Tag: 1940s

RIP, Ida Pollock

Author Ida Pollock has died. Writing under multiple noms de plume, Pollock published 120 books and was a founder of the Romantic Novelists Association. The Mary-Sue has an obituary. NPR talks with her daughter, Rosemary Pollock. The Telegraph has an overview of her career.

RIP, Marcia Wallace

Actress Marcia Wallace has died. Marcia Wallace is probably best known for voicing Edna Krabappel in The Simpsons,  playing receptionist Carol Kester on The Bob Newhart Show, as Maggie Hawley in  That’s My Bush! and as Annie Wilkes on The Young And The Restless. Entertainment Weekly,  The New […]

RIP, Hal Needham

Director, stunt coordinator  and stuntman Hal Needham has died. Needham directed Smokey and the Bandit and The Cannonball Run, but he also performed and coordinated stunts in The French Connection II, Three The Hard Way, Chinatown, Our Man Flint, The War Wagon and Blazing Saddles. and in television […]

RIP, Lou Scheimer

Producer Lou Scheimer has died. Lou Scheimer, Hal Sutherland and Norm Prescott founded Filmation in 1962 and produced cartoons including, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Star Trek, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, The Archie Show, Sabrina […]