Ogilvy Health has hired strategist Liz Kane to lead the agency’s insights, brand and medical strategy offerings. Ogilvy also promoted Corina Kellam, who will lead a newly-formed experience & innovation team. Kane’s consumer and health advocacy experience includes award-winning work for Novartis and GSK. Prior to joining Ogilvy Health, Kane was head of brand strategy at Havas Life, where she led efforts for Pfizer and Amgen. Other past roles include global consumer advertising at Saatchi & Saatchi and Leo Burnett. Kellam, who joined Ogilvy Health last year, has therapeutic experience that ranges from rare disease to wellness brands to medical devices….
Framestore has promoted Johannes Sambs to head of CG, London. Sambs joined Framestore in 2016, where he has been instrumental in a number of major projects including Framestore’s first dark ride, Pearl Quest for China’s Wanda Group, and the technically challenging immersive experience for Comcast’s Philadelphia based planetarium-style theater, the Universal Sphere. Sambs was also Framestore’s CG supervisor on Netflix’s Alien Worlds which won an Emmy for the studio. Shortly afterwards Sambs delivered the storybook sequences for Netflix’s Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey. Originally from Austria, Sambs studied audiovisual fine art before moving to the U.K. where he worked as a CG generalist freelancer, mainly in advertising as well as theater productions. He joined Framestore as a lookdev artist and has subsequently worked as both CG supervisor and VFX supervisor across many forms including commercials, TV shows and feature films including the Sky Atlantic episodic show, Curfew….
James Earl Jones, Lauded Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies At 93
James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, "The Lion King" and Darth Vader — has died. He was 93.
His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died Monday morning at home in New York's Hudson Valley region. The cause was not immediately clear.
The pioneering Jones, who was one of the first African American actors in a continuing role on a daytime drama and worked deep into his 80s, won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors and was given an honorary Oscar and a special Tony for lifetime achievement. In 2022, a Broadway theater was renamed in his honor.
He cut an elegant figure late in life, with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious work habit. In 2015, he arrived at rehearsals for a Broadway run of "The Gin Game" having already memorized the play and with notebooks filled with comments from the creative team. He said he was always in service of the work.
"The need to storytell has always been with us," he told The Associated Press then. "I think it first happened around campfires when the man came home and told his family he got the bear, the bear didn't get him."
Jones created such memorable film roles as the reclusive writer coaxed back into the spotlight in "Field of Dreams," the boxer Jack Johnson in the stage and screen hit "The Great White Hope," the writer Alex Haley in "Roots: The Next Generation" and a South African minister in "Cry, the Beloved Country."
He was also a sought-after voice actor, expressing the villainy of Darth Vader ("No, I am your father," commonly misremembered as "Luke, I am your father"), as... Read More