He turned running a dining room into a fine art at each of his restaurants over a 40-year career, most notably TBar on the Upper East Side.
Category: Deaths (Obituaries)
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Norby Walters, 91, Dies; Music and Sports Agent Who Ran Afoul of the Law
He ran a highly successful booking agency, but his secret contacts with college athletes led to convictions (later reversed) for racketeering and fraud.
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Klee Benally, Navajo Activist and Artist, Dies at 48
He helped found a punk-rock band when he was 14. That led to a long career as an advocate for Native American and environmental causes.
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Joseph Lelyveld, Former Top Editor of The New York Times, Dies at 86
As executive editor from 1994 to 2001, he oversaw a period of growth, expanding national and international readerships, creating new sections and ushering in the digital age with a Times website.
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David Soul, a Star of the Hit Cop Show ‘Starsky & Hutch,’ Dies at 80
An actor and singer, he rose to fame in the 1970s as one half of popular television crime-fighting duo. He also notched a No. 1 hit single.
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Richard Gaddes, Opera Impresario Who Spotted Young Talent, Dies at 81
As leader of opera companies in Santa Fe and St. Louis, he welcomed new works as well as new artists.
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Sidney M. Wolfe, Scourge of the Pharmaceutical Industry, Dies at 86
For over 40 years, he and his organization, the Health Research Group, held government and manufacturers to account for unsafe medication.
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Ana Ofelia Murguía, Mexican Actress and Voice in Disney’s ‘Coco,’ Dies, 90
Her 60-year career in film, television and theater “marked an entire era” and made her one of Mexico’s most acclaimed actresses.
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Les McCann, a Jazz Pianist and Singer, Dies at 88
He released more than 50 albums but had his greatest commercial success with “Compared to What,” a recording that came together at the last minute in 1969.
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Tom Wilkinson, Actor in ‘The Full Monty,’ Dies at 75
Wilkinson, a versatile actor who also starred in “Shakespeare in Love” and “Batman Begins,” won acclaim through decades of work in television and film and onstage.
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Willie Ruff, Jazz Missionary and Professor, Dies at 92
A master of the French horn, a rarity in jazz, he toured the world with the pianist Dwike Mitchell and taught music at Yale.
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Jim Ladd, Free-Form Radio Trailblazer, Is Dead at 75
An institution of the airwaves in Los Angeles and beyond, he capitalized on the freedom the FM band offered in the 1970s to blaze his own path.