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Post by jimsteel on Oct 19, 2021 18:56:55 GMT -5
'Millionaire Matchmaker' Contestant Trevor Jones Dead at 34
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 19, 2021 22:28:38 GMT -5
Chris Ayres, Voice Actor For Dragon Ball’s Frieza, Passes Away After Years-Long Battle With COPD Anime voice actor Chris Ayres, perhaps best known for his decade-long stint as the second Funimation-cast voice of Frieza, has passed away at age 56 due to complications resulting from his years-long battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 20, 2021 17:01:08 GMT -5
Leslie Bricusse, ‘Willy Wonka,’ ‘Goldfinger’ Songwriter, Dead at 90 Writer, composer and lyricist’s work earned Oscar and Grammy accolades over seven-decade career
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 21, 2021 16:49:33 GMT -5
Ralph Carmichael, Composer for ‘The Blob,’ ‘My Mother the Car,’ Dies at 94
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Post by throwingtoasters on Oct 22, 2021 11:56:42 GMT -5
Peter Scolari Dies: Emmy-Winning ‘Bosom Buddies’, ‘Newhart’, ‘Girls’ Actor Was 66 Peter Scolari, the prolific television and stage actor who found instant fame and a lifelong friendship with Tom Hanks when the two co-starred in the hit 1980 TV comedy Bosom Buddies, died early this morning following a two-year battle with cancer. He was 66. His death was announced by Ellen Lubin Sanitsky at Wright Entertainment. Scolari’s 43-year show business career included such highlights as his Emmy-nominated series regular role of producer Michael Harris on Bob Newhart’s 1984-90 comedy Newhart, an Emmy-winning recurring role as the father of Lena Dunham’s character on HBO’s Girls, and, most recently, his role as Bishop Thomas Marx on the CBS supernatural drama Evil. A partial roster of other TV credits include Fosse/Verdon, Madoff, The Good Fight, Murphy Brown, The West Wing, ER, Gotham, Law & Order: SVU, Ally McBeal, From The Earth To The Moon and Honey I Shrunk The Kids: The TV Show, to name a relative few. Film credits include The Polar Express and a cameo appearance as a TV host in the 1996 comedy-drama That Thing You Do!, directed by and starring his old friend and co-star Hanks. Scolari also had a busy career on the stage, appearing on Broadway six times beginning in 2003 with Hairspray, Wicked in 2016, Sly Fox (2004), Magic/Bird (2012) and, with wife Tracy Shayne, Bronx Bombers (2014). In yet another re-teaming with Hanks, the two shared the stage of Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre in 2013’s Lucky Guy, the biographical drama about newspaper journalist Mike McAlary written by Nora Ephron. His final New York stage appearance was in the acclaimed 2018 Off Broadway production of Sharr White’s political drama The True, also starring Edie Falco, Michael McKean, John Pankow, and wife Shayne. Though he had appeared on television before Bosom Buddies – 1979’s Angie, 1980’s Goodtime Girls, both short-lived – it was his pairing with Hanks that brought instant recognition and launched both men’s careers. Like the classic film comedy Some Like It Hot, Bosom Buddies followed the misadventures of two desperate men who disguise themselves as women, in Buddies‘ case so they can live in the very affordable, but female-only, Susan B. Anthony Hotel. The premise, even at the time, might have been a bit creaky, but the chemistry and joyful camaraderie between the two stars was noticed immediately by viewers, and set the two actors on course for decades in film, TV and the Broadway stage.
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Post by TTX on Oct 22, 2021 12:29:52 GMT -5
Always enjoyed Peter even when I wasn't really familiar with him.
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Post by WTIC on Oct 22, 2021 15:41:14 GMT -5
R.I.P., Peter Scolari!
Bosom Buddies is still an all-time favorite show of mine! He and Tom Hanks had such great comedic chemistry!
Todd C WTIC
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Post by on_the_edge on Oct 22, 2021 21:20:25 GMT -5
Man just heard on the news he passed away. His name was not one I remembered but his roles were. I guess that is better than the other way. Great roles in BB and in Newhart. Sad to hear of his passing.
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 24, 2021 0:30:56 GMT -5
Val Bisoglio, Actor in ‘Saturday Night Fever’ and ‘M*A*S*H’, Dies at 95 He began acting under the tutelage of Jeff Corey and appeared on the New York stage in productions such as “Kiss Mama,” “A View from the Bridge” and “Wait Until Dark,” as well as in New York City’s Shakespeare in the Park with Arthur Penn. Bisoglio also starred in an array of television shows from the 1960’s on. His best-known roles were as Sgt. Sal Pernelli, the cook on “M.A.S.H.,” and Danny Tovo in “Quincy, M.E.” His final television role was as Murf in “The Sopranos” in 2002. Bisoglio also garnered numerous film credits over his career. He played Frank, Sr., the father to John Travolta’s Tony Manero, in “Saturday Night Fever.” Bisoglio was also featured in 1979’s “The Frisco Kid” in the role of Chief Gray Cloud.
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Post by jimsteel on Oct 24, 2021 18:22:02 GMT -5
James Michael Tyler, best known as Gunther on ‘Friends,’ dies at 59
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