Obit watch: August 26, 2022.

Joe E. Tata, actor.

Credits other than “Beverly Hills, 90210” include “Monster Squad”, the 1966 “Batman” series, “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”, “The Outer Limits”, “Mission: Impossible”, and “Lost in Space”.

He also did a fair number of cop/PI/procedural shows, including “O’Hara, U.S. Treasury”, “The F.B.I.”, “Cannon”, “Quincy M.E.”, eight episodes of “The Rockford Files”…

…and “Mannix”. (“A World Without Sundays”, season 7, episode 8. “A Problem of Innocence”, season 6, episode 23. “What Happened to Sunday?”, season 4, episode 15.)

E. Bryant Crutchfield, inventor of the Trapper Keeper.

By way of Mike the Musicologist: a nice tribute to Richard Taruskin from Alex Ross. (Link goes to archive.is because I’m not sure how long that will stay available for non-subscribers.)

By way of The Mysterious Bookshop: Michael Malone, novelist and TV writer. He won a Daytime Emmy for “One Life to Live”, and an Edgar Award in 1997 (Best Short Story for “Red Clay”, in the anthology Murder for Love).

2 Responses to “Obit watch: August 26, 2022.”

  1. RoadRich says:

    I may have had a Trapper Keeper. I did fall more into the Data Center camp… And I know I am still in possession of an iteration of The Organizer. From college! Loved them … they were/are awesome.

  2. pigpen51 says:

    I am too old to have had a Trapper Keeper. I had a loose leaf notebook. And while I took notes in some classes, they were so hard to read, I could not use them. But I remembered what I wrote down, and thus, never had to study. I still pulled down a 3.0 gpa in high school.
    Not exactly world burning, but I somehow knew that college was not for me. I was certainly intelligent enough, but I was ready to start living my life, and earning a living. I did eventually take some college classes, mostly as personal enrichment. I think I have somewhere around a year or so of credits.