Fred Ward was an American actor known for parts in films such as Miami Blues (1990), a film I enjoyed immensely and Tremors (1990), which is nearly as good as Miami Blues.
RIP Jerzy Trela (1942 – 2022)
Jerzy Trela was a Polish actor. He was Billaud-Varenne in Danton (1983).
RIP Shivkumar Sharma (1938 – 2022)
Shivkumar Sharma was an Indian classical musician and santoor player best known outside of his country for the album Call of the Valley (1967).
RIP Jeroen Brouwers (1940 – 2022)
Jeroen Brouwers was a Dutch writer known for such novels as Sunken Red (1981).
Sunken Red (1981) is the story of the author locked up with his mother in a Japanese concentration camp.
Published after the death of his mother, it is a reflection of the coping process of his years in these Japanese internment camps.
Guy Cassiers directed a play based on the English translation of the book. It starred Dirk Roofthooft.
RIP Enrique Metinides (1934 – 2022)
Enrique Metinides was a Mexican photojournalist working for the nota roja tabloids, producing pictures of murders and accidents such as “Adela Legarreta Rivas is struck by a white Datsun on Avenida Chapultepec, Mexico City, 29 April 1979” (1979).
RIP Richard Rush (1929 – 2021)
This happened in 2021 but I only just found out, while I was researching the hippie film Escalation of the previous dead person.
Richard Rush was an American film director known for films such as Psych-Out (1968).
RIP Lino Capolicchio (1943 – 2022)
Lino Capolicchio was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director known for performances in such films as Escalation (1968), The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) and The House with Laughing Windows (1976).
RIP Allen Blairman (1940 – 2022)
Allen Blairman was an American jazz drummer best known for his recording with Albert Ayler and Mal Waldron known. He is known for such recordings as Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (1970) with Albert Ayler.
RIP Klaus Schulze (1947 – 2022)
Klaus Schulze was a German composer and musician, a pioneer in electronic music. Briefly a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the Cosmic Jokers he launched a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums.
In my universe he is known for such compositions as “Tango-Saty” (1983) and “Transfer Station Blue” (1984).
He also composed soundtracks for films such as Angst (1983).
RIP Susan Jacks (1948 – 2022)
Susan Jacks was a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for her vocal performance on such songs as “Shadows on My Wall” (1969).