Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

John Morris, composer of most Mel Brooks films

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-morris-blazing-saddles-and-young-frankenstein-composer-dies-at-91-1202679605/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7-wqGbamZc

That track is one of my Halloween playlist favorites.

it's a lovely piece. as is this

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

i will cry such a river when/if mel brooks or carl reiner pass

it is a better world just knowing that they're out there somewhere watching a bad action movie together in one of their houses

https://i.imgur.com/pG26Qyd.jpg

polish footballer stan terlecki, who was the 1981-82 major indoor soccer league player of the year with the pittsburgh spirit and briefly played with the cosmos

http://www.nycosmos.com/news/2017/12/30/remembering-stan-terlecki

was also something of a dissident, which i did not know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok%C4%99cie_Airport_incident

award-winning investigative journalist Robert Parry

Thank you to @samrob12 for writing an obituary of Robert Parry for the New York Times that treats Parry honestly and seriously https://t.co/1stZnZlJUZ

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) January 30, 2018

http://gerryanderson.co.uk/jeremy-wilkin-died/

Jeremy Wilkin, who voiced Virgil Tracy in Thunderbirds and Captains Ochre and Black in Captain Scarlet, and numerous TV credits including Blakes 7, UFO and Doctor Who.

need to read more of parry's work -- everything i've seen has been v good

Mark Salling, former "Glee" star convicted of child porn possession, via apparent suicide.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/mark-salling-glee-actor-dead-at-35-w516136

oh no :(

I read a couple of his books, dude was so great. Full of firey passion

Huh?

I mean. Like. Child porn.

That may have been a case of xpostitis imho

yeah sorry my oh no was for Robert Parry

Roommate I've ordered two of the kiddyfiddlers books

Uh....too late

I was confused for a while there myself.

Porn star Jerry Butler, 58, supposedly of pancreatic cancer. He worked a lot in the 70s and early 80s, then wrote a book, Raw Talent, which pissed off a lot of people in the business, so work kinda dried up. Apparently, he moved back to the East Coast after that and became a bus driver in Brooklyn. He was married to Lisa Loring, who played Wednesday Addams on The Addams Family TV show.

that's a life

Dennis Edwards of The Temptations, one day ahead of his 75th birthday (via Twitter).

:((((

Too soon. :(

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/obituaries/dennis-edwards-former-temptations-lead-singer-dies-at-74.html?action=click&module=In%20Other%20News&pgtype=Homepage&action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage

Screenwriter David Sherwin (The Mick Travis Trilogy)

https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/02/david-sherwin

His daughter was a colleague of mine at Edgy Style Mag - very well-spoken but grew up skint.

oh hell, i have O Lucky Man out from the library. Perhaps that's my Super Bowl sorted, then.

Drummer Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, who played with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, George Duke, Eddie Henderson, Santana, and many others, particularly in the 1970s.

I was just reminded on Twitter that Chancler is the drummer on Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean."

That'll be how the press will be remembering him, then.

The first two of the Mick Travis trilogy are among my favourite films of all time. RIP.

Louis Zorich, stage/TV actor ("Mad About You," Uncle Ben opp Dustin Hoffman in Death of a Salesman) and husband of Olympia Dukakis

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-louis-zorich-20180202-story.html

#BREAKING ‘Frasier' Star John Mahoney Dead at 77 via @TMZ https://t.co/QCZTiUj0oc pic.twitter.com/CrWTiSPuJ0

— Anthony Dominic (@alloveranthony) February 5, 2018

Aw. He was a local staple here. Used to be seen around all the time.

Oh no :-(

not confirmed yet but reading reports of experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson. His work with Grouper is amazing.

vimeo.com/109943175

fuck, nevermind https://www.gofundme.com/paul-clipson-family-memorial-fund

John Mahoney was also great as the Faulkner character in Barton Fink - “Where’s my honey?” - and as the out-of-tune dad singing along to “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” in Say Anything.

I could have sworn Mahoney died years ago. I must be thinking of another similar-looking character actor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonzBvi97qI

Paul Clipson - a criminally unsung luminary of the moving image - has died. His images, layers upon layers of light and energy and feeling has been an inspiration.
Very sad news. pic.twitter.com/3721ZHdLUg

— Scott Barley (@ScottBarleyFilm) February 5, 2018

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

Bad day for TV dads/grampas. Dakin Mathews, get thee to a doctor pronto.

Actually meant to post the lead up to that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8M7lSEJD4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hi59dtP60k

Great comment about Mahoney

A great actor, gentle man and wonderfully private person in our celebrity-nutty world, telling me some 20 years ago, "I used to crave publicity. I now turn almost everything down. I would rather walk across broken glass." https://t.co/L9QkwwwNQf

— Rick kogan (@rickkogan) February 5, 2018

Rest in peace, John Mahoney. So much I could say, but I think this captures so much of why I love him. Martin Crane's message for future generations: pic.twitter.com/lZlM665M6y

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) February 5, 2018

my heart sank when reading that

And had flat out forgotten he was General Rogard in The Iron Giant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l4m3S3k-pg

Oh man, John Mahoney RIP!

I first saw him (I think) in his Tony-winning role in this John Guare revival, opposite Swoosie Kurtz and 20-y.o. Ben Stiller. Great production, you can probably find the TV version shown on PBS somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8mQJWEWCPw