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Wang Long, a steel factory worker in China jumped into a blast furnace and died after discovering he lost more than $9,000 on the stock market. With the name Wang Long you’d think he had something else to live for... SC

Although I have just learned that Colin Jeavons family have turned down requests for interviews/fan stuff in the past decade "due to his health". That said, just found a photo of him from January and he's looking good for 91!

Ah are you new to BC Alum? I remember well his posts about SIGNIFICANT deaths back in 2009. Set the benchmark for "why hasn't so and so died? Are they teasing us? Person then dies a month later" posts.

They would still have the right to refuse the vaccine. But others would have the right to choose only to admit vaccinated people to their events or premises.

@Ulitzer95 @Octopus of Odstock to the best of my knowledge, Roy Evans is still around (and was well in 2017 aged 87) but prefers to shun publicity and keep to a quiet retirement like many other elderly actors. (The best living example being Colin Jeavons, who counted his savings after House of Cards in the early 90s and decided he'd prefer to relax for the next 30 years, and more power to him!) Roy is known personally to some of the bigger fans in TV production/writing still so I think we'd know fairly quickly if he died.

Principally, I’m for it. But I do have large reservations about it domestically; nothing to do with fucktards shouting “freedom” because they don’t want a jab because ooh they’re so hard. It’s the abuse that untrained staff will encounter from said idiots, and the even further extended damage that theatres, pubs and all other entertainment venues will suffer as a result of, for now, a heavily reduced clientele - their main ones, of course, being young people who haven’t yet had the vaccine offer. Internationally speaking, however, there’s no two ways about it - it needs to be done, mainly because of such disparity from nation to nation with regard to restrictions, virus presence and vaccine rollout.

Just discovered that Chris Crookall, who played Andy Turner in the latter stages of the show and who became a successful film editor, died back in October 2020, aged just 32. https://www.televisual.com/news/british-film-editors-announces-cut-above-awards/ RIP.

I am pro-vaccine but not pro-passport domestically.

Glad I am not the only one.Never heard of the guy.I looked him up and do remember "up in here" being a hit when I was very young but would have guessed it was Ja Rule who sang it.

Never heard of him. I would have guessed DMX was a sort of bike.

Wonderful stuff! This is such brilliant sleuthing. It's the knowing they are definitely alive which makes a big difference as well as those definitely dead. I'm not expecting many to have died, but if I don't ask, I don't get.

I don't see how the UK can decide by itself. Other countries will probably do it anyway, taking the decision out of their hands (at least as far as international travel goes). If you don't want a vaccine, don't go abroad.

Cancel everything! He was rescued alive, only his 22-years younger wife is dead.

Dead in yachting accident. EDIT: the fittest of them all was the first to die! Despite the rescuers' best efforts, the lake is dead after former president fell into it.

DDP QO https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14548036/dennis-the-menace-gloria-henry-dies-98/

Robert Mundell, the 1999 Nobel Prize winner in economics, has died. He was 88. https://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2021/04/04/the-zeus-of-economics-has-died/?sh=1e9b145f5baa

@Octopus of Odstock, had a bit of spare time tonight so did the names on your Jimmy Stewart list who are over 85. Only found one death – Jacques Roux, in 2006. The five four in gold I can't be sure if they're alive or not – though I'm sure msc will know about Evans. All the rest are still with us! Charmienne Harker –Actually born in 1924. Lives in Palos Verdes, California as of 2021 as Charmienne H. Krauss. Virginia Patton – Living in Ann Arbor, Michigan and still signing fan mail as of 2020. EDIT: Died Aug 18, 2022 (aged 97). Marcy McGuire – Living in Palm Desert, California and still returning fan mail as of 2019. EDIT: Possibly died Aug 7, 2021 in Palm Desert, CA according to an unsourced edit on Wikipedia. EDIT: Death now confirmed. Glen Denning – Living in Ladera Ranch, California as of 2021. EDIT: Died May 11, 2021 (aged 94). Jack McDermott – Living in Hollywood, Florida as of 2021. EDIT: Died Jun 7, 2024 (aged 97). Hardy Kruger – Attended a bookfair in Hamburg, Germany in 2016 where he did signing. A few responses by mail from him since. EDIT: Died Jan 19, 2022 (aged 93). Rand Harper – Real name Ronald Selden Harnack. DOB on IMDb is accurate. Jan 5, 2016 (aged 86). FindAGrave page here. Joyce MacKenzie – Living in Los Angeles, California and still signing autographs in March 2021. EDIT: Died June 2021, aged 95 Priscilla Montgomery – Still signing fan mail in August 2020. Doesn't want her whereabouts publicised though. Jacques Roux – Died on 7 Feb 2006 in Ivry, Val-de-Marne, France. Source: Ancestry family trees, but it's all backed up via the French death records here (even says "acteur" next to his record) Betta St. John – Living in Elberta, Utah and still returning fan mail as of 2020. EDIT: Died Jun 23, 2023 (aged 93). Jack Angel – Still signing autographs as of February 2021. EDIT: Died Oct 18, 2021 (aged 90). Tommy Cook – Lives in Los Angeles, California and still signing autographs as of January 2021. Roy Evans – Hmmm.. was signing fanmail in 2006 via his agency (who were based in East Sussex). Appeared in a documentary short in 2011. He's a Doctor Who actor though, so better to ask @msc. Edit: Living as of 2017. Edward Faulkner – Living in Fallbrook, California and still returning fan mail as of late 2020. Mickey Roth – According to an Ancestry family tree, died in 1997. However, this is false. According to IMDb, he's married to a Janice Arola. Tap this into the residency records and you find the two of them still living, in Westlake Hills, California as of 2021. Dean Smith – He's an Olympic gold medalist, we'd know if he died. Plus there's a pic on his Wiki from 2013. Living in Breckenridge, Texas as of 2021. EDIT: Died Jun 24, 2023 (aged 91) Joyce Taylor – IMDb has this one all wrong. They say she married an Edward Bellison (it should say Bellinson). That's true, but they're not still married as it suggests. The records show she remarried, in 1972, to Richard Perry Hinnant (b. 1943). Her first marriage certificate indicates she was born in 1937, not 1932 as stated on IMDb. Both of them show up as living in Fort Collins, Colorado as of 2021. She goes by the name of Joyce Taylor Hinnant now. EDIT: Feb 2024 – IMDb now claiming she died in 2022? 2ND EDIT: Died in 2024 (aged 87) Robert Banas – Lives in Encino, California and still returning signed fan mail as of March 2021. EDIT: Died Jul 29, 2024 (aged 90) Barrie Chase – Lives in Venice, California and still returning signed fan mail as of 2020. Jimmy Crane – Actually born James Justin Crane on 4 Oct 1931 in San Francisco, California. Died 5 Sep 1996 (aged 67). FindAGrave page here. Donald Dewar – Living in The Villages, Florida as of 2021. Jerry Gatlin – Lives in Story, Wyoming and still returning signed fan mail as of 2019. EDIT: Died Mar 4, 2021 (aged 87) Jackie Joseph – Lives in Sherman Oaks, California and still returning signed fan mail as of March 2021. Ronnie Ralph – Lives in Arcadia, California as of 2021. Signing autographs back in 2009 but can't find much since. Johnny Russell – Lives in Springfield, Virginia as of 2021. Former U.S. ambassador so unlikely to die off radar! Shirley Bonne – Autograph hunters have been trying to track her down for years. She's still alive though, in Palm Springs, California as of 2021. Joan Delmer – Lives in Los Angeles, California as of 2021 as Joan Leajacobson Poncher. Jerry Jameson – Lives in Tarzana, California and still returning fan mail as of 2019. Rian Garrick – Born William M. Kaye (aka McKaye). Still living in 2014 according to his brother's obit here. Nino Tempo – Lives in West Hollywood, California. Doesn't sign autographs. Pretty big though so we'll know when he dies. Francesca Bellini – Lives in North Hollywood, California as of 2021 under the name Francesca De Simone (which IMDb doesn't have). Arlene Golonka – Lives in Palm Desert, California as of 2021 as Arlene Golonka-Haenel. EDIT: Died May 31, 2021 (aged 85) Dan Carr – Still living in Portland, Maine as of 2021. Edward Fox – Prominent British actor, we'd know as soon as he dies. He resides in London, I see his nephew Laurence around all the time. Robert Hooks – Lives in Burbank, California and still signing fan mail as of 2018. Jeanine Ann Roose – Lives in Los Angeles, California and still signing fan mail as of late 2020. EDIT: Died Dec 31, 2021 (aged 84) Tom Simcox – Lives in Leona Valley, California and still signing fan mail as of 2019. Bonnie Belle Barber – IMDb has the correct birth info. Married at 18 to a Robert A. Nolind (that surname could be misspelt in the records). Later remarried and now living as Bonnie B. DeLong in Grants Pass, Oregon as of 2021. Jimmy Bates – Living in Carlsbad, California as of 2020. Jerry Brent – Living in Auburn, California as of 2021. Jonathan Goldsmith – Still signing fan mail as of March 2021 via a Vermont registered PO Box. Timmy Hawkins – Living in North Hollywood, California as of 2020. IMDb doesn't have his birth name but it's actually Thomas J. Hawkins. Brother of Jimmy Hawkins (b. 1941) from It's a Wonderful Life. Jerry Holmes – Actually born in 1935. Died in Aug 1994 (aged 59). FindAGrave page here. Eilene Janssen – Lives in Pasadena, California as of 2021 as Eilene Janssen Moore. Bill McKenzie – Lives in Redmond, Washington as of 2021. Francoise Ruggieri – French-born, attained U.S. citizenship in 1965, divorced Edwardo Ruggieri in 1971, remarried a James Bush in 1981 in Los Angeles. Living in El Segundo, California as of 2021. Nina Shipman – Lives in Keaau, Hawaii as of 2021 as Nina Bremer and still returning fan mail as of this month. Roy Thinnes – Lives in Memphis, Tennessee as of 2021. Jane Wald – Lives in Pacific Palisades, California as of 2021 as Jane Antonoff. Still returning fan mail as of Feb 2021. Malcolm Cassell – Lives in Marietta, Georgia as of 2021. Jacque Lynn Colton – Lives in Burbank, California as of 2021. Sharon DeBord – Lives in Camano Island, Washington and Crestline, California as of 2021 as Sharon L. DeBord Delamater. Melinda Dillon – Lives in Los Angeles, California and still signing fan mail as of late 2020. Rick Lenz – Lives in Van Nuys, California and still signing fan mail as of 2020. Buzz Martin – Lives in Twain Harte, California and still signing fan mail as of late 2020. EDIT: Died Jan 15, 2024 (aged 84) as per this obit. Sammy Ogg – Lives in Valley Springs, California and still signing fan mail as of 2020. Jamie Ross – Not sure. I've checked Scotland's people and there was no male with the surname Ross born in Markinch in 1939 so IMDb must have his date or place of birth wrong. Makes him almost impossible to trace as a result. Gerald Courtemarche – Misspelled on IMDb (as Courtemache, should be Courtemarche). Still living in Chino, California as of 2021. EDIT: Actually, he died on Dec 11, 2020 (aged 79) as per this obit. Tamara Fowler – Still living in West Jordan, Utah as of 2021 at Tamara Fowler Adams. IMDb notes that she was a drama teacher. EDIT: Died Apr 30, 2024 (aged 84) as per this obit Lili Gentle – Lives in Smyrna, Georgia as of 2021 as Lili Gentle Guerry. Ronny Hooker – Lives in Palm Coast, Florida as of 2021. Adair Jameson – Lives in Los Angeles, California as of 2021. Marissa Mathes – Can't locate her birth certificate but there's a Marissa Mathes/Braden, aged 79 living in Texas who may be her. Probably can't trace her owing to a different birth name. Unlikely to die off radar though given she was a prominent Playboy model so safe to assume she's living. Beverly Mook – Lives in La Palma, California as of 2021 as Beverly Mook Harrell. EDIT: Died on Jan 21, 2021 (aged 80) as per this. Judy Nugent – Lives in Ennis, Montana as of 2021 as Judy Taylor. Signing fan mail in 2017. Married to Gunsmoke actor Buck Taylor (b. 1938) until their divorce in 1983. Actress Carol Nugent (b. 1937) is her sister. EDIT: Died on Oct 26, 2023 (aged 83). Cynthia Pepper – Lives in Henderson, Nevada as of 2021 as Cynthia Pazillo. Still returning signed fan mail as of Aug 2020. Jeannie Epper – Still performing stunts in 2015. Lives in Agoura Hills, California as of 2021. EDIT: Died May 5, 2024 (aged 83) Robert Foxworth – Still acting in 2019, and returning fan mail as of 2020. Lives in Encinitas, California as of 2021. Marian Hailey – Lives in New York City, New York as of 2021 as Marian Hailey Moss. Tom Lowell – Lives in Fallbrook, California as of 2021. Brian Miller – Still acting in 2017 and a Doctor Who actor. Prolific, very unlikely to die off radar. Peter Roman – Lives in New York City, New York as of 2021. Charlotte Stewart – Still acting in 2018, living in Napa, California as of 2021 and returning fan mail as of 2019. Valerie Varda – Returned to acting briefly in 2017. Lives in Los Angeles, California as of 2021 as Valerie V. Sobel. Dennis Whitcomb – Still scriptwriting in 2018. Lives in Los Angeles, California as of 2021. East Carlo – Lives in Big Bear City, California as of 2021. Noralee Norman – Lives in Newport Beach, California as of 2021. Jimmie Ray Weeks – Lives in Oxnard, California as of 2021. Lee Aaker – Lives in Mammoth Lakes, California as of 2021. EDIT: Died Apr 1, 2021 (aged 77). Lonnie Burr – Can't track him. Living in San Clemente, California as of 2008 according to IMDb. He was still signing fan mail via his own website in 2011 (now inactive). He was a mouseketeer though, so won't die off radar. Bonnie Kay Eddy – Can't trace her. Stephanie Epper – Lives in Palmdale, California as of 2021 as Stephanie Ann Epperson. EDIT: Actually died on Sep 7, 2013 (aged 69) as per this. Rosemary Forsyth – Lives in Beverly Hills, California as of 2021 as Rosemary Forsyth Yuro. Still returning fan mail in 2017. Frances Karath – Lives in Thousand Oaks, California as Francie V. Larue as of 2021. Beverly Washburn – Still acting and returning fan mail in 2020. Lives in Henderson, Nevada. Martin Potter – Still acting in 2011 and a Doctor Who actor so unlikely to die off radar. Kim Charney – Lives in Newport Beach, California as of 2021. Kathleen Hartnagel – Lives in Fountain Valley as of 2021 as Kathleen Moohr. Irene Tsu – Lives in West Hollywood, California and still returning fan mail as of 2021. Sherry Alberoni – Lives in Mission Viejo, California and still returning fan mail as of 2021. Jennifer Darling – Lives in Los Angeles, California and still returning fan mail in 2018. Can't trace her birth record. The residency records suggests she's 3 years older than her IMDb DOB claims though. Lynn O'Leary-Jameson – Living in Sisters, Oregon in 2019 according to StarTiger but I can't trace her myself. Appeared at an It's a Wonderful Life reunion in 2016. David Kent – No idea! Not even sure where you found the 1946 year of birth? Jennie Lynn – No idea. Can't trace her. Herbert Maneval – Lives in Sherman Oaks, California as of 2021. James Reynolds – Lives in South Pasadena, California as of 2021. Michael Richardson – Lives in Burbank, California as of 2021. Asa Teeter – Son of Christine McGuire (1926–2019) of the McGuire Sisters. Lives in Apple Valley, California as Asa Squire Ashcraft as of 2021. EDIT: Despite the residency records still listing him, he actually died on Mar 2, 2015 (aged 68) according to this. Ross Bickell – Lives in The Bronx, New York as of 2021. Monie Ellis – Lived in Van Nuys, California in 2013 but it would appear that she's moved since and I can't trace her. Daughter of actress Mona Freeman (1926–2014). Wade Phillips – Prominent NFL coach, we'll know when he dies. Tom Sullivan – Prominent blind singer. Appeared in a documentary in 2018. Again, we'll know when he dies. Judy Buxton – Latest role was in 2016, married to Hi-de-Hi! actor Jeffrey Holland since 2004. Living in London in 2010. Unlikely her death will go unnoticed. Rickey Kelman – Lives in Camarillo, California as of 2021. Lane Davies – Still acting, with latest release in 2020 and currently filming something. Lives in Cohutta, Georgia as of 2021. Stanley Livingston – Lives in Studio City, California as of 2021. Peter Oliphant – Lives in Lockport, New York as of 2021. Mark L. Taylor – Can't trace him but still appearing in roles in 2020. Pamela Bellwood – Lives in Santa Barbara, California as of 2021 as Pamela Wheeler. Gary Davis – Still co-ordinating stunts as of 2020. Multiple award winner so wouldn't expect his death to go unnoticed. Deborah Sydes – Lives in Burbank, California as of 2021 as Deborah Ruth Howard/Sydes. William Whitaker – Still a drama professor at the University of Washington in St. Louis, Missouri. Sometimes referred to as Bill Whitaker or William J. Whitaker. Can't trace him in the records as IMDb has his DOB wrong. They've wrongly used the birth details of the journalist Bill Whitaker. Michael Canavan – Still acting and returning fan mail in 2018. Lives in Sherman Oaks, California as of 2019. John Kerry – Still acting, with latest release in 2020 and currently filming something. Eleonora Vallone – Appeared in a 2017 film. Living in Rome in the 2000s. She was tweeting only a few days ago and has a website. Simon Fisher Turner – Now a prominent musician and composer and active into the 2010s. Lives in London. Gil Smith – Lives in Los Angeles, California as of 2021. Kevin Tate – Died 30 Sep 1999 (aged 44) in California according to the Social Security Index. Middle name was Marshall and the DOB is an exact match to the one widely used on the net. Also a resident of Phoenix, Arizona according to an obit on Newspapers.com. Larry Domasin – Lives in Los Angeles, California as of 2021. Robin Eccles – Now a professional makeup artist with some screen credits up to 2015. Lives in Siddell, Louisiana according to her LinkedIn. Residency records list both Siddell and Los Angeles, California as home and give her current name as Robin Gloyner Eccles. Gary Grimes – Lives in Redondo Beach, California as of 2021. Middle name not listed on IMDb is William. Nanomba Hargrave/Morton – Lives in New Mexico as of 2018 as per her sister's obituary here, and specifically Albuquerque as of 2021 as per the residency records. Jane Kaczmarek – Still acting and returning fan mail as of 2021. Phil Nibbelink – Lives in Studio City, California as of 2021. Now an animator, with credits as recent as 2017. Michael Switlick – Lives in Monrovia, Maryland as of 2021. Kimberly Beck – Last acted in 2009 but appeared in a 2013 documentary. Living in Palisades, California as of 2014. Melody Thomas Scott – Still acting and returning fan mail as of 2021. Simon Wells – Became a director, working on new projects in 2021. Beverly Randolph – Working on acting projects in 2021. Lives in Toluca Lake, California as Beverly Dawn Hartley. Kim Williams – Later became a TV producer. Credits as recent as 2018. Kathleen McOsker – AKA simply "Kathy". Lives in Baldwin, New York as of 2021 as Kathleen J. Taravella. Anthony Battaglia – I share your doubts on this one. Checked Ancestry Family Trees and Newspapers.com and can't find any mention of this individual being an actor. The DOB/DOD matches IMDb in every case, however it's possible IMDb have put 2+2 together and got 5. Anthony Battaglia is a very common name, so there's no hope in me finding the truth through the records. Maybe worth contacting IMDb and asking them what their source was for this @Octopus of Odstock. Elizabeth Cheshire – As of 2019, still returning fan mail. Lives in Burbank, California as of 2021. Kamee Aliessa Merrill – Lives in El Dorado Hills, California as of 2021. Robert Jayne – Lives in Pasadena, California as of 2021. Still active but last acting credit was in 2015. Jackie Russell – Born July 4, 1936 as Jacqueline Ruth Russell and still living in Alvin, Texas in 2020.

Nay. People should have the right to refuse the vaccine, it is completely up to us what we decide to put into our bodies - not the government. We should not have to earn back our human rights on the count of some higher power.

In 2000 he had said that he couldn't imagine anything worse than reaching 100. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.insider.com/prince-philip-98-birthday-could-not-imagine-reaching-100-2019-6%3famp

Looks like teammate Suzanne Zimmerman (wiki) died a few weeks before her, aged 95. Leaves just one survivor from the 28-member 1948 Olympic swimming team for the USA – Penny Pence (wiki), turns 92 in May.

Surely the most important question is what colour it will be? But to answer PB's question, I'd say - it depends. Its currently not compulsory to be vaccinated (against anything), so it could lead to marginalising a section of society (whether we think is is right or wrong is another argument) so (like everything) I don't think its a simple yes/no (or yay/nay) question (did we learn nothing from the brexit referendum?). Tell me how it would work.

So what you’re saying is if the drive-bys don’t get them, the drive-throughs will.

I saw a wallaby bound past me at 6am this morning while I was out exercising. Not sure what it's plans for the day were, but it was bouncing purposely towards Holsworthy, so I didn't interfere.