Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

Bill Hinzman, the first onscreen "ghoul" in Night of the Living Dead.

Had no idea that John Christopher was still alive. RIP.

Florence Green, Last World War I Veteran, Dies at 110

just came here to post that. crazy.

RIP keyboardist and arranger to the stars Clare Fischer: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/28/local/la-me-clare-fischer-20120128

A Boy Named Clare

rest in peace, nello ferrara! you were a giant in candyland!

http://chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_chuck/2012_2_7_ferrara_pan_brands.jpg

http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/10477823-418/nello-ferrara-93-invented-lemonheads-saw-macarthur-in-occupied-japan-sang-with-sinatra.html

Tom Dada, I think there is also one in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Well that's Thomas Hardy for you, he has a dude called Jude too

Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty. The character's role was greatly expanded from that in the novel and Kubrick allowed Sellers to adopt a variety of disguises throughout the film. Early on in the film, Quilty appears as himself: a conceited, avant-garde playwright with a superior manner. Later, he disguises himself as various personae. First, he is an inquisitive policeman on the porch of the hotel where Humbert and Lolita are staying. Next he is the intrusive Beardsley High School psychologist, Doctor Zempf, who lurks in Humbert's front room for the purpose of persuading him to give Lolita more freedom in her after-school activities.[2] Later in the film he is an anonymous phone caller conducting a survey

... but always he is a self-indulgent actor ruining a perfectly good film

^blech

Peter Breck of TV's "Big Valley" and Fuller's Shock Corridor:

http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/peter-breck-the-big-valley/

David Kelly, quintessentially feckless rogue and charmer, renowned Beckett/stage performer and the recipient of the finest umbrella hits in tv history

And walking Oirish hate-crime, never too busy to rubbish up any production with the same wince-inducing character over and over and over again.

a gig's a gig

"Oh, he didn't just have the one arm then?"

He was only following orders the script, yes.

RIP Mr. Kelly

RIP, John Severin.

http://www.comicsbeat.com/2012/02/14/rip-john-severin/

RIP Dory Previn, at 86.

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/music/valley-of-dolls-co-composer-previn-shannon-dies/article_0ed4dd5b-e7d7-5b62-adfa-4a8bf6364d10.html

oh man john severin. total boyhood hero.

Yeah, one of my alltime favorites. I thought I'd posted here earlier today, but that was during one of today's internet outages. Anyway, it took a great talent to make Herb Trimpe look good.

Aw, Dory Previn :(

rip albert riddle

lillian bassman

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/16/arts/28993805.JPG

Rip miss Bassman :'-(

Was a huge fan of Severin- didn't he sometimes use the name "O O Severin," which I guess I just realized thirty something years later is a play on "007." In avant-ILX times I thought about doing "TS: Mort Drucker vs. John Severin." RIP everybody.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/york-nightlife-fixture-zelda-kaplan-dies-a-fashion-week-article-1.1023306

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html?_r=1&hp

character actor Phil Bruns, best known as Mary Hartman's dad

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/159631-Phil-Bruns-Stage-and-Television-Actor-Dies-at-80

original morty seinfeld too

I have strong memory of seeing an episode of Mary H in which she is distraught over her marital problems and has no one to turn to so she calls her dad. He tells her he has been watching a Claudette Colbert movie on TV that he has never seen the end of and if he doesn't watch it now he will never get a chance to see how it turns out. Mary hangs up and endures her troubles in silence, alone. RIP.

Dick Anthony Williams, Tony-nominated actor whose film roles included The Mack, Dog Day Afternoon, The Jerk, and Malcolm X on stage and in TV's "King" miniseries

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/theater/dick-anthony-williams-actor-and-producer-dies-at-77.html

RIP Frank Carson :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17046201

:((((

RIP

Wrecking Crew session man Billy Strange

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2012/02/billy-strange-1930-2012.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/arts/jan-berenstain-dies-at-88-created-berenstain-bears.html?_r=1

This is a weird one. Neil Hope, who played "Wheels" on the original "Degrassi Junior High" series in the 80s, apparently died in 2007 at the age of 35, but his death was just revealed publicly.

Erland Josephson, of Bergman films and Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-0227-erland-josephson-20120227,0,6567412.story

longtime NY theatre critic Howard Kissel

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/howard-kissel-long-time-daily-news-theater-critic-dead-69-article-1.1028518

Davy Jones of the Monkees.

WTF? wow!

My wife, who is a Monkees superfan, texted me about 10 minutes ago, so I went to find the link.

My first crush :(

(My first non-human crush was Fred from Scooby Doo, Davy was my first human crush)

so sudden
RIP

My sister was a Monkees superfan from back when MTV would air Monkees reruns, she will be crushed.

Holy shit!

Bruce Surtees, cinematographer on Lenny, The Shootist, Dirty Harry, and many other Eastwood films:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bruce-surtees-20120301,0,7713839.story