Tom Villard, 40, an actor with AIDS who sought to educate the public by continuing to appear in movies and television after making his illness public, died of pneumonia Monday in Los Angeles. He appeared in 12 films, including "Heartbreak Ridge" and "My Girl," and had the title role in "The Trouble With Dick," a Grand Prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival. He had appeared on TV this season in episodes of "Frasier," "Sisters" and "Star Trek: Deep Space 9."
Joseph Hazen, 96, a former Warner Bros. lawyer in the silent film days who went on to produce such hits as "Barefoot in the Park" and "True Grit," died Sunday in Boca Raton, Fla. As counsel and director of Warner Bros, He wrote the contract with Vitaphone -- the company that made "The Jazz Singer," the first talking picture. He left Warner in 1944 to produce films with Hal Wallis.
Frederic Spiegelberg, 97, a pioneer in comparative religious studies, died Nov. 10 in San Francisco. He lectured on the religions of India, the psychology of Buddhism and the common ground shared by the world's religions. Born in Hamburg, Germany, he studied with theologians Rudolf Otto and Paul Tillich, philosopher Martin Heidegger and psychologist Carl Jung. In 1937, Tillich helped Spiegelberg and his wife escape Nazi Germany. He joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1941 and retired in 1963 from the Department of Asiatic and Slavic Studies.
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