Noteworthy – Page 31

2Apr

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Viktar Dashkevich, actor

Viktar Mikalayevich Dashkevich, a Belarusian stage actor, died of Covid-19 on 31 March 2020. He was born in Chashniki District, and died in March 2020 in Vitebsk, after suffering from COVID-19 complications. He had suffered from chronic lung disease for many years. He is buried in the Orthodox Hieorhijeŭskija Cemetery near Ruba.

2Apr

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Bucky Pizzarelli, jazz guitarist

John Paul "Bucky" Pizzarelli, an American jazz guitarist, died due to Covid-19 on April 1, 2020 . He was the father of jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli and double bassist Martin Pizzarelli. He worked for NBC as a staffman for Dick Cavett (1971) and ABC with Bobby Rosengarden in (1952). The list of musicians he collaborated with includes Benny Goodman, Les Paul, Stéphane Grappelli, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. Pizzarelli cited as influences Django Reinhardt, Freddie Green, and George Van Eps. Pizzarelli was born on January 9, 1926, in Paterson, New Jersey. He learned to play guitar and banjo at a young age. His uncles, Pete and Bobby Domenick, were professional musicians, and sometimes the extended family would gather at one of their homes with the...

2Apr

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Richard Passman, aeronautical engineer

Richard Passman ‑ an aeronautical engineer and space scientist from the United States – succumbed to Covid-19 virus on April 1, 2020. He worked on projects including the Corona, the first spy satellite. He was a volunteer in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and author. Passman was born in Cedarhurst, New York to Ethel and Matthew Passman. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1944 and mathematics in 1946. He earned a master's in aeronautical engineering in 1947. He joined the Navy Pilot Training program during WWII, but was discharged for medical reasons. He worked for Bell Aircraft, General Electric, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Grumman Corp. Passman worked on the team that created Bell X-1, the first airplane to ...

1Apr

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India, Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Sister Sienna, septuagenarian nun

Sister Sienna died on April 1, 2020 Sister Sienna, a 73-year-old Indian member of the Missionaries of Charity in the United Kingdom, was admitted to Morriston Hospital in Swansea with complications of the viral infection and succumbed to the illness on April 1, 2020. The septuagenarian nun was working with the poor and destitute in Swansea, Wales, some 300 km west of London. She was involved in distributing food packets for those affected by the recent outbreak of coronavirus. A native of Jharkhand state in eastern India, Sister Sienna has served the community in North London until 2016. She was also active in the spiritual services of the Indian Catholic community. Matters India

1Apr

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Andrew Jack. dialect coach

Andrew Jack ‑ a British dialect coach and actor, from London who had worked on over 80 motion pictures since 1982 – died on 31 March 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. He was 76. His father Stephen Jack was an actor in films, radio and television. His mother Julia (née Hutchinson), was a horticulturist. He had worked with over 200 actors including Robert Downey Jr. (in Richard Attenborough's Chaplin, Michael Hoffman's Restoration and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes), Pierce Brosnan (in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day), Cate Blanchett, and Viggo Mortensen. As supervising dialect coach for The Lord of the Rings, he created the Middle-earth accents and taught them, along with Elvish and Black Speech, to the cast of the trilogy. He designe...

1Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Turkey

Turhan Kaya, actor

Turhan Kaya ‑ a Turkish theatre, movie and television actor – succumbed to Covid-19-related complications on 31 March 2020. Kaya was born on 30 November 1951 in Istanbul. He was a graduate of the Yeditepe University School of Communication. He studied acting in England and Italy. He started acting with theatre in the early 1980s, but later switched to television. He was known for playing the Ordinary’s character in the series Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu. Kaya returned to television for his final role by portraying the character Cengiz Erkmen in the TV series Halka broadcast on TRT 1. Tuhan Kaya, who had a son from his French former wife, died at the age of 68 on 31 March 2020 at a hospital in Istanbul where he was being treated for COVID19. His body was buried in a priva...

1Apr

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Israel, Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Israel Tolentino

Israel Tolentino, 33, a firefighter and an EMT volunteer in Passaic, New Jersey, died from Covid-19 on March 31, 2020. He battled it for nearly two weeks. Israel Tolentino died from complications after contracting Covid-19, Passaic Mayor Hector Lora said in a Facebook Live, flanked by Passaic Fire Chief Patrick Trentacost. Tolentino, who joined the Passaic Fire Department in December 2018, leaves behind a wife and two children, ages 7 and 9, Lora said. Battling tears, Trentacost said that Tolentino’s death was considered a line of duty death, as he remembered the young firefighter who fulfilled his dream of joining the fire department little more than a year ago. “Israel was a great father, person, husband, son,” said Trentacost. Israel is survived by his wife and two small children...

1Apr

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Julie Bennett, actress & voice artist

Julie Bennett, an American actress and voice artist, died on March 31, 2020 from coronavirus. A native of Hollywood, Bennett worked as a character actress on stage, on radio, and in several film and television programs, including The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Adventures of Superman, and Dragnet. Bennett worked as a voice actress from the 1950s until the early 2000s. She recorded voices for UPA, Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Format Films' The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (for the segment Fractured Fairy Tales), and Hanna-Barbera Productions. She is best known as the voice of Hanna-Barbera's Cindy Bear on The Yogi Bear Show and its feature-film spin-off Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! She reprised the character in Yogi's Tre...

31Mar

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Ecuador, Noteworthy, Profiles

Manuel Adolfo Varas, journalist

Manuel Adolfo Varas Varas ‑ an Ecuadorian broadcaster, sports journalist and lawyer – died on March 30, 2020 from Covid-19. Varas, who co-founded Radio Caravana 750 AM and reported from the station for 39 years, was considered a pioneer of sports journalism in Ecuador and one of the country's best known sports journalists. Varas was a lawyer by training, but spent more than 55 years as a sports journalist and commentator. His career began on the América radio station in 1964. He broadcast from the 1966 Copa Libertadores games. He then worked at a series of stations and radio shows focused on athletics, including Sucesos, Bolívar, Mambo (as a guest commentator), Noticia, and La Fabulosa. He also wrote for El Universo. In 1985, Varas joined with colleagues to found a...

Hilary Dwyer, actress, businessperson & film producer

31Mar

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Hilary Dwyer, actress, businessperson & film producer

Hilary Dwyer aka Hilary Heath ‑ an English actress, businessperson, and film producer – passed away after contracting Covid-19 on 30 March 2020. She was best known for her acting roles in films such as Witchfinder General (1968) and Wuthering Heights (1970). She also performed on the London stage. In 1974, she married the talent agent Duncan Heath, with whom she had two children, and helped to found Duncan Heath Associates, which was later bought by ICM Partners. They divorced in 1989. Later in her career, under her married name, "Hilary Heath", she produced the feature film An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), as well as TV remakes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1997) and Tennessee Williams's The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)....