NEW ORLEANS — Bruce “Buzz” Podewell, an actor, director and member of the theater faculty at Tulane University for nearly 40 years, died of lung cancer at his home here March 29. He was 69.
Althought Dr. Podewell was a co-founder and former artistic director of the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, served as the associate artistic director of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, and was the longtime director of Tulane Center Stage, the theater department’s former summer-stock company, MSTies will remember one of his first roles: that of shy Buzz Turner in the short MR. B NATURAL, seen in episode 319- WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST.

The Times-Picayune has a great obit.

Wow, they say they come in threes…

OCCCIDENTAL, CALIF. — Robert Nichols, a singer, dancer and actor who enjoyed a 70-year career on stage, television and in movies, died at his home here March 21. He was 88. MSTies will fondly remember his earnest performance as nerdy Joe Wilson in “This Island Earth,” which was featured in “Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie.”

Here’s a terrific obit which ends with:

No services will be held because Nichols’ friends are either deceased or live far away and “an actor needs a full house,” his wife said.