That Derek’s “Showbituaries,” October 2016

[That Derek]

That Derek’s “Showbituaries,” October 2016

FORMERLY “That Derek’s Totally Subjective Necrology”

This list is still totally subjective, essentially Anglo-American in its scope, and reflective of my interests – primarily in the fields of the performing arts, pop culture, US national politics, history, literature, and the New York City / New Jersey area. However, it is also particularly low on jazz/blues/hip-hop music, children’s literature, finer arts (such as opera, ballet, painting, sculpture), and culinary and fashion arts. Occasionally, exceptions for inclusion from fields outside these stated realms will be made.

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2016 – NOT PUBLICIZED UNTIL OCTOBER 2016\
08/26: Paul Comi, 84, TV character actor (“Ripcord,” “Rawhide,” “Star Trek,” “Twilight Zone”)
09/08: Hazel Douglas, 92, British stage/TV/film actress (“Harry Potter” series)
09/11: Lyn Wilde, 93, 1940s film actress (with sister Lee Wilde as “The Wilde Twins”)
09/14: Hilmar Thate, 85, German film actor (Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Veronika Voss”)
09/16: Todd Kimsey, 54, TV/film actor (“The Perfect Storm,” “Seinfeld” one-shot)
09/22: Ann-Mari Wiman, 95, Swedish film actress (Ingmar Bergman’s “Wild Strawberries”)
09/23: Fern Buchner, 87, movie make-up artist (for Woody Allen, 1977-1996; many seminal 1970s-1990s films)
09/26: Irene Bergman, 101, German-born financial adviser; longest tenured woman on Wall Street
09/28: John “Jack” Good, 80, FBI agent; creator/overseer, ABSCAM sting operation
09/28: Robert L. “Bob” Mott, 92, TV/radio sound effects artist and comedy writer
09/30: Ann Collar Broder, 87, widow of political columnist/commentator David Broder

OCTOBER 2016
10/01: Ian Liston, 68, British stage actor/producer; screen actor (“Dr. Who,” “The Empire Strikes Back”)
10/01: Fred Stampa, 91, Neapolitan-born Italian language Talking Books narrator
10/02: Steve Byrd, 61, British session/tour guitarist (for Kim Wilde, Bonnie Tyler, the Buggles)
10/02: Gordon Davidson, 83, Broadway/LA/regional theatrical producer/director; screen director (“The Trial of the Catonsville Nine”)
10/02: Sir Neville Marriner, 92, British conductor; educator; oversaw Mozart selections for film "Amadeus”
10/02: Gary Reed, 60, comic book writer; publisher/founder, Caliber Comics
10/02: Trinh Thi Ngo (aka “Hanoi Hannah”), 87, Vietnam War-era anti-US radio propagandist for Radio Hanoi
10/02: Lowell Thomas Jr., 92, son of radio newscaster Lowell Thomas; Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1974-1978)
10/03: Phyllis Jeanne Creore (Westermann), 100, WWII-era radio singer "Canteen Girl": 1939 World's Fair "Miss Television”
10/05: Bobby J. Copeland, 81, B-Westerns movie historian/author; numismatist
10/05: Joan Marie Johnson (Faust), 72, singer, "The Dixie Cups" ("Chapel of Love," "Iko Iko”)
10/05: Austin Kalish, 95, sitcom writer with wife Irma Kalish (“Gilligan’s Island,” “F Troop”, “Maude,” “All in the Family”)
10/05: Brock Yates, 82, 1970s editor, “Car and Driver” magazine; screenwriter, “The Cannonball Run”; CBS sportscaster
10/06: James F. Colaianni, 94, Catholic lay theologian; one-time editor, “Ramparts” magazine; anti-war activist; theatrical producer (“One Mo’ Time”)
10/06: Paul Cowan, 77, British film producer (“The Crying Game” “The Krays,” “Dance with a Stranger”)
10/07: Kathleen Miller, 71, film actress for director Hal Ashby (“The Last Detail,” “Shampoo,” “Coming Home”)
10/07: Wolfgang Suschitzky, 104, Viennese-born London street photographer: cinematographer (“Get Carter”)
10/07: Bill Warren, 73, science fiction/horror movie historian; writer (“Famous Monsters,” “Eerie,” “Creepy” magazines)
10/08: Peter Allen, 96, NYC radio voice for WQXR’s Metropolitan Opera broadcasts (1975-2004)
10/08: Don Ciccone, 70, singer/songwriter, “The Critters” (“Mr. Dyingly Sad”); 1970s “Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons”
10/08: Gary Dubin, 57, 1970s juvenile actor (“The Partridge Family,” as “Punky Lazaar”; Disney’s “The Aristocats”; “Diamonds Are Forever”; “Jaws 2”)
10/08: Alina Maria Hernández (aka Cachita), 46, Cuban-born transsexual Spanish-language TV actress
10/08: Morton Silverstein, 86, Emmy-winning documentarian (“Heritage: History and the Jews”)
10/08: Pierre Tchernia, 88, French screenwriter and narrator, "Asterix" film series
10/09: Susan Aceron, 44, Canadian voice-over actress (English-language version, “Sailor Moon”)
10/09: Fergus Miller (aka “Bored Nothing”), 26, Australian musician – depression derived suicide
10/09: Kenneth Thompson, 50, sitting District Attorney, Kings County (Brooklyn) NY
10/09: Andrzej Wajda, 90, Academy Award-winning Polish film director/auteur
10/10: Donn Fendler, 90, 12-year old Boy Scout lost for nine days on Mount Katahdin, Maine (1939)
10/10: Marnix Kappers, 73, Dutch actor/cabaret singer – suicide
10/10: Kazunari Tanaka, 49, Japanese anime voice-over artist (“Sailor Moon”)
10/11: Patricia Barry, 93, film/stage/TV actress (“All My Children,” “Days of Our Lives,” “Twilight Zone”)
10/12: Robert Bateman, 77, Motown songwriter (“Please, Mr. Postman”); singer, early Motown group “The Satintones”
10/12: Thomas Ford, 52, TV sitcom actor (“Martin”)
10/12: Jack Greenberg, 91, last surviving civil rights attorney, “Brown v. Board of Education” (1954)
10/12: Wisconsin State Senator Rick Gudex (R-Fond du Lac), 48, Wisconsin legislator – suicide by gunshot
10/12: (Alton) Lee Lively, 89, Virginia-based screen actor (“Matlock,” “Prince of Tides”), 10/12
10/12: William "Sonny" Sanders, 77, Motown songwriter (“Higher & Higher”); singer, early Motown group “The Satintones”
10/12: John Vulich, 55, American makeup artist, special effects technician (“Buffy, the Vampire Slayer”; “The X-Files”; “Babylon 5”)
10/13: King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 88, King of Siam/Thailand and world’s longest serving head of state (1946-2016)
10/13: Dario Fo, 90, Nobel-winning, politically charged Italian playwright
10/13: Joyce Gibson (aka Joyce Mandell), 66, 1970s well-endowed model/actress
10/13: Louis Stettner, 93, photographer noted for decades-duration photos of NYC and Paris landmarks
10/13: Tonino Valerii, 82, Italian Spaghetti Western director (“My Name Is Nobody”)
10/14: Kathryn Adams (Doty), 96, 1940’s actress (“The Hunchback of Notre Dame”); former wife of actor Hugh Beaumont
10/14: Jean Alexander, 90, British TV actress (“Coronation Street”)
10/14: Pierre Étaix, 87, French film slapstick comedy actor and film director
10/14: Jim Faris, 97, film editor (Tex Avery cartoons; Warner Bros. TV; Aaron Spelling Productions)
10/14: Edward Gorman, 74, mystery writer (Sam McCain, Jack Dwyer, Dev Conrad series)
10/14: Thom Jones, 71, essayist/short story writer (“The Pugilist at Rest”)
10/14: Gunther Schiff, 89, Hollywood attorney (producers’ side in SAG-AFTRA negotiations)
10/15: Dennis Byrd, 50, paralyzed NY Jets football player who regained power to walk, -- traffic collision
10/15: John Cosgrove, 98, Washington DC media expert; one-time president, National Press Club
10/15: Robert “Big Sonny” Edwards, 74, soul singer, “The Intruders” (“Cowboys to Girls,” “I'll Always Love My Mama”)
10/16: Gloria Fong (aka Maylia), 90, 1940s Chinese-American film actress; widow of actor Benson Fong; restaurateur
10/16: Trinity Gay, 15, daughter of US Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay – gun violence
10/16: Edgar F. Gross, 85, show business attorney/manager; producer for John Boorman films
10/16: Cecilia Hart (Jones), 68, stage/TV actress; wife of actor James Earl Jones
10/16: Representative Clyde Holloway (R-Louisiana, 8th District), 72, US Congressman (1987-1993)
10/16: Valerie Hunter Gordon, 94, British inventor of the disposable diaper
10/16: Vernon Kifer, 63, cameraman for all ten seasons of “Friends”
10/16: Ted V. Mikels, 87, cult B-horror movie filmmaker (“The Astro-Zombies”)
10/16: Jeffrey Slonim, 56, entertainment/red carpet journalist -- suicide by jumping from a rooftop terrace at NYC’s Lincoln Center
10/16: Joseph Suozzi, 95, Long Island jurist; father of Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi
10/17: Eddie Applegate, 81, TV sitcom actor (“The Patty Duke Show”)
10/17: Judge Vicente Bermudez Zacarias, 37, Mexican federal judge presiding over Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman drug cartel case -- political assassination (gun violence)
10/18: Annemarie Huste, 73, German-born personal chef to Jacqueline Kennedy discharged for leaking family secrets
10/18: Lieutenant-Colonel. Norman Murphy, 83, founder of British branch of the P. G. Wodehouse Society
10/19: Anthony Addabbo, 56, TV soap actor (“The Bold and the Beautiful,” “Guiding Light”)
10/19: Phil Chess (ne Fiszel Czyz), 95, Polish-born co-founder (with brother Lester Chess), Chess Records
10/19: Oran Sandel, 64, regional stage director, DC's Living Stage Theatre Company
10/19: Norman Sherry, 91, British literary biographer (Graham Greene, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, Brontë sisters)
10/20: Michael Massee, 61, actor in “The Crow” (1994) who accidentally shot/killed Brandon Lee
10/20: Simone Schaller, 104, 1932, 1936 Olympic hurdler believed to be world's oldest Olympian
10/20: Junko Tabei, 77, Japanese mountaineer; first woman to climb Mount Everest (1975) and "Seven Summits” (completed, 1992)
10/20: Robert Weber, 92, cartoonist for “The New Yorker” (1962-2007)
10/21: Sheela Allen-Stephens, 73, Philadelphia TV news journalist
10/21: Dave Cash, 74, British radio personality (partnered with Kenny Everett); sometimes host, TV’s “Top of the Pops”
10/21: Richard Cavendish, 86, British necromancer and occult author, "The Black Arts”
10/21: Michael Gleason, 78, TV writer (“Peyton Place”; “Rich Man, Poor Man”; “Marcus Welby. M.D.”); co-creator, “Remington Steele”
10/21: Stan Hilton, 98, last surviving British veteran of Spanish Civil War
10/21: Kevin Meaney, 60, stand-up comedian/comic actor (TV’s “Uncle Buck”)
10/21: Richard Mola, 89, Mayor of East Paterson/Elmwood Park NJ (since 1972); longest tenured sitting mayor in New Jersey
10/21: Janet Patterson, 74/75, Australian-born Academy Award-nominated costume designer (“The Piano”)
10/21: Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer, 87, stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales; daughter of romance novelist Barbara Cartland
10/22: Martin Aitchison, 96, British children's entertainment illustrator (Eagle Comics; Ladybird Books)
10/22: Steve Dillon, 54, British-born comic-book artist (“Hulk UK”; “2000 AD”; “Judge Dredd”; “Preacher”; “Hellblazer”)
10/22: Herb Kent, 88, long-time Chicago radio/TV personality (since 1944)
10/22: Gavin MacFadyen, 76, journalist; founder, Center for Investigative Journalism; WikiLeaks player
10/22: Colin Snedeker, 80, British-born chemist/innovator for Crayola/Binney and Smith (washable crayons)
10/22: Sheri S. Tepper (aka E.E. Horlak, A.J. Orde, B.J. Oliphant) 87, science-fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery novelist
10/23: Jack T. Chick, 92, hatemongering cartoonist/publisher of Christian fire-and-brimstone tracts
10/23: Tom Hayden, 76, anti-war/civil rights political activist (Chicago 7); California state legislator (1976-2000); former husband of Jane Fonda; author, “The Port Huron Statement, “Rebellion in Newark”
10/23: Jimmy Perry, 93, British TV comedy writer; co-creator, “Dad's Army,” “Hi-de-Hi!”
10/23: Bobby Vee, 73, 1960s pop singer (“Take Good Care of My Baby,” “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes”)
10/24: Sophia Cranshaw, 45, M-TV producer of social issue campaigns
10/24: Leutnant Hellmut von Leipzig, 95, WWII Wehrmacht officer; driver for Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
10/25: Kevin Curran, 59, TV screenwriter (“The Simpsons”); creator, David Letterman’s “Top Ten” lists
10/25: Howard Davies, 71, British-born Tony-nominated stage director (“Private Lives,” “The Iceman Cometh”)
10/25: Mel Haber, 80, Palm Springs celebrity restaurateur (Frank Sinatra/Barbara Marx wedding, 1976)
10/25: Bob Hoover, 94, WWII aerial ace; test pilot with Chuck Yeager’s sound barrier tests
10/27: Hazel Shermet, 96, radio/TV/screen actress (“Duffy's Tavern,” “The New Zoo Revue,” “A Star Is Born”)
10/27: Takahito, Prince Mikasa, 100, Japanese royal; brother of Emperor Hirohito
10/27: John Zacherle (The Cool Ghoul), 98, NYC TV horror host, rock DJ; recording artist, "Dinner with Drac”
10/28: Gillon Aitken, 78, British literary agent (Germaine Greer, Salman Rushdie)
10/28: Ron Grant, 72, TV/film composer; technical Oscar winner for music software
10/29: Norman Brokaw, 89, talent agent (Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Cosby, Alexander Haig, Clint Eastwood)
10/30: James Galanos, 92, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland)
10/30: Tammy Grimes, 82, Broadway/screen/radio actress (“The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” “42nd Street,” “Can’t Stop the Music,” “The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”); mother of actress Amanda Plummer
10/30: Don Marshall, 80, TV actor (“Land of the Giants”; “Julia”; “Star Trek” episode “Galileo 7”)
10/30: Claude “Curly” Putman, 85, songwriter (“Green, Green Grass of Home”; “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”; “He Stopped Loving Her Today”); inspiration for Paul McCartney’s “Junior’s Farm”
10/30: Hugo Zacchini, 88, German-born human cannonball circus performer
10/31: Natalie Babbitt, 84, children's author/illustrator (“Tuck Everlasting”); Newberry winner (“Knee-Knock Rise”)
10/31: Silvio Gazzaniga, 95, Italian sculptor/designer, FIFA’s World Cup soccer trophy
10/31: Vladimir Zeldin, 101, Russian reportedly the world's oldest active stage actor

ALPHABETICAL CROSS-REFERENCE (OCTOBER 2016)
Susan Aceron, 44, Canadian voice-over actress (English-language version, “Sailor Moon”), 10/09
Kathryn Adams (Doty), 96, 1940’s actress (“The Hunchback of Notre Dame”); former wife of actor Hugh Beaumont, 10/14
Anthony Addabbo, 56, TV soap actor (“The Bold and the Beautiful,” “Guiding Light”), 10/19
Martin Aitchison, 96, British children's entertainment illustrator (Eagle Comics; Ladybird Books), 10/22
Gillon Aitken, 78, British literary agent (Germaine Greer, Salman Rushdie), 10/28
Jean Alexander, 90, British TV actress (“Coronation Street”), 10/14
Peter Allen, 96, NYC radio voice for WQXR’s Metropolitan Opera broadcasts (1975-2004), 10/08
Sheela Allen-Stephens, 73, Philadelphia TV news journalist, 10/21
Eddie Applegate, 81, TV sitcom actor (“The Patty Duke Show”), 10/17
Natalie Babbitt, 84, children's author/illustrator (“Tuck Everlasting”); Newberry winner (“Knee-Knock Rise”), 10/31
Patricia Barry, 93, film/stage/TV actress (“All My Children,” “Days of Our Lives,” “Twilight Zone”), 10/11
Robert Bateman, 77, Motown songwriter (“Please, Mr. Postman”); singer, early Motown group “The Satintones,” 10/12
Irene Bergman, 101, German-born financial adviser; longest tenured woman on Wall Street, 09/29 (not publicized until October 2016)
Judge Vicente Bermudez Zacarias, 37, Mexican federal judge presiding over Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman drug cartel case -- political assassination (gun violence), 10/17
King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 88, King of Siam/Thailand and world’s longest serving head of state (1946-2016), 10/13
Ann Collar Broder, 87, widow of political columnist/commentator David Broder, 09/30 (not publicized until October 2016)
Norman Brokaw, 89, talent agent (Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Cosby, Alexander Haig, Clint Eastwood), 10/29
Fern Buchner, 87, movie make-up artist (for Woody Allen, 1977-1996; many seminal 1970s-90s films), 09/23 (not publicized until October 2016)
Dennis Byrd, 50, paralyzed NY Jets football player who regained power to walk, -- traffic collision, 10/15
Steve Byrd, 61, British session/tour guitarist (for Kim Wilde, Bonnie Tyler, the Buggles), 10/02
Dave Cash, 74, British radio personality (partnered with Kenny Everett); sometimes host, TV’s “Top of the Pops,” 10/21
Phil Chess (ne Fiszel Czyz), 95, Polish-born co-founder (with brother Lester Chess), Chess Records, 10/19
Jack T. Chick, 92, hatemongering cartoonist/publisher of Christian fire-and-brimstone tracts, 10/23
Don Ciccone, 70, singer/songwriter, “The Critters” (“Mr. Dyingly Sad”); 1970s “Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons,” 10/08
James F. Colaianni, 94, Catholic lay theologian; one-time editor, “Ramparts” magazine; anti-war activist; theatrical producer (“One Mo’ Time”), 10/06
Paul Comi, 84, TV character actor (“Ripcord,” “Rawhide,” “Star Trek,” “Twilight Zone”), 08/26 (not publicized until October 2016)
Bobby J. Copeland, 81, B-Westerns movie historian/author; numismatist, 10/05
John Cosgrove, 98, Washington DC media expert; one-time president, National Press Club, 10/15
Paul Cowan, 77, British film producer (“The Crying Game” “The Krays,” “Dance with a Stranger”), 10/06
Sophia Cranshaw, 45, M-TV producer of social issue campaigns, 10/24
Phyllis Jeanne Creore (Westermann), 100, WWII-era radio singer "Canteen Girl": 1939 World's Fair "Miss Television,” 10/03
Kevin Curran, 59, TV screenwriter (“The Simpsons”); creator, David Letterman’s “Top Ten” lists, 10/25
Howard Davies, 71, British-born Tony-nominated stage director (“Private Lives,” “The Iceman Cometh”), 10/25
Gordon Davidson, 83, Broadway/LA/regional theatrical producer/director; screen director (“The Trial of the Catonsville Nine”), 10/02
Steve Dillon, 54, British-born comic-book artist (“Hulk UK”; “2000 AD”; “Judge Dredd”; “Preacher”;
“Hellblazer”)
Hazel Douglas, 92, British stage/TV/film actress (“Harry Potter” series), 09/08 (not publicized until October 2016)
Gary Dubin, 57, 1970s juvenile actor (“The Partridge Family,” as “Punky Lazaar”; Disney’s “The Aristocats”; “Diamonds Are Forever”; “Jaws 2”), 10/08
Robert “Big Sonny” Edwards, 74, soul singer, “The Intruders” (“Cowboys to Girls,” “I'll Always Love My Mama”), 10/15
Pierre Étaix, 87, French film slapstick comedy actor and film director, 10/14
Jim Faris, 97, film editor (Tex Avery cartoons; Warner Bros. TV; Aaron Spelling Productions), 10/14
Donn Fendler, 90, 12-year old Boy Scout lost for nine days on Mount Katahdin, Maine (1939), 10/10
Dario Fo, 90, Nobel-winning, politically charged Italian playwright, 10/13
Gloria Fong (aka Maylia), 90, 1940s Chinese-American film actress; widow of actor Benson Fong; restaurateur, 10/16
Thomas Ford, 52, TV sitcom actor (“Martin”), 10/12
James Galanos, 92, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland), 10/30
Trinity Gay, 15, daughter of US Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay – gun violence, 10/16
Silvio Gazzaniga, 95, Italian sculptor/designer, FIFA’s World Cup soccer trophy, 10/31
Joyce Gibson (aka Joyce Mandell), 66, 1970s well-endowed model/actress.10/13
Michael Gleason, 78, TV writer (“Peyton Place”; “Rich Man, Poor Man”; “Marcus Welby. M.D.”); co-creator, “Remington Steele,” 10/21
John “Jack” Good, 80, FBI agent; creator/overseer, ABSCAM sting operation, 09/28 (not publicized until October 2016)
Edward Gorman, 74, mystery writer (Sam McCain, Jack Dwyer, Dev Conrad series), 10/14
Ron Grant, 72, TV/film composer; technical Oscar winner for music software 10/28
Jack Greenberg, 91, last surviving civil rights attorney, “Brown v. Board of Education” (1954), 10/12
Tammy Grimes, 82, Broadway/screen/radio actress (“The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” “42nd Street,” “Can’t Stop the Music,” “The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”); mother of actress Amanda Plummer, 10/30
Edgar F. Gross, 85, show business attorney/manager; producer for John Boorman films, 10/16
Wisconsin State Senator Rick Gudex (R-Fond du Lac), 48, Wisconsin legislator – suicide by gunshot, 10/12
Mel Haber, 80, Palm Springs celebrity restaurateur (Frank Sinatra/Barbara Marx wedding, 1976), 10/25
Cecilia Hart (Jones), 68, stage/TV actress; wife of actor James Earl Jones, 10/16
Tom Hayden, 76, anti-war/civil rights political activist (Chicago 7); California state legislator (1976-2000); former husband of Jane Fonda; author, “The Port Huron Statement, “Rebellion in Newark,” 10/23
Alina Maria Hernández (aka Cachita), 46, Cuban-born transsexual Spanish-language TV actress, 10/08
Stan Hilton, 98, last surviving British veteran of Spanish Civil War, 10/21
Representative Clyde Holloway (R-Louisiana, 8th District), 72, US Congressman (1987-1993), 10/16
Bob Hoover, 94, WWII aerial ace; test pilot with Chuck Yeager’s sound barrier tests, 10/25
Valerie Hunter Gordon, 94, British inventor of the disposable diaper, 10/16
Annemarie Huste, 73, German-born personal chef to Jacqueline Kennedy discharged for leaking family secrets, 10/18
Joan Marie Johnson (Faust), 72, singer, "The Dixie Cups" ("Chapel of Love," "Iko Iko”), 10/05
Thom Jones, 71, essayist/short story writer (“The Pugilist at Rest”), 10/14
Austin Kalish, 95, sitcom writer with wife Irma Kalish (“Gilligan’s Island,” “F Troop”, “Maude,” “All in the Family”), 10/05
Marnix Kappers, 73, Dutch actor/cabaret singer; longtime companion to dancer John Kuipers – suicide, 10/10
Herb Kent, 88, long-time Chicago radio/TV personality (since 1944), 10/22
Vernon Kifer, 63, cameraman for all ten seasons of “Friends,” 10/16
Leutnant Hellmut von Leipzig, 95, WWII Wehrmacht officer; driver for Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, 10/24
Ian Liston, 68, British stage actor/producer; screen actor (“Dr. Who,” “The Empire Strikes Back”), 10/01 (Alton) Lee Lively, 89, Virginia-based screen actor (“Matlock,” “Prince of Tides”), 10/12
Gavin MacFadyen, 76, journalist; founder, Center for Investigative Journalism; WikiLeaks player, 10/22
Sir Neville Marriner, 92, British conductor; educator; oversaw Mozart selections for film "Amadeus,” 10/02
Don Marshall, 80, TV actor (“Land of the Giants”; “Julia”; “Star Trek” episode “Galileo 7”), 10/30
Michael Massee, 61, actor in “The Crow” (1994) who accidentally shot/killed Brandon Lee, 10/20
Kevin Meaney, 60, stand-up comedian/comic actor (TV’s “Uncle Buck”), 10/21
Ted V. Mikels, 87, cult B-horror movie filmmaker (“The Astro-Zombies”), 10/16
Fergus Miller (aka “Bored Nothing”), 26, Australian musician – depression derived suicide, 10/09
Kathleen Miller, 71, film actress for director Hal Ashby (“The Last Detail,” “Shampoo,” “Coming Home”), 10/07
Richard Mola, 89, Mayor of East Paterson/Elmwood Park NJ (since 1972); longest tenured sitting mayor in New Jersey, 10/21
Robert L. “Bob” Mott, 92, TV/radio sound effects artist and comedy writer, 09/28 (not publicized until October 2016)
Lieutenant-Colonel. Norman Murphy, 83, founder of British branch of the P. G. Wodehouse Society, 10/18
Janet Patterson, 74/75, Australian-born Academy Award-nominated costume designer (“The Piano”), 10/21
Jimmy Perry, 93, British TV comedy writer; co-creator, “Dad's Army,” “Hi-de-Hi!,” 10/23
Claude “Curly” Putman, 85, songwriter (“Green, Green Grass of Home”; “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”; “He Stopped Loving Her Today”); inspiration for Paul McCartney’s “Junior’s Farm,” 10/30
Gary Reed, 60, comic book writer; publisher/founder, Caliber Comics, 10/02
Oran Sandel, 64, regional stage director, DC's Living Stage Theatre Company, 10/19
William "Sonny" Sanders, 77, Motown songwriter (“Higher & Higher”); singer, early Motown group “The Satintones,” 10/12
Simone Schaller, 104, 1932, 1936 Olympic hurdler believed to be world's oldest Olympian, 10/20
Gunther Schiff, 89, Hollywood attorney (producers’ side in SAG-AFTRA negotiations), 10/14
Hazel Shermet, 96, radio/TV/screen actress (“Duffy's Tavern,” “The New Zoo Revue,” “A Star Is Born”), 10/27
Norman Sherry, 91, British literary biographer (Graham Greene, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, Brontë sisters), 10/19
Morton Silverstein, 86, Emmy-winning documentarian (“Heritage: History and the Jews”), 10/08
Jeffrey Slonim, 56, entertainment/red carpet journalist -- suicide by jumping from a rooftop terrace at NYC’s Lincoln Center, 10/16
Colin Snedeker, 80, British-born chemist/innovator for Crayola/Binney and Smith (washable crayons), 10/22
Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer, 87, stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales; daughter of romance novelist Barbara Cartland, 10/21
Fred Stampa, 91, Neapolitan-born Italian language Talking Books narrator, 10/01
Louis Stettner, 93, photographer noted for decades-duration photos of NYC and Paris landmarks, 10/13
Joseph Suozzi, 95, Long Island jurist; father of Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, 10/16
Wolfgang Suschitzky, 104, Viennese-born London street photographer: cinematographer (“Get Carter”), 10/07
Junko Tabei, 77, Japanese mountaineer; first woman to climb Mount Everest (1975) and "Seven Summits” (completed, 1992), 10/20
Takahito, Prince Mikasa, 100, Japanese royal; brother of Emperor Hirohito, 10/27
Kazunari Tanaka, 49, Japanese anime voice-over artist (“Sailor Moon”), 10/10
Pierre Tchernia, 88, French screenwriter and narrator, "Asterix" film series, 10/08
Sheri S. Tepper (aka E.E. Horlak, A.J. Orde, B.J. Oliphant) 87, science-fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery novelist, 10/22
Hilmar Thate, 85, German film actor (Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Veronika Voss”), 09/14 (not publicized until October 2016)
Lowell Thomas Jr., 92, son of radio newscaster Lowell Thomas; Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1974-1978), 10/02
Kenneth Thompson, 50, sitting District Attorney, Kings County (Brooklyn) NY, 10/09
Trinh Thi Ngo (aka “Hanoi Hannah”), 87, Vietnam War-era anti-US radio propagandist for Radio Hanoi, 10/02
Tonio Valerii, 82, Italian Spaghetti Western director (“My Name Is Nobody”), 10/13
Bobby Vee, 73, 1960s pop singer (“Take Good Care of My Baby,” “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes”), 10/23
John Vulich, 55, American makeup artist, special effects technician (“Buffy, the Vampire Slayer”; “The X-Files”; “Babylon 5”), 10/12
Andrzej Wajda, 90, Academy Award-winning Polish film director/auteur. 10/09
Lyn Wilde, 93, 1940s film actress (with sister Lee Wilde as “The Wilde Twins”), 09/11 (not publicized until October 2016)
Bill Warren, 73, science fiction/horror movie historian; writer (“Famous Monsters,” “Eerie,” “Creepy” magazines), 10/07
Robert Weber, 92, cartoonist for “The New Yorker” (1962-2007), 10/20
Ann-Mari Wiman, 95, Swedish film actress (Ingmar Bergman’s “Wild Strawberries”), 09/22 (not publicized until October 2016)
Brock Yates, 82, 1970s editor, “Car and Driver” magazine; screenwriter, “The Cannonball Run”; CBS sportscaster, 10/05
Hugo Zacchini, 88, German-born human cannonball circus performer, 10/30
John Zacherle (The Cool Ghoul), 98, NYC TV horror host, rock DJ; recording artist, "Dinner with Drac,” 10/27
Vladimir Zeldin, 101, Russian reportedly the world's oldest active stage actor, 10/31

[Anglo Saxon]

That Derek wrote:
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Derek, these compilations are great. I appreciate them enormously and have
spent many a happy hour reading up on certains lives, singing a song in my
head that one wrote, seeing in my mind's eye the brilliant stream of
creative humanity and the impact on the world, and on lives lives
anonymously. These lists are gifts of immortality. As long as there is an
atmosphere, the 1's and 0's are out there.
Anglo Saxon

[That Derek]

>> Derek, these compilations are great. I appreciate them enormously and have

spent many a happy hour reading up ...

Thank you for your kind words, fellow Anglo-Saxon. If/when I do a 2016 year-end round-up, some of the non-showbizzy entries from the earlier monthly compendia
will be absent as I'll be given to the dynamic evident in every televised awards "In Memoriam" reel that you "can't include everybody."

[Anglo Saxon]

:-)