Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

his death scene in Blue Collar is SO hard to take if you've seen the movie before, it really rocked me on a recent rewatch. RIP!

^^Probably one of the most horrifying kills in a non-Horror film EVAH.

(I just read the wikipedia page for that movie - they were fighting the whole time and the director almost quit? Did not know that.)

Gosh that last film credit of Kotto’s is something else. Rest In Peace.

He was great in Friday Foster, which we saw a few months back. His Wikipedia has a shot of his only episode of the High Chapparal!

Oh man he was great great great. 81! I had no idea...

Wonderful actor rip

RIP YK

https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/jessica-mcclintock-favored-designer-for-proms-dies-at-1234778816/

Jessica McClintock, dress designer who commanded the 1980s prom dress market, 90.

I’m very sad to hear of the passing of Sabine Schmitz, the only woman to have won the #Nürburgring24Hours, rightly known as ‘Queen of the Nürburgring’, & a star of @BBC_TopGear, who’s succumbed to cancer, aged just 51. #RIPSabineSchmitz pic.twitter.com/LHg5ndr8tO

— Matt Bishop (@TheBishF1) March 17, 2021

James Levine, American conductor and pianist, 77.

As per his son on Reddit, Mark Kamiyama ("Ick" Ikagami from Real Genius) passed away on February 27th:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/m3y637/my_father_as_ick_ikigami_to_the_right_of_val/

Not a lot of acting credits, but I love Real Genius and he was great in it. Not a lot of comedy roles for Asian actors in 80s Hollywood movies that weren't crass stereotypes... this one was an exception.

James Levine, American conductor and pianist, 77.

Indeed, which is why I didn't append a RIP.

While we're at it, he was also a terrible conductor, and his style was unintentional sludge of the worst kind.

Sabine Schmitz, racing driver and charismatic tv host. Check this astonishing run on the Nurburgring in the rain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufzdL1JaEKM

James Levine, American conductor and pianist, 77.

And noted abuser.
― Bruno Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, March 17, 2021 2:44 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Indeed, which is why I didn't append a RIP.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, March 17, 2021 2:59 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

LMFAO

Peter Lorimer, the last couple of years has been a bit rough on Revie's boys.

RIP Peter. Scored some crackers in his day. A kick like a mule!

Only 21 caps for Scotland btw. Christophe Berra has 41.

he had a pub in Leeds, The Commercial, that closed years ago. Some Leeds Utd fans in Norway opened up their own version with the original sign.

Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, 75.

Nawal El Saadawi https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/21/nawal-el-saadawi-egyptian-author-women-rights-icon-dies

Legendary Laker Elgin Baylor, 86

Just learned of Baylor. I don't have any basketball memories until the Knicks in '73, so I just missed him. Finished his career with the 69-13 Lakers.

In 70s-era footie legends news: Frank Worthington, 72

They're dropping like flies. RIP Frank.

I sort of knew him from when I worked in the bookies and he was a regular at the Lindley branch of J Pearsons. RIp legend.

He was far more obsessed with horseracing than football. He often seemed bored shitless when people talked football with him, unless he was looking for info on one of his former clubs for some after dinner speaking event.

I was too young to ever seen him play, but people who did spoke in awed tones. To my stepdad he is only second to Stanley Matthews as best player he has ever seen in the flesh.

I'm sure lots of footballers find football boring!

I couldn't find any mention of his book "One hump, or Two?" on ILB!

Oh man, I'm turning into my dad ("I saw Duncan Edwards/Pele/Frank Sinatra/Danny Kaye and they were rubbish")... I saw Frank W sent off! I can't even remember what for, but it was a dismal 1-1 draw w/Birmingham at Goodison in late 1980. Eamonn O'Keefe scored for us with his chest, or some combination of arm and face. It was classy stuff.

FW was so dashing in his prime, he looked like Jason King or something. One of his outrageous goals in his Bolton days was a fixture of the Granada Kick Off opening credits for years, even when he was at least five clubs down the line from Burnden Park.

Here 'tis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJI1SBekmEk

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George Segal, 87.

one weird thing I used to do freshman year was after class I'd watch Becker and Just Shoot Me. I've probably seen at least half the episodes of both. I don't know why, I never particularly liked those shows, but they were weirdly comforting in my first year away from home. George was maybe my favorite part of that show.

Oh shame, who doesn't like George Segal?

Didn't clue in from the Altman revive. As integral to the the early '70s as Pacino, De Niro, Hackman, etc.--locked in there even more definitively. (Haven't watched his TV shows; he did eventually move on.)

California Split is a favourite of mine. RIP.

Yes, he seemed to be in everything for a little while there. RIP.

He was in The Hot Rock, to name just one, but I had to look it up to be sure.

But he wasn’t in Cops and Robbers. I guess the rule back then was that every movie had to have either George Segal or Joseph Bologna.

Superb timing. Paul Mazursky's favorite actor, an indelible part of fortysomething manhood suddenly entering the '70s and needing mutton chops and free love.

Perfection opposite Mary Tyler Moore in David O. Russell's Flirting With Disaster. I was the only one at a 1 p.m. screening in early summer '96, laughing like a fool.

he's very funny in the original fun with dick and jane

watched who's afraid of virginia woolf for the first time this past weekend, dude was so good

Somewhere I've got sealed vinyl of his banjo album from the '70s...Harry Nilsson guests!

https://img.discogs.com/GrAoBJ7TLhIaQC9S1QZFkSxPkGo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3232933-1573685431-3742.jpeg.jpg

xp Yeah I was gonna say he holds his own against Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton-- which, damn

XP One of the tracks on it is that "Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown" song he keeps singing in California Split.