RIP thread for people involved in film

Duggy747 · 29-08-2014 2:47pm

Eurgh, I remember his part in Robocop 2 when I was a kid where he was being sliced open while still alive.

MfMan · 01-09-2014 11:52am

Bill Kerr, solid Aussie actor. Stern uncle Jack who coaches Mark Lee in Gallipoli, also had a part in Year of Living Dangerously etc.

04-09-2014 9:22pm

Andrew V. McLaglen, the director of such fare as The Wild Geese, McLintock!, Ffolkes, Cahill U.S. Marshal and Bandolero! passed away yesterday. Nice piece on him in the NY Times.

MfMan · 09-09-2014 2:26pm

Gottfried John. German actor with distinctive sharp face. Appearances in Proof of Life, Goldeneye, TV series Game, Set and Match.

Harry Palmr · 09-09-2014 3:09pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Andrew V. McLaglen, the director of such fare as The Wild Geese, McLintock!, Ffolkes, Cahill U.S. Marshal and Bandolero! passed away yesterday. Nice piece on him in the NY Times.

Must say I have a soft spot for McLaughlans "shoot first" macho nonsense. While the westerns are largely a much of a muchness his flourish as the director of British "proto Expendables" old geezer adventure films was most enjoyable.

Agent Coulson · 11-09-2014 7:45am

Richard Kiel best know as Jaws from James Bonds “The Spy Who Loved Me” and “Moonraker,” and Adam Sandler “Happy Gilmore,” passed away.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/james-bond-villain-richard-kiel-dies-at-74-1201303251/

Mr E · 11-09-2014 7:46am

Richard Kiel (who played the villain Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker) passed away yesterday aged 74.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/11/richard-kiel-jaws-actor-from-james-bond-dead-at-74-reports

JP Liz V1 · 12-09-2014 4:22pm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Richard Kiel best know as Jaws from James Bonds “The Spy Who Loved Me” and “Moonraker,” and Adam Sandler “Happy Gilmore,” passed away.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/james-bond-villain-richard-kiel-dies-at-74-1201303251/

I thought Adam Sandler had died

RIP Richard Kiel

Faith+1 · 13-09-2014 1:29am

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I thought Adam Sandler had died

RIP Richard Kiel

Well his career certainly has! RIP Richard Kiel.

delbertgrady · 15-09-2014 8:34pm

Stefan Gierasch - like Richard Kiel, another Silver Streak alumni - died during the week.
He appeared in Jeremiah Johnson, Carrie and High Plains Drifter.
He was also great as the hotel manager in What's Up, Doc?

MfMan · 22-09-2014 3:00pm

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 6:56pm

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 2:43am

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 3:55pm

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 7:05pm

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 8:52pm

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 1:23pm

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 5:05pm

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 4:36am

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 1:23pm

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 2:13pm

One of my favourite directors. RIP.

Harry Palmr · 20-11-2014 2:51pm

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 8:31pm

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 4:30pm

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 1:08am

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 1:19am

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 1:33am

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

JaseBelleVie · 24-12-2014 1:50am

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 9:53am

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 3:17pm

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 9:29pm

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.

Tipsy McSwagger · 31-12-2014 12:12am

Such a young age, I love Babe it's just the perfect family film. RIP

Bipolar Joe · 31-12-2014 12:28am

Just now found out. Chuckie was always my favourite Rugrat. Iconic voice talent.

Agent Coulson · 31-12-2014 10:02pm

Edward Herrmann star of The Lost Boys & Gilmore Girls has died aged 71.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/31/edward-herrmann-dead-dies_n_6401588.html

bnt · 31-12-2014 10:13pm

That's terribly sad news - one of the most recognisable faces and voices on TV in particular, but no slouch in movie roles either e.g. as Nelson Rockefeller in Nixon. That was his voice in that cheesy commercial in The Wolf of Wall Street, for example:

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

JP Liz V1 · 02-01-2015 12:25am

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Edward Herrmann star of The Lost Boys & Gilmore Girls has died aged 71.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/31/edward-herrmann-dead-dies_n_6401588.html

Watched him on Richie Rich which was on recently, RIP

Patty O Furniture · 04-01-2015 12:22am

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Edward Herrmann star of The Lost Boys & Gilmore Girls has died aged 71.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/31/edward-herrmann-dead-dies_n_6401588.html

Yeah, sad to hear him go!

http://www.thewrap.com/edward-herrmann-lost-boys-villain-dead-at-71-report/

Donna Douglas, ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ Star, Dead at 81

http://www.thewrap.com/beverly-hillbillies-star-donna-douglas-dead-at-81/

I remember her in the old repeats when she played Elly May Clampett

MfMan · 06-01-2015 11:22am

English character actor Bernard Kay, played the bolshevik in Dr. Zhivago. "God rot good men!"

MfMan · 09-01-2015 10:47am

Rod Taylor, Australian actor. 'Raintree County', 'The Birds' etc. Anyone remember TV series 'Bearcats' where he and another guy adventured around the American west in an old fancy car?

Duggy747 · 10-01-2015 2:43am

Rod Taylor was my first experience of satellite TV in the 90's, the fact there were movie channels that played movies all the time wowed me as a kid.

Not Sky Movies channels but ones like TNT (TCM now I think it's called) and some German / Dutch channels that played English speaking ones (Death Wish series was always on them, for some reason :pac: ). The Time Machine was the first film I watched on satellite, loved watching it over and over whenever it came on.

I'll have to give it a watch again over the weekend, haven't seen it in so long.

bnt · 11-01-2015 12:19pm

Anita Ekberg has died at 83, according to reports just coming in. I'm not too familiar with her work, but she's best known for La Dolce Vita (dir. F. Fellini) from 1960.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o15UTomYsc

RIP thread for people involved in film

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