Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

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David Hedison, the original Fly

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/david-hedison-dead-dies-the-fly-voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-1203275257/

Christopher Kraft of NASA Mission Control

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/news/chris-kraft-first-flight-director-nasa-dies-95-ncna1032691

rutger hauer

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/rutger-hauer-dead-dies-blade-runner-co-star-1203278050/

I'll always remember him in a cage in that interminable courtroom sequence at the end of Eureka

Not bad, 37 years after saying "time to die."

he was reliably entertaining in a whole bunch of crazy shit. RIP madman.

Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Flesh + Blood and The Blood of Heroes are all-time for me. And he could be a pretty hilarious interview subject.

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RIP

RIP

Oh damn it!!

He was good all the way up to his season of CHANNEL ZERO last year.

aw shit :(

how tf did Gene Hackman outlive him

he is no longer . . . surviving the game

RIP Anner Bylsma, Dutch cellist, 85.

His take on Bach's cello suites was just perfect.

Bryan Magee, philosopher and populariser of the subject

John Lassiter, William Morris head of non-scripted TV and bass player with Santa Barbara bands the Tearaways and the Stringrays, and involved with the UCSB radio station. at 59 from gallstone induced pancreatitis (from onset to death was less than 24 hours). He was likely active in SB a few years after I left, so I never saw these bands, but the SB 80s Music Scene fb group has nothing but great things to say about him.

https://deadline.com/2019/07/john-ferriter-dies-william-morris-agency-head-of-non-scripted-television-board-member-1202654965/?fbclid=IwAR0Usbqfijkv6_FMW6B-Gcat-ny0xrVw5DDXDSN-s5YYmi6I-Q0sxJTfCJc

https://vimeo.com/342369175/c8503f294e?fbclid=IwAR1YTHpO4GVoWU_ByMcN6MFacr9IiDL0oGm6C0_Xzc7ymLYnxFVErbh_f-o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5KElxvRqYw&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0TI19tbGQiiFGJvwJ3EvkQi8r_K90rWyTvdrH8KJVCL-zER4MNhVgA-Wo

Ramsey Ameen, violinist who played with Cecil Taylor from 1978-80 (he's on the albums Cecil Taylor Unit, 3 Phasis, Live in the Black Forest, One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye, and It Is In The Brewing Luminous). He was quite active on FB, and he sent me some very long and detailed emails about his time in Taylor's band, Taylor's working methodology, and his personality in general that were super helpful when I was writing a profile of Taylor for The Wire in 2016. He was also some kind of mathematician/math professor. Super sharp guy.

Never met Ferriter when I was working at WMA, but the rumor was that he was one of the few nice people over in the other building.

voice actress Russi Taylor, who has been the voice of Minnie Mouse since 1986 and, among many other things, voiced Martin Prince on "The Simpsons"

https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-russi-taylor-voice-of-minnie-mouse-and-the-simp-1836762262

Damn, RIP

Seriously. RIP.

RIP. She voiced one of the greatest lines in the history of animation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdwU_HU8brg

Aussie tennis star Peter McNamara, at 64.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/28/peter-mcnamara-obituary

Hal Prince. Damn.

https://www.broadway.com/buzz/191114/harold-prince-winner-of-21-tony-awards-directorproducer-of-phantom-cabaret-more-dies-at-91/

21 is a lot

"Popular music was the music of musicals, and it isn't anymore," Prince said during a 2017 segment of All Things Considered for NPR. "So, once that happened, you could examine other subjects and make musical numbers about an infinite variety of complicated psychological matter.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harold-prince-dead-king-broadway-musical-was-91-1115559

I saw him walking on Central Park West once, and probably only recognized him because he was with Joel Grey and Carol Burnett.

Karsten Schubert, German-born London gallerist and publisher who was an early yBa advocate, 57.

Miami Dolphin legend Nick Buoniconti at 78, quite possibly from CTE related dementia. Used to love watching him on "Inside the NFL." Hell, liked the show more than the games themselves, probably.

Robert Kennedy's granddaughter Saoirse Roisin Kennedy Hill.

many-time champion pro wrestler Harley Race, 76

Sy Tomashoff, production designer for Dark Shadows, The Bold and the Beautiful and other classic soap operas, 96

That sounds like a fascinating job - will need to learn more about them.

Kinks keyboardist Ian Gibbons

Lol Mason, frontman of City Boy and later the Maisonettes.

c'mon be appropriately respectful here for goodness sake :P

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/celibate-rifles-star-damien-lovelock-has-died/news-story/d138bbe5c6c2bca98c0793bc2b0b7060

Damien Lovelock from cancer. Was in Australian band Celibate Rifles

that is a great band name

D.A. Pennebaker, 94

The Celibate Rifles were great, RIP (check out The Eastern Dark as well btw)

Miami Dolphin legend Nick Buoniconti at 78

I saw Buoniconti play back in the '70s at the no longer existing Orange Bowl in Miami. He was an awesome linebacker. Didn't realize that post-NFL he was the president of the U.S. Tobacco Company (!)

I was surprised Pennebaker's The War Room didn't place in the political-film poll--whatever you think of Clinton, it's pretty great in laying out that election. I love Monterey Pop, too, and about half of Don't Look Back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP7OKxjObNo

101 remains a fave (and I think was his fave?).

The War Room rules, feelings about Clintons aside of course, it's not about them - how in the world did that not even place? So bummed I missed that poll.

101 remains a fave (and I think was his fave?).

I'd heard that too. For many reasons it is my absolute keeper from him.

Joe Longthorne, tho he made a right fight of it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-49219270

Oakland Raider wide receiver Cliff Branch

Cliff Branch, one of the Raiders' career-leading receivers who won three Super Bowls, has died. He was 71. https://t.co/EXE38cBNaI

— The Sacramento Bee (@sacbee_news) August 4, 2019

https://www.avpress.com/news/phil-hymes-who-lit-snl-dies-at/article_3984196a-b66d-11e9-9835-7fd5a51244c2.html

Phil Hymes, a veteran lighting director who became a major, if irascible, backstage figure with “Saturday Night Live” for his strong opinions about stagecraft he liked and comedy he disliked, died Monday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 96.

His son, Jeff, said the cause of death was complications of bladder cancer.

“He was a force to be reckoned with, and his presence and strength were something I came to rely on,” Lorne Michaels, the longtime executive producer of “SNL,” said in a statement. “He will be missed, but if God has him now, despite all the arguing, heaven will be much better lit.”

Hymes joined “Saturday Night Live” in 1976, in its second season, bringing with him decades of experience at NBC, much of it spent in live programming beginning in the early 1950s.

He remained with the show until early 2018, after nearly 42 years of putting up lights and designing the look they gave to sketches, monologues and musical numbers.

Several months later, at 95, he accepted an Emmy Award, his first since 1965, for outstanding lighting design and direction for a variety series.

Tim Dundon, aka Zeke the Sheik, local counterculture guy in Altadena, Cal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWk6wdCf51s&fbclid=IwAR0E68crD43t42Xwb5hLdPehCf_FurHaxl2qK44V4iHN86UC8GB5gxGGpT4