RIP: Reel Important People -- July 31, 2007

Published: July 31, 2007, 1:01 pm

Filed under: Obits & Memorials Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) - Italian filmmaker who wrote and directed L'Avventura, Blow-Up, The Passenger, Zabriskie Point and La Notte. Read my full post here. Warren Batchelder (1918-2007) - Animator who worked on the main title sequence of The Pink Panther and on the feature-length Looney Tunes pics The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales and Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island. He died February 12 in Malibu. (BCDB) Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) - Swedish filmmaker who wrote and directed The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Cries and Whispers and Fanny and Alexander. Read Monika's full post here. Laura Devon (1937-2007) - Actress who starred in Howard Hawks' Red Line 7000, Vincente Minnelli's Goodbye Charlie and Blake Edwards' Gunn. She was the wife of Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia; Doctor Zhivago; A Passage to India) mother of screenwriter

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