Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Dave Riley of Big Black, 59.

https://www.punknews.org/article/71539/inmemoriam-dave-riley-of-big-black-has-passed-away

Damn. RIP.

noted cincinnati bengals coach sam wyche, 74

Very Toronto-centric: Marilyn Lastman, Toronto's version of Martha Mitchell, sort of.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6358472/marilyn-lastman-wife-mel-lastman-dies/

As coincidence would have it, I passed the Kitchener Bad Boy store on the way home tonight.

(Also, as posted on ILB, Don Larsen.)

A minute of "wait, why would a Mad Magazine artist / writer show up first on I Love Books rather than I Love Comics?"

Rapper Lexii Alijai

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/lexii-alijai-dead-kehlani-jealous-1203454960/

sad news, but man, that URL is particularly unfortunate.

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/21107896/rosetta-thompson-19392019

DC promoter for the last 40 years of old-school style Gospel quartet shows , died after a long illness in December 2019

TV "psychic", exploiter of the vulnerable, and smarmy fuck who didn't see this one coming, Derek Acorah

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/04/tv-mystic-derek-acorah-dies-aged-69

coming soon ...most haunted dead tosser haunts himself.

be a little more sensitive calz, he might be reading this from beyond the grave

he's pretending to be possessed in heaven now

he's doonstairs

Norma Tanega:

http://usa.inquirer.net/50263/norma-tanega-maker-of-60s-hit-walkin-my-cat-named-dog-dies-at-80?fbclid=IwAR3y6ICz_Q2GNLFBEEBGQdZTosrK1d7NcCzrXRTF6zf-777nKRA-N7SirEU

Fantastic:

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

John Baldessari:

RIP: John Baldessari, a giant of Conceptual art for 50 years, has died. He was 88. A full obituary will follow. https://t.co/CWIiwkIQyu

— Christopher Knight (@KnightLAT) January 5, 2020

Nancy Lewis, American manager/publicist for Monty Python, the Who, Hendrix, and Genesis, among others, in the ‘60s-‘70s.

https://deadline.com/2020/01/nancy-carol-lewis-jones-dead-monty-python-manager-the-who-jimi-hendrix-publicist-1202822557/

Elizabeth Wurztel, 52, from cancer complications

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/elizabeth-wurtzel-prozac-nation-author-who-spurred-a-memoir-boom-dies-at-52/2020/01/07/fc1a040e-2fcf-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html

Elizabeth Wurtzel, sorry.

she had just been writing for New York mag again, that's a surprise to me

Wow

very sad :(

Christopher Beeny, jobbing British actor probably best known for playing Thora Hird's son in In Loving Memory although he was also in Upstairs Downstairs and the last 10 years of Last of the Summer Wine.

Now I can no longer say Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up! about him and Christopher Timothy, as mentioned recently on the thread of that name :(

It's Christopher Blake I confuse him with.

Errrrrrrrr, what was he in again? Don't tell me....

... OK, two sitcoms I have absolutely no memory of, though I remember him, only 55 when he died :(

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71woVOFnmOL._SY445_.jpg

I fucking hated that crap when I was a kid!

take it to up the arse corner

lol!

in the pic to the bottom left it looks like Thora Hird got first dibs on the strap on and is giving it him hard.

rip

i guess this is the thread for tears after all

still not as painful as the other ilm tbf

The obituary thread is where to come for lolz, folks.

if you can't laugh at the idea of corpse thora hird fucking another corpse with a dildo then this just isn't the thread for you!

stairlift to heaven

new year, similar UK unknowns dominating the rolls

don't want to sic you but "uk unknowns" are in no way "dominating" the list in this thread thus far

idk morbs if a fella so much as looked at a can of film in 1947 he gets his due from yerself in the rip threads, no harm in the bar being low

i never even posted larry gogan today, like

howbout the last 3 hours xp

there really is a vast world of dead britishes sitcom actors fucking each other with dildos that i know nothing of

so... Jack Sheldon of "Schoolhouse Rock" fame

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/01/entertainment/jack-sheldon-dead/index.html

theatre and film director/producer Jack Garfein (The Strange One, Something Wild (1961, with his wife Carroll Baker))

http://www.playbill.com/article/jack-garfein-acclaimed-director-and-producer-dies-at-89

Holy shit Carroll Baker is still alive

I saw her do a Q&A in the last couple years, after Something Wild

Never saw that, know her from The Carpetbaggers and Harlow and Sylvia and the '50s things she was in

Thought she just passed. Oh wait that was Sue Lyons. Guess I should post them on Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

sorry Sue Lyon, no final ‘s’

Bosley Crowther thought the same

Sometimes there's no English-language obituary available for some of my RIPs – or at least not yet.

I always try to post a link.

a complex web of links

My links are sometimes limited to the only other person on twitter who has heard of them.

In British terminology, an obituary:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/11/paolo-rossi-obituary

Not an obituary:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/10/paolo-rossi-italian-football-great-and-world-cup-winner-dies

The day will come... when all of the American and British ILXors meet... and we stand off... and we decide, once and for all, the proper style guide for this board... but, I assure you... oh yes, I assure you!!... blood must spilled...

im reading too much celine

I’m sure you’ll be fine, most of the blood spilled will probably be of us non-American and non-British sacrificial pigs

xp

Indeed.

oh we dont even exist hadnt you heard

Alto Reed (real name Thomas Neal Cartmell), saxophonist in Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band, of colon cancer at 72.

Wow. A bunch of friends and I saw Seger at MSG in January, and we found it endlessly amusing that his trench coat wearing sax player was named Alto Reed.

Dawn Wells, from Covid-19

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/dawn-wells-dead-gilligans-island-mary-ann-1234876755/

Claude Bolling, composer who scored some classic ‘70s French films including “Borsalino”, “Flic Story” and a ton of others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW3JT4yXDwU

Mary Ann with the Shaky Hand.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dawn-wells-dead-mary-ann-gilligans-island-was-82-1149549

(Missed C. Grissom's post.)

Adolfo Quiñones, Dancer, Choreographer and Cultural Icon Known as Shabba-Doo, Dies at 65. (Was right under the Dawn Wells obit.)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/adolfo-quinones-dancer-choreographer-and-cultural-icon-known-as-shabba-doo-dies-at-65

Adele Rose, creator of Byker Grove

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55488255

Might be first woman to write on Coronation Street too, if my friend who is currently writing it has his facts right.

Joe Clark, the NJ high school principal played by Morgan Freeman in the movie Lean On Me.

Friends and neighbors of mine went to Eastside HS under “crazy” Joe Clark and other friends were extras in “Lean On Me”!

the reaper is filling out his quota for the year I suppose

Frank Kimbrough, jazz pianist.

just saw that, RIP

Tommy Docherty

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55501754

RIP - will always remember him like this:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/12/31/16/37457240-0-image-a-39_1609430508566.jpg

:( RIP Doc

Kimbrough put out a six-CD set of every Thelonious Monk composition in late 2018 that's well worth hearing. The full band was a quartet (sax, piano, bass, drums) but they subdivided a lot from track to track. Some are piano solos, some are sax/drums, like that.

I didn't know much about him but did enjoy his Solstice album a few years back.

Oh, RIP Tommy D!

Not sure how Tommy Docherty managed to reach 92, to be honest. He must have been the oldest living man from the Gorbals ever.

I had no idea that Byker Grove lasted that long, I thought it was just 4 or 5 years. Many years after the last time I saw the show, I saw Purely Belter late one night and it seemed like it had a good chunk of Byker Grove's cast and it was such a weird time capsule into such a specific time and place.

Eugene Wright, Dave Brubeck Quartet bassist, 97

A final piece of sad news in the last hours of this worst of all years...
The bassist of the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, the great Eugene Wright, has died. He was 97. pic.twitter.com/ST92HuUG38

— Philip Clark (@MusicClerk) December 31, 2020

MF Doom, 49

aww no RIP

Vaudeville Villain is classic!

Damn he died 2 months ago!

Fuck. :(

what!

wtf

COME ON

Noticed that Frank Kimbrough Monk recording but haven't tried it yet. Seems like a really good band.

Oh, wow. Too young... this is terrible. RIP.

MF :’-(

Phyllis McGuire (Feb 14, 1931 – 29 Dec 2020) The youngest of the harmonizing ‘The McGuire Sisters’ died at her estate in Las Vegas at age 89.

McGuires' version of "Sincerely" is all time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55508606

Mark Eden; British actor most widely known from a long role in Coronation Street but also Marco Polo in the oldest missing Doctor Who story.

This year...

I think I posted him in the People You Were Surprised to See Were Still Alive thread last year, he was 92!

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