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Dr Amicus wrote:Peter Vaughan

Vaughan was brilliant as the elder patriarch Tom Hedden holding his Cornish town in his family's grip in the original Straw Dogs! Even just that early scene in the pub is full of menace!

Or in the small role as the big boss of the corporation in Terry Gilliam's Brazil (" 'ere I am J.H.' The ghost in the machine"), and turning up in a Santa suit to lend some Christmas cheer to prisoners being tortured (sorry 'information retrieved') in his dungeons! He also played the grumbling ogre in Time Bandits!

And he's in the 1960 Villiage of the Damned as a police officer, one of the weirder Hammer Films Fanatic and a number of Ken Russell films. Not to mention the recently unearthed by the BFI Symptoms.

On 20161030 (announced at the time, but I missed it), producer of 'Damage', Comrades' and scion of a British film dynasty, Simon Relph.

John Glenn

fdm wrote:John Glenn

Ben Katz's time to shine

fdm wrote:John Glenn

NYT obit

And don't forget that Ed Harris portrayed John Glenn in The Right Stuff!

So we can presume he will clap at the Oscars for him?

colinr0380 wrote:

Dr Amicus wrote:Peter Vaughan

Vaughan was brilliant as the elder patriarch Tom Hedden holding his Cornish town in his family's grip in the original Straw Dogs! Even just that early scene in the pub is full of menace!

Or in the small role as the big boss of the corporation in Terry Gilliam's Brazil (" 'ere I am J.H.' The ghost in the machine"), and turning up in a Santa suit to lend some Christmas cheer to prisoners being tortured (sorry 'information retrieved') in his dungeons! He also played the grumbling ogre in Time Bandits!

And he's in the 1960 Villiage of the Damned as a police officer, one of the weirder Hammer Films Fanatic and a number of Ken Russell films. Not to mention the recently unearthed by the BFI Symptoms.

He was Christopher Eccleston's dad in the wonderful Our Friends in the North!

E.R. Braithwaite, author of the autobiographical To Sir With Love, at the hugely impressive age of 104.

Bernard Fox (Dr. Bombay in Bewitched)

mfunk9786 wrote:Craig Sager

This breaks my heart. Fuck cancer and fuck 2016.

This hits me almost as hard as Bowie did. Sager was as much a part of the NBA experience as the game itself.

Death has had a big year. Sigh.

Franco Rosso, best known for directing Babylon (1980).

I can't find any online obits, but it would be a bizarre thing for a respected former BFI colleague of mine to make up.

med wrote:This hits me almost as hard as Bowie did. Sager was as much a part of the NBA experience as the game itself.

I don't get this at all.

You get so used to the presence of certain people in sports, that they come to kind of personify the sport.

Lemmy Caution wrote:

med wrote:This hits me almost as hard as Bowie did. Sager was as much a part of the NBA experience as the game itself.

I don't get this at all.

Part of the watching a sport is the sight and sounds of it. Sager became that with the NBA the same way Vin Scully became part of the Dodgers baseball experience and Harry Carey with the Cubs. Sager had been an integral part of the NBA for at least 25 years and his colorful attire brought attention to the sideline reporters. His rapport with the players and coaches was great which lead to great back and forth comments with people like Greg Poppovish in San Antonio and Phil Jackson with the Lakers.

djproject wrote:Bernard Fox (Dr. Bombay in Bewitched)

As a function of which show's reruns I've watched more over the last 40-odd years .......
I think of him more a s Col. Crittendon from Hogan's Heros.

He dislodged a piece of meat with a bone in it from the airway of an 87-year-old woman, telling the BBC: "I didn't know I really could do it until the other day."

Not to make light of his death but I thought that bit from the article was pretty awesome.