Chapman wrote Classic and Iconoclastic Alternate History Science Fiction, The Road to Castle MountL The Science Fiction of Robert Silverberg, and The Magic Labyrinth of Philip Jos Farmer. Wright also appeared in the first and last episodes of the Trilogy series of Quantum Leap. Schulman won the Prometheus Award for his novels Alongside Night and The Rainbow Cadenza. Hugo Awards 2020: Round Up of the Fall Out. Comic book artist Greg Theakston (b.1953) died on April 22. Cortese appeared in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Juliet of the Spirits, and The Big Scare. Actress Julie Adams (b.1926) died on February 3. Publisher Walter J. Minton (b.1923) died on November 19. She had a role in the pilot of the television show The Witcher. Taves co-edited The Jules Verne Encyclopedia and wrote Hollywood Presents Jules Verne: The Father of Science Fiction on Screen. In addition to his recording company, Fordin also wrote a biography of Oscar Hammerstein II. He began publishing work of genre interest in 1996 with Brother and Sister.. Mark was preceded in death by his grandparents, uncle Keith Mickelson, aunt and uncle Linda and Bill Hanson. Kappy appeared in the film Fanboys and had a small role in Thor. Artist Tom Adams (b.1926) died on December 17. Most of Sharmats work was for the childrens market and she also published using the pseudonym Wendy Andrews. British fan Tony Blindpew Smith died of cancer on February 9. He received an Ennie Award for Torn Asunder: Critical Hits and in 2002 launched Dragon Wing Games. Producer David V. Picker (b.1931) died on April 20. Futaki spent thirty years working at Studio Ghibli working to animate Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, and other classic films the studio produced. Actress Peggy Stewart (b.1923) died on May 29. He also was the conceptual designer of Sim City: The Card Game. Designer Syd Mead (b.1933) died on December 30. Einstein, who has also appeared as Super Dave Osborne, was brother to Albert Brooks. Director John Llewellyn Moxey (b.1925) died on April 29. McGahan published two books in the Ships Kings series as well as the stand alone novels, . Italian actress Valentina Cortese (b.1923) died on July 10. Childrens author Lee Bennett Hopkins (b.1938) died on August 8. He also wrote several novels on his own. His own screenplays tended to avoid the genre. Artist and author John Burningham (b.1936) died on January 4. Greg Porter created the card game Killing Lee Garvin in his honor and to help raise funds for him. Enyart wrote for many animated shows and specials, including Scooby Doo, Bionic Six, and Fraggle Rock. He graduated from Hudsonville High School . Minton served as president and chairman of Putnam. He appeared as Sheldon the Sea Genie in several episodes of Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. Screenwriter Lawrence G. DiTillio (b.1948) died on March 16. Comic book writer Batton Lash (b.1953) died of cancer on January 12. Arthur appeared in the fifth Doctor serial "Planet of Fire." Mostly a stage actor, he was also a military . Perry, best known for appearing in Beverly Hills, 90210 starred in the original film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, appeared in The Fifth Element, had a cameo in Dudes & Dragons, and most recently portrayed Fred Andrews in Riverdale. San Diego. Guards! Bykovsky flew on three flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31, logging nearly 21 days in space. Mark Lallatin Heyrend, beloved Husband, Father, Grandfather, and Friend, passed peacefully from this earth on Monday, January 10, 2022, at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also appeared in the Doctor Who episode Cold Blood opposite Matt Smith. And the worst timing for a movie release ever! Ogden published the fanzine Edgars Journal. He played Jacob Carter on Stargate SG-1. She later appeared in The New Avengers episode The Midas Touch. She gave up acting after Goldfinger because she was making substantially more as a model. Holums short story The 3rd Party appeared in If in 1955. Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999), often abbreviated to MZB, was an American fantasy fiction author. Spinney famously played the roles of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street from 1969 through 2018, making appearances as both on a variety of other shows and movies, including Supernatural and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. He was primarily an academic who served as the seminar director at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. He played MR. Mxyzptlk on Superboy, Jahn on Star Trek, and has appeared on Toxic Crusaders and Lost in Space. Link to the California Penal Code for context. Author John Bowen (b.1924) died on April 18. He co-edited the anthology Abandoned Places with George R. Galuschak. Actor Nicky Henson (b.1945) died on December 15. She was also an avid convention attendee. Showing all translations. He has been recognized with a Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award and has won multiple World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards. Comics creator Gerry Alanguilan (b.1968) died on December 29. Strange was the author of the ghost novel The Haunting of Gospall. Filker Deborah Hill Kirby (b.1952) died on April 17. This is the first. Fan Jack Weaver (b.1926) died on September 2. Ponsor served as a colorist for several comic companies, including DC, Marvel, WildStorm, and CrossGen. Producer Hugh Fordin (b.1935) died on February 25. Her costumes were featured in The Costume Makers Art and Thread magazine. Karina appeared in The Time to Die, Alphaville, Morels Invention The Magus, and Treasure Island. In 2010, McIntyre received the Kevin ODonnell Service to SFWA Award. Iowa City - Mark Reiland, 52, of Iowa City, passed away December 8, 2021 at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics following a short illness. 24. Actor Steve Hawkes (b.1942) died on June 23. Salem was an editor at Universal Press Syndicate who worked with Gary Larson on The Far Side and with Bill Watterson on Calvin and Hobbes. Radio announcer Michael Hanson (b.1940) died on September 9. Best known for his roles in Do the Right Thing and Moonstruck, Aiello appeared in The Purple Rose of Cairo, Tales from the Darkside, Jacobs Ladder, and UnConventional. Mehn served as the administrator of the Kitschie Awards. Kanafsky, who also went by the initials GAK, produced vocers for a variety of books and magazines, including Nova Express. Nakayama played Captain Kazuki Oyama on Ultraman 80. The Shadow of the Torturer also won the British SF Association Award while its sequel The Sword of the Lictor earned a British Fantasy Award. Drago is most noted for his roles as Frank Nitti in The Untouchables and John Bly in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Other genre series he appeared in include Supernatural, The X-Files, and Charmed,. Cartoonist Ernie Coln (b.1931) died on August 8. His family invites everyone to join them for a Celebration of Life that will be held on Saturday March 26, 2022 from 2 - 6 p.m. at the University Heights Courtyard Marriott . Actor Dick Miller (b.1928) died on January 30. From the . Read Syracuse Herald Journal Newspaper Archives, Nov 3, 1940, p. 1 with family history and genealogy records from syracuse, new-york 1939-2002. Wisconsin fan William Leanderts (b.1976) died on February 10. Jones portrayed Jonathan Kent on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Comic writer James Hudnall (b.1957) died on April 9. Publisher Betty Ballantine (b.1919) died on February 12. He also appeared in Damnation Alley, based on Roger Zelaznys novel. Secara published the Harper Errant trilogy, beginning in 2012 with The Dragon Ring. Innes played with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and collaborated with various members of Monty Python, particularly Eric Idle, with whom he wrote many songs for the Pythons and other project. His genre works included After the Rain, which he also turned into a play, and No Retreat. Mark Alan Nelson was born on December 27, 1956 in Billings, MT, the son of Marvin and Gladys (Jacobson) Nelson. Actress Claudine Auger (b.Claudine Oger, 1941) died on December 18. Puppeteer Caroll Spinney (b.1933) died on December 8. Chicago fan Beryl Turner (b.1965) died on October 17. Visit our Support Center. He later flew on the space shuttle Columbia on STS-9. Pendleton began publishing in 1989 with the short story Sardines in. Actor William Wintersole (b.1931) died on November 5. C.A. Horror host and puppeteer Ron Sweed (b.1949) died on April 1. Following his retirement, he began writing more science fiction, self-publishing Timeline Pirates through Amazon. Actress Carol Channing (b.1921) died on January 15. Actress Natalie Trundy (b.1940) died on December 5. Picker got his start as an executive producer on A Hard Days Night. Actor Michael Lamper (b.1958) died on December 8. Klinger provided artwork for the German magazine Alien Contact in the late 1990s. DuBarry appeared in Monster in the Closet, The Darker Side of Terror, and The Devil and Max Devlin. Composer Ben Johnston (b.1926) died on July 21. He also produced and the horror film Raiders of the Living Dead. Jim Michaelson died on May 28. Actor Jack Donner (b.1928) died on September 21. Noted for the feminist perspective in her writing, her reputation has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations of child . Fan Al Johnston died on June 8. Producer Leonard Goldberg (b.1934) died on December 4. Heater was a longtime employee at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, and according to her biography, she had no actual physical existence outside of Borderlands. Heater began working at the bookstore in 2002. Tangentially related to The Book of the New Sun is the four volume Book of the Long Sun sequence and the three volume Book of the Short Sun. British fan Ian Covell (b.1953) died on December 11. He went on to write several short stories on his own and in 2010 began publishing novels under the name J.A. Editor Diana Athill (b.1917) died on January 23. Palladini created the Aquarian Tarot deck and illustrated numerous childrens books. His short fiction included Death to the Heretic!, As Time Goes By, Dreams End, and Sleep No More. New Zealand author Jack Lasenby (b.1931) died on September 27. He directed the science fiction film Kin-dza-dza! Henson appeared in episodes of The Avengers, Arthur of the Britons, and Whoops Apocalypse as well as the film Narcopolis. Jeppson. His novel Administrator, part of his Shiseikan series, was translated into English in 2004. Shechter was also a book reviewer. A long-time con-runner and fan, he was involved in the bid to bring the Worldcon to Phoenix in 1978, which resulted in IguanaCon. Siletsky won multiple contests with his short fiction. Baturin was also a dramatist. His books had a strong influence on the growth of modern Wicca. KyoAni made the series Lucky Star, K-On, and Haruhi Suzumiya. Ballantine has received a Presidents Award from SFWA and a special committee award from L.A.con IV. Rosenfeldt was an active fan in publishing fanzines. Petersons son, George, is also a fan. Boni wrote for the Mel Brooks Robin Hood television series When Things Were Rotten as well as the television show Harry and the Hendersons and Small Wonder. Lawfords only genre role was in the short film Doug the Human. Best known as the founder of DRG Records, he produced Broadway Original Cast records, including for Little Shop of Horrors. Last Chance U. And also showed up in episodes of The Time Tunnel, The Invaders, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Wolfe has won the World Fantasy Award for his novels The Shadows of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon and for his collections The Best of Gene Wolfe and Storeys from the Old Hotel. Fields won a Hugo Award for his script for the Star Trek: TNG episode The Inn0er Light and he went on to write episodes of Deep Space Nine as well. Shiels appeared in the fantasy film Angel and the television series The Tudors. Browse Obituaries and Death Records in Pennsylvania Select a city or town in Pennsylvania from the alphabetized list below. Actress Anna Karina (b.1940) died on December 14. Artist Dennis Neal Smith died in May. Plato appeared in Day of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead. He appeared in The Meteor Man, Killer Tomatoes Stroke Back!, and an episode of The Incredible Hulk. Pugmire wrote horror fiction and often paid homage to Lovecraft. Brunton worked at TSR UK on Imagine and various D&D supplements. Fonda, the son of Henry Fonda, most famously starred in Easy Rider, but also had genre roles in Ghost Rider, Escape from L.A., Futureworld, and Supernova. Through our advanced obituary search , you may search our database of obituaries by name, location, date of death and keywords. He may be most recognizable as Rachels father on Friends. Actor Makio Inoue (b.1938) died on November 29. Actress Kaye Ballard (b.1925) died on January 21. She has also written two cowboy novels. Mark was born March 25, 1969, in Cedar Falls Masters was an active gamer and attending many conventions in the St. Louis area. McIntosh: Memoir and Bibliography. Locke published the Spectrum of Fantasy bibliography series from 1980 through 2004, which offered annotated listings of many rare works. Actor Robert Forster (b.1941) died on October 11. Huntley wrote the novel One on Me and the satirical Earthgame trilogy. Macy was best known for his role on the sitcom Maude, but his genre appearances included epsodes of Starman, The Lone Gunman, and Tales from the Darkside. Rawlings worked as an editor on Watership Down, Alien, Alien3, GoldenEye, and The Phantom of the Opera. He wrote and illustrasted the Mellops series of books and provided the cover for the German translations of several of Ray Bradburys novels as well as the American edition of Flat Stanley. Glen Mehn died on May 15. He had an uncredited voice appearance in Them! In addition to his work on the comic strip Barefootz, Cruse also served as the art director for Starlog from 1977-1978. and published seven additional stories throughout the 90s. It is an eyewitness account of how high-minded utopian intellectuals, unchecked by law, tradition, religion, or morality, can . Author Elizabeth Spencer (b.1921) died on December 23. Kraft was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions and he trained other flight directors. Bald worked on Captain Marvel and Bulletman for Fawcett, Mandrake the Magician for Street & Smith, the original Captain America for Timely. Writer Janet Asimov (b.Janet Jeppson, 1926) died on February 25. Over the course of his career, he wrote a handful of science fiction stories, two of which were included by Judith Merril in her Best of collections. He appeared in the Colin Baker Doctor Who serial Revelation of the Daleks and the David Tennant episode Voyage of the Damned. Other genre appearances include Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and an episode of Ray Bradbury Presents. Author Hal Colebatch (b.1945) died on September 10. Ballantine, along with her husband, Ian, founded several publishing houses and helped introduce mass market paperbacks to the US when they began importing Penguin Books.