RIP thread for people involved in film

Wedwood

MacNee also played Sir Godfey Tibbitt in A View to a Kill, where he was Roger Moore's sidekick.

Just on The Sea Wolves reference, that movie was one of my favourites Which I was lucky enough to see in the cinema at the time, the cast was fantastic. In addition to MacNee, you had Gregory Peck, David Niven (riffing on their Guns of Navarone roles), Roger Moore, Trevor Howard and many more great British character actors.

I love the fact I saw those iconic actors doing their stuff in the cinema.

JP Liz V1

Diana Douglas - wife of Kirk and mother of Michael has died at aged 92 from cancer - RIP


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0235022/

bnt

Producer Jerry Weintraub has died at 77. Before getting in to the movie business he was a manager and producer for Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, and more. Major credits on his resumé include the Karate Kid and Ocean's movies, and he was working on the upcoming Tarzan reboot.

NachoBusiness

Amanda Peterson died earlier this week, aged just 43.

Had such a crush on her back in the late 80s as a result of watching Can't Buy Me Love many times, as did most teen boys.

RIP.

https://twitter.com/PatrickDempsey/status/618562803968770048

Alex Rocco who you'd know from so many great films including The Godfather passed away this weekend.

Harry Palmr

and that means Matt LeBlancs dad has just died! Matt really did dislike him!

MfMan

Theodore Bikel. Fine, versatile Austrian-born actor. Played the pursuing sherrif in The Defiant Ones, Karpathy, the "hairy hound" in My Fair Lady etc. Accomplished stage actor also, singer, musician and polyglot. Made the good age of 91.

Dirty Dingus McGee

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Alex Rocco who you'd know from so many great films including The Godfather passed away this weekend.

He also played Roger Myers Junior in The Simpsons.

Agent Coulson

He came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass.... RIP Rowdy Roddy Piper who passed away aged 61.

http://www.tmz.com/2015/07/31/roddy-piper-dead-dies-wwe-wrestler-cancer/

NachoBusiness

George Cole.




Loved films of his such as Cottage To Let but without question Too Many Crooks was my favourite.

R.I.P. George.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H050gxDHRhc

Agent Coulson

Yvonne Craig is is probably best know for playing Batgirl/Barbara Gordon in the 60's tv series passed away aged 78. RIP.

A trained dancer, she began her career at The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and used those skills to perform her own stunts alongside Adam West's Batman.
Craig also played Martha, the green Orion Slave Girl who wanted to kill Captain Kirk, in the third season of Star Trek.
And she starred in two movies opposite Elvis Presley - It Happened at the World's Fair and Kissin' Cousins.

http://http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33985709

JP Liz V1

RIP Dean Jones http://tvline.com/2015/09/02/dean-jones-dead-dies-herbie-the-love-bug/

JP Liz V1

RIP Martin Milner http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590398

MfMan

Jean Darling, childhood star. Never associated her as being Aunty Poppy who read childrens stories on the old RTE2 on Sunday mornings;

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/08/jean-darling

bnt

Jackie Collins has died at 77. Rather famous for being sister to Joan Collins, but she also did some minor acting, and is best known as a novelist with a few film credits such as The Stud and The Bitch (both starring Joan) and The World Is Full of Married Men.

Chain Smoker

bnt wrote: »

Jackie Collins has died at 77.... is best known as a novelist with a few film credits such as... The Bitch

Before my dad took me to see Space Jam, that was the only film he had seen in cinema. His sister took the whole of their pretty damn puritanical family to it for some reason.

Keep meaning to watch it for that reason alone.

Harry Palmr

Jackie and Joan were like a cottage industry for a few years - one writes and adapts and other stars. She didn't quite invent the modern bonkbuster but she certainly made them popular in Britain!

Harry Palmr

John Guillermin (Towering Inferno, Death on the Nile, Blue Max, Bridge at Remargen etc)
has died at 89

johnny_ultimate

Very sad news: Chantal Akerman - director of Jeanne Dielman, without question one of the greatest films ever made IMO - has died.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/06/chantal-akerman-pioneering-belgium-film-director-and-theorist-dies-aged-65

bnt

Guardian / Observer film critic Philip French has died at 82. (He retired a couple of years ago and was replaced by Mark Kermode.) There's a great piece on his career the The Guardian today - where else? - by fellow critic Peter Bradshaw.

MfMan

Excellent reviewer French.

Ciaran_B

Easily my favourite critic/journalist. Back when he was writing for The Observer I'd read one of his reviews and have to add 5 or 6 films to my 'to watch' list. His reviews were always so dense with knowledge about the influences on the film he was reviewing at the time.

Duggy747

Noriyoshi Ohrai, a fantastic artist who designed many a movie poster, died at aged 79. He did a lot of Star Wars and Godzilla posters which you can see here

I remember seeing these 2 posters when I was a kid and have always been favourites of mine:

Skerries

love that Mad Max 2 poster but why did he take the decision to have the action part above his foot and not on the bottom?

arcticmonkeys

Al Molinaro who played chef Al Devecchio in Happy Days died yesterday at the age of 96.

Marje

Fred Dalton Thompson has passed away aged 73 - probably best remembered as D.A. Arthur Branch on Law and Order

Harry Palmr

I remember when he attempted to run for the office of the President of the United States of 'merka. Given his politics its just as well he ended up back in the telly. Good actor.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Marje wrote: »

Fred Dalton Thompson has passed away aged 73 - probably best remembered as D.A. Arthur Branch on Law and Order

He was in No Way Out,Die Hard 2 and In The Line of Fire as well.

I knew I recognized him from something but couldn't place him so I had to look him up on Wikipedia.

JP Liz V1

Melissa Mathison writer of ET and ex Mrs Harrison Ford has died - RIP

Liam McPoyle

The iconic Gunnar Hansen passed away last night.

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

Ageyev

Business Cat wrote: »

The iconic Gunnar Hansen passed away last night.

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

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.

fryup

Colin Welland

British Actor & Screen writer

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

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

johnny_ultimate

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



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.

Chain Smoker

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

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

Robert Loggia who most will know from Scarface and Big passed away.

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

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".

Dirty Dingus McGee

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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.

NachoBusiness

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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

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/

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

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.

Agent Coulson

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

He died in 2011.

Ok thanks I am way behind.

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MfMan

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

Harry Palmr

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

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.

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/

MfMan

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

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/