The Celebrity Death Thread - Minor, Major, Famous, Infamous

[makkuwata]

I loved her in Cheers and Khan, but she died a hateful MAGA lunatic.

[Chadruharazzeb]

5 hours ago, makkuwata said:

I loved her in Cheers and Khan, but she died a hateful MAGA lunatic.

 

And a scientologist. 

[Goose]

She was great in Drop Dead Gorgeous, which is a movie well worth seeking out, as it's excellent.

[Waggo]

Ruth Madoc best known as Gladys Pugh in Hi-De-Hi gone at 79.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63927507

[Hawklord]

Victor Lewis-Smith. Used to love TV Offal

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/12/victor-lewis-smith-writer-and-broadcaster-dies-at-65

 

 

[Don Wiskerando]

1 hour ago, Hawklord said:

Victor Lewis-Smith. Used to love TV Offal

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/12/victor-lewis-smith-writer-and-broadcaster-dies-at-65

 

 

This is a tough one.  Victor Lewis Smith was responsible for some of my favourite radio,  a short tourism board promotion for IPSWICH.

[Quest]

🎵 Another unexpected celebrity bites the dust, on TV Offal's... 🎵

 

[smac]

Ah, bum. Used to love his columns in Time Out and the Evening Standard back when I was living in That London.

[Festoon]

Balls. A master.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.humonegro.com/noticias/muere-angelo-badalamenti-a-los-85-anos/amp/

[Silent Runner]

Angelo Badalamenti died. So much great music, I still regularly give his Twin Peaks stuff a spin. 

[davidcotton]

6 hours ago, Hawklord said:

Victor Lewis-Smith. Used to love TV Offal

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/12/victor-lewis-smith-writer-and-broadcaster-dies-at-65

 

 

I only really knew him from his radio 1 show back in the day. 

[englishbob]

33 minutes ago, Silent Runner said:

Angelo Badalamenti died. So much great music, I still regularly give his Twin Peaks stuff a spin. 

 

One of the greats - in one of the greatest partnerships in film history - RIP

[Exidor]

No denying he wrote some great tunes but this is still my favourite Badalamenti moment.

 

 

[Bazjam]

Oh man, gutted about Angelo Badalamenti. No one could break my heart with a score like he could.

 

Possibly my favourite 4 minutes of YouTube ever.

 

[Festoon]

Dreadful, dreadful news. Only 63.

Was just listening to Fun Boy 3 yesterday. Terry Hall has died after a short illness.

 

https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/terry-hall-lead-singer-of-the-specials-dies-aged-63-42231561.html

[Silent Runner]

Mike Hodges died. He directed Get Carter, Flash Gordon and loads more. He had a good run. 

[Couch Corpse]

One for Seinfeld fans

 

IMDb bio for Sonya Eddy
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248913/

[Hawklord]

Not been a great month has it?

 

Maxi Jazz from Faithless, aged 65

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64087315

 

 

 

[Festoon]

19 minutes ago, Hawklord said:

Not been a great month has it?

 

Maxi Jazz from Faithless, aged 65

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64087315

 

 

 

No age. That's awful.

[Spartan]

Fecks sake, that mans voice was my teenage years.

 

[Bucky]

What a terrible load of bollocks.

[glb]

On 24/12/2022 at 16:35, Hawklord said:

Not been a great month has it?

 

Maxi Jazz from Faithless, aged 65

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64087315

 

 

 

Glad to have seen him live with Faithless. Obviously they were more than just one tune, but damn if Insomnia wasn’t an outrageously big tune. He had the crowd in the palm of his hand throughout. Them and the Chemicals were iconic live.

[JohnC]

Archer Maclean.

[makkuwata]

Jimmy White's 2: Cueball was always the odd duck of my Dreamcast collection.

[Nathan Wind]

Stephan Bonnar as well. Probably doesn’t mean much to many people here but his fight with Forrest Griffin was pivotal in the growth of the UFC and firing MMA into the mainstream. Only aged 45. What a shit few days for deaths with Maxi, Archer and Bonnar. Christ.

[wavey]

7 hours ago, JohnC said:

Archer Maclean.

 

60's no age. His snooker and pool games were properly revolutionary. I always fondly think about IK+ whenever I see @ScouserInExile post.

[ScouserInExile]

17 hours ago, JohnC said:

Archer Maclean.

Damn.

 

I met him once. I worked at Psygnosis when they were publishing Super Dropzone. I was doing some play testing on it and he sat with me and sketched out how he wanted the difficulty curve to be for the player. He seemed like a nice guy. 

 

I've often thought that I should have kept that bit of paper. And got him to sign it. 

 

Not least because my mates, who I played a lot of Pool with, didn't believe I'd met him.

[davidcotton]

Stephen Grief (Travis in Blake’s 7 season 1) has passed, aged 78. 
 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/26/the-crown-and-blakes-7-actor-stephen-greif-dies-at-78?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[S0L]

12 hours ago, davidcotton said:

Stephen Grief (Travis in Blake’s 7 season 1) has passed, aged 78. 
 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/26/the-crown-and-blakes-7-actor-stephen-greif-dies-at-78?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

He played Gilius Thunderhead in All-Star Racing Transformed and was a lovely guy.

 

He read 'Roar!' as if we wanted him to just say 'Roar!' instead of actually attempting a blood curdling roar and it was so funny we used it.

 

I'd just rewatched Blake's 7 so when he came in for that session I was 'Wait a minute...'

[glb]

Finished a jog around the block today with a burst of Insomnia. Still one of the greatest drops, proper spine tingling. Took me back to many a night dancing badly while standing too close to the speakers. 
 

Godspeed Maxi, you were one of the good ones.