Spade_Cooley

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A thread for people who have passed the age of 100 but have (very, very) faint claims to fame other than "just being old". The lifeblood of many a DDP theme team, really, may as well get them all in one place. Plus it gives me an excuse to have a regular meeting point for two of my favourites: 110-year-old paranormal investigator Alexander Imich and 107-year-old financier Irving Kahn, who apparently still goes to work daily. Check out his current stock portfolio here. Anyway, so here's where we can rhapsodise about Run Run Shaw, Roy Douglas and Vo Nguyen Giap and the many public appearances they'll no doubt be making in the near future. One of the leading actors of the pre-blaxploitation era cowboy "race movies", Herb Jeffries, just turned 100.

Paul Hart, one half of the duo Joe&Co, who wrote and performed numerous TV theme tunes (including the BBC's theme for the 1986 World Cup, the 80s Tomorrow's World theme, Bellamy's Bugle and Granada Reports) apparently died May 22nd, 2022 according to the description on this video.

A catch-all thread I've been toying around with for a bit, for when you get stuck down a research hole and find someone of (minor) fame died a few years back with no mention on here, or indeed in the wider media. Anne Sellors, a Sheffield-based drama teacher who shot to viral internet fame due to her IMDB page containing one solitary credit - Woman Who Urinates on Herself in legendary TV movie Threads - died in 2015 aged 63. Also dying in 2015, this time at the age of 58, Labj Janjua. A journeyman singer for numerous Bollywood movies, a song he recorded for the 1997 film Legalised - "Mundian To Bach Ke" - was remixed by Panjabi MC and rereleased in 2002, going to #1 across the world (#2 in the UK) and selling over 10 million copies. And yet no mention outside of Indian-language entertainment press at the time of his passing.

Why did I have it in my head that one of Black Lace was kidnapped while on holiday in the 90s and held political prisoner? In somewhere like Nepal or Tibet. Google doesn't bring up any British musicians being kidnapped in northern Asia during the 90s...

The Alice Munro obit on the DDP frontpage inspired me to look up a name I hadn't been keeping tabs on recently. Ryan Buell is now a counsellor at the University of South Carolina.

At this rate Jimmy's successor is going to be fucking Kate Beckinsale.

As long promised. So, go on, what do you have? Lifeboat (1944) has 10 castmembers listed on IMDB, all of them have confirmed death dates (the last surviving actor would have been Mary Anderson, who died in 2014) I was going to say "well, obviously, Swimming to Cambodia counts" - one actor, and he killed himself 15 years ago. However, there is archive footage in the film taken from The Killing Fields, and Sam Waterston is still with us and being mildly entertaining in mildly entertaining sitcom Grace and Frankie. The travails of us failing to clarify if everyone from 12 Angry Men is dead can be found here. In short: almost certainly, but we can't prove it. So what can you prove DL?

I mentioned in the "Fringes of Fame" thread that beloved-by-roidhead internet "fitness" guru Zyzz died in a gay sauna yesterday aged 22, and somehow this has actually made eight actual real Australian newspapers, according to Google News. I was disinterestedly scouring Spankwire, as you do, and was reminded of the existence of Tila Tequila. At one point she was the most popular person on MySpace (ask your grandparents). She then went on to have a brief career as a celebrity, but after the MTV reality shows ran out it was just her being bottled off-stage at gigs and having whoever she stuck her tongue into that week die on her. She strikes me as a good candidate for a TMZ-friendly overdose within the next few years. Anyway, there's loads of these "internet famous" folk nowadays and we need a thread for them I feel. Maybe Tron Guy will battle a brave fight against cancer or that guy from Evolution of Dance will go mad and shoot up a shopping mall. Talk about these guys here. Or don't.

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Trevor Edwards is back on the radar, and immediately off it again.

Kompany at Bayern and Maresca at Chelsea are both appointments with the great modern delusion: that somehow working with Guardiola bestows magical managerial powers upon you. It's a bit like when any plodder that played for Ferguson was being given a Prem touchline gig in the early 2000s.

A thread for, in the spirit of Doreen Keogh and Gerard Sim, detective work that needs to be undertaken by deathlisters to ascertain as to whether people with possible claims to celebritydom are still alive. I mainly ask this because I cannot find, after two hours online, if Brian Walker is still alive. My assumption is the man's death would at least get a mention somewhere, as he was the only man in history to be both a member of The Wurzels and a contributing artist to Viz. He was part of the original Adge Cutler line-up of the West Country's finest but left soon after their first album was released (he'd also played with Acker Bilk as well). He then became a full-time comics artist, and has his own entry in the Dictionary of British Comics. He drew mainly for Whizzer and Chips, an example of his work is pictured below: But I cannot find a) a death notice for him (he would be 89 now), or any sign of him making any sort of public declaration of being alive any time in the past decade. Can this forum's more learned members help out? Also, please suggest other names you consider to be Schroedinger's Dead Pool picks, not alive or dead until proven otherwise.

Hi I'm SpadeCooley, and this is the Jackass Deathlist thread. Those who grew up on the much-loved sk8r/prank/bee beard show will be aware that Bam Margera has recently been committed to a "behaviour facility". This follows him checking out of rehab for alcohol problems earlier this month, his third attempt at going clean. This follows hot on the heels of a catastrophic "comedy club" tour which saw him apparently break up with his wife, have a series of dates with low attendance cancelled and numerous public meltdowns over his management. Also, has any man aged as much in the past 20 years? Of course, we've already lost one Jackass icon (Ryan Dunn), as well as Bam's child-noncing uncle Don Vito, and Bam could easily be next, but there's many more names out there to muse over. Steve-O was a popular "young and dumb" deadpool pick in the 00s when he was taking in vodka through an IV and stapling his scrotum to his thigh, but he seems to have stuck to his sobriety well enough in recent years. Phil Margera and Preston Lacy are unlikely to win many "low cholesterol level" contests. The form of dwarfism Wee Man has is achondroplasia, the same as Peter Dinklage and Tom Shakespeare, so it's not any detriment to reaching middle age. Raab Himself had to leave the show early in its run due to various addictions, but again appears to have resumed civilian life successfully.

Francis to use this and pivot to an "anti-woke" comedian second gig? Netflix stand-up special called "CANCEL THIS!" with him smoking in the thumbnail?

Cross-posting the death of Bill Walton here, as I'm sure you're all aware he appears for about two seconds in the end credits as an extra.

Happy 92nd birthday to a DeathList favourite who has surely earned his own thread by now.

Kramer's been hitting the publicity circuit ahead of the release of his autobiography, Entrances and Exits. The main revelation from it, other than that whole unpleasantness at the Comedy Store, is that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2018 and apparently "I had to go for the full surgery. If I hadn't, I probably would have been dead in about eight months." No news on if a Junior Mint slipped in during the surgery. Anyway, famous enough for his own thread so here it is.

Morgan Spurlock, huckster, alcoholic, probable rapist and the man who ruined documentaries forever, dead at 53.

Good Northampton NN4 lads, were always the headline act when there was a town fair or a charity event back in the 90s.

MMMDP Form Guide #2 Either one of The Nasty Boys Mathematically, it is a bit odd than neither of these guys are dead yet. Perhaps best known in wrestling for their hilarious backstage "ribs", light-hearted pranks such as sucker-punching Scott Hall 2-on-1 and beating him up, sucker-punching Ken Shamrock 2-on-1 and beating him up, and shitting in the punch bowl at a TNA aftershow party. Were famously announced in the WWF as coming from "Nastyville, Allentown, Pennsylvania", which is also home to such other notorious bad-asses as Amanda Seyfried and Carson Kressley off Ru Paul's Drag Race.

Vaguely credible sources suggesting that Schwab will be stepping down as executive chairman at the WEF to spend more time with his bugs.

Podcasts peaked 11 years ago with "I would eat out her asshole for muscular dystrophy" and it's been a constant downward slope ever since.