Passages

[lacritfan]

Rip Torn

[swo17]

Rip Torn

He gets his own thread

[hearthesilence]

Valentina Cortese

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/vale ... 203263208/

Absolutely memorable in Thieves' Highway. Surprised it's not streaming on Criterion's service even though it's still in their DVD collection.

[hearthesilence]

EDIT: Never mind

[domino harvey]

Everyone, please consider reading this thread and the subforum it appears in before posting announcements

[mfunk9786]

Heath Ledger

[colinr0380]

Freddie Jones.

A great character actor. He was excellent as Sweeney Todd in the series Mystery and Imagination, as well as his roles in The Man who Haunted Himself, Juggernaut, and The Elephant Man.

Freddie Jones had a couple of great Hammer roles late in the cycle of both the Frankenstein and Dracula series, with the Professorial brain donor in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed and another Professor in The Satanic Rites of Dracula.

He has an amazing run in the early 1980s with not just The Elephant Man but the performance I'll always remember him for as Thufir Hawat, with the amazing eyebrows and getting forcefully heart-plugged in Dune. He has a number of deleted scenes from the theatrical version. (He's also briefly in Wild At Heart)

In non-Lynch roles of that time he is a voice in the darkest Disney animation, The Black Cauldron. And he turns up as the narrator having a touchingly tenative romance in Federico Fellini's stage-bound cruise trip And The Ship Sails On.

Apparently a couple of years ago he did a voice for the English langauage version of Dragon Quest XI!

[mfunk9786]

Denise Nickerson, aka Violet in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

[flyonthewall2983]

As a kid in the 90s, I was more familiar with Perot as a subject of sketch-comedy ridicule than as a political candidate. The impersonation on Nickelodeon's All That is particularly bizarre and memorable.

Most of those All That sketches teeter on surrealism at a point. For me though, I was born in the heat of SNL election coverage. Having Carvey playing Perot and the late great Phil Hartman as James Stockdale will forever be ingrained in my memory.

Cheri Oteri did an okay version herself later on.

I was of age to be watching All That, but back then I even knew a lot of their skits were SNL material remade for the Nickelodeon audience. Some of it was pretty obvious, Lorne either gave them their blessing or just didn't care if it was ever brought up.

[hearthesilence]

Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton, best known for his book Ball Four and who also had a prominent role in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye

[Swift]

Freddie Jones.

A great character actor. He was excellent as Sweeney Todd in the series Mystery and Imagination, as well as his roles in The Man who Haunted Himself, Juggernaut, and The Elephant Man.

Freddie Jones had a couple of great Hammer roles late in the cycle of both the Frankenstein and Dracula series, with the Professorial brain donor in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed and another Professor in The Satanic Rites of Dracula.

He has an amazing run in the early 1980s with not just The Elephant Man but the performance I'll always remember him for as Thufir Hawat, with the amazing eyebrows and getting forcefully heart-plugged in Dune. He has a number of deleted scenes from the theatrical version. (He's also briefly in Wild At Heart)

In non-Lynch roles of that time he is a voice in the darkest Disney animation, The Black Cauldron. And he turns up as the narrator having a touchingly tenative romance in Federico Fellini's stage-bound cruise trip And The Ship Sails On.

Apparently a couple of years ago he did a voice for the English langauage version of Dragon Quest XI!

He also played a Fagin-like character to a bunch of street urchins in the Emmanuel Lewis vehicle (!) Lost in London. It's not by any stretch a good film, but it was a childhood favourite of mine and we rewatched the VHS many times. I watched it again recently for the first time in 25 years and as with many childhood experiences it didn't hold up.

I had no idea he was the father of Toby Jones!

[Caligula]

Local news sites are reporting that Johnny Clegg has just died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer

Edit: here's a link: https://ewn.co.za/2019/07/16/sa-music-l ... clegg-dies

[Oedipax]

A belated mention: Yannick Bellon, who passed away in June.

[Buttery Jeb]

Paul Krassner

[Feego]

David Hedison

[Aunt Peg]

Writer/director best known for The Lords of Flatbush, Stephen Verona

[mfunk9786]

Discussion of the passing of Rutger Hauer moved here

[Reverend Drewcifer]

Jeremy Kemp

[doh286]

Russi Taylor

[What A Disgrace]

Looking over Russi Taylor's long and varied career, now that I know of her passing and have, thus, looked over the roles she has done, is real eye opening. I was a child of the 80s and early 90s, so losing the Huey, Dewey and Louie of DuckTales is sad enough, but that's just the barest tip of the iceberg of her input in the past 40 years of animation, and almost certainly not the roles most people remember her for.

[flyonthewall2983]

Nick Buoniconti. HBO Sports put out a documentary on him last year that was quite fascinating and very sad, as it concerned his son who was paralyzed playing football and his own deteriorating condition.

[Fiery Angel]

Hal Prince

[Timec]

Hal Prince

As a lover of musical theater, his list of producer and director credits is pretty incredible. From The Pajama Game and West Side Story to Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, and Evita, he had a hand in an astonishing number of legendary productions.

[flyonthewall2983]

Harley Race

[Zinoviev]

Harley Race

Long live the King!