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Cagney & Lacey actor Tom Troupe has passed away at the age of 97. The Korean War veteran acted in several stage and screen projects, including shows like Star Trek and Mission: Impossible. The actor celebrated his 97th birthday just a few days ago on July 15. A family spokesperson revealed that the actor died of natural causes (via THR).

He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was part of local theater productions. He moved to New York in 1948, where he studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio. He received a scholarship from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? actress Uta Hagen.

Before he could take further steps in acting, he went to serve in the Korean War. For his brave service to the country, he was reportedly given a bronze star. After returning from the war, he continued pursuing his interest in acting. He made his Broadway debut with an appearance in the production,...

Often under the guise of procedural television that encapsulates suspense, horror, and science fiction, anthologies are a format of cinematic storytelling that often gets tossed under the rug of narrative mediums. However, whenever one does surface, it's often a great labor of love with clever stories, chilling revelations, and spicy plots.

With Prime's Secret Level animated anthology covering stories throughout the gaming universe of both the virtual and tabletop fandoms, it's a great time to revisit or discover some other great televised anthologies that scratch that same itch that present such a variety of style and narrative flare. These anthologies are placed based on their relatability to Secret Level's tone, style, and originality, and how close the listed show relates to that feeling. So what's the next short-story extravaganza to binge to get that fix?

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Marvin J. Chomsky, a four-time Emmy-winning director whose credits include the seminal 1977 miniseries Roots, Holocaust and dozens of TV series including the original Star Trek and Hawaii Five-o, died Monday. He was 92.

His son, producer Peter Chomsky, told Deadline that his father died in his sleep but gave no other details.

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The elder Chomsky already was a veteran TV director when he scored an Emmy nomination for helming two episodes of the groundbreaking slavery saga Roots. He went on to win Emmys for directing the harrowing 1978 miniseries Holocaust, telefilms Attica (1980) and Inside the Third Reich (1982) and the Maximilian Schell-led miniseries Peter the Great (1986). He earned nominations for helming Evita Peron (1981), Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) and Billionaire Boys Club (1987), also scoring an Outstanding Miniseries nom as the latter’s supervising producer.

When he accepted his Emmy for Inside the Third Reich, Chomsky...

Who will be included for the special “In Memoriam” segment for Sunday night’s Oscars 2022 ceremony? For almost all other Academy Awards productions since the 1990s, producers typically select 40-50 people from the various branches. The 2021 segment had close to 100 people in a particularly fast-paced three minutes that was not very well-received since many of them were only on screen for a second or two.

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Previous Oscar winners from acting categories passing away since last year’s late April ceremony are Olympia Dukakis, William Hurt and Sidney Poitier. Past acting nominees include Ned Beatty, Sally Kellerman and Dean Stockwell.

Almost all of the dozens on the list below were Academy members, previous nominees/winners or both.

Louie Anderson (actor)

Ed Asner (actor)

Ned Beatty (actor)

Marilyn Bergman (composer)

Val Bisoglio (actor)

Robert Blalack (visual effects)

Peter Bogdanovich (director)

David Brenner (editor)

Leslie Bricusse (composer...

John Erman, the TV director best known for the Ann-Margret-led “Who Will Love My Children?” and an episode of the original “Roots” miniseries, has died at the age of 85.

The director died on June 25 “after a brief illness,” according to Deadline, which first reported the news of Erman’s passing.

Erman won a Directors Guild of America award in 1978 for his work on the second installment of “Roots.” He later went on to direct multiple episodes of the sequel series “Roots: The Next Generation” at ABC, as well as the CBS miniseries adaptation of the Alex Haley novel “Queen.”

Throughout his career, Erman received a total of 10 Emmy nominations, winning once in 1983 for “Who Will Love My Children?”

He picked up a second DGA award in 1986 for “An Early Frost,” which is billed as the first TV movie about the AIDS crisis. The film stars Aidan Quinn as a...

John Erman, the Emmy-winning director who worked on Roots, That Girl, Peyton Place, Star Trek, The Fugitive and M*A*S*H during his 40-plus years in television, died June 25 in New York after a brief illness, a publicist announced. He was 85.

A 10-time Emmy nominee, Erman won his statuette for helming the 1983 ABC telefilm Who Will Love My Children? starring Ann-Margret as a woman diagnosed with cancer in 1952 determined to find homes for her 10 kids.

Erman also called the shots for the actress in the miniseries The Two Mrs. Grenvilles in 1987, Queen in 1993 and Scarlett in 1994 and in the telefilms A Streetcar Named Desire in ...

John Erman, the Emmy-winning director who worked on Roots, That Girl, Peyton Place, Star Trek, The Fugitive and M*A*S*H during his 40-plus years in television, died June 25 in New York after a brief illness, a publicist announced. He was 85.

A 10-time Emmy nominee, Erman won his statuette for helming the 1983 ABC telefilm Who Will Love My Children? starring Ann-Margret as a woman diagnosed with cancer in 1952 determined to find homes for her 10 kids.

Erman also called the shots for the actress in the miniseries The Two Mrs. Grenvilles in 1987, Queen in 1993 and Scarlett in 1994 and in the telefilms A Streetcar Named Desire in ...

John Erman, an Emmy-winning director-producer who helmed multiple episodes of such classic TV series as Star Trek, M*A*S*H and Peyton Place along with Part 2 of Roots and much of its sequel miniseries Roots: The Next Generations, has died. He was 85.

His friend, Charles Silver of SMS Talent, told Deadline that Erman died June 25 in New York City after a brief illness.

Born on August 3, 1935, in Chicago, Erman began his show business career as an actor, including an unbilled role in 1955’s Blackboard Jungle before working extensively as a casting director. His first job in that role was with Jim Lister at Republic Studios in New York, and Erman would go on to work with numerous Hollywood legends in this capacity, from Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland to Woody Allen, Angela Lansbury and Ann-Margret — with whom he’d have a long-running working relationship.

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LGBT TV movies, series and specials are part of our cultural landscape. They are frequently awarded with Emmys, Golden Globes, Critics Choice and SAG Awards. But this acceptance was a long time coming. Here’s a look back at the landmark telefilms that paved the way.

Do you know the first TV movie that featured a gay character? No, it wasn’t 1972’s “That Certain Summer.”

It was a drama called “South” that was produced by England’s ITV and aired on that network on Nov. 24, 1959. Set in the Antebellum South, the drama revolved around a handsome Polish army lieutenant living in the South who is torn between his love for a plantation owner’s niece or a hunky blond officer. “South” was incredibly daring for its time, especially since it would be eight years before homosexuality was legalized in England and Wales with the passing of the Sexual Offences...

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Actress Joyce Redman, Oscar nominated for both Tom Jones and Othello, died in Kent, England, earlier today. The Newcastle-born Redman, who was either 93 or 96, had been suffering from pneumonia. Film lovers will remember her as Tom Jones‘ Mrs. Waters, stealing the movie while “sexting” — as in, sex while eating — Albert Finney. Mostly a stage and television performer, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art-trained Redman appeared in only a handful of movies. Yet, her brief film career was notable because of her two Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominations. In fact, Redman brought "Oscar luck" to her movies and fellow players: Best Picture Oscar winner Tom Jones (1963) earned five nominations in the acting categories (Joyce Redman, Albert Finney, Diane Cilento, Dame Edith Evans, Hugh Griffith), while the filmed version of Britain’s National Theatre presentation of Othello (1965) earned four (Joyce Redman as Emilia, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay). Regarding the nominations for the Othello actors,...

Multitalented actor Liev Schreiber has been cast in the title role in the Showtime pilot Ray Donovan, a drama set in Hollywood, California. Production will begin in Los Angeles in early 2012. Ray Donovan is a Showtime production and is created by Southland creator Ann Biderman. Biderman, Mark Gordon and Bryan Zuriff will executive produce.

Ray Donovan is Hollywood's best professional "fixer." He's the one called in to solve the complicated, confidential and controversial problems of the city's elite. He can make anyone's problem disappear, except the ones created by his own family. The series, which has comedic undertones, will take a novelistic look at contemporary Los Angeles.

Considered one of the finest actors of his generation, Liev Schreiber's repertoire of resonant, humanistic and oftentimes gritty portrayals have garnered him praise in film, theatre and television. Schreiber recently completed production on P.J. Hogan's comedy Mental alongside Toni Collette and...

Multitalented actor Liev Schreiber has been cast in the title role in the Showtime pilot Ray Donovan, a drama set in Hollywood, California. Production will begin in Los Angeles in early 2012. Ray Donovan is a Showtime production and is created by Southland creator Ann Biderman. Biderman, Mark Gordon and Bryan Zuriff will executive produce.

Ray Donovan is Hollywood's best professional "fixer." He's the one called in to solve the complicated, confidential and controversial problems of the city's elite. He can make anyone's problem disappear, except the ones created by his own family. The series, which has comedic undertones, will take a novelistic look at contemporary Los Angeles.

Considered one of the finest actors of his generation, Liev Schreiber's repertoire of resonant, humanistic and oftentimes gritty portrayals have garnered him praise in film, theatre and television. Schreiber recently completed production on P.J. Hogan's comedy Mental alongside Toni Collette and...

All About Eve is regularly considered to be one of the greatest films from the annals of Hollywood’s history and with a record 14 Oscar nominations – tying it with James Cameron’s epic Titanic (1998) – and 6 wins, it’s hard to argue against it’s importance. And now with today’s Blu-ray upgrade, improving on all previous DVD releases, it’s great to see this piece of film history transformed into a slick, deserving and glossy HD presentation. If you’ve never taken the opportunity to delve into the world of back-stage dramas and one-upmanship then now couldn’t be a better time.

All About Eve follows the schemes and manoeuvres of an aspiring actress, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), as she attempts to inculcate herself into the life of aging, but mammoth stage star Margo Channing (Bette Davis) and her array of theatre friends. As Eve engineers herself to become indispensible to Margo,...

'We're a breed apart from the rest of humanity," says Addison DeWitt of theater folk in "All About Eve."

Sometimes I feel and fear that in entertainment today, we have forgotten about the one primary ingredient - the writer. The playwright, the screenwriter, the book author, the lyricist. Without him/her, we are left with nothing but car crashes, stunts, grunts and animatronic creatures of childhood charm.

The other night the Actors Fund gave us a live show for its own benefit in which the writer reigned supreme. This was Joe Mankiewicz's classic screenplay "All About Eve," performed in a reading...

MONTE CARLO -- Asian television films picked up two of the biggest awards at the 44th Monte Carlo Television Festival. South Korea's Munhwa Broadcasting Corp. (MBC) picked up the best television film award for The Swamp, about a plastic surgeon's revenge on her unfaithful husband. Japan's NHK took best miniseries film for the first episode of Bunshiro and Fuku, an 18th-century samurai love story. American helmer John Erman, who also headed one of the numerous juries judging almost 30 prizes, won best director for The Blackwater Lightship, produced by Ireland's World 2000 Entertainment. Hallmark Entertainment's The Lion in Winter, based on James Goldman's original screenplay, won Andrei Konchalovsky best director in the miniseries category.