Luise Rainer - #93

Luise Rainer, First to Win Back-to-Back Acting Oscars, Dies at 104 

She was number 93 on the list.

Luise Rainer, a star of cinema's golden era and the first person ever to win back-to-back acting Oscars, has died of pneumonia, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. She was 104 and would have turned 105 on Jan. 12.

The instinctive actress captured back-to-back Academy Awards for The Great Ziegfeld in 1936 and The Good Earth in 1937 then shockingly turned her back on Hollywood.

Rainer, who also appeared in classic TV show The Love Boat, died Tuesday at her home in London, the AP and BBC quoted her only daughter, Francesca Knittel-Bowyer, as saying.

"She was bigger than life and can charm the birds out of the trees," Knittel-Bowyer said. "If you saw her, you'd never forget her."

With her death, the oldest surviving Academy Award acting winner (not honorary winners) is two-time winner Olivia de Havilland, who turned 98 in July 2014.

Following her then-unprecedented back-to-back Oscar wins for playing Florenz Ziegfeld’s discarded wife Anna in the dramatic musical The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and portraying Chinese peasant farm wife O-Lan opposite Paul Muni in the 1937 movie adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth (1937), Rainer became increasingly dissatisfied with the business.

Rainer had to be ordered by MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer to attend the Academy Awards ceremony to accept her second Oscar. After much coaxing, she showed up several hours late with her hair in a mess, then stunned reporters by claiming that she hated being “molded” by Hollywood.

Disgruntled with the films that MGM had selected for her in an attempt to cash in on her Oscar notoriety, she became more and more reclusive. Although initially touted as a Greta Garbo or Katharine Hepburn-type personality for her solitary nature and “comfortable” attire, it was soon clear that her behavior was clearly not a publicity pose or meant to endear her to her fans.

In 1937, Rainer married troubled American playwright Clifford Odets, who encouraged her to concentrate on the stage. Soon, their marriage became stormy, and the couple moved to New York and divorced after three years. (When Rainer developed a friendship with Albert Einstein, Odets was said to be so jealous that he savaged a photograph of Einstein with a pair of scissors.)

Rainer broke her contract with MGM in 1938 over what she called a lack of artistic freedom. Her last major film was in 1943's Hostages before she left her Hollywood career behind, eventually settling in London with her second husband, publisher and England native Robert Knittel. He died in 1989.

“For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me,” she once lamented.

"When I got two Oscars, they thought, 'Oh, they can throw me into anything'," she said in a 1999 interview with the AP. "I was a machine, practically - a tool in a big, big factory, and I could not do anything. And so I left. I just went away. I fled. Yes, I fled."

Somewhat surprisingly, Rainer returned in 1998 as a guest at the 70th Academy Awards telecast, which brought back former Oscar winners.

After her move to England, Rainer did appear occasionally on U.S. television, including on Chevrolet Tele-Theatre in 1948, Lux Video Theatre in 1950 and Combat! in 1962, where she played a countess. It took another two decades before she showed up again on TV when producer Aaron Spelling coaxed her into appearing in a 1983 episode of The Love Boat.

Three years later, she performed in a Swiss telefilm titled A Dancer, and in 1997, at age 86, she had a 10-minute scene in a version of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Gambler.

During the period of her most productivity, where she displayed almost naive charms, Rainer was cast as brilliant but troubled characters in such films as The Emperor’s Candlesticks (1937), Big City (1937) opposite Spencer Tracy, The Toy Wife (1938), The Great Waltz (1938), Dramatic School (1938) -- her final film for MGM – and Hostages (1943).

Federico Fellini gave her for a part in La Dolce Vita (1960), but she got tired of waiting for him to film her scene and quit.

She was born Jan. 12, 1910, in Dusseldorf, Germany. A Jew, she astonished impresario Max Reinhardt with a terrific audition when she was 16, and he cast her in several of his vaunted stage productions. Rainer also performed in four films and toured throughout Europe in Luigi Pirandello’s absurdist work Six Characters in Search of an Author, where she was reportedly “discovered” by an MGM talent scout and labeled “The Next Garbo.”

With the rise of the Nazis, Rainer’s family emigrated from Europe to Southern California in 1935, bringing her beloved Scottish terrier, Johnny, with her. She signed with MGM, which cast her immediately in the romantic comedy Escapade (1935) opposite William Powell as a last-minute replacement for Myrna Loy.

Rainer’s first Oscar win was controversial since her time on the screen was short, but her victory was cemented by her famous scene in the biopic in which her broken-hearted character stoically congratulates Ziegfeld (Powell) over the telephone on his upcoming marriage to actress Billie Burke (played by Loy). The film was named best picture as well.

To play O-Lan in The Good Earth -- the final film made by MGM’s boy wonder studio head Irving Thalberg, who died before the drama was completed -- Rainer said she simply went on instinct; she barely spoke during the film and didn’t really look Chinese.

“My acting was from the inside out,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 1990. “I don't believe in anything artificial. I don’t believe in makeup. It has to come from you like a child you give birth to. That is how you act.”

After her Oscar triumphs, MGM forced her into roles she considered unworthy, she told the Telegraph newspaper in October 2009 as she approached her 100th birthday.

“All kinds of nonsense ... I didn’t want to do it, and I walked out,” she recalled. “Mayer said, "That girl is a Frankenstein, she’s going to ruin our whole firm.’ He said, &lsquoWe made you and we are going to destroy you.’ ... well, he tried his best.”

In 2010, on the year of her centenary, the British Film Institute held a tribute to Rainer at London's National Film Theater, where she was interviewed by Richard Stirling.

The only other actress to win back-to-back Oscars was Hepburn in 1967 and 1968 for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and A Lion in Winter. Tracy, Jason Robards and Tom Hanks are the lone male actors to accomplish the feat.

Henry Strzelecki obit

Session Great Henry Strzelecki Passes

 

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One of the greatest session musicians in Nashville recording history has passed away.

Henry Strzelecki, 75, died on Dec. 30. From the 1960s to the present, he played bass on records by many of music’s most famous names. Discs by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, Gordon Lightfoot, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison all feature Strzelecki’s work. His playing can also be heard on hits by more than 25 members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

He was a native of Birmingham, AL who began recording with singer-songwriter Baker Knight on Decca Records in the 1950s. Strzelecki toured throughout the South as a member of The Four Flickers in the late 1950s. In 1959, the group became the first to record his novelty song “Long Tall Texan,” which became a minor classic.

“Long Tall Texan” was subsequently recorded by Jerry Woodard (1960) and by Murry Kellum (1963), who was the first to make the charts with the tune. The Beach Boys recorded it in 1964, and it became a widely loved song in the group’s repertoire. The Kingsmen also recorded it that year.

The song achieved renewed attention in 1996 via versions by Lyle Lovett and by Doug Supernaw with The Beach Boys. Others who have recorded “Long Tall Texan” include Pee Wee Crayton, The Rhythmtones, Leroy VanDyke, The Gestures and Sleepy LaBeef.

As an instrumentalist, Henry Strzelecki worked with guitar legend Hank Garland in the early 1960s. Then Chet Atkins took him under his wing, using Strzelecki as both a touring sideman and a session musician.

The bass player soon moved to the front ranks of Nashville’s recording-session regulars. He worked with practically every artist who made records on Music Row.

Among the country Hall of Fame members he worked with are Eddy Arnold, Bobby Bare, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Flatt & Scruggs, Lefty Frizzell, Don Gibson, Merle Haggard, Tom T. Hall, Ferlin Husky, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Grandpa Jones, Loretta Lynn, Charlie McCoy, Ronnie Milsap, Willie Nelson, Charley Pride, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Connie Smith, Hank Snow, George Strait, Ernest Tubb, Conway Twitty, Porter Wagoner, Tammy Wynette and Faron Young.

Orbison’s “Oh Pretty Woman,” Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde” and George Jones’s “He Stopped Loving Her Today” all feature bass playing by Henry Strzelecki.

So do recordings by Johnny Paycheck, The Oak Ridge Boys, Levon Helm, John Anderson, k.d. lang, Elvis Costello, Dottie West, Hank Williams Jr., The Browns, Janie Fricke, David Allan Coe, Hank Locklin, Jerry Reed, Jerry Jeff Walker, Al Hirt, Gene Watson, Louis Armstrong, Larry Gatlin, Johnny Rodriguez and hundreds more.

Among the other artists who recorded Strzelecki’s songwriting efforts were Mundo Earwood (“I Can’t Quit Cheatin’ on You”), Charlie Rich (“Where Do We Go From Here”), Johnny Winter (“The Mistress”) and David Wills (“Happy Hour”).

Henry Strzelecki was reportedly taking a walk when he was struck by a car on Dec. 22. He went into a coma from which he never recovered.

“A Celebration of Life for Henry Strzelecki” is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Jan. 17 at Pennington United Methodist Church. The church is located at 2745 Pennington Bend Road, Nashville, TN 37214 in the Opryland area.

Patrick Gowers obit

Patrick Gowers obituary

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Composer renowned for his film and TV scores 

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A composer’s study might be expected to contain artefacts designed to encourage the muse, but you would be hard pressed to find a greater variety than those of Patrick Gowers, who has died aged 78. Music scores of every period, CDs of jazz, Bach cantatas and the French impressionists Debussy and Ravel, mathematical tomes, computers, the Bible, poetry, partially dismantled synthesisers and a battered Bechstein upright piano; this incomplete list reveals only some of Patrick’s eclectic passions, from which he picked certain elements and produced music of great originality.

It made its biggest impact through film and TV scores, from the late 1960s onwards. An early break was Hamlet (1969), directed by Tony Richardson and starring Nicol Williamson. The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970) followed, with an impressive cast that included Franco Nero, Joanna Shimkus and Honor Blackman. Patrick’s ability to create atmosphere and drama through spare but arresting textures was welcomed by directors not wanting the bland or ordinary; he could adapt his style to a children’s film, as in The Boy Who Turned Yellow (a collaboration with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1972), but could also deal with tragic drama, as in Children of Rage (1975), set amid the Palestinian crisis.

In 1978, Stevie, centred on the poems of Stevie Smith and featuring the guitarist John Williams, was the subject of the BBC documentary How to Score, and the music then grew into a guitar concerto. Thérèse Raquin (1980), starring Kate Nelligan, with intense music for a small string ensemble, was the first of several collaborations with the director Simon Langton. Bread Or Blood (1981), a five-part series directed by Peter Smith, dealt with riots in East Anglia. In 1983 Patrick won a Bafta for original music for Smiley’s People, The Woman in White and I Remember Nelson.

The following year he embarked on music for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett, to be followed by three further series over the next 10 years. With its romantic violin solos, often performed by his daughter Katharine, the theme music was key, and Patrick composed some of his most imaginative incidental music for the 40 episodes. He also worked on many other television productions, including My Cousin Rachel (1983), with Geraldine Chaplin; Anna Karenina, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Reeve and Paul Scofield (1985); and Mother Love, featuring Diana Rigg (1989).

Patrick was born in Islington, north London, the son of a solicitor, Richard Gowers, and his wife, Stella (nee Pelly). He was the grandson of Sir Ernest Gowers, civil servant and author of the guide to English usage Plain Words, and great-grandson of the neurologist Sir William Gowers. He went to Radley college, Oxfordshire, and while he was studying music at Cambridge displayed his quirky humour when collaborating on a revue with Bamber Gascoigne and Keith Statham called Share My Lettuce (1957). This transferred to the West End for more than 300 performances, with Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams heading the cast, and by 1959 he was writing for the Cambridge Footlights with John Bird and Peter Cook, while for Dudley Moore he wrote a jazz piano concerto. He also taught composition, was a jazz critic for the Financial Times and assistant conductor of Bill Russo’s London Jazz Orchestra, played for the New Swingle Singers and in 1964 was music director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Marat/Sade.

In 1961 he married Caroline Maurice, a fellow musician and piano teacher; three children helped to fill a rambling house in Clapham, south London. His continuing musical studies eventually resulted in a PhD (1966). Though he continued to pursue a love of scholarship, his approach was never drily academic.

The sheer quantity of his music might imply that he was able to churn it out, but in fact he would agonize over tiny details and found composing against deadlines extremely stressful.

Patrick expressed his convictions concerning contemporary music in his quietly persuasive way. Suspicious of atonality, he found his own form of “extended tonality”, developed principally from jazz harmony and 20th-century French music. The results could be striking, nowhere more tellingly so than in his concert and church music.

His Toccata, commissioned by Simon Preston and composed in 1970, is one of the most flamboyant and blisteringly difficult works in the organ repertoire. A fugue was added in 1986, and other works for organ include the quietly remote Adagio, and the witty Occasional Trumpet Voluntary, which mixes something akin to Widor’s Toccata with Jeremiah Clarke’s piece. Meanwhile, having always been interested in electronic instruments, he set up an electronic studio at Dartington Hall, Devon, where he often taught.

For the consecration of Richard Harries as bishop of Oxford in 1987, Patrick was commissioned to compose Viri Galilaei, with its dramatic core but beautifully mystical opening and closing. The large-scale Cantata (1991), for chorus, orchestra and organ, harks back to Purcell and JS Bach, achieving a sense of intense meditative timelessness. Holy, Holy, Holy and Aveto Augustine are among other anthems expressing Patrick’s mystical approach to spirituality. In 1990, the first performance of his Suite for solo violin and chamber orchestra, commissioned by the Prince of Wales in honour of the Queen Mother’s 90th birthday, was given at Buckingham Palace by the English Chamber Orchestra under Raymond Leppard, with José-Luis García as soloist.

Throughout the 80s and 90s, Patrick devoted huge amounts of energy to the Association of Professional Composers, working assiduously to improve the lot of composers. He then became a director of the Performing Right Society, where his intellect and ingrained sense of justice ruffled feathers but brought welcome changes. To those who did not know him, Patrick could appear somewhat aloof; to those who did, you could not find a more kindly, sympathetic soul.

He is survived by Caroline and their three children, Katharine, Rebecca and Timothy.

Composer

Comic Act (1998)

Comic Act

4.9

Composer

1998

 

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994)

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

8.6

TV Mini Series

Composer

1994

6 episodes

 

Francesca Annis in Headhunters (1994)

Headhunters

6.9

TV Series

Composer

1994

 

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991)

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

8.7

TV Series

Composer

1991–1993

9 episodes

 

John Alderton and Pauline Collins in Forever Green (1989)

Forever Green

8.0

TV Series

Composer

1989–1992

18 episodes

 

Mother Love (1989)

Mother Love

8.4

TV Mini Series

Composer

1989

 

Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke in The Case of the Abbey Treasure (1988)

The Case of the Abbey Treasure

8.8

Video

Composer (uncredited)

1988

 

Jeremy Brett in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)

The Hound of the Baskervilles

7.8

TV Movie

Composer

1988

 

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986)

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

8.7

TV Series

Composer

1986–1988

11 episodes

 

Screen Two (1984)

Screen Two

6.4

TV Series

Composer

1988

1 episode

 

Jeremy Brett, Kiran Shah, and John Thaw in The Sign of Four (1987)

The Sign of Four

7.9

TV Movie

Composer

1987

 

Whoops Apocalypse (1987)

Whoops Apocalypse

6.0

Composer

1987

 

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

8.7

TV Series

Composer

1984–1985

13 episodes

 

Anna Karenina (1985)

Anna Karenina

6.3

TV Movie

Composer

1985

 

Peter Chelsom and Richard Pasco in Sorrell and Son (1984)

Sorrell and Son

7.9

TV Mini Series

Composer

1984

6 episodes

 

The Odd Job Man (1984)

The Odd Job Man

4.6

TV Series

Composer

1984

3 episodes

 

Shades of Darkness (1983)

Shades of Darkness

7.6

TV Series

Composer (music composed by)

1983

1 episode

 

Geraldine Chaplin in My Cousin Rachel (1983)

My Cousin Rachel

6.7

TV Mini Series

Composer

1983

4 episodes

 

The Spanish Civil War (1983)

The Spanish Civil War

8.2

TV Mini Series

Composer (music by)

1983

6 episodes

 

Alec Guinness in Smiley's People (1982)

Smiley's People

8.5

TV Mini Series

Composer

1982

6 episodes

 

Month of the Doctors

TV Mini Series

Composer

1982

2 episodes

 

Alan Badel and Jenny Seagrove in The Woman in White (1982)

The Woman in White

7.7

TV Mini Series

Composer

1982

5 episodes

 

Kenneth Colley in I Remember Nelson (1982)

I Remember Nelson

7.6

TV Mini Series

Composer

1982

4 episodes

 

Malcolm Storry in Bread or Blood (1981)

Bread or Blood

7.9

TV Series

Composer

1981

5 episodes

 

The Energy Brokers

Short

Composer

1980

 

Brian Cox and Kate Nelligan in Thérèse Raquin (1980)

Thérèse Raquin

7.0

TV Mini Series

Composer

1980

3 episodes

 

Black Island (1979)

Black Island

6.3

Composer

1979

 

Planet Water

Short

Composer

1978

 

Glenda Jackson and Mona Washbourne in Stevie (1978)

Stevie

6.9

Composer

1978

 

The Shetland Experience (1977)

The Shetland Experience

6.3

Short

Composer

1977

 

The Amazing Years of Cinema (1976)

The Amazing Years of Cinema

TV Mini Series

Composer (music by)

1976

 

The Early Americans

Short

Composer

1975

 

Children of Rage (1975)

Children of Rage

6.1

Composer

1975

 

Broad Spectrum

Short

Composer

1974

 

David Hockney in A Bigger Splash (1973)

A Bigger Splash

5.8

Composer

1973

 

Lotte Tarp in Farlige kys (1972)

Farlige kys

5.0

Composer

1972

 

The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)

The Virgin and the Gypsy

6.0

Composer

1970

 

Ulf Pilgaard in Giv gud en chance om søndagen (1970)

Giv gud en chance om søndagen

5.7

Composer

1970

 

Marianne Faithfull, Michael Pennington, and Nicol Williamson in Hamlet (1969)

Hamlet

7.0

Composer

1969

 

Balladen om Carl-Henning (1969)

Balladen om Carl-Henning

6.3

Composer

1969

 

Povl Dissing in Thomas er fredløs (1967)

Thomas er fredløs

Composer

1967

 

Music Department

Geraldine Chaplin in My Cousin Rachel (1983)

My Cousin Rachel

6.7

TV Mini Series

conductor

1983

4 episodes

 

Alec Guinness in Smiley's People (1982)

Smiley's People

8.5

TV Mini Series

conductor

1982

6 episodes

 

Alan Badel and Jenny Seagrove in The Woman in White (1982)

The Woman in White

7.7

TV Mini Series

conductor

1982

2 episodes

 

The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972)

The Boy Who Turned Yellow

5.6

electronic music

1972

 

The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)

The Virgin and the Gypsy

6.0

conductor

1970

 

Marat/Sade (1967)

Marat/Sade

7.5

composer: title music

musical director

1967

 

Soundtrack

Billy West in The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991)

The Ren & Stimpy Show

7.5

TV Series

music: "Balow, My Babe"

music: "Cut and Thrust" (uncredited)

1994–1995

2 episodes

 

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

8.7

TV Series

performer: "221b Baker Street"

writer: "221b Baker Street"

1984–1985

 

Self

The British Academy Awards (1983)

The British Academy Awards

TV Special

Self - Winer

1983

 

How to Score... a Movie

Short

Self

1978

Shelia Collings obit

Actress Sheila Collings Has Died 

She was not on the list.

Sheila Collings was born in 1934 in Leytonstone, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Derek (2012), Parade's End (2012) and Sensitive Skin (2005). She died on December 28, 2014 in Hillingdon, London, England, UK.

Actress

Ricky Gervais, Kerry Godliman, Karl Pilkington, David Earl, and Holli Dempsey in Derek (2012)

Derek

8.1

TV Series

Sheila

2013–2014

13 episodes

 

Jo Brand, Ricky Grover, Vicki Pepperdine, and Joanna Scanlan in Getting On (2009)

Getting On

8.1

TV Series

Mrs. Dingsdale

2012

1 episode

 

Rebecca Hall, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Adelaide Clemens in Parade's End (2012)

Parade's End

7.5

TV Mini Series

Miss Fox

2012

1 episode

 

Schizo Samurai Shitzu (2010)

Schizo Samurai Shitzu

TV Series

The Old Lady

The Old Woman

2010

5 episodes

 

Greg Davies, Marek Larwood, and Steve Hall in We Are Klang (2009)

We Are Klang

6.6

TV Series

Old Lady

2009

1 episode

 

Coming of Age (2007)

Coming of Age

5.1

TV Series

Amy's Gran

2008

1 episode

 

Not Going Out (2006)

Not Going Out

7.6

TV Series

Old Woman (uncredited)

2007

1 episode

 

Sensitive Skin (2005)

Sensitive Skin

7.8

TV Series

Sheila

2007

1 episode

 

Matt Lucas and David Walliams in Little Britain (2003)

Little Britain

7.7

TV Series

2005

1 episode

 

EastEnders (1985)

EastEnders

4.7

TV Series

Doreen

2003

1 episode

 

Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, and Brian Wilde in Last of the Summer Wine (1973)

Last of the Summer Wine

7.1

TV Series

Dry Cleaner

1995

1 episode

 

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

Mrs. Giles

Mrs. Leyton

Woman in Flats

1985–1994

3 episodes

 

Surgical Spirit (1989)

Surgical Spirit

6.8

TV Series

Lillie

1990

1 episode

 

Return to Waterloo (1984)

Return to Waterloo

6.7

TV Movie

Blind Lady's Daughter

1984

 

Miracles Take Longer

TV Series

Mrs. Barnes

1984

1 episode

 

Saturday Night Thriller (1982)

Saturday Night Thriller

7.8

TV Series

Mrs. Adams

1982

1 episode

 

Rumpole of the Bailey (1978)

Rumpole of the Bailey

8.4

TV Series

Auntie Doris

1978

1 episode

 

Side by Side (1975)

Side by Side

6.1

Bessie

1975

 

Centre Play (1973)

Centre Play

6.5

TV Series

Daphne

1975

1 episode

Dick Dale obit

Dick Dale, singer with Lawrence Welk, dies

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Dick Dale, a singer best known for his appearances on the Lawrence Welk television program, died Friday in Algona, the Mason City Globe-Gazette has reported. Dale was 88.

Dale sang and played the sax in many Midwest clubs over the years, including the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake.

But he was best known for his work with the Lawrence Welk orchestra and TV program. He played "champagne music" and sang with the Welk orchestra from 1951 until the show ended in 1982.

Dale was a 1943 graduate of Algona High School who lived in Los Angeles for many years where the Welk program was taped.

A native of Algona, Iowa, he served in the United States Navy during World War II after graduation from Algona High School. His entertainment career began when he worked for several bands such as Harold Loeffelmacher and his Six Fat Dutchmen polka band. He was hired by Lawrence Welk in 1951.

During his tenure on The Lawrence Welk Show, in addition to playing the saxophone, Dale sang not just solos but also in duets, performed in comedy sketches, dances, and also played Santa Claus for many years on the Christmas shows. Even after the show ended when its host went into retirement in 1982, he continued to perform with his fellow Welk alumni. From 1990 to 1996, he co-owned and operated the Rainbow Music Theater in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, with fellow Welk star Ava Barber.

He famously sang Brewer & Shipley's "One Toke Over the Line" as a duet with Gail Ferrell.

He married his wife, Marguerite, in 1949, and they had four children. They lived in Los Angeles during the Lawrence Welk years. After making their home in Sparks, Nevada, for several years, the Dales moved back to his hometown of Algona, Iowa, in 2006. He died there on December 26, 2014.

He and his wife, Marguerite, moved back to Algona in 2006.

Rhodes Reason obit

Rest in Peace: Rhodes Reason

 

He was not on the list.

 

While his name may not exactly jump out at you, fans of classic Kaiju films will definitely know the man well. Especially if they happen to be fans of the 1967 monster mash King Kong Escapes.

It was in that film that Mr. Rhodes Reason portrayed surly Commander Carl Nelson, an American who had the balls of steel to withstand a fight between both Kong and Robot Kong. Reason, who appeared in over two hundred thirty roles in film, television, and theatre, died peacefully in his sleep in the early hours of the 26th of December, 2014.

Reason was born in Glendale in Los Angeles County, California, the son of Rex G. Reason and the former Jean Robinson. The younger brother of actor Rex Reason, Rhodes Reason made his acting start at the age of 18 in a production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Charles Laughton.

Among his starring roles were parts in King Kong Escapes (1967); 39 episodes of the British television series White Hunter (TV series), (1957); and as Sheriff Will Mayberry in the ABC drama series Bus Stop. Reason was cast as Chuck Wilson in "Rodeo Round-Up" in 1956 and as Kinnard in "Dust of Destruction", episodes of the western aviation adventure series, Sky King, episode "Conflict" in the "Rifleman" as Ben Kendrick.

Reason had a major part in an episode of the ABC/Warner Bros. western series, Sugarfoot in the segment "Strange Land" (1957). Reason was a guest star in Frontier Doctor, a syndicated western series. He was cast as Black Jack in the episode "The Homesteaders" (1958). Another ABC/WB western series Reason appeared in was Colt .45, as Ben Thompson in the episode "Appointment in Agoura" (1960); Reason also appeared in The Rifleman.

Reason guest starred on Tales of the Texas Rangers, Maverick (1957 episode "Ghost Rider"), Tombstone Territory (1957 episode "Ambush at Gila Gulch"), Perry Mason as Martin Eldridge in the 1966 episode, "The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers", 77 Sunset Strip (1958), Bourbon Street Beat (1960), The Time Tunnel (1966), The Big Valley (the episode "Plunder" in 1967), The Lucy Show (also 1967), Star Trek in 1967 as gladiator Flavius Maximus ("Bread and Circuses", 1968), Here's Lucy (also 1968), and The Bob Newhart Show (1976).

Reason appeared as Peter Jeffries in the 1955 episode, "California's First Ice Man" of the western television anthology series, Death Valley Days.

His feature film appearances include Yellowstone Kelly (1959, with Clint Walker) and A Fever in the Blood (1961). In the early 1980s, he starred in the Broadway musical Annie, playing Daddy Warbucks for nearly three years.

 

Reason died in Palm Springs at the age of 84 of lymphoma.

 

Filmography

Year     Title            Role            Notes

1955    Lady Godiva of Coventry            Sweyn            Uncredited

1956    Crime Against Joe            George Niles   

1956    Tension at Table Rock            Baid            Uncredited

1956            Cheyenne         Les Shore            Episode: The Trap

1956    Flight to Hong Kong            Bob Denham            Uncredited

1956            Emergency Hospital            Juvenile Officer Ross    

1956    The Desperados Are in Town            Frank Banner

1957            Voodoo Island            Matthew Gunn           

1957    Jungle Heat     Major Richard 'Dick' Grey    

1957            Maverick        Hank Foster            Episode: Ghost Rider

1959    The Big Fisherman            Andrew        

1959            Yellowstone Kelly            Maj. Towns 

1960            Cheyenne         Bill Lockhart            Episode: Outcast of Cripple Creek

1961    A Fever in the Blood   Walter Thornwall        

1962    The Rifleman            Episode: The Conflict

1967    King Kong Escapes            Commander Carl Nelson

1970    The Delta Factor            Dr. Fredericks       

1976    Cat Murkil and the Silks            Detective Harder         

Bernard Kay obit

Bernard Kay obituary

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Stalwart actor who appeared in several popular TV series such as Colditz, Z-Cars and Doctor Who 

He was not on the list.

Bernard Kay, who has died aged 86, was a versatile and intelligent actor. He brought gravitas and often – despite his imposing frame – vulnerability to more than 100 roles in popular television drama during the course of a 60-year career.

He was born in Bolton, Lancashire. His father, Billy, was a reporter on the Yorkshire Post who spent his final years in an asylum and died when Bernard was 12. His mother, Edith, also died when he was an infant, apparently having taken her own life. His care was shared between his grandparents and the strict regime at Chetham’s school, now Chetham’s school of music, Manchester, where, as he put it: “I had Christianity beaten into me.”

Shortly before the end of the second world war he became a cub reporter at the Bolton Evening News and also contributed to the Manchester Guardian. He decided that journalism was not for him when he witnessed a colleague breaking into the house of a dead serviceman and stealing a photograph while his grieving father spoke to reporters outside.

He left journalism to do national service in 1946 and then attended the Old Vic theatre school in London. His film debut came in Carry on Sergeant (1958), but he subsequently worked mostly on television until Robert Bolt wrote the part of the Bolshevik in David Lean’s Dr Zhivago (1965) with him in mind. It remained his most important film performance despite strong character parts in They Came from Beyond Space (1967), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), Pierrepoint (2005) and Psychosis (2010).

He felt his strengths lay on the smaller screen and many leading television directors (including Douglas Camfield and Richard Martin) appreciated his skill and professionalism. He played prominent roles in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (as Aslan, 1967), A Very British Coup (1988), Bomber Harris (1989, opposite John Thaw), The Kremlin, Farewell (as Stalin, 1990) and Russell T Davies’s Century Falls (1993).

In 1961 he was given six weeks’ paid leave and told to keep a low profile by the producers of Coronation Street after the angry public response to his killing of Ida Barlow. Though he appeared in several episodes of Z-Cars (1962-72), he turned down the offer of a regular role and guested in everything from The Avengers (1962) to Casualty 1909 (2009) via The Professionals (1978), Remington Steele (1987), Jonathan Creek (1997) and Foyle’s War (2002). His touching performance in an acclaimed episode of Colditz (1972), as a German corporal charged with checking the validity of a claim for repatriation by a prisoner (Michael Bryant) on the grounds of insanity, was one of his proudest achievements.

He played four different roles in Doctor Who opposite William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee, the best of which was a dignified turn as a gallant but war-weary Saladin (1965) – Kay’s subtle underplaying an effective contrast to Julian Glover’s petulant Richard the Lionheart. While rehearsing as Banquo in repertory theatre in Nottingham in 1952 he learned the role of Macbeth in less than 24 hours, saving an opening night imperilled by an injured leading man. He spent 1953 and 1954 with what later became the Royal Shakespeare Company and returned to their fold in 1991, proving a fine Glendower in Henry IV Part 1. Other theatre work included Trevor Griffiths’s Comedians, directed by Adrian Noble at the New Vic studio of the Bristol Old Vic (1979), Shylock in a British Council tour of The Merchant of Venice which culminated in Baghdad at the height of the Iran/Iraq war (1984), and Brecht’s Galileo at the Young Vic (1990).

The first chapter of his autobiography, Maybe a Bastard, describing his difficult early years in Bolton, came first in the New Writing Ventures awards in 2006. He entered the competition because he retained very sharp recall and he wanted to see if the writing skills that he had possessed as a young reporter had stayed with him at the age of 78.

One of the judges, the novelist Ali Smith, described his entry as “wise, taut, gripping and a perfect piece of explication”. His work on it stalled latterly because he found it difficult to write about his wife, the actor Patricia Haines. He never quite recovered from her death from cancer in 1977, at the age of 45.

Her daughter Niki, from her marriage to the actor Michael Caine, survives him.

 Bernard Frederic Bemrose Kay, actor, born 23 February 1928; died 25 December 2014

 This article was amended on 9 January 2015 to clarify that Bernard Kay spent 1953 and 1954 with what later became the Royal Shakespeare Company; it wasn’t officially known as that until 1961. Because of an editing error, the earlier version of the article also said Kay appeared in Comedians at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

 

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