Our place to honor those actors, actresses and the many people behind the camera that have passed in 2022.
December 5th – Kirstie Alley (1951-2022)
Kirstie Alley Movies | Ultimate Movie Rankings
November 25th – Irene Cara (1959-2022)
October 14th – Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
October 11th – Angela Lansbury (1925-2022)
September 23rd – Louis Fletcher (1934-2022)
September 14th – Henry Silva (1928-2022)
September 14th – Irene Papas (1934-2022)
Irene Papas Movies in our Database Ranked – Movie (Year)
1st – Z (1969)
2nd – Zorba the Greek (1964)
3rd – Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Message, The (1976)
Moon-Spinners (1964)
Lion of the Desert (1980)
Brotherhood, The (1968)
Trojan Women, The (1971)
High Season (1987)
Sweet Country (1987)
11th – Battle of Sutjeska, The (1973)
September 13th – Jean Luc Godard (1930 – 2022)
Sadly we do not currently have a UMR Godard Page.
September 10th – Marsha Hunt (1917-2022)
August 12th – Wolfgang Petersen (1941-2022)
August 12th – Anne Heche (1969-2022)
August 8th – Olivia Newton-John (1948-2022)
August 6th – Clu Gulager (1928-2022)
July 31st – Nichelle Nichols (1932-2022)
July 25th – Paul Sorvino (1939-2022)
July 24th – David Warner (1941-2022)
July 23rd – Bob Rafelson (1933-2022)
July 9th – L.Q. Jones (1927-2022)
July 6th – James Caan (1940-2022)
June 12th – Philip Baker Hall (1931-2022)
May 28th – Bo Hopkins (1942-2022)
May 26th – Ray Liotta (1954-2022)
May 8th – Fred Ward (1922-2022)
April 20th – Robert Morse (1931-2022)
April 12th – Gilbert Gottfried (1955-2022)
April 7th – Nehemiah Persoff (1919-2022)
March 13th – William Hurt (1950-2022)
March 4th – Mitchell Ryan (1934-2022)
February 24th – Sally Kellerman (1937-2022)
February 13th – Ivan Reitman (1946-2022)
January 21st – Louie Anderson (1953-2022)
January 20th – Meat Loaf (1947-2022)
January 17th – Yvette Mimieux (1942-2022)
January 9th – Bob Saget (1956-2022)
January 9th – Dwayne Hickman (1934-2022)
January 6th – Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)
January 6th – Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022)
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Not movie related but as a Canadian I wanted to express my sorrow at the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96 years old. Rest in peace.
Hey Flora. Sad news about Queen Elizabeth, but she had a helluva run. RIP!
MY “HAVE SEEN” William Reynolds movies: William has just supporting roles in all of them
1/All that Heaven Allows – back-to-back with the monster hit Magnificent Obsession both of these movies marked the beginning of Rock Hudson’s megastar period which lasted until about 1963/64. Jane Wyman was of course his leading lady in the 2 movies which have long been top faves of mine.
The Hudson/Wyman version of Magnificent Obsession was a remake of the 1935 movie of the same name starring Robert Taylor and Irene Dunne and made a star of Taylor just as it did Rock in 1954. Rock acknowledged that in a TV interview that I saw.
2/The Desert Fox – James Mason
3/Cimmaron Kid – Audie Murphy western
4/Away All Boats – Jeff Chandler war movie
5/A Distant Trumpet – Troy Donahue western. “3 cheers for the officer commanding and his lady!”
6/There’s Always Tomorrow – Barbara Stanwyck/Fred MacMurray – a prolific classic era team
7/Francis Goes to West Point – Donald O’Connor and Francis the Talking Mule [voice contributed by Chill Wills]
8/Gunsmoke – Audie Murphy western
9/Mr Corey – Tony Curtis “Nobody loved Mr Corey more than he loved himself!”
10/The Mississippi Gambler – Tyrone Power and Piper Laurie. By great coincidence as I write now I am recording this on TMC television movie channel to watch later. I have seen it before and vividly remember standing outside a movie house in 1953 and gazing at a large poster for it.
HI FLORA: Thanks for flagging-up William’s sad death. I am quite familiar with his career and am pleased to have the opportunity of paying my final respects to him.
I most remember him for the role of Jane Wyman’s son in All that Heaven Allows. He wasn’t very kind to his mother in the movie, using emotional blackmail to come for a time between widow Jane and her younger lover Rock Hudson; though of course it being a Douglas Sirk weepie all’s well that ends well in it as the saying goes.
It’s one of my very favourite films and Steve likes to tease me about it classifying it as “mush” as he does! It has always been classified as a “woman’s picture” and Steve’s a bit of a chauvinist in his movies tastes – rugged action guys and all that!
Living to the fine old age of 90 William’s main career lasted from 1951-1978; but after a long absence he briefly returned in 1989 to appear with Bette Davis [from archive footage] in a 12 min short movie called Hairway to the Stars – then that was it for good.
He leaves behind an estimated net worth of $10 million. I have seen William in the 10 movies listed in part 2 of this post. William was with the same woman in marriage [Molly Sinclair] from 1950 until her death in 1992 – a great innings by Hollywood standards
Classic Hollywood era actor William Reynolds has died at the age of 90. His best known films include All That Heaven allows, No Questions Asked and The Gallant Men. Rest in peace
COPIED FROM OLIVIA’S PERSONAL PAGE AND EXTENDED
I mentioned in my Anne Heche post today that the last occasion on which I saw Anne on screen was in a 2016 TV Christmas Movie called “Sounds Like Christmas”.
It is a fine coincidence therefore that my final experience of Olivia as an actress was in the 1994 TV Christmas Movie “A Christmas Romance” – sorry Steve I am an incurable romantic who just loves Christmas movies – the REAL ones I mean: not the pretend ones that you and WH watch and hype-up!
It ‘s a great pity that on the big screen Olivia wasn’t able to build more on her massive success in Grease. However a lady who has been in one of the biggest screen box office musicals of all-time; who has been a successful singer and songwriter of great variety and versatility; who has had a prolific TV career; and who had generated a net worth of $60 million at the time of her sad death had certainly one heck of an all-round entertainment career to be envied.
So as an multi-function entertainment icon she certainly deserves her Cogerson page. In a television interview way back in 1980 when she was just 32 that I saw her Xanadu co-star the great Eugene Kelly paid tribute to her as a talented person and a warm human being. RIP
ADDED MATERIAL-Away from movies I have long-admired Olivia as 1/a humanatarian activist particularly regarding animal rights and 2/a singer.
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In 2008, Olivia raised funds to help build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne, Australia. She led a three-week, 228 km walk along the Great Wall of China during April, joined by various celebrities and cancer survivors throughout her trek. The walk symbolised the steps cancer patients must take on their road to recovery
Newton-John’s advocacy for health issues was presaged by her prior involvement with MANY humanitarian causes. For example at the height of her fame Newton-John cancelled a 1978 concert tour of Japan to protest the slaughter of dolphins caught in tuna fishing nets. She subsequently rescheduled the tour when the Japanese government assured her that the practice was being curbed.
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Olivia’s 1971 interpretation of the classic Banks of the Ohio has long been in my personal record collection. I will close my extended tribute to her by repeating the first 2 verses:
I asked my love to take a walk
Just a walk a little way
And as we walk, oh, may we talk
All about our wedding day
Only say that you’ll be mine
In our home we’ll happy be
Down beside where the waters flow
On the banks of the Ohio