Blues Brothers Central

Cast News - Veteran actor Henry Gibson has sadly passed away today at age 73.

He played the head of the Illinois Nazi's in the original Blues Brothers movie, as well as countless other movie and TV roles.

Cast News - Former Atlantic Records music executive Michael Klenfner passed away on Tuesday.

He helped transform the Blues Brothers from a skit on Saturday Night Live into a Grammy Award-nominated artist.

Michael was also well-known as the "President of Clarion Records" from the Blues Brothers movie.

Cast News - Lou Perryman, best known to us as the "Man at Bar" (in Bob's Country Bunker) with one great line in the Blues Brothers movie, was murdered on April 2nd at his home in Austin, Texas.

Cast News - While some debate about who created rock and roll, there has only been one Godfather of Soul, James Brown, who died this morning of pneumonia.