Welcome to the latest edition of my Look Back in Bedlam overview of the previous year’s noteworthy happenings in the world of Bedlam Files-friendly media, along with a listing of book and film recommendations and noteworthy deaths. I’ll start with a topic that topped the news in 2019, specifically…
The State of the (Social) Media
I’m constantly being told that I need to embrace the wonderful world of social media, which is now all-but ubiquitous. But how good a thing is it?
Hollywood now uses Twitter and Facebook as, essentially, free publicity arms. That explains why we’re getting movies like CHARLIE’S ANGELS and CATS, both of which reportedly provoked a great deal of pre-release anticipation among Twitter/Facebook users. I don’t think I need to remind you of how those movies ultimately panned out.
We also have social media to thank for un-newsworthy news, a trend that undoubtedly reached some kind of apex in 2019. Due to algorithms calculated on the preferences of social media users—who tend to obsesses over celebrities the way people of past eras chronicled the doings of gods and goddesses—we now have mixed into legitimate news feeds headlines like “Harry Styles Apparently Just Followed Ariana Grande on Instagram,” “Irina Shayk Sat In The Middle Of Lady Gaga And Bradley Cooper At The Oscars,” “Khloé Kardashian Unfollows Jordyn Woods on Instagram” and “Kim Kardashian Left A Little Dejected After a Versace Dress Doesn’t Fit Her.” All vitally important stories I’m sure, but do we really need them alongside news about North Korea and Iran?
On a related note…
The Marvel Question
The big movie-related controversy of 2019 involved Martin Scorsese and the worth of Marvel movies. Scorsese claimed in an interview that Marvel’s films were “not cinema,” words that in a sane world would have been recognized as an individual opinion with which we could either agree or disagree—but in this world, of course, there was a mass freak-out. 
What Scorsese should have said was that, simply, he prefers DC to Marvel. I doubt this would have lessened the furor that greeted his remarks, but it would have been a more measured way to express his feelings—and an accurate one, given that Scorsese was at one time set to direct JOKER, a DC property.
What’s more, he’d have been correct. DC has always been the more innovative, risk-taking outfit, having published ground-breaking comic book sagas like THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and WATCHMEN back in the eighties, and been the first of the two companies to greenlight a woman-led superhero movie (with WONDER WOMAN, which beat Marvel’s CAPTAIN MARVEL to the punch by two years). Certainly Marvel has the edge in terms of financial success, but I say DC has had the more rewarding and enduring run.
The Reboot Question
It’s been said that Hollywood will stop turning out cookie cutter movie reboots when we stop watching ‘em. Well, it seems that day might just be at hand.
Many folks (this one included) have been warning that audiences—even the foreign audiences currently being chased by Hollywood—will grow bored with all the regurgitation, and 2019 would appear to have at least partially proved us right. There were admittedly a few successful reboots in ‘19, such as ALADDIN, THE LION KING and LITTLE WOMEN, but for the most part the news relating to such fare was pretty bleak, with NANCY DREW AND THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE, HELLBOY, DUMBO, MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL, JACOB’S LADDER, TERMINATOR: DARK FATE and CHARLIE’S ANGELS all disappointing—and in several cases flopping outright.
It seems that even in China, Hollywood’s new favorite market, reboots aren’t as welcome as they once were. See this article, which contains the following quote from a Chinese website: “Local films are catching up to Hollywood on many indicators like IP, story, special effects and genre, while Hollywood films are caught in a bottleneck period of self-repetition and a lack of originality.” I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Most Welcome Blast from the Past
That would be Quentin Tarantino, a near-thirty year veteran who in 2019 turned up with ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD. Tarantino isn’t nearly as well-liked as he once was—as a New York Post headline assured us, “Quentin Tarantino’s exploitation has no place in Hollywood anymore”—yet he deserves kudos for providing an increasingly risk-averse industry with a much needed shaking-up.
ONCE UPON A TIME… is very likely the most sensitive and least aberrant of Tarantino’s films, yet it still made plenty of waves due to its nearly all-white cast (which was accurate to the film’s late 1960s Hollywood setting), the violence against women contained in its climax (the real-life inspiration for which was far more violent than anything dreamed up by Tarantino) and its less-than-flattering depiction of Bruce Lee. The latter point was particularly contentious, with numerous commentators jumping to Lee’s defense, describing a man who apparently outdid Gandhi, Mother Theresa and Jesus Christ in saintly virtue. As the saying goes, when the legend becomes fact, print the legend; Tarantino, it seems, chose to print the facts.
Yet for all the naysaying ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD actually made a fair amount of money. I guess maybe there is room for Tarantino’s exploitation after all, along with that of old farts like Martin Scorsese, Gaspar Noe, Michael Bay and Todd Phillips, who further shook things up with THE IRISHMAN, CLIMAX, SIX UNDERGROUND and JOKER. You know we’re living in interesting times when the old are shocking the young rather than the other way around.
Most Interesting “New” Publisher
News about the publishing scene was pretty scant in 2019 (outside the obvious: it’s in bad shape), but there was Eibon Press. An indie publisher jointly run by Rotten Cotton’s Shawn Lewis and author-illustrator Stephen Romano, Eibon has actually been around for a while, but really got going in 2019. 
It specializes in Romero-scripted limited edition comic books oriented toward the type of grindhouse-era exploitation with which I and so many others grew up. Unapologetically rude, raw and politically incorrect, these comics include the must-own three issue “HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP meets BAD LIEUTENANT” saga BOTTOMFEEDER, which fleshes out an unfilmed Romano screenplay with characters drawn in the guises of exploitation movie legends like Joe Spinell, Zoe Tamerlis, Clu Gulager and Joe Pilato (who was supposed to star in the never-made BOTTOMFEEDER film). Also offered by Eibon are adaptations of several Lucio Fulci flicks (including new editions of THE BEYOND and ZOMBIE, both initially published by the late Blackest Heart Media), as well as the Charles Band exploiter LASERBLAST and the Spinell headlined anti-classic MANIAC.
You can only get these comics direct from the publisher, and for prices that are a bit higher than what most comic book mavens are used to (I can actually remember the days when comics went for a couple bucks). Alas, in an increasingly unfriendly publishing world it seems the collector’s market, which necessitates inflated pricing, is the only way for outfits like Eibon to survive. Here’s hoping they continue to do so!
Favorite Discoveries, Literary and Cinematic
A TOPIARY By SHANE CARRUTH
This unfilmed science fiction screenplay from the creator of UPSTREAM COLOR is simply one of the most astounding things I’ve ever read (and I can assure you that I’ve read some pretty astounding things in my time).
ALAMUT By VLADIMIR BARTOL
A novel, translated from the Slovene, about Iran’s fabled “Old Man of the Mountain” Hassan-i-Sabbah, who created the “Hashashin” sect—an elusive figure that author Vladimir Bartol more than does justice.
DIONYSUS: THE ULTIMATE EXPERIMENT By WILLIAM S. RUBEN
A definite eye-opener that explores the vagaries of sex in zero-g. Need I say more?
DRAG
A nifty zombie themed short from the nineties. Yes, I know I should have known about this one long before 2019, but for some reason DRAG flew under my radar—a fact, thankfully, that has been remedied at last.
IL SEGNO DEL COMANDO
A little-known-in-the-English-speaking-world Italian TV miniseries that nearly fifty years after its initial inception stands as a triumph of atmospheric apprehension and storytelling ingenuity.
LA MALEDICTION (ROC, OU LE MALEDICTION)
Easily one of the top French horror films of the 1970s, a superbly eerie and evocative account of supernatural doings in a rural locale, based on a novel by the late Gallic horrormeister Claude Seignolle.
THE PREMISES OF OTTO GAST By COLIN RAFF
This novella may have been published back in the nineties, but it represents the state of the art in neo-decadent, surreal horror.
‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE
Future KILLING FIELDS director Roland Joffe made this adaptation of John Ford’s Jacobean classic for the BBC, and it’s a stunner: tough-minded, staunchly naturalistic and superbly acted.
THE TOWN THAT TOOK A TRIP By DEANE LOUIS ROMANO
To my mind there’s no possible way this book could not be fun: a late sixties relic about LSD poured into the water supply of a desert town at the start of an especially sweltering day, resulting in some profound lunacy.
THE TRAGEDY CAME FROM VIETNAM
Fact-based Taiwanese exploitation about Vietnamese refugees resorting to urine drinking and cannibalism on a deserted island. Light-hearted it isn’t, but for what it is this pic is pretty strong.
VIRGINTOOTH By MARK IVANHOE
There’s never been a vampire novel like this one, featuring vamps that can shapeshift, shrink themselves to microscopic size, possess bodies and alter the very fabric of reality. You really have to admire a book that thinks this big.
YOUNG WITCHES: LONDON BABYLON By FRANCISCO SOLANO, BARRIERO
A graphic novel whose conception was admittedly somewhat unpromising, yet due to its creators’ irrepressible imaginations emerges as a spectacle of X-rated dementia worthy of the Marquis de Sade.
Remembering Those Who’ve Passed On
Julie Adams (1926-2019) Actor: THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (TV), THE LAST MOVIE, NIGHT GALLERY (TV), GO ASK ALICE, KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER (TV), THE KILLER INSI
DE ME (1976), CARNAGE
Danny Aiello (1933-2019) Actor: FINGERS, DEFIANCE, ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, THE STUFF, DO THE RIGHT THING, JACOB’S LADDER, HUDSON HAWK, MISTRESS, LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL
Bibi Andersson (1935-2019) Actor: THE SEVENTH SEAL, THE MAGICIAN, PERSONA, THE PASSION OF ANNA, QUINTET
Anémone (1950-2019) Actor: LA GUERRE DES INSECTES (TV), SANTA CLAUS IS A STINKER, PERIL, TWISTED OBSESSION, MALEVIL (2009)
Omero Antonutti (1935-2019) Actor: PADRE PADRONE, KAOS, EL DORADO, THE SABBATH
René Auberjonois (1940-2019) Actor: BREWSTER McCLOUD, NIGHT GALLERY (TV), IMAGES, KING KONG (1976), EYES OF LAURA MARS, WALKER, STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, BATMAN FOREVER, THE OUTER LIMITS (1998; TV)
Claudine Auger (1941-2019) Actor: TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS, THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, THE DEVIL IN LOVE, BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA, TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE, FANTASTICA
Michel Aumont (1935-2019) Actor: NADA, GRANDEUR NATURE, DOSSIER 51
Betty Ballantine (1919-2019) Publisher/Editor: Ballantine Books co-founder
Harold Bloom (1930-2019) Critic/Editor/Novelist: THE FLIGHT OF LUCIFER: A GNOSTIC FANTASY, THE GROTESQUE
Verna Bloom (1938-2019) Actor: HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER, AFTER HOURS, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
Artur Brauner (1918-2019) Producer: IT HAPPENED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, MADCHEN IN UNIFORM, THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR. MABUSE, THE BRAIN (1962), THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE, VAMPYROS LESBOS, THE DEAD ARE ALIVE
Tony Britton (1924-2019) Actor: NIGHT WATCH (1973), THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT
Diahann Carroll (1935-2019) Actor: DEATH SCREAM, STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL, FROM THE DEAD OF NIGHT, MURDER IN BLACK AND WHITE, EVE’S BAYOU
Seymour Cassel (1935-2017) Actor: THE KILLERS (1964), THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE, DEATH GAME, VALENTINO, BEST SELLER, SURVIVA
L GAME, TRACK 29, COLD DOG SOUP, COLD HEAVEN, THIS WORLD THEN THE FIREWORKS, BARTLEBY (2001)
Larry Cohen (1936-2019) Director/Screenwriter: IT’S ALIVE (1974), GOD TOLD ME TO, IT LIVES AGAIN, Q, PERFECT STRANGERS, SPECIAL EFFECTS, THE STUFF, IT’S ALIVE III: ISLAND OF THE ALIVE, A RETURN TO SALEM’S LOT, BEST SELLER, MANIAC COP, BODY SNATCHERS, CAPTIVITY
Tim Conway (1933-2019) Actor: THE PRIVATE EYES, FAIRIE TALE THEARE (TV), MARRIED…WITH CHILDREN (TV), BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD (TV)
Valentina Cortese (1923-2019) Actor: JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, THE IGUANA WITH THE TONGUE OF FIRE, DRACULA IN THE PROVINCES, WHEN TIME RAN OUT, THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN
Georgiy Daneliya (1930-2019) Director/Screenwriter: TEARS WERE FALLING, KIN-DZA-DZA!, KU! KIN-DZA-DZA!
Doris Day (1948-20109) Actor: STORM WARNING, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, MIDNIGHT LACE
Stanley Donen (1924-2019) Director: BEDAZZLED (1967), THE LITTLE PRINCE, SATURN 3
Billy Drago (1945-2019) Actor: CUTTER’S WAY, INVASION U.S.A., VAMP, HUNTER’S BLOOD, HERO AND THE TERROR, FREEWAY (1988), FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH: THE SERIES (TV), MYSTERIOUS SKIN, DEMON HUNTER, MASTERS OF HORROR (TV), THE HILLS HAVE EYES (2006)
Carmen Duncan (1942-2019) Actor: TURKEY SHOOT (1982), ASH VS. EVIL DEAD (TV)
Carol Emshwiller (1921-2019) Author: DANGEROUS VISIONS, THE MOUNT
Robert Evans (1930-2019) Producer: CHINATOWN, MARATHON MAN, POPEYE, SLIVER, JADE, THE PHANTOM
Eduardo Martínez Fajardo (1924-2019) Actor: MACARIO, DJANGO, KNIFE OF ICE, LISA AND THE DEVIL, LA CRUZ DEL DIABLO, THE SHARK HUNTER, NIGHTMARE CITY, OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES, EXTERMINATORS OF THE YEAR 3000
Albert Finney (1936-2019) Actor: NIGHT MUST FALL, WOLFEN, LOOKER, MILLER’S CROSSING, BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, BIG FISH, CORPSE BRIDE
Peter Fonda (1940-2019) Actor/Director: LILITH, THE TRIP, SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, THE LAST MOVIE, IDAHO TRANSFER, OPEN SEASON, RACE WITH THE DEVIL, FUTUREWORLD, DANCE OF THE DWARFS, SPASMS, CERTAIN FURY, NADJA, ESCAPE FROM L.A., THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS, GHOST RIDER
D.C. Fonatana (1939-2019) Screenwriter/Story Editor: STAR TREK (TV), GHOST STORY (TV), STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES (TV), LAND OF THE LOST (TV), LOGAN’S RUN (TV), BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25th CENTURY (TV), HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (TV), STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (TV), WAR OF THE WORLDS (TV), STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (TV), BABYON 5 (TV), BEAST WARS: TRANSFORMERS (TV), STAR TREK: NEW VOYAGES (TV)
Robert Forster (1941-2019) Actor: THE BLACK HOLE, ALLIGATOR, VIGILANTE, TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE (TV), MANIAC COP III: BADGE OF SILENCE, SCANNERS: THE SHOWDOWN, UNCLE SAM, AMERICAN PERFEKT, JACKIE BROWN, PSYCHO (1998), SPAWN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (TV), GODZILLA: THE SERIES (TV), MULHOLLAND DRIVE, HUMAN NATURE, TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (TV)
Sally Fraser (1932-2019) Actor: IT CONQUERED THE WORLD, WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST, EARTH VS. THE SPIDER, ROADRACERS (1959)
Bruno Ganz (1941-2019) Actor: THE AMERICAN FRIEND, THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL, NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE, WINGS OF DESIRE, YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH
Eddie Garcia (1929-2019) Director/Producer/Actor: THE MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND, SAVAGE SISTERS, THE TWILIGHT PEOPLE
Edith González (1964-2019) Actor: ALUCARDA, CYCLONE, GUYANA: CRIME OF THE CENTURY
Alasdair Gray (1934-2019) Novelist: LANARK, POOR THINGS, A HISTORY MAKER
Sid Haig (1939-2019) Actor: THE HOST, BLOOD BATH, POINT BLANK, SPIDER BABY, THX-1138, THE BIG DOLL HOUSE, COFFY, SAVAGE SISTERS, GALAXY OF TERROR, HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, KILL BILL: VOLUME 2, THE DEVIL’S REJECTS, VAMPIRA: THE MOVIE, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 3D, HALLOWEEN (2007), THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO, THE LORDS OF SALEM, HATCHET III, BONE TOMAHAWK, 3 FROM HELL
Valerie Harper (1939-2019) Actor: NIGHT TERROR, DON’T GO TO SLEEP, STRANGE VOICES
Rutger Hauer (1944-2019) Actor: FLORIS (TV), TURKISH DELIGHT, SPETTERS, NIGHTHAWKS, BLADE RUNNER, EUREKA, FLESH & BLOOD, THE HITCHER, THE BLOOD OF HEROES, PAST MIDNIGHT, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, NOSTRADAMUS, MR. STITCH, SIN CITY, BATMAN BEGINS, HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN, THE RITE, DRACULA 3D, VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
David Hedison (1927-2019) Actor: THE FLY (1958), THE LOST WORLD (1960), WONDER WOMAN (TV), KNIGHT RIDER (TV), MEGIDDO: THE OMEGA COSE 2
Katherine Helmond (1929-2019) Actor: TIME BANDITS, BRAZIL, LADY IN WHITE, FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
Del Henney (1935-2019) Actor: STRAW DOGS, SOLDIER OF ORANGE
George Hilton (1934-2019) Actor: MASSACRE TIME, A BULLET FOR SANDOVAL, THE CASE OF THE SCORPION’S TAIL, ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK, THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN
Jessica Jaymes (1979-2019) Actor: ALIEN LOVE FANTASY, THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES (2005), THE KILLING MACHINE, THE TWILIGHT ZONE (2010), BLOODSTRUCK, LUST BITE, DEMON LUST, HILLS HAVE THIGHS
Anna Karina (1940-2019) Actor: BAND OF OUTSIDERS, ALPHAVILLE, PIERROT LE FOU, THE NUN, THE MAGUS, THE TIME TO DIE, THE WEDDING RING, MOREL’S INVENTION
Girish Karnad (1938-2019) Director/Screenwriter/Actor: NISHANT, GUNA, AATANK, AK-47
Sylvia Kay (1936-2019) Actor: RAPTURE (1965), WAKE IN FRIGHT
Marie Laforêt (1939-2019) Actor: PURPLE NOON, WHO WANTS TO KILL SARA?, TYKHO MOON
Ron Leibman (1937-2019) Actor: WHERE’S POPPA?, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, AUTO FOCUS
Pierre Lhomme (1930-2019) Cinematographer: KING OF HEARTS, MR. FREEDOM, FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER, LA MAMAN AT LA PUTAIN, SWEET MOVIE, MORTELLE RANDONNEE, CAMILLE CLAUDELE, MON HOMME
Peggy Lipton (1946-2019) Actor: THE HITCHHIKER (TV), TWIN PEAKS (TV), TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME
Carol Lynley (1942-2019) Actor: ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (TV), BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, THE SHUTTERED ROOM, THE NIGHT STALKER, NIGHT GALL
ERY (TV), DARK TOWER (1987), HOWLING IV: THE FREAK
Sue Lyon (1946-2019) Actor: LOLITA, NIGHT GALLERY (TV), MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD, SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE 5, CRASH!, END OF THE WORLD, INVISIBLE STRANGLER, ALLIGATOR
Dušan Makavejev (1932-2019) Director: W.R.: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM, SWEET MOVIE, MONTENEGRO
Jean-Pierre Marielle (1932-2019) Actor: FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET, LA TRAQUE, CALMOS, COUP DE TORCHON, LA CONTROVERSE DE VALLADOLID, MICMACS, PHANTOM BOY
Peter Mayhew (1944-2019) Actor: STAR WARS, SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER, TERROR, STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL (TV), THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, COMIC BOOK: THE MOVIE, YESTERDAY WAS A LIE
Vonda N. McIntyre (1948-2019) Novelist: DREAMSNAKE, THE BRIDE
Syd Mead (1933-2019) Conceptual artist: STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, BLADE RUNNER, TRON, 2010, SHORT CIRCUIT, ALIENS, TIMECOP, JOHNNY MNEMONIC, ELYSIUM, BLADE RUNNER 2049
Jeon Mi-seon (1970-2019) Actor: MEMORIES OF MURDER, MOTHER, HIDE AND SEEK
Sylvia Miles (1924-2019) Actor: MURDER INC., MIDNIGHT COWBOY, THE LAST MOVIE, HEAT (1972), THE SENTINEL, THE FUNHOUSE, SHE-DEVIL, GO-GO TALES
Dick Miller (1928-2019) Actor: IT CONQUERED THE WORLD, A BUCKET OF BLOOD, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960), THE TERROR, X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES, THE TRIP, DARKTOWN STRUTTERS, HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, PIRANHA (1978), THE HOWLING, WHITE DOG, TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE, SWING SHIFT, GREMLINS, THE TERMINATOR, EXPLORERS, NIGHT OF THE CREEPS, INNERSPACE, THE ‘BURBS, GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH, MOTORAMA, MATINEE, BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM, PULP FICTION, THE HOLE (2009)
Jonathan Miller (1934-2019) Director/Actor: ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1966), WHISTLE AND I’LL COME TO YOU
Jean-Pierre Mocky (1929-2019) Director/Screenwriter: LITAN
Toni Morrison (1931-2019) Novelist: THE BLUEST EYE, BELOVED
Marie-José Nat (1940-2019) Actor: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (1956), THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, LITAN
Paolo Paolini (1929-2019) Actor: AN AVERAGE LITTLE MAN, DR. JEKYLL LIKES THEM HOT, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, INFERNO (1980), VOICES FROM BEYOND, RIPLEY’S GAME
Luke Perry (1966-2019) Actor: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, NORMAL LIFE, THE FIFTH ELEMENT, ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
Michael J. Pollard (1939-2019) Actor: THE WILD ANGELS, BONNIE AND CLYDE, DIRTY LITTLE BILLY, FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE, MELVIN AND HOWARD, AMERICAN GOTHIC, SCROOGED, NIGHT VISITOR, DARK ANGEL (1990), MOTORAMA, ARIZONA DREAM, HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES
André Previn (1929-2019) Composer/Conductor: VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, THE MUSIC LOVERS, ROLLERBALL (1975)
François Protat (1945-2019) Cinematographer: LES ORDRES, THE ANGEL AND THE WOMAN, KABLOONAK
Alvin Sargent (1927-2019) Screenwriter: THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS, STRAIGHT TIME, SPIDER-MAN
Isabel Sarli (1929-2019) Actor: FUEGO, CARNE (1968), INSACIABLE
Ellen Schwiers (1930-2019) Actor: THE BRAIN (1962), BALLAD OF A GUNMAN, 1900
Édith Scob (1937-2019) Actor: EYES WITHOUT A FACE, THE BURNING COURT, JUDEX (1963), THE MILKY WAY, ONE DEADLY SUMMER, LES AMANTS DU PONT-NEUF, FIDELITY, BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, VIDOCQ, HOLY MOTORS
John Singleton (1968-2019) Director/Producer: HIGHER LEARNING, BLACK SNAKE MOAN
Ron Smith (1928-2019) Comic artist: JUDGE DREDD
Norman Snider (1945-2019) Screenwriter: DEAD RINGERS, BODY PARTS
Marsia Solinas (1939-2019) Actor: BOCCACCIO ’70, BLINDMAN, ALMOST BLUE
Rip Taylor (1931-2019) Actor: 33&1/3 REVOLUTIONS PER MONKEE, CHATTERBOX, SIGMUND AND THE SEA MONSTERS (TV), THE GONG SHOW (TV), AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON, THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1992; TV)
Thelma Tixou (1944-2019) Actor: SANTA SANGRE
Peter Tork (1942-2019) Actor/Musician: HEAD, WILD IN THE STREETS
Rip Torn (1931-2019) Actor: BEACH RED, LIONS LOVE, COMING APART, MAIDSTONE, PAYDAY, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, COMA, THE BEASTMASTER, FREDDY GOT FINGERED, LOVE OBJECT
Andrew G. Vajna (1944-2019) Producer: THE CHANGELING, ANGEL HEART, JOHNNY HANDSOME, TOTAL RECALL, JACOB’S LADDER, THE 13th WARRIOR
Gloria Vanderbilt (1924-2019) Novelist: OBSESSION: AN EROTIC TALE
Agnès Varda (1928-2019) Director: THE CREATURES, LIONS LOVE
Jan-Michel Vincent (1944-2019) Actor: THE MECHANIC (1972), DAMNATION ALLEY, BUFFALO ‘66
Václav Vorlíček (1930-2019) Director: WHO WANTS TO KILL JESSIE?, THE GIRL ON A BROOMSTICK, THREE WISHES FOR CINDERELLA
Robert Walker (1940-2019) Actor: STAR TREK (TV), BEWARE! THE BLOB, HEX, THE SPECTRE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, THE PASSOVER PLOT, THE DEVONSVILLE TERROR
John Witherspoon (1942-2019) Actor: RATBOY, I’M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA, THE METEOR MAN, FATAL INSTINCT, VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN
Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) Novelist: PEACE, THE FIFTH HEAD OF CEREBUS, THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN, AN EVIL GUEST
Herman Wouk (1915-2019) Novelist: A HOLE IN TEXAS, THE LAWGIVER
Max Wright (1943-2019) Actor: LAST EMBRACE, ALL THAT JAZZ, SIMON, TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE (TV), MISFITS OF SCIENCE (TV), ALF (TV), FAERIE TALE THEATRE (TV), THE SHADOW (1994)
Franco Zeffirelli (1923-2019) Director: ENDLESS LOVE (1981), ZEFFIRELLI’S INFERNO
Mark Zakharov (1933-2019) Director/Actor/Writer: WHITE SUN OF THE DESERT, THE VERY SAME MUNCHHAUSEN, UBIT DRAKONA