Robert Robinson, English radio and television presenter died he was , 83.

Robert Henry Robinson  was an English radio and television presenter, journalist and author.

(17 December 1927 – 12 August 2011)

Biography and career

Robinson was born in Liverpool,^[2] the son of an accountant father, and educated at Raynes Park Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford. He then became a journalist for the Sunday Chronicle (TV columnist), the Sunday Graphic (film and theatre columnist), the Sunday Times (radio critic and editor of Atticus) and the Sunday Telegraph (film critic).
He began working on television as a journalist in 1955. During the 1960s and 1970s, he presented the series Open House, Picture Parade,^[3] Points of View, the leading literary quiz Take it or Leave it, Ask the Family,^[4] BBC3 – including the discussion during which Kenneth Tynan became the first person to say "fuck" on British television (Robinson told Tynan that this was "an easy way to make history")^[5] – and Call My Bluff.
In 1967 it was Robinson who presented the edition of 'The Look of the Week' in which classical musicologist Hans Keller was brought face to face with the young Pink Floyd. He wrote and presented The Fifties on BBC1. Robinson was the presenter of The Book Programme on BBC2 from 1973–80 and a number of spin off documentaries, notably B. Traven - A Mystery Solved (1979). He wrote and presented several BBC1 documentaries under the title Robinson's Travels, among them The Mormon Trail (1976), Cruising and Indian Journey. In 1986 he wrote and presented The Magic Rectangle, one of the BBC1 documentaries marking the fiftieth anniversary of television.
On radio, he presented Today, BBC Radio 4's flagship morning news show, and Stop The Week, a fiercely competitive talk programme.^[6] Robinson fronted Brain of Britain on BBC Radio 4 for many years, but was replaced by Russell Davies during the 2004 series owing to illness.^[7] He returned to host the new series in 2005 until handing over the reins to Peter Snow in 2007. In September 2008 Robinson chaired the special Brain of Brains and Top Brain editions of the quiz and returned to host the series in 2008; Davies then replaced him for the 2009 shows.^[8] In August 2010 it was announced that Robinson was to step down permanently from Brain of Britain to be replaced by Davies.^[9]
Private Eye used to lampoon Robinson under the nickname 'Smuggins'. In a sketch on the BBC's Not the Nine O'Clock News he was impersonated by an actor wearing a cricket box over his forehead. Robinson has also been the subject of a sketch by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in the second series of A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and Fry occasionally does an affectionate impression of Robinson when hosting the quiz show QI. He has also been lampooned by comedy duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb in the second series of That Mitchell and Webb Look, where he was shown as the presenter of an early version of their fictional gameshow Numberwang. He appeared in a Viz comic strip under the name Robin Robertson. He was the father of the actress Lucy Robinson.^[10]
He was married to Josee from 1958 until his death^[2] in St Mary's Hospital, Paddington on 12 August 2011, aged 83, after a long period of ill health.^[11] He is survived by his son Nicholas and daughters Lucy and Susie,^[2] who said: "He had a very long, productive and successful life and we'll all miss him terribly".^[11]

Books

• Inside Robert Robinson (journalism)
• The Dog Chairman (journalism)
• Prescriptions of a Pox Doctor's Clerk (journalism)
• Landscape with Dead Dons (mystery novel)
• The Conspiracy (novel)
• Bad Dreams (novel)
• The Everyman Book of Light Verse (as editor)
• Skip All That (1997) (autobiography)

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P. C. Alexander, Indian politician, Governor of Tamil Nadu (1988–1990), Maharashtra (1993–2002) and Goa (1996–1998) died he was , 90

Padinjarethalakal Cherian Alexander of Mavelikkera, India was an Indian politician and civil servant who served as the Governor of Tamil Nadu from 1988 to 1990 and as the Governor of Maharashtra from 1993 to 2002 died he was , 90.

(20 March 1921 – 10 August 2011)

He was considered as a candidate for the post of the President of India in 2002. During his time in Maharashtra, he had additional charge of Goa from 1996 to 1998. He was also a member of the Rajya Sabha representing Maharashtra as an independent candidate from 29 July 2002 to 2 April 2008.^[1]
His career included extended stints with the United Nations and India's Ministry of Commerce and his high profile appointment as the powerful Principal Secretary for former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He also served as the Indian High Commissioner to the Court of St. James's.
His autobiography is Through the Corridors of Power. His other works include My years with Indira Gandhi, The Perils of Democracy, and India in the New Millenium.^[2]
Alexander was undergoing treatment at the Madras Medical Mission Hospital for cancer. He used to be hospitalised and discharged frequently. Alexander, 90, died at the Madras Medical Mission Hospital, Chennai, on 10 August 2011. The body was flown to Kochi buried at St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral Church at his home town Mavelikara in Alappuzha district.

Career

P. C. Alexander was a former principal secretary to prime minister Indira Gandhi who had also served under her son Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi briefly. Alexander started his career as a civil servant in 1948 and held several high positions. He also involved himself in public life. Alexander was the principal secretary to Indira Gandhi and virtually served as her shadow and policy adviser for the years after her return to power in January 1980. He briefly served Rajiv Gandhi but the latter was not very comfortable with his paternal style and had him replaced. He was sent as India's high commissioner to the United Kingdom. A former civil servant, Alexander was invited by Indira Gandhi to become her principal secretary when he was serving at the United Nations.
He became the governor of Tamil Nadu in 1988, holding the post till 1990. He served as the Maharashtra governor in 1993-2002. He quit the post in disgust after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) first proposed his name for presidency but then opted for APJ Abdul Kalam. Alexander was also a former member of the Rajya Sabha and continued to take a keen interest in national affairs till some time ago.
Alexander's autobiography Through the Corridors of Power gives a ringside view of the government's functioning. He also wrote another book My Years with Indira Gandhi, which records the history and politics of the times.
Alexander is survived by his widow Ackamma Alexander, 88, and four children.

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Charles P. Murray, Jr., American Army colonel, Medal of Honor recipient, died from heart failure he was , 89.

Charles Patrick Murray, Jr.  was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.

(September 26, 1921 – August 12, 2011)

Early life

Born on September 26, 1921, in Baltimore, Maryland, Murray moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, at age one. After graduating from Wilmington's New Hanover High School in 1938, he attended the University of North Carolina. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942, after his third year of college.^[1]

World War II

Arriving in northeastern France in October 1944, Murray was assigned as a replacement platoon leader to Company C of the 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division.^[1] The division had landed in Saint-Tropez on the southern coast of France months earlier and was pushing northward towards Germany.^[2] On December 8 of that year, Murray became company commander.^[1]
Early on December 16, Company C crossed the Weiss River in the northern Vosges Mountains and established a defensive position atop Hill 512, just south of the village of Kaysersberg. Later that morning, Murray, by then a first lieutenant, led a platoon-sized group on a reconnaissance mission to the southeast, towards Ammerschwihr. Descending the vineyard-covered hill along a winding footpath, the group noticed German soldiers in a sunken road, about 150 yards (140 m) away, firing on an American hilltop position.^[1] Creeping forward to a point from which he could see the German unit, about 200 men strong, Murray made a radio call for artillery support. When the artillery landed slightly off target, he attempted to call for a range correction but the radio went dead. Not wanting to send his patrol against the much larger German force, he retrieved rifle grenades from his men and returned to his vantage point to begin a single-handed attack on the position. Although his fire alerted the Germans to his location, he continued to shoot grenades and later an automatic rifle into the German unit. As the soldiers attempted to withdraw, he disabled a truck which was carrying out three mortars. Members of his patrol brought up their own mortar, and Murray directed its fire until the Germans had scattered towards Ammerschwihr.^[1][3]

Murray with his wife Anne after returning from Europe in September 1945

Continuing on the footpath, he and his men captured ten German soldiers. An eleventh soldier approached him with his helmet off and his arms raised. When Murray turned to shout orders, the soldier tossed a grenade; the explosion knocked Murray to the ground and sent eight pieces of shrapnel into his left leg. After getting back to his feet, he stopped his men from killing the prisoner. Only after organizing the patrol into a defensive position did he turn over command of the company and find an aid station.^[1]
After receiving medical treatment, Murray rejoined his unit on December 28, 1944. He learned that he had been recommended for the Medal of Honor in March of the next year and, per Army policy, was soon removed from combat.^[1] He remained with his division and was in Salzburg, Austria, on May 7, 1945, when a ceasefire was declared. The next day, Germany's surrender was finalized and the war in Europe was over.^[2]
Murray was issued the Medal of Honor on August 1, 1945, eight months after the fight near Kaysersberg.^[3] It was formally presented to him during a ceremony in Salzburg, with the entire 3rd Infantry Division in attendance.^[2] He arrived home in Wilmington in September to a hero's welcome, but later returned to Europe and served four years of occupation duty.^[1][2] During this time, he was stationed in Salzburg and became the head U.S. intelligence officer in that city.^[2]
In addition to the Medal of Honor, Murray received three Silver Stars, two Bronze Stars with Valor devices, a Purple Heart, and the Combat Infantryman Badge for his World War II service.^[1]

Later life

Murray being congratulated at his military retirement ceremony at Fort Jackson on July 30, 1973

Murray remained in the Army after World War II, serving with the 82nd Airborne Division and participating in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He eventually rose to the rank of colonel and commanded the 3rd US Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), a ceremonial unit tasked with guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns, among other duties. In 1970, he transferred to Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina, from where he retired in 1973.^[1][2]
As a civilian, Murray worked for the South Carolina Department of Corrections until his final retirement. He and his wife, Anne, lived in Columbia, South Carolina until his death from congestive heart failure on August 12, 2011.^[4][5] Murray Middle School in Wilmington is named in his honor.^[1]

Medal of Honor citation

Murray after being presented with the Medal of Honor on July 5, 1945

Murray's official Medal of Honor citation reads:

For commanding Company C, 30th Infantry, displaying supreme courage and heroic initiative near Kaysersberg, France, on 16 December 1944, while leading a reinforced platoon into enemy territory. Descending into a valley beneath hilltop positions held by our troops, he observed a force of 200 Germans pouring deadly mortar, bazooka, machinegun, and small arms fire into an American battalion occupying the crest of the ridge. The enemy's position in a sunken road, though hidden from the ridge, was open to a flank attack by 1st Lt. Murray's patrol but he hesitated to commit so small a force to battle with the superior and strongly disposed enemy. Crawling out ahead of his troops to a vantage point, he called by radio for artillery fire. His shells bracketed the German force, but when he was about to correct the range his radio went dead. He returned to his patrol, secured grenades and a rifle to launch them and went back to his self-appointed outpost. His first shots disclosed his position; the enemy directed heavy fire against him as he methodically fired his missiles into the narrow defile. Again he returned to his patrol. With an automatic rifle and ammunition, he once more moved to his exposed position. Burst after burst he fired into the enemy, killing 20, wounding many others, and completely disorganizing its ranks, which began to withdraw. He prevented the removal of 3 German mortars by knocking out a truck. By that time a mortar had been brought to his support. 1st Lt. Murray directed fire of this weapon, causing further casualties and confusion in the German ranks. Calling on his patrol to follow, he then moved out toward his original objective, possession of a bridge and construction of a roadblock. He captured 10 Germans in foxholes. An eleventh, while pretending to surrender, threw a grenade which knocked him to the ground, inflicting 8 wounds. Though suffering and bleeding profusely, he refused to return to the rear until he had chosen the spot for the block and had seen his men correctly deployed. By his single-handed attack on an overwhelming force and by his intrepid and heroic fighting, 1st Lt. Murray stopped a counterattack, established an advance position against formidable odds, and provided an inspiring example for the men of his command.^[3]

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Ellen Winther, Danish opera singer and actress died she was , 78.

 Ellen Winther Lembourn was a Danish opera singer and actress, best known internationally for her participation in the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest  died she was , 78.

(11 August 1933 - 13 August 2011)

Winther trained as an opera singer and made her professional debut in 1957 at the Royal Danish Theatre, where she would be employed for 30 years both as a singer and a dramatic actress.
In 1962, Winther won the Danish Eurovision Song Contest selection with the song "Vuggevise" ("Lullaby"), and went forward to the seventh Eurovision Song Contest, held in Luxembourg City on 18 March.^[1] "Vuggevise" finished in joint tenth place of 16 entries.^[2][3]
Winther became well-known to Danish audiences by many appearances in film and television, as well as singing in opera, stage musicals and revues.^[4] In 1983 she was awarded the Order of the Dannebrog for her contribution to the arts in Denmark.
Winther was married to pianist John Winther between 1960 and 1966, with two children from this marriage, and to writer and politician Hans Jørgen Lembourn from 1973 until his death in 1997.
Ellen Winther died on August 13, 2011.^[5]

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Tareque Masud, Bangladeshi independent film director, died from a traffic collision he was , 54.

Tareque Masud  was an award-winning Bangladeshi independent film director died from a traffic collision he was , 54. He was known for directing the films Muktir Gaan (1995) and Matir Moina (2002), for which he won a two international awards, one of them the International Critics' Prize, FIPRESCI Prize, in the Directors' Fortnight section outside competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. He died in a road accident on 13 August 2011 while returning to Dhaka from Manikganj on the Dhaka-Aricha highway after visiting a filming location. His microbus collided head-on with an oncoming passenger bus. The cinematographer Mishuk Munier, a long-time colleague, was also killed in the accident, while Masud's wife Catherine Masud was seriously injured. At the time of his death, Masud was working on a movie titled Kagojer Ful (The Paper Flower). In 2012, he received Ekushey Padak, the highest civilian award of Bangladesh posthumously.

Biography

Tareque Masud was born on 6 December 1956 in Nurpur village, Bhanga Upazila, Faridpur District, East Pakistan. He had started his education in an Islamic madrasah, but the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan forces in 1971 put an end to his studies at the Islamic seminary. After the war, Masud pursued general education. he had completed his HSC from Dhaka College also completed his hons' and Masters degree in History from Dhaka University.
His wife, Catherine Masud, is a Chicago-born film editor.Tareque Masud and Catherine had the sort of relationship of which most couples can only dream. For the last two decades, they lived together, raised their child together, worked together, wrote scripts together, made films together, and even won the Cannes together.^[7] They have a son, Nishad Bingham Putra Masud.

Career

One of Masud's earliest works was the documentary Adam Surat (Inner Strength) on the Bangladeshi painter SM Sultan of Narail District which he completed in 1989. His most famous film in early age of his career was the documentary Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom, 1995) where camera follows a music troupe during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971. The members of the troupe sing songs to inspire freedom fighters. The film was made mainly based on the footage of American filmmaker Lear Levin that Masud got from the basement of Levin's house in New York.
Along with his US-born wife, Catherine Masud, who was his co-director and a film editor, Masud ran a film production house based in Dhaka named Audiovision.
His first full-length feature film, Matir Moina (English release title "The Clay Bird") which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, derives inspiration from his own childhood experiences. He won the International Critic's Award at the Cannes film Festival in 2002 for this film,^[2] as well as the FIPRESCI Prize for Directors' Fortnight for "its authentic, moving and delicate portrayal of a country struggling for its democratic rights."^[8] Matir Moina was received with critical praise and toured the international circuit. It was one of the first Bangladeshi films to be widely circulated and was greeted with enthusiasm for its realistic depiction of life without the melodrama that is prevalent in many other South Asian films.
His latest film, Ontorjatra, is a tale of two generations of Bangladeshi diaspora in London. The film describes the short visit home of a divorced mother and her son. The next project of Tareque and Catherine Masud is Kagojer Phool (The Paper Flower) which deals with the incidents of the partition of the Indian subcontinent. This film may be called the prequel of Matir Moina.

Death

Masud died in a road accident near Ghior Upazila on 13 August 2011 while returning to Dhaka from Manikganj on the Dhaka-Aricha highway after visiting a shooting location. His microbus collided head-on with an oncoming passenger bus.^[3] In the accident, his wife Catherine Masud was also seriously injured. He along with the other passengers were traveling to choose shooting locations for his new film. The name of his new movie is "Kagojer Ful" (The Paper Flower) filming of which was supposed to begin after shooting locations were elected.^[4]
Masud was travelling with long-time co-worker Mishuk Munier, a well-known cinematographer, TV journalist and CEO of ATN News. Munier also died in the accident. The coffins of Masud and Munier were laid out in front of the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Sunday the 14 August, when thousands of Bangladeshis came to pay their last respects. Ashfaque Munier was also the son of the martyred Bengali intellectual Munier Chowdhury who was killed by collaborators during the liberation war of 1971.

Filmography

• Sonar Beri (The Chains of Gold), 1985
• Adam Surat (The Inner Strength)(16mm, 54 mins), 1989

Dir: Tareque Masud

Documentary on the life and art of the Bangladeshi painter S.M. Sultan.

• Se (The Conversation)(35mm, 10 mins), 1993

Dir: Tareque Masud, Shameem Akhter

Short fiction about a strained reunion between a man and a woman.

• Unison (Umatic video, 4 mins), 1994

Animated film about the unity of humankind.

• Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom)(35mm, 78 mins), 1995

Dir: Tareque & Catherine Masud

Feature length documentary film about a troupe of traveling musicians during the Bangladesh Liberation War '71.

• Muktir Kotha (The Story of Freedom)(Betacm SP, 82 mins), 1996

Dir: Tareque & Catherine Masud

Oral history documentary about experience of ordinary villagers during 1971 Liberation War

• Voices of Children (Betacam SP, 30 mins), 1997

Dir: Tareque & Catherine Masud; Prod: Unicef/Audiovision

Documentary on working children in Bangladesh.

• In the Name of Safety (DVCam, 25 mins), 1998

Dir: Tareque & Catherine Masud; Prod: TVE London/Audiovision

Documentary on human rights abuses in Bangladesh

• Narir Kotha (Women & War)(Betacam SP, 25 mins), 2000

Dir: Tareque & Catherine Masud

Documentary on experience of women survivors of war.

• Matir Moina (The Clay Bird)(35mm, 98 mins), 2002

Dir: Tareque Masud; Producer: Catherine Masud; Production: Audiovision/MK2

A feature film based on the director's childhood experience in a madrasa in rural East Pakistan during the turbulent 1960s.

• A Kind of Childhood (Betacam SP, 50 mins), 2002

Dir: Tareque & Catherine Masud; Prod: Xingu Films/Audiovision

A documentary on the lives and struggles of working children in Dhaka city, followed over the course of six years.

• Ontarjatra (The Homeland), 2006

A film about a divorced lady who is returning to her homeland with her son to attend her former husband's funeral.

• Runway Premiered on 2 October 2010
• Kagojer Phool (The Paper Flower), Forthcoming
• Noroshundor (The Barber)

Awards

Won

Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom)

• 1997 Film South Asia, Special Mention^[9]

Matir Moina (The Clay Bird)^[10]

• 2002 Cannes Film Festival, FIPRESCI Prize in section Directors' Fortnight outside competition^[11]
• 2002 International Film Festival of Marrakech, Best Screenplay Award - Tareque Masud & Catherine Masud

Nominated

Matir Moina (The Clay Bird)^[10]

• 2002 International Film Festival of Marrakech, Golden Star
• 2004 Nominated, Directors Guild of Great Britain, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Foreign Language Film

Matir Moina was also the first Bangladeshi film to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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Robert Breer, American experimental filmmaker died he was , 84.

Robert Carlton Breer was an experimental filmmaker, painter, and sculptor died he was , 84..

(September 30, 1926 – August 13, 2011)

"A founding member of the American avant-garde,"^[4] Breer was most well known for his films, which combine abstract and representational painting, hand-drawn rotoscoping, original 16mm and 8mm film footage, photographs, and other materials.^[5] His aesthetic philosophy and technique were influenced by an earlier generation of abstract filmmakers that included Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, Walter Ruttmann, and Fernand Léger, whose work he discovered while living in Europe.^[6] Breer was also influenced by the concept of Neo-plasticism as described by Piet Mondrian and Vasarely.^[4]
After experimenting with cartoon animation as a child, he started making his first abstract experimental films while living in Paris from 1949 to 1959, a period during which he also showed paintings and kinetic sculptures at galleries such as the renowned Galerie Denise René.^[7][8][9]
Breer explained some of the reasons behind his move from painting to filmmaking in a 1976 interview:^[7]

This was 1950 or '51... I was having trouble with a concept, a very rigid notion about painting that I was interested in, that I was involved with, and that was the school of Mondrian. [...] The notion that everything had to be reduced to the bare minimum, put in its place and kept there. It seemed to me overly rigid since I could, at least once a week, arrive at a new 'absolute.' I had a feeling there was something there that suggested change as being a kind of absolute. So that's how I got into film.

—Robert Breer, Transcription of 'Screening Room with Robert Breer (1976)'

Breer also taught at Cooper Union in New York from 1971 to 2001.^[6]
On August 13, 2011, fellow experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov announced on the Frameworks Experimental Film Listserv that Breer had died on or around August 12, 2011. There has not been an official public confirmation of Breer's death.^[1][2]
Scholarly publications on Breer's work and interviews with the artist can be found in Robert Breer, A Critical Cinema 2: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers by Scott MacDonald, An Introduction to the American Underground Film by Sheldon Renan, Animation in the Cinema by Ralph Stephenson, and Film Culture magazine.^{[10][11][12][13][14]}
Breer won the 1987 Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists' Award, presented by the prestigious American Film Institute.^[15][16]
His film "Eyewash" was included in Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film 1947-1986.^[17]

Filmography

The following films are preserved in the library of the Anthology Film Archives and distributed by The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York City.^[18][19]

• Form Phases I (1952)
• Form Phases II (1953)
• Form Phases III (1954)
• Form Phases IV (1956)
• Un Miracle (1954)
• Recreation (1956)
• Motion Pictures No. 1 (1956)
• Jamestown Baloos (1957)
• A Man and His Dog Out for Air (1957)
• Le Mouvement (1957)
• Eyewash (1959) – both versions
• Blazes (1961)
• Breathing (1963)
• Fist Fight (1964)
• 66 (1966)
• 69 (1969)
• 70 (1971)
• 77 (1970)
• Fuji (1974)
• Swiss Army Knife with Rat and Pigeon (1981)
• Bang! (1986)

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Shawn Tompkins, Canadian kickboxer and mixed martial artist, died from a suspected heart attack he was , 37 .

Shawn Tompkins was a Canadian kickboxer and mixed martial artist, and later trainer. At the time of his death, he was an instructor at the Tapout Training Center died from a suspected heart attack he was , 37 .

(March 16, 1974 – August 14, 2011)

Biography and career

Tompkins began studying Shotokan karate at the age of six, and went to be a two-time Canadian National Karate Champion and a third degree black belt in the discipline. He began kickboxing at sixteen years old and competed in 47 matches, holding Canadian, North American and South American titles.^[3][4]
At the age of eighteen, he opened his first training facility in Ontario, Canada. He later relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States in August 2007 and worked as the head striking coach at Xtreme Couture Mixed Martial Arts before joining the Tapout Training Center in October 2009.^[5] He was also the coach for the Los Angeles Anacondas of the International Fight League, officially taking the reins from Bas Rutten as the head coach on March 17, 2007, just before their matchup against the San Jose Razorclaws.
Tompkins taught such notable fighters as Vitor Belfort, Mark Hominick, Chris Horodecki, Wanderlei Silva and Sam Stout.
On November 30 2011, at the Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas during the 2011 World MMA Awards Results, Tompkins was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.^[6]

Personal life

Tompkins was married to Emilie Stout, the sister of fellow fighter, Sam Stout.^[7] On Sunday, August 14, 2011 Tompkins died unexpectedly, of a sudden heart attack, in his sleep at the age of 37.^[2][8]

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