Mark Goddard, the actor who made a lasting impression on young sci-fi fans as the daring, forever impatient Major Don West on CBS’ 1965-68 series Lost In Space, died of pulmonary fibrosis Tuesday in Hingham, Massachusetts. He was 87.
His death was announced by his wife Evelyn Pezzulich in a Facebook post.
“I’m so sorry to tell you that my wonderful husband passed away on October 10th,” Pezzulich wrote. “Several days after celebrating his 87th birthday, he was hospitalized with pneumonia. We were hopeful when he was transferred to a rehabilitation center, but then doctors discovered he was in the final stages of pulmonary fibrosis for which there is no cure.”
By the time he was cast in his breakthrough role as the headstrong Major West, Goddard had built a reputation as a rising young actor through supporting appearances in late-’50s fare such as Johnny Ringo and The Rebel.
His death was announced by his wife Evelyn Pezzulich in a Facebook post.
“I’m so sorry to tell you that my wonderful husband passed away on October 10th,” Pezzulich wrote. “Several days after celebrating his 87th birthday, he was hospitalized with pneumonia. We were hopeful when he was transferred to a rehabilitation center, but then doctors discovered he was in the final stages of pulmonary fibrosis for which there is no cure.”
By the time he was cast in his breakthrough role as the headstrong Major West, Goddard had built a reputation as a rising young actor through supporting appearances in late-’50s fare such as Johnny Ringo and The Rebel.
- 10/13/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 comedy horror movie directed by Roger Corman, starring Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, and Dick Miller. It was in this movie that Jack Nicholson made one of his earliest appearances on film. He was years later quoted in Corman’s 1998 book recounting how he experienced the reception of the movie saying that the audience
“laughed so hard I could barely hear the dialogue. I didn’t quite register it right. It was as if I had forgotten it was a comedy since the shoot. I got all embarrassed because I’d never really had such a positive response before.”.
from the book ‘How I made a hundred movies in Hollywood and never lost a dime’ by Roger Corman The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) Premise
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He...
“laughed so hard I could barely hear the dialogue. I didn’t quite register it right. It was as if I had forgotten it was a comedy since the shoot. I got all embarrassed because I’d never really had such a positive response before.”.
from the book ‘How I made a hundred movies in Hollywood and never lost a dime’ by Roger Corman The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) Premise
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He...
- 12/29/2022
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Exclusive: Audible has snapped up the rights to three podcasts from Audio Up – two series created by James Ellroy, the Demon Dog of American literature, and The Playboy Interviews.
The Amazon-owned company will launch two Ellroy adaptations – Hollywood Death Trip and American Tabloid – and The Playboy Interviews, which features the voice talents of the likes of Michael Shannon and Taye Diggs, as Audible Originals.
It comes on the back of a deal between the two companies for Maejor Frequency, a series fronted by Justin Bieber and Drake collaborator Brandon Green.
Hollywood Death Trip will launch first on July 7 2022. The five-part series will take listeners on a nocturnal tour of murder and mayhem in LA.
The series, based on his own true crime reporting, will be narrated by Ellroy and will tell the story of a slew of memorable mid-century murders.
Episodes include Glamour Jungle, which explores the 1963 unsolved murder of Karyn Kupcinet,...
The Amazon-owned company will launch two Ellroy adaptations – Hollywood Death Trip and American Tabloid – and The Playboy Interviews, which features the voice talents of the likes of Michael Shannon and Taye Diggs, as Audible Originals.
It comes on the back of a deal between the two companies for Maejor Frequency, a series fronted by Justin Bieber and Drake collaborator Brandon Green.
Hollywood Death Trip will launch first on July 7 2022. The five-part series will take listeners on a nocturnal tour of murder and mayhem in LA.
The series, based on his own true crime reporting, will be narrated by Ellroy and will tell the story of a slew of memorable mid-century murders.
Episodes include Glamour Jungle, which explores the 1963 unsolved murder of Karyn Kupcinet,...
- 3/10/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: James Ellroy, the Demon Dog of American literature, is time-tripping back to hellacious Hollyweird in a five-part podcast series.
The L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia author has teamed up with podcast firm Audio Up – the company behind Where The Bodies Are Buried and Michael Cohen’s Mea Culpa – to produce Hollywood Death Trip, a series that will take listeners on a nocturnal tour of murder and mayhem in LA.
The series, based on his own true crime reporting, will be narrated by Ellroy and will tell the story of a slew of memorable mid-century murders.
Episodes include Glamour Jungle, which explores the 1963 unsolved murder of Karyn Kupcinet, daughter of Irv Kupcinet, famed columnist and friend to mobsters. Stephanie tells the haunting tale of Stephanie Gorman, who met an untimely end in the Cheviot Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1965. Clash By Night fast forwards to 1976, to the...
The L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia author has teamed up with podcast firm Audio Up – the company behind Where The Bodies Are Buried and Michael Cohen’s Mea Culpa – to produce Hollywood Death Trip, a series that will take listeners on a nocturnal tour of murder and mayhem in LA.
The series, based on his own true crime reporting, will be narrated by Ellroy and will tell the story of a slew of memorable mid-century murders.
Episodes include Glamour Jungle, which explores the 1963 unsolved murder of Karyn Kupcinet, daughter of Irv Kupcinet, famed columnist and friend to mobsters. Stephanie tells the haunting tale of Stephanie Gorman, who met an untimely end in the Cheviot Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1965. Clash By Night fast forwards to 1976, to the...
- 4/14/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Chicago – The 1960s movie stars, captured forever on celluloid in their era, still thrive and survive. At the recent Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show, Oscar winner George Kennedy (”Cool Hand Luke”) and cult star Carol Lynley (”Bunny Lake is Missing”) spoke about the long time passing 1960s.
The Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show is a biannual event in Chicago where attendees can meet and greet the stars, collect autographs and find cool collectibles at the comprehensive memorabilia market. The next show in the area is scheduled for September 25th and 26th, 2010.
HollywoodChicago.com was there at the last show in March, and spoke to George Kennedy and Carol Lynley. Photographer Joe Arce was also there to capture their images at the event.
George Kennedy of “Cool Hand Luke,” “Airport” and “The Dirty Dozen”
George Kennedy is best remembered for his numerous character roles in big and famous films. After starting in television...
The Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show is a biannual event in Chicago where attendees can meet and greet the stars, collect autographs and find cool collectibles at the comprehensive memorabilia market. The next show in the area is scheduled for September 25th and 26th, 2010.
HollywoodChicago.com was there at the last show in March, and spoke to George Kennedy and Carol Lynley. Photographer Joe Arce was also there to capture their images at the event.
George Kennedy of “Cool Hand Luke,” “Airport” and “The Dirty Dozen”
George Kennedy is best remembered for his numerous character roles in big and famous films. After starting in television...
- 7/28/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
To Space And Back by Mark Goddard (IUniverse, tpb, 106 pp, $12.95)
Many TV-movie star autobiographies reveal nothing bad about the subjects except their memories. No such complaint can be lodged against Lost In Space star Mark Goddard’s memoir To Space And Back. Much of it is fun, breezy reading, but it takes dramatic turns when the actor writes about lifelong bouts with insecurity, being cursed with quitters’ instinct, two failed marriages and a career crash dive—some of these misadventures embarked upon in the company of longtime pal John Barleycorn. The tone in these passages is sometimes a bit rueful but not self-pitying and, from the outside looking in, they make for especially interesting reading.
Lost In Space devotees ought to be aware that, despite the title and cover art, the 1965-68 TV series gets just seven pages (plus a number of photos, some new to these eyes). But for...
Many TV-movie star autobiographies reveal nothing bad about the subjects except their memories. No such complaint can be lodged against Lost In Space star Mark Goddard’s memoir To Space And Back. Much of it is fun, breezy reading, but it takes dramatic turns when the actor writes about lifelong bouts with insecurity, being cursed with quitters’ instinct, two failed marriages and a career crash dive—some of these misadventures embarked upon in the company of longtime pal John Barleycorn. The tone in these passages is sometimes a bit rueful but not self-pitying and, from the outside looking in, they make for especially interesting reading.
Lost In Space devotees ought to be aware that, despite the title and cover art, the 1965-68 TV series gets just seven pages (plus a number of photos, some new to these eyes). But for...
- 8/11/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Tom Weaver)
- Starlog
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