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I like pro-wrestling AND Doctor Who. And Sir John. And Ian Richardson too, but he's not been in Doctor Who, due to a terminal case of being dead. And while Ian Richardson never worked with Sir John, that I can remember (mind you, neither did Jake the Snake), both did work with Tom Baker, bringing the topic right back to Doctor Who and John Hurt.

2015 10/50 February 27, 2015: Leonard Nimoy March 8, 2015: Sam Simon May 14, 2015: B. B. King May 23, 2015: John Nash June 7, 2015: Christopher Lee June 15, 2015: Kirk Kerkorian June 23, 2015: Chris Woodhead June 25, 2015: Patrick MacNee July 29, 2015: Peter O'Sullevan August 5, 2015: George Cole Just to dampen down the enthusiasm.

I have edited the post to make Peter Tobin my joker, so that on the off chance he dies it becomes twice as sweet.

I like the idea, but will just put the top 50 still living (dropping the recovering and famous for being ill) from the other deadpools I'm in this year just now. Does sound like a decent idea for 2016 though. I even had a shot at the dates, as you can see, I am predicting a shocking late run to the DDP title in December. 1. Martin Crowe 31st December 2. Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury 30th December 3. Jimmy Hill 16th December 4. Joost van der Weisthuizen 15th December 5. Seumas Milne 14th December 6. Ryuichi Sakamoto 14th December 7. Glen Campbell 13th December 8. Vojislav Seselj 17th December 9. Lady Mary Wilson 17th December 10. Asa Briggs 22nd December 11. Peter Sallis 19th December 12. Peter Sutcliffe 17th December 13. Arthur Hiller 20th Aug 14. Sister Wendy Beckett 15. Deadly Doug Ellis 7th December 16. Timothy West 7th December 17. Fenella Fielding 11th December 18. Michael Anderson (Dambusters director) 6th December 19. Ruth Ginsburg 6th December 20. Rob Ford 4th October 21. Nick Bockwinkel 3rd October 22. Peter Tobin 4th December (joker) 23. Topol 1st October 24. Joanne Woodward 9th December 25. Herman Wouk 24th September 26. Greville Janner 2nd December 27. Bhumibol Adelyadej 22nd September 28. Muhammed Ali 23rd November 29. Rene Angelil 20th September 30. Daisy Berkowitz 2nd December 31. Tony Booth 22nd November 32. Joao Havelange 16th September 33. Stuart Kuttner 19th November 34. Fernando Ricksen 14th October 35. Sheila Sim 11th September 36. Desmond Tutu 11th October 37. Former Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg 23rd August 38. Cliff Michelmore 24th August 39. Earl Cameron 7th October 40. Jim Prior 9th November 41. Georg Ratzinger 6th November 42. Albert McQuarrie 5th November 43. Sheila Mercier 28th August 44. Grace Lee Boggs 2nd September 45. Norman Kember 5th September 46. Geoffrey Bayldon 2nd November 47. Pierre Cardin 22nd October 48. Joan Lingard 9th September 49. Rev Billy Graham 19th October 50. Clive James 15th November

I think the DDP is more likely to increase the number of celebrities in a team than change the limit on number of teams ie, not at all. EDIT - Replied before your bigger reply above showed up.

The BBC have taken notice of the Dead Wrestler's Society, so to speak. Though instead of comparing pro-wrestling mortality to other sports, rock music would be a better comparison.

Goddamn, he's in THREE threads now, and i'm sitting here like "WHO?" Parents were creative fuckers when he was born eh? SC I always thought he was one of those "Look at me, my relatives are famous so I must be too now, by osmosis" type fathers.

Thing is, the old folk at the top who keep appearing on the list are getting quite old. Thirteen of them will be 96 at the youngest in 2015. Reminds one of dominoes ever so slightly - they're all going to topple fairly quickly after each other in the end.

Depends if you mean celebrity as "household name" or "DDP obit guaranteed". The former: either Herman Wouk or Joao Havelange, I'd guess. The latter: Bobbie Heine Miller, French Open nearly person of the 1920s.

They'll probably keep (if they survive) Zsa Zsa Gabor Joao Havelange Herman Wouk Billy Graham Olivia de Havilland Denis Healey George Bush Sr Philip Helmut Schmidt Fidel Castro Kirk Douglas Clive James Al Molinaro Valerie Harper Maureen O’Hara Martin Crowe Bhumibol Adulyadej Helmut Kolh Leslie Philips Joost Peter Sallis Denisnorden Jake La Motta Vera Lynn Nancy Reagan Names from previous years who have a decent shot at returning Ian Brady Charles Aznavour James Randi Stan Lee Stephen Hawking Lord Carrington Nicholas Parsons Jerry Lewis Pierre Cardin Frank Bough Angela Lansbury Fats Domino And newbies (either guesses or placeholders for Deathlist type picks...) Jimmy Hill - Geoffrey Bayldon - John Hurt - Howard Marks Comical Ali - Jim Prior Joanne Woodward - Joni Mitchell Tony Booth - Jim Bowen John Noakes Colin Dexter Peter Higgs The working of which makes me assume, that, should they still be breathing on January 1st, the following people will miss out: Perez de Cuellar, Kercheval, Harper Lee, Dole, Doris Day, Kissinger, Michelmore, Mubarak, Liz Smith, Mugabe, Chuck Berry, Richard Adams, Jake, Eddie Large and Bill Maynard. But, my OCD need to create lists aside, its far too early for the question, surely? After all, TS Eliot might have claimed April to be the cruelest month, but Deathlisters know Winter is...

I've gone for one of the bed blockers at the top, with Rev Billy.

A former colleague of a family member, and apparently enjoyable company too. It's been a bad year for notable old historians. Sorry to hear that. This was kinda a back pages obit I stumbled across and almost didn't post till I read all the way through. SC No worries - most of the busy historians seem to shun media publicity. It's the more TV friendly ones who become more widely known.

A former colleague of a family member, and apparently enjoyable company too. It's been a bad year for notable old historians.

I stand by my previously stated feeling that he'll be around for a few years yet. Appearances are nothing with our James, beneath that "aww shucks" outlook on his illness (and survival thus far) lies a hardened fighter.

Well, he who laughs last...

Well, momentarily due to a phrasing cock-up. They apparently plan to try again, with the word "Glasgow" used.

He's a big name from the 1970s/80s, a Hall of Famer, and has a bit of a skeleton in the closet involving a former girlfriend and her death.

If we're just throwing out names then, with the recent Grim Reaping of several aging music stars from the boozy heydays (Jack Bruce, Lou Reed, etc), I suspect more DDP teams will turn their attention to David Crosby. Various vices in his past which can do for a heart at any point, on his second liver, and had a 90% blocked coronary artery last year.

"What we've got here is...failure to communicate." That line is a meme within itself, but it always struck me that Martin's reading of the line was entirely different from what you'd imagine. You think "tough guy" then you get the ultimate in job Nazi, justifying and escaping behind the badge with a sort of slimy security. It's great. Sorry, thesp-geek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs Something like this.

Yes. And every time Death figured out the answer, he changed the question, too.

Well, damn.

Ever seen Frontios? Peter Arne was cast in the role which later went to Peter Gilmore (of Onedin Line and DDP List of the Missed 2013 fame). Arne, who had a long held ambition to be in Who, was murdered shortly before recording. He had his Dr Who costume fitting on the day of the murder.

The Saward episode 14. From memory, The Master saves the day, while the Doctor bumbles around looking like a fool. Typical Saward. Incidentally, did you know Laurence Olivier was a fan of the show, and JNT heard that Olivier was interested in a role in the show? Do you know what he offered one of the UK's greatest actors? The mutant red shirt in episode one of Revelation of the Daleks! He didn't accept.

Grade disliked SF, and is a good bogeyman (because, frankly, he is one - I hate cooking shows and dancing, but if I were controller of BBC1, I wouldn't kill off the Bake Off or Strictly, they have their own audiences) - but his predecessors became embarrassed by the theatrical nature of the show after Star Wars, and so responded by cutting the budget. Which was a bit stupid for a show that was making the BBC £100 for every pound spent on it, roughly, after distribution and merchandise profits. JNT gets the short straw. The higher uppers clearly had the show in their sights before he took over, he had to deal with executive meddling and sod all money and everything from industrial action to guest actors being murdered. And most of the time wanting to leave the show, but being blackmailed in the old "if you go, the show goes" way into staying and killing off his own career - all whilst being pilloried by fans who assumed he was responsible for things going wrong. On the big picture, he managed to produce at least one good to great story a season despite that, and 2 of his 3 main actor castings were inspired. Sure, there was issues, and he was a paranoid, camp, probably perverted man with failings (he loved Colin's coat, you know), but given the hand he was played was entirely unwinnable, he did his best. Eric Saward, on the other hand, was a complete sod. Resurrection of the Daleks has more on screen deaths than Terminator.