RIP: Reel Important People -- September 17, 2007
Filed under: Obits
Alberto Argibay (1932-2007) - Argentine actor who appears in La Patota, Alias Gardelito (Alias Big Shot) and Los jovenes viejos (The Old Young People). He died September 10 in Buenos Aires. (Variety) - Sigrid Ann Davison (c. 1958-2007) - Sales exec who handled international sales, distribution and marketing at Universal, Skouras Pictures and other independents. She died August 26 in Los Angeles. (Variety)
- Robert Enders (c.1920s-2007) - Filmmaker who directed and produced the 1978 film Stevie. He also wrote and produced Zigzag, wrote Conduct Unbecoming and produced How Do I Love Thee?, starring Jackie Gleason, Shelley Winters and Maureen O'Hara. He died September 7 in Los Angeles. (Variety)
- Mark Kamps (1963-2007) - Editor of 3 Little Ninjas and the Lost Treasure. He worked on sound post-production for Renaissance Man, Last Action Hero and I'll Do Anything. As an assistant sound editor he worked on A League of Their Own, Waterworld and Grosse Pointe Blank. He was also sound editor for Agnes Browne and adr assistant for Hoffa. He died August 24 in Ventura, California. (Variety)
- Úlfur Karlsson (1976-2007) - Icelandic set decorator who worked on Sódóma Reykjavík (Remote Control), for which he is also credited with "tricks". He died September 9. (IMDb)
- James Leasor (1923-2007) - Author of the book "Boarding Party", which became The Sea Wolves, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven and Roger Moore. He also wrote the novel-turned-film The One That Got Away and the novel "Passport to Oblivion", which was adapted into Where the Spies Are, starring Niven. He died September 10 in Wiltshire, England. (Telegraph)
- Jacques Martin (1933-2007) - French television personality who acted in La Passante du Sans-Souci (The Passerby) and Sex-Shop. He was also the ex-husband of current French first-lady Cécilia Sarkozy. He died of cancer September 14, in Biarritz, France. (AFP)
- Dame Anita Roddick (1942-2007) - Founder of The Body Shop. She appears as herself in the documentaries 1 Giant Leap and Pain, Passion and Profit. She died of a brain hemorrhage September 10, in Chichester, West Sussex, England. (BBC News)
- Brett Somers (1924-2007) - Actress and television personality who appears in Bone, Bus Riley's Back in Town and A Rage to Live. She is perhaps best known as either the former wife of Jack Klugman or as a panelist on the show Match Game 73, where she was often the comic foil of Charles Nelson Reilly, who also died this year. She died September 15. (BrettSomers.com)
- Zoran Tadic (1941-2007) - Croatian filmmaker who directed Treci kljuc (The Third Key), Ritam zlocina and wrote and directed Treca zina (The Third Woman). He died of lung cancer September 9, in Jordanovac, Croatia. (Tportal.hr)
- Joseph Zawinul (1932-2007) - Austrian jazz musician who composed music for the documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One. He also appears as himself in a doc called Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe. He died of skin cancer September 11, in Vienna. (Variety)
