RIP thread for people involved in TV - Mod warning, see OP (21/08/25)

Tom Mann Centuria · 05-08-2018 09:12PM

RIP Barry Chuckle, he had some great comedy timing along with his brother. For younger kids, presumably their target audience but also older kids and students as well, there was lots to laugh about. I loved when they dressed up as dogs, and their silent stuff was as funny as Laurel and Hardy and the greats of the silent era.

Welsh Megaman · 05-08-2018 09:28PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBtd3H3Qdi8

Outlaw Pete · 06-08-2018 11:07AM

https://twitter.com/ToddBridges/status/1026299846280396801

odyssey06 · 06-08-2018 11:10AM

Bernard Hepton has died aged 92.

He was very active in british tv over the 1970s with key roles in Colditz, Secret Army and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy plus Smileys People.

bobbyss · 06-08-2018 01:53PM

odyssey06 wrote:

He was very active in british tv over the 1970s with key roles in Colditz, Secret Army and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy plus Smileys People.

That Secret Army was outstanding. Gripping. I remember it well.
RIP

JP Liz V1 · 06-08-2018 08:58PM

Skid X wrote: »

Sad to hear Barry Chuckle of The Chuckle Brothers has died https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/05/barry-chuckle-comedy-duo-the-chuckle-brothers-dies

I was sure they were meant to be on the new series of CBB

Yer Da sells Avon · 06-08-2018 10:58PM

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Is it wrong to imagine the pallbearers saying ‘To me, to you’ as they are carrying the coffin through the church?

I’ll get my coat.

It would be highly disrespectful to the man's memory if they all immediately agreed on which direction to carry the coffin.

This sketch is pretty much perfect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1rvod7ioqs

Go Harvey Go · 18-08-2018 12:50PM

"Hey, wait a sixty seconds!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNsg9wUYaH0

judeboy101 · 22-08-2018 08:45AM

http://www.thejournal.ie/lazy-town-actor-stefan-karl-stefansson-robbie-rotten-dies-aged-43-4195043-Aug2018/

Anyone who has young ones over the last decade or so will be familiar with the legend that was Robbie rotten.

vicwatson · 22-08-2018 08:48AM

Used to love that programme

peteeeed · 22-08-2018 09:04AM

Robbie rotten the baddie from the kids show lazy town , very young
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/lazy-town-stefan-karl-stefansson-actor-dies-death-bile-duct-cancer-robbie-rotten-age-a8501956.html

Skerries · 22-08-2018 09:55PM

every 2nd thread on Reddit today was about this

Agent Coulson · 24-08-2018 04:42PM

Robin Leach host of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous has died aged 76. RIP.

https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/robin-leach-dead-dies-lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous-1202916287/

Agent Coulson · 31-08-2018 09:46PM

Vanessa Marquez died aged 49 after being shot by police.

Accding to the South Pasadenan, the actress was shot by police in her California home during a routine welfare check. In a press conference on Thursday, Lt. Joe Mendoza of the L.A. Sheriff's homicide bureau said authorities were alerted by a landlord who called about a woman in trouble. Officers said she was suffering from medical issues including seizures and that she was "gravely disabled."

"At the time [of the shooting] there was an LA County mental health clinician here with the officers," he explained during the presser. "They began to communicate with her, she became very uncooperative and during that contact she armed herself with a handgun, she pointed it at the officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred." Marquez was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Police later recovered a BB gun that Mendoza said "resembled a semi-automatic handgun."

Marquez starred as nurse Wendy Goldman on ER from 1994-1997. Her other credits include Malcolm & Eddie, Seinfeld, Melrose Place and the film Stand And Deliver. She appeared in a 2005 episode of A&E's Intervention for depression, OCD and an addiction to shopping. In October 2017, Marquez accused her former ER co-star George Clooney of stalling her career after she reported harassment on the set of the NBC series which ran for 15 seasons.

"Clooney helped blacklist me when I spoke up about harassment on ER.'women who don't play the game lose career.' I did," she tweeted from her currently-suspended account.

https://www.tvguide.com/news/er-vanessa-marquez-shot-killed-by-police/?rss=breakingnews

Mike Litoris · 01-09-2018 10:35AM

^^^
That's a shocker!

The Black Oil · 01-09-2018 12:49PM

Yeah, very sad. No one deserves to die like that. At least a clinician accompanied the police, more of that needs to be done.

dublinman1990 · 01-09-2018 06:07PM

Holy shít. What a horrible situation she was in & at the wrong time too when using a gun. America can be very f*cked up at times.

Harry Palmr · 03-09-2018 09:06PM

Servalan is dead

Jacqueline Pearce at 74.

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judeboy101 · 03-09-2018 09:22PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Servalan is dead

Jacqueline Pearce at 74.

Best sci fi show ever

Venom · 03-09-2018 11:35PM

Servalan is one of the all-time great sci-fi villains and Jacqueline Pearce nailed the role.

RIP

peteeeed · 04-09-2018 08:57AM

Blake 7 , that’s how you end a show ..RIP

neirbloom · 06-09-2018 01:43PM

peteeeed wrote: »

Blake 7 , that’s how you end a show ..RIP

I dont think you'd get too many shows nowadays where the main character is accused of Child molestation lol and they decided to broadcast the finale just before Christmas

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peteeeed · 06-09-2018 02:50PM

neirbloom wrote: »

I dont think you'd get too many shows nowadays where the main character is accused of Child molestation lol and they decided to broadcast the finale just before Christmas .

i was 9 and remember thinking , i need to hide somewhere for a couple of months

peteeeed · 06-09-2018 02:52PM

holy cra@p they are all on youtube

Go Harvey Go · 08-09-2018 08:34PM

Peter Benson has died aged 75.

As well as playing Bernie Scripps in Heartbeat, he portrayed not one, but two kings called Henry...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45459664

Harry Palmr · 15-09-2018 08:15PM

Dudley Sutton aka Tinker from Lovejoy has died at 85

monkeynuz · 15-09-2018 08:48PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Dudley Sutton aka Tinker from Lovejoy has died at 85

sad to hear, I met him several times when they were filming lovejoy, and I drank with him and the cast and crew, he was more of a drunkard in real life than tinker!

I helped him operate the cigarette machine on many occasions when he couldn’t even see straight.

He was a lovely gentleman.

Rip Tinker.

Patty O Furniture · 15-09-2018 08:50PM

neirbloom wrote: »

I dont think you'd get too many shows nowadays where the main character is accused of Child molestation lol and they decided to broadcast the finale just before Christmas .

Not in the same vein, but not the ideal thing to be showing on Easter Sun was Watership Down, especially when kids are eating their Chocolate Easter Bunny :eek: As Ch5 got the most complaints ever on that day :rolleyes:

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Dudley Sutton aka Tinker from Lovejoy has died at 85

Ah yeah, i remember Tinker well from Lovejoy, more so than his sidekick who thought he hit the big time when in that Harp ad afaik, didn't come back to Lovejoy?

Tom Mann Centuria · 15-09-2018 08:51PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Dudley Sutton aka Tinker from Lovejoy has died at 85

Great as the desperate but vulnerable Reg in the Porridge episode where he holds the governor hostage. RIP.

Agent Coulson · 16-09-2018 04:54PM

Peter Donat passed away aged 90 RIP.

Veteran character actor Peter Donat, best known in recent years for playing Agent Mulder’s father on The X-Files, has died at the age of 90.

Donat passed away on Monday at his California home of complications from diabetes, according to The New York Times. He made his X-Files debut as Bill Mulder in Season 2’s “Colony,” and reprised the role in five subsequent episodes, concluding with Season 6’s “One Son.” (Bill Mulder was dramatically killed off in the Season 2 finale, but continued to appear via flashback.)

Enjoying a screen career that spanned six decades, Donat also made appearances on Dallas (as the doctor who treated J.R. Ewing after he was wounded in the famous “Who Shot J.R.?” cliffhanger), Murder, She Wrote, Hill Street Blues, Charlie’s Angels and the original Hawaii Five-O.

https://tvline.com/2018/09/15/peter-donat-dead-the-x-files-actor-mulder-father-died/

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