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

 

Joseph Lagu obit

South Sudan’s liberation pioneer Joseph Lagu dies at 94

General Joseph Lagu Yanga, a leading figure in South Sudan’s liberation struggle, has died in Juba, President Salva Kiir announced on Tuesday.

 

He was not on the list.

JUBA – General Joseph Lagu Yanga, a leading figure in South Sudan’s liberation struggle, has died in Juba, President Salva Kiir announced on Tuesday.

Kiir declared national mourning, ordering flags across South Sudan and at diplomatic missions abroad to fly at half-mast until Lagu is buried. He also said he would personally bid the late general a state farewell.

“It is with profound sorrow and deep shock that I announce the peaceful passing of His Excellency, Gen. Joseph Lagu Yanga, which occurred this afternoon in Juba,” Kiir said.

Lagu led the Anyanya resistance movement during the first Sudanese civil war. In 1972, he signed the Addis Ababa Agreement with Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry, ending the war and granting southern Sudan regional autonomy.

Following the agreement, Lagu rejoined the Sudanese armed forces as a major general and oversaw the integration of former fighters into the national military. He later commanded the army’s Southern Division, based in Juba.

He entered politics in 1978, becoming president of the autonomous Southern Region’s High Executive Council. In 1982, he was appointed Sudan’s second vice president, serving until 1985.

Lagu later held diplomatic posts, including Sudan’s permanent representative to the United Nations from 1990 to 1992.

Ahead of South Sudan’s 2011 independence referendum, he served as a special presidential adviser to Kiir and supported the south’s pursuit of self-determination.

In his mourning announcement, Kiir urged South Sudanese to celebrate Lagu’s life and legacy.

“As his family and the nation mourn his passing, I urge the public to also celebrate his life, because he lived to see the birth of the country he fought for,” Kiir said.

Lagu was born on November 21, 1931, in Momokwe, in present-day Magwi County, Eastern Equatoria State. He published his memoir, Sudan Odyssey: From Ruin to Hope, in 2006.

Andre Lacroix obit

Lacroix, original member of Flyers, WHA’s all-time leading scorer, dies at 81

Center also played for Black Hawks, Whalers, with Canada in Summit Series 

He was not on the list.

Andre Lacroix, an original member of the Philadelphia Flyers and the leading scorer in World Hockey Association history, has died at the age of 81.

Lacroix began his NHL career with the Flyers in 1967-68 and played 245 games with them over four seasons. The center led Philadelphia in points twice, finishing with 56 points (24 goals, 32 assists) in 75 games in 1968-69, and 58 points (22 goals, 36 assists) in 74 games in 1969-70.

Lacroix then was traded to the Chicago Black Hawks for 1971-72 before joining the WHA with the Philadelphia Blazers the following season, when he led the league with 124 points (50 goals, 74 assists). He also played for the New York Golden Blades/Jersey Knights, San Diego Mariners, Houston Aeros and New England Whalers over his seven WHA seasons.

In 1974-75, his first season with San Diego, Lacroix won his second WHA scoring title with 147 points (41 goals, 106 assists) in 78 games. He also set the professional record for assists that season; at the time, he was the only player other than Bobby Orr (102 assists for the Boston Bruins in 1970-71) who had ever reached 100 in a single season of professional hockey. The record stood until Wayne Gretzky had 109 assists for the Edmonton Oilers in 1980-81.

Lacroix is the WHA all-time leader in points (798, including 251 goals), assists (547) and games played (551).

Following the WHA-NHL merger in 1979, Lacroix returned to the NHL for a sixth and final season, playing for the Hartford Whalers in 1979-80 before retiring. He finished with 198 points (79 goals, 119 assists) in 325 NHL regular-season games and seven points (two goals, five assists) in 16 Stanley Cup Playoff games.

Lacroix also played for Team Canada in the 1974 Summit Series against the Soviet Union, when he had seven points (one goal, six assists) in eight games. Lacroix scored the game-winner in Canada’s only victory of the series, a 4-1 win in Game 2 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.

Regular season and playoffs

                        Regular season                       Playoffs

Season Team   League GP       G         A         Pts       PIM     GP       G         A         Pts       PIM

1961–62          Quebec Citadelles       QJHL  —        —        —        —        —        3          0          0          0            16

1961–62          Quebec Citadelles       M-Cup —        —        —        —        —        2          0          0          0            4

1962–63          Quebec Citadelles       QJHL  50        45        50        95        —        12        10        13        23            8

1963–64          Montreal Junior Canadiens     OHA-Jr.          34        12        18        30        13        17        8            13        21        8

1964–65          Peterborough Petes     OHA-Jr.          49        45        74        119      24        12        8          12            20        4

1964–65          Quebec Aces   AHL    1          0          0          0          0          —        —        —        —        —

1965–66          Peterborough Petes     OHA-Jr.          48        40        80        120      20        6          4          8            12        6

1965–66          Quebec Aces   AHL    2          1          3          4          0          —        —        —        —        —

1966–67          Quebec Aces   AHL    67        25        24        49        14        5          3          2          5          2

1967–68          Philadelphia Flyers     NHL    18        6          8          14        6          7          2          3          5            0

1967–68          Quebec Aces   AHL    54        41        46        87        18        —        —        —        —        —

1968–69          Philadelphia Flyers     NHL    75        24        32        56        4          4          0          0          0            0

1969–70          Philadelphia Flyers     NHL    74        22        36        58        14        —        —        —        —            —

1970–71          Philadelphia Flyers     NHL    78        20        22        42        12        4          0          2          2            0

1971–72          Chicago Black Hawks NHL    51        4          7          11        6          1          0          0          0            0

1972–73          Philadelphia Blazers   WHA  78        50        74        124      83        4          0          2          2            18

1973–74          New York Golden Blades/Jersey Knights       WHA  71        31        80        111       54        —            —        —        —        —

1974–75          San Diego Mariners    WHA  78        41        106      147      63        10        3          9          12            2

1975–76          San Diego Mariners    WHA  80        29        72        101      42        11        4          6          10            4

1976–77          San Diego Mariners    WHA  81        32        82        114      79        7          1          6          7            6

1977–78          Houston Aeros WHA  78        36        77        113      57        6          2          2          4          0

1978–79          New England Whalers            WHA  78        32        56        88        34        10        4          4            8          0

1979–80          Hartford Whalers        NHL    29        3          14        17        2          —        —        —        —            —

NHL totals       325      79        119      198      44        16        2          5          7          0

WHA totals      551      251      547      798      412      48        14        29        43        30