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The Dearly departed....

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    #242
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Sorry, I had to Google the name. Oh dear, not my taste at all. Obviously a talented artist but, oh dear, I need to lie down now.


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    #243
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Sir John Arthur "Jack" Brabham. For motor sports fans the name Brabham is held in high esteem.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #244
    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    (Some of) JBs Desert Island Discs

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/853f853b


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    #245
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users Posts: 18,582 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    The actress who played the housekeeper, Alice in The Brady Bunch died this week.
    Ann B Davis was 88.

    I loved watching TBB in the 80s on RTÉ- they looked so perfect.


    http://tvline.com/2014/06/01/ann-b-davis-dead-at-88-brady-bunch-alice/


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    #246
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    She always played great characters, a bit gutsy! Sorry she is gone.


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    #247
    BBDBB
    Registered Users Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Shocked to hear that Rik Mayall has died aged 56

    RIP Lord Flasheart


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    #248
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Suddenly and at the young age of 56 but not suspicious circumstances. Star of The Young Ones and Black Adder. RIP M'Lord Flasheart


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    #249
    red sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    Eli Wallach RiP.
    Only the "Good and the Bad" are left!
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/movies/eli-wallach-multifaceted-actor-dies-at-98.html?_r=0


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    #250
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Just the Good, Red Sean :(

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Van_Cleef


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    #251
    red sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Just the Good, Red Sean :(

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Van_Cleef
    Damn, memory failure! I wonder why? :P


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    #252
    Ramette
    Registered Users Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭Ramette


    James Garner has died... Anyone remember the Rockford Files?


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    #253
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Ramette wrote: »
    James Garner has died... Anyone remember the Rockford Files?

    Rockford was knocked unconscious at least twice every week but, as "Maverick", he was my childhood hero. Dressed as an elegant baddie in black, bungling, tricky, funny but sooo cool. Thanks, Mr. Garner.


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    #254
    Layinghen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭Layinghen


    Loved the Rockford Files. Thought it was so cool that he lived in a mobile home at the side of the beach.


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    #255
    LizzieJones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭LizzieJones


    Ramette wrote: »
    James Garner has died... Anyone remember the Rockford Files?

    I remember that show but I had thought he had died years ago. I did like him in Murphy's Romance.


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    #256
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Just heard about this.

    Always liked his performances in anything he appeared in.

    Apparently on the set of 'Grands Prix' (1966), some of the F1 drivers that worked on that movie reckoned he had the talent to do F1 for real.

    For people my age though, he'll always be Jim Rockford.

    R.I.P. Jimmy.


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    #257
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Dora Bryan, aged 91. Another one slips away. Whatever I saw her in she was chasing the fellas, even in Last of the Summer Wine she had a 'past'! Hilarious to watch Thora Hird's characher tut tutting at her!


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    #258
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Dora Bryan, aged 91. Another one slips away. Whatever I saw her in she was chasing the fellas, even in Last of the Summer Wine she had a 'past'! Hilarious to watch Thora Hird's characher tut tutting at her!

    Yeah, funny how time passes on.

    The WW2 generation is getting smaller now.

    Fewer & fewer are now around & I remember them as a child of being my age now.


    Still.....


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    #259
    policarp
    Registered Users Posts: 3,660 ✭✭✭policarp


    Louis Lentin, producer of "Dear Daughter," is another person who will be missed for his ground breaking film work.
    R.I.P.


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    #260
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    Yeah, funny how time passes on.

    The WW2 generation is getting smaller now.

    Fewer & fewer are now around & I remember them as a child of being my age now.

    Still.....

    True, but I'm a wee bit later than WW2 generation. But still.......yeah.


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    #261
    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    Dunno how old you guys are, but I remember not just Mork and Mindy, but also Robin Williams' appearance in Happy Days, and everything since:Mrs Doubtfire, Good Morning Vietnam, and his amazing and crazy standup stuff. Sad news.


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    #262
    darrenw5094
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    Nanu Nanu

    Mad man, but funny. :)

    Sad to go out that way though.


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    #263
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    MOD: Threads merged



    What an astounding body of work he has left us. Personal favourites are The FisherKing and The Birdcage.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #264
    Woodville56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Woodville56


    Just been watching Youtube clip of Robin Williams on Parkinson from some years back 3007 - couldn't help a smile and a giggle despite a sadness to see it all end for him like this !

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPz6JKGlzSI


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    #265
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Very very sad indeed. I well remember Mork & Mindy, he was hilarious. I was still laughing heartily at him in The Birdcage many years later. He played the gay father brilliantly!


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    #266
    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    Oh No, not Lauren Bacall too.

    Its only a few days since listening to

    http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/dida80/dida80_19790303-1815a.mp3


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    #267
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Sad to hear about Lauren Bacall too. Tough cookie! Not your average Hollywood 'starlet'.

    (Just an aside seeing as Lauren's first choice on Desert Island Discs was Ella Fitzgerald, from my childhood years I was always attracted to Ella Fitzgerald's singing. I watched a documentary on her many years ago and I was so upset that she suffered so horrendously healthwise at the end.)


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    #268
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Richard Attenborough, actor & film director has passed away aged 90.

    R.I.P.


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    #269
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,379 ✭✭✭cml387


    The Great Escape is my favourite Dickie film performance, if only because at one stage we got the same trailer excerpt on television for what seemed like forever:

    Well, that's what I intend to do. I'm going to cause such a terrible stink in this... Third Reich of theirs, that thousands of troops that could well be employed at the front will be tied up here looking after us.


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    #270
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Richard Kiel, most known as Jaws in the James Bond movies of the late '70s.

    He was 74.

    Also Donald Sinden, longtime film TV & stage actor has passed on.

    He was 90.

    R.I.P.


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    #271
    campingcarist
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    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Dora Bryan, aged 91. Another one slips away. Whatever I saw her in she was chasing the fellas, even in Last of the Summer Wine she had a 'past'! Hilarious to watch Thora Hird's characher tut tutting at her!

    Dora Bryan used to be on stage with Brian Rix and made a great team; something like Jimmy O'Dea and Maureen Potter.


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