DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[Benzadmiral]

This was really sad to hear. Cancer claims yet another at a far too young age.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/actor-miguel-ferrer-obit-1.3944193

I first saw him, I think, in the TV production of The Stand. He was one of those Hollywood kids who, the moment you saw them, you knew whose son or daughter they had to be. Kiefer Sutherland? Clearly Donald's boy. Jennifer Grant? Clearly Dyan Cannon's kid. And this fellow you just knew was Jose Ferrer's son.

 

[Frunobulax]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/entertainment/mary-tyler-moore-death/index.html

Oh, Rob!

 

[Stearmen]

Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks, drummer and founding member of The Allman Brothers.

 

[Frunobulax]

Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks, drummer and founding member of The Allman Brothers.

And Derek Trucks' uncle.


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[Zombie_61]

Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks, drummer and founding member of The Allman Brothers.

Sadly, it was announced today that Mr. Trucks' death has been ruled a suicide. "The Miami Herald reported the news, citing records showing the 69-year-old drummer shot himself in the head with a pistol inside his condo in West Palm Beach. The event reportedly played out while Trucks' wife of 25 years, painter Melinda Trucks, stood nearby. There is no foul play suspected."

 

[Frunobulax]

Sadly, it was announced today that Mr. Trucks' death has been ruled a suicide. "The Miami Herald reported the news, citing records showing the 69-year-old drummer shot himself in the head with a pistol inside his condo in West Palm Beach. The event reportedly played out while Trucks' wife of 25 years, painter Melinda Trucks, stood nearby. There is no foul play suspected."

Ugh.


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[MisterCairo]

Veteran actor Mike Connors, perhaps best known as Mannix from the great 60s/70s show, has died, aged 91 which is a good innings in my book. One of the many crime shows I watched with my parents back in the day:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/actor-mike-connors-obit-1.3954492

 

[Frunobulax]

Veteran actor Mike Connors, perhaps best known as Mannix from the great 60s/70s show, has died, aged 91 which is a good innings in my book. One of the many crime shows I watched with my parents back in the day:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/actor-mike-connors-obit-1.3954492

Just saw that this AM. I think I watched for Peggy as much as for Mannix.


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[Fading Fast]

My vague memory of "Mannix" was a show trying to bring a pre-60s style hero into the post-60s era by making him "cooler" and "hipper" in thinking but not as much in style and, while it felt forced, it still worked okay. But heck, I was a kid and don't think I've seen an episode since. Also, the guy had one incredibly thick head of hair. Glad he lived to a nice old age.

 

[Benzadmiral]

My vague memory of "Mannix" was a show trying to bring a pre-60s style hero into the post-60s era by making him "cooler" and "hipper" in thinking but not as much in style and, while it felt forced, it still worked okay. But heck, I was a kid and don't think I've seen an episode since. Also, the guy had one incredibly thick head of hair. Glad he lived to a nice old age.

The first season of the show, I've read, had him in conflict with his employer, a company called Intertect, which relied enormously on computers -- something Mannix didn't understand, and I guess the viewers didn't much, either. The next year they had him out on his own with a more traditional Sam Spade-ish office, and with Peggy as his Effie Perrine.

I only dimly recall his earlier 1950s series, Tightrope. In the TV Guide listings he would always be billed as "Police Agent: Mike Connors." The concept there was that he was a cop, an undercover specialist who walked a "tightrope" as he worked himself into mob organizations to destroy them from within. Now that I'd like to see again.

ETA: Oh, and Mannix was created, I believe, by Bruce Geller, who was riding high after the success of Mission: Impossible the previous year.

 

[Worf]

Mannix - Great theme song.

Worf

 

[Stearmen]

Mannix - Great theme song.

Worf

And Peggy was easy on the eyes!

 

[Zombie_61]

Sir John Hurt has died at the age of 77. No cause of death has been announced, but Hurt revealed he'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015, and subsequently announced he was in remission. "Despite the all-clear, Sir John continued to endure periods of ill health. He suffered intestinal complaints and was forced to withdraw from a West End production of The Entertainer last July."

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Sir John Hurt has died at the age of 77. No cause of death has been announced, but Hurt revealed he'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015, and subsequently announced he was in remission. "Despite the all-clear, Sir John continued to endure periods of ill health. He suffered intestinal complaints and was forced to withdraw from a West End production of The Entertainer last July."

A great, great actor & one of the most interesting faces on both, the small & big screen.

 

[Trenchfriend]

 

[Doctor Strange]

No! John Hurt was a protean actor who could play anything - from the kindly title character in The Storyteller to the terrifying dictator in V For Vendetta. He elevated whatever he appeared in, and made the unbelievable believable in performance after performance. For 50 years - from his ambitious courtier Richard Rich in A Man For All Seasons to his aging revolutionary in Snowpiercer - he was always completely fascinating whenever he was onscreen.

His loss - you should excuse the expression - really hurts!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/77137

http://www.vox.com/2017/1/28/14423050/john-hurt-dies-obituary-77

 

[Trenchfriend]

He was really one of the last big old-school actors.

 

[LizzieMaine]

An intense performer who gave his full commitment to every role he ever played. Like so many fine British actors he never gave the sense that he was "too good" for whatever part he signed up to perform.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

His loathsome Marquis of Montrose in "Rob Roy" was one of the all-time great character roles. Nobody did the old giving-birth-to-an-alien-larva routine better than John Hurt.

 

[Edward]

Sir John Hurt has died at the age of 77. No cause of death has been announced, but Hurt revealed he'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015, and subsequently announced he was in remission. "Despite the all-clear, Sir John continued to endure periods of ill health. He suffered intestinal complaints and was forced to withdraw from a West End production of The Entertainer last July."

A sad loss. The irony that his health declined owing to "intestinal complaints"....