By Harris M. Lentz
The leisure international misplaced numerous mythical stars and a number of different women and men considering the acting arts in 2008. Notables who died comprise Heath Ledger, Barry Morse, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Diddley, Tim Russert, Eartha Kitt, Beverly Garland and Isaac Hayes. Obituaries of those and different performers and filmmakers, musicians and manufacturers, dancers and composers, writers and others linked to the acting arts who died in 2008 are available during this accomplished reference paintings. for every, the date, position, and reason behind dying are supplied, besides a recap in their occupation and citations from significant newspaper and periodical tales reporting the demise. Filmographies are given for movie and tv performers, and pictures of a few of the everyone is integrated. person books during this annual sequence can be found courting again to 1994. A subscription plan is accessible for destiny concerns.
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ARNOLD, EDDY Legendary country music singer Eddy Arnold died in a health care facility near Nashville, Tennessee, on May 8, 2008. Arnold had fallen outside his home and suffered a hip injury 2 months earlier. He was 89. He was born on a farm near Henderson, Tennessee, on May 15, 1918. He began performing on radio stations throughout Tennessee in the 1940s, and was briefly managed by Col. Tom Parker early in his career. ” He continued with a string of popular songs and was ranked as the most successful country singer of all time.
BANAI, CHAIM Israeli actor Chaim Banai died of cardiac arrest at his home in Jerusalem on August 9, 2008. He was 71. Banai was born in Jerusalem on May 14, 1937. He was the brother of the late actor and singer Frith Banbury Obituaries • 2008 play, the melancholy Christmas tale The Holly and the Ivy, in 1950. Banbury also championed the works of Rodney Ackland, directing a revival of his version of Hugh Walpole’s The Old Ladies. Their subsequent collaboration, Ackland’s original play The Pink Room, proved a critical failure in 1952.
She was 85. Baynes was born in Brighton, England, on September 9, 1922. She studied art and began working as an illustrator in the mid–1940s for the Perry Colour Books series. He also wrote and illustrated the 1948 book Victoria and the Golden Bird. She first worked with Tolkien in 1949, illustrating his work Farmer Giles of Ham. S. Lewis, and Baynes illustrated his classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. She also created drawings for Tolkien’s The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Smith of Wotton Major, and Poems and Stories.