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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Dr. Creep, American television host.died he was , 69

Barry Lee Hobart was a local television personality widely known to fans as Dr. Creep. He was a horror movie host on WKEF Television in Dayton, Ohio died he was , 69.

(June 23, 1941 – January 14, 2011)

 Early life

Hobart was a native of nearby Middletown, born June 23, 1941 to parents Edward and Grace (Fullen) Hobart; he was also the nephew of horror film make-up artist and stuntman Doug Hobart, who hosted a traveling monster show in the 1940s and 1950s. Hobart graduated from Middletown High School in 1959, then attended the University of Cincinnati where he graduated in 1963 with a degree in broadcasting.
After an overseas stint in the Air Force, Hobart returned to southwest Ohio and was hired by WKEF television as a camera specialist and Master Control Operator.

Shock Theater

In 1971, WKEF management began looking for a gimmick to garner ratings on Saturday nights. When Hobart suggested a late-night horror movie show, station management accepted the idea; Hobart, encouraged by colleagues, auditioned for the part of the host himself by donning a monk's robe, fangs and skull-like make-up, initially calling himself "Dr. Death". After Hobart was given the job the fangs were abandoned and the skull face motif toned down for being too fearsome, and the character's name was changed to "Dr. Creep".
Shock Theater premiered on Saturday, January 1, 1972 and eventually enjoyed a respectable twelve-year run. During that time, Dr. Creep co-hosted Clubhouse 22, a popular weekday afternoon kids program, adding to his local star power.


Like other late-night horror shows, Shock Theater played classic "B" horror films, with bumpers and breaks featuring the host, leaning more toward the humorous than the horrific.
By the mid-to-late 1970s, Shock Theater had moved to Saturday afternoons, garnering a younger following. But by the early 1980s, the show's humor had become more risqué, causing increasing clashes with station management. Consequently, Shock Theater ended its run in March of 1985, but Hobart remained a Master Control Operator at WKEF for six more years.

Later years

In 1999, cult film director Andrew Copp and partner Rick Martin would resurrect Shock Theater with Dr. Creep at the helm once again for Dayton, Ohio Public Access Television. Simply called "The New Shock Theater", the show aired public domain films mixed with footage of Dr. Creep at Horror conventions and ran periodically through 2005.
In 2002, Hobart played Dr. Creep again in Necrophagia: Through Eyes Of The Dead, a collection of music videos and interviews with the rock band Necrophagia and other horror hosts directed by Jim Van Bebber. In 2003 Hobart stepped in front of the camera as a father-like spirit in Andrew Copp's film, Black Sun, which built up a cult following. That same year he provided the opening narration for Copp's Freakshow Deluxe, a documentary about a sideshow that pops up around Halloween in Xenia, Ohio.
Hobart is featured reminiscing about his career as a horror host and the horror host phenomena in John E. Hudgens' 2006 documentary American Scary.
Hobart's Dr. Creep inspired an entire generation of Horror Hosts from the Ohio region, such as Baron Von Porkchop (who hosts a similar show on Dayton Access Television), Little Creeper, Dr. Freak, and A. Ghastlee Ghoul, all of whom credit him as their mentor.

Charity work

As Dr. Creep, Hobart had been an avid supporter of local charities, helping out the MDA during their annual Labor Day telethon. In 1973, Hobart and Linda Gabbard founded "Project Smiles", a charity that collects toys every Christmas for needy children in the Dayton area. The charity is still active today.
In 1997, Dr. Creep, Andrew Copp and Rick Martin started Horrorama, an all-night film festival held every Halloween to raise funds for Project Smiles. Horrorama originally took place at the Flicker Palace, a now-defunct movie theater in the Dayton suburb of Huber Heights, but has since moved to another theater in nearby Englewood and still remains active today.

Death

Hobart's health began to fail in the last years of his life. Leg and respiratory issues rendered him unable to walk by April of 2010. After this point, he used a wheelchair. Hobart continued making appearances as Dr. Creep through the fall. In November, he was guest of honor at the HorrorHound Weekend event in Cincinnati.
Hobart lapsed into a coma after a series of massive strokes in December 2010. Complications resulted in Hobart's death at a Dayton hospice on January 14, 2011. He was 69 years old.[2]

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Stephanie Glaser, Swiss actress died she was , 90.

Stephanie Glaser was one of Switzerland's most prominent stage, TV and film actresses, popular for her portrayal of down-to-earth, sympathetic characters died she was , 90..[1]


(22 February 1920 – 14 January 2011)

Biography

Stephanie Glaser was born in Neuchâtel and grew up in Bern. She studied acting at the Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna and then performed at various theatres in Switzerland and Germany.[1] She was a member of the Bäretatze, Floigefänger and Fédéral comedy troupes,[2] and became, alongside Walter Roderer, one of Switzerland's noted popular actresses as well as a leading figure of the 1950s Swiss comedy scene.[2]


She became known to the general public for her roles in the Gotthelf film adaptations Uli der Knecht and Ueli, der Pächter, and notably for starring as "Aunt Elise" in the TV show Teleboy by Kurt Felix between 1974 and 1981. Later she was also cast in the TV series Motel and Die Direktorin.[1]
In the 1980s she returned to film work and in 2006, at the age of 86, she was cast in her first title role in the critically and commercially successful movie Late Bloomers (Die Herbstzeitlosen).[1] Stephanie Glaser continued working as an actress in her old age. A few months before she died on 14 January 2011, aged 90, she had been shooting scenes for the TV movie Mord hinterm Vorhang.[1]

Selected filmography

Awards

Bibliography

  • «Stephanie Glaser». In: Susanna Schwager. Das volle Leben: Frauen über achtzig erzählen. Wörterseh Verlag, Gockhausen b. Zürich, 2007, p. 45–67.

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Peter Post, Dutch cyclist, winner of the 1964 Paris–Roubaix event.died he was 77

Peter Post was a Dutch professional cyclist whose career lasted from 1956 to 1972. Post competed in road and track racing. As a rider he is best remembered for Six-day racing, having competed in 155 races and won 65. Because of this success he was known as “De Keizer van de Zesdaagse” or “The Emperor of the Six Days”. In road racing his main achievements were winning the 1964 Paris–Roubaix and becoming national road race champion in 1963. He was on the podium three times at the La Flèche Wallonne but never won. Post’s other nickname was “de Lange” or “Big Man” because he was tall for a cyclist.[1] After retiring from racing he had success as a Directeur sportif. Peter Post died in Amsterdam on January 14, 2011.[2]


(November 12, 1933 – January 14, 2011)

 Road career

Post turned professional in 1956 with the small Dutch team R.I.H. He rode for the first few years with Gerrit Schulte, a track rider who also rode on the road and was an inspiration to him. Notable early career successes on the road came when he won the Ronde van Nederland in 1960 and the 1962 Deutschland Tour. In 1963 he became national road race champion as well as winning the Tour of Belgium.
In 1964 Post had his finest moment in road racing when he became the first Dutchman to win Paris–Roubaix. The race was run at top speed from the start and favourites Rik van Looy, Raymond Poulidor and Rudi Altig were caught out by the fast pace and missed the decisive break at Arras. Post’s team mate, Willy Bocklant, was in the break and sacrificed his chances by keeping the pace high for his leader. Five riders entered the velodrome at Roubaix with Post winning the sprint by beating the world champion Benoni Beheyt in the finishing straight. The high pace ensured that Post was also awarded the Ruban Jaune for the highest speed in a classic, the 265 km run at 45.131 km/h. This 1964 record still stands as the fastest Paris–Roubaix although the route has been altered since then.[3][4]

Post was delighted with his victory, but always the businessman, his delight was increased when he realised his appearance money at the winter six-day races would be increased. In 1965 Post made his only appearance in the Tour de France but he abandoned before Paris. (He subsequently acknowledged that he had doped at the Tour de France.[5]) His only other noteworthy result on the road came in 1967 when he finished runner-up to Eddy Merckx in La Flèche Wallonne although he had wins in smaller races. Post was voted Dutch Sportsman of the year in 1964 and Dutch cyclist of the year in 1963 and 1970.[6]

Track career

Post rode his first six-day in 1956 and his first victory came in 1957 in Chicago, partnered by Harm Smits. Post had three partners with whom he had most success. In 1960 he teamed with Rik van Looy and won ten sixes. In 1963 he formed his most successful partnership with the Swiss Fritz Pfenninger and they had 19 victories until 1967, when Post joined the Belgian Patrick Sercu, with whom he had 14 victories up to 1971 and his final and 65th six-day in Frankfurt. Post's 65 six-day wins stood as a record for a few years, beating Rik van Steenbergen's 40 wins when at the Milan six in 1968 when partnered by Gianni Motta. However since then René Pijnen (72 wins), Danny Clark (74 wins) and Patrick Sercu (88 wins) have all passed Post's total with Sercu as the new record holder.
Post won the Dutch individual pursuit championships six times between 1957 and 1963. He took 14 European track titles (mostly madison and derny races). In 1965 in Antwerp he set the derny-paced hour record of 63.783 km, beating Stan Ockers' record which had stood for nine years.

After retirement

Post retired from riding in 1972 and became directeur sportif of the TI-Raleigh team in 1974. He was a former rider who knew the inside of cycling but also a shrewd businessman who could negotiate with sponsors. Post had a reputation of being hard on riders but his success with TI-Raleigh was exceptional. Post had riders such as Hennie Kuiper, Gerrie Knetemann, Jan Raas and Joop Zoetemelk (all Dutch), one of the best squads in the world for a decade. Most impressive was the 1980 edition of the Tour de France. The TI-Raleigh team won 11 stages and Joop Zoetemelk won overall.
In 1983 Raleigh pulled out of sponsorship and Post found a new backer in Panasonic. The success continued, this time with mainly non-Dutch riders such as Phil Anderson, Eric Vanderaerden, Viatcheslav Ekimov, Olaf Ludwig and Maurizio Fondriest. After the withdrawal of Panasonic, Post led the Histor and then Novemail teams before leaving cycling in 1995. He is ranked as the second most successful director behind Guillaume Driessens.[7] Post returned to cycling as an adviser to the Rabobank team in 2005.[8] He died on January 14, 2011.
Many of the British riders Post was involved with, found Post very difficult to get on with. Some claimed he didn't want any British riders in his teams. Some claimed Post's mind had been damaged by all the hard racing, and several bad crashes he had been involved in. Post had mostly Dutch or Belgian riders in his teams.
Several of the riders Post managed died young, or had personal problems in their lives.
Post also organised six-day races in Maastricht and Rotterdam.


Six-day wins

Nr. Year Venue Partner
1 1957 Chicago Harm Smits
2 1959 Antwerp Gerrit Schulte and Klaus Bugdahl
3 1959 Brussels Gerrit Schulte
4 1959 Münster Lucien Gillen
5 1960 Antwerp Gerrit Schulte
6 1960 Berlin Rik van Looy
7 1960 Ghent Rik van Looy
8 1961 Cologne Rik van Looy
9 1961 Antwerp Rik van Looy and Willy Vannitsen
10 1961 Brussels Rik van Looy
11 1961 Ghent Rik van Looy
12 1962-1 Berlin Rik van Looy
13 1962 Antwerp Rik van Looy
14 1962 Dortmund Rik van Looy
15 1963 Cologne Fritz Pfenninger
16 1963 Milan Ferdinando Terruzzi
17 1963 Brussels Fritz Pfenninger
18 1963 Zürich Fritz Pfenninger
19 1964 Cologne Hans Junkermann
20 1964 Antwerp Fritz Pfenninger and Noël Foré
21 1964-2 Berlin Fritz Pfenninger
22 1964 Brussels Fritz Pfenninger
23 1964 Zürich Fritz Pfenninger
24 1965-1 Berlin Fritz Pfenninger
25 1965 Essen Rik van Steenbergen
26 1965 Antwerp Klaus Bugdahl and Jan Janssen
27 1965 Dortmund Fritz Pfenninger
28 1965 Brussels Tom Simpson
29 1965 Zürich Fritz Pfenninger
30 1966 Essen Fritz Pfenninger
31 1966 Milan Gianni Motta
32 1966 Antwerp Fritz Pfenninger and Jan Janssen
33 1966 Ghent Fritz Pfenninger
34 1966 Amsterdam Fritz Pfenninger
35 1967 Bremen Fritz Pfenninger
36 1967 Essen Fritz Pfenninger
37 1967 Antwerp Fritz Pfenninger and Jan Janssen
38 1967 Milan Gianni Motta
39 1967-2 Berlin Klaus Bugdahl
40 1967 Frankfurt Fritz Pfenninger
41 1968 Milan Gianni Motta
42 1968 Rotterdam Patrick Sercu
43 1968 London Patrick Sercu
44 1968-2 Berlin Wolfgang Schulze
45 1968 Ghent Leo Duyndam
46 1969 Bremen Patrick Sercu
47 1969 Antwerp Patrick Sercu and Rik van Looy
48 1969 Rotterdam Romain Deloof
49 1969 London Patrick Sercu
50 1969 Dortmund Patrick Sercu
51 1969 Frankfurt Patrick Sercu
52 1969 Amsterdam Romain Deloof
53 1970 Cologne Patrick Sercu
54 1970 Bremen Patrick Sercu
55 1970 Antwerp René Pijnen and Klaus Bugdahl
56 1970 Groningen Jan Janssen
57 1970 London Patrick Sercu
58 1970 Brussels Jack Mourioux
59 1970 Zürich Fritz Pfenninger and Erich Spahn
60 1971 Rotterdam Patrick Sercu
61 1971-1 Grenoble Alain van Lancker
62 1971 Antwerp René Pijnen and Leo Duyndam
63 1971 London Patrick Sercu
64 1971 Berlin Patrick Sercu
65 1971 Frankfurt Patrick Sercu

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Mississippi Winn, American supercentenarian. died she was 113,

Mississippi Winn  was an American supercentenarian. At the age of &0000000000000113000000113 years, &0000000000000289000000289 days, she was the 7th oldest person in the world at the time of her death. She became the oldest resident in Louisiana upon the death of Maggie Renfro on January 22, 2010. After Daisey Bailey's death on March 7, 2010, Winn became the oldest living African American. She was the last living child of former slaves, according to census records.[1] She moved into the list of the verified oldest women on December 4, 2010 and into the list of the verified oldest people on January 8, 2011. Winn still remains as the 100th oldest person ever (she was the 99th oldest ever when she died).


(March 31, 1897 – January 14, 2011)

Biography

Mississippi Winn was born in Benton, Louisiana in 1897. She was the 13th of 15 children born to Mack and Ellen Winn.[2] She was a housekeeper all of her life and cleaned and cooked her own meals until the age of 103 when she moved into Magnolia Manor Nursing Home in Shreveport in 2001.[3]
She moved to Seattle, Washington in c. 1957 and resided there for 18 years until her youngest sister's death in 1975. Her death caused Winn to move to Shreveport, where she had lived ever since.[1]
Winn avoided dairy products, and took one vitamin and aspirin per day. Her favorite foods were fruits and vegetables. She was baptized at age 11 at Providence Baptist Church in Benton, LA. She later joined Avenue Baptist Church, where she was a member for 82 years. Members from the church presented her with a plaque entitled "The Marriage of Avenue Baptist Church and Miss Mississippi Winn." She received a letter from President Barack Obama.[3]
Winn enjoyed seeing and reading the Bible. She never married, and had only one child, who died at age two.[2] Winn had many nieces and nephews who most frequently called her "Aunt Sweetie".[1]
Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover presented a proclamation to her and named March 31 "Miss Mississippi Winn Day" in the city of Shreveport.[1]

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Hellmut Lange, German actor (Serenade for Two Spies, Diamond Safari) died he was , 87.

'Hellmut Lange' was an actor and journalist who became famous as action hero on TV and eventually succeeded as presenter of his popular TV show "Kennen Sie Kino?" ("Are you a cinema connoisseur?") died he was , 87.

(19 January 1923 – 13 January 2011)

First engagements

Hellmut Lange started his acting career on radio drama shows for the West-German Radio Station SFB (Sender Freies Berlin= Radio Free Berlin). After finishing his school formation he studied acting for two years in Hanover and then he worked as a stage actor in Munich. In the early fifties he played Old Shatterhand on an open air stage.

On the screen

In 1961 he was the principal actor in a German Edgar Wallace adaption for cinema. The next year he had one of the main roles in a TV mini series based on a story of Francis Durbridge. He also acted as the protagonist of the TV series John Kling. Since he had already played Old Shatterhand, a hero which has evidently been inspired by James Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo, it didn't come as a surprise that he was considered an appropriate choice for acting as Natty Bumppo himself. That he did with tremendous success in a German TV mini series called after the "leatherstocking ("Lederstrumpf") tales". This TV series which starred a Frenchman (Pierre Massimi) as Chingachgook was in many ways the predecessor of the also very successful Karl May films in which Lex Barker (or sometimes Stewart Granger) would team up with the French actor Pierre Brice as Winnetou. Lange himself didn't play Winnetou's friend Old Shatterhand again. Instead he appeared in a Hollywood picture about General Patton and was also the German voice of Richard Harris, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman and other American stars for the German dubbed versions of some of their feature films.

Career as journalist

Due to his accomplished expertise in regards to all aspects of acting and filming Lange was also much in demand as an author of articles about cinema. German TV took advantage of this well-known fact by employing him as presenter of a quiz programme ("Kennen Sie Kino?") which ran from 1971 till 1981.

Retirement

Lange worked successfully as an actor on TV until he was over seventy years old. In 2009 it was published that serious health issues would hinder him continuing. Lederstrumpf and John Klings Abenteuer had just been digitally remastered and released on DVD.


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Ellen Stewart,, American theater director. died she was 91

 Ellen Stewart was an American theater director and producer and the founder of La MaMa, E.T.C. (Experimental Theatre Club) died she was  91. In the 1950s she worked as a fashion designer for Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Lord & Taylor, and Henri Bendel.[2]

(November 7, 1919 — January 13, 2011)

Biography

Ellen Stewart was either born in Alexandria, Louisiana or Chicago, Illinois.[3] This inexactitude stems from Stewart's reticence about revealing details of her early life. As an observer wrote, "Her history is somewhat difficult to sort out—indeed it takes on a legendary quality—since on different occasions she gives different version of the same stories." [4] Of her parents, Stewart stated that her father was a tailor from Louisiana and her mother was a teacher and that they divorced during her youth.[5]
Around 1939 Stewart may have become the second wife of Larry Lebanus Hovell (born August 10, 1910 — died October 1963, a Chicago waiter who was a native of Alexandria, Louisiana, although it is possible they never legally wed. They had one child, a son, Larry Lebanus Hovell, II (1940—1998).[6]

Career

In 1950 Stewart moved to New York City, where she worked as a trimmer in the brassiere-and-corset department at Saks Fifth Avenue and, later as a dress designer, under the direction of Edith Lances, head of the department store's custom-corset department.[7] Stewart continued to work as a fashion designer throughout the 1960s and 1970s, notably for a manufacturer called Victor Bijou, where she designed "sport dresses and beach wraps".[8]

In 1961 Stewart founded Café La MaMa, which became one of the most successful Off-Off-Broadway theatrical companies - La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. In the next decades she became famous around the world, writing and directing an enormous body of pieces, exclusively based on music and dance, with international artists.[9]
In 2007 Stewart was awarded the Praemium Imperiale in the field of Film and Theater.[10][11]
In 2005 Tom O'Horgan presented Stewart with the Stewardship Award from the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. This honor was bestowed to Stewart on behalf of her peers and fellow artists of the Off-Off-Broadway community "in recognition of her significant contributions to the Off-Off-Broadway community through service, support and leadership". [12]

Death

Ellen Stewart died on January 13, 2011, aged 91. Stewart had a history of heart trouble and died at Beth Israel Hospital, New York City, after a long illness.[1] Her memorial service was held at the St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on Monday, January 17, 2011.[13]

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Howard Engleman, American college basketball player died he was , 91.

Howard G. "Rope" Engleman  was an American college basketball standout at the University of Kansas from 1939 to 1941 died he was , 91.. He was 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) tall, weighed 170 pounds (82 kg). and played the forward position. As a senior in 1940–41, Engleman averaged 16.5 points per game and became just the second Jayhawk to be named a Consensus First Team All-American. Engleman led Kansas to two Big Six Conference regular season championships and as runners-up in the 1940 National Championship. The Jayhawks lost to Indiana, 60–42, but Engleman was the tournament's top scorer after scoring 39 points in three games. When asked about the preparations to play against the Hoosiers, Engleman responded:
(November 20, 1919 – January 12, 2011)

After graduating, Engleman joined the Navy and fought in World War II. After the war ended, he would become an assistant coach under Phog Allen after he graduated in 1941. In the middle of the 1946–47 season, Allen became sick and was ordered by doctors to rest, and Engleman resumed the remainder of the season as the interim head coach. In the final 14 games of the season, Engleman compiled an 8–6 record.
He had his jersey retired on March 1, 200

Personal

Engleman was a native of Arkansas City, Kansas and graduated from Arkansas City High School in 1937 after leading the Bulldogs to second- and third-place finishes in the state basketball tournament. He got his nickname "Rope" from his blond, curly locks of hair. He served as a lawyer in Salina, Kansas, after earning his law degree from the University of Kansas School of Law.

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Dickey Betts died he was 80

Early Career Forrest Richard Betts was also known as Dickey Betts Betts collaborated with  Duane Allman , introducing melodic twin guitar ha...