James Caan, who built a durable film career in varied roles across six decades but was forever identified most closely with one of his earliest characters, the quick-tempered Sonny Corleone in the original “Godfather” movie, died July 6. He was 82. Prior to “The Godfather,” he had a role in “El Doraado,” a 1966 western, and “The Rain People,” a 1969 movie that was his first collaboration with the director Francis Ford Coppola. “Brian’s Song,” [...]

Martin C. Dreiwitz, who drew on his twin passions for travel and classical music to found the Long Island Youth Orchestra, died on June 20 at a hospital near his home in Oyster Bay, NY. He was 91. The orchestra had about 100 performers, all recruited by Mr. Dreiwitz, who also raised the funds and conducted every performance from the orchestra’s founding in 1962 to his retirement in 2012. In addition to playing four concerts [...]

Larry Storch, who played a memorable television oddball on the 1960s sitcom “F Troop,” died July 8 at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 99. Mr. Storch had a long career as a nightclub comic and as a character actor on the stage and on big and small screens, but that work was dwarfed by the impression he made during the two-season run of “F Troop” on ABC from 1965 [...]

Jerome Eisenberg, a leading New York antiquities dealer who guarded against the illegal importation and sale of ancient art, died on July 6, his 92nd birthday, in Manhattan. Mr. Eisenberg started a mail order ancient coin business with his father when he was 12, and over the years sold an estimated 40,000 ancient artifacts and appraised countless others for prospective buyers and insurance adjusters. He also testified as an expert witness on the value and [...]

René Slotkin, one of the last of the “Mengele twins,” died July 10, in New York. He was 84. Born René Guttman in 1937 in Teplice-Sanov, Czechoslovakia, he was 3 years old when he and his twin sister, Irene, were deported to Theresienstadt with their mother, Ita. Two years later, they were moved to Auschwitz, where their mother and father were killed, and the twins separated and subjected to medical abuse by Josef Mengele, the [...]

Dr. Joyce C. Lashof, who fought for health equity and broke barriers as the first woman to head a state public health department and the first to serve as dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, died on June 4 at an assisted living community in Berkeley. She was 96. In the 1960s, Dr. Lashof founded a community health center to provide medical care in a low-income section of [...]

Harvey Dinnerstein, who in addition to his paintings and drawings was also a longtime art teacher, died on June 21 in Brooklyn. He was 94. Mr. Dinnerstein came of age in the early 1950s. Unmoved by Abstract Expressionism, he followed in the artistic tradition of realists, depicting the life around him: on the subway, in parks, outside brownstones like his own in Brooklyn. Mr. Dinnerstein taught for 40 years at the Art Students League. He [...]

 Larry Storch, who played a memorable television oddball on the 1960s sitcom “F Troop,” died July 8 at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 99. Mr. Storch had a long career as a nightclub comic and as a character actor on the stage and on big and small screens, but that work was dwarfed by the impression he made during the two-season run of “F Troop” on ABC from 1965 [...]

Joe Turkel, a gaunt-faced character actor who appeared in scores of movies but is best known for two of his final performances — as Lloyd the bartender in “The Shining” and Dr. Eldon Tyrell in “Blade Runner” — died on June 27 in Santa Monica, CA. He was 94. He made three movies with Stanley Kubrick and was also a prolific television actor, with roles on popular shows like “Bonanza,” “Ironside” and “Fantasy Island.” “I’ve [...]

Monty Norman, the British composer who composed the theme tune for the James Bond films died July 11. He was 94 Mr. Norman got his first guitar when he was 16. He performed with big bands and in a variety act with comedian Benny Hill before writing songs for early British rockers Cliff Richard and Tommy Steele. He also composed for stage musicals. Mr. Norman was hired by producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli to compose a [...]