Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

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.

I think Shelley was one of the first "grown up" sitcoms I can remember watching

There seemed to be a point in the early 90's, when if you ended up watching tv at 1am it would either be Shelley or Prisoner Cell Block H repeats. Ricky Tarr was some very good work. Quite a delay between death + notice here, he died on the 25th.

Robert Hardy, of all Creatures Great and Small, and Harry Potter

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/03/robert-hardy-harry-potter-actor-dies

Coming thick and fast now.

Pretty much every actor in the UK is now labelled "Harry Potter actor" when they require headlines to be written about them now.

I also thought Hywel Bennett had died years ago.

I only know Hywel Bennett from TTSS and that film he did w/ Hayley Mills, The Family Way, which used to air on US network TV.

Oh man, Siegfried too!

Shelley & Siegfried :(

I also thought Hywel Bennett had died years ago.

You might remember, a few years back, the Sun following him around, while he was out buying booze at the offy, because he was a 60-odd year old man, with health problems, partial to a drink or two and not young and beautiful and 25 anymore. Unfortunately for the Sun, he didn't die then.

id forgotten he's in Pennies from Heaven and some of the later Dennis Potter TV series

an interesting-looking man

http://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/Titles/t14729.jpg

Is he in "Loot"?

Yes, he is, still he was only a bit player in the demise of the British film industry.

I've got nothing against Harry Potter per se, but I do wish every obit for every Brit thesp who was in one or more of those films didn't lead with that. I know, 50000x as many people saw Hardy in HP than, say, Hot Metal, but still... They all got the Potter gig cos of a lifetime of being great in a whole range of TV/film/theatre. Obv, I know.

He was the go-to Winston Churchill for a while there.

Shelley & Siegfried :(

^^^

RIP to Daniel Radcliffe, star of Swiss Army Man

I mean

5000x more ppl know them from it. It's hugely understandable.

It seems a .....kinda snobby.....gripe

Bollocks, it's intensely annoying, anything to do with Harry Potter is shite

Not a value judgement on Harry potter