Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

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

iwanttobelieve.png

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.

Shinobu Hashimoto, writer of many Japanese film classics

https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/shinobu-hashimoto-scriptwriter-akira-kurosawa-dies-dead-at-100-1202879323/

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

for the next 25 minutes it's Schrödinger's Prince

goodnight racist prince

Adrian Cronauer, whose stint as a Vietnam DJ very loosely inspired a Robin Williams/Barry Levinson hit

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44897634

RIP. It must be odd to have outlive the person who played you in your biopic.

so the royal bucket's status remains unkicked?

Keep the Prince alive.

jonathan gold

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-fo-jonathan-gold-obit-20180721-story.html

Oh shit.

Goddammit.

This is totally fucked....

cancer grrrr

Is there a JGold appreciation thread?

I posted here...
things Billy Corgan said to Kim Thayil in Australia in 1994 poll

Bill Loud, patriarch of the Loud family, pioneers in reality TV (An American Family). Was 97.

Lucy Birley - model and former wife of Bryan Ferry.

The Vogue obituary is the one to read https://www.vogue.com/article/lucy-birley-obituary

The Times obituary today is unexepectedly bad and exploitative.

wow yeah that Vogue obit is beautiful <3

rip Lucy ;_;

Ron Dellums, 13-term liberal leader in the House (was called a "Watusi from Berkeley" by that ass Ed Koch)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ronald-dellums-who-entered-congress-a-firebrand-and-left-a-statesman-dies-at-82/2018/07/30/cbc41d76-941c-11e8-810c-5fa705927d54_story.html

I used to like his son Erik as an actor - he played a drug dealer on Homicide: Life on the Street and a medical examiner on The Wire.

Bernard Hepton

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/30/bernard-hepton-obituary

Awww, so good in TTSS.

Tomasz Stańko, Polish jazz trumpeter

Sam Mehran, musician, 30.