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If we needed any confirmation, this trailer for the 2012 film features the exact same footage of Phillips. Shame - it would be exciting to see him active again in any way. I hope he’s doing alright - I watched The Fast Lady last night and really enjoyed it.

The Wurzels have announced that one-time member Tony Baylis has died. Tony joined the band in 1969, and appears on the band’s three top 40 singles including the chart-topper “Combine Harvester”. He left the band in 1983 and emigrated to Australia.

I recommend this video of him live from last year. He is quite obviously miming, which isn’t that uncommon, but the way he does it is so robotic and odd. He is hardly moving his mouth but the audience appears to buy it. Uncanny Valli.

Perhaps unlikely to obit, but Mary Barelli Gallagher, personal secretary to Jackie Kennedy, is still around. She wrote a book "My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy" in 1969. One source I found has her born 1926, interview here from 2016 has her aged 88: https://georgetowner.com/articles/2016/03/17/mary-gallagher-pen-and-steno-pad-history-and-everyday-life/

Elizabeth Dwyer, the mother of Morrissey, died a few days back. She was in her 80’s.

I met William at a signing event two years ago and he was really with it. Looked great and was talkative and attentive with the procession of fans he met. Hope he’s with us for a long time yet, he’s a legend.

I don’t think Dylan or Chubby will go in the next five years, they seem both in good health and neither is 80 yet.

Mark Wirtz died on Friday from Pick's disease (also known as frontotemporal dementia). He was variously a record producer, arranger, songwriter and performer who was behind classic 60s records like A Touch Of Velvet - A Sting of Brass and the unfinished A Teenage Opera project which birthed two UK hits with Keith West of Tomorrow including the 1967 no 2 smash Excerpt from A Teenage Opera.

I'm sure many of you might have heard by now but Wayne Fontana, lead singer with the Mindbenders, died on Thursday aged 74. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/07/wayne-fontana-game-of-love-dies

I know! I was always shocked he was still with us. Would’ve loved someone like Toby Hadoke to have interviewed him but it never happened.

Emitt was brilliant. A musical hero for me. Really sad about this.

As noted in the Doctor Who thread, a recent one was Philip Latham who's death was announced by his family in the Telegraph announcements. A regular face in British film and TV between the 50s and 80s, sometimes as a lead - Danger Man, The Saint, The Avengers, Dracula Prince of Darkness, The Pallisers, The Cedar Tree, The Professionals, Lord President Borusa in The Five Doctors. He didn't get a single obit AFAIK. Toby Hadoke didn't even do a tweet for him.

Twitter has been full of tweets about Louis Mahoney, and there’s been a small amount of talk about Latham including someone claiming Toby Hadoke confirmed it. As far as I can see Hadoke hasn’t mentioned it, and he has yet to receive an obit on any news sites. Maybe they’re anxious about getting it wrong but I doubt we will get any further confirmation of his death. For an actor who was in Doctor Who, Hammer Horror etc you’d expect an obit wouldn't you?

No idea, don’t feel very strongly about any of them so I went for Harry Belafonte because why not.

I can't seem to access the entire announcement. For me it cuts out at "He is survived by his daughter...". Sad news anyway - he was a fine actor and was very memorable as Borusa in "The Five Doctors". I was always pleased he was still going, and was hoping maybe Toby Hadoke would get him to do an interview sometime!

I’m the one who tweeted this! Quite pleasantly surprised how many people found it interesting.

Matt Johnson of The The has undergone surgery for a serious throat problem. Real nasty looking!

Lloyd Price (Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Personality) was a star on Specialty Records before Little Richard - he’s still about. There’s also Leon Hughes of the Coasters, Huey “Piano” Smith, Frankie Avalon and Fabian. Most of the UK rock and rollers are still about - Tommy Steele, Marty Wilde, Terry Dene, Wee Willie Harris, Jim Dale. Vera Lynn counts too, she had UK number ones in the 50s.

I've only just heard he died yesterday, and I'm all over social media. Was this news overshadowed by Tim Brooke-Taylor's death perhaps?

I knew him. Friend to my dad. Still.. sheep jokes are always fucking side-splitting, aren't they?

Awful news.

Aww - that's lovely!

People on Twitter want to do a clap for Boris tomorrow night just like the twee-but-well-meaning claps for the NHS. Gotta be joking.

I'd say Ride Like the Wind is more famous in the UK than Sailing, too.

The father of Sophia Myles (Madame De Pompadour from Doctor Who “The Girl in the Fireplace”) has died from the coronavirus. https://t.co/aYllIwDOIv?amp=1