Eleanor Mondale
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Born on January 19, 1960 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Eleanor Mondale was an American radio personality television host, and actress. Mondale dropped out of college in 1981 to move to Hollywood. She worked briefly as an extra and had one speaking line in the TV series 240-Robert. She then returned to college, graduating in 1982. By January 1983, Mondale was back in Hollywood, where she had small roles on TV shows such as Three’s Company, Dynasty, and Matt Houston. Mondale was a regular guest on Howard Stern’s E! TV show during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Mondale died of brain cancer at her home in Minnesota on September 17, 2011, aged 51.
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Born on August 1, 1931 in Grant Town, West Virginia.
Tom Wilson was an American cartoonist. Wilson was the creator of the comic strip Ziggy, and drew it from 1971 to 1987. Afterwards, the strip was continued by his son Tom Wilson, Jr. The Ziggy comic panel, syndicated by Universal Uclick (formerly Universal Press Syndicate), launched in 15 newspapers in June 1971. It now appears in more than 500 daily and Sunday newspapers, and has been featured in best-selling books, calendars and greeting cards.
Wilson died in his sleep on September 16, 2011 of pneumonia at a Cincinnati hospital. He was 80.
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Born on January 23, 1919 in Mannville, Alberta, Canada.
Frances Bay was a U.S.-based Canadian character actress, best-known for playing quirky, elderly women on film and television. She began her acting career in her mid-50s. Bay did not appear in films until she got a small part in Foul Play, a 1978 comedy starring Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. A year earlier, she appeared as Mrs. Hamilton in the Christmas television special Christmastime with Mister Rogers. She went on to play small roles in films like The Karate Kid, Big Top Pee-wee and Twins. Her first major television appearance occurred playing the grandmother to the character of Arthur Fonzarelli (aka “The Fonz”) on Happy Days.
Bay died in Tarzana, California on September 15, 2011, of complications from pneumonia, aged 92.
Comments OffJohn Calley
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Born on July 8, 1930 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
John Calley was an American film studio executive and producer. He was quite influential during his years at Warner Bros. (where he worked from 1968 to 1981) and “produced a film a month, on average, including commercial successes like The Exorcist and Superman.” During his seven years at Sony Pictures Entertainment starting in 1996, five of which he was chairman and chief executive, he was credited with “reinvigorat[ing]” that major film studio.
Calley died on September 13, 2011 (aged 81) in Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Comments OffAndy Whitfield
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Born on July 17, 1972 in Amlwch, Wales.
Andy Whitfield was a Welsh actor and model. He was best known for his leading role in the Starz television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Whitfield gained his first prominent role in the Australian supernatural film Gabriel. He also starred in the 2010 television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, which is filmed in New Zealand. He played the part of Spartacus, a soldier condemned to fight as a gladiator and who ultimately leads a rebellion against the Romans (the Third Servile War). Whitfield also appears in the upcoming Australian thriller The Clinic starring opposite Tabrett Bethell (of Legend of the Seeker fame) which was shot in Deniliquin. In August 2010, Whitfield teamed up with Freddie Wong and created a 2 minute long YouTube video named “Time Crisis”, based on the game Time Crisis. Whitfield made a brief, uncredited voice-only appearance in the prequel mini-series Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, which premiered on 21 January 2011.
Whitfield died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma on 11 September 2011. He was 39.
Comments OffCliff Robertson
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Born on September 9, 1923 in La Jolla, California.
Cliff Robertson was an American actor with a film and television career that spanned half of a century. Robertson won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the movie Charly. His last film role was Uncle Ben in the Spider-Man film trilogy.
Robertson died on September 10, 2011 from natural causes in New York one day after his 88th birthday.
Comments OffMary Fickett
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Born on May 23, 1928 in Bronxville, New York.
Mary Fickett was an American actress, best-known for her roles in the American television dramas, The Edge of Night — as Sally Smith (1961), and as Dr. Katherine Lovell (1967-68) — and as Ruth Parker Brent on All My Children (1970-1996; 1999-2000).
Fickett died September 8, 2011, aged 83.
Comments OffCharles S. Dubin
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Born on February, 1, 1919 in Brooklyn, New York.
Charles S. Dubin was an American film and television director. From the early 1950s to 1991, Dubin worked in television, directing episodes of Tales of Tomorrow, Omnibus, The Defenders, The Big Valley, The Virginian, Hawaii Five-O, M*A*S*H, Matlock, The Rockford Files, Murder, She Wrote and among other notable series.
Dubin died on September 5, 2011, of natural causes, he was 92 years old.
Comments OffJag Mundhra
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Born on October 29, 1948.
Jag Mundhra was an Indian filmmaker best known for his early career as an American exploitation film writer-director and his later career as maker of such issue-oriented films as Bawandar and Provoked. Mundhra directed in the late 1980s and the 1990s, a string of horror and erotic thriller movies for theatrical distribution and direct to video, including The Jigsaw Murders (1988), Halloween Night (1988), Night Eyes (1990), L.A. Goddess (1993), Sexual Malice (1994) and Tales of the Kama Sutra 2: Monsoon (1998).
Mundhra died on September 4, 2011, aged 62, from undisclosed causes.
Comments OffPeggy Lloyd
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Born on August 14, 1913.
Peggy Lloyd was an American stage actress and television director known for her work in the Broadway Theater. She met her future husband, actor Norman Lloyd, while they were co-starring in the play Crime, which was directed by Elia Kazan. The couple married on June 29, 1936, and remained together for seventy-five years. They became known for their joint appearances in the Federal Theatre Project, which was run by the Works Progress Administration, early in their marriage during the 1930s. In 1937, Lloyd starred in the Broadway production of Having Wonderful Time with John Garfield. She also appeared in a Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Katharine Cornell. Lloyd then joined Orson Welles theater company, Mercury Theatre. Lloyd became a close associate of director Alfred Hitchcock and directed many of Hitchock’s television specials and series episodes.
Peggy Lloyd died on August 30, 2011, at the age of 98.
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