Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Thankyou

experimental filmmaker and canyon cinema founder bruce baillie

Filmmaker, @canyoncinema founder, and @SFCinematheque cofounder Bruce Baillie has died.

“One of the most perfect films that I’ve ever seen runs a total of three minutes.” @ManohlaDargis: https://t.co/FXOmwrzEKh

+ Ross Lipman, “Dr. Bish Remedies” (9’40”) https://t.co/NUjTCGEj9n pic.twitter.com/WbGe1UEbdp

— The Daily (@CriterionDaily) April 10, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/832007472/bassist-andy-gonzalez-dies-at-69

Andy Gonzalez was a legend. Rockin this funky jam tonight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ze4xTXI-xU

Travis Nelson, drummer

*Nelsen

Timothy Brown, ‘M*A*S*H’ Actor and NFL Player, Dies at 82

https://www.thewrap.com/timothy-brown-mash-actor-nfl-dead-dies-dementia-82/

His M*A*S*H character was nicknamed Spearchucker wtiaf

^^Fred Williamson played the character, a 1950s pro quarterback/surgeon, in the movie. They retconned the character from the show when they discovered surgical units weren't actually racially integrated during the Korean War.

Checking his imdb, I'd forgotten that Brown also had a bit role in the M*A*S*H movie, making him one of the handful of actors from it who also did the show. He would reunite with Altman to play the Charley Pride analog Tommy Brown in Nashville.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72V_uz9iL_8

Wow, Ōbayashi died around the exact time my daughter and I were trying to figure out how to email him through his visiting professorship at the Nagaoka Institute of Design. HOUSE is her favourite film.

X-post -bassist Andy Gonzalez dying young two years after his brother Jerry Gonzalez died young makes me sad. Their brand of salsa and Latin Jazz was smart and passionate.

The whole Fort Apache Band is gone now, with one dropping each of the past three years.

Larry Willis last year.

RIP John Horton Conway, 82, brilliant mathematician and flamboyant personality who made key contributions to group theory and many other topics. He died in Princeton of Covid-19. https://t.co/WZzjjCGtke

— Graham Farmelo (@grahamfarmelo) April 11, 2020

Theater producer, director, teacher Wynn Handman, 97:

I cannot tell you how many interviews I've conducted where Wynn Handman has been mentioned— his advice, his generosity, his life lessons. Add IT TAKES A LUNATIC to your watchlist this weekend. May his memory be a blessing. ❤️ https://t.co/nnGhwBWwIN

— Ashley Steves 🏳️‍🌈 (@NoThisIsAshley) April 11, 2020

Hélène Châtelain, comédienne (La Jetée) and film maker

Tristesse départ #HeleneChatelain réalisatrice, scénariste, comédienne,écrivaine, traductrice et membre de la #tribu #ArmandGatti #ParoleErrante #LaJetée #ChrisMarker #Goulag pic.twitter.com/gkLEnqyel8

— Joelle Morel (@JoelleMorel11) April 11, 2020

RIP

Racing driver Stirling Moss has died at the age of 90

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/apr/12/stirling-moss-dies-aged-90-formula-one-racing

Stirling Moss was still alive?

Buxton born Tim Brooke-Taylor, the comedian and actor, has died this morning from COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/4UtaEWrrOI

— BBC North West (@BBCNWT) April 12, 2020

awww bollocks :(

That's a bit rubbish :(

On 24 March 1975, Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn, literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers" in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a black pudding-wielding Bill Oddie (master of the ancient Lancastrian martial art "Ecky-Thump") in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of "Hoots-Toot-ochaye." After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the settee and died from heart failure.[27] His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant.

I'd never heard this story about him before!

omg brilliant, but as somebody who gets unpleasantly light-headed and short of breath when i laugh too hard also a bit scary

Aw, that is great.

RIP TB-T. I hope he has his shiny shoes on.

I think TB-T wrote my favourite joke. Mahatma Ghandi, the spiritual leader of India who rose from humble beginnings as a cloakroom attendant when he was known as Mahatma Coat.

a tribute from a friend!

oh shit that is terrible

news

I know VG is gonna feel this one pretty badly, I’m right with you.

the goodies basically raised me, this is awful

Because I only heard him on the radio post-Goodies, I always imagined TB-T to be the same age as he was back then. So he was 79? Wow. Very sad news indeed.

He was a contemporary of John Cleese & co at Cambridge, guess he must have been in his 30s when the Goodies were big

nooooooooo

oh man this sucks

Well today sure sucks.

Peter Bonetti
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52261413

just saw that :(

ffs

RIP Blakey :(

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33914037

14 August 2015

... you know, I wasn't sure but someone posted it on Facebook.

RIP Blakey :(

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33914037

― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), 2020年4月13日 星期一 下午 11:23 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

14 August 2015

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), 2020年4月13日 星期一 下午 11:32 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

this celebrity death should’ve been ahht five years ago

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/jimmy-webb-of-trash-vaudeville-i-need-more-has-died/

From cancer, 62 years old Jimmy was a buyer at Trash & Vaudeville clothes store in NYC and pal of Iggy Pop, Jim Jarmusch and others. Punk, glitter, hard rock fashion guy

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Radio_pioneer_Gil_Bailey_dies_from_COVID-19_

Gil Bailey, Jamaican who lived in NYC area and dj’d a reggae show for years on AM radio

Famed actor Malcolm Dixon, 66, died 9 Apr 2020.
Strutter in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits, an Oompa Loompa in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, an Ewok in Return of the Jedi, and roles in Flash Gordon, The Dark Crystal, Willow, & Labyrinth. #cryptokubrology @CryptoLoren pic.twitter.com/jGOpDTQw4S

— Loren Coleman (@CryptoLoren) April 15, 2020

X-post - an occasional ilx -er tells me that dj Gil Bailey was once on small listener-funded WHBI out of New Jersey right before Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack in the early 1980s on Friday nights. Mr Magic later moved to big commercial NY radio, while Bailey moved to AM radio

Lee Konitz

I loved that album he did with jimmy giuffre..RIP Lee

i saw konitz at a company week in the mid 80s, blithely negotiating derek b's militantly free improv his way, and tbh he was the best thing abt the week and one of the best live shows i ever saw

:-(

(marcello just told me he was in the same audience, we didn't know each other back then)