Edgar Winter
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Sunday, 17 October 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
Riff Raff
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 18 October 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
Caine in the Guardian today: ‘I’ve done 150 movies. I think that’s enough’
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 18 October 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
Is this Michael Caine retirement thing going to be like Leonard Cohen saying he was going to die, then saying he would live forever, then dying a couple of weeks later?
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 18 October 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
John Nott. One of numerous Tory ghouls who refuse to die.
― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Monday, 18 October 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
Brazilian director Ruy Guerra, 90.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 25 October 2021 03:03 (two years ago) link
Jorge Luis Borges's wife, Maria Kodama. She has an Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariakodama/?hl=en
― kafka_keba, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 02:16 (two years ago) link
E. O. Wilson. I could have sworn that I’d heard that he’d died a few years ago!
― Dan I., Tuesday, 26 October 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
Don Fardon. Not that he's that old so much that I'm not sure that he's been heard of since about 1969.
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 November 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
French actress, Micheline Presle, 99.
Sad to see Renée Simonot, Catherine Deneuve's mother, died in July this year... at the age of 109!
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 November 2021 09:55 (two years ago) link
I’m going to say Stanley Baxter again - who first popped up on this thread 18 years ago, and gets a mention every few hundred posts - prompted by his (2016ish?) appearance on a Victor Lewis-Smith profile of Kenneth Williams which aired on Sky Arts the other day. As long as we keep mentioning Stanley B, he’ll still be around.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 6 November 2021 10:33 (two years ago) link
Melvyn Hayes. I was amazed to hear him give a quote about Lionel Blair's death. Not a great quote, either.
― trishyb, Saturday, 6 November 2021 11:18 (two years ago) link
Ah, there's video. For a moment there I was worried it was another "Benny Hill laments passing of 'great friend' Frankie Howerd" situation. Poor Ben wasn't in a position to be giving any quotes that day.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 6 November 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link
Ken Morse, of rostrum camera fame, only 77! Could swear he'd popped off yonks ago. Non-Brits, don't worry about it.
― witherspoons (Matt #2), Saturday, 6 November 2021 13:11 (two years ago) link
Roger Cook, investigative reporter. Again, he isn't that old but you just never see him or hear about him anymore.
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 November 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
Lucinda Lambton also. ‘Only ’ 78, but seems to have disappeared from her previously busy career as commentator on antiques , suburbs and architectural follies.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 7 November 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
Monica Vitti - aged 90!
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/filmguide/images/0/0b/959DD869-FE59-4B02-950F-41A1E2993F5B.jpeg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 8 November 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
not surprised he's alive, but I was recently surprised to find out Gene Hackman is 91.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 8 November 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
Kyoko Kagawa, who delivered the "Isn't life disappointing" line in Tokyo Story, is not only still alive at 89 but still acting.
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 8 November 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
Folk singer and broadcaster, Jimmie Macgregor, 91.
(He joins Stanley Baxter, Glen Michael, Una McLean and John Cairney in the 90+ Scottish celebrity club).
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 8 November 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
I was looking up the best selling book of the 1970s for a trivia contest and: Xaviera Hollander, 78.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 03:58 (two years ago) link
FW de klerk
― conrad, Thursday, 11 November 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
Second behind Gina Lollabrigida, 94. Just ahead of Sophia Loren, 87. Bringing up the rear, the baby of the bunch, Claudia Cardinale, 83.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 November 2021 13:04 (two years ago) link
Lea Massari, Vitti’s co-star in L’Avventura, also still going at 88.
― Alba, Saturday, 13 November 2021 13:11 (two years ago) link
Starring in L'Avventura is a good portent of a long life, and as I've mentioned before, so is starring in 8 1/2 which gives us the octogenarians Anouk Aimée (89), Sandra Milo (88), Claudia Cardinale, and Barbara Steele (83).
― Josefa, Saturday, 13 November 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
Susan George, only 71 though. (Had been trying to find out the name of the film "Fright" today)
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
tbh not really sure why i would be surprised at that, maybe cos not heard about her since the 70's
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
Barbara Steele (83).
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
Bob Carolgees (and by extension, his dog Spit) (73)
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Monday, 15 November 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
that extension feels a little shaky
― mark s, Monday, 15 November 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
And, apropos of a conversation I was having with some friends at the weekend, Gudrun Ure is still with us at the age of 95.
― ailsa, Monday, 15 November 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
Spit is 73?
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 15 November 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
In puppet dog years.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
Starring in L'Avventura is a good portent of a long life
Unfortunately Monica Vitti has apparently been suffering from Alzheimers for quite a few years
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 15 November 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
Armin Mueller-Stahl, 90.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
... and Mario Adorf, also 90.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
Wow, excellent scores. So were you recently watching Lola?
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
I was about to but decided to not to.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
Have you seen it before?
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link
She's dead now, but if you'd told me a week ago that the wife of Anthony Eden was still alive I'd have found that pretty surprising
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
(xp) Yes. It was just too late to start watching a two hour film.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
Kim Novak!
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 November 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
Marina Nikolayevna Oswald Porter, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald - just 80 years old
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 November 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
Actress Neile Adams, who was married to Steve McQueen from the 1950s to early '70s. Enrique Iglesias is her great-nephew. 89 years old.
― Josefa, Thursday, 18 November 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
Frank Serpico, 85 and active on Twitter
― Josefa, Friday, 19 November 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link
Frederic Raphael, 90.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 November 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
He’s someone who I have a personal interest in and I wonder how his death will be reported, whether it will be just on the obituaries page a few days later or as news reports on the day.
― Alba, Monday, 22 November 2021 12:21 (two years ago) link
Not sure he's that well known anymore.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 22 November 2021 12:26 (two years ago) link
shouldn't have crossed kubrick, been totally eyes wide shat
― mark s, Monday, 22 November 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link
I think he is now best known for co-writing Eyes Wide Shut; this piece he wrote for the film's 20th anniversary a couple of years ago reads like parody ("How come Eyes Wide Shut seems, as the cant says, ‘more relevant’ after 20 years?")
https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/frederic-raphael-reflects-writing-eyes-wide-shut-with-stanley-kubrick
and for always appearing in Private Eye's yearly literary review round-up, claiming the prize for the most obscure/high-toned/expensive book review of the year.
I would be surprised if his death made the television news. Perhaps there should be a remake of 'Glittering Prizes'...
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 22 November 2021 13:03 (two years ago) link