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2022-07-09 05:19 pm

Rest In Peace, Larry Storch And Lenny Von Dohlen

Larry Storch passed away in his sleep at the age of 99. May he rest in peace.

I remember that I loved F-Troop back when Nick At Nite aired it in the very early 90’s. Over in the Columbo subreddit, someone linked to the time Storch was in an episode as a driving instructor who was terrified of Columbo’s driving skills, or lack thereof.

I had forgotten the trivia that he was in 1975’s The Ghost Busters, so kudos to Ghostbusters News for that reminder. I never watched that series, but knew of the headache it caused for Ghostbusters (1984). I did watch an episode of Filmation’s cartoon of it (rented by mistake in the 80’s; movie store gave that rather than The Real Ghostbusters, since that was next to it on the shelf).

Oh, and Storch was also in an episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker as Swede; the episode was The Vampire.

Lenny Von Dohlen passed away on July 5th, at the age of 63, following a long illness. May he rest in peace.

Evidently, he was mostly known to people thanks to Twin Peaks. I never watched that, and almost thought I had never heard of him before. However, after checking his filmography, I see that he was in Dracula’s Widow (1989) as Raymond, which I watched earlier in the year. He’s the guy bitten and controlled by Vanessa.

Looking through his other work, I may need to track down Jennifer 8 (1992). I believe that Electric Dreams (1984) is on Tubi.

(In honor of Storch appearing on the show, have a Columbo icon)
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2017-07-17 08:59 am

Rest In Peace, Martin Landau and Thomas E. Sanders

Martin Landau has passed away at the age of 89, after “suffering complications during a brief hospitalization.” May he rest in peace.

I remember him mostly for how great he was as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1994). He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor the role. I don’t believe that I’ve ever seen the original Mission: Impossible series, or Space: 1999. He was in an episode of Columbo where he played twins—I’ve seen that episode once, a while back on Me-TV. After going through IMDB, I also learned that he was the voice of Mac Gargan/The Scorpion, in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.

I spotted North By Northwest via Comcast On Demand’s Turner Classic Movies section (can’t get the channel, but I can get the On Demand version of it) just the other day, and wondered if I should give it a watch. So now I will. I may also track down Strange Shadows In An Empty Room (1976) and The Fall of the House of Usher (1979), since he plays Roderick Usher.

Thomas E. Sanders has passed away, at the age of 63, after a battle with cancer. May he rest in peace. He was the production designer for Crimson Peak (2015), and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). For Star Trek fans, he did production design for Star Trek Beyond. I’ll be watching Crimson Peak again this evening.

(And apparently, linking to Deadline is considered spam. Therefore, it cannot accept the crosspost with that link. So on the LJ side, the only link is the Star Trek.com article.)