Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

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RIP Servalan.

Madchen, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 07:08 (five years ago) link

http://extratv.com/2018/09/03/gloria-jean-30s-and-40s-singer-and-actress-dead-at-92/

Gloria Jean, costar to W.C. Fields and Groucho Marx, 92.

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link

Rachael Bland (40), from 5Live https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45410652

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link

Carole Shelley, Tony winner for The Elephant Man and Gwendolyn Pigeon in three incarnations of The Odd Couple

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/carole-shelley-dead-one-pigeon-sisters-odd-couple-was-79-1139227

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link

Liz Frazer, actress probably best known for her Carry On work.

Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link

Whoa, you really scared me there for a second.

I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link

RIP the original Liz Frazer.

Scottish Country Tweerking (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link

burt reynolds

mookieproof, Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link

damn...I'm not surprised, he's looked pretty frail for a few years now.

I think he was pretty damn underrated, back in the early days when he was committed to being more "serious" onscreen he really seemed like a major star presence, and I think his more lightweight mustache era work kind of undermined his legacy a bit. But he was good.

omar little, Thursday, 6 September 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link

aw man

i loved Burt :(

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 September 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link

Not the Liz Fraser I care about

Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link

Thank you for that contribution. RIP Burt.

Scottish Country Tweerking (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 September 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link

I had a big cardboard cutout of Burt Reynolds (taken from spec savers, I think?) from the end of school through university. Not entirely sure why...

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 6 September 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link

The Man Who Loved Women will forever resonate int me soul

Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link

The NY library actually has a copy of that on *VHS*. The idea of a Blake Edwards remake of a Truffaut film is still bizarre.

Burt voted for Trump, so no wonder he was dumb enough to turn down the Nicholson role in Terms of Endearment.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 September 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link

Mac Miller

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 September 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link

Jesus

wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 7 September 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link

Damn!

flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link

RIP Howard Borden

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 September 2018 09:43 (five years ago) link

seriously, wtf is wrong with showbiz obit writers these days? who the motherfuck values Jeannie over Bob Newhart?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 September 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link

RIP. Loved that guy. Can’t quite remember his appearance on MTM.

Cruel Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 September 2018 10:49 (five years ago) link

Ah, seemed it was a proposed spinoff for Jim

Cruel Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 September 2018 10:51 (five years ago) link

Joseph Schindelman - original illustrator for the Charlie & The Chocolate Factory books
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=190145327
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/i-still-enjoy-what-a-line-can-do

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 September 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link

Adam Clymer, NY Times correspondent 1977-2003; (called "major-league asshole" by GWB)

Josefa, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link

Gary John Bassett aka Johnny Strike of Crime.

Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link

Fenella Fielding

Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link

I loved Fenella Fielding, such a unique character, I feel like she never found a vehicle big enough for her.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link

Gary John Bassett aka Johnny Strike of Crime

Ah man. Now there's a band.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link

Is that the Crime who did Murder By Guitar?

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link

yes

Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link

Piss On Your Dog is sort of classic!

calzino, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link

I mean the gutter-punk song by Crime, of course.

calzino, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link

As opposed to no you don't understand its the name of, urrr

Mark G, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link

apparently the song was originally called Prisoner Dog but they changed it because someone misheard the lyrics and they liked the misheard version better

Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link

Rachid Taha.

mike t-diva, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link

What?! Aw, man.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link

Only 59. https://m.france24.com/en/20180912-french-based-algerian-singer-rachid-taha-dies-59

curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link

Beloved theatre veteran and three-time Tony nominee Marin Mazzie has passed away at 57 https://t.co/kCKouXuy0W pic.twitter.com/p3HwwzPmbo

— Playbill (@playbill) September 13, 2018

mookieproof, Thursday, 13 September 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link

I saw Marin Mazzie in Kiss Me, Kate in '99; an immense talent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yiKD64iqh8

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 September 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link

Dudley Sutton (actor who appeared in The Leather Boys, The Devils and lots of other stuff)

soref, Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link

absolute classic character actor

every day there's a whining choad (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 15 September 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link

;_; RIP Dudley

Zach Same (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 September 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link

He was brilliant in The Beiderbecke Affair, so many lines I repeat to this day. I made soup in a cooking contest in China and told a local journalist it was "lurking vegetable soup" and she actually printed it in the paper. RIP Dudley.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 September 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link

NOOOOOO I have been on a huge Space: 1999 jag lately and she is my favourite! 72 is far too young, how unfair.

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 15 September 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link

RIP Dudley

Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Sunday, 16 September 2018 07:31 (five years ago) link


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