Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....

TarheelsInNj said:

kthnry said:

James Garner

Didn't he die a long time ago?

Ha! You're right, he died in 2014. I didn't realize it and saw an article somewhere yesterday. I wondered why it wasn't bigger news. 

kthnry said:

TarheelsInNj said:

kthnry said:

James Garner

Didn't he die a long time ago?

Ha! You're right, he died in 2014. I didn't realize it and saw an article somewhere yesterday. I wondered why it wasn't bigger news. 

Someone left a message about it, but it was hard to retrieve on an antiquated phone-answering machine.

William Schallert, who played Patty Duke's father, was on "The Trouble with Tribbles" Star Trek episode and literally hundreds of other TV shows.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/william-schallert-dead-patty-duke-732312

Ridski, were you following West Indies cricket?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-12/voice-of-windies-cricket-tony-cozier-dies-at-75/7406736?section=sport

William Schallert was a memorable character actor.  He had a pleasent, hard to forget face.  I was interested to see how he looked recently.  He was 92 and bald and gray but he still had that beatific gaze.  Wonder if he was a nice guy IRL?

nan said:

William Schallert was a memorable character actor.  He had a pleasent, hard to forget face.  I was interested to see how he looked recently.  He was 92 and bald and gray but he still had that beatific gaze.  Wonder if he was a nice guy IRL?

He was married to the same woman for 66 years and has 375 credits on IMDB, so I'd like to think he was.

This probably doesn't qualify as a "celebrity" death but I was sorry to hear it nonetheless. Jazz at Lincoln Center saxophonist Joe Temperley has passed. His version of "Single Petal Of A Rose" moves me to tears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbZ0N2Bo4hI

This is from the JLCO Facebook page: 

A former member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Joe was a founding member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. For more than 25 years, he performed and toured with the band, and spent a lifetime tirelessly teaching an...d inspiring students around the world. “With Joe, there’s the sound, and the integrity in the sound, the originality of it. When you hear his sound, you know him automatically, because it’s so full of warmth, soul and feeling,” Wynton Marsalis said. “We would always have Joe play at or near the end of pieces because his sound carried the meaning of our music. For someone from another country and culture to exhibit the depth of belief that animated his sound was, and still is, truly miraculous. From the coal mines of Scotland, to clubs and concert halls all over the world, Joe's journey was epochal, and he did it with integrity, style, and piss and vinegar. We will miss him deeply and his spirit will forever live on in the sound of our orchestra.”

The police are trying to locate Sinead O'Connor since someone reported that she had not returned from a Sunday morning bike ride....... stay tuned.

Just saw on Facebook she was found safely

TarheelsInNj said:

Just saw on Facebook she was found safely

Yes.

Julius LaRosa passed on over the weekend. For you younger guys, he was a singer on the Arthur Godfrey show in the early 1950s and went on to have a fairly memorable career.

I remember him because my mother liked the show and always listened to it - until someone gave her tickets and she took me with her to see it. I was about 9 years old and they wouldn't let me into the theatre - said "no kids allowed." Mom was so ticked off, we went home after a stop at the Automat and she never listened to the show again.

(edited to correct typo)

cody said:

Julius LaRose passed on over the weekend. For you younger guys, he was a singer on the Arthur Godfrey show in the early 1950s and went on to have a fairly memorable career.

I remember him because my mother liked the show and always listened to it - until someone gave her tickets and she took me with her to see it. I was about 9 years old and they wouldn't let me into the theatre - said "no kids allowed." Mom was so ticked off, we went home after a stop at the Automat and she never listened to the show again.

I had no idea he was still alive and don't think I've ever even heard him sing, but it was a famous early instance of what we might call reality programming when Godfrey had him sing a song and then fired him on the air.

Guy Clark

Tejano Icon Emilio Navaira Dead at 53

wharfrat said:

Guy Clark ">

Yes, sad news.

https://youtu.be/dFb1lGMvS3I

RIP Morley Safer.

http://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/morley-safer-dies-at-84/

ridski said:

RIP Morley Safer.

http://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/morley-safer-dies-at-84/

So sad. 

They say that retirement kills, but I don't think they meant like this...

Original Beastie Boys Member John Berry Dead at 52

Wilbur Post.

Alan Young, Star of Mister Ed, Dies at 96

http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20981907_21008045,00.html

I just read this! Had no idea he was still living! We were just talking about the program the other day...

He was also the voice of Scrooge McDuck.

http://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2016-05-24/burt-kwouk-veteran-of-the-pink-panther-movies-dies-at-85

I just read this news, and also his bio. What a life! We enjoyed his acting, and always felt there was so much more to his talents. 

RIP Burt Kwouk, founder of the Cato Institute of Hidden Attacks.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/05/24/pink-panther-cato-actor-burt-kwouk-dies/

Goddammit when is Henry Kissinger going to die?

MelechRic said:

Goddammit when is Henry Kissinger going to die?

He's been dead to me a loooong time....

Just saw that Beth Howland passed away 12/2015. Apparently, she requested that the news be withheld for a certain period of time. She was Vera on "Alice". I hadn't realized she was married to Charles Kimbrough (Jim Dial on "Murphy Brown").

cody said:

Just saw that Beth Howland passed away 12/2015. Apparently, she requested that the news be withheld for a certain period of time. She was Vera on "Alice". I hadn't realized she was married to
Charles Kimbrough (Jim Dial on "Murphy Brown").

Here's Beth Howland as part of the original "Company" cast. She was also married to Michael J. Pollard, who is quite a physical juxtaposition from Charles Kimbrough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuQea2eVL2Y

"Float like a butterfly sting like a bee

His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see"

RIP Champ 

Much love

Going to need a new thread -- hell, a new worldweb -- for this one.

there's a very nice 19 minute video about Ali on the NYT app.