Wendell Burton obit

Wendell Burton, Who Starred With Liza Minnelli in ‘The Sterile Cuckoo,’ Dies at 69

He also played Charlie Brown on TV and toured with Eve Arden in 'Butterflies Are Free.' 

He was not on the list.

Wendell Burton, who starred with Liza Minnelli in the 1969 film The Sterile Cuckoo, a tale about two college kids in love, has died. He was 69.

Burton died Tuesday at his home in Houston after a 3 1/2-year battle with brain cancer, his daughter, actress Haven Burton, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Burton also starred as America’s lovable loser in the 1973 NBC/Hallmark Hall of Fame special You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. That was adapted from the stage, and Burton had played Charlie in a San Francisco production while he was a college student in the area.

In Paramount’s The Sterile Cuckoo, which marked the directorial debut of Alan J. Pakula, Burton portrayed Jerry Payne, who meets the eccentric Mary Ann “Pookie” Adams (Minnelli). Both are freshmen at nearby colleges in upstate New York and fall in love for the first time.

Minnelli, who has a memorable telephone scene in the movie in which she implores her boyfriend to remain with her, received an Oscar nomination for best actress in her first starring role for the big screen.

After The Sterile Cuckoo, Burton played the blind man opposite Eve Arden as his controlling mother in a national production of the Broadway hit Butterflies Are Free and starred in the prison-set MGM release Fortune and Men’s Eyes (1971).

Also in the ‘70s, Burton starred in the romantic comedy Goodnight Jackie (1974); had guest-starring turns on such series as Young Dr. Kildare, Medical Center, Room 222, Kung Fu, Love American Style and The Rookies; and appeared opposite William Shatner in the 1973 ABC telefilm Go Ask Alice.

Burton later had roles in the 1981 miniseries East of Eden and in the 1986 Burt Reynolds film Heat.

He went on to work in ad sales for the Christian Broadcasting Network/Family Channel, help launch a TV station in Houston and work with the Joel Osteen Ministries. Burton also recorded four albums of faith-based music.

His daughter, Haven, provided the voice of Serena on English-language TV versions of Pokemon and appeared on Broadway in Rent, Shrek the Musical and Kinky Boots.

Survivors also include his wife, Linda; son, Adam; grandson, Hudson; and son-in-law, Denny.

 

Actor

Square One Television (1987)

Square One Television

Bernie Woodward

TV Series

1988

1 episode

 

Joe Howard and Beverly Leech in Mathnet (1987)

Mathnet

Bernie Woodward

TV Series

1988

1 episode

 

Burt Reynolds and Peter MacNicol in Heat (1986)

Heat

Osgood

1986

 

Peter and the Magic Seeds

(voice)

Short

1981

 

East of Eden (1981)

East of Eden

Tom Hamilton (as Wendel Burton)

TV Mini Series

1981

3 episodes

 

Insight (1960)

Insight

Cy WaldenDirector

TV Series

1974–1977

2 episodes

 

Medical Story (1975)

Medical Story

Joe Bick

TV Movie

1975

 

Journey from Darkness (1975)

Journey from Darkness

Mike

TV Movie

1975

 

Goodnight Jackie (1974)

Goodnight Jackie

Robbie

1974

 

The Red Badge of Courage (1974)

The Red Badge of Courage

Pvt. Wilson

TV Movie

1974

 

Kate Jackson, Georg Stanford Brown, Sam Melville, and Michael Ontkean in The Rookies (1972)

The Rookies

Larry West

TV Series

1974

1 episode

 

Dick Van Dyke, Marty Brill, Nancy Dussault, Fannie Flagg, Hope Lange, and Angela Powell in The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971)

The New Dick Van Dyke Show

Lucas Preston

TV Series

1973

1 episode

 

Kung Fu (1972)

Kung Fu

Martin Crossman

TV Series

1973

1 episode

 

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1985)

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown

TV Movie

1973

 

Go Ask Alice (1973)

Go Ask Alice

Joel Clements

TV Movie

1973

 

Michael Constantine, Lloyd Haynes, Denise Nicholas, and Karen Valentine in Room 222 (1969)

Room 222

Gary Webster (as Wendel Burton)

TV Series

1973

1 episode

 

Love, American Style (1969)

Love, American Style

Leo Brubaker (segment "Love and the Face Bow")

TV Series

1973

1 episode

 

Mark Jenkins and Stephen Manley in Young Dr. Kildare (1972)

Young Dr. Kildare

Joe

TV Series

1972

1 episode

 

Bruce Lee and James Franciscus in Longstreet (1971)

Longstreet

Russ Larsen

TV Series

1972

1 episode

 

James Daly in Medical Center (1969)

Medical Center

Bill HowlandJerry

TV Series

1970–1972

2 episodes

 

Murder Once Removed (1971)

Murder Once Removed

Fred Kramer

TV Movie

1971

 

Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971)

Fortune and Men's Eyes

Smitty

1971

 

The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

The Sterile Cuckoo

Jerry Payne

1969

 

The Gypsy Moths (1969)

The Gypsy Moths

Man in Strip Club Ordering a Drink (uncredited)

1969

 

Don Knotts and Barbara Rhoades in The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)

The Shakiest Gun in the West

Cowboy in Saloon (uncredited)

1968

Manuel Noreiga obit

Former Panamanian Dictator Manuel Noriega Dies At 83

He was not on the list.

Military commander, drug trafficker, CIA informant, dictator, convicted murderer: The strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega wore many labels during his tortuous path to — and fall from — the heights of power in Panama. Announcing Noriega's death at age 83 Tuesday, Panama's president said it "closes a chapter in our history."

Panama's President Juan Carlos Varela announced Noriega's death via Twitter. And while the cause of death wasn't immediately reported, Noriega had recently been dealing with complications from brain surgery; in March, it was reported that he was in a coma.

The era in which Noriega exercised absolute control over Panama is long past — but his ill-fated reign continues to cast a long shadow both in his home country and the United States, with whom he had a complex relationship.

At the time of his death in a Panama City hospital, Noriega was serving a prison sentence for corruption and having opponents killed.

Varela said Noriega's daughters and other family members "deserve a funeral in peace."

Rise to power

As he clawed his way out of an impoverished childhood, Noriega looked first not to the military, but the medical profession for his preferred profession. It was only after he was denied admission from medical school as a young man — likely because of his financial circumstances — that Noriega continued his studies at a military academy in Peru.

When he returned to Panama to begin his military career in earnest, he went into the intelligence services, where he quickly cultivated a stellar reputation among his fellow officers.

Noriega "possessed the uncanny ability to absorb information, size up the options available to an adversary, place himself in the other person's shoes and astutely anticipate probable courses of action," says John Dinges, author of the Noriega biography Our Man in Panama.

By the '70s, Noriega had parlayed that ability into a burgeoning relationship with U.S. intelligence services — and with various gun- and drug-running cartels, including infamous Colombian narcotrafficker Pablo Escobar. Indeed, Noriega was so trusted by the U.S. that, as CNN notes, the U.S. government requested that he travel to Cuba to seek the release of "two American freighters seized by Cuba" in 1971.

As the decade wore on, the CIA paid Noriega for information even as Noriega climbed the ranks of his own country's military intelligence division, ultimately becoming its chief officer and one of the principal lieutenants of Panama's strongman at the time, Omar Torrijos.

After Torrijos died in a plane crash in 1981 — a crash that later engendered suspicions of foul play — Panama descended into a two-year struggle to fill the power vacuum Torrijos left behind.

Noriega emerged from the free-for-all with the mantle of commander of the combined Panamanian Defense Forces in 1983 — and in doing so, assumed absolute power in all but official name.

The de facto dictator would leave those official (and empty) titles to the series of puppet civilian presidents whose electoral victories he'd help engineer behind the scenes, a convenient fiction he would maintain until the twilight of his rule in 1989.

A fall from great heights

It wasn't long before Noriega's benefactor, the U.S., would turn on him, however. Evidence of the Panamanian dictator's extrajudicial killings and dealings with drug cartels mounted until it was nearly impossible to ignore — no matter how helpful he had proved to the CIA in the past.

By 1986, reports were circulating in the U.S. that Noriega had spearheaded the gruesome torture and murder of a high-profile rival and that he was now earning a payday from Eastern European governments for U.S. secrets. The U.S. Congress ended economic aid and military assistance to Panama in 1987.

Yet it was not until Noriega openly interfered with the 1989 Panamanian presidential election, seizing ballot boxes and installing his preferred candidate, that the U.S. openly began plotting his downfall.

After a U.S.-backed coup attempt failed in October 1989, then-President George H.W. Bush took a more direct step before year's end. On Dec. 20, citing Noriega's indictment on charges of racketeering, money laundering and drug-trafficking, the administration launched Operation Just Cause, an invasion force of more than 20,000 troops intended to oust him from power.

Noriega, naturally, explained the souring of his relationship with the U.S. differently.

"The United States understood that Noriega is not the same man that was lieutenant colonel," Noriega told American filmmaker Oliver Stone, who interviewed him in a U.S. federal prison in 1993. "Now he is commander in chief and said 'no' to our interests. And he is not our man."

Though the reason for the conflict was disputed by Noriega, its result was not: After roughly a fortnight, Noriega surrendered to the U.S. at the Vatican Embassy in Panama City — but only after U.S. forces loudly blasted rock music (including Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up") outside the building during their efforts to drive him out.

Just a few days into 1990, Noriega was captured by the U.S. and transported to Miami to await trial.

There, he was convicted of a host of charges in federal court. And though his sentence in the U.S. was reduced to 15 years, his prison time ultimately was not — for he was also convicted of crimes in France and Panama, where he died at 83, still in custody for his crimes.

Maury Dexter obit

Maury Dexter Has Died

1927 - 2017

He was not on the list.

Maury Dexter died on 5/28/2017. Born Morris Gene Poindexter 6/12/1927 in Paris, Arkansas. Preceded in death by his mother Emma Foster Poindexter, father William Henry Poindexter and brothers Foster , William and James. He is survived by his neice Constance Durkin of Arkansas. A member of the Director's Guild since 1936, he once directed 20 films in a year's time for 20th Century Fox. By the 60's , he had his own production company, but the apex of his career came when he became a director for Michael Landon's "Little House on the Prairie" and " Highway to Heaven"

Dexter was born in Paris, Arkansas, to William Henry and Emma (née Foster) Poindexter. He has three brothers, Foster, William Jr., and James.

Dexter first entered show business as a teenaged actor in The Three Stooges short, Uncivil War Birds (1946). After a few additional movie roles, he busied himself with stage and television work until the Korean War and military service intervened; following his discharge, he landed an acting job on The Hank McCune Show (1950) and was soon working there behind the scenes. A clerical job at filmmaker Robert L. Lippert's Regal Films eventually led to Dexter producing and directing gigs at that independent production company, where many of the movies were shot in seven days on $100,000 budgets.

 

Filmography

 

Walk Tall (1960)

The High Powered Rifle (1960)

The Purple Hills (1961)

Womanhunt (1962)

Air Patrol (1962)

The Firebrand (1962)

Young Guns of Texas (1962)

The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963)

House of the Damned (1963)

Police Nurse (1963)

Harbor Lights (1963)

The Young Swingers (1963)

Surf Party (1964)

Raiders from Beneath the Sea (1964)

The Naked Brigade (1965)

Wild on the Beach (1965)

Django the Condemned (1965)

Maryjane (1968)

The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968)

The Young Animals (1968)

Hell's Belles (1969)

J. Walter Smith obit

J. Walter Smith Has Died

 

He was not on the list.

J. Walter Smith was an actor and writer, known for Abar (1977). He died on May 28, 2017 in Culver City, California, USA.

Here’s the scoop: Dr. Kinkade (J. Walter Smith, also credited for the story) moves in to a posh, all-white Los Angeles suburb with his wife and two kids. At first, two nosey Gladys Kravitz types from next door, assuming that they are “the help,” greet the family pleasantly and inform them they are planning a luncheon for their new neighbors. But when Mrs. Kinkade reveals that they are, in fact, the new neighbors, the welcoming committee turns indignant. “I won’t let them!” an enraged Mabel retorts to her friend. “I won’t let them move into our neighborhood!” As she spews more hatred about burning the house down herself, Mr. Kinkade attempts to calm Mabel down by slowly reaching for her shoulder, but she tumbles dramatically to the ground and yells, “Get your black hands off of me!” Awkwardly abrupt dissolve into a loud group of white people picketing outside their homes, marching in circles and carrying signs.

As the demonstrators hold court and the community board plots to push the Kinkade family out of their home, in steps John Abar (Tobar Mayo), leader of the Black Front of Unity, a grassroots band of fly-looking motorcyclists who work to “help the brothers and sisters down in the ghetto” and preach nonviolent self-defense. (So basically, a fictionalized version of the real-life Black Panthers.) After hearing about the Kinkades’ troubles on the news, he and his team arrive at their home offering protection from the white people outside. But there’s a catch: Abar wants the family to consider moving back to the ghetto, so they can uplift their own people. Dr. Kinkade isn’t interested, and Abar and his men leave disappointed. Nonetheless, Abar returns sometime later, just in time to fend off a couple of white guys who are attacking the doctor on his doorstep. (He throws them in a garbage truck to the tune of that familiar wa-chicka-wa-chicka musical queue found in pretty much every blaxploitation movie.) From then on, the two develop a complicated relationship in which Abar agrees to protect the Kinkades’ home and participate in some tests the doctor is running for a prevention for heart disease (a leading cause of death for black Americans, especially). They constantly debate what is best for the black community and how things might be fixed as if they were in the middle of an after-school special.

Much like The Room, a good chunk of Abar is pretty slow going—though never not bizarre, thanks to an unforeshadowed death, a dream sequence in which the son imagines Abar as an Old West cowboy (“My friends call me Deadwood Dick, but my enemies call me Smart Black Nigger”), and the actors’ consistently delayed reactions to one anothers’ lines. But the last 40 minutes finally get us where the film really wants us to go. (Spoilers ahead.) It’s revealed that Dr. Kinkade isn’t actually working on a cure for heart disease but has developed a potion that can make a man in top physical condition—a man like Abar, it turns out—“indestructible” so that he can clean up the ghetto in one fell swoop. At first, Abar is resistant, but he soon changes his mind (although not before a surely unlicensed Martin Luther King excerpt is heard, for some reason) and drinks the serum.

This last act of the film is all over the place, with Abar realizing that the serum has worked on him after two cops shoot him for coming upon them as they plant a gun on an unarmed black man they’ve just killed. Abar’s unhurt and now roams the ghetto using his new superpowers for good. A guy steals a lady’s purse on the street and runs off? Abar squints hard and compels the thief, by telepathy, to run and tumble back to her, returning the bag. (Waka-chicka-waka-chicka.) A prostitute is being slapped around by her pimp? Abar telepathically confers on her the strength and skill to defend herself and beat him to the ground. (Waka-chicka-waka-chicka.) Troubled youths are hanging out on the street, smoking and shooting craps? The powerful mind of Abar sends them straight to graduating, emerging from a school in caps and gowns with diplomas in hand. (Waka-chicka-waka-chicka, then, generic graduation music.)

Gregg Allman obit

Gregg Allman, Southern Rock Pioneer, Dead at 69

He was no on the list.

Gregg Allman, the singer, musician and songwriter who played an essential role in the invention of Southern rock, has died at the age of 69 of complications from liver cancer. Allman's rep confirmed to Rolling Stone that the artist died Saturday afternoon.

Southern rock pioneer fused country blues with San Francisco-style extended improvisation, creating a template for countless jam bands

Allman "passed away peacefully at his home in Savannah, Georgia," a statement on the singer's website read Saturday. "Gregg struggled with many health issues over the past several years. During that time, Gregg considered being on the road playing music with his brothers and solo band for his beloved fans, essential medicine for his soul. Playing music lifted him up and kept him going during the toughest of times."

"It's too soon to properly process this," Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts said in a statement. "I'm so glad I was able to have a couple good talks with him before he passed. In fact I was about to call him to check and see how he was when I got the call. It's a very sad day."

Allman's longtime manager and close friend Michael Lehman added, "I have lost a dear friend and the world has lost a brilliant pioneer in music. He was a kind and gentle soul with the best laugh I ever heard. His love for his family and bandmates was passionate as was the love he had for his extraordinary fans. Gregg was an incredible partner and an even better friend. We will all miss him."

Although Allman claimed the term was redundant, the singer-keyboardist helped create the first great "Southern-rock" group as co-founder of the legendary Allman Brothers Band alongside his older brother, famed guitarist Duane Allman. The Allmans fused country blues with San Francisco-style extended improvisation, with their sound creating a template for countless subsequent jam bands. Gregg Allman was blessed with one of blues-rock's great growling voices and, along with his Hammond B-3 organ playing (beholden to Booker T. Jones), had a deep emotional power. Writing in Rolling Stone, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons said that Allman's singing and keyboard playing displayed "a dark richness, a soulfulness that added one more color to the Allmans' rainbow."

"I've tried ... Words are impossible. Gui Gui forever. Chooch," Cher wrote on Twitter. "Rest in peace Greg [sic] Allman peace and love to all the family," Ringo Starr wrote. The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir added, "Bon Voyage, Brother Gregg, enjoy your next stop..."

As he recounted in his 2012 memoir My Cross to Bear, Allman also experienced a quintessential, and essentially tragic, rock-star trajectory that included too-sudden fame, admittedly excessive drug use, a high-profile celebrity romance, multiple marriages and a late-life liver transplant.

Gregory LeNoir Allman was born December 8th, 1947, in Nashville, Tennessee, a little more than a year after brother Duane. The boys' father, U.S. Army Captain Willis Turner Allman, was shot to death by a drinking acquaintance shortly after the family moved to Norfolk, Virginia in 1949. As a child, Gregg saved up money from a paper route and bought a guitar that was soon appropriated by his older brother. The siblings attended Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon, Tennessee, before moving to Daytona Beach, Florida. Duane talked his brother into joining a racially integrated band, the House Rockers, shocking their mother. "We had to turn my mother on to the blacks," Gregg told 16-year-old Cameron Crowe in the 1973 Rolling Stone cover story that would inspire Crowe's 2000 film Almost Famous. He added that it "[t]ook a while, but now she’s totally liberated." Following Allman's death, Crowe tweeted, "Thank you Gregg Allman ... for the inspiration, and for those many holy nights on stage."

After playing in bands like the Untils, the Shufflers, the Escorts and the Y-Teens, the brothers took their band Allman Joys on the road in the summer of 1965 following Gregg's graduation from Seabreeze High School. They often played six sets a night, seven nights a week, and eventually moved to Los Angeles – Gregg having shot himself in the foot to avoid the draft – where they recorded two forgettable albums for Liberty Records as the Hour Glass. While working as a session man in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Gregg was summoned to Jacksonville, Florida, in March 1969. There he joined Duane and the other musicians – Dickey Betts (guitar), Berry Oakley (bass), Butch Trucks (drums) and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums) – comprising the Allman Brothers Band's earliest incarnation.

"It was nice, round, kind of dull-ended instead of sharp," Allman wrote of the Hammond B-3 sound, "and I thought it blended with guitar just perfect." In addition to being the band's main vocalist and composer of signature tunes "Whipping Post" and "Don't Keep Me Wonderin,'" Gregg and his long blond hair also served as its visual focus. The band enjoyed meteoric success with their albums Live at the Fillmore East (1971) and Eat a Peach (1972). Between those albums, tragically, Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident, followed a year later by Oakley's eerily similar demise.

Shortly thereafter, Gregg recorded his solo debut, 1973's Laid Back, which offered an economical à la carte selection of blues, R&B and soul songs in contrast with the Allmans' epic all-you-can-eat live shows. Its critical success, combined with Gregg's marriage to pop superstar Cher in 1975 and the group's collective appetites for narcotics, led to the Allman Brothers' breakup after the recording of their disappointing 1975 release Win, Lose or Draw. Additionally, Allman's bandmates shunned him for testifying to a grand jury, in exchange for immunity, regarding his "valet" and drug provider John C. "Scooter" Herring. Audience shouts of "Narc!" plagued him for years afterward.

Vince Deadrick obit

Remembering TOS Stuntman Vince Deadrick, Sr., 1932-2017

 

He was not on the list.

StarTrek.com is saddened to report the passing of Vince Deadrick, Sr. The veteran stuntman and stunt actor, who worked on Star Trek: The Original Series and was the father of Star Trek: Enterprise stuntman/stunt coordinator Vince Deadrick, Jr., died on Saturday, May 27 at the age of 84. At the behest of his son, during a visit to the Enterprise set, the elder Deadrick performed an uncredited stunt in the episode "Borderland."

Among the TOS episodes in which the St. Louis-born Deadrick appeared were "Balance of Terror," "What Are Little Girls Made Of?," "Shore Leave," "The Doomsday Machine," "The Apple" and "Mirror, Mirror." His dozens of non-Trek stunt and/or acting roles included Dirty Harry, The Towering Inferno, The Lady in Red, The Beastmaster, Beverly Hills Cop, Commando, Lethal Weapon 4, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, CSI: Miami and Numbers.

Deadrick would have turned 85 in August. Please join StarTrek.com in offering our condolences to his family, friends, colleagues and fans.

Vince Deadrick Sr. was born on August 8, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Broken Arrow (1996), Total Recall (1990) and Arlington Road (1999). He was married to Susan Lenora Schuler and Celeste Anne Beaman. He died on May 27, 2017 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Doubled for Steve McQueen and Lee Majors.

Along with Majel Barrett, Joseph Ruskin, Clint Howard and Jack Donner, he is one of only four actors to appear in both Star Trek (1966) and Star Trek: Enterprise (2001). Of these, he and Donner are the only ones who did not also appear in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).

Father of Vince Deadrick Jr., and grandfather of Tara Deadrick. Also related to Matt Deadrick.

 

Stunts

Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Connor Trinneer, and Linda Park in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)

Star Trek: Enterprise

7.6

TV Series

stunts (uncredited)

2004

1 episode

 

Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

8.1

stunts

2003

 

Elizabeth Hurley and Brendan Fraser in Bedazzled (2000)

Bedazzled

6.1

stunts

2000

 

Tim Robbins, Jeff Bridges, and Joan Cusack in Arlington Road (1999)

Arlington Road

7.2

stunts

1999

 

Matt Stone and Trey Parker in BASEketball (1998)

BASEketball

6.5

stunts

1998

 

Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, and Chris Rock in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

Lethal Weapon 4

6.6

stunts

1998

 

Drew Barrymore, Dean Cain, Sean Patrick Flanery, Andy Dick, and Luke Wilson in Best Men (1997)

Best Men

5.5

stunts

1997

 

Vivica A. Fox, Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, and Kimberly Elise in Set It Off (1996)

Set It Off

6.9

stunts

1996

 

Linda Hamilton and Jim Belushi in Separate Lives (1995)

Separate Lives

5.0

utility stunts

1995

 

Michael Biehn, William Petersen, and Leo Rossi in In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King (1995)

In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King

4.6

stunt coordinator (as Vince Deadrick)

1995

 

James Woods, Lolita Davidovich, and Jason Alexander in For Better or Worse (1995)

For Better or Worse

4.8

stunts

1995

 

Tommy Lee Jones and Jeff Bridges in Blown Away (1994)

Blown Away

6.2

stunts

1994

 

Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. in Air America (1990)

Air America

5.8

stunts

1990

 

Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall (1990)

Total Recall

7.5

stunts (as Vince Deadrick)

1990

 

Billy Dee Williams in Secret Agent OO Soul (1990)

Secret Agent OO Soul

3.4

stunts

1990

 

Matthew Broderick in Glory (1989)

Glory

7.8

stunt player

1989

 

Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson in Ghostbusters II (1989)

Ghostbusters II

6.6

stunts

1989

 

Clint Eastwood in The Dead Pool (1988)

The Dead Pool

6.3

stunts

1988

 

Sherilyn Fenn and Richard Tyson in Two Moon Junction (1988)

Two Moon Junction

5.0

stunts (as Vincent Deadrick Sr.)

1988

 

Robert Duvall and Sean Penn in Colors (1988)

Colors

6.7

stunts

1988

 

James Woods in Cop (1988)

Cop

6.4

stunts

1988

 

Billy Crystal and Danny DeVito in Throw Momma from the Train (1987)

Throw Momma from the Train

6.3

stunt coordinator

1987

 

Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks in Dragnet (1987)

Dragnet

6.0

stunts

1987

 

Million Dollar Mystery (1987)

Million Dollar Mystery

5.0

stunts

1987

 

Virginia Madsen in Slam Dance (1987)

Slam Dance

5.2

stunt player

1987

 

Eddie Murphy in The Golden Child (1986)

The Golden Child

6.0

stunts

1986

 

Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, and Helen Slater in Ruthless People (1986)

Ruthless People

6.9

stunts

1986

 

Arnold Schwarzenegger in Raw Deal (1986)

Raw Deal

5.6

utility stunts

1986

 

Short Circuit (1986)

Short Circuit

6.6

stunts

1986

 

North & South: Book 1, North & South (1985)

North & South: Book 1, North & South

8.1

TV Mini Series

stunts (uncredited)

1985

1 episode

 

Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando (1985)

Commando

6.7

stunts

1985

 

D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)

D.A.R.Y.L.

6.3

stuntman (as Vince Deadrick)

1985

 

Betsy Russell in Avenging Angel (1985)

Avenging Angel

4.9

stunts (as Vincent Deadrick Sr.)

1985

 

Michael Chambers, Lucinda Dickey, and Adolfo Quinones in Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

5.2

stunt coordinator

1984

 

Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Beverly Hills Cop

7.4

stunts (as Vincent P. Deadrick Sr.)

1984

 

Thief of Hearts (1984)

Thief of Hearts

5.8

stunts

1984

 

Lucinda Dickey in Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

Ninja III: The Domination

5.4

stunt player

1984

 

Donna Wilkes in Angel (1983)

Angel

5.8

stunts (as Vince Deadrick)

1983

 

Molly Ringwald and Peter Strauss in Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

5.5

stunts

1983

 

Heart Like a Wheel (1983)

Heart Like a Wheel

6.7

stunts (as Vince Deadrick)

1983

 

Lee Horsley in Matt Houston (1982)

Matt Houston

6.5

TV Series

stunts

1982–1985

 

Lee Majors and Heather Thomas in The Fall Guy (1981)

The Fall Guy

7.1

TV Series

stunts

1981–1986

 

Used Cars (1980)

Used Cars

6.7

stunt double: Jack Warden

1980

 

Clint Eastwood in Bronco Billy (1980)

Bronco Billy

6.2

bar fighter (uncredited)

1980

 

Joanna Cassidy, Roosevelt Grier, and John Saxon in The Glove (1979)

The Glove

5.3

stunts (as Vince Deadrick)

1979

 

The Lady in Red (1979)

The Lady in Red

6.3

stunts (as Vincent Deadrick Sr.)

1979

 

Pamela Jean Bryant, Susan Kiger, Lisa London, and Kimberly Cameron in H.O.T.S. (1979)

H.O.T.S.

4.6

stunts

1979

 

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

4.7

stunts (as Vince Deadrick)

1979

 

The Norseman (1978)

The Norseman

3.6

stunt coordinator (as Vince Deadrick)

1978

 

Sisters of Death (1977)

Sisters of Death

4.3

stunt coordinator (as Vince Deadrick)

1977

 

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

stunts (uncredited)

1974

 

Lee Majors in The Six Million Dollar Man (1973)

The Six Million Dollar Man

7.1

TV Series

stunt coordinator (as Vincent Deadrick)

1974

1 episode

 

Brian Fong, Michael Richardson, Mitchell Ryan, and Reid Smith in Chase (1973)

Chase

7.2

TV Series

stunt double: Michael Richardson (uncredited)

1973

1 episode

 

George Segal in Blume in Love (1973)

Blume in Love

6.2

stunt double

stunts (uncredited)

1973

 

Leon Ames, Joseph Cotten, Tab Hunter, Cesar Romero, Claude Akins, Eve Brent, and Roosevelt Grier in The Timber Tramps (1973)

The Timber Tramps

5.7

stunt coordinator (as Vince Diedrich)

1973

 

Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry (1971)

Dirty Harry

7.7

stunts (uncredited)

1971

 

Sean Connery, Jill St. John, and Lana Wood in Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Diamonds Are Forever

6.5

stunts (uncredited)

1971

 

James Garner and Louis Gossett Jr. in Skin Game (1971)

Skin Game

7.0

stunts (uncredited)

1971

 

Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Jason Robards, E.G. Marshall, Tatsuya Mihashi, Koreya Senda, Takahiro Tamura, Eijirô Tôno, James Whitmore, and Sô Yamamura in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Tora! Tora! Tora!

7.5

stunts (uncredited)

1970

 

James Arness, Amanda Blake, Milburn Stone, and Dennis Weaver in Gunsmoke (1955)

Gunsmoke

8.1

TV Series

stunt double: Don Chastain (uncredited)

1968

1 episode

 

Star Trek (1966)

Star Trek

8.4

TV Series

stunt double: William Windom

stunt double: DeForest Kelley

stunt double: Bruce Mars (uncredited)

1966–1967

3 episodes

 

Adam West and Burt Ward in Batman (1966)

Batman

7.5

TV Series

stunt double: Jim Lefebvre (uncredited)

1967

2 episodes

 

Robert Vaughn, Leo G. Carroll, and David McCallum in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

7.7

TV Series

stunts: motor cycle crash (uncredited)

1964

1 episode

 

Soldier in the Rain (1963)

Soldier in the Rain

6.6

stunt double Steve McQueen (uncredited)

1963

 

Hell Is for Heroes (1962)

Hell Is for Heroes

6.9

stunts (uncredited)

1962

 

Cary Grant and Tony Curtis in Operation Petticoat (1959)

Operation Petticoat

7.2

stunts (uncredited)

1959

 

Actor

Numb3rs (2005)

Numb3rs

6.9

TV Series

Marty Blanchard

2005

1 episode

 

Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Connor Trinneer, and Linda Park in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)

Star Trek: Enterprise

7.6

TV Series

Alien Slave Trader #1 (uncredited)

2004

1 episode

 

David Caruso, Eva LaRue, Rex Linn, Omar Benson Miller, Emily Procter, Adam Rodriguez, and Jonathan Togo in CSI: Miami (2002)

CSI: Miami

6.5

TV Series

Homeless Man

2004

1 episode

 

Thomas Ian Griffith and Jason Scott Lee in Timecop: The Berlin Decision (2003)

Timecop: The Berlin Decision

4.7

Video

Stage Driver #1

2003

 

Alvin Alvarez, Bobby Gonzalez, Vaneza Leza Pitynski, and Jeffrey Licon in The Brothers Garcia (2000)

The Brothers Garcia

6.8

TV Series

Stunt coordinator (as Vince Deadrick)

2001

1 episode

 

Christian Slater and John Travolta in Broken Arrow (1996)

Broken Arrow

6.1

Jim

1996

 

Ground Zero Texas (1994)

Ground Zero Texas

6.8

Video Game

Phil

1994

 

Richard Dean Anderson in MacGyver (1985)

MacGyver

7.6

TV Series

Screaming Man

1991

1 episode

 

Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Denholm Elliott, Michael Byrne, Alison Doody, and John Rhys-Davies in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

8.2

Rough Rider (as Vince Deadrick)

1989

 

Tom Selleck in Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Magnum, P.I.

7.5

TV Series

Matt

1986

1 episode

 

North & South: Book 1, North & South (1985)

North & South: Book 1, North & South

8.1

TV Mini Series

Greyhaired Fighting Man at Station (uncredited)

1985

1 episode

 

Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues (1985)

Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues

5.4

TV Movie

Deaf Man

1985

 

Days of Our Lives (1965)

Days of Our Lives

5.3

TV Series

Gaines

1985

1 episode

 

Lee Majors and Heather Thomas in The Fall Guy (1981)

The Fall Guy

7.1

TV Series

Brawler (uncredited)

1985

1 episode

 

Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes, Patrick Duffy, Larry Hagman, Charlene Tilton, Jim Davis, Linda Gray, and Steve Kanaly in Dallas (1978)

Dallas

7.1

TV Series

J.R.'s Bodyguard

1984

2 episodes

 

Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone (1984)

Romancing the Stone

6.9

Zolo's Men

1984

 

Lee Horsley in Matt Houston (1982)

Matt Houston

6.5

TV Series

Officer Martin

1984

1 episode

 

Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982)

Tales of the Gold Monkey

8.0

TV Series

German Sailor (uncredited)

1982

1 episode

 

The Beastmaster (1982)

The Beastmaster

6.2

Guard on Parapet

1982

 

Ramblin'Man (1979)

Ramblin'Man

4.9

TV Series

1981

1 episode

 

Lee Majors in The Six Million Dollar Man (1973)

The Six Million Dollar Man

7.1

TV Series

Ed (as Paul Deadrick)

1978

1 episode

 

Patrick Duffy in Man from Atlantis (1977)

Man from Atlantis

6.5

TV Series

Herb Wayland (as Vincent Deadrick)

1977

1 episode

 

James Arness, Amanda Blake, Milburn Stone, and Dennis Weaver in Gunsmoke (1955)

Gunsmoke

8.1

TV Series

Brawler

Cowboy #1

1st Trooper ...

1967–1975

5 episodes

 

Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz Jr., and Lucie Arnaz in Here's Lucy (1968)

Here's Lucy

6.9

TV Series

Bandit #1 (as Vincent P. Deadrick)

1974

1 episode

 

William Conrad in Cannon (1971)

Cannon

6.8

TV Series

Guard Watchng for Plane (as Vince Deadrick)

1972

1 episode

 

Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry (1971)

Dirty Harry

7.7

Pedestrian (uncredited)

1971

 

Lancer (1968)

Lancer

7.0

TV Series

Third Drover (as Vincent Deadrick)

1970

1 episode

 

Mike Connors in Mannix (1967)

Mannix

7.4

TV Series

Thug

Richard Newley

1969–1970

2 episodes

 

Harlen Carraher, Kellie Flanagan, Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare, and Charles Nelson Reilly in The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968)

The Ghost & Mrs. Muir

7.7

TV Series

Man in Convertible (as Vince Deadrick)

1969

1 episode

 

Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Peter Graves, Peter Lupus, and Greg Morris in Mission: Impossible (1966)

Mission: Impossible

7.9

TV Series

Private (as Vincent Deadrick)

1969

1 episode

 

Lee Majors, Barbara Stanwyck, Linda Evans, Peter Breck, and Richard Long in The Big Valley (1965)

The Big Valley

7.6

TV Series

Guard

Foley (as Vince Deadrick)

1969

2 episodes

 

Star Trek (1966)

Star Trek

8.4

TV Series

Engineer

Native

Romulan Crewman ...

1966–1968

4 episodes

 

Robert Vaughn, Leo G. Carroll, and David McCallum in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

7.7

TV Series

Tommy Blenman (as Vincent Deadrick)

1964

1 episode

 

Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)

Love with the Proper Stranger

7.2

Call Boy (uncredited)

1963

 

Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)

Wanted: Dead or Alive

8.0

TV Series

Sy Benton

Ken

Norman (as Vince Deadrick)

1960–1961

3 episodes

 

Cary Grant and Tony Curtis in Operation Petticoat (1959)

Operation Petticoat

7.2

Minor Role (uncredited)

1959

 

Robert Mitchum and Curd Jürgens in The Enemy Below (1957)

The Enemy Below

7.4

American Sailor (uncredited)

1957

Jim Bunning - # 159

Jim Bunning, Hall Of Fame Pitcher And Former U.S. Senator, Dies At 85

He was number 159 on the list.

Jim Bunning, an imposing Hall of Fame pitcher and a resolutely conservative U.S. Senator from Kentucky, died Friday at age 85.

The New York Times reports that he had a stroke last October. The AP confirmed the death with Bunning's former chief of staff, Jon Deuser.

Bunning served six terms in the House and two in the Senate. As a major league pitcher from 1955 to 1971, he played for the Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates and Los Angeles Dodgers. He was the only Hall of Fame baseball player to have served in Congress, according to the AP.

The six-foot-three ballplayer had a reputation as intimidating. As the Louisville Courier-Journal writes:

"In his 15-year career in the big leagues, Bunning developed a reputation for throwing the ball close to batters, trying to back them off the plate. 'If he had to brush back his mother, I think he'd do it to win,' former Detroit Tigers second baseman Frank Bolling said of his one-time teammate.

In his second career, instead of baseballs, Bunning went after opponents and issues with strong rhetoric and an intense certainty in the correctness of his own views.

 

That was especially true with abortion. A Roman Catholic with nine children, Bunning voted consistently to limit abortion as an option for women and had contempt for colleagues who softened their position on the highly emotional issue."

 

In 1964, Bunning pitched a perfect game, one of just 23 in the modern era. It was the first perfect game pitched in the National League since 1880. In addition to throwing no-hitters in both the American and National Leagues, he was also the second pitcher after Cy Young to win 100 games and pitch 1,000 strikeouts in both leagues, according to the Hall of Fame. Bunning was inducted into the Hall in Cooperstown, NY., in 1996.

 

On June 21, 1964, Bunning pitched a perfect game, the ninth in major league history.

 

Bunning's perfect game was the first thrown by a National League pitcher since 1880. It was also the first no-hitter by a Phillies pitcher since Johnny Lush no-hit the Brooklyn Superbas on May 1, 1906. He is one of only seven pitchers to have thrown both a perfect game and an additional no-hitter, the others being Randy Johnson, Sandy Koufax, Addie Joss, Cy Young, Mark Buehrle, and fellow Phillie Roy Halladay, whose additional no-hitter came in Game 1 of the 2010 National League Division Series. He is one of five players to have thrown a no-hitter in both leagues, the others being Young, Johnson, Nolan Ryan, and Hideo Nomo. Bunning was the first pitcher to pitch a no-hitter, win 100 games, and record 1,000 strikeouts in both leagues.

 

After retiring as a player, Bunning began managing in the minor leagues for the Phillies organization. He managed the Reading Phillies, Eugene Emeralds, Toledo Mud Hens, and Oklahoma City 89ers from 1972 through 1976.

 

In 1968 he led Athletes for Richard Nixon, according to the Courier-Journal; Bunning first entered politics in 1977, winning a seat on Fort Thomas, Ky., city council. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1986 and to the Senate in 1998.

The Courier-Journal reports that in his 1998 Senate race, Bunning tried to look more moderate, "talking about the need to clean up the environment and educate children, endeavors that he had not emphasized previously. In fact, in the House he voted to cut the Environmental Protection Agency budget and kill the U.S. Department of Education," it says.

"Bunning was best known for his efforts to safeguard Social Security benefits, sponsoring, among other things, legislation that made the Social Security Administration a separate agency," writes Politico. "He also supported legislation to aid adoptive parents and was known for actively working on local Kentucky issues and, whenever they came before Congress, baseball-related issues."

As a politician, he was known as "blunt and abrasive," according to the publication. "In 1993, for instance, he referred to President Bill Clinton as 'the most corrupt, the most amoral, the most despicable person I've ever seen in the presidency.' In 2009, he made headlines by predicting Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be dead of cancer within nine months."

In 2009, he said he would not seek another term in the Senate; his fellow Kentuckian, then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, "all but pushed Bunning into retirement," NPR's David Welna reported at the time. McConnell's hand-picked choice to succeed Bunning lost in the primary to Tea Party candidate Rand Paul, whom Bunning endorsed.

 

 Some of his former teammates, managers, club owners, coaches and commentators were: Bucky Harris, Schoolboy Rowe, Al Kaline, Ray Boone, Harvey Kuenn, Frank House, Frank Lary, Billy Hoeft, Walter Briggs, Jr., Dizzy Trout, Muddy Ruel, Charlie Maxwell, Paul Foytack, Mel Ott, Fred Knorr, John Fetzer, Jack Tighe, Billy Martin, Tito Francona, John McHale, Bill Norman, Jimmy Dykes, Don Mossi, Larry Doby, Eddie Yost, George Kell, Van Patrick, Joe Gordon, Billy Hitchcock, Norm Cash, Rocky Colavito, Luke Appling, R. R. M. Carpenter Jr., Gene Mauch, Richie Ashburn, Dick Allen, Johnny Callison, Cookie Rojas, Chris Short, Dallas Green, Jack Baldschun, Dennis Bennett, Dick Stuart, Ferguson Jenkins, Ray Culp, By Saam, John J. Quinn, Larry Jackson, Bob Uecker, Bill White,
Larry Shepard, Maury Wills, Matty Alou,Willie Stargell, Al Oliver, Bill Mazeroski, Roberto Clemente,
Donn Clendenon, Steve Blass, Alex Grammas, Bob Moose, Richie Hebner, Nellie King, Al Campanis, Don Sutton, Don Drysdale, Steve Garvey, Bill Russell, Bill Buckner, Bobby Valentine, Andy Kosco,
Jim Lefebvre, Bill Singer, Claude Osteen, Jim Brewer, Wes Parker, Ted Sizemore, Frank Lucchesi, Oscar Gamble, Larry Bowa, John Vukovich and Doc Edwards.