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RIP thread for people involved in film

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  • #952
    MfMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Bibi Anderson, Swedish actress, from the Seventh Seal, also in the very watchable Duel At Diablo with James Garner and Sydney Poitier.

    Charles Van Doren, academic and writer, subject of Robert Redford's Quiz Show.


  • #953
    p to the e
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭p to the e


    Georgia Engel has died aged 70. Her soft whispery voice was probably seen more in TV over the years but she did have big roles in a few notable movie roles. You may not even recognise her straight away but once you hear that voice.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/obituaries/georgia-engel-dead.html

    MV5BMjA5MDM1NzU0MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTQwNDY1._V1_.jpg


  • #954
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    p to the e wrote: »
    Georgia Engel has died aged 70. Her soft whispery voice was probably seen more in TV over the years but she did have big roles in a few notable movie roles. You may not even recognise her straight away but once you hear that voice.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/obituaries/georgia-engel-dead.html

    MV5BMjA5MDM1NzU0MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTQwNDY1._V1_.jpg

    I always thought she was a tv (and stage) star only. The onlyh movies she seems to have done are tv movies.


  • #955
    p to the e
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭p to the e


    I'd say her career is primarily TV alright but she has done movies, mostly animated, most likely due to her distinctive voice.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Engel


  • #956
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,496 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    John Singleton has died, was in a coma after a stroke and taken off life support

    https://tvline.com/2019/04/29/john-singleton-dead-director-boyz-n-the-hood-snowfall/
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #957
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    John Singleton has died, was in a coma after a stroke and taken off life support

    https://tvline.com/2019/04/29/john-singleton-dead-director-boyz-n-the-hood-snowfall/

    Awful. :( Two early fifty-somethings from the entertainment industry have died of strokes recently, Singleton and Luke Perry. Very scary.

    I loved Boyz N The Hood. Contained the first explicit sex scene I saw in a film. I was around 12. Nip-sucking and all! :eek:


  • #958
    Snake Plisken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    RIP Peter Mayhew sad news
    https://twitter.com/TheWookieeRoars/status/1124077256240967681?s=19


  • #959
    Marje
    Registered Users Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Marje


    Writer Alvin Sargent

    Academy Award winner Alvin Sargent, who penned an extraordinary number of popular and critically successful films, from “Paper Moon” and “Ordinary People” to the “Spider-Man” sequels of the 2000s, died Thursday, his talent agency Gersh confirmed to Variety. He was 92.

    Sargent won adapted screenplay Oscars for “Julia” in 1978 and “Ordinary People” in 1981 and was also nominated in the category in 1974 for “Paper Moon.” (He also received Writers Guild awards for all three films.)


  • #960
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    One of the great jobbing screen hacks - could turn his hand to any style/theme at a high level.


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  • #961
    Zeek12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,461 ✭✭✭✭Zeek12


    I've always loved "Straight Time". One of the lost classics of the 70's.

    I hadn't realised he wrote the story for What about Bob? One of the favourite comedies of my youth!

    RIP Alvin.


  • #962
    Jurgen The German
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Jurgen The German


    Peggy Lipton who played the lovely Norma in Twin Peaks has passed away aged 72.

    Peggy-Lipton-GettyImages-139042661.jpg


  • #963
    MfMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Doris Day has passed. Great age.


  • #964
    peteeeed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    MfMan wrote: »
    Doris Day has passed. Great age.

    Gets her own thread


  • #965
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,542 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    :confused: There's nothing "less" famous about Doris Day. Even people who've never seen a single film of hers will know her name.


  • #966
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,140 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Tony EH wrote: »
    :confused: There's nothing "less" famous about Doris Day. Even people who've never seen a single film of hers will know her name.

    Depends on generation... for someone born in 21st century I doubt either her films or persona are on their radar.

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



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  • #967
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    It’s also good to post here anyway as some people (like me) might not always check the Forum main page. If interested in the person who died we can then review the specific thread.


  • #968
    Mr Crispy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    RIP Grumpy cat.


  • #969
    Skyknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 392 ✭✭Skyknight


    Paul Darrow ( Blake 7's Avon) has passed away at 78

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48501099


  • #970
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,542 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Skyknight wrote: »
    Paul Darrow ( Blake 7's Avon) has passed away at 78

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48501099

    Aww. :(

    One of my favourite sci-fi characters.

    Watched all of 'Blake's 7' a few years ago when I had a dose of the flu. It's still a good show, even if it's laughable in many areas nowadays.

    Such a gloomy series over all, with a brilliant ending.


  • #971
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Clicking on this thread, I was struck suddenly by the vivid memory of watching in bemusement as my dad tuned the radio for the death notices. I must be getting old.


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  • #972
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,542 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    mikhail wrote: »
    Clicking on this thread, I was struck suddenly by the vivid memory of watching in bemusement as my dad tuned the radio for the death notices. I must be getting old.

    I've thought the same thing myself. It is a strangely morbid interest.


  • #973
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,496 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0587249/

    Sylvia Miles (Midnight Cowboy and Farewell My Lovely) has died, she was 94
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #974
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Right, Olivia De Havilland really must be last woman standing now (although Miles was never one of the classic Hollywood actors as she only hit the silver screen seriously in middle age)


  • #975
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Other than de Haviland, the following are still alive and over 90:

    Kirk Douglas
    Betty White
    Glynis Johns
    Eva Marie Saint
    Honor Blackman
    Hal Holbrook
    Angela Lansbury
    Dick Van Dyke
    Mel Brooks
    Cloris Leachman
    Rosemary Harris
    Sidney Poitier
    Joss Ackland
    Ann Blyth
    Nancy Olson
    Ed Asner
    Vera Miles
    Bob Newhart
    Joan Plowright
    Christopher Plummer
    Jane Powell
    Max von Sydow


  • #976
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Not to mention some stallwart directors:

    James Ivory
    Norman Jewison
    Carl Reiner
    Franco Zeffirelli


  • #977
    peteeeed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Other than de Haviland, the following are still alive and over 90:

    Kirk Douglas
    Betty White
    Glynis Johns
    Eva Marie Saint
    Honor Blackman
    Hal Holbrook
    Angela Lansbury
    Dick Van Dyke
    Mel Brooks
    Cloris Leachman
    Rosemary Harris
    Sidney Poitier
    Joss Ackland
    Ann Blyth
    Nancy Olson
    Ed Asner
    Vera Miles
    Bob Newhart
    Joan Plowright
    Christopher Plummer
    Jane Powell
    Max von Sydow
    this would be a better thread :)


  • #978
    Lionbacker
    Registered Users Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Lionbacker


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Not to mention some stallwart directors:

    James Ivory
    Norman Jewison
    Carl Reiner
    Franco Zeffirelli

    Wow, this post aged badly, very quickly.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48648278


  • #979
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,542 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    No surprises there really.


  • #980
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,496 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Lionbacker wrote: »
    Wow, this post aged badly, very quickly.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48648278

    Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #981
    sacamano
    Registered Users Posts: 184 ✭✭sacamano


    Yeah that's exactly what was posted by Lionbacker.


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  • #982
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    sacamano wrote: »
    Yeah that's exactly what was posted by Lionbacker.

    Correct, Franco Zeffirelli has died.


  • #983
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,496 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    sacamano wrote: »
    Yeah that's exactly what was posted by Lionbacker.

    I know but sometimes the links don't show up especially on phones

    Billy Drago (played many villains) has died
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #984
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    RIP Rip :( one of my favourite character actors.


  • #985
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    RIP Rip :( one of my favourite character actors.

    well that sucks.


  • #986
    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    He got to 88 though, that is genuinely impressive given his tendency to rowdy shenanigans. Always gave great performances, even in not-so-great films :)


  • #987
    MfMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Had a good turn as the vindictive manipulator Slade in The Cincinatti Kid


  • #988
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    B0jangles wrote: »
    He got to 88 though, that is genuinely impressive given his tendency to rowdy shenanigans. Always gave great performances, even in not-so-great films :)

    Modern film stars just dont get involved in enough rowdy shenanigans.


  • #989
    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Modern film stars just dont get involved in enough rowdy shenanigans.

    They just don't have the moxie :(


  • #990
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    B0jangles wrote: »
    They just don't have the moxie :(

    now i feel old because i know what moxie means.


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  • #991
    neirbloom
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭neirbloom


    Wasnt it only 10 years ago or so he got so drunk he accidently broke into a bank he thought was his home :D and back while filming the movie Maidstone back in the 70s he tried to smash Norman Mailers head in with a hammer while either drunk or high so yea quite the hellraizer lol.

    Don't get that kind of carry on with movi stars today.


  • #992
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #993
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,496 ✭✭✭✭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
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #994
    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭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


  • #995
    neirbloom
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭neirbloom


    Bowie Torn and Roeg

    tumblr_of3lx4Z7Jk1ugaxn5o1_1280.jpg


  • #996
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


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


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  • #997
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,508 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #998
    MfMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭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.


  • #999
    Mr Crispy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭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.


  • #1000
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,534 ✭✭✭✭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/


  • #1001
    Funkfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭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.....


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