TheKeysOfMarinus

Just sent mine in, my second year! I feel sure I have a name never picked before for DL. Whether or not they will get any QOs is another thing altogether.

Sly Stone is 79 next year. He hasn't made a major public appearance for some 15 years, he has lived a chaotic life and was reported to be homeless ten years ago.

Aw, sad stuff. Hope he recovers but not looking good is it?

Jeepers creepers there are some revolting people on here.

Was this not the right place to ask?

Davis's annual gala still went ahead this year, though postponed for a few months because the big man was suffering from Bell's palsy. He was interviewed by Rolling Stone in September. Seems healthy but definitely starting to look ancient. 90 in April.

He was on my draft for the upcoming DDP! RIP - I mainly remember him for Only Fools and Horses.

Does anyone know anything about Denis O'Dell? Film producer who worked on A Hard Day's Night and Magical Mystery Tour and features in the new Get Back film. There's no birth date anywhere online I can find. It would be quite something if someone closely associated with the Beatles died off the radar, but I think he may have. His earliest film credit is 1943! He was first assistant director on the Alastair Sim A Christmas Carol! If he's still with us, he must be ancient.

Well, I said "relatively unexpected". He was prominent on TV up until recently and we know of no illness or the like. It would be a big story.

I feel like James Bolam could be a relatively unexpected one. He hasn’t been in anything since 2016.

Thank you for the email! I did my first ever list last year. I haven't done great but I didn't expect too. Gonna give it another go! A quick question - I'm sure there's a good reason for it but I'm wondering why there's several qualifying Scottish publications but no Welsh or indeed Northern Irish ones? No doubt there will be qualifying deaths of Scottish personalities that will get obits in their publications but not the wider UK publications. It seems a shame for the same not to apply to the other home nations. Let me know if I'm asking in the wrong place.

Margo Guryan, US singer-songwriter, has died aged 84. Her composition “Sunday Mornin’” was a US hit for Spanky & Our Gang and Oliver, but she is probably better known today for her solo recordings including the album “Take a Picture” (1968). In the last few years especially, she’s become quite a big deal for lovers of vintage pop and she was active in this revival on social media. She was great, sad to see her go. https://www.stereogum.com/2167134/margo-guryan-dead-at-84/news/

He looks and sounds pretty great to me. Better than I was expecting.

Tabloids love coercing elderly people into fighting their culture war for them. Dad’s Army has been heavily repeated by the BBC in great slots for 40+ years, more than pretty much any other sitcom. All of the Dad’s Army episodes are available uncut on DVD, on Britbox and often repeated. The BBC just put a warning for a racial slur before showing the film recently. Sounds pretty fair to me.

Thought it might be interesting to look at the Ealing comedies - the 19 films made between 1947 and 1958 usually listed. A fair few major names made it into the 2010s - Lionel Jeffries, Harry Fowler, Herbert Lom, Jackie Collins, Liz Fraser - but didn't make it out. Michael Medwin died last year. These are the only actors from the films that are still living as far as I know. No doubt some more child actors like those in Hue and Cry are still living but I cannot find any information about them. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Jeremy Spenser (uncredited, 1937 - ) The Magnet (1950) James Fox (1939 - ) The Love Lottery (1954) Anne Vernon (1924 - ) Davy (1958) Peter Frampton (makeup artist rather than rock star)

"Was hoping he'd last longer" Good news for you, he's not dead.

Do they really look rough? They look pretty great for two people in their early 70s to me.

Wow! Didn't expect him to ever perform live again. I know there were Twitter videos but that's quite a different thing. Nice news.

Rockabilly falls into rock as a subgenre, surely.

As we are on British TV actors, forgive me but does anybody know how Peter Tilbury (born 1945) is doing? He created the sitcoms Shelley and It Takes a Worried Man, the latter of which he starred in. He was a great talent, and continued to write and act but hasn’t done anything since a few writing credits in 2007. I don’t think I’ve found a photograph of him from this century. I am a fan and I just wonder what happened to him?

I had no idea! Nothing can stop me laughing at this video though.

Definitely seems to be. Bless him, I think he looks a little rough there too but he still sounds great.

Courtenay will go first I think. He was on BBC Two the other week reciting some Shakespeare from home and he looked very frail, hands seemed to be shaking.

Cunt.

Doubt it. I think he’ll still be here in 2025 for sure.