Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

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John Mahoney was between 52 and 63 when he was in 'Frasier'

This is crazy.

treeship 2, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 12:40 (eight years ago)

He was less than 15 years older than Kelsey Grammer.

Mahoney's character in THoBL was the world's worst songwriter, his wife (Kurtz) mentally ill, and his son planning to assassinate Pope Paul. So it was a "new theatre" black comedy, especially when the first production flopped in 1971.

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 12:45 (eight years ago)

Estelle Getty was 62 when she started playing Sophia Petrillo. Bea Arthur was 63.

maura, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 14:36 (eight years ago)

https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2018/02/05/paul-clipson-visionary-filmmaker-and-projectionist-dies-at-53/

Proper obit for Paul.

Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:25 (eight years ago)

John Perry Barlow

https://www.jambase.com/article/john-perry-barlow-grateful-dead-lyricist-died

...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:56 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_o5-fMQoE&

RIP Thomas Denis (aka Qebrus).

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:18 (eight years ago)

wow end of an era wrt barlow

maura, Thursday, 8 February 2018 02:03 (eight years ago)

i forget what his well username was

maura, Thursday, 8 February 2018 02:03 (eight years ago)

Another obituary from the other side of his career: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 8 February 2018 08:35 (eight years ago)

Lovebug Starski, 57.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:57 (eight years ago)

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/02/09/584488179/lovebug-starski-rapper-and-dj-who-stood-at-the-vanguard-of-hip-hop-dead-at-57

This obit says he was first to rap the term hiphop

curmudgeon, Friday, 9 February 2018 21:29 (eight years ago)

damn, Reg E. Cathey at age 59 per David Simon's twitter.
He'll always be first and foremost one of the hosts of PBS's Square One TV to me, but had a great run in the 2000s between Pootie Tang, the Wire, House of Cards, Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter, etc.

methanietanner, Friday, 9 February 2018 23:33 (eight years ago)

wow, way too young.

Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:45 (eight years ago)

John Gavin

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-gavin-dead-dies-psycho-spartacus-1202694312/amp/

...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:00 (eight years ago)

Reg E. Cathey was also a guest star on the greatest SVU episode ever.

tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:22 (eight years ago)

He played a homeless guy on regular Law & Order, too. He was great.

grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:37 (eight years ago)

Liam Miller, former Irish international footballer and player with Utd and Celtic among others

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 09:45 (eight years ago)

... Celtic, Utd, among others.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:14 (eight years ago)

If you must

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:28 (eight years ago)

John Gavin was Reagan's ambassador to Mexico as well as a boring actor

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 February 2018 13:54 (eight years ago)

Always got him and John Saxon mixed up.

WilliamC, Saturday, 10 February 2018 13:57 (eight years ago)

^^^^^

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 February 2018 13:58 (eight years ago)

Lol

Psmith, Pharmacist (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 February 2018 14:18 (eight years ago)

Johann Johannsson

https://deadline.com/2018/02/johann-johannsson-dies-obituary-the-theory-of-everything-composer-1202284591/

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 February 2018 17:38 (eight years ago)

Wow

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 18:04 (eight years ago)

Really shocking. Reports indicate he was found in his Berlin apartment yesterday, and that there'll be an autopsy, cause of death unknown.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 February 2018 18:31 (eight years ago)

RIP John Gavin - I read somewhere on Fbk that his passing now only leaves Vera Miles (aged 88) and Pat Hitchcock (89) still with us from the cast of Psycho.

Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 10 February 2018 19:01 (eight years ago)

sad that johannsson's obit has the theory of everything as his most famous work

adam the (abanana), Saturday, 10 February 2018 22:10 (eight years ago)

horrible

maura, Saturday, 10 February 2018 23:20 (eight years ago)

Ghanian singer Ebony Reigns

https://www.fashionghana.com/site/ghana-mourns-death-of-dancehall-afrobeats-artiste-ebony-and-two-others/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI1caSAjTgk

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 February 2018 23:36 (eight years ago)

http://www.wideopencountry.com/daryle-singletary-dies/

Oof, only 46.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:03 (eight years ago)

Per Damon Krukowski on Twitter, Pearls Before Swine's Tom Rapp.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 February 2018 16:47 (eight years ago)

Vic Damone

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8099139/vic-damone-dies-89

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:08 (eight years ago)

People you thought were.... RIP Vic.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2018 18:01 (eight years ago)

Tom Rapp, according to his daughter-in-law, on Twitter

too notch (stevie), Monday, 12 February 2018 20:39 (eight years ago)

(oh, missed your post there Ned)

too notch (stevie), Monday, 12 February 2018 20:40 (eight years ago)

Just heard about Reg Cathey yesterday--excellent in House of Cards, especially the big episode involving his son.

clemenza, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 00:38 (eight years ago)

Marty Allen--some other world, one I remember.

http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/marty-allen-died-dies-comedian-daytime-tv-favorite-1202696418/

clemenza, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 20:40 (eight years ago)

goodbye dere, Marty

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 20:45 (eight years ago)

BREAKING: #Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai dies in South Africa - MDC https://t.co/V2aCbYleFh pic.twitter.com/Mfb0etGKQ8

— Reuters Africa (@ReutersAfrica) February 14, 2018

mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 19:41 (eight years ago)

Kenneth Haigh, who played Jimmy Porter in the original Look Back in Anger production, and told George Harrison "You can be replaced, chickie baby" in A Hard Day's Night.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/feb/13/kenneth-haigh-obituary

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 February 2018 16:59 (eight years ago)

Peggy Cooper Cafritz, DC-area patroness of the arts.

https://wtop.com/dc/2018/02/peggy-cooper-cafritz-influential-education-and-arts-patron-dies-at-70/

Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Monday, 19 February 2018 00:50 (eight years ago)

As the obit notes, she fought against racism as a young student at George Washington university in the 60s and then later co-founded the Duke Ellington School for the Arts. For those 2 things alone she deserves kudos.

curmudgeon, Monday, 19 February 2018 06:34 (eight years ago)

Norm Rogers, drummer for the Cows, the Jayhawks and more besides

http://www.startribune.com/former-jayhawks-and-cows-drummer-norm-rogers-dies-of-cancer/474613843/

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 22:22 (eight years ago)

Boyd Jarvis, House music producer. https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=41107

Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 22:43 (eight years ago)

Billy Graham
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/billy-graham-dead_us_566e7e34e4b011b83a6bb479

and no link available yet, but Detective Chief Inspector Peter Jay, who arrested Muswell Hill Murderer, Dennis Nilsen.

Madchen, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 13:28 (eight years ago)

Nanette Fabray

http://deadline.com/2018/02/nanette-fabray-dies-stage-tv-comic-actress-was-97-1202301558/

...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 February 2018 22:54 (eight years ago)

Eddy Amoo

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-band-real-thing-star-14330919

Anybody who says You To Me Are Everything hasn't touched them is a liar.

Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 24 February 2018 01:38 (eight years ago)

rip eddy my man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDboC4mBYk

alien lames (NickB), Saturday, 24 February 2018 11:29 (eight years ago)

I see on the Stern’s music store & label blog that singer Medoune Diallo has died. He was in the great West African groups Orchestra Baobab and Africando.

http://sternsmusic.blogspot.com/2018/02/medoune-diallo-11021949-10022017-rip.html?m=1

curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 February 2018 15:42 (eight years ago)


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