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☆ Barbara Rush, Award-Winning TV and Film Actress, Dies at 97
  + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Anita Gates | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Barbara Rush, the supremely poised actress who rose to fame with supporting roles in 1950s films like “Magnificent Obsession” and “The Young Lions,” died on Sunday at her home in Westlake Village, Calif., in Los Angeles County. The death, in a senior care facility, was confirmed by her daughter, Claudia Cowan. If Ms. Rush’s portrayals had one thing in common, it was a gentle, ladylike quality, which she put to use in films of many genres. She was Jane Wyman’s concerned stepdaughter in the 1954 romantic drama “Magnificent Obsession” and Dean Martin’s loyal wartime girlfriend in “The Young Lions” (1958), set during World War II. In 1950s science fiction pictures like “It Came From Outer Space” and “When Worlds Collide,” she was the small-town heroine, the scientist’s daughter, the Earthling most likely to succeed.
Persons: Barbara Rush, ”, Claudia Cowan, Jane Wyman’s, Dean Martin’s, “ Organizations: The Young Lions, “ The Young Lions Locations: Westlake Village, Calif, Los Angeles County
☆ Louis Gossett Jr., 87, Dies; ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ and ‘Roots’ Actor
  + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Anita Gates | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Louis Gossett Jr., who took home an Academy Award for “An Officer and a Gentleman” and an Emmy for “Roots,” both times playing a mature man who guides a younger one taking on a new role — but in drastically different circumstances — died early Friday in Santa Monica, Calif. Mr. Gossett’s first cousin Neal L. Gossett confirmed the death. Mr. Gossett was 46 when he played Emil Foley, the Marine drill instructor from hell who ultimately shapes the humanity of an emotionally damaged young Naval aviation recruit (Richard Gere) — in “An Officer and a Gentleman” (1982). Reviewing the movie in The New York Times, Vincent Canby described Sergeant Foley as a cruel taskmaster “recycled as a man of recognizable cunning, dedication and humor” revealed in “the kind of performance that wins awards.”
Persons: Louis Gossett Jr, ”, —, Gossett’s, Neal L, Gossett, Emil Foley, Richard Gere, Vincent Canby, Sergeant Foley Organizations: Naval, New York Times Locations: Santa Monica, Calif, “
☆ Frances Sternhagen, Actress Who Thrived in Mature Roles, Dies at 93
  + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Anita Gates | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Frances Sternhagen, the Tony Award-winning actress who played leading roles in stage productions of “Driving Miss Daisy” and “On Golden Pond” as formidable older women when she was so young that she had to wear aging makeup, died on Monday at her home in New Rochelle, N.Y. She was 93. Ms. Sternhagen won Tonys as featured actress in a play for her performances in two very different productions. In a 1995 Broadway revival of “The Heiress,” based on Henry James’s novel “Washington Square,” she was Cherry Jones’s well-meaning, matchmaking Aunt Lavinia. In “The Good Doctor,” Neil Simon’s 1973 take on Chekhov, she played multiple roles in comedy sketches. She received Tony nominations for her roles in the original productions of “On Golden Pond,” “Equus” and the musical “Angel” and in revivals of “Morning’s at Seven” and “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window.”
Persons: Frances Sternhagen, Daisy ”, Tony Carlin, Sternhagen, “, ”, Henry James’s, Cherry Jones’s, ” Neil Simon’s, Chekhov, Alfred Uhry’s “, Ernest Thompson’s “, Tony, “ Morning’s Locations: New Rochelle, N.Y, ”, Brustein’s
☆ Richard Roundtree, Star of ‘Shaft,’ Dies at 81
  + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Anita Gates | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Richard Roundtree, the actor who redefined African American masculinity in the movies when he played the title role in “Shaft,” one of the first Black action heroes, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his manager, Patrick McMinn, who said that it had been diagnosed two months ago. “Shaft,” which was released in 1971, was among the first of the so-called Blaxploitation movies, and it made Roundtree a movie star at 29. The character John Shaft is his own man, a private detective who jaywalks confidently through moving Times Square traffic in a handsome brown leather coat with the collar turned up; sports a robust, dark mustache somewhere between walrus-style and a downturned handlebar; and keeps a pearl-handled revolver in the fridge in his Greenwich Village duplex apartment. As Roundtree observed in a 1972 article in The New York Times, he is “a Black man who is for once a winner.”
Persons: Richard Roundtree, Patrick McMinn, John Shaft, jaywalks, Roundtree, ” Organizations: New York Times Locations: Los Angeles, Greenwich
☆ George Maharis, TV Heartthrob of ‘Route 66,’ Is Dead at 94
  + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Anita Gates | Alex Traub | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
George Maharis, the ruggedly handsome New York-born stage actor who went on to become a 1960s television heartthrob as a star of the series “Route 66,” died on Wednesday at at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. His friend Marc Bahan announced his death on Facebook. Mr. Maharis’s greatest fame arose from the role of Buz Murdock, one of two young men who traveled the country in a Corvette convertible, finding a new adventure and drama (and usually a new young woman) each week on CBS’s “Route 66.”In a 2012 reappraisal of the show, the New York Times critic and reporter Neil Genzlinger praised the literary quality of the scripts and commented, “This half-century-old black-and-white television series tackled issues that seem very 21st century.”
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