RIP thread for people involved in film

Harry Palmr

The film god's are in a vengeful mood, Freddie Jones, the father of Toby has passed. A long career in British film, esp genre material. Great turn in Firefox.

JP Liz V1

Harry Palmr wrote: »

RIP Rip one of my favourite character actors.

I was hoping he might pop up in Dodgeball 2

RIP Rip Torn

B0jangles

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The film god's are in a vengeful mood, Freddie Jones, the father of Toby has passed. A long career in British film, esp genre material. Great turn in Firefox.

Any time I read his name, I hear it in his voice :P

neirbloom

Bowie Torn and Roeg

otnomart

RIP Valentina Cortese
born 1923 - acted for Fellini, Truffaut, Zeffirelli...
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0181305/

ArmaniJeanss

Denise Nickerson (Violet Beauregard in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) dead after an illness at 62.

Violet was the moral winner of the contest.

MfMan

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The film god's are in a vengeful mood, Freddie Jones, the father of Toby has passed. A long career in British film, esp genre material. Great turn in Firefox.

Quietly menacing in The Elephant Man too.

Mr Crispy

David Hedison has died at 92. He did a huge amount of TV work, but in terms of movies was probably best known as Andre Delambre in the original 1958 version of The Fly, or as CIA man Felix Leiter in a couple of the Bond movies.

Mr E

This should be a general RIP thread, TBH. (Not just for lesser known stars)

Rutger Hauer has died, age 75. RIP.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/rutger-hauer-dead-dies-blade-runner-co-star-1203278050/

Funkfield

Mr E wrote: »

This should be a general RIP thread, TBH. (Not just for lesser known stars)

Rutger Hauer has died, age 75. RIP.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/rutger-hauer-dead-dies-blade-runner-co-star-1203278050/

Such an amazing actor



....time to die.....

FrancieBrady

Roy Batty wrote:

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time,
like tears in rain.
Time to die.

Almost as satisfying to read as it is to listen to. RIP Rutger.

johnny_ultimate

Heck of a screen presence that man. Could elevate roles that would have been thankless for many other actors.

Ah fvck, my dad used to let me watch a lot of his films, as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imn7YiIU8HM

neirbloom

Ah He was terrifying in The Hitcher as well for anyone who Hasn't seen it, not a movie that's talked about a whole lot anymore.Didn't get great reviews at the time according to rotten tomatoes and Meta Critic which suprised me because I loved it when I first watched it. Siskel and Ebert found it repulsive so they must of been doing something right lol.


R.I.P.

Harry Palmr

Hauer made a lot of crappy pictures but he was always solid and enjoyable. A real shame.

sydthebeat

One of my fav actors from when I was young.... The hitcher had him as such a malevolent and unrelenting psycho....


And so much of his most famous speech as ad libbed too

vriesmays

Nika McGuigan RIP.

Tony EH

Mr E wrote: »

This should be a general RIP thread, TBH. (Not just for lesser known stars)

Rutger Hauer has died, age 75. RIP.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/rutger-hauer-dead-dies-blade-runner-co-star-1203278050/

Ah crap. Have a lot of fond memories of the man in a lot of films I like.

But, he doesn't belong in a less famous RIP thread. Not by a long shot.

Zeek12

D.A. Pennebaker passed away recently.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/04/da-pennebaker-obituary

Music fans will remember him as the man who effectively "invented" the modern music documentary, with films such as Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back in 1967, Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars (which captured their last live performance) Monterey Pop and Depeche Mode 101.

He also made great documentaries about John DeLorean and The War Room - which examined Bill Clinton's 1992 Election campaign.

JP Liz V1

Peter Fonda has died

RIP

Tony EH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R4XnKBQ67w

Jurgen The German

There are actors that epitomise a certain era, that have a type of "cool" presence, Fonda was absolutely one of those. Sad news.

Harry Palmr

And now Richard Williams the genius of Who Framed Roger Rabbit has died. It's been ages since I saw that on the tv hopefully it'll get a showing now. He spent years getting that film up and running and likewise The Thief and the Cobbler which was decades in work and taken away from him in the end and featured a brilliant cast Vincent Price, Anthony Quayle, Kenneth Williams and Stanley Baxter.

The Williams approved "unfinished" version is now under lock and key but the workprint is on youtube where it's officially sanctioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_aHoRGr8KQ

He also did that great opening credits work two of the later Pink Panthers films

Agent Coulson

Patricia Louisiana Knop died aged 78 on August 7th.

She was the screen writer and producer of 9 1/2 Weeks, Wild Orchid & The Red Shoe Dairies.

https://deadline.com/2019/08/patricia-louisiana-knop-dies-screenwriter-for-9-1-2-weeks-wild-orchid-1202670374/

Sexual Chocolate

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Peter Fonda has died

RIP

For anyone that played GTA San Andreas he also voiced The Truth (hippy guy)

Zeek12

Jurgen The German wrote: »

There are actors that epitomise a certain era, that have a type of "cool" presence, Fonda was absolutely one of those. Sad news.

Although he's unquestionably connected to the counter-culture 60s era, he did from time to time appear in other varied and very fine movies over the decades.

92 in the Shade, The Hired Hand, Ulee's Gold, 3:10 to Yuma and (in particular) Steven Soderberg's The Limey were excellent performances.

RIP Peter.

Terence Rattigan

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry was a favourite of mine, also his cameo in Wild Hogs

Harry Palmr

92 in the Shade has one of the best casts of American character actors ever assembled I reckon.

One of my favourite trash classics is Race with the Devil - given additional added value thanks to Warren Oates.

Terence Rattigan

Harry Palmr wrote: »

92 in the Shade has one of the best casts of American character actors ever assembled I reckon.

One of my favourite trash classics is Race with the Devil - given additional added value thanks to Warren Oates.

Ah yes, had forgotten Race with the Devil, a B+ movie!

Re Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, I drive my better half crazy by shouting out the title anytime I drive across an unmanned railway crossing!