RIP thread for people involved in film

MfMan · 22-09-2014 03:00PM

Angus Lennie - ill-fated Corporal Ives in The Great Escape

rednik · 06-10-2014 10:07PM

Geoffrey Holder RIP, great as the Baron in Live and Let Die the first Bond I saw in the cinema.

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JP Liz V1 · 16-10-2014 12:44AM

Elizabeth Peña (La Bamba, Lone Star, Jacob's Ladder and Rush Hour) has died - RIP

Zeek12 · 17-10-2014 12:11PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Elizabeth Peña (La Bamba, Lone Star, Jacob's Ladder and Rush Hour) has died - RIP

Very sad to read this.
I recall she was fantastic in Lone Star.

The Strawman Argument · 17-10-2014 06:56PM

Definitely had a bit of a crush on her in Batteries Not Included when I was very young. If I ever discover I've some kind of fetish for pregnant women, I'll put it down to that.

Deathwish4 · 19-10-2014 02:43AM

Some "less famous people involved in film" who passed away in the last 10 days...

Anna Nakagawa, 49, Japanese actress (A Sign Days), uterine cancer.
Sumi Haru, 75, American actress (MASH).
Marie Dubois, 77, French actress, multiple sclerosis.
Gabrielle Reidy, 54, Irish actress (Girl with a Pearl Earring), cancer.
Deborah Warren, 55, Argentine actress, cancer.
Alain Siritzky, 72, French film producer (Emmanuelle film series)
Walter Bockmayer, 66, German writer and film director, lung cancer.
Federico Boido, 75, Italian actor and stuntman.

Agent Coulson · 21-10-2014 03:55PM

Irish-Canadian actor Gerard Parkes died aged 90.

Gerard Parkes was the sole-human star on Jim Henson’s much loved live-action puppet show Fraggle Rock during the 1980s.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/irishcanadian-actor-gerard-parkes-of-fraggle-rock-fame-dies-aged-90-30680716.html

Liam McPoyle · 26-10-2014 07:05PM

Been heavily reported that Judd Nelson was found dead in his apartment in the last 24 hours.

His most famous role is the tough guy in The Beeakfast Club.

humanji · 26-10-2014 08:52PM

Business Cat wrote: »

Been heavily reported that Judd Nelson was found dead in his apartment in the last 24 hours.

His most famous role is the tough guy in The Beeakfast Club.

Apparently a hoax: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-judd-nelson-not-dead-20141026-story.html
That article has a picture of him with today's paper just to prove it

RobertFoster · 27-10-2014 11:49AM

Marcia Strassman, the mother in Honey I Shrunk the Kids/Blew Up the Kid, has died aged 66. She also played Julie Kotter in Welcome Back, Kotter.

Agent Coulson · 12-11-2014 12:48PM

Carol Ann Susi who was the voice of Debbie Wolowitz from The Big Bang Theory died aged 62.

http://comicbook.com/2014/11/12/carol-ann-susi-who-played-mrs-wolowitz-on-the-big-bang-theory-ha/

12-11-2014 01:23PM

The Strawman Argument wrote: »

Definitely had a bit of a crush on her in Batteries Not Included when I was very young. If I ever discover I've some kind of fetish for pregnant women, I'll put it down to that.

Voiced Mirage in Incredibles too?? What a voice

JP Liz V1 · 12-11-2014 05:05PM

Warren Clarke, known for his role in TV drama Dalziel And Pascoe, has died at the age of 67.
The actor, who also appeared in films such as Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, is said to have died after a "short illness".

RIP

Agent Coulson · 15-11-2014 11:07PM

Glen A. Larson, Iconic TV Creator Of Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider, Magnum P.I. Died At 77.

RIP.
http://deadline.com/2014/11/glen-a-larson-iconic-tv-creator-of-knight-rider-magnum-p-i-dies-at-77-1201285337/

brian_t · 19-11-2014 04:36AM

Ken Takakura the Japanese actor has died aged 83.

He starred in Too Late the Hero, Black Rain and Mr. Baseball.

Here with Robert Mitchum in The Yakuza (1974)

bnt · 20-11-2014 01:23PM

I don't know whether director Mike Nichols can be classed as "less famous": he died today at the age of 83. He might not be a household name but he was nominated for multiple Oscars for films such as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf[/I,] The Remains of the Day, Silkwood, Working Girl, and won for The Graduate.

dark crystal · 20-11-2014 02:13PM

One of my favourite directors. RIP.

Harry Palmr · 20-11-2014 02:51PM

bnt wrote: »

I don't know whether director Mike Nichols can be classed as "less famous": he died today at the age of 83. He might not be a household name but he was nominated for multiple Oscars for films such as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf[/I,] The Remains of the Day, Silkwood, Working Girl, and won for The Graduate.

Nichols didn't direct Remains of the Day - that was James Ivory of course. While he sounds like an American his real name was Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky and was German born of Russian Jewish heritage. Of course back in the 50s when he started working in the industry such names were risky.

JP Liz V1 · 20-11-2014 08:31PM

bnt wrote: »

I don't know whether director Mike Nichols can be classed as "less famous": he died today at the age of 83. He might not be a household name but he was nominated for multiple Oscars for films such as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf[/I,] The Remains of the Day, Silkwood, Working Girl, and won for The Graduate.

He worked quite a bit with Meryl Streep

RIP

He was partner of Diane Sawyer too

bnt · 21-11-2014 10:02AM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Nichols didn't direct Remains of the Day - that was James Ivory of course.

That's what I get for rushing a post on the way out the door to work ... he also made quite a few adaptations of books, including Catch-22, Postcards from the Edge (the Carrie Fisher autobiography), Primary Colors and Charlie Wilson's War.

rednik · 22-12-2014 04:30PM

Billie Whitelaw passed away yesterday at the age of 82. She had many great roles but for me one will always stick out, Mrs Baylock. RIP

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bnt · 24-12-2014 01:08AM

Joseph Sargent has died at 89: he made a lot of TV, receiving an Emmy for Kojak, but to film buffs he's best known as the director of White Lightning (Burt Reynolds versus moonshiners) and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, which was remade a few years ago.

JaseBelleVie · 24-12-2014 01:19AM

I love The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three. It's one of my favourite films. Sad to hear the man that superbly directed it has passed on. RIP.

bnt · 24-12-2014 01:33AM

Note that he also made Jaws: The Revenge and Goldengirl, so ... hardly a spotless record, then!

JaseBelleVie · 24-12-2014 01:50AM

bnt wrote: »

Note that he also made Jaws: The Revenge and Goldengirl, so ... hardly a spotless record, then!

True. But even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. :P

My point being: nobody or nothing is perfect.

JP Liz V1 · 28-12-2014 11:45PM

David Ryall died on Christmas day RIP http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752379

Buona Fortuna · 29-12-2014 09:53AM

Just doing one of my unhappier year end rituals http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30500702.

Quite shocked by some of these that I had missed at the time.

TwoShedsJackson · 29-12-2014 03:17PM

JaseHeath wrote: »

I love The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three. It's one of my favourite films. Sad to hear the man that superbly directed it has passed on. RIP.

One of the best films of the 70s, and Sargent also directed Colossus: The Forbin Project, the prototypical (and one of the best) 'computer AI takes over the world' movie.

MfMan · 30-12-2014 09:29PM

Luise Rainer, German-born actress, double-Oscar winner in the 30s; a staggering 104 years old, real legend.

Duggy747 · 30-12-2014 11:50PM

Christine Cavanaugh, voice of Babe, Dexter from Dexter's Labrotory, Chuckie from Rugrats, has died at age 51.

Well, there's goes another one from my childhood this year. Loved watching Dexter's Lab growing up.

RIP thread for people involved in film

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