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Its approaching the 40th anniversary of the début of the BBC TV series 'Colditz'. Last week saw David McCallum's 79th birthday, and he's still working. Here's a list of the major cast members: The Main Cast: David McCallum - played Flt Lt Simon Carter in 26 episodes - aged 79. Still working ('NCIS' contract extended for 2 years in April 2012). Obit chances - a certainty. Richard Heffer; - played Captain Tim Downing in 25 episodes - born 28-July 1946 (aged 66); last IMDB entry 2011. Obit chances - fair. Paul Chapman - played Capt. George Brent (24 episodes) - born 1939 (aged 72/73); last IMDB entry 2009. Obit chances - fair. Jack Hedley - played Lt. Col John Prston (23 episodes) - born 28-October 1930 (aged 81); last entry 2000; obit chances - certain. Bernard Hepton - played the Kommandant in 23 episodes - born 19 October 1925 (aged 86); last entry 2002; obit chances - certain. Hans Meyer - played Hauptmann Ullman in 23 episodes - born 21 July 1925 (aged 87); last entry 2010;obit chances possible rather than probable. A south african, most of his work has been away from these shores. Christopher Neame - played Lt. Dick Player in 17 episodes - born 12 September 1947 (aged 65); his last acting role was the appropriatley named Vanished in 2006, though he did do voicework for a Star Wars video game in 2011; obit chances - good, though probably not for a while. Robert Wagner - played Flt. Lt. Phil Carrington in 14 episodes - born 10 February 1930 (aged 82); still working; obit chances - a certainty. Edward Hardwicke - played Capt. Pat Grant in 14 episodes; died aged 78 16 May 2011. Obituaries a-plenty. Anthony Valentine - played Major Horst Mohn in 11 episodes - born 17 August 1939; (aged 73); last role was in Coronation Street a couple of years ago. Obit chances - a certainty. Peter Penry-Jones - played P.O. Peter Muir in 10 episodes - died in 2009 pretty much unnoticed by the media and it would appear no obituaries were forthcoming!

Sat 1 Jun 33 John Newman — Love Me Again 31 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 31 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 30 Little Mix — Wings 30 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 29 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 29 Coldplay — Paradise 28 Lorde — Royals 28 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 26 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 25 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 25 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It 25 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 25 Daft Punk ft. Pharrel Williams — Get Lucky 24 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 24 Rihanna — Diamonds 23 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 23 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 23 Avicii — Wake Me Up 23 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 22 Will.I.Am ft. Britney Spears — Scream & Shout 22 Jessie J — Domino 22 Katy Perry — Roar 22 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 21 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) 21 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 21 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You 20 Cover Drive — Twilight 20 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 20 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 20 Rita Ora ft. Tinie Tempah — R.I.P. 20 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 20 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 20 Wiley ft. Ms D — Heatwave 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 One Direction — Little Things 20 Gabrielle Aplin — The Power Of Love 20 Bingo Players ft. Far East Movement — Get Up (Rattle) 20 Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis & Wanz — Thrift Shop 20 Justin Timberlake — Mirrors 20 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Ellie Goulding — Burn 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Martin Garrix — Animals 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 20 Sam Bailey — Skyscraper 17 Flo Rida — Good Feeling 17 The Justice Collective — He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother 16 Chris Brown — Turn Up The Music 16 Rita Ora — How We Do (Party) 16 Tulisa — Young 15 Miley Cyrus — We Can’t Stop  13 Cheryl Cole — Call My Name +4 00 James Arthur — Impossible -6 I have a video of my 11-year-old self singing my primary school leavers' version of Impossible.

This thread is for deaths related to the video/console/computer/mobile game industry, i.e. designers, composers, all kinds of programmers or even popular players of certain games. I thought this branch of popular culture was missing here. Of course, this industry is relatively new, so people haven't really started to die away of age, but maybe it starts soon, and people can die for other reasons as well. I'll start with two deaths: James Storey, graphical designer for Duke Nukem 3d, is dead at 41: http://www.vg247.com/2015/06/03/duke-nukem-3d-artist-passes-away-aged-41/ No reason was given. Also, Kirill Prokovsky, composer of music for the Divinity games, especially for Divinity: Original Sin is dead at 53: http://gamingbolt.com/divinity-original-sin-composer-passes-away No reason was given.

Looks in great shape in this video doing the rounds today on TwitterX. Certainly not going anywhere soon. https://x.com/diario_beatles/status/1796152948180849012

Our neighbour has dropped a new track!! It’s great, very creative video. He and Dre are just fucking genius. 6M views in under 12 hours. Shady just broke the Internet! SC heres a link to lyrics version. Prolly offend some pantywaists around here. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/puDtcsHZSwaqQL8k/

It's the timing which makes me believe it's politically motivated. In the past 24 hours Labour have also abandoned Faiza Shaheen (wiki), a high profile candidate who was standing against Sir Iain Duncan-Smith in Chingford. She seems to be competent. Her crime? She liked a video on Twitter by U.S. comedian Jon Stewart which "appeared" to down play anti-semitism. That's hardly the crime of the century. She was a huge backer of Corbyn. It is a purge.

Kristopher Kent Hill, a child actor of the 1980s and 1990s who appeared in five episodes of Roseanne as Crystal's young teenaged son Lonnie and who had episodic appearances on shows like Webster, Golden Girls, Full House and the Wonder Years, died with little fanfare in 2019. Came across the info in a YouTube video. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newspress/name/kristopher-hill-obituary?id=8522309

New interview (with embedded short video clip) of Mary Lou Retton and her battle with a rare form of pneumonia. It speaks about her use of crowdfunding, which has received mixed reactions. She still requires an oxygen apparatus to help her breathe. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mary-lou-retton-interview-crowdfund-medical-bills-b2550451.html

Sarah Sidner to undergo double mastectomy as part of her breast cancer treatment: https://tvline.com/news/sara-sidner-breast-cancer-announcement-cnn-video-1235110019/

Teen rapper Rylo Huncho dies after accidentally shooting himself while filming a profane music video on Instagram. Huncho pointed the gun to his head and pulled the trigger, seemingly having accidentally shut off the safety. He immediately left the view of the camera as his phone fell to the floor in the wake of the blast. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13441007/Tragic-moment-teen-rapper-Rylo-Huncho-accidentally-shoots-dead-TikTok.html

20/5/24 21:08 hrs 77 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé — Telephone -6 73 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love 72 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls 50 Cee Lo Green — Forget You 47 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande — Read All About It 44 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World) +4 40 Olly Murs — Dance With Me Tonight 37 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano 36 B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams — Airplanes 36 Jessie J ft. B.O.B — Price Tag 36 DJ Fresh ft. Sian Evans — Louder 35 Tinie Tempah — Pass Out 31 Owl City — Fireflies 28 Taio Cruz — Dynamite 26 Flo Rida ft. David Guetta — Club Can't Handle Me 22 B.O.B ft. Bruno Mars — Nothin' On You  22 Iyaz — Replay 19 Tinie Tempah — Written In The Stars 17 Scouting For Girls — This Ain't A Love Song 12 Example — Changed The Way You Kiss Me 10 Bruno Mars — Just The Way You Are  Listened to LGG & B again and came to the same conclusion….. It’s shit. (Good video, mind you)

Kathy Brown is performing again - she'll be doing her first gig since been diagnosed with cancer. Looks pretty good (if it's a recent video). Either way, maybe someone near Bexhill can do some form spotting - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1356717388350352

Edgar Morin hospitalised, but well enough to send a video from the hospital for a public gathering with Pope Francis.

All scenes she has appeared in: Wild Blue Yonder - Housekeeper for Isaac Newton when Mavity was thought up Christmas special - Was a hippie who heckles Ruby’s band at King’s Arms Space Babies - Pre-recorded video as Comms Officer Gina Scalzi, protesting the abandonment of the baby farm. The Devil’s Chord - Tea Lady Boom - Plays an AI ambulance

I was tempted to go with Rover, but we've got our own @RoverAndOut and don't want to cause offence . Fenton also crossed my mind, but too many people don't know the video or mishear it as Benton. So, yes, don't know what happened to Fido really, seems dogs names have the same fashion issue as humans.

Watch the circulated 50ps part of this video especially My Whole Coin Collection!!! 4 Years Of Christopher Collects!!! - YouTube (36:33 onwards). Way, way more than any one person needs. He jokes about "having a problem", but this is seriously in the realms of needing actual help for a hoarding problem.

That guy is one of the biggest twonks on youtube. Exactly what is wrong with "collectors" nowadays. I saw a video once where he was showing off his "collection", proudly boasting "I've got 574 Sherlock Holmes 50ps!", "369 Miss Tiggy-Winkles!" etc. Yeah, good for you. That's not a collection, it's a hoard. A high-standard collection doesn't contain masses of the same coin, especially common ones. He could release 99% of them back in to the wild, giving other people the chance to find them and also giving him funds to buy much nicer coins but no, he would prefer to just sit on a pointless hoard. I shudder to think how many really nice coins he's ruined with fingerprints because apparently he can afford to hoard thousands of pounds of coins but can't spare a tenner for some gloves to handle them. There seems to be some definite interest in coins in this forum (and even a few fairly avid collectors), perhaps people would appreciate a coin thread? Anyone on board?

Chris Cornell died on this day 7 years ago, aged 52. - Cornell's birth surname was Boyle, but he took his mom's name after his parents divorced. - Cornell's first band was a cover band called 'The Shemps', and after they broke up, Cornell and some of its former members would form Soundgarden in 1984. - Soundgarden's 1988 debut album Ultramega OK would earn a Grammy in 1990 for Best Metal Performance. Their most well-known album was 1994's Superunknown, with its biggest single being "Black Hole Sun": This music video received heavy airplay on MTV and won the channel's award for Best Metal/Hard Rock Video in 1994. - Cornell would leave the band in 1997 due to disagreements on creative direction, causing it to disband until they reunited in 2010. He would write a song for The Avengers film soundtrack in 2012: This was not the only major movie Cornell would contribute a song to; he sung the theme to the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale, "You Know My Name". - During Soundgarden's hiatus, Cornell would form the band Audioslave in 2001; he would leave the band in 2007, but it reunited one last time in 2017 at the Anti-Inaugural Ball (a concert protesting Donald Trump's inauguration as president) hosted by the band Prophets of Rage. - Cornell suffered from depression and substance abuse throughout his life, and died from suicide. Some believe this may have been the event that would eventually lead to the suicide of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington two months later; he was close friends with Cornell and performed at his funeral.

https://fb.watch/s3ABr6j_3V/ Here's the video the statement was based off of dated 5 days ago. He could still walk with a stick but looks and sounds like death warmed up.

I cheered. Now that I've seen the whole thing, I'm not surprised. The staging was dirty and sordid, and verging on the pornographic. The song was decent, but he sang it poorly. His voice was weak and out of tune. He thinks he's so sexy He's so preoccupied with showing off and being edgy that there's little effort put into the actual performance of the song. There's some hilarious comments on this youtube video of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0_FdJqyQW0 Even gay men are saying they didn't like it.

Back when I was a lad and YouTube was barely a thing, one video I have fond memories of is the French TGV speed record attempt that took place in 2007. It was a video that fascinated me then and still does today. I decided to watch it again the other day, this time to figure out more about the 3 crew members, other personnel involved and their current whereabouts. Found out in a French article that the lead driver and engineer (center of this photo) is SNCF driver Eric Pieczac, who was born in July 1960 and would be 63 now. Next to Pieczac on the left of the photo is SNCF traction engineer Georges Pinquie (around 70 assuming his age in this article is correct) who has since retired. Pieczac and Pinquie are definitely alive and well, both men attending mainly the "SNCF Patrimoine" (basically French railway heritage) events. The man on the right of the photo wearing glasses is SNCF traction supervisor Claude Maro who I would reckon is in his 70s as well especially as he apparently was there during the 1990 TGV world record attempt, I've found absolutely no information on Maro asides from that. Assuming he's alive as I don't think the French media would miss if one of their TGV record personnel died. Additionally the other two crew members in the 1990 record attempt are Michel Massinon who died in 2015 at the age of 69, and Daniel Vigneau who I haven't found any info on. The at the time Minister of Transport Michel Delebarre was on board the train for that attempt as well, he died in 2022. There was also an Aerospatiale Corvette jet that chased and monitored the train, shot a lot of the video footage actually. Couldn't find who the pilot was. If any French DLer here has more info or can find any more leads, let me know.

Netherland's music video at time I post this is at 25 million views and he was hyped up massively. He had worldwide fans before this drama. If want reliable updates btw, follow this guy:

Jedward were in the audience and there is a video of them walking out at the start of Israel's performance. Anyway my top 5 in no particular order: Croatia Netherlands Finland Ireland Ukraine I'm also digging Armenia.

Eric Idle's looking a little rough. And he's one of the youngest... a recent video

That's right, the big guy gets his own thread after his appearance on BBC1 tonight reminded me to start a fucking thread for him. Tom Baker, The Doctor Who to anyone with a vague awareness of the show, is 86 now, and has apparently been in frail health the last few years after a lifetime of booze started to catch up. Apart from his 7 year lead role in Doctor Who and its lifetime of pop culture references, he was also famously Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra. He's also the narrator of Little Britain, Captain Redbeard in Blackadder and the voodoo loving artist in Vault of Horror. Anyhow, here he is on BBC1 an hour ago: Proper future DL front pager.