Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Müller was also well known for work with Jarmusch, their first collaboration, Down By The Lawn, being nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for best cinematography

Lol

"Also filmed Report Man, Until the End of the Drive and To Live and Lunch in Encino."

RIP

greatest Dutch cinema-createur in history. RIP Robbie.

RIP.

Xpost pretty good, but "Down by the lawn" is awes.

A bit like when Q magazine (maybe) quoted Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame expressing his appreciation for Bunuel's surrealist masterpiece "Large Door"

harry m miller

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-lanzmann/french-filmmaker-claude-lanzmann-creator-of-shoah-dies-at-92-idUSKBN1JV1FR

RIP Claude, was just re-watching his absolutely essential doc about The Sobibor Rebellion last month.

Woah, RIP.

I was just thinking last month: the star of Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. is actually a year younger than Lanzmann and still was apparently still alive last time I g-search checked.

some of his interviews and monologues are just .. unforgettable. He did such very important work.

I never realized his brother was Jacques Lanzmann until a few years ago.

Former MSNBC host (and more recently Russia Today host) Ed Schultz.

New Orleans jazz, r'n'b, and blues pianist Henry Butler at 69 from cancer

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/03/625632851/new-orleans-pianist-henry-butler-dead-at-69

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/obituaries/henry-butler-dead.html

7 Aum Shinrikyo members executed in Japan.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy3xex/what-is-aum-shinrikyo-sarin-attack?utm_source=dmfb

Steve Ditko

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/steve-ditko-dead-spider-man-creator-was-90-1125489

Spurs legend Alan Gilzean.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44757890

:( Old Spurs fan I worked with was forever singing his praises. RIP Alan.

22 Scottish caps in 8 years. LOL SFA.

Tab Hunter
https://www.google.com/amp/www.vulture.com/amp/2018/07/gay-hollywood-heartthrob-tab-hunter-dead-at-86.html

I swear I thought he died in the 90s.

Yr probably thinking of Troy Donahue, who we'll probably see a lot of mistakenly posted pictures of in the next few days

Lord Carrington, 99

Famously resigned on the grounds that he'd failed at his job, a rare occurrence in politics.

Still have no idea why his name gained the extra "R" when he became ennobled.

It's like Haringey and Harringay all over again.

As long ago as April, but I only just now became aware: RIP F'Murrr, creator of probably my favourite comic of all time, <i>Le Génie des alpages</i>.

http://bdm.typepad.com/legeniedesalpages/images/parapluie4.jpg

Alan Johnson, award-winning choreographer who did "Springtime for Hitler" and other Mel Brooks musical numbers

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/obituaries/alan-johnson-81-springtime-for-hitler-choreographer-dies.html

Clive King, author of Stig of the Dump

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44823636

Sinatra's first wife Nancy, at 101

clearly a mob hit :(

“There is no bitterness, only great respect and affection between Sinatra and his first wife,” Gay Talese wrote in 1966. “And he has long been welcome in her home and has even been known to wander in at odd hours, stoke the fire, lie on the sofa, and fall asleep.”

Just got out of an imdb clickhole, and found that screenwriter & 70s game show stalwart (and husband of the late Patti Deutsch) Donald Ross died last month.

http://gr8erdays.com/2018/06/06/writer-donald-ross-widower-of-patti-deutsch-dies-75/

RIP. Probably deserves a mention on Old time actors and directors that you were surprised to find out were married to each other once upon a time

Not because of surprise, but because of the Match Game/Tattletales subtheme tie-in

cmon cmon havent all day

Shinobu Hashimoto, co-screenwriter of Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Rashomon, The Hidden Fortress and some other movies you may have heard of, exactly 3 months after his 100th birthday.

fuck me, that is some classic stuff he has had a hand on there. RIP.

in b4 official announcement of prince phillip, dead from racism poisoning at 146 years old

Not convinced, looks quite like a couple of other hoaxes so far. But guess we'll see at 5.

maybe he's going to be a dad again and someone misheard

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He's just dead, dead racist.

Think it's a slightly old-fashioned midlands thing to use 'dead' as a general intensifier, do other parts of the country / world do that? It's a feature in Mandarin too.

the scots think it's pure dead brilliant too

Every time someone starts a rumour about Prince Philip being dead, it adds another five years to his life. Please gossip responsibly.

— Hannah Erskine (@hanabizzle) July 20, 2018

Def an Edinburgh thing at least. Dead keen. Deid annoying. Dead tired.

'Dead wrong' is probably nationwide.