Pat Crawford Brown obit

 

Pat Crawford Brown has died

She was not on the list.

Character actress appeared in countless film/TV projects. Pat Brown began her screen acting career in her mid-60s, after retiring after long career as an English teacher at Carson High School (Carson, CA). She soon was cast on dozens of television series in elderly roles, even returning in recurring roles in series like "Coach", "Gilmore Girls", "Desperate Housewives", and daytime soap "Days of Our Lives". She also appeared in many feature films like "Sister Act" (1992), its sequel the following year, "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" (1997), and "Norbit" (2007) as town florist 'Mrs. Henderson', among others.

Pat Crawford Brown was the daughter of NY district Judge Thomas J. Crawford and wife Charlotte., and in 1961 married husband Calvin Burdell Brown, who passed away in 1976. The union produced a daughter Charlotte (named after her maternal grandmother). Pat Crawford Brown passed away July 2, 2019, just 3 days after her 90th birthday, survived by daughter Charlotte Brown Swanson, three grandsons Timothy, Nicholas, and Daniel, as well as six great-grandchildren. She was also survived by two sisters Anne and Mary.

Selected filmography 

The Twilight Zone (1986, TV Series) as Mrs. Finnegan (segment "The Little People of Killany Woods") 

Sledge Hammer! (1987, TV Series) as Woman at Bar 

Beauty and the Beast (1987, TV Series) as Old Woman #1 

L.A. Law (1987, TV Series) as Jury Foreman #2 

Highway to Heaven (1987, TV Series) as Betty 

Who's the Boss? (1988, TV Series) as Mary 

18 Again! (1988) as Old Lady 

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988) as Mrs. Meeker 

Liberace: Behind the Music (1988, TV Movie) as Nancy 

Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989) as Secretary 

Moonlighting (1989, TV Series) as Cleaning Lady 

Dear John (1989, TV Series) as Kirk's Mom 

Mama's Family (1989, TV Series) as Joanne Mickley 

The Famous Teddy Z (1989, TV Series) 

Murder, She Wrote (1989-1992, TV Series) as Cashier / Woman 

Coach (1989-1997, TV Series) as Secretary / Mrs. Alma Thorkelson 

Designing Women (1990, TV Series) as Constance 

Knots Landing (1990, TV Series) as Owner 

False Identity (1990) as Nellie 

Out of Sight, Out of Mind (1990) as Nurse 

A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990) as Female Mourner 

Murphy Brown (1990-1995, TV Series) as Sister Mary Margaret O'Brien 

Dream On (1990, TV Series) as Frieda 

Quantum Leap (1990, TV Series) as Woman 

Carol & Company (1990, TV Series) as Miss Underwood 

Matlock (1991, TV Series) as Old Woman 

Get a Life (1991, TV Series) as Aunt Molly 

Growing Pains (1991, TV Series) as Kathleen 

Amen (1991, TV Series) as Winnie 

The Rocketeer (1991) as Mrs. Pye 

Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue (1991) as Ms. Earlane 

Demonic Toys (1992) as Mrs. Michaels 

Empty Nest (1992, TV Series) as Melba 

Sister Act (1992) as Choir Nun #3 

Love Is Like That (1992) as Woman in pink 

Bodies of Evidence (1992, TV Series) as Mrs. Polk 

Middle Ages (1992, TV Series) 

Step by Step (1992, TV Series) as Mrs. Hill 

The Wonder Years (1992, TV Series) as Mrs. Ruebner 

Dinosaurs (1992, TV Series) as Stenographer (voice) 

Camp Wilder (1993, TV Series) as Aunt Ida 

Reasonable Doubts (1993, TV Series) as Mrs. McGurdy 

Homefront (1993, TV Series) 

Love & War (1993, TV Series) as Mrs. Kittock 

Bakersfield P.D. (1993, TV Series) as Woman 

Time Trax (1993, TV Series) as Paul's Wife 

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) as Choir Nun #3 

Days of Our Lives (1993-2009, TV Series) as Sister Agnes / Minnie 

Reality Bites (1994) as Cashier 

Tom (1994, TV Series) as Miss Broch 

Little Giants (1994) as Louise 

Sister, Sister (1994-1995, TV Series) as Ms. Little / Maid 

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1994-1996, TV Series) as Lady / Nurse 

Mad About You (1994, TV Series) as Neighbor #1 

Hearts Afire (1995, TV Series) as Landlady 

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1995, TV Series) as Mrs. Macarthy 

Married... with Children (1995, TV Series) as Bingo Caller 

Kirk (1995, TV Series) as Aunt Zelda 

Deadly Games (1996, TV Series) as Woman 

The Crew (1996, TV Series) as Ida 

Home Improvement (1996, TV Series) as Mrs. Kluzewski 

ER (1996, TV Series) as Mrs. Votey 

The Faculty (1996, TV Series) as Alice Munson 

Ellen (1996, TV Series) as Rose 

Unhappily Ever After (1996, TV Series) as Sadie Glickstein 

Dark Skies (1996, TV Series) as Clarice Brown, Hotel Clerk 

The Pretender (1996, TV Series) as Millie Reynolds 

Beverly Hills, 90210 (1996, TV Series) as Salvation Army Soldier 

The John Larroquette Show (1996, TV Series) as Chris' Mom 

Chicago Sons (1997, TV Series) as Woman 

Profiler (1997, TV Series) as Sister Mary 

Soul Man (1997, TV Series) as Gladys 

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) as Truck Stop Waitress 

George & Leo (1997, TV Series) 

Caroline in the City (1997, TV Series) as Sadie 

Suddenly Susan (1997-1999, TV Series) as Mildred / Freida 

NYPD Blue (1997-2000, TV Series) as Old Woman / Mrs. Klein 

Alright Already (1997, TV Series) as Lina 

Night Man (1997, TV Series) as Mrs. Simon 

Johnny Skidmarks (1998) as Mrs. Starkey 

Fired Up (1998, TV Series) as Sister Mary Grace 

Something So Right (1998, TV Series) as Mrs. Van Owl 

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1998, TV Series) as Annie 

The Brian Benben Show (1998, TV Series) as Heddy Bolinski 

The Godson (1998) as Toenail Lady 

DiResta (1998, TV Series) as Grandma Wooly-Hat 

Guys Like Us (1998, TV Series) as Mary 

Jack Frost (1998) as Scorekeeper 

L.A. Doctors (1998, TV Series) as Old Lady Patient 

Johnny Skidmarks (1998) 

Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (1999, TV Series) as Librarian 

Forces of Nature (1999) as Florence 

Norm (1999, TV Series) as Mrs. Lefkowitz 

Grown Ups (1999, TV Series) as The Elderly Woman 

Malcolm & Eddie (1999, TV Series) as Peeping Tonya 

One World (1999, TV Series) as Mrs. Annandale 

The Drew Carey Show (1999, TV Series) as Mrs. Hopkins 

3rd Rock from the Sun (2000, TV Series) as Mrs. Larson 

Judging Amy (2000-2002, TV Series) as Waitress Polly / Waitress Louise 

Playing Mona Lisa (2000) as Grandma Ida Weinberg 

The Woman Every Man Wants (2001) 

The Division (2001, TV Series) as Pappy 

Nikki (2001, TV Series) as Mrs. Hiebaum 

These Old Broads (2001, TV Movie) as Miriam Hodges 

State of Grace (2001, TV Series) 

Danny (2001, TV Series) as Mrs. Landis 

The Medicine Show (2001) as Crickety Nurse 

The Steve Harvey Show (2001, TV Series) as Ms. Hirschfeld 

The Proud Family (2001, TV Series) as Agnus (voice) 

Lizzie McGuire (2002, TV Series) as Mrs. Robinson 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002, TV Series) as Old Lady 

MDs (2002, TV Series) as Very Old Woman 

Gilmore Girls (2002-2004, TV Series) as Mrs. Cassini 

A.U.S.A. (2003, TV Series) as Grandmother 

Daredevil (2003) as Old Lady on Plane 

The Bernie Mac Show (2003, TV Series) 

Stuck on You (2003) as Mimmy 

Memron (2004, TV Movie) as Mrs. Westerfeld 

Monk (2004, TV Series) as Nana Parlo 

Arrested Development (2004, TV Series) as Old Woman 

According to Jim (2004, TV Series) as Mrs. Reifschneider 

Strong Medicine (2004, TV Series) as Millie - Pharmacist 

Desperate Housewives (2004-2007, TV Series) as Ida Greenberg 

Jack & Bobby (2005, TV Series) as Old Lady 

Suits on the Loose (2005) as Sister Cutbank 

Crazylove (2005) as Old Lady 

Emily's Reasons Why Not (2006, TV Mini-Series) as Grandma Beatrice 

You, Me and Dupree (2006) as Aunt Kathy 

El Cortez (2006) as Helena 

The War at Home (2006, TV Series) as Kathy 

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2007, TV Series) as Female Dental Patient 

Norbit (2007) as Mrs. Henderson 

Ghost Whisperer (2007, TV Series) as Bertha 

Raines (2007, TV Series) as Margo, Glaucoma sufferer 

General Hospital: Night Shift (2007, TV Series) as Mrs. Storch 

Family Guy (2007, TV Series) as Lead Sanka Dancer 

10 Items or Less (2008, TV Series) as Mrs. Brown 

Uncross the Stars (2008) as Norma 

Dark Streets (2008) as Delores 

Swingtown (2008, TV Series) as Norma 

General Hospital (2008, TV Series) as Mrs. Albright 

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2008, TV Series) as Woman - Historical Society 

Numb3rs (2008, TV Series) as Older Woman 

How I Met Your Mother (2009, TV Series) as Thelma 

Meteor (2009, TV Mini-Series) as Elderly Lady 

Super Capers (2009) as Gertrude 

Saving Grace (2009, TV Series) as Ethel Mae Wilson 

Labor Pains (2009) as Aunt Betty 

Mending Fences (2009, TV Movie) as County Clerk 

Community (2010, TV Series) as Pierce's Mom (voice) 

Parks and Recreation (2011, TV Series) as Andy's Grandma 

Mad Love (2011, TV Series) as Ruth 

Rules of Engagement (2011, TV Series) as Pearl 

Oliver's Ghost (2011, TV Movie) as Betty 

Bones (2011, TV Series) as Landlady 

2ND Take (2011) as Miriam 

Divorce Invitation (2012) as Myrtle 

Other 

Wainy Days (2011, internet series) as Patricia 

L.A. Noire (2011, Video Game) as Florence Jenkins (voice)

Lee Iacocca - # 212 on the list

From the Mustang to the minivan, auto legend Lee Iacocca is dead at 94

He was number 212 on the list.

Lido Anthony Iacocca, the automobile industry legend best known as “Lee,” died at the age of 94 on Tuesday morning, his family confirmed.

A child of Italian immigrants who grow up in humble conditions, Iacocca became one of the most powerful — and best known — executives in Detroit.

Iacocca rose to become president of Ford Motor in December 1970.

After being fired in a dispute with company heir Henry Ford II, Iacocca joined the then-struggling Chrysler. Using both his business skills and ability to turn a phrase, he won federal loan guarantees that helped the automaker avoid a potential 1980 bankruptcy.

If you can find a better car, buy it was Lee Iacocca's TV tagline when he was chairman of Chrysler

During his career, Iacocca become closely associated with at least three iconic vehicles. He has been widely credited as the father of the Ford Mustang, as well as the K-Car that helped Chrysler pull out of its financial slump. Working with former Ford colleague Hal Sperlich who joined him at Chrysler, Iacocca also gave the go-ahead to the minivans that for a number of years were the most profitable products offered by the third-largest of the Detroit automakers.

“Lee was one of few truly great leaders,” said Bob Lutz, a longtime executive at Ford and Chrysler who worked closely with Iacocca. “He was my mentor, my teacher and role model. When he was on, he was fabulous. I will miss him.”

“I owe the second half of my career to Lee Iacocca,” Lutz said. “All in all, we had a relationship like a father and son.”

Charitable work

In his latter years with Chrysler, Iacocca spent an increasing share of his time doing charitable work, among other things spearheading efforts to restore both the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the immigration port in New York Harbor where his own parents came into the United States.

Iacocca became famous not only as Chrysler’s chairman and CEO but its TV pitchman, where he made famous the tag line, “If you can find a better car, buy it.”

But after being nudged out by the Chrysler board, Iacocca unexpectedly teamed with billionaire Kirk Kerkorian in a failed 1995 hostile takeover attempt.

The company and its former chairman patched things up a decade later, with Iacocca again serving as a Chrysler pitchman, in one TV commercial appearing with rapper Snoop Dogg.

Iacocca attempted to form an electric vehicle company, EV Global Motors, in 1999, but he largely focused on writing and charitable work over recent years.

Iacocca was married three times. His last marriage, to Darrien Earle, ended in 1994.

Iacocca lived in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles in his final years.

His daughter Lia Iacocca Assad said Lee Iacocca died of natural causes, but that he suffered from complications from Parkinson’s Disease. He is survived by two daughters and eight grandchildren.

Robert E. Bradford obit

Robert E. Bradford Dies: Film & TV Producer, Husband Of Novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford Was 92

 He was not on the list.

Robert E. Bradford, a film and television producer, and the husband of novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford, died July 2 in New York’s Weill Cornell Hospital after suffering a stroke at the couple’s Manhattan home the week prior. A spokesperson for the family confirmed his death. Bradford was 92.

The couple celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary this year.

Bradford produced nine of his wife’s books as mini-series and movies of the week for NBC and CBS, including 1989’s Voice of the Heart starring Lindsay Wagner and James Brolin; 1992’s To Be The Best, again with Wagner; and 1993’s Remember starring Donna Mills and Stephen Collins.

According to information provided by the family, the German-born and French-educated Bradford left Europe for New York after World War II, landing  a job in public relations. After moving to Hollywood, he met the men who would become his mentors: attorney Louis Blau of Loeb and Loeb, and Jessie L. Lasky, founder of Paramount Pictures.

Several years later, Bradford served as a VP for Samuel Bronston Productions in Madrid. Among his film credits from this era are El Cid, Fifty-Five Days in Peking and John Paul Jones.

Later he was president and CEO of Franco London Films in Paris. During that time he supervised productions including John Frankenheimer’s Impossible Object starring Alan Bates and Dominique Sanda, and oversaw production of the French hit Mourir D’Aimer starring Annie Girardot.

In the 1980s, Bradford formed his own production company and began to film the novels written by his wife Barbara Taylor Bradford. Those projects starred such actors as Sir Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson, Deborah Kerr, Jenny Seagrove, James Brolin, Stephen Collins, Sir John Mills, Lindsey Wagner, Elizabeth Hurley and Victoria Principal. All were filmed in London.

At the time of his death, Bradford was planning a remake of his wife’s international bestseller A Woman of Substance.

Services are planned for 12:30 P.M. Wednesday July 10 at the Riverside, 76th Street & Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to New York Weil Cornell Medical Center.

Richmond Shepard obit

Richmond Shepard, Celebrated as ‘The World’s Oldest Mime,’ Dies at 90

 

He was not on the list.

Richmond Shepard, one of America’s foremost practitioners and proponents of the art of mime, died in Manhattan July 2 at age 90.

Shepard’s family announced his passing with an unusual request: “In lieu of flowers, Richmond has requested a moment of noise.”

Although he was most famous as a mime — and received fresh notoriety three years ago when he was featured in an online New Yorker video, “The World’s Oldest Mime” — Shepard was also a well-known personality in the bicoastal theater communities as a director, critic and theater operator, with small stages that bore his name in both L.A. and New York.

Shepard was the author of “Mime: The Technique of Silence,” a 1970 book considered an essential text for anyone looking to take up the craft. His early television work included appearances on “The Today Show” and talk shows with Merv Griffin, Steve Allen and Dinah Shore. His spots on episodic TV —sometimes in whiteface, sometimes not — included “The FBI,” “That Girl,” “Kojak,” “The Jeffersons,” “T.J. Hooker” … and “Ally McBeal,” the show that made a household name of one of his four daughters, singer-songwriter Vonda Shepard.

For all of the success he had giving audiences the silent treatment, Shepard had plenty of speaking roles in his career, on- and off-screen. In Los Angeles in the 1970s, he opened some of the equity-waiver theaters that became Hollywood’s Theatre Row before moving to New York in the late ’80s and becoming even more involved in the community of small theaters there. He founded an improv comedy troupe, Noo Yawk Tawk, which ran for several years at the Village Gate, and he became a drama critic for WNEW and Theatre Insider. Shepard opened an off-Broadway theater, the Writer Act Repertoire, and the long-running space that bore his name, the Richmond Shepard Theatre, in the 2000s and 2010s.

“Who would have thought that at this advanced age I would still be smearing white makeup on my face? I didn’t expect this,” he said in a 2009 documentary short about his career, “A Mime’s Life.” “I thought being a mime was my entrance into show business through the side door, or the back door.”

“There’s only one thing that pays less than mime,” Shepard quipped in a 2016 interview. “That’s poetry.” At the time, Shepard was continuing to headline his autobiographical show “You Wanna Be a What?!? (A Musical Memoir in Mime)” — with a title taken from his mother’s response when he announced his ultimate career path — at Don’t Tell Mama in New York.

Shepard was born in Brooklyn in 1929. “He took pride in being asked to leave Emory University for his social justice organizing in the 1940s,” his family said. With a PhD in communications, Shepard taught at Rutgers, USC, St. John’s and Cal State L.A. as well as his decades of private classes. Among the actors he coached were Lily Tomlin and Dick Van Dyke, whose 1980s sitcom he appeared on.

Raised Jewish, Shepard was reported by his family to have embraced Subud, an Indonesian-based spiritual movement, as his religious practice. He is survived by daughters Armina Hansen, Vonda Shepard, Brianna Shepard and Luana Carroll as well as four grandchildren.

 

Actor

Malcolm McDowell, Bruce Davison, Leslie Easterbrook, Gilbert Gottfried, Jim Hanks, Nathan Reid, Johnny Collins, Gene Micofsky, Michael Barra, Nicole Balsam, Melanie Iglesias, Steven Della Salla, Michael Leavy, Jason Leavy, Kyle Mullins, Robert Privitera, Briana Calcagno, Sean Imbraguglio, and Christopher McClellan in Abnormal Attraction (2018)

Abnormal Attraction

4.2

Virgil 'the Sandman'

2018

 

Danielle Bourgeois in Iris (2016)

Iris

Short

Subway Mime

2016

 

Fortissimo

Short

Stanley Farkas

2013

 

Like Father Like Sons (2012)

Like Father Like Sons

9.2

Short

Mr. Goodwarth

2012

 

Kink, Inc.

8.4

Short

Brandon

2009

 

Dan Burkarth and Richmond Shepard in Cold Storage (2009)

Cold Storage

Joseph Parmegian

2009

 

Calista Flockhart in Ally McBeal (1997)

Ally McBeal

6.9

TV Series

Joel's Father

1999

1 episode

 

The Van Dyke Show (1988)

The Van Dyke Show

6.9

TV Series

Jean Pierre

1988

1 episode

 

Vampire at Midnight (1987)

Vampire at Midnight

4.4

Chapman

1987

 

T.J. Hooker (1982)

T.J. Hooker

6.1

TV Series

Mime

1984

1 episode

 

Wayland Flowers in Madame's Place (1982)

Madame's Place

6.7

TV Series

Harpo Marx

1982

2 episodes

 

Rick Baker and Lily Tomlin in The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

5.5

Toy

1981

 

Those Were the Days (1980)

Those Were the Days

Short

Bekins Custodian

1980

 

Marla Gibbs, Paul Benedict, Franklin Cover, Sherman Hemsley, Roxie Roker, Isabel Sanford, and Berlinda Tolbert in The Jeffersons (1975)

The Jeffersons

7.5

TV Series

Mime (as Richmond Shephard)

1979

1 episode

 

You Light Up My Life (1977)

You Light Up My Life

4.8

2nd Commercial Director

1977

 

Kojak (1973)

Kojak

7.1

TV Series

Grundy

1975

1 episode

 

Someone I Touched (1975)

Someone I Touched

6.6

TV Movie

Shopper

1975

 

Insight (1960)

Insight

7.5

TV Series

Horacio

1974

1 episode

 

Roll, Freddy, Roll! (1974)

Roll, Freddy, Roll!

7.4

TV Movie

Pogo Man

1974

 

Andrew Prine in Simon, King of the Witches (1971)

Simon, King of the Witches

5.8

Stanley

1971

 

The F.B.I. (1965)

The F.B.I.

7.4

TV Series

Donald Willis

1970

1 episode

 

Mitzi's 2nd Special (1969)

Mitzi's 2nd Special

6.1

TV Movie

Harpo

1969

 

Dusty's Treehouse (1968)

Dusty's Treehouse

8.3

TV Series

Richmond (guest)

1968–1980

 

Medix

TV Series

Richmond (guest)

1967

 

Goldie Hawn, Joby Baker, Billy De Wolfe, Julie Parrish, and Ronnie Schell in Good Morning World (1967)

Good Morning World

6.6

TV Series

Dr. Green

1967

1 episode

 

Occasional Wife (1966)

Occasional Wife

7.6

TV Series

Dr. Swann

1966

1 episode

 

Bill Cosby and Robert Culp in I Spy (1965)

I Spy

7.2

TV Series

Cabbie

1966

1 episode

 

Never Too Late (1965)

Never Too Late

6.5

Indian Chief (uncredited)

1965

 

The Existentialist

7.3

Short

The Man

1963

 

Producer

A Mime's Life

producer

2009

 

Dan Burkarth and Richmond Shepard in Cold Storage (2009)

Cold Storage

producer

2009

 

Writer

A Mime's Life

contributing writer

2009

Norman Geisler obit

Apologist and author Norman Geisler has died

He was not on the list.


Norman L. Geisler, who spent his life defending the gospel, died Monday. He was 86.

Raised as a nonbeliever, Geisler became a Christian and a street evangelist at age 17 in his hometown of Detroit. A drunken man claiming to be a graduate of “Moody insta Bible toot,” a play on the name of the Moody Bible Institute, cited a Bible verse in which Jesus said to “go and tell no man”—a reference to Mark 1:44 and other instances where Jesus instructs his followers to stay quiet—as proof Geisler should not be evangelizing. “I had no idea what that verse meant,” said Geisler. “I couldn’t even read, but God took me as raw material and said, ‘I want to make you into a scholar, and I want you to write books.’ … You might look at me and say, ‘I could never do that.’ Well, I couldn’t either, but I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

Geisler described his apologetic method as a “cross between Thomas Aquinas and Billy Graham.” He called himself a “moderate Calvinist … put here in defense of the gospel.” He received his Ph.D. in philosophy, wrote or co-authored more than 96 books and papers, taught in higher Biblical education for over 55 years, debated and spoke all over the world, and co-founded Southern Evangelical Seminary and Veritas International University.

For fun, Geisler collected the quotes of atheists, collating them into the popular book I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist. He and his wife, Barbara Jean Geisler, raised three sons and three daughters. The Geislers were married 62 years had numerous grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.