Obits

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...

Over the length of his more than 60 year career on TV, stage, and screen, Hal Holbrook played John Adams,...

The career of Cicely Tyson was long and extraordinary, but also touched with more than a little of “what should...

Nine decades. That’s how extensive the career of Cloris Leachman was. It is such an extraordinary length of time that...

As a director, Michael Apted had two careers. In one, he was a sturdy professional who made a number of...

When you're the in-house obit writer, every now and then you run into a challenging tribute assignment. As well-versed as...