DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[HoosierDaddy]

Scar Face actor Robert loggia dies at 85

http://my.xfinity.com/articles/entertainment/20151204/US--Obit-Loggia/

 

[MisterCairo]

Yes, one of my favourites.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/robert-loggia-obituary-dies-1.3351981

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

I remember him from "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca" on the Walt Disney show in the late fifties. He was one of the last links to that era.

 

[Formeruser012523]

Nicholas Smith, who played Mr. Rumbold in the series Are You Being Served?, has died at age 81.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/actors/are-you-being-served-actor-nicholas-smith-dies-aged-81/

 

[MisterCairo]

^^^
My goodness that's sad! And after a fall, too.

At the link there's a photo of the Are You Being Served? cast - each and everyone one of them is gone now...

 

[MisterCairo]

Rose Siggins from American Horror Story, has died aged 43:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/rose-siggins-dead-1.3363018

 

[MisterCairo]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/patricia-elliott-obit-1.3375967

Broadway actor (see the photo from 1980's stage production of The Elephant Man with David Bowie) Patricia Elliott has died aged 77.

 

[MisterCairo]

George Clayton Johnson, science fiction novel and tv teleplay author (and Gandalf doppleganger) has died, aged 86.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/george-clayton-johnson-dead-1.3380953

Highlights include writing the script for the first episode of Star Trek (not the "pilot"), and co-writing the novel Logan's Run.

 

[MisterCairo]

Oscar winning, Hollywood Walk of Fame starred cinematographer Haskell Wexler has died, aged 93.

He worked on films like Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, In the Heat of the Night and got half credit for One Flew Over the Cuckol's Nest after being fired!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/haskell-wexler-dead-1.3381518

Went to sleep one night and didn't wake up - that's the way we all hope to go!

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Former Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon dies at 83

 

[Trenchfriend]

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

 

[Frunobulax]

Went to sleep one night and didn't wake up - that's the way we all hope to go!

Well, I was hoping for "Shot by a jealous husband."

Former Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon dies at 83

Oh, wow. He was a favorite when I was a 'ute. I think I still have that 45.

 

[Fading Fast]

Former Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon dies at 83

He was clearly the star of that fun bunch of guys when I used to watch them on TV as a kid.

 

[Frunobulax]

He was clearly the star of that fun bunch of guys when I used to watch them on TV as a kid.

Him and Curly Neal, beating the stuffing out of the Generals on Wide World of Sports!

 

[Fading Fast]

Him and Curly Neal, beating the stuffing out of the Generals on Wide World of Sports!

Agreed. And - spot on, I always got excited when they were on Wide World of Sports (a lot fewer things to do and watch back in those days).

 

[Frunobulax]

Agreed. And - spot on, I always got excited when they were on Wide World of Sports (a lot fewer things to do and watch back in those days).

Yeah, but I'd trade a month of ESPN for a Saturday afternoon filled with the Globetrotters, downhill skiing, a lumberjack competition, some weird Tibetan sport I've never heard of, and barrel jumping on ice skates. I can hear the theme song welling up now.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

I saw the Globetrotters play In Kalamazoo, MI around '60-'61. Meadowlark and Curly were among them. Althea Gibson gave a tennis demonstration at the same event. My God, that was 55 years ago! It can't be!

 

[HudsonHawk]

Another sports death...former Major Leaguer Dave Henderson died yesterday at age 57. Henderson is probably best remembered for his 2-out, 2-run home run in the 9th inning of Game 5 of the 1986 American League Championship Series, keeping the Red Sox alive long enough to go on to win the pennant.

 

[dh66]

Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, frontman of Motorhead, died of cancer today, aged 70.

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[mr_lits]