Thursday, December 31, 2015

Helene Marshall obit

 

Actress Helene Marshall Has Died

She was not on the list.


Helene Marshall was born in 1925 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Jungle Jim (1955) and Peter Gunn (1958). She was married to George Marshall Jr. (I). She died in 2015 in California, USA.

Family

Spouse

George Marshall Jr. (I)(February 1, 1947 - May 15, 1959) (divorced, 2 children)

Trivia

Had a son, George E. Marshall Jr. and daughter, Pat Marshall with George Marshall Jr..

Daughter-in-law of director George Marshall.

Cousin of actress Veronica Lake.

Actress

The Couch (1962)

The Couch

6.2

Prep Nurse (uncredited)

1962

 

Rex Allen in Frontier Doctor (1956)

Frontier Doctor

8.1

TV Series

1959

1 episode

 

Craig Stevens in Peter Gunn (1958)

Peter Gunn

8.0

TV Series

Sadie

1959

1 episode

 

John Drew Barrymore and Julie London in Night of the Quarter Moon (1959)

Night of the Quarter Moon

6.0

Miss Kirby (uncredited)

1959

 

Walt Disney, Kevin Corcoran, Annette Funicello, Sharon Baird, Lonnie Burr, Tommy Cole, Tim Considine, Jimmie Dodd, Lynn Fields, Darlene Gillespie, Don Grady, Cheryl Holdridge, Tommy Kirk, Cubby O'Brien, Karen Pendleton, David Stollery, Roy Williams, Lynn Ready, and Linda Hughes in The Mickey Mouse Club (1955)

The Mickey Mouse Club

7.6

TV Series

Maid

1958

5 episodes

 

Frank Sinatra, Jeanne Crain, and Mitzi Gaynor in The Joker Is Wild (1957)

The Joker Is Wild

7.0

Girl in Hotel Suite (uncredited)

1957

 

Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, and Elaine Stewart in The Tattered Dress (1957)

The Tattered Dress

6.5

Reporter (uncredited)

1957

 

Grant Williams in The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

The Incredible Shrinking Man

7.6

Nurse

1957

 

Gail Davis in Annie Oakley (1954)

Annie Oakley

7.2

TV Series

Mary Farnsworth

Helen Bronson

Laura Blodgett

1954–1957

3 episodes

 

Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels in The Lone Ranger (1949)

The Lone Ranger

7.7

TV Series

Ellen Davis

1957

1 episode

 

Circus Boy (1956)

Circus Boy

7.3

TV Series

Sally Blake

1956

1 episode

 

Four Star Playhouse (1952)

Four Star Playhouse

7.6

TV Series

1956

1 episode

 

Cheyenne (1955)

Cheyenne

8.0

TV Series

Joan Grayson

1956

1 episode

 

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

5.8

Mildred Wilkins

1956

 

Tom Drake, Bill Elliott, and Beverly Garland in Sudden Danger (1955)

Sudden Danger

6.2

Lois (uncredited)

1955

 

Jungle Jim (1955)

Jungle Jim

7.4

TV Series

Marilyn Hansard

1955

1 episode

 

Death Valley Days (1952)

Death Valley Days

7.5

TV Series

Nina

Mrs. Betsy Warner

1954–1955

2 episodes

Natalie Cole Obit

Natalie Cole, legendary songstress, dead at 65

She was no on the list

Her optimism amid personal struggles was inspirational. Her voice? Unforgettable.

Natalie Cole has died at age 65.

"I think that I am a walking testimony that you can have scars," she told CBS’s Sunday Morning in 2006. "You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life."

Cole died Thursday evening at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles due to complications from ongoing health issues, her family said in a statement.

"Natalie fought a fierce, courageous battle, dying how she lived ... with dignity, strength and honor. Our beloved Mother and sister will be greatly missed and remain UNFORGETTABLE in our hearts forever," read the statement from her son Robert Yancy and sisters Timolin and Casey Cole.
"We are very saddened to learn of the passing of one of music’s most celebrated and iconic women, Natalie Cole, " Recording Academy President Neil Portnow said in a statement. "...We’ve lost a wonderful, highly cherished artist and our heartfelt condolences go out to Natalie’s family, friends, her many collaborators, as well as to all who have been entertained by her exceptional talent."

Born Feb. 6, 1950, in Los Angeles, Cole had music in her genes. Her father was legendary crooner Nat King Cole, and her mother, Maria Cole, sang with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

At age 6, Cole recorded a duet with her father, I’m Good Will, You’re Christmas Spirit. By age 11, she was performing alongside him on his television show.

When Cole was 15 and attending boarding school across the country, her father died of lung cancer. As she grew up without her father’s guidance, Cole never abandoned music. She studied Psychology in college at the University of Massachusetts and sang in clubs on weekends, where she was billed as Nat King Cole’s daughter. Yet she was about to find her own voice.

While performing at a club called Mr. Kelley’s, she was discovered by R&B producers Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy (whom she married in 1976 and with whom she had her son, Robbie, in 1977). In 1974, she had her first hit, This Will Be, from her debut album, Inseparable. The song won her the Best New Artist Grammy in 1975, the first of nine she would win throughout her career.

Hits and awards kept pouring in as Cole released two more platinum albums (Unpredictable and Thankful, both in 1977). On the outside, Cole was fulfilling her father’s legacy and drawing comparisons to Aretha Franklin. On the inside, she was battling drug addiction. In her 2000 autobiography, Angel on my Shoulder, she wrote that her addiction incapacitated her so severely that she was barely able to escape a fire in her Las Vegas hotel in 1981.

In 1983, she spent several months at the Hazelden Clinic in Minnesota and, with her health intact, released her come-back album, Dangerous, in 1985.

As her career progressed, Cole began to drift away from the pop and R&B styles that had defined her early music and gravitated toward a more jazz-oriented style that drew from the likes of Ella Fitzgerald — and her own father. Her best-known album to date, Unforgettable ... With Love, featured a technology-assisted duet for the song Unforgettable with her father’s original recording.

Years after reclaiming her life from drug addiction, Cole was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 2008. Exhausted, she continued performing until her rapidly declining health was tied to kidney disease, likely a result of the medication she was using to treat her hepatitis C.

Cole continued to tour, receiving dialysis three times per week between performances. During a March 2009 appearance on Larry King Live, her fans’ love for her was apparent. The show received dozens of emails from fans offering her replacement kidneys.

While fighting her own battles, Cole was helping her sister, Cookie, battle cancer. Her sister died the morning Cole got a successful kidney transplant in May 2009.

Her own life saved, Cole was devastated at the loss of her sister, but grateful to the family of the woman whose kidney she received.

"To have your life saved by someone you don’t even know — oh, God. God bless them," Cole told AARP Magazine in 2009.

Just months later, she was itching to get back onstage.

"The volume of work that I’ve had before, I can’t do it," she told USA TODAY in 2009. "Instead of 90-minute shows, maybe I’ll only do 60. Instead of dancing around the stage, maybe I’ll just walk elegantly."

Cole released a second memoir in 2010 titled Love Brought Me Back, a chronicle of her quest for a kidney transplant.

In recent months Cole had cancelled many appearances citing a medical procedure and subsequent stay at the hospital.

Wayne Rogers - # 121

Wayne Rogers, Trapper John on 'M.A.S.H.,' dies at 82

He was number 121 on the list.
Wayne Rogers played Capt. "Trapper" John McIntyre for the show's first three seasons. Trapper John was depicted as every bit the prankster, womanizing surgeon that Hawkeye was. The character was abruptly written out of the show in 1975 when Rogers quit, complaining that Trapper John had become a sidekick to Hawkeye rather than an equal.

Wayne Rogers played Capt. "Trapper" John McIntyre for the show's first three seasons. Trapper John was depicted as every bit the prankster, womanizing surgeon that Hawkeye was. The character was abruptly written out of the show in 1975 when Rogers quit, complaining that Trapper John had become a sidekick to Hawkeye rather than an equal.
Wayne Rogers, the actor whose Trapper John McIntyre on "M*A*S*H" was among the most beloved characters on one of the most popular shows of all time, has died.

Rogers' publicist Rona Menashe says the actor died Thursday in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia. He was 82.

As army surgeon Trapper John on "MASH," Rogers swapped wisecracks with partner in martinis-and-mischief Hawkeye Pierce, played by Alan Alda.

Rogers was on the show for just the first three of its 11 seasons, but his run, and his character, are especially revered by show devotees.

An Alabama native and Princeton graduate, Rogers had parts on many short-lived shows before "M.A.S.H.," specializing in westerns like "Law of the Plainsman" and "Stagecoach West." Rogers then guest-starred five times in a recurring role on CBS's Murder, She Wrote.

He spent his late life as a money manager and investor and was a regular panelist on the Fox News stock investment show "Cashin' In."



Filmography
Year       Title       Role       Notes
1959      Odds Against Tomorrow                Soldier in Bar    
1962      Alfred Hitchcock Presents...The Big Kick Season 7 Episode 37        Kenneth              
1964      Dr. Sex Raincoat Man    Uncredited
1965      The Glory Guys Lt. Mike Moran
1966      Chamber of Horrors        Police Sgt. Jim Albertson              
1967      Cool Hand Luke                 Gambler              
1967      The Invaders      Police Lt. Matteson        
1970      WUSA   Minter
1972      Pocket Money   Stretch Russell  
1972–1975          M*A*S*H            Trapper John McIntyre 72 episodes
1976      City of Angels     Jake Axminster 13 episodes
1978      Once in Paris... Michael Moore
1981      The Hot Touch   Danny Fairchild
1985      The Gig                 Marty Flynn       
1987      The Killing Time                Jake Winslow    
1990      Miracle Landing                Robert 'Bob' Schornstheimer     
1993      The Goodbye Bird            Ray Whitney      
1996      Ghosts of Mississippi      Morris Dees       
1999      Love Lies Bleeding            Inspector Abberline       
2000      Coo Coo Cafe                    
2001      Frozen with Fear               Charles Sullivan                
2002      Three Days of Rain           Business Man    
2003      Nobody Knows Anything!             Gun Schnook      (final film role)

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Lucinda Dooling obit

Lucinda Schiff, Actress and Wife of Hollywood Exec David Schiff, Dies at 61

She starred in the 1981 cult film 'Lovely But Deadly' and played the wife of hockey star Mike Eruzione in 'Miracle on Ice.'

 

She was not on the list.


Lucinda Schiff, a former actress and the wife of David Schiff, the founder and a partner in the Hollywood management and production company MGMT. Entertainment, has died. She was 61.

She died Dec. 30 at home in the Pacific Palisades after a 15-year battle with recurring brain tumors, her husband told The Hollywood Reporter.

Working under her stage name Lucinda Dooling, she starred as a high school cheerleader who goes undercover to fight drug dealers and avenge the death of her brother in the 1981 cult film Lovely But Deadly.

In the 1981 ABC docudrama Miracle on Ice, the actress portrayed the wife of Mike Eruzione (played by Andrew Stevens), the captain of the upstart U.S. hockey team that stunned the Soviet Union and captured the gold medal at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.

She guest-starred as the visiting sister of Larry (Richard Kline) on a 1983 episode of Three’s Company and appeared on other TV series including Nero Wolfe and Hart to Hart and in the acclaimed 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds.

She made her onscreen debut in the 1979 Steven Spielberg film 1941.

Born and raised as Lucinda Valles in Puerto Rico, her father abandoned her, her three young sisters and their mother to fend for themselves. Her mother died when she was 15, and she was sent to live in New York.

After her acting career, she proved adept at interior design, and a story about her renovation of her family’s Palisades home, built in the mid-1920s, was featured in the Los Angeles Times.

In addition to her husband of 35 years, survivors include her daughter Kaylie (with a soon-to-be baby girl), sons Mickey and Henry and sisters Marisa, Aileen and Sheila.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in her name to Every Mother Counts, a nonprofit dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for mothers everywhere.

Actress (12 credits)

 1987 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series)

Customer

- Double Switch (1987) ... Customer

 1984 Surf II

Lindy Sue O'Finley

 1983 The Alchemist

Lenora Sinclair (as Lucinda Dooline)

 1983 The Thorn Birds (TV Mini Series)

Martha

- Part 4 (1983) ... Martha

 1983 Three's Company (TV Series)

Diane Dallas

- Larry's Sister (1983) ... Diane Dallas

 1982 The Rules of Marriage (TV Movie)

Rita Lombard

 1982 Hart to Hart (TV Series)

Ellen

- Hart of Diamonds (1982) ... Ellen

 1981 Lovely But Deadly

Mary Ann 'Lovely' Lovitt

 1981 Nero Wolfe (TV Series)

Ellen Miller

- The Murder in Question (1981) ... Ellen Miller

 1981 Miracle on Ice (TV Movie)

Donna

 1980 The Merry Wives of Windsor (TV Movie)

Robin

 1979 1941

Lucinda