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There are some people I have in other dead pools that I've not included in DDP Svetlana Stalin (should have choosen her would have been a unique pick), Deborah Kerr, Sandra Dee, Diego Marradona and other I just forgot, Mike Yarwood, Gunther Grass, John Mortimer, Ted Heath , Ian Paisley, Gerald Ford, Nany Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Ian Brady Still there's always next year.

Oops. I'll have to read things more carefully now. I guess he's my Michael Bentine.

The death of the drummer in Sparks was in the paper today. Suicide. Don't think he was famous enough though.

I keep forgetting that John Thaw is dead. I was about to suggest him but remembered. Did suggest Barry Took though not knowing he died in 2002.

Nor me and I'm in three dead pools.

I'd say she's famous enough. If she's in the news for being ill, then she'll be in it when she dies.

Random trivia about Patrick McKnee. He was brought up as a girl oh and his mum was a lesbian.

Already has. Probably not famous enough though TORONTO (CP) -- He was the smarmy Dean Wormer in the sophomoric cult movie Animal House. He was a bad guy who got tossed out a window to his death by the even badder Lee Marvin in Point Blank. But Canadians may best remember actor John Vernon as a crusading coroner in the groundbreaking 1960s CBC crime series Wojeck. Vernon, 72, died peacefully at his Los Angeles home Tuesday, his family said. With his pockmarked face and heavy-lidded blue eyes, Vernon proved to be the ideal villain in dozens of the 85 motion pictures he made over a four-decade career. But he started as a hero in Wojeck in which his character was based on real-life Toronto coroner and politician Dr. Morton Shulman and which formed the template for future forensics-based crime series, from Quincy to Da Vinci's Inquest to CSI. "Everybody's seen my face but nobody's sure who I am," he once told an interviewer, revealing that he had often been mistaken for Richard Burton or Robert Shaw. "People confuse me with other people and I enjoy that." He was seen most recently on the "double secret probation" DVD edition of Animal House, in a feature that offered a tongue-in-cheek current look at the characters of the 1978 film. Vernon's Dean Wormer was a crotchety, snowy-haired senior in a wheelchair. Chris Haddock, creator of Da Vinci's Inquest, said at the time he was surprised that Vernon was still around and agreed it was a great idea to see if he could make a cameo appearance on the series as a sort of tribute. Vernon's other notable film roles included The Outlaw Josey Wales, Dirty Harry, Airplane II, Topaz, Brannigan, Charley Varrick, Nobody Waved Goodbye and Tell Them Willie Boy Was Here. He also starred in a short-lived ABC-TV Animal House spinoff series called Delta House and in a 1990 CBC movie that reprised his Wojeck character. TV guest roles included The FBI, Bonanza, Mission Impossible, The Name of the Game, High Chapparall, Judd for the Defence and Quincy. He also made a pilot for a failed U.S. series called Hunter. There were more than 100 roles in Canadian TV, running the gamut from Tugboat Annie to Cannonball to Forest Rangers. Regina-born and stage trained, the six-foot-two Vernon, whose birth name was Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz, spent five years at the Stratford Festival, where he met his future Wojeck co-star Ted Follows, Megan Follows' father. Speaking from his home in Kitchener, Ont., Follows said Thursday that although he and Vernon hadn't been in touch since they made the Wojeck movie, they had been close friends for many years. He understood Vernon had had heart problems and was recently released from hospital. He recalled how "way ahead of its time" Wojeck was as a prime-time series that dealt frankly with such issues as abortion and lesbianism. "(Vernon) was awfully good in that show . . . he really was perfect in that role." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------

I don't think they'd be too happy about the lowering of standards in education either. Where did you learn how to spell?

How about the writer John Mortimer. He's been looking past his best for a while.

Dickie Attenborough has had family grief recently, it might contribute towards his death.

How about this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Yarwood

Don't know about Facts of Life but I see she was in Diffrent Strokes and that was quite big over here so she'd probably get an obit.

She'd get an obit in Britain I'm sure of that. Everyone has heard of her even if they're not sure why

Ah, well the important bit was that she has been hospitalised 11 times in the past 18 months, has been on suicide watch , possibly has throat cancer is an alcoholic and anorexic.

Is it true about his son? That might be enough to see him into the grave.

I've had Sandra Dee on my list for quite a while. I have it on good authority that she suffers or has suffered from anorexia, alcoholism and depression.

If you'd read the link you'd see that he was 79 in 2003.

He's famous enough to have had a film made about him. There's lots of information about him on the web, unfortunately mostly sites by anti-abortionists. The only thing I can't find out is if he's still alive http://www.albertawatson.com/movies/vhenry.html

Anyone know if Henry Morgenthaler the abortion rights pioneer and Holocaust survivor is still alive. He'll be in early 80s by now. Might be one to watch for the future.

If he drives it like a twat then there's every chance he could oblige us. Well everyone else on the Island does so if he doesn't oblige us someone else might . Oh and I won't be guilty- I don't drive

Don't know if this passes the fame test but anyway Thelma White, whose portrayal of a hard-boiled addiction queen in the 1936 movie "Reefer Madness" was largely forgotten until the film resurfaced in the 1970s as a cult classic, died of pneumonia Tuesday at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills. She was 94. I was just beaten in posting about the Jefferson Airplane drummer.

Thanks for these. I love those dead or alive sites. Anyone else do the quizzes?

I'm afraid they have. It's the combination of 6 and 7 that's the bad omen William Hartnell - Doc number 1 dead at 67 Patrick Troughton - Doc number 2 dead at 67 John Pertwee - Doc number 3 dead at 76 Tom Baker is Doc 4 so.....

Peter O'Toole he's not been looking too well and I think he's expecting death himself. He oftens talks about how his burried all his contemporaries and he knows he'll be next. Patricia Quinn. Her liver can't go on much longer. Tom Baker. He'll be 76 in 2006 and that's an unlucky number for Doctor Who actors (according to my Whovian boyfriend anyway)