Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

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ailsa, Thursday, 25 June 2015 19:26 (ten years ago)

Farewell Mr. Steed

curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 June 2015 20:20 (ten years ago)

Have never seen the Avengers but know the dude as Sir Denis Eaton-Hogg in "Spinal Tap": "And so say all of us... 'tap' into America!"

Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 25 June 2015 20:38 (ten years ago)

RIP

passive-aggressive rageaholic (snoball), Friday, 26 June 2015 17:23 (ten years ago)

Regnad Kcin

I wonder where Ruth is?

in an awkward manor (doo dah), Saturday, 27 June 2015 02:02 (ten years ago)

Jack Carter, from some long-gone world I shared with my parents in front of the TV.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/29/comedian-jack-carter-dies-93

clemenza, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 02:18 (ten years ago)

The Jack Carter interviews on Classic TV Showbiz are so great:
http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-jack-carter-part-eight.html

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 18:51 (ten years ago)

i can't believe he did a production of Fiddler on the Roof

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/arts/television/jack-carter-comedian-who-brought-his-rapid-fire-delivery-to-tv-dies-at-93.html

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 20:58 (ten years ago)

Leonard Starr, creator of the great On Stage comic strip:

http://www.newsfromme.com/2015/06/30/leonard-starr-r-i-p/

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4019/4647796115_cceb846ecd_z.jpg

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 17:48 (ten years ago)

Architect Donald Wexler, Palm Springs Mid-Century Modernist.

http://curbed.com/archives/2015/07/01/donald-wexler-retrospective.php

nickn, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 20:01 (ten years ago)

Val Doonican, Irish crooner, cardigans, rocking chair

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33363938

arbiter of sorrow (aldo), Thursday, 2 July 2015 09:53 (ten years ago)

:-(

ailsa, Thursday, 2 July 2015 12:19 (ten years ago)

Theodore Weesner, novelist. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/books/theodore-weesner-author-of-the-car-thief-dies-at-79.html

Read his terrific _The Car Thief_ last year, but I'm not at all familiar with his other work.

July retires into a shrubbery. (Øystein), Thursday, 2 July 2015 13:02 (ten years ago)

Sergio Sollima, director of The Big Gundown

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/rip-spaghetti-western-director-sergio-sollima-20150702

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 July 2015 14:02 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRo6YVN48lI

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 July 2015 14:04 (ten years ago)

Those Wexler homes are all kinds of gorgeous. Houses of that style with those floor-to-ceiling windows simply don't exist on the east coast mid-Atlantic, and steel framing is all too rare (as every fire reminds us).

Lee626, Thursday, 2 July 2015 14:25 (ten years ago)

Burt of Burt's Bees

aaaaablnnn (abanana), Monday, 6 July 2015 08:30 (ten years ago)

Producer Jerry Weintraub, 77.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jerry-weintraub-dead-producer-dies-806941

nickn, Monday, 6 July 2015 23:03 (ten years ago)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/amanda-peterson-dead-cant-buy-806971

Actress Amanda Peterson, best known for the 1987 romantic comedy Can't Buy Me Love, has died. She was 43.

Her father told TMZ the actress was found it her Greeley, Colo. home on Sunday. He said and official cause of death is unknown, but that "she had some illness and a sleep apnea problem that may have contributed."

Johnny Fever, Monday, 6 July 2015 23:20 (ten years ago)

Masabumi Kikuchi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jAEetkw6vU

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 July 2015 22:04 (ten years ago)

ken 'the snake' stabler

mookieproof, Thursday, 9 July 2015 22:13 (ten years ago)

the kenny stabler report has been retracted

polyphonic, Thursday, 9 July 2015 22:24 (ten years ago)

Poet James Tate:

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/07/friends_colleagues_mourn_passi.html

... (Eazy), Thursday, 9 July 2015 22:38 (ten years ago)

xpost: it's unretracted & now confirmed by his family + Oakland

;_;

commence the Coors-ing

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 July 2015 02:03 (ten years ago)

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/13230192/ken-stabler-former-oakland-raiders-quarterback-dies

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 July 2015 02:04 (ten years ago)

Pour one out...

http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/1935/482980_1.jpg?v=8C659044AE31270

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 July 2015 02:26 (ten years ago)

https://themoviejudge.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/ryan-gosling-thumbs-up.gif

Johnny Fever, Friday, 10 July 2015 02:29 (ten years ago)

Christian Audigier

tokyo rosemary, Friday, 10 July 2015 13:23 (ten years ago)

RIP Omar Sharif

holger sharkey (Tom D.), Friday, 10 July 2015 14:07 (ten years ago)

Awww RIP

The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Friday, 10 July 2015 14:07 (ten years ago)

Very sad. RIP.

error: unclean shutdown (suzy), Friday, 10 July 2015 14:16 (ten years ago)

beautiful man rip

feargal czukay (NickB), Friday, 10 July 2015 15:41 (ten years ago)

very sad, RIP

goole, Friday, 10 July 2015 16:05 (ten years ago)

My contemporaries and classmates included King Hussein of Jordan, several Jordanian, Egyptian, Syrian and Saudi boys who were to become ministers, prime ministers and leading businessmen, as well as such glamorous figures as Michel Shalhoub, head prefect of the school and chief tormentor when I was a relatively junior boy, whom everyone has seen on screen as Omar Sharif.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n09/edward-said/between-worlds

goole, Friday, 10 July 2015 16:06 (ten years ago)

http://playbill.com/news/article/roger-rees-stage-actor-made-famous-by-nicholas-nickleby-dies-at-71-351533

Roger Rees, famous to fans of the theater and also to fans of Cheers. R.I.P.

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 11 July 2015 08:03 (ten years ago)

Oh yikes, Robin Colcourt!

Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Saturday, 11 July 2015 08:09 (ten years ago)

He was great in West Wing too

Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Saturday, 11 July 2015 08:09 (ten years ago)

Lord John Marbury and Robin Colcord two brilliant characters from two of my favourite ever TV shows :-(

ailsa, Saturday, 11 July 2015 10:36 (ten years ago)

he and his partner were in the nyer a few years ago: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/backstory-2

sad

mookieproof, Saturday, 11 July 2015 19:33 (ten years ago)

Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo and programmer of Earthbound, Kirby, Balloon Fight etc etc

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 13 July 2015 01:06 (ten years ago)

RIP Iwata, you were more important to me than you should've been

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 July 2015 02:52 (ten years ago)

RIP

passive-aggressive rageaholic (snoball), Monday, 13 July 2015 18:16 (ten years ago)

Scottish photographer Joseph McKenzie

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-33537969

ailsa, Thursday, 16 July 2015 13:59 (ten years ago)

Hearing that Aubrey Morris has died, can't find any news agency verification yet.

arbiter of sorrow (aldo), Thursday, 16 July 2015 16:49 (ten years ago)

Yep, heard that from someone who works at the BFI.

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 16 July 2015 17:33 (ten years ago)

The Guardian has it: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/16/aubrey-morris

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 16 July 2015 19:05 (ten years ago)

was all like 'he looks familiar' but couldn't place him. then wikipedia delivers:

the dimwitted Golgafrinchan captain who was eternally taking a bath

Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Thursday, 16 July 2015 22:48 (ten years ago)

Entertaining memoir of Aubrey Morris here - my favourite bit:

The following day I called and got his answering machine. We played phone tag for a day or so until I finally caught him at home. This first conversation I had with him was slightly uncomfortable because of what he managed to say within the first few seconds of chatting…. “Oh before we go on are you planning to bugger me?..I mean, it’s been so long since I’ve had a really good shag.”

http://69.195.124.61/~filmsinr/2009/05/05/camp-david-may-2009-aubrey-morris/

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 18 July 2015 16:13 (ten years ago)

Alex Rocco aka Moe Greene aka Charlie Polniaczek has died aged 79 according to his daughter's Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206450487294272&set=a.1112250699766.17825.1631869925&type=1&permPage=1

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 19 July 2015 15:11 (ten years ago)


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