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Celebrated TV Director Herbert Wise, 90, Directed All Of 1976 “I, Claudius”; Came To Britain As Kindertransport Refugee

The film and television director Herbert Wise, who has died aged 90, made an impressive contribution to television drama over five decades. Most notably, he earned plaudits (and Bafta and Emmy nominations) as the director of all 13 episodes of I, Claudius (1976), the Robert Graves adaptation starring Derek Jacobi; but his credits appeared on a wide range of programmes, including Z Cars, Upstairs Downstairs, The Norman Conquests, Rumpole of the Bailey, Breaking the Code, and both The Woman in White and The Woman in Black. In 1979 he won a Bafta for his outstanding service to television.
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I'd like to check out that Woman In Black TV movie...
 
TV’s Batgirl Yvonne Craig Dies at 78

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Rick Obadiah, one of the founders of First Comics, died Sunday.

In its original incarnation, which ran from 1983 to 1991, First was a pioneer in the direct market, publishing works such as American Flagg, Badger and Nexus and selling them outside the confines of the Comics Code. It was also one of the first American publishers to publish manga, bringing out a translated edition of Lone Wolf and Cub in 1987 as a monthly comic with covers by Frank Miller, Bill Sienkiewicz and others.
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Jack Gold, 85, Directed “The Naked Civil Servant”

He combined gritty subjects with a literate sensibility and drew heavily on his early training in short documentaries. One of his best-known films was the First World War flying drama Aces High (1976, starring Malcolm McDowell and Christopher Plummer), based on the R C Sherriff play Journey’s End. Gold brought the action out of the trenches and into the skies; the American critic Leonard Maltin commended the film’s “strong anti-war statement” as much as its “exciting aerial dogfights”. The production illustrated Gold’s fondness for high-class source material – he also brought works by Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy and PG Wodehouse to the screen – and stories that dealt with the sharp end of life.

Perhaps his greatest achievement for television was his adaptation of Quentin Crisp’s memoirs The Naked Civil Servant (1975). The drama starred John Hurt as Crisp, the flamboyant homosexual writer and raconteur who was widely pilloried and lived out his winter years exiled in Manhattan, and made a star of Hurt. “One of the more extraordinary dramas ever created for television,” one critic noted. “The 78-minute film holds up wonderfully the second, or even third, time around.”
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jerseydevil said:
Melody Patterson, ‘Wrangler Jane’ on F Troop, dies at 66
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/22/melody-patterson-dead-f-troop

One of my fave shows as a kid, into my teens, and that I have recently rediscovered. R.I.P.
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Little off topic but a show I recently rediscovered that I ADORED as a kid, even though it came out a few years before my time, was "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir". I watched every episode 1000 times before the age of 7. Loved Edward Mulhare!

Just watched the 47' movie a few weeks ago. Rex Harrison is a friggn boss. Such stage presence. Hard to find actors like that nowadays. Too much other bulls*** going on.
 
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