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Posted Jan 15th 2008 12:28PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries
A roundup of TV people from in front of the camera and behind the scenes who have passed away.
- John McPherson: He was an Emmy-winning cinematographer, having worked on such shows as Amazing Stories, Baywatch, St. Elsewhere, Voyagers, The Incredible Hulk, Kojak, and movies such as Jaws: The Revenge, batteries not included, and Fletch Lives. He was also a director, on such shows as Babylon 5, JAG, Nash Bridges, Beverly Hills, 90210, Sliders, Strange Luck, Alien Nation, and The Incredible Hulk. He died last month at age 65.
Continue reading TV Obits: McPherson, Costigan, Wearing
Posted May 28th 2007 8:01AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries
Aw, this is sad news: longtime Match Game panelist Charles Nelson Reilly has died at the age of 76.
Of course, he was known for a lot more than that. He won a Tony Award in 1962 for his work on Broadway in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Reilly was also an acclaimed director, directing such plays as The Belle of Amherst and The Gin Game. He also directed several episodes of the TV show Evening Shade. He was a regular on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and appeared on many other shows, including Hollywood Squares, Love Boat, Nanny and the Professor, Lidsville, Here's Lucy, Love, American Style, Amazing Stories, Family Matters, The Drew Carey Show, SpongeBob SquarePants, and The X-Files.
He died of pneumonia in Los Angeles on Friday.
Posted Apr 4th 2007 6:22PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries
A Christmas Story is right up there with A Charlie Brown Christmas, Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town, and Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer as a TV staple every holiday season. TNT even devotes an entire day to showing the movie over and over again.
Bob Clark, the director of the movie, was killed earlier this morning in a car crash on the Pacific Coast Highway in California. Also killed in the crash was his 22 year-old son. Their car was hit head-on by a man that police have arrested for drunk driving.
Continue reading A Christmas Story director killed in car crash
Posted Nov 8th 2006 6:41PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Industry, Celebrities
Paramount Pictures has announced an alliance with none other than Martin Scorsese to produce and direct films
and television. Paramount will be paying Mr.
Raging Bull $2 million a year for the next four years just to find and develop projects.
To date Scorsese's TV projects have been limited to documentaries about American cinema and Lady Liberty. He did an
Amazing Stories episode for Spielberg, but not much else. Scorsese at his best could bring some fine gangster action to a post-
Sopranos world. At his worst, we could get overblown, mediocre crap resting on its laurels.
Continue reading Scorsese to develop TV programming
Posted Jul 18th 2006 1:39PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Video
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