Year: 2009

On April 22, 2009 Leno left NBC’s studios during midday according to his spokesman Dick Guttman and was admitted to Providence Saint Joseph’s Medical Center in Burbank after he stated he wasn’t feeling well. He is in the hospital "for observation." Guttman characterized Leno’s ailment, which he couldn’t identify, as "mild." AP His representative Tracy St. Pierre would not disclose the nature of Leno’s illness but did state that "Jay Leno is doing just fine," NBC spokeswoman Tracy St. Pierre told E! News this afternoon Even feeling sick, he made phone calls and wrote jokes on Thursday, Guttman said. Leno, who turns 59 on Tuesday, will leave the The Tonight Show show May 29 after 17 years. No further information was available about Leno’s condition, but Access Hollywood, which first reported the situation, mentioned possible food poisoning.

Cause of Hospitalization announced (2 weeks later)
Jay Leno told People that the cause of his hospitalization, which he was embarrassed to admit, was exhaustion

Marilyn Monroe described him as "the best in the world".

Jack Cardiff OBE, B.S.C. (September 18, 1914 – April 22, 2009) was a British cinematographer, director and photographer.

His career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor (and, less successfully, Smell-o-vision), to filmmaking in the 21st century. He was best known for his influential cinematography for directors such as Powell, Huston and Hitchcock.

In 2000 he was awarded an OBE and in 2001 he was awarded an Honorary Oscar for his contribution to the cinema.

Born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Cardiff’s parents were music hall entertainers. He worked as an actor from an early age, both in the music hall and in a number of silent films: My Son, My Son (1918), Billy’s Rose (1922), The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923) and Tiptoes (1927). At 15 he began working as a camera assistant, clapper boy and production runner for British International Pictures, including Hitchcock’s The Skin Game

Cause of death: unknown

Jack Cardiff’s Cinematography & Directoral work continues next page

Cinematography
A Matter of Life and Death (1946) directed by Powell and Pressburger
Black Narcissus (1947) directed by Powell and Pressburger
The Red Shoes (1948) directed by Powell and Pressburger
Under Capricorn (1949) directed by Alfred Hitchcock
The Black Rose (1950) starring Orson Welles
The Magic Box (1951) a biopic of William Friese-Greene
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
The African Queen (1951) directed by John Huston
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
War and Peace (1956)
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) directed by Laurence Olivier
Legend of the Lost (1957)
The Vikings (1958)
Fanny (1961)
Death on the Nile (1978)
The Awakening (1980)
Ghost Story (1981)
The Dogs of War (1981)
Conan the Destroyer (1984)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Directorial work
Web of Evidence (1959)
Scent of Mystery (1960) — the first production in Smell-o-vision
My Geisha (1962)
The Long Ships (1963)
Young Cassidy (1965)
The Mercenaries (1968)
The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) starring Marianne Faithfull
The Mutations (1973) starring Donald Pleasence
Penny Gold (1973)

David B. Kellermann (August 1967 – April 22, 2009) was the acting CFO of Freddie Mac in early 2009.

Death
He was found dead from hanging in the basement of his home in Vienna, Virginia, on April 22, 2009. Kellermann’s wife reported his death as a suicide, and officers at the scene said there were no signs of foul play

Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac lost more than $50 billion last year, and the Treasury Department has pumped in $45 billion to keep the company afloat. Last month, David Moffett, the government-appointed chief executive, resigned apparently frustrated by strict oversight.

Ken Annakin, OBE (August 10, 1914 – April 22, 2009) was an English film director. His career in films followed his work experience in documentaries. He made his directing debut in 1947 at the Rank Organisation, although the following year he moved to Gainsborough Pictures to direct three films about the Huggetts, a working class family living in suburban England. Annakin became known for a series of Walt Disney adventures including The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952), The Sword and the Rose (1953) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960).

Annakin was a friend of George Lucas, and was Lucas’s inspiration for the naming of the character Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars.

He died on 22 April 2009, the same day as Jack Cardiff, who had been his cinematographer on the 1979 film The Fifth Musketeer.

Ken Annakin’s Filmography continues next page 

Ken Annakin’s Filmography
West Riding (1946)
It Began on the Clyde (1946)
Fenlands (1946)
Holiday Camp (1947)
Miranda (1948)
Broken Journey (1948)
Quartet (1948)
Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
Vote for Huggett (1949)
The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
Landfall (1949)
Double Confession (1950)
Hotel Sahara (1951)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
The Planter’s Wife (1952)
The Sword and the Rose (1953)
You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
The Seekers (1954)
Value for Money (1955)
Loser Takes All (1956)
Three Men in a Boat (1956)
Across the Bridge (1957)
 Nor the Moon by Night (1958)
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Very Important Person (1961)
The Hellions (1961)
The Fast Lady (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Crooks Anonymous (1962)
The Informers (1963)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
The Long Duel (1967)
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
The Call of the Wild (1972)
Paper Tiger (1975)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
Cheaper to Keep Her (1981)
The Pirate Movie (1982)
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
Gengis Khan (1992)
Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime (2002)

On 20 April, 2009, Cambridge University released a statement saying that Hawking was “very ill” with a chest infection, and had been admitted to Addenbrooke’s Hospital

Marilyn Chambers (April 22, 1952 – April 12, 2009) was an American pornographic actress, exotic dancer, and vice-presidential candidate. She was perhaps best known for her 1972 hardcore film debut Behind the Green Door.

Death of Marilyn Chambers
On April 12, 2009, Chambers was found dead in her trailer in Santa Clarita, California. She was discovered by her 17 year-old daughter, McKenna Marie Taylor. The coroner’s report has not been submitted but no foul play is suspected. The report and exact cause of death remains pending.

Singing career
Chambers had some chart success with the disco single "Benihana" in 1976, produced by Michael Zager on the Roulette Records label.

Nicholas James Adenhart (August 24, 1986 – April 9, 2009, born in Silver Spring, Maryland) is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He made his major league debut as the starting pitcher on May 1, 2008, against the Oakland Athletics at Angel Stadium of Anaheim in Anaheim, California.

Adenhart earned his first career victory on May 12, 2008, against the Chicago White Sox in Anaheim, giving up four earned runs in 5? innings en route to a 10-7 Angels victory.

He opened the 2009 season in the Angels’ major league rotation.

Death of Nick Adenhart
Nick Adenhart was killed in a felony hit-and-run car accident, mere hours after he pitched in a game. Police reported that an individual driving a minivan blew through a red light, causing a 2 car crash which killed 3 people, including Adenhart. It was also reported that the the person driving the van fled the scene, but was later caught and charged with felony hit-and-run, and that one of the other men killed in the crash was also affiliated with the Angels organization. Adenhart was 22-years-old.

Joel Dee "Jody" McCrea (September 6, 1934 – April 4, 2009) was an American film and television actor; son of veteran film actors Joel McCrea and Frances Dee, who were married from 1933 until Joel McCrea’s death in 1990. The eldest of three, his brothers are David McCrea and Peter McCrea.

He was the son of actors Joel McCrea and Frances Dee

Later career and death
He occasionally acted in community theater as well. McCrea retired from acting altogether in 1970 to become a rancher in Roswell, New Mexico, where he died in 2009 of cardiac arrest at age 74.

On Sunday, April 5, 2009 it was reported that Farrah Fawcett had been rushed to a hospital several days earlier.

Rumor says she was unconscious and in critical condition.  Some tabloids even reported she was in comma.  But Farrah Fawcett’s doctor confirmed that she is not critically ill.  She just needed to drain out blood following prior surgical procedure.

Farrah Fawcett’s Health Problems:
On October 4, 2006, it was revealed that Fawcett was suffering from anal cancer, and was undergoing treatment, including chemotherapy and surgery. Thus, a possible Charlie’s Angels reunion was put on hold.

The Associated Press wire service reported on her 60th birthday that Fawcett was, at that point, cancer free. Fawcett said in a statement, "This is an extraordinarily happy day for me and my family. I hope that my news might offer some level of inspiration to others who unfortunately must continue to fight the disease."

On Wednesday, May 16, 2007, it was reported that a malignant polyp was found in the area where Fawcett had been treated for the initial cancer. Doctors contemplated whether to implant a radiation seeder (which differs from conventional radiation and is used to treat other types of cancer). Fawcett, however, chose to travel to Germany (with O’Neal) for embryonic stem cell cancer treatment not available in the U.S. This treatment in Germany has been filmed for a possible reality television show

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Maurice Jarre (September 13, 1924 – March 29, 2009) was a French composer and conductor. Although he composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores for motion pictures, particularly those of David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984). All three of these scores won Academy Awards. Other notable scores of his include The Message (1976), Dead Poets Society (1989) and Ghost (1990). Jarre was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Death of Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre died of cancer.
Maurice Jarre was 84 year old at the time of his death