Tag Archives: Obituary

Children’s author and illus­tra­tor Mau­rice Sendak, recip­i­ent of the Calde­cott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, died Tues­day in Dan­bury, Con­necti­cut. The Ridge­field, Con­necti­cut res­i­dent was 83.

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Gravelly-voiced Adam Yauch, who helped make the Beastie Boys a pio­neer of hip-hop, died Fri­day morn­ing in New York after a nearly three-year bat­tle with can­cer, his rep­re­sen­ta­tives con­firmed. He was 47.

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Actor and come­dian George “Goober” Lind­sey, famous for his slow-witted char­ac­ter on The Andy Grif­fith Show, May­berry R.F.D. and Hee Haw, died at 12:05 a.m. Sun­day after a brief ill­ness. He was 83.

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Singer Jean Stout, who lent his tal­ents to many French dubs of Dis­ney car­toon movies, died April 10 in his native France, just three days short of his 79th birthday.

Stout was a singer and reg­u­lar soloist in almost all Dis­ney sound­tracks from The Jun­gle Book (1967) until the early 2000s. His last dub­bing role was for a re-release of 1937’s Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.

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The body of Men at Work flautist Greg Ham was found shortly after mid­day Thurs­day (local time) at a house in Mel­bourne, Australia’s inner north. Ham was 58.
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Sto­ry­board artist Jose “Zaldy” Sil­ve­rio, who worked for Nick­elodeon since 2002, died March 13.

His age was not imme­di­ately available.

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Mar­tin Poll, nom­i­nated for the Oscar for Best Pic­ture for pro­duc­ing 1968’s The Lion in Win­ter, died Sat­ur­day in New York. He was 89.

He had pneu­mo­nia and kid­ney fail­ure, his son Jon said.

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New Zealand movie, TV and stage actor Grant Tilly, voice of the Oscar-nominated ani­mated West­ern short The Frog, The Dog, And The Devil, died Tues­day in Welling­ton of can­cer. He was 74.

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Com­poser Ralph Fer­raro, orches­tra­tor for the ani­mated movies The Lord Of The Rings(1978) and The Chip­munk Adven­ture (1987), died April 3 at UCLA Med­ical Cen­ter of res­pi­ra­tory fail­ure. He was 82.

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