Vladimir Msryan Armenian actor. died he was , 72,

Vladimir Ivanovich Msryan  was an Armenian stage and film actor died he was , 72,.^[1]



 (Russian: Владимир Иванович Мсрян; Armenian: Վլադիմիր Մսրյան; March 12, 1938—August 24, 2010)




Msryan was born in Ordzhonikidze, Russia. From 1958 to 1962 he studied drama at the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theater Institute. He performed at the Yerevan Drama Theater from 1966 onwards. Aside from Armenian films he also appeared in such non-Armenian films as Sand-Storm, White Cloth, Empire of Pirates and Unburied Corpses. He may have garnered the most attention for his portrayal of Niccolò Paganini in the 1982 Soviet television miniseries.^{[citation needed]}
He starred in Smerch which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]
On August 24, 2010, Msryan died in Yerevan, aged 72, from undisclosed causes.



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Tito Burns; British musician, died of prostate cancer.he was , 89

Tito Burns  was a British musician and impresario, who was active in both jazz and rock and roll died of prostate cancer.he was , 89.

(7 February 1921 – 23 August 2010[1])

 Biography

Born Nathan Bernstein in London,^[1] Burns was an accomplished accordionist, whose group, the Tito Burns Septet, featured on the BBC's Accordion Club radio series. In 1947, they are thought to have been the first band to perform the new jazz idiom bebop on BBC Radio.^[2] When the show ended, the band went on tour and recorded a number of sides with various line-ups, including the pianist and trumpeter Dennis Rose and saxophonist Johnny Dankworth. In 1949, they were recording as a septet, but went back to being a sextet shortly afterwards.^[3]


By 1955, the orchestra had disbanded, and Burns's career took a turn to the emerging phenomenon of rock and roll. In 1959, he replaced Franklyn Boyd as manager for Cliff Richard,^[4] and he soon gathered an impressive list of clients, including The Searchers, whom he gave over to Brian Epstein.^[5] Among the new talents he discovered was singer Dusty Springfield.^[6] As an impresario, he first brought Cliff Richard to tailor Dougie Millings for a stage costume. The resulting outfit, with its unique style, was later emulated by other key performers of the time, and Millings went on to make costumes for The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and especially The Beatles. Burns also appeared in D. A. Pennebaker's 1965 film Don't Look Back.
Toward the end of his career, Burns left managing bands for an executive position at London Weekend Television.^[5] Throughout his career he promoted concert tours for many US entertainers in Europe, such as Simon and Garfunkel, Tony Bennett, and Victor Borge.^[1]

Personal life

Burns married his longtime girlfriend and singer, Terry Devon, in 1948. They had two daughters, Linda and Sharon.

Death

Tito Burns died in August 2010, of prostate cancer, at the age of 89.^[2]

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Jim MacLaren, American triathlete.died he was , 47

Jim MacLaren  was a motivational speaker and author, noted for his record-breaking performances in the marathon and Ironman triathlon after having his left leg amputated below the knee.

(April 13, 1963 – August 30, 2010)

MacLaren was born on 13 April 1963. He was a standout athlete in football and lacrosse at Yale University. Moreover even before matriculating at Yale he had been a leading athlete at Vermont Academy. In 1985, at the age of 22, MacLaren lost his left leg below the knee in a motorcycle accident. He recovered, and went on to run the marathon in 3 hours, 16 minutes, and to finish the Ironman Hawaii in 10 hours, 42 minutes.
Then, in 1993, during the Orange County Triathlon, MacLaren was struck by a van during the bike portion of the race and collided with a signpost, rendering him a quadriplegic.
MacLaren's accident inspired members of the running community to raise funds to allow him to purchase a van he could drive with his hands. The fundraiser rose above and beyond the amount of funds necessary, and the Challenged Athletes Foundation was founded in an effort to support other disabled athletes in their efforts.
Again MacLaren recovered, and used a wheelchair. MacLaren then worked as a motivational speaker and author.
He was awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2005 ESPY Awards presentation. He recently passed away on August 31,2010, in his sleep.

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George David Weiss American composer ("What a Wonderful World", "Can't Help Falling in Love", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"), died of natural causes.he was , 89,

George David Weiss  was an American songwriter and former President of the Songwriters Guild of America.died of natural causes.he was , 89,

(April 9, 1921, New York City, New York^[1] – August 23, 2010)

Career

Weiss was born in a Jewish family, and originally planned a career as a lawyer or accountant, but out of a love for music he was led to attend the Juilliard School of Music,^[1] developing his skills in writing and arranging. After leaving school, he became an arranger for such big bands as those of Stan Kenton, Vincent Lopez, and Johnny Richards. Early on in his music career, he played woodwind and violin in various dance bands before his military service during World War II.^[1]
He was a very prolific songwriter during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, with many of his songs attaining high rankings on the charts.^[1] Although he worked with many collaborators, the largest proportion of his well-known songs were written with Bennie Benjamin.^[1]
Weiss contributed to a number of film scores: Murder, Inc. (1960), Gidget Goes to Rome (1953), Mediterranean Holiday (1964), and Mademoiselle (1966).
Collaborations on three Broadway musicals were among his compositions. Mr. Wonderful was written in 1956 with Jerry Bock and Larry Holofcener. The Broadway production starred Sammy Davis, Jr. First Impressions was based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was written in 1959, with Bo Goldman and Glenn Paxton. Maggie Flynn was written in 1968, with Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. It was set in New York during the American Civil War, and the Broadway production starred Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy. In addition, Weiss and Will Severin composed the family musical, A Tale of Cinderella, which was first presented in December 1994 at the Theater Institute in Troy, New York, and filmed for presentation on PBS.
His music was recorded by singers such as Tom Jones, Mel Tormé, Elvis Presley, Dinah Washington, The Stylistics, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Sammy Davis Jr.^[1] Weiss wrote the lyrics for the Jazz standard Lullaby of Birdland, which became a huge hit for Ella Fitzgerald. In 1984 Weiss was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
In 2006 a court settlement was reached regarding royalties for the worldwide rights of the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," best known as a #1 hit for The Tokens, which was based on a 1939 song by Solomon Linda. While Solomon Linda was successful, Weiss and co-writers Peretti and Creatore were not. They failed to earn any writing credit for their four new original bars of music in the 1961 hit. The case was thrown out of court based on statute of limitations.
Weiss died at age 89 on August 23, 2010, of natural causes at his home in Oldwick, New Jersey.^[2]

Notable songs

• "Lullaby of Birdland" (1952) - under the pseudonym "B. Y. Forster", with music by George Shearing
• "Mr. Wonderful" (1955) - co-written by Jerry Bock and Lawrence Holofcener
• "The Lion Sleeps Tonight (1961) - tune written by Solomon Linda in 1939; lyrics rewritten in 1961 by Weiss, Luigi Creatore, and Hugo Peretti
• "Can't Help Falling in Love with You" (1962) - co-written by Luigi Creatore and Hugo Peretti
• "That Sunday, That Summer" (1963) - co-written by Joe Sherman
• "Stay With Me" (1966) - co-written by Jerry Ragovoy
• "What a Wonderful World" (1968) - co-written by Bob Thiele
• "Let's Put It All Together" - co-written by Luigi Creatore and Hugo Peretti

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Kihachirō Kawamoto, Japanese puppet designer and animator. died he was , 85

Kihachirō Kawamoto^[2] was a Japanese designer and maker of puppets, an animator, writer and director of independently-made stop motion films and president of the Japan Animation Association  died he was , 85, succeeding founder Osamu Tezuka, from 1989^[6] until his own death. He is best-remembered in Japan as designer of the puppets for the long-running NHK live action television series of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the early 1980s and The Tale of the Heike in the 1990s but better-known internationally for his own animated short films, the majority of which are model animation but which also include the cutout animation Tabi and Shijin no Shōgai and mixed media, French-language Farce anthropo-cynique.

Since beginning his career in his early twenties as a production design assistant under So Matsuyama^[7] in the art department of Toho in 1946^[2], he met Tadasu Iizawa and left the film studio in 1950 to collaborate with him on illustrating children's literature with Photographs of dolls in dioramas, many of which have been republished in English editions by such American publishers as Grosset & Dunlap and Western Publishing's Golden Books imprint,^[7] and trained in the art of stop motion filmmaking under Tadahito Mochinaga and, later, Jiří Trnka. He is also closely associated with Tadanari Okamoto, another independent with whom he collaborated in booking private halls in which to show their films to the public as the "Puppet Animashow" in the 1970s and whose last film, The Restaurant of Many Orders (注文の多い料理店, Chūmon no Ōi Ryōriten^?, 1991) was completed under Kawamoto following Okamoto's death during its production.

(川本 喜八郎, Kawamoto Kihachirō?, January 11, 1925 – August 23, 2010)

 Biography

Born in 1925, from an early age Kawamoto was captivated by the art of doll and puppet making. After seeing the works of maestro Czech animator Jiří Trnka, he first became interested in stop motion puppet animation and during the '50s began working alongside Japan's first puppet animator, the legendary Tadahito Mochinaga. In 1958, he co-founded Shiba Productions to make commercial animation for television, but it was not until 1963, when he traveled to Prague to study puppet animation under Jiří Trnka for a year, that he considered his puppets to have truly began to take on a life of their own. Trnka encouraged Kawamoto to draw on his own country's rich cultural heritage in his work, and so Kawamoto returned from Czechoslovakia to make a series of highly individual, independently-produced artistic short works, beginning with Breaking of Branches is Forbidden (Hana-Ori) in 1968. Heavily influence by the traditional aesthetics of Nō, Bunraku-style puppetry and kabuki, since the '70s his haunting puppet animations such as The Demon (Oni, 1972), Dōjōji Temple (Dōjōji, 1976) and House of Flame (Kataku, 1979) have won numerous prizes internationally. He has also produced cut-out (kirigami) animations such as Travel (Tabi, 1973) and A Poet's Life (Shijin no Shogai, 1974). In 1990 he returned to Trnka's studios in Prague to make Briar Rose, or The Sleeping Beauty. In Japan, he is best known for designing the puppets used in the long-running TV series based on the Chinese literary classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sangokushi, 1982–84), and later for The Tale of the Heike (Heike Monogatari, 1993–94). In 2003, he was responsible for overseeing the Winter Days (Fuyu no Hi) project, in which 35 of the world's top animators each worked on a two-minute segment inspired by the renka couplets of celebrated poet Matsuo Bashō. The Book of the Dead (Shisha no Sho) is Kawamoto's second feature length stop motion puppet animation, after Rennyo and His Mother (Rennyo to Sono Haha) in 1981. It had its world premiere as a part of a Special Retrospective Tribute at the 40th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 1–9, 2005, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic).

Filmography

Short films

• Breaking of Branches is Forbidden (花折り, Hana-Ori^?, 1968, 14 min.)
• Anthropo-Cynical Farce (Farce anthropo-cynique, 1970, 8 min., from a story by Riichi Yokomitsu)
• The Demon (鬼, Oni^?, 1972, 8 min.)
• Travel (旅, Tabi^?, 1973, 12 min.)
• A Poet's Life (詩人の生涯, Shijin no Shōgai^?, 1974, 19 min., from a story by Kōbō Abe)
• Dōjōji (道成寺^?, 1976, 19 min., from the Nō play of the same name)
• House of Flame (火宅, Kataku^?, 1979, 19 min.)
• Self-Portrait (セルフポートレート, Serufu-Pōtorēto^?, 1988, 1 min., part of a multi-artist ASIFA project of animated self-portraits by animators)^[8]
• To Shoot without Shooting (不射之射, Fusha no Sha^?, 1988, 25 min., from a story by Atsushi Nakajima; coproduction with People's Republic of China made at Shanghai Animation Film Studio)^[9]
• Briar-Rose or The Sleeping Beauty (いばら姫またはねむり姫, Ibara-Hime matawa Nemuri-Hime^?, 1990, 22 min., from a concept by Kyōko Kishida; coproduction with Czechoslovakia made at Jiří Trnka Studio)^[9][10]
• Amefutakami, in the Sky (ひさかたの天二上, Hisakata no Amefutakami^?, 2006, 14 min.)^[11]

Feature films

• Rennyo and His Mother (蓮如とその母, Rennyo to Sono Haha^?, 1981, 93 min., live action)^[10][12]
• Winter Days (冬の日, Fuyu no Hi^?, 2003, 40 min.)
• The Book of the Dead (死者の書, Shisha no Sho^?, 2005, 70 min., from a novel by Shinobu Orikuchi)^[11]

DVD releases

Short films

Title	Format	Region	Distributor	Series	Date	Catalogue #	Subtitles
Kihachiro Kawamoto Film Works (川本喜八郎作品集, Kawamoto Kihachirō Sakuhinshū?)	NTSC	All	Pioneer Corporation	New Animation Animation	2002.7.10	PIBA-3032	English, Japanese
Kihachiro Kawamoto Film Works (川本喜八郎作品集, Kawamoto Kihachirō Sakuhinshū?)	NTSC	All	Geneon	New Animation Animation	2007.1.25	GNBA-3034	English, Japanese
The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto	NTSC	1	Kino International	The KimStim Collection	2008.4.22	KV623DVD	English

Winter Days

See Winter Days.

The Book of the Dead

Title	Format	Region	Distributor	Series	Date	Catalogue #	Subtitles
The Book of the Dead (死者の書, Shisha no Sho?)	NTSC	2	Geneon	New Animation Animation	2007.10.24	GNBA-3062	None
The Book of the Dead	NTSC	1	Kino International	The KimStim Collection	2008.4.22	KV613DVD	English

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Conny Stuart, Dutch singer and actress, died she was 96

Conny Stuart, pseudonym of Cornelia van Meijgaard, was a Dutch actress, singer, and cabaretière.

(September 5, 1913 – August 22, 2010)

Biography

Stuart was born in Wijhe and grew up in The Hague, near the Vredespaleis. Her father was the administrator of the baron.
During her education at the HBS Bleyenburg she took on the name "Stuart" and took piano lessons. In this period, she got the nickname "Puck". Stuart started her career as chansonnière and performed with the band of Freddy Johnson. On July 25, 1939, she made her radio debut.
In the Second World War, she met Wim Sonneveld, and began to perform in his ensemble. Sonneveld stimulated her comic qualities, for instance by letting his stage writer Hella Haasse write a farcical song like "Yvonne de spionne" for her. In the 1950s she became the leading lady of the show. Annie M.G. Schmidt, who wrote for the shows in those days, made sure she at least had one solo per show. She also could be heard in popular comical radio shows like Mimosa and Koek en ei.
In those years she was married to Henri Hofman. They had two sons. In 1957 she divorced and married fellow actor Joop Doderer. They divorced in 1960.

From the 1960s on, she became one of The Netherlands' greatest musical stars. She mainly acted in the musicals of Annie M.G. Schmidt and Harry Bannink, including their first, Heerlijk duurt het langst from 1965. The show was an incredible success, and Schmidt and Bannink wrote four more musicals for her. She ended her career in 1985 with her stage show De Stuart Story, accompanied by Louis van Dijk, where she performed old success songs and new songs written for her by Schmidt.



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Dave McElhatton, American television news anchor, died from complications of a stroke he was 81

Dave McElhatton, an esteemed figure in the world of broadcast journalism, left behind a profound legacy following his passing on August 23, 2010, at the age of 81. Having served as an evening news anchor in San Francisco, California for several decades, McElhatton's contribution to the field was truly remarkable.

McElhatton's exceptional career and influence within the industry were acknowledged with his inclusion in the first class of inductees to the Bay Area Hall of Fame. This distinguished honor solidified his standing as a respected and beloved figure in the San Francisco community. McElhatton remained a significant presence in the world of news broadcasting until his retirement in 2000.

Fondly referred to as "Mac" by colleagues and viewers alike, McElhatton's commitment to delivering accurate, insightful, and engaging news coverage fostered a strong connection between himself and the audience he served so faithfully.

Dave McElhatton's impact on the broadcast journalism landscape, particularly within the Bay Area, remains an inspiration for aspiring and seasoned journalists alike. As the community mourned his passing, his life and work continue to be celebrated as a testament to the power of dedication and integrity in news reporting.

 (December 8, 1928 – August 23, 2010)

Early life

Dave McElhatton's early life was rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born and raised in Oakland, California, McElhatton pursued higher education at San Francisco State College, now known as San Francisco State University. His dedication to learning culminated in the achievement of a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies in 1951.

San Francisco State University is a respected institution that provides a diverse and well-rounded education, encompassing many areas of knowledge in the humanities, arts, and sciences. The curriculum emphasizes critical thinking, effective communication, and the pursuit of intellectual growth.

This educational foundation served as a stepping stone for McElhatton's future success in broadcast journalism, equipping him with the skills and knowledge necessary to thrive in the competitive world of news reporting. The early years of his life laid the groundwork for his illustrious career, and his connection to San Francisco and its institutions continued to shape his personal and professional journey.

Dave McElhatton's illustrious career in journalism garnered him numerous awards and accolades, recognizing his exceptional contributions to the field. Some of the most notable awards he received include:

• Excellence in Journalism Award by the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter in 1988, honoring his distinguished career.
• Induction into the Alumni Hall of Fame at San Francisco State University in 1996, recognizing his achievements as an alumnus.
• The Governor's Award at the Northern California Emmy Presentation in 1999, acknowledging his remarkable influence in the broadcasting industry.
• The Associated Press Television-Radio Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003, celebrating his lifelong dedication and significant impact on journalism.
• Induction into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2006 as part of its inaugural class, solidifying his status as a radio legend.

These prestigious awards highlight the immense respect and admiration that McElhatton's peers and the industry at large had for his work and the lasting legacy he left behind.

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