Robert Gray obit

Actor Robert Gray Has Died 

He was not on the list.

Robert Gray was born on February 10, 1945 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Innerspace (1987), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) and Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986). He died on October 31, 2013 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

He began his career with minor roles in TV-series such as The Incredible Hulk and The Dukes of Hazzard. In the John Carpenter-directed miniseries Elvis (1979), he played Elvis Presley's best friend Red West. He also had a recurring role as "Cliff Willoughby" in the TV-series Harper Valley PTA. He had supporting roles in a few obscure movies like UFOria (1985) and Omega Syndrome (1986). His movie-credits also include minor roles in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986), Armed and Dangerous (1986), and Innerspace (1987), which also marked his final acting credit.

 

Actor

Dennis Quaid in Innerspace (1987)

Innerspace

6.8

Lab Assault Henchman

1987

 

Nick Mancuso in Stingray (1986)

Stingray

7.4

TV Series

Crenshaw

1987

1 episode

 

Ernie Reyes Jr. in Sidekicks (1986)

Sidekicks

7.1

TV Series

Grant

1987

1 episode

 

Omega Syndrome (1986)

Omega Syndrome

4.3

Saxon

1986

 

John Candy in Armed and Dangerous (1986)

Armed and Dangerous

5.7

Butcher

1986

 

Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote (1984)

Murder, She Wrote

7.2

TV Series

Albert Cromwell

1986

1 episode

 

Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)

Hamburger: The Motion Picture

4.7

Busterburger Manager

1986

 

The Fall Guy (1981)

The Fall Guy

7.1

TV Series

1986

1 episode

 

This Is the Life (1952)

This Is the Life

6.8

TV Series

1985

1 episode

 

George Peppard, Mr. T, Dirk Benedict, and Dwight Schultz in The A-Team (1983)

The A-Team

7.5

TV Series

Candy

1985

1 episode

 

Riptide (1984)

Riptide

6.8

TV Series

Kyle Jennings

1985

1 episode

 

Fred Dryer and Stepfanie Kramer in Hunter (1984)

Hunter

6.9

TV Series

Arnold Morton

1985

1 episode

 

Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless in Cagney & Lacey (1981)

Cagney & Lacey

6.8

TV Series

Frank Fennady

1985

1 episode

 

Catherine Bach, Ben Jones, Denver Pyle, John Schneider, and Tom Wopat in The Dukes of Hazzard (1979)

The Dukes of Hazzard

7.1

TV Series

Hixx

Potter

1982–1984

2 episodes

 

Jeff Goldblum, Ellen Barkin, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Weller, and John Lithgow in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

6.2

Radar Blazer

1984

 

UFOria (1984)

UFOria

6.2

Emile

1984

 

Denzel Washington, Ed Begley Jr., David Morse, Howie Mandel, Cynthia Sikes, Ellen Bry, William Daniels, and Ed Flanders in St. Elsewhere (1982)

St. Elsewhere

8.0

TV Series

Dr. Benzig

1983

1 episode

 

Wizards and Warriors (1983)

Wizards and Warriors

7.4

TV Series

Injured Soldier

1983

1 episode

 

The Greatest American Hero (1981)

The Greatest American Hero

7.3

TV Series

Phillips

1982

1 episode

 

Robert Clohessy, Michael Warren, and Bruce Weitz in Hill Street Blues (1981)

Hill Street Blues

8.2

TV Series

Mr. Smith

1982

1 episode

 

James Coburn in Darkroom (1981)

Darkroom

7.2

TV Series

Nazi

1981

1 episode

 

Harper Valley P.T.A. (1981)

Harper Valley P.T.A.

6.7

TV Series

Cliff Willoughby

1981

7 episodes

 

Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby in The Incredible Hulk (1977)

The Incredible Hulk

7.0

TV Series

Russky

1980

1 episode

 

Kate Mulgrew in Mrs. Columbo (1979)

Mrs. Columbo

5.6

TV Series

Harris

1979

1 episode

 

Elvis (1979)

Elvis

6.9

TV Movie

Red West

1979

 

David Cassidy and Simon Oakland in David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978)

David Cassidy - Man Undercover

6.9

TV Series

Dave

1978

1 episode

 

Born Again (1978)

Born Again

5.1

Paul Kramer

1978

Buzz Barbee obit

Actor Buzz Barbee Has Passed Away

 He was not on the list.

Buzz Barbee (13 October 1913 – 30 October 2013; age 100)  was an actor who appeared as Ambassador Fox's aide in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "A Taste of Armageddon". Barbee, who received no credit for this appearance, filmed his scenes on Wednesday 28 December 1966 and Friday 30 December 1966 at Desilu Stage 10. On the call sheet, Barbee is listed as "1 Man – Fox Official".  Barbee's name and measurements also appear on a fitting sheet of William Ware Theiss for the episode "Amok Time" though Barbee cannot be seen in the final episode.  Barbee also appeared as a maiden voyage official in Star Trek Generations.

Barbee was a professional touring ice skater and a well-known background actor and member of the Screen Extras Guild (SEG) in the Motion Picture Industry for six decades. Among his earliest known work are extra roles as a passerby in the drama Mildred Pierce (1945, with Dorothy Hack and Shep Houghton), as a club patron in the crime drama Mr. District Attorney (1947, with Noble Chissell and Lars Hensen), as a soldier in the comedy I Was a Male War Bride (1949, with Kenneth Tobey), as an apartment party guest in the music drama Jailhouse Rock (1957, with Al Cavens, Noble Chissell, Dick Dial, Shep Houghton, K.L. Smith, and Arthur Tovey), and as a college teacher in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis episode "The Ruptured Duck" (1961, with William Schallert and John Fiedler).

Further background film work includes the action thriller The Towering Inferno (1974, with Gregory Sierra, Paul Comi, David Armstrong, Shirley Anthony, John Blower, Peter Eastman, Robert Hitchcock, Steve Marlo, John Hugh McKnight, John Moio, Robert Strong, and Vic Toyota) , the crime comedy Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976, with Bert Remsen, Ted Cassidy, Christopher Rydell, Seamon Glass, Benjie Bancroft, Peter Paul Eastman, Bob Harks, and Robert Hitchcock), the horror thriller The Swarm (1978, with Arell Blanton, Steve Marlo, Monty O'Grady, and Bob Harks), the television thriller Sparkling Cyanide (1983, with Barrie Ingham, Benjie Bancroft, Bob Harks, Danny Nero, and Walter Smith), the comedy Life Stinks (1991, with Michael Ensign, Matthew Faison, Brian Thompson, Larry Cedar, Robert Gatewood, Sam Alejan, and Michael Stanhope), the comedy The Distinguished Gentleman (1992, with Victor Rivers, Noble Willingham, Gary Frank, Daniel Benzali, Julianna McCarthy, Dion Anderson, Gary Price, Lena Banks, Sam Alejan, Jim Portnoy, Gene Poe, Lou DeGrado, John Copage, Sherry O'Keefe, S. Reed, John Rice, Scott Barry, Irving Ross, Kevin G. Tracey, and Robert Buckingham), and the comedy Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994, with Raye Birk, Matt Roe, Earl Boen, Rosalind Ingledew, Alex Zimmerman, Marc Alaimo, Rick Scarry, Bob Scribner, Marcy Goldman, Bill Erwin, Bill Zuckert, Lena Banks, Symba Smith, David Keith Anderson, Kevin Tracey, Mark Kosakura, Warren Tabata, Cooper, Al Ahlf, Gene Poe, John Staible, Sam Alejan, Kevin Grevioux, George Sasaki, Dan Magee, Jim Portnoy, Lou DeGrado, Robert Coffee, Theresa St. Clair, Andray Johnson, Star Halm, Robert Buckingham, Rob Plaza, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Jessie Biscardi, Kelly Burris, Jasmine Gagnier, Joycelyn Robinson, Mike Paciorek, Kimberly Auslander, Dale Kasman, and Martin Valinsky).

Barbee was also an often seen face in many television series, mostly playing restaurant patrons, party guests, or businessmen. He was Alicia's father in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "Return of the Fighting 69th" (1979, with Tim O'Connor and Felix Silla) and appeared in episodes of Columbo (1971, episode "Lady in Waiting" with Garry Walberg, Jon Lormer, and Bob Harks and 1974, episode "A Friend in Deed" with Richard Kiley, Arlene Martel, Byron Morrow, Paul Sorensen, and Robert Hitchcock), McMillan & Wife (1974 with John Schuck, Morgan Woodward, Walt Davis, George Sawaya, David Ross, Lee Allen, Frieda Rentie, and Roberta Storm and "Buried Alive" with John Schuck, Don Keefer, Bob Harks, Leland Sun, and David Armstrong, 1975 episodes "Deadly Inheritance" with John Schuck, Beans Morocco, Benjie Bancroft, Walt Davis, Dorothy Hack, and Arthur Tovey, "Requiem for a Bride" with John Schuck, Henry Darrow, Lawrence Pressman, Stanley Kamel, John Blower, Lee Allen, and Steve Hershon, and "Secrets for Sale" with John Schuck, Graham Jarvis, Davis Roberts, Morgan Jones, Tom Anfinsen, Robert Hitchcock, Robert Lombardo, John Hugh McKnight, and Vic Toyota, and 1976 episodes "Point of Law" with John Schuck, William Daniels, Hamilton Camp, James Ingersoll, Peter Eastman, and Gary Wright and "Dark Sunrise" with John Schuck, Bill Quinn, Bob Hoy, and Lee Allen), Quincy, M.E. (1981), Flamingo Road (1982, episode "The Explosion" with John Beck and Paul Lambert), Cheers (1982 with Erik Holland, Gerald David Bauman, and David Channell and 1983 with Mike Paciorek, Gene Cross, Robert Buckingham, Walter Smith, Tim Culbertson, and Kathy Hammers), The Colbys (1985 with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Joseph Campanella, Lynda Robertson, Ilona Wilson, Suzanne Lodge, and Tim McCormack, 1985 with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Joseph Campanella, Peter Paul Eastman, and Roger Trantham, 1986 with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Ray Wise, Ian Abercrombie, John Blower, Suzanne Lodge, Devron Conrad, John Copage, Lynda Robertson, Gene Poe, and Tony Rocco, 1986 with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Peter White, Devron Conrad, and Bob Davis, and 1987 with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Nana Visitor, Bruce Gray, Kavi Raz, Robert Hitchcock, and Bob Davis), and Matlock (1990).

Barbee was a recurring background actor on Dynasty, Falcon Crest and Knots Landing. On Dynasty, he appeared between 1981 and 1987 in twenty-one episodes along with Joan Collins, Peter Mark Richman, Lee Bergere, Lloyd Haynes, Benjie Bancroft, Shirley Anthony, Peter Paul Eastman, George Sasaki, Robert Strong, Robert Hitchcock, Roger Trantham, Barbara Tarbuck, Robert Symonds, Suzanne Lodge, Don Eitner, Bert Remsen, Charles Lucia, Clive Revill, John Hugh McKnight, John Blower, Mary Mascari, Lemuel Perry, Ray Petersen, Conroy Gedeon, David Armstrong, John Burnside, Juan De Villa, Michael Zurich, Bob Davis, Bibi Besch, William O. Campbell, Dennis Howard, Mike Paciorek, Tony Rocco, Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Theodore Bikel, Devron Conrad, Clayton Landey, Lee Faranda, and Richard Sarstedt. On Knots Landing, Barbee appeared between 1981 and 1990 in ten episodes along with William Boyett, Parley Baer, Allan Miller, Ian Abercrombie, Marnie Mosiman, David Clover, J.D. Hall, Stephen Macht, Melinda Culea, Lisa Wilcox, Cecile Callan, Joseph Campanella, Celeste Yarnall, Louis Giambalvo, Mimi Cozzens, and Marco Sanchez. On Falcon Crest, Barbee appeared between 1983 and 1990 in sixteen episodes along with Robert Foxworth, David Armstrong, John Hugh McKnight, Dana Sparks, Brett Cullen, Matthew Faison, Barbara Tarbuck, John Carter, George Sasaki, Mike Paciorek, Jeff Kober, Jonathan Banks, Leslie Bevis, Michael Ensign, David Sage, Ellen Geer, Loren Lester, Cibby Danyla, Christopher Held, Michael Canavan, Joe Stone, Theodore Bikel, Adolphus Hankins, Robert O'Reilly, Conrad Hurtt, Castulo Guerra, Allan G. Royal, Ryan MacDonald, John Hostetter, Betty McGuire, Angela Paton, and Judith Jones.

Among his last known work are supporting roles as a Boston Doctor in the thriller Outbreak (1995, with Benito Martinez, Tim Ransom, Maury Sterling, Brian Reddy, and Beau Lotterman) and as a Mourner in the crime thriller Eye for an Eye (1996, with Armin Shimerman, Natalia Nogulich, Nicholas Cascone, Wayne Péré, Sierra Pecheur, Angela Paton, Bob Clendenin, Larry Polson, Michael Buchman Silver, Janet Dey, Jack Janda, and David R. Maier).

Barbee died on 30 October 2013 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, shortly after his 100th birthday. 

Actor

Sally Field in Eye for an Eye (1996)

Eye for an Eye

6.2

Mourner

1996

 

Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, and Rene Russo in Outbreak (1995)

Outbreak

6.6

Boston Doctor #3

1995

 

William Shatner and Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: Generations (1994)

Star Trek: Generations

6.6

Maiden Voyage Official (uncredited)

1994

 

Mel Blanc, John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Elizabeth Perkins, Rosie O'Donnell, Elizabeth Daily, Harvey Korman, Hlynur Sigurðsson, Marinó Sigurðsson, Elaine Silver, and Melanie Silver in The Flintstones (1994)

The Flintstones

5.0

Slate & Co. Executive (uncredited)

1994

 

Fran Drescher in The Nanny (1993)

The Nanny

7.1

TV Series

Airport Commuter

Auditioner #3

Backstage Coordinator (uncredited) ...

1993–1994

3 episodes

 

Leslie Nielsen in Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)

Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

6.5

Academy Awards Guest (uncredited)

1994

 

Eddie Murphy in The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)

The Distinguished Gentleman

5.9

Funeral Attendee (uncredited)

1992

 

Whoopi Goldberg, Teri Hatcher, Kevin Kline, Elisabeth Shue, Robert Downey Jr., and Sally Field in Soapdish (1991)

Soapdish

6.6

'Priest' Actor

Award Show Guest (uncredited)

1991

 

Life Stinks (1991)

Life Stinks

5.9

Ceremony Attendee (uncredited)

1991

 

Donna Mills, Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, Constance McCashin, John Pleshette, and Ted Shackelford in Knots Landing (1979)

Knots Landing

6.9

TV Series

Restaurant Patron

Bank Employee

Head Waiter (uncredited) ...

1981–1990

10 episodes

 

Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman (1990)

Pretty Woman

7.1

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

1990

 

Falcon Crest (1981)

Falcon Crest

6.2

TV Series

Member of the Thirteen

Restaurant Patron

Doctor (uncredited) ...

1983–1990

19 episodes

 

Andy Griffith in Matlock (1986)

Matlock

7.1

TV Series

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

1988

1 episode

 

Ted Danson, Shelley Long, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt, Nicholas Colasanto, and Rhea Perlman in Cheers (1982)

Cheers

8.0

TV Series

Bar Patron

Party Guest (uncredited)

1982–1987

4 episodes

 

Dynasty (1981)

Dynasty

6.4

TV Series

Party Guest

Restaurant Patron

Hotel Guest (uncredited) ...

1981–1987

21 episodes

 

L.A. Law (1986)

L.A. Law

7.1

TV Series

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

1987

1 episode

 

Charlton Heston, Stephanie Beacham, Maxwell Caulfield, Katharine Ross, Tracy Scoggins, Barbara Stanwyck, John James, Emma Samms, and Claire Yarlett in The Colbys (1985)

The Colbys

6.1

TV Series

Restaurant Patron

Fallon's Makeup Artist

Hotel Guest (uncredited) ...

1985–1987

5 episodes

 

Jeff Conaway, Jonelle Allen, Laura Ashton, Claudia Christian, Art Hindle, Leslie Hope, Yvette Mimieux, Anita Morris, Ben Murphy, Robin Strand, Eddie Velez, and Sam Wanamaker in Berrenger's (1985)

Berrenger's

7.0

TV Series

Party Guest

Passerby

Salesperson (uncredited)

1985

3 episodes

 

Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds in City Heat (1984)

City Heat

5.5

Club Patron (uncredited)

1984

 

Jeff Bridges and Rachel Ward in Against All Odds (1984)

Against All Odds

5.9

Party Guest (uncredited)

1984

 

Sparkling Cyanide (1983)

Sparkling Cyanide

5.9

TV Movie

Party Guest (uncredited)

1983

 

Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

7.0

TV Series

Party Guest (uncredited)

1983

1 episode

 

I Want to Live (1983)

I Want to Live

6.6

TV Movie

Juror (uncredited)

1983

 

Flamingo Road (1980)

Flamingo Road

6.5

TV Series

Bar Patron

Party Guest (uncredited)

1981–1982

3 episodes

 

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

6.9

TV Series

Alicia's Father (uncredited)

1979

1 episode

 

Hart to Hart (1979)

Hart to Hart

6.7

TV Series

Party Guest (uncredited)

1979

1 episode

 

Henry Fonda, Natalie Wood, Sean Connery, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Karl Malden, and Trevor Howard in Meteor (1979)

Meteor

5.0

U.N. Meeting Attendee (uncredited)

1979

 

Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Michael Caine, Richard Chamberlain, Patty Duke, José Ferrer, Slim Pickens, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Bradford Dillman, Lee Grant, Ben Johnson, and Fred MacMurray in The Swarm (1978)

The Swarm

4.5

Briefing Guest (uncredited)

1978

 

Lynda Carter in Wonder Woman (1975)

Wonder Woman

7.0

TV Series

Delegate (uncredited)

1977

1 episode

 

Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in McMillan & Wife (1971)

McMillan & Wife

7.2

TV Series

Restaurant Patron

Party Guest

Memorial Attendee (uncredited) ...

1974–1977

7 episodes

 

Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)

Harry and Walter Go to New York

5.4

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

1976

 

Fred Astaire, William Holden, Paul Newman, Richard Chamberlain, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, O.J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Susan Blakely, and Jennifer Jones in The Towering Inferno (1974)

The Towering Inferno

7.0

Engineer (uncredited)

1974

 

Charlton Heston, Victoria Principal, Geneviève Bujold, Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene, George Kennedy, Marjoe Gortner, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Roundtree, and Barry Sullivan in Earthquake (1974)

Earthquake

5.9

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

1974

 

Peter Falk in Columbo (1971)

Columbo

8.3

TV Series

Inquest Spectator

Man in Bar (uncredited)

1971–1974

2 episodes

 

Walter Koenig, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, and Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek (1966)

Star Trek

8.4

TV Series

Ambassador Fox's Aide (uncredited)

1967

1 episode

 

Bob Denver and Dwayne Hickman in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

7.7

TV Series

College Teacher (uncredited)

1961

1 episode

 

Jailhouse Rock (1957)

Jailhouse Rock

6.5

Apartment Party Guest (uncredited)

1957

 

Cary Grant, Marion Marshall, Bill Neff, Ann Sheridan, and Randy Stuart in I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

I Was a Male War Bride

7.0

Soldier (uncredited)

1949

 

Marguerite Chapman, Adolphe Menjou, and Dennis O'Keefe in Mr. District Attorney (1947)

Mr. District Attorney

6.5

Club Patron (uncredited)

1947

 

Eve Arden, Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett, and Zachary Scott in Mildred Pierce (1945)

Mildred Pierce

7.9

Restaurant Passerby (uncredited)

1945

Pete Haycock obit

Stafford Cimax Blues Band founder dies

He was not on the list.

The 62-year-guitarist is thought to have had a heart attack.

Born in Tixall Road, Stafford, he went to St.John's Primary School then King Edward VI School in Stafford.

He played his first electric guitar (A "Broadway")at a gig aged 12 in a miners' club in Rugeley,

In 1967 he met up with Colin Cooper who asked him to join the newly-formed soul band The Gospel Truth along with some musicians from Stoke.

Pete later helped to form The Climax Chicago Blues Band whose original line-up was Pete Haycock ( lead guitar) Derek Holt ( piano and guitar ) Colin Cooper ( vocals, harmonica ) and at Pete's suggestion, Richard Jones ( Bass) and George Newsome ( Drums ).

They went on to score a number 10 hit in 1976 with Couldn’t Get it Right.

Though another group of musicians, which at one time was led by late former bandmate Colin Cooper, is currently calling themselves "Climax Blues Band", their lineup does not consist of any founding members, and has not found the commercial success or following that the original, "true" Climax Blues Band enjoyed during Haycock's years with the band. Cooper died in 2008.

In 1984, the band members went their separate ways, and Haycock went on to record several solo projects, the first of which was the album Total Climax (1986) recorded with his new band, Pete Haycock's Climax. Pete Haycock's Climax toured extensively in Europe, including Communist East Germany, as well as a well-received tour in Australia, also releasing The Soft Spot (1987). During this period, Haycock was asked by former Climax Blues Band manager, Miles Copeland, to record an instrumental album for I.R.S. No Speak, Guitar and Son, and Night of the Guitars, a live album from the tour of the same name.[9] After that tour, in 1989, Haycock teamed up with Holt and guitarist Steve Hunter to record an album under the name the H Factor. The Pete Haycock Band consisted of the musicians from the Total Climax lineup, and went on to record a live album titled Livin' It in 1992. Copeland also signed Gary Numan to I.R.S. with whom Haycock collaborated with on the 1988 album Metal Rhythm.

Haycock was approached by Bev Bevan, formerly of Electric Light Orchestra, to join the newly formed Electric Light Orchestra Part II. The group toured and recorded with Haycock in the early 1990s, releasing both a live CD and video of their performance with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. They recorded and toured together until 1993.

In the early 1990s, Haycock was asked by Hans Zimmer to collaborate on film scores for K2 (1991), and Toys (1992). Other film scores they worked on were for Drop Zone (1994), and The Dilemma (2011), among others. Haycock's slide guitar contributed to Thunderbird, the theme music for the 1991 film, Thelma & Louise. Haycock was asked by Zimmer to re-create his performance, with a live symphony orchestra for the recording of Wings of a Film, which was a compilation album of Zimmer's successful film scores.

Haycock began composing music of his own for film and television. Along with Holt, he composed music for the 1992 film One False Move. More scores would follow, and Haycock helped produce recordings for other artists.

Sherman Halsey obit

Sherman Halsey, Video Director and Producer, Dies

Award-Winners Credits Include Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's "It's Your Love" 

He was not on the list.

Sherman Halsey, an award-winning music video director and producer, was found dead on Tuesday (Oct. 29) at a home in Nashville where he was staying. He was 56. Foul play is not suspected, according to the industry publication Music Row.

Halsey won an ACM Award for his work on Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's glamorous video, "It's Your Love." Halsey and McGraw worked closely together for many years, teaming up for fan favorites like "Indian Outlaw," "Live Like You Were Dying" and "One of Those Nights."

In 2005, Halsey accepted a CMT Music Award on McGraw's behalf for "Live Like You Were Dying" in the category of most inspiring video. He also directed many of McGraw's NBC concert specials.

Additional video credits include Brooks & Dunn's "Hard Workin' Man," Alan Jackson's "Tall Tall Trees" and Taylor Swift's "Fearless."

Halsey received his first ACM nomination for Dwight Yoakam's 1987 video, "Little Sister." On Wednesday, Yoakam posted a Twitter message saying, "In fond memory of Sherman Halsey. He was a gentleman and a friend. "

Halsey's father, music industry veteran Jim Halsey, is The Oak Ridge Boys' manager. The band also posted a Twitter message on Wednesday: "We have lost a longtime friend, associate, brother and son! Sherman Halsey has gone home! Rest easy Sherm! We all love you! Pray 4 Jim!"

Merle Haggard posted a Twitter message on Wednesday, as well, noting, "The death of our friend Sherman Halsey is a shock to me and my whole family. He will be missed deeply."

Graham Stark obit

Graham Stark dead

Graham Stark was an actor alongside Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther films and provided voices for The Goon Show

He was not on the list.

Graham Stark , the actor, who has died aged 91, was frequently cast in supporting roles in comedy films starring his close friend Peter Sellers.

Never quite achieving stardom himself, Stark moved on the periphery, appearing in nearly 80 films, often as the fall-guy or put-upon sidekick.

Stark’s links with Sellers dated from the post-war heyday of The Goon Show on BBC Radio, where his natural talent for creating funny voices shone through. The pair went on to appear in the popular Pink Panther films, Sellers starring as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau while Stark took various subservient roles. He was particularly notable as Hercule LaJoy in A Shot in the Dark (1964).

Off screen, Stark and Sellers not only became good friends, but — as single men in the 1950s — shared many amorous adventures together, often taking girlfriends back to Sellers’s flat in Finchley Road where the machinery of seduction included one of the first automatic record-players in London. Stark would later stand as best man at all of Sellers’s four weddings.

Although best known as a comedy actor, Stark turned in a touching performance in the film Alfie (1966) as Humphrey, the bus conductor who marries the pregnant girlfriend of Michael Caine’s title character.

 

The son of a purser on transatlantic liners, Graham William Stark was born at Wallasey, Merseyside, on January 20 1922, and educated at Wallasey Grammar School, where he acted in school plays. He was only 12 when he appeared with the Liverpool Repertory Company as Macduff’s son in a production of Macbeth.

 

Dancing lessons led to his professional debut the following year in a West End pantomime, Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (Lyceum, 1935). Moving to London in 1937, he took elocution lessons to lose his Merseyside accent and made his first, fleeting, film appearance as a bellboy in the thriller A Spy in Black (1939).

 

At 17 Stark enrolled at Rada, but volunteered for the RAF when war intervened, joining Ralph Reader’s gang shows and entertaining troops in North Africa, the Far East and Germany.

 

After the war Stark joined the bohemian coterie frequenting the ornate Grafton Arms pub in Victoria where up-and-coming entertainers like Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Edwards, Tony Hancock, Dick Emery and Alfred Marks held court. It was in the Grafton’s back bar that Stark renewed an RAF friendship with Peter Sellers while Sellers and Spike Milligan experimented with material that, in 1951, would metamorphose into The Goon Show.

As well as providing madcap voices for The Goons, Stark also appeared in other popular radio shows of the day, notably Educating Archie, with the ventriloquist Peter Brough, and Ray’s A Laugh, starring the Liverpool comedian Ted Ray.

 

Stark had a complex relationship with Spike Milligan, who suffered from manic depression . Whenever Milligan failed to turn up for a Goon Show recording, Stark would stand in for him; and when Milligan and Sellers moved into television with A Show Called Fred in 1956, Stark joined the cast.

 

In 1963 he appeared as a psychiatrist in Milligan’s bleak satirical comedy The Bed Sitting Room, set in the aftermath of World War III. But when Stark’s stage performance attracted critical acclaim, Milligan flew into a jealous rage and threatened to shoot him. Since Milligan was known to keep a revolver, Stark took the threat seriously — but the two were later reconciled.

 

In 1964 Stark starred in his television comedy sketch series, The Graham Stark Show, which — although written by Johnny Speight, later to create Till Death Us Do Part — proved a flop.

 

Stark was also an accomplished photographer, and often took pictures of stars, including Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor , whom he encountered on film sets.

 

He published Remembering Peter Sellers in 1999 and an autobiography, Stark Naked, in 2003.

 

Graham Stark married, in 1959, the actress Audrey Nicholson, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

Filmography as actor

 

    The Spy in Black (1939) as Bell Boy (uncredited)

    Ça c'est du cinéma (1951) (voice, uncredited)

    Emergency Call (1952) as Posh Charlie

    Down Among the Z Men (1952) as Spider

    Forces' Sweetheart (1953) as Simmonds

    Flannelfoot (1953) as Ginger

    Johnny on the Spot (1954) as Stevie

    The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954) as Corporal (uncredited)

    One Good Turn (1955) as Boxing Competitor (uncredited)

    They Never Learn (1956) as Plum

    The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959) (uncredited)

    Inn for Trouble (1960) as Charlie (Driver)

    Sink the Bismarck! (1960) as Petty Officer Williams (uncredited)

    The Millionairess (1960) as Butler

    A Weekend with Lulu (1961) as Chiron

    Double Bunk (1961) as Flowerman

    Dentist on the Job (1961) as Sourfaced Man

    Watch it, Sailor! (1961) as Carnoustie Bligh

    On the Fiddle (1961) as Sgt. Ellis

    Only Two Can Play (1962) as Hyman

    Operation Snatch (1962) as Soldier

    A Pair of Briefs (1962) as Police Witness

    Village of Daughters (1962) as Postman

    She'll Have to Go (1962) as Arnold

    The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963) as Sid Copper

    The Mouse on the Moon (1963) as Standard Bearer

    Lancelot and Guinevere (1963) as Rian

    Strictly for the Birds (1963) as Hartley

    Ladies Who Do (1963) as Foreman

    Becket (1964) as Pope's Secretary (uncredited)

    A Shot in the Dark (1964) as Hercule Lajoy

    Guns at Batasi (1964) as Sgt. 'Dodger' Brown

    Go Kart Go (1964) as Policeman

    Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965) as Fireman

    San Ferry Ann (1965) as Gendarme

    You Must Be Joking! (1965) as McGregor's friend

    Runaway Railway (1965) as Grample

    Alfie (1966) as Humphrey

    The Wrong Box (1966) as Ian Scott Fife

    Finders Keepers (1966) as Burke

    Casino Royale (1967) as Cashier

    Rocket to the Moon (1967) as Grundle

    The Plank (1967) as Amorous Van Driver (Harry Nichols)

    A Ghost of a Chance (1968) as Thomas Dogood

    Salt and Pepper (1968) as Sgt. Walters

    The Picasso Summer (1969) as Postman

    The Magic Christian (1969) as Waiter

    Rhubarb (1969) as Golf Pro. Rhubarb

    Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) as Andre Coupe

    Doctor in Trouble (1970) as Satterjee

    Scramble (1970) (uncredited)

    Simon, Simon (1970) as 1st Workman

    The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971) as Guest Appearance (segment "Sloth") (uncredited)

    Hide and Seek (1972) as Milkman

    A Day at the Beach (1972) as Pipi

    Not Now, Darling (1973) as Painter (uncredited)

    Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman (1973) as Charlie Vincent

    Where's Johnny? (1974) as Professor Graham

    The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) as Pepi

    I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight (1976) as Hotel M.C.

    Pure as a Lily (1976) as Detective Mike

    The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) as Hotel Clerk

    Gulliver's Travels (1977) (voice)

    Hardcore (1977) as Inspector Flaubert

    Crossed Swords (1977) as Jester

    Let's Get Laid (1978) as Inspector Nugent

    What's Up Nurse! (1978) as Carthew

    Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) as Professor Auguste Balls

    The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) as Erik

    Le Pétomane (1979) as Defence Counsel

    There Goes the Bride (1980) as Bernardo Rossi, Headwaiter

    The Sea Wolves (1980) as Manners

    Hawk the Slayer (1980) as Sparrow

    Victor/Victoria (1982) as Waiter

    Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) as Hercule Lajoy

    Superman III (1983) as Blind Man

    Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) as Bored Waiter

    Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984) as Blind Man

    Blind Date (1987) as Jordan the Butler

    Jane and the Lost City (1987) as Tombs

    Son of the Pink Panther (1993) as Professor Auguste Balls

    The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo (1998) as Old King

Ike Skelton obit

Ike Skelton Obituary

 

He was not on the list.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Former Democratic Rep. Ike Skelton, who built a reputation as a military expert and social conservative during 34 years representing western and central Missouri in the U.S. House, died Monday in Virginia. He was 81.

Skelton died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., surrounded by his wife, his sons and their families as well as longtime colleague Russell Orban, who confirmed the death. The cause was not immediately released, but Orban said Skelton entered the hospital a week earlier with a bad cough.

A former prosecutor in his native Lexington, Mo., Skelton joined the national Kansas City-based law firm of Husch Blackwell following his 2010 defeat in Missouri's 4th Congressional District by Republican Vicky Hartzler, a state lawmaker who had strong tea party backing.

Skelton worked for the firm in both Kansas City and Washington, D.C., and maintained homes in Lexington and the Washington suburb of McLean, Va.

Skelton won the first of 17 congressional terms in 1976 and was chairman of the House Armed Services Committee at the time of his loss to Hartzler.

An astute military historian, Skelton helped build up Missouri's two military installations. As Whiteman Air Force Base near Knob Noster was losing its cache of long-range nuclear missiles, Skelton secured its future in the late 1980s by getting the Defense Department to place the new B-2 bomber there.

After redistricting made Skelton the representative for Missouri's Fort Leonard Wood in 1983, the number of troops undergoing training there more than quadrupled and the post's mission expanded from the Army to all branches of military service.

"No member of the Congress was more dedicated to America's defense and those who defend us than Ike Skelton," said U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican who served with Skelton in the U.S. House. "He loved our country and its history and will be remembered for his contributions to both."

Born Dec. 20, 1931, Skelton met President Harry Truman as a teenager and had a lifelong interest in politics. He was elected Lafayette County prosecutor in 1956 and later practiced law with his father, but returned to elective office in 1970 when he won a six-year term in the Missouri Senate.

An endorsement from Truman's widow, Bess, helped him win his first race for the U.S. House.

"Missouri lost a giant tonight," said Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri. "Ike Skelton represented the very best of Missouri, and fought tirelessly for the state he loved. Those of us lucky enough to call him a friend know that he lived the Missouri values of compromise and common sense. And in his half-century of service, he showed how Missouri could be a leader in contributing to the safety and security of our nation."

Until his loss to Hartzler, Skelton's closest call in a re-election bid had been a 10 percentage point victory in 1982, when redistricting changed his territory. He was a low-key campaigner but so dominant a political figure that late in his career, his campaign signs sometimes consisted only of the word "IKE" against a green background.

"He was beloved and respected by his colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and as Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Ike was a devoted advocate for our men and women in uniform," President Barack Obama said in a statement. "To many in Congress and across Missouri, Ike was a mentor and a friend, and he will be missed."

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said, "Congressman Skelton's quiet confidence and unwavering conviction is a tribute to his roots and a testament to the political courage that defines the best traditions of leadership."

Among his civic activities, Skelton was a presidential appointee to the American Battle Monuments Commission, which is in charge of U.S. military resting places overseas, and the World War I Centennial Commission, which is planning next year's activities marking the 100th anniversary of the start of that war.

Skelton had been elected chairman of the Centennial Commission and was especially looking forward to its work, said Orban, who spent 16 years as a congressional aide to Skelton before moving into other government work in 1992.

"If he was known for anything it was for being a student of history. He prized military education and the use of history," said Orban, who was retiring from government when he accepted Skelton's invitation to practice law with him in Husch Blackwell's Washington office.

Skelton was honored at West Point in 2012 with the Sylvanus Thayer Award, presented to "an outstanding citizen whose service and accomplishments in the national interests exemplify the Military Academy motto, 'Duty, Honor, Country.'"

In a Veterans Day 2010 speech at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Skelton recounted how he dedicated his career to improving conditions for military troops, veterans and their families and to expanding the missions of Fort Leonard Wood, Whiteman Air Force Base and the Missouri National Guard.

He also expressed concern about the ability of the next Congress — led by Republicans in the House and Democrats in the Senate and White House — to find consensus. But he said his greatest concern was the potential for waning attention to the military.

"I am fearful that a chasm will develop between those who protect our freedoms and those who are being protected," Skelton said.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said Skelton "embodied the true meaning of public service and will forever be remembered as a leader who left a legacy of greater prosperity and security for his district, our state and our nation."

Skelton had three sons with his first wife, Susan Anding, who died in August 2005. In 2009 he married Patricia Martin of Lexington, who survives along with his sons, U.S. Navy Capt. Ike Skelton V, James Anding Skelton and Harry Page Skelton.

Funeral arrangements are pending.