Baby Marie Osborne, American silent movie actress.died 6 days after her , 99 birthday

Baby Marie Osborne was the first major child star of American silent films .died 6 days after her , 99 birthday. She was usually billed simply as Baby Marie.^[1]

(November 5, 1911 – November 11, 2010)

Early life and career

Born as Helen Alice Myres in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of Roy and Mary Myres. She soon became — under mysterious circumstances — the child of Leon and Edith Osborn, who called her Marie and added the “e” to the surname, apparently to obscure the adoption.^[2] Her foster parents, the Osbornes, introduced their daughter to silent films when they left Colorado to work at Balboa Studios in Long Beach, California. Osborne made her debut in 1914's Kidnapped in New York.
Signed to a lucrative contract with Balboa Films (and working with director Henry King and writer Clara Beranger), by the age of five she was starring in silent films, including her best remembered movie, Little Mary Sunshine from 1916 (see the film's IMDb profile), one of her few films which still survive on celluloid. Some of her other films include Maid of the Wild (1915), Sunshine and Gold (1917), What Baby Forgot (1917), Daddy's Girl (1918), The Locked Heart (1918), Winning Grandma (1918), The Sawdust Doll (1919) and Daddy Number Two (1919). At the age of eight, she completed her final film as a child star, Miss Gingersnap in 1919. In all, she was featured or starred in 29 films in a six year period. Most of her films were produced at Diando Studios, the former Kalem Movie Studio in Glendale, California.
She returned to motion pictures 15 years later – at the request of director Henry King – to appear in his 1934 movie Carolina, starring Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore. Over the next 16 years, Osborne worked as a film extra, additionally serving as a stand-in for actresses such as Ginger Rogers, Deanna Durbin, and Betty Hutton. After appearing in more than a dozen films, she made her last on-screen appearance in Bunco Squad (1950), starring Robert Sterling and Joan Dixon.

Later career

In the 1950s she started a new career as a costumer for Western Costume, a clothing supplier for the motion picture industry. Osborne worked on the wardrobes for such films as Around the World in 80 Days (1956), How to Murder Your Wife (1965), The Godfather: Part II (1974), and Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976). In 1963, Osborne worked as a special costumer for Elizabeth Taylor in the big-budget film, Cleopatra. Osborne retired in 1977, and moved to San Clemente, California.

Personal life

Osborne married Frank J. Dempsey on May 2, 1931. Dempsey was the father of Osborne's only child, Joan (born May 13, 1932). They divorced in 1937. Osborne married 36-year old actor Murray F. Yeats on June 14, 1945, and moved to Sepulveda, California. She remained married until his death on January 27, 1975.

Death

Marie Osborne Yeats died on November 11, 2010 in San Clemente, California, six days after her 99th birthday. She was survived by her daughter, Joan, and five grandchildren.^[3]

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Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer died he was , 91

Agostino De Laurentiis , usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis, was an Italian film producer  died he was , 91.

(8 August 1919 – 11 November 2010)

 

 

 

Biography

He was born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples, and grew up selling spaghetti produced by his father. His studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome were interrupted by the Second World War.
Following his first movie, L'ultimo Combattimento, (1940) he produced nearly 150 films during the next seven decades. In 1946 his company, the Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica, moved into production. In the early years, De Laurentiis produced neorealist films such as Bitter Rice (1946) and the Fellini classics La Strada (1954) and Nights of Cabiria (1956), often in collaboration with producer Carlo Ponti. In the 1960s, Dino De Laurentiis built his own studio facilities, although these financially collapsed during the 1970s. During this period, though, De Laurentiis produced such films as Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die, an imitation James Bond film; Navajo Joe (1966), a spaghetti western; Anzio (1968), a World War II film; Barbarella (1968) and Danger: Diabolik (1968), both successful comic book adaptations; and The Valachi Papers made to coincide with the popularity of The Godfather.
In 1976,^[1] De Laurentiis relocated to the USA where he set up studios, eventually creating his own studio De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) based in Wilmington, North Carolina; the building of the studio quickly made Wilmington a busy center of film and television production. During this period De Laurentiis made a number of successful and acclaimed films, including The Scientific Cardplayer (1972), Serpico (1973), Death Wish (1974), Mandingo (1975), Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Shootist (1976), Drum (1976), Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg (1977), Ragtime (1981), Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Blue Velvet (1986). It is for his more infamous productions that De Laurentiis's name has become known — the legendary King Kong (1976) remake, which was a commercial hit, Lipstick, the killer whale film Orca (1977); The White Buffalo (1977); the disaster movie Hurricane (1979); the remake of Flash Gordon (1980); Halloween II (the 1981 sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 classic horror film); David Lynch's Dune (1984); and King Kong Lives (1986). De Laurentiis also made several adaptations of Stephen King's works during this time, including The Dead Zone (1983), Cat's Eye (1985), Silver Bullet (1985) and Maximum Overdrive (1986); Army of Darkness (1992) was produced jointly by De Laurentiis, Robert Tapert and the movie's star Bruce Campbell. They distributed the animated Transformers movie.

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De Laurentiis also produced the first Hannibal Lecter film, Manhunter (1986). He passed on adapting Thomas Harris' sequel, The Silence of the Lambs, but produced the two follow-ups, Hannibal (2001) and Red Dragon (2002), a remake of Manhunter. He also produced Hannibal Rising (2007), which tells the story of how Hannibal becomes a serial killer.
In his later choice of stories he displayed a strong preference for adaptations of successful books, especially sweeping classics like The Bible: In the Beginning (1966), Barabbas (1961), or Dune (1984).
In the 1980s he owned and operated DDL Foodshow, a specialty retailer with two gourmet Italian markets in New York City and Los Angeles.^[2]
In 2001 he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
De Laurentiis died on 10 November 2010 at his residence in Beverly Hills, California.^[3][4][5] Services will be at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. His family requests that mourners wear red, the producer's favorite color.
Funeral services for producer Dino De Laurentiis will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday November 15th 2010 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 W. Temple St., Los Angeles.

Family

His brief first marriage in Italy was annulled.^[6] In 1949 De Laurentiis married actress Silvana Mangano, with whom he had four children: Veronica, Raffaella, who is also a film producer, Federico, who died in a plane crash in 1981, and Francesca. They divorced in 1988^[7] prior to her death in 1989. In 1990 he married movie producer Martha Schumacher, with whom he had two daughters, Carolyna and Dina. One of his grandchildren is Giada De Laurentiis, host of Everyday Italian, Behind the Bash, Giada at Home and Giada's Weekend Getaways on Food Network. His nephew is Aurelio De Laurentiis, also a film producer and the chairman of SSC Napoli football club.

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Director
1948	Bitter Rice	Giuseppe De Santis
1952	Europa '51	Roberto Rossellini
1954	La Strada	Federico Fellini
1956	War and Peace	King Vidor
	Le notti di Cabiria	Federico Fellini
1965	Battle of the Bulge	Ken Annakin
1966	The Bible: In The Beginning	John Huston
1967	Lo Straniero	Luchino Visconti
1968	Danger: Diabolik	Mario Bava
	Barbarella	Roger Vadim
1973	Serpico	Sidney Lumet
1974	Death Wish	Michael Winner
1976	King Kong	John Guillermin
	Drum	Steve Carver
1980	Flash Gordon	Mike Hodges
1981	Halloween II	Rick Rosenthal
	Ragtime	Milos Forman
1982	Fighting Back	Lewis Teague
	Conan the Barbarian	John Milius
	Amityville II: The Possession	Damiano Damiani
1983	Amityville 3-D	Richard Fleischer
	Halloween III: Season of the Witch	Tommy Lee Wallace
	Dead Zone	David Cronenberg
1984	Yado	Richard Fleischer
	Conan the Destroyer	Richard Fleischer
	Firestarter	Mark L. Lester
	Dune	David Lynch
	The Bounty	Roger Donaldson
1985	Maximum Overdrive	Stephen King
	Raw Deal	John Irvin
	Marie	Roger Donaldson
	Silver Bullet	Daniel Attias
	Cat's Eye	Lewis Teague
	Year of the Dragon	Michael Cimino
	Red Sonja	Richard Fleischer
1986	Crimes of the Heart	Bruce Beresford
	Blue Velvet	David Lynch
	Tai-Pan	Daryl Duke
	Manhunter	Michael Mann
	King Kong Lives	John Guillermin
1987	Hiding Out	Bob Giraldi
	Evil Dead 2	Sam Raimi
	The Bedroom Window	Curtis Hanson
1989	Collision Course	Lewis Teague
	From the Hip	Bob Clark
1990	Sometimes They Come Back	Tom McLoughlin
	Desperate Hours	Michael Cimino
1992	Once Upon a Crime	Eugene Levy
	Kuffs	Bruce A. Evans
1993	Body of Evidence	Uli Edel
	Army of Darkness	Sam Raimi
1994	Temptation	Strathford Hamilton
1995	Solomon & Sheba	Robert Young
	Slave of Dreams	Robert Young
	Rumpelstiltskin	Mark Jones (I)
	Assassins	Richard Donner
1996	Unforgettable	John Dahl
	Bound	Larry and Andy Wachowski
1997	Breakdown	Jonathan Mostow
2000	U-571	Jonathan Mostow
2001	Hannibal	Ridley Scott
2002	Red Dragon	Brett Ratner
2006	Hannibal Rising	Peter Webber
	The Last Legion	Doug Lefler
2007	Virgin Territory	David Leland

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Jim Farry Scottish football administrator, Chief Executive of the Scottish Football Association (1990–1999), died from a massive heart attack he was , 56,

 James "Jim" Farry ^[1] served as chief executive of the Scottish Football Association from 1990 to 1999. Farry was forced to leave that post due to a dispute with Celtic over the registration of Portuguese player Jorge Cadete died from a massive heart attack  he was , 56,.

(1 July 1954 – 10 November 2010)

 Early life

 

 

 

Farry attended school in East Kilbride, before working as a landscape gardener, milkman and window cleaner.^[2] He first joined the Scottish Football Association in 1972 as an administration assistant.^[2] In the late 1970s he was appointed secretary of the Scottish Football League, a position he held for over 10 years.^[2] Farry earned a reputation as an efficient administrator during his stint as league secretary. When the same position at the SFA became vacant in 1990, he was appointed as the successor to the departing Ernie Walker.^[2][3]

SFA chief executive

While chief executive, Farry oversaw the project to renovate Scotland's national football stadium Hampden Park.^[4] The 'new Hampden' as it was termed, drew both support and criticism, with opinion divided over the need for a dedicated national stadium within Scotland. As the stadium is used at club level by Queen's Park, an amateur team currently playing in the lower divisions and possessing limited support, some footballing figures had argued that an existing stadium could have served as a home for the Scottish national team indefinitely. Alternatively, supporters of the stadium have pointed to the awarding of UEFA elite status and the hosting of a number of high profile matches, most notably the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final and the 2007 UEFA Cup Final, as proof of the renovation's success.

Princess of Wales Controversy

In 1997, Farry attracted criticism from some parts of the media in the aftermath of the death of Diana Princess of Wales, after he publicly rejected calls to cancel a scheduled international match between Scotland and Belarus on the day of the Princess's funeral.^[5] He later revealed that he had been advised by Buckingham Palace to let the game go ahead; however after a hostile reaction from the media and certain sections of society, the match was eventually rescheduled.^{[5][6][dead link]} Labour MP Jimmy Hood and the Daily Record newspaper called on Farry to resign, while Rangers players Ally McCoist, Andy Goram and Gordon Durie had refused to play in the match if it had been played on the day of the funeral.^[5][7]

Jorge Cadete

In 1999, an independent commission was called to examine allegations made by the then Celtic managing director and majority shareholder Fergus McCann concerning the registration of Portuguese player Jorge Cadete in 1996.^[3] A player must be registered with the SFA before he is permitted to play in matches in Scotland. A delay in the registration had forced Cadete to miss a Scottish Cup semi-final against their Old Firm rivals Rangers, which Celtic lost 2–1.^[3][8] McCann claimed that the delay was deliberate and the commission ruled in his favour.^[3][8] On 8 March 1999, Farry was sacked for gross misconduct.^[3]

Life after the SFA

As of 2009, Farry was employed as a business development manager by medium sized construction and refurbishment firm AKP Scotland Limited, based in East Kilbride.^[9]

Death

Following a massive heart attack in his home, Farry died on 10 November 2010 in Hairmyres Hospital shortly afterwards. Jim Farry is survived by his wife, Elaine, and children Alyson and Euan. ^[2]

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Dave Niehaus American sportscaster (Seattle Mariners), 2008 Ford C. Frick Award recipient, died from a heart attack he was , 75,

 David Arnold Niehaus was an American sportscaster died from a heart attack he was , 75,. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for the American League's Seattle Mariners from their inaugural season in 1977 until his death after the 2010 season. In 2008, the National Baseball Hall of Fame awarded Niehaus with the Ford C. Frick Award, the highest honor for American baseball broadcasters. Among fans nationwide and his peers, Niehaus was considered to be one of the finest sportscasters in history.

(February 19, 1935 – November 10, 2010)

Biography

Early life and career

Niehaus graduated from Indiana University in 1957, entered the military, and began his broadcasting career with Armed Forces Radio. He became a partner of Dick Enberg on the broadcast team of the California Angels in 1969. Niehaus also broadcast the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL and UCLA Bruins football and basketball during this period.

Seattle Mariners

In 1977, Danny Kaye, part-owner of the expansion Seattle Mariners, recruited Niehaus to become the franchise's radio voice. Despite working for a franchise who from its first year in 1977 until 1991 was without a winning season, his talent was recognizable, and Niehaus was considered one of the few attractions for Mariner fans.^{[citation needed]} Even in the period before the team's memorable 1995 season, the Mariners were regularly one of the leading major-league teams in terms of the percentage of radios in use.
Niehaus became immensely popular in Seattle, twice being named Washington Sportscaster of the Year. The team chose him to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the opening of its new ballpark, Safeco Field, on July 15, 1999.^[1] In 1999, for Nintendo 64, Niehaus was added to Ken Griffey, Jr.'s Slugfest as an announcer during gameplay. In 2000, he was the second figure to be inducted into the Mariners Hall of Fame.^[1] In 2008, Niehaus was named the winner of the Ford C. Frick Award, which recognizes career excellence in baseball broadcasting and is considered the highest baseball broadcasting honor.^[1]
As of the end of the 2007 season, Niehaus had called 4,817 of the 4,899 games the Mariners had played since their inception.^[1] May 7, 2009, was Niehaus' 5,000th game as a Mariner broadcaster. Niehaus broadcast 5,284 of the 5,385 Mariners games, and intended to broadcast the complete 2011 season.^[2]

Notable catchphrases

Niehaus is noted for using the following catchphrases on Mariner broadcasts:

• "My, oh my!" - a variant of former Angels partner Enberg's "Oh, my!", used for big, exciting plays.
• "Swung on and belted!" - used on long fly balls that may go over the wall for a home run.
• "It will fly away!"' (sometimes "Fly, fly away!") - used for home runs.
• "Get out the rye bread and mustard, Grandma, it is grand salami time!" - used for a grand slam home run by a Mariners player.
• "The Mariners have erupted!" - used during scoring outbursts

Notable Nicknames

• "A-Rod" - first to call Alex Rodriguez "A-Rod"
• "Death to Flying Things" - first to call Franklin Gutiérrez by his current nickname
• "The Kid" - Niehaus's name for Ken Griffey, Jr.

Notable calls

Now the left hander ready, branding iron hot, the 1-2 pitch...."K" inserted! It's over! Right over the heart of the plate! Randy looks to the skies that is covered by the dome and bedlam! As the Mariners now erupt! 19 long years of frustration is over!

—Calling the final out against the California Angels in the one-game AL West playoff in 1995.

Right now, the Mariners looking for the tie. They would take a fly ball, they would love a base hit into the gap and they could win it with Junior's speed. The stretch... and the 0-1 pitch on the way to Edgar Martínez swung on and LINED DOWN THE LEFT FIELD LINE FOR A BASE HIT! HERE COMES JOEY, HERE IS JUNIOR TO THIRD BASE, THEY'RE GOING TO WAVE HIM IN! THE THROW TO THE PLATE WILL BE ... LATE! THE MARINERS ARE GOING TO PLAY FOR THE AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP! I DON'T BELIEVE IT! IT JUST CONTINUES! MY, OH MY!

—Calling "The Double", hit by Edgar Martínez, which scored Joey Cora and Ken Griffey, Jr. to win the 1995 American League Division Series in the 5th and final game.

Death

Niehaus suffered a myocardial infarction (heart attack) at his Bellevue, Washington, home on November 10, 2010, and died at age 75 while preparing to barbecue some ribs on his deck.^[3] Heart problems had forced Niehaus to undergo two angioplasties in 1996, causing him to give up smoking and change his diet.^{[citation needed]} He is survived by his wife, three children, and six grandchildren. In a formal statement, Mariners Chairman Howard Lincoln and President Chuck Armstrong said "Dave has truly been the heart and soul of this franchise since its inception in 1977... He truly was the fans connection to every game."^[4] Washington Governor Chris Gregoire said "Today the Pacific Northwest lost one of its sports icons...Dave was an institution here starting with the team's first pitch in 1977. With all due respect to the great Alvin Davis, Dave is 'Mr. Mariner.'" At news of Dave's death, tributes came from Jay Buhner, Ken Griffey, Jr., Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, other Mariners broadcasters, and fans.^[2]
As a tribute to the voice of the Seattle Mariners, Seattle MC, Macklemore, released a song called "My Oh My" on December 22nd, 2010. It describes Niehaus's influence on not only Macklemore's childhood, but also on any and all from Seattle. It also features an audio clip from the winning call of the 1995 American League Division Series.

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Nicolo Rizzuto, Italian-born Canadian mafia leader (Rizzuto crime family), has died from a gun shot. wound he was , 86

Nicolo Rizzuto, also known as Nick Rizzuto, was the crime boss of the Sicilian faction of the Italian Mafia in Montreal who later pushed out the Calabrian Cotroni family has died from a gun shot. wound he was , 86. Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, in 1924, and immigrated to Canada in 1954 when the family settled in Montreal.^[1] Nick's son Vito Rizzuto was allegedly the godfather of the Sicilian Mafia in Canada and is currently serving a federal sentence for homicide in the United States.


(February 18, 1924 – November 10, 2010)

Early life

Rizzuto was born in Sicily in the town of Cattolica Eraclea. In 1925, his father Vito left for the United States of America with his brother-in-law Calogero Renda and 4 others. Vito's wife stayed with Nicolo in Sicily. In 1933, Vito was murdered in New York by rival gangsters forcing Nicolo to grow up with a stepfather. Nicolo married a girl named Labertina Manno, during the early 1940's, the daughter of a local Mafia leader. In 1954, Nicolo took his new family and settled in Montreal, Canada. He was able to form his own crew with help from several other Sicilian relatives and associates living there.^[1]
Rizzuto had ties to organized crime in Canada, the United States, Venezuela and Italy. He began his Mafia career in Canada as an associate of the Cotroni crime family that controlled much of Montreal's drug trade in the 1970s while answering to the Bonanno crime family of New York. He was, however, more closely linked to the Sicilian Mafia, in particular the Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan, who came from the same region in the province of Agrigento.^[2]

Mob war

Rizzuto did not care much about the formal and ceremonial command lines in the Cotroni family, who were of Calabrian origin. Violi complained about the independent modus operandi of his Sicilian 'underlings', Nick Rizzuto in particular. "He is going from one side to the other, here and there, and he says nothing to nobody, he is doing business and nobody knows anything," Violi said about Rizzuto. Violi asked for more 'soldiers' from his Bonanno bosses, clearly preparing for war, and Violi's boss at the time, Vincent Cotroni remarked: "After all, I am 'capo decina', I have the right to expel him."^[2]
By the 1980s, the Rizzutos emerged as the city's pre-eminent Mafia crew after a turf war between the Montreal family's Sicilian and Calabrian factions. Rizzuto allegedly participated in the murder in 1978 of Paolo Violi, a Bonanno underboss who had been named boss of Montreal's family. He allegedly replaced the late Vic Cotroni as the clearinghouse for Corsican heroin entering Canada and the United States.

Legal problems

Rizzuto was arrested on November 23, 2006.^[3] Before the arrest, Rizzuto appeared to be immune to police investigations in Canada. But he did serve five years in prison in Venezuela between 1988 and 1993 after being convicted of cocaine possession. An undercover Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer was later informed that Rizzuto was paroled early after an associate of the family delivered an CND$800,000 bribe to Venezuelan officials. October 16, 2008 Rizzuto was released from prison.
On February 11, 2010, Nicolo Rizzuto entered a guilty plea to tax evasion charges. The charges stem from a Canada Revenue Agency investigation for the tax years 1994 and 1995. Nicolo Rizzuto was accused of failing to declare the interest earned on more than 5 million dollars deposited in three Swiss bank accounts. The Court ordered Rizzuto that in addition to almost $628,000 in taxes owed, Rizzuto pay a $209,000 fine plus and administrative penalties.^[4]

Assassination

On November 10, 2010, Rizzuto was killed at his residence in the Cartierville borough of Montreal when a single bullet from a sniper's rifle punched through two layers of glass in the rear patio doors of his Montreal mansion.^[5][6][1]

Family

Rizzuto had two grandsons by his son Vito and his wife Giovanna Cammalleri, Leonardo Rizzuto and Nicolo "Nick" Rizzuto Jr.. On December 28, 2009, Nick Rizzuto Jr. was shot and killed near his car in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a borough in Montreal.^[7][8][9] Paolo Renda, Nicolo's son in law, disappeared on May 20, 2010, and is presumed to have been kidnapped.^[10] A month later Agostino Cuntrera, who is believed to have taken control of the family, was killed together with his bodyguard on June 30, 2010.^[11][12]

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Albert Wesley Johnson, Canadian civil servant, President of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1975–1982), died after a long illness.he was , 87

 Albert Wesley ("Al") Johnson, CC was a Canadian civil servant, former president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, professor in the department of political science at the University of Toronto, and author  died after a long illness.he was , 87.^[1]

(October 18, 1923 – November 9, 2010)


Born in Insinger, Saskatchewan, he received a Master's in public administration (MPA) from the University of Toronto and an MPA and a PhD from Harvard University. He was deputy treasurer of Saskatchewan from 1952 until 1964. In 1964 he became assistant deputy minister of finance for the federal government. From 1975 until 1982 he was president of the CBC. He subsequently taught at Queen's University and the University of Toronto.^[1]
In 1980 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1996 in recognition of his "outstanding career as a public servant, university professor and consultant on post-secondary education, social policy and public management both nationally and internationally".^[2]
He wrote the 2004 book Dream No Little Dreams, A Biography of the Douglas Government of Saskatchewan, 1944–1961 (ISBN 0-8020-8633-0).^[1]
After leaving the federal civil service he embarked on an international career:^[3]

• Special Advisor on National Provincial Fiscal Arrangements for the International Monetary Fund 1988
• Head of Mission on Administrative Modernization for the Canadian International Development Agency 1991
• Senior advisor to South Africa/Canada Program on Governance 1992
• Commissioner of South Africa’s Presidential Review Commission on the Public Service 1996

Returning to Canada in 1999, Johnson became special chair in public policy to the Government of Saskatchewan.^[3]
Johnson died in Ottawa at age 87. He was survived by his wife, Ruth (née Hardy), whom he married in 1946, four children and one granddaughter.^[4]

[edit] Awards and honours

• Vanier Medal 1976
• Companion of the Order of Canada 1997
• Arthur Kroeger College Award for Ethics in Public Affairs 2010

[edit] See also

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Amos Lavi , Israeli actor died of lung cancer he was 57

Amos Lavi  was an Israeli stage and film actor died of lung cancer he was 57. Through his career Lavi played in dozens of films, theater and TV series. He won three Ophir Awards for the roles he played in the films Sh'Chur, Nashim and Zirkus Palestina.

(1953 – 9 November 2010)

 Career

Lavi was born in Libya in 1953. Lavi immigrated later on to Israel with his family which moved to Kiryat Gat.
In 1973 , during the Yom Kippur War Lavi participated in the war in the reserve forces of the IDF, and suffered from a posttraumatic stress disorder after the war. During his rehabilitation he was offered to study acting. In the early 1980s Lavi graduated from acting school at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts.
His first film was the drama Ma'agalim (1980). Two years later Lavi played in the film Ot Kain (1982) by Eran Preis which was directed by Uri Barbash. In 1983 he played a central role in the prestigious TV series Michel Ezra Safra and Sons by Amnon Shamosh and the film Green. In 1984 he played in the film Ani Vehami'ahav Shel Isht.
In 1985 Lavi played in the film Banot (written by Assi Dayan) alongside Hana Azoulay Hasfari and in the film Ad Sof Halaylah. That same year he participated in the production of the Israeli-American film Goodbye, New York by Amos Kollek. In 1986 he participated in the film Flash alongside Nitza Shaul, in Ha-Holmim by Eran Preis and which was directed by Uri Barbash, and in Himmo Melech Yerushalaim.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s Lavi played in several Israeli-American films. In addition he also participated in the film Zarim Balayla alongside Yael Abecassis.
In 1993 he played alongside Ronit Elkabetz and Gila Almagor in the film Sh'Chur, for which he was awarded an Ophir Award. In 1994 he participated in the TV film Driks' Brother which was directed by Doron Sabri. In 1995 he starred in the Israeli television series Ha-Mone Dofek In 1996 he starred in Yaky Yosha's film Kesher Dam and Moshe Mizrahi's film Nashim, for which he was awarded an Ophir Award.
In 1997 he played alongside Nathan Zahavi in the film Shabazi and in the TV mini series Line 300. In 1998 he played in Shemi Zarhin's film Dangerous Acts alongside Moshe Ivgy and Gila Almagor. That same year he played in another film called Aviv and in the film Zirkus Palestina alongside Yoram Hatab and Evgenia Dodina, for which he was awarded an Ophir Award.
In 1999 he starred in the TV mini series Isha Beafor and in the film Frank Sinatra Is Dead. During that period he also played in several TV series and in the TV films Life's game (which was based on the life story of Lavi himself).
In 2002 Lavi played in the drama TV series Tik Sagur and the TV series Tipul Nimratz.
In 2003 Lavi played in the first ever Hardi telenovela called Ha-Chatzer, as the Rebbe, and in Amos Gitai's film Alila. During that year Lavi also began playing in the Israeli Telenovela Ahava Me'ever Lapina. In 2004 Lavi played in another Amos Gitai film called Promised Land. In 2005 he participated in the TV series Katav Plili and played in the Haim Buzaglo film Distortion. That same year he played in the film Schwartz Dynasty, Steven Spielberg's film Munich and Menachem Golan's film Days of Love. In 2006 he participated in the third season of the Israeli musical daily drama Our Song as Aryeh Weiss. In 2008 he participated in the second season of the Israeli children's TV series The Island. In 2009 he played as a guest in the series The Friends of Naor in the role of the mobster Rico Calderon. In 2010 he participated in Haim Buzaglo's film Kavod and the TV series Meorav Yerushalmi.
Lavi died of lung cancer at age 57. He was buried at the Yarkon cemetery.

Personal life

Lavi used to be married to the Israel actress Evelin Hagoel. He was also the father of four children from four different women.

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