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If you ever saw someone crashing a car, truck or motorcycle in a movie or television show, chances are you were watching stuntman Bill Anagnos. He performed in hundreds of movies, tv shows and commercials. He also had roles in The Warriors, Can't Stop The Music, Beat Street and Malcolm X and was John Travolta's double in Saturday Night Fever.
Stuntman/actor Bill Anagnos dies at 60
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/da...7160&fhid=5763
Yesterday, Germs bassist Lorna Doom died. Her bandmates included Darby Crash and Pat Smear. Today, Red Aunts bassist Debi Martini died. She called herself E.Z. Wider and, later, Debbi Dip. Her bandmates were Angel, Cougar and Sapphire. There must be a law that forbids punk-rock singers from using their real names. The Red Aunts formed in 1991 in Long Beach. They released five albums and six singles before breaking up in 1998.
Red Aunts bassist Debi Martini has died
https://pitchfork.com/news/red-aunts...tini-has-died/
Young was a member of rockabilly band The Stompers, 1954-58. They toured with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison. Young then became an original member of Bill Black's Combo, which had several instrumental hits and was the opening act for the Beatles' US concerts in 1964. As a session musician, Young played guitar on 150 top-40 pop and country hits including Suspicious Minds, Kentucky Rain, Pancho & Lefty, I Can Help, In The Ghetto, Highwayman, Sweet Caroline, Son Of A Preacher Man, The Letter, Down In The Boondocks and Always On My Mind and he played sitar on Cry Like A Baby and Hooked On A Feeling.
Reggie Young, studio guitarist on dozens of classic hits, dies at 82
http://tasteofcountry.com/reggie-young-dead/
McKenna, born in Lennoxtown, Scotland, also played with Ian Gillan, Greg Lake, Dream Police and Womack & Womack and in the late 1980s led his own band, McKenna's Gold. He played on all seven albums by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
Ted McKenna, drummer with Rory Gallagher, Michael Schenker, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, dies at 68
https://www.loudersound.com/news/ted...ker-dead-at-68
Striepeke was a makeup artist on more than 100 movies and tv series, including 16 Tom Hanks films. He created the facial makeup of the apes in Planet Of The Apes and co-created the peel-off face masks used in episodes of Mission: Impossible.
Dan Striepeke, Oscar-nominated makeup artist on Spartacus, Patton, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, dies at 88
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-88-1177554
An August 2018 Variety article went into detail about Striepeke's unique methods of what we might call "face remodeling":
Veteran makeup artist Dan Striepeke has special bond with Tom Hanks
https://variety.com/2018/artisans/pr...ks-1202919496/
Andras "Andy" Vajna, born in Budapest, studied filmmaking at UCLA and went on to produce 59 movies. He owned a radio station, several tv stations and a film production company in Hungary and headed the Hungarian National Film Fund which supported local filmmakers. Among the movies Vajna produced: Nixon, Evita, Red Heat, I Spy and Die Hard With A Vengeance.
Andy Vajna, producer of Rambo, Total Recall, Terminator 3, dies at 74
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/en...224832725.html
The Browns -- Jim Ed, Maxine and Bonnie -- had a number-one pop and country hit in 1959 with The Three Bells. Among their other hits: Scarlet Ribbons, Money, Would You Care, The Old Lamplighter and Beyond The Shadow. The trio broke up in 1967, two years after Jim Ed began recording solo. He went on to have 34 top-40 country hits including Pop A Top and six duets with Helen Cornelius.
Country Music Hall of Famer Maxine Brown Russell of the Browns dies at 87
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ent...io/2640329002/
Ballard performed with Spike Jones in the 1940s; performed on Broadway in the '50s; was a regular on The Perry Como Show and co-starred with Eve Arden on The Mothers-In-Law in the '60s; appeared in Disney's Freaky Friday and was a regular on The Doris Day Show in the '70s; and continued to act on stage, on television and in movies in the '80s and '90s. Whew! And in 1954, she was the first person to record Bart Howard's In Other Words (Decca 29114). The song, retitled Fly Me To The Moon, has since been recorded by more than 300 artists including Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Nat "King" Cole and Diana Krall.
Kaye Ballard, star of The Mothers-In-Law, dies at 93
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ka...-93/ar-BBSBnP4
Barnett was a comedy writer for Broad City and The Cleveland Show and was co-creator and executive producer of Rel Howery's tv series Rel. He also was a featured comedian on HBO's Funny As Hell series.
Kevin Barnett, comedian and co-creator of Fox's comedy series Rel, dies at 32
https://deadline.com/2019/01/kevin-b...an-1202539506/
Birdsong sang in the Los Angeles Community Choir before attending Manhattan School Of Music and Juilliard. He released five albums and many hip-hop artists have incorporated samples of his music into their recordings. He also worked as a session musician and co-produced a few albums for Roy Ayers and Stevie Wonder. Here is Birdsong's best known song, Cola Bottle Baby:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3AKrwna2C8
Jazz/funk/disco keyboardist Edwin Birdsong dies at 77
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...ituary-782778/
Soon after the Lithuanian-born Mekas came to the US in 1949, he borrowed money to buy a Bolex 16-millimeter movie camera and thus began a 63-year career as an avant-garde filmmaker. He made more than 400 films ranging in length from a few minutes to nearly five hours. They have been shown worldwide at film festivals and museums. In 1954, he and his brother launched Film Culture magazine, which published 79 issues before going out of business in 1996. Mekas was also a poet, artist and teacher and collaborated with Allen Ginsberg, Salvador Dali, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol.
Jonas Mekas, 'godfather' of American avant-garde film, dies at 96
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...-96/ar-BBSDXzd
Goldsmith was a regular on the 1980 tv series Goodtime Girls, appeared in five episodes of the 1983 mini-series Kennedy and played a judge on 12 episodes of Law & Order, 1991-2005. He also appeared in several movies including Rounders, Quiz Show, The Hurricane and It Could Happen To You.
Stage, film and TV actor Merwin Goldsmith dies at 81
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...81/2661559002/
Frawley won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1967 for directing the first episode of The Monkees. He directed many episodes of That Girl, Columbo, Chicago Hope, Law & Order, Judging Amy, Grey's Anatomy and other series and he acted in several movies and tv shows, including four episodes of The Monkees. His father, William Frawley, played Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy.
James Frawley, director of The Monkees and The Muppet Movie, dies at 82
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-82-1178797
In 1993, Baker succeeded Alistair Cooke as host of the PBS drama series Masterpiece Theatre and remained until 2004. (It was retitled Masterpiece in 2008.) In a 1994 speech, Baker said he didn't ask to be called a humorist but the New York Times was filled with "High-Church, polysyllabic writing" and "if you wrote short sentences and plain English in the Times, everybody naturally assumed you were being funny."
Russell Baker, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and humorist, dies at 93
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/b...-pulitzer.html
Corbitt recorded two albums with Dallas thrash metal band Rigor Mortis and four with Warbeast. Among his best-known songs -- best-known to thrash metal fans, at least -- are Destroy, Die In Pain, Wizard Of Gore, Krush The Enemy, Condemned To Hell and Bodily Dismemberment. Yeah, his parents must have been really proud of him.
Rigor Mortis/Warbeast vocalist Bruce Corbitt dies at 56
http://loudwire.com/bruce-corbitt-death/
Legrand composed songs and scores for more than 200 movies, musicals and television programs. He won three Oscars and five Emmys. Among his best-known compositions: Yentl, Brian's Song, The Summer Knows, Watch What Happens, I Will Wait For You, The Windmills Of Your Mind and What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life. As a pianist and band leader, Legrand recorded more than 100 albums. He conducted the orchestra on hundreds of recordings by dozens of artists including Perry Como, Johnny Mathis, Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Sarah Vaughan, Jack Jones, Frankie Laine, Andy Williams, Neil Diamond, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Lena Horne and Ella Fitzgerald. Whew!
Oscar-winning French composer Michel Legrand dies at 86
https://www.france24.com/en/20190126...legrand-dies-8
Bell worked at ABC from 1967 to 1986, including 11 years as a news anchor on Good Morning America. On June 5, 1968, he was covering a televised, early-morning campaign event at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Senator and Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, who had won the previous day's California primary, had just finished speaking and was shot by a 24-year-old gunman. Kennedy died the next day. Bell also worked at USA Network and tv stations in Omaha, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia.
Steve Bell, former ABC News anchor and Ball State professor, dies at 83
https://www.10news.com/news/local-ne...sor-dies-at-83
Smith was known as "the choreographer to the stars" and, for his contributions to Broadway, "the king of New York." He starred in eight musicals including Something More and West Side Story, worked as a dancer on several television variety series in the 1960s-70s and staged the choreography for dozens of movies, tv shows and pop music concerts. He and his wife founded JoJo's Dance Factory, now known as Broadway Dance Center, in New York City.
JoJo Smith, dance consultant for Saturday Night Fever, dies at 80
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-80-1180307
Ingram won Grammy awards for One Hundred Ways (with Quincy Jones) and Yah Mo B There (with Michael McDonald). Among his other hits: Baby Come To Me (with Patti Austin), Somewhere Out There (with Linda Ronstadt), Always, It's Real, Just Once, Party Animal, I Don't Have The Heart and There's No Easy Way.
James Ingram, Grammy-winning R&B singer, dies at 66
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-66-1180817
Luisa Castro Netto was born in Havana, Cuba, and took her stage name from the Hotel St. Moritz in New York City. She starred opposite Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and appeared in dozens of movies and tv shows including Cannonball, Up In Smoke, Death Race 2000, M*A*S*H, Happy Days, The Rockford Files and Love American Style.
Louisa Moritz, actress and Bill Cosby accuser, dead at 72
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...ser-dies-at-72