Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies that have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Tom Adams (1938-2014) - British Actor. He appears in The Great Escape and The House That Dripped Blood. He died of cancer on December 11. (THR) Howard G. Barnes (1913-2014) - Producer. He was executive producer for the long-thought-lost Australian horror film Outback (aka Wake in Fright). He died on December 8. (THR) John Bowsher (1952-2014) - Vice President of Museum Infrastructure, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As the project manager for the...
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- 1/3/2015
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Howard G. Barnes, a film and television veteran who executive produced the Australian “lost film” Outback, died Dec. 8 of natural causes at The Motion Picture Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, his daughter Christie announced. He was 100. As vice president in charge of Westinghouse Broadcasting’s film division, Barnes exec produced Outback, a 1971 Australian-American thriller that starred Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty and Jack Thompson in the story of a young schoolteacher (Bond) who finds himself trapped and menaced in a barbaric Australian town. Read more Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 The film, directed by
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- 12/26/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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