George Hickenlooper, American documentary filmmaker, died of an heart attack he was , 47

George Hickenlooper Director , who won an Emmy Award for the documentary "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," has died. He was 47.


(May 25, 1963 – October 29, 2010)

Hickenlooper was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended high school at St. Louis University High, where he was part of a group of teenage filmmakers he informally called the "Splicers".^[1]
After graduating from Yale University with a B.A. in History and Film Studies in 1986, Hickenlooper interned for the producer Roger Corman, and launched his directing career with Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper in 1988.

His first feature-length documentary, Hearts of Darkness, explored the making of Apocalypse Now. It won several awards, including the National Board of Review award for "Best Documentary", an American Cinema Editors award for "Best Edited Documentary", two Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards for "Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming – Directing" and "Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming – Picture Editing", and the International Documentary Association award. Hickenlooper himself won an Emmy for direction.
George Hickenlooper's cousin, John Hickenlooper, who is the mayor of Denver, Colorado and Governor-elect of Colorado, made a cameo appearance as a fictional senator in Hickenlooper's 2010 film Casino Jack.^[2]

In addition to his films, Hickenlooper authored a 1991 book, Reel Conversations.
Hickenlooper died in his sleep on October 29, 2010.^[3][4] Despite initial reports that Hickenlooper had suffered a heart attack, the coroner ruled that his death was the result of accidental painkiller overdose, combining oxymorphone with alcohol. Sleep apnea and a "moderately enlarged heart" were contributing factors.^[5] He is survived by his wife Suzanne, son Charles, a younger brother, and his mother and father.^[3]

[edit] Filmography

• Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper, 1988
• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, 1991
• Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas, 1991
• Ghost Brigade (aka The Killing Box), 1993
• Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade, 1994
• The Low Life, 1995
• Persons Unknown, 1996
• Dogtown, 1997
• The Big Brass Ring, 1997
• Monte Hellman: American Auteur, 1997
• The Big Brass Ring, 1999
• The Man from Elysian Fields, 2001
• Being Mick, 2001
• Mayor of the Sunset Strip, 2003
• Bizarre Love Triangle, 2005
• Factory Girl, 2006
• Speechless, 2008
• Out in the City, 2009
• 'Hick' Town, 2009
• Casino Jack, 2010

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Bärbel Mohr, German author lost her battle with cancer, she was 46.

Bärbel Mohr  was a German author. Since 1998 she published 20 German books (self-help books, children books, stories) – including the best-selling Bestellungen beim Universum (The Cosmic Ordering Service), translated into 14 languages so far and a German audio edition – which combined have more than 1.5 million copies in print ost her battle with cancer, she was 46.. The foundation for Cosmic Ordering shows a great similarity to the 1937 work of Napoleon Hill, and later to the ideas expressed by Reverend Ike, Kenneth Copeland, Bob Tilton and Jim Bakker.


(July 5, 1964 - October 29, 2010)

 

Career

In 1995 she wrote The Cosmic Ordering Service for a small group of people and distributed it as a Xerox copy. Since then, she has become a household name in Germany.
In 2006, Noel Edmonds (UK TV-presenter) credited her book with turning his career around. Bärbel regularly gave lectures and workshops on joyful living and how to realise your dreams.

Personal life

With her family (husband and twins) she lived close to Munich in the country in Germany.

Works

• The Cosmic Ordering Service, Hodder Mobius, 2006. ISBN 9780340933329
• Cosmic Ordering for Beginners, Hay House. ISBN 978-1-4019-1551-3
• Cosmic Ordering: The Next Adventure, Hodder Mobius, 2007. ISBN 9780340933336
• The Cosmic Ordering Wish Book, Hay House, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4019-1583-4
• Instant Cosmic Ordering, Hay House, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4019-1599-5
• COSMIC ORDERING: Complaints to the Universe (ISBN 9780340933343 - publishing April 08)

Death
Barbel suffered a burn-out and fell ill a year ago from cancer .  She lost her battle with cancer, she was 46.

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Jack Brokensha, Australian jazz musician, composer and arranger. died from complications from congestive heart failure he was , 84

John Joseph "Jack" Brokensha ^[1] was a jazz vibraphonist. Brokensha was born in Nailsworth, Adelaide, Australia died from complications from congestive heart failure he was , 84.

 (5 January 1926 - 28 October 2010)

He initially studied percussion under his father, and played xylophone in vaudeville shows and on radio. He played with the Australian Symphony Orchestra during 1942-44, and played in a band in the Air Force in 1944-46. Forming his own group, he played in Melbourne in 1947-48, Sydney in 1949-50, Brisbane later in 1950, and Adelaide in 1951. In 1953 he moved to Windsor, Ontario, Canada with pianist Bryce Rohde; they formed the Australian Jazz Quartet the following year with Errol Buddle and Dick Healey. This ensemble (sometimes recording as a quintet or sextet) toured together until 1958 after a tour of Australia.




Brokensha then moved to Detroit, Michigan, USA, where he was hired by Berry Gordy of Motown Records as a percussionist, becoming one of the few white members of Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. recording studio's house band, The Funk Brothers. He was given the nickname "White Jack", to distinguish him from Jack Ashford, an African American percussionist nicknamed "Black Jack". Following further tours Down Under with Sammy Davis, Jr. and Stan Freberg, Brokensha founded his own music production company. He did a session with Art Mardigan in 1963, and after this became more active in disc jockeying and writing music for television. He recorded as a leader again in 1980 and continued to lead his own group well into the 1990s. The Australian Jazz Quartet also reunited for tours and recording in 1994.

Jack died in Sarasota, Florida, of complications from congestive heart failure at the age of 84.^[2]

Discography

As leader

• And Then I Said (Savoy Records, 1963)
• Holiday Inventions (US Steel, 1968)
• Boutique (AEM Record Group, 1993)
• X-Mazz (AEM Record Group, 1994)

With the Australian Jazz Quartet

• The Australian Jazz Quintet at the Varsity Drag (Bethlehem, 1957)
• Australian Jazz Quintet Plus One (Bethlehem, 1957)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein (Bethlehem, 1957)
• Free Style (Bethlehem, 1958)
• Three Penny Opera (Bethlehem, 1958)
• Reunion! Recorded Live - Adelaide Town Hall (AEM, 1994)

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Robert Ellenstein, American character actor died he was , 87

 Robert Ellenstein  was an American film, television and theatre actor  and director with a varied career, including a long list of Los Angeles theater productions over several decades, died Oct. 28 of natural causes at a nursing home in West Los Angeles he was , 87. As an L.A. theater director, one of Ellenstein's most notable productions was his staging of 'Hamlet' using only six actors and no props. He appeared in more than 20 films and many television shows.

(18 June 1923 – 28 October 2010)


The son of Meyer Ellenstein, a Newark dentist, Robert Ellenstein grew up in that New Jersey city and saw his father go on to become its two-term mayor. He served in the Air Corps during World War II: earning a Purple Heart during his service. He attended NYU and graduated with honors from the University of Iowa.

He began acting, directing and teaching in Cleveland, Ohio. A veteran of the "Golden Age" of live TV (he played Quasimodo in a live Robert Montgomery Presents (1950) version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"), for the same show played the lead in "A Case of Identity", later turned into the film "The Wrong Man", he was the first actor to play Albert Einstein on TV. Ellenstein made his first film in 1954 (MGM's Rogue Cop), he was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest".

In 1961, he played the mobster Legs Diamond in an episode of NBC's 1920s crime drama The Lawless Years with James Gregory.

He also directed television with an episode of the 1960s sitcom, Love on a Rooftop with Judy Carne and many live TV episodes. Ellenstein had over 200 television appearances. He performed hundreds of stage roles as an actor. He directed dozens theatre productions in New York, Los Angeles and in regional theater. He was artistic director of The Company of Angels and Founding Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Repertory Company. He received a lifetime achievement in theatre award from the LA Weekly in 1988. He is best known for having played the villain in the pilot episode of Moonlighting (1985), and then the Federation President in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). Ellenstein taught theatre professionally and academically for over 50 years, founding the Academy of Stage and Cinema Arts in Los Angeles.
 Death
He died on 28 October, 2010.^[1] He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Lois, daughter Jan and his two sons, David and Peter, both of whom are artistic directors of theatres.

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Gerard Kelly, British actor (City Lights), died from a brain aneurysm he was , 51

 Gerard Kelly  was a Scottish actor, who appeared in many comedies, most notably in City Lights, Rab C Nesbitt and Scotch and Wry.^[2] He also had more serious roles, including the villainous Callum Finnegan in the soap opera Brookside. He remains best known, however, for his starring role in City Lights as the hapless would-be author Willie Melvin. He had a small part in the 1987 critically-acclaimed film Comic Strip Presents... Mr Jolly Lives Next Door.

(27 May 1959 – 28 October 2010)

In 1983, he featured in "Killer", the pilot episode of crime drama series Taggart.^[3]
In 1994 he played Felix Ungar in a Scottish touring production of The Odd Couple, relocated to modern-day Glasgow, alongside Craig Ferguson and his best friend Kate Anthony as Oscar Madison. He reprised the role at the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe, opposite his former City Lights co-star Andy Gray.

In between 2005 and 2007 he appeared in three episodes of Ricky Gervais' comedy Extras as Ian "Bunny" Bunton.
In 2006 and 2007 he starred in, and directed, a Scottish play called Rikki and Me celebrating the life of Rikki Fulton, in which he played the role of Jack Milroy.
From 2007 he appeared regularly as Father Henderson, a camp priest in the BBC Radio 4 comedy Fags, Mags and Bags.
Gerard played The Narrator in The Rocky Horror Show in Edinburgh and Aberdeen from June 21, 2010 to July 3, 2010. He was due to revive this performance for one week at the King's Theatre, Glasgow from November 8 till November 13, 2010.^[4]
Kelly was well known for his appearances in pantomime at the King's Theatre. In 2008, he appeared in Cinderella^[5] and, in 2009, featured in Aladdin.^[6] He had been due to appear in the 2010 production of Snow White.
Kelly died on 28 October 2010 after collapsing with a brain aneurysm.^[7]

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Denise Borino-Quinn, American actress (The Sopranos), died from liver cancer she was , 46

Denise Borino-Quinn  was an American television actress who had a recurring role as Ginny Sacramoni, the overweight wife of New York mob boss Johnny Sack in the television series The Sopranos died from liver cancer she was , 46.^[1][2]

(January 6, 1964 – October 27, 2010)

She was born in Roseland, New Jersey. She attended West Essex High School, the same school as Sopranos creator David Chase although nearly 20 years apart.^[1][2]
To obtain the part of Ginny Sacramoni, she attended the casting call in Harrison, New Jersey to support a friend and because she thought it would be fun to watch the crowds. She was picked from 14,000 actresses. Previously, she had been a legal assistant in New Brunswick, New Jersey firm of Hoagland-Longo.^[1][2]
She later lost 175 pounds via stomach stapling.^[3]

She married Luke Quinn, Jr., in 2005 and they lived in Bordentown, New Jersey. He died in March 2010. They had no children. She died only seven months later from liver cancer on October 27, 2010 at the age of 46.^[1][
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James Wall, American actor (Captain Kangaroo) and stage manager, died after short illness he was , 92

 James Earl "Jimmy" Wall  was an American stage manager and actor died after short illness he was , 92.

(December 12, 1917 – October 27, 2010^[1])

Having performed on radio, theater, and in the Army during World War II, Wall worked as a stage manager on Broadway before being hired as the stage manager for the children's television series Captain Kangaroo by CBS in 1962. In a interview clip that aired on the October 28, 2010, CBS Evening News, Wall recalled how he made the case to Kangaroo's producers for an African-American character. However, he still had to audition for the role which became Mr. Baxter, a teacher and Captain Kangaroo's neighbor.^[2] Wall joined the cast in 1968, remaining with the show until 1979; he made a guest appearance in 1981. He was also the stage manager for 41 consecutive years on the US Open Tennis Championships telecasts.^[2]
Wall was presented with the Directors Guild of America's Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award in 1994. He continued to work for CBS in semi-retirement until 2009.





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