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4May

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E. Roy Lester, Football coach

E. Roy Lester an American college and high school football coach died on May 3, 2020 in Rockville, Maryland, at the age of 96. The cause of death was complications of COVID-19. Lester resided in Gaithersburg, Maryland and had four children – three sons and a daughter. After a successful career at the high school level, he served as the head coach of the University of Maryland football team from 1969 to 1971. Lester was the school's fourth head coach in five years, and compiled a 7–25 record during his tenure. He was fired after the 1971 season when Maryland finished at the bottom of the Atlantic Coast Conference for the second consecutive year. Lester returned to coach interscholastic football, including as head coach of Richard Montgomery High School where his teams compile...

James M. Cross, Ice hockey player & coach

3May

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James M. Cross, Ice hockey player & coach

James M. Cross an American ice hockey player and coach who led the Vermont Catamounts of the University of Vermont for nineteen seasons died in Georgia of complications of COVID-19 on May 2, 2020, at age 87. Cross graduated from Boston University in 1960, having played ice hockey for the Terriers for two seasons. In his senior year, he helped the team record a third-place finish at the 1960 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. While at BU, Cross played collegiate summer baseball with the Dennis Clippers of the Cape Cod Baseball League. After graduating from BU, Cross became the director of physical education at Lyman C. Hunt School, a position he held for four years before accepting the head coaching position at nearby Vermont. Cross joined the program in only its third year of e...

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...