Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

Xp yeah it's close enough that he counts in the toll

aw man. 63 year career.

Bobby "The Brain" Heenan.

Linking to Stanislav Petrov:

https://www.rt.com/news/403625-nuclear-soviet-officer-died/

Jake LaMotta

I assumed he was dead tbh

(Like, ages ago I mean)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2b/bf/a4/2bbfa492effca0eec14e5b514c9675f2.jpg

yeah he looks pretty old this photo of him on set with young man DeNiro in '79 or '80. 95 years old!

Yeah I mean obv I only know him from raging bull and I saw that a million years ago but I remember it being like "this dude was good at punching for like 30 mins then a BUNCH of awful shit happened and he ended his life a sad fat loser *aria plays*"

Didn't even occur to me to think of the guy being alive and continuing to live for several decades

I saw him in the audience of a comedy club tribute to his fellow Bronxer Larry "F Troop" Storch a few years ago.

Brother Joey survives.... as does his fiancee.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/jake-lamotta-raging-bull-boxing-legend-dead-96-article-1.3508624

Played a bartender in The Hustler:

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/1068673/Hustler-The-Movie-Clip-The-Lights-And-The-Scotch.html

wonder if that's his photo in that framed article over the booth they're sitting in

Actor Bernie Casey, 78.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/bernie-casey-revenge-of-the-nerds-actor-dead-at-78-w504691

Ah man.

"It's my theme music. Every good hero...should have some."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz-KwtKRBUY

^^^ he was so great!!

wonder if that's his photo in that framed article over the booth they're sitting in
― nomar, Wednesday, September 20, 2017 8:03 PM (three hours ago)

Could well be. There's a poster for one of his fights in the first Godfather.

William G Stewart, apparently.

RIP William G Stewart. A one-off character TV director and producer I worked with on many shows; 'Family Fortunes', 'The Price is Right' etc pic.twitter.com/KJXraRD6sj

— Jeremy Hoare (@TopTVCameraman) September 21, 2017

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka was a classic! RIP Bernie.

best remember BC for Melvin Van Peebles' miniseries The Sophisticated Gents, well worth tracking down.

Hi Dere author of this article.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/william-g-stewart-dead-fifteen-one-host-passes-away-aged-82-1640334

Lillian Ross, 99, lifer at The New Yorker. Def read Picture, cinephiles.

http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/lillian-ross-was-one-of-the-best-reporters-on-the-arts-life-itself.html

xp OMG

He seems to be their obit writer, most of his articles are obits

Charles Bradley

https://youtu.be/UD1eaRDY-q4

Liz Dawn

David Shepherd, artist

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/21/david-shepherd-obituary

is best known for wildlife pictures (see above) but his train pictures, from the last days of steam, often of decommisioned engines, are quite something.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7024/6733038819_1dc3653b2d_b.jpg

"As his career took off, he bought a crumbling Surrey farmhouse in 16 acres with a trout pond, and could boast that he had railway engines in his back garden: three of them, each a mainline brute of 120 tons"

Tony Booth. Actor and father of Cherie Blair.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41400441

RIP Vera :(

Jack Good, early UK rock n' roll manager/TV producer. Perhaps best known in US as the creator of Shindig!

Hugh Hefner at 91, per a crawl on TV just now.

What a run for that dude. It's all downhill from here, Hugh.

We must study his immune system

The Dead on Playboy After Dark (and everybody got dosed): https://vimeo.com/10535211 (starts at 3:34)

We must study his immune system

I'll save you the trouble: Three Stooges Syndrome

Sorry for your loss, Frederik.

Albert Innaurato, playwright of “Gemini” and “The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Playwright-Albert-Innaurato-Passes-Away-at-70-20170928

To lighten the mood and lift the spirits, fake news distributor Paul Horner. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/27/paul-horner-dead-fake-news-trump

well, his life's work was already complete

Albert Innaurato, playwright of “Gemini” and “The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Playwright-Albert-Innaurato-Passes-Away-at-70-20170928🕸

i saw Gemini on B'way. Danny Aiello had left tho.

(Redd is referring to this ubiquitous TV ad, which helped a no-star play to run 4 years)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz8p6-LconE

Jeff Daniels was an understudy!

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/gemini-4005

yeah, I wonder if I still have the program...

i read "Jeff Daniels" and panicked for a split second

Yeah, me too. Don't do that!

Agh sorry!

Nixon lawyer and Watergate bagman Herbert Kalmbach

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/herbert-kalmbach-most-mysterious-figure-in-the-watergate-scandal-dies-at-95/2017/09/29/9a9452e4-a56a-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html

He professed that he had understood the payments — later widely regarded as hush money — to be for “humanitarian” purposes.

“My actions in the period immediately following the break-in,” he said before the Senate Watergate committee in July 1973, “which involved the raising of funds to provide for the legal defense of the Watergate defendants and for the support of their families were prompted in the belief that such was proper and necessary to discharge what I assumed to be a moral obligation that had arisen in some manner unknown to me by reason of earlier events.”

Mr. Kalmbach described for the committee the manner in which the cash was distributed: with utmost secrecy, using aliases and containers that included a hotel laundry bag, and with the assistance of Anthony Ulasewicz, a former New York City police detective who made the deliveries.

Delusion is a helluva drug

it's really amazing how every time one of Dick's decrepit stewards dies, it brings back the early '70s to me like a Proustian madeleine