Sydney, Aug. 16, 2025
The following obit was sent to us by former Oz bureau chief Don Groves:
Beloved Variety alumnus, film critic, writer and educator David Stratton died on August 14 in a hospital near his home in the Blue Mountains, aged 85.
Madrid, Dec. 23
Simesite was saddened to leam that former mugg Frank Segers passed away in his home in Tucson, AZ on December 17.
(more…)The dean of Hollywood trade newspaper reporters on the labor beat for decades, David Robb, 74, died Dec. 8 of inoperable brain cancer at his Los Angeles home. He was a mugg who worked at Daily Variety for a decade starting in 1982 covering labor unions, legal (especially labor law) and employment matters.
April 25, 2023
We were sad to hear of the passing on April 16 in London of former Variety sales topper and one-time bureau chief John Willis. John had been admitted to a hospital a few days earlier, but then developed pneumonia. He died quickly and peacefully surrounded by members of his family. He was 86.
