Demented Glaswegian

Bit unfair calling him a star. He was a guy they took on, and made one jobbing appearance on a show. It'd be like calling that prelimanary MMA guy who died last year, who appeared in one show, a top UFC star.

What you trying to say Lardy? You want Patrick Moore to come round and give you a warm cuddle? Perhaps you just want to burn him on an open fire. That should keep you warm till next summer then. I'll tell you all - it's global warming!!! How can it be global warming, it's f'ucking freezing! It's 23C, 64% humidity in Glasgow. The heating is staying well off.

It does seem that certain years in a decade tend to be worst hit for big deaths. 2007/97/77/67 downwards for example. One's ending in three are another example. Ones's ending in Nines tend to be hit or miss.

Mathieu Moncourt, the World number 108, who you may remember was the centre of a betting scandal a few years ago, and who took Stepanek to four sets at the French Open two months ago, has been found dead in France. It seems to have been a suspected suicide. Only 24. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...8nrpYAD999IS380

Can't see Cronkite hanging on much longer, sadly.

He also has a chest infection according to the BBC news there. Is there anything this man hasn't had recently? A front door with his own key? Ooof. Well played, sir.

He also has a chest infection according to the BBC news there. Is there anything this man hasn't had recently?

Was this before the stroke? I currently can't imagine Kirk Douglas being a good voice-actor. It's one of the better known episodes - "The Day the Violence Died" where Bart helps a homeless man who claims he created Itchy and Scratchy. Kirk voiced the Homeless Man - he did pretty good. ETA - Sorry, forget to answer your question - It was in the 1996 season!

Hopefully that'll stop BCAlum 'moaning' for a while. Additionally, McMahon is the third The Simpsons guest star to die this year... perhaps I'll create a mundane thread about it. Who were the first 2? Linda McArtney and Barry White? The first two this year were Patrick McGoohan and John Updike. I compiled a list for a fansite a while back, so I guess I may as well create a thread for the few who may be interested.... Of course. I just came across Updike's appearance - not an episode I've seen - and I had forgotten McGoohan had been in the Simpsons.

Hopefully that'll stop BCAlum 'moaning' for a while. Additionally, McMahon is the third The Simpsons guest star to die this year... perhaps I'll create a mundane thread about it. Who were the first 2? Linda McArtney (spelling) and Barry White? Well, Tito Puente and Ron Taylor are long gone, as is George Harrison! I thought it meant died THIS year?

Hopefully that'll stop BCAlum 'moaning' for a while. Additionally, McMahon is the third The Simpsons guest star to die this year... perhaps I'll create a mundane thread about it. Who were the first 2?

Oh he's massive in Japan. Sold out arenas in six continents. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers to have ever lived. It's one of the biggest tragedies to hit world wrestling since...well...ages. Didn't think anyone on here would really care though.

Levi-Strauss will live forever, you know. He's the one passing the immortality information to Clive Dunn.

Nothing like keeping it in the family...

Mexican wrestling legend Abismo Negro found dead at 37 Apparently he decided to walk into a river.

Can't place him in Doctor Who either and I'm a fan! Me too. What episodes was he in? Perhaps he drove a dalek. Derek Benfield was in Catch 1782, one of the Big Finish Dr Who audios. He also had a long running role on Coronation Street, Rumpole of the Bailey and played Mr Scrimshaw in First of the Summer Wine (the prequel series to Last, which didn't Last too long).

At a guess, something steriod related. This is Andrew "Look at my blog where I point out steriods are not harmful if used wisely" Martin, after all. Then again, wont know until the coroners stuff comes out. I mean, we still don't know what done in Sensational Sherri!

I'd heard of him. Thought he was older than 33.

If only you knew the REAL truth about Mountbatten and his alleged killers? Oh, do tell us what you heard! It's more fun to just blaze away with at least a link to some un-sculorlus semi truths than just to leave us all hanging. Well I read somewhere that there was this alleged plotting by Mountbatten and Airey Neave, Thatcher's closest advisor, to take over the country. Neave was killed in March 1979 by an INLA bomb, while Mountbatten was killed by the IRA's hitherto unused aqua division five months later.... You mean the suggested coup d'etat during the second Wilson Administration? Well, they sort of let them hang on a fair bit after that...

I thought he died years ago... He did disappear from public view, but apparently his mind started to go completly about four years ago. His family had asked fans to stop sending letters, because he couldn't respond to them anymore.

http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.p...star-payne-dies Lawrence Payne, long careered British cult actor, had been in ill health for a long time. He's now passed on.

July 6th. It's my birthday, so its the first date to come to mind that hadn't be gotten at already.

I'm sort of new, from the actual poster front. I'm a freelance writer who was looking up the health updates of Edwin Morgan last Summer, and I wound up on the Clive Dunn section of the forum. And then kept reading, and then bookmarked the site, and then started checking it daily for updates, and then posted on occassion as a guest, and then finally just joined the place.

Is that the BBC4 doc from the other year that was repeated last night? Hesseltine, Lawson, Howe are like John Redwood, have BBC on for long enough and they turn up. Though not as often as Vince Cable these days. Howe looked ghastly last I saw him. Hesseltine still looks like a raving nutter, but otherwise was in good form in January when he was interviewed over some Tory policy or other. As for Healey, he's been very quiet since his 90th last year. Which is unusual for him. I mean, Michael Foot just turned 95 last year and he's still lecturing interviewers on political ideologies from time to time! But I've not seen anything from Dennis in a while. Mind you, he could easily just be getting on and fed up. He was a bit gnarly about being asked about Labour back in 2006/7 time after all.

Let's see. Removing the likes of Ronnie Biggs, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, Oscar Niemeyer, João Havelange, Claude Levi-Strauss, Michael Foot, Chapman Pincher, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, Yitzhak Shamir, Kim Jongil, George Steinbrenner, Walter Cronkite, Herbert Lom, Vincent O'Brien, John Demjanjuk, Dino de Laurentiis, Betty Ford, Billy Graham, Nelson Mandela, Ludovic Kennedy, Ravi Shankar, Jake Lamota, Harry Morgan, Mickey Rooney, Beefheart, Nancy Reagan, John Forsythe, Blake Edwards, Christopher Lee, Jack Klugman, Pierre Cardin, Patrick Moore, BB King, Maggie T, Clive Dunn. This is because that lot dont seem to be in much danger at this point: no news is good news and all that. Of course, anyone can die at anytime, and a lot of those people are quite old and therefore a sudden ill health and demise could concievably happen at any time. But if we're guessing who out of the 48 left is next to go, then the likelyhood of their demise is less so. That said, we all know the next one is going to end up from that list next. Fidel Castro is too tricky to pick - no one seems to know whats going on there. Chavez referred to him in the 3rd person - he might even be dead already. Not a safe pick. Ariel Sharon as well doesnt seem to be having his life support switched off this side of summer. Seve Balersteros, Susan Atkins, Vaclav Havel, Kirk Douglas all seem to be doing a lot better than they were when the list was drawn up. I'd now be shocked if Havel passed on this year now they've found out what was troubling him in the first place and it's treatable. Norman Wisdom and Libby Taylor have their usual troubles but seem content to plow along. Though either of them being next wouldn't be totally surprising (every fight ends sometimes). That leaves us with three. Bobby Robson Patrick Swayze Robert Novak And as the lottery of pronounced guesswork, I'll pick Novak. Everyone will pick Swayze. His time will come this year, but I think Novak's will come quicker.