The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 - [Anthology]

by Edited By Stephen Jones

  Hugh Reilly, who played Timmy Martin’s father Paul in the TV series Lassie (1958-64), died after a long battle with emphysema on July 17th. He was 82.

  The same day saw the death from brain cancer of 64-year-old American character actor Joseph Maher, who played Warren Beatty’s butler in Heaven Can Wait.

  Hollywood leading man Robert (George) Young died on July 21st, aged 91. Although best known for his Emmy Award-winning TV shows Life With Father (1954-60) and Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969-76), he also appeared in The Black Camel (with Bela Lugosi), The House of Rothschild (with Boris Karloff), Tod Browning’sMiracles for Sale, The Canterville Ghost (1943) and The Enchanted Cottage. Young battled alcoholism and depression throughout his life, and attempted suicide in 1991. In later years he advertised Sanka decaffeinated coffee on American TV.

  British-born character actress Binnie Barnes (Gitelle Barnes), who went to Hollywood in the mid-1930s , died on July 27th, aged 95. Her films include Murder at Covent Garden, The Three Musketeers (1939) and The Time of Their Lives.

  Buffalo Bob Smith (Robert E. Smith), the host and voice of the eponymous puppet star of the first TV programme specifically for children, The Howdy Doody Show (1947-60), died of lung cancer on July 30th, aged 80.

  American TV actress Sylvia Field Truex, who portrayed Mrs. Wilson in the CBS series Dennis the Menace (1959-63), died on July 31st, aged 97.

  Hungarian-born actress Eva Bartok (Eva Sjöke) died in a London hospital from heart failure after a long illness on August 1st, aged 72. Formerly married to actor Curt Jurgens, she starred in The Crimson Pirate, Hammer’sSpaceways, The Gamma People and Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace.

  Twelve-time Emmy Award-winning children’s TV presenter and ventriloquist Shari Lewis, who created the squeaky-voiced sock puppet Lamb Chop for the Captain Kangaroo show in 1957, died of uterine cancer and pneumonia on August 2nd, aged 65. A winner of a Peabody and the John F. Kennedy Center Award for Excellence and Creativity, at the time of her death she was producer and star of the PBS series The Charlie Horse Music Pizza.

  The same day saw the death in a nursing home of 50-year-old David-Allen “Chico” Ryan, who sang and played bass with 1950s revival group Sha Na Na. He also appeared in the hit movie Grease.

  44-year-old Canadian stuntmanMarc Akerstream was killed on August 14th when a special effects explosion went wrong on the TV series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven. A piece of debris thrown into the air by the blast struck Akerstream on the head and he later died in hospital. The show is based on the 1994 movie The Crow, during the filming of which star Brandon Lee was killed in a freak firearms accident.

  Stand-up comic and character actor Phil Leeds died on August 16th of pneumonia, aged 82. His film credits include Rosemary’s Baby and Ghost, and he appeared in numerous TV sit-coms such as Dream On, Ellen and Ally McBeal.

  49-year-old Indian actress Persis Khambatta, who starred as bald-headed navigator Lieutenant Ilia in Star Trek the Motion Picture, died of an apparent heart attack in a Bombay hospital on August 18th. However, some reports claimed that the 1965 Miss India had no history of heart trouble (despite having undergone a bypass operation in 1983) and that she had been murdered. Her other films include The Man With the Power, Megaforce, Night-hawks, Warriors of the Lost World and First Strike.

  American actor E. (Edda) G. (Gunnar) Marshall died on August 24th after a short illness. He was 88, and his many film and TV appearances include Vampire, Superman II, The Phoenix, Creepshow, Two Evil Eyes, The Tommyknockers, Under Siege, Lights Out (with John Carradine), Inner Sanctum, Studio One: “Donovan’s Brain”,Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Moment of Fear, Night Gallery and Tales from the Darkside. He won two Emmys for his role as attorney Lawrence Preston inThe Defenders (1961-65), and in 1988 the liberal actor formed the environmentalist Preservation Party to support anti-development candidates in New York.

  Stage actor Jerome Dempsey, who won a Drama Desk Award for his performance as Van Helsing opposite Frank Langella in the 1977 Broadway production of Dracula, died of heart failure on August 26th, aged 69.

  Russian-born character actor Leonid Kinskey, who played Sascha, the bartender of Rick’s Cafe in Casablanca, died of a stroke on September 8th, aged 95. He also appeared in such TV shows as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the pilot of Hogan’s Heroes.

  American tough-guy actor of the 1940s and ‘50s Dane Clark (Bernard Zanville) died on September 11th, aged 85.

  CNN correspondent John Holliman, who appeared as himself in the 1997 movie Contact, was killed in a car crash in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 12th. He was 49.

  British character actress Patricia Hayes died on September 19th, aged 88. Her films include The Neverending Story, The Terrornauts, Fragment of Fear and Willow, and she appeared on TV in Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense and The Tomorrow People.

  American TV actress Mary Frann, who portrayed Bob New-hart’s wife in the CBS series Newhart (1982-90), died of a heart attack on September 23rd, aged 55.

  British leading man Marius Goring, C.B.E. died of cancer on September 30th, aged 86. Best remembered for his roles in the Powell and Pressburger classics A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven) and The Red Shoes, he also appeared in The Case of the Frightened Lady and starred in the BBC-TV series The Expert (1970-75). In 1929 he was a founding member of the actor’s union Equity.

  Singing cowboy Gene Autry died of lymphoma on October 2nd, three days after his 91st birthday. He made his movie debut in 1934, and appeared in ninety-five movies, usually with his horse Champion, including the SF serial The Phantom Empire, Mystery Mountain and Gold Town Ghost Riders. He also recorded 635 songs, most notably “Back in the Saddle Again” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ and co-wrote ‘Here Comes Santa Claus”. A clever businessman, he produced his own TV show (1950-56) and others, eventually creating a half-billion-dollar investment portfolio which included oil wells, hotels, television stations and the Anaheim Angels baseball team. He opened the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park in 1988.

  Lon Clark, who portrayed Nick Carter, Master Detective on radio from 1943-55, died the same day, aged 86.

  70-year-old British-born actor and photographer Roddy McDowall died of cancer in his Los Angeles home on October 3rd, only two weeks after word of his terminal illness became public. A former child star, he moved to Hollywood in 1940 where his later roles tended towards the bizarre or psychotic. Best remembered as the star of the Planet of the Apes film and TV series (playing various intelligent simians), he also portrayed ham horror host Peter Vincent in Fright Night andFright Night Part 2. His many other credits include Macbeth (1948),Midnight Lace (1960), Shock Treatment (1964), The Loved One, It!, the Night Gallery pilot, Tam Lin (which he also directed),Laserblast, A Taste of Evil, The Legend of Hell House, Arnold, The Cat from Outer Space, Embryo, The Silent Flute (aka Circle of Iron), Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, The Thief of Baghdad (1978), The Black Hole, The Martian Chronicles, Class of 1984, Dead of Winter, Doin’ Time on Planet Earth, Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance, Cutting Class, Heads, The Alien Within and A Bug’s Life. He co-starred with Boris Karloff in TV’s Playhouse 90: “Heart of Darkness” (1958), portrayed the untrustworthy Jonathan Willoway on Fantastic Journey, played the villainous Bookworm onBatman, was the voice of The Mad Hatter on Batman: The Animated Series, and guested on such shows as The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Invaders, Journey to the Unknown, The Snoop Sisters, Nightmare Classics: “Carmilla” and Fantasy Island (as the Devil).

  Another original singing cowboy star, Robert “Tex” Allen, died on October 9th, aged 92. In Hollywood since the 1930s, his films include Crime and Punishment (with Peter Lorre) and The Phantom Stallion, and he had his own TV series,Frontier Doctor, in 1952.

  Radio and TV announcer Tony Marvin, who was the official “voice” of the 1939 New York World’s Fair, died in Florida on October 10th, aged 86. He was also the original voice of Tony the Tiger in the Kellogg’s cereal commercials.
/>
  American leading man Richard Denning (Louis A. Denninger) died of cardiac arrest after a long battle with emphysema on October 11th, aged 85. His films include The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Her Jungle Love, Unknown Island, Target Earth!, The Creature With the Atom Brain, Roger Corman’s The Day the World Ended andThe Black Scorpion. He co-starred with Vincent Price in Twice Told Tales and played Governor Philip Grey on TV’s Hawaii Five-O (1968-79). He was married to actress Evelyn Ankers, who died in 1985.

  Silent screen star Molly O’Day, who began her career in Our Gang films and worked with Laurel and Hardy, died on October 15th, aged 88.

  British character actress Joan Hickson, best remembered for her portrayal of Agatha Christie’s MissMarple on TV (1984-91), died on October 17th, aged 92. She appeared with Basil Rath-bone in Love from a Stranger and Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood. Her other credits include Don’t Take It to Heart, Seven Days to Noon, Mad About Men, No Haunt for a Gentleman, One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing and the 1969 TV production of Mystery and Imagination: “Dracula”.

  Former ballet dancer and actor Christopher Gable died of cancer on October 23rd, aged 58. He appeared in The Boy Friend, The Slipper and the Rose, The Lair of the White Worm and The Rainbow. He was also artistic director of the Northern Ballet Theatre, whose 1999 London production of Dracula was dedicated to his memory.

  British leading lady Rosamund John, whose films include The Secret of the Loch and Green for Danger, died on October 27th, aged 85.

  Bob Trow, who for thirty years appeared as the gibberish-talking Robert Troll, Bob Dog and occasionally as himself on the children’s TV show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, died of a heart attack on November 2nd, aged 72.

  American actress Martha O’Driscoll, who starred in House of Dracula, Crazy House and The Ghost Catchers for Universal, died on November 3rd, aged 76. For the last fifty years of her life, she was married to wealthy Chicago businessman Arthur Apple-ton after promising to give up show business for ever.

  Japanese actress Momoko Kochi, who starred in the 1954 Godzilla King of the Monsters, died of intestinal cancer on November 5th, aged 66. Her other films include Half Human, The Mysterians and the 1995 Godzilla vs. Destroyer.

  After a long illness, French leading man Jean Marais (Jean Marais-Villain) died in Cannes of pulmonary disease on November 8th, aged 84. A protégé of surrealist artist Jean Cocteau, he is best remembered for his role in Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bete and as the super-criminal Fantomas in three 1960s movies. He also appeared in L’Eternel Retour, Orphee, Le Testament d’Orphee, Donkey Skin and Amour de Poche.

  British actress Mary Millar died of cancer on November 10th, aged 62. She appeared in the London stage musical of The Phantom of the Opera as the original Madame Giry, but is probably best known as Rose in the BBC-TV sit-com Keeping Up Appearances.

  British actress Valerie Hobson died of a heart attack in London on November 13th, aged 81. She appeared inBride of Frankenstein, WereWolf of London, The Great Impersonation, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Q Planes, Great Expectations (1946), Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Rocking Horse Winner before retiring as an actress. She married her second husband, Conservative MP John Profumo, in 1954. In 1963 he was forced to resign in disgrace as Secretary of State for War over an affair with call girl Christine Keeler, who was also involved with a Soviet military attaché.

  American character actor Dick O’Neill died of heart failure on November 17th, aged 70. He appeared in added American footage for the Japanese film Gammera and was decapitated in Wolfen. Other credits include Pretty Poison, The UFO Incident, It Happened One Christmas and Chiller.

  TV comedian Flip Wilson (Clerow Wilson) died of liver cancer on November 25th, aged 64. He had his own Emmy Award-winning variety show on NBC-TV in the early 1970s and often guest-hosted The Tonight Show. In 1976 he appeared in a TV movie ofPinocchio.

  Silent film actress Ruth Clifford died on November 30th, aged 98. She starred in the SF film The Invisible Ray (1920) and later became a character actress in such films asDante’s Inferno, The Searchers and Sunset Blvd.

  British actor Michael Craze died on December 7th, aged 56. He played Ben Jackson on TV’s Doctor Who (1966-67), and also appeared in such films as Neither the Sea Nor the Sand, Satan’s Slave and Terror.

  American character actor Norman Fell, best known for his role as irritable landlord Stanley Roper in the 1970s TV sit-coms Three’s Company and The Ropers, died of multiple myeloma on December 14th, aged 74. His other credits include the movies C.H.U.D. II Bud the Chud, The Boneyard, Hexed, Transylvania 6-5000, Stripped to Kill and such TV shows as Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Wild Wild West, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Invaders, The Bionic Woman andBewitched.

  Hollywood leading lady Irene Hervey (Irene Herwick) died of heart failure on December 20th, aged 89. She appeared in House of Fear (1939), Night Monster (with Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill), Gang Busters, Mr Peabody and the Mermaid, Play Misty for Me, Goliath Awaits and the 1965 TV series Honey West.

  Canadian-born leading man David Manners (Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom), who was a cousin to Arthur Conan Doyle and claimed to be descended from William the Conqueror, died in a Santa Barbara nursing home on December 23rd. He was 98. In the 1930s he portrayed the hero in Dracula, The Mummy, The Death Kiss, The Black Cat, The Moonstone and Mystery of Edwin Drood before retiring from the screen. He successfully invested in property and also wrote several novels and two works of philosophy.

  American actor (William Rukard) Hurd Hatfield died in Monktown, Ireland, on December 25th, aged 80. Best known for his starring role in the 1945 movie The Picture of Dorian Gray, he also portrayed Dracula on stage in America and appeared in Tarzan and the Slave Girl, Mickey One, The Boston Strangler, The Norliss Tapes, The House and the Brain and such TV series as Lights Out, Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Wild Wild West, Search, Blacke’s Magic and Knight Rider.

  * * * *

  FILM/TV TECHNICIANS

  Italian director Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, whose films include The Loves of Hercules (with Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay), died on January 4th following an operation for a broken hip. He was 103.

  Production executive Gary Nardino died of a stroke on January 22nd, aged 62. His credits includeStar Trek II The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III The Search for Spock, plus such TV shows as Mork & Mindy and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures.

  British producer, scriptwriter and former editor Sidney Cole died on January 25th, aged 89. He edited the 1940 Gaslight, was supervising editor for Ealing Studios’ ghost story Halfway House, associate produced their horror classic Dead of Night and The Man in the White Suit, and scripted the fantasy The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp.

  Production designer Jack T. Collis, who worked on Voodoo Island, Frankenstein 1970 andMacabre during the late 1950s, died on February 1st, aged 75. His other credits include Splash, Cocoon, The Running Man and Star Trek IV The Voyage Home.

  Script supervisor Peggy Robertson died on February 6th, aged 81. For many years she was Alfred Hitchcock’s personal assistant and worked with the director on Vertigo, Psycho and The Birds, amongst other films, as well as the TV seriesAlfred Hitchcock Presents.

  Cinematographer Richard C. Glouner, whose credits include the H.P. Lovecraft movie The Dunwich Horror and TV series Logan’s Run and V, died on February 9th, aged 66.

  Leonard Ho, co-founder of Hong Kong studios Golden Harvest, died of a heart attack on February 16th.

  TV director John Nicolella, who made his movie debut with Kull the Conqueror in 1997, died on February 21st, aged 52.

  British film distributor Michael Myers died on February 22nd, aged 69. Because of his successful distribution of John Carpenter’s previous film, Assault on Precinct 13, the director named the killer in Halloween after Myers as a mark of gratitude.

  James Nelson Algar, who began his career as an animator on Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), died on February 26th, aged 85. He also directed the
classic “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” sequence for Fantasia, and numerous episodes of Disney True Life Adventures.

  Hollywood casting director Leonard Murphy, who cast the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz (1939), died on March 4th, aged 87.

  Hollywood make-up artist and hairstylist George Masters died of heart failure in Las Vegas on March 6th, aged 62. Over the years he worked with Marilyn Monroe (as her personal make-up artist), Ann-Margret, Lauren Bacall, Bo Derek, Marlene Dietrich and Sophia Loren, and turned Dustin Hoffman into Tootsie.

  Marvin A. Davis, who died on March 8th, aged 87, joined Walt Disney Imagineering in 1953 and helped create almost every aspect of Disneyland. He won an Emmy for his art direction on TV’s Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color.

  Academy Award-winning cinematographer Charles (Bryant) Lang died of pneumonia on April 3rd, aged 96. A self-described “women’s photographer”, his many credits include the 1934 Death Takes a Holiday, Peter Ibbetson, Midnight, The Cat and the Canary (1939), The Ghost Breakers, The Uninvited, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Some Like it Hot and Wait Until Dark. He received the American Society of Cinematographers’ Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991.