The Amazing Mr. Bickford
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| + | '''''The Amazing Mr. Bickford''''' is a video released by [[Frank Zappa]] in 1987, containing orchestral pieces by Zappa set to the [[clay animation]] of [[Bruce Bickford (animator)|Bruce Bickford]]. It was released [[direct-to-video]]. To date it has not yet been released on DVD. | ||
| - | *[[Anémone]], 68, French actress (''[[Santa Claus Is a Stinker]]'', ''[[The Grand Highway]]''), [[César Award for Best Actress|César]] winner ([[13th César Awards|1988]]). | + | ==Music== |
| - | *[[Bruce Bickford (animator)|Bruce Bickford]], 72, American animator (''[[Baby Snakes]]'', ''[[The Dub Room Special]]'', ''[[The Amazing Mr. Bickford]]''). | + | * Naval Aviation In Art |
| - | *[[Jean-Pierre Marielle]], 87, French actor (''[[Cookies (film)|Cookies]]'', ''[[Without Apparent Motive]]'', ''[[Coup de Torchon]]''). | + | * Mo 'n Herb's Vacation |
| - | *[[Dave Samuels]], 70, American percussionist ([[Spyro Gyra]]). | + | * Dupree's Paradise |
| - | *[[Ryszard Kaja]], 57, Polish graphic artist. | + | * The Perfect Stranger |
| - | *[[Les Reed (songwriter)|Les Reed]], 83, English songwriter ("[[It's Not Unusual]]", "[[Delilah (Tom Jones song)|Delilah]]", "[[The Last Waltz (song)|The Last Waltz]]"). | + | |
| - | *[[Gene Wolfe]], 87, American science fiction and fantasy writer (''[[The Shadow of the Torturer]]'', heart disease. | + | |
| - | *[[John McEnery]], 75, British actor (''[[Bartleby (1970 film)|Bartleby]]''). | + | |
| - | *[[Bibi Andersson]], 83, Swedish actress (''[[Persona (1966 film)|Persona]]'', ''[[The Seventh Seal]]'', ''[[Wild Strawberries (film)|Wild Strawberries]]''), complications from a stroke. | + | |
| - | *[[Seymour Cassel]], 84, American actor (''[[Faces (film)|Faces]]'', ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'', ''[[Dick Tracy (1990 film)|Dick Tracy]]''), complications from Alzheimer's disease. | + | |
| - | *[[Agnès Varda]], 90, French film director (''[[La Pointe Courte]]'', ''[[Cléo from 5 to 7]]'', [[Black Panthers (film)|''Black Panthers'']]), cancer. | + | |
| - | *[[Scott Walker (singer)|Scott Walker]], 76, American-born British singer-songwriter ([[The Walker Brothers]]), composer and record producer. | + | |
| - | *[[Larry Cohen]], 77, American film director (''[[It's Alive (1974 film)|It's Alive]]'', ''[[The Stuff]]'') and screenwriter (''[[Phone Booth (film)|Phone Booth]]''). | + | |
| - | *[[Andre Williams]], 82, American R&B singer and songwriter ("[[Shake a Tail Feather]]"), colon cancer. | + | |
| - | *[[Dick Dale]], 81, American guitarist and [[surf music]] pioneer ("[[Misirlou#Later versions|Misirlou]]"), heart failure. | + | |
| - | *[[Okwui Enwezor]], 55, Nigerian art critic and writer, cancer. | + | |
| - | *[[Raymond Donnez]], 76, French music producer and conductor ("[[Standing in the Rain]]"). | + | |
| - | *[[Hal Blaine]], 90, American [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] drummer (''[[Psychedelic Percussion]]''). | + | |
| - | *[[Carolee Schneemann]], 79, American artist. | + | |
| - | *[[Keith Flint]], 49, English singer ([[The Prodigy]]), suicide. | + | |
| - | *[[André Previn]], 89, German-born American composer (''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]'', "[[Executive Party]]"). | + | |
| - | *[[Gillian Freeman]], 89, British author (''[[The Undergrowth of Literature]]''). | + | |
| - | *[[Mark Hollis (musician)|Mark Hollis]], 64, English singer-songwriter ([[Talk Talk]]). | + | |
| - | *[[Stanley Donen]], 94, American film director (''[[Singin' in the Rain]]'', ''[[Bedazzled (1967 film)|Bedazzled]]''), heart failure. | + | |
| - | *[[Alessandro Mendini]], 87, Italian architect and designer (''[[Proust Armchair]]''). | + | |
| - | *[[Lonnie Simmons]], American record producer ("[[Don't Stop the Music (Yarbrough and Peoples song)|Don't Stop the Music]]"). | + | |
| - | *[[Karl Lagerfeld]], 85, German fashion designer ([[Chanel]]). | + | |
| - | *[[Ken Nordine]], 98, American voice-over and recording artist (''[[Word Jazz]]'', ''[[Son of Word Jazz]]'', ''[[Love Words]]''). | + | |
| - | *[[Bruno Ganz]], 77, Swiss actor (''[[Nosferatu the Vampyre]]''), colorectal cancer. | + | |
| - | *[[Tomi Ungerer]], 87, French illustrator (''[[Fornicon]]''). | + | |
| - | *[[Albert Finney]], 82, English actor (''[[Tom Jones (1963 film)|Tom Jones]]'', ''[[Erin Brockovich (film)|Erin Brockovich]]'', ''[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]''), chest infection. | + | |
| - | *[[Marcel Azzola]], 91, French accordionist ([[Jacques Brel]]). | + | |
| - | *[[Dick Miller]], 90, American actor (''[[Gremlins]]'', ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'', ''[[Death Race 2000]]''). | + | |
| - | *[[James Ingram]], 66, American R&B singer-songwriter ("[[Yah Mo B There]]"), brain cancer. | + | |
| - | *[[Michel Legrand]], 86, French composer ("[[The Windmills of Your Mind]]"), conductor and jazz pianist. | + | |
| - | *[[Florence Knoll]], 101, American architect and furniture designer. | + | |
| - | *[[Dušan Makavejev]], 86, Serbian film director (''[[Man Is Not a Bird]]'', ''[[W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism]]'', ''[[Sweet Movie]]''). | + | |
| - | *[[Jonas Mekas]], 96, Lithuanian-born American film director and poet. | + | |
| - | *[[Edwin Birdsong]] ("[[Rapper Dapper Snapper]]"), 77, American funk keyboardist. | + | |
| - | *[[Nathan Glazer]], 95, American sociologist. | + | |
| - | *[[Reggie Young]], 82, American musician ([[American Sound Studio|The Memphis Boys]]). | + | |
| - | *[[Francine du Plessix Gray]], 88, Polish-born American author and critic (''[[At Home With the Marquis de Sade: A Life]]''). | + | |
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| - | * [[Deaths in 2018]] | + | *[[Adult animation]] |
| - | * [[Deaths in 2017]] | + | *[[List of stop motion films]] |
| - | * [[Deaths in 2016]] | + | *[[List of animated feature-length films]] |
| - | * [[Deaths in 2015]] | + | |
| - | * [[Deaths in 2014]] | + | |
| - | * [[Deaths in 2013]] | + | |
| - | * [[Deaths in 2012]] | + | |
| - | * [[Deaths in 2011]] | + | |
| - | * [[Deaths in 2010]] | + | |
| - | * [[Deaths in 2009]] | + | |
| - | * [[Deaths in 2008]] | + | |
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The Amazing Mr. Bickford is a video released by Frank Zappa in 1987, containing orchestral pieces by Zappa set to the clay animation of Bruce Bickford. It was released direct-to-video. To date it has not yet been released on DVD.
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Music
- Naval Aviation In Art
- Mo 'n Herb's Vacation
- Dupree's Paradise
- The Perfect Stranger
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See also
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