Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwe's Afro-jazz legend

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46976005

name'll be familiar if you listened to peel in the 80s

people who were born in the '20s still use 'admittedly', AF

Sure, but that's not part of the quote, right?

Hugh McIlvanney, Scottish sports writer for Guardian and Sunday Times, aged 84

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/25/hugh-mcilvanney-veteran-sports-reporter-dies-aged-84

James Frawley

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-frawley-dead-monkees-muppet-movie-director-was-82-1178797

(xp) RIP Hugh. Another case of people you thought were dead, though his brother is a case of people you thought were alive.

(xp) RIP James.

Dušan Makavejev, 86

Worried the rule of three is going to come into play with a-g filmmakers.

RIP. I should watch something of his beyond WR.

Hugh McIlvanney, Scottish sports writer for Guardian and Sunday Times, aged 84

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/25/hugh-mcilvanney-veteran-sports-reporter-dies-aged-84

― Dan Worsley, Thursday, January 24, 2019 10:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one of the greatest sportswriters to come out of the uk. i don't care for the gee-gees, one of his areas of expertise, but he was magnificent on football and boxing

iconic voice as well. a friend and i would send each other messages reading things like the lyrics to poker face in mcilvanney voice

RIP. I should watch something of his beyond WR.

― jmm, Friday, January 25, 2019 12:45 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

his eclipse boxset is pretty good, I really liked the case of the missing switchboard operator

I saw him introduce Switchboard Operator some years ago and he had a good sense of humor

Michel Legrand

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47013214

RIP. Great composer. Truth be told I went to see him play piano once and it was not my cup of tea as they say.

Been a healthy crop of notable deaths so far this year, and it's not even February.

I have lost my dearest friend and creative partner James Ingram to the Celestial Choir. He will always be cherished, loved and remembered for his genius, his love of family and his humanity. I am blessed to have been so close. We will forever speak his name.❤️ pic.twitter.com/TDJfpbbJWa

— Debbie Allen (@msdebbieallen) January 29, 2019

I guess his best wasn't good enough.

oof

https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2019/film/news/dick-miller-dead-dies-gremlins-terminator-1203124265/amp/

RIP dear Dick

Aww. RIP.

Anyone see the recent-ish doc about him?

noticed him in chopping mall last october, thought "i know that guy, who is he?" and imdb'd him. saw him again in gremlins a few weeks later.

a face created by a caricaturist

RIP :(

Aw, Dick Miller.

Watched Gremlins 2 last night as a memorial. Still delightful.

Jeremy Hardy RIP. Didn't know he was ill.

#Breaking Comedian Jeremy Hardy died of cancer early on Friday, his publicist Amanda Emery says pic.twitter.com/IqvpEEo8FR

— PA Showbiz (@PAshowbiz) February 1, 2019

I saw this earlier this year

Please someone tell me Jeremy Hardy has been hacked :( pic.twitter.com/t8mar6eNnJ

— Emmack (@emmackwrites) January 3, 2019

then he deleted it and posted this

Dear All, I am fine. Sent dopey shit out. Was half asleep watching NHS cancer drama with Alison Steadman called Care. Was waking and tweeting. My brain is now as sharp as it will ever be. The Prime Minister is Clement Atlee.

— Jeremy Hardy (@JeremyJHardy) January 5, 2019

I hate the fucking News Quiz guffawing bubble but I still liked him.

oh shit

Aw man he was v funny and frequently otm for a tankie

A man so bad at singing even Danny Macnamara could laugh at him. Still the highlight of song rounds in modern day ISIHAC. RIP.

"Frankly, I do not see my job as keeping our rulers on their toes; I’d rather see them hanging by their feet."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/apr/04/politicalcolumnists.comment

His opinions didn't always prove popular with his audience. In 2000, he was booed by members of the Just A Minute audience when he used the subject "parasites" to begin a rant against the royal family.

In 2004, Burnley Council cancelled one of Hardy's performances after saying in an episode of his Speaks to the Nation show that members and supporters of the British National Party (BNP) should be shot.

Hero

A quote from JH I still use on the reg, re bombing former Yugoslavia:

"When I say 'this will only make things worse', critics ask me 'well what would you do then?' To which my reply is: 'not make things worse'."

aww. will always remind me of sitting in the back of my parents car being forced to listen to radio 4 and laughing at him despite myself

one of the very few good ones on r4 :(

RIP

Hero

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 February 2019 10:10 (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, closing two parts of that BBC obit is back to back bangers

the only actual joke of his I can remember is about white Britons trying to make curry in the 70s, trying to make it more palatable by adding fruit and ending up making a trifle

Sad day, RIP JH.

Yes. 57 years old.

I'm just remembering last time I heard him on r4, he was briefly talking about the pitfalls of being an ageing lefty in a torycentric UK, in such a charming, self-effacing sort of way. I still think comedy is bad, but he was an exceptionally nice guy.

um. listening to Jeremy Hardy Feels It from 2017 and it's all about death and Linda Smith... (and so very dense, a joke per sentence, over hundreds of sentences)

my carbon footprint is mostly my odor-eaters...

https://metro.co.uk/2019/02/01/keeping-appearances-star-clive-swift-dies-aged-82-8426217/

Clive Swift, immensely talented British actor of yore.

Doctor Who Magazine contributor Benjamin Cook interviewed Swift about Mr Copper and Voyage of the Damned for DWM 391. During the course of the interview Swift questioned Cook's journalism credentials, dismissed questions, and commented on not being paid to participate. Swift cut off Cook's final question with the remark that "I know that you all think that this is a big world, this Who business. But it isn't. There are much bigger things than this." When Cook replied, "Maybe, but it means a lot to a great many of us," Swift terminated the interview.

https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Clive_Swift

Lol classic

His version of A Warning To The Curious with Peter Vaughan is essential.

Aw, good actor, RIP Clive.

... was married to Margaret Drabble, wtf!

Aw man he was v funny and frequently otm for a tankie

― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Friday, February 1, 2019 2:01 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was a trot not a tankie.