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Cassel appeared in more than 200 movies and tv episodes. Among his films: Faces, Rockwell, Dick Tracy, Chasing 3000, In The Soup, Honeymoon In Vegas and The Royal Tenenbaums. He played a police lieutenant in 17 episodes of the 1994-95 crime series Under Suspicion.
Seymour Cassel, beloved actor in John Cassavetes' films, dies at 84
https://www.latimes.com/local/obitua...408-story.html
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Including four duets, Conley had 26 top-ten country hits. Eighteen went to number one. Among them: What I'd Say, Love Out Loud, Once In A Blue Moon, Angel In Disguise, Don't Make It Easy For Me, Fire & Smoke and Holding Her & Loving You.
Earl Thomas Conley dead at 77
https://tasteofcountry.com/earl-thomas-conley-dead/
Here is the video for his 1985 hit Love Don't Care Whose Heart It Breaks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsp5pHMRU4g
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UFO formed in 1968 and has released 54 albums and 11 singles. Among their best-known songs: Doctor Doctor, This Time, The Writer and Too Hot To Handle. Raymond also played with the Michael Schenker Group and Savoy Brown.
UFO keyboardist/guitarist Paul Raymond dies at 73
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/ufo...nd-dead-at-73/
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Andersson – her real first name was Berit – appeared in 59 movies, including 11 directed by Ingmar Bergman and two written by Bergman. She also appeared in two TV movies. Among her films: Duel At Diablo, Scenes From A Marriage, The Girls, The Passion Of Anna and I Never Promised You A Rose Garden.
Bibi Andersson, The Seventh Seal and Persona actress, dies at 83
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...-83/ar-BBVVZFG
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Harrison appeared in two movies – Key Witness and Sweet Smell Of Success – and a few television episodes including Bonanza, Playhouse 90, The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Susan Harrison, Sweet Smell Of Success actress, dies at 80
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...-80/ar-BBVYi6u
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Engel, a five-time Emmy nominee, co-starred in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Betty White Show, Goodtime Girls, Jennifer Slept Here and Hot In Cleveland and had recurring roles on Coach, Passions and Everybody Loves Raymond. She also acted in dozens of plays and musicals and voiced characters in seven animated films.
Mary Tyler Moore Show actress Georgia Engel dies at 70
https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...415-story.html
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Reed composed scores for several movies, wrote music for several stage musicals and co-wrote more than 60 hit songs including Delilah, It's Not Unusual, Everybody Knows, Kiss Me Goodbye, Here It Comes Again, The Last Waltz, There's A Kind Of Hush and Les Bicyclettes De Belsize.
Les Reed, songwriter for Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck, dies at 83
https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...ts-not-unusual
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Danny Rapp, lead singer of Danny & The Juniors, committed suicide in 1983. Dave White, writer of their hits At The Hop and Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay, died last month. Joe Terry died yesterday, leaving Frank Maffei as the last surviving original member.
Joe Terry, founding member of Danny & The Juniors, dies at 78
https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/media...uniors-dies-78
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Harris released four singles in the mid-1950s, including Clothes Line. Retitled Shoppin' For Clothes, the song became a hit for the Coasters in 1960. Bo Diddley, Hank Jacobs, Jimmy Norman and the Sevilles are among the many other artists who have recorded Harris' songs. Harris also co-wrote several songs for Eddie Murphy's 2007 movie Norbit.
Legendary songwriter Kent 'Boogaloo' Harris dies at 88
https://www.soultracks.com/story-kent-harris-dies
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Tigner formed his first band in 1947 and performed onstage regularly throughout his life, even after being diagnosed with the onset of Alzheimer's disease in 2012. He released two albums, one in 2003 and one in 2006.
Eddie Tigner dies at 92
The pianist and vocalist shared stages with Elmore James and the Ink Spots and was a luminary in Atlanta's blues music scene.
https://creativeloafing.com/content-...gner-1926-2019
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Golin produced nine television series including Mr. Robot, Berlin Station, The L Word and True Detective and more than 60 movies including The Revenant, Being John Malkovich, 50 First Dates and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
Steve Golin, Oscar-winning producer of Spotlight, dies at 64
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-64-1153813
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Spyro Gyra, named for the spirogyra genus of green algae, formed in 1974. They've released 28 studio albums and two live albums. Samuels began recording with the group in 1979 and became a full-time member in 1986.
Former Spyro Gyra vibraphonist Dave Samuels dies at 70
https://rollingstoneindia.com/former...muels-dead-70/
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Medoff wrote 22 plays including Prymate, Firekeeper, The Majestic Kid and When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? He co-wrote three other plays and wrote 12 movie screenplays. He was also a theatre actor, director and drama teacher.
Mark Medoff, Tony-winning playwright of Children Of A Lesser God, dies at 79
https://www.broadway.com/buzz/195595...od-dies-at-79/
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Kercheval appeared on Broadway in Cabaret, Fiddler On The Roof and Something About A Soldier and appeared in 70 movies and tv series including Network and The Seven-Ups. He co-starred on The Search For Tomorrow for eight years and on Dallas for its entire 13-year run: "When I'm through with Ewing Oil, they're gonna be wiped out. Flat broke. J.R. tried to stop me but he can't. He's gonna be flat broke."
Ken Kercheval, who played J.R. Ewing's rival Cliff Barnes on Dallas, dies at 83
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...83/3565508002/
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Jenkins produced and/or directed seven movies and co-starred in eight episodes of Bay City Blues and 16 episodes of The White Shadow. And, oh yeah, he and his co-worker went joyriding in a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off actor Larry 'Flash' Jenkins dead at 63
https://theblast.com/ferris-buellers...-jenkins-dead/
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Molly Hatchet is best known for their 1979 hit Flirtin' With Disaster. McCormack was lead singer for a short time in 1992 and from 1995 until yesterday, when he died of a heart attack. Molly Hatchet released seven studio albums and four live albums during that time.
Molly Hatchet frontman Phil McCormack dies at 58
http://search.blabbermouth.net/news/...ccormack-dies/
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Ferguson appeared in several movies and tv shows but was best known for his role as "dirty cop" Officer Coffey: "You think you tough? Scared now, ain't you? I like that. That's why I took this job. I could blow your head off with this Smith & Wesson."
Boyz N The Hood actor Jessie Lawrence Ferguson found dead in his home at age 77
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...me-age-77.html
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De Mello recorded more than 150 albums, many of which featured traditional Hawaiian songs. He also composed and orchestrated music for Top Cat, Magilla Gorilla, The Flintstones, The Jetsons and other Hanna-Barbera cartoon series.
Composer, arranger, producer Jack de Mello dies at 102
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/...o-dies-at-102/
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Elizabeth Josephine "Jo" Sullivan was married to composer/lyricist Frank Loesser from 1959 until his death in 1969. As manager of his estate, she continued to guide productions of his musicals including Guys & Dolls, Where's Charley and The Most Happy Fella.
Jo Sullivan Loesser, Tony-nominated star of The Most Happy Fella, dies at 91
http://www.playbill.com/article/jo-s...tar-dies-at-91
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Three days ago, Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, who played "dirty cop" Officer Coffey in Boyz N The Hood, died at age 77. Today, the movie's director is dead.
Boyz N The Hood director John Singleton dies at 51
https://www.tmz.com/2019/04/29/boyz-...e-stroke-dies/