Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

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!

RIP car designer Sergio Pininfarina

The world of automotive design has lost another great. Sergio Pininfarina – the honorary chairman of the Pininfarina Group that bears his family name – passed away last night at age 85.

Sergio took control of Pininfarina as chairman back in 1966 after his father, Gian Battista 'Pinin' Farina, passed away. He would hold this role until transitioning to honorary chairman in 2006.

Over his tenure, his Pininfarina firm worked on design projects for everyone from Alfa Romeo to Chevrolet to Bentley and Volvo, but he is perhaps most known for his work for Ferrari and Maserati. No stranger to edgy aesthetics, Pininfarina presided over designs like the 2002 Ferrari Enzo and the 1984 Ferrari Testarossa before it. Conversely, he was also responsible for some beautifully simple forms, including the lauded 1996 Peugeot 406 Coupe and 2003 Maserati Quattroporte.

My grandfather wanted a specific Andy Griffith gospel song played at his funeral, and all we could find was a medley of AG songs that contained the requested song therein, so at his funeral, we all sat and listened to a ten-minute medley of Andy Griffith's greatest gospel hits, which was not unlike living in morbid, surreal sketch comedy skit.

Anyway, RIP, dude. Your TV show used to bore me to tears as a kid, but my grandfather liked you a lot.

Was shocked to see a mid-90s (likely non-US-compliant) Alfa Spyder the other day. I thought, "How come no one designs cars like that anymore?" RIP.

xp

RIP andy g have fun chilling in heaven w/ don knotts

a face in the crowd is so good.

r.i.p.
http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/bastardang/1160825688/1/tumblr_l929joFvh91qzc4ea

sing him off, fellas

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p34LFnMKyhs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3NdEEKZz7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVU8Tz2xmAQ

Eric Sykes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18704263

:(

http://www.art247.com/images/large/MIRRORPIX/WA/WA447350.jpg

"The plank itself was sold at auction on Monday 5 December 2011 for £1050."

aw.

if you're reading, BBC4, and you haven't already done so then we'll be fine without a gritty docudrama about his life cheers

but an evening of his best bits would be luverly thanks