Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

idk morbs if a fella so much as looked at a can of film in 1947 he gets his due from yerself in the rip threads, no harm in the bar being low

i never even posted larry gogan today, like

howbout the last 3 hours xp

there really is a vast world of dead britishes sitcom actors fucking each other with dildos that i know nothing of

so... Jack Sheldon of "Schoolhouse Rock" fame

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/01/entertainment/jack-sheldon-dead/index.html

theatre and film director/producer Jack Garfein (The Strange One, Something Wild (1961, with his wife Carroll Baker))

http://www.playbill.com/article/jack-garfein-acclaimed-director-and-producer-dies-at-89

Holy shit Carroll Baker is still alive

I saw her do a Q&A in the last couple years, after Something Wild

Never saw that, know her from The Carpetbaggers and Harlow and Sylvia and the '50s things she was in

Thought she just passed. Oh wait that was Sue Lyons. Guess I should post them on Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

sorry Sue Lyon, no final ‘s’

Bosley Crowther thought the same

new year, similar UK unknowns dominating the rolls

'noted cincinnati bengals coach sam wyche, 74' et al being household names outside the US, of course

Make America dead again

I didn't hear about Larry Gogan - between him and Marian Finucane we could have a takeover.

Buck Henry

https://deadline.com/2020/01/buck-henry-dead-saturday-night-live-the-graduate-get-smart-1202825337/

aw man

Aw RIP Buck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeE-Hkno9Ao

"Anything wrong, sir?"

"It's just not a lemon party without old Dick!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biaTRgFKJ3I

"funny and with a stroke"

Science fiction author and editor Mike Resnick.

That guy did some good work. Surprised Malzberg outlived him tbh

RIP. Didn’t he write some multivolume tome about the history of sf magazines?

no, that was Mike Ashley, sorry

I know Resnick because he edited/wrote the intro for this: https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-passage-of-the-light/ which is great

I wrote an obituary for a woman who died in Buffalo, and the fact that she lived to 111 isn't close to being the most impressive thing about her. Please read: "Mamie Kirkland, Witness to an Era of Racial Terror, Dies at 111" https://t.co/vK6vsCUeGf

— Dan Barry (@DanBarryNYT) January 9, 2020

Edd "Kookie" Burns

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/edd-kookie-byrnes-dead-87-grease-77-sunset-strip-1203462364/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpLpmt7LydI

"Byrnes", even

That Buck Henry Player clip is brilliant. "A malady of some sort."

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/keith_spera/article_534c48a6-3334-11ea-a1c7-978eb892e515.html

New Orleans bounce rapper 5th Ward Weebie at 42 after surgery for a ruptured artery

Film Director Ivan Passer

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/ivan-passer-dead-dies-cutters-way-1203462725/

Haven't seen it for ages, but Born to Win was pretty good, I think.

It was.

Intimate Lighting, Cutter's Way even better

Haven't seen Intimate Lightning--always wanted to--but I remember being a little disappointed in Cutter's Way when I finally saw it. Also quite a while ago, though.

one of the great endings of the last 50 years

DAMN.

Canadian rock drummer Neil Peart dead at 67. Peart, primary lyricist for Rush, was known for his technical proficiency, and for weaving jazz and big band patterns with a hard rock style. Publicist says Peart died in California January 7. Background: https://t.co/r0QKiYdpdu

— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) January 10, 2020

fuck

whoah

Apparently (there's a Rolling Stone obit up) he'd had brain cancer for three years.

For real? Fuck.

Wow

Neil Peart September 12, 1952 - January 7, 2020 pic.twitter.com/NivX2RhiB8

— Rush (@rushtheband) January 10, 2020

Tough one.

Pretty sure I waited on him at the record store I worked at many years back (he was buying a Van Halen DVD).

new year, similar UK unknowns dominating the rolls

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 8, 2020 12:26 AM

I'd be quite happy to read about obscure celebrities from everywhere. But if you're serious about not wanting to hear about obscure UK celebrities, can all the americans here please pretend that Letterman, Jay Leno, Rip Taylor and Johnny Carson are just fictional characters who appear in American films, tv shows, Beach Boys songs and comics on occasion?

I wouldn't worry, it's only Morbz morbzin'

just havin a lil fun

after all i know who Frankie Howerd and Norman Wisdom were (kinda)

wtf

COME ON

Noticed that Frank Kimbrough Monk recording but haven't tried it yet. Seems like a really good band.

Oh, wow. Too young... this is terrible. RIP.

MF :’-(

Phyllis McGuire (Feb 14, 1931 – 29 Dec 2020) The youngest of the harmonizing ‘The McGuire Sisters’ died at her estate in Las Vegas at age 89.

McGuires' version of "Sincerely" is all time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55508606

Mark Eden; British actor most widely known from a long role in Coronation Street but also Marco Polo in the oldest missing Doctor Who story.

This year...

I think I posted him in the People You Were Surprised to See Were Still Alive thread last year, he was 92!

Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021