Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

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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.

It was no Doberman Gang.

Apparently it was re-titled Nam's Angels when release on video

Per wikipedia, it was actually shot in the Philippines using sets and crew from Too Late the Hero... at a time when 95% of biker movies were shot within 45 minutes of los angeles

xpost don't remember anything about it except what I said, but Vietnamese as people, living their civilian lives as best they could, that was and is a hell of a thing (they were pretty Other in Apocalypse Now, though that may have been a projection of/to reinforce Kurtz's freaked-out POV)(still)

Inventing the Afro pick AND being a pioneer of the Jheri Curl is an astounding resume. https://t.co/fR05gOq5BM

— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) July 2, 2022

Andy Goram:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61460438

RIP you useless hun bastard. Fuck Cancer forever seriously

In the Proclaimers song Cap In Hand, "Hibs goalie" was him, right? I will play that in tribute whatever

Peter Brook, influential theatre visionary, dies aged 97 https://t.co/Q6ibYGxkRA

— The Guardian (@guardian) July 3, 2022

Best in the game, working well into his 90s. His Hamlet with Adrian Lester was astonishing.

His Marat/Sade movie was too visceral for me to say whether I enjoyed it, exactly, but his King Lear was very good, whatever Pauline Kael had to say about it.

The Tightrope is a bit hard to find (used to be free on Amazon Prime), but it follows Brook in rehearsal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6johAzP2oI

“hammerin’” hank goldberg, former espn reporter and sportscenter fixture

Hank Goldberg, who worked at ESPN as an NFL reporter and handicapping expert for 17 years, died Monday on his 82nd birthday, his family confirmed. Goldberg had been in treatment for chronic kidney disease in recent years.https://t.co/iGal5YGB4c

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 4, 2022

Manny Charlton, founding guitarist of Scottish hard rock band Nazareth (he was with them from 1968 to 1990).

RIP

Now heaven is messing with a son of a bitch

RIP, a guitarist who didn't need to be flashy to get his point across