oh shit, that sucks.
Merce Cunningham, a giant figure in the world of modern dance, died Sunday night at his home. He was 90. The Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation and his company made the announcement early Monday morning. A full obituary by Alastair Macaulay, the chief dance critic of The New York Times, is coming soon.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/merce-cunningham-dies
― sleeve, Monday, 27 July 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Sidney Zion
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2009/08/last-round.html
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 August 2009 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Harold Norse
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 13:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Strange that they describe him as the last of the Beat poets though. Snyder and Ferlinghetti are still going, aren't they?
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP the drummer from crap Britpop band Space, according to the Liverpool Echo.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
got their best of only a week or two ago.
― Bobkate Goldtwat (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
as a gift, mark you.
I honestly didn't know until a few days ago that Alice Coltrane died! 2 1/2 years ago, in fact. Couldn't imagine why I didn't notice (and post on) the RIP thread - then realized that all the condolences were redirected to the S&D thread instead.
RIP, harp lady
― Stop wishing death on people just for the cool thread titles (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Theodore D. Nierenberg, founder of Dansk.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dies at 88
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Mink DeVille.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 11:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Eunice Shriver, RIP. She is a person who could have coasted for her whole life, instead she founded a charity that has done a fantastic amount of good. I was a volunteer for the Special Olympics for 10 years and I truly loved every minute of it.
Big time RIP to someone who made a real difference.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess not many people would contribute to a thread, but I'm a bit cut up about Gerry Cohen's death. We did a lot of work from his books in my undergrad Marx course, and I saw him lecture less than two years ago.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/10/ga-cohen-obituary
― emil.y, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
what the f. :-( not a fan of the band, but was aware of'em
and eunice! i knew she was sick... :-(
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
She was 88, and she seems to have made the most of that time-she leaves one hell of a legacy
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
From Variety (who mis-identify Jess Franco as an "Italian Giallo Auteur"):
By Pat SapersteinProlific B-movie producer and writer Harry Alan Towers, who made more than 100 films working with cult stalwarts such as Christopher Lee and director Jess Franco, died after a brief illness July 31. He was 88.While Towers generally worked on low-budget fare, he favored literary adaptations by such writers as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Alan Poe, Agatha Christie and Edgar Wallace.
During the 1960s and 1970s, he wrote and produced dozens of films, sometimes credited as Peter Welbeck. Among the actors he worked with were Orson Welles, Michael York, Michael Caine, Richard Harris, James Earl Jones and Tony Curtis.
Towers often shot in locations such as South Africa, Ireland and Bulgaria on films such as "The Face of Fu Manchu," Iran-filmed "Ten Little Indians," South African classic adaptation "Cry the Beloved Country" and "Klondike Fever."
His association with Italian giallo auteur Franco produced films which have become underground classics including "Venus in Furs," "Eugenie," "Marquis de Sade: Justine" and "Night of the Blood Monster."
Capitalizing on the industry's need for video titles during the 1980s and early 1990s, Towers provided a steady pipeline of films such as Robert Englund starrers "Phantom of the Opera" and "Danse Macabre," "Warrior Queen" and "Delta Force 3."
Towers started as a child actor in Britain and during WWII, he became a radio writer while serving in the Royal Air Force. He and his mother started a company called Towers of London after the war to sell syndicated radio shows around the world, and he went on to produce numerous programs for British television including "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "Tales from Dickens."
His literary agent, Albert T. Longden, said he was working on an autobiography. Recently he had been working on an adaptation of "Moll Flanders," which was at one time set to be directed by Ken Russell.
He is survived by his wife, actress Maria Rohm.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
LOS ANGELES – John Quade, who played the heavy in several Clint Eastwood movies and was the sheriff in the TV miniseries "Roots," has died. He was 71.
His wife Gwen says Quade died in his sleep of natural causes Sunday at his home in the Southern California desert town of Rosamond.
Quade had dozens of TV and movie roles in a career that spanned more than a quarter-century. His movies included "Papillon" and "High Plains Drifter."
However, he is perhaps best remembered as the motorcycle gang leader in the Eastwood movie "Every Which Way But Loose" and its sequel, "Any Which Way You Can."
He also played Sheriff Biggs in episodes of "Roots."
The Kansas-born Quade leaves six children and 10 grandchildren.
― The Collected Works of Fun Fun (donna rouge), Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Rashied Ali died, too. 2009 is the worst.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Michael Turner, one of the translators of Herge's TINTIN:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/6029763/Michael-Turner.html
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Too bad, the Falcons were looking for big things from Michael "the Burner" Turner this year.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Rashied Ali died, too. 2009 is the worst.― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:09 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:09 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark
Either that or as ILX ages we're becoming like those death obsessed grandparents who call up their friends to ask if they've seen today's obituary yet.
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
The drummer (I think) from Lit died of brain cancer; saw the obit yesterday.
― nickn, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Virginia Davis, Disney child star of the silents.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-virginia-davis20-2009aug20,0,503720.story
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
DJ AM :(
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1619854/20090828/dj_am.jhtml
― Hillary had Everest in his veins (sunny successor), Saturday, 29 August 2009 02:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Y'know what, FUCK THIS YEAR already. Someone, anyone, fastforward, cause this year sucks.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 29 August 2009 11:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Dr. Drew: There is just a profound lack of appreciation of the impact of prescription drugs on the disease of addiction.This time I lost a friend.
Can't tell you how often I have seen an Rx for anxiety or pain result in a full relapse on hard drugs.about 6 hours ago from TweetDeck
If the biology is activated even by appropriately prescribed medication, the disease awakens and progresses - really without exceptionabout 6 hours ago from TweetDeck
― Q. Tarantino Presents: Popeye (Eazy), Saturday, 29 August 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Simon Dee, apparently (according to Wikipedia).
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 30 August 2009 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link
And the BBC News: Opened up a thread for the dude.
― Mark G, Sunday, 30 August 2009 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 29 August 2009 12:31 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^^ 2009 is the year when all your childhood heroes will either die or publicly disgrace themselves.
― the visible spectrum is rainbows (snoball), Sunday, 30 August 2009 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I know it's pretty sad (like in the loser sense) but I do get upset when someone famous dies. :-(
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 30 August 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
darren sutherland, olympic boxing bronze medallist found dead in his flat in london aged 27.
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 09:24 (fourteen years ago) link
:-( Cause of death still unknown? God that's young. :-(
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Nevermind, I just noticed he hanged himself. :-(
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 09:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't follow boxing much, but i remember how likeable he seemed in interviews around the time of the olympics.
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 09:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Zakes Mokae, South African actor in the plays of Athol Fugard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/theater/15mokae.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
The Italian Job screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin dies at 77
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I just came in here to mention TKM. Edge of Darkness, Z Cars...
M*A*S*H co-creator Larry Gelbart too. And Felix Bowness, the jockey from Hi-De-Hi.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 09:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it's probably a good thing that TKM died before he got to see the forthcoming Mel Gibson/Ray Winstone remake of Edge of Darkness :/
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 09:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Though it has the same director and... no, it'll be terrible.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 09:26 (fourteen years ago) link
And Gertrude Baines, the oldest living person in the world, relinquished her title last Friday. Perhaps there's already a thread about her.
Enough death for now, I think.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 09:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Paul Burke, star of TV's "Naked City"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/arts/television/16burke.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
too bad he didn't take his jerkass son with him
― Hat Trick Swayze (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 September 2009 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Roc Raida of the X-Ecutioners.
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 19 September 2009 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw that on Joel Madden's twitter acc. :-(
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 19 September 2009 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
hah Shakey, I was gonna ask you who Paul Burke's son was!
Irving Kristol's just a feelgood like Novak.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 September 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I hadn't realized Mary Travers died until Stephanopoulos this morning, couldn't find a separate thread...Not major, I suppose, although Peter, Paul & Mary's hit covers of Dylan obviously had a major impact on the course of Dylan's career and pop history in general. Mostly I'd say that a) she was very beautiful, and b) "Leaving on a Jet Plane" is a personal favourite.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/09/17/mary_travers_rip.jpg
― clemenza, Sunday, 20 September 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
There's an existing P,P&M thread on ILM where it was brought up.
― nickn, Sunday, 20 September 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Might not read about this one for a few days in the papers but RIP Dr. John J. Wild, pioneer of medical ultrasound (and inventor of the mechanism for the Teasmade), at 95. Every single one of you have probably benefited from something invented by this man.
― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Sunday, 20 September 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Dorothy Coonan Wellman 1914-2009, at 95, surely one of the last surviving berkeley girls, if not the last. 0.30 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOjTNuuEVw
― \/*|_*/-\*|) (Pashmina), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP the great magazine illustrator bernie fuchs:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/18/AR2009091803542.html
there is a wonderful selection of his work here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leifpeng/sets/72057594070673618/
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 24 September 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
that just leaves me and Robby :(
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Earl Holliman's still kicking.
― kkvgz, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
terrible cook
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 January 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Aw, man. Anne Francis. One of my first childhood crushes, thanks to "Honey West."
http://www.tvder60er.de/bilder/west.jpg
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I was just watching Forbidden Planet on TCM a day or two ago.
― not the sort of person who would wind up in a landfill (Nicole), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://davidmerryweather.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/forbiddenplanet_altaira.jpg
Altaira: [swiming in a pool] Come on in.Commander John J. Adams: I didn’t bring my bathing suit. Altaira: What’s a bathing suit? Commander John J. Adams: [quickly turning his back] Oh, murder!
― if there's a straw, I will clutch (DavidM), Monday, 3 January 2011 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
(i nearly posted that exact quote when nielsen died and everyone else was quoting airplane)
― koogs, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
that was in the FP trailer!
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
John Howard Davies
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 10:44 (twelve years ago) link
For some reason I thought he'd died a few years ago. RIP JHD.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 10:54 (twelve years ago) link
Thinking of Bob Spiers, maybe?
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 11:26 (twelve years ago) link
Nickolas Ashford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mm_lnHVz4U
― Psyduck is My Spirit Animal (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ broke my damn heart yesterday
― sbgorf (stevie), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 07:24 (twelve years ago) link
DJ Mehdi's reported to have died after falling from a balcony.
― A little bit like Peter Crouch but with more mobility (ShariVari), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently it was the roof of his apartment, and everybody with him fell except Riton who managed not to or something? Just horrific
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
Richard Hamilton
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/2012/01/03/20120103soul-singer-robert-dickey-dies-72.html
aka Bobby Purify part of the duo that did "I'm Your Puppet"
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
Jennifer Miro of the Nuns.
http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/jennifer_miro_of_the_nuns_r.i.p
― nickn, Thursday, 5 January 2012 06:21 (twelve years ago) link
David Gold of the Canadian metal band Woods of Ypres.
http://exclaim.ca/News/woods_of_ypres_singer_david_gold_dies_at_31
Actually used to work with him years ago, back when he was first putting his band together. Hadn't seen him in a few years. Very funny, intelligent, talented and passionate guy. A terrible loss.
― Who wants to see the great Pavarotti sit on a pie? (jer.fairall), Friday, 6 January 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
William Duell, character actor (Mr Sefelt in Cuckoo's Nest)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/theater/william-duell-puckish-character-actor-dies-at-88.html
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 January 2012 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't know which one Mr. Sefelt was, but when I saw that he was in The Hustler, I figured out who he was.
― clemenza, Friday, 6 January 2012 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
I see there is also a Rolling RIP/obit 2012 thread. Maybe someone should ask a mod to decide whether to close this thread or not.
Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 January 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
Hal David:(
― rods & cones (doo dah), Saturday, 1 September 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
Never heard of him before, but I'm not sure he would have wanted to be remembered this way: 'Snakes on a Plane' director David R. Ellis dies
― Vote in the ILM End of Year Poll! (seandalai), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
"Cellular" is a great flick.
― abanana, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
He also wanted to call Shark Night Untitled 3D Shark Thriller which would have been better.
― abanana, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
André Cassagnes, Etch A Sketch Inventor, Is Dead at 86
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 February 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Reg Presley, lead singer of the Troggs
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
Rolling Obituary Thread 2013
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link