Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

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.

... apparently he has! Twice! We're reaching the stage where if a well known actor in the UK dies they'll be obits in the British press saying, "Despite the Oscars and Baftas he won, sadly he never appeared in Harry Potter film and so his career can be said to have been somewhat of a failure..."

Yup, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Harrows.

just need an actor that's been in a dennis potter, a harry potter and a sally potter

someone venn diagram that shit for me

And in this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potter_(TV_series)

Ha! We've just been on the same page. (Sadly couldn't locate any Dennis Potter that Robin Bailey had been in. Lowe I'm fairly sure not).

We're reaching the stage where if a well known actor in the UK dies they'll be obits in the British press saying, "Despite the Oscars and Baftas he won, sadly he never appeared in Harry Potter film and so his career can be said to have been somewhat of a failure..."

This will become known as Jude's Law

"Despite a career spanning three-hundred years, Sycamore Gap tree never achieved its dream to play the Whomping Willow from Harry Potter"

I am not aware of any Harry Potter film with a nude Kate Winslet...

Yet

Harry Potter and the Half-Hard Prick

"Draw me like one of your Beauxbatons girls."

Oh shit I am sure someone has already written that fanfiction and it's just a matter of adapting it for a screenplay.

Newt Scamander and the Boobies of Doom

dublin british eh

Just wait until “Marvel actors” like Robert Redford start passing away

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Bosom Manor

Dianne Feinstein

Which Harry Potter was she in?

Harry Potter and the Senate of Elders

Harry Potter and the Wizengamot of Gerontocracy.

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".

That's David Tennant's headline sorted, then.

(Also Dumbledore is one of the 2-3 biggest roles in Potter, it's the opposite of shocking that someone who played him in 6 films gets it mentioned)

Disgust rather than shock tbf.

dianne feinstein's obit-post muffled as ilxors continue to talk abt harry potter (who they do not support)

Feinstein's passing marred by the Schiff-Pelosi machinations to keep her in office until moment of death

Also by the world at large not appreciating Michael Gambon's uncredited cameo in Johnny English Strikes Again

Credited in my heart!

RIP Jon Fausty engineer on lots of Fania salsa releases and other Latin music over the decades. He won some Latin Grammys over the years.

https://x.com/richieperc/status/1707930185494884420?s=46&t=u2ZSlsY3trRV36IPP6jNDQ

Franny Lee, Man City stalwart from the previous time they were good.

RIP. Most people are familiar with "Look at his face, just look at his face", but not "A complete free-for-all".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YinglsjO4Kw

Those Fania records are all-time! RIP Jon Fausty.

And Michael Gambon!

I think all obits should tell us the deceased relationship to Harry Potter: "Harry Potter actor" "Harry Potter reader" "Harry Potter abstainer"

rip franny unfortunately the first thing that sprung to mind on hearing the news was

I can't go down
and I won't go down
I've spent 12 million quid on city
of the money that I've made
in the bog paper trade

I'd totally forgotten about his time as a toilet roll magnate.