Just saw this, Drowned in his pool.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/us/obit-rodney-king/index.html
― nickn, Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
Victor Spinetti
and
Brian Hibbard
Not a good week to be Welsh and have cancer.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 12:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
Had no idea that guy had a career outside of the Flying Pickets. RIP sideburns man.
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 12:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
Was just coming to post Victor Spinetti :(
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 13:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
His stage career saw him win a Tony award for his Broadway performance in Oh, What a Lovely War!, as well as co-starring with Jack Klugman when The Odd Couple toured London.
― Stumpy Joe's Cafe (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
Hosni Mubarak according to BBC Newsnight. Not sure he deserves his own thread, but he was very powerful for a very long time.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, Reuters saying he's "clinically dead"
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
...after having a stroke in prison
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
B-movie/TV actor Richard Lynch, beloved by MST3K fans for Werewolf, best known to most other people maybe from The Sword and the Sorcerer?
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 17:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
More notably, Andrew Sarris/
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 17:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
Don Grady--Robbie on My Three Sons.
http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/r-i-p-don-grady/
Chip and Ernie, very much alive.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 23:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
Doris Singleton from "I Love Lucy".
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/-i-love-lucy--star-doris-singleton-dies.html
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 June 2012 18:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
Don't think anyone posted this before, and I can't find a thread for The Peanuts, but Emi Ito on June 15th: http://english.kyodonews.jp/photos/2012/06/166252.html
― emil.y, Thursday, 28 June 2012 23:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
http://www.laopinion.com/article/20120702/ENTRETENIMIENTO/120709982/-1/ENTRETENIMIENTO
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/NiLP-FYI--The-Passing-of-Yomo.html?soid=1101040629095&aid=UCI59BzK6YU
Who Will Be Playing Yomo Toro In The Soon-To-Be-Released Hector Lavoe Biopic El Cantante?
Great Puerto Rican Cuatro player Yomo Toro RIP
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 July 2012 14:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
andy griffith
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/07/andy-griffith-dies-at-age-86/1#.T_MBtlGhDzI
― omar little, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
Aw. A Face in the Crowd will always be one of my favorite movies.
― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:33 (10 months ago) Permalink
Aww, RIP
― Neil Jung (WmC), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
sad.RIP.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
I totally missed hearing of Frank Cady's death a month ago. So used to seeing him as kindly Sam Drucker as a kid, so it was a weird moment when I first watched The Bad Seed; his small performance as Mr. Daigle alongside grieving Eileen Heckart is minor, but moving.
― Mafia-owned bar for transvestites (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 15:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 15:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
After Mayberry and A Face in the Crowd, I most associate Andy Griffith with Go Ask Alice.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 15:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
In the 60s and 70s, the Andy Griffith Show was one of the few positive portrayals of the South we got to see on TV. A cloying, one-dimensional South, true, but a gentle one, with recognizable similarities to where we lived. RIP.
― Brad C., Tuesday, 3 July 2012 17:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
in honor of Andy Griffith
― your petty attempt at destroying me is laughable (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
what the fuck is that shit?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
anyone left besides jim nabors?
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
there's this goofy bald guy that makes movies now, maybe you've heard of him
― your petty attempt at destroying me is laughable (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
"that shit" is work by artist Drew Friedman. From an early RAW, I think.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
ffs xxxxp
RIP
― Chris S, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
lol Shakey
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
That was Friedman's first comics work!
― Neil Jung (WmC), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
RIP car designer Sergio Pininfarina
The world of automotive design has lost another great. Sergio Pininfarina – the honorary chairman of the Pininfarina Group that bears his family name – passed away last night at age 85.Sergio took control of Pininfarina as chairman back in 1966 after his father, Gian Battista 'Pinin' Farina, passed away. He would hold this role until transitioning to honorary chairman in 2006.Over his tenure, his Pininfarina firm worked on design projects for everyone from Alfa Romeo to Chevrolet to Bentley and Volvo, but he is perhaps most known for his work for Ferrari and Maserati. No stranger to edgy aesthetics, Pininfarina presided over designs like the 2002 Ferrari Enzo and the 1984 Ferrari Testarossa before it. Conversely, he was also responsible for some beautifully simple forms, including the lauded 1996 Peugeot 406 Coupe and 2003 Maserati Quattroporte.
Sergio took control of Pininfarina as chairman back in 1966 after his father, Gian Battista 'Pinin' Farina, passed away. He would hold this role until transitioning to honorary chairman in 2006.
Over his tenure, his Pininfarina firm worked on design projects for everyone from Alfa Romeo to Chevrolet to Bentley and Volvo, but he is perhaps most known for his work for Ferrari and Maserati. No stranger to edgy aesthetics, Pininfarina presided over designs like the 2002 Ferrari Enzo and the 1984 Ferrari Testarossa before it. Conversely, he was also responsible for some beautifully simple forms, including the lauded 1996 Peugeot 406 Coupe and 2003 Maserati Quattroporte.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 20:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
My grandfather wanted a specific Andy Griffith gospel song played at his funeral, and all we could find was a medley of AG songs that contained the requested song therein, so at his funeral, we all sat and listened to a ten-minute medley of Andy Griffith's greatest gospel hits, which was not unlike living in morbid, surreal sketch comedy skit.
Anyway, RIP, dude. Your TV show used to bore me to tears as a kid, but my grandfather liked you a lot.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 20:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
Was shocked to see a mid-90s (likely non-US-compliant) Alfa Spyder the other day. I thought, "How come no one designs cars like that anymore?" RIP.
xp
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 20:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
RIP andy g have fun chilling in heaven w/ don knotts
― the late great, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
a face in the crowd is so good.
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 22:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
r.i.p.
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 22:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
sing him off, fellas
― Chris S, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
Eric Sykeshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18704263
:(
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 10:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 10:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
"The plank itself was sold at auction on Monday 5 December 2011 for £1050."
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 10:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
aw.
if you're reading, BBC4, and you haven't already done so then we'll be fine without a gritty docudrama about his life cheers
― coopflaggypost (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 10:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
but an evening of his best bits would be luverly thanks
― Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop. (stevie), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
The "Sykes" show is kinda terrible when you see it now - though maybe it was better in the 60s - but what a great guy and great talent RIP
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:28 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh yeah, they show it on itv4 or summat like that don't they - watched one a few weeks back where sykes ate cheese and had a nightmare he and hattie were mice. pretty trippy in a grim low budget way...
― Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop. (stevie), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:33 (10 months ago) Permalink
"Tellytubbies!!!"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
RIP ernest borgnine, age 95.
― higgs bosonned by a wite kid after a aol beef (get bent), Sunday, 8 July 2012 21:12 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah
rip big man, probably worth a thread
― manticore values (nakhchivan), Sunday, 8 July 2012 21:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
I had just stumbled over this earlier today:
I associate him with The Poseidon Adventure more than anything else, even though I know he made more famous films. He was just always there.
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 July 2012 21:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
I still associate him with McHale's Navy more than anything else
(2nd, killing Sinatra)
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 July 2012 21:34 (10 months ago) Permalink