All All. Sign In. People we sadly lost in List activity. Larry King. Producer Actor Director Ghostbusters He was a producer and actor, known for Ghostbusters , Enemy of the State and Bee Movie Tanya Roberts. Actress Producer A View to a Kill The second daughter of manufacturing executive Oscar Blum and his wife Dorothy, Tanya Roberts was born in Manhattan and grew up in the elite Westchester County suburbs Scarsdale and Greenburgh. Tanya reportedly dropped out of high school, got married and hitchhiked around the country until her mother-in-law had the marriage annulled.
She met psychology student Barry Roberts while waiting in line to see a movie. A few months later, she proposed to him in a subway station, and they were married.
She studied acting under Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen. In her early years in New York, she supported herself as an Arthur Murray dance instructor and by modeling. In , Tanya and her husband -- by then a scriptwriter -- moved to Hollywood. Her film debut was in The Last Victim The attention she garnered helped secure her most significant film roles: The Beastmaster and posed for the cover and an inside spread in Playboy magazine to promote the film , the title role in Sheena and as a Bond girl in A View to a Kill She continued to appear in films, though mainly direct-to-video and direct-to-cable features.
She was featured in the CD computer game The Pandora Directive and had a recurring lead role in the television series That '70s Show Widowed in , Tanya Roberts died of sepsis from a urinary tract infection in Dale Baer. He was married to Jane Baer and Teddy. John Richardson. Actor One Million Years B. Classically handsome John Richardson began his career with small roles in British movies at the end of the s. His first role of note was opposite Barbara Steele in the gothic horror classic Black Sunday , directed by Mario Bava.
Later, following the steps of some other actors, he went on to appear in various Italian movies such as Umberto Lenzi 's horror movie Eyeball , Michele Soavi 's The Church and many others. Richardson's great passion was collecting automobiles and he sometimes appeared in movies as long as an automobile was included in the contract. But his recent movies filmed in the s convinced him to retire from acting completely.
