Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

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shit, seymour cassel, a classic "that guy"

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 8 April 2019 20:15 (seven years ago)

^^^literally said this aloud when i saw the news

mookieproof, Monday, 8 April 2019 20:16 (seven years ago)

really thought he was gone already

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 April 2019 20:26 (seven years ago)

I used to think he'd died after shooting Rushmore, but then I saw him on a Boston Public ep in 2000 or so playing a teacher who'd faked his death, which was a funny way to be set straight on the matter.

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 April 2019 20:44 (seven years ago)

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/seymour-cassel-dead-dies-rushmore-1203183354/amp/

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 April 2019 20:53 (seven years ago)

A cool, neat footnote in Cassell's career is his appearance--alongside Alex Rocco--as a henchman in the Batman/Green Hornet episodes.

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 April 2019 21:01 (seven years ago)

Had one of these as a kid:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0758/8457/products/029_0387e290-aebe-4786-88cc-951def1ca03f_large.JPG?v=1463100113

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 April 2019 21:57 (seven years ago)

He’s the guy who sets up Ben Gazzara in Killing of a Chinese Bookie right?

flappy bird, Monday, 8 April 2019 22:57 (seven years ago)

RIP Seymour. Thought he was long dead tho.

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2019 22:58 (seven years ago)

Richard Cole - last surviving Doolittle Raider
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/obituaries/richard-cole-dead.html

Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 08:12 (seven years ago)

Sandy Ratcliff, actress, best known for Eastenders but best remembered for "Family Life" and "The Final Programme".

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/sandy-ratcliff-dies-aged-70-eastenders-fans-pay-tribute-as-soap-airs-following-actresss-death-a4113726.html

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X_WqXOJbJf8/XKzy6RueTVI/AAAAAAAAzXE/QpsCqImE-ywVx9Zq858404LdmCohwMTvgCLcBGAs/s640/sandy-ratcliff-schaut-ernst-und-raucht.jpg

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 11:12 (seven years ago)

You can add "mother of the guy who runs Iron Fist magazine" to the résumé.

Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 12:10 (seven years ago)

"Twenty-One" stooge Charles Van Doren

moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 21:03 (seven years ago)

Hurt yourself a little so your enemies won't hurt you a lot. See also the Comics Code Authority.

Bonus spoonful of "write rules that say your competitors shouldn't be allowed to compete" on the last one.

blokes you can't rust (sic), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 22:28 (seven years ago)

Earl Thomas Conley

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2019/04/10/country-singer-earl-thomas-conley-dies/3425157002/

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 April 2019 00:15 (seven years ago)

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/seymour-cassel-dead-dies-rushmore-1203183354/amp🕸/


He once featured in a dEUS videoclip. (The singer is a massive Cassavetes fan.)

nathom, Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:38 (seven years ago)

Ian Cognito, probably one of Britain's most challenging comedians and peer with Sadowitz, died onstage (literally) in Bicester last night. Won awards in the late 90s but seemed happy to just be a comedian's comedian.

Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Friday, 12 April 2019 10:45 (seven years ago)

https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/7036/news-ian-cognito-dies

Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Friday, 12 April 2019 10:46 (seven years ago)

The video down the bottom doesn't suggest he'll be missed!

(Does Jimmy Carr have 'risky brutal humour'? What does he do with it?)

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 12 April 2019 11:01 (seven years ago)

other comics who died onstage: Dick Shawn and Parkyakarkus (Albert Brooks' father)

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 April 2019 11:13 (seven years ago)

tommy cooper, too

arli$$ and bible black (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 April 2019 11:14 (seven years ago)

Blimey, used to see him back in my "Comedy Gig-Going" days - he was really good!

I dunno, what can you do? The price of staying alive, I guess.

Mark G, Friday, 12 April 2019 11:19 (seven years ago)

tommy cooper, too

Appropriately enough Jerry Sadowitz had a routine about this - and some horse that died running the Derby.

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Friday, 12 April 2019 12:35 (seven years ago)

(american) football player and coach (bengals, packers) forrest gregg

mookieproof, Friday, 12 April 2019 14:12 (seven years ago)

Tommy Smith, Liverpool FC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47913937

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Friday, 12 April 2019 21:26 (seven years ago)

virulently racist piece of shit who leaves the world a richer place for his having left it

Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 April 2019 22:36 (seven years ago)

I did not know about that. But yes, checks out :(

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/03/howard-gayle-being-liverpool-first-black-player-was-difficult

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 April 2019 22:46 (seven years ago)

google his interview with Dave Hill, warning it's exceedingly unpleasant

Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 April 2019 22:54 (seven years ago)

Gary Stewart, Veteran of Rhino Records and Apple Music, Dies at 62

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/gary-stewart-rhino-records-apple-music-dies-1203188602/?fbclid=IwAR1oDF_TelOhb0J6ODMkyHXtFzONQQthWpLj-fJ4Dv-_29pTJowHlfTeNmc

nickn, Friday, 12 April 2019 22:57 (seven years ago)

Avant-guitarist and Curlew member Davey Williams, 67:

https://guardiansofguitar.com/2019/04/08/davey-williams-1952-2019/

Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:31 (seven years ago)

Bibi Andersson

mumsnet blvd (wins), Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:59 (seven years ago)

Oh no.

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:00 (seven years ago)

aw man RIP

flappy bird, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:14 (seven years ago)

We named our cats Harriet and Bibi. Our Bibi also went first :(

Michael Jones, Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:09 (seven years ago)

RIP :(

Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:26 (seven years ago)

Scottish newspaper cartoonist Malky McCormick, best known for his Billy Connolly Big Yin strip in the Sunday Mail (which also featured him as Wee Man) and then the following lightly satirical stuff (when Billy had fallen out with the Record about something and refused his likeness).

Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, 15 April 2019 13:19 (seven years ago)

Paul Raymond from UFO

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 15 April 2019 15:27 (seven years ago)

SF/fantasy writer Gene Wolfe

The Carjackers Quickly Dumped ILX Once They Saw What Was Inside (WmC), Monday, 15 April 2019 16:13 (seven years ago)

Scottish newspaper cartoonist Malky McCormick, best known for his Billy Connolly Big Yin strip in the Sunday Mail (which also featured him as Wee Man) and then the following lightly satirical stuff (when Billy had fallen out with the Record about something and refused his likeness).

People you thought were dead. RIP Malky.

https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article14330233.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_THE-BIG-YIN-CARTOON.jpg

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:57 (seven years ago)

I thought you'd be the one guy who definitely knew who he was.

You might even say I was Lucan out for you. *

*niche joke

Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:31 (seven years ago)

i remember his drawings from the record, though the specific big yin strip must be from before my time

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:49 (seven years ago)

You might even say I was Lucan out for you. *

I almost did.

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:02 (seven years ago)

david brion davis, historian of slavery

mookieproof, Monday, 15 April 2019 19:53 (seven years ago)

SF/fantasy writer Gene Wolfe

No! Fuck, this one hurts. RIP.

pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 07:10 (seven years ago)

Les Reed, songwriter, composer of "Delilah", "It's Not Unusual", "There's a Kind of Hush" et al.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47948530

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 11:34 (seven years ago)

Kazuhiko Katou aka Monkey Punch, most famous for writing and drawing the Lupin III manga

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:54 (seven years ago)

Georgia Engel, most know for playing Georgette on the Mary Tyler Moore show.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713892952/georgia-engel-sweet-voiced-star-of-mary-tyler-moore-show-dies-at-70

nickn, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:01 (seven years ago)

Kazuhiko Katou aka Monkey Punch, most famous for writing and drawing the Lupin III manga

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, April 16, 2019 10:54 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark

oh man rip

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:03 (seven years ago)

it'd hard to play a wide-eyed innocent for laughs and not be boring; she was masterful

xp

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:03 (seven years ago)

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sl3-117-2109_large.jpg

Skylab/Space Shuttle scientist-astronaut Owen Garriott
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/skylab-and-space-shuttle-astronaut-owen-garriott-dies-at-88/

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 21:13 (seven years ago)


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