Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

I know he did awful terrible things but I will swallow hard the day Stan the Man gives his last Excelsior

Happened years ago, mate. 80% of the CGI budget for the Marvel films has been Stan Lee.

Arf!

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

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john heard i mean

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Jim Heard's been waiting for his brother to burn out for a long time. It's his time to shine now.

Claude Rich, French actor perhaps best known for Je t’aime, je t’aime

http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/arts/french-actor-claude-rich-dies-at-age-88

June Foray, age 99.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/people-news/june-foray-dead-dies-rocky-natasha-bullwinkle-1202508180/

RIP Witch Hazel :(

both Witch Hazels, both looney tunes and disney :(

Barbara Sinatra, Frank's last wife, previously married to Zeppo Marx

Frank Sinatra's wives certainly had wide-ranging tastes in men.

I saw June Foray maybe 15-20 years ago at a Rocky thing at the Museum of Broadcasting; many funny anecdotes...

Including Edward Everett Horton wearing some moth-eaten monstrosity and saying "That's my college sweater!", no?

that story is moth-eaten here

Well, tell us some more then, don't hoard them.

Just saw A Dalkey Archive press release that said

John Toomey's SLIPPING has won the Rubery Book Award for Fiction 2017 - the longest established book award based in the UK for independent and self-published books.

selected roles:
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Lucifer the cat in Cinderella
Witch Hazel (Looney Tunes)
Witch Hazel (Disney)
a mermaid in Peter Pan
Goofy Jr.
Granny
Daisy Duck
Rocket J. Squirrel
Natasha Fatale
Nell Fenwick on Dudley Do-Right
Dorothy Gale on the 60s cartoon
Pogo and Krazy Kat, once each
Cindy Lou Who
Jokey Smurf
Aunt May in the 80s cartoon Spider-Man
Grandma on Teen Wolf
Wheezy in Roger Rabbit
Grammi on Gummi Bears
Mrs. Feathersby, Magicka De Spell and Ma Beagle on Ducktales
Happy Little Elf on the Simpsons
Queen Tabitha in Thumbelina

Foray worked into her mid-90s, pretty cool. RIP

Had no idea Foray was the voice of Talky Tina from Twilight Zone. RIP

Makes sense, since Foray was also the voice of the Chatty Cathy doll.

Patti Deutsch

www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/patti-deutsch-dead-laugh-match-game-comedienne-was-73-1025096

Only just heard: July 21, Peter Doohan, Aussie journeyman tennis pro, who played the match of his life to beat defending champ Boris Becker at Wimbledon '87. Only 56, motor neurone disease.

And of course that '78 ep is online in rough quality...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyWi3K-Olmk

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-d-l-menard-20170728-story.html

D.L. Menard the Cajun Hank Williams. Good live act

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2017/07/28/a-folk-hero-d-c-street-art-legend-cool-disco-dan-dies-at-47/?utm_term=.e7b8591c86aa

DC graffiti artist Danny Hogg, aka Cool "Disco" Dan, 47.

Frankie Rowe, most likely the last person alive who claimed to have touched and seen wreckage from the alleged Roswell UFO crash
http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/07/frankie-rowe-has-died.html

Jeanne Moreau, 89.

http://www.ledauphine.com/france-monde/2017/07/31/l-actrice-jeanne-moreau-meurt-a-89-ans

:-(

;_; Got to admit I didn't know she was still alive.

:(

“Although Moreau seemed the archetypical French woman, she was half English; her mother, Kathleen Buckley, was a Lancashire lass, from Oldham.” Ronald Bergan for the Guardian: “‘I’m very proud of being half English and I think as time passes my best English qualities are more and more visible,’ remarked Moreau. ‘I’m pleased I can be outrageous as only the English can be.’ . . . ‘People—especially women—worry so much about aging,’ she said when she was in her 70s. ‘But I tell you, you look younger if you don’t worry about it. Because beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.’”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jul/31/jeanne-moreau-obituary

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4778-the-daily-jeanne-moreau-1928-2017

"To be a star is to have freedom, but only if you choose it," she told Roger Ebert in 1976. "The people who back movies, the bankers and distributors, treat you like some kind of mine in which they can dig and dig, always digging up the same things they've found there before. So you become trapped. I made a deliberate decision to try to work with good directors. Famous ones or young ones nobody had heard of, it made no difference -- if their ideas about film were interesting."

In the same interview she recalled Warren Beatty's rudeness at a panel discussion: "First, he came 20 minutes late. Then he threw out the television cameras. Why? He wanted to establish a relationship with the audience, which was mostly women. A relationship of power. I could feel it. Merde! So I walked out."

sam shepard

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Playwright-Director-and-Actor-Sam-Shepard-Passes-Away-at-73-20170731

holy shit

What a day... so far.

fuck

There is a scene from a Duras film that was going around with Gerard Depardieu trying to sale a vacuum cleaner, I think, to Jeanne Moreau and Lucia Bose. Man.

yes, Nathalie Granger (not a fave)

armenian-american football coach and crossword answer ara parseghian, 94

Conspiracy book author Jim Marrs. Probably best known for Crossfire which was the underpinning of Oliver Stone's JFK movie.
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2017/08/Marrs-obit.html

hmm.. wonder why it took so long for them to take him out

Well this is sad news

http://amp.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/tony-cohen-australian-record-producer-and-sound-of-melbourne-dies-aged-60-20170803-gxodxf.html

i read a profile of marrs a long time ago and it was kind of fascinating, he started out as just a regular mainstream newspaper reporter who got sidetracked by his interest in JFK and then gradually got into all the other stuff and ended up writing about secret societies and ancient aliens. i read a ton of JFK assassination/conspiracy books a couple years ago but never got around to marrs's -- guess i should rectify that.

Hywel Bennett

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hywel-bennett-actor-thames-television-shelley-a7874336.html

Oh, shame, RIP Hywel.

Two things, it's weird that this is only being reported in the Independent and also that he died over a week ago.

whoa, i thought he died in the '90s

I had no idea Alun Lewis was his brother!

I love Hywel

Right, I had to check who Alun Lewis was, and it's pretty obvious they were brothers!

RIP

Great little turn in BBC tinker tailor

Ah yes – had forgotten about that.

This one hits me surprisingly hard. Fixture of childhood who next generation have no idea about, I guess.