Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

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Anthony Valentine, predominantly a TV actor who was in an incredible range of things, including Performance:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34982684

Italian actor Gabriele Ferzetti, whose credits include L'Aventurra and Once Upon a Time in the West:

http://westernboothill.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/rip-gabriele-ferzetti.html

Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 3 December 2015 00:15 (ten years ago)

Lost in the day's other news, Sandy Berger died.

phở intellectual (WilliamC), Thursday, 3 December 2015 00:56 (ten years ago)

salud Ferzetti

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 December 2015 02:46 (ten years ago)

http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/rip-mack-mccormick/

More famously, Mack spent many years on the trail of bluesman Robert Johnson, driving down the back roads of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, knocking on doors, and talking to hundreds of people, including a man who may have killed the bluesman. The search for Johnson took over Mack’s life, as he later wrote: “I’d become absorbed not as a matter of anthropology or aesthetics, but looking at him as a dark young fury that reveals something about the American experience.” Mack finally located the musician’s two half-sisters near Baltimore in 1972 and got the first photos of Johnson

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/arts/music/mack-mccormick-student-of-texas-blues-dies-at-85.html?_r=0

curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 December 2015 05:05 (ten years ago)

My mind was blown earlier this year when I was watching Machine Gun McCain on TV, decided to look up the film's Italian star only to discover I'd never made the connection that he--Ferzetti--was the guy in both L'Aventurra AND ...West

Boz Scaggs was Adele back in 1976 (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 December 2015 07:03 (ten years ago)

had forgotten he's Diana Rigg's dad in that Bond movie

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 December 2015 12:41 (ten years ago)

Haruki Murakami https://twitter.com/ShinchoshaJp/status/672381820785303552

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 3 December 2015 12:45 (ten years ago)

hang on, that might be fake ...

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 3 December 2015 12:47 (ten years ago)

twitter account has only been active for one hour, think it might be a wind-up

gazcom (NickB), Thursday, 3 December 2015 12:53 (ten years ago)

Tee hee

nickn, Thursday, 3 December 2015 20:23 (ten years ago)

Further discussion on the ILM STP thread, but Scott Weiland

Boz Scaggs was Adele back in 1976 (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 December 2015 06:55 (ten years ago)

woah, damn

gazcom (NickB), Friday, 4 December 2015 09:15 (ten years ago)

Thus sadly ensuring I will never not confuse him with Layne Staley.

Three Word Username, Friday, 4 December 2015 10:26 (ten years ago)

Yeah, me too. Saw someone posting RIP Scott Weiland on Facebook and figured it was one of those timehop things before realising I was thinking of Layne Staley.

ailsa, Friday, 4 December 2015 10:48 (ten years ago)

Oh shit yes you're right. I hadn't considered that they were two different people either.

thomasintrouble, Friday, 4 December 2015 11:02 (ten years ago)

Think we have a clear candidate for the "I always get those two confused" thread.

Anyway RIP Scott Weiland. 48 is no age really.

ailsa, Friday, 4 December 2015 12:02 (ten years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_De_Vlaeminck

StanM, Friday, 4 December 2015 17:10 (ten years ago)

robert loggia

mookieproof, Friday, 4 December 2015 22:29 (ten years ago)

one of my favorite character actors :-(

the late great, Friday, 4 December 2015 23:16 (ten years ago)

one of the best

"Fuck him. He was trash."

nomar, Friday, 4 December 2015 23:22 (ten years ago)

really scary in lost highway. rip

Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Friday, 4 December 2015 23:25 (ten years ago)

RIP Robert L. :(

Otago Imago (Tom D.), Friday, 4 December 2015 23:30 (ten years ago)

He really brought it to The Sopranos, not to diminish such a lengthy movie career, but Feech La Manna my abiding memory of him. RIP

xelab, Saturday, 5 December 2015 00:16 (ten years ago)

I watched the piano scene from big and feech lamanna arguing with tony soprano on yt just now. He was pretty great.

Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 5 December 2015 09:13 (ten years ago)

She wasn't anyone famous, but she was in my family. My grandmother, my last living grandparent, died last Saturday night. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/news-herald/obituary.aspx?n=margaret-l-dennison&pid=176729760&fhid=5093

Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Saturday, 5 December 2015 15:15 (ten years ago)

William McIlvanney

Otago Imago (Tom D.), Sunday, 6 December 2015 12:48 (ten years ago)

Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress best known for Babenco's magnificent 1981 film Pixote

http://ego.globo.com/famosos/noticia/2015/12/famosos-vao-velorio-de-marilia-pera-em-teatro-do-rio.html

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 6 December 2015 17:03 (ten years ago)

sorry phil

mookieproof, Sunday, 6 December 2015 18:26 (ten years ago)

Yes, my condolences, Phil. I'm all for posting personal RIPs in this thread, btw.

Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Sunday, 6 December 2015 18:31 (ten years ago)

bless you, Grandma

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 6 December 2015 18:46 (ten years ago)

Joe Dallesandro is reporting that Holly Woodlawn passed this afternoon.

Boz Scaggs was Adele back in 1976 (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 7 December 2015 00:14 (ten years ago)

https://www.queerty.com/holly-woodlawn-one-of-warhols-greatest-superstars-has-died-20151206

Boz Scaggs was Adele back in 1976 (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 7 December 2015 01:14 (ten years ago)

"Holly came from Miama, FLA..."

clemenza, Monday, 7 December 2015 02:00 (ten years ago)

Miami

clemenza, Monday, 7 December 2015 02:00 (ten years ago)

In other words: I wonder how many classic-rock stations will make note of this.

clemenza, Monday, 7 December 2015 02:02 (ten years ago)

Nicholas Smith, the final member of the O.G. Are You Being Served? Cast.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35023713

Boz Scaggs was Adele back in 1976 (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 7 December 2015 18:06 (ten years ago)

Jacques Denis, actor in films by Tavernier, Alain Tanner, Claire Denis

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Denis_(acteur)

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:59 (ten years ago)

john trudell

https://www.facebook.com/peltierdefensecommittee/posts/1644902819106021

donna rouge, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 03:07 (ten years ago)

Scottish journalist Ian Bell.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-35068783

Madchen, Friday, 11 December 2015 08:11 (ten years ago)

Big loss to the Herald, and Scottish journalism. I will miss his elegant, clever opinion pieces. Younger than I thought, too.

Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Friday, 11 December 2015 08:38 (ten years ago)

Honduran footballer Arnold Peralta

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-35068362

ailsa, Friday, 11 December 2015 09:43 (ten years ago)

basketball great Dolph Schayes

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/hall-famer-dolph-schayes-dead-87-article-1.2461463

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 December 2015 13:12 (ten years ago)

Marjorie Lord, sit-mom on The Danny Thomas Show

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-1212-marjorie-lord-20151212-story.html

http://toptiding.com/LWQpcOoNVS_s.jpg

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 December 2015 01:39 (ten years ago)

was that the first fat-comedian-married-to-hottie sitcom?

aaaaablnnn (abanana), Monday, 14 December 2015 08:58 (ten years ago)

Benedict Anderson died yesterday in Indonesia http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/12/13/world/asia/ap-as-indonesia-obit-benedict-anderson.html?_r=0

ogmor, Monday, 14 December 2015 10:54 (ten years ago)

RIP guitarist and very funny guy Adam Roth, of bile duct cancer, one month after being diagnosed.

Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2015 20:32 (ten years ago)

Jimmy Hill: Former Match of the Day presenter dies aged 87

Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 December 2015 14:00 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRvDQvT5MuM

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 December 2015 15:31 (ten years ago)

Facebook has apparently decided to kill off Peter O'Toole for a second time.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 19 December 2015 19:30 (ten years ago)

Kurt Masur

Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 December 2015 19:59 (ten years ago)


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