

Shutter Island – Thriller.  Man investigates a missing patient at a hospital for the criminally insane on an island in a hurricane.  Intelligent and heartwarming, I’m sure.

Cop Out – Buddy Cop. Kevin Smith directs.  I’ll watch it but I dunno.

The Crazies – Horror.  Something’s in the water.  I like its simplicity.

Hot Tub Time Machine – Comedy. Four men time travel to the 1980s. They admit in the trailer that it’s stupid.

The Runaways – Biopic. Looking forward to this one although I don’t know their music.

Clash of the Titans - Fantasy. Perseus kills CGI monsters. Liked the original for its effects mostly.

How to Train Your Dragon – Fantasy. Viking named Hiccup adopts a baby dragon. I’ll watch it mostly because it’s animated.

Mother – Drama. Mother hunts for murderer to exonerate her son.