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Jordi Dauder, Spanish actor, died at 73.

Jordi Dauder i Guardiola  was a Spanish actor. Dauder was a veteran actor with a prolific career that includes over a hundred films, plays and television series.
He developed to the immense majority of his work in France, where he appeared as actor in productions different from theatre, simultaneously that was taking part in the different political organizations.

(March 5, 1938 – September 16, 2011^[1][2])

Early life and career

Dauder was born in Barcelona, Spain. After graduating in Arts at the University of Barcelona and History at the University of Paris, where he had to emigrate for political reasons. They began taking their first steps into the theater as well as participating in various social movements that would provide the French revolution of May 1968.
Dauder is one of the side of Spanish cinema forever and participated in La flaqueza del Bolchevique (2003), of Martin Cuenca; Amor idiota (2004), of Ventura Pons; and La caja (2007).
In Azaña (2007), of Santiago San Miguel, he played President of the Second Spanish Republic Manuel Azaña. On television, one of his most recent roles he has played in the series for TV3 Nissaga de poder (1996).
Catalan was also an actor, voice-dubbing Gregory Peck or Nick Nolte, among others, as well as a writer, author of the novels and short stories and poetry.
Dauder was awarded the Sant Jordi Award for Best Spanish Actor (1991), the Audience Award for Best Catalan Actor (1997), and the Camino the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Award of the Spanish Actors Union (2009). In 2008, he received the Creu de Sant Jordi.

Death

He died in Madrid on September 16, 2011.^[1][2]

Filmography

• Warsaw bridge (1990)
• The Teranyina (1990), for Antoni Verdaguer
• The Punyalada (1990)
• The febre Gold (1993), for Gonzalo Herralde
• El perquè de tot plegat (1995), for Ventura Pons
• Land and Freedom (1995), for Ken Loach
• Caresses (1997), for Ventura Pons
• Els sense nom (1999), for Jaume Balagueró
• The flaqueza del Bolshevik (2003)
• Amor idiota (2004), for Ventura Pons
• Camino (2008), for Javier Fesser
• Of Love and Other Demons (2010)
• The Monk (2011)

Theatre work

• Medea (1983), for Núria Espert
• El último vals (1992), for Samuel Beckett
• La Celestina (1996), Fernando de Rojas, per dirigir Hermann Bonnin
• El lector por horas (1999) by José Sanchis Sinisterra
• El alcalde de Zalamea (2000), for Sergi Belbel
• Via Gagarin (2003), Jesús Diez, a Teatre Nacional de Catalunya
• Don Gil de las verdes Calzas (2007), for Eduardo Vasco has Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

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Sir Brian Burnett, British Air Chief Marshal, Chairman of the All England Club, died at 98.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Kenyon Burnett GCB DFC AFC was a senior Royal Air Force officer who became Air Secretary and served as the last Commander-in-Chief of Far East Command.

(10 March 1913 – 16 September 2011) 

Early life and RAF career

Burnett was born on in Hyderabad in India, where his father was principal of Nizam College. He was educated at Charterhouse School,^[1] Heidelberg University and Wadham College in Oxford.
Burnett joined the Reserve of Air Force Officers in 1932 and transferred to the RAF in 1934.^[2] Burnett’s name came to prominence in 1938, when he was the navigator and second pilot of a Wellesley bomber that completed a record-breaking non-stop flight of 7,158 miles from Ismailia in Egypt to Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, for which Burnett was awarded the AFC.
He served in World War II as Commander of No. 51 Whitley Squadron and then as Commander of No. 33 Air Navigation School in Canada before becoming Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 25 Group in 1944.^[2]
After the War he became an Instructor at the RAF Staff College, Bracknell and then joined the UN Military Staff Committee in New York.^[2] He served on the Joint Planning Staff at the Air Ministry from 1949 and became Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 3 Bomber Group from 1951.^[2] He was made Station Commander at the RAF 'V' Bomber Station RAF Gaydon in 1954, Director of Bombing and Reconnaissance Operations at the Air Ministry in 1956 and Air Officer in charge of Administration at Headquarters RAF Bomber Command in 1959.^[2] He went on to be Air Officer Commanding No. 3 Group in 1961, Vice-Chief of the Air Staff in 1964 and Air Secretary in 1967.^[3] His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief Far East Command in Singapore in 1970 before he retired in 1972.^[2]
Upon his retirement he became Chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis Club^[1], a position he held for ten years until retiring in 1984. His chairmanship was highly influential in shaping the modern history of the club. The year prior to his appointment 81 players of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) had boycotted the Wimbledon Championships, and relations between the players and the club were still strained. Burnett’s calm manner and patient and tactful approach smoothed the way for reconciliation. He is also credited with giving a young John McEnroe a steer in the right direction following numerous reportings of McEnroe to the referee's office. Burnett also felt that the Royal Box should be utilised when members of the Royal family were not in attendance and implemented this rule.


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Roger Belanger,Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins), died from a heart attack at 45.

Roger Richard Belanger was a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player.

(December 1, 1965 – September 16, 2011)

Playing career

Belanger started his junior career with the London Knights of the OHL in 1982–83, getting 31 points (17 goals and 14 assists) in 68 games. However, however an injury in the playoffs limited him to just one game, in which he had no points. Prior to the 1983–84 season, the Knights dealt Belanger to the Kingston Canadians. His offensive production exploded in Kingston, as he registered 90 points (44 goals and 46 assist in 67 games. The Canadians failed to make the playoffs that season. In the 1984 NHL Entry Draft, the Pittsburgh Penguins chose Belanger with their first round, the 16th choice overall.
Belanger stepped right into the rebuilding Penguins' lineup in the 1984–85 season, and had eight points (three goals and five assists) in 44 games. The Penguins sent him back to the OHL, where his rights were traded to the Hamilton Steelhawks and in three regular season games in Hamilton, Belanger had six points (3G-3A). Belanger helped the Steelhawks in the playoffs with 13 points, including three goals, in 17 games.
In 1985–86, Belanger failed to crack the Penguins' lineup and found himself with the Baltimore Skipjacks of the AHL, as he recorded 17 goals and 38 points in 69 games in what proved to be the last injury-free season of his career. The following year Belanger played in 32 games with Baltimore, getting 20 points (nine goals and 11 assists), then spent time with the Muskegon Lumberjacks of the IHL, where he had a goal and two assists in five games. In 1987–88, Belanger was beset with numerous injuries and played in just five games with the Lumberjacks, getting a goal and three assists, then played two games with the New Haven Nighthawks of the AHL, where he went scoreless.
That proved to be the end of Belanger's playing career, as he retired from hockey in 1988 due to injuries.

Death

Belanger died September 16, 2011, from a heart attack at his home in Welland, Ontario. He was only 45.^[1]

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Otakar Vávra,Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue, died at 100.

Otakar Vávra  was a Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue.^[2] He was born in Hradec Králové, Austria-Hungary, now part of the Czech Republic.

(28 February 1911 – 15 September 2011)^[1]

Biography

Vávra attended universities in Brno and Prague, where he studied architecture. During 1929-30, while still a student, he participated in the making of a handful of documentaries and wrote movie scripts. In 1931, he produced the experimental film Světlo proniká tmou. The first movie he directed was 1937's Filosofská historie.
His first feature film was 1938's Cech panen Kutnohorských, starring Zorka Janů, sister of legendary Czech actress Lída Baarová. Janů also played in Vávra's films Podvod s Rubensem and Pacientka Dr. Hegela, both from 1940. Baarová starred in Vávra's films Panenství (1937), Maskovaná milenka (1939), Dívka v modrém (1939), and Turbína (1941).
After the Communists came to power in 1948, Vávra adapted quickly to the new political climate and produced films praising the current regime and supporting the new, official interpretation of the past.
In the 1950s he produced the "Hussite Trilogy", one of his most famous works, consisting of Jan Hus (1954), Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957).^[3]
When the government became more liberal in the 1960s, Vávra's cinema entered into his most prolific period, producing Zlatá reneta (1965), Romance pro křídlovku (1966), Kladivo na čarodějnice (1969), and later Komediant (1984).
When the Communists fell from power in 1989, state subsidies for the film industry were dropped and Vávra's plans for an historical epic titled Evropa tančila valčík had to be scaled down.
In the 1950s, Otakar Vávra, together with a group of fellow Czech film directors, established the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Filmová Akademia muzických umění or FAMU), where he taught for over five decades. Among his students were several directors of the 1960s "Czech New Wave" of art films, including future Oscar-winner Miloš Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus).

Criticism

Otakar Vávra's decades-long career as a film director, from the 1930s through the 1990s, epitomized the tradition of middle-European filmmaking. This tradition ended in Germany and Austria at the end of World War II and ended in the Czech Republic after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Around that time, Vávra began his autobiography Podivný život režiséra (Strange Life of a Movie Director), which concluded with "...and now I wait for the end. My end."
Otakar Vávra is often called the "father of Czech cinema". In 2001, he was awarded the Czech Lion (Český lev) for his lifelong contribution to Czech culture.^[1] In 2004, he received the presidential Medal of Merit (Medaile za zásluhy). ^[2]
Vávra's critics point to his willingness to accommodate the Communist regime.^[4] In a 2003 article ("Playing the Villain", The Globe and Mail, May 15, 2003) about his documentary film, "Hitler and I" that he shot in Prague, David Cherniack described the following encounter with his former FAMU Head Professor:

Having lived in a police state for four years and seen the difficult choices that people make between ends and means, I decide to interview my head professor from the academy, National Artist Otakar Vavra. Now 92 but still very sharp, Vavra made 50 feature films under every regime from the thirties on, including the seven years of the Nazi occupation. Though he maintains he was serving his films and the public by doing the minimum necessary to co-operate, others are of the view that he was serving himself. The films of his that I've seen tend to be rather didactic history lessons. I meet him at the Theatre Restaurant where he lunches every day and still conducts business. Behind the bluster and razor-sharp intellect that is still very much present, I sense a sad and isolated old man who feels he should be enjoying the adulation of his country and not being as ignored as he is. My own Fritz Gerlich (a Catholic newspaper editor executed in Dachau during the Night of the Long Knives) was our teaching assistant, the New Wave director Evald Schorm. Unlike Vavra, he refused to sign a paper agreeing with the 1968 occupation by the Warsaw Pact. Schorm went to his own Dachau. He was forced to leave the school and filmmaking and go direct operas in Brno. One of the Czech actors on the set tells me he died an embittered man shortly before the Velvet Revolution. Reality is always more complex than the stories we tell about it.

Vávra's Krakatit (1948) is based on Karel Čapek's 1924 novel of the same name and contains a strong anti-war message. It centers around an inventor of explosives who tries to keep his invention hidden from those who want to use it to rule the world. The black-and-white original was followed by a 1980 color remake, Temné slunce, which brings the storyline into the modern era. The later version is generally seen as one of Vávra's lesser efforts.
Otakar Vávra's most acclaimed work is widely considered to be Romance pro křídlovku (1966). This black-and-white film is based on a poem by Czech lyrical poet František Hrubín and concerns an ill-fated summer romance between two young lovers of different backgrounds.

Filmography

• 1931 Světlo proniká tmou
• 1934 Žijeme v Praze
• 1935 Listopad
• 1936 Velbloud uchem jehly
• 1937 Panenství
• 1937 Filosofská historie
• 1938 Na 100%
• 1938 Cech panen kutnohorských
• 1939 Maskovaná milenka
• 1939 Kouzelný dům
• 1939 Humoreska
• 1940 Pohádka máje
• 1940 Podvod s Rubensem
• 1940 Pacientka Dr. Hegla
• 1940 Dívka v modrém
• 1941 Turbína
• 1942 Přijdu hned
• 1942 Okouzlená
• 1943 Šťastnou cestu
• 1945 Vlast vítá
• 1945 Rozina sebranec
• 1946 Nezbedný bakalář
• 1946 Cesta k barikádám
• 1947 Předtucha
• 1948 Krakatit
• 1949 Němá barikáda
• 1949 Láska
• 1953 Nástup
• 1954 Jan Hus
• 1955 Jan Žižka
• 1957 Proti všem
• 1958 Občan Brych
• 1959 První parta
• 1960 Srpnová neděle
• 1960 Policejní hodina
• 1961 Noční host
• 1962 Horoucí srdce
• 1965 Zlatá reneta
• 1966 Romance pro křídlovku
• 1968 Třináctá komnata
• 1969 Kladivo na čarodějnice
• 1970 Kladivo na čarodějnice
• 1973 Dny zrady
• 1974 Sokolovo
• 1976 Osvobození Prahy
• 1977 Příběh lásky a cti
• 1980 Temné slunce
• 1983 Putování Jana Ámose
• 1984 Komediant
• 1985 Veronika
• 1985 Oldřich a Božena
• 1989 Evropa tančila valčík
• 2003 Moje Praha

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Bill Taylor, American baseball player (New York Giants, Detroit Tigers), died at 81.

William Michael Taylor  was a Major League Baseball player who played outfield for the New York Giants and Detroit Tigers.^[1]

(December 30, 1929 – September 15, 2011)

The Giants originally acquired the rights to Taylor from the minor league Oakland Oaks in a transaction during the 1950 season.^[2][3] Taylor was signed by the Giants on January 1, 1953.^[4] He spent most of the 1953 season with the Giants' AA-level minor league affiliate, the Nashville Volunteers. After posting a .350 batting average with 22 home runs in 107 games for Nashville, he was promoted to the Giants AAA affiliate, the Minneapolis Millers. He played 47 games for the Millers, batting .223 with 7 home runs.^[2]
Taylor made his Major League debut for the Giants on April 14, 1954, pinch hitting for Mario Picone and striking out against Brooklyn Dodgers' pitcher Don Newcombe.^[1][5] For the season, he played in 55 games for the Giants, getting 12 hits in 65 at bats for a .185 batting average.^[1] He also hit 2 home runs, had 10 runs batted in and scored 4 runs as the Giants won the National League pennant and the 1954 World Series.^[1] He played nine games in the field without an error, seven in left field as Hall of Famer Monte Irvin's backup, and two in right field backing up Don Mueller.^[1] Although the Giants won the World Series in four games that season, Taylor did not see any playing time in the World Series.^[6]
Taylor again spent the entire season with the Giants in 1955. He played in 65 games and had 17 hits in 64 at bats for a .266 batting average, and 4 home runs and a .516 slugging percentage.^[1] He played just 2 games in the field, both in right field.^[1] In 1956, he played most of the season back in the minors with the Millers, but did play in one game for the Giants, getting a double in four at bats.^[1][2] In 1957 he again played most of the season with the Millers, but did play in 11 games for the Giants without a hit.^[1] Towards the end of the season, on September 14, he was sold to the Detroit Tigers, and played in nine games for the Tigers.^[1][4] 1957 was Taylor's final season in the Major Leagues, and he played eight games for the Tigers, getting 3 hits in 8 at bats for a .375 batting average.^[1] He spent most of the 1958 season with the Tigers AAA affiliate, the Charleston Senators.^[2] He started the 1959 season with the Senators, but moved to the Buffalo Bisons in the Philadelphia Phillies organization during the season.^[2] He also played for the Bisons in 1960 and 1961.^[2]
In his Major League career, Taylor played 149 games over 5 seasons and had 41 hits in 173 at bats for a .237 batting average.^[1][7] He hit 7 home runs, and 26 runs batted in and 17 runs scored, a .264 on-base percentage and a .405 slugging percentage.^[1][7] Of his 149 Major League games, he only played in the field in 18, all in the outfield.^[1] As a fielder, he made 13 putouts with no assists and no errors, for a career fielding percentage of 1.000.^[1][8] He also played in 1261 minor league games between 1947 and 1961, with a .311 batting average and 186 home runs.^[2]
Taylor died on September 15, 2011 in Antelope Valley, California.^[9]

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Regina Smendzianka, Polish pianist, died at 86.

Regina Smendzianka was a Polish pianist.

(9 October 1924 – 15 September 2011)

Regina Smendzianka was born in Toruń, and began her public performances as a child of eight surprising the audience with her mature interpretation of the classical works. In 1949 she was awarded the just resumed Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition's 11th prize soon after graduating from the Kraków State Music Academy with the highest marks. She was a disciple of Zbigniew Drzewiecki from 1950 to 1955, and subsequently launched an international career. Smendzianka held a professorship at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy until 1996, briefly serving as the institution's rector. She was a juror at the 1970, 1980, 1995 and 2000 editions of the Chopin Competition.
was a Polish pianist.
Regina Smendzianka was born in Toruń, and began her public performances as a child of eight surprising the audience with her mature interpretation of the classical works. In 1949 she was awarded the just resumed Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition's 11th prize soon after graduating from the Kraków State Music Academy with the highest marks. She was a disciple of Zbigniew Drzewiecki from 1950 to 1955, and subsequently launched an international career. Smendzianka held a professorship at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy until 1996, briefly serving as the institution's rector. She was a juror at the 1970, 1980, 1995 and 2000 editions of the Chopin Competition.


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