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It’s sad to report that it has now been confirmed that the actor Julian Sands died during a hike on Mount Baldy earlier this year. The 65-year-old actor, an experienced and enthusiastic hiker and climber, was reported missing on January 13th after he failed to check-in while hiking the...
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Monday brought the news of the unexpected death of Irish-born actor Ray Stevenson in Italy this weekend. He was only 58. The veteran performer was known for his array of tough-guy roles in both television and film. He appeared in 1998 drama The Theory of Flight but made a major...
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In sad and surprising news, word comes that veteran actor Lance Reddick has died. His publicist confirmed that the 60 year old actor was found at his home in Studio City on Friday and it appears he passed from natural causes. The actor – often demonstrating his considerable physical...
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David Prowse, most famously the man behind Darth Vader’s iconic mask, has died. A weight-trainer and body-builder, he was the British Heavyweight Weightlifting Championship in 1962, 1963 and 1964 and represented the country in the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia. and the following two years helped train Christopher...
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When people talk about how far women have come as action heroes, they often cite the likes of Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley, Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor or even Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. But one of the first to make a screen impression was Diana Rigg. News comes today that...
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Legendary director Joel Schumacher has died aged 80, his publicist confirming his passing after a year-long private fight against cancer. With his death comes plenty of praise but the undeniable observation that his career and production choices were one of the most eclectic and disparate collections of work in...
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From time to time, EchoChamber unfortunately has to report on the death of people in the entertainment industry – it is more rare that passing is of someone we know off-screen… I had the pleasure of meeting and sharing a stage with Stan Kirsch several times, mostly due to...
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EchoChamber is sad to hear of the passing of Paul Darrow at the age of 78. Though his career encompassed a wide range of roles (in shows including Emergency Ward 10, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Within These Walls, The Legend of Robin Hood, Pie in the Sky, Little...
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The term ‘gentle giant’ is used a lot, but it must certainly apply to actor Peter Mayhew, who passed away this week at the age of 74 from a heart attack. Mayhew was, of course, the man behind Chewbacca, the hairy, reliable co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon in the...
It’s sad to report that it has now been confirmed that the actor Julian Sands died during a hike on Mount Baldy earlier this year. The 65-year-old actor, an experienced and enthusiastic hiker and climber, was reported missing on January 13th after he failed to check-in while hiking the...
Monday brought the news of the unexpected death of Irish-born actor Ray Stevenson in Italy this weekend. He was only 58. The veteran performer was known for his array of tough-guy roles in both television and film. He appeared in 1998 drama The Theory of Flight but made a major...
In sad and surprising news, word comes that veteran actor Lance Reddick has died. His publicist confirmed that the 60 year old actor was found at his home in Studio City on Friday and it appears he passed from natural causes. The actor – often demonstrating his considerable physical...
David Prowse, most famously the man behind Darth Vader’s iconic mask, has died. A weight-trainer and body-builder, he was the British Heavyweight Weightlifting Championship in 1962, 1963 and 1964 and represented the country in the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia. and the following two years helped train Christopher...
When people talk about how far women have come as action heroes, they often cite the likes of Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley, Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor or even Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. But one of the first to make a screen impression was Diana Rigg. News comes today that...
Legendary director Joel Schumacher has died aged 80, his publicist confirming his passing after a year-long private fight against cancer. With his death comes plenty of praise but the undeniable observation that his career and production choices were one of the most eclectic and disparate collections of work in...
From time to time, EchoChamber unfortunately has to report on the death of people in the entertainment industry – it is more rare that passing is of someone we know off-screen… I had the pleasure of meeting and sharing a stage with Stan Kirsch several times, mostly due to...
EchoChamber is sad to hear of the passing of Paul Darrow at the age of 78. Though his career encompassed a wide range of roles (in shows including Emergency Ward 10, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Within These Walls, The Legend of Robin Hood, Pie in the Sky, Little...
The term ‘gentle giant’ is used a lot, but it must certainly apply to actor Peter Mayhew, who passed away this week at the age of 74 from a heart attack. Mayhew was, of course, the man behind Chewbacca, the hairy, reliable co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon in the...
The Demeter is about to set off on a voyage across the sea from Eastern Europe to London. Its unusual cargo is a serious of crates with a dragon-like...
It was somewhat inevitable that the WGA (Writers Guild of America) and SAG (Screen Actors’ Guild) strikes still underway across the industry would start to have some creative repercussions....
John Sheridan is leaving Babylon 5 for the last time, ready to assume his role not as just the commander of a space-station but President of the Interstellar Alliance,...
A MI6 team is on a mission to infiltrate a cartel and nab its crime-boss from his Alpine retreat. However, things don’t go to plan and Rachel Stone, their...