The Dearly departed....

Ramette · 20-07-2014 10:04am

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

BrensBenz · 20-07-2014 10:15am

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.

Layinghen · 20-07-2014 2:28pm

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

LizzieJones · 20-07-2014 4:03pm

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.

Filmer Paradise · 20-07-2014 9:03pm

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.

Jellybaby1 · 24-07-2014 5:24pm

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!

Filmer Paradise · 25-07-2014 2:25am

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.....

policarp · 25-07-2014 4:26am

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

Jellybaby1 · 25-07-2014 12:12pm

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.

Eeden · 12-08-2014 1:59am

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.

darrenw5094 · 12-08-2014 2:01am

Nanu Nanu

Mad man, but funny.

Sad to go out that way though.

OldGoat · 12-08-2014 8:39am

MOD: Threads merged

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

Woodville56 · 12-08-2014 8:53am

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

Jellybaby1 · 12-08-2014 9:55am

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!

0lddog · 13-08-2014 1:53pm

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

Jellybaby1 · 13-08-2014 5:34pm

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.)

Filmer Paradise · 24-08-2014 10:03pm

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

R.I.P.

cml387 · 25-08-2014 8:57pm

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.

Filmer Paradise · 15-09-2014 12:46am

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.

campingcarist · 15-10-2014 1:34pm

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.

Rubecula · 20-10-2014 8:30pm

Linda Bellingham,a lovely and brave lady. Mostly remembered for the OXO ads.

policarp · 21-10-2014 1:30am

She was one of the Loose women who I would listen to.
R.I.P.

red sean · 23-10-2014 12:36pm

Alvin Stardust RiP
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/singer-and-actor-alvin-stardust-dies-aged-72-1.1974258

Layinghen · 02-11-2014 10:11pm

Just heard on the radio Acker Bilk has left this shore.

0lddog · 03-11-2014 9:32pm

A fragment of a DiD that Acker did in 1962

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/didaf60-69/didaf60-69_19621210-1340a.mp3

Jellybaby1 · 05-11-2014 11:40pm

Just been told we missed this one, Jack Bruce who played bass with Cream, died aged 71 on 25th Nov.

BBDBB · 12-11-2014 7:00pm

Actor Warren Clark has sadly passed away after a short illness

RIP

Rubecula · 12-11-2014 10:27pm

Aged 67 too. Young age for modern times.

Filmer Paradise · 14-11-2014 12:43am

Rubecula wrote: »

Aged 67 too. Young age for modern times.

Too true.

I looked thru his images on Google & just thought that....

He looked a bit like Oliver Reed,but just missed his on-screen intensity.

R.I.P.

BBDBB · 28-11-2014 6:50pm

A very sad day, with the passing of an Irish rugby legend

Jack Kyle aged 88
46 Irish caps
6 British & Irish Lions caps
was part of the 1948 team that won the Grand Slam
credited with saving thousands of lives in Zambia as a surgeon

an absolute legend of a man

RIP

C.K Dexter Haven · 03-12-2014 1:00am

Bobby Keys-musician with the Rolling Stones amongst others:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/bobby-keys-the-lost-rolling-stone-interview-20141202

Faing · 04-12-2014 2:16pm

Faces and Small Faces keyboard player Ian McLagan has died aged 69. RIP.

Layinghen · 22-12-2014 8:14pm

Joe Cocker gone:(

Fantastic gravelly voice.

'Up where we belong' is one of my favourite songs of his.

Poor Uncle Tom · 30-12-2014 9:18pm

Luise Rainer, actress 1910 - 2014 (104)

Academy awards in 1936 and 1937

RIP

Jellybaby1 · 30-12-2014 11:48pm

Jeremy Lloyd 23rd December aged 84.

Jellybaby1 · 11-01-2015 2:36am

Rod Taylor, aged 84. Remember 'The Birds'?

cml387 · 12-01-2015 3:33pm

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Rod Taylor, aged 84. Remember 'The Birds'?

The Birds : very good.
The Time Machine : very good
Cry of the innocent : very bad

Jellybaby1 · 12-01-2015 8:56pm

Anita Ekberg died yesterday,aged 83. Sorry. I seem to be the bearer of a lot of these reports.

cml387 · 13-01-2015 10:03am

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Anita Ekberg died yesterday,aged 83. Sorry. I seem to be the bearer of a lot of these reports.

Just so long as you have an alibi:pac:

I remember that RTE showed exotic arty films late on Friday nights back in the early 70's whne there might be a bit of noodiness. I'm sure La Dolce Vita was one of them

Jellybaby1 · 13-01-2015 1:40pm

I never watched Ekberg's films for noodiness!! :eek:

Poor Uncle Tom · 13-01-2015 2:32pm

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

I never watched Ekberg's films for noodiness!! :eek:

...but Bigears frequently made an appearance........:pac:

OldGoat · 13-01-2015 4:25pm

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

...but Bigears frequently made an appearance........:pac:

Some days a "Facepalm" is just not enough.

Poor Uncle Tom · 13-01-2015 5:47pm

That was 'schrodinger's post' and I ain't explaining it........:P

Poor Uncle Tom · 13-01-2015 5:50pm

Jack Hayward (91) president of Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Jellybaby1 · 13-01-2015 5:57pm

cml387 wrote: »

Just so long as you have an alibi:pac:

Of course. I am always somewhere else!

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Jack Hayward (91) president of Wolverhampton Wanderers.

With a few footballers in the family over the years I know a lot of football names. Unfortunately Mr. Hayward's name never came up so I had to ask Mr. Google.

spurious · 14-01-2015 12:21am

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Jeremy Lloyd 23rd December aged 84.

Oh I'm so sorry to hear that.
Back in the 70s, I used to catch 'Pebble Mill at One' when home early from school on Wednesdays (half day). One day I heard a poem which touched me greatly. I searched for it on and off but I didnt know the title and describing what it was about wasn't helping me.

Once the Internet arrived, I started to look in earnest for it. I wrote to a few publishers and bookshops in England and then one evening had a phone call from a gentleman with an English accent. He proceded to read the poem to me down the phone. I was so thrilled. It was the author himself, Jeremy Lloyd. A lovely gentle man.

This is the poem: Link

looksee · 14-01-2015 1:02am

Aaaah, that's nice! Well, more sad really, but still, a lot of story there in a short poem!

Jellybaby1 · 14-01-2015 2:15am

Very sweet! Here are the words:

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~kmr/lyrics/album2/nearlyfour.htm

I was also fond of Captain Beaky and his Band by sung/spoken by Keith Michell. But that's another story.

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~kmr/lyrics/album1/captainbeaky.htm

And from the same website he says:

"A graveyard on a Summer's night the spectres dance in sheer delight and down a moonbeam slides a ginger cat in plimsolls and a paper hat...."

This was all I could find of a poem I wrote aged 12. Last year, aged about 40 something, I finished it. The poems had been written on the backs of envelopes, film scripts and in letters to friends over a period of years. When there appeared to be some interest in publishing them I found I was turning out old boxes of papers and writing to friends asking if I had by chance written them a poem, and if so, could I have it back. Keith Michell sent me some that I had completely forgotten writing. ~ Jeremy Loyd 1977

looksee · 14-01-2015 12:42pm

Thank you for the words JB, I had looked but could not find them.

Layinghen · 26-01-2015 3:26pm

Demis Roussos gone at only 68, thought he was much older.

Half man, half bear in a kaftan........

The Dearly departed....

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