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  1. 12 minutes ago, TheKeysOfMarinus said:

    Anyone know what happened to British film and TV actor Fred Evans? Appeared in a lot of bit parts (The Avengers, Minder, Bergerac, Jeeves and Wooster); he’s a scene stealer as a policeman in Mr. Horatio Knibbles. I imagine he’s long dead but can’t find a date anywhere. 

     

    Was still alive 11 months ago at the age of 93, according to this YouTube comment (he was also a dancer who worked on the 1969 TV show Cribbins)

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  2. Which leaves Carl Cannon (if he is still alive, which I'm not 100% convinced of) as the only person definitively known to have competed at the first World Series of Poker still living (the first WSOP is very poorly recorded, some say it was just a seven-man table game, some say it was a mini-tournament of 30 people). 


  3. Anyone foolish enough to try and find out if Samuel Ajak, an "artist and brigadier general of the Sudan People's Liberation Army" who, in the mid-90s, designed what would later become the flag of South Sudan is still alive? Close to zero information about him online.


  4. Wonder if this burgeoning trend for "oldies" media websites might turn out to be an essential area for deadpool research in coming years. Will serious DDP competitors have to get themselves a subscription to Best of British magazine?


  5. He's been working more in recent years than he has for decades though - Megalopolis is due to hit the festivals circuit next month, a project that he's been tinkering with since the late 70s and had to sell his winefields to finance because it ballooned in production costs a la Apocalypse Now.

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  6. Probably too early for the "Dying off the radar" thread, but while looking for something else I found out that the character actor Tom Stern died last month and it doesn't appear to have made it anywhere outside of his family's Facebook. Not to be confused with the Tom Stern who has a long history as cinematographer for Clint Eastwood movies, or Tom Stern the director of music videos by Marilyn Manson and Ice Cube, this Tom Stern was the lead in the 1971 namspolitation film Trip to Kill (billed ahead of Telly Savalas, Robert Vaughan and Burgess Meredith), but was also a mainstay villain-of-the-week in American TV throughout the 60s and 70s.  Was also one of the endless "it could have been us!" residents of 10050 Cielo Drive prior to Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski taking up residence there.


  7. Latest on David Elmore Smith (the censoring of the name is done by him, not me, because it's a total mystery what could come after the "David S" in the Facebook account for David Elmore Smith).

     

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