Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Oh, RIP :(

That generation of French cinema giants is in its twilight. Hits me hard.

OTM. Something about old school cinephilia that still gets to me. One of the reasons I enjoyed my recent viewing of Monte Hellman's Road to Nowhere so much.

Something I often think about but can't really imagine is what a handful Bardot must have been for him during their brief relationship.

Duckman Creator Everett Peck

https://deadline.com/2022/06/everett-peck-dead-duckman-creator-was-71-1235047717/

I am heartbroken to share this..the @NewsHour’s beloved long-time Friday night analyst Mark Shields, who for decades wowed us with his encyclopedic knowledge of American politics, his sense of humor and mainly his big heart, has passed away at 85, with his wife Anne at his side. pic.twitter.com/d68SZiGQJf

— Judy Woodruff (@JudyWoodruff) June 18, 2022

RIP. he tried. i don't know if he was the right person to offset David Brooks, night after night on NewHours, for 20 years, but he tried i guess

Aww man, RIP

He was there well before Brooks, it was David Gergen before that, who was slightly less obnoxious

Lucille Cataldo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu3VMqgx2MQ

Brett Tuggle, Fleetwood Mac and David Lee Roth Band Keyboardist, Dead at 70. Cancer.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/brett-tuggle-fleetwood-mac-david-lee-roth-band-keyboardist-dead-1370965/

Jim Schwall, guitarist for Chicago's Siegel-Schwall Band. He was 79.

Apparently confirmed by his daughter on Facebook…disco and hip hop legend Patrick Adams. Producer of tons of classic underground NYC gems. Cloud One’s Atmosphere Strut and Disco Juice and Bumblebee Unlimited’s Lady Bug are just a few of the classics.

Oh no. RIP Patrick.

RIP Patrick Adams. What a year so far.

:( :( :(

Goose!

NFL legend Tony Siragusa has died at 55 years old, his former Baltimore Ravens teammate, Jamal Lewis, confirmed to TMZ Sports. https://t.co/RzY9wZ3xGu

— TMZ Sports (@TMZ_Sports) June 22, 2022

:( rip goose

Sad news. Massimo Morante, guitarist & co founder of Goblin has passed away..seen here wearing his red bandana💔 pic.twitter.com/YmKMvtmIi3

— GIALLO_GIALLO (@GIALLO_GIALLO) June 23, 2022

Look north presenter Harry Gration

"He had a real connection with the public who saw him as one of their own."

I don't think so!

God bless Harry Gration and god rest his soul. Supported the miners and a good man to the core. RIP.

— Rob Chapman (@rcscribbler) June 24, 2022

Sad news. Vicar to Dad's Army Frank Williams sadly passed away last night aged 90. He was also the Bishop in four series of You Rang, M'Lord? among many many acting credits. Frank will be greatly missed by his admirers around the world. RIP 1932 - 2022. pic.twitter.com/fnujJRGEpU

— Croft-com Mania (@Croft_comHQ) June 26, 2022

Is that only Ian Lavender left from Dad’s Army?

He was also the Bishop in four series of You Rang, M'Lord?

If that isn't a Bosom Manor spinoff then what is the point.

Hahahaha

I hated that show to absolute death as a kid, the total mouldy dregs of the Perry/Croft project.

No offence intended to the deceased, who I'm sure was a lovely pretend vicar

Turkish actor Cüneyt Arkin
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/cinema/veteran-turkish-actor-cuneyt-arkin-dies-aged-85

He's the better actor in Turkish Star Wars imo

https://www.vulture.com/2022/06/margaret-keane-sad-eyed-waifs-big-eyes-artist-dead-at-94.html

Sad eyed at loss of sad eyed waif painter.

https://i.redd.it/efbtjtepa3621.png

Mary Mara, an "Oh, hey, it's her" actress. Drowned while swimming.

I keep reading that as Mary Maria, Albert Ayler’s wife and collaborator.

Sonny Barger, the bigger-than-life godfather of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, equal parts brawler, bully, braggart, rule breaker and shrewd huckster of his own outlaw mystique, has died at 83.

...outliving Meredith Hunter by 53 years!

Abstract painter Sam Gilliam :-(
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1107915923/artist-sam-gilliam-died

Poet and artist Kenward Elmslie

Sad to hear the news that the poet and performer Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022), a key figure in the New York School of poets, has passed away. Here he is in a portrait by Alex Katz (1978) and with Joe Brainard and Anne Waldman (1969). pic.twitter.com/98qahQQKuW

— Andrew Epstein (@AndrewEpstein3) June 29, 2022

Margaret Valentine, mother of Kathy and a major supporting Character (with a capital C) in her recent-ish memoir.

https://kathyvalentine.com/2022/06/30/margaret-valentine-7-25-1937-6-29-2022/

Technoblade, minecraft youtuber.

Sonny Barger.

RIP to Gary Todd, who reissued many crucial Terry Riley releases on his Organ of Corti label. https://t.co/rNuQmz7fzX

— Marc Masters 🌵 (@Marcissist) July 1, 2022

Sad, and grateful for his work, such a great label. Had been meaning to post a correction on a thread here that claimed that he died years ago. RIP.

Okay, I've barely heard of TechnoBlade before today, but this video from his dad is pretty heart-wrenching:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62006852

https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Joe-Turkel-as-Lloyd-the-Bartender-in-The-Shining.jpg

Joe Turkel from Blade Runner & The Shining... dead at 94

I guess his shift at the Overlook can now begin, rest is pisco

Two great performances that maximize the impact of their screen time.

My kids were upset about Technoblade (lots of conversations about cancer & death from the 7-year-old) and after watching that video yeah I am a bit too.

xpost Looked at his filmography - He was in a whole bunch of stuff, including several noir films back in the 50's

Ralph Sonny Barger once offered his Angels to US Gov for service as "Gorillas" in Vietnam.Think he wrote directly to LBJ.
At the drive-in, I saw a what-if movie, where bikers did plunge into the jungle---and became involved with the residents of a village they were trying to protect---still the only movie I've seen in which Vietnamese were presented as actual people--very rare to see civilians at all.

That sounds a bit like The Losers from 1970

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mmbqZLjONws/VB5OI-5AQ_I/AAAAAAAAzzc/Ce9JSAr7RQE/s1600/PDVD_480.BMP

Nam Angels? It's the first thing I thought of.

Yeah, The Losers was sometimes billed as Nam Angels, and I think the latter title was also used for a later movie.

I was thinking about the later movie, but I think I was mixing them up in my head.