Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

This is lovely:

in which Tom Wilkinson, in his greatest and perhaps most challenging role, played a mirror.

https://deadline.com/2023/12/richard-romanus-dead-actor-mean-streets-the-sopranos-was-80-obituary-1235683695/

Richard Romanus -- pretty excellent in Mean Streets as Michael, the too-nice loan shark who's a bit more dangerous than he appears.

Terrific also as the voice of lethal cabby Harry Canyon in the dystopian noir segment of Heavy Metal.

Fantastic in Mean Streets. "Now's the time."

RIP

Australian Olympic ex-cyclist Melissa Hoskins

https://www.globalcyclingnetwork.com/racing/news/rohan-dennis-charged-in-relation-to-the-death-of-his-wife-melissa-hoskins

Jeezo.

John Pilger.

oof

Shecky Greene

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/shecky-greene-dead-comedian-vegas-sinatra-presley-1235858881/

“Frank Sinatra once saved my life,” Greene quipped. “A bunch of guys were beating on me and Frank said, ‘OK, that’s enough.’ ”

dang i thought he was long gone
RIP legend!

https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2011/06/the-legend-of-shecky-greene.html

lolled pretty hard at that Sinatra gag

Comedian Shecky Greene has passed away. He was 97. Here he is on the cover of Night Life in Chicago Magazine, dated May 1955 where he performed at Chez Peree Restaurant in Chicago. R.I.P. #RIPSheckyGreene #RIPSheckGreene @sheckygreene pic.twitter.com/8T0Ifd8TBN

— Vanished Chicagoland (@vanishedchicago) December 31, 2023

Shecky played Christie Lane--a stand-up comedian and a stand-up guy--in what I usually name as my favourite bad movie, The Love Machine.

NASCAR's Cale Yarborough

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/31/sport/nascar-cale-yarborough-death/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwh4jqd6HMI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mucSyo9yLLQ

British comics artist John M Burns, who drew everything from George and Lynne in The Sun to The Bionic Woman in Look-In.

Which inspired this Viz parody (nsfw) https://www.flickr.com/photos/stillunusual/13389387073

Sad coincidence of Richard Rampton, the brilliant lead barrister in the Irving v Lipstadt libel case, and Tom Wilkinson, who played him in the movie "Denial", both dying in late December, within days of one another.

— Sir Richard Evans (@RichardEvans36) January 1, 2024

RIP 2023, i never liked you anyway

Les McCann, 88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDMQqDUtv4

Time for a new thread. Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Time for a new thread.

Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Time for a new thread.

Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Time for a new thread.

Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Yikes!