Articles by Myrna Oliver

Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish auteur whose visionary work in early masterpieces such as “The Seventh Seal” and “Wild Strawberries” and later films such as “Persona” and “Cries and Whispers” probed the depths of the human psyche with existential dramas that redefined cinema, died Monday. Read more

Gian Carlo Menotti, who organized music festivals in Spoleto, Italy, and the U.S. and helped bring opera to the masses with his repeatedly televised Christmas work “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” died Thursday at a hospital in Monaco. Read more

Esther Snyder, who with her late husband Harry co-founded In-N-Out Burger in Baldwin Park in 1948 and popularized the drive-through window for the fast-food industry, has died. Read more

Eldon Dedini, a prolific California cartoonist for Playboy and the New Yorker whose subjects included lusty satyrs and curvaceous nymphs, thrifty witches, elegant automobiles and even broccoli, has died. Read more

Ramsay L. Harris, a curious and enthusiastic teacher, impromptu songwriter and whimsical inventor who endeared himself to generations of students at the private Webb School in Claremont, has died at the age of 105. Read more

Raul Anguiano, eclectic Mexican painter, sculptor and muralist who worked with well-known post-revolutionary artists Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera, has died. Read more

Arnold “Arry” Altman, who was largely responsible for making the futuristic Studebaker Avanti “the car that refuses to die,” has died. Read more

Warren Dorn, who was chairman of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in an era when the members exercised virtually unchallenged control and were known as the “five little kings,” died Tuesday. Read more

Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer and former Nazi who befriended the young Dalai Lama and was portrayed by actor Brad Pitt in the film “Seven Years in Tibet,” has died. Read more