Gisooo 3,344 Posted June 22, 2023 Finally it's time to solve some mysteries. I joined a group that talks only about Italian cinema and there were posts made by a film historian to whom I wrote privately and he told me that "the searches are based on the death records that every Italian city has, it really takes time but it's worth it " So here are some dead names that are no more and have been discovered (some are also mentioned in other threads) Maria Dominiani (Wiki) b. 10.05.1913 † 10.12.1993 Link Alfredo Varelli (Wiki) b. 31.08.1914 † 18.08.1996 Link Lilia Dale (Wiki) b. 18.07.1919 † 03.12.1991 Link Carlo Giustini (Wiki) b. 04.05.1923 † 26.10.2005 Link Giulio Donnini (Wiki) b. 17.02.1924 † 22.05.2001 Link Xenia Valderi (Wiki) b. 21.01.1926 † 03.11.2008 Link Tania Weber (Wiki) b. 18.08.1926 † 20.11.2009 Link Rossana Rory (Wiki) b. 07.09.1927 † 01.04.2020 Link / source Clara Bindi (Wiki) b. 01.11.1927 † 24.02.2022 Link Fiorella Mari (Wiki) b. 21.06.1928 † 02.03.1983 Link Luisa Rivelli (Wiki) b. 10.02.1930 † 12.06.2013 Link Eloisa Cianni (Wiki) b. 21.06.1932 † 27.05.2022 Link Marisa Belli (Wiki) b. 12.04.1933 † 09.12.2017 Link Edda Ferronao (Wiki) b. 08.06.1934 † 25.01.1986 Link Rosy Mazzacurati (Wiki) b. 09.05. 1936 † 16.10.2020 Link Dina De Santis (Wiki) b. 21.12.1943 † 04.12.1985 Link Riccardo Salvino (Wiki) b. 29.03.1944 † 12.01.1999 13 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,197 Posted June 22, 2023 This is excellent work Gisooo, thank you. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,946 Posted June 22, 2023 Gisooo, that's amazing work. Congrats to everyone who participated! I'm shockes by how many of them died without a single notice. Bindi, Rory, Rivelli and Belli were kind of famous, so that's negatively impressing. An IP continued ti edit Belli's page in 2017 as she had died. No source ever surfaced. Thank you again and I hope their wiki pages will be amended soon. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,620 Posted June 22, 2023 Thanks Gisoo. I've updated all of them (apart from Salvino as there's no source). 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,620 Posted June 23, 2023 @Gisooo, maybe the film historian who has cracked all of the above would have answers on the Italian film personalities below? I believe they're all probably dead. *Adriana Sivieri (wiki, b. 1918) Argentine-born Italian film actress, voice dubber. *Fioretta Dolfi (wiki, b. 1920) Italian film and stage actress. *Lucio De Caro (wiki, b. 1922) Italian film director and screenwriter. Some unreliable sources suggest he died in 2008. *Marcello Andrei (wiki, b. 1922) Italian film director and screenwriter. *Aldo Scavarda (wiki, b. 1923) Italian cinematographer. *Roberto Mauri (wiki, b. 1924?) Italian actor, director and screenwriter. Some unreliable sources suggest he died in 2007, others say 2017. *Tullio Altamura (wiki, b. 1924) Italian spaghetti western actor. *Pier Ludovico Pavoni (wiki, b. 1926 or 1927) Italian cinematographer and director. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,344 Posted June 23, 2023 I asked him for Sivieri and Altamura, gonna ask for others, let's hope! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whoismakoto 328 Posted June 23, 2023 Me too @Gisooo, maybe he can help find some answers to these people: -Lilia Landi -Luisa Garella -Dario Michaelis -Sandro Moretti -Giorgio Cerioni -Ida Bracci Dorati -Piero Schivazappa -Anna Maria Sandri 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,620 Posted June 24, 2023 American politician Doris Johnson (wiki) seems to be a popular pick on the 20/20 pool. According to her own family's tree on Ancestry though, she died on June 27, 2021 (aged 98) in Kennewick, Washington. No obit seems to have been published for her. @Gisooo, is there an entry for her on Accurint? @Bibliogryphon, serves you right for stealing that pick from @Summer in Transylvania! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,344 Posted June 24, 2023 To be fair no she is marked as alive, but it may be true she is dead! In Accurint it happens when familiar don't want to deregister their deceased or make it public like Miiko Taka who is still alive there! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,527 Posted July 1, 2023 Morris Mitchener made headlines as a three-year-old in 1996 when his parents threatened to sue a local production of Peter Pan for being too scary. He was a regular reference point of mockery by Lee and Herring during their Fist of Fun days, but the gags were cut out of the DVDs a few years ago due to further threats of legal action. I'm pretty sure this GoFundMe is for him, and he died in January of this year. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,344 Posted July 20, 2023 I just did a little research and discovered some American names (off radar) William H. Bywater (Wiki), labor union leader known for working at the Ford Instrument Company plant in Long Island, and joined the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America dead in 2018 at the age of 98 Anita Foss (Wiki), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ballplayer dead in 2015 at the age of 93 Robert C. Prim (Wiki), mathematician and computer scientist dead in 2021 at the age of 100 Henry Simon (Wiki), United States Air Force major general who served as deputy director of the Defense Supply Agency dead in 2016 at the age of 95 Thomas Vietorisz (Wiki), economist who specialized in urban planning dead in 2019 at the age of 93 Jeanne Baird (Wiki), actress from Golden Age of Hollywood appeared in Ben Casey, Bonanza and Perry Mason dead in 2020 at the age of 93 Edward J. Megarr (Wiki), major general in the United States Marine Corps dead in 2019 at the age of 91 Robert C. Nichols (Wiki), educational psychologist and twin researcher dead in 2017 at the age of 90 Clyde Golden (Wiki), baseball player in the Negro leagues dead in 2017 at the age of 88 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,620 Posted July 20, 2023 28 minutes ago, Gisooo said: The Records Got to question you on this one... Olympedia says his middle name was Jackson. Therefore he'd be WILLIAM J HENDERSON, not WILLIAM M HENDERSON? Either way, both William and Henderson are common American names. I'm not sure how you could match a famous individual to a record unless the record had the individual's DOB listed (and in this case it doesn't – it just states a year). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,344 Posted July 20, 2023 38 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said: Got to question you on this one... Olympedia says his middle name was Jackson. Therefore he'd be WILLIAM J HENDERSON, not WILLIAM M HENDERSON? Either way, both William and Henderson are common American names. I'm not sure how you could match a famous individual to a record unless the record had the individual's DOB listed (and in this case it doesn't – it just states a year). Perhaps, they both were born on November Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edm88 72 Posted July 20, 2023 7 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said: Got to question you on this one... Olympedia says his middle name was Jackson. Therefore he'd be WILLIAM J HENDERSON, not WILLIAM M HENDERSON? Either way, both William and Henderson are common American names. I'm not sure how you could match a famous individual to a record unless the record had the individual's DOB listed (and in this case it doesn't – it just states a year). Henderson was still alive in 2018 according to his sister's obit: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/ft-collins-co/nancy-fischer-7963121. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Imhotep 34 Posted August 1, 2023 Prolific Italian actor Tullio Altamura died June 6 2005. Here's the link: https://necrologie.repubblica.it/necrologi/2005/510018-altamura-tullio Also now confirmed in the Italian wiki. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,344 Posted August 1, 2023 3 minutes ago, Imhotep said: Prolific Italian actor Tullio Altamura died June 6 2005. Here's the link: https://necrologie.repubblica.it/necrologi/2005/510018-altamura-tullio Also now confirmed in the Italian wiki. I saw it this but I thought it wasn't him Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,620 Posted August 1, 2023 5 hours ago, Gisooo said: I saw it this but I thought it wasn't him I don't think it is. I seem to recall finding another death notice for this same individual that said this Tullio Altamura was in his 20s/30s so different person, same name. I've removed it from Italian Wiki. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,344 Posted August 5, 2023 Found some off radar names Foreign Bimo Fakja (Wiki) - Albanian football player who played for Vllaznia dead on Feb 15, 1982 Krishna Dhar (Wiki) - Indian poet dead in 2022 Pierre Gossez (Wiki) - French musician dead in 2001 Dagmar Droysen-Reber (Wiki) - German musicologist dead in 2020 American Dick Stewart (Wiki) - TV host and actor dead in 2019, FB post Geroge Herman (Wiki) - playwright and writer dead in 2019 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,620 Posted August 5, 2023 9 hours ago, Gisooo said: Found some off radar names Foreign Bimo Fakja (Wiki) - Albanian football player who played for Vllaznia dead on Feb 15, 1982 Krishna Dhar (Wiki) - Indian poet dead in 2022 Pierre Gossez (Wiki) - French musician dead in 2001 Dagmar Droysen-Reber (Wiki) - German musicologist dead in 2020 American Dick Stewart (Wiki) - TV host and actor dead in 2019, FB post Geroge Herman (Wiki) - playwright and writer dead in 2019 The source for Fakja just goes to his Wiki? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,344 Posted August 6, 2023 5 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said: The source for Fakja just goes to his Wiki? Link Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,602 Posted August 6, 2023 19 hours ago, Gisooo said: Found some off radar names Foreign Bimo Fakja (Wiki) - Albanian football player who played for Vllaznia dead on Feb 15, 1982 Krishna Dhar (Wiki) - Indian poet dead in 2022 Pierre Gossez (Wiki) - French musician dead in 2001 Dagmar Droysen-Reber (Wiki) - German musicologist dead in 2020 American Dick Stewart (Wiki) - TV host and actor dead in 2019, FB post Geroge Herman (Wiki) - playwright and writer dead in 2019 Never mind 'Dying off the radar', most, if not all, of these have must have been living off the radar too. 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,344 Posted August 6, 2023 American jazz saxophone player Vi Redd (Wiki), dead last year at 91, sadly can't find any obituary She was highly regarded as an accomplished veteran who has performed with Count Basie, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Linda Hopkins, Marian McPartland and Dizzy Gillespie. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 6, 2023 2 hours ago, Gisooo said: American jazz saxophone player Vi Redd (Wiki), dead last year at 91, sadly can't find any obituary She was highly regarded as an accomplished veteran who has performed with Count Basie, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Linda Hopkins, Marian McPartland and Dizzy Gillespie. Exceot whoever you have on that bottom screen May not be her. She was getting plenty of ‘Happy 94TH Birthday’ wishes on Facebook in Sept 2022. https://fb.watch/mfnUhwNpSD/?mibextid=qC1gEa Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,344 Posted August 6, 2023 1 minute ago, Sir Creep said: Exceot whoever you have on that bottom screen must not be her. She was getting plenty of ‘Happy 94TH Birthday’ wishes on Facebook in Sept 2022. I’m not saying she was alive but I am saying she wasn’t 91. Now that you just said that, I should believe you! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
