Just a quick list of, as far as we know so far, the MSTory folks who passed away during 2011. We are constantly on alert for news about MSTory deaths, but quite a few less-prominent people pass away quietly and we only learn of it when their IMDB page updates. So if there’s a link, it’s to the article we posted at the time. If there isn’t a link, we missed it then, but we wanted to take note of it now. There were probably more passings as well. When we learn of them, we’ll add them to the 2011 page in our “Torgo the White’s Rolodex” section.

• 1/7 Juan Piquer Simon (age 74), director and screenwriter for “Los Nuevos Extraterrestres” the movie seen in episode 303- POD PEOPLE.
• 1/23 Jack LaLanne (age 96), who was seen briefly as himself in the movie in episode K16- CITY ON FIRE.
• 1/27 Joe Lanza (age 87), choreographer for the movie in episode 112- UNTAMED YOUTH.
• 2/20 Eddie Brandt(age 90), who played the piano player in the movie in episode 415- THE BEATNIKS. He also wrote some of the songs heard in the movie.
• 2/20 Helmut Ringelmann (age 84), production manager for the movie in episode 1009- HAMLET.
• 4/29 Russell A. Mosser (93), the co-founder of the Centron Corp., which produced the shorts SPEECH USING YOUR VOICE, featured in episode 313- EARTH VS. THE SPIDER; CHEATING, featured in episode 515- THE WILD, WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN; WHAT ABOUT JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, featured in 518- THE ATOMIC BRAIN; WHY STUDY INDUSTRIAL ARTS?, featured in episode 609- THE SKYDIVERS; and SPEECH PLATFORM POSTURE AND APPEARANCE, featured in episode 619- RED ZONE CUBA.
• 5/7 Ross Hagen (age 72), who, played Rommel in the movie in episode 202- THE SIDEHACKERS and Sgt. Monte Chapman in the movie in episode 209- THE HELLCATS.
• 5/9 Dolores Fuller (age 88), who played Margie in the movie in episode 423- BRIDE OF THE MONSTER.
• 5/12 Charles F. Haas (age 97), director of the movie in episode 601- GIRLS TOWN.
• 5/23 Tom Hennesy (age 87), who played the Gill Man (in scenes when it was out of the water) and a Marineland driver in the movie in episode 801- REVENGE OF THE CREATURE.
• 5/25 Betty Luster (age 89), who played the title character in the short “MR. B NATURAL,” shown in episode 319- WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST.
• 5/25 Lillian Adams (age 89), who played Mrs. Ellis in the movie in episode 414- TORMENTED.
• 7/26 Sakyo Komatsu (age 80), screenwriter for the movie in episode 306- TIME OF THE APES.
• 8/3 Charles Aaron “Bubba” Smith (age 66), who played Moses in the movie in episode K15- SUPERDOME.
• 8/19 Jimmy Sangster (age 83), screenwriter for the movie in episode 101- THE CRAWLING EYE.
• 11/1 Richard Gordon,producer of the movies in episodes 818- DEVIL DOLL and 901- THE PROJECTED MAN.
• 11/2 Sid Melton (age 94), who played Sgt. Willie Tatlow in the movie in episode 208- LOST CONTINENT and Pill Box in the movie in episode 520- RADAR SECRET SERVICE.
• 11/6 Margaret Field, who played a nurse in the TV movie “The Stranger,” shown in episode 305- STRANDED IN SPACE.
• 12/1 Bill McKinney (age 80), who played Sheriff Kyle in the movie in episode 322- MASTER NINJA I and Chief Wilson in the movie in episode 1008- FINAL JUSTICE.
• 12/7 Tom Kennedy (age 63), director of the movie “Time Walker,” in episode 405- BEING FROM ANOTHER PLANET.
• 12/11 Susan Gordon (age 62), who played Sandy Hubbard in the movie in episode 414- TORMENTED.
• 12/16 Robert Easton (age 81), who played Dan Kester in the movie in episode 810- THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION, Mr. Keitel in episode 908- THE TOUCH OF SATAN and did the voices of Phones and X20 in the movie in episode K01- INVADERS FROM THE DEEP.

In addition, we wanted to mention Yvette Vickers (age 81), who played Liz Walker in the movie in episode 406- ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES. The IMDB places her death in 2010, but the world did not learn of it until last April.