Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

i always think it's weird when people post really famous RIPs on this thread when it's pretty certain they're going to get a dedicated RIP thread. or is this thread just supposed to be a comprehensive list of dead celebs? i guess i don't understand what this thread is for.

Thought it was for people who might not be well-known for their own thread but could also be used to announce and link to standalone threads for more famous persons.

announce the passing of

also it's a handy one-stop REMINDER OF OUR OWN MORTALITY

ha, exactly.

RIP Bob Welch formerly of Fleetwood Mac. Shotgun suicide.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18363214

already discussion of this on his thread.

Oops, only just popped on the Beeb, hadn't heard.

A week late w/this, but:

Cinematographer Chris Challis (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Arabesque, Genevieve, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Top Secret! etc)

^Two major car films there

Didn't he understudy with Jack Cardiff or shoot some of his films when Jack turned director?

Wait, he shot The Small Black Room! RIP http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Challis/Challis01.html

Of course I mean The Small Back Room.

Frank Cady

http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/obituaries/obituary-jan-fairley-writer-broadcaster-lecturer-1-2348562

ethnomusicologist and writer

Actress Ann Rutherford: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gone-wind-ann-rutherford-dead-336296

wiseguy Henry Hill

http://www.examiner.com/article/mobster-henry-hill-dead-at-69-heart-gave-out-over-unknown-illness

and as posted in the boxing thread, 3-time Olympic heavyweight boxing champ Teofilo Stevenson

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-teofilo-stevenson-20120612,0,308275.story

Rodney King

RIP, of course, my minds just elsewhere.

Just saw this, Drowned in his pool.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/us/obit-rodney-king/index.html

Victor Spinetti

and

Brian Hibbard

Not a good week to be Welsh and have cancer.

Had no idea that guy had a career outside of the Flying Pickets. RIP sideburns man.

Was just coming to post Victor Spinetti :(

His stage career saw him win a Tony award for his Broadway performance in Oh, What a Lovely War!, as well as co-starring with Jack Klugman when The Odd Couple toured London.

Hosni Mubarak according to BBC Newsnight. Not sure he deserves his own thread, but he was very powerful for a very long time.

Yeah, Reuters saying he's "clinically dead"

...after having a stroke in prison

B-movie/TV actor Richard Lynch, beloved by MST3K fans for Werewolf, best known to most other people maybe from The Sword and the Sorcerer?

More notably, Andrew Sarris/

Don Grady--Robbie on My Three Sons.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/r-i-p-don-grady/

Chip and Ernie, very much alive.

Doris Singleton from "I Love Lucy".

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/-i-love-lucy--star-doris-singleton-dies.html

Don't think anyone posted this before, and I can't find a thread for The Peanuts, but Emi Ito on June 15th: http://english.kyodonews.jp/photos/2012/06/166252.html

http://www.laopinion.com/article/20120702/ENTRETENIMIENTO/120709982/-1/ENTRETENIMIENTO

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/NiLP-FYI--The-Passing-of-Yomo.html?soid=1101040629095&aid=UCI59BzK6YU

Who Will Be Playing Yomo Toro In The Soon-To-Be-Released Hector Lavoe Biopic El Cantante?

Great Puerto Rican Cuatro player Yomo Toro RIP

andy griffith

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/07/andy-griffith-dies-at-age-86/1#.T_MBtlGhDzI

Aw. A Face in the Crowd will always be one of my favorite movies.

Aww, RIP

sad.RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxLxTZHKM8

I totally missed hearing of Frank Cady's death a month ago. So used to seeing him as kindly Sam Drucker as a kid, so it was a weird moment when I first watched The Bad Seed; his small performance as Mr. Daigle alongside grieving Eileen Heckart is minor, but moving.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101016125260/simpsons/images/0/00/Matlock_expressway.png

After Mayberry and A Face in the Crowd, I most associate Andy Griffith with Go Ask Alice.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JMM3X3hqj3w/0.jpg

In the 60s and 70s, the Andy Griffith Show was one of the few positive portrayals of the South we got to see on TV. A cloying, one-dimensional South, true, but a gentle one, with recognizable similarities to where we lived. RIP.

in honor of Andy Griffith
http://www.undergroundcomixart.com/drawings/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1321&g2_serialNumber=2
http://www.undergroundcomixart.com/drawings/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1325&g2_serialNumber=2

what the fuck is that shit?

anyone left besides jim nabors?

there's this goofy bald guy that makes movies now, maybe you've heard of him

"that shit" is work by artist Drew Friedman. From an early RAW, I think.

ffs xxxxp

RIP

lol Shakey

That was Friedman's first comics work!