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66 years ago today, God did not save the King when George VI died aged 56 and handed the throne over to Queenie Liz.

Arthur Ashe was soon to become Arthur’s Ashes on this day 25 years ago, aged 49.

She still wouldn't abdicate. There would be a regency if she was unable to carry on, as with George III and the Prince Regent. She shouldn't feel she has to go on till she dies, but she made that promise and she won't break it. If her Uncle David hadn't upset the applecart, I bet by now they would have followed other European Royals with the sovereign allowing him/herself to retire. But there is still a stigma attached to abdication for the BRF.

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John Mahoney surely is a big enough death to continue the Ramsey curse

Damn shame. Very funny man. Great show.

Yeah or she gets like her mother did in the last few months where she is housebound.8picks gone and ZZL still with a perfect set.

Hit #2, for me.

Fuck sake! That's a shock. Love that show, watch it most weeknights if I have time. RIP.

List of already departed names in the George VI Deadpool: 1)Roy Barraclough (12th July 1935_1st June 2017) 2)Adam West (19th September 1928_9th June 2017) 3)Barry Norman (21st August 1933_30th June 2017) 4)Jeanne Moreau (23rd January 1928_31st July 2017) 5)Harry Dean Stanton (14th July 1926_15th September 2017) 6)William G Stewart (15th July 1933_21st September 2017) 7)Jean Rochefort (29th April 1930_9th October 2017) 8)Ingvar Kamprad (30th March 1926_27th January 2018) Also to clarify the George V Deadpool will go until the Queen dies even she abdicates first.Unlikely she will but just putting it on record.

I have a great-great uncle who was an actor in a few Mack Sennett shorts in the 1920's, one of which survives according to some old time movies page I stumbled on once, and some old man in Texas has lots of films from that era, including supposedly one my relative was in. I'm dying to see it (well not dying, as I've never bothered in 4 years or so to hunt down this guy even though I drive across Texas to go to work). Point is, he was an actor in a few films, got a big write-up in the Harrisburg, PA paper one time for being Ben Franklin at some Washington DC event on countries sesquicentennial, but is buried in an unmarked grave in Pennsylvania (took me a couple years to discover where he ended up). Gotta be lots of 2-bit actors like that. SirC

So that's the first one of his colleagues that "terminally ill" Brian Reader survives.

In one of the only two threads that I have started on here, we are keeping a watch on the cast of A Night To Remember (1958).

Given the search for film with 100% dead cast in another thread, here's a few favourites which didn't qualify and their surviving credited actors (not counting extras, folk who disappeared off the face of the earth, etc etc) - Curse of Frankenstein (1956) Sally Walsh (1950) Melvyn Hayes (1935) - Asylum (1972) Robert Powell (1944) Barbara Parkins (1942) Sylvia Syms (1934) Ann Firbank (1933) Charlotte Rampling (1946) Britt Ekland (1942) Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Patricia Garwood (1941) Valerie Singleton (1937) Horror Express (1972) Silvia Tortosa (1947) Helga Line (1932) Angel del Pozo (1934) The Wild Geese (1978) Hardy Kruger (1928) Winston Ntshona (1941) John Kani (1942) David Ladd (1947) Rosalind Lloyd (1953) Ian Yule (early 1930s) – apparently now not in good health Thomas Baptiste (1936) Valerie Leon (1943) Anna Bergman (1948) Suzanne Danielle (1957) Rocky Taylor (1946) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Albert Finney (1936) Jacqueline Bisset (1944) Sean Connery (1930) Vanessa Redgrave (1937) Michael York (1942) Vernon Dobtcheff (1934) (So, an alcoholic, 3 old people in poor health, and Vernon and Bisset there...) The Eagle Has Landed (1976) Michael Caine (1933) Donald Sutherland (1935) Robert Duvall (1931) Jenny Agutter (1952) Jean Marsh (1934) Sven-Bertil Taube (1934) Siegfried Rauch (1932) John Standing (1934) Judy Geeson (1948) Treat Williams (1951) Michael Byrne (1943) Tim Barlow (1936) Kate Binchy (1937) Maurice Roeves (1937) Alexei Jawdokimov (c 1938) Leonie Thelen (1959) Denis Lill (1942) Keith Buckley (1941) Kent Williams (1950) Roy Marsden (1941) Wolf Kahler (1940) Harry Fielder (1940) Carry On Screaming (1968) Billy Cornelius (1934) Angela Douglas (1940) Fenella Fielding (1927) Jim Dale (1935) It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1961) Barrie Chase (1933) John Clarke (1932) Nicholas Georgiade (1933) Carl Reiner (1922) Dam Busters (1952) John Fraser (1931) Denys Graham (1926) Gerald “Adam Adamant” Harper (1929) Philip Latham (1929) Hell Drivers (1957) Vera Day (1935) Sean Connery (1930) David McCallum (1933)

For some reason I've did a complete 180° re Foxy Knoxy. Totally innocent imo.... https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/amanda-knox-something-odd-ray-darcy-show-last-night-614995 https://mobile.twitter.com/Robyn__Duncan/status/960075111142391809

OTW also still has a living major cast member, Joey! Eva Marie Saint.

If it was Death, wouldn't his team be ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS?

Beloved national treasure Katie Hopkins goes to South Africa to report on white genocide, takes ketamine, gets hospitalised. I don't even know.

Emma Primas, a supercentenarian, businesswoman and Houston celebrity who gained national prominence at age 109 during her 2015 meeting with President Barack Obama (when he gave her a peck on the cheek), died Tuesday. She was 112. Again, no DDP interest. Grey Panthers WTF? SC

I actually feel bad for him (unless the accusations of him raping Natalie Wood are true, in which case I hope he's in insane pain).

805 North Rexford Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90210 U.S.A.

Touché

The 5 year survival rate is 3%

Ah, so the Zimbabwean version of a real life News at Benn.

Will you also be registering for the DL at the same time? Hopefully not.