Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

Liu had been locked up by the Chinese for 11 years. A German and an American doctor who recently visited and examined him in a hospital in the north-eastern city of Shenyang both said he would be able to travel abroad.

But Chinese medical experts insisted that he was too ill to travel

terrible

mathematician maryam mirzakhani, aged 40

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40617094

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/arts/music/obituary-ray-phiri-dead-graceland-guitarist-stimela.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

Ray Phiri, the South African guitarist who reached an international audience backing Paul Simon on the albums “Graceland” and “The Rhythm of the Saints” and who founded Stimela, a widely acclaimed, long-running band that confronted apartheid, died on Wednesday at a clinic in Nelspruit, South Africa. He was 70.

A family friend and spokesman, Paul Nkanyane, announced the death and said that the cause was lung cancer.

The African National Congress, now South Africa’s ruling party, said in a statement: “Phiri was a voice for the voiceless and a legend of our time. An immensely gifted composer, vocalist and guitarist, he breathed consciousness and agitated thoughts of freedom through his music.”

George A. Romero, 77

fuck

George Romero.

https://images.moviepilot.com/images/c_limit,q_auto:good,w_600/ranking-the-10-scariest-kids-in-horror-films-ever-313840/ranking-the-10-scariest-kids-in-horror-films-ever.jpg

He was only 27 when he made Night of the Living Dead. RIP

Gotta quote Ebert's famous review:

The kids in the audience were stunned. There was almost complete silence. The movie had stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying. There was a little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, who was sitting very still in her seat and crying.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-night-of-the-living-dead-1968

I used to wait on him when I was a bank teller. Nicest guy. RIP.

Awwww, man, I'm feeling that one. RIP.

noooo :( :( :(

i feel this one so hard, love him

And this just after news of a new psuedo-Dead movie (Romero-scripted but not directed) and Arrow's announcement of a nice bluray set of his immediate post-NOTLD films.

I mean half of his filmography is firmly in my all-time top 100. Dude was a giant.

otm

Well this is a crap day all around

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/martin-landau-dead-ed-wood-811318

Aww.

^^Honestly thought he'd already died.

RIP

:((

FUCK THIS SHIT!!!!

This was one ridiculous good looking man from the start.

never forget Martin Landau's first career as a cartoonist for the Daily News pic.twitter.com/VHzN9gPV5P

— priscilla page (@BBW_BFF) July 17, 2017

wow <3

Trying to think who he looks like in that picture. Liv Tyler maybe.

The guy who played the Facebook twins?

Hootie Johnson, who opposed allowing women to become members at Augusta National Golf Club, dies at 86. https://t.co/xzBUaEBu1T pic.twitter.com/c2C8rmmhJ7

— NYT Sports (@NYTSports) July 17, 2017

nice

https://doctorwhowatch.com/2017/07/17/trevor-baxter-1932-2017/

Trevor Baxter, best known as Professor Litefoot in the Doctor Who serial Talons of Weng-Chiang.

Canadian actor Harvey Atkin, aka Morty from Meatballs

http://www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/north_essex_news/15426589.Actress_Deborah_Watling__who_played_Doctor_Who_s_second_assistant__has_died__aged_69/

Deborah Watling, Doctor Who companion Victoria Waterfield in the first half of the Patrick Troughton era.

for posterity: Chester Bennington, 41

John Heard (eff "Home Alone actor" btw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFhK8axOFs8

runnerup in the JH career: Chilly Scenes of Winter

Bought the Twilight Time Blu-Ray of Cutter & Bone last month. I had no idea he was 72.

Wow, John Heard. Just watched "Cat People" (which was terrible). Older than I thought he was.

very good as sleazy desperate cop in sopranos

But also home alone actor

I think I've seen Big more than any other thing he was in, so I'll forever remember him as the shitty ex-boyfriend yuppie guy. (By all accounts, he was wonderful and beloved.)

i have no memory of him in Big or Awakenings

"Sopranos" role was good, yes

C.H.U.D!

Heard was set to be a massive star at the end of the 70s if i remember the stories right. kinda decided to get wasted instead if i also remember right. Cutter and Bone is brilliant.

He was good in home alone and home alone 2: lost in new york

Aw, John Heard was Brother Timothy from Heaven Help Us, the cool teacher. Watched that movie about a million times as a kid. RIP

Didn't realize he and Margot Kidder were together at one point. Maybe they got wasted together?

http://www.avclub.com/article/john-heard-lizzie-borden-chronicles-sopranos-shark-216267

longtime dc news anchor jim vance

jim heard was def swole by the time he appeared in sopranos

john heard i mean

he was great in Heaven Help Us

Aunt of mine was SURE he was William Hurt's brother who changed his name...Chilly Scenes of Winter was great...rip

Jim Vance was the business; non-DC-area folks should go watch video and feel the envy.