Recent Obituaries, Classic Films Only

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130. Actor, magician, and TV host Bob Dorian, 85

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bob-dorian-actor-and-magician-who-introduced-classic-films-on-amc-dies-at-85/2019/06/24/ef88ed3a-9688-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html?utm_term=.6a008f06f6ea

Bob Dorian, an actor, magician and avuncular movie buff who presented more than 10,000 classic films, B-movie serials and pre-Code Hollywood gems as the first prime-time host of American Movie Classics, died June 15. He was 85, although he often said he preferred to give his age by way of film history, declaring that he was “born between ‘Flying Down to Rio’ and ‘Top Hat.’ ”

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Mr. Dorian performed on the stage, radio, television and occasionally on film, appearing in two movies by one of his favorite contemporary directors, Woody Allen, and lending his voice to Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror classic “The Evil Dead” as an archaeologist whose tape-recorded readings from an ancient text summon demonic spirits to a cabin in the woods.

Bespectacled and bushy-browed, he began acting at 14; dabbled in stand-up comedy and trapeze-catching at the circus; played the bass in a New York jazz group, the Four Dimensions; and performed mind-reading tricks and other illusions as the Amazing Dorian, sometimes incorporating his wife and three daughters into his act.

His IMDB page:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0233646/