Post Mortem Archive: Movies
Dick King-Smith, author of "Babe: The Gallant Pig," dies
Dick King-Smith, a British farmer-turned-writer whose beloved children's book "The Sheep-Pig" -- better known in the U.S. as "Babe: The Gallant Pig" -- was later turned into a popular movie, has died. Mr. King-Smith died yesterday at his home in southwest England. He was 88. Mr. King-Smith had written more...
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Emma Brown
| January 5, 2011; 1:19 PM ET |
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Blake Edwards dies at 88; directed 'Pink Panther' series
Update: The full obituary can be found here. Blake Edwards, 88, a prolific filmmaker who kept alive the tradition of slapstick comedy in his Pink Panther franchise and nimbly showcased his dramatic range with "Breakfast at Tiffany's," died of pneumonia Wednesday at a hospital in Santa Monica. In a six-decade...
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T. Rees Shapiro
| December 16, 2010; 12:58 PM ET |
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Roy Baker, Director of Understated Precision, Dies
Roy Baker, who died Oct. 5 at 93, was a superb but largely unheralded British director who specialized in crime stories and taut melodramas. He earned his greatest renown for directing "A Night to Remember" (1958), which remains the best film about the Titanic disaster. It's accent is on the...
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Adam Bernstein
| October 8, 2010; 11:01 AM ET |
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Corey Haim, Star of "Lost Boys" Dies At 38
Corey Haim, 38, a teenage movie star during the 1980s who struggled with drug addiction as an adult was found dead in his apartment near Burbank, Calif. Wednesday of an apparent drug overdose. Mr. Haim was among a group of teenage actors who were seen to be the up and...
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T. Rees Shapiro
| March 10, 2010; 10:11 AM ET |
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Famous Last Words
Nice little multimedia quiz called "Famous Last Words" on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website, dreamed up by graphics editor Tom Borgman. Can you guess the epitaph for the 15 celebrities? It's a fun quiz for Oscar night. No doubt you'll do better than I did, with a lousy score of...
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Patricia Sullivan
| March 7, 2010; 5:35 PM ET |
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Dennis Stock, Photographer of James Dean, Dies
Dennis Stock's best known picture of James Dean crossing New York's Times Square in the rain has been credited with defining 1950s cool and immortalizing the young actor who died shortly after the photograph was published in Life magazine. Many referred to the picture as "the boulevard of broken dreams."...
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T. Rees Shapiro
| January 13, 2010; 8:13 PM ET |
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