Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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he's doonstairs

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 4 January 2020 11:42 (six years ago)

Norma Tanega:

http://usa.inquirer.net/50263/norma-tanega-maker-of-60s-hit-walkin-my-cat-named-dog-dies-at-80?fbclid=IwAR3y6ICz_Q2GNLFBEEBGQdZTosrK1d7NcCzrXRTF6zf-777nKRA-N7SirEU

Fantastic:

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

― clemenza, Saturday, 4 January 2020 15:11 (six years ago)

John Baldessari:

RIP: John Baldessari, a giant of Conceptual art for 50 years, has died. He was 88. A full obituary will follow. https://t.co/CWIiwkIQyu
— Christopher Knight (@KnightLAT) January 5, 2020

― ... (Eazy), Monday, 6 January 2020 00:46 (six years ago)

Nancy Lewis, American manager/publicist for Monty Python, the Who, Hendrix, and Genesis, among others, in the ‘60s-‘70s.

https://deadline.com/2020/01/nancy-carol-lewis-jones-dead-monty-python-manager-the-who-jimi-hendrix-publicist-1202822557/

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 11:54 (six years ago)

Elizabeth Wurztel, 52, from cancer complications

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/elizabeth-wurtzel-prozac-nation-author-who-spurred-a-memoir-boom-dies-at-52/2020/01/07/fc1a040e-2fcf-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html

― Alba, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:17 (six years ago)

Elizabeth Wurtzel, sorry.

― Alba, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:18 (six years ago)

she had just been writing for New York mag again, that's a surprise to me

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:22 (six years ago)

Wow

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:57 (six years ago)

very sad :(

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 17:54 (six years ago)

Christopher Beeny, jobbing British actor probably best known for playing Thora Hird's son in In Loving Memory although he was also in Upstairs Downstairs and the last 10 years of Last of the Summer Wine.

― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 20:42 (six years ago)

Now I can no longer say Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up! about him and Christopher Timothy, as mentioned recently on the thread of that name :(

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:26 (six years ago)

It's Christopher Blake I confuse him with.

― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:42 (six years ago)

Errrrrrrrr, what was he in again? Don't tell me....

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:45 (six years ago)

... OK, two sitcoms I have absolutely no memory of, though I remember him, only 55 when he died :(

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:47 (six years ago)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71woVOFnmOL._SY445_.jpg

― calzino, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:49 (six years ago)

I fucking hated that crap when I was a kid!

― calzino, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:50 (six years ago)

take it to up the arse corner

― Death to (NickB), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:52 (six years ago)

lol!

― calzino, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:53 (six years ago)

in the pic to the bottom left it looks like Thora Hird got first dibs on the strap on and is giving it him hard.

― calzino, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:57 (six years ago)

rip

― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:59 (six years ago)

i guess this is the thread for tears after all

― Death to (NickB), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:09 (six years ago)

still not as painful as the other ilm tbf

― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:11 (six years ago)

The obituary thread is where to come for lolz, folks.

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:13 (six years ago)

if you can't laugh at the idea of corpse thora hird fucking another corpse with a dildo then this just isn't the thread for you!

― calzino, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:23 (six years ago)

stairlift to heaven

― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:42 (six years ago)

new year, similar UK unknowns dominating the rolls

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:26 (six years ago)

don't want to sic you but "uk unknowns" are in no way "dominating" the list in this thread thus far

― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:29 (six years ago)

idk morbs if a fella so much as looked at a can of film in 1947 he gets his due from yerself in the rip threads, no harm in the bar being low

i never even posted larry gogan today, like

― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:32 (six years ago)

howbout the last 3 hours xp

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:32 (six years ago)

there really is a vast world of dead britishes sitcom actors fucking each other with dildos that i know nothing of

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:35 (six years ago)

so... Jack Sheldon of "Schoolhouse Rock" fame

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/01/entertainment/jack-sheldon-dead/index.html

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:37 (six years ago)

theatre and film director/producer Jack Garfein (The Strange One, Something Wild (1961, with his wife Carroll Baker))

http://www.playbill.com/article/jack-garfein-acclaimed-director-and-producer-dies-at-89

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:43 (six years ago)

Holy shit Carroll Baker is still alive

― Josefa, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:20 (six years ago)

I saw her do a Q&A in the last couple years, after Something Wild

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:25 (six years ago)

Never saw that, know her from The Carpetbaggers and Harlow and Sylvia and the '50s things she was in

― Josefa, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:34 (six years ago)

Thought she just passed. Oh wait that was Sue Lyons. Guess I should post them on Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:42 (six years ago)

sorry Sue Lyon, no final ‘s’

― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:44 (six years ago)

Bosley Crowther thought the same

― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:47 (six years ago)

new year, similar UK unknowns dominating the rolls

'noted cincinnati bengals coach sam wyche, 74' et al being household names outside the US, of course

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 07:33 (six years ago)

Make America dead again

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 07:35 (six years ago)

I didn't hear about Larry Gogan - between him and Marian Finucane we could have a takeover.

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 08:04 (six years ago)

Buck Henry

https://deadline.com/2020/01/buck-henry-dead-saturday-night-live-the-graduate-get-smart-1202825337/

― Alba, Thursday, 9 January 2020 03:02 (six years ago)

aw man

― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 9 January 2020 03:13 (six years ago)

Aw RIP Buck

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 January 2020 03:14 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeE-Hkno9Ao

"Anything wrong, sir?"

― clemenza, Thursday, 9 January 2020 04:23 (six years ago)

"It's just not a lemon party without old Dick!"

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 January 2020 04:38 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biaTRgFKJ3I

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 January 2020 06:09 (six years ago)

"funny and with a stroke"

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 January 2020 12:02 (six years ago)

Science fiction author and editor Mike Resnick.

― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Thursday, 9 January 2020 15:30 (six years ago)

That guy did some good work. Surprised Malzberg outlived him tbh

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 January 2020 15:53 (six years ago)

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Dawn Wells, from Covid-19

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/dawn-wells-dead-gilligans-island-mary-ann-1234876755/

― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 20:12 (five years ago)

Claude Bolling, composer who scored some classic ‘70s French films including “Borsalino”, “Flic Story” and a ton of others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW3JT4yXDwU

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 20:12 (five years ago)

Mary Ann with the Shaky Hand.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dawn-wells-dead-mary-ann-gilligans-island-was-82-1149549

― clemenza, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 20:12 (five years ago)

(Missed C. Grissom's post.)

― clemenza, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 20:13 (five years ago)

Adolfo Quiñones, Dancer, Choreographer and Cultural Icon Known as Shabba-Doo, Dies at 65. (Was right under the Dawn Wells obit.)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/adolfo-quinones-dancer-choreographer-and-cultural-icon-known-as-shabba-doo-dies-at-65

― nickn, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 20:33 (five years ago)

Adele Rose, creator of Byker Grove

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55488255

― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 21:23 (five years ago)

Might be first woman to write on Coronation Street too, if my friend who is currently writing it has his facts right.

― scampopo (suzy), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 21:44 (five years ago)

Joe Clark, the NJ high school principal played by Morgan Freeman in the movie Lean On Me.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 21:49 (five years ago)

Friends and neighbors of mine went to Eastside HS under “crazy” Joe Clark and other friends were extras in “Lean On Me”!

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 21:57 (five years ago)

the reaper is filling out his quota for the year I suppose

― flappy bird, Thursday, 31 December 2020 02:42 (five years ago)

Frank Kimbrough, jazz pianist.

― calzino, Thursday, 31 December 2020 02:55 (five years ago)

just saw that, RIP

― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 December 2020 03:32 (five years ago)

Tommy Docherty

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55501754

― groovypanda, Thursday, 31 December 2020 16:54 (five years ago)

RIP - will always remember him like this:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/12/31/16/37457240-0-image-a-39_1609430508566.jpg

― kites aren't fun (NickB), Thursday, 31 December 2020 16:58 (five years ago)

:( RIP Doc

― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 December 2020 17:01 (five years ago)

Kimbrough put out a six-CD set of every Thelonious Monk composition in late 2018 that's well worth hearing. The full band was a quartet (sax, piano, bass, drums) but they subdivided a lot from track to track. Some are piano solos, some are sax/drums, like that.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 31 December 2020 17:09 (five years ago)

I didn't know much about him but did enjoy his Solstice album a few years back.

― calzino, Thursday, 31 December 2020 17:12 (five years ago)

Oh, RIP Tommy D!

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 December 2020 17:39 (five years ago)

Not sure how Tommy Docherty managed to reach 92, to be honest. He must have been the oldest living man from the Gorbals ever.

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 December 2020 17:50 (five years ago)

I had no idea that Byker Grove lasted that long, I thought it was just 4 or 5 years. Many years after the last time I saw the show, I saw Purely Belter late one night and it seemed like it had a good chunk of Byker Grove's cast and it was such a weird time capsule into such a specific time and place.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 31 December 2020 18:48 (five years ago)

Eugene Wright, Dave Brubeck Quartet bassist, 97

A final piece of sad news in the last hours of this worst of all years...
The bassist of the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, the great Eugene Wright, has died. He was 97. pic.twitter.com/ST92HuUG38
— Philip Clark (@MusicClerk) December 31, 2020

― Alba, Thursday, 31 December 2020 19:15 (five years ago)

MF Doom, 49

― maura, Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:30 (five years ago)

aww no RIP

― calzino, Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:35 (five years ago)

Vaudeville Villain is classic!

― calzino, Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:36 (five years ago)

Damn he died 2 months ago!

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:38 (five years ago)

Fuck. :(

― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:39 (five years ago)

what!

― Cheese flavoured Momus (wins), Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:46 (five years ago)

wtf

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:48 (five years ago)

COME ON

― flappy bird, Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:59 (five years ago)

Noticed that Frank Kimbrough Monk recording but haven't tried it yet. Seems like a really good band.

― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 December 2020 22:03 (five years ago)

Oh, wow. Too young... this is terrible. RIP.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 December 2020 22:18 (five years ago)

MF :’-(

― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 31 December 2020 22:18 (five years ago)

Phyllis McGuire (Feb 14, 1931 – 29 Dec 2020) The youngest of the harmonizing ‘The McGuire Sisters’ died at her estate in Las Vegas at age 89.

― nickn, Friday, 1 January 2021 07:09 (five years ago)

McGuires' version of "Sincerely" is all time

― Josefa, Friday, 1 January 2021 07:27 (five years ago)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55508606

Mark Eden; British actor most widely known from a long role in Coronation Street but also Marco Polo in the oldest missing Doctor Who story.

― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Friday, 1 January 2021 14:23 (five years ago)

This year...

― Mark G, Friday, 1 January 2021 14:33 (five years ago)

I think I posted him in the People You Were Surprised to See Were Still Alive thread last year, he was 92!

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Friday, 1 January 2021 14:41 (five years ago)

Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Friday, 1 January 2021 14:49 (five years ago)

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