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David Lloyd, 75; won Emmy, kept sitcom viewers chuckling

LOS ANGELES - David Lloyd, an Emmy Award-winning television comedy writer who wrote the classic “Chuckles Bites the Dust’’ episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’’ has died. He was 75. Mr. Lloyd died of prostate cancer Tuesday at his home in Beverly ...

From DENNIS MCLELLAN, Boston Globe,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Lloyd,  Jack Paar,  James L. Brooks,  Ed Asner

Carl Ballantine; 'McHale's Navy' actor was a leading comic magician; at 92

LOS ANGELES - Carl Ballantine, the comedy magician and character actor who was part of the World War II PT boat crew on the 1960s situation comedy “McHale’s Navy,’’ died Nov. 3 at his home in the Hollywood Hills. He was 92. Mr. Ballantine died in his ...

From DENNIS MCLELLAN, Boston Globe,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Carl Ballantine,  Los Angeles Times,  Ernest Borgnine,  Tim Conway,  Steve Martin

William Basch; was featured in Oscar-winning Holocaust documentary; at 82

LOS ANGELES - William Basch, a retired Los Angeles garment industry executive who was one of the Holocaust survivors whose stories were told in the Oscar-winning documentary “The Last Days,’’ has died. He was 82. Mr. Basch died of age-related causes ...

From DENNIS MCLELLAN, Boston Globe,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Steven Spielberg,  Raoul Wallenberg,  John Godfrey

William Basch - Holocaust survivor - dies

William "Bill" Basch, a retired Los Angeles garment industry executive who was one of the Holocaust survivors whose stories were told in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Last Days," has died. He was 82. Mr. Basch died of age-related causes Monday at ...

From DENNIS MCLELLAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Steven Spielberg,  Raoul Wallenberg

V. Mizzy; composed TV's famous 'buh-buh-buh-bump (snap snap)'

LOS ANGELES - Vic Mizzy, a film and television composer best known for writing the memorable theme songs for the 1960s sit-coms “Green Acres’’ and “The Addams Family,’’ died of heart failure Oct. 17 at his home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles. He ...

From DENNIS MCLELLAN, Boston Globe,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Shirley Temple,  Richard Boone,  Charles Addams,  John Astin,  Carolyn Jones

Joseph Wiseman; actor played Bond foe 'Dr. No."

LOS ANGELES - Joseph Wiseman, a stage and screen actor who played the sinister title character in “Dr. No,’’ the 1962 film that introduced Sean Connery as James Bond, has died. He was 91. Mr. Wiseman, who had been in declining health the last few years, ...

From DENNIS MCLELLAN, Boston Globe,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Los Angeles Times,  Sean Connery,  James Bond,  Martha Graham,  Maximilian Schell

Cleo Trumbo, wife of blacklisted writer

LOS ANGELES - Cleo Trumbo - the widow of Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted for more than a decade as a member of the Hollywood Ten - died of age-related causes Oct. 9 at home in Los Altos, Calif. She was 93. “She wasn’t a ...

From DENNIS MCLELLAN, Boston Globe,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Ian Hunter

Mimi Weddell, 94; career as model, actress took off at 65

LOS ANGELES - With her perfect diction, cigarette holder, and flamboyant yet elegant sense of fashion - hats, scores of them in various styles, were her trademark - the charmingly eccentric Mimi Weddell stood out. A New York City model and actress ...

From DENNIS MCLELLAN, Boston Globe,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Louis Vuitton,  Nike,  New York Times Company

Maria Gulovich Liu; helped US, British agents in WWII

LOS ANGELES - Maria Gulovich Liu, who as a young schoolteacher in Slovakia during World War II joined the underground resistance as a courier and later helped a small group of American and British intelligence agents evade the German Army as they fled ...

From DENNIS MCLELLAN, Boston Globe,  3 Oct 2009

John Hart, 91, the ‘other’ Lone Ranger on TV series

LOS ANGELES - Most television fans of a certain age know the answer to this question: “Who played the Lone Ranger?’’ Those who say Clayton Moore are at least partially correct, but there was another actor who played the Masked Man on “The Lone Ranger’’ ...

From DENNIS MCLELLAN, Boston Globe,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Clayton Moore,  Cecil B. DeMille

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