This Week's Interesting Obits

Happily, it's been quite a while since I updated my obits page.  However, this week the special-effects guru Ray Harryhausen and the biblical scholar Geza Vermes both died. 

Harryhausen's obits are below.  There were none for Vermes (though I see that there'll be one in tomorrow's Daily Telegraph), so I'll catch up with him next weekend.


 

Ray Harryhausen (d. 7 May 2013).  Special-effects pioneer.
Daily Telegraph, 8 May 2013
Guardian, 8 May 2013
Independent, 8 May 2013