Passages

[domino harvey]

He always seemed like the nicest guy in interviews and was always incredibly gracious and humble about his unlikely ascent to stardom

[knives]

Animation and video games will certainly be a lot less without him. He just seemed like the sort of genuine guy who would have been identical in terms of being nice no matter if he was famous or not.

[Perkins Cobb]

Not only is the poor guy dead at 54, but Duncan's fiancee was reality TV dragon lady Omarosa. Yikes.

The Green Mile is an odious movie and Duncan's character was one of those cringeworthy "magical negro" stereotypes, so it's a shame he'll be remembered more for that than for some of the hipper stuff he did elsewhere. Agreed, a likable presence.

[flyonthewall2983]

Griselda Blanco, the "cocaine queen of Miami" and one of the people talked about in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys, found dead years after fleeing the U.S.

[antnield]

Czech actor Radek Brzobohatý (The Ear, All My Good Countrymen)

[Caligula]

Lance LeGault, character actor known for his work in, inter alia, Magnum PI and The A-Team, has died.

[Polybius]

I've always tended to get him mixed up with James Rebhorn.

[j99]

Czech actor Radek Brzobohatý (The Ear, All My Good Countrymen)

Shame. The Ear was excellent.

[MichaelB]

Stanley Long - more distinguished as a cinematographer and industry backroom player (he founded facilities house Salon) than a director, but his soft-core Confessions rip-off Adventures of a Taxi Driver allegedly grossed more money in the UK than Taxi Driver! (Though presumably on their original release, not cumulatively).

[antnield]

Canadian filmmaker and IMAX co-founder Roman Kroitor.

[bearcuborg]

NFL Films President Steve Sabol

Apart from changing the way we see NFL games, many of us on the East Coast often went to NFL Films in NJ to get our color film processed. I met him once, briefly at a radio station event here in Philly. He just exuded NFL coolness.

[mfunk9786]

One of those guys that made me just gawk wide-eyed as a child as I soaked up all the NFL Films docs I could. Sad.

[bamwc2]

Stephen Dunham Lead (along with his real life wife) of the next film in the Paranormal Activity franchise.

[antnield]

John Coates.

[bamwc2]

Andy Williams

[mfunk9786]

Somewhere, Nelson Muntz is weeping.

[MichaelB]

Herbert Lom, just after his 95th birthday.

[Perkins Cobb]

Half-Sack!

[colinr0380]

Herbert Lom, just after his 95th birthday.

As we are in the middle of the Horror list project at the moment I was reminded that one of Lom's final roles was a very substantial one as the nervous vagrant/older incarnation of a Manson-esque cult leader in Michele Soavi's weird and off-kilter but strangely effective film The Sect. Lom certainly brings an admirable amount of conviction to a story which requires his character to make huge shifts and do crazy things, like shove an insect up our sleeping heroine's nose, or get suffocated by a piece of cloth leaving an imprint behind (that somehow holds his soul within the cloth!) in a devilish parody of the Turin Shroud!

Here's the trailer, albeit in Italian only

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

As a big fan of Babylon 5, this is very sad: Michael O'Hare.

[Donald Brown]

Eric Hobsbawm.

[antnield]

Octavio Getino, co-director of The Hour of the Furnaces.

[jbeall]

Eric Hobsbawm.

Teen Vigil at Hobsbawm House

[manicsounds]

Hideji Otaki

filmography includes "Kagemusha", Juzo Itami's "The Funeral", "Tampopo", Miike's "Izo", Imamura's "Black Rain", both the original and remake "Inugami" films, etc.

[jdcopp]

Claude Pinoteau, who introduced both Isabelle Adjani (La Gifle)and Sophie Marceau (La Boum). English language sources have been slow to pick this news up.