MS-1, Mexican professional wrestler, died from a car accident he was 55.

Pablo Fuentes Reyna  was a Mexican luchador (Spanish for professional wrestler) best known under the ring name MS-1 (MS Uno) died from a car accident he was 55.. As MS-1, Fuentes was a founding member of the wrestling group called Los Infernales (the Infernals) and achieved most of his success as part of the group, including being the first-ever Mexican National Trios Champions and the first-ever CMLL World Trios Champions. Fuentes' son is also a professional wrestler working as MS-1, Jr. or MS-Jr.

(December 31, 1956 – January 12, 2012)

Professional wrestling career

Reyna made his professional wrestling debut on July 12, 1978 at the age of 21, wrestling under his real name Pablo Fuentes. Within a year the rookie began working for Empressa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), Mexico's largest professional wrestling promotion. EMLL decided that Fuentes needed a different ring persona and created the character "MS-1" for him; MS refers to a Mexican Antiterrorist corps where MS-1 is the highest rank.^[4] Fuentes was teamed up with another wrestler who was given the name "MS-2", both of them adopted identical masks and outfits, only differentiated by the "1" and "2" on their tights.^[4] In March 1979 MS-1 and MS-2 made their in ring debut. while Fuentes showed great in-ring skill, MS-2 did not seem to progress as fast as Fuentes and was phased out in less than a year allowing "MS-1" to work as a singles wrestler. In his first scripted feud MS-1 faced off against Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. in a series of heated matches, culminating in a Luchas de Apuestas match, a "bet match" where each competitor wagered his mask. On July 2, 1982 MS-1 lost the match and was forced to unmask per Lucha Libre traditions; the loss of the mask did not hinder his popularity any, partly because the mask was described as "very ugly" and partly because Fuentes was a good looking man.^[1][4] After the storyline with Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. ended MS-1 was paired up with Sangre Chicana in a very heated feud that often saw one or both men end the match with blood all over their face. The end of the storyline between MS-1 and Sangre Chicana saw Chicana defeate MS-1 in a Luchas de Apuestas match, after which MS-1 had all his hair shaved off.^[1]

Los Infernales

In the early 1980s the |trios concept became very popular in Mexico, spearheaded by the trio called Los Misioneros de Muerte (the Missionaries of death) who worked for a rival promotion. EMLL decided to create a trio of villains, or Rudos as they're called in Lucha Libre, to capitalize on the popularity. MS-1 was teamd up with El Satánico and Espectro, Jr. to form Los Infernales (the Infernals). Espectro, Jr. was forced to retire due to injuries not long after Los Infernales were formed; he was replaced with Pirata Morgan and the trio of MS-1, Satánico and Pirata Morgan quickly became one of the most successful Trios of its time.^[1] In addition to success as a team, MS-1 also saw singles success as he won the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship from Ringo Mendoza on February 12, 1985 only to turn around and lose it to Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. on June 21 that same year.^[5] In March 1985 Los Infernales participated in a tournamtn to determine the first ever Mexican National Trios Champions; Los Infernales defeated three teams to qualify for the finals.^[6] In the finals Los Infernales defeated Los Brazos ("the Arms"; El Brazo, Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata) to become the first ever Mexican National Trios champions.^[7] That match was just the first match in a long running Inferlanes/Brazos storyline that would run off and on over the next decade. Los Brazos won the initial feud when they defeated Los Infernales for the Mexican Nations Trios Title on December 8, 1985.^[7] In October, 1986 Pirata Morgan left the group to form a new group called "Los Bucaneros", in his place Los Infernales recruited Masakre to be their third member.
On March 20, 1987 MS-1 defeated his longtime rival Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. to one again win the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship.^[5] Six days later MS-1 and Masakre teamed up to defeat Los Hermanos Dinamita (Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000) to win the Mexican National Tag Team Championship, starting a feud with Los Hermanos Dinamita.^[8] The feud with Los Hermanos Dinamita saw Cien Caras defeat MS-1 for the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship on June 24, 1987, ending MS-1's reign after just three months.^[5] MS-1 and Masakre defended the Mexican National Tag Team titles for just over a year until losing them to Atlantis and Ángel Azteca on April 6, 1988.^[8] El Satánico left Los Infernales as he began focusing more on singles matches and MS-1 and Masakre began arguing, then fighting after the two of them lost the tag team titles thus ending Los Infernales. MS-1 and Masakre faced off in a series of matches, culminating with a headline Luchas de Apuestas match at Arena Mexico that MS-1 won.
In the early 1990s Los Infernales reformed, reuniting MS-1, Satánico and Pirata Morgan. The trio participated in the tournament to crown the first ever CMLL World Trios Champions. Los Infernales won the tournament, defeating Los Brazo in the finals to become the first ever CMLL World Trios Champions on November 22, 1991.^[7] Former Infernales member Masakre had formed his own group, Los Intocables (the Untouchables) consisting of himself, Pierroth, Jr. and Jaque Mate (Checkmate). Los Intocables were immediately paired with Los Infernales to create a Rudos vs. Rudos storyline, playing off both the championship chase and the history between the two groups. On March 22, 1992 Los Intocables won the CMLL World Trios Title, however Los Infernales got the final victory in their feud as they defeated Los Intocables for the championship on September 20, 1992.^[7] After the storyline with Los Intocables ended Los Infernales renewed their rivalry with Los Brazo, facing off in several main events that drew sell-out crowds all over Mexico. On April 6, 1993 Los Brazo won the CMLL World Trios Title from Los Infernales; a victory that only helped increase the intensity of the rivalry. The Infernales / Brazos feud did not so much with a conclusive victory for either side but rather slowed down and then stopped when Los Infernales split up in the mid 1990s. Both Satánico and Pirata Morgan left CMLL for periods of time to work for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, CMLL's main rival and in 1996 MS-1 left CMLL for good.
After leaving CMLL Fuentes became a wrestling promoter, promoting shows in smaller arenas around Naucalpan, while also forming a new Los Infernales trio on the Mexican Independent circuit, teaming with his son who wrestled as "MS-1, Jr." and "MS-2", who was often played by various local wrestlers and not one specific person.^[1] By the end of the 1990s MS-1 quietly retired from wrestling.

Death

On January 12, 2012, Fuentes died in a car accident in Huamantla, Tlaxcala.^[2][3]

In wrestling

• Finishing and signature moves

• Flying Senton
• Flying Somersault Senton
• Media Cerrajera
• Low blow

Championships and accomplishments

• Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre

• CMLL World Trios Championship (1 time) – with El Satánico and Pirata Morgan^[7]
• Mexican National Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Masakre^[8]
• Mexican National Trios Championship (1 time) – El Satánico and Pirata Morgan^[9]
• NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (2 time)^[5]

• Other titles

• Distrito Federal Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[10]

Lucha de Apuesta record

See also: Luchas de Apuestas

Wager	Winner	Loser	Location	Date	Notes
Hair	Rey Misterio	MS-1	Tijuana, Baja California	Unknown
Mask	Rayo de Jalisco Jr.	MS-1	Mexico City, D.F.	July 2, 1982	[4]
Hair	Tie	MS-1 and Gran Jalisco	Mexico City, D.F.	July 23, 1982	Both wrestlers lose their hair
Hair	Sangre Chicana	MS-1	Mexico City, D.F.	September 23, 1983	[4]
Hair	Sangre Chicana	MS-1	Mexico City, D.F.	September 21, 1984
Hair	Pirata Morgan	MS-1	Mexico City, D.F.	July 4, 1986
Hair	MS-1	El Egipcio	Mexico City, D.F.	February 27, 1987
Hair	MS-1	Herodes	Mexico City, D.F.	April 15, 1988
Hair	MS-1	Negro Navarro	Unknown	1988
Hair	MS-1	Masakre	Mexico City, D.F.	June 1988
Mask/Hair	Atlantis and El Satánico	MS-1 and Tierra Viento y Fuego	Mexico City, D.F.	September 22, 1989	[11]
Hair	El Faraón and Ringo Mendoza	MS-1 and Masakre	Mexico City, D.F.	September 7, 1990
Hair	Pirata Morgan	MS-1	Mexico City, D.F.	March 15, 1991
Hair	Masakre	MS-1	Mexico City, D.F.	December 15, 1991
Hair	El Faraón	MS-1	Mexico City, D.F.	July 3, 1992
Hair	Cien Caras	MS-1	Tonala, Jalisco	August 13, 1993
Hair	Pirata Morgan	MS-1	Mexico City, D.F.	September 29, 1994
Hair	Héctor Garza	MS-1	Puebla, Puebla	November 27, 1995

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Glenda Dickerson, American theatre director, died he was 66.

Glenda Dickerson  was an iconic director, folklorist, adaptor, writer, choreographer, actor, black theatre organizer, and educator died he was 66.. She is known throughout the American Theater as a consummate promoter of a "womanist" direction in the theater and her work focused on folklore, myths, black legends, and classical works reinterpreted.^[3] She worked in venues including the Biltmore Theatre^[4] (Broadway), Circle in the Square (New York City), Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco), Ford's Theatre and the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.).In 1971, she received an Emmy nomination and in 1972 a Peabody Award.^[5]

^{(February 9, 1945 – January 12, 2012[2])}

She conceived and/or adapted numerous vehicles for the stage from various dramatic and non-dramatic sources, including the "miracle play": Jesus Christ, Lawd Today; Owen's Song; The Unfinished Song; Rashomn; Torture of Mothers; Jump at the Sun; Aunt Jemima and the Traveling Menstrual Show and Every Step I Take. She conceived and directed Eel Catching in Setauket: A Living Portrait of a Community, an oral history, creative performance project which documented the lives of the African-American Christian Avenue community in Setauket, Long Island. She performed in her one-woman shows, Saffron Persephone Brown: The Flower-storm of a Brown Woman; Spreading Lies; and in the Trojan Women: A Tale of Devastation for Two Voices.
She was author of African American Theater: A Cultural Companion. She also completed a 2-disk DVD, "What's Cookin' in the Kitchen? A Planetary Portrait 9/11/01 - 9/11/04," which documented her "Kitchen Prayers" series. Until 2007, Kitchen Prayers Performance Dialogues on 9/11 and global loss were performed annually under the auspices of The Project for Transforming thru Performing: re/placing Black Womanly Images.
At the University of Michigan she was Head of the African American Theater Minor and served as Director of the Center for World Performance Studies.^[6] Before Michigan, She was head of the Department of Drama and Dance at Spelman College and she taught at Rutgers University both, the New Brunswick and Newark campuses. Professor Dickerson also was an Assistant Professor of Directing in the Department of Theater at Howard University and Chair of the Theater Department at The Duke Ellington School of the Arts (formerly, The School of the Arts at Western).
She held the distinction, along with Vinnette Carroll, of being one of the few African-American women to have directed on Broadway and she has directed such actors as Debbie Allen, Lynn Whitfield, Charles Brown, Phillip Michael Thomas, Robert Townsend, Clifton Powell, and many others.

Awards, honors, and recognition

Ms. Glenda Dickerson received the inaugural Shirley Verrett Award in November 2011.,^[7] which was established to honor the legacy of the late internationally acclaimed opera singer, Shirley Verrett, who was also the James Earl Jones Distinguished University Professor of Voice at the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. The award celebrates Dickerson's dedication to promoting the success of women of color students and faculty in the creative arts in and for her commitment to diversity as part of the University's mission.

Death

Dickerson died in Ypsilanti, Michigan, aged 66, on January 12, 2012.^[8][9]



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Bjørn G. Andersen, Norwegian geologist, died he was 87.

Bjørn Grothaug Andersen was a Norwegian professor of glaciology and Quaternary geology who made foundational contributions to glacial geology and the understanding of climate change died he was 87..

(born 23 March 1924 in Stavanger, Norway  – deceased 12 January 2012 in Asker, Norway)

Life and career

Andersen was the son of Knut Severin Andersen b. Grothaug (1882–1948), from Hornindal in Nordfjord, who was a gardener in Stavanger, and Elise Andersen b. Rafoss (1890–1987) from Stavanger (Kvinesdal). In 1951 he married the physiotherapist Astrid E. Kruse Andersen (born 1926). After a Research Fellowship at Yale University under Richard Foster Flint in 1954–1956, Andersen was a professor of Quaternary geology at the University of Oslo from 1956 to 1970, then at the University of Bergen from 1970 to 1982. Then he returned to the University of Oslo and worked there for 9 years until retirement. He headed the geological institutes both in Oslo and Bergen. He was responsible for the geological education of more than 30 year groups of students, and he continued to participate in academic society until autumn 2011, when he had developed cancer and was in poor health. Andersen was a sought after lecturer and was acclaimed by his students, some of whom he kept in contact with until his death in January 2012.

Contributions to Quaternary geology

At the University of Bergen, Andersen played a central role in building up the study of Quaternary geology. His students and the university benefited from his international contacts and he conducted filed trips to the Antarctic, South America and New Zealand. Most of all his contribution was to reveal the foundation of Scandinavian landscapes.
Andersen's first expedition to the South Pole came in a period of small Norwegian interest in the Antarctic after the great achievements of Roald Amundsen in 1911-1912. Andersen was the second Norwegian to visit the Pole after the Amundsen expedition. An American expedition which reached the Pole a week before him honored his achievements by naming a mountain escarpment Andersen Escarpment after him.^[1]
During his Master's fieldwork in Ryfylke with Olaf Holtedahl as advisor, Andersen broke new ground both methodologically and theoretically.^[2][3] He developed a method for stereoscopic analysis of aerial photos in the assessment of moraines. During the 1950s and 1960s he assessed the moraines in most of Norway, from Lindesnes to Troms. The assessment of the moraines of Jæren and the rest of the south coast of Norway was the basis of his PhD thesis, defended in 1960.
Andersen discovered an until then unknown area of Rogaland containing rock of the Cambrian-Silurian age on a much lower level than the surrounding bedrock. His collected fossiles from this area were deposited in the Paleontologic Museum at Tøyen in Oslo. In this material Professor Gunnar Henningsmoen discovered an until then unknown trilobite species, which was given the name (Ptychparia anderseni) for Andersen. During this fieldwork in the Lysefjord area, Andersen developed a method for determination of climatic conditions from the reconstruction of Ice Age glaciers which is still used by geologists and geographers.
Andersen's first paper ^[3] is one of the most basic papers in Norwegian glacial geology, even though it was published before C-14 dating was available.^[2] The Younger Dryas glacier of the Lysefjord was reconstructed in three dimensions and compared with the glaciers in Greenland today. Further, the highest side moraines were used to determine the equilibrium line of the paleo-glaciers and thus its lowering by comparison with today's glaciers. In this way he was able to estimate the decrease of summer temperature with surprising accuracy. These decreased temperatures were in compliance with the findings of botanist Knut Fægri at the Younger Dryas glacier of Jæren.

After retirement

Andersen was a dedicated glaciologist all of his adult life. He accompanied a party of scientists doing field studies in Chile in 1991–99, and in New Zealand in 2000–08, led by the American Quaternary geologist Professor George Denton of the University of Maine. These studies led to a series of publications, among them papers in the Nature and Science.^[4][5][6][7] This was in addition to two books on glacial geology, one about the Ice Age in Norway: Istider i Norge, 2000,^[8] and an international textbook on the Ice Age World in 1997.^[9]
In the summer of 2011 Andersen presented the results of the New Zealand research at a geological conference in Switzerland. There he also discussed the continuation of his Norwegian fieldwork, and in September–October joined a joint Norwegian-US exploratory expedition to Lysefjord led by Jan Mangerud and George Denton which investigated the application of a new dating method to the moraines he charted in the 1950s for his Master's.^[2]

Selected publications

Scientific publications

• B. G. Andersen, 1954: "Randmorener i Sørvest-Norge". Norwegian Journal of Geography 14: 273–342 (Norwegian).
• B. G. Andersen, 1960: Sørlandet i sen- og postglacial tid. Norges geologiske undersøkelse 210. OCLC 486037056 (Norwegian).
• B. G. Andersen, 1968: Glacial geology of western Troms, North Norway. Norges geologiske undersøkelse 256. OCLC 16446
• B. G. Andersen, 1975: Glacial geology of northern Nordland, North Norway. Norges geologiske undersøkelse 320. OCLC 247679608
• B. G. Andersen, 1992: "Jens Esmark—a pioneer in glacial geology". Boreas 21: 97–102.
• B. G. Andersen, F. Bøen, R. Nydal, A. Rasmussen, & P. N. Vallevik, 1981: "Radiocarbon dates of marginal moraines in Nordland, North Norway". Geografiska Annaler 63A: 155–60.
• B. G. Andersen, F. Bøen, A. Rasmussen, K. Rokoengen, & P. N. Vallevik, 1982: "The Tjøtta glacial event in southern Nordland, North Norway". Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 62: 39–49.
• B. G. Andersen, & J. Mangerud, 1990: "The last interglacial–glacial cycle in Fennoscandia". Quaternary International 3–4: 21–29.
• B. G. Andersen, J. Mangerud, R. Sørensen, A. Reite, H. Sveian, M. Thorensen, & B. Bergström, 1995: "Younger Dryas Ice-Marginal Deposits in Norway". Quaternary International 28: 147–69.
• B. G. Andersen, G. H. Denton, C. J. Heusser, T. V. Lowell, P. I. Moreno, A. Hauser, L. E. Heusser, C. Schluchter, & D. R. Marchants, 1995: "Climate, vegetation and glacier fluctuations in Chile, between 40°30´ and 42°30´S latitude—A short review of preliminary results". Quaternary International 28: 199–201.
• B. G. Andersen, G. H. Denton, & T. V. Lowell, 1999: "Glacial geomorphological maps of Llanquihue drift in the area of the southern Chilean Lake District". Geografiska Annaler 81A: 155–66, with map portfolio including 9 plates drawn by B. G. Andersen.
• D. J. A. Barrell, B. G. Andersen, & G. H. Denton, 2011: Glacial geomorphology of the central South Island, New Zealand. GNS Science monograph 27. ISBN 9780478197990 including 5 large maps drawn by Andersen, his last maps.
• G. H. Denton, J. G. Bockheim, S. C. Wilson, J. E. Leide, & B. G. Andersen, 1989: "Late Quaternary ice-surface fluctuations of Beardmore Glacier, Transantarctic Mountains". Quaternary Research 31: 183–209.
• G. H. Denton, T. V. Lowell, C. J. Heusser, P. I. Moreno, B. G. Andersen, L. E. Heusser, C. Schlüchter, & D. R. Marchant, 1999: "Interhemispheric linkage of paleoclimate during the last glaciation". Geografiska Annaler 81A: 107–53.
• C. J. Heusser, G H. Denton, A. Hauser, B. G. Andersen, & T. V. Lowell, 1996: "Water Fern (Azolla filiculoides Lam.) in Southern Chile as an Index of Paleoenvironment during Early Deglaciation". Arctic and Alpine Research 28 (2): 148–55.
• C. J. Heusser, T. V. Lowell, L. E. Heusser, A. Hauser, B. G. Andersen, & G. H. Denton, 1998: "Vegetation dynamics and paleoclimate during late Llanquihue glaciation in southern Chile". Bamberger Geographische Schriften 15: 211–26.
• O. Holtedahl & B. G. Andersen, 1960: "Glacial map of Norway" in: O. Holtedahl et al., (1960). Geology of Norway. Norges geologiske undersøkelse 208. OCLC 1019047
• M. R. Kaplan, J. M. Schaefer, G. H. Denton, D. J. A. Barrell, T. J. H. Chinn, A. E. Putnam, B. G. Andersen, R. C. Finkel, R. Schwartz, & A. M. Doughty, 2010: "Glacier retreat in New Zealand during the Younger Dryas stadial". Nature 467: 194–97.
• F. Presser, B. G. Andersen, G. H. Denton, & C. Schlüchter, 2005: "Luminescence chronology of Late Pleistocene glacial deposits of North Westland, New Zealand". Quaternary Science Reviews 24: 2207–27.
• A. E. Putnam, G. H. Denton, J. M. Schaefer, D. J. A. Barrell, B. G. Andersen, R. C. Finkel, R. Schwartz, A. M. Doughty, & M. R. Kaplan, 2010: "Glacier advance in southern middle-latitudes during the Antarctic Cold Reversal". Nature Geoscience 2010 (3): 700–04.
• J. M. Schaefer, G. H. Denton, D. J. Barrell, S. Ivy-Ochs, P. W. Kubik, B. G. Andersen, F. M. Phillips, T. V. Lowell, & C. Schlüchter, 2006: "Near-synchronous interhemispheric termination of the last glacial maximum in mid-latitudes". Science 312: 1510–13.
• J. M. Schaefer, G. H. Denton, M. Kaplan, A. Putnam, R. C. Finkel, D. J. A. Barrell, B. G. Andersen, R. Schwartz, A. Mackintosh, T. Chinn, & C. Schlüchter, 2009: "High-Frequency Holocene Glacier Fluctuations, New Zealand Differ from the Northern Signature" Science 324: 622–25.

Books

• Bjørn G. Andersen, 2000: Istider i Norge: landskap formet av istidenes breer. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788200451341 (Norwegian)
• Bjørn G. Andersen and Harold W. Borns Jr., 1997: The Ice Age World: an introduction to quaternary history and research with emphasis on North America and Northern Europe during the last 2.5 million years. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788200218104
• B. G. Andersen and L.-K. Königsson (eds.), 1991: Late Quaternary Stratigraphy in the Nordic Countries 150,000-15,000 B.P.: the XXIV Uppsala Symposium in Quaternary Geology. Striae 34. Uppsala : Societas Upsaliensis Pro Geologia Quaternaria. ISBN 9789173880671

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Colm Tucker, Irish rugby union player, died he was 59.

Colm Tucker ^[1] was an Ireland international rugby union player died he was 59.. He toured South Africa in 1980 with the British Lions^[2] during a period when at club level he was representing Shannon RFC. Tucker was educated at St. Munchin's College in Limerick.
 
 (22 September 1952 – 11 January 2012)

Tucker's death was announced in January 2012. He was 59.^[3]



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Steven Rawlings, British astrophysicist, died he was 49.

Steven Gregory Rawlings  was an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, where he held a Professorship in Astrophysics and a Fellowship at St Peter's College died he was 49.. He studied Physics and Theoretical Physics at St John's College, Cambridge and received his PhD in Radio Astronomy in 1988. He was one of the lead scientists in the Square Kilometre Array project.^[1]

^{(11 October 1961 – 11 January 2012)}

 

Rawlings died at the home of his close friend and colleague Dr Devinder Sivia, a Lecturer in Mathematics for the Sciences at St John's College, on 11 January 2012.^[2][3] The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death.^[4] Sivia and Rawlings co-wrote the book Foundations of Science Mathematics, published in 1999 by Oxford University Press.^[5]


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Chuck Metcalf, American double-bassist, died he was 81.

Chuck Metcalf  was an American jazz double-bassist died he was 81.. He taught at Garfield High School's Magnet Program with saxophonist Joe Brazil in 1968.^[1] In 1980 he toured with Dexter Gordon. His first solo studio album named Elsie Street was released in 1989.^[2] In January 2012 he died from cancer.^[3]


 (8 January 1931−11 January 2012)

Discography

• Joni Metcalf: Sings Porter and Ellington (1965)
• Overton Berry: Live at the Double-Tree (1970)
• Doug Hammond: Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen (1972)
• Mel Ellison: Friends (1976)
• San Francisco, Ltd: San Francisco, Ltd. (1977)
• Mark Murphy: Stolen Moments (1978)
• Chuck Metcalf: Live in Seattle (1987)
• Bert Wilson: Rebirth Loves Monk! (1987)
• Bert Wilson: Live at Caffe Star-Bucks (1987)
• Bert Wilson: Wings (1987)
• Bert Wilson: Live at the Bellevue Jazz Festival (1987)
• Chuck Metcalf: Elsie Street (1989)
• Bert Wilson: Live at the ZOO (1990)
• Chuck Metcalf: Help Is Coming (1992)
• Primo Kim: To Be Near (1997)
• Gerry Grosz: On Ramp (1998)
• Craig Flory: Wigwam Bendix (1998)
• Chuck Metcalf: Thinking of You (2004)

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Mario Maranzana, Italian actor and voice actor, died he was 82.

Mario Maranzana  was an Italian actor and voice actor  died he was 82..

(14 July 1930 - 11 January 2012)

Background

Born in Trieste, Maranzana began his career in the theater with Vittorio Gassman in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, then worked with, among others, Giorgio Strehler and Luchino Visconti.^[1] He also worked as character actor in a number of films and TV-series.
In January 2006 Maranzana was honored with the title of "Cavaliere" (Knight) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, the highest ranking civilian honour of the Italian Republic.^[2]


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