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British TV and film director Tom Clegg has died aged 81. https://scifibulletin.com/2016/07/25/rip-director-tom-clegg/ Various genres. Best known for directing the Sharpe TV movies, but also worked on The Sweeney, Van Der Valk, The Chinese Detective, Minder and of course Space: 1999. In film, he directed McVicar, the 1980 Daltrey/Faith vehicle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clegg_(director) Edit: Not to be confused with the actor from the Carry On movies.
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John Hinckley Jr will no longer qualify for this thread (if he ever did, he was in a mental institution, not prison) as soon as August 5.https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/would-be-reagan-assassin-john-w-hinckley-jr-to-be-freed-after-35-years/2016/07/27/04142084-5015-11e6-a422-83ab49ed5e6a_story.html
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Frankie Jean Lewis Terrell, Jerry Lee's sister, dies at 71, heart attack. http://www.heraldcourier.com/community/entertainment/frankie-jean-lewis-terrell-sister-of-jerry-lee-lewis-dies/article_f8d2b948-a585-5ec8-aa35-281527032a89.html
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Joe Napolitano, director on Quantum Leap and X-Files, dies at 67, cancer. http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/joe-napolitano-x-files-director-dies-67-1201823463/
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Long time editor William Smethurst has reportedly died: https://twitter.com/tortoiserock/status/757919880779882497 Was also an executive producer on Crossroads and Boon. Edit: BBC Obit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36905761
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I think he moved to High Dudgeon.
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Nope, that was Cedric Sharpley - Benn literally was in the band for a few months in 1978.
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Tim LaHaye dead: http://www.christianpost.com/news/tim-lahaye-co-author-of-left-behind-series-dies-at-90-166981/
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The Guardian duly obliges. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jul/25/marni-nixon-singer-dies-aged-86 They are going to have to change that. Her son Andrew Gold (yes, the Andrew Gold!) died in 2011.
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Early Tubeway Army drummer Barry Benn, who appeared on their 1978 single, Bombers, has reportedly died. https://twitter.com/GNDiscography/status/757520702379548672 Bombers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcVUYkio70U
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Eken has died aged 92: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sabah.com.tr%2Fspor%2Ffutbol%2F2016%2F07%2F25%2Fgalatasarayin-efsane-ismi-bulent-eken-vefat-etti&edit-text= His date of birth now appears to be confirmed as 26 October 1923, not January.
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Sad news that Marni Nixon has died aged 86 from breast cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/arts/music/marni-nixon-singer-soprano-dies-86.html?_r=0 She dubbed Deborah Kerr in “The King and I,” Natalie Wood in “West Side Story” and Audrey Hepburn in “My Fair Lady,” among many others. A DDP team awaits the qo. She will not go unsung, I'm sure.
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Every pathetic whinger in the queue at Dover. Honestly, who goes on any sort of journey without having food and drink? "Where's my Government water?" they whine. After their country has voted to come out of Europe, they complain they can't get into it. Morons.
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Round Up #22 Jack Wells: https://forums.death...dying/?p=272012 (Carried Over) Awaiting Obit. Thorbjörn Fälldin: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8677-political-frailty/?p=272164 Daily Mail Obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3705474/Swedish-ex-prime-minister-Thorbjorn-Falldin-dead-90.html Kate Granger: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8722-doctor-doctor/?p=272166 Daily Mirror Obit: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/terminally-ill-doctor-kate-granger-8483151 Carl Falck: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8294-the-100-club/?p=272219 Awaiting Obit. Marni Nixon: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/1276-hollywood-possibilities/?p=272241 Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jul/25/marni-nixon-singer-dies-aged-86 Vivean Gray: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/7091-hooroo-mate/?p=272453 BBC Obit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36922414 Suzanne Wright: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8496-philanthropists/?p=272581 Daily Mail Obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3715631/Co-founder-Autism-Speaks-Suzanne-Wright-dies-69.html Robert Fano: (from the List of The Lost) Daily Mail Obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3714716/Personal-computing-pioneer-former-MIT-professor-dies-98.html
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Report that Scots born academic and former hostage Thomas Sutherland has died aged 85. http://denvercenter.org/blog-posts/news-center/2016/07/23/former-hostage-thomas-sutherland-is-freed-a-second-time He was freed alongside Terry Waite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sutherland_(academic)
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Death Notice for Tom "Bud" Abraham, English author of the controversial reminiscence The Cage, which relates his alleged capture during the Vietnam War: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/204882/abraham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cage_(Abraham_book)
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Governor rejects parole for Van Houten: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36873352
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Shooting at Munich shopping centre: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36870874 BBC Live states "multiple deaths" reported.
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American Football Players
YoungWillz replied to harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy's topic in DeathList Forum
Former Minnesota Vikings and Arizona Cardinals coach Dennis "Denny" Green dead at 67 from a heart attack. http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/17124739/dennis-green-former-minnesota-vikings-arizona-cardinals-coach-dies-age-67 -
Truss loses support: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1471137/anna-soubry-becomes-second-senior-conservative-to-refuse-job-under-new-justice-secretary-liz-truss-as-rebellion-grows/ I'll get my coat.
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Jack Wells died June 27: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3253715/Father-23-told-shoulder-pain-pulled-muscle-trapped-nerve-told-incurable-CANCER.html and http://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/gone-soon-young-dad-passes-away-fulfilling-dying-wishes-daughter/ No obit afaik.
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Kate Granger gets a BBC mention for reaching her fundraising target: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-36842707 Preparing us for...
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Death Notice for Seamon Glass who has died aged 90. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=180727970 Probably best known as one of the Griners from Deliverance and as Benton in the Star Trek episode Mudd's Women. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322005/
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Foreign Personalities, From Stage, Screen, Politics And Life
YoungWillz replied to Davey Jones' Locker's topic in DeathList Forum
List updated and brought forward. Radu Beligan has died aged 97. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160720/news/307209939/ A unique for the DDP awaiting the usual. Edit: Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3699301/Romanian-actor-Radu-Beligan-dies-97.html -
This comment was too obvious. Another obvious comment - the hearse will get to the cemetery and the doors will fall off and the driver will be ejected from the seat into the hole in the ground.