Eugene T. "Bob" Gregorie, 94, Ford Motor Co.'s first design chief and creator of the Lincoln Continental, died Sunday in St. Augustine, Fla.

Mr. Gregorie also designed what would become the 1949 Mercury, which was driven by James Dean in the classic movie Rebel Without a Cause, and the 1936 Lincoln-Zephyr, which the Museum of Modern Art in New York called "the first successfully streamlined car in America."

A boat designer from Long Island, N.Y., Mr. Gregorie moved to Detroit in 1929 to work in the automotive field. He was immediately hired by General Motors Corp. but lost his job a few months later at the start of the Great Depression. In 1931, at age 22, he was hired by Edsel Ford, the president and son of company founder Henry Ford. The two became an inseparable design duo.

Mr. Gregorie, with Edsel Ford's guidance, designed every Ford, Mercury, Lincoln-Zephyr, Lincoln and Ford truck and tractor produced between 1935 and 1945, said Henry Dominguez, a GM engineer and author of Edsel Ford & E.T. Gregorie.

He left the company soon after Edsel Ford died of cancer in 1943, but returned at Henry Ford II's request in 1944. He left again two years later, when he found himself frequently at odds with top management.

At 38, Mr. Gregorie moved to St. Augustine and spent much of the next two decades sailing and designing yachts. He never returned to automobile design.

Bruno Wintzell, 58, a Swedish opera singer and actor who was briefly married to actress Goldie Hawn, died of cancer Sunday in Stockholm.

In 1973, he married Ms. Hawn and starred with her in the American film The Girl from Petrovka. The marriage ended in divorce two years later.