Suzanne Mizzi, British glamour model and interior designer, died from cancer she was , 43

 Suzanne Mizzi  was a glamour model, singer, interior designer, and artist died from cancer she was , 43. She made regular appearances as a Page Three girl in the British newspaper The Sun during the 1980s and 1990s, before going on to have a career as a catwalk model, as well as being involved in film and music. In her later years, she developed a career as an interior designer and abstract artist.

(1 December 1967  – 22 May 2011)

Career

Mizzi was born on the Mediterranean island of Malta^[1] and grew up in London.
After leaving school at 15, Mizzi opened a clothes shop in Bethnal Green, London, where she was discovered by a photographer while working.^[4] She made her Page Three debut in 1984 aged 17 and immediately endeared herself to the public, although it took her parents a while to become comfortable with her career choice. In the first six months of her modelling career, Mizzi shot 26 calendars and was in high demand for personal appearances.^[4][5] Her success was helped by Page 3 photographer Beverley Goodway, whose pictures helped to establish her career.^[6] She could command fees of over £1,000 for a personal appearance.^[6]
In 1988, she quit glamour modeling and made the crossover into catwalk modelling, succeeding where many of her contemporaries of the time had not.^[7] She signed with the Storm Model Agency and began doing fashion shoots, something which would eventually lead to her working with Vivienne Westwood.^[5][4] At the age of 21, she signed a £400,000 contract to front her own lingerie range for high street chain Dorothy Perkins.^[5] A lingerie company once insured her face and body for £11 million.^[4]
Mizzi had an interest in music and was a founding member of the group Wildflowers, but her attempts to launch a musical career faltered, something she blamed on her record company.^[5] She once said of this: "We had a record deal, but the label wanted me to sing a pop track. I wanted to be an 'artist', not a pop star."^[4] According to a BBC report, she was one of a number of celebrities who took out insurance on the assets for which they were famous.^[8] She did this in 1989, when she insured her body with Lloyd's of London for $16 million.^[9]
In the 2000s she became an artist and interior designer and was known as Mizzy.^[10] She exhibited her work at London's Rainbird Fine Art Gallery and ran an interior and building design consultancy business, which she started after friends saw work she had done on her house and asked her to design rooms for them.^[10] She began painting after having difficulty sourcing works of art for her clients.^[4] Her abstract paintings sold for up to £10,000 each.^[1] An exhibition of her work titled "Timeless" was held at the Artbank Gallery, also in London.^[10]

Personal life

Mizzi was married^[when?] to her childhood sweetheart Frank Camilleri, a property developer, with whom she had a son, Geo, and a daughter, Sienna.^[1] Camilleri — who was her manager — is also a Maltese Briton.^[2] The family divided their time between homes in London, Spain and Malta.^[11]
She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2010; she died at St Joseph's Hospice, Hackney, East London, on 22 May 2011, aged 43.^[5]

 

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Walter Soboleff, American Tlingit scholar and spiritual leader, first Native Alaskan Prebysterian minister, died from bone and prostate cancer he was , 102.

Walter Alexander Soboleff was an American Tlingit scholar, elder and religious leader.Soboleff was the first Native Alaskan to become an ordained Presbyterian minister died from bone and prostate cancer he was , 102..



(November 14, 1908 - May 22, 2011)

Biography

Early life

Sonoleff was born in Killisnoo, Alaska, on November 14, 1908, to a Tlingit mother and a Russian father.^[1][3] Soboleff was born into the Tlingit clan Kha'jaq'tii, meaning One Slain in Battle.^[1] His mother, Anna Hunter, who had been orphaned in nearby Sitka, had canoed to Killisnoo with her brother to stay with their aunt.^[1] His father, Alexander "Sasha" Soboleff, resided in Killisnoo with his parents and three brothers.^[1] Walter Soboleff's paternal grandfather, was a Russian Orthodox minister named Ivan Soboleff, who moved to Killisnoo from San Francisco during the 1890s.^[3] His father, Alexander, died when Walter was twelve years old^[1] and his mother remarried.^[3]
He was raised in Tenakee, Alaska.^[1] He first attended a U.S. Government School in Tenakee before enrolling at the Sheldon Jackson School boarding school in Sitka when he was five years old.^[1] He began working as a Tlingit language interpreter for doctors at ten years old during the height of the 1918 flu pandemic in Southeast Alaska.^[1]
Soboleff was hired for his first job at the Hood Bay fish cannery when he was a freshman at Sheldon Jackson High School in 1925.^[1] He earned 25 cents an hour at the cannery.^[1]
In 1925, Soboleff sailed from Sitka to Seattle aboard the Admiral Lines steamship.^[1] He then hitchhiked from Seattle to enroll at college at Oregon Agricultural College, which is now known by its present-day name, Oregon State University.^[1] However, he was only able to stay at Oregon Agricultural College for one semester due to the financial pressures of the Great Depression.^[1] He hitchhiked back to Seattle, where he stayed at a YMCA in the city until he could return to his studies.^[1]
Soboleff won a scholarship to the University of Dubuque in 1933. He completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Dubuque in 1937 in education.^[1] Soboleff went on to earn a master's degree in divinity, also from the University of Dubuque, in 1940.^[1]
Soboleff returned to Sitka, Alaska, during the summer of 1940, where he initially worked in cold storage or seine fishing.^[1] He was ordained a Presbyterian minister and married his wife, Genevieve Ross, a Haida woman and nurse who was involved in the revival of the Haida language in Alaska.^[3] Walter and Genevieve had four children - Janet, Sasha, Walter Jr. and Ross.^[3]

Ministry and activism

Soboleff moved to Juneau, Alaska, where he served as a minister at Memorial Presbyterian Church in 1940, a then-predominantly Tlingit church which grew to include members from other ethnic groups.^[1] He also began broadcasting radio news in the Tlingit language.^[1]
Soboleff travelled to remote Alaskan settlements, fishing villages, and even lighthouses as needed by the Presbyterian ministry.^[1] He also became a Tlingit and Native Alaskan advocate for cultural education, human rights and rights of indigenous people in Alaska.^[1]
Walter Soboleff died at his home in Juneau, Alaska, on May 22, 2011, at the age of 102, of complications from bone cancer and prostate cancer.^[1] His first wife, Genevieve, died in January 1986.^[1] He married his second wife, Tshimshian Stella Alice Atkinson, in 1999.^[1] Atkinson died in April 2008.^[1]
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell ordered that all state flags be lowered to half staff in Soboleff's honor.^[4] Hundreds of people, including Governor Parnell, attended Soboleff's memorial service at Centennial Hall in Juneau.^[5] The service was broadcast live on television throughout the state of Alaska.^[6]
In May 2011, it was announced that the Sealaska Heritage Institute Cultural Center, which is scheduled to be constructed in downtown Juneau, will be named for Walter Soboleff.^[7]

 

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Joe Steffy, American college football player (Army), 1947 Outland Trophy winner died he was , 85

 Joseph Benton "Joe" Steffy, Jr. was an American football player died he was , 85. He went to fight in the Korean War and received the Bronze Medal and the Purple Heart. Steffy was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

(April 3, 1926 – May 22, 2011)

Early life

Steffy was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 3, 1926. He attended the University of Tennessee, where he played on the football team for one season in 1944. That year, the Volunteers went undefeated in the regular season, but lost to Southern California in the Rose Bowl. The following year, he enrolled at the United States Military Academy, where he played for the Army football team for three seasons as an offensive guard and as a center on defense. The Cadets went undefeated in 1945 and 1946. In 1947, Steffy was named team captain.^[1]

Military service

He graduated from USMA in 1949. In April 1950, he married Ann née Brown. As a lieutenant, Steffy served in the Korean War, where he suffered frostbite and was wounded in the foot by a grenade. Due to his injuries, he was evacuated from Hungnam to Japan, and later awarded the Bronze Star Medal.^[1]

Later life

After the war, Steffy served on the Army football staff as the freshman team coach. He later owned a car dealership in Newburgh, New York. With his wife, who died in 2004, he had one son. Steffy died of a heart ailment on May 22, 2011 in Newburgh, New York at age of 85.^[1]

 

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Irene Gilbert, American actress and school director, co-founder of Stella Adler Academy of Los Angeles, died from Alzheimer's disease she was , 76.

Irene Gilbert was an German-born American actress and school director, who co-founded the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles with actress Joanne Linville in 1985 died from Alzheimer's disease she was , 76. She also served as the Academy's director for approximately 20 years after the school's establishment.



(August 25, 1934 - May 21, 2011)

Gilbert was born Irene Liebert in Germany on August 25, 1934.^[1] She immigrated to New York City with her parents, Gaston and Lucie Liebert, just before the outbreak of World War II.^[1] Her parents were killed by a drunk driver when she was just five years old.^[1] She was raised by her aunt and her four older brothers.^[1]
She changed to name to Irene Gilbert when she began her acting career, because she reportedly felt that Gilbert seemed "movie-star-esque."^[1] Her acting career extended into the late 1980s. Her television credits included roles in Cannon, Barnaby Jones and Emergency! in the 1970s.^[1]
Gilbert became friends with New York City-based acting coach, Stella Adler, during the 1960s.^[1] In 1985, Gilbert and actress Joanne Linville pursued Adler to open a branch of the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles.^[1] Gilbert, Linville and Adler are considered the school's co-founders.^[1] Gilbert who also serve as the school's director for twenty years.^[1]
A fire at the school, which was originally located in a small theater at Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue, forced the school's temporary closure in 1991.^[1] The school's building was further threatened with demolition to make way for a proposed subway line at the time of Stellar Adler's death in 1992.^[1]
Gilbert moved and reopened the school in 1994 at a building which was once the Embassy Club, a private club during the 1930s located at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.^[1] She continued to teach acting at the school and produce stage productions. The Steallar Academy of Acting and Theater in Los Angeles has named one of its theaters, the Irene Gilbert Theatre, in honor of her contributions.^[1]
Irene Gilbert died at her son's home in Eureka, California, of complications from Alzheimer's disease on May 21, 2011, at the age of 76.^[2] She was survived by her son, Randall Garrett Herzon.^[1]

 

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Bill Hunter, Australian actor (Muriel's Wedding), died from liver cancer he was , 71.

 William John "Bill" Hunter was an Australian actor of film, stage and television died from liver cancer he was , 71.. He appeared in more than 60 films and won two Australian Film Institute Awards.


(27 February 1940 – 21 May 2011)

Early life

Hunter was a son of William and Francie Hunter.^[2] He had a brother, John, and a sister, Marie Ann.^[2]
During his teens, Hunter was a champion swimmer, and briefly held a world record for the 100 yards freestyle until his record was broken by John Devitt in the very next heat ten minutes later.^[4] Hunter had qualified for the Australian swimming team in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, but a bout of meningitis ended his Olympic hopes.^[5]

Career

Hunter made his film debut as an extra in 1957 film The Shiralee. An introduction to Ava Gardner saw him gain a job as an extra and swimming double in the Hollywood film On the Beach which was filming in Melbourne.^[4] Hunter claimed that he was inspired to take up acting after watching one of the leads (variously claimed to be either Gregory Peck or Fred Astaire) do 27 takes of a scene, and thinking he could do better.^[6][7] He took an intensive drama course in Melbourne, and then won a two-year scholarship to the prestigious Northampton Repertory Company in England. In 1966, he made his television debut in an uncredited role in two episodes of the Doctor Who serial The Ark.^[8][9]
Returning to Australia in the 1960s, Hunter started out in Australian television, and became a prolific performer in television and feature films, in which he often played the strong, opinionated, archetypal gruff Australian whose exterior belies a softer heart.^[10]
Some of his most notable movie roles include Newsfront^[11] (1978), Gallipoli (1981), Scales of Justice^[12] (1983), Strictly Ballroom^[13] (1992), Muriel's Wedding^[14] (1994), The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) and Australia (2008). In 2007, he reprised the role of Bob in the Australian touring stage production of Priscilla.^[15] He also provided the voice of the dentist in Finding Nemo (2003) and the voice of Bubo in Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010). He portrayed United Nations Secretary General Spencer Chartwell in the American science fiction series Space: Above and Beyond. His last film role was in The Cup.
Of acting, Hunter said, "As long as the direc­tor told me where to stand and what to say, I was happy. Any­one who says there's any more to it than that, is full of bullshit. "It's a job. It is a craft, but there's no art involved," Hunter added. "What you need is com­mon sense and a rea­son­ably rough head. You put on the makeup and the wardrobe, and that is half the per­for­mance. That upsets the purists, but never mind, they don't work as much as I do."^[16]

Personal life

Hunter's first marriage was to Robbie Anderson with whom he had a son.^[6] His next marriage was to actress Pat Bishop, in 1976.^[4] According to writer Bob Ellis, the marriage was short-lived after Hunter ran off with their marriage celebrant.^[17] His third marriage was to artist and television presenter Rhoda Roberts from 1993 until their divorce in 1999.^[18]

Death

On 15 May 2011, Hunter was admitted to Caritas Christi hospice in Kew after refusing to go to hospital.^[19] Surrounded by family and friends, he died of liver cancer^[20] at 8.05 pm on 21 May 2011, aged 71.^[21]
A memorial service for Hunter was held at Melbourne's Princess Theatre on 26 May.^[22]

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1966	Doctor Who – The Ark	Guardian	uncredited, episodes The Steel Sky and The Plague
1970	Ned Kelly	Officer
1974	27A	Cornish
1974	Stone	Barman
1975	Dragon Flies	Peterson
1976	Eliza Fraser	Youlden
1976	Mad Dog Morgan	Sgt. Smith
1977	Backroads	Jack
1978	In Search of Anna	Peter
1978	Newsfront	Len Maguire	Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1978	Weekend of Shadows	Bosun
1980	Dead Man's Float	Eddie Bell
1980	Hard Knocks	Brady
1981	Gallipoli	Major Barton	Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1981	...Maybe This Time	Stephen
1982	Heatwave	Robert Duncan
1982	Far East	Walker
1983	The Hit	Harry
1983	The Return of Captain Invincible	Tupper / Coach
1984	Street Hero	Detective Fitzpatrick
1985	An Indecent Obsession	Colonel Chinstrap
1985	Rebel	Browning
1986	Death of a Soldier	Detective Sgt. Adams
1986	Sky Pirates	O'Reilly
1988	Rikky and Pete	Whitstead
1989	Cassidy	Charles Parnell Cassidy	television movie
1989	Fever	Sgt. Jack Welles
1989	Mull	Frank Mullens
1990	Call Me Mr. Brown	McNeill
1991	Deadly	Vernon Giles
1992	The Last Days of Chez Nous	Beth's Father
1992	The Leaving of Liverpool	Father O'Neill	television miniseries
1992	Strictly Ballroom	Barry Fife
1993	Broken Highway	Wilson
1993	The Custodian	Managing Director
1993	Shotgun Wedding	Police Commissioner Andrews
1993	Stark	Ocker Tyron	television miniseries
1994	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	Bob
1994	Everynight ... Everynight	Berriman
1994	Muriel's Wedding	Bill Heslop
1995	Blue Murder	Angus McDonald	television miniseries
1996	Cody: Fall from Grace	Sam Wolfe	television movie
1996	Race the Sun	Commissioner Hawkes
1996	River Street	Vincent Pierce
1997	Road to Nhill	Bob
1998	15 Amore	Brendan's Voice	voice
1998	A Difficult Woman	Paul Scanlon	television miniseries
1998	The Echo of Thunder	Cooper	television movie; uncredited role
2000	On the Beach	Prime Minister Seaton	television movie
2002	Crackerjack	Stan Coombs
2003	Finding Nemo	Dentist (Phillip Sherman)	voice
2003	Bad Eggs	Ted Pratt
2003	Horseplay	Barry Coxhead
2003	Kangaroo Jack	Blue
2004	Tom White	Malcolm
2008	The Square	Gil Hubbard
2008	Australia	Skipper (Qantas Sloop)
2010	The Pacific	James	television miniseries
2010	The Wedding Party	Priest
2010	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole	Bubo	voice
2011	Red Dog
2011	The Cup	Bart Cummings

Awards and honours

Hunter won the 1978 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Newsfront, and the 1981 Best Supporting Actor award for Gallipoli.^[23]
In 2001, he was awarded the Centenary Medal for service to acting.^[1]
A painting of Hunter by artist Jason Benjamin won the Packing Room Prize in conjunction with the 2005 Archibald Prize.^[24]

 

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Pádraig Kennelly, Irish publisher, editor and journalist, founder of Kerry's Eye died he was , 82.

Pádraig Kennelly was an Irish journalist, editor, photographer, cameraman and publisher, who co-founded and edited the Kerry's Eye newspaper died he was , 82..


(died 21 May 2011)

Kennelly originally began his career as a pharmacist.^[2] His interest in photography led his to pursue a career in photojournalism with his wife, Joan Kennelly.^[2] Together, Pádraig and Joan Kennelly took more than 500,000 photographs of daily life in County Kerry between 1953 and 1973.^[1][2] The photographs have since been digitized and published as a popular book.^[1] The collection was permanently collected into the Kennelly Archive, which was launched in 2009.^[2]
In 1974, Pádraig and Joan co-founded the Kerry's Eye in the basement of their home on Ashe Street in Tralee, County Kerry.^[2] He remained the paper's editor until his retirement in 2010.^[2] Kennelly was the longest serving editor of a regional Irish newspaper at the time of his retirement.^[2] He continued to write a weekly column until his death in 2011.^[2] The newspaper has a circulation of approximately 25,000.^[2]
In early 9 May 2011, Kennelly, though in poor health, traveled to the Irish Cultural Institute in Paris for the opening of exhibition of the Kennelly's photographs documenting the 1969 visit of Charles de Gaulle to Ireland.^[2][3] Many of the photographs on display were taken by his late wife, Joan, including a famous photograph which was published on the front page of the Paris Match.^[3] Kennelly appeared at the opening of the exhibition with Irish Minister of State for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton and Admiral François Flohic, de Gaulle's aide-de-camp.^[3]
He died at his home in Tralee, County Kerry, on 21 May 2011, at the age of 82.^[1] He was survived by his four sons: Pádraig J. Kennelly, Jerry (founder of Stockbyte), Brendan and Kerry; sister, Eithne; two brothers, Ted and Emmet; and seven grandchildren.^[2] He was predeceased by his wife, photographer Joan Kennelly. His funeral mass was held at St John’s Catholic Church and he was buried at Rath cemetery, just outside Tralee.^[4]

 

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Jim Pyburn, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), died after a long illness he was , 78.

James Edward Pyburn was an American professional baseball player died after a long illness he was , 78.. An outfielder and third baseman, Pyburn appeared in 158 Major League Baseball games over three seasons (1955–1957) for the Baltimore Orioles. Pyburn threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg).

(November 1, 1932 — May 21, 2011)

Pyburn was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and attended Ensley High School. He signed with the Orioles for a reported $30,000 bonus after starring in baseball and football at Auburn University. As a "bonus baby" Pyburn had to be kept on Baltimore's 25-man Major League roster for the first two years of his professional career. Initially a third baseman, he was abruptly shifted to the outfield by Baltimore GM/field manager Paul Richards. In 1956, his sophomore season for the Orioles, Pyburn appeared in a career-high 84 games, 64 in center field, but he batted only .173 in 156 at bats. He was sent to minor league baseball during the middle of the 1957 season and retired from professional baseball after the 1958 season. All told, Pyburn collected 56 hits in 294 MLB at bats, including five doubles and five triples.^[1]
Pyburn played offensive end for the Auburn Tigers football squad in 1953–1954, and set a school record for most receiving yards in a season.^[2] He was drafted in the 18th round of the 1956 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins. After his retirement from baseball, Pyburn returned to football and became a coach at the college level.^[3] A longtime associate of Vince Dooley at Auburn and the University of Georgia, Pyburn served as a defensive line, linebackers and defensive backfield assistant.^[4]
A member of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, he died at age 78 after a period of struggle with Alzheimer's disease.^[4]

 

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