Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

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Look out Steve Porcaro.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 March 2015 22:13 (eleven years ago)

Thom Wilson, legendary SoCal punk producer. No stories yet but Epitaph Records just sent out a press release saying he passed on February 8 -- someone should do a poll thread based on his early 80s work alone, look at that run via this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Wilson

Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 March 2015 15:01 (eleven years ago)

Irwin Hasen, golden age superhero man (co-creator of DC's Wildcat) and 30+ year man on the classic strip Dondi. Good life.
http://www.tcj.com/irwin-hasen-dondi-wildcat-artist-dead-at-96/
http://bmj2k.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/dondi-orig.jpg

Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 05:13 (eleven years ago)

More:
http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2015/03/irwin-hasen-1918-2015.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/arts/irwin-hasen-comic-book-artist-and-dondi-illustrator-dies-at-96.html

Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 05:15 (eleven years ago)

Free bassist Andy Fraser, 62

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/andy-fraser-dies/

there can be only (onimo), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 20:21 (eleven years ago)

^^RIP, Fraser & Kirke=great rhythm section

Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 04:32 (eleven years ago)

Sam Charters, author of some of the best books on the blues I ever read as well as record producer for Lightnin' Hopkins, Country Joe, John Fahey etc:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/arts/music/samuel-charters-foundational-scholar-of-the-blues-dies-at-85.html?smid

cgi bubka (NickB), Thursday, 19 March 2015 14:14 (eleven years ago)

Shaw Taylor, the first man on British television promoting public crime-solving.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-31954540

the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Thursday, 19 March 2015 14:18 (eleven years ago)

Appeared on a Throbbing Gristle live album too.

Walking Close to Melton Mowbray (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:15 (eleven years ago)

Michael Brown, who wrote "Walk Away Renee": http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/arts/music/michael-brown-keyboardist-for-the-left-banke-dies-at-65.html?_r=0

Three Word Username, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 08:34 (eleven years ago)

Dr. George Fischbeck, one of the most entertaining people on L.A. area TV back in the day.

http://abc7.com/news/dr-george-fischbeck-longtime-kabc-weatherman-dies/572407/

WilliamC, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:15 (eleven years ago)

Awww, RIP Dr. George.

nickn, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:24 (eleven years ago)

RIP Lil' Chris - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-32038895

I have sung Ch-Ch-Ch-Checking It Out to amuse girls about a zillion times, and most of them never even knew ya.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttkkj9yBh3Y

Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 22:20 (eleven years ago)

http://louisvillemusic.org/blog/2015/03/20/steve-chili-rigot-dies/

Louisville punkrocker from the group the Endtables

curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 March 2015 04:00 (eleven years ago)

Gregory Walcott, star of Plan 9 and movies that cost even more.

"Ed Wood has etched my name forever in the annals of film history," he said a 1998 Filmfax magazine interview with writer Dwayne Epstein. "The thing that really bugs me is I will go to my grave not remembered for those meaty roles I did for the likes of John Ford, Raoul Walsh, Martin Ritt or Steven Spielberg but as the leading man in a film that many movie historians regard as the worst of all time. It's enough to drive a Puritan to drink!"

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-gregory-walcott-20150324-story.html

the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 19:42 (eleven years ago)

eternally muzzled by Army brass

the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2015 19:44 (eleven years ago)

Miroslav Ondříček, cinematographer for Milos Forman and Lindsay Anderson among others

http://deadline.com/2015/03/miroslav-ondricek-dies-cinematographer-behind-amadeus-was-80-1201400839/

the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 March 2015 04:02 (eleven years ago)

Gene Saks, director of stage & screen, including many of the most famous Neil Simon works in either medium, and also an ex-husband of Bea Arthur

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/30/theater/gene-saks-actor-and-director-of-stage-and-film-dies-at-93.html?smid=tw-nytobits&seid=auto&_r=1

Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 March 2015 04:17 (eleven years ago)

url says it all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/us/gary-dahl-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-dies-at-78.html

nickn, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 02:37 (eleven years ago)

Who will feed his rocks now?

IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 08:48 (eleven years ago)

Robert Z'Dar, star of Maniac Cop and many, many other B- and Z-movies. MST3K had a great time with him in Soultaker.

http://time.com/3766780/robert-zdar-dies-maniac-cop/

I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 12:12 (eleven years ago)

Cynthia Lennon :(

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6517153/cynthia-lennon-dead

I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 15:21 (eleven years ago)

:(

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:04 (eleven years ago)

Preston Ritter, drummer for the Electric Prunes.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/preston-ritter-dies/

nickn, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:26 (eleven years ago)

Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, 106, active from 1931 til this year.

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-manoel-de-oliveira-1908-2015

the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 April 2015 15:49 (eleven years ago)

Rev. Robert Schuller

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-robert-schuller-20150403-story.html

(File under "had no idea was still alive.")

I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 April 2015 16:28 (eleven years ago)

Seeing that guy gives me intense flashbacks of trying to find something else on the TV when I was a kid

joygoat, Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:06 (eleven years ago)

Oliveira and Schuller were both deadpool regulars.

poxy fülvous (abanana), Thursday, 2 April 2015 22:07 (eleven years ago)

Sarah Brady:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/us/sarah-brady-gun-control-activist-is-dead-at-73.html?_r=0

clemenza, Saturday, 4 April 2015 13:32 (eleven years ago)

Oliveira would be giving negative points in any deadpool for the last 6 years, surely

rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Saturday, 4 April 2015 13:36 (eleven years ago)

Original Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Bob Burns:
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0MV0OJ20150404?irpc=932

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 4 April 2015 21:36 (eleven years ago)

:(

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 April 2015 21:49 (eleven years ago)

Character actor Tom Towles:

http://www.rue-morgue.com/#!RIP-TOM-TOWLES-19502015/cjds/55219fe90cf2aa1811846d1a

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 6 April 2015 08:10 (eleven years ago)

I know I saw him in movies other than "Henry," but he was so goddamned creepy in that it colored everything else. Kind of like Ted Levine and "Silence of the Lambs."

I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 6 April 2015 13:50 (eleven years ago)

Wasn't he kind of a comedy actor too? I remember him being in Seinfeld.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 April 2015 13:54 (eleven years ago)

https://twitter.com/donavan/status/585501275317522434

Stan Freberg's son Donavan reporting that Stan has died today.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 19:09 (eleven years ago)

Sad to hear (and tbh, I thought he died a couple of years ago).

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 19:18 (eleven years ago)

James Best

http://www.jamesbest.com/jamesbest.com/Welcome.html

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 19:38 (eleven years ago)

Geoffrey Lewis (whom I just learned was Juliette's dad)

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/geoffrey-lewis-dead-clint-eastwood-juliette-lewis-1201467979/

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 04:30 (eleven years ago)

The new oldest person in the world (for about a week) has died.

nickn, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 04:57 (eleven years ago)

RIP Stan, James, Geoffrey :( :( :(

Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 08:30 (eleven years ago)

Richard Dysart

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-dysart-dead-la-law-787524

This has been a bad few days for "Oh that guy!" character actors.

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:58 (eleven years ago)

:(

It blew my mind when I realized as a kid that Leland McKenzie from "L.A. Law" was the crotchety doctor in John Carpenter's "The Thing."

I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 April 2015 20:10 (eleven years ago)

I was just thinking about LA Law the other day and looked up to see if Richard Dysart was still alive :-(

ailsa, Thursday, 9 April 2015 20:51 (eleven years ago)

Richie Benaud

http://news.sky.com/story/1461998/cricket-star-richie-benaud-dies-aged-84

ailsa, Thursday, 9 April 2015 23:04 (eleven years ago)

:(

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 April 2015 23:14 (eleven years ago)

Judith Malina, Founder of the Living Theater

in an awkward manor (doo dah), Saturday, 11 April 2015 01:01 (eleven years ago)

Viv Nicolson - pools winner, tabloid celebrity and cover star of Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-32275463

ailsa, Sunday, 12 April 2015 22:36 (eleven years ago)

Günter Grass

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/13/gunter-grass-german-nobel-laureate-dies-aged-87

cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Monday, 13 April 2015 10:00 (eleven years ago)

Stanley Kutler, historian who fought for release of Nixon's tapes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/stanley-kutler-watergate-historian-who-helped-obtain-nixon-tapes-dies/2015/04/08/dea3fb04-ddfa-11e4-be40-566e2653afe5_story.html

the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 03:23 (eleven years ago)


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