Robert Scheerer obit

Director Robert Scheerer, Known for TV Musical Specials, Dies at Age 89

He was not on the list.

The director worked with Barbra Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, and more.

Television director and producer Robert Scheerer, who was known for directing TV musicals, has died at age 89, according to Deadline.

Scheerer directed The Danny Kaye Show (1963–1964), for which he won an Emmy Award, the Fame

series (1982–1984), The American Film Institute Salute to Bette Davis, and episodes of Live from Lincoln Center; he also directed Barbra Streisand in A Happening in Central Park and Shirley MacLaine in If They Could See Me Now.

Scheerer, who was born in Santa Barbara, started his career as a young dancer in Hollywood films. He made his debut in What's Cookin' and went on to appear in a string of films for Universal (1942–1945).

Scheerer made his Broadway debut in 1948 in the Charles Gaynor musical Lend an Ear starring Carol Channing. He went on to appear in Dance Me a Song (1950), Top Banana (1951), and The Boy Friend (1954) on Broadway.

Scheerer's more notable work includes directing Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. He has received three Emmy Award nominations for directing Fame. He received an Emmy Award for Best Director in 1964 for The Danny Kaye Show. He made his Broadway debut in the musical Lend an Ear in 1948, appearing with Carol Channing, Gene Nelson, and won a Theatre World Award for his performance for outstanding debut. He also appeared as a dancer in the 1943 film Mister Big and other films with the tap group The Jivin' Jacks and Jills. Scheerer directed the 1980 crime-comedy film How to Beat the High Cost of Living, which starred Jessica Lange, Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James.

In the 1960s, he transitioned into television directing, beginning with The Spike Jones Show. Throughout his long career, he directed numerous episodes of Dynasty, Star Trek, and Our House, among other programs. He is a Primetime Emmy Award winner and an eight-time nominee. He also worked as a television producer.

Scheerer passed away March 3 of natural causes, according to the report.

Filmography

Film

Adam at 6 A.M. (1970)

The World's Greatest Athlete (1973)

How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980)

Television (selection)

Arsenic and Old Lace (1969)

Poor Devil (1973)

It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977)

Star Trek: The Next Generation (11 episodes)

"The Measure of a Man" (1989)

"Peak Performance" (1989)

"The Price" (1989)

"The Defector" (1990)

"Tin Man" (1990)

"Legacy" (1990)

"New Ground" (1992)

"The Outcast" (1992)

"True Q" (1992)

"Chain of Command", Part I (1992)

"Inheritance" (1993)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Shadowplay" (1994)

Star Trek: Voyager: "Rise" (1997), "State of Flux" (1995)

Sean Garrison obit

Sean Garrison, ‘Dundee and the Culhane’ TV Actor, Dies @ 80

 

 He was not on the list.

The following obit by Howard Mutti-Mewse:

Sean Garrison, the smooth, handsome, leading actor of the late 1950s and '60s showed great early promise. Predicted by the Hollywood publicity mill to be the "next big thing" and likened to Clint Eastwood (b. 1930), Paul Newman (1925-2008) and Steve McQueen (1930-1980), that's where the comparison ended, as stardom — outside of a string of TV guest roles — eluded him.

He had already scored a success with supporting roles in Splendor in the Grass and Bridge to the Sun (both 1961) as well as in episodes of hit TV shows, Sugarfoot and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (both 1958), when producers cast him as Lancelot in a touring company product of Camelot, co-starring Biff McGuire (b. 1926) and Jeannie Carson (b. 1928).

It was no secret that Warner Bros. was already scouting to cast for motion picture version of the musical [they'd already cast Vanessa Redgrave (b. 1937) and Richard Harris (1930-2002)], but when executives visited the Gammage Auditorium, in Tempe, Arizona, they were less than impressed with Garrison's performance. Reportedly, studio mogul Jack Warner (1892-1978) added insult to injury by suggesting he wasn't handsome enough, either. The role of Lancelot went to the Italian actor Franco Nero (b. 1941), who had to be dubbed while Garrison possessed a superb baritone. His career virtually ended there.

Garrison was born on October 19, 1937, of Irish descent  in New York, and left school at 14, taking a variety of jobs, from ranch hand to construction worker, before landing a job at the ABC film vaults in Hollywood. His natural good looks quickly brought him to the attention of the front office; a screen test was arranged which in turn lead to a short-term contract with Warner Bros. He made his film debut in director William Wellman's (1896-1975) Darby's Ranger's (1958), followed in quick succession with Violent Road (1958), starring Brian Keith (1921-1997) and Merry Anders (1934-2012), and Onionhead (1958) with Andy Griffith (1926-2012) and Felica Farr (b. 1932).

Later in '58, Garrison went to New York to study drama at the Actor's Studio; where he supplemented his income in a series part time jobs; in December 1959, he attracted a long line of young mothers waiting to catch a glimpse of him as a hunky Father Christmas at Macy's Department Store.

Back in Hollywood, he guest starred in a plethora of popular TV shows, including The Big Valley (1965) and Gunsmoke (1965), also joining Bert Lahr (1895-1967) and Larry Hagman (1931-2012) in the stage production The Beauty Part (1962).

In 1966, he was given his breakout role as Mark Dominic, a naval ensign opposite Jean Seberg (1938-1979) in the psychological thriller Moment to Moment, co-starring Arthur Hill (1922-2006) and Honor Blackman (b. 1925). Although the film faired well at the box office, critics were less than enthusiastic about Garrison, suggesting director Mervyn LeRoy (1900-1987) should have cast an actor of Paul Newman's caliber instead. The film's best reviews came from gossip Hedda Hopper (1885-1966), who wrote, "This film has style, sophistication, beauty and four fine actors." Hopper died the week the film opened.

Garrison followed this playing an impulsive hotshot lawyer apprenticed to an aristocratic British attorney [played by John Mills (1908-2005)] in the CBS TV period piece, Dundee and the Culhane (1967); it failed miserably and was shelved after just 13 episodes.

Undaunted, Garrison continued to find screen work, though offers became more sporadic. He starred in a handful of made-for-TV films, including Seven in Darkness (1969) with Milton Berle (1908-2002) and The Challengers (1970), as well as popping up on episodes of TV shows like Love, American Style (1970), Police Woman (1977), The Rockford Files (1977), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) and CHiPS (1981).

By the early 1980s, Garrison retired as an actor and went into the swimming pool construction business, making a lucrative income far greater than he earned as a film star.

"I hoped to become a box-office commodity," he said in 2010, "but it wasn't meant to be."

He never married.

Actor (46 credits)

 1981 CHiPs (TV Series)

V.A. Doctor

- The Hawk and the Hunter (1981) ... V.A. Doctor

 1980 B.J. and the Bear (TV Series)

Carl Belford

- The 18-Wheel Rip-Off (1980) ... Carl Belford

 1980 Fantasy Island (TV Series)

Captain Buck Tanner

- PlayGirl/Smith's Valhalla (1980) ... Captain Buck Tanner

 1980 Power (TV Movie)

Tex

 1979 The Secret Empire (TV Series)

Yannuck

- Chapter XIV: Escape to the Stars (1979) ... Yannuck

- Chapter XII: Powerhouse (1979) ... Yannuck

- Chapter 6: Seeds of Revolt (1979) ... Yannuck

- Chapter V: The Mind Twisters (1979) ... Yannuck

- Chapter IV: Prisoner of the Empire (1979) ... Yannuck

 1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series)

Flight Controller

- Planet of the Amazon Women (1979) ... Flight Controller (uncredited)

 1979 Rendezvous Hotel (TV Movie)

Guy

 1977 Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series)

Major Walter Layton

- The Hawk Flies on Sunday (1977) ... Major Walter Layton

 1977 Police Woman (TV Series)

Turner

- Guns (1977) ... Turner

 1977 The Rockford Files (TV Series)

Lanark

- Second Chance (1977) ... Lanark

 1977 Cover Girls (TV Movie)

Sven

 1976 Midway

Lt. Cmdr. Ken Cunningham (uncredited)

 1973 Police Story (TV Series)

Detective Robert Scott

- The Violent Homecoming (1973) ... Detective Robert Scott

 1972 Mannix (TV Series)

Clint Carpenter

- Harvest of Death (1972) ... Clint Carpenter

 1972 Adventures of Nick Carter (TV Movie)

Lloyd Deams

 1971 Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series)

Harvey Bishop

- The 5th Victim (1971) ... Harvey Bishop

 1970 Breakout (TV Movie)

Frank McCready

 1970 Love, American Style (TV Series)

Ali Cooper (segment "Love and Double Trouble")

- Love and the Fly/Love and the Millionaires/Love and Double Trouble (1970) ... Ali Cooper (segment "Love and Double Trouble")

 1970 The Challengers (TV Movie)

Cody Scanlon

 1970 To Rome with Love (TV Series)

George

- The Pied Piper of Rome (1970) ... George

 1969 Seven in Darkness (TV Movie)

Mark Larsen

 1969 Mod Squad (TV Series)

Samuel J. Coles

- A Reign of Guns (1969) ... Samuel J. Coles

 1968 The Name of the Game (TV Series)

Buck Hambleton

- Ordeal (1968) ... Buck Hambleton

 1967 Dundee and the Culhane (TV Series)

The Culhane / Culhane

- The Catch a Thief Brief (1967) ... The Culhane

- The Death of a Warrior Brief (1967) ... The Culhane

- The 3:10 to a Lynching Brief (1967) ... The Culhane

- The Dead Man's Brief (1967) ... Culhane

- The Cat in the Bag Brief (1967) ... The Culhane

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 1967 The Outsider (TV Movie)

Collin Kenniston III

 1967 Banning

Richard Tyson

 1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series)

Doug Pomeroy

- Runaway Bay (1966) ... Doug Pomeroy

 1966 Gunsmoke (TV Series)

Rev. John Porter

- Sanctuary (1966) ... Rev. John Porter

 1966 Moment to Moment

Mark Dominic

 1965 The Big Valley (TV Series)

Lloyd

- The Young Marauders (1965) ... Lloyd

 1963 Look Up and Live (TV Series documentary)

Masters

- The End of the Story (1963) ... Masters

 1962 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)

- The Secret Crime (1962)

 1962 John Brown's Body (TV Movie)

 1961 Bridge to the Sun

Fred Tyson

 1961 Splendor in the Grass

Glenn

 1961 'Way Out (TV Series)

- Button, Button (1961)

 1960 Deadline (TV Series)

Ralph

- The Cave (1960) ... Ralph

 1959 Brenner (TV Series)

Howard Campell

- I, Executioner (1959) ... Howard Campell

 1959 Up Periscope

Seaman Floyd

 1958 Sugarfoot (TV Series)

Andy Gibson

- The Canary Kid (1958) ... Andy Gibson

 1958 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (TV Series)

George

- Stealing Rick's Girl (1958) ... George

 1958 Onionhead

Yeoman Kaffhamp

 1958 Violent Road

Ken Farley

 1957-1958 Colt .45 (TV Series)

Charles 'Chuck' Dudley / Youth

- Circle of Fear (1958) ... Charles 'Chuck' Dudley

- A Time to Die (1957) ... Youth

 1958 Cheyenne (TV Series)

Mike Fullerton

- The Empty Gun (1958) ... Mike Fullerton

 1958 Darby's Rangers

Young Soldier (uncredited)

Hide Hide Archive footage (1 credit)

 1980 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series)

Flight Controller

- A Blast for Buck (1980) ... Flight Controller (uncredited)

Sammy Stewart obit

Former major-league pitcher Sammy Stewart dies at 63

 He was not on the list.

Former major-league pitcher Sammy Stewart, the “Throwin’ Swannanoan” who won a World Series with the Baltimore Orioles, has died at age 63.

Stewart’s body was found at a residence off Mountain Road in Hendersonville on Friday, according to Major Frank Stout with the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office.

Major Stout said the medical examiner has requested an autopsy to determine cause of death.

A Swannanoa native who was a multi-sport star at Owen High, Stewart was a hard-throwing, hard-living right-hander who set a major-league record by striking out the first seven batters he faced in his major league debut in 1978.

He posted a 59-48 record in 10 major-league seasons with a 3.62 ERA and 42 saves. He pitched in two World Series with the Orioles, winning the world title in 1983, and didn’t allow a run in 12 postseason innings.

His post-baseball life was marred by drug addiction, arrests and time spent in prison.

From 1988-2006, he was arrested 46 times for more than 60 offenses and was sent to prison six times for a total of 25 months. In 2006 he pled guilty to a charge of being a habitual felon and was sentenced to six years in prison.

After being released in 2013, he lived in Hendersonville.

In a published interview in 2013, Stewart said he was living a “simple life” and teaching young boys how to pitch.

Police reports indicate Stewart had been arrested for trespassing and other charges in recent months.

Stewart had two children from his first marriage to Peggy Stewart. Son Colin died in 1991, and daughter Alicia died in 2016, both with complications from cystic fibrosis.

He had two other children from another relationship.

In a interview from jail shortly before he was sentenced to prison in 2006, Stewart talked about being a drug addict and the regrets he had for falling into a life of crime and drug abuse.

“I’m a crack addict, a drug addict, Stewart said. “I can’t explain to you how bad it feels to be walking down Tunnel Road with no home and no money and people look at you and say, ‘That’s Sammy Stewart. He used to be a famous ballplayer.

“I had it all, and now I have nothing. I’m a 51-year-old man in jail and begging for another chance.”

Stewart was born in Asheville, North Carolina. He attended Owen High School in Swannanoa, North Carolina, and Montreat College, and signed his first pro contract with the Baltimore Orioles in 1975.

Stewart established a new record for most consecutive strikeouts in an MLB debut with seven in the Orioles' 9–3 victory over the Chicago White Sox in the second game of a twi-night doubleheader at Memorial Stadium on September 1, 1978.

Colin Campbell obit

Actor Colin Campbell Has Died

He was not on the list.

He had drama lessons as a child and at 12 did a season at the Old Vic, In 1955 he did his national service in the Royal Signals where he took up boxing as a light welter weight and is still a member of the Amateur Boxing Association.By the time of being demobbed he'd lost his theatre contacts and was too old for juvenile roles and too young for 25 year olds so spent time in factories, and drove lorries., 1962 Arnold Wesker asked him to play Charlie Wingate in Chips With Everything, which he eventually left to take the part of Rita Tuhingham's husband in the film Leather Boys.

His best-known role was the lead in The Leather Boys in 1964, in which he plays a bored married man who starts hanging out with a biker friend—who, he belatedly realises, is homosexual. Campbell started off as a child actor, and played John in the 1950s BBC radio Children's Hour adaptation of Worzel Gummidge, and the title role in BBC TV's Huckleberry Finn in 1952. His stage work included appearances at the Old Vic and with the RSC.  He also starred in Nuns on the Run (1990) and made many appearances on British television, including in the role of David Ashton, one of the main characters in the popular ITV drama series A Family At War which was broadcast from 1970 to 1972. Campbell's photograph appears on the cover of the German release of The Smiths' single "Ask" and, as his Leather Boys character, on the cover of The Smiths' single "William, It Was Really Nothing" (only CD version) and with co-star Rita Tushingham in the promotional video for "Girlfriend In A Coma".

Actor

The Royal Today (2008)

The Royal Today

7.1

TV Series

Glynn Morton

2008

1 episode

 

Saxon (2007)

Saxon

5.3

Snout

2007

 

Colin Blumenau, Nula Conwell, Peter Ellis, Trudie Goodwin, Jon Iles, Gary Olsen, Eric Richard, John Salthouse, Tony Scannell, Jeff Stewart, Mark Wingett, and Delia Swan in The Bill (1984)

The Bill

6.7

TV Series

Oliver Thorpe

Dickie Harris

1994–2006

2 episodes

 

The Dying Breed

Short

The Bounty Hunter

1999

 

George Cole in Minder (1979)

Minder

7.8

TV Series

Gerry

1994

1 episode

 

George Baker, Keith Barron, John Castle, and Amanda Redman in Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987)

Ruth Rendell Mysteries

6.8

TV Series

Sgt Willoughby

Sgt. Willoughby

Sergeant Willoughby

1988–1992

12 episodes

 

Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle in Nuns on the Run (1990)

Nuns on the Run

6.0

Norm

1990

 

Anthony Daniels, Michael Elphick, Neil Morrissey, and Amanda Noar in I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990)

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle

5.4

Moped Rider

1990

 

Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote (1984)

Murder, She Wrote

7.2

TV Series

Simon

1989

1 episode

 

Noele Gordon in Crossroads (1964)

Crossroads

4.4

TV Series

Organist

1987

1 episode

 

Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

My Beautiful Laundrette

6.8

Madame Butterfly Man

1985

 

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

8.7

TV Series

Private Bates

1984

1 episode

 

Another Time, Another Place (1983)

Another Time, Another Place

6.4

Accordionist

1983

 

Bloody Kids (1980)

Bloody Kids

6.2

TV Movie

Conductor

1980

 

Rough Justice (1977)

Rough Justice

TV Mini Series

Simon Brooke

1977

6 episodes

 

BBC2 Playhouse (1973)

BBC2 Playhouse

6.5

TV Series

Straker

1976

1 episode

 

John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in The Sweeney (1975)

The Sweeney

8.1

TV Series

Det. Insp. Terry Potter

1975

1 episode

 

Pathfinders (1972)

Pathfinders

7.9

TV Series

Flight Sergeant Bob Starling

1972

1 episode

 

A Family at War (1970)

A Family at War

7.7

TV Series

David Ashton

1970–1972

30 episodes

 

Emergency-Ward 10 (1957)

Emergency-Ward 10

6.2

TV Series

Richard Turnstall

Michael Pomfret

1960–1966

2 episodes

 

John Thaw in Redcap (1964)

Redcap

7.9

TV Series

Corporal Donald

1966

1 episode

 

Pamela Ann Davy in Pity About the Abbey (1965)

Londoners

TV Series

Albert

1965

1 episode

 

Susan Strasberg, Dirk Bogarde, and George Chakiris in McGuire, Go Home! (1965)

McGuire, Go Home!

5.9

Emile Andros

1965

 

James Ellis, John Slater, and Gary Watson in Z Cars (1962)

Z Cars

7.0

TV Series

Jim

1964

1 episode

 

Saturday Night Out (1964)

Saturday Night Out

6.3

Jamey

1964

 

Colin Campbell and Rita Tushingham in The Leather Boys (1964)

The Leather Boys

7.1

Reggie

1964

 

Maupassant (1963)

Maupassant

9.2

TV Series

Raoul

1963

1 episode

 

Armchair Theatre (1956)

Armchair Theatre

7.5

TV Series

Peter

Bellboy

1959–1962

2 episodes

 

Stryker of the Yard (1957)

Stryker of the Yard

7.3

TV Series

Boy At The Youth Club

1961

1 episode

 

The Alchemist

TV Movie

1961

 

Bryan Murray in Kipps (1960)

Kipps

TV Mini Series

Young Sid

1960

1 episode

 

Probation Officer (1959)

Probation Officer

7.3

TV Series

Ben

Perry

1960

2 episodes

 

ITV Television Playhouse (1955)

ITV Television Playhouse

7.8

TV Series

Derek

1960

1 episode

 

Samson and Delilah

TV Movie

Soldier

1959

 

Ivanhoe (1958)

Ivanhoe

7.1

TV Series

Page

1958

1 episode

 

Saturday Playhouse (1958)

Saturday Playhouse

TV Series

Sub-Lieut. Dobson, R.N.

1958

1 episode

 

Gerald Campion and Kynaston Reeves in Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (1952)

Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School

6.9

TV Series

Johnny Bull

1955

6 episodes

 

The Laughing Lady

TV Movie

Phillip Burling

1955

 

Happy Holidays

TV Series

Bill Holliday

1954

6 episodes

 

BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950)

BBC Sunday-Night Theatre

6.9

TV Series

A page

Nicholas Brand

Larry Quinn

1953–1954

2 episodes

 

Stryker of the Yard

1953

 

In Search of Maitland

TV Movie

Wing

1953

 

The Fish and the Angel

TV Movie

Aduel

1953

 

Vice Versa

TV Mini Series

Jolland

1953

2 episodes

 

Skippy Smith Goes to the Circus

TV Movie

Lanky Jones

1953

 

Rheingold Theatre (1953)

Rheingold Theatre

8.4

TV Series

Youth

1953

1 episode

 

Joey's Burglar

TV Movie

Wing Spencer

1953

 

Huckleberry Finn

TV Series

Huckleberry Finn

1952

7 episodes

 

Taking Things Quietly

TV Movie

Charles Verity Jnr.

1952

 

The Snow-Baby

TV Short

Pietre

1950

 

Soundtrack

One Wild Oat (1951)

One Wild Oat

5.0

lyrics: "It Must Be You"

music: "It Must Be You"

1951

Pete Henderson obit

 Peter Henderson has died

He was not on the list.

Skiles and Henderson were the comedy team of Bill Skiles and Pete Henderson. Bill wasn't happy as a musician and in the summer of 1956, he persuaded Pete (still at Southern Cal) to audition with him for a job at Disneyland doing a show demonstrating homemade instruments to kids in Frontierland. Bill's father had built and played these same instruments with his vaudeville band, The Bob Skiles Haywire Orchestra. Bill and Pete showed up in Frontierland dressed up as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and auditioned for Tommy Walker, the Disneyland entertainment director. He was approving of the act, but didn't have a slot for that kind of show.

By the summer of 1958, Pete had left school when his step-dad died and began working in a show band for Disneyland DateNites, playing bass. After finishing a round of golf one day with Skiles, Bill offered to drive Pete out to Disneyland to pick up some of Pete's paperwork in the entertainment office. Bill started clowning around for the secretaries and Tommy Walker suddenly peered out at them from his office door. Even after two years he still remembered the name - "Is that Skiles and Henderson?" he asked. Then he went on to describe a new stage called the Plaza Gardens that might be right for the duo. They re-auditioned there the next day, were hired and began their long career on June 13, 1958.

Their 20-minute show wasn't all music, although the musical tire pump and the tin can xylophone and the tuned skillets and musical saw and washtub bass were a large part of the act. They starting working new material into their show lampooning the various "lands" comprising the park. Frontierland, Adventureland and Tomorrowland all were grist for the Skiles and Henderson mill. Sound effects became important to their style and remain so today.

At the end of their first summer at the park their workload was reduced to weekends only. They were asked to participate in a new program called Tour Guides, but that only lasted a short time for them. By the summer of 1959, they were leading their own DateNite band in Frontierland and still had their day job in the park. But it was time to move on to the real world. In 1972, the duo started touring with The Carpenters, doing the first half of the singers' concerts and Pete singing in the Carpenter's "Oldies Medley" at the end of each concert. At this time, they made a brief return to Disneyland as the hosts of the Mouse Factory episode "Music", where they incorporated pie-in-the-face gags into a few of their comic acts. They also voiced the monkeys in The Jungle Book.

The duo played at nightclubs, showrooms and corporate events, and as a supporting act they toured with the New Christy Minstrels and The Carpenters. They made television appearances with Ed Sullivan, Dean Martin, Rowan and Martin, Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Mike Douglas, David Frost and Merv Griffin.

 

Pete Henderson:

Peter Carroll Henderson

Born on April 28, 1938

Los Angeles County, California, United States

Died March 1, 2018 (aged 79)

Branson, Missouri, United States

Anatoly Lein obit

Chessmaster Anatoly Lein Has Died

 

He was not on the list.

Anatoly Lein was both a world-class competitor and a popular writer. Born in the Soviet Union, he became USSR Armed Forces Champion in 1962 and Russian Chess Champion in 1963. These honors were followed by the international master title in 1964 and the grandmaster title in 1968. Lein and his countrymen placed first at the 1965 European Team Championship. Other major results include wins at the Moscow Championship in 1971 and the 1973 Capablanca Memorial, and outright or shared first-place finishes at Moscow 1970, Cienfuegos 1972, Novi Sad 1972 and 1973, and Grand Manan 1984.

After immigrating to the United States in the mid-1970s, Lein represented his new county in several major national and international tournaments, finishing equal first at the U.S. Open and the World Open in 1976 and representing the U.S. at the 1978 Chess Olympiad. He also held the New Jersey State Championship title from 1992 to 1995. During the 1990s, Lein collaborated with fellow grandmasters on several chess books, including the acclaimed Sharpen Your Tactics: 1125 Brilliant Sacrifices, Combinations, and Studies. In his prime, he scored wins against world champions Mikhail Tal and Vassily Smyslov, making him a dangerous competitor in the international arena and earning him an induction into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 2004.