His voice can be heard for only a minute in “The Empire Strikes Back,” but it provided the first draft of a character that would be a mainstay of the franchise for decades.
Category: Deaths (Obituaries)
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Pilar Viladas, Architecture and Design Journalist, Dies at 70
Schooled in art history, she brought both authority and a human perspective to her writing and editing for Architectural Digest, HG, The Times and other publications.
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Leonard Polonsky, Philanthropist Who Supported the Arts, Dies at 97
After making a fortune in financial services, he funded the arts and made historical artifacts and documents widely available to the public.
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Herb Greene, Who Photographed the Grateful Dead and Other 1960s Rock Acts, Dies at 82
One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s.
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Eddie Adcock, Musician Who Pushed Bluegrass Forward, Dies at 86
A master improviser on banjo, he understood the genre’s roots but was also in the forefront of the later “newgrass” movement.
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Eddie Adcock, Virtuoso Who Pushed Bluegrass Forward, Dies at 86
A master improviser on banjo, he understood the genre’s roots but was also in the forefront of the later “newgrass” movement.
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Samsung Electronics Executive Han Jong-Hee Dies at 63
Mr. Han, a longtime Samsung executive, oversaw the company’s consumer electronics business since 2021.
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Brian James, Pioneer of Punk Rock, Is Dead at 70
As the guitarist and main songwriter for the Damned, he helped spark an explosion on the British music scene in the 1970s.
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Marty Callner, Director of Comedy Specials and Music Videos, Dies at 78
At HBO in the late 1970s, he established the template for presenting stand-up on the small screen. He then became a mainstay of MTV in its early days.
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Robert Denham, Lawyer Who Steered Companies Through Crises, Dies at 79
Among his rescues was teaming up with Warren Buffett to keep the investment bank Salomon Brothers afloat amid a bid-rigging scandal in the 1990s.
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Jeffrey Bruce Klein, a Founder and Editor of Mother Jones, Dies at 77
He was one of four journalists who started the muckraking progressive magazine in 1976. He returned as its editor in chief in the 1990s.
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J.B. Moore, Producer of Seminal Hip-Hop Records, Dies at 81
He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into the mainstream.