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RIP thread for people involved in TV

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,226 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Siegfried Fischbacher (as in Siegfried & Roy) died yesterday from pancreatic cancer aged 81. Roy died in May aged 75 from COVID-19.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭6541




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    Hopefully ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Damn that's sad loved Fatherof the Pride


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,222 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    6541 wrote: »


    Well, if he has the same agent as Tanya Roberts then it’s doubtful :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,495 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Peter Mark Richman, an actor who appeared in Three's Company, Longstreet, Beverly Hills 90210 and Dynasty has died at the age of 93


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,135 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Peter Mark Richman, an actor who appeared in Three's Company, Longstreet, Beverly Hills 90210 and Dynasty has died at the age of 93

    Didn't remember the name, but when I saw the photo I remembered him also as a guest star in Star Trek Next Generation, "The Neutral Zone" episode.
    RIP.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,534 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Jessica Matthews has died. She played Amy in Freaks and Geeks, and was in the movie Election.

    Only 38. Far too young. RIP.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55660102


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,359 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Mr E wrote: »
    Jessica Matthews has died. She played Amy in Freaks and Geeks, and was in the movie Election.

    Only 38. Far too young. RIP.

    Leaves behind a ten year old son too. Very sad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,526 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    Archie Lyndhurst's cause of death has been revealed. The 19 year old had died in his sleep due to a brain hemorrhage arising from a rare form of acute Leukemia.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55689248

    His doctor had said to his family that Archie showed no signs of illness before he died. This illness is so rare. Only 800 people die of this illness every year.

    I'm heartbroken for his family & friends. I cannot imagine the amount of pain & grief that they are going through right now. I hope Archie gives them comfort when he is there in heaven. :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,359 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Dale Baer, longtime Disney animator, has died aged 70.

    dalebaer-580x326-1.jpg?w=580&ssl=1

    https://thedisinsider.com/2021/01/16/longtime-disney-animator-dale-baer-passes-away-at-70/

    He had quite a prolific career, working on shows such as Animaniacs, The Smurfs, and the Simpsons, to name a few.

    His career was quite prolific. On the Big Screen, his career was extensive with 50 years experience working in animation.
    His earliest credited animation work is BedKnobs and Broomsticks. His last credit for Disney was Zootopia, in 2016.

    Other films he worked on include Shrek, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Last Action Hero (where he animated Whiskers, the animated cat detective, voiced by Danny Devito) Richie Rich and Species.

    You can see much of his animation work in this demo reel.



    He also has the Bob's Burger's movie which is due out this year. This is sadly the second death to affect the Bob's Burger's crew. Dave Creek, character designer on Bob's Burger's, died 8 days ago in a Skydiving accident, aged 42.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Wow he worked on some iconic stuff very talented.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,495 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Andy Gray dies aged 61 after battle with cancer (River City)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,728 ✭✭✭brian_t


    David Shaw-Smith has died.

    He along with his wife Sally, produced the series Hands for RTE in the 1970's.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2021/0119/1190810-death-david-shaw-smith/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    brian_t wrote: »
    David Shaw-Smith has died.

    He along with his wife Sally, produced the series Hands for RTE in the 1970's.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2021/0119/1190810-death-david-shaw-smith/

    If RTE had any sense they would reshow Hands in tribute to the man. I loved that series.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,067 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    If RTE had any sense they would reshow Hands in tribute to the man. I loved that series.

    Slow TV, decades before it became a thing. One of the first things I saw on Irish TV about 25 years ago was reruns of Hands. Loved every minute of it, just letting the craftsmen and women skill speak for itself with just the smallest bit of narration.

    I'd love to watch it again.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Slow TV, decades before it became a thing. One of the first things I saw on Irish TV about 25 years ago was reruns of Hands. Loved every minute of it, just letting the craftsmen and women skill speak for itself with just the smallest bit of narration.

    I'd love to watch it again.

    I was thinking the exact same thing when I wrote that post. Word for word. spooky.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,416 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    If RTE had any sense they would reshow Hands in tribute to the man. I loved that series.

    I don't think RTE own the rights. My local public library had them some years ago on DVD, I went through the entire collection, real fascinating the skills we had in the country then, beautifully captured before they were lost. When you see the lack of health and safety to any degree whatsover it will make you laugh, a full on furness out the back garden to pour molten metal in nothing but your Sunday best, different times :D...


    RIP David Shaw-Smith.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭gigantic09


    It's a valuable historical compilation of a way of life that in many cases is gone forever. I remember episodes about stone cutters in fermanagh, stone masons in Dublin, basket weavers, fine carpenters etc.
    Many of the people featured were elderly and knew there was nobody to take over the trade when they were gone.
    One of the great series shown on rte.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭Uncharted


    Absolutely invaluable show.



    It was a masterclass.

    RIP.


  • Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,289 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nigel Fairservice


    Hands was a simple show about skilled and complex work. I remember watching it avidly when I was a teenager and I'd love to see it again. I'll always remember the episode on coopering. My grandfather was a cooper from the 1920s to the 1960s and I imagine he worked much like the cooper featured in Hands. Unfortunately the trade is nearly extinct in Ireland these days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,359 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Hands was a simple show about skilled and complex work. I remember watching it avidly when I was a teenager and I'd love to see it again. I'll always remember the episode on coopering. My grandfather was a cooper from the 1920s to the 1960s and I imagine he worked much like the cooper featured in Hands. Unfortunately the trade is nearly extinct in Ireland these days.

    They were digitally remastered and reshown not that long ago.

    As for the series itself, they're all up on youtube. You can buy the boxset from hands.ie.


    Case in point, the cooper episode.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLs7ZWB5m0I


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    They were digitally remastered and reshown not that long ago.

    As for the series itself, they're all up on youtube. You can buy the boxset from hands.ie.


    Case in point, the cooper episode.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLs7ZWB5m0I
    I have a huge urge to watch them again now.

    The slow pace, narration, skills and lifestyles shown are a great antidote to crap!
    R.I.P.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,359 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    I have a huge urge to watch them again now.

    The slow pace, narration, skills and lifestyles shown are a great antidote to crap!
    R.I.P.

    There was an episode on making Porcelain figures of birds, by a very talented artist.

    I remember being absolutely fascinated with how he created those pieces. Some of those hands episodes are on different channels. It's pretty easy to find them on youtube.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A-Train


    There was an episode on making Porcelain figures of birds, by a very talented artist.

    I remember being absolutely fascinated with how he created those pieces. Some of those hands episodes are on different channels. It's pretty easy to find them on youtube.

    I had never heard of this show until reading this today and it reminded me of a show my recently passed away uncle use to always say he was on.

    Sure enough a bit of digging today and it is the same show and thanks to your tip about YouTube I have found the episode that my uncle featured in. I had never seen it and it’s great to now have it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    David Shaw-Smith, Gerrit Van Gelderen, Éamon de Buitléar, the holy trinity of RTE's 70s/80s slow TV subgenre all gone now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭The Inbetween is mine


    David Shaw-Smith, Gerrit Van Gelderen, Éamon de Buitléar, the holy trinity of RTE's 70s/80s slow TV subgenre all gone now.

    I actually went googling for Gerrit last night after the David Shaw Smith announcement on here..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    It's a reminder of how social history is created - recording ordinary people doing their work.

    Right now you could do this for say the back-street mechanic. Soon their skills will be lost because in a generation their role will have been rendered obsolete by the end of the internal combustion engine with traditional geared transmission.


  • Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,289 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nigel Fairservice


    They were digitally remastered and reshown not that long ago.

    As for the series itself, they're all up on youtube. You can buy the boxset from hands.ie.


    Case in point, the cooper episode.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLs7ZWB5m0I

    Many thanks, that is tonight's viewing sorted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭corks finest


    David Shaw-Smith, Gerrit Van Gelderen, Éamon de Buitléar, the holy trinity of RTE's 70s/80s slow TV subgenre all gone now.

    They were all fab, especially those introducing us to our natural world


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,495 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Mick Norcross has died aged 57 (Kirk's dad, both were on TOWIE)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,711 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    Irish Olympian Jerry Kiernan Died today. He also worked with RTÉ covering many Olympic Games' television coverage


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,840 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Irish Olympian Jerry Kiernan Died today. He also worked with RTÉ covering many Olympic Games' television coverage

    What happened him?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,711 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    Mira Furlan (of Babylon 5/Lost) has passed away.

    The article has a touching In Memorium from the great maker.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,495 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Mira Furlan (Babylon 5 and Lost) dead at 65


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,881 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    RIP.

    That's most to the B5 main cast now dead :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,135 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    RIP.

    That's most to the B5 main cast now dead :(

    It's hard to believe... think only Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Patricia Tallman and Bill Mumy of the core cast still with us.
    RIP Mira, Andreas, Stephen, Michael, Richard, Zack, Peter, Jerry ... gone before their time:(

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,711 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    It's hard to believe... think only Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Patricia Tallman and Bill Mumy of the core cast still with us.
    RIP Mira, Andreas, Stephen, Michael, Richard, Zack, Peter, Jerry ... gone before their time:(

    Peter Jurasik, Andrea Thomson, Julie Catlin Brown, Jason Carter, Tracey Scroggins were all main cast at some point and are still alive and well.

    Wikipedia list 18 "main cast" and 11 of them are still alive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,711 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    RIP.

    That's most to the B5 main cast now dead :(

    Not quite most

    5 out of 11 of the regular cast for Season one are still with us.
    6 out of 12 of the regular cast for Season two are still with us.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,881 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    It's hard to believe... think only Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Patricia Tallman and Bill Mumy of the core cast still with us.
    RIP Mira, Andreas, Stephen, Michael, Richard, Zack, Peter, Jerry ... gone before their time:(

    Peter Jurasik is still alive as well.

    A lot of them died so young as well so sad :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭6541


    Am just after hearing that Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh has passed, can anyone confirm ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,359 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    6541 wrote: »
    Am just after hearing that Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh has passed, can anyone confirm ?

    Her twitter's active, so no.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,728 ✭✭✭brian_t


    6541 wrote: »
    Am just after hearing that Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh has passed, can anyone confirm ?
    6541 wrote: »
    This reminds me of the 2020 story about Carrie Crowley. Some ppl on here claimed she was deceased when in fact she was very much alive !

    .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,440 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh



    He had Covid recently.
    I thought he had got better though :(

    RIP Larry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,359 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    AWWww... Not Larry King... Jesus.

    Bloody Covid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,359 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Larry King made a cameo on the Muppets many moons ago, and he was hilarious.



    Skip to the 1:40 mark, and 4:30 mark.

    There's a great ending joke to that episode that makes a great zinger to his whole appearance.

    RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    ****

    Larry King what a legend

    Who's next from this ****ing virus :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    He had Covid recently.
    I thought he had got better though :(

    RIP Larry.

    He was 87, at that age "better" is a moving target. :(

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,633 ✭✭✭corkie


    Mira Furlan (of Babylon 5/Lost) has passed away.

    The article has a touching In Memorium from the great maker.
    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Mira Furlan (Babylon 5 and Lost) dead at 65



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