Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies who have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Jerry Alan (c.1939-2014) Stunt man. He worked on the James Bond movies Casino Royale, Diamonds Are Forever and The Man with the Golden Gun, as well a Cop and a 1/2. He died of throat-and-mouth cancer on September 26. (THR) Bob Baker (1924-2014) - Puppeteer. His legendary marrionette work can be seen in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (see the long-limbed alien in the video below), Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Angry Red Planet, G.I...
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- 12/2/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
"Ken Takakura, who first rose to stardom in the 1960s playing yakuza outlaws, but later became Hollywood’s go-to actor for made-in-Japan films, died on Nov. 10 at age 83," reports Mark Schilling for Variety. We're also collecting remembrances of former Los Angeles Times arts editor, film critic and columnist Charles Champlin, actress-turned-screenwriter Leigh Chapman, Battlestar Galactica creator Glen A. Larson, Jerry Blumenthal, founding partner of the Chicago documentary production house Kartemquin Films, actors Warren Clarke and David Watson and stuntman Jerry Alan. » - David Hudson...
- 11/18/2014
- Keyframe
"Ken Takakura, who first rose to stardom in the 1960s playing yakuza outlaws, but later became Hollywood’s go-to actor for made-in-Japan films, died on Nov. 10 at age 83," reports Mark Schilling for Variety. We're also collecting remembrances of former Los Angeles Times arts editor, film critic and columnist Charles Champlin, actress-turned-screenwriter Leigh Chapman, Battlestar Galactica creator Glen A. Larson, Jerry Blumenthal, founding partner of the Chicago documentary production house Kartemquin Films, actors Warren Clarke and David Watson and stuntman Jerry Alan. » - David Hudson...
- 11/18/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Jerry Alan, a stunt coordinator and stuntman who worked on three James Bond films and the 1993 Burt Reynolds comedy Cop and a Half, has died. He was 75. Alan died Sept. 26 of throat and mouth cancer in Tampa, Fla., actor-producer Mark Terry told The Hollywood Reporter. At age 68, Alan flipped a car off a pipe ramp for a stunt in the film Live Evil (2009), which was produced by Terry, who called the stuntman “one of my first teachers in this business.” Alan did stunts on the Bond features Diamonds Are Forever (1971), The Man With
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- 11/13/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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