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LOS ANGELES–Character actor Booth Colman, who had a long career in movies and TV, died at Cedars Sinai Hospital Dec. 15. He was 91. MSTies may recall that he played Mories in the movie “World Without End,” which was riffed in MST3K’s first live show, in Minneapolis. Colman was born in Portland, […]
Koichi Kawakita, former head of the special effects department at Toho Studios, died from liver failure on Dec. 5, 2014, his 72nd birthday.
The IMDB does not list him, but our Japanese monster movie expert tells us MSTies will remember his work as assistant visual effects cinematographer for “Gojira, Ebirâ, Mosura: Nankai […] Author Robert J. Sawyer has announced on his blog that Canadian author and filmmaker Michael Lennick died Nov. 7 of a brain tumor. For 20 years Michael divided his time between writing and directing kids’ shows and documentaries for the CBC, TV Ontario and PBS, and creating visual effects for numerous film […]
Rancho Cordova, Calif.–Two veteran, retired Hollywood stuntmen (and, occasionally, actors), Robert Orrison and Gary McLarty, were killed in a traffic accident here Oct. 11. Orrison was 86. McLarty was 73. Both appeared in the movie featured in episode 512- MITCHELL, a movie in which several stuntmen were cast in small roles. MSTies […]
ROME — We have several reports that actor and stuntman Federico Boido, who worked using several aliases including Rick Boido, Rico Boido, Rich Boyd and Rick Boyd, died here Oct. 7. He was either 74 or 76, depending on which of two equally cited birthdates is correct. MSTies will remember him as […]
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