French producer Anatole Dauman died of an apparent heart attack on April 8th in Paris, aged 73. Credited with discovering and developing several of the French “New Wave” directors of the 1950s and ‘60s, his films include Last Year at Marienbad, La Jetee, In the Realm of the Senses, The Tin Drum, Wings of Desire, Immoral Tales andThe Beast.
Film editor Louis “Duke” Goldstone, who edited George Pal’s Destination Moon, died of heart failure on April 16th, aged 84. He later became a TV director.
Producer and scriptwriter Marvin Worth died from complications from a bronchiovalvular carcinoma on April 22nd, aged 72. He scripted episodes of Get Smart and produced Lenny, Spike Lee’s Malcolm X and the remake of Diabolique.
Producer Jack Cummings died the same day of cancer, aged 49. After starting out as an assistant director on The Howling and Time Walker, he producedHighlander II The Quickening, The Addams Family and Stephen King’sNeedful Things.
Producer, director and writer Leslie Stevens died of a heart attack following complications during emergency angioplasty on April 24th, aged 74. Best remembered as the producer of the classic 1960s SF series The Outer Limits, he also produced such popular TV shows as Search, The Invisible Man, Gemini Man, Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. In 1965 he scripted and directed the Esperanto movie Incubus starring William Shatner. He married actress Kate Manx in 1958, but she committed suicide when the marriage ended.
Film editor and director Gene Fowler, Jr. died on May 11th, aged 80. The director of such cult classics as I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Married a Monster from Outer Space, he won an Academy Award for the documentary Seeds of Destiny, which he made while he was an Army lieutenant in World War II, and was nominated for another Oscar for editing It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World.
71-year-old former actor, photographer, producer and director John Derek (Derek Harris) suffered a heart attack on May 20th and died two days later in hospital after lengthy surgery to unblock his clogged arteries. As an actor he appeared in Rogues of Sherwood Forest, Mask of the Avenger, The Ten Commandments (1956) and other films, before turning to directing with such movies as Tarzan the Ape Man, Bolero and Ghosts Can’t Do It. Best remembered for marrying such beautiful actresses as French star Pati Behrs, Ursula Andress and Linda Evans, his death ended a twenty-two year-long Svengali-like relationship with his fourth wife, Bo.
British film and TV composer Edwin Astley died on May 19th, aged 76. His movie scores include Devil Girl from Mars, The Woman Eater, Behemoth the Sea Monster (aka The Giant Behemoth) and Hammer’s The Phantom of the Opera, along with composing music for such TV series as The Saint, Danger Man (akaSecret Agent) and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (aka My Partner the Ghost).
Veteran special effects cinematographer Linwood G. Dunn died of cancer on May 20th, aged 94. At RKO Radio since the late 1920s, he worked on Bringing Up Baby, King Kong, Citizen Kane, She, Cat People, Mighty Joe Young, The Thing from Another World and The Devil’s Rain. In 1967 he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on the original Star Trek TV series, and in 1985 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented him with its Gordon E. Sawyer Award for career contributions.
Spanish film director Ricardo Franco, the nephew of Jesus Franco, died of heart failure the same day. He was 48.
TV director Robert Gist died on May 21st, aged 74. He began his career as a child actor in Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and turned to directing in the early 1960s. Amongst his credits are the “Lizard’s Leg and Owlet’s Wing” episode of Route 66 starring Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney, Jr., and the “Galileo Seven” episode of Star Trek.
Walt Disney layout artist and art director Kendall O’Connor died on May 27th, aged 90. He worked onSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and such TV specials as Man in Space, Man and the Moon andMars and Beyond.
Make-up effects designer and actor Mark Williams died of respiratory failure the same day, aged 38. He worked on The Brain, Blue Monkey, Aliens, The Fly, The Abyss, Return to Salem’s Lot, Terminator 2 Judgment Day, Skeletons, Curse of the Puppet Master, Frankenstein Reborn, The Borrowers (1997) and Talisman (which he also scripted). Named head of Full Moon Pictures’ special effects department shortly before his death, he was also the effects design co-ordinator for rock acts such as Alice Cooper and Poison, and he published the comic booksSisters of Mercy and Nightshade.
Storyboard artist Sherman Labby, whose credits include Blade Runner, died on May 30th. He was 68.
Former chief executive of cartoon studio UPA, Henry G. Saperstein died of cancer on June 24th, aged 80. He was executive producer and US distributor of a number of Japanese SF films, including Frankenstein Conquers the World, Monster Zero, War of the Gargantuas and Terror of Mechagodzilla. His other credits include Gay Purree, What’s Up, Tiger Lily? and Mr Magoo (1997), and he was a consultant on the 1998 Godzilla.
Film editor Thomas F. Boutross, who co-directed The Hideous Sun Demon (aka Blood on His Lips) under the name “Thomas Cassarino”, died of heart failure on June 26th, aged 69. He also edited The Legend of Boggy Creek and The Town That Dreaded Sundown.
Sheldon Tromberg, who founded the distribution company Boxoffice Attractions and produced the horror thriller The Redeemer in the 1970s, died of a heart attack on July 5th, aged 67.
Argentine producer and director Alejandro Sessa, who made a number of films with Roger Corman in the 1980s, died of heart failure on July 11th, aged 60.
Choreographer Jerome Robbins (Jerome Rabinowitz), who received an Emmy for making Mary Martin fly in the 1955 TV adaptation of Peter Pan, died of a stroke on July 29th, aged 79. He won five Tony Awards as a Broadway choreographer and director for such shows as On the Town, The King and I and Fiddler on the Roof, and two Academy Awards for the movie West Side Story (which he co-directed).
Shanghai-born Edmund Goldman, who moved to Los Angeles and created independent film distribution company Manson International, died on August 5th, aged 92.
Also a reporter and critic forVariety, film publicist Mike Kaplan died of a heart attack on August 23rd, aged 80. Among the movies he worked on were The Andromeda Strain, Jaws and The Sting.
TV animation producer Lee Gunther, whose credits include Transformers, G.I. Joe and The Pink Panther Show, died of a stroke on August 25th, aged 63.
Michael Samuelson, the father of actress Emma Samms, died from a blood clot in the lung on August 27th, aged 67. Along with his brothers David and Tony, he built the family business into one of the world’s biggest film equipment service companies.
Former actor turned Emmy Award-winning TV director Leo Penn died of lung cancer on September 5th, aged 77. The father of actors Sean and Chris, he was blacklisted in the late 1940s and ‘50s for his association with actors’ trade unions and reinvented himself as a director for the 1959 series Ben Casey. He directed more than 400 hours of prime-time TV, including episodes of The Bionic Woman, Columbo, Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Star Trek, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, I Spy, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Ghost Story, Switch and the TV movie The Dark Secret of Harvest Home.
Japanese director Akira Kurosawa died of a stroke at his home in Tokyo on September 6th, aged 88. The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, his many distinguished movies include Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress (which significantly influenced George Lucas’s Star Wars), Yojimbo, Sanjuro, The Shadow Warrior, Ran and Dreams. He worked closely with original Godzilla director Ishiro Honda on his later films.
Emmy Award-winning special visual effects director Mark Zarate died of complications following appendicitis surgery on September 18th, aged 39. His credits include ABC-TV’sLois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
French film composer Paul Misraki died in Paris on October 29th, aged 90. He composed more than 100 scores for movies, including Jess Franco’s Attack of the Robots and Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville.
Actor, director and biograph
er Peter Cotes, who directed the first stage production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, died November 10th.
70-year-old American producer and director Alan J. Pakula was killed in a freak car accident on November 19th when another vehicle sent a seven-foot steel pipe crashing through his windscreen while he was driving back to his home in Long Island, New York. It struck him on the head and he lost control of his car, crashing into a barrier and suffering a fatal heart attack. His films include Rollover, The Parallax View, Dream Lover, All the President’s Men and Klute.
Italian costume designer Enrico Sabbatini was killed in a car accident in Morocco on November 25th. He was 66, and the films he worked on included The Tenth Victim, Ghosts Italian Style and Illustrious Corpses.
Academy Award-winning British cinematographer Freddie Young died on December 1st, aged 96. Best known for his work with David Lean on such films as Lawrence of Arabia andDoctor Zhivago, he also photographed Gorgo, You Only Live Twice, The Asphyx, The Blue Bird (1976) and Sword of the Valiant.
Associate producer David Leigh Macleod, whose credits include Warren Beatty’s Reds and Ishtar, was found dead of undisclosed causes in Montreal on December 6th, aged 54. He’d spent nearly a decade in Canada as a fugitive after being indicted by a New York court on a string of paedophilia charges.
Academy Award-winning British film composer John Addison died of a stroke on December 7th, aged 78. He scored such films as Seven Days to Noon, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Strange Invaders and the 1990 TV movie of The Phantom of the Opera, and composed the theme for TV’s Murder, She Wrote.
Ukrainian-born Lord Lew Grade (Lewis Winogradsky) died in London from heart failure on December 13th, aged 91. Raised in the slums of the East End, he became Britain’s biggest entertainment impresario. As the founder of the UK’s first commercially financed TV company, Associated Television (ATV), he was responsible for such popular series as Robin Hood, Thunder-birds, The Saint, The Muppets andSpace: 1999. Among the movies he produced are The Exorcist, Capricorn One, The Boys from Brazil, Raise the Titanic, The Legend of the Lone Ranger andThe Dark Crystal. He was knighted in 1963, won the Queen’s award for industry in 1967, and given a life peerage in 1976.
Italian director Vittorio Cottafavi, whose films include Hercules and the Captive Women andGoliath and the Dragon, died the same day, aged 84.
Former actor turned director Don Taylor died of heart failure on December 29th, aged 78. His directing credits include Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977), The Final Countdown, Damien Omen II and episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Night Gallery and Beasts. He was married to actress Hazel Court.
Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita, who directed the 1949 supernatural film Yotsuya Kaidan and The Ballad of Narayama, died of a stroke on December 29th, aged 86.
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USEFUL ADDRESSES
The following listing of organizations, publications, dealers and individuals is designed to present readers with further avenues to explore. Although I can personally recommend all those listed on the following pages, neither myself nor the publisher can take any responsibility for the services they offer. Please also note that all the information below is subject to change without notice.
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ORGANIZATIONS
The British Fantasy Society(http://www.herebedragons.co.uk/ bfs) began in 1971 and publishes the bi-monthly Prism UK: The British Fantasy Newsletter, produces other special booklets, and organizes the annual British FantasyCon and semi-regular meetings in London. Yearly membership is £20.00 (UK), £25.00 (Europe) and £30.00 (America and the rest of the world) made payable in sterling to “The British Fantasy Society” and sent to The BFS Secretary, c/o 2 Harwood Street, Stockport, SK4 1JJ, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
The Ghost Story Society (http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/gss.html ) publishes the excellent All Hallows magazine three times a year. The annual subscription is $25.00 (USA), Cdn$32.00 (Canada) or £l6.00/$27.50 (rest of the world airmail). Write to joint organizers Barbara and Christopher Roden at “The Ghost Story Society”, PO Box 1360, Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada VOK 1AO. E-mail: [email protected]
Horror Writers Association (http://www.horror.org/ ) was formed in the 1980s and is open to anyone seeking Active, Affiliate or Associate membership. The HWA publishes a regular Newsletter and organizes the annual Bram Stoker Awards ceremony. Standard membership is $55.00 (USA), £38.00/$65.00 (overseas); Corporate membership is $100.00 (USA), £74.00/ $120.00 (overseas), and Family Membership is $75.00 (USA), £52.00/$85.00 (overseas). Send to “HWA”, 8490 Zephyr Street, Arvada, CO 80005, USA.
World Fantasy Convention (http://www.farrsite.com/wfc/ ) is an annual convention held in a different (usually American) city each year.
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MAGAZINES
Cinefantastique is a monthly SF/fantasy/horror movie magazine with a “Sense of Wonder”. Cover price is $5.95/Cdn$9.50/ £4.20 and a 12-issue subscription is $48.00 (USA) or $55.00 (Canada and overseas) to PO Box 270, Oak Park, IL 60303, USA.
Interzone is Britain’s leading magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Single copies are available for £3.00 (UK) or £3.50/$6.00 (overseas) or a 12-issue subscription is £32.00 (UK), £38.00/ $60.00 (USA) or £38.00 (overseas) to “Interzone”, 217 Preston Drove, Brighton, BN1 6FL, UK.
Locus (http://www.Locusmag.com ) is the monthly newspaper of the SF/fantasy/horror field. $4.95 a copy, a 12-issue subscription is $43.00 (USA), $48.00 (Canada), $70.00 (Europe), $80.00 (Australia, Asia and Africa) to “Locus Publications”, PO Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661, USA or “Locus Subscription”, Fantast (Medway) Ltd, PO Box 23, Upwell Wisbech, Cambs PE14 9BU, UK.
Necrofile (http://www.necropress.com ) is a quarterly review of horror fiction. $3.00 a copy, a 4-issue subscription is $12.00 (USA), $15.00 (Canada) or $17.50 (overseas) in US funds only to “Necronomicon Press”, P.O. Box 1304, West Warwick, RI 02893, USA.
Science Fiction Chronicle (http://www.sfsite.com/sfc ) is a bimonthly news and reviews magazine that covers the SF/fantasy/ horror field. $3.50/Cdn$4.95 a copy, a one-year subscription is $25.00 (first class USA), $26.75/Cdn$50.30 (Canada), £19.00 (UK) and $A47.00 (Australia). Make cheques payable to “Science Fiction Chronicle” and send to Science Fiction Chronicle, PO Box 022730, Brooklyn, NY 11202-0056, USA or payable to “Algol Press” and send to Rob Hansen, 144 Plashet Grove, East Ham, London E6 1AB, UK.
SFX (http://www.sfx.co.uk ) is a monthly multi-media magazine of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Single copies are £3.25 or a 12-issue subscription is £28.00 (UK), £44.00 (Europe), £62.00 (USA) or £64.00 (rest of the world) to “Future Publishing”, SFX Subscriptions, FREEPOST (BS900), Somerton, Somerset TAl1 6BR, UK, or overseas subscribers to “Future Publishing”, SFX Subscriptions, Cary Court, Somerton, Somerset TAl1 6TB, UK.
Shivers (http://www.visimag.com ) is the monthly magazine of horror entertainment. Single copies are £3.25 (UK)/$5.99 (USA)/Cdn$7.95 (Canada), and a yearly subscription is £36.00 (UK), $68.00 (USA), £46.00 (Europe airmail and rest of the world surface) or £50.00 (rest of the world airmail) to “Visual Imagination Limited”, Shivers Subscription, PO Box 371, London SW14 8JL, UK, or PO Box 156, Manorville, NY 11949, USA.
Starburst (http://www.visimag.com ) is a monthly magazine of sci-fi entertainment. Cover price is £2.99 (UK)/$4.99 (USA)/ Cdn$6.95 (Canada). Yearly subscriptions comprise 12 regular issues (“budget”) or 12 regular issues and four quarterly Specials (“full”) at £46.00 full/£32.00 budget (UK), $82.00 full/$53.00 budget (USA), £56.00 full/£39.00 budget (Europe airmail and rest of the world surface) or £71.00 full/£49.00 budget (rest of the world airmail) to “Visual Imagination Limited”, Starburst Subscription, PO Box 371, London SW14 8JL, UK, or PO Box 156, Manorville, NY 11949, USA.
The Third Alternative (http://www.purl.oclc.org/net/ ttaonline/index.html) is a quarterly magazine of “extraordinary” new fiction, interviews and articles. Cover price is £3.00, and a four-issue subscription is
£11.00 (UK), £13.00 (Europe) or $22.00/£15.00 (America and rest of the world) to “TTA Press”, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB, UK.
Video Watchdog (http://www.cinemaweb.com/videowd ) is a bi-monthly magazine described as “the Perfectionist’s Guide to Fantastic Video”. $6.50 a copy, an annual 6-issue subscription is $24.00 bulk/$35.00 first class (USA), $33.00 surface/$45.00 airmail (overseas). US funds only to “Video Watchdog”, PO Box 5283, Cincinnati, OH 45205-0283, USA.
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BOOK DEALERS
Cold Tonnage Booksoffers excellent mail order new and used SF/fantasy/horror, art, reference, limited editions etc. with regular catalogues. Write to Andy Richards, 22 Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey GU20 6JQ, UK. Credit cards accepted. Tel: +44 (0) 1276-475388. E-mail: [email protected]
Ken Cowley offers mostly used SF/fantasy/horror/crime/ supernatural, collectibles, pulps etc. by mail order with occasional catalogues. Write to Trinity Cottage, 153 Old Church Road, Clevedon, North Somerset, BS21 7TU, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1275-872247.
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