Ben Cooper, a Western star of films and TV like “Johnny Guitar,” “Bonanza,” “Rawhide” and more, died in his sleep on Monday according to his nephew on the actor’s Facebook fan page. He was 86.
Cooper got his start in radio serials and on stage as a child actor before finding work as a boyish looking lead and supporting player on Westerns in both film and TV. He was best known for his role in the Nicholas Ray Western “Johnny Guitar” from 1954, where he played the bandit Turkey Ralston alongside Ernest Borgnine and Scott Brady.
Cooper’s first screen role came when he was 18 in the “Armstrong Circle Theatre,” and he followed that up with several TV appearances and roles in films from Republic Pictures such as “Thunderbirds,” “The Last Command” and “Duel at Apache Wells.”
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Cooper got his start in radio serials and on stage as a child actor before finding work as a boyish looking lead and supporting player on Westerns in both film and TV. He was best known for his role in the Nicholas Ray Western “Johnny Guitar” from 1954, where he played the bandit Turkey Ralston alongside Ernest Borgnine and Scott Brady.
Cooper’s first screen role came when he was 18 in the “Armstrong Circle Theatre,” and he followed that up with several TV appearances and roles in films from Republic Pictures such as “Thunderbirds,” “The Last Command” and “Duel at Apache Wells.”
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- 2/26/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
David Roback, co-founder of the widely celebrated alt-rock group Mazzy Star, died Monday, a representative for the band confirmed. A cause of death was not revealed. Roback was 61.
Roback founded Mazzy Star with Hope Sandoval in the late Eighties and served as the band’s guitarist, keyboardist and producer. Between 1990 and 1996, Mazzy Star released three critically acclaimed albums that blended dream pop, psychedelia and touches of blues and folk with some of the blown-out textures of Nineties alt-rock: She Hangs Brightly in 1990, So Tonight That I Might See in 1993 and...
Roback founded Mazzy Star with Hope Sandoval in the late Eighties and served as the band’s guitarist, keyboardist and producer. Between 1990 and 1996, Mazzy Star released three critically acclaimed albums that blended dream pop, psychedelia and touches of blues and folk with some of the blown-out textures of Nineties alt-rock: She Hangs Brightly in 1990, So Tonight That I Might See in 1993 and...
- 2/25/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Take a breath that's true: Beloved alternative group Mazzy Star is back with a new album, the band's first since "Among My Swan" in 1996.
Called "Seasons Of Your Day," the new Mazzy Star record will be out on Sept. 24. To celebrate the announcement, Mazzy Star released a new song. The soulful track, "California," can be found above. (Spin compared the song to Led Zeppelin's "Going to California," which sounds just about right.)
Mazzy Star (made up of David Roback and Hope Sandoval) shot to fame in 1994 with the song "Fade Into You." The track peaked at 44 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and hit the top five on the magazine's Modern Rock chart.
Talk of a new Mazzy Star record has circulated since 2009. Sandoval, the lead singer, teased the new material in an interview that year with Rolling Stone, but cautioned that it wasn't a done deal. "It's true we're still together.
Called "Seasons Of Your Day," the new Mazzy Star record will be out on Sept. 24. To celebrate the announcement, Mazzy Star released a new song. The soulful track, "California," can be found above. (Spin compared the song to Led Zeppelin's "Going to California," which sounds just about right.)
Mazzy Star (made up of David Roback and Hope Sandoval) shot to fame in 1994 with the song "Fade Into You." The track peaked at 44 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and hit the top five on the magazine's Modern Rock chart.
Talk of a new Mazzy Star record has circulated since 2009. Sandoval, the lead singer, teased the new material in an interview that year with Rolling Stone, but cautioned that it wasn't a done deal. "It's true we're still together.
- 7/16/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
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