DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[Stearmen]

Don did so many great roles over the years, like Barney Miller, but I will always think of Weekend At Bernie's as my favorite role!

 

[Zombie_61]

Don did so many great roles over the years, like Barney Miller, but I will always think of Weekend At Bernie's as my favorite role!

I liked Mr. Calfa in everything I saw him in (which, admittedly, wasn't much), but I'd have to go with Ernie in The Return of the Living Dead as my favorite. The first time I saw it I sat through almost the entire movie thinking, "Where do I know this guy from?" It was about 15 minutes before the movie ended that I realized he played the porn-producing neighbor in 10 (1979).

 

[Zombie_61]

Van Williams, arguably best known for playing Britt Reid/The Green Hornet on the 1960s television series The Green Hornet, died on November 28 of renal failure in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 82 years old.

 

[Frunobulax]

Van Williams, arguably best known for playing Britt Reid/The Green Hornet on the 1960s television series The Green Hornet, died on November 28 of renal failure in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 82 years old.

I hadn't heard of him in so long I would have guessed he already was. I loved the Green Hornet.

My wife and I have matching Impalas. Hers is white, mine is a midnight grey. I've been threatening to have one of those "turntable" things installed in the garage for a while now.


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[HudsonHawk]

Margaret Whitton, perhaps best known as "Rachel Phelps", the scheming, spiteful socialite owner of the Cleveland Indians in Major League, died Sunday at the age of 67. Cancer.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I hadn't heard of him in so long I would have guessed he already was. I loved the Green Hornet.

My wife and I have matching Impalas. Hers is white, mine is a midnight grey. I've been threatening to have one of those "turntable" things installed in the garage for a while now.

Uh, the Black Beauty was a Chrysler Imperial, not a Chevy Impala.

 

[Frunobulax]

Uh, the Black Beauty was a Chrysler Imperial, not a Chevy Impala.

I didn't mean to imply that. I have a dark sedan, my wife has a white one. That's the extent of the comparison.

Ours are 2008 and 2006 models, as well, so I wasn't claiming he was driving a car from the future, either. [emoji41]

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[Doctor Strange]

Veteran character actor Peter Vaughn:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...nes-maester-aemon_us_5846dc40e4b0c264c9dfeb4e

He's most familiar nowadays as Maester Aemon on Game Of Thrones, but to me, he'll always be Anthony Hopkins' father, "the elder Mr. Stevens", in The Remains of the Day.

 

[MisterCairo]

It's a shame I think that most will remember Peter Vaughn for one role, albeit a great one, after a huge body of work great.

To me, for example, he'll always be Mr. Boffin from Our Mutual Friend.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-peter-vaughan-1.3883282

 

[Zombie_61]

At this point I'm starting to wonder if Kirk Douglas is going to make it to his 100th birthday on Friday.

 

[Frunobulax]

At this point I'm starting to wonder if Kirk Douglas is going to make it to his 100th birthday on Friday.

Shhh!


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[Frunobulax]

Greg Lake - 1947 - 2016

 

[Doctor Strange]

Astronaut John Glenn!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/john-glenn-dies.html

 

[MisterCairo]

At this point I'm starting to wonder if Kirk Douglas is going to make it to his 100th birthday on Friday.

Don't jinx him!

 

[MisterCairo]

Yes, this is a shame. Inevitable, I know, but still.

God speed.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/former-astronaut-u-s-senator-john-glenn-dead-at-95-1.3886691

 

[Frunobulax]

Astronaut John Glenn!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/john-glenn-dies.html

I had just read this morning he was hospitalized. RIP


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[Zombie_61]

I heard about Mr. Glenn's hospitalization yesterday, I think, and had a feeling he wouldn't be leaving the hospital. Considering all of the ways in which his career could have ended his life much sooner, 95 years is a good run.

 

[Stearmen]

Every one of the Mercury 7 are gone now! It's so hard to believe.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Adolf Burger, the Slovakian Communist typographer who was forced by his Nazi captors into becoming one of the key members of the Operation Bernhardt counterfeiting operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp has died at the age of 99. Burger's story became the basis for the Oscar-winning 2007 film "The Counterfeiters."

 

[MisterCairo]

Oh my goodness, Alan Thicke has died, only 69!


http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/alan-thicke-obit-1.3895472