Antonio Margheriti, 72, a prolific Italian film director who sometimes used the name Anthony M. Dawson and specialized in science fiction, horror and adventure movies, died of a heart attack Monday in Rome.
Mr. Margheriti started his film career in the 1960s, directing science-fiction films such as Space Men and The Battle of the Worlds.
He later moved into the horror genre with The Virgin of Nuremberg, which was released in 1965 in the United States with the title Horror Castle and carried the name Dawson as its director.
Mr. Margheriti also made some lower-budget imitations of Hollywood blockbusters, such as Killer Fish in 1979 and Hunters of the Golden Cobra in 1982. Their themes were similar to Steven Spielberg's Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark, respectively.
Annelisa M. Kilbourn,35, a British veterinarian and wildlife expert who established that gorillas can die of the Ebola virus, was killed Saturday when the light plane she was flying in crashed in the Lope Nature Preserve in the Central African nation of Gabon.
Working for the Wildlife Conservation Society, which announced her death Monday from its headquarters at the Bronx Zoo, Dr. Kilbourn was investigating last year's Ebola outbreak in that country and its relationship to the indigenous gorilla population.
This year, she established for the first time that Ebola is a serious threat to wild gorillas as well as to humans when she found dead specimens in the jungle and that the disease had killed them, the society said.
Her findings had important implications for the preservation of Africa's primates as well as for the spread of the disease among humans. Scientists had noted that an earlier outbreak of Ebola in the same area in 1996 had led to a sharp decline in the gorilla population and now they knew why.
Dr. Kilbourn's discovery made it increasingly important to protect the major concentration of gorillas, believed to be the largest left in the world, living in the nearby Odzala National Park, about 100 kilometers away over the border in Congo, by controlling access to them by humans and animals that might be carrying the virus.
Edward "Moose" Cholak, 72, a professional wrestler for 40 years whose weight reached 450 pounds, died of complications from a stroke Thursday in Hammond, Ind.
Mr. Cholak, a tackle on the University of Wisconsin football team from 1949 to 1950, boxed and wrestled while in the Navy during the Korean War and was spotted by another wrestler who encouraged him to turn pro.
In a career from 1953 to 1987, he wrestled in 8,000 matches and was the International Wrestling Association champion in 1963.
John Lucas, 83, a writer, producer and director of such television shows as the original Star Trek series and such films as Dark City, died of leukemia Oct. 19 in Los Angeles.
Mr. Lucas wrote and directed several episodes of the pioneering television realism show Medic, which aired from 1954 to 1956. The show was filmed in hospitals with actual doctors and nurses treating patients, and was based on case histories from the Los Angeles area.
In the 1960s, he wrote and produced the fictional medical series Ben Casey and followed with the long-running Medical Center. But his career focused mainly on the mystery and science-fiction genres. Among his TV credits were The Fugitive, Planet of the Apes and The Six Million Dollar Man.