Smiley Burnette

Smiley Burnette

male, deceased (1967)
from Fulton County, Illinois, Frog Millhouse, durango kid, Summum, western, Columbia Pictures…Western film actor, western-style films, western film, Beneath Western Skies actor
Lester Alvin (Smiley) Burnette (born March 18, 1911, Summum, Illinois - February 16, 1967, Encino, California), an American singer-songwriter who...
Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor

male, 55 years old
kapoor, Indian, Eastern, The Doon School, Chelsea, London, Western world…western
Anish Kapoor (born 1954) is a Turner Prize winning sculptor. Born in Bombay (Mumbai), India, Kapoor attended the Doon School, located in Dehra Dun,...
Tom Kennedy

Tom Kennedy

male, deceased (1965)
American actor, comedian, laurel and hardy, 42nd street, western, actor
Tom Kennedy, was an American actor best known for his roles in Hollywood comedies from the silent days,with such producers as Mack Sennett and Hal...
George F. Kennan

George F. Kennan

male, deceased (2005)
X Article, The Sources of Soviet Conduct, Russia expert, Marshall Plan, containment, Political scientist…western, western europe, Western world
George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 - March 17, 2005) was an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the...
Owen Wister

Owen Wister

male, deceased (1938)
Frederick Remington, Harvard Law School alumni, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Harvard Law School, Philadelphia writer, American…western, Western writer
Owen Wister was an American writer of western novels. Owen Wister was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
Claude Akins

Claude Akins

male, deceased (1994)
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, The Little People, cancer death, spinoff, navy, Perry Mason actor…western, Western film actor
Claude Marion Akins was an American actor (born May 25, 1926, in Nelson, Georgia - died January 27, 1994, in Altadena, California). Powerful in...
Dick Jones

Dick Jones

male, 82 years old
A Man to Remember, child, b-movie, lasso, Disney voice actor, carpentry…western
Dick Jones (born February 25, 1927) is an American actor who achieved some success as a child and as a young adult, especially in B-Westerns and...
Joe R. Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale

male, 58 years old
splatterpunk, Western fiction, elvis, From Nacogdoches, Texas, Working Class, Batman The Animated Series…western
Joe R. Lansdale (born October 28, 1951, Gladewater, Texas) is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many...
He Ping

He Ping

male, 52 years old
shanxi, from Shanxi, film director, western, wuxia, chinese
He Ping (b. 1957, Shanxi, China) is a Chinese film director, whose filmography consists of a hybrid genre of Western-wuxia movies.
James Best

James Best

male, 83 years old
Jewel Guy, In the Heat of the Night, james stewart, From Louisville, Kentucky, Ride Lonesome, The Mod Squad…Western movies, western
James Best (born July 26, 1926, in Powderly, Kentucky) is an American character actor best known for his role as bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane...