RIP: Reel Important People -- August 20, 2007
Filed under: Obits
Brooke Astor (1902-2007) - Philanthropist who appears as herself in Ric Burns' New York: A Documentary Film. She died August 13 in Briarcliff Manor, New York. (NY Sun)- Ahmed Baha Attia (1946-2007) - Tunisian producer of The Silences of the Palace and Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces and associate producer of Frédéric Mitterrand's Madame Butterfly. He died August 9. (IMDb)
- Anthony Carras (1920-2007) - Filmmaker who worked for Roger Corman and specialized in beach movies,
such as Operation Bikini, which he directed and edited*. He directed Operation Bikini, which he also edited. He was also editor of Corman's X, Tales of Terror, Pit and the Pendulum and House of Usher and of Jacques Tourneur's The Comedy of Terrors, which he also produced. As a co-producer of William Asher and Don Weis movies, he made Bikini Beach, Pajama Party, Beach Blanket Bingo, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. He also co-produced the cult-classic Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, was second unit director on Asher's Muscle Beach Party and Bikini Beach and was a sound editor on Man with the Gun. He died August 15. (Cryptomundo.com) - Denise Charvein (?-2007) - Editor of Bunuel's Death in the Garden and Claude Berri's The Two of Us. She was also an assistant editor for Jacques Becker's Grisbi and Nicholas Ray's Bitter Victory and a sound editor for René Clément's Is Paris Burning. She died August 6 in Paris. (IMDb)
- Nela Erzisnik (1924-2007) - Croatian actress who starred in Breza and H-8. She died August 14 in Zagreb, Croatia/Hrvatska. (IMDb)
- Clive Exton (1930-2007) - British screenwriter who co-scripted Red Sonja, The Awakening and The House in Nightmare Park, which he also produced. He also wrote or co-wrote the adapted screenplays for 10 Rillington Place, Night Must Fall and Isadora. He died August 16 in London. (Independent)
- Raul Hilberg (1926-2007) - Holocaust historian who appears as himself in Claude Lanzmann's documentary Shoah. He died of lung cancer August 4, in Williston, Vermont. (NY Times)
- Eduardo Noriega (1916-2007) - Mexican actor who appears in the original The In-Laws, 1962's Geronimo, Plunder in the Sun, The Revengers and Zorro, the Gay Blade. He died of a heart attack August 14, in Mexico City. (IMDb)
- Max Roach (1924-2007) - Jazz drummer who composed the score to the documentary How to Draw a Bunny. He also acted in Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones and appears as himself in Jazz on a Summer's Day and in archive footage in The Last of the Blue Devils. He died August 16 in Manhattan. (NY Times)
- Lyman Ward (c.1922-2007) - One of the subjects of the documentary Brother's Keeper, about his brother's murder trial. He is the last of the four Ward brothers to pass away. He died August 16. (AP)
- Aida Young (1920-2007) - Producer of Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Taste the Blood of Dracula and Scars of Dracula, each starring Christopher Lee in the title role. She also was an associate producer of One Million Years B.C., She and Slave Girls. She was an assistant director for The Quatermass Xperiment. She died August 12 in London. (IMDb)
- Ziliang Zhang (1941-2007) - Chinese screenwriter who co-scripted Kaige Chen's Yellow Earth and wrote Jun-Zhao Zheng's One and Eight. He died of a brain hemorrhage August 14, in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. (IMDb)
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8-24-2007 @ 1:15PM
Peter Nellhaus said...
Actually "Operation Bikini" is a war film that takes place mostly on a ship.
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8-24-2007 @ 1:20PM
Christopher Campbell said...
I stand corrected, Peter. I guess I just figured with Carras' producing resume, Avalon's involvement and the title, that Operation Bikini was in that genre.
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