Obits

Almost any tribute to the career of Ray Liotta is going to begin with his role in Martin Scorsese's masterpiece...

Fred Ward was one of those actors like Charles Durning or JT Walsh - the kind that may not have...

For about eleven years, William Hurt may have been the greatest actor on earth. Beginning in 1980 with Ken Russell's...

More years ago than I care to count, I rented L’Eclisse from an artsy video store called Morris Classics (since...

I don't know how to write this. I've been struggling to formulate words since I heard about Betty White's passing...

One of my favorite stories about Sidney Poitier is that he was so poor growing up in the Bahamas that...

Has any director had a greater three-film run than Peter Bogdanovich had from 1971-1973? After cutting his teeth on the...

Dean Stockwell was an actor for so long that his career dates all the way back to World War II....

Melvin Van Peebles is the multi-hyphenate who put other multi-hyphenates to shame. Over the course of a career that touched...

I’ve been staring at the blank page on my computer screen for several minutes. I simply don’t know where to...

If you decide to go to IMDB to track the career of Ed Asner (as I did) expect to do...

For all the fame, and box office that films directed by Richard Donner received, the filmmaker himself was seldom seen...

Ned Beatty made his film debut in 1972 in John Boorman’s classic wilderness survival tale, Deliverance. Of course, that description...

Upon the passing of Clarence Williams III, you are probably most likely to hear about his work on two projects...

There is deadpan and then there is the mystical art of the deadpan that Charles Grodin practiced for the entirety...

To write this piece, I had to fix a major cinematic blind spot: I had never seen Moonstruck. Yes, I...

The way most of us will (and should) remember Larry McMurtry is as a novelist. Beginning with Horsemen Pass By...

I suppose there is a whole generation of people (maybe two generations) that know and love George Segal for his...

I always thought Yaphet Kotto was one of the greatest names in film history. It sounds more like a place...

Before finally breaking through as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music in 1965, Christopher Plummer toiled for over...