The ALL DEAD Club

Coco Lee Dies: ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ & ‘Mulan’ Singer Was 48

Hong Kong singer-songwriter Coco Lee died Wednesday after trying to take her own life at the weekend, according to a Facebook post by her sisters.

Lee sang the Mandarin version of the theme song “Reflection” from 1998 Disney movie Mulan, and also became the first Chinese American to perform at the Oscars, singing the Best Original Song-nominated “A Love Before Time” from Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Lee’s sisters, Carol and Nancy, said she had been in a coma since making the suicide attempt over the weekend. “With great sadness, we are here to break the most devastating news: Coco had been suffering from depression for a few years but her condition deteriorated drastically over the last few months,” the Facebook post stated.

“Although, Coco sought professional help and did her best to fight depression, sadly that demon inside of her took the better of her,” they continued. The sisters said she had attempted suicide at home July 2 and had been rushed to hospital, where she had remained in a coma until her death.

Lee was born in Hong Kong in 1975, then moved to the U.S. where she attended middle school and high school, before embarking on a successful career in Asia as a pop singer. Initially a Mando-pop singer, she also released albums in Cantonese and English over her 30-year career.

She was the first Chinese singer to be signed by Sony Music globally and voiced the heroine Fa Mulan in the Mandarin version of Disney’s Mulan, on which she also sang the theme.

In 2001, Lee sang “A Love Before Time,” the end-credit title song of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which picked up an Oscar nomination for Best Music, Original Song. She performed the song, which was composed by Jorge Callandelli and Tan Dun with lyrics by James Schamus, at the ceremony.

Lee also acted in three films – Stanley Kwan’s No Tobacco (2002), Lee Xin’s Master of Everything (2004) and He Jiong’s Forever Young (2015) – and appeared regularly as a judge on mainland Chinese talent shows including Chinese Idol and Come Sing With Me.

In 2011, Lee married Canadian businessman Bruce Rockowitz, the former CEO of supply chain company Li & Fung, and had two stepdaughters from the marriage.

George Tickner Dies: Journey Co-Founding Guitarist & Songwriter Was 76

Although Tickner officially played on only one on the band’s albums – 1975’s Journey – to pursue a medical degree on full scholarship at Stanford University, he is credited with writing songs on that album as well as the band’s subsequent two, Look Into The Future (1976) and Next (1977).

The band’s big breakthrough came with the arrival in 1977 of singer Steve Perry and the 1978 album Infinity, which included the hits “Wheel In The Sky” and “Lights.”

Journey’s self-titled debut album, released two years after the band’s founding, included the song “Of a Lifetime,” co-written by Tickner and described by Schon in his Facebook tribute as “still one of my favorite songs ever.”

Formed by Santana manager Herbie Herbert, the group that would soon become Journey originally included Schon, Tickner, keyboard player and vocalist Gregg Rolle, bassist Ross Valory and, briefly, drummer Prairie Prince, who rejoined his previous band The Tubes after just a month with Journey; he was replaced with David Bowie drummer Aynsley Dunbar.

John Deyle Dies: Broadway And TV Actor Was 68

Born and raised in Rochester, New York, he studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

In 1978, when auditioning for the Richard Rodgers and Martin Charnin musical I Remember Mama, Charnin decided to instead cast him in the original Broadway production of Annie. A member of the third-year cast, which featured Sarah Jessica Parker in the title role, Deyle played Louis Howe, Fred McCracken, and Bert Healy.

His other Broadway credits include understudy to Sir Lionel in the 1980 revival of Camelot, appearing in the original Broadway company of Footloose, and portraying Senator Fipp in Urinetown.

On tour, Deyle played Bert Bratt in the 1996 production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and did three tours of Camelot in various roles, including Forest Merlyn. Off-Broadway, he appeared as Frankie Cavalier in Pageant, and as Hucklebee in the 2006 revival of The Fantasticks.

Deyle was in more than 100 commercials, ranging from Skippy Peanut Butter to Just for Men Hair Color. He also was “Mr. Science” on the first season of Late Night With Conan O’Brien, and appeared on Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, One Life to Live, and All My Children.

Lee Sang Eun Dies: Popular Korean Singer Found Dead Shortly Before Performance

The 46-year-old singer was found unresponsive in a washroom right before her performance at the 33rd Regular Concert of the Gimcheon Municipal Choir. She was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead on arrival.

No foul play is suspected, but police are still investigating and no cause of death has been established.

Lee was scheduled to perform as a part of a commemoration event for the cultural exchange between England and Honam.

Lee Sang Eun graduated from Seoul National University and went to Mannes School Of Music in New York for her Master’s degree.

Jeffrey Carlson Dies: Groundbreaking ‘All My Children’ Trans Character Was 48

All My Children actor Jeffrey Carlson, known for his groundbreaking role as a trans character on the soap show, has reportedly died. He was 48 and no details were immediately available on the cause or location.

The actor had been on the daytime TV series since 2006.

Carlson came to the show as a character named Zarf in August 2006, then returned that November as a trans woman named Zoe.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company wrote a tribute on Facebook. “STC is saddened to learn of the recent passing of Jeffrey Carlson. Jeffrey gave beautiful and nuanced performances during his career, which took him from television and film to Broadway and, fortunately for us, to STC.”

The post noted his memorable performances included Lorenzaccio (2005), Hamlet (2007), 2008’s Free For All, and Romeo and Juliet (2016) and 2017’s version of Free For All.

“We send our love to Jeffrey’s friends, family, and colleagues, those who knew and loved him dearest.”

Carlson, originally from Long Beach, Calif., was a graduate of the Juilliard School.

His Broadway debut came in 2003, when he appeared in Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who Is Sylvia.

He would later star in Tartuffe and The Miracle Worker, alongside Academy Award winner Hilary Swank.

Carlson was also known for his role as ’80s British pop star named Marilyn in Taboo from 2003-2004.

Mikala Jones Dies: Hawaiian Pro Surfer Was 44

Jones was in Indonesia with his family when he “suffered an accident resulting in a wound to the inside of his left groin that was approximately 10 centimeters long,” Surfline reports. According to the outlet, Jones was staying at the Awera Resort in North Sipora where the accident happened. Although he was transported to the hospital, he was declared dead there from his injuries.

Andrea Evans Dies: ‘One Life To Live’, ‘The Young And The Restless’ Actor Was 66

Andrea Evans, the two-time Daytime Emmy nominated actor who rose to fame in the 1970s and ’80s as the troublemaking teen Tina Lord on the ABC soap One Life To Live, died Sunday of cancer. She was 66.

Following her signature role on One Life To Live, Evans went on to play Patty Williams on CBS’ The Young and the Restless, Tawny Moore on CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful, Rebecca Hotchkiss on NBC’s Passions and Patty Walker on Amazon Prime’s The Bay.

Born in Aurora, Illinois, Evans had appeared in beauty pageants and regional theater when she appeared as an extra in Brian De Palma’s 1978 horror classic The Fury. That year she also appeared in miniseries The Awakening Land, and soon drew the attention of legendary soap casting director Mary Jo Slater, who tapped her for the coveted role of Tina Lord, One Life To Live‘s answer to All My Children‘s Erica Kane.

Evans’ One Life co-star Robin Strasser remembered the actor as “a woman who was super smart & energized a heat seeking missile. That’s a compliment. You knew when you worked with her, it’d be like going head to head with a champion. I admired her daring. I hate the disease that took her.”

Evans’ bad-girl portrayal was a quick success with viewers, and she remained in the role until 1981, when she left to portray Patty Williams on The Young and the Restless from 1983 to 1984. She returned to One Life in 1985, and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 1988.

Two years after her Emmy nomination, she abruptly quit the show and remained out of public view for almost 10 years, only later revealing the cause: She had been the victim of a stalker.

In a 2008 People magazine interview, Evans said she abandoned her career and New York City when the stalker’s actions grew increasingly violent. She revealed that in 1987 she’d been accosted in the lobby of One Life to Live’s Manhattan studio by the stalker and that the man soon thereafter slashed his wrists on the front steps of the studio. Taken to a psychiatric hospital, the man listed Evans as his next of kin, and began sending her death threats written in blood.

A few years after the incident, the man was detained outside the Secretary of State’s office in Washington, D.C., carrying a meat cleaver and a picture of Evans, according to People. The fear, she said, “forever changed me.” She eventually began accepting acting roles, but remained terrified of participating in public events.

She returned to One Life To Live and her most famous role in 2008 and again in 2011, saying, “It’s time to give the audience what they want. And it’s time for me to get closure on why I left in the first place.”

Evans received her second Daytime Emmy nomination in 2015 for her performance in the web series DeVanity.

Primetime credits include Circus of the Stars and Hollywood Squares. She had recently completed work on her forthcoming memoir My One Life To Live.

In addition to her professional ventures, Evans devoted considerable time to various animal rescue organizations and for City of Hope.

Mike ‘Mantaur’ Halac Dies: WWE Wrestler Who Donned Bull Costume Was 55

Mike Halac, the former WWE wrestler known as “Mantaur” who during his 1990s heyday took on a minotaur persona by wearing a huge bull head as he entered the ring, died yesterday in Florida. He was 55.

His death was confirmed by WWE (known as WWF during Halac’s era).

“WWE is saddened to learn that Mike Halac, better known to WWE fans as Mantaur, has passed away,” the company said in a statement. “Halac’s combination of size and charisma immediately captivated fans worldwide as he took to the ring in a giant bull head to highlight his half-man, half-minotaur persona.

Halac began his professional wrestling career in the early 1990s in various circuits and under various names and personae – “Bruiser Mastino” was one – but his greatest success came in 1995 when he debuted the “Mantaur” character with the World Wrestling Federation. As part of his act, Mantaur would enter an arena and the ring wearing a horned bull’s head and then, after removing the mask, mooing and charging at his opponents as if they were matadors.

Although relatively short-lived – Halac’s Mantaur run with WWE last just a year – the character would prove his most memorable, and Halac, who also went under the ring name Tank, would occasionally return to the half-man/half-beast character for wrestling exhibitions. He last performed as Mantaur in 2019.

In 2016, Halac was among the more than 50 professional wrestlers who filed an ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit against the WWE for covering up incidents of neurological injuries.

In a 2015 video interview, Halac, who during his wrestling days claimed to weigh in at more than 400 pounds, also revealed a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.

Andre Watts Dies: Groundbreaking Classical Music Pianist Was 77

André Watts, one of the first Black superstars in classical music, died on Wednesday at his home in Bloomington, Ind. He was 77 and died of prostrate cancer, according to his wife.

Watts had an electric stage presence, often moving to the music with his head and feet, drawing criticism from the more conservative critics. But his technical prowess overcame those quibbles and launched him into the upper echelons of concert halls.

In 1963, he won an audition to appear with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic as part of the nationally televised series of Young People’s Concerts. He was 16-years-old, but his performance that day was hailed, and he soon received a bigger boost.

Bernstein invited him to make his formal Philharmonic debut, substituting for pianist Glenn Gould. That went over well, and his career was assured.

His mother was a dominant influence in his success. She worked as a receptionist at an art gallery to help pay for his piano lessons, enforcing a strict practice regimen.

In 1964, the year after his debut with Bernstein, Watts won a Grammy Award for most promising new classical recording artist.

Jane Birkin Dies: Singer, Actress, Wife of Serge Gainsbourg Was 76

The English-French star was best known for her relationship with musician Serge Gainsbourg. The pair, who were married from 1968 to 1980, collaborated on the risqué hit ‘Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus’, released in 1969 – and recorded the year before, six months after they met on the set of the film Slogan.

The song, originally written by Gainsbourg for Brigitte Bardot, caused a scandal on its release for its sexual content. It was banned by radio stations across the UK, Italy and Spain, but became an enormous and instantly recognisable hit across the world.

Although born in London and a leading light of ‘the London scene’ of the 1960s, Birkin found fame singing in French – and she lived in France from the 1970s onwards. She became celebrated as a style icon throughout the late 1960s and 70s, her personal image often transcending her work on screen. The enduring Birkin handbag was inspired by her European elegance.

Her film appearances included Blow Up (1966) and big-budget Agatha Christie adaptations Death on the Nile (1978) and Evil Under the Sun (1982).

Tony Bennett at 96 died today. Best known for fly me to the moon song and other Sinatra songs

Ron Sexton Dies: Stand-up Comedian And Voice Of Donnie Baker On ‘The Bob & Tom Show’ Was 52

Ron Sexton, a comedian best known as the voice of Donnie Baker on the long-running syndicated radio series The Bob & Tom Show, died Friday in Ohio while on tour with his stand-up comedy show, according to posts from his family and the show’s stars. He was 52.

The Bob & Tom Show is a syndicated radio program established by Bob Kevoian and Tom Griswold at WFBQ in Indianapolis in 1983, which has been syndicated nationally for decades and focuses on comedy and talk, describing itself as “a mash-up of news, sports, conversation and interviews.”

Sexton was the voice behind the redneck character Donnie Baker. He regularly made topical calls to the show to relate anecdotes involving a good friend who had a semi-relevant experience, usually ending in a punchline and/or a tagline like, “I swear to God” or “Look it up…” or “It’s state law.”

Josephine Chaplin Dies: Actress And Daughter Of Charlie Chaplin Was 74

Josephine Chaplin, the daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O’Neill, who was an accomplished actress in her own right, has died at 74, according to a report in Le Figaro, which cites her children Charly, Julien and Arthur. She died on July 13 in Paris.

Chaplin got her start as an actress in one of her father’s final films, Limelight (1952), as a child who appears in the opening scene. She was one of five of the director’s children featured in the somewhat-autobiographical project. She also appeared briefly in her father’s final film, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), with sisters Geraldine and Victoria.

Her first substantial role was for another iconic director, Pier Paolo Pasolini, in his 1972 take on The Canterbury Tales. Chaplin plays May, the adulterous wife of the elderly Sir January in “The Merchant’s Tale.”

That same year, Chaplin starred opposite Laurence Harvey in Menahem Golan’s Escape to the Sun. She followed with Georges Franju’s Nuits Rouges in 1974, Jack the Ripper opposite Klaus Kinski in 1976, The Bay Boy opposite Liv Ullmann and – in his screen debut – Kiefer Sutherland in 1984 and Claude Chabrol’s Cop au Vin in 1985.

Vince Hill Dies: British Singer Best Known For Hit ‘Edelweiss’ Was 89

Vince Hill, a frequent UK radio and television star best known for his 1967 hit, “Edelweiss,” has died at age 89. “He passed peacefully at home in Henley this afternoon,” said an announcement on his website, which didn’t give a cause.

Born in Holbrooks, Coventry, Hill worked with big bands and vocal groups before his first solo success in 1962. During a career spanning six decades, he released 25 studio albums, recorded movie theme songs, and performed internationally at venues including the Sydney Opera House.

Piccadilly Records released his debut single, “The Rivers Run Dry,” which led to TV and radio appearances. He signed to EMI in 1965, scoring his biggest hit in 1967 with a cover of the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical song “Edelweiss” from The Sound of Music.

The track reached number two and stayed on the UK charts for 17 weeks.

Sinead O’Connor dead: Irish music legend dies aged 56

Sinead O'Connor has died at the age of 56 after years of mental health battles, her 'devastated' family confirmed.

The Irish singer shot to stardom across the world in 1990 by her heartrending cover of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U.

It comes a year after the mother-of-four's son Shane, 17, took his life in January 2022 after escaping hospital while on suicide watch.

At the time of her death, the musician, who changed her name to Shuhada' Sadaqat in 2018 when she converted to Islam, was thought to be spending her time between Co Roscommon, Ireland, and London.

O'Connor was born into a troubled family in Dublin on December 8, 1966.

Later in her life she claimed she started having mental health issues because her mother physically and sexually abused her as a child.

She was placed in corrective school aged 15 after bouts of stealing. An Grianán Training Centre, in Dublin was previously a notorious Magdalene laundry for 'fallen women'.

Although O'Connor said it was no longer an abusive place, she said being kept away from her family was upsetting.

However, one of the nuns there spotted her musical talent and bought her a guitar and pushed her to have lessons.

Through an advert in a Dublin music magazine she met Colm Farrelly and together formed the band Ton Ton Macoute, which brough O'Connor to the attention of the global music industry.

After signing with Ensign Records she released her first album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got in 1990, which sold more than seven million copies and included her breakthrough hit Nothing Compares 2 U.

Although O'Connor said it was no longer an abusive place, she said being kept away from her family was upsetting.

However, one of the nuns there spotted her musical talent and bought her a guitar and pushed her to have lessons.

Through an advert in a Dublin music magazine she met Colm Farrelly and together formed the band Ton Ton Macoute, which brough O'Connor to the attention of the global music industry.

After signing with Ensign Records she released her first album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got in 1990, which sold more than seven million copies and included her breakthrough hit Nothing Compares 2 U.

In the years after her breakthrough she wrote other hits including You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart - for the soundtrack of Daniel Day-Lewis film In the Name of the Father - Drink Before The War and This Is The Day.

She released 10 studio albums in her career, and Nothing Compares 2 U was named the number one world single in 1990 by the Billboard Music Awards.

Long known as much for her shaved head and outspoken views on religion, sex, feminism and war as for her music, she will be remembered in some quarters for ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II during a television appearance on 'Saturday Night Live.'

O'Connor is survived by her three children.

Randy Meisner Dies: Eagles Founding Bassist Was 77

Randy Meisner, the co-founding Eagles bassist whose soaring voice powered their massive hit “Take It To the Limit,” died Wednesday night from complications caused by chronic pulmonary disease, a statement from the band said. He was 77.

Before he co-founded the group, Meisner played with Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band and was the original bass player for country-rock group Poco in the late 1960s.

Born on March 8, 1946, in Scottsdale, AZ, Meisner was part of Eagles from their self-titled 1972 debut album through 1976’s Hotel California, quitting the group in 1977 amid internal feuding and behind-the-scenes turmoil. He was replaced by Timothy B. Schmit, who also had succeeded Meisner in Poco after he left to form the Eagles.

Commonly known as the Eagles but with no “the” on album covers, the group started out as Linda Ronstadt’s backup band in early-1970s Los Angeles — also featuring Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon — and would become one of the world’s biggest acts. The RIAA ranks the band ranks fourth for all-time album U.S. sales with 120 million, including 14 platinum discs. The 1976 compilation set Their Greatest Hits (1971-75) is the top-selling album in U.S. history at more than 38 million units.

The group’s 1972 debut LP featured such now-classic tracks as “Take It Easy,” “Witchy Woman” and “Peaceful Easy Feeling” and reached the U.S. top 25. They followed with Desperado (1973) and On the Border (1974), the latter of which spawned their first No. 1 single, “Best of My Love” and also featured “Already Gone” and “James Dean.”

Solidified as hitmakers, the Eagles went through the roof with their next album. One of These Nights spent five weeks at No. 1 in 1975 and was nominated for the Album of the Year Grammy. It produced three top 5 singles in the No. 1 title track along with “Lyin’ Eyes” — which earned the group a Grammy for Best Pop Vocal — and “Take It to the Limit.”

Leadon was replaced by solo act and ex-James Gang leader Joe Walsh, and the result was 1976’s Hotel California, an out-of-the-box smash that helped fuel the rise of the mega-album in the 1970s. It spent eight weeks at No. 1, produced two chart-topping singles and is the third-biggest-selling albums in U.S. history at 26 million-plus units. Steeped in stories about the less-glamorous side of life in the SoCal fast lane, it features such classics as the title track, “New Kid in Town” — both of which topped the Billboard Hot 100 — “Life in the Fast Lane” and the haunting “The Last Resort.”

Meisner sang lead vocals on songs for each of the Eagles’ first five albums — all of which are million-sellers — and wrote a number of the band’s tunes including “Try and Love Again,” “Take the Devil” and “Certain Kind of Fool.”

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Eagles in 1998.

Meisner released three solo albums after leaving Eagles. His self-titled 1978 set failed to chart in the U.S. but was a hit in Canada. One More Song reached No. 50 on the Billboard 200 in 1980 and spawned the singles “Deep Inside My Heart,” with Kim Carnes on backing vocals. And “Hearts on Fire,” which hit the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 20 and was an FM hit. A third solo effort, also titled Randy Meisner, was a lesser hit in 1982, and its single “Never Been in Love” made the pop Top 30.

Inga Swenson Dies: Tony And Emmy-Nominated Actress Best Known For ‘Benson’ And ‘Soap’ Was 90

Inga Swenson, the versatile actress best known for memorable portrayals of combative women on the TV hits Soap and Benson, has died. Her son confirmed the news to TMZ. Swenson was 90.

Swenson’s involvement on the shows began with a multi-episode arc on Soap in 1978 as the conniving revenge-seeking Ingrid Svenson, the Swedish birth mother of Corinne Tate (Diana Canova). That led to a new role on the show’s spinoff, Benson, as Gretchen Kraus, an autocratic and combative German cook.

Over the course of the latter Swenson’s character was frequently at odds with Benson (Robert Guillaume) himself, often trading insults with him as he sought to run household affairs for Governor Eugene X. Gatling (James Noble). Despite their rivalry, Benson and Kraus later became close friends on the show. Swenson was Emmy nominated three times for the role, in 1980, 1982 and 1985.

A year before her first TV credit – an episode of 1957’s Goodyear Playhouse – Swenson made her Broadway debut in New Faces Of 1956 (among the year’s other new faces were Maggie Smith, Billie Hayes and Jane Connell). In all, she’d appear in six Broadway productions over the years, including as a standby for Julie Andrews in Camelot (1960) and a starring role in 1963’s 110 in the Shade. Her final Broadway credit was 1965’s Baker Street, the Sherlock Holmes musical whose book writer, Jerome Coopersmith, died last week. She was Tony-nominated twice for Best Actress in a Musical for 110 in the Shade and Baker Street.

Additional TV credits included Maude Hazard on ABC’s event miniseries North and South in 1985 and its continuation, North and South, Book II based on John Jakes’ Civil War trilogy. Swenson also appeared in two episodes of Bonanza in the early ’60s and on hits such as Playhouse 90, Hotel, The Golden Girls and Newhart.

Her film work consisted of, among other things, roles in Columbia’s Advise and Consent (1962), UA’s The Miracle Worker (1962), Paramount’s Lipstick (1976) and Columbia’s The Mountain Men (1980).

Mark Margolis Dies: Emmy-Nominated ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘Better Call Saul’ Actor Was 83

Mark Margolis, a veteran actor with hundreds of credits dating back to the 1970s but perhaps best known for his Emmy-nominated portrayal of cartel don Hector “Tio” Salamanca on TV’s Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, died Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City following a short illness. He was 83.

His death was announced by son Morgan Margolis, the CEO of Knitting Factory Entertainment. Morgan Margolis said he and Mark’s wife Jacqueline were at his bedside at the time of death.

Born on November 26, 1939 in Philadelphia, Margolis briefly attended Temple University before moving to New York City to study acting, first under Stella Adler at the Actors Studio and subsequently with Lee Strasberg and Barbara Loden.

Margolis, who credited Adler as a “larger than life” influence on his work, launched his career on stage, including the 1962 Broadway production of Infidel Caesar, a Broadway show based on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The play closed during previews, and Margolis soon founded Blue Dome, a touring theater company that performed avant-garde productions including Antonin Artaud’s The Conquest of Mexico at colleges and universities across the United States.

Returning to New York, Margolis appeared in more than 50 Off Broadway plays, including Uncle Sam and The Golem. Later in his career he focused on television and film, though he remained devoted to the theater, appearing as Bernie Madoff in a 2010 regional production of Imagining Madoff and, at the Berkeley Repertory Theate in 2014, Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to The Scriptures. Five years later he performed in Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day at The Public Theater in New York.

In addition to Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, Margolis’ TV credits include The Equalizer, Oz, Kings, and FX’s American Horror Story: Asylum. He guest starred on, among others, Crossing Jordan, Californication, Person of Interest, Gotham, and Showtime’s The Affair. Margolis was most recently seen on Season 2 of the Showtime series Your Honor playing Mafia kingpin Carmine Conti.

For his Breaking Bad performance as Tio, Margolis was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series in 2012.

In film, Margolis is perhaps best remembered for playing Alberto “The Shadow” in Scarface and for appearances in many of Darren Aronofsky’s films, including Noah, Black Swan, The Wrestler, and Pi. He also appeared in John McTiernan’s The Thomas Crown Affair opposite Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo; Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone, opposite Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris; Fisher Stevens’ Stand Up Guys, opposite Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin; Dan Glaser’s Valley Of Bones, opposite Autumn Reeser; Tony Vidal’s Baja, opposite Cynthia Stevenson; and Fernando Grostein Andrade’s ABE, opposite Noah Schanpp and Seu Jorge.

Margolis was most recently seen in Matthew Coppola’s Broken Soldier, opposite Sophie Turner, Ray Liotta, and Ivana Milicevic.

John Gosling Dies: Keyboardist For The Kinks Was 75

The Kinks keyboard player John Gosling has died at 75, according to the band’s official social media page. No cause or further details were provided.

“We are deeply saddened by the news of the passing of John Gosling. We are sending our condolences to John’s wife and family.”

Lead singer Ray Davies added, “Condolences to his wife Theresa and family. Rest in Peace dearest John.’ Ray’s younger brother Dave Davies added: ‘I’m dismayed deeply upset by John Gosling’s passing.

“He has been a friend and important contributor to the Kinks music during his time with us. Deepest sympathies to his wife and family. I will hold deep affection and love for him in my heart always. Great musician and a great man.”

Drummer Mick Avory also paid tribute to Gosling. “Today we lost a dear friend and colleague, he was a great musician and had a fantastic sense of humour…Which made him popular member of the band, he leaves us with some happy memories. God Bless him.”

Gosling was with the Kinks from 1970 to 1978, appearing on 10 albums and contributing to the demo of their hit, “Lola.”

Sharon Farrell Dies: Actress Who Starred In Film ‘It’s Alive’ And On TV’s ‘The Young And The Restless’ Was 82

Sharon Farrell, whose long career included star turns in film, television, and on Broadway, died May 15 in Orange County. Her death at 82 was only recently discovered by relatives, who posted the news to Facebook, but they were unsure of the cause.

Farrell had an extensive resume, but is best remembered for the film It’s Alive, in which she played the mother of a murderous deformed infant. She also had roles in the films The Stunt Man, Lone Wolf McQuade, Marlowe, The Reivers (with Steve McQueen) and Can’t Buy Me Love (1987).

On television, Farrell recurred as Det. Lori Wilson in the final season of the original Hawaii Five-O. She was also Florence Webster on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1991-97.

Born Sharon Forsmoe on Christmas Eve in 1940 in Sioux City, Iowa, she moved to New York, where she acted and modeled.

She made her film debut in 1959’s Kiss Her Goodbye, then danced on Broadway.

In 1962, Farrell starred on the short-lived NBC newspaper drama Saints and Sinners, and appeared with Tony Curtis and Suzanne Pleshette in the comedy film, 40 Pounds of Trouble.

Farrell was a frequent television guest star throughout her career, having appearances on My Favorite Martian, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke and The Beverly Hillbillies, among many other shows.

Her film résumé also included A Lovely Way to Die, Not With My Wife, You Don’t!, The Love Machine and Night of the Comet.