Passages

[Perkins Cobb]

Emmanuelle Riva.

[Ribs]

Emmanuelle Riva

[Feego]

Barbara Hale, best remembered for the TV series Perry Mason, but probably more recognizable to forum members as the unbelieving mother in the film noir The Window.

[domino harvey]

Emmanuelle Riva.

Her performance in Franju's Thérèse Desqueyroux is incredible-- the best depiction of depression, loneliness, and emptiness I've ever seen. Shame there's still no English-friendly release

[jbeall]

The Guardian has a nice appreciation of Riva.

[doh286]

Former Black Sabbath keyboardist Geoff Nicholls.

[domino harvey]

John Hurt discussion moved here

[doh286]

John Wetton.

[flyonthewall2983]

Robert Fripp's recent diary about John

Derek Trucks remembers his uncle Butch

[djproject]

Masaya Nakamura, creator of "Pac Man"

[Dylan]

Cinematographer Frank Tidy, who did an absolutely brilliant job on Ridley Scott's The Duellists.

[Adam]

David Shepard, silent film expert and preservationist.
http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23610

[antnield]

Alec McCowen.

[PfR73]

Masaya Nakamura, creator of "Pac Man"

To clarify, Nakamura was the founder of Namco, the company that produced & distributed Pac-Man. The character of Pac-Man was created by Toru Iwatani (still living, he had a cameo in Pixels, though in a bizarre twist an actor played him while he played a different character), while Nakamura suggested shortening the original name "Pakkuman" to "Pac-Man."

[djproject]

Masaya Nakamura, creator of "Pac Man"

To clarify, Nakamura was the founder of Namco, the company that produced & distributed Pac-Man. The character of Pac-Man was created by Toru Iwatani, while Nakamura suggested shortening the original name "Pakkuman" to "Pac-Man."

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[Cash Flagg]

David Axelrod

[Ashirg]

Georgy Taratorkin, mostly famous for Raskolnikov in Soviet Crime and Punishment (1970). Unfortunately most articles are translated badly from Russian, like this one...

[djproject]

Richard Hatch

[Drucker]

Thought it was this guy.

Spoiler

[domino harvey]

Me too!

[oh yeah]

David Axelrod

"Holy Thursday" is one of the greatest songs ever; if only for that, Axelrod is a legend.

[MichaelB]

Alan Simpson, who with his long-term partner Ray Galton (happily still with us) was easily one of the most important writers in British sitcom history: indeed, Hancock's Half-Hour and Steptoe and Son did as much to establish and shape the genre's basic principles as anything before or since.

[djproject]

Irwin Corey, the World's Foremost Authority

[Drucker]

So Alan Simpson, David Axelrod, and Richard Hatch all died. But not that Alan Simpson, David Axelrod, or Richard Hatch.

[hearthesilence]

Hah, reminds me of a reaction I got when I told someone (who turned out to be a huge Game of Thrones fan) that George Martin died. (Bigger deal for me since I'm a much bigger Beatles fan than anything else.)