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RIP thread for people involved in film

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    #332
    Ageyev
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    Business Cat wrote: »
    The iconic Gunnar Hansen passed away last night.

    He was the man behind the mask in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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    I always remember him talking about the Chainsaw sequel (I think on a DVD documentary) where producers didn't want to pay him more than the basic rate because the character had no lines and was just a shape in a mask, yet here we are talking about his death decades on.

    http://www.houseofhorrors.com/ghinterview.htm

    Why didn't you do Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2?

    Gunnar Hansen: I was really interested in being in the film, but they were never serious about negotiating with me for a reasonable price. They offered me union scale and continued to negotiate with me until they could find someone else to play the part. So it wasn't much of a negotiation. They said I agreed to do the part and suddenly became difficult, which is unfortunate, because I never agreed to do the part and consistently told them that they had to offer me more than scale and they never did.



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    #333
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Colin Welland

    British Actor & Screen writer

    He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his script for Chariots of Fire


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    #334
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,349 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Warren Mitchell passed away aged 89.
    Warren Mitchell, who played Alf Garnett in TV series Till Death Us Do Part and In Sickness and in Health.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34820371


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    #335
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,144 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/25/tokyo-storys-setsuko-hara-dies-at-95

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    Legend is the only word - frankly, it might be an understatement. Although she retired at 42, Setsuko Hara made an incredible mark on the landscape of Japanese cinema during her brief but fruitful career.

    I am not exaggerating in the slightest when I say Setsuko Hara is my favourite actress of all time. Her work with Yasujiro Ozu is arguably the single greatest director-actor relationship in the history of cinema. The way their individual talents gelled and complemented each other was never less than incredible and moving. Hara was able to communicate so much joy, sadness, wonder and curiosity without even saying a word: a close-up of Setsuko Hara was one of the great joys of cinema.

    RIP Setsuko Hara. She was one of the reasons I have such a profound passion for classic Japanese cinema. Scratch that. She was one of the reasons I have such a profound passion for cinema, full stop.


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    #336
    Chain Smoker
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    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Her work with Yasujiro Ozu is arguably the single greatest director-actor relationship in the history of cinema. The way their individual talents gelled and complemented each other was never less than incredible and moving.

    They really were! I remember being a bit disoriented watching Tokyo Story the first time cos Ozu is so... Ozu. Once she came on screen everything started to piece together. I think I even paused a few times to make sure I wasn't just projecting a ton of **** onto her expressions.
    Since then I've loved every Ozu I've seen but I'm not completely sure I'd've gotten him at all without her, she embodied the kind of intrinsic strong emotional values that he had at the core of his work*.


    Ah Christ, I want to watch Tokyo Story now!

    *which I assume was why she was so popular as a star of wartime propaganda films too but thank f*ck she got past that


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    #337
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,961 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Gabriele Ferzetti passed away yesterday: star of Antonioni's L'Avventura, he played railroad baron Morton in Once Upon a Time in the West, and many more. Here he is with Monica Vitti, getting all windswept and interesting:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkKi3xym-n0

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #338
    [Deleted User]
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    Robert Loggia who most will know from Scarface and Big passed away.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79MQmwncbLI


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    #339
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    A reliable tough guy if there ever was one - with an easy smile that said "you are dead or at least about to have bad day".


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    #340
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Robert Loggia who most will know from Scarface and Big passed away.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79MQmwncbLI

    He was in a great episode of Frasier as well.


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    #341
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Robert Loggia who most will know from Scarface and Big passed away.

    God I feel this one. An total legend. Loved him in so many roles.

    A great actor obviously but seemed like a great guy too. RIP.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCgCIJpuElw


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    #342
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,349 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Wayne Rogers passed away aged 82.

    Probably best rememberd for playing “Trapper” John McIntyre in .M.A.S.H. he was also in Cool Hand Luke.

    http://deadline.com/2015/12/m-a-s-h-actor-wayne-rogers-dies-at-82-1201674635/


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    #343
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,349 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Natalie Cole passed away aged 65.



    She acted mostly on TV series & her songs has been used in film and tv.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/singer-natalie-cole-dead-65-article-1.2482580


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    #344
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Harry Morgan passed away on December 7 of last year aged 96

    He played Colonel Sherman T. Potter in M.A.S.H. and acted in over 100 films.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/arts/television/harry-morgan-mash-and-dragnet-actor-dies-at-96.html

    He died in 2011.


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    #345
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,349 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »
    He died in 2011.

    Ok thanks I am way behind.

    deleted.


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    #346
    MfMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,380 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer. Distinctive work on the likes of Heaven's Gate, Deliverance, The Deer Hunter etc.


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    #347
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    One of my favourite cinematographers from what was possibly the golden age of DPs


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    #348
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    Angus Scrimm, the "Tall Man" in the Phantasm franchise has passed away aged 89.

    Ravager will be a fitting tribute to him when ever it is released.

    :(


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    #349
    Marje
    Registered Users Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Marje



    Dan Haggerty, best known for his role in “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams,” died from cancer early Friday morning in Burbank. He was 74.

    The actor’s manager Terry Bomar confirmed the news to Variety.


    http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/grizzly-adams-dead-dan-haggerty-dies-1201680841/

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    #350
    MfMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,380 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Brian Bedford. Of Irish extraction. Mostly known for stage work, played Scott in Grand Prix.


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    #351
    Marje
    Registered Users Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Marje


    Actor Abe Vigoda, best known for his roles as mobster Tessio in “The Godfather” and as Detective Sgt. Fish in TV’s “Barney Miller” and a spinoff series in which he starred, has died. He was 94 and died in New Jersey of natural causes, his daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs told the Associated Press.

    http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/abe-vigoda-dead-dies-barney-miller-godfather-1201689081/

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    #352
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 85,295 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Marje wrote: »
    Actor Abe Vigoda, best known for his roles as mobster Tessio in “The Godfather” and as Detective Sgt. Fish in TV’s “Barney Miller” and a spinoff series in which he starred, has died. He was 94 and died in New Jersey of natural causes, his daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs told the Associated Press.

    http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/abe-vigoda-dead-dies-barney-miller-godfather-1201689081/

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    RIP

    I remember him from Look Who’s Talking :o
    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #353
    JohnFalstaff
    Registered Users Posts: 874 ✭✭✭JohnFalstaff


    Jacques Rivette, a key figure of the French New Wave and director of the wonderful Céline and Julie Go Boating, has passed away at the age of 87.


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    #354
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,144 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Rivette was one of cinema's true greats. Love the level of playfulness in his work - he's the perfect counter-argument to claims the New Wave was dry or too academic.

    No better motivation to start digging into the first few hours of Out 1 this weekend.


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    #355
    Chain Smoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Chain Smoker


    There's an out 1 screening happening near me soon, I don't know if I want to go, but I can't not go.

    Who from the French new wave is still about now? Just godard and varda?


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    #356
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Frank Finlay has died today -

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    he split his career between the big and small screens with a lot of cinema works in the 70s and early 80s thereafter his main roles were on tv. Casanova, Bouquet of Barbed Wire, The Four Musketeers, The Wild Geese, Murder by Decree, Lifeforce, Common As Muck, The Sins and loads more.


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    #357
    MfMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,380 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Had Irish connections also I think? Nice touch as the confused father in The Pianist.


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    #358
    Marje
    Registered Users Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Marje


    Daniel Gerson (age 49) who co-wrote screenplay for Monsters Inc has died.

    Link


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    #359
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    George Gaynes, best known for his role as the hapless Commandant Lassard in the Police Academy franchise has died aged 98.


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    #360
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Business Cat wrote: »
    George Gaynes, best known for his role as the hapless Commandant Lassard in the Police Academy franchise has died aged 98.

    He was brilliant in Tootsie.


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    #361
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,063 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Business Cat wrote: »
    George Gaynes, best known for his role as the hapless Commandant Lassard in the Police Academy franchise has died aged 98.

    He was hilarious. Good age.


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