Kirk Bailey obit

Kirk Baily Dies: Nickelodeon’s ‘Salute Your Shorts’ Performer And Prolific Voice Actor Was 59

 

He was not on the list.

Kirk Baily, who portrayed Kevin “Ug” Lee on the 1991-92 Nickelodeon comedy Salute Your Shorts, died Feb. 28 six months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. He was 59.

His death was announced by friends on social media. TMZ reports the cause of death as lung cancer based on confirmation from family.

In the two-season Salute Your Shorts set at a teen summer camp, Baily played camp counselor (and butt of jokes and pranks) Kevin “Ug” Lee. Created by Steve Slavkin and produced by Propaganda Films, the series co-starred Danny Cooksey, Erik MacArthur and Blake Soper as several of the campers.

Although Baily would make appearances as an actor in various series following the cult favorite Salute Your Shorts, he was most prolific as a voice actor for animated TV, film and video games in the several decades prior to his death. Among his TV and film voiceover credits are Cowboy Bebop (1999), Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran (2000), Metropolis (2001), Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play – Eikoden (2001), Hotel Transylvania (2012), Frozen (2013), Big Hero 6 (2014), The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020) and, most recently, last year’s Night of the Animated Dead.

He provided voice work for such video games as Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht and Dead Space: Downfall.

In front of the camera, Baily guest starred on Felicity, Judging Amy, NYPD Blue, Melrose Place and Star Trek: Voyager.

Filmography

Anime

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1981      Mobile Suit Gundam       Additional Voices             Credited as Bill Williams

1981      Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow             Additional Voices             Credited as Paul Baily

1991      Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory      Gato's Escape Aid             Uncredited

1996      Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team               Additional Voices             Credited as Bo Williams

1996      Fushigi Yûgi: Memories First OAV              Tetsuya                Credited as Bo Williams

1997      Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play - Reflections OAV 2       Tetsuya                Credited as Bo Williams

1997      Vampire Princess Miyu Father  

1998      Rurouni Kenshin               Reisui    Episode: "The Magic of Feng Shui"; credited as Bo Williams

1998      Trigun   Millions Knives (Adult)   8 episodes; credited as Bo Williams

1999      Dual! Paralle lunlun monogatari                 Additional Voices             3 episodes; credited as Bo Williams

1999      Cowboy Bebop Shin       2 episodes; credited as Bo Williams

2000      Gate Keepers     Train Passenger                Credited as Bo Williams

2000      Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran         Additional Voices             13 episodes

2000      Hand Maid May                Additional Voices             Credited as Bo Williams

2000      Android Kikaider: The Animation               Ichiro     Episode: "Kodoku na Ningyô"

2000      Ah! My Goddess: The Movie       Additional Voices             Credited as Bo William

2001      Metropolis          Scientist               Uncredited

2001      Cowboy Bebop: The Movie          Robber D            

2001–2002          Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play - Eikoden          Tetsuya                4 episodes; credited as Bo Williams

2002      Armitage III: Dual Matrix               Additional Voices            

2002      .hack//Liminality Vol. 1: In the Case of Mai Minase            Masaya Makino               

2002–2004          Kôkaku kidôtai: Stand Alone Complex      Suicide Bombing Refugee / GSDA Soldier on Guard / Kawashima / Additional Voices   13 episodes

2003      .hack//Liminality Vol. 4: Trismegitstus     Masaya Makino               

2004–2005          Yukikaze               Press Reporter #2 / Additional Voices     

2011      From Up on Poppy Hill   Additional Voices            

 

Film

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1987      The Brave Little Toaster                 Various (voice) Uncredited

1988      Anna      Pat        

1989      Alexa     Tony     

1990      Voodoo Dawn    Kevin    

1992      Aladdin                 Various (voice) Uncredited

1994      Caroline at Midnight       Detective #2      

1995      Houseguest        Stuart the Manager        

1995      Black Day Blue Night       Mayor's Assistant            

1997      The 6th Man      Coach Nichols   

1997      Back in Business               Yuppie

1998      3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain Carl       

1998      Outside Ozona   Agent Tony Cole              

1999      Soccer Dog: The Movie Ref        

2000      The Road to El Dorado   Various (voice) Uncredited

2002      Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra          Additional Voices (voice)               English Dub

2006      Over the Hedge                 Additional Voices (voice)              

2006      Open Season      Additional Voices (voice)              

2007      Nobel Son           Wil Cavalere      

2008      Bottle Shock       Loan Officer       

2008      Dead Space: Downfall     Walla (voice)      Direct-to-video

2010      Buried   411 Male Operator         

2010      Open Season 3 Additional Voices (voice)              

2010      Yogi Bear             Additional Voice-Over (voice)    

2012      The Lorax             Various (voice) Uncredited

2012      Tooth Fairy 2      (voice) Direct-to-video

2012      ParaNorman       Blithe Hollow Townperson (voice)           

2012      Hotel Transylvania           Additional Voices (voice)              

2013      The Call                Additional Voices (voice)              

2013      Despicable Me 2               Various (voice)

2013      Frozen Additional Voices (voice)              

2014      Feast     Additional Characters (voice)      Short Film

2014      Big Hero 6           Additional Voice (voice)                

2015      Minions                Various (voice) Uncredited

2015      The3Tails Movie: A Mermaid Adventure                Head Coast Guard           

2017      The Star               Additional Voices (voice)              

2018      Bumblebee         Brawn / Decepticon Soldier (voice)          

2019      Missing Link        New Worlder (voice)      

2020      The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run           Additional Voices (voice)              

 

Television

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1990      Tour of Duty       Bielak    Episode: "Payback"

1990      Lifestories                           Episode: "Steve Burdick"

1991      Absolute Strangers          Arnie     TV Movie

1991–1992          Salute Your Shorts           Kevin 'Ug' Lee    26 episodes

1994      Greyhounds       Billy Bruno          TV Movie

1994      Silk Stalkings       Gary Holden       Episode: "Maid Service"

1994      Models Inc.         Barry     Episode: "In Models We Trust"

1995      Sisters   The Creep           Episode: "100"

1996      Beverly Hills, 90210         Tony Spencer     Episode: "Coming Out, Getting Out, Going Out"

1997      The Larry Sanders Show                Ed           Episode: "Pain Equals Funny"

1997      Pacific Blue         Mike Grant         Episode: "Matters of the Heart"

1998      7th Heaven         Joe James            Episode: "Time to Leave the Nest"

1998      Indiscreet            Larry Neal            TV Movie

1999      Star Trek: Voyager           Magnus Hansen                Episode: "Dark Frontier"

1999      Melrose Place    Greg Madigan    3 episodes

2000      Rocket's Red Glare           Mr. Matthews   TV Movie

2001      Judging Amy       Harry Winter      Episode: "Between the Wanting and the Getting"

2001      FreakyLinks         Officer Scott Hanover     Episode: "Subject: Police Siren"

2001      Felicity Financial Aid Officer        2 episodes; credited as Kirk Bailey

2002      NYPD Blue           Roger Simmons                 Episode: "Humpty Dumpty"

2004      Life on Liberty Street      ER Intern              TV Movie

2011      Five        Scott      TV Movie

Video Games

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1999      Galerians             Birdman / Dr. Lem / Gangster / Maintenance Man / Dr. Steiner   Credited as Bo Williams

2000      Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force Crewman Mitch Cstalos / Malon                Credited as Kirk Bailey

2002      Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht                Kevin Winnicot Uncredited

2002      Kessen II              Xiahou Ba            Uncredited

2002      .hack//Infection               Additional Voices            

2002      .hack//Mutation               Additional Voices            

2002      .hack//Outbreak              Additional Voices            

2003      .hack//Quarantine           Additional Voices            

2004      Shadow Hearts: Covenant            Hien       Credited as Bo Williams

2008      Condemned 2: Bloodshot             Thieves / Vagrants / Rioters        

Richard C. Blum obit

Dianne Feinstein’s husband Richard Blum dies after long battle with cancer

 

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Richard C. Blum, a longtime Bay Area businessman and husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, died at home Sunday night after a long battle with cancer. He was 86 years old.

Blum served as president and chairman of Blum Capital Partners, an equity investment company he founded in 1975, and was a longtime member for the University of California Board of Regents, the body that oversees the system.

“My heart is broken. My husband was my partner and best friend for more than 40 years,” Feinstein, 88, said in a statement. “He was by my side for the good times and for the challenges. I’m going to miss him terribly”

Blum was born in San Francisco and received a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master of business administration from UC Berkeley. Blum married Feinstein in 1980, when she was mayor of San Francisco. Feinstein has represented California in the U.S Senate since 1992. Blum’s death comes as Feinstein, the Senate’s oldest member, struggles with low approval ratings and calls for her resignation from some progressive members of the Democratic Party.

In a statement, Gov. Gavin Newsom praised Blum as a model Californian.

“Richard Blum lived an extraordinary life, and he left this world better than he found it – lifting up our communities and helping connect people from across the globe,” Newsom said.

At the age of 23, Blum joined Sutro and Co., an investment brokerage firm, and became partner before turning 30. Blum helped acquire Barnum and Bailey Circus and Ringling Bros. for $8 million before selling the circus to Mattel for $40 million.

He had great interest in Tibet, founding the American Himalayan Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit to help Nepalis, Tibetans and Sherpas in the area by funding hospitals, building schools and taking care of the elderly and children. A friend of the Dalai Lama, Blum served as an honorary consul of Nepal. He also befriended Sir Edmund Hillary, one of the first climbers to have reached Mount Everest, and attempted his own trek in 1981.

Blum created the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California, Berkeley in order to address global poverty by focusing on education, initiatives and research. Blum served as a UC regent for nearly two decades and was chairman emeritus of the board.

His tenure as a regent was not without controversy, however. In 2020, a state audit found that dozens of students were admitted to selective UC campuses over more qualified applicants because of exaggerated athletic abilities, wealth and connections. Blum sent a letter of support to the chancellor after a student was placed on a waitlist for UC Berkeley, which ultimately accepted the student.

In an interview with this news organization, Blum dismissed the episode as “much ado about nothing.”

He and Feinstein have similarly waved away concerns about their complicated finances. Several years ago, the senator initially failed to disclose that Blum owned more than $100,000 in Facebook shares until after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified to the Senate. Her office said the pair did not discuss her husband’s financial transactions and the mistake was reported when discovered.

Feinstein praised her husband’s “enormous generosity” in her statement Monday.

“We have a hole in our hearts that will never be filled. Dick, we love you, we’ll miss you and we’ll continue to celebrate everything you accomplished during an amazing life,” she said.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke about Blum’s contributions to San Francisco, the city the Democrat represents.

“A lifelong San Franciscan, Richard was a powerful force for good in our city,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Building a successful career in business, he constantly gave back to our city: whether as a patron of our arts, a donor to our food banks or a benefactor to our efforts to end homelessness.”

Sen. Alex Padilla said that Blum was a “compassionate humanitarian who dedicated his life to improving the world for others.”

“Above all, Dick was devoted to his family,” Padilla continued. “Over his four decades of marriage to Senator Feinstein, he took tremendous joy in supporting her pioneering leadership as a public servant. Angela and I send our deepest condolences and prayers to Dianne and her family in this difficult time.”