Last Call: Science Fiction and Horror - February 2008

Barry Morse, 89. Co-star on "Space:1999" and Inspector Girard on the 1960's hit TV series "The Fugitive" with David Janssen. Other genre work included his role as a meek tailor in the Robert (Psycho) Bloch-penned Asylum (1972) and TV appearances on "The Invaders", "The Martian Chronicles", "The Outer Limits", "Ray Bradbury Theater", and "Dracula: The Series". February 2, 2008

Charles Fawcett, 92. Filmmaker and actor whose 100 B-movie roles, mostly Italian, included a genre appearance in I Vampiri (1957). Also flew for the RAF in WWII, fought with the French Foreign Legion, rescued British POW's from captivity in Paris, married six Jewish women who survived concentration camps after the war to get them American visas, was in the Greek Civil War, underwent rescue missions during the Hungarian Uprising and in the Belgian Congo, and filmed the Afghan/Russian War.

John Alvin, 59. Movie poster artist whose work included posters for the Harry Potter franchise, E.T. (1982), Young Frankenstein (1974), and Blade Runner (1982).

Robert Doqui, 74. Character actor whose genre work included a police sergeant in Robocop (1987), on TV he was in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", "The Outer Limits", "Tarzan", "Get Smart", and "The Man Form UNCLE".

Roy Schieder, 75. Actor, genre appearances in 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), "SeaQuestDSV". His appearance as Chief Brophy in Jaws (1975) resulted in one of the most memorable movie catchphraises of all time, which he ad-libbed, "You're gonna need a bigger boat." USAF vet. Complications from staph infection, February 10, 2008.

David Groh, 68. Regular as husband of "Rhoda", genre appearances include "The X-Files", "Buck Rogers," "M.A.N.T.I.S", "Tales From the Darkside," and "Fantasy Island" Roger Corman's TV movie "Last Exit To Earth," and as co-star of Corman's SciFi Channel superhero series, "Black Scorpion". Of multiple myeloma, February 12, 2008.