Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

i like to think he's at last free to disregard the cow in the field if he so chooses

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oh I'd forgotten he was Arthur's dad in Excalibur, and that Dr Who anecdote - lol!

which makes me think if I'd have been in a more ruthless mood I'd have deffo put John Boorman on my dead pool list this year.

Can't remember the show but Charlie Boorman and Jason Connery were on the same one last year (2017? Surely not 2016?) and the former said to the latter "haha my dad made your dad wear a happy".

^ Celebrity Masterchef.

Gorilla Biscuits guitarist Alex Brown, 52, of an aneurysm.

Yikes

Ron Hutchinson of the Vitaphone Project and other work in film preservation.

https://www.facebook.com/ron.hutchinson.908

... was married to Margaret Drabble, wtf!

Their son presents Gardeners' World (?? Gardening Today?? Garden Time, whatever) and looks exactly like his dad.

Oh my goodness, he does, doesn't he? I never realised he was their son but I know *exactly* who you are talking about. He's one of the ones who presents some of the packages and also does a lot of broadcasting from Chelsea each year.

Wow, the Swift/Drabble clan get around as much as the Corens and the Freuds, don't they?

'Creature From the Black Lagoon' Star Julie Adams Dies at 92

https://comicbook.com/horror/2019/02/04/julie-adams-dies-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-star/?fbclid=IwAR0ec62ZkwkBDGma3IrD0RBWs0VDVvl9e7H6HiGWplY6hjNKnjJj8WiwqaA

https://metro-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/metro.co.uk/2019/02/04/young-restless-star-kristoff-st-john-dies-aged-52-8440198/

Kristoff St John, 52

Finnish ski jumper (and so much more) Matti Nykänen at 55.

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/troubled_finnish_ski_jumping_legend_matti_nykanen_dead_at_55/10629072

A biopic seems inevitable.

sounds like a finnish gazza, albeit a gazza that actually won a shitload of stuff

RIP big man. One of my first sports heroes iirc.

Gazza comparison seems apt.

Was there ever a Finnish Moaty though?

if only ilx had a resident finn who could weigh in

"What are skis?"

lol

There was already a biopic about him a few years ago. Dude was also a wifebeater and a violent drunk who went to jail for stabbing a friend of his (he survived), so the glorification he's receiving right now makes me feel kinda uncomfortable.

thx for weighing in, resident finn

how does he measure up against Walter Steiner

How many ski jumping biopics do we actually need?

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JpIbVyQbUuw/WQR4wi9Qe5I/AAAAAAAAMl0/hbIGrWebi_4_bu4eB8SWHwQCgTmPmeccgCEw/s1600/image0008.jpg

Didn’t mean to glorify him (don’t think people here are glorifying Gazza either tbh). I read that stuff in the article too - thought the “troubled” in the url would be enough of a warning. Still, so much talent and fame gone wrong, it’s the stuff biopics are made of/for.

ban biopics tbh

Ban biopics of winter sports stars for sure.

Ban all biopics apart from ones about Nazis imo.

Ban everybody but Julian Schnabel, he did this right two or three times

C Y Lee, author of Flower Drum Song, at 102.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/cy-lee-author-of-the-best-selling-novel-the-flower-drum-song-dies-at-102/2019/02/03/29c2d7e4-2803-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2Xui1Qw8FWfPYtKroRMvgl2kJk_V61sAyRJdYh2somOpJqGog52lP-khI&utm_term=.5d7aca791dc0

Ban everybody but Julian Schnabel, he did this right two or three times

Too bad he wasted all those years painting before figuring out what he was good at.

Science Fiction writer Carol Emshwiller:

https://locusmag.com/2019/02/carol-emshwiller-1921-2019/

oh no! RIP

Albert Finney

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/08/albert-finney-dies-film-tom-jones-orient-express-millers-crossing

Aw shit, I loved him.

one of the greats for sure, rip big man

He did so much great stuff, from Annie to Wolfen.

Aww man. He was fantastic as Churchill in 'The Gathering Storm'. RIP

aye, he was a fine fine actor, and in a lot of class movies. RIP.

Jim Dunlop, of guitar picks and pedals

https://www.jimdunlop.com/category/remembering-jim.do

If you've never seen Finney opposite Diane Keaton in Shoot the Moon, you're missing one of the great portrayals of male white privilege.

I've probably only seen five or six Albert Finney films...He's fantastic in <i>Miller's Crossing</i>.

I know it's a divisive film, but Big Fish and his performance in it really moved me, and opened up space for a little bonding moment for me and my dad. RIP.

It's okay to admit it: he was awesome in Erin Brockovich.

I will be re-watching Miller's Crossing tonight.

I’m out for a good time. All the rest is propaganda.

It's okay to admit it: he was awesome in Erin Brockovich.

he really was

Great clip from a 1960 interview...
https://youtu.be/NRMCTgJnmTo

Oh fuck, that's why his thread was revived, awesome actor RIP Albert ;_;

xp yeah, Albert Finney in Erin Brockovich >>>>> Benicio Del Toro in Traffic