Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

A lot of the time, some of his most acclaimed performances, I found him off-putting. Loved him in Broadcast News and Smoke. Still remember when he was the big new thing, so this is a little sobering in terms of feeling old myself.

Great actor, awful person

Scott Hall, formerly known as wrestler Razor Ramon, is soon to be removed from life support.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/arts/music/timmy-thomas-dead.html

1973 soul hit "Why Can't We Live Together" a soulful, plaintive statement against the Vietnam War which he sang to his own accompaniment on the electric organ and drum machine.

Drake sampled that Timmy Thomas song and others did covers of it including Iggy Pop

Jazz singer Barbara Morrison.

Also the closing track on Sade's debut album xp

the song is also responsible for the Young Marble Giants sound if this, the only Timmy Thomas thread on ILM, is to believed

to *be* believed

Peter Bowles

Actor Peter Bowles, famous for starring in BBC comedy series To The Manor Born, dies aged 85

https://t.co/mbNXp4YZcD

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) March 17, 2022

ah yes the Bosom Manor prequel

I was so hungry for British sitcoms age 14-15 that I think I watched almost every episode of that thing while it was one of the two things on nightly 10pm offer from twin cities public tv

He played David Hemmings' agent/manager in Blow-Up!

Bruce Duffy cast the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as the leading man of his acclaimed first book. For his third and last novel, he made the French poet and libertine Arthur Rimbaud the star.  https://t.co/aRQtrqs0dP

— NYT Obituaries (@NYTObits) March 16, 2022

RIP Dom Di Fara, Brooklyn pizza master.

^ Legend

sorry, should read Dom De Marco, OF Di Fara's pizza.

Yeah, I only went a few times years ago but it was a great trek. The ordering was totally haphazard, the wait was a pain, but the pizza was just fantastic.

Akira Takarada (87), leading actor in many Godzilla films including the very first one in 1954.

Ah man, a shame. Absolutely a presence in those.

alaska congressman don young

also (american) football analyst john clayton

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

rip the greatest ponytail in sportscasting

one of the best ads they ever ran

Yeah by all accounts a real genuine and nice man, heard nothing but good things about him

Madeleine Albright, 84.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/madeleine-albright-obituary/index.html

Oh shit

I feel like I've heard her punditry fairly recently

Kissinger manages to outlast yet another monster.

Peter Goddard--anyone with any connection to Toronto in the '70s or '80s will know him.

https://www.torontomike.com/2022/03/peter-goddard-dead-at-62/

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/23/22992066/stephen-wilhite-gif-creator-dies

Inventor of the gif. Soft g for life.

Aoyama Shinji, director of Eureka

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOtgqmPVgAQkoaB?format=jpg&name=large

Taylor Hawkins, of the Foo Fighters

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/taylor-hawkins-foo-fighters-drummer-dead-at-50-20220326-p5a86r.html

Wow, RIP

Denise Coffey, British comedienne and actress. Should have been a Python.

do not adjust yr set was my first tv fave, bcz of her :(

i would watch it on the staff TV at the place mum and dad then worked: we didn't even own a TV yet (so it must have been the first season)

Yeah, ditto. I passed my "Adjust" dvd set onto the kids back in the day. I got it back now they both doing uni.

One for very limited appeal outside of me and Tom D I suspect, and very much one from the 'people who you thought were dead' file, but Mary Lee - Scottish variety act, singer, comic and unfortunately probably only remembered as the wife of Jack Milroy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lee_(singer)

Philip Jeck, electronic music and sound artist.

Jon and Mike are deeply saddened to tell you that Philip Jeck died peacefully on Friday after a short illness. Please read more here... https://t.co/JIPfW90hV1 @philipjeck #philipjeck pic.twitter.com/852tfGKoBg

— Touch (@touchmusic) March 27, 2022

aw man, no way

The Dansette King will spin the 78s no more :(

fucking hell, Mira Calix!

https://www.facebook.com/9075937685/posts/10158988128342686/

oh ffs no

DAMN

wtff

Fuck. RIP

Wow. I knew her solo work superficially but her version of “In a Beautiful Place in the Country” with Oliver Coates is one of my favourite tracks of all time.

Oh no! Truly awful news with an undercurrent of’what HAPPENED?!?’

Having lost a classmate last week aged 51, my immediate guess is a cancer of some kind, but I've no idea.