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S2 White Plume Mountain (1979) - Editor
Lost Tamaochan (1979) - Interior Art and other help
The Rogues Gallery (1980) - Design (Co-Author), Editing and Layout; includes her character Ceatitle
B2 Keep on the Borderlands (1980) - Editor
B3 Palace of the Silver Princess (1981) - Author and Interior Art
A4: In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords (1981) - Interior Art
Polyhedron #3 (Winter 1981) - Interior Art ("Plant Creature" = Jupiter Blood Sucker from B3)
Polyhedron #4 (Jan 1982) - Interior Art (illustration of Duchess and Candella)
"Sage Advice" column in Dragon
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Personal life
Shel Dorf, who was 35-years old at the time, had conceived the idea for a comic convention, but lacked money and transportation to create the event. Alf, a then 17-year old senior at Kearny High School, provided Dorf with both the money and transport, in the form of Alf's 1954 Volkswagen Beetle. Alf donated several thousand dollars to fund the convention for its first three years. He would be paid back after the convention.
The first convention, known San Diego’s Golden State Comic-Con, which was held at the U.S. Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego in 1970, was co-chaired by Alf. Alf became the chairman of the convention in 1971, while he was a music student at the University of California, San Diego. He used his ties to the university to move the convention to campus in 1971, offering discounted dorm rooms as housing for attendees. The dorm idea proved less than successful, as the university placed attendees on the same floors as quiet study groups, such as the Montessori. In 1972, Alf and Mike Towry co-chaired the third annual Comic-Con at the El Cortez in San Diego.
The convention, now known as San Diego Comic-Con International, is now a internationally known, three day annual event held at the San Diego Convention Center. From its small beginnings, Comic-Con now attracts more than 125,000 attendees, which contributions from major celebrities and film studios.
Alf largely gave up his unpaid, volunteer positions at Comic-Con later in the 1970s. During the mid-1970s, he opened his own comic book store, called Comic Kingdom, in the North Park neighborhood of San Diego. He sold the comic business in the late 1970s and pursued careers in commodity trading and outdoor advertising.
In 2009, Comic-Con honored Alf, Dorf, Krueger, Towry and other co-founders of the convention. In November 2009, Dorf died in San Diego and Krueger died in upstate New York in the same month. Alf contributed to a special project by San Diego State University's library to document the early years and founders of Comic-Con with primary sources. According to Lynn Hawkes, a special projects officer at SDSU, "As a very young individual, Richard was not afraid to pursue his passions...He led a very interesting life and created something for the entire community that has been really wonderful."
Alf was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2011 after collapsing at his home in Serra Mesa, San Diego. He spent a short time at La Jolla Nursing and Rehabilitation Center before being transferred to the home of his friend, Earl Bookhammer, in Ramona, California. He died at Bookhammer's home in Ramona on January 5, 2012, at the age of 59.
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Tufeld is perhaps best known as the voice of the Robot in the TV series Lost in Space, a role he reprised for the 1998 feature film. He also provided the narration voiceover for many other Irwin Allen productions, such as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and The Time Tunnel, and did voice work for the 1978 animated television series Fantastic Four. He narrated several episodes of Thundarr the Barbarian (1980), as well. The main title narrator on the 1979 DePatie-Freleng series Spider-Woman, he was also the main title announcer on the 1981 Marvel Productions show Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.
Tufeld's voice career began in radio. He was the announcer on The Amazing Mr. Malone on the American Broadcasting Company in early 1950 (before the show moved to New York and NBC), then on Alan Reed's Falstaff's Fables, an ABC five-minute program, starting in the fall radio season of 1950. From October 25, 1952 to March 19, 1955, he was the announcer for the entire run of ABC Radio's Space Patrol. He moved to television news, anchoring The Three Star Final, a 15-minute newscast on KABC-TV, Los Angeles, which debuted on October 3, 1955 at noon (replacing Wrangler Jim), then moved to 11 p.m. on April 2, 1956.
Tufeld was often used as the announcer on various Disney television shows, including the 1957–1959 series, Zorro, starring future Lost in Space lead Guy Williams. He had stints as the house announcer on two ABC variety series, The Hollywood Palace and The Julie Andrews Hour.
He died in 2012 of congestive heart failure.
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Bob Anderson
Anderson joined the Royal Marines and won several combined services titles in the sport of fencing. He served in the Mediterranean during WWII.
As a competitive fencer, he represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games in 1952, and the World Championships in 1950 and 1953 in the sabre event. He finished tied for fifth in the team sabre event at Helsinki in 1952. After his retirement from fencing competition, he studied under Roger Crosnier and was appointed the first official British National Coach. During the late 1950s through the 1970s he travelled around Britain, and between fencing courses he combined his official duties with television and film work. Eventually emigrating to Canada, he went on to become technical director of the Canadian Fencing Association in Ottawa. During the 1960s and 1970s he was also the president of the British Academy of Fencing.
Anderson's cinema career began in 1953 when he choreographed fights for and coached Errol Flynn in The Master of Ballantrae. During rehearsal for a scene he accidentally slashed Flynn on his thigh, leading to notoriety in Hollywood as "the man who stabbed Errol Flynn". He went on to work as a stunt performer and/or fight choreographer in films such as The Guns of Navarone and the Bond films From Russia With Love and Casino Royale. His stature in Hollywood was cemented when he was selected by Stanley Kubrick in 1974 to act as the sword master for Barry Lyndon.
Anderson subsequently went on to be involved in all three of the original Star Wars films. Anderson did not receive much recognition for his work for years after their initial release, in part because David Prowse was so lauded for his portrayal that director George Lucas did not want to detract from the boost it gave the actor's career. In a 1983 interview, however, Mark Hamill paid homage to Anderson's contribution, saying: "Bob Anderson was the man who actually did Vader's fighting. It was always supposed to be a secret, but I finally told George I didn't think it was fair any more. Bob worked so bloody hard that he deserves some recognition. It's ridiculous to preserve the myth that it's all done by one man."
Anderson continued to work in cinema for the next thirty years, and was responsible for the sword work in many films, including Highlander, The Princess Bride, The Three Musketeers, The Mask of Zorro, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Shortly before his death he was working on The Hobbit. He had a reputation for being a perfectionist, with director Martin Campbell giving him the nickname "Grumpy Bob". Anderson was interviewed at length for the 2009 documentary on cinematic sword-fighting, Reclaiming the Blade where he commented, "I never took up the sword, I think the sword took me up."Anderson died on New Year's Day 2012 in a West Sussex hospital at the age of 89.
Miscellaneous crew
Alatriste (2006): Sword Master
The Legend of Zorro (2005): Sword Master
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): Sword Master
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003): Additional Sword Trainer
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002): Sword Master
Die Another Day (2002): Sword Master
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001): Sword Master
The Parent Trap (1998): Fencing Consultant
The Mask of Zorro (1998): Sword Master
The Phantom (1996): Sword Master
First Knight (1995): Sword Master
The Three Musketeers (1993): Sword Master
Highlander:The Series (1992-1994): Sword Master
By the Sword (1991): Sword Master
The Princess Bride (1987): Sword Master
Highlander (1986): Sword Master
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977): Fight Arranger (uncredited)
Barry Lyndon (1975): Fencing Coach
Kidnapped (1971): Fight Arranger
Don't Lose Your Head (1966): Fight Arranger (uncredited)
The Moonraker (1958) Fencing Coach
Superman II (1980): Stunts (uncredited)
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Stunt Double for Darth Vader
Candleshoe (1977): Stunt Arranger
Star Wars (1977): Stunts/Stunt Double (uncredited)
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975): Stunt Arranger
Kidnapped (1971): Fight Arranger
Casino Royale (1967): Stunts (uncredited)
From Russia with Love (1963): Stunts (uncredited)
The Guns of Navarone (1961): Stunts (uncredited)
Il maestro di Don Giovanni (1954): Stunts
The Master of Ballantrae (1953): Stunts (uncredited)
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Imperial Officer
Candleshoe (1977): Hood (uncredited)
Doctor Who (1968): Fighting Guard in the serial The Enemy of the World