Archive for August, 2006

Glenn Ford, 90

Posted: Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 11:41 pm

The Big Heat
Actor Glenn Ford, who played strong, thoughtful protagonists in films such as “The Blackboard Jungle,”"Gilda” and “The Big Heat,” died Wednesday, police said. He was 90. … Read full obituary


“Psycho” scriptwriter Joseph Stefano, 84

Posted: Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 7:49 pm

Joseph Stefano, wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”; was co-creator of TV’s “The Outer Limits.” August 25 at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center.


Australian Democrats party founder Don Chipp, 81

Posted: Monday, August 28th, 2006 5:28 pm

Australian Democrats founder Don Chipp has died in a Melbourne hospital, aged 81, following a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. … Read full obituary


Formula One co-founder Creighton Brown

Posted: Saturday, August 26th, 2006 8:48 pm

August 21, 2006 — Creighton Brown, a wellknown racing entrepreneur and a man who helped Ron Dennis win control of McLaren, has died of cancer. … Read full obituary


Jazz bandleader Maynard Ferguson, 78

Posted: Thursday, August 24th, 2006 11:34 am

Best known for his trumpet performance on the theme to “Rocky” (”Gonna Fly Now”); in Ojai, California.


The Knack drummer Bruce Gary, 55

Posted: Thursday, August 24th, 2006 10:11 am

Bruce Gary, the rock drummer who worked with George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Stephen Stills but is best known as The Knack’s original drummer — the man who played on the group’s No. 1 hit “My Sharona” — has died. He was 55. … Read full obituary


National Lampoon co-founder Robert K. Hoffman

Posted: Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 8:20 pm

Robert K. Hoffman, one of three founders of the irreverent National Lampoon magazine, has died. He was 59.

Hoffman, a noted Dallas philanthropist, died Sunday at an area hospital. He had been suffering from leukemia since December, according to his family. … Read full obituary


Joe Rosenthal, Iwo Jima flag photographer

Posted: Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 7:32 am

Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945Joe Rosenthal, Pulitzer prize-winning Associated Press photographer who shot the spontaneous (and ubiquitous) picture of World War II soldiers raising an American flag over Iwo Jima; Sunday, at age 94.


Squaw Valley founder Alexander C. Cushing, 92

Posted: Sunday, August 20th, 2006 10:01 pm

Alexander C. Cushing, the founder and chairman of Squaw Valley Ski Resort, died of pneumonia this weekend at his summer home in Newport, Rhode Island.

Cushing was 92. … Read full obituary


Maj. Gen. Kathryn George Frost, 57

Posted: Friday, August 18th, 2006 8:31 pm

Retired Major General Kathryn George Frost, highest-ranking woman in the U.S. Army upon her retirement in 2005; Friday, of breast cancer.


David Witt, FIL of bicyclist Floyd Landis, 57, a suicide

Posted: Thursday, August 17th, 2006 5:12 pm

The father-in-law of embattled Tour de France winner Floyd Landis was found dead in his car after committing suicide, coroner’s officials said Wednesday. … Read full obituary


Playwright Alex Buzo, 62

Posted: Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 6:03 pm

Alex Buzo, the playwright and novelist whose acerbic, satirical work tackled issues such as racism, alienation and the moral emptiness of late-’60s Australia, has died at the age of 62. … Read full obituary


Maori Queen dies at age 75

Posted: Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 7:02 am

HAMILTON, New Zealand, Aug. 16 (UPI) — A weeklong period of mourning has been declared in New Zealand for Maori Queen Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu who died at age 75. … Read full obituary


Bruno Kirby: Full obit

Posted: Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 7:02 am

… Bruno, 57, starred in a host of Hollywood films, including ‘When Harry Met Sally’, ‘City Slickers’ alongside Billy Crystal, ‘The Godfather: Part II’ and ‘Good Morning Vietnam’. … Read full obituary


BREAKING: Actor Bruno Kirby (”City Slickers,” “When Harry Met Sally”)

Posted: Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 8:01 pm

Obit to come.


Singer/talk-show host Mike Douglas, 81

Posted: Friday, August 11th, 2006 1:33 pm

Mike Douglas, who drew on his affable personality and singing talent during 21 years as host of a syndicated television talk show, died today (Aug. 11) on his 81st birthday, his wife said. … Read full obituary


“Frank & Ernest” creator Bob Thaves, 81

Posted: Thursday, August 10th, 2006 12:00 pm

Bob Thaves, whose nationally syndicated comic strip “Frank & Ernest” amused newspaper readers for decades with its quirky observations on life, has died of respiratory failure. He was 81. … Read full obituary


James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen belts, 91

Posted: Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 6:59 pm

Dr. James Van Allen, the Iowa-born space pioneer, died today at the age of 91. …

His use of instruments carried aboard the first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958 to discover bands of intense radiation surrounding the Earth — later known as Van Allen radiation belts — was a groundbreaking achievement. … Read full obituary


Iditarod champion Susan Butcher, 51

Posted: Saturday, August 5th, 2006 11:58 pm

Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher died Saturday in a Seattle hospital of a reoccurrence of leukemia after a recent stem-cell transplant, her doctor said. She was 51. … Read full obituary


Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90

Posted: Friday, August 4th, 2006 11:57 am

Famed soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, one of the greatest voices of the 20th century, died at her home in western Austria early Thursday, state television reported. She was 90. … Read full obituary