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Dec 29, 2015

Legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler passes away

12/29/2015
Legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler passes away


Legendary American cinematographer Haskell Wexler passed away on 27th December 2015 in California, US. He was 93.Haskell Wexler was one of the most creative and significant cinematographers in movie history.
He was best known for his work in films like “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “American Graffiti”.

About Haskell Wexler

  • Haskell Wexler was born on February 6, 1922 in Chicago, US. He was known for his work on films like Coming Home and In the Heat of the Night.
  • He was also recognized for his documentary work on the Emmy-winning Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang and Interviews with My Lai Veterans for which he won Academy Award.
  • He had worked as director of photography on films including The Best Man and Mulholland Falls. He also produced and directed 1969’s Medium Cool.
Awards and Honours: He has won Oscar awards for films won Oscars for his work on 1966’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and 1976’s “Bound for Glory,”. In addition was nominated for Oscars for his contributions to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Matewan and Blaze. He was first cinematographer to receive star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1996.

Nov 3, 2015

Actor and Oscar-winning writer Colin Welland passes away

11/03/2015
Colin WellandOscar-winning British writer and actor Colin Welland passed away at the age of 81. He was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for several years.
Welland had won an Academy Award (Oscar) for best original screenplay in 1982 for Chariots of Fire.

About Colin Welland

  • He was born on 4 July 1934 in Lancashire, United Kingdom.
  • Prior to his acting career, he had worked as a teacher and taught art at Manchester Road Secondary Modern School in Leigh.
  • As an actor, Welland had appeared in the BBC Television series Z-Cars, Kes (1969), as a schoolteacher (of English).
  • His screenwriting credits include the film Yanks (1979) which has been was directed by John Schlesinger and Twice in a Lifetime (1985).
  • Awards: As an actor, he has won a BAFTA award in 1969 for playing the sympathetic English teacher Mr Farthing in Ken Loach’s Kes.

Oct 26, 2015

Renowned Hollywood actress Maureen O’Hara passes away

10/26/2015
Renowned Irish-American actress and singer Maureen O’Hara passed away in Boise, US. She was 95.
She was one of the last living stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood of the 1940s and 1950s. She was known for playing fiercely passionate but sensible heroines roles.
 

About Maureen O’Hara

  • O’Hara was born in 1920 in Dublin in then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (present Ireland).
  • Acting career: She started her career in 1939 after she was brought to Hollywood by legendary actor Charles Laughton.
  • Her first film was The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939). Since then she had she had starred in more than 60 films.
  • She also had acted in How Green Was My Valley (1941) which had won five Oscars including best picture and best director for John Ford.
  • She was famously known as the queen of Technicolor in the film industry due to her red hair and green eyes.
  • Airline Business: After retiring from acting career in 1970s, she successfully ran an airline business with her aviator husband Charles Blair. After her husband’s death she became first woman in US history to head a scheduled commercial airline.
  • Autobiography: Tis Herself (published in 2004).
  • Awards: Though she was never nominated for a competitive Academy Award, but in 2014 she was presented with an Honorary Academy (an honorary Oscar).
  • She is only the second actress to receive an Academy Award for acting without having been nominated previously after Myrna Loy.
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