Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Bad day for TV dads/grampas. Dakin Mathews, get thee to a doctor pronto.

Actually meant to post the lead up to that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8M7lSEJD4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hi59dtP60k

Great comment about Mahoney

A great actor, gentle man and wonderfully private person in our celebrity-nutty world, telling me some 20 years ago, "I used to crave publicity. I now turn almost everything down. I would rather walk across broken glass." https://t.co/L9QkwwwNQf

— Rick kogan (@rickkogan) February 5, 2018

Rest in peace, John Mahoney. So much I could say, but I think this captures so much of why I love him. Martin Crane's message for future generations: pic.twitter.com/lZlM665M6y

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) February 5, 2018

my heart sank when reading that

And had flat out forgotten he was General Rogard in The Iron Giant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l4m3S3k-pg

Oh man, John Mahoney RIP!

I first saw him (I think) in his Tony-winning role in this John Guare revival, opposite Swoosie Kurtz and 20-y.o. Ben Stiller. Great production, you can probably find the TV version shown on PBS somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8mQJWEWCPw

Paul Clipson was our beloved colleague and today was a truly surreal and horrible workday. Everyone is gutted.

Even when I was a kid, I found Mahoney to be the most compelling of the three principal's in Say Anything. RIP.

xpost -- Damn sorry to hear that. I must have seen his work at numerous times over the years given how many musicians I know around here have been devastated by the loss.

Paul was a dear person and a tremendous artist. He will be missed.

That video of the advert for HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES is tremendous ! Old school Broadway corn.

John Mahoney was between 52 and 63 when he was in 'Frasier'

Is this another one of those 'too young to play his dad' things?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO1AKAKGCvk

YES Ste!

Old school Broadway corn.

Ohhh, you'd never guess how that play ends...

John Mahoney was between 52 and 63 when he was in 'Frasier'

This is crazy.

He was less than 15 years older than Kelsey Grammer.

Mahoney's character in THoBL was the world's worst songwriter, his wife (Kurtz) mentally ill, and his son planning to assassinate Pope Paul. So it was a "new theatre" black comedy, especially when the first production flopped in 1971.

Estelle Getty was 62 when she started playing Sophia Petrillo. Bea Arthur was 63.

https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2018/02/05/paul-clipson-visionary-filmmaker-and-projectionist-dies-at-53/

Proper obit for Paul.

John Perry Barlow

https://www.jambase.com/article/john-perry-barlow-grateful-dead-lyricist-died

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_o5-fMQoE&

RIP Thomas Denis (aka Qebrus).

wow end of an era wrt barlow

i forget what his well username was

Another obituary from the other side of his career: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018

Lovebug Starski, 57.

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/02/09/584488179/lovebug-starski-rapper-and-dj-who-stood-at-the-vanguard-of-hip-hop-dead-at-57

This obit says he was first to rap the term hiphop

damn, Reg E. Cathey at age 59 per David Simon's twitter.
He'll always be first and foremost one of the hosts of PBS's Square One TV to me, but had a great run in the 2000s between Pootie Tang, the Wire, House of Cards, Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter, etc.

wow, way too young.

John Gavin

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-gavin-dead-dies-psycho-spartacus-1202694312/amp/

Reg E. Cathey was also a guest star on the greatest SVU episode ever.

He played a homeless guy on regular Law & Order, too. He was great.

Liam Miller, former Irish international footballer and player with Utd and Celtic among others

... Celtic, Utd, among others.

If you must

John Gavin was Reagan's ambassador to Mexico as well as a boring actor

Always got him and John Saxon mixed up.

^^^^^

Lol

Johann Johannsson

https://deadline.com/2018/02/johann-johannsson-dies-obituary-the-theory-of-everything-composer-1202284591/

Wow

Really shocking. Reports indicate he was found in his Berlin apartment yesterday, and that there'll be an autopsy, cause of death unknown.

RIP John Gavin - I read somewhere on Fbk that his passing now only leaves Vera Miles (aged 88) and Pat Hitchcock (89) still with us from the cast of Psycho.

sad that johannsson's obit has the theory of everything as his most famous work

horrible

Ghanian singer Ebony Reigns

https://www.fashionghana.com/site/ghana-mourns-death-of-dancehall-afrobeats-artiste-ebony-and-two-others/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI1caSAjTgk

http://www.wideopencountry.com/daryle-singletary-dies/

Oof, only 46.

Per Damon Krukowski on Twitter, Pearls Before Swine's Tom Rapp.