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The Dearly departed....

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    #632
    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    And so 2021 starts to take its toll :(

    Katharine Whitehorn.

    Cant do a long post as the yoke I'm posting with us fierce contrary ( or maybe its the 'added value' from the Boards techs ? ) so will just leave :

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/10/katharine-whitehorn-obituary


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    #633
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,285 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Christopher Plummer, who played Georg von Trapp in the Sound of Music, died today aged 91


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    #634
    roundymac
    Registered Users Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭roundymac


    looksee wrote: »
    Not to mention Gay Byrne, Marian Finucane and Larry Gogan. As presenters do they count as cultural icons?
    Add Keelin Shanley to that list, one year gone but not forgotten.


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    #635
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 13,990 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Mary WIlson, co-founder of Supremes RIP

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/09/mary-wilson-singer-with-the-supremes-dies-aged-76


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    #636
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Ned Beatty passed away recently. Feels like he was on screen forever!


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    #637
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    And Mike Nesmith left us too. I was a big fan of the Monkees in my teens.



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    #638
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Sidney Poitier has departed at the great age of 94. Reminds me of that Only Fools & Horses conversation between Rodney and Granddad!!



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    #639
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,002 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118307787#Comment_118307787

    Made his fortune by getting into VHS early.

    Not your ornery onager



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    #640
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,867 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118441198#Comment_118441198

    He already had a fortune because his mam invented the American version of Tippex 😀

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #641
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,002 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118441227#Comment_118441227

    Not to be sniffed at.. 😁

    Not your ornery onager



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    #642
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118441198#Comment_118441198
    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118441227#Comment_118441227

    I'd forgotten about that. I'd heard about it quite a while back. Clever people, the Nesmiths!!



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    #643
    chattering
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭chattering


    Singer Meat Loaf died 21 January 2022



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    #644
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭cml387


    Barry Cryer has dies aged 86.

    If you've listened to radio comedy on the BBC you'll know he was a giant in the field. He was a writer for TV comedies such as the Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise. Probably his longest association was with I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, the antidote to quiz games.



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    #645
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    And now we've lost Nurse Gladys Emmanuel. Lynda Baron passed away on 7th March, 82 yrs. She'll be chased from cloud to cloud by Arkwright in that great corner shop in the sky!!



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    #646
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Peter Bowles, the Irish RM, left us due to Cancer aged 85. Always debonair, and also great fun in Rising Damp!



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    #647
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭cml387


    I really like Peter Bowles as an actor.

    He may have been debonair, and looked a bit of a cad, but I always remember parts where he played up the pathos.

    He had a big part in Rumpole of the Bailey as Guthrie Featherstone and you can currently rewatch that superb series on Talking Pictures TV



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    #648
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    We used to watch Rumpole years ago, I must chase that up on Talking Pictures TV, I'm sure we have that channel.



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    #649
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Names we remember from years ago, and when we heard they had passed we said either, 'Ah no, really?' or 'didn't know he/she was still alive'. Funny what comes into your mind? We've lost these among many others in recent months. I don't get depressed, it's just memories and nostalgia.

    Nichelle Nichols, 80 (Lt. Uhura, Star Trek)

    Terry Neill, 80 (Footballer)

    David Moores, 76 (Arsenal Chairman)

    Bernard Cribbons, 93 (actor)

    Robert Hoffman, 82 (pretty boy from The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe)

    David Warner, 80 (actor)

    Paddy Hopkirk, 89 (racing driver)

    Barbara Thompson 77 (musician, composed theme for A Touch of Frost)

    Brian Jackson, 91 (actor and The Man from Del Monte)

    Monty Norman, 94 (composed the theme for James Bond)

    James Caan, 82 (great actor)

    Margaret Keane, 94 (artist, painted the ‘Big Eyes’ paintings of children) (sad documentary on her life)

    Frank Williams, 91 (vicar in Dad’s Army)

    Hilary Devey, 65 (from Dragon’s Den)

    Matt Zimmerman, 87 (actor, voice of Alan Tracy in Thunderbirds)

    Billy Bingham, 90 (footballer and manager)

    Ray Liotta, 67 (actor, Goodfellas)

    Bruce Kent, 92 (priest, and leader of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)

    Eric Chappel, 88 (creator of Rising Damp)

    Dennis Waterman, 74 (actor, singer))

    Con Cluskey, 86  (singer with The Bachelors)

    David McKee, 87, (creator of the cartoon Mr Benn)

    Bobby Rydell, 79 (another pretty boy, great singer from 50’s/60’s to the present, remember ‘Volare’?)



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    #650
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Tom Owen (73) - Last of the Summer Wine

    Leslie Phillips (98) -'Ding Dong!'



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    #651
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854549#Comment_119854549

    Oooooh...I saaaay 😁

    Got him mixed up with Terry Thomas in another RIP thread, I think in the TV forum - and Owen, wasn't he the actual son of the other Owen from Last of the Summer Wine?

    Too soon Shirley.



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    #652
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,624 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Yes, son of Bill Owen who was Compo



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    #653
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119879236#Comment_119879236

    Thanks, yes, Compo ...& Nora Batty ...and all of that... I know what I know but expressing it sometimes creates an issue for me, without recourse to mr. google.



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    #654
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    You're in a safe place here Plenty!



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    #655
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,346 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/12/milan-kundera-the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-author-dies-aged-94

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