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STAR WARS Oscar Winner Grant McCune, 67

December 31, 2010 Rich Drees

Grant McCune, the visual effects artist who won an Academy Award for his model work for 1977’s Star Wars, died Monday, December 27th of pancreatic cancer at his home in Hidden Hills, CA. McCune was [click for more]

Blake Edwards, 88

December 16, 2010 Rich Drees

Blake Edwards, the director whose collaboration with British comic actor Peter Sellers created the iconic comedy series of Pink Panther movies has died yesterday evening, December 15, 2010 from complications of pneumonia at the Saint [click for more]

Irvin Kerschner, 87

November 29, 2010 Rich Drees

Irvin Kershner, the action film director who helmed what is considered the best of the Star Wars films, The Empire Strikes Back, has died in Los Angeles, CA. He was 87. George Lucas picked Kerschner [click for more]

Leslie Nielsen, 84

November 29, 2010 Rich Drees

Leslie Nielsen, the actor who took an unexpected mid-career turn from dramatic roles into comedy with the hit film Airplane!, died yesterday in hospital near his home in Ft. LAuderdale, FL from complications of pneumonia. [click for more]

Ingrid Pitt, 73

November 24, 2010 Rich Drees

Ingrid Pitt, the buxom star of many horror films from British cinema’s golden era of the genre, has died yesterday, November 23, 2010, in London, England. She was 73. Although she started her career in [click for more]

Producer Dino De Laurentiis, 91

November 11, 2010 Rich Drees

Dino De Laurentiis, the flamboyant Italian producer with over – films to his credit, died yesterday at his home in Beverly Hills, CA. His filmography was a widely diverse one, with movies such as Federico [click for more]

Director George Hickenlooper Has Died

October 30, 2010 Rich Drees

Director George Hickenlooper, whose latest film Casino Jack is due for release next month, died this morning, October 30, 2010, in Denver Colorado. Hickenlooper was in town preparing for a screening of Casino Jack later [click for more]

Johnny Sheffield, TARZAN’s ‘Boy,’ 79

October 19, 2010 Rich Drees

Johnny Sheffield, who played jungle lord Tarzan’s appropriately named son Boy opposite Johnny Weissmuller in 8 of MGM Studio’s popular series of 1930s and ’40s films, died this past Friday, October 15, 2010 of a [click for more]

Arthur Penn, 88

September 30, 2010 Rich Drees

Arthur Penn, director of the ground breaking Bonnie And Clyde, died in his Manhattan home on Tuesday, September 28, 2010. He was 88. Drawing on the influence of the French New Wave, whose films he [click for more]

Tony Curtis, 85

September 30, 2010 Bill Gatevackes

Actor Tony Curtis has died of cardiac arrest early Wednesday morning in his Las Vegas home. He was 85. Curtis, born Bernard Schwartz in the Bronx, New York, was a rare mix of mantinee idol [click for more]