Minoru Miki, Japanese composer, died he was 81.

Minoru Miki (Miki Minoru)  was a Japanese composer and artistic director, particularly known for his promotional activities in favor of Japanese (as well as Chinese and Korean) traditional instruments and some of their performers died he was 81..

(16 March 1930 – 8 December 2011)

His vast catalogue, where aforementioned traditional instruments figure profusely either solo or in various types of ensemble with or without Western instruments, demonstrates large stylistic and formal diversity. It includes operas and several types of stage music as well as orchestral, concerto, chamber and solo music, and music for films. Miki was probably the second best known Japanese composer overseas after Tōru Takemitsu.^{[citation needed]}
He was a pioneer in the composition of contemporary classical music for large ensembles of traditional Japanese musical instruments. In 1964 he founded the Nihon Ongaku Shūdan (Pro Musica Nipponia ensemble), also known as Ensemble Nipponia, for which he has composed extensively.

Biography

Miki was born in Tokushima in 1930, and his first musical experiences were connected with the traditional music of his region. He had no formal music education before he moved to Okayama for high school, where he first contacted with European classical music. From there he moved to Tokyo, graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1964. In 1964 Miki founded Pro musica Nipponia (日本音楽集団), an orchestra of traditional Japanese instruments for which he composed a large number of works. He also began cooperation with koto virtuoso Keiko Nosaka, developing the 21-string koto and reviving the instrument's repertoire with many new works in a variety of genres and combinations, including five concertos for koto and orchestra. Miki composed his first opera, Shunkinsho (based on Tanizaki's novel of the same title), in 1975. Interest by members of the English Music Theatre Company in Japanese traditional music led to contacts with Miki which resulted in the commission of Ada, An Actor's Revenge, to an English libretto by James Kirkup, which premiered in London in 1979. During this period Miki developed a relationship with theatre and opera director Colin Graham that was to last until the latter's death in 2007. The most notable result of this cooperation was the opera Jōruri, commissioned by Graham for the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (where he had moved following the disbandment of the EMTC in 1980) and premiered there in 1985.
From 1992 with Wakahime, Miki turns to a pan-Asian perspective, incorporating music and instruments from a number of Asian countries in his compositions and collaborating with a number of Asian artists. Some of Miki's operas from here on - and notably Wakahime and Aien - also increasingly tend to deal with episodes of Japan's presence and interaction with its Asian neighbouring countries, often incorporating the use on stage ad within the plot of such countries' traditional instruments.
He died of sepsis at Mitaka city hospital, in Tokyo, during the early hours of 8 December 2011.^[1]

Compositional idiom

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Major works by type

Vocal

Stage

Operatic cycle on Japanese history (日本史オペラ連作)

• Shunkinshō (春琴抄) (1975)
• Ada, An Actor's Revenge (あだ) (1979); piano score by Geoffrey Tozer^[2][3]
• Jōruri (じょうるり) (1985)
• Wakahime (ワカヒメ) (1991)
• Shizuka to Yoshitsune (静と義経) (1993)
• The River Sumida / Kusabira (隅田川／くさびら) (1995)
• Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji; 源氏物語) (1999)
• Ai-en (愛 怨) (2005)
• The Happy Pagoda (幸せのパゴダ) (2010)

Other operas

• The Monkey Poet (うたよみざる) (1983)
• Yomigaeru (よみがえる) (1986–1992)
• Terute and Oguri (照手と小栗) (1993)

Ballet

• From the Land of Light 光の国から

Instrumental

Orchestral

• Trinita sinfonica (1953)
• Symphony Joya (1960)
• Symphony from Life (1980)
• Beijing Requiem for string orchestra (1990)
• MAI 舞 (1992)

Concertante

• Marimba Concerto (1969)
• Eurasian Trilogy 鳳凰三連 (1969; 74; 81), Japanese and Western instruments
• Koto Concerto No. 1 (1974); this piece is also the second movement of Eurasian Trilogy
• Koto Concerto No. 2 (1978)
• Koto Concerto No. 3 (1980); aka Concerto Requiem
• Koto Concerto No. 4 (1984); aka Pine Concerto 松の協奏曲
• Koto Concerto No. 5 (1985)
• Z Concerto (1992), marimba and percussion soli
• Pipa Concerto (1997)
• Requiem 99 (1998); marimba solo, orchestra of Japanese traditional instruments
• Trio Concerto (2000), shakuhachi, pipa, 21-koto soli, orchestra of Japanese instruments
• Shakuhachi Concerto (2002), aka Lotus Concerto

Chamber music

• Piano Sextet (1965), fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, pf
• Piano Trio (1986), pf, vn, vc
• String Quartet (1989)
• Marimba Spiritual (1983), marimba solo with percussion trio

Solo

• Time for Marimba, (1968), marimba
• Ballades for koto (I-Winter, 1969; II-Spring, 1976; III-Summer, 1983, ; IV-Autumn, 1990)

Film music

• On the Road: A Document (ドキュメント路上 Dokyumento rojō) (1964); directed by Noriaki Tsuchimoto
• In the Realm of the Senses 愛のコリーダ (1976); directed by Nagisa Oshima

Vocal

• Shirabe, 4 songs for tenor and harp (1979)

Choral

• Requiem (1963), baritone solo, male chorus, orchestra
• The Mole's Tale (1966), male chorus, 2 perc.

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Don Duong, Vietnamese-born American actor (We Were Soldiers), died from heart failure and brain hemorrhage he was 54.

Bùi Đơn Dương, known in his films as Đơn Dương , was a Vietnamese film actor, who emigrated to the United States shortly before his death died from heart failure and brain hemorrhage he was 54..

(Da Lat, August 27, 1957 – San Francisco, California, December 8, 2011)

Life and career

Don Duong was born in Da Lat, South Vietnam. He began acting in 1982 and has appeared in over 50 feature films. He won the Best Vietnamese Actor award for his role in the 1992 Vietnamese film Dấu Ấn của Quỷ ("Devil's Mark"). The 1996 film Cỏ Lau, in which he also acted, won Best Picture at the Vietnamese National Film Festival.
His first appearance in a U.S. film was in 1999, with the release of Three Seasons, an award-winning film directed by his nephew Tony Bui and shot in Vietnam.
In 2001, Duong traveled to the U.S. to film two films. In Green Dragon (2001), a film directed by Tony Bui's brother Timothy Linh Bui and starring Patrick Swayze and Forest Whitaker, Duong played a Vietnamese refugee who assisted Swayze's character. In We Were Soldiers (2002), Duong played Nguyễn Hữu An, a PAVN lieutenant colonel who led Vietnamese forces against the soldiers led by Mel Gibson's character.^[1]
Upon his return to Vietnam in 2002, Duong was subjected to severe criticism by some Vietnamese citizens and government officials for his involvement in these two projects, particularly for his portrayal as Colonel An in We Were Soldiers where he orders his Viet Minh troops to kill captured and wounded French soldiers. Within a few months, the Vietnamese Actors' Association expelled him, he was banned from working in Vietnam, and his passport was confiscated. Duong wrote a letter to his sons, reflecting upon his ordeal and stating that they "can know the truth, to affirm that I am always and forever not a traitor." The letter was released to the public and published in the Los Angeles Times. In the letter he described the two propaganda movies as just "cinema":

"Movies must reflect the portrait of history. 'Green Dragon' re-creates the refugee camps full of tragedy and chaos but still not lacking love and fellowship.... When I portrayed the character Tai, I had to assume the viewpoint of that character, not my own viewpoint. Only idiots who know nothing about movies would confuse Don Duong with the character Don Duong portrays."^[2]

As the filmmaking community in the U.S. and elsewhere spoke out against the government's negative treatment of Duong, the government of Vietnam relented and allowed him and his family to emigrate to the United States.
He has also acted in the South Korean film Farewell the River. As of 2006, Duong lived in the San Francisco Bay Area.
On December 8, 2011 he died of heart failure and a brain haemorrhage at the age of 54.^[3][4]



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Robert Brown, American politician, Georgia State Senator (1991–2011), died from suicide by gunshot (body discovered on this date) he was 61.

Robert Lofton Brown was a Democratic member of the Georgia State Senate, representing the 26th District. He was first elected in an August 1991 special election and served until June 2011, when he resigned to run for Mayor of Macon, Georgia died from suicide by gunshot (body discovered on this date) he was 61.. He was elected by his fellow Democrats as Minority Leader in 2004 and served in that position until his resignation.


(January 30, 1950 – December 8, 2011)

Death

On December 8, 2011, Brown's body was found in his Macon home. The local coroner revealed that Brown died from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head.^[2]


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Gilbert Adair, Scottish author, film critic and journalist, died from brain hemorrhage he was 66.

Gilbert Adair  was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist  died from brain hemorrhage he was 66..^[2][3] He was critically most famous for the "fiendish"^[4] translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel A Void, in which the letter e is not used,^[4] but was more widely known for the films adapted from his novels, including Love and Death on Long Island (1997) and The Dreamers (2003).^[2]

^{(29 December 1944 – 8 December 2011)[1]}

Life and career

Adair was born in Kilmarnock, but from 1968 to 1980 he lived in Paris, France.^[2] His early works of fiction included Alice Through the Needle's Eye (following Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass) and Peter Pan and the Only Children^[5] (following Peter and Wendy). He won the Author's Club First Novel Award in 1988 for his novel The Holy Innocents. From 1992 to 1996 he wrote the "Scrutiny" column for The Sunday Times. During 1998 and 1999 he was the chief film critic of The Independent on Sunday, where in 1999 he also wrote a year-long column called "The Guillotine".^[6]
In 1995 he won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void, which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges Perec. The original book contains no instances of the letter e; Adair translated it with the same limitation. His works are compared to those of Julian Barnes, A. S. Byatt and Patrick Gale. His book Flickers: A History of the Cinema in 100 Images was admired by David Foster Wallace.^[7]
The film Love and Death on Long Island (1997), directed by Richard Kwietniowski, was based on his 1990 novel of the same name. The film The Dreamers (2003) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, with a script by Adair, was based on his book The Holy Innocents, which Adair revised and re-released under the same title as the film. Adair collaborated on the screenplays of several Raúl Ruiz films: The Territory (1981), Klimt (2006) and A Closed Book (2010).^[8]
Adair himself was homosexual, though he rarely talked about the matter, not wishing to be labelled. "Obviously there are gay themes in a lot of my novels," he said in a recent interview, "but I really wouldn't be happy to be thought of as a 'Gay Writer' ... Being gay hasn't defined my life." ^[9] At the end of his life, he lived in London, England. Adair died from a brain haemorrhage, 13 months after suffering a stroke which blinded him.^[10] He was writing a stage version of Love and Death on Long Island, which is being developed by producers New Gods and Heroes, at the time of his death.^[2]

Bibliography

Fiction

• Alice through the Needle's Eye (1984)
• Peter Pan and the Only Children (1987)
• The Holy Innocents (1988) - winner of the Author's Club First Novel Award
• Love and Death on Long Island (1990)
• The Death of the Author (1992) - a black satire of contemporary theoretical cultishness and a metaphysical murder mystery
• The Key of the Tower (1997)
• A Closed Book (1999) - a literary thriller about a prize-winning novelist left blind after a serious car accident.
• The Dreamers (2003) - a tale of sexual obsession set against the backdrop of the Paris street riots of 1968
• Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires (2003) - the story of Gideon, a young Englishman in 1980s Paris, on the verge of sexual discovery
• The Act of Roger Murgatroyd (2006) - a murder mystery set in the 1930s on Dartmoor, first in the Evadne Mount trilogy
• A Mysterious Affair of Style (2007) - second in the Evadne Mount trilogy
• And Then There Was No One (2009) - third in the Evadne Mount trilogy

Non-fiction

• A Night at the Pictures (with Nick Roddick) (1985)
• Myths & Memories (1986)
• Hollywood's Vietnam (1981)
• The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice (1992)
• Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment (editor with Marina Warner) (1995)
• Flickers (1995)
• Surfing the Zeitgeist (1997)
• Movies (editor) (1999)
• The Real Tadzio (2001) - a biography of the boy (Baron Władysław Moes) who inspired Thomas Mann's Death in Venice.

Translations

• Letters by François Truffaut (1990) (also editor)
• A Void by Georges Perec (1994) — winner of the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize
• Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau (2000) (introduction)

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Harry Morgan, American actor (M*A*S*H, Dragnet), died from pneumonia he was 96.

Harry Morgan was a talented and versatile American actor and director, with a career spanning six decades. Born as Harry Bratsberg (sometimes spelled Bratsburg) on April 10, 1915, he passed away at the age of 96 on December 7, 2011, due to pneumonia.

Morgan's most prominent roles included Pete Porter in the television series "December Bride" (1954–1959) and its spin-off "Pete and Gladys" (1960–1962), Officer Bill Gannon in "Dragnet" (1967–1970), Amos Coogan in "Hec Ramsey" (1972–1974), and Colonel Sherman T. Potter in "MAS*H" (1975–1983) and "AfterMASH" (1983–1984). Throughout his career, Morgan also appeared in over 100 films.

He was married to Eileen Detchon from 1940 until her death in 1985, and later to Barbara Bushman from 1986 until his passing. Morgan had four children and faced legal issues in December 1987 when he was arrested for allegedly abusing his wife, though all charges were later dropped.

Harry Morgan's extensive body of work and memorable characters left an indelible mark on the entertainment industry and endeared him to generations of television viewers and film audiences alike.

(April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) 

Early life and career

Harry Morgan had a successful career on Broadway before transitioning to film and television. During his time with the Group Theatre in New York City, he performed in several notable productions under his birth name, Harry Bratsburg. Some of his Broadway roles included:

• "Golden Boy" by Clifford Odets (1937)
• "The Cream in the Well" (1941)
• "Heavenly Express" (1940)

After joining the Group Theatre, Morgan acted alongside other prominent members such as Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, Sanford Meisner, and Karl Malden. He also participated in summer stock productions at the Pine Brook Country Club in Nichols, Connecticut.

Morgan's Broadway career laid the foundation for his successful transition to film and television, where he became well-known for his roles in "MAS*H," "Dragnet," and numerous other popular series and movies.

Film work

With Cara Williams in Pete and Gladys

Morgan made his screen debut (originally using the name "Henry Morgan") in the 1942 movie To the Shores of Tripoli. His screen name later would become "Henry 'Harry' Morgan" and eventually Harry Morgan, to avoid confusion with the popular humorist of the same name.
In the same year, Morgan appeared in the movie Orchestra Wives as a young man pushing his way to the front of a ballroom crowd with his date to hear Glenn Miller's band play. A few years later, still credited as Henry Morgan, he was cast in the role of pianist Chummy MacGregor in the 1954 biopic The Glenn Miller Story.
Morgan continued to play a number of significant roles on the big screen in such films as The Ox-Bow Incident (1943); Wing and a Prayer (1944); Dragonwyck (1946); The Big Clock (1948); High Noon (1952); and several films in the 1950s for director Anthony Mann, including Bend of the River (1952); Thunder Bay (1953); The Glenn Miller Story (1954); The Far Country (1955) and Strategic Air Command (1955). In his later film career, he appeared in Inherit the Wind (1960); How the West Was Won (1962) (as Ulysses S. Grant); John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965); Frankie and Johnny (1966); Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969); Support Your Local Gunfighter! (1971); Snowball Express (1972); The Shootist (1976); The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979); and a cameo in the film version of Dragnet (1987) with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks.

Radio and television

Morgan hosted the NBC radio series Mystery in the Air starring Peter Lorre in 1947. On CBS, he played Pete Porter in Pete and Gladys (1960–1962), with Cara Williams as wife Gladys. Pete and Gladys was a spinoff of December Bride (1954–1959), starring Spring Byington, a show in which Morgan had a popular recurring role. In 1950, Morgan appeared as an obtrusive, alcohol-addled hotel clerk in the Dragnet radio episode "The Big Boys".

1960s: Dragnet and other roles

Morgan with Jack Webb in Dragnet.

After Pete and Gladys ended production, Morgan guest starred in the role of Al Everett in the 1962 episode "Like My Own Brother" on Gene Kelly's ABC drama series, Going My Way, loosely based on the 1944 Bing Crosby film of the same name. That same year he played the mobster Bugs Moran in an episode of ABC's The Untouchables, with Robert Stack. In 1963, he was cast as Sheriff Ernie Backwater on Richard Boone's Have Gun - Will Travel western series on CBS.
In the 1964–1965 season, Morgan co-starred as Seldom Jackson in the 26-week NBC comedy/drama Kentucky Jones, starring Dennis Weaver, formerly of Gunsmoke.
Morgan is even more widely recognized as Officer Bill Gannon, Joe Friday's partner in the revived version of Dragnet (1967–1970).
Morgan had also appeared with Dragnet star Jack Webb in two film noir movies, Dark City (1950) and Appointment with Danger (1951), and was an early regular member of Jack Webb's stock company of actors on the original Dragnet radio show. Morgan later worked on two other shows for Webb: 1971's The D.A. and the 1972–1974 western series, Hec Ramsey. Morgan also appeared in at least one episode of Gunsmoke.

1970s: M*A*S*H

As Colonel Potter in M*A*S*H with Alan Alda and Mike Farrell

After his contract with Mark VIII had expired in 1974, Morgan's first appearance on M*A*S*H was in the show's third season (1974–1975), when he played eccentric Major General Bartford Hamilton Steele in "The General Flipped at Dawn", which originally aired on September 10, 1974.
The following season, Morgan joined the cast of M*A*S*H for his co-starring role as Colonel Sherman T. Potter. A fan of the sitcom, Morgan replaced McLean Stevenson, who had left the show at the end of the previous season. Unlike Stevenson's character Henry Blake, Potter was a career Army officer who was a firm yet good-humored, caring father figure to the people under his command.
In 1980, Morgan won an Emmy award for his performance on M*A*S*H. When asked if he was a better actor after working with the show's talented cast, Morgan responded, "I don't know about that, but it's made me a better human being."^[15] After the end of the series, Morgan reprised the Potter role in a short-lived spinoff series, AfterMASH.
Morgan also kept busy appearing in several Disney movies throughout the decade, including The Barefoot Executive, Snowball Express, Charley and the Angel, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Cat from Outer Space (opposite McLean Stevenson) and The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again.

Later years

In 1986, he costarred with Hal Linden in Blacke's Magic, a show about a magician who doubled as a detective solving unusual crimes. The series lasted only one season. Morgan's character, Leonard Blacke, was a semi-retired con artist.
In 1979, Morgan played Mr. DePinna in a TV version of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's Pulitzer prize-winning play You Can't Take It With You. He also played the lead role of Martin Vanderhoff in a short-lived series based on the same play, in 1987. He was given a supporting role in John Wayne's last film The Shootist in 1976, playing the town lawman who cheered Wayne's character's forthcoming demise from cancer.
In 1987, Morgan reprised his Bill Gannon character, now a captain, for a supporting role in another film version of Dragnet, a parody of the original series written by and starring Dan Aykroyd and co-starring Tom Hanks and Christopher Plummer.
In the 1990s, Morgan played the role of Judge Stoddard Bell in a series of TV movies starring Walter Matthau (The Incident; Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (TV 1992) and Incident in a Small Town (1994 TV)). He was on an episode of The Simpsons as Officer Bill Gannon from Dragnet in the 7th season ("Mother Simpson") and had a recurring role on 3rd Rock from the Sun as Professor Suter. Morgan directed episodes for several TV series, including two episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, 1 episode of Adam-12 and eight episodes of M*A*S*H. Morgan had a guest role on The Jeff Foxworthy Show as Raymond and a guest role on Grace Under Fire as Jean's pot-smoking boyfriend.
In 2006, Morgan was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

Personal life

Harry Morgan's personal life was marked by his two marriages and the family he built with his first wife, Eileen Detchon. Morgan's love for Detchon was evident through the inclusion of her photograph on the desk of his character Colonel Potter in "MAS*H." A drawing by their grandson, Jeremy Morgan, was also featured on the set, further emphasizing the importance of family to Morgan.

In addition to the connections to his personal life seen in "MAS*H," Morgan's wife Eileen inspired the name of Officer Bill Gannon's wife in "Dragnet," showcasing the intertwining of his real and on-screen personas.

Morgan and Eileen had four sons together: Christopher, Charles, Paul, and Daniel, although Daniel passed away in 1989. Following Eileen's death in 1985, Morgan married Barbara Bushman Quine in 1986, the granddaughter of silent film star Francis X. Bushman.

In 1997, Morgan faced legal trouble after being charged with domestic violence against his second wife, Barbara. The charges were later dropped upon completion of a six-month domestic violence counseling program. Morgan's family also included two siblings, Marguerite and Arnold, who have both since passed away.

Throughout his life, Morgan's dedication to his craft and his family remained apparent, leaving a lasting impact on the entertainment industry and the hearts of his loved ones.

Death

Harry Morgan's passing on December 7, 2011, marked the end of a long and distinguished career in the entertainment industry. He passed away peacefully in his sleep in Los Angeles at the age of 96. His son, Charles, mentioned that Morgan had recently received treatment for pneumonia. After his body was cremated, his ashes were given to his family.

Upon learning of Morgan's death, his former "MAS*H" co-star Mike Farrell released a heartfelt statement that highlighted Morgan's qualities as an actor and friend. Farrell praised Morgan as a "wonderful man" and a "fabulous actor," while also acknowledging the impact Morgan had on everyone who worked with him.

Farrell described Morgan as a "true professional," who, despite having worked alongside many great actors, never saw himself as one of them. He emphasized Morgan's reliability and ability to be playful on set, describing him as the "rock everyone depended on." He called Morgan the finest example of a "character actor" whose presence elevated the performances of those around him, making them shine even brighter.

The admiration Morgan received from his colleagues was reciprocated, as Farrell recounted Morgan's humility and gratitude towards his experience on "MAS*H." Morgan once said that while he didn't know if the show had made him a better actor, it had undoubtedly made him a better human being. This selflessness and dedication to personal growth are testaments to Morgan's character and his lasting impact on the entertainment industry.

Filmography

• To the Shores of Tripoli (1942);
• The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942);
• Orchestra Wives (1942);
• The Omaha Trail (1942);
• Crash Dive (1943);
• The Ox-Bow Incident (1943);
• Happy Land (1943);
• The Eve of St. Mark (1944);
• Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944);
• Wing and a Prayer (1944);
• Gentle Annie (1944);
• A Bell for Adano (1945);
• State Fair (1945);
• From This Day Forward (1946);
• Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946);
• Dragonwyck (1946)
• Somewhere in the Night (1946);
• It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946);
• Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946);
• The Gangster (1947);
• All My Sons (1948);
• The Big Clock (1948);
• Race Street (1948);
• The Saxon Charm (1948);
• Moonrise (1948);
• Yellow Sky (1948);
• Hello Out There (1949);
• Down to the Sea in Ships (1949);
• The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949);
• Madame Bovary (1949);
• Strange Bargain (1949);
• Red Light (1949);
• Holiday Affair (1949);
• Outside the Wall (1950);
• The Showdown (1950);
• Dark City (1950);
• Belle Le Grand (1951);
• When I Grow Up (1951);
• Appointment with Danger (1951)l
• The Highwayman (1951);
• The Well (1951);
• The Blue Veil (1951);
• Boots Malone (1952);
• Scandal Sheet (1952);
• Bend of the River (1952);
• My Six Convicts (1952);
• High Noon (1952);
• What Price Glory? (1952);
• Big Jim McLain (1952) (voice only);
• Apache War Smoke (1952);
• Toughest Man in Arizona (1952);
• Stop, You're Killing Me (1952);
• Thunder Bay (1953);
• Arena (1953);
• Champ for a Day (1953);
• Torch Song (1953);
• The Glenn Miller Story (1954);
• Prisoner of War (1954);
• The Forty-Niners (1954);
• About Mrs. Leslie (1954);
• The Far Country (1955);
• Strategic Air Command (1955);
• Not as a Stranger (1955);
• Pete Kelly's Blues (1955);
• The Bottom of the Bottle (1956);
• Backlash (1956);
• Operation Teahouse (1956);
• Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956);
• Star in the Dust (1956);
• The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956);
• Under Fire (1957);
• It Started with a Kiss (1959);
• The Mountain Road (1960);
• Inherit the Wind (1960);
• Cimarron (1960);
• How the West Was Won (1962);
• John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965);
• Frankie and Johnny (1966);
• What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966);
• The Flim-Flam Man (1967);
• Star Spangled Salesman (1968);
• Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969);
• Viva Max! (1969);
• Patton (1970);
• The Barefoot Executive (1971);
• Support Your Local Gunfighter! (1971);
• Scandalous John (1971);
• Snowball Express (1972);
• Charley and the Angel (1973);
• The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975);
• The Shootist (1976);
• The Cat from Outer Space (1978);
• The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979);
• The Wild Wild West Revisted (1979);
• More Wild Wild West (1980);
• The Flight of Dragons (1982);
• Sparkling Cyanide TV Movie (1983);
• Dragnet (1987);
• The Incident (TV-1990);
• Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (TV-1992);
• Incident in a Small Town (TV-1994);
• Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996);
• Family Plan (1998);
• Crosswalk (1999).

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Lawrie Tierney, Scottish footballer, died he was 52.

Lawrence "Lawrie" Tierneywas a Scottish footballer who played as a midfielder died he was 52.. Born in Leith, Tierney started his professional career at Heart of Midlothian in 1976, making 49 appearances for the club before being released in February 1980.

(4 April 1959 – 6 December 2011) 

He then had brief spells at Hibernian and Wigan Athletic before moving to the United States, where he played in the Major Indoor Soccer League for Phoenix Inferno, Golden Bay Earthquakes and Tacoma Stars.^[1]

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Barbara Orbison, German-born American record producer and music publisher, widow of Roy Orbison, died from pancreatic cancer he was 61.

Barbara Orbison was a German-born United States-based entrepreneur, music producer/publisher, and the widow of American musician Roy Orbison died from pancreatic cancer he was 61..

(January 10, 1950 – December 6, 2011)

Biography

Barbara Anne Marie Wellhöner Jakobs was born in Bielefeld, Germany.^[1][2] On July 21, 1968^{[citation needed]}, Barbara (then 18 years old) met the 32-year-old Orbison when he asked friends to introduce him to her at a nightclub in Leeds, England, during Orbison's tour of Great Britain. They married on March 25, 1969, in Hendersonville, Tennessee.^[3] They divided their time between Nashville, Tennessee and Malibu, California, raising their two sons, Roy Kelton Orbison, Jr. (born 1970) and Alexander Lee Orbison (born 1974).
During the 1980s, she managed her husband's career and was the executive producer of his 1987 album, In Dreams: The Greatest Hits plus his highly acclaimed January 1988 televised music special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. Following her husband's death on December 6, 1988, she took charge of his business affairs and dedicated herself to promoting his music to ensuing generations. She worked with friend and fellow artist Jeff Lynne to put together the posthumous release of the King of Hearts album in 1992 (an album which was re-issued in 2007 by Sony BMG after they took charge of Virgin's catalog in 2005) as well as other record projects. She co-produced Only the Lonely: The Roy Orbison Story, a European stage musical.^[1]
In late 1993, the family home in Malibu was destroyed by brush fires. Although she maintained a residence on the West Coast, she returned to Nashville where she purchased a home as well as a commercial property to house her music publishing business. Her company, "Still Working Music" employs songwriters such as Tommy Lee James and Chase Yaklin.^[1]
Orbison was also involved with charitable causes in aid of the homeless. For Showtime, in 1990, she produced a Roy Orbison tribute at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles that raised in excess of $1 million for the city's homeless. She personally funded "Orbison House", a 21-unit residence for the mentally impaired homeless of Los Angeles.^[1]
She produced Damien Leith's album, Roy: A Tribute To Roy Orbison, which was released by Sony BMG in Australia on April 15, 2011 to coincide with what would have been Roy Orbison's 75th birthday.^[4]

Death

Barbara Orbison was hospitalized from May 2011 until her death on December 6, 2011, aged 61, from pancreatic cancer, 23 years to the day after her husband's death. She was buried next to her husband at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. This was followed by a celebration of her life in Nashville, Tennessee. She is survived by her sons Roy Kelton Orbison (born 1970) and Alexander Orbison (born 1974).^[5][6]


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