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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 09:46:06 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obits]Hilary Tjader Harris,Theodore R. Scott
November 3, 1999
Hilary Tjader Harris, 69, Sculptor and Experimental Filmmaker
By STEPHEN HOLDEN, NYTimes
Hilary Tjader Harris, an experimental and documentary filmmaker and kinetic sculptor, died on Oct. 26 at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 69.
The cause was kidney failure, said David Hollister, a friend and collaborator, adding that Harris had contracted an undiagnosed illness three years ago in Central America.
A filmmaker influenced by the work of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Harris explored the possibilities of abstract motion in two early short films, "Longhorns" (1951) and "Generation" (1956). His third film, "Highway," used a rock 'n' roll score to accompany fast-moving images filmed from a speeding car on highways and bridges around New York City. The work received a bronze medal at the Brussels International Experimental Film Festival in 1958 and led to an offer from the Scottish Film Board to direct a documentary on shipbuilding on the Clyde River in Glasgow. That film, "Seawards the Great Ships," won an Academy Award for best short subject in 1962.
In the 60's and 70's Harris had a studio in Greenwich Village, where he made experimental, documentary, industrial and animated films. One, "Nine Variations on a Dance Theme" (1966), a study of the dancer Bettie de Jong, received prizes at several film festivals.
Harris was a pioneer in the development of time-lapse photography, which was the basic technique of his 1975 film, "Organism." It compared the patterns of activity in New York City to the rhythms of nature.
In the 1980's he moved to Woodstock, N.Y., where he designed and built his own house, shaped like a spaceship, and worked at designing a computer-oriented "drawing machine." He was still working on this invention when he became ill.
He is survived by his third wife, Dena Crane, and by two daughters, Branwyn and Rhana, and a son, Morgan, from his previous marriage to Maxine Barnes Rochlin.
Theodore R. Scott
HONOLULU (AP) û Theodore R. "Ted" Scott, a former Honolulu radio personality and actor, died Thursday in Redlands, Calif. He was 85.
Scott came to Hawaii in 1950 as a radio announcer for station KULA and worked for various stations over the years.
He was a co-founder of the Windward Theatre Guild in the early 1950s and starred in many of its productions. He also was a member of the Screen Actors Guild and appeared in numerous television series and movies made in Hawaii. At one time, he was a supporting character in the "Hawaii Five-O" series.
Survivors include two daughters and three grandchildren.
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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 10:14:04 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Charles Dant,Ian Bannen,Keizo Saji
*Charles Dant
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) -- Charles ``Bud'' Dant, founder of the Hulihe`e Palace Band and a former ``Hawaii Calls' producer, died
Sunday. He was 92.
Dant began his musical career in 1925 with composer Hoagy
Carmichael. He worked with such stars as Bing Crosby, Jack Benny
and clarinet player Pete Fountain.
A conductor and arranger, he formed the palace band in 1975.
LONDON (AP) -- Ian Bannen, the actor who charmed movie audiences playing an Irish con artist in ``Waking Ned Devine,'' died
Wednesday in a car crash in Scotland, his agent said. He was 71.
Bannen's body was found in an overturned car near Loch Ness, a
police spokesman said. The female driver of the car survived and was flown by air ambulance to a nearby hospital. She has not been identified.
A longstanding veteran of the English and Irish theater, Bannen enjoyed a sudden bout of late-career movie success last year with ``Waking Ned Devine.'' The sleeper hit cast Bannen and David Kelly as aging Irishmen who attempt to persuade a village into claiming a lottery jackpot for themselves after the winner, Ned Devine, dies from shock.
Prior film roles included a leper in the Oscar-winning ``Braveheart'' as well as appearances in ``Hope and Glory,'' ``Gorky Park,'' ``Eye of the Needle,'' and ``Bite the Bullet.''
Bannen received an Oscar nomination in 1965 for his supporting
performance in Robert Aldrich's all-star ``The Flight of the Phoenix.'' He starred as one of a group of men marooned in a North African desert after a plane crash.
On television, he appeared in ``The Politician's Wife'' and
``Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.''
Born the only son of a lawyer in Lanarkshire, Scotland, Bannen
served as a corporal in the army before making his stage debut in Dublin in 1947 in a play called ``Armlet of Jade.''
Early London credits included the Eugene O'Neill plays ``The
Iceman Cometh'' and ``Long Day's Journey Into Night'' -- both in
1958 -- as well as an acclaimed London revival of ``A Moon For the
Misbegotten,'' opposite Frances de la Tour, in 1983.
Bannen appeared in the same play on Broadway the following
season.
He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company during its
initial seasons in Stratford-on-Avon in the early '60s.
Bannen is survived by his wife, Marilyn Salisbury. The couple
had no children.
*Keizo Saji
TOKYO (AP) -- Keizo Saji, chairman of whiskey distiller Suntory Ltd. and one of Japan's leading industrialists, died Wednesday. He was 80.
Saji was the second son of Suntory founder Shinjiro Torii and joined the company in 1945.
Saji climbed the ranks at Japan's oldest and largest whiskey
distiller, serving as president from 1961 to 1990. Since March 1990, Saji had been chairman.
The Osaka-based company -- founded in 1899 -- also makes beer and food products.
Saji was ranked as the 48th richest person in the world by
Forbes magazine. His wealth was estimated at $6.7 billion.
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