James Gammon, the gravel-voiced actor who played the manager of the Cleveland Indians in the 1980s comedy “Major League” and had a host of other movie and TV roles, died Friday in Costa Mesa, Calif., at age 70. Gammon had cancer, his agent said.
The also played the father on the Don Johnson TV show “Nash Bridges.”
In addition to dozens of TV and movie appearances, Gammon was a noted stage actor who co-founded the MET Theatre in Los Angeles. Gammon starred in several Sam Shepherd plays, receiving a Tony nomination for his work on a 1996 Broadway production of “Buried Child.”
Stephen Schneider, a Stanford University scientist who served on the international research panel on global warming that shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with former Vice President Al Gore, died of an apparent heart attack Monday on a flight to London. He was 65.
Schneider studied climate change for decades and wrote a number of books charting its effects on wildlife and ecosystems in the United States, and later chronicled its effect on the nation’s politics and policy. He advised every presidential administration from Nixon to Obama.
As a co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that earned a share of the Nobel, Schneider defended the panel’s work when it came under attack from critics after some unsettling errors were discovered, including how fast Himalayan glaciers are expected to melt.
Associated Press
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