Dolores Huerta obit

Dolores Huerta, civil rights icon, has died, her family says

 

She was not on the list.

Labor rights leader Dolores Huerta has died at age 96, but her legacy could live on right here in Eugene.

Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, died on Oct. 28 at her home in Bakersfield, California. Her family announced her death Wednesday. A spokesman for the family said the cause was cancer. She grew up in Stockton, organized farmworkers in the San Joaquin and Coachella valleys, helped lead the grape boycotts that brought national attention to conditions in California's fields, and co-founded the organization that became the United Farm Workers with César Chávez. She also coined "Sí, se puede!" (Yes, we can), a chant that can be heard at protests and rallies across the U.S. today.

In March, an investigation published by The New York Times chronicled Chávez's history of sexual abuse against women and girls, including Huerta. Chávez died in 1993 at age 66.

Huerta was quoted in the article and said Chávez used his leadership position to abuse women and children. Huerta said she had two sexual encounters with Chávez. She described being "manipulated and pressured into" one encounter and described the second encounter as rape.

Dozens of schools, streets, parks and institutions across the country named after Chávez are reconsidering the honor, including Eugene School District 4J's César E. Chávez Elementary School. At the time the report came out, social media buzzed with other naming options. Honoring Huerta seemed popular — a post suggesting so on the Eugene subreddit received over 100 upvotes.

The 4J board voted unanimously to rename the school on June 17 and began soliciting new name options earlier this month. The suggestion form closed Oct. 23.

While 4J Director of Communications Kelly McIver said the district is still tabulating the hundreds of responses the form received, "at least several dozen" suggested naming the school after Huerta.

4J's renaming committee will review the suggestions, conduct research and share a list of final names for further community feedback next month. The community feedback opens Nov. 9. The school board will hold a public discussion on the top selections in January 2027. The board has final say in the school's name and is expected to vote in February.

Although Huerta doesn't have direct ties to the Eugene-Springfield area, Huerta has visited, at least virtually, in the past. She held a video call with Springfield students in 2021, answering their questions about everything from public speaking tips to fighting racism.

"When people criticize us when we're doing something to help others, we have to take that as a blessing — una bendición — because we know that what we're doing with our good hearts that we have, (is) we are really trying to make life better for other people," Huerta is quoted in The Register-Guard's 2021 article. "So, when people criticize you like that, just ignore them. Don't let them stop you."

Barbara Barrie obit

Barbara Barrie Dies: Star Of Broadway And ‘Barney Miller’ Was 95

 

She was not on the list.

Barbara Barrie, who received a Tony nomination for her role in Broadway’s original Company, an Oscar nomination for her performance in Breaking Away and wide recognition as the wife of Hal Linden’s police captain on TV’s Barney Miller, died October 28 at her home in Manhattan. She was 95.

Her death was reported to The New York Times by her daughter Jane Harnick, who said Barrie’s death was medically assisted and that the actor had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Following her breakthrough Cannes Film Festival award-winning performance in 1964’s One Potato, Two Potato, Barrie built a career that encompassed the stage, film and television, making marked contributions to all. She appeared in 11 Broadway productions, including original stagings of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, Neil Simon’s The Prisoner of Second Avenue and California Suite, Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy and a 2004 revival of Fiddler on the Roof.

In addition to 1979’s Breaking Away, her film credits included an uncredited role in the classic 1956 drama Giant and as the mother of Goldie Hawn’s character in 1980’s Private Benjamin.

Barrie was most prolific on television, with credits stretching back to the 1950s anthology dramas and such popular 1960s series as Route 66, The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, Ben Casey and Ironside, among many others. In 1974 she flirted with Gavin MacLeod’s Murray Slaughter on a memorable episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and began her five-season recurring role on Barney Miller the following year. Her character largely was absent beyond the first season as the ABC sitcom increasingly focused on the police precinct workplace comedy rather than the title character’s domestic life.

In addition to her portrayal of Barney Miller‘s Liz Miller, Barrie probably is best known to TV audiences for her series regular role on the 1996-2000 sitcom Suddenly Susan, in which she portrayed “Nana” Keane, grandmother of Brooke Shields’ title character. Barrie appeared in 92 episodes during the show’s five-season NBC run.

Born Barbara Ann Berman on May 23, 1931, in Chicago, Barrie was moved to New York City after college to launch her show business career. She made her Broadway debut in the 1955 play The Wooden Dish, returning four years later in The Beaux Stratagem by George Farquhar. She also appeared in various Off Broadway productions, including 1958’s The Crucible, as well as regional and touring productions.

Her signature stage role arrived in 1970 when she originated the character of Sarah in Company, starring opposite Elaine Stritch, Dean Jones and Beth Howland, among others. She was nominated for a Tony Award for the performance in what would prove to be a seminal Broadway musical.

Barrie’s most recent Broadway role was in Joshua Harmon’s Significant Other in 2017.

In film, Barrie landed her first leading role in 1964’s groundbreaking One Potato, Two Potato, portraying a divorced woman who marries a Black man and in so doing risks losing custody of her child. Both the film and Barrie’s performance were acclaimed highlights of the year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Perhaps Barrie’s most beloved and memorable film performance came in Breaking Away, when she portrayed the mother of the main character played by Dennis Christopher, a small-town young man who dreams of becoming a competitive bicycle racer. Barrie received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance but lost to Meryl Streep in Kramer vs. Kramer. Barrie would reprise the Breaking Away role for a TV series adaptation, earning an Emmy nomination.

Among her numerous other TV credits, Barrie appeared in Family Ties, Law & Order, Pushing Daisies, Nurse Jackie, Kate & Allie, Once and Again and Army Wives. She was Emmy nominated three times, for Breaking Away, Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Barrie was the author of two children’s books: 1990’s Lone Star and 1994’s Adam ZigZag. She also wrote two memoirs following her diagnosis of colorectal cancer: Second Act in 1997 and Don’t Die of Embarrassment in 1999.

Barrie was married to Jay Harnick, the founder and artistic director of TheaterWorksUSA, from 1964 until his death in 2007. In addition to her daughter Jane Harnick, she is survived by son Aaron Harnick and three granddaughters.

 

Filmography

Film

Year     Title     Role     Notes

1956    Giant   Mary Lou Decker        Uncredited

1963    The Caretakers            Edna   

1964    One Potato, Two Potato          Julie Cullen Richards  Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress

Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress

1978    Summer of My German Soldier          Mrs. Bergen   

1979    The Bell Jar     Jay Cee           

Breaking Away           Evelyn Stohler Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress

Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress

1980    Private Benjamin         Harriet Benjamin        

1987    End of the Line           Jean Haney     

Real Men         Mom Pirandello         

1997    Hercules          Alcmene          Voice

1999    Judy Berlin      Sue Berlin       Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female

30 Days           Barbara Trainer          

2000    $pent   Mrs. Walsh     

2004    Second Best    Dorothea        

2009    Frame of Mind            Thelma           

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay           Mae    

2010    Harvest            Yetta Monopoli          

Twelve Thirty  Eve     

2018    Above All Things        Maggie           

2024    The Magnificent Meyersons   Celeste

2025    Things Like This         Portia

Television

Year     Title     Role     Notes

1951    Love of Life    Ginny Crandall            Unknown episodes

1955    Pond's Theater —N/a  Episode: "Cynara"

Kraft Television Theatre         —N/a  Episode: "Lady Ruth"

1956    Playwrights '56           Verna Anderson          Episode: "Flight"

1957    Robert Montgomery Presents Maggie Correll            Episode: "Wait for Me"

Suspicion         Ethel    Episode: "Heartbeat"

1958    Decoy  Anne   Episode: "My Brother's Killer"

1960    The Play of the Week  Lila      Episode: "A Palm Tree in a Rose Garden"

The Art Carney Special           —N/a  Episode: "Full Moon Over Brooklyn"

1961    The Defenders Fran Helber     Episode: "The Attack"

Armstrong Circle Theatre       Joanna Sommers         Episode: "Black Market Babies"

The United States Steel Hour Trina Trent      Episode: "Delayed Honeymoon"

1962    Route 66          Celia    Episode: "Even Stones Have Eyes"

The Untouchables       Cheryl Hines   Episode: "The Chess Game"

Naked City      Rosalind Faber, Sarah Hinson, Marcia Kormack       3 episodes

1963    Ben Casey       Martha Dignan            Episode: "Lullaby for Billy Dignan"

Dr. Kildare      Peggy Farrow  Episode: "The Mosaic"

The Virginian  Ellen Beecher  Episode: "The Small Parade"

The Twilight Zone      Myra Russell   Episode: "Miniature"

Alcoa Premiere            Virginia Stanley          Episode: "The Dark Labyrinth"

1964    Mr. Novak       Mary Smith     Episode: "How Does Your Garden Grow?"

The Doctors and the Nurses    Laura Crane    Episode: "The Love of a Smart Operator"

The Defenders Shirley Lowell 2 episodes

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour    Isabel Smith    Episode: "Isabel"

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour    Dr. Jane Sumner Waterleigh    Episode: "Consider Her Ways"

1965    The Fugitive    Aimee Rennick           Episode: "The End Is But the Beginning"

Ben Casey       Ellen Tevlin     Episode: "A Rambling Discourse on Egyptian Water Clocks"

Rawhide          Liz Harmon     Episode: "Mrs. Harmon"

1966    The Trials of O'Brien  Jean Fields       Episode: "A Horse Called Destiny"

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre        Laurel Catlan  Episode: "The Eighth Day"

1967    Ironside           Myra Dupont  Episode: "The Leaf in the Forest"

The Invaders   Gale Frazer      Episode 5: "The Enemy"

1971    Play for Today —N/a  Episode: "The Rank and File"

1972    To Be Young, Gifted, and Black         —N/a  Television film

1973    The ABC Afternoon Playbreak           Tina Bordeaux Episode: "The Mask of Love"

Koska and His Family Isabel Koska   Episode: "Pilot"

1973–1974      Diana   Norma Brodnick         10 episodes

1974    The Mary Tyler Moore Show Judith Chandler           Episode: "I Love A Piano"

1975–1978      Barney Miller  Elizabeth Miller          37 credited episodes (appeared in 11)

1975    For the Use of the Hall           Charlotte          Television film

Bronk  Lorna   Episode: "Terror"

McMillan & Wife        Emily Church  Episode: "Aftershock"

1977    79 Park Avenue           Kaati Fludjicki            1 episode

1978    Child of Glass Emily Armsworth        Television film

Visions —N/a  Episode: "Blackout"

1979    Backstairs at the White House            Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower         Episode: "#1.4"

Roots: The Next Generations  Dodie Brattle   Episode: "#1.7"

Lou Grant        Edna Raines    2 episodes

1980    To Race the Wind        Mrs. Krents     Television film

1980–1981      Breaking Away           Evelyn Stohler 8 episodes

Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

1981    Private Benjamin         Harriet Benjamin         Episode: "Bye, Bye Benjamin"

The Children Nobody Wanted            Hanna  Television film

1982    Barefoot in the Park    Mrs. Banks      Television film

American Playhouse   Schoolteacher  Episode: "Working"

Not Just Another Affair           Martha Dawson          Television film

Two of a Kind Dottie Minor   Television film

1982–1983      Tucker's Witch            Ellen Hobbes  12 episodes

1983    Reggie Elizabeth Potter           6 episodes

1984    All Together Now       Elly Parker      Television film

Trapper John, M.D.     Dr. Kate Hanley          Episode: "All Fall to Grace"

1984–1985      Double Trouble           Aunt Margo     15 episodes

1985    The Execution Sophie Langbein         Television film

1986    Vital Signs       Frances            Television film

Kate & Allie    Anne   Episode: "Late Bloomer"

1987    Mr. President   Peggie 2 episodes

Family Ties     Aunt Rosemary           Episode: "The Way We Were"

1988    Winnie Mrs. Drake      Television film

My First Love Ruth Waxman Television film

1988–1990      Thirtysomething          Barbara Steadman       2 episodes

1989    A Fine Romance         Aunt Grace      Episode: "A Horse is a Horse, Of Course, Of Course"

1990    His & Hers      —N/a  2 episodes

1991    Babes  Mom    Episode: "Mom"

1992    Law & Order   Mrs. Bream     Episode: "Vengeance"

Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

ABC Afterschool Special        Anne Charney 2 episodes

1993    The Odd Couple Together Again        Gloria Unger   Television film

Lovejoy           Miss Lillian     Episode: "The Lost Colony"

1994    CBS Schoolbreak Special       Shirley Episode: "My Summer As a Girl"

Scarlett            Pauline Robillard        2 episodes

The Commish  Ann Palmer     Episode: "A Christmas Story"

1996–2000      Suddenly Susan           Helen Keane   92 episodes

1998    Hercules          Alcmene          Voice, episode: "Hercules and the Parents' Weekend"

A Chance of Snow      Ruth Pulmer    Television film

2000    Once and Again          Peg Sammler   Episode: "Feast or Famine"

2003    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit   Paula Haggerty           Episode: "Perfect"

Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series

2004    Dead Like Me Phyllis 2 episodes

2007    Pushing Daisies           Mamma Jacobs           Episode: "Girth"

2009    Surviving Suburbia     Val       Episode: "No Reception"

Army Wives    Virginia           Episode: "As Time Goes By..."

2010    Nurse Jackie    Libby Sussman            Episode: "Silly String"

2011    Enlightened     Carol   Episode: "Consider Helen"

Stage

Year     Title     Role     Notes

1955    The Wooden Dish       Janey Stewart  Booth Theatre, Broadway

1958    The Crucible   Elizabeth Proctor        Martinique Hotel

1959    The Beaux' Stratagem Cherry Phoenix Theatre, Broadway

1966    Happily Never After   Joan Mills        Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway

1969    Horseman, Pass By     Intellect            Fortune Theatre, Off-Broadway

1969    Twelfth Night  Viola    The Public Theater, Off-Broadway

1970    Company         Sarah   Alvin Theatre, Broadway

1971    The Prisoner of Second Avenue          Edna Edison (Replacement)    Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway

1972    The Selling of the President    Grace Mason   Shubert Theatre, Broadway

1974    The Killdeer    Sparky The Public Theater, Off-Broadway

1976    California Suite           Beth Hollender/Millie Michaels         Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway

1983    Torch Song Trilogy     Mrs. Beckoff (Replacement)   Little Theatre, Broadway

1995    After-Play        Renee Shredman         Manhattan Theater Club, Off-Broadway

2004    Fiddler on the Roof     Yente (Replacement)   Minskoff Theatre, Broadway

2014    I Remember Mama     Katrin  Transport Group, Off-Broadway

2017    Significant Other         Helene Berman           Booth Theatre, Broadway

Awards and nominations

Year     Award  Category          Nominated work         Result

1964

Cannes Film Festival   Best Actress   

One Potato, Two Potato

Won

New York Film Critics Circle Awards            Best Actress    Nominated

1971

Tony Awards   Best Featured Actress in a Musical    

Company

Nominated

1974

Drama Desk Awards   Outstanding Performance       

The Killdeer

Won

1980

Academy Awards        Best Supporting Actress         

Breaking Away

Nominated

New York Film Critics Circle Awards            Best Supporting Actress          Nominated

National Society of Film Critics Awards        Best Supporting Actress          Nominated

1981

Primetime Emmy Awards       Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series   

Breaking Away

Nominated

1992

Primetime Emmy Awards       Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series   

Law & Order

Nominated

2000

Film Independent Spirit Awards         Best Supporting Female         

Judy Berlin

Nominated

2001

Online Film & Television Association            Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series

Once and Again

Nominated

2003

Primetime Emmy Awards       Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series           

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Nominated

2014

Outer Critics Circle Awards    Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play         

I Remember Mama

Nominated

 

Elke Sommer obit

Elke Sommer Dies: ‘A Shot In The Dark’, ‘The Wrecking Crew’ Actor Was 85

 She was not on the list.

Elke Sommer, the cool blond star whose distinctive German accent and regal bearing lent her a certain exotic quality that she brought to such 1960s films as the Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark, Bob Hope’s comedy Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, The Oscar starring Stephen Boyd and spy entry The Wrecking Crew, died Wednesday, October 28, of heart failure at her home in Bel-Air, California. She was 85.

Her death was announced by her stepson Sebastian Walther, through a spokesperson, to the German newspaper Bild. The statement read: “Elke passed away peacefully around 10 p.m. Now she can finally be with her beloved husband again.” Sommers husband, German hotelier Wolf Walther, died three months ago, on July 22.

Born Elke Schletz on November 5, 1940, in Berlin, to a family headed by her Lutheran minister father, Sommer moved briefly to London in 1957. While vacationing in Italy the following year, she was noticed by film director Vittorio De Sica, who began casting her in movies. She changed her surname to Sommer at that point.

Her breakthrough came with 1963’s The Prize, a spy film and romantic comedy starring Paul Newman (Sommer was named Most Promising Newcomer Actress at the Golden Globes for her performance.) The following year brought A Shot in the Dark, the second in the durable Pink Panther franchise starring Peter Sellers.

Sommers’ popularity continued through a string of 1960s films, many of them caper-style thrillers tinged with comedy and romance that paired Sommer with established leading men. There was The Art of Love in ’65 with James Garner; The Oscar with Boyd in 1966; and, that same year, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! with Hope, and Deadlier Than the Male, a Bulldog Drummond spy movie with Richard Johnson. The Wrecking Crew (1968) was one of her more popular entries, starring Dean Martin as spy Matt Helm (the film also featured Sharon Tate and would be the last of Tate’s movies released before her murder in 1969).

Through the mid-1970s, Sommer appeared in thriller Zeppelin, Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians, Italian horror films Baron Blood and Lisa and the Devil (the latter a 1972 film re-released in 1975 with additional scenes featuring Sommer and retitled House of Exorcism to piggyback on the popularity of The Exorcist).

Sommer, who several albums as a cabaret singer, increasingly worked in Europe though the ’70s, including the 1979 comedy The Prisoner of Zenda with her old Panther co-star Sellers. As her film career began to wane, Sommer shifted to television in the 1980s and ’90s, and she portrayed the wife of Joseph Goebbels in the 1982 ABC miniseries Inside the Third Reich. She frequently appeared on the NBC variety show hosted by her old Wrecking Crew co-star Dean Martin and guested on St. Elsewhere, The Love Boat and other shows. She even made a memorable appearance on The Muppet Show.

In 1984, Sommer appeared on the CBS reality competition series Circus of the Stars, which led to a real-life feud and legal battle with Zsa Zsa Gabor. According to reports at the time, Gabor apparently heard Sommer crack a joke about Gabor’s weight. “Poor horse,” Sommer reportedly said when Gabor mounted the saddle, a quip overheard by Gabor, who then told a German news outlet that Sommer was destitute, hung out in sleazy bars, was balding and earned a living selling hand-knitted sweaters.

Sommer sued Gabor and Gabor’s husband Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt for defamation and emotional distress, ultimately winning $3.3 million in general and punitive damages in Santa Monica Superior Court.

Sommer married Hollywood newspaper columnist Joe Hyams in 1964 (they divorced in 1981). She was married to hotelier Walther from 1993 until his death from cancer three months ago.

Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.

 

Filmography

Film

The Friend of the Jaguar (1959) – Grete

Men and Noblemen (1959) – Caterina

Ragazzi del Juke-Box (1959) – Giulia Cesari

The Death Ship (1959) – Mylene, ein Französisches Mädchen

The Day the Rains Came (1959) – Ellen

La Pica sul Pacifico (1959) – Rossana

Stage Fright (1960) – Evelyne

Howlers in the Dock (1960) – Giulia Giommarelli

Heaven, Love and Twine (1960) – Eva

The Warrior Empress (1960)

Femmine di lusso (1960) – Greta

Und sowas nennt sich Leben [de] (1961) – Britta

Daniella by Night (1961) – Daniella

Don't Bother to Knock (1961) – Ingrid

Beloved Impostor (1961) – Barbara Shadwell

Auf Wiedersehen (1961) – Suzy Dalton

Café Oriental (1962) – Sylvia

Douce violence (1962) – Elke

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962) – Renate Hecker

Un chien dans un jeu de quilles (1962) – Ariane

Bahía de Palma (1962) – Olga

The Phone Rings Every Night (1962) – Tochter Mabel Meyer

Les Bricoleurs (1963) – Brigitte

Ostrva (1963) – Eva

The Victors (1963) – Helga Metzger

...denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol (1963)

The Prize (1963) – Inger Lisa Andersson

A Shot in the Dark (1964) – Maria Gambrelli

Among Vultures (1964) – Annie Dillman

Le bambole (1965, UK title: Four Kinds of Love) – Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica")

Hotel of Dead Guests (1965) – Herself

The Art of Love (1965) – Nikki Dunnay

The Money Trap (1965) – Lisa Baron

The Oscar (1966) – Kay Bergdahl

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966) – Didi

The Venetian Affair (1966) – Sandra Fane

The Peking Medallion (1967, a.k.a. The Corrupt Ones) – Lilly Mancini

Deadlier Than the Male (1967) – Irma Eckman

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968) – Paula Schultz

They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968) – Ann Bennett

The Wrecking Crew (1969) – Linka Karensky

The Invincible Six (1970) – Zari

Percy (1971) – Helga

Zeppelin (1971) – Erika Altschul

Baron Blood (1972) – Eva Arnold

Trip to Vienna (1973) – Toni Simon

Lisa and the Devil (1973) – Lisa Reiner / Elena

One or the Other of Us (1974) – Miezi

Percy's Progress (1974) – Clarissa

Ten Little Indians (1974, also known as And Then There Were None) – Vera Clyde[9]

Carry On Behind (1975) – Professor Anna Vooshka

The Net (1975) – Christa Sonntag

One Away (1976) – Elsa

The Swiss Conspiracy (1976) – Rita Jensen

Meet Him and Die (1976) – Perrone's Secretary

The Astral Factor (1978) – Chris Hartman (re-released as The Invisible Strangler in 1984)

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (1978, also known as Drop Dead Dearest) – Magdalene Kruschen

The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) – The Countess

The Double McGuffin (1979) – Madame Kura

The Treasure Seekers (1979) – Ursula

Exit Sunset Boulevard (1980) – Frau Lachmann

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979) – Miss Pelham

The Man in Pyjamas (1981) – Frau Lachmann

Lily in Love (1984) – Alicia Braun

No One Cries Forever [de] (1984) – Lou Parker

Death Stone (1987) – Kris Patterson

Himmelsheim (1988) – Helga Münzel

Severed Ties (1992) – Helena Harrison

Life Is a Bluff (1996) – Jutta

Doppeltes Spiel mit Anne (1999) – Frau Lorenz

Flashback [de] (2000) – Frau Lust

The Emperor's New Groove (2000) – Yzma (voice, German dub)

Life Is Too Long (2010) – Alfi Seliger's mother

A Thousand Kisses (2017, animated short) – Nette (voice)

Television

           

This television-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2025)

Elke Sommer television credits

Year     Title     Role     Notes   Ref.

1972    Probe   Heideline 'Uli' Ullman            TV movie       

1973    The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson          Herself (guest)            

1976    Six Million Dollar Man          Dr Ilse Martin  S4E5  

1979    Stunt Seven     Rebecca Wayne           TV movie       

1979    The Muppet Show      Herself S3E19

1980    Top of the Hill Eva Heggener TV movie       

1981    Miss Universe Pageant           Herself, co-host           Beauty Pageant          

1982    Inside the Third Reich Magda Goebbels         TV movie       

1985    Jenny's War     Eva Gruenberg            4 episodes       

1986    The Exciting World of Speed and Beauty      Herself (host)             

1986    Peter the Great            Charlotte          TV miniseries 

1986    St. Elsewhere  Natasha           1 episode        

1986    Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna        Isabel Von Hohenstauffen       TV movie       

1988    Adventures Beyond Belief      Headmistress Bruno von Kleff           5 episodes       

1992    Counterstrike   Anita Duvalier Episode: "No Honour Among Thieves"        

1993    Happy Holiday            Isabella Scattini           1 episode        

1993    Destiny Ridge Anna              

1994    Florian III        Sonja Carpenter                      

1999    Gisbert Unknown        1 episode        

2000    Nicht mit uns  Andrea Paretti TV movie       

2005    Reblaus           Maria Rüppel  TV movie       

2005    Ewig rauschen die Gelder       Frau von Korff            TV movie       

Stephen Kovacevich obit

Stephen Kovacevich - a pianist who risked oblivion to know what it’s like out on the edge

The death of Stephen Kovacevich, aged 86, was announced yesterday. Tom Service pays tribute to a pianist whose performances were full of beauty, clarity – and danger 

He was not on the list.

It was just a couple of weeks ago that Stephen Kovacevich and I were last in contact. He was in hospital, recovering from a hip operation, and we were talking about Hiromi, and where the latest generation of pianists were coming from. The players who had the brilliance, fire and commitment to the moment that his favourite players had: Vladimir Horowitz, Sergei Rachmaninov – his greatest of the greats – and his friend and occasional mentee, Yuja Wang.

Among other things, he told me about a Charles Munch performance of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique he had discovered on YouTube that made him exclaim: “How the hell did he get an orchestra to play like that?” Conversation with Stephen was always like that: utterly intense, totally opinionated, with the feeling that the spirits he was talking about, whether performers or composers from Chopin to Beethoven to Brahms to Mozart to Bach, were in the room with you, conjured into being as real, passionate people and presences.

Which was, of course, what you felt and heard in his playing. His long career devolved into name changes (Bishop, Bishop-Kovacevich, then Kovacevich) and relationship changes, as partnerships with conductors he loved to work with were intensely productive and then suddenly disappeared. Listen to any of the concerto recordings with Colin Davis to hear the adventure of what they made together, from Bartók to Mozart.

What was constant was a spirit of going to the edge of a performance to find the place where the music is most powerful and most vulnerable; risking oblivion to know what it’s like there, out on the edge. Stephen talked openly about how often his performances failed him, but he rejoiced in his successes, particularly the technical ones of the last decade or so of his life, when he recovered from a severe stroke in his late 60s, and combatted nerves, to play Schubert and Rachmaninov with an intimacy and intensity that was breathtaking.

He was driven by capturing the sensual spirit at the core of all the music he loved to play. This was a dangerous occupation, as it should be. Getting that close to the white-heat of Beethoven’s sonatas or Brahms’s concertos is all about being burnt and scarred, and plunging back in again to those cauldrons of extremity, the psychic and emotional places where music like that is made, and where performances like Stephen’s are born.

One of his complaints about classical music right now was that performers often don’t take enough risks, that their music-making isn’t dangerous enough. I agree with him. His own playing was the perfectly imperfect response: that’s why his Beethoven sonatas are my favourite on record, because you’re with him in the moment of the attempt to reach the mountaintop, with everything on the line, throwing it all at the impossibility of the moment. In that struggle and that realisation, there’s more truth and more transcendence than most pianists will find in a lifetime. I’m going to miss him.

Phil McDonald obit

Remembering Phil McDonald

 

He was not on the list.

We’re saddened to announce the passing of the wonderful Phil McDonald.

“It was when I first walked round the studios that I realised recording was the career for me.” – Phil in Beat Instrumental 1974

Phil was a highly skilled, deeply trusted, and much-loved engineer who started working here in 1964 at the age of eighteen. A man who went on to become one of the few credited on the back cover of Abbey Road, he started out in our tape library and worked in the cutting rooms before making the transition to tape op, and soon, balance engineer.

His first session with The Beatles is documented as 17 June 1965 for Yesterday. The following years working on Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and The White Album, he would’ve been trained up by the likes of Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott before taking a central role in the recording of Abbey Road. Phil’s philosophy was always to get as close as possible to recording the true sound he heard in the studio.

Transitioning to Apple Records around 1971 and through 1974, Phil worked with all four Beatles on their first solo projects, before lending his talents to some of the world’s biggest artists including Eric Clapton, Harry Nilsson, Deep Purple, Squeeze and Roy Orbison. Across his career Phil contributed to some of the most influential albums of all time: All Things Must Pass, Imagine, McCartney I, The Madcap Laughs, Plastic Ono Band, Deep Purple In Rock, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, Living In The Material World, A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night, Traveling Wilburys Vol.1, Mystery Girl and so many more.

We were lucky to welcome him back to the studios last year for a look around his old home, a moment we all treasured - now even more. Phil had a fantastic sense of humour, a quiet calm and a clear passion for recording and music.

He is remembered by his wife Sandra, his past colleagues and friends, and so fondly by all of us here at Abbey Road.

Thanks Phil. Rest in peace.

Jim Boyd obit

 

Jim Boyd Has Died

He was not on the list.

James Lloyd Boyd (March 26, 1942 – October 27, 2026) was an American actor and television news anchor and reporter for WCVB-TV.

Born James Lloyd Boyd in Harlem, New York, on March 26, 1942, he was the son of Edmonia Coleman, a secretary and receptionist and Leroy Homer Boyd, a postal worker, gospel singer and musician. His grandfather Arthur Leroy Boyd was first violinist in the Negro String Quartet that performed with singer Roland Hayes at New York's Carnegie Hall on November 27, 1925. Boyd had three siblings. He was born in Harlem Hospital, educated in New York City Schools (Public School 90, and Public School 68, Humboldt Junior High School 115 and George Washington High School (class of 1958) and attended Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, and Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Boyd started his broadcasting career at National Educational Television in New York in 1961, beginning as a mail clerk, then production assistant, associate producer and eventually producer for News in Perspective, a bi-weekly news analysis and background program produced in association with The New York Times and hosted by Lester Markel and Clifton Daniel. The program was generally produced in New York City and Washington, DC, but often was produced around the world including Osaka, Japan; Saigon, South Vietnam; Cairo, Egypt; Bonn, Germany; or Paris, France. Boyd began an on-air career in Boston, Mass. in 1970 as a general assignment reporter at WHDH-TV (Original) now WCVB-TV. He co-anchored weekend newscasts from 1976 to 1984, early mornings from 1984 to 2000 and noontime newscasts from 1984 to 2006 when he was named special correspondent and field reporter for both WCVB's broadcast news operation and its website TheBostonChannel.com (now WCVB.com). He retired at the end of 2008. In 2009 Boyd enrolled as an undergraduate at University of Massachusetts Boston, transferred to Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology in 2013. Throughout his television career Boyd had been a member of AFTRA (The American federation of Television and Radio Artists) that merged with the Screen Actors Guild in 2012 to become SAG-AFTRA. In 2013 after graduating from Tufts, Boyd began acting in television series and motion pictures as an extra or background performer. Projects to date include: American Hustle, The Equalizer, The Judge, The Forger, Olive Kitteridge, Unfinished Business, Black Mass, Ted 2, and Spotlight.

 

Actor

Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers (2023)

The Holdovers

7.9

Bookstore Shopper (uncredited)

2023

 

Kevin Bacon, Simon Helberg, Carrie Preston, Alexandra Shipp, Madeline Brewer, and Kyle Allen in Space Oddity (2022)

Space Oddity

5.5

Old Man Bert

2022

 

Chris Evans, Michelle Dockery, and Jaeden Martell in Defending Jacob (2020)

Defending Jacob

7.7

TV Mini Series

Reporter at Courthouse

2020

1 episode

 

Mark Wahlberg and Winston Duke in Spenser Confidential (2020)

Spenser Confidential

6.2

News Anchor

2020

 

Chandra Thomas, Langston Fishburne, and Scott Neufville in Assassin Behind the Glass (2018)

Assassin Behind the Glass

5.5

Court Worker

2018

 

Mel Gibson, Mark Wahlberg, John Lithgow, Will Ferrell, Linda Cardellini, John Cena, Scarlett Estevez, and Owen Vaccaro in Daddy's Home 2 (2017)

Daddy's Home 2

6.1

Magi or Wiseman (uncredited)

2017

 

Chloë Grace Moretz and Ansel Elgort in November Criminals (2017)

November Criminals

5.3

TV Reporter (uncredited)

2017

 

Anthony Mackie, Will Poulter, John Boyega, and Algee Smith in Detroit (2017)

Detroit

7.3

Bus Passenger (uncredited)

2017

 

Jason Schwartzman, Jack Black, and Jenny Slate in The Polka King (2017)

The Polka King

6.0

Reporter (as James Boyd)

2017

 

Jason Segel in The Discovery (2017)

The Discovery

6.2

Man in Red 1 (uncredited)

2017

 

Aaron Eckhart, Miles Teller, and Christine Evangelista in Bleed for This (2016)

Bleed for This

6.8

Ringside Reporter (uncredited)

2016

 

Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Chris Hemsworth, and Kristen Wiig in Ghostbusters (2016)

Ghostbusters

6.8

Hotel Doorman (uncredited)

2016

 

Brittany Mirabile and Roman Blat in The Purge: Election Year (2016)

The Purge: Election Year

6.0

Factory Worker (uncredited)

2016

 

David Costabile, Jeffrey DeMunn, Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Corey Stoll, Kelly AuCoin, Maggie Siff, Asia Kate Dillon, and Dola Rashad in Billions (2016)

Billions

8.3

TV Series

Hedge Fund Manager (uncredited)

2016

1 episode

 

Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams in Manchester by the Sea (2016)

Manchester by the Sea

7.8

Hospital Administrator (uncredited)

2016

 

Jennifer Lawrence in Joy (2015)

Joy

6.6

Funeral Attendee (uncredited)

2015

 

Kevin Bacon, Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Dakota Johnson, Jesse Plemons, Peter Sarsgaard, Corey Stoll, and Benedict Cumberbatch in Black Mass (2015)

Black Mass

6.8

Motorist (uncredited)

2015

 

Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber, Brian d'Arcy James, Mark Ruffalo, and Rachel McAdams in Spotlight (2015)

Spotlight

8.1

Newspaper Employee (uncredited)

2015

 

Tichina Arnold, RonReaco Lee, Erica Ash, Jessie T. Usher, and Teyonah Parris in Survivor's Remorse (2014)

Survivor's Remorse

7.2

TV Series

Bodega Shopper (uncredited)

2015

1 episode

 

Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane in Ted 2 (2015)

Ted 2

6.3

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

2015

 

Joaquin Phoenix in Irrational Man (2015)

Irrational Man

6.6

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

2015

 

Anna Friel in American Odyssey (2015)

American Odyssey

7.3

TV Series

Cab Driver (uncredited)

2015

1 episode

 

Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, and Dave Franco in Unfinished Business (2015)

Unfinished Business

5.4

Hotel Patron (uncredited)

2015

 

John Travolta, Christopher Plummer, and Tye Sheridan in The Forger (2014)

The Forger

5.8

Rail Passenger (uncredited)

2014

 

Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall in The Judge (2014)

The Judge

7.4

Car Rental Agent (uncredited)

2014

 

Frances McDormand in Olive Kitteridge (2014)

Olive Kitteridge

8.2

TV Mini Series

Pedestrian (uncredited)

2014

1 episode

 

Italia Ricci in Chasing Life (2014)

Chasing Life

7.8

TV Series

Pedestrian (uncredited)

2014

1 episode

 

Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, and Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle (2013)

American Hustle

7.2

Politician (uncredited)

2013

 

Halle Berry, Quinn McPherson, and Jaiden J. Smith in The Mothership

The Mothership

Townsperson (uncredited)

 

Thanks

Little Town (2024)

Little Town

6.2

special thanks to

2024

 

Peter Medak obit

Peter Medak, Director of ‘The Ruling Class’ and ‘The Changeling,’ Dies at 88

After fleeing his native Hungary for England, he also helmed ‘A Day in the Death of Joe Egg,’ ‘The Krays,’ ‘Romeo Is Bleeding’ and episodes of ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ and ‘Breaking Bad.’ 

He was not on the list.

Peter Medak, the Hungarian-born director who guided Peter O’Toole in The Ruling Class, George C. Scott in the classic ghost story The Changeling and Gary Oldman in the crime thriller Romeo Is Bleeding, died Tuesday in Los Angeles, his family announced. He was 88.

Medak made his feature directorial debut on the erotic Negatives (1968), featuring Glenda Jackson in one of her first films, and followed that with the black comedy A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972), starring Alan Bates and Janet Suzman in an adaptation of Peter Nichols’ play.

He also helmed the British gangster drama The Krays (1990), with Gary Kemp and brother Martin Kemp, both members of Spandau Ballet, as real-life British gangsters; Let Him Have It (1991), featuring Christopher Eccleston and Tom Courtenay in another true story, about a controversial hanging; and Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981), starring George Hamilton.

For television, Medak worked on multiple episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street, Hart to Hart and Shelley Duvall‘s Faerie Tale Theatre and on installments of Breaking Bad, The Wire, Space: 1999, Magnum, P.I., Law & Order: SVU, St. Elsewhere, Chicago Hope, House and Cold Case.

With Medak calling the shots, O’Toole picked up the fifth of his eight career best actor Oscar nominations for his turn as a British nobleman who believes he’s Jesus Christ and then Jack the Ripper in the dark comedy The Ruling Class (1972). Based on a play by Peter Barnes, who also wrote the screenplay, the film played in competition at Cannes.

Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Amenábar are among those who admire his Changeling (1980), about a grieving composer (Scott) caught in a supernatural mystery involving his new home. Spielberg, in fact, screened the film several times for his crew on Poltergeist to help set the tone for that horror classic, Medak noted in a 2018 interview.

“He said, ‘This is what it should be.’ It was a great compliment coming from him, and I know he even has his own 35mm copy of The Changeling, and so does Martin Scorsese,” he said. “It’s lovely to have that, to be on their lists of the greatest ghost stories of all times.”

Oldman scored high marks for his performance as a corrupt New York homicide detective involved with a vicious hitwoman (Lena Olin) in Romeo Is Bleeding (1993). In his review for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers wrote that Medak “keeps the action stylish, sexy and fiendishly funny. The film rarely makes a lick of sense, but it’s compulsively watchable.”

Alas, Medak also is famous for directing the lamentable Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1974), a comedy about bumbling 17th century pirates that starred the combustible Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. “Oh, it was probably the biggest nightmare of my life,” he said in a 2007 interview for the DGA.

Even though the film nearly torpedoed his career, he chose to revisit the experience by helming the 2018 documentary The Ghost of Peter Sellers.

Medak was born on Dec. 23, 1937, in Budapest, Hungary. In 1956, he fled to England during his country’s uprising against the communists, and his aunt, an opera singer, helped him quickly land a job with the Associated British Picture Corp.

He started out as an editor, cameraman and assistant director and helped out Fred Zinnemann on The Sundowners (1960).

A stint as a second A.D. on The V.I.P.s (1963), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, led to him in 1963 to sign a seven-year contract at Universal Studios to direct for television in Hollywood and London. After many months of false starts, he made his helming debut with a 1965 episode of ITV/Universal’s Court Martial, starring Bradford Dillman and Peter Graves.

He had quite the start to his film career. “My first three movies‚ Negatives, Joe Egg and Ruling Class, were just total perfection for me to make as a young director,” he said in a 2020 interview.

In 1973, Medak was asked to direct Death Wish, but when he insisted that Henry Fonda be cast as the lead, Paramount turned to Michael Winner, who hired Charles Bronson for the role of vigilante Paul Kersey.

On King’s Road in London that year, he ran into Sellers, who invited him to direct Ghost in the Noonday Sun.

“Peter was a nightmare,” he recalled. “It was his project, which he developed for two years before me, and I realized about a month before shooting that he’s never read the script. If you can believe it.”

The film was shot on location in Cypress, and its pirate ship broke down daily and had to be towed back to the harbor. Meanwhile, the mercurial Sellers fired the producers and faked a heart attack to get time off. (Days later, Medak was stunned to see a newspaper photo of his star dining with Princess Margaret.)

The film was so bad, Columbia Pictures never released it; it finally made its way to VHS in the early ’80s. Medak didn’t direct another feature until The Odd Job (1978), starring Monty Python member Graham Chapman.

“I was basically punishing myself unconsciously for not making the greatest success of a film with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan,” he said. “But it wasn’t my fault. Peter’s terrible, insane, destructive behavior on that film [was the reason it failed].”

Medak’s résumé also included the features The Men’s Club (1986), La voix humaine (1990), Pontiac Moon (1994) and Species II (1998) and the 1997 telefilm The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Mandy Patinkin as Quasimodo.

And his love of music of all genres provided him with opportunities to direct early music videos for artists such as Peter Gabriel and Pink Floyd.

Survivors include his children, Christopher, Joshua, Karen and Cornelia, and his grandchildren, Sacha, Marlowe, Ryden, Oliver and Anders.

He was married to Catherine Marie La Kermance from 1963 until her death by suicide in 1972; to English actress Carolyn Seymour (she’s the wife of O’Toole’s character in The Ruling Class) from 1973 until their 1984 divorce; and to opera singer Julia Migenes from 1988 until their 2003 divorce.

“If it’s in your blood, directing, you never stop,” he said. “And it doesn’t matter that you’re alone in your mind, dreaming or imagining things, but you’re always making a movie.”

Director

Fallen Moon

Director

Development Unknown

 

Peter Sellers, Peter Medak, and Spike Milligan in The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)

The Ghost of Peter Sellers

6.7

Director

2018

 

The Dating Game Killer (2020)

The Dating Game Killer

6.0

TV Movie

Director

2017

 

Ron Perlman and Dana Delany in Hand of God (2014)

Hand of God

7.4

TV Series

Director

2015–2017

3 episodes

 

Paul Rhys and Jodie Whittaker in The Assets (2014)

The Assets

7.4

TV Mini Series

Director

2014

2 episodes

 

Mads Mikkelsen in Hannibal (2013)

Hannibal

8.5

TV Series

Director

2013–2014

2 episodes

 

Cold Case (2003)

Cold Case

7.7

TV Series

Director

2009

1 episode

 

Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad (2008)

Breaking Bad

9.5

TV Series

Director

2009

1 episode

 

Sex and Lies in Sin City (2008)

Sex and Lies in Sin City

5.0

TV Movie

Director

2008

 

Masters of Horror (2005)

Masters of Horror

7.4

TV Series

Director

2007

1 episode

 

In Justice (2006)

In Justice

7.4

TV Series

Director

2006

1 episode

 

Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie in Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)

Agatha Christie's Marple

7.9

TV Series

Director

2006

1 episode

 

Vanessa Williams, Giancarlo Esposito, Lee Thompson Young, Odette Annable, Marcus Coloma, and Chris Johnson in South Beach (2006)

South Beach

5.6

TV Series

Director

2006

1 episode

 

Hugh Laurie in House (2004)

House

8.7

TV Series

Director

2004

1 episode

 

Peter Gabriel: Play (2004)

Peter Gabriel: Play

8.6

Video

video "Modern Love"

2004

 

Jessica Biel, Beverley Mitchell, Barry Watson, David Gallagher, Catherine Hicks, Mackenzie Rosman, and Happy in 7th Heaven (1996)

7th Heaven

5.3

TV Series

Director

2004

1 episode

 

The Guardian (2001)

The Guardian

7.5

TV Series

Director

2001–2003

3 episodes

 

Carnivàle (2003)

Carnivàle

8.4

TV Series

Director

2003

1 episode

 

Dominic West in The Wire (2002)

The Wire

9.3

TV Series

Director

2002

1 episode

 

Gloria Reuben in The Feast of All Saints (2001)

The Feast of All Saints

6.6

TV Movie

Director

2001

 

David Copperfield (2000)

David Copperfield

7.0

TV Movie

Director

2000

 

Lauren Holly, Hector Elizondo, Carla Gugino, Mark Harmon, Barbara Hershey, Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, and Rocky Carroll in Chicago Hope (1994)

Chicago Hope

6.9

TV Series

Director

2000

1 episode

 

Mariska Hargitay in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

8.1

TV Series

directed by

1999

1 episode

 

Michelle Forbes, Yaphet Kotto, Max Perlich, Kyle Secor, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Clark Johnson, and Melissa Leo in Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)

Homicide: Life on the Street

8.7

TV Series

Director

1994–1998

6 episodes

 

Natasha Henstridge in Species II (1998)

Species II

4.6

directed by

1998

 

Falls Road

TV Movie

Director

1997

 

Salma Hayek, Richard Harris, and Mandy Patinkin in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1997)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

6.1

TV Movie

Director (as Peter Medák)

1997

 

Kindred: The Embraced (1996)

Kindred: The Embraced

7.5

TV Series

Director

1996

2 episodes

 

Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, and Ryan Todd in Pontiac Moon (1994)

Pontiac Moon

5.6

Director

1994

 

Gary Oldman, Juliette Lewis, Lena Olin, and Annabella Sciorra in Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)

Romeo Is Bleeding

6.5

Director

1993

 

John Kassir in Tales from the Crypt (1989)

Tales from the Crypt

8.0

TV Series

Director

1992

1 episode

 

Christopher Eccleston in Let Him Have It (1991)

Let Him Have It

7.1

Director

1991

 

La voix humaine (1990)

La voix humaine

5.8

Director

1990

 

Gary Kemp and Martin Kemp in The Krays (1990)

The Krays

6.6

Director

1990

 

Christopher Plummer in Nabokov on Kafka (1989)

Nabokov on Kafka

7.4

TV Movie

Director

1989

 

China Beach (1988)

China Beach

8.2

TV Series

Director

1989

1 episode

 

Patrick Bauchau, Domini Blythe, Catherine Colvey, Jonathan Crombie, and Guylaine St-Onge in Mount Royal (1988)

Mount Royal

5.6

TV Series

Director

1988

1 episode

 

Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman in Beauty and the Beast (1987)

Beauty and the Beast

7.0

TV Series

Director

1987

1 episode

 

Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)

Faerie Tale Theatre

8.3

TV Series

Director

1984–1987

5 episodes

 

The Twilight Zone (1985)

The Twilight Zone

7.7

TV Series

directed by

1985–1987

7 episodes

 

Billy Campbell, Dennis Farina, Paul Butler, Steve Ryan, and Bill Smitrovich in Crime Story (1986)

Crime Story

8.3

TV Series

Director

1987

1 episode

 

Denzel Washington, Ed Begley Jr., David Morse, Howie Mandel, Cynthia Sikes Yorkin, Ellen Bry, William Daniels, and Ed Flanders in St. Elsewhere (1982)

St. Elsewhere

8.0

TV Series

Director

1987

1 episode

 

Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Men's Club (1986)

The Men's Club

4.8

Director

1986

 

Michael DeLorenzo and Ben Vereen in Breakin' Through (1985)

Breakin' Through

6.6

Video

Director

1985

 

Gretchen Corbett, Tony O'Dell, Sam Groom, Chris Hebert, and Jonna Lee in Otherworld (1985)

Otherworld

7.2

TV Series

Director

1985

1 episode

 

Tom Selleck in Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Magnum, P.I.

7.5

TV Series

Director

1985

1 episode

 

Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist in Remington Steele (1982)

Remington Steele

7.3

TV Series

Director

1983

1 episode

 

Catherine Schell in Cosmic Princess (1982)

Cosmic Princess

3.4

TV Movie

Director (segment "The Metamorph")

1982

 

Patrick Duffy in Cry for the Strangers (1982)

Cry for the Strangers

4.7

TV Movie

Director

1982

 

Hart to Hart (1979)

Hart to Hart

6.7

TV Series

Director

1982

4 episodes

 

Mistress of Paradise (1981)

Mistress of Paradise

3.7

TV Movie

Director

1981

 

George Hamilton in Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981)

Zorro: The Gay Blade

6.3

Director

1981

 

The Babysitter (1980)

The Babysitter

5.6

TV Movie

directed by

1980

 

The Changeling (1980)

The Changeling

7.1

Director

1980

 

Ian Ogilvy in Return of the Saint (1978)

Return of the Saint

6.7

TV Series

Director

1978

1 episode

 

Lewis Collins, Gordon Jackson, and Martin Shaw in The Professionals (1977)

The Professionals

8.0

TV Series

directed by

1978

1 episode

 

The Odd Job (1978)

The Odd Job

5.9

Director

1978

 

Peter Gabriel: Modern Love (1977)

Peter Gabriel: Modern Love

5.8

Music Video

Director

1977

 

Barbara Bain and Martin Landau in Space: 1999 (1975)

Space: 1999

7.3

TV Series

Director

1976–1977

2 episodes

 

The Rocking Horse Winner (1977)

The Rocking Horse Winner

6.9

TV Movie

Director

1977

 

Tony Curtis and Roger Moore in Sporting Chance (1975)

Sporting Chance

6.9

Director

1975

 

Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1974)

Ghost in the Noonday Sun

4.3

Director

1974

 

The Third Girl from the Left (1973)

The Third Girl from the Left

6.2

TV Movie

Director

1973

 

Pink Floyd in Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon

8.2

Short

Director

1973

 

Alan Bates and Janet Suzman in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

6.8

Director

1972

 

Peter O'Toole in The Ruling Class (1972)

The Ruling Class

7.2

Director

1972

 

Tony Curtis and Roger Moore in The Persuaders! (1971)

The Persuaders!

8.0

TV Series

directed by

1971

1 episode

 

Kaz Garas, Anthony Quayle, and Anneke Wills in Strange Report (1969)

Strange Report

8.0

TV Series

Director

1969

2 episodes

 

Diane Cilento, Glenda Jackson, and Peter McEnery in Negatives (1968)

Negatives

5.6

Director

1968

 

Bradford Dillman and Peter Graves in Court Martial (1965)

Court Martial

7.0

TV Series

Director

1965

1 episode

 

Producer

The Dating Game Killer (2020)

The Dating Game Killer

6.0

TV Movie

executive producer

2017

 

Salma Hayek, Richard Harris, and Mandy Patinkin in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1997)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

6.1

TV Movie

co-producer (as Peter Medák)

1997

 

Fathom (1967)

Fathom

5.7

associate producer

1967

 

Bradford Dillman and Peter Graves in Court Martial (1965)

Court Martial

7.0

TV Series

associate producer

1965–1966

14 episodes

 

Kaleidoscope (1966)

Kaleidoscope

5.9

associate producer

1966

 

Second Unit or Assistant Director

Fathom (1967)

Fathom

5.7

second unit director

1967

 

Funeral in Berlin (1966)

Funeral in Berlin

6.8

second unit director

1966

 

Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Louis Jourdan in The V.I.P.s (1963)

The V.I.P.s

6.3

second assistant director (uncredited)

1963

 

Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)

Sparrows Can't Sing

6.2

assistant director

1963

 

Night Creatures (1962)

Night Creatures

6.6

second assistant director (uncredited)

1962

 

The Phantom of the Opera (1962)

The Phantom of the Opera

6.4

second assistant director

1962

 

Doomsday at Eleven (1962)

Doomsday at Eleven

second assistant director (uncredited)

1962

 

The Great Armored Car Swindle (1961)

The Great Armored Car Swindle

5.5

assistant director

1961

 

Peter Finch in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

7.1

second assistant director (uncredited)

1960

 

Actor

The Gun, the Cake and the Butterfly (2013)

The Gun, the Cake and the Butterfly

6.5

Father

2013

 

Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

Beverly Hills Cop III

5.5

Man at Corner

1994

 

Casting Director

Malcolm McDowell and Robert Shaw in Figures in a Landscape (1970)

Figures in a Landscape

6.5

Casting Director (uncredited)

1970

 

Thanks

Crazy Animal (2007)

Crazy Animal

3.1

Video

special thanks

2007

 

Loren Taylor and Jemaine Clement in Eagle vs Shark (2007)

Eagle vs Shark

6.7

special thanks

2007

 

36 pasos (2006)

36 pasos

4.6

spiritual support

2006

 

The Unseen Spike Milligan

8.0

TV Movie

thanks

2005

 

Childlike Violence

Short

special thanks

2004

 

Flesh and Blood: The story of the Krays (1991)

Flesh and Blood: The story of the Krays

6.9

TV Movie

thanks

1991

 

Self

Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders (2025)

Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders

Short

Self

2025

 

Dory Previn: On My Way to Where (2024)

Dory Previn: On My Way to Where

8.0

Self

2024

 

Peter O'Toole in Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

6.6

Self

2022

 

The 26th Satellite Awards (2022)

The 26th Satellite Awards

TV Special

Self

2022

 

Medak on Medak: An Interview with Peter Medak

Short

Self

2021

 

Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy (2020)

Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy

6.9

TV Movie

Self

2020

 

Morbido TV Entrevistas (2016)

Morbido TV Entrevistas

TV Series

Self

2018

1 episode

 

Peter Sellers, Peter Medak, and Spike Milligan in The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)

The Ghost of Peter Sellers

6.7

Self

2018

 

Post Mortem with Mick Garris (2017)

Post Mortem with Mick Garris

7.8

Podcast Series

Self

2018

1 episode

 

Roger Waters: The Wall (2014)

Roger Waters: The Wall

8.5

Self

2014

 

Piers Morgan in Piers Morgan's Life Stories (2009)

Piers Morgan's Life Stories

3.8

TV Series

Self

2014

1 episode

 

The Kindred Chronicles (2013)

The Kindred Chronicles

8.4

Self

2013

 

Feast on This: The Making of 'The Washingtonians'

Video

Self

2007

 

Eamonn Andrews in This Is Your Life (1955)

This Is Your Life

6.4

TV Series

Self

2003

1 episode

 

First Edition (1997)

First Edition

TV Series

Self - Director: 'Let Him Have It'

1999

1 episode

 

Flesh and Blood: The story of the Krays (1991)

Flesh and Blood: The story of the Krays

6.9

TV Movie

Self - Film Director

1991

 

The 34th Annual Directors Guild Awards

TV Special

Self

1982