Lorene Yarnell, 66, who with Robert Shields formed the mime-and-dance comedy team Shields and Yarnell, a familiar presence on television in the 1970s, died July 29 after suffering a brain aneurysm in Sandefjord, Norway.

With Shields, her husband at the time, Yarnell starred in the variety show "Shields and Yarnell," broadcast on CBS in 1977 and 1978. She had originally trained as a dancer, he as a mime; after meeting in the early 1970s, each learned the other's art. Together they developed a style that was an amalgam of the two.

Martin Drew, 66, a British jazz drummer who was a member of the pianist Oscar Peterson's internationally popular group for three decades, died of a heart attack on July 29 in London. Drew first worked with Peterson in 1974 at the celebrated London nightclub Ronnie Scott's, where Drew was the house drummer. In that role he also accompanied Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and many other visiting American jazz artists.

Bernie West, 92, a writer and producer on such TV shows as "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons" and "Three's Company" during a wide-ranging show business career, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on July 29 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

With his writing partner, Michael "Mickey" Ross, he wrote more than 30 episodes of the groundbreaking "All in the Family" beginning in 1971, chronicling the lives of outspoken Archie Bunker and his family.

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