"Lost in Space" star and early television mainstay Mark Goddard has passed away, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. The actor who was best known for his role as pilot Major Don West in the seminal sci-fi series was 87 years old and is survived by his wife Evelyn Pezzulich, and his children, including producer Melissa Goddard.
Pezzulich announced Goddard's passing in a Facebook post (via Deadline), writing that the actor ultimately succumbed to lung disease that was not diagnosed until shortly before his death. "I'm so sorry to tell you that my wonderful husband passed away on October 10," Pezzulich shared. She continued: "Several days after celebrating his 87th birthday, he was hospitalized with pneumonia. We were hopeful when he was transferred to a rehabilitation center, but then doctors discovered he was in the final stages of pulmonary fibrosis for which there is no cure."
"Lost in Space" castmate Bill Mumy also memorialized Goddard on Facebook,...
Pezzulich announced Goddard's passing in a Facebook post (via Deadline), writing that the actor ultimately succumbed to lung disease that was not diagnosed until shortly before his death. "I'm so sorry to tell you that my wonderful husband passed away on October 10," Pezzulich shared. She continued: "Several days after celebrating his 87th birthday, he was hospitalized with pneumonia. We were hopeful when he was transferred to a rehabilitation center, but then doctors discovered he was in the final stages of pulmonary fibrosis for which there is no cure."
"Lost in Space" castmate Bill Mumy also memorialized Goddard on Facebook,...
- 10/13/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Mark Goddard, one of the stars of the classic 1960s CBS series “Lost in Space,” has died at the age of 87.
On Friday, the actor’s wife, Evelyn Pezzluich, said Goddard died on Tuesday after he was hospitalized with pneumonia. The post from Pezzluich was shared in a Facebook status by an account named “Lost In Space Remastered Blu-ray Disc Edition.”
“I’m so sorry to tell you that my wonderful husband passed away on October 10th. Several days after celebrating his 87th birthday, he was hospitalized with pneumonia,” Pezzluich’s message said. “We were hopeful when he was transferred to a rehabilitation center, but then doctors discovered he was in the final stages of pulmonary fibrosis for which there is no cure.
“He received excellent care at the beautiful Pat Roche Hospice Home and was able to die peacefully and with dignity,” Pezzluich continued. “His children and I had...
On Friday, the actor’s wife, Evelyn Pezzluich, said Goddard died on Tuesday after he was hospitalized with pneumonia. The post from Pezzluich was shared in a Facebook status by an account named “Lost In Space Remastered Blu-ray Disc Edition.”
“I’m so sorry to tell you that my wonderful husband passed away on October 10th. Several days after celebrating his 87th birthday, he was hospitalized with pneumonia,” Pezzluich’s message said. “We were hopeful when he was transferred to a rehabilitation center, but then doctors discovered he was in the final stages of pulmonary fibrosis for which there is no cure.
“He received excellent care at the beautiful Pat Roche Hospice Home and was able to die peacefully and with dignity,” Pezzluich continued. “His children and I had...
- 10/13/2023
- by Raquel 'Rocky' Harris
- The Wrap
Mark Goddard, known for playing Major Don West on the CBS series “Lost in Space,” died in Hingham, Mass. on Oct. 10 of pulmonary fibrosis. He was 87.
In statement posted to Facebook, Goddard’s wife, Evelyn Pezzulich, confirmed that the actor was hospitalized with pneumonia and then transferred to a rehabilitation center, where the doctors discovered he was in the final stages of pulmonary fibrosis.
Goddard’s “Lost in Space” costar Bill Mumy also confirmed his death in a Facebook statement: “R.I.P. to Mark Goddard. A truly beloved friend and brother to me for 59 years. I knew this was coming for the past few months. Shortly after a great phone chat he and I had on his 87th birthday in late July, I became aware that I would most likely never see or speak with him again. The last words we exchanged were ‘I love you.'”
“Lost in Space,...
In statement posted to Facebook, Goddard’s wife, Evelyn Pezzulich, confirmed that the actor was hospitalized with pneumonia and then transferred to a rehabilitation center, where the doctors discovered he was in the final stages of pulmonary fibrosis.
Goddard’s “Lost in Space” costar Bill Mumy also confirmed his death in a Facebook statement: “R.I.P. to Mark Goddard. A truly beloved friend and brother to me for 59 years. I knew this was coming for the past few months. Shortly after a great phone chat he and I had on his 87th birthday in late July, I became aware that I would most likely never see or speak with him again. The last words we exchanged were ‘I love you.'”
“Lost in Space,...
- 10/13/2023
- by Caroline Brew
- Variety Film + TV
Jack Beresford Jan 6, 2020
Back in the early '90s, saucy thrillers were the cinematic genre du jour. We take a look at some of the key milestones…
Moviegoers have VHS to thank for the glut of erotic thrillers that arrived in theaters and video stores over the first half of the 1990s. While the "video nasty" was the "enfant terrible" of the format in the 1980s, the next decade ushered in the era of the ‘video naughty’ with movies that blended film noir tropes and titillation.
Much of that was down to the rise of video rental giants like Blockbuster. Keen to maintain a family friendly image, the chain was one of many big names to steadfastly refuse to stock adult movies. Yet there remained a need to cater to couples and other adults eager to rent films that were strictly not for kids. Into the void stepped the erotic thriller,...
Back in the early '90s, saucy thrillers were the cinematic genre du jour. We take a look at some of the key milestones…
Moviegoers have VHS to thank for the glut of erotic thrillers that arrived in theaters and video stores over the first half of the 1990s. While the "video nasty" was the "enfant terrible" of the format in the 1980s, the next decade ushered in the era of the ‘video naughty’ with movies that blended film noir tropes and titillation.
Much of that was down to the rise of video rental giants like Blockbuster. Keen to maintain a family friendly image, the chain was one of many big names to steadfastly refuse to stock adult movies. Yet there remained a need to cater to couples and other adults eager to rent films that were strictly not for kids. Into the void stepped the erotic thriller,...
- 12/27/2019
- Den of Geek
Naomi Watts is in talks to act in “My Name is Jody Williams”. It is a Universal drama that Audrey Wells is attached to direct. Dan Jinks and Bruce are producing.
The screenplay by Wells tells the true story of Jody Williams, a strong willed teacher working for a temporary employment agency who left her life in Washington to pursue an unlikely career in global activism. Almost a decade and a half later, Williams was honored with the Nobel Prize for leading an international campaign to eradicate land mines.
Jody Williams is known to be brash and controversial; she famously called President Bill Clinton a weenie for not signing the land mine ban. Melissa Goddard is executive producing the film.
Naomi Watts was last seen in Funny Games and...
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The screenplay by Wells tells the true story of Jody Williams, a strong willed teacher working for a temporary employment agency who left her life in Washington to pursue an unlikely career in global activism. Almost a decade and a half later, Williams was honored with the Nobel Prize for leading an international campaign to eradicate land mines.
Jody Williams is known to be brash and controversial; she famously called President Bill Clinton a weenie for not signing the land mine ban. Melissa Goddard is executive producing the film.
Naomi Watts was last seen in Funny Games and...
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- 10/22/2008
- by John
- ReelSuave.com
Naomi Watts is in negotiations to topline "My Name Is Jody Williams," a Universal drama that Audrey Wells is attached to direct.
Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen are producing.
The screenplay by Wells tells the true story of Jody Williams, a strong-willed teacher working for a temporary employment agency who left her life in Washington to pursue an unlikely career in global activism. Almost a decade and a half later, Williams was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for leading an international campaign to eradicate land mines.
Brash and somewhat controversial, Williams famously called President Bill Clinton a "weenie" for not signing the land mine ban.
Melissa Goddard is executive producing.
Universal's Donna Langley, Peter Cramer and Maradith Frenkel are overseeing the project.
Watts, repped by CAA and Untitled, last starred in the English-language remake of "Funny Games" and "Eastern Promises." "The International," in which she stars opposite Clive Owen,...
Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen are producing.
The screenplay by Wells tells the true story of Jody Williams, a strong-willed teacher working for a temporary employment agency who left her life in Washington to pursue an unlikely career in global activism. Almost a decade and a half later, Williams was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for leading an international campaign to eradicate land mines.
Brash and somewhat controversial, Williams famously called President Bill Clinton a "weenie" for not signing the land mine ban.
Melissa Goddard is executive producing.
Universal's Donna Langley, Peter Cramer and Maradith Frenkel are overseeing the project.
Watts, repped by CAA and Untitled, last starred in the English-language remake of "Funny Games" and "Eastern Promises." "The International," in which she stars opposite Clive Owen,...
- 10/22/2008
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What surprises one is that she has abandoned her astute sense of character that enlivened "Hester Street, ''" Between the Lines, '' "Crossing Delancey'' and especially "Chilly Scenes of Winter.''
In this John Hughes-styled comedy, the older a character, the less engaged are their brain cells.
These adult caricatures exist not only in the script, but in the actors' performances. Never before has Silver allowed actors to approach roles so two-dimensionally.
With its adolescent point of view and a title not likely to entice Silver's usual sophisticated viewership, "Big Girls'' will need careful positioning by New Line to attract its audience.
The view here is that its current advertising tag line -- "Watch out. She's seen 'Thelma & Louise' '' -- is headed in the wrong direction.
The film's focal point is Laura (well played by Hillary Wolf), a spunky, witty 13-year-old. As the story's narrator, she lays out her problem up-front: She's a member of a fractured family because her biological parents possess the emotional stability of soap-opera characters.
As a consequence, she has a wealthy stepfather, an ex-stepmother, three step siblings, two half-siblings and a potential new stepmother pregnant with twins.
Weary of being ignored amid this clutter of offspring, Wolf flees to a lakeside resort run by Josh (Dan Futterman), the one stepbrother she likes.
The entire family takes off after the runaway and, in the process, learns that even a fractured family can pull together and function as a unit.
Unfortunately, Frank Mugavero's script plays like a TV sitcom pilot where each family member is handed a bundle of comic ticks. Certainly nothing new has been added to this overly familiar territory.
The only characters explored in any depth, Laura and Josh, evoke less sympathy than the filmmakers undoubtedly intend.
For all her wisecracks, the poor little rich girl is essentially a brat who wants further spoiling. And Josh has a morbid obsession with his mother's death. Why should he expect his father to grieve forever?
Laura's two interludes while on the road -- with a gung-ho, All-American family and a trio of teen bandits -- are so confusingly played by Silver that whatever point the film tries to make gets lost.
Production values are fair with color inconsistencies in the print press screened.
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY...THEY GET EVEN
New Line Cinema
Producers Laurie Perlman, Gerald T. Olson
Director Joan Micklin Silver
Writer Frank Mugavero
Story by Melissa Goddard, Mark Goddard, Frank Mugavero
Executive producers Peter Morgan, Melissa Goddard
Director of photography Theo Van de Sande
Production designer Victoria Paul
Music Patrick Williams
Editor Janice Hampton
Costume designer Jane Ruhm
Color
Cast:
Laura Hillary Wolf
Keith David Strathairn
Melinda Margaret Whitton
David Griffin Dunne
Josh Dan Futterman
Barbara Patricia Kalember
Stephanie Adrienne Shelly
Corrine Jenny Lewis
Sam Ben Savage
Kurt Trenton Teigen
Running time -- 96 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
In this John Hughes-styled comedy, the older a character, the less engaged are their brain cells.
These adult caricatures exist not only in the script, but in the actors' performances. Never before has Silver allowed actors to approach roles so two-dimensionally.
With its adolescent point of view and a title not likely to entice Silver's usual sophisticated viewership, "Big Girls'' will need careful positioning by New Line to attract its audience.
The view here is that its current advertising tag line -- "Watch out. She's seen 'Thelma & Louise' '' -- is headed in the wrong direction.
The film's focal point is Laura (well played by Hillary Wolf), a spunky, witty 13-year-old. As the story's narrator, she lays out her problem up-front: She's a member of a fractured family because her biological parents possess the emotional stability of soap-opera characters.
As a consequence, she has a wealthy stepfather, an ex-stepmother, three step siblings, two half-siblings and a potential new stepmother pregnant with twins.
Weary of being ignored amid this clutter of offspring, Wolf flees to a lakeside resort run by Josh (Dan Futterman), the one stepbrother she likes.
The entire family takes off after the runaway and, in the process, learns that even a fractured family can pull together and function as a unit.
Unfortunately, Frank Mugavero's script plays like a TV sitcom pilot where each family member is handed a bundle of comic ticks. Certainly nothing new has been added to this overly familiar territory.
The only characters explored in any depth, Laura and Josh, evoke less sympathy than the filmmakers undoubtedly intend.
For all her wisecracks, the poor little rich girl is essentially a brat who wants further spoiling. And Josh has a morbid obsession with his mother's death. Why should he expect his father to grieve forever?
Laura's two interludes while on the road -- with a gung-ho, All-American family and a trio of teen bandits -- are so confusingly played by Silver that whatever point the film tries to make gets lost.
Production values are fair with color inconsistencies in the print press screened.
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY...THEY GET EVEN
New Line Cinema
Producers Laurie Perlman, Gerald T. Olson
Director Joan Micklin Silver
Writer Frank Mugavero
Story by Melissa Goddard, Mark Goddard, Frank Mugavero
Executive producers Peter Morgan, Melissa Goddard
Director of photography Theo Van de Sande
Production designer Victoria Paul
Music Patrick Williams
Editor Janice Hampton
Costume designer Jane Ruhm
Color
Cast:
Laura Hillary Wolf
Keith David Strathairn
Melinda Margaret Whitton
David Griffin Dunne
Josh Dan Futterman
Barbara Patricia Kalember
Stephanie Adrienne Shelly
Corrine Jenny Lewis
Sam Ben Savage
Kurt Trenton Teigen
Running time -- 96 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
What surprises one is that she has abandoned her astute sense of character that enlivened "Hester Street, ''" Between the Lines, '' "Crossing Delancey'' and especially "Chilly Scenes of Winter.''
In this John Hughes-styled comedy, the older a character, the less engaged are their brain cells.
These adult caricatures exist not only in the script, but in the actors' performances. Never before has Silver allowed actors to approach roles so two-dimensionally.
With its adolescent point of view and a title not likely to entice Silver's usual sophisticated viewership, "Big Girls'' will need careful positioning by New Line to attract its audience.
The view here is that its current advertising tag line -- "Watch out. She's seen 'Thelma & Louise' '' -- is headed in the wrong direction.
The film's focal point is Laura (well played by Hillary Wolf), a spunky, witty 13-year-old. As the story's narrator, she lays out her problem up-front: She's a member of a fractured family because her biological parents possess the emotional stability of soap-opera characters.
As a consequence, she has a wealthy stepfather, an ex-stepmother, three step siblings, two half-siblings and a potential new stepmother pregnant with twins.
Weary of being ignored amid this clutter of offspring, Wolf flees to a lakeside resort run by Josh (Dan Futterman), the one stepbrother she likes.
The entire family takes off after the runaway and, in the process, learns that even a fractured family can pull together and function as a unit.
Unfortunately, Frank Mugavero's script plays like a TV sitcom pilot where each family member is handed a bundle of comic ticks. Certainly nothing new has been added to this overly familiar territory.
The only characters explored in any depth, Laura and Josh, evoke less sympathy than the filmmakers undoubtedly intend.
For all her wisecracks, the poor little rich girl is essentially a brat who wants further spoiling. And Josh has a morbid obsession with his mother's death. Why should he expect his father to grieve forever?
Laura's two interludes while on the road -- with a gung-ho, All-American family and a trio of teen bandits -- are so confusingly played by Silver that whatever point the film tries to make gets lost.
Production values are fair with color inconsistencies in the print press screened.
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY...THEY GET EVEN
New Line Cinema
Producers Laurie Perlman, Gerald T. Olson
Director Joan Micklin Silver
Writer Frank Mugavero
Story by Melissa Goddard, Mark Goddard, Frank Mugavero
Executive producers Peter Morgan, Melissa Goddard
Director of photography Theo Van de Sande
Production designer Victoria Paul
Music Patrick Williams
Editor Janice Hampton
Costume designer Jane Ruhm
Color
Cast:
Laura Hillary Wolf
Keith David Strathairn
Melinda Margaret Whitton
David Griffin Dunne
Josh Dan Futterman
Barbara Patricia Kalember
Stephanie Adrienne Shelly
Corrine Jenny Lewis
Sam Ben Savage
Kurt Trenton Teigen
Running time -- 96 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
In this John Hughes-styled comedy, the older a character, the less engaged are their brain cells.
These adult caricatures exist not only in the script, but in the actors' performances. Never before has Silver allowed actors to approach roles so two-dimensionally.
With its adolescent point of view and a title not likely to entice Silver's usual sophisticated viewership, "Big Girls'' will need careful positioning by New Line to attract its audience.
The view here is that its current advertising tag line -- "Watch out. She's seen 'Thelma & Louise' '' -- is headed in the wrong direction.
The film's focal point is Laura (well played by Hillary Wolf), a spunky, witty 13-year-old. As the story's narrator, she lays out her problem up-front: She's a member of a fractured family because her biological parents possess the emotional stability of soap-opera characters.
As a consequence, she has a wealthy stepfather, an ex-stepmother, three step siblings, two half-siblings and a potential new stepmother pregnant with twins.
Weary of being ignored amid this clutter of offspring, Wolf flees to a lakeside resort run by Josh (Dan Futterman), the one stepbrother she likes.
The entire family takes off after the runaway and, in the process, learns that even a fractured family can pull together and function as a unit.
Unfortunately, Frank Mugavero's script plays like a TV sitcom pilot where each family member is handed a bundle of comic ticks. Certainly nothing new has been added to this overly familiar territory.
The only characters explored in any depth, Laura and Josh, evoke less sympathy than the filmmakers undoubtedly intend.
For all her wisecracks, the poor little rich girl is essentially a brat who wants further spoiling. And Josh has a morbid obsession with his mother's death. Why should he expect his father to grieve forever?
Laura's two interludes while on the road -- with a gung-ho, All-American family and a trio of teen bandits -- are so confusingly played by Silver that whatever point the film tries to make gets lost.
Production values are fair with color inconsistencies in the print press screened.
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY...THEY GET EVEN
New Line Cinema
Producers Laurie Perlman, Gerald T. Olson
Director Joan Micklin Silver
Writer Frank Mugavero
Story by Melissa Goddard, Mark Goddard, Frank Mugavero
Executive producers Peter Morgan, Melissa Goddard
Director of photography Theo Van de Sande
Production designer Victoria Paul
Music Patrick Williams
Editor Janice Hampton
Costume designer Jane Ruhm
Color
Cast:
Laura Hillary Wolf
Keith David Strathairn
Melinda Margaret Whitton
David Griffin Dunne
Josh Dan Futterman
Barbara Patricia Kalember
Stephanie Adrienne Shelly
Corrine Jenny Lewis
Sam Ben Savage
Kurt Trenton Teigen
Running time -- 96 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
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