{"id":11616,"date":"2011-12-31T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=11616"},"modified":"2011-12-31T15:52:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T20:52:48","slug":"mstory-folks-we-lost-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=11616","title":{"rendered":"MSTory Folks We Lost This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>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&#8217;s a link, it&#8217;s to the article we posted at the time. If there isn&#8217;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&#8217;ll add them to the 2011 page in our &#8220;Torgo the White&#8217;s Rolodex&#8221; section.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1\/7 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=8499\">Juan Piquer Simon<\/a><\/span> (age 74), director and screenwriter for \u201cLos Nuevos Extraterrestres\u201d the movie seen in episode 303- POD PEOPLE.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1\/23 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=8628\">Jack LaLanne<\/a><\/span> (age 96), who was seen briefly as himself in the movie in episode K16- CITY ON FIRE.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1\/27 Joe Lanza<\/span> (age 87), choreographer for the movie in episode 112- UNTAMED YOUTH.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">2\/20 Eddie Brandt<\/span>(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.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">2\/20 Helmut Ringelmann<\/span> (age 84), production manager for the movie in episode 1009- HAMLET.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">4\/29 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=9656\">Russell A. Mosser <\/a><\/span>(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.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">5\/7 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=9691\">Ross Hagen<\/a><\/span> (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.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">5\/9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=9614\">Dolores Fuller<\/a><\/span> (age 88), who played Margie in the movie in episode 423- BRIDE OF THE MONSTER.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">5\/12 Charles F. Haas<\/span> (age 97), director of the movie in episode 601- GIRLS TOWN.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">5\/23 Tom Hennesy <\/span>(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.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">5\/25 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=10893\">Betty Luster<\/a><\/span> (age 89), who played the title character in the short &#8220;MR. B NATURAL,&#8221; shown in episode 319- WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">5\/25 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=9837\">Lillian Adams<\/a> <\/span>(age 89), who played Mrs. Ellis in the movie in episode 414- TORMENTED.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">7\/26 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=10358\">Sakyo Komatsu<\/a><\/span> (age 80), screenwriter for the movie in episode 306- TIME OF THE APES.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">8\/3 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=10397\">Charles Aaron \u201cBubba\u201d Smith<\/a><\/span> (age 66), who played Moses in the movie in episode K15- SUPERDOME.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">8\/19 Jimmy Sangster<\/span> (age 83), screenwriter for the movie in episode 101- THE CRAWLING EYE.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">11\/1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=11251\">Richard Gordon<\/a>,<\/span>producer of the movies in episodes 818- DEVIL DOLL and 901- THE PROJECTED MAN.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">11\/2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=11178\">Sid Melton<\/a><\/span> (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.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">11\/6 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=11248\">Margaret Field<\/a>,<\/span> who played a nurse in the TV movie &#8220;The Stranger,&#8221; shown in episode 305- STRANDED IN SPACE.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">12\/1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=11418\">Bill McKinney<\/a><\/span> (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.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">12\/7 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=11477\">Tom Kennedy<\/a><\/span> (age 63), director of the movie &#8220;Time Walker,&#8221; in episode 405- BEING FROM ANOTHER PLANET.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">12\/11 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=11487\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Susan Gordon<\/span><\/a> (age 62), who played Sandy Hubbard in the movie in episode 414- TORMENTED.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">12\/16 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=11547\">Robert Easton<\/a><\/span> (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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, we wanted to mention<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=9522\">Yvette Vickers<\/a><\/strong> (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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>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. 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