Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

Poland Nobel poetry laureate Wislawa Szymborska dies

Muhammad Ali trainer Angelo Dundee dies

... one of those guys you thought had died years ago

Oh, I had no idea that Dorothea Tanning was still alive. That's her and Leonora Carrington passing away in the last few months, must be the last of that whole wave of Surrealists?

*sadmeltingfacewithboobsforeyesorsomething*

ben gazzara

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/movies/ben-gazzara-actor-of-stage-and-screen-dies-at-81.html

aw, rip

so so great

rip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLdyuwqik4Q

;_;

goddamn you.

i speak for the common man here, morbz

ha

The very last quote in that Times obit is amazing.

gonna have to put They All Laughed in the library queue.

It was on HBO once many moons ago when I was home from college on break and in my vegetational state I watched it many times. I don't think overall it was very good but yeah, he and some of the rest of the cast did a good job.

And also, Wild Orchid director Zalman King:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zalman-king-dies-69-red-shoe-diaries-nine-half-weeks-287000

Which makes me feel horribly shitty for blurbing this only days ago:

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=4893&cpage=1#comment-129068

John Christopher.

That last one makes me sad. The Tripods and Sword of the Spirits trilogies were hugely important to my younger self.

Bill Hinzman, the first onscreen "ghoul" in Night of the Living Dead.

Had no idea that John Christopher was still alive. RIP.

Florence Green, Last World War I Veteran, Dies at 110

just came here to post that. crazy.

RIP keyboardist and arranger to the stars Clare Fischer: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/28/local/la-me-clare-fischer-20120128

A Boy Named Clare

rest in peace, nello ferrara! you were a giant in candyland!

http://chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_chuck/2012_2_7_ferrara_pan_brands.jpg

http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/10477823-418/nello-ferrara-93-invented-lemonheads-saw-macarthur-in-occupied-japan-sang-with-sinatra.html

Tom Dada, I think there is also one in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Well that's Thomas Hardy for you, he has a dude called Jude too

Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty. The character's role was greatly expanded from that in the novel and Kubrick allowed Sellers to adopt a variety of disguises throughout the film. Early on in the film, Quilty appears as himself: a conceited, avant-garde playwright with a superior manner. Later, he disguises himself as various personae. First, he is an inquisitive policeman on the porch of the hotel where Humbert and Lolita are staying. Next he is the intrusive Beardsley High School psychologist, Doctor Zempf, who lurks in Humbert's front room for the purpose of persuading him to give Lolita more freedom in her after-school activities.[2] Later in the film he is an anonymous phone caller conducting a survey

... but always he is a self-indulgent actor ruining a perfectly good film

^blech

Peter Breck of TV's "Big Valley" and Fuller's Shock Corridor:

http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/peter-breck-the-big-valley/

David Kelly, quintessentially feckless rogue and charmer, renowned Beckett/stage performer and the recipient of the finest umbrella hits in tv history

And walking Oirish hate-crime, never too busy to rubbish up any production with the same wince-inducing character over and over and over again.

a gig's a gig

"Oh, he didn't just have the one arm then?"

He was only following orders the script, yes.

RIP Mr. Kelly

RIP, John Severin.

http://www.comicsbeat.com/2012/02/14/rip-john-severin/

RIP Dory Previn, at 86.

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/music/valley-of-dolls-co-composer-previn-shannon-dies/article_0ed4dd5b-e7d7-5b62-adfa-4a8bf6364d10.html

oh man john severin. total boyhood hero.

Yeah, one of my alltime favorites. I thought I'd posted here earlier today, but that was during one of today's internet outages. Anyway, it took a great talent to make Herb Trimpe look good.

Aw, Dory Previn :(

rip albert riddle

lillian bassman

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/16/arts/28993805.JPG

Rip miss Bassman :'-(

Was a huge fan of Severin- didn't he sometimes use the name "O O Severin," which I guess I just realized thirty something years later is a play on "007." In avant-ILX times I thought about doing "TS: Mort Drucker vs. John Severin." RIP everybody.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/york-nightlife-fixture-zelda-kaplan-dies-a-fashion-week-article-1.1023306

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html?_r=1&hp

character actor Phil Bruns, best known as Mary Hartman's dad

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/159631-Phil-Bruns-Stage-and-Television-Actor-Dies-at-80

original morty seinfeld too

I have strong memory of seeing an episode of Mary H in which she is distraught over her marital problems and has no one to turn to so she calls her dad. He tells her he has been watching a Claudette Colbert movie on TV that he has never seen the end of and if he doesn't watch it now he will never get a chance to see how it turns out. Mary hangs up and endures her troubles in silence, alone. RIP.

Dick Anthony Williams, Tony-nominated actor whose film roles included The Mack, Dog Day Afternoon, The Jerk, and Malcolm X on stage and in TV's "King" miniseries

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/theater/dick-anthony-williams-actor-and-producer-dies-at-77.html

Someday I will figure out how to embed videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiKy3ktxw6M

sigh

Fontella Bass

Oh no you didn't, WmC .

I didn't do it! It was a heart attack!

I think it was the image posted here that did it: "Rescue Me" (Denis Leary firefighter show on FX) - anyone?

seeing on twitter that norman schwarzkopf is dead

RIP Fontella Bass, Stormin Norman, not quite so much, but still.

Jean Harris, Scarsdale diet doc killer.

tony greig

Former Indy 500 driver, wannabe actor, and hard-luck case Salt Walther. Perhaps most remembered for this crash in 1973

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-IsOuo5be8

http://www.tmz.com/2007/12/04/rapper-pimp-c-found-dead-in-hollywood-hotel-room/

aw shit of course that happened five years ago.

Not going to be missed: Sir Irvine Patnick.

Ray Collins, singer with the Mothers

need new thread

Rolling Obituary Thread 2013.