RIP: Reel Important People -- July 31, 2007
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Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) - Italian filmmaker who wrote and directed L'Avventura, Blow-Up, The Passenger, Zabriskie Point and La Notte. Read my full post here. - Warren Batchelder (1918-2007) - Animator who worked on the main title sequence of The Pink Panther and on the feature-length Looney Tunes pics The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales and Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island. He died February 12 in Malibu. (BCDB)
- Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) - Swedish filmmaker who wrote and directed The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Cries and Whispers and Fanny and Alexander. Read Monika's full post here.
- Laura Devon (1937-2007) - Actress who starred in Howard Hawks' Red Line 7000, Vincente Minnelli's Goodbye Charlie and Blake Edwards' Gunn. She was the wife of Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia; Doctor Zhivago; A Passage to India) mother of screenwriter Kevin Jarre (Glory) She died of heart failure July 19, in Beverly Hills. (LA Times)
- Golde Flami (1918-2007) Argentine actress who starred in a number of early films by León Klimovsky, including The Name Was Carlos Gardel and The Marijuana Story. She died July 20 in Buenos Aires. (Variety)
- Roberto Fontanarrosa (1944-2007) - Argentine writer who penned Una Historia de Tango and one of the stories in El Amor a las Cuatro de la Tarde. He died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis July 19, in Rosario, Argentina. (Variety)
- David Hilberman (1911-2007) - Animator who was an art director for Bambi and was a layout artist for Disney's The Ugly Duckling and for the 1993 Fox feature Once Upon a Forest. He was blacklisted in the 1950s after Walt Disney singled him out as a communist during the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. He died of complications from an infection July 5, in Palo Alto, California. (Variety)
- Peter Hopkinson (1920-2007) - Documentary filmmaker and cameraman who contributed footage to Desert Victory. He began as a clapper boy, working for George Formby and then King Vidor, and later worked for the March of Time newsreel. He died June 28. (Guardian)
- Jorge Montoro (c.1925-2007) - Peruvian actor who appears in Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie, as well as in Manhunt in the Jungle. He died of lung cancer July 17, in Lima. (Variety)
- Ulrich Mühe (1953-2007) - Actor who starred in The Lives of Others. Read Monika's full post here.
- John Normington (1937-2007) - British actor who appears in Rollerball, The Medusa Touch, the 1968 version of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Michael Apted's Stardust. He died of pancreatic cancer July 26. (Whatsonstage.com)
- Joan O'Hara (?-2007) - Irish actress who appears in Far and Away, A Man of No Importance and Da. She died of heart failure July 23, in Dublin. (RTE)
- Mike Reid (1940-2007) - British comedian and actor who played Doug 'The Head' in Snatch. He was also a regular on the show EastEnders and was a stunt driver in the 1967 version of Casino Royale, The Dirty Dozen and The Devil Rides Out. He died of a heart attack July 29. (BBC)
- Michel Serrault (1928-2007) - French actor (pictured) who starred in La Cage aux Folles and its sequels, Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud, Les Diaboliques, Garde à Vue and Joyeux Noël. He died of cancer July 29. (Times Online)
- David Shaw (1918-2007) - Writer of the story for Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair and the script for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. He died July 27 in Beverly Hills. (LA Times)
- Tom Snyder (1936-2007) - Talk show host who can be seen in the documentaries Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's and Plaster Caster. He died from complications of leukemia July 29, in San Francisco. (ET Online)
- George Tabori (1914-2007) - Screenwriter of Hitchcock's I Confess, as well as The Journey, Secret Ceremony and Thunder in the East. He also wrote the play-turned-film Leo the Last and wrote the story that was the basis for Crisis, starring Cary Grant. He died July 23 in Berlin. (Variety)
- Penny Thomson (1950-2007) - Scottish film producer (Sean Connery's Edinburgh) and former director of the Edinburgh Film Festival. She died of cancer July 9. (Guardian)
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