Harold Prince obit

Harold Prince, the man who has won more Tony awards than anyone else, has died

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Legendary Broadway icon Harold Prince, who produced or directed some of the most famous musicals ever made, including "West Side Story" and "The Phantom of the Opera," died after a brief illness Wednesday in Reykjavik, Iceland. He was 91.
Over his expansive career that ran nearly 70 years, Prince, best known as Hal, received 21 Tony Awards, "the most for any individual in multiple categories," the Tony Awards said.
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom," which opened in London in 1986 and became an international phenomenon, is the longest-running musical in Broadway history.
"Not just the prince of musicals, the crowned head who directed two of the greatest productions of my career, Evita and Phantom. This wonderful man taught me so much and his mastery of musical theatre was without equal," Webber said on Twitter Wednesday.
Prince was born on January 30, 1928 in New York City and majored in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He began his theatrical career in 1948 as an assistant to Broadway director and producer George Abbott.

Under Abbott's mentorship, Prince was introduced to Robert Griffith, who would become his producing partner. By 1955, he won his first Tony with the production, "The Pajama Game," he co-produced with Griffth. It was named best musical.
Prince went on to direct and produce some of the greatest and long-running musicals, including "Fiddler on the Roof," "Cabaret," "Sweeney Todd" and "Evita."
He amassed 21 Tonys, including eight for directing, eight for producing, two as producer of the year's Best Musical and three special Tony Awards.
In 2006, he was honored with another Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theater.
"He is missed and loved by his family -- Judy, his wife of 56 years; his daughter, Daisy; his son, Charles; and his grandchildren, Phoebe, Lucy, and Felix," Prince's publicist said in a statement.
"As per his wishes, there will be no funeral but there will be a celebration of his life this fall with the people he loved most, the members of the theatrical community that he was a part of for seven decades."
Prince touched the lives of many people, and tributes were posted on social media as news of his death spread.
"Beyond heartbroken to find out that #HalPrince has passed away," tweeted actress Donna Murphy, a two-time Tony Awards winner. "Working with Hal was one of the greatest honors of my artistic life-I'll never forget his kindness, generosity & brilliance as an artist & as a human."
"RIP to the legend Hal Prince. It's because of his vision, his work, his creativity and his passion that I came to love theatre in the first place," tweeted singer and actress, Jessica Vosk. "I have a feeling you might feel the same."

Nick Buoniconti obit

Miami Dolphins' Hall of Fame Linebacker Nick Buoniconti Dead at 78: 'The Heartbeat of Our Team'

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Nick Buoniconti, the Miami Dolphins Hall of Famer who helped lead the NFL team to back-to-back Super Bowl championships, has died. He was 78.

The tragic news was confirmed by a number of Nick’s loved ones, including his family spokesman Bruce Bobbins, who told ESPN that the former linebacker died on Tuesday in Bridgehampton, New York.

Nick’s cause of death was not immediately known but comes a little over two years after he revealed that he was suffering from memory loss, among other ailments, and could no longer use his left hand, according to ESPN.

His son Marc Buoniconti — who was paralyzed at the age of 19 from football, leading Nick to develop the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, which he helped raise millions of dollars for — also issued a statement to ESPN and praised his father for his talents on and off the field.

“Today, with a heavy heart and profound sorrow, my family and the entire Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and Buoniconti Fund community mourn the loss of a man who was truly larger than life, my father, NFL Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti,” Marc, 52, told the outlet.

“My dad has been my hero and represents what I have always aspired to be: a leader, a mentor and a champion,” he added.

Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Nick was always considered an undersized player at 5’11” and 220 pounds, but didn’t let that stop him from playing offensive guard and defensive linebacker at Notre Dame, according to his bio on the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Though he wasn’t immediately drafted by the NFL, the Boston Patriots (who changed their name to the New England Patriots in 1971 after relocating to Foxborough, MA) eventually selected Nick to be on their team in the 13th round of the 1962 American Football League (AFL) draft.

From 1962 to 1968, Nick played as a middle linebacker for the Patriots and racked up a number of accomplishments, including 24 career interceptions — three of those occurred during a game in 1968 — which remains ranked as seventh in team history.

During his time on the Patriots, he was also named to the AFL All-Star Game five times and helped the team win the 1963 AFL Eastern Division title, according to his bio.


In 1969, he was traded to the Miami Dolphins but remained a driving force on their team’s defense, as well, earning team MVP in his debut season and two more times in 1970 and 1973.

Most notably, he helped lead the team to back-to-back Super Bowl titles in 1973 — a team that finished with an unprecedented and undefeated 17-0 record on the season — and 1974.

In 2001, the NFL player, who competed for a total of 14 seasons, was inducted to the Professional Football Hall of Fame.

Following his days on the field, Nick spent his time raising his children, working as a broadcaster, businessman, and attorney, and dedicating his efforts to charitable causes, including the paralysis fund he co-founded in 1985, ESPN reports.

Some of his notable teammates, coaches, managers and club owners include: Billy Sullivan, Tom Addison, Fred Bruney, Larry Eisenhauer, Jim Colclough, Dick Felt, Charlie Long, Art Spinney, Mike Holovak, Larry Garron, Babe Parilli, Houston Antwine, Gino Cappelletti, Ron Hall, Billy Neighbors, Bob Dee, Jon Morris, Jim Nance, Chuck Shonta, Tom Neville, Jim Lee Hunt, Len St. Jean, Don Oakes, Jim Whalen, Leroy Mitchell, Mike Taliaferro, Art Graham, Don Webb, George Wilson, Bill Stanfill, Bob Griese, Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick, Joe Robbie, Don Shula, Tim Foley, Joe Thomas, Paul Warfield, Mercury Morris, Jim Langer, Marv Fleming, Jake Scott, Garo Yepremian, Larry Little, Norm Evans, Dick Anderson, Earl Morrall, Marlin Bricsoe, Leon Gray, Ed Newman, Bill Arnsparger, Manny Fernandez, Bob Kuechenberg, Don Strock, Vern Den Herder, Mike Robbie, Nat Moore, Bob Matheson, Wayne Moore, Bobby Beathard, Tom Keane, Irv Goode, Kim Bokamper, Howard Schnellenberger, Freddie Solomon, Mike Scarry and Vince Costello.

Darah Marshall obit

Actress Darah Marshall Has Died 

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Darah Marshall was born on October 24, 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Teenage Cave Man (1958), King of Diamonds (1961) and Checkmate (1960). She was married to Duncan Emmons. She died on July 30, 2019 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.

Actress

Sebastian Cabot, Anthony George, and Doug McClure in Checkmate (1960)

Checkmate

7.6

TV Series

The Girl

1962

1 episode

 

Ripcord (1961)

Ripcord

7.5

TV Series

Blonde Ticket Taker

1961

1 episode

 

Broderick Crawford in King of Diamonds (1961)

King of Diamonds

8.6

TV Series

1961

1 episode

 

Lock Up (1959)

Lock Up

7.7

TV Series

Miss Thompson

1960

2 episodes

 

Bachelor Father (1957)

Bachelor Father

7.3

TV Series

Alisha Culpepper

Valerie Culpepper

Ann Stanford

1957–1958

3 episodes

 

Teenage Cave Man (1958)

Teenage Cave Man

3.5

The Blond Maiden

1958

 

Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ozzie Nelson, and Ricky Nelson in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

7.4

TV Series

Stewardess

1957

1 episode

Dianne Foster obit

Actress Dianne Foster dies at 91. Co-starred with Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Stewart,Dean Martin. TV & Film

 

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Dianne Foster, a busy actress in film and television from the 1950s to the 1970s died yesterday at 91

Dianne Foster (born Olga Helen Laruska; October 31, 1928) is a Canadian actress of Ukrainian descent

Foster was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She began her career at the age of 13 in a stage adaptation of James Barrie’s What Every Woman Knows.In London in 1951, she appeared on stage in Agatha Christie’s The Hollow and Orson Welles’s Othello.

At 14 she began a radio career, subsequently moved to Toronto, and became one of Canada’s top radio stars, working with Andrew Allan, drama supervisor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on productions such as Stage ’49.[5]She appeared on Radio Luxembourg in a broadcast of The Lives of Harry Lime.

In March 1952, her husband returned to Canada while she stayed in London, England, to honor her five-year contract with a British film company.In 1953, she co-starred alongside Charlton Heston and Lizabeth Scott in the middling Bad for Each Other. In 1954, she was signed by Columbia Pictures and relocated to Hollywood, where her first appearance proper that year was with Mickey Rooney in Drive a Crooked Road .In 1955, Foster appeared on the cover of Picturegoer and co-starred in two films, Glenn Ford‘s The Violent Men and Burt Lancaster‘s The Kentuckian.

Although her film career continued, it was not on the same upward trajectory as before. In 1957 she co-starred in the biopic Monkey on My Back about boxer Barney Ross, Night Passage with James Stewart and The Brothers Rico with Richard Conte. In 1958, she starred with Alan Ladd in The Deep Six, and that same year she appeared alongside Jack Hawkins in Gideon of Scotland Yard before her last really big picture, The Last Hurrah .It featured an all-star cast that included Spencer Tracy, Pat O’Brien, and Basil Rathbone, and was nominated for a BAFTA award. In 1963, she made her last film appearance, in the Dean Martin vehicle Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed?.

In 1960, Foster was the title guest star in the episode “Lawyer in Petticoats” on the short-lived NBC western series Overland Trail starring William Bendixand Doug McClure. Foster also appeared in 1960 in three other NBC westerns Bonanza (as Joyce Edwards in “The Mill”), Wagon Train (as Leslie Ivers in “Trial for Murder: Part 2”), and Riverboat (as Marian Templeton in “Path of the Eagle”) Also in 1960 she appeared in Have Gun Will TravelSeries 4, Episode 20.

There was a three-year absence before she next returned to the big screen in King of the Roaring 20’s – The Story of Arnold Rothstein. Gunsmoke season 7 episode 23 “Reprisal” Cornelia. Foster continued to appear in television programs, such as the Wild Wild Westepisode “The Night of the Lord of Limbo,” CBS‘s The Lloyd Bridges Show(1962–1963) and the ABC medical drama Breaking Point (1963–1964) and in The Fugitive. She guest starred in the ABC drama Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly. She made four guest appearances on Perry Mason between 1962 and 1965, and appeared in the “Caesar’s Wife” episode of The Big Valley in 1966.

In 1951, Foster married Andrew Allan, a drama supervisor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in London. In 1954, she married Joel A. Murcott, a Hollywood radio-television scriptwriter, in Owensboro, Kentucky.On February 14, 1956, she gave birth to twins: a son, Jason, and a daughter, Jodi. That same year she also filed for divorce from Murcott. She asked for custody and $1 in token alimony. The couple reconciled, but it proved to be temporary as they separated twice more before finally divorcing in 1959. After her divorce from Murcott she married Dr. Harold Rowe, a Van Nuys dentist. On November 14, 1963, her son, Dustin Louis Rowe, was born in Los Angeles.

Selected filmography

 

    The Quiet Woman (1951)

    The Steel Key (1953)

    Isn't Life Wonderful! (1953)

    Bad for Each Other (1953)

    Drive a Crooked Road (1954)

    The Bamboo Prison (1954)

    The Violent Men (1955)

    The Kentuckian (1955)

    Monkey on My Back (1957)

    Night Passage (1957)

    The Brothers Rico (1957)

    The Deep Six (1958)

    Gideon's Day (or Gideon of Scotland Yard) (1958)

    The Last Hurrah (1958)

    Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)

Keith Lincoln obit

Keith Lincoln, San Diego Chargers Star in the A.F.L., Dies at 80

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Keith Lincoln, a star on the San Diego Chargers' 1963 AFL championship team, has died. He was 80.

Lincoln's death on Saturday was announced by Washington State University, where he was known as the "Moose of the Palouse" during his college career.

Lincoln was a five-time AFL All-Star and was elected to the Chargers Hall of Fame.

He was named the most outstanding player in the 1963 AFL championship game, which the Chargers won 51-10.

Lincoln was a second-round draft pick of the Chargers in 1961 and he played for San Diego until 1966 before a stint with Buffalo. He returned briefly to the Chargers in 1968.

He rushed for 3,383 yards and 19 touchdowns and caught 165 passes for 2,250 yards and 19 touchdowns during his pro career.

After football, he served as Washington State's director of alumni relations until 2003.

Notable teammates were:

Jack Kemp, Don Rogers, Ron Mix, Earl Faison, Chuck Allen, Lance Alworth, John Hadl, Paul Lowe, Tobin Rote, Walt Sweeney, George Blair, Frank Buncom, Speedy Duncan, Tom Flores, Billy Shaw, Marty Schottenheimer, Art Powell, Bob Schmidt and Larry Little.

He was coached by Sid Gillman, Joe Collier and Harvey Johnson.

He played for owners Ralph Wilson, Barron Hilton, and Eugene V. Klein.