Re: RIP
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:01 pm
Joan Plowright (95)
Jeannot Szwarc (85) - the French director known for Jaws 2, Supergirl and The Rockford FilesIn 1992, she appeared in Mike Newell’s Enchanted April as Mrs. Fisher, securing an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe for her performance. Other major performances included The Scarlet Letter, 101 Dalmatians and Tea with Mussolini. On TV she appeared in HBO’s Stalin, for which she also won a Golden Globe in the same year as Enchanted April, and the likes of Encore! Encore!.
Plowright was married to [Laurence] Olivier from 1961 to his death in 1989, working closely with the UK icon at the National Theatre, which he set up.
(...) he began directing episodes of TV shows like Ironside, It Takes a Thief, The Virginian, Columbo, The New Perry Mason, The Six Million Dollar Man, Kojak and The Rockford Files through the 1960s and ’70s.(...)
Szwarc continued working in television through the decades on JAG, CSI: Miami, Ally McBeal, Smallville, Heroes, Bones, Supernatural, Designated Survivor, Grey’s Anatomy, Fringe, Scandal and Castle.