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   grammar are carefully edited', as for example on the tasteful cover of   
   their Kindle ebook _Around the World in 80 Days_ by H.G. Wells -- although,   
   to be fair, they do show the right author on the title page. [MA]   
      
   R.I.P. _Alma Rosa Aguirre_ (1929-2025), Mexican actress in _El fantasma de   
   la casa roja_ (1956) and _Los diablos del terror_ (1959), died on 27   
   January aged 95. [SJ]   
        _Britt Allcroft_ (1943-2024), UK tv producer and writer who created   
   the tv series _Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends_ -- later just _Thomas &   
   Friends_ -- and wrote 579 episodes 1984-2020 (there were also many   
   spinoffs), died on 27 December aged 81.   
        _Laurel Amberdine_, US author, interviewer and member of the editorial   
   teams at _Lightspeed_ and _Locus_, died on 21 January. [L]   
        _Mariano Antolin Rato_ (1943-2025), Spanish translator (of William S.   
   Burroughs and others) and author of six sf novels beginning with _Cuando   
   900 mil mach aprox_ (_When 900 Thousand Mach Approx_, 1973) -- which   
   introduced New Wave-mode sf to Spain -- died on 10 January aged 81. [MV]   
        _Jeff Baena_ (1977-2025), who wrote and directed the zombie romantic   
   comedy _Life After Beth_ (2014), committed suicide on 3 January aged 47.   
   [SJ]   
        _Christopher Benjamin_ (1934-2025), UK actor in _The Plague Dogs_   
   (1982), the _Jago & Litefoot_ podcast series (55 episodes spun off from the   
   title characters' appearance in _Doctor Who_: 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang',   
   1977) and _The Legend of Tarzan_ (2016), died on 10 January aged 90.   
        _John Brunas_, US film historian who wrote extensively about horror   
   and with his brother Michael plus Tom Weaver published _Universal Horrors:   
   The Studio's Classic Films, 1931--1946_ (1990), died on 19 January aged 76.   
   [SJ]   
        _John Capodice_ (1941-2024), Italian-US actor in _Q: The Winged   
   Serpent_ (1982), _Gremlins 2_ (1990), _Independence Day_ (1996), _The   
   Phantom_ (1996) and others, died on 30 December aged 83. [SJ]   
        _Leslie Charleson_ (1945-2025), US _General Hospital_ actress whose   
   films include _The Day of the Dolphin_ (1973), died on 12 January aged 79.   
   [SJ]   
        _Barbara Clegg_ (1926-2025), UK _Emergency Ward 10_ actress who moved   
   on to scriptwriting, adapting Wyndham's _The Chrysalids_ for Radio 4 (1981)   
   and becoming the first woman to write for _Doctor Who_ with her serial   
   'Enlightenment' (1983), died on 7 January aged 98. [SJ]   
        _Phyllis Dalton_ (1925-2025), Oscar-winning UK costume designer whose   
   films include _Scrooge_ (1951), _The Water Babies_ (1978), _Unidentified   
   Flying Oddball_ (1979) and _The Princess Bride_ (1987), died on 9 January   
   aged 99. [SJ]   
        _Paul Danan_ (1978-2025), UK actor in _The Queen's Nose_ (3 episodes   
   2002), _Are We Dead Yet?_ (2019) and _Doll House_ (2022), was found dead on   
   15 January aged 46. [SJ]   
        _Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya_ (1964-2025), Russian actress who starred in   
   the children's sf film _Shchen iz sozvezdiya Gonchikh Psov_ (_Pup from   
   Canes Venatici_, 1991), died on 10 January aged 60. [AM]   
        _Jules Feiffer_ (1929-2025), Pulitzer-winning US cartoonist and author   
   whose genre work included illustrations for _The Phantom Tollbooth_ (1961),   
   the pioneering comics study _The Great Comic Book Heroes_ (1965) and the   
   screenplay for _Popeye_ (1980), died on 17 January aged 95. He entered the   
   Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2004.   
        _Horst Janson_ (1935-2025), German actor in Hammer's _Captain Kronos:   
   Vampire Hunter_ (1974), died on 28 January aged 89. [SJ]   
        _Howard Andrew Jones_, US author of historical and other fantasies   
   beginning in 2011 with the 'Chronicle of Sword and Sand' sequence, and   
   editor since 2017 of the magazine _Tales from the Magician's Skull_, died   
   on 16 January. [F770]   
        _Charles Kay_ (1930-2025), UK actor in various genre series including   
   _Doctor Who_ ('Excelis Rising', 2002, as The Curator), died on 8 January   
   aged 94. [SG]   
        _Georgy Kuznetsov_ (1946-2025), Russian sf bibliographer, collector   
   and fan who was a founder of the Novosibirsk sf fan club Amalthea (1977)   
   and published _Soviet science fiction of Siberia and Far East_ (2018), died   
   on 18 January. [AM]   
        _Diane Langton_ (1947-2025), UK actress in _Percy's Progress_ (1974),   
   died on 15 January aged 77. [SJ]   
        _Lily Li Li-Li_ (1950-2024), prolific Hong Kong actress whose many   
   genre credits include _The Bride with White Hair_ (title role, 1978), _The   
   Gods and Demons of Zu Mountain_ (1990) and _Dark Tales_ (1996), died on 27   
   October 2024. [K]   
        _David Lynch_ (1946-2025), noted US film and tv writer/director whose   
   genre credits include _Eraserhead_ (1977), _Dune_ (1984), _Twin Peaks_   
   (1990-1991) -- with many spinoffs including the feature film _Twin Peaks:   
   Fire Walk With Me_ (1992) -- and _Inland Empire_ (2006), died on 15 January   
   aged 78. [LP] He had accepted, and will receive posthumously, the Writers   
   Guild of America West 2025 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.   
        _Pritish Nandy_ (1951-2025) Indian poet, journalist, parliamentarian   
   and producer of the Hindi-language supernatural horror film _Click_ (2010),   
   died on 8 January. [AM]   
        _Dame Joan Plowright_ (1929-2025), UK stage and screen actress whose   
   genre films include _Last Action Hero_ (1993), _101 Dalmatians_ (1996),   
   _Tom's Midnight Garden_ (1999), _George and the Dragon_ (2004) and _The   
   Spiderwick Chronicles_ (2008), died on 16 January aged 95.   
        _Roger Pratt_ (1947-2024), UK cinematographer whose many credits   
   include _The Crimson Permanent Assurance_ (1983), _Brazil_ (1985), _Batman_   
   (1989), _12 Monkeys_ (1995), _102 Dalmatians_ (2000) and two Harry Potter   
   films, died in December aged 77. [AIP]   
        _Andrew Pyper_ (1968-2025), Canadian author whose thrillers --   
   beginning with the bestselling _Lost Girls_ (2000) -- have varying elements   
   of supernatural horror, died on 3 January aged 56. [PDF] His novel   
   _William_ (2024, as by Mason Coile) is sf. [JC]   
        _Gloria Romero_ (1933-2025), Filipino-US actress in _Living Dead_   
   (1972), _Fight! Batman, Fight!_ (1973), _Rubberman_ (1996) and many others,   
   died on 25 January aged 91. [SJ]   
        _Johnny Russell_ (1933-2024), US former child actor with Shirley   
   Temple in _The Blue Bird_ (1940), died on 14 December aged 91. [SJ]   
        _Al Sarrantonio_ (1952-2025), US author and anthologist whose first   
   novel _The Worms_ (1985) was horror and who moved into sf with the 'Five   
   Worlds Saga' trilogy (1996-1998), died on 28 January aged 72. [GVG]   
        _Jan Shepard_ (1928-2025), US actress in _Attack of the Giant Leeches_   
   (1959) and genre tv series including _Science Fiction Theatre_ (3 episodes   
   1955-1957), died on 17 January aged 96. [LP]   
        _Tony Slattery_ (1959-2025), UK actor/comedian in _Carry on Columbus_   
   (1992) and _The Rocky Horror Tribute Show_ (as narrator, 2006), died on 14   
   January aged 65. [SB]   
        _Norman Chui Sui-Keung_ (1950-2024), Hong Kong actor in _Zu: Warriors   
   from the Magic Mountain_ (1983), _Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils_ (1984) and   
   _Legend of the Liquid Sword_ (1993), died on 1 September 2024. [K]   
        _Jeannot Szwarc_ (1939-2025), French-born US director of _The Devil's   
   Daughter_ (1973), _Bug_ (1975), _Jaws 2_ (1978), _Somewhere in Time_   
   (1980), _Supergirl_ (1984), _Smallville_ (14 episodes 2003-2011) and more,   
   died on 15 January aged 85. [SJ]   
        _Bob Uecker_ (1934-2025), former US baseball player and broadcaster   
   who voiced versions of himself in _Homeward Bound II: Lost in San   
   Francisco_ (1996) and animated genre series, died on 16 January aged 90.   
      
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