Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

Nooooo!!!

:(

Goddamn it, I was afraid 2017 was going to be out of the frying pan into the fire.

dammit

That's, what, three Twin Peaks: The Return cast members now?

four, I think?

Warren Frost, Coulson, Ferrer + Stanton

And Bowie

well he *would've* been in it

There was also a minor character (the rr cook)

Xp yeah it's close enough that he counts in the toll

aw man. 63 year career.

Bobby "The Brain" Heenan.

Linking to Stanislav Petrov:

https://www.rt.com/news/403625-nuclear-soviet-officer-died/

Jake LaMotta

I assumed he was dead tbh

(Like, ages ago I mean)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2b/bf/a4/2bbfa492effca0eec14e5b514c9675f2.jpg

yeah he looks pretty old this photo of him on set with young man DeNiro in '79 or '80. 95 years old!

Yeah I mean obv I only know him from raging bull and I saw that a million years ago but I remember it being like "this dude was good at punching for like 30 mins then a BUNCH of awful shit happened and he ended his life a sad fat loser *aria plays*"

Didn't even occur to me to think of the guy being alive and continuing to live for several decades

I saw him in the audience of a comedy club tribute to his fellow Bronxer Larry "F Troop" Storch a few years ago.

Brother Joey survives.... as does his fiancee.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/jake-lamotta-raging-bull-boxing-legend-dead-96-article-1.3508624

Played a bartender in The Hustler:

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/1068673/Hustler-The-Movie-Clip-The-Lights-And-The-Scotch.html

wonder if that's his photo in that framed article over the booth they're sitting in

Actor Bernie Casey, 78.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/bernie-casey-revenge-of-the-nerds-actor-dead-at-78-w504691

Ah man.

"It's my theme music. Every good hero...should have some."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz-KwtKRBUY

^^^ he was so great!!

wonder if that's his photo in that framed article over the booth they're sitting in
― nomar, Wednesday, September 20, 2017 8:03 PM (three hours ago)

Could well be. There's a poster for one of his fights in the first Godfather.

William G Stewart, apparently.

RIP William G Stewart. A one-off character TV director and producer I worked with on many shows; 'Family Fortunes', 'The Price is Right' etc pic.twitter.com/KJXraRD6sj

— Jeremy Hoare (@TopTVCameraman) September 21, 2017

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka was a classic! RIP Bernie.

best remember BC for Melvin Van Peebles' miniseries The Sophisticated Gents, well worth tracking down.

Hi Dere author of this article.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/william-g-stewart-dead-fifteen-one-host-passes-away-aged-82-1640334

Lillian Ross, 99, lifer at The New Yorker. Def read Picture, cinephiles.

http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/lillian-ross-was-one-of-the-best-reporters-on-the-arts-life-itself.html

xp OMG

He seems to be their obit writer, most of his articles are obits

Charles Bradley

https://youtu.be/UD1eaRDY-q4

Liz Dawn

David Shepherd, artist

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/21/david-shepherd-obituary

is best known for wildlife pictures (see above) but his train pictures, from the last days of steam, often of decommisioned engines, are quite something.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7024/6733038819_1dc3653b2d_b.jpg

"As his career took off, he bought a crumbling Surrey farmhouse in 16 acres with a trout pond, and could boast that he had railway engines in his back garden: three of them, each a mainline brute of 120 tons"

Tony Booth. Actor and father of Cherie Blair.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41400441

RIP Vera :(

Jack Good, early UK rock n' roll manager/TV producer. Perhaps best known in US as the creator of Shindig!

Hugh Hefner at 91, per a crawl on TV just now.

What a run for that dude. It's all downhill from here, Hugh.

We must study his immune system

The Dead on Playboy After Dark (and everybody got dosed): https://vimeo.com/10535211 (starts at 3:34)

We must study his immune system

I'll save you the trouble: Three Stooges Syndrome

Sorry for your loss, Frederik.

Albert Innaurato, playwright of “Gemini” and “The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Playwright-Albert-Innaurato-Passes-Away-at-70-20170928

To lighten the mood and lift the spirits, fake news distributor Paul Horner. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/27/paul-horner-dead-fake-news-trump

well, his life's work was already complete

Albert Innaurato, playwright of “Gemini” and “The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Playwright-Albert-Innaurato-Passes-Away-at-70-20170928🕸