Duke "Uncle Duke" Seifried (Aug 19 1935-Sept 29 2018) passed away today. He was the first executive vice president of TSR. He was also an artist, game designer, writer, musician, music composer, and public speaker who is probably best known as the legendary artist who has sculpted over 10,000 miniatures.He has lived in Madison, Wisconsin, where he has is known as a guitar player. His ancestors are from Austria.
In 1957, he graduated from Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, with a degree in speech/radio-television.
Seifried helped bring polyhedral dice and miniatures into the gaming hobby. He claims that his depiction of Helm's Deep was the most accurate as he'd visited with Professor Tolkien and made sketches with him before designing it.
In 2008, he attended Gary Gygax's funeral. A week before Gygax died, Seifried stumbled upon a one-of-a-kind metal miniature he'd made specifically for Gary many years ago. He had set it aside, intending to give it back to Gary. As a result, the miniature wound up in the pocket of Gary's suit, and he was buried with it. The following year also spoke at Dave Arneson's memorial at Full Sail University.
Rest in Peace.
-Havard
Edit: Dates fixed. Thanks Amanda!
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If anyone can confirm his date of birth let me know. I would like to get my facts straight.
ReplyDeleteDuke Seifried Aug 19, 1935 – Sept 29, 2018 per this link https://misternizz.wordpress.com/2018/09/30/duke-seifried-has-passed/ and per this link https://www.hmgs.org/page/UncleDuke
ReplyDeleteThe second link is the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society.
Thank you so much Amanda! :)
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