Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Just saw that disco producer Don Ray died last month.

truly surreal that it took two years (!!) for anyone to get around to noticing that a major figure in the watergate scandal had died.

lyra mckee, journalist, 29 years old

Just saw that disco producer Don Ray died last month.

RIP, responsible for some great tunes.

Billy McNeill

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41685748

German actor Hannelore Elsner has died at the age of 76. Best known for her performance in the 2000 film 'Die Unberührbare (No Place to Go)', and deserved better roles than she usually got on German TV.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/nachruf-auf-hannelore-elsner-16153863.html

just found out last week that Tom Goodkind (of the NYC bands US Ape and the Washington Squares) died a couple months back

http://www.tribecatrib.com/content/tom-goodkind-activist-and-band-leader-was-local-renaissance-man

Ken Kercheval

https://www.thewrap.com/ken-kercheval-dies-dallas-actor-cliff-barnes/

Ted Kelsey, one of the great unintelligible radio actors and also Baron Greenback in Dangermouse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48036700

Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor, 87. RIP.

He was a fine Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe in Tous les matins du monde. Such a wonderful film (and novel).

Mark Medoff, playwright of Children of a Lesser God

David Picker, United Artists exec who helped get the film careers of the Beatles and James Bond rolling

man someone sure is busy today

Dick Rivers, French rocker.

Fred Foss, DC jazz sax player and flutist who started in NY and played with Lionel Hampton, Tito Puente, Hugh Masekela and more has died (per Facebook and twitter)

This was mentioned on I Love Basketball, but it should be here too:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/john-havlicek-celtics-legend-who-stole-ball-dies-79-n998771

His career box shows amazing consistency in virtually every category, especially games played: from 71 to 82 every season for 16 years, no partial seasons. Looks like he never had an injury.

Michael Wolf - only 64, one of my favourite photobooks is his (now rather expensive unfortunately) one on HK.

Michael Wolf: The man who found beauty in megacities

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/12978/production/_106625167_dd7351c9-41e2-4539-9ff9-9c2666fd4d98.jpg

Appropriately huge lol.

Josef Šural, Czech footballer.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/josef-sural-death-czech-footballer-killed-minibus-crash-alantaspor-player-killed-kayserispor-dies-a8890641.html

[Appropriately huge; lol.

Just got to tidy that up for you

And make my own mess ...

John Singleton

Jesus, that's rotten

other reports saying he hasn't died but is very seriously ill.

Stevie Chalmers, only the guy who scored the winner in the '67 European Cup Final ffs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48091417

Singleton being pulled off of life support today. Only 51.

https://t.co/Xcy5fsrxrV

bummer; he had a lot more to say.

Stop-motion animator Bruce "The Amazing Mr." Bickford, 72. Did some great work with Frank Zappa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqp71DOJ3aY from 2:39 on, but Inca Roads is great, so watch the whole thing.

Stevie Chalmers, only the guy who scored the winner in the '67 European Cup Final ffs.

Who's left? Craig, Clark, Wallace, Auld, Lennox, Fallon (sub gk).

Beaten home and away by Dundee Utd in that quintuple season so, y'know, couldn't have been *that* good.

Michiro Endo, singer for seminal Japanese punk band The Stalin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3OMoHX7qzA

xp. the arabs also beat barcelona home and away that season

Boon Gould, founding guitarist w/Level 42

Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca himself:

https://www.facebook.com/thewookieeroars/posts/2375211675851881

ahhrrrrrrr i p

"Uncle" Russ Gibb

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8509569/russ-gibb-detroit-grande-paul-is-dead

Jah Stitch, the 'original ragamuffin'

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/02/original-raggamuffin-jah-stitch-pioneering-reggae-vocalist-dies-aged-69

:(

a bit amazed at the attention paid to peter mayhew, an actor whom few could pick out of a lineup

but the way he stood there

When you play a character that well known over the course of 40 years nobody really cares what the actor looks like. That's not what he got paid for.

(Also "few" is doing a lot of work there. SW fandom is not some tiny niche of people.)

he appeared at a lot of fan conventions & was very fan-friendly, even as his physical health waned - i think that probably accounts for the recognizability factor too

I didn't realize just how tall he was--7'3''!

all my words do a lot of work

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/YEP00Z36T3tZrQq--rg52gIH0qY=/0x0:2200x1418/920x613/filters:focal(924x533:1276x885)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/63725216/peter_mayhew_chewbacca.0.jpg

Ned has let himself go a bit.

Hey man, you never know how that beard's gonna look until you let it grow all the way in.

xpost -- See here.

Where? We can't see it Ned

So sad.

a bit amazed at the attention paid to peter mayhew, an actor whom few could pick out of a lineup

― mookieproof, Friday, 3 May 2019 17:29 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he played a big role in our childhoods

Art Kunkin, founder of the LA Free Press.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/2019/05/03/l-a-free-press-founder-art-kunkin-recalled-alchemist-life/3658911002/?fbclid=IwAR2YKUPeHvsaTcbHnydmTgNN2pGl43tzzYypWb_MPAl6ku2V57kAc7aRMt4