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Notable mentions in (Spring–Summer) issue of Equity magazine Ginni Barlow (IMDb) c. 1937–2022 / Gladys in 68 episodes of Take the High Road June Brown OBE (wiki) 1927–2022 / Dot Cotton in EastEnders; DL hit Denise Bryer (wiki) 1928–2021 / Gerry Anderson voice actress; once married to Nicholas Parsons (1923–2020) Harriet Buchan (IMDb) 19??–202? / Played Taggart's wife, Jean, from 1985 to 1995 Diana Calderwood (IMDb) 1927–202? / Supporting actress; wife of actor Raymond Young (1918–2011) Wyn Calvin MBE (wiki) 1925–2022 / Welsh comedian and pantomime dame Geoffrey Chater (wiki) 1921–2021 / Crime drama series regular; poet Sir Jeremy Child, 3rd Baronet (wiki) 1944–2022 / A Fish Called Wanda, Wimbledon, Darkest Hour Stephen Critchlow (wiki) 1966–2021 / theatre and radio regular Angela Crow (wiki) 1935–2022 / Doreen Lostock in Coronation Street, from 1961 to 1963 Rowland Davies (IMDb) 1941–202? / Johnny English, Wives and Daughters, Persuasion Joe D'Orazio (wiki) 1922–2022 / Golden era wrestler turned referee Mark Elwes (IMDb) 1931–2021 / Department S, A Fish Called Wanda, Diamonds Are Forever Maggie Fox (IMDb) 1963–2022 / The Forsyth Saga, Coronation Street, How Do You Want Me? Sylvie Gatrill (IMDb) c. 1951–2022 / Lesley Donnelly in Brookside; Mrs. Cullen in Bread Josephine Gordon (IMDb) 1931–202? / Supporting actress on television, mainly during the 1960s Cynthia Grenville (IMDb) 1931–2021 / Maren in Doctor Who; Lady Constance in Poldark Jack Hedley (wiki) 1929–2021 / For Your Eyes Only, The New York Ripper, Colditz Roy Holder (wiki) 1946–2021 / Romeo and Juliet, Pride & Prejudice, Doctor Who, Robin Hood Bernard Holley (wiki) 1940–2021 / Doctor Who, The Tripods, Doctors Gerald Home (wiki) 1950–2021 / Various roles in Return of the Jedi Sally Ann Howes (wiki) 1930–2021 / Truly Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Tony nominee Anna Karen (wiki) 1936–2022 / Olive in One The Buses; Aunt Sal in EastEnders Jo Kendall (wiki) 1940–2022 / Peggy Skilbeck in Emmerdale; I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again regular Melody Lang (IMDb) 19??–202? / Mrs Taylor in Fawlty Towers; wife of Andrew Sachs (1930–2016) Sheila Latimer (IMDb) 1923–2021 / Scottish television actress, prominent from the 1960s to the 1990s Leon Lissek (wiki) 1939–202? / Bruno in EastEnders; The Sullivans, Time Bandits **often discussed on here, a DDP miss** George Little (IMDb) 1928–2022 / Fiddler on the Roof, Evita, Poirot John Livesey (IMDb) 19??–202? / PC Stack in Z-Cars; Doctor Who Tina May (wiki) 1961–2022 / Jazz vocalist; ex-wife of jazz drummer and composer Clark Tracey (b. 1961) David McKail (IMDb) 1938–2021 / Cllr Robert Watt in High Road; Derek Munro in Taggart; Dr Mckenzie in A Touch Of Frost Clare Owen (IMDb) 19?? – 202? / Louise Borelli in Crossroads: Kings Oak; Rosemary Frazer in Coronation Street Larry Parker (IMDb) 1929–2021 / Writer and storyteller for Jackanory Brian Peck (IMDb) 1930–2021 / Coronation Street, Doctors, Last Of The Summer Wine Ron Pember (wiki) 1934–2022 / The Invisible Man, Secret Army, American Playhouse Morris Perry (wiki) 1925–2021 / Doctor Who, The Count of Monte Cristo, Midsomer Murders David Pugh (wiki) 19??–202? / Burke & Hare, Armchair Cinema, The Sex Thief Ralph Riach (wiki) 1936–2022 / Braveheart, Cloud Atlas, Taggart George Rossi (wiki) 1961–2022 / Duncan Lennox in The Bill Graham Skidmore (wiki) 1938–202? / "Our Graham", the voiceover of Blind Date (1985–2002) **surprised this one is off radar** John Stahl (wiki) 1953–2022 / Rickard Karstark in Game of Thrones; Tom Kerr in High Road Pauline Tooth (IMDb) 1930–202? / Television presenter during the 1950s Gary Waldhorn (wiki) 1943–2022 / Cllr David Horton in The Vicar of Dibley; Lionel in Brush Strokes Terry Wale (IMDb) 1938–2021 / Z-Cars, High Road, Emergency-Ward 10 John Warman (IMDb) 19??–202? / The Crown, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charles West (IMDb) 1927–202? / Julius Caesar, The Forsyte Saga, Crown Court Jennifer Wilson (wiki) 1932–2022 / Nicholas Nickleby, Doctors, Coronation Street Jeremy Young (wiki) 1934–2022 / Doctor Who, Coronation Street, EastEnders, Z-Cars Quite a few off radar names there, including at least three (Lissek, Pugh and Skidmore) who are still marked as living on Wiki. Surely obits have to come through for Lissek and "Our Graham"? For anyone who wants to read the full list, it's available here for free.

Tomorrow will be 82 days since the last hit which was the length of time between the second and third hits. So if this is a pattern we are due a pair of hits any day Last summer we had a gap of 151 days between hits 7 & 8 April to September

So I was wrong! A 24,000 majority turned into a loss by 6,000 - that's not even that marginal (accepting the fact lots of Tories stayed home and turnout was low). Amused me to see Dowden resign and say "someone has to take responsibility". How many people is that now who have resigned to save the blond narcissist? Chris Mason has noted that nowhere in his resignation letter does he back Johnson, he's remaining silent when asked and the 1922 Committee are getting antsy...

Crossposting here. According to the latest Equity magazine, "Our Graham"/Graham Skidmore (wiki), the voiceover of Blind Date from 1985 to 2002, has died at some point in 2021/22, in his mid-80s.

Arthur Brown is 80 today. Crazy!

If someone whose CV includes Eastenders, an Aussie soap, House of Cards, a Terry Gilliam film and Nicholas and Alexandria doesn't pick up some QO before the end of the year, I'd be stunned. He may of course have died prior to 2022. Actors of course are nowhere near as important to society as Love Island contestants...

@RoverAndOut I'll admit to being stunned by the extent of the results. Labour won Wakefield easily on a swing large enough to hunt a majority down. But Tiverton. Bloody hell. No Tory with a liberal challenger is safe. Not Rees-mogg. Not Theresa May. Especially not Dominic Raab. This was proper the public are fed up with a government and want rid by any means stuff. We haven't seen that in well over a decade.

Chris Mason commenting that getting hold of cabinet ministers this morning is something of a mission. Whether the Tiverton tanking prompts a repeat of the Thatcher-ousting tactic of the top table taking turns to state their lack of support remainst to be seen. On the voting on December 2019 there are only 40 Conservatite seats safer than Tiverton and Honiton. Oh aye, and that resignation of the party chairman conspicuously supports the party, but not Bojo. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61920000

Dominic Raab flapping admirably and trying to sould resolute in defence of two by-election spankings and the resignation of the party chairman. Bojo's current absence will be lengthy since he's got three foreign events in a row lined up. Though he's - apparently - being interviewed on BBC radio at 8-00am tomorrow. Interesting times, or summat https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-61789404?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=62b553f1a48d0547a34c0f0c%26Panic spreads through Conservatives in wake of defeat%262022-06-24T06%3A05%3A34.811Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:82c3bd87-8e9e-4d76-8784-4e6906f1c460&pinned_post_asset_id=62b553f1a48d0547a34c0f0c&pinned_post_type=share

Hope so.

Sometime guitarist with The Manhattans and brother of Regina Belle, Bernard Belle has reportedly died after recovering from a stroke some years ago: https://www.soultracks.com/story-bernard-belle-dies Co-wrote such as Remember The Time for Michael Jackson and Something In Common for Bobby Brown with Whitney Houston, but I've plumped for Hi-Five's I Like The Way (The Kissing Game), #43 in the UK charts in June 1991 (although a much bigger hit elsewhere) which I may have posted on another thread in connection with a death:

Spared jail again. I'm sure she'll learn her lesson big time .

This smacks to me of the 1992-97 administration but there is a huge difference John Major didn't expect to win in 1992 and was sat on a slim majority Johnson gamed the 2019 election which gave him a parliamentary majority but without a huge popular vote. However they have both faced challenges on the world stage but most of Johnson's biggest problems are self inflicted and could only be avoided by Johnson not being himself. He is determined to carry on regardless so it falls to the cabinet to remove him as the 1922 committee has failed but that could look like an unholy civil war

It is party chairman Oliver Dowden who has resigned. 'Sleep walking to defeat/something has to change" Just the first?

Grover Cleveland died on this day 114 years ago, aged 71. I'm pretty sure most of you know that he is so far the only American president to hold the office nonconsecutively (1885-1889 and 1893-1897)- here's an interesting story regarding his health in office. During his second term in 1893, Cleveland's doctor found a tumor in his mouth (whether it was benign or malignant has been debated). Not wanting the media to become concerned over his health, Cleveland arranged for his surgery to occur on a boat off of Long Island, and he didn't even tell Vice President Stevenson about it. Cleveland was strapped into a chair, tied around the ship's mast, and sedated. To avoid disfigurement, his surgeons operated through his mouth. They removed part of his upper jaw, and during a second operation, it was replaced with a rubber prosthetic. One of the surgeons, EJ Edwards, revealed this in September of that year- the White House denied his claims and accused Edwards of lying. It wasn't until 1917, nine years after Cleveland's death, that another surgeon (William Keen) wrote about the events to no objection.

Saying this now at nearly 1am with the counts underway but no results yet that I think they'll lose Wakefield but hold on to Tiverton and Honiton narrowly. Hope I'll be proved wrong but never doubt the shy Tories.

I hear Amber Heard is looking for a rich man.

Paula Stafford is a hit for @JoeMoneypenny: https://www.9news.com.au/national/australias-inventor-of-the-bikini-paula-stafford-dies-aged-102/fb261d90-958b-4a38-a809-3406ac1aabeb

Oh, we have no luck this year... Fritz Wepper has beaten his cancer: https://www.rnd.de/promis/fritz-wepper-hat-den-krebs-besiegt-und-fuehlt-sich-zu-hause-pudelwohl-DGC5BWGXDZELPLJPLTTTD54PGQ.html Rainer Langhans is on a book tour and goes to Grevenbroich: https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/grevenbroich/grevenbroich-68er-ikone-langhans-in-der-villa-erckens_aid-71697655

Colombian journalist Chelo de Castro dead at 102

Shortening his nose won't fool anyone.

They have. In the Happy Birthday thread. That is what it's for.

Betty Rowland is a hit for @Pop_Zeus, @Ulitzer95, @John Key and @Kenny CONGRATULATIONS!!!

You're as bad as Vladímir Putin.

Good riddance to that old bat.