The rolling RIP/obituary thread

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

The Italian Job screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin dies at 77

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.

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 :/

Though it has the same director and... no, it'll be terrible.

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.

Paul Burke, star of TV's "Naked City"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/arts/television/16burke.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

too bad he didn't take his jerkass son with him

RIP Roc Raida of the X-Ecutioners.

I saw that on Joel Madden's twitter acc. :-(

hah Shakey, I was gonna ask you who Paul Burke's son was!

Irving Kristol's just a feelgood like Novak.

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

There's an existing P,P&M thread on ILM where it was brought up.

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.

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

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/

Probably deserves its own thread:

Susan Atkins

RIP Freddy Bienstock- music publisher, business partner of Leiber and Stoller, imposer of the the "Elvis tax."

RIP Dr. Wild, ultrasound pioneer, as mentioned above

I didn't know Iain Cuthbertson passed away earlier this month. RIP.

William Garvey, the guy who wrote "Goodbye Horses" died of heart failure last month at 51.

xpost -- RIP to Cuthbertson! Funny as hell as the one thing I know him from offhand, an episode of Ripping Yarns.

lucy 'in the sky' vodden

producer Greg Ladanyi (Church, Jackson Browne, Fleetwood Mac etc) died yesterday morning

http://prosoundnews.com/article/24448

RIP Amy Farris

News spread today to shocked friends and fans that local musician Amy Farris had died over the weekend. As a member of Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women, Farris played the fiddle, viola and sang harmony vocals. An Austin, Texas native, Farris moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to record a solo album produced by Dave Alvin. She also played backup for a number of musicians including Exene Cervenka, Stan Ridgway, Brian Wilson, Peter Case and Ray Price.

According to newspaper Austin 360, Farris was found dead in her Los Angeles home. Suicide is suspected, but the cause of death is still being investigated. Farris was 40 years old.

Little Britain star Matt Lucas' former civil partner has been found dead in his flat after leaving a tragic message on Facebook.

Police found the body of Kevin McGee at his Edinburgh flat.

The television producer, who "wed" Lucas, 35, in December 2006, had posted a message on Facebook three hours earlier.

It read: "Kevin McGee thinks that death is much better than life."

Robert Kirby, college chum of Nick Drake's, arranged all his strings, went on to arrange for Elton John, John Cale, Costello, etc. Only 61.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirby

RIP, loved his arrangements

Belgian cyclist Vandenbroucke dead at 34

;_;

Reposting outside of the Who thread.

Barry Letts RIP

hearing rumours around facebook that brendan mullen, owner of the masque and co-author of some ace la punk, germs and janes addiction biogs (and very much a loveable and larger-than-life character himself) has passed away after a massive stroke.

I don't know much about him outside of the Germs book but that's a good read so on that basis I hope it's not true

WTF @ Frank VDB :(

Reposting outside of the Who thread.

Barry Letts RIP

That's Doctor Who, not "The Who" to clarify...

Damn, the Vandenbroucke news is depressing.

Captain Lou:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/10/captain-lou-albano.html

and Al Martino (he had a #1 twenty years before The Godfather):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/6326236/Al-Martino.html#

RIP, Capt. Lou...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8M8I2SYEiA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdAYDL8CJy8

hilarious real-life mob details in that Martino obit btw

"I can put one of these in my nose and it comes right out the other side. Because I'm well groomed, brother."

VDB dying isn't that big of a surprise: the amount of drugs he took, multiple attempts at suicide,.. It is a loss, but otoh his rap sheet wasn't clean. He terrorized his wife for fucking years. Slapping her around, stalking her,... I'm not saying good riddance, but just a sad case of unfulfilled talent. (Same nationality: Dré Steemans, a Belgian presenter.)

Ian Wallace, beloved of anyone who owned this album.
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/ciu/d6/20/81f1c27a02a00bb4cdf43110.L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Because of this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzg4ALLYnXE

RIP Anne Friedberg. Postmodern/film/architecture/design/everything crit. Had her for a few classes back at UCI and she was a huge influence in how I perceived the world (and still do)

Kazuhiko Kato of 1970's band Sadistic Mika Band, seems he committed suicide : http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/musician-kazuhiko-kato-found-hanged-at-karuizawa-hotel

vic mizzy, composer of "addams family" theme and other things.

Ludovic Kennedy, broadcaster, justice campaigner, author of 10 Rillington Place.

RIP Anne Friedberg. Postmodern/film/architecture/design/everything crit. Had her for a few classes back at UCI and she was a huge influence in how I perceived the world (and still do)

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, October 16, 2009 12:30 AM (4 days ago)

I too had a few classes with her, and was friendly with her husband. She was a really really great woman, mother, and teacher.

Ludovic Kennedy, broadcaster, justice campaigner, author of 10 Rillington Place.

Apparently Thatcher blocked him from getting a knighthood as long as she was in office, well done Ludo

xpost Anne Friedberg also taught my wife (who was at UCI about 15 years ago) and she remembers her fondly

Joseph Wiseman, aka Dr. No in the first James Bond film.