Hollywood Possibilities

[time 8,602]

Oscar nominated director (The Stunt Man) Richard Rush is reportedly dead, aged 91.

[arghton 6,739]

As film director Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959) is mentioned in the description of this thread, I decided to check how many main DeMille actors are alive. The list isn't large:

 

Samson and Delilah (1949):

Angela Lansbury (born 1925)

Russ Tamblyn (born 1934)

 

The Ten Commandments (1956):

Debra Paget (born 1933)

Fraser Clarke Heston (born 1955)

 

 

DeMille as executive producer:

 

When Worlds Collide (1951):

Barbara Rush (born 1927)

Rachel Ames (born 1929)

 

The War of the Worlds (1953):

Ann Robinson (born 1929)

 

The Buccaneer (1958):

Claire Bloom (born 1931)

 

 

DeMille also had cameos in:

Glamour Boy (1941), only alive actor is Darryl Hickman (born 1931)

Sunset Boulevard (1950), only alive actor is Nancy Olson (born 1928)

Son of Paleface (1952), only alive actor is Sylvia Lewis (born 1931)

The Buster Keaton Story (1957), only alive actor is Ann Blyth (born 1928)

[TomTomTelekom 3,727]

Actor Lee Aaker, who is famous from his work on the program, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, died at 77 years:

https://deadline.com/2021/04/lee-aaker-dead-adventures-of-rin-tin-tin-child-star-1234733916/

[gcreptile 10,972]

23 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Actor Lee Aaker, who is famous from his work on the program, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, died at 77 years:

https://deadline.com/2021/04/lee-aaker-dead-adventures-of-rin-tin-tin-child-star-1234733916/

That would have been the QO

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/adventures-rin-tin-tin-star-200412378.html

 

List of the missed, and a missed chance to have the alphabetically first hit ever.

[Spade_Cooley 9,527]

I really picked the wrong year to enter that team.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

1 hour ago, Spade_Cooley said:

I really picked the wrong year to enter that team.

To be honest I thought you were going to enter that team annually.  At least until it was successful.

 

[YoungWillz 21,047]

On 05/02/2018 at 18:26, msc said:

Given the search for film with 100% dead cast in another thread, here's a few favourites which didn't qualify and their surviving credited actors (not counting extras, folk who disappeared off the face of the earth, etc etc)

 

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The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

Michael Caine (1933)

Donald Sutherland (1935)
Robert Duvall (1931)

Jenny Agutter (1952)

Jean Marsh (1934)

Sven-Bertil Taube (1934)

Siegfried Rauch (1932)

John Standing (1934)

Judy Geeson (1948)

Treat Williams (1951)

Michael Byrne (1943)

Tim Barlow (1936)

Kate Binchy (1937)

Maurice Roeves (1937)

Alexei Jawdokimov (c 1938)

Leonie Thelen (1959)

Denis Lill (1942)

Keith Buckley (1941)

Kent Williams (1950)

Roy Marsden (1941)

Wolf Kahler (1940)

Harry Fielder (1940)

 

 

 

This is being reported as Keith Buckley's death notice from December 2020: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hebdenbridgetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=keith-buckley&pid=197604891

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0118645/

[Ulitzer95 12,622]

50 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

This is being reported as Keith Buckley's death notice from December 2020: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hebdenbridgetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=keith-buckley&pid=197604891

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0118645/

According to the Minder forum here, he died from COVID-19.

[Ulitzer95 12,622]

My full 1925 IMDb list will be finished and up by tonight on the Deadpool Detective thread, but two significant findings so far:

Angela Lansbury – stopped signing autographs last month. Last pictured September 2020(?), last acted 2019. I think age has caught up with her. May be nothing, but wouldn't be shocked if she goes soon.

Michel Bouquet – last role was in early 2020 (though probably filmed in 2019). In March 2020, he returned a piece of signed mail to a fan, but his secretary also wrote on it that he couldn't write a response letter as he was very sick and had been for a long time. I imagine he'll be gone by the end of this year.

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

We lost quite a few marvelous cinematographic figures last year... 

 

besides that : What in the hell is wrong with them to make a so fast in memoriam section ?

[Leon Brittan 294]

26 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

We lost quite a few marvelous cinematographic figures last year... 

 

besides that : What in the hell is wrong with them to make a so fast in memoriam section ?

Very disrespectful to go this fast. Remember when they actually cared about their in memorium section 

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

22 minutes ago, Leon Brittan said:

Very disrespectful to go this fast. Remember when they actually cared about their in memorium section 

Yes Indeed ! I didn’t have the time to reach each name before it moves on... this comment summarizes it all 

[Ulitzer95 12,622]

Mentioned in one of the historical "Ideas and Possibilities" threads before on here.

Someone edited the page for Hollywood Golden-era actress May Wynn on 2nd April to say that she died on 22nd March, aged 93.

Anyway, it wasn't a hoax and here's proof:

She was born Donna Lee Hickey in Jan 1928, and her second (and last) marriage was to Jack Custer in 1968. They divorced in 1979 but she kept the name. A search on the Accurint website brings up this record:

DONNA LEE CUSTER
DONNA L CUSTER
DONNA CUSTER
D CUSTER
DOB: 1/xx/1928
DOD: 03/22/2021
Age at death: 93
Gender - Female
*View Sources (~3)

Someone on the Voy.com obits message board also said that an email from the Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church (where she latterly taught) confirmed her death.

I'll ping this to IMDb and Deadline.



Wynn was the last surviving credited cast member of the 1954 film "The Caine Mutiny" (adopted from a book by former DL hit Herman Wouk).

In the film she played the character May Wynn, the love interest of Willie Keith (played by Robert Francis, who tragically died in a plane crash in 1955 aged 25). She then adopted the name of the character as her permanent stage name for the remainder of her film career.

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,345]

https://deadline.com/2021/04/charles-beeson-dies-director-the-mentalist-supernatural-1234745659/

 

British film and television director  Charles Beeson has died.

He worked on many US TV series including  Supernatural,  The Vampires Diaries and The Mentalist. 

[Ulitzer95 12,622]

On 28/04/2021 at 15:39, Ulitzer95 said:

Mentioned in one of the historical "Ideas and Possibilities" threads before on here.

Someone edited the page for Hollywood Golden-era actress May Wynn on 2nd April to say that she died on 22nd March, aged 93.



Wynn was the last surviving credited cast member of the 1954 film "The Caine Mutiny" (adopted from a book by former DL hit Herman Wouk).

In the film she played the character May Wynn, the love interest of Willie Keith (played by Robert Francis, who tragically died in a plane crash in 1955 aged 25). She then adopted the name of the character as her permanent stage name for the remainder of her film career.

Hollywood Reporter obituary.

[SwiftlyVague 79]

Johnny Crawford, who starred alongside Chuck Connors in the The Rifleman, and also performed as a Mouseketeer, has died at the age of 75. 

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/johnny-crawford-young-star-of-the-rifleman-dies-at-75

 

[Ulitzer95 12,622]

Obituary for George Crosby, who has died aged 88.

 

Obscure child actor who appeared in several Our Gang shorts.

 

IMDb.

[Salmon Mousse 473]

Original post removed as it repeated old news... Move along, nothing to see here

[Ulitzer95 12,622]

6 minutes ago, Salmon Mousse said:

'The Cane Mutiny' actress, May Wynn, died back on March 22, aged 93

 Three posts above you, old sport.

[drol 11,947]

7 minutes ago, Salmon Mousse said:

'The Cane Mutiny' actress, May Wynn, died back on March 22, aged 93

[Ulitzer95 12,622]

Just now, drol said:

 

[Salmon Mousse 473]

2 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

 Three posts above you, old sport.

 

Ah, damn.  Cheefully withdrawn

[JimK 16]

Oscar winning actress Olympia Dukakis reportedly has died 

 

 

[Drewsky1211 4,744]

31 minutes ago, JimK said:

Oscar winning actress Olympia Dukakis reportedly has died 

 

 

Mirror obit.

[The Unknown Man 584]

31 minutes ago, JimK said:

Oscar winning actress Olympia Dukakis reportedly has died 

 

 

QO from the Mirror.