John Nott
― soref, Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:02 (ten years ago)
don't know how I missed this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586573/The-awfully-racy-confessions-Maggies-minister-raging-libido-John-Nott-reveals-fancied-PM-rotten-saved-Falklands-together.html
― soref, Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:04 (ten years ago)
i was shocked to see tommy steele on the poster for a show at the bristol hippodrome a few months ago.
― mark e, Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:37 (ten years ago)
Robert Hardy (90 years old)
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Friday, 10 June 2016 13:55 (ten years ago)
Sheldon Harnick
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 10 June 2016 18:32 (ten years ago)
Judge Wapner!! (96)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:51 (nine years ago)
Della Reese...just turned 85.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 July 2016 04:40 (nine years ago)
Francesca de la tour. There was a history of Rising Damp on a few days back. I thought I'd heard she'd died years back but when it wasn't mentioned I looked her up and seems she's still with us.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 7 July 2016 07:05 (nine years ago)
Yeah, she still appears in movies every so oft.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 July 2016 09:09 (nine years ago)
I saw her younger brother Andy do comedy in the '80s, supporting Rik Mayall. He was a better comic actor than stand-up, I think.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 7 July 2016 10:43 (nine years ago)
Wonder what her politics are these days, used to in the Workers' Revolutionary Party.
― They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 July 2016 10:48 (nine years ago)
june whitfield
― coygbiv (NickB), Thursday, 7 July 2016 12:41 (nine years ago)
looks like she's never been off the telly though, which shows how up-to-date i am on things
― coygbiv (NickB), Thursday, 7 July 2016 12:43 (nine years ago)
Is She In the Ab Fab movie?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 7 July 2016 13:28 (nine years ago)
Yep. At 90.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 7 July 2016 13:57 (nine years ago)
Frank Ifield. Actually not that old, only 78.
― They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 July 2016 14:04 (nine years ago)
Wow, I had Frank Ifield down as my parents' generation at least, if not 5-10 years older. I'd have guessed 90.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 7 July 2016 14:15 (nine years ago)
Harlan Ellison.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 4 August 2016 00:10 (nine years ago)
That constant background humming you can hear is Ellison's perpetual self-promotion machine. I will NEVER die.
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 4 August 2016 00:20 (nine years ago)
IT will never die. Fuck.
fuck i always figured you were a harlan ellison sock JM
― we're gonna live in spatula city (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 4 August 2016 00:45 (nine years ago)
Dr. Ruth
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 6 August 2016 17:47 (nine years ago)
Speaking of which, I only discovered this week that this bit of WTFness existed:
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/one-woman-or-two-1987
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 6 August 2016 18:29 (nine years ago)
Brian Rix
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 6 August 2016 22:47 (nine years ago)
Still going
(I actually didn't realise he was in the news today on the subject of euthanasia. :/ )
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 6 August 2016 22:51 (nine years ago)
Brian Rix. No fucking way.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 August 2016 23:38 (nine years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1uvVa11cFE
― the pinefox, Monday, 8 August 2016 19:07 (nine years ago)
for some reason i always mixed Brian Rix up with Desmond Wilcox, which is one of the reasons i thought Brian Rix was very dead
― the Zenga bus is coming (Noodle Vague), Monday, 8 August 2016 19:13 (nine years ago)
Nanette Fabray is 95. You could have a cast reunion of the 1939 film The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex and you'd have at least two invitees: Nanette Fabray and 100 year-old Olivia de Havilland
― Josefa, Monday, 8 August 2016 21:01 (nine years ago)
This just happened to me. Was reading a thing about Keeping Up Appearances and thinking it unusual they hadn't mentioned Patricia Routledge's recent death. Which apparently only happened in my mind. I am CONVINCED there was loads of stuff on the news about her and what a brilliant credible actress she was when I only knew her from KUA - am I thinking of someone else? Fairly sure I'm not confusing her with Cilla...
― kinder, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 20:48 (nine years ago)
http://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/steven-hill.jpg
:(
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 20:51 (nine years ago)
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 25 August 2016 03:55 (nine years ago)
sergio aragones. not even that old!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 25 August 2016 04:27 (nine years ago)
RIP Rudy Van Gelder, thought he was already dead for some reason
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:31 (nine years ago)
Likewise
― I Don't Sound Like Nobodaddy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:41 (nine years ago)
Toots Thielemans too tbh
― I Don't Sound Like Nobodaddy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:42 (nine years ago)
Did another big engineer of his era die in the last few years?
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 25 August 2016 22:19 (nine years ago)
Cosimo Matassa comes to mind.
Which reminds me, Dave Bartholomew is still around.
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 August 2016 22:29 (nine years ago)
Roy Barraclough
― soref, Saturday, 27 August 2016 13:10 (nine years ago)
Bill Maynard
― nate woolls, Saturday, 27 August 2016 13:18 (nine years ago)
would like to read this. always wondered if it's where Echo and the Bunnymen got the title from?
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tZHrE-TOL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 27 August 2016 13:22 (nine years ago)
Gene Wilder (RIP)
― Ludo, Monday, 29 August 2016 19:55 (nine years ago)
so i am like 1 day to late in posting this :P
He hasn't made an appearance at the cinema in 25 years, in fairness.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 August 2016 19:58 (nine years ago)
fuck, Brian Rix died less than two weeks after he was mentioned upthread
― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 16 September 2016 15:26 (nine years ago)
Roger Whittaker
― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 16 September 2016 15:27 (nine years ago)
Little game here where I'll say "I wonder if Buddy Hackett is still alive?"
BRB
― pplains, Friday, 16 September 2016 17:29 (nine years ago)
Died 13 years ago. OK THEN.