The Untouchables (movie)

Giorgio Armani's niece Roberta has star power of her own

2013-05-12 00:00:00

There are few designers working today who have had as big an influence on fashion as Giorgio Armani. Founding his company in Milan in 1975, he modernized the suit, giving it a relaxed, soft silhouette, and created a daytime uniform of power and...

PASSINGS: Cliff Osmond

2012-12-31 00:00:00

Cliff Osmond, 75, a character actor who was a regular presence in director Billy Wilder's comedies of the 1960s and '70s and appeared in dozens of TV series into the 1990s, died Dec. 22 of pancreatic cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades, said his...

'Gangster Squad' a stylish but shallow noir tale, critics say

2013-01-11 14:47:00

Taking its name and inspiration from a real LAPD operation that battled organized crime during the 1940s and '50s, the new film "Gangster Squad" dramatizes the story of�Sgt. John O'Mara (played by Josh Brolin) and his squad's crusade against the...

Dann Cahn dies at 89; editor on 'I Love Lucy'

2012-11-25 00:00:00

Using a newly developed editing machine that he dubbed the "three-headed monster," Dann Cahn pioneered multi-camera editing on sitcoms in the 1950s while helping to craft a classic, "I Love Lucy." "Lucy" broke ground in television by employing three...

PASSINGS: George Murdock, Charles 'Skip' Pitts

2012-05-04 00:00:00

George Murdock Character actor often played the 'heavy' George Murdock, 81, a veteran character actor who had a recurring role as Lt. Scanlon on the television sitcom "Barney Miller" and played God in the 1989 film "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,"...

PASSINGS: Mae Laborde, Richard Bruno, Hulett C. Smith

2012-01-17 00:00:00

Mae Laborde Acting career began at 93 Mae Laborde, 102, an energetic senior citizen whose outgoing personality landed her in several Steve Lopez columns and launched a late-blooming acting career, died in her sleep Jan. 9 at an assisted living...

David Zelag Goodman dies at 81; Oscar-nominated screenwriter

2011-09-28 00:00:00

David Zelag Goodman, a screenwriter best known for such 1970s films as the controversial psychological thriller "Straw Dogs" and "Lovers and Other Strangers," a comedy that earned him an Oscar nomination, has died. He was 81. Goodman died Monday at an...

PASSINGS: John Dye, Ellen Stewart, Del Reisman, Irene Jerison

2011-01-14 00:00:00

John Dye Actor best known for 'Touched by an Angel' John Dye, 47, an actor best known for his role as Andrew in the long-running CBS-TV series "Touched by an Angel," was found dead Monday at his home in San Francisco, the San Francisco medical examiner'...

PASSINGS: Bernd Eichinger, Bruce Gordon, Frank Lieberman, Stanley Frazen, Alan Sloane

2011-01-26 00:00:00

Bernd Eichinger Film producer and screenwriter Bernd Eichinger, 61, a successful German film producer and screenwriter whose credits include the Oscar-nominated "Downfall" and "The Baader Meinhof Complex," died Monday night in Los Angeles after...

PASSINGS: Paul Picerni, Guy Greengard, Romulus Linney

2011-01-21 00:00:00

Paul Picerni Prolific character actor Paul Picerni, 88, a prolific character actor who costarred in the television series "The Untouchables" and was featured in the 1953 horror movie "House of Wax," died Jan. 12 of a heart attack at his home in the...

Alan Armer dies at 88; TV producer won Emmy with 'The Fugitive'

2010-12-09 00:00:00

Alan A. Armer, an Emmy Award-winning television producer whose series included "The Fugitive" and "The Untouchables," has died. He was 88. Armer, a retired longtime professor in what now is called the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at Cal State...

Lucille Ball Dies; TV's Comic Genius Was 77

1989-04-27 00:00:00

Lucille Ball, the leggy showgirl, model and B-grade movie queen whose pumpkin hair and genius for comedy made her an icon of television, died early Wednesday, a week after undergoing emergency heart surgery. The co-creator and star of " I Love Lucy," a...

This 1987 Brian De Palma masterpiece may very well be the ultimate in Chicago mob movies. As Sean Connery says in the movie, "That's the Chicago way!"

2011-09-07 12:45:29