Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

I like "Cherish" okay; "Never My Love" I love.

'Never My Love' rules, 'Windy' is pretty great as well, in a cheery sunshine california way

David McCallum! What a run.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/david-mccallum-dead-ncis-man-from-uncle-1235734772/

Sally Draper in mourning.

Kenn Thomas, conspiracy writer and publisher of Steamshovel Press, 65
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2023/09/KennThomasObit.html

I realise that if it might be your sort of thing it is probably already your sort of thing, but McCallum is amazing in Sapphire & Steele.

i only really know him as Ducky on NCIS - RIP

Just learned from the LL message board that CohenD2, who posted here as govern yourself accordingly, has passed away.

I also found this remembrance by Neal Pollack:
https://bookandfilmglobe.com/creators/remembrance/daniel-cohen-rip

― jaymc, Monday, September 25, 2023 8:27 PM (fifty-three minutes ago)

RIP David McCallum. He was 90 but, you know when people say about someone they look 20 years younger, well, he actually looked 30 years younger!

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZmUwMmI0YzQtOTc5Mi00NjZjLWI1Y2YtZGExYjZmMTBjMzJkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDU2NjgyMg@@._V1_.jpg

RIP Terry Kirkman, wrote and sang some of the Association's best songs. There's some good interviews with him out there, seemed like a good guy. Here he is on the story that the Association turned down "Macarthur Park":

It just so happened that one day Richard Harris was at Pink’s Hot Dogs in Hollywood. I had just heard him on the air telling this story about the assholes who turned down this great song. I’m at Pink’s, and I look up and there he is, sitting and eating a hot dog sitting across the patio from me. I thought, “Well, here I go.” I stood up and I walked over, and I’m standing above him which is the wrong idea to do with a man like Richard Harris, and I said, “I’m a member of the group, the Association, and you told a story again on the air that’s absolutely not true.” He essentially said, “I’m going to give you three seconds to get the fuck out of my face.” I thought… “I’ll leave.”

hard to choose from david mccullum highlights. first thing i remember noticing him in was the invisible man tv series, which freaked me out a bit, the way he'd take those bandages off and just disappear (thanks to the miracle of colour separation overlay)

I realise that if it might be your sort of thing it is probably already your sort of thing, but McCallum is amazing in Sapphire & Steele.

I happened to be living in the UK the year S&S debuted and (as a 9-year-old) I loved that show so much. McCallum quickly became one of my favorite actors, even though I think the only other things I saw him in were his role in The Great Escape and a so-so Disney movie called The Watcher in the Woods. Still never seen a single episode of U.N.C.L.E. (or NCIS for that matter). About a decade ago I got the Sapphire and Steel box set and watched the rest of the series. Striking that I found it nearly as spooky as a grown-up as I had as a kid. Anyway, R.I.P. to a great Glaswegian.

I remember seeing McCallum as Stanley Baker's kid brother in Hell Drivers (1957).

Also in two great Outer Limits episodes.

yes! Hell Drivers has a hell of a cast

i can't be sure now whether i first became aware of him in The Invisible Man or from The Great Escape or from other movies. i do know he was one of the handful of actors i just thought were cool and interesting from a very early age and if he was in something i'd want to watch it. i loved him, basically.

I think The Invisible Man was my first encounter with DMcC. Funny how so many of those 1970s NBC sci-fi shows were cancelled after one season, if that (essentially replacing each other) but seem to lodge in the memory. Gemini Man was, of course, the same thing, except with a digital watch and a Triumph bike. Then Man from Atlantis, Fantastic Journey, etc... They were likely serialised in Look-In for longer than they were on the telly.

(many xposts) thx, mookie. I wasn't sure where else to post that. D hadn't posted here regularly in a while, but he popped up on the How to with John Wilson thread just a few weeks ago. I didn't know him well, but he seemed like a good dude.

the memories of Invisible Man, Gemini Man etc for me are probably down to them being on the BBC on a Friday evening when i was allowed to stay up later

He made 4 albums with David Axelrod in the 60s.

The feature-length pilot of The Invisible Man was shown on BBC1 (except for viewers in Wales) at 6:50pm 48 years ago today! (Followed by Dad's Army and The Liver Birds). Dropping into a 7:10pm slot thereafter. In direct opposition to Space: 1999 on Granada (debuted same day), which would explain why I didn't see that until it was repeated.

He made 4 albums with David Axelrod in the 60s.

Yep just ask Dre.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT86t8psd/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dqr3lhrhrE

:O at Axelrod/McCallum

Pete Kozachik, the pioneering visual effects artist and cinematographer who brought his unique style to stop-motion animation classics including “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Corpse Bride,” “James and the Giant Peach,” “Coraline” and more, died Tuesday, Sept. 12, at his Bay Area home due to complications related to primary progressive aphasia. He was 72 years old

have just listened to this from 2016 though, and mccallum sounds like a real jerk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b070hn0y

doubles and triples down on a rape scene in his book, left the uk because it felt like was becoming a socialist country, thinks trump tells it like it is...

sad to hear about govern yourself accordingly, though i didn't know the guy. i remembered him on here pretty well though and he seemed to be a solid dude.

brooks robinson, baseball legend

That's a real loss.

xxp isn’t there a dedicated thread for the passing ILX fallen? had the same sentiments but couldn’t find it.

Oh shit, okay...I saw a post from someone on FB about a Daniel Cohen passing and didn't put two and two together until just now.

xpost I don't think there is a dedicated ILXors obituary thread.

Michael Gambon

#Breaking Actor Sir Michael Gambon has died peacefully in hospital aged 82, his family said pic.twitter.com/JaQmeTfB0y

— PA Entertainment (@PAshowbiz) September 28, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/sep/28/michael-gambon-star-of-harry-potter-and-the-singing-detective-dies-aged-82

As usual you could be the greatest British actor of your generation but if you appeared in a Harry Potter film for even 5 minutes you become a "Harry Potter actor".

they knew what they were signing up for

RIP

the cook, the thief, his wife and harry potter

That’s extraordinary, my sig other and I were watching The Singing Detective earlier this evening and marvelling at his brilliance.

If I had a button which would erase any and every trace of Harry Potter from this world, I would do it without a second thought.

Read...another...fucking...book [slams fist down]

meh get over it

Harry Potter and the Triggering Obits

blotter

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/28/famous-sycamore-gap-tree-at-hadrians-wall-found-apparently-cut-down

Sycamore no more

The next mopey T Swift album

If I know sycamores, it’ll have sprouted a dozen new shoots by the end of the week. Bloody impossible to kill.

As usual you could be the greatest British actor of your generation...

Off topic but: Sheeit, I remember about a decade in which every movie had Jim Broadbent in it. It seemed like you could literally not make a movie without him being in it.

1991: Enchanted April.
1992: The Crying Game.
1994: Bullets Over Broadway; Princess Caraboo.
1997: The Borrowers; Smilla's Sense of Snow.
1998: The Avengers.
1999: Topsy-turvy.
2001: Bridget Jones's Diary; Moulin Rouge; Iris.
2002: Gangs of New York.

But has he been in Harry Potter? Let's get serious here.