Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

was great in the good, the bad and the ugly

the resemblance is striking!

The Good, the Bad and the Cockney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAyT-xWrzdg
RIP, Luis.

Timmy Thomas

https://www.soultracks.com/story-timmy-thomas-dies

god, that gimme 5 video is so good

(xpost) "Why Can't We Live Together" has never been a personal favourite (heard it off the car radio a few days ago), but at the same time, I recognize it as one of the stranger and most striking hits of its day.

Love it.

RIP Timmy. The groovy and sprightly “You're the Song (I've Always Wanted to Sing)” (the title track of his follow-up album) left an indelible impression on me just when I started exploring soul music away from the (Dutch) charts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPtoB8akShA

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/12/entertainment/traci-braxton-dead/index.html

Traci Braxton

Test pilot Robert Cardenas
https://www.edwards.af.mil/News/Article/2963345/renowned-test-pilot-bob-cardenas-dies/

He's probably most famous as the pilot of the B-29 during Chuck Yeager's first flight faster than the speed of sound, but Cardenas was also the lead pilot for the Flying Wing.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/64/2015/09/flyingwing-9-640x411.jpg

incredible career. And 102 is not shabby at all. RIP

William Hurt

Jeez, wasn’t ready for that

I was looking at his filmography after hearing the news. It’s shocking how few of these I’ve seen or remember. For whatever reason the ones I’ve seen are ones where he had small roles.

I haven't seen that many of his movies, I don't think, but he's fantastic in Altered States and Body Heat and A History of Violence. He was a great character actor that Hollywood tried to turn into a lead because he was good-looking. When he could get that out of the way (like in the Amazon show Goliath, where he was heavily scarred), he could be really fucking good.

A good actor and a huge piece of shit who abused Marlee Matlin

I've always had a tough time figuring out that guy's acting. Sometimes he could be funny, or empathetic, or menacing, other times he was weirdly somnambulant, like he'd been hypnotized.

oh man, didn't know about the history of abuse. Not just Matlin but another ex. Terrible. Altered States was a favorite of mine in high school.

A pretty good sleeper William Hurt film is Eyewitness (1981), co-starring Sigourney Weaver

He was so briefly huge: the big white prestige actor of the High Reagan Era. Best playing recessive dudes; he didn't mind playing dim or even stupid characters without condescending to them, a difficult trick.

Lovd him in Broadcast News, making a character like that be likeable is quite a magic trick

my favorite of his was Kiss of The Spider Woman

but yeah, awful dude irl, the marlee matlin stories are really upsetting

A lot of the time, some of his most acclaimed performances, I found him off-putting. Loved him in Broadcast News and Smoke. Still remember when he was the big new thing, so this is a little sobering in terms of feeling old myself.

Great actor, awful person

Scott Hall, formerly known as wrestler Razor Ramon, is soon to be removed from life support.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/arts/music/timmy-thomas-dead.html

1973 soul hit "Why Can't We Live Together" a soulful, plaintive statement against the Vietnam War which he sang to his own accompaniment on the electric organ and drum machine.

Drake sampled that Timmy Thomas song and others did covers of it including Iggy Pop

Jazz singer Barbara Morrison.

Also the closing track on Sade's debut album xp

the song is also responsible for the Young Marble Giants sound if this, the only Timmy Thomas thread on ILM, is to believed

to *be* believed

Peter Bowles

Actor Peter Bowles, famous for starring in BBC comedy series To The Manor Born, dies aged 85

https://t.co/mbNXp4YZcD

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) March 17, 2022

ah yes the Bosom Manor prequel

I was so hungry for British sitcoms age 14-15 that I think I watched almost every episode of that thing while it was one of the two things on nightly 10pm offer from twin cities public tv

He played David Hemmings' agent/manager in Blow-Up!

Bruce Duffy cast the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as the leading man of his acclaimed first book. For his third and last novel, he made the French poet and libertine Arthur Rimbaud the star.  https://t.co/aRQtrqs0dP

— NYT Obituaries (@NYTObits) March 16, 2022

RIP Dom Di Fara, Brooklyn pizza master.

^ Legend

sorry, should read Dom De Marco, OF Di Fara's pizza.

Yeah, I only went a few times years ago but it was a great trek. The ordering was totally haphazard, the wait was a pain, but the pizza was just fantastic.

Akira Takarada (87), leading actor in many Godzilla films including the very first one in 1954.

Ah man, a shame. Absolutely a presence in those.

alaska congressman don young

also (american) football analyst john clayton

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

rip the greatest ponytail in sportscasting

one of the best ads they ever ran

Yeah by all accounts a real genuine and nice man, heard nothing but good things about him

Madeleine Albright, 84.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/madeleine-albright-obituary/index.html

Oh shit

I feel like I've heard her punditry fairly recently

Kissinger manages to outlast yet another monster.