RIP thread for people involved in film

FrancieBrady · 24-07-2019 6:18pm

Roy Batty wrote:

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time,
like tears in rain.
Time to die.

Almost as satisfying to read as it is to listen to. RIP Rutger.

johnny_ultimate · 24-07-2019 6:19pm

Heck of a screen presence that man. Could elevate roles that would have been thankless for many other actors.

24-07-2019 6:20pm

Ah fvck, my dad used to let me watch a lot of his films, as a kid.

24-07-2019 6:21pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imn7YiIU8HM

neirbloom · 24-07-2019 6:46pm

Ah He was terrifying in The Hitcher as well for anyone who Hasn't seen it, not a movie that's talked about a whole lot anymore.Didn't get great reviews at the time according to rotten tomatoes and Meta Critic which suprised me because I loved it when I first watched it. Siskel and Ebert found it repulsive so they must of been doing something right lol.

R.I.P.

Harry Palmr · 24-07-2019 6:58pm

Hauer made a lot of crappy pictures but he was always solid and enjoyable. A real shame.

sydthebeat · 24-07-2019 7:08pm

One of my fav actors from when I was young.... The hitcher had him as such a malevolent and unrelenting psycho....

And so much of his most famous speech as ad libbed too

vriesmays · 24-07-2019 7:44pm

Nika McGuigan RIP.

Tony EH · 24-07-2019 11:48pm

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/

Ah crap. Have a lot of fond memories of the man in a lot of films I like.

But, he doesn't belong in a less famous RIP thread. Not by a long shot.

Zeek12 · 06-08-2019 11:12pm

D.A. Pennebaker passed away recently.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/04/da-pennebaker-obituary

Music fans will remember him as the man who effectively "invented" the modern music documentary, with films such as Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back in 1967, Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars (which captured their last live performance) Monterey Pop and Depeche Mode 101.

He also made great documentaries about John DeLorean and The War Room - which examined Bill Clinton's 1992 Election campaign.

JP Liz V1 · 16-08-2019 11:54pm

Peter Fonda has died

RIP

Tony EH · 17-08-2019 12:05am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R4XnKBQ67w

Jurgen The German · 17-08-2019 6:43am

There are actors that epitomise a certain era, that have a type of "cool" presence, Fonda was absolutely one of those. Sad news.

Harry Palmr · 17-08-2019 8:46pm

And now Richard Williams the genius of Who Framed Roger Rabbit has died. It's been ages since I saw that on the tv hopefully it'll get a showing now. He spent years getting that film up and running and likewise The Thief and the Cobbler which was decades in work and taken away from him in the end and featured a brilliant cast Vincent Price, Anthony Quayle, Kenneth Williams and Stanley Baxter.

The Williams approved "unfinished" version is now under lock and key but the workprint is on youtube where it's officially sanctioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_aHoRGr8KQ

He also did that great opening credits work two of the later Pink Panthers films

Agent Coulson · 17-08-2019 9:48pm

Patricia Louisiana Knop died aged 78 on August 7th.

She was the screen writer and producer of 9 1/2 Weeks, Wild Orchid & The Red Shoe Dairies.

https://deadline.com/2019/08/patricia-louisiana-knop-dies-screenwriter-for-9-1-2-weeks-wild-orchid-1202670374/

Sexual Chocolate · 17-08-2019 9:51pm

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Peter Fonda has died

RIP

For anyone that played GTA San Andreas he also voiced The Truth (hippy guy)

Zeek12 · 18-08-2019 2:11pm

Jurgen The German wrote: »

There are actors that epitomise a certain era, that have a type of "cool" presence, Fonda was absolutely one of those. Sad news.

Although he's unquestionably connected to the counter-culture 60s era, he did from time to time appear in other varied and very fine movies over the decades.

92 in the Shade, The Hired Hand, Ulee's Gold, 3:10 to Yuma and (in particular) Steven Soderberg's The Limey were excellent performances.

RIP Peter.

Terence Rattigan · 19-08-2019 2:29pm

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry was a favourite of mine, also his cameo in Wild Hogs

Harry Palmr · 19-08-2019 2:43pm

92 in the Shade has one of the best casts of American character actors ever assembled I reckon.

One of my favourite trash classics is Race with the Devil - given additional added value thanks to Warren Oates.

Terence Rattigan · 19-08-2019 3:06pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

92 in the Shade has one of the best casts of American character actors ever assembled I reckon.

One of my favourite trash classics is Race with the Devil - given additional added value thanks to Warren Oates.

Ah yes, had forgotten Race with the Devil, a B+ movie!

Re Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, I drive my better half crazy by shouting out the title anytime I drive across an unmanned railway crossing!

MfMan · 03-09-2019 1:44pm

Valerie Harper has passed.

Rhoda!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtjZuWxE6ho

Jurgen The German · 23-09-2019 11:18am

Horror legend Sid Haig has passed away after a short illness.

mikhail · 23-09-2019 5:39pm

Aaron Eisenberg, who played Nog on Deep Space Nine. He was 50.

https://www.cnet.com/news/star-trek-deep-space-nine-actor-aron-eisenberg-has-died/

The actor's cause of death wasn't released, but he underwent his second kidney transplant in 2015, StarTrek.com notes in an obituary.

bnt · 12-10-2019 9:27am

I just heard that Robert Forster has died at 78. After a long mostly-TV career in shows such as Banyon, Nakia, and Police Story, he had a movie career revival after Quentin Tarantino cast him as Max Cherry, the bail bondsman in Jackie Brown, for which he received an Oscar nomination. More recently he starred in the Twin Peaks remake and appeared in London Has Fallen and El Camino, a Breaking Bad Movie.

Harry Palmr · 12-10-2019 9:29am

One of my favourite character actors has passed (another one!)

Robert Forster at 78, best known for a late flourish having starred opposite fellow 70s b movie legend Pam Grier in Jackie Brown but he made loads of good honest genre material the ultimate being Alligator - Lewis Teagues knowing salute to Jaws. Forster being the sceptical cop who ends up rescuing Chicago (or does he?) from the now mutant critter that was flushed down a toilet many years earlier.

In a good publicity move he died the day his final film was released - El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

Tony EH · 12-10-2019 1:55pm

^
Always remember him from 'Alligator' (I like that dumb film

). He never managed to bust out of that B-Movie kinda groove though.

I think his biggest part was in 'The Black Hole'.

Mr Crispy · 12-10-2019 4:01pm

Alligator is a great creature feature. Might have to track down a copy.

JP Liz V1 · 12-10-2019 5:14pm

RIP, loved him in Jackie Brown

peteeeed · 13-10-2019 11:30am

Stephen moore, character actor and voice of the paranoid android in the hitchikers guide to the galaxy and lots more film and TV has died aged 81
https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/13/hitchhikers-guide-galaxy-doctor-actor-stephen-moore-dies-aged-81-10909207/

Tom Mann Centuria · 13-10-2019 6:37pm

peteeeed wrote: »

Stephen moore, character actor and voice of the paranoid android in the hitchikers guide to the galaxy and lots more film and TV has died aged 81
https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/13/hitchhikers-guide-galaxy-doctor-actor-stephen-moore-dies-aged-81-10909207/

Always liked him, could play warm or smarmy characters just as well, had a soft spot for him in A Bridge Too Far as he played a Royal Signals officer, they did a less than stellar job in that operation but he portrayed the "shrug of shoulders, what can we do" really well in a small part. RIP.

Harry Palmr · 15-10-2019 11:34pm

Scotty Bowers has died at 96. Who?! Google and enjoy/be scandalised.

peteeeed · 28-10-2019 6:56pm

Robert Evans producer of Chinatown has died aged 89

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/robert-evans-dead-dies-chinatown-producer-1203385589/

Sad Professor · 28-10-2019 8:29pm

peteeeed wrote: »

Robert Evans producer of Chinatown has died aged 89

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/robert-evans-dead-dies-chinatown-producer-1203385589/

Quite the legend.

quintana76 · 28-10-2019 8:33pm

Sad Professor wrote: »

Quite the legend.

Quite a book that he wrote. Legendary.

Harry Palmr · 29-10-2019 12:26am

Probably green lit more above average films and lasting classics than any other executive of his era.

The President's Analyst (1967)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
The Odd Couple (1968)
The Detective (1968)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Italian Job (1969)
True Grit (1969)
The Confession (1970)
Love Story (1970)
A New Leaf (1971)
Plaza Suite (1971)
Harold and Maude (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
Serpico (1973)
Save the Tiger (1973)
The Great Gatsby (1974)
The Conversation (1974)

and then he made Chinatown. Had he only made this he'd be remembered.

serfboard · 29-10-2019 3:09pm

peteeeed wrote: »

Robert Evans producer of Chinatown has died aged 89

I've a feeling that if he operated nowadays, he could have suffered the same fate as Harvey Weinstein:

Wikipedia wrote:

Joe Eszterhas repeatedly describes Evans, who was a friend, as "the devil" in his book, Hollywood Animal, and says that "all lies ever told anywhere about Robert Evans are true." His autobiography also goes into detail about a cocaine addiction that plagued Evans in the 1980s. Eszterhas's book The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God includes an anecdote about Evans showing his appreciation for one of Eszterhas's scripts by sending him a woman with a "congratulatory note" inside her vagina.

JP Liz V1 · 31-10-2019 3:27am

John Witherspoon from Friday has died

peteeeed · 15-11-2019 7:28am

Blade Runner’ and ‘Back to the Future’ Production Designer Lawrence Paull Dies at 81

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/11/lawrence-paull-obit-1202189728/

15-11-2019 9:00am

peteeeed wrote: »

Blade Runner’ and ‘Back to the Future’ Production Designer Lawrence Paull Dies at 81

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/11/lawrence-paull-obit-1202189728/

What a visionary this man was

ohnonotgmail · 23-11-2019 8:36pm

A name you might not recognise but a face you defnitely will. Actor Michael J Pollard has died at the age of 80. RIP.

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Harry Palmr · 23-11-2019 8:51pm

He knew how to cross the Alps with an elephant and Oliver Reed.

p to the e · 27-11-2019 12:06pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

A name you might not recognise but a face you defnitely will. Actor Michael J Pollard has died at the age of 80. RIP.

A true character actor. I recognise him straight away but struggle to think where I saw him. Weirdly the first film that pops into my head is "Next of Kin".

Tony EH · 27-11-2019 12:19pm

He used to scare me when I was a kid for some reason.

Mickeroo · 27-11-2019 12:21pm

I think the Homeless guy in Scrooged is the main thing I remember him for.

JP Liz V1 · 27-11-2019 12:37pm

I think because I seen it recently enough, he was a Q type character in Tango and Cash

Terence Rattigan · 27-11-2019 2:05pm

Had an unforgettable face, first saw him with Robert Redford in Little Fauss and Big Halsey, RIP

Agent Coulson · 29-11-2019 10:47pm

He was fantastic in Bonnie and Clyde

RIP.

That middle initial (it stood for "John") he bequeathed to Michael J. Fox — who, early in his career, needed a middle initial to distinguish him from another Michael Fox in the Screen Actors Guild.

The "J," Fox has said, came straight from Pollard. "He was one of my favorite character actors," Fox told England's Guardian newspaper.

https://eu.northjersey.com/story/entertainment/2019/11/27/michael-j-pollard-passaic-actor-famous-offbeat-roles-has-died/4307921002/

dark crystal · 07-12-2019 1:01am

Broadway, film & TV actor Ron Liebman has died aged 82.

Best known for playing Roy Cohn in the Broadway production of 'Angels in America', in Norma-Rae with Sally Field and most recently for playing Rachel Green's father in the TV show Friends:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wuQFP1gWak

RIP

bnt · 09-12-2019 2:11am

Veteran film & TV actor René Auberjonois has died at 79. He was Father Mulcahy in the original MASH film, with roles in McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Eyes Of Laura Mars, Star Trek VI, The Player and many more, in addition to his many TV credits such as Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He was working until recently, playing President Buchanan in the comedy Raising Buchanan.

dublinman1990 · 09-12-2019 3:17am

bnt wrote: »

Veteran film & TV actor René Auberjonois has died at 79. He was Father Mulcahy in the original MASH film, with roles in McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Eyes Of Laura Mars, Star Trek VI, The Player and many more, in addition to his many TV credits such as Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He was working until recently, playing President Buchanan in the comedy Raising Buchanan.

Here he is (on the right in the photo) as Doctor Burton in Batman Forever.

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He was the doctor at Arkham Asylum who spoke to Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman) when he assessing Riddler near the end of the film.

R.I.P. René Auberjonois

RIP thread for people involved in film

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