Not Exactly Famous...

[Octopus of Odstock 2,186]

Well it doesn't come up on search. Either way, profound & sincere apologies for insulting you. Your link comes up as page not found, btw, but I found it later on.

They've killed off people before, like Kevin McCarthy & Jeffrey Combs, so until's it on a credible news source, I'm not liable to believe it. Not that I give a sh*t about her anyway.

[Phantom 2,533]

Well it doesn't come up on search. Either way, apologies. Your link comes up as page not found, btw, but I found it later on.

They've killed off people before, like Kevin McCarthy & Jeffrey Combs, so until's it on a credible news source, I'm not liable to believe it. Not that I give a sh*t about her anyway.

 

But that still means Wikipedia is wrong, iain, if imdb is right. How will you cope with this betrayal of trust if this is true?

 

imdb killed off Jeffrey Combs?? one of the few actors who can turn a serious horror story into a comedy

 

imdb is often wrong too as that partially relies on subscriber edits

[Octopus of Odstock 2,186]

imdb killed off Jeffrey Combs?? one of the few actors who can turn a serious horror story into a comedy

 

IMDB authoratively said he was in one of the planes that hit the twin towers in 2001.

 

Also, the guy who does Genarians is scathing about IMDB & with good reason. There's people on there who died years ago, but there's nothing on the pages. And it's too US Centric.

 

For film/tv obits, I rely on entertainment insiders.

Three reasons:

1) They include a pic, wherever possible, so you're never wondering "sounds familiar but i need to see what they looked like"

2) They get some obits before the likes of Wiki, imdb

3) They don't discriminate - ie it's not the big names only, there's other ones too, but cuts out the imdb crap of listing anyone whose died that has the smallest link with a film (ie make up to assistant gripper etc.)

 

At the moment, Rayne is not on the EInsiders listings as having died.

[Octopus of Odstock 2,186]

Ann Richards, the movie actress, has died aged 88. She's been out of the public eye for too long for anyone to remember her, I guess, but anyone who was a surviving leading lady of the Hollywood Golden Age, deserves some sort of mention upon death. Link

[Octopus of Odstock 2,186]

Carol Kaye, former singer with the Kaye Sisters & who also appeared in Coronation St, has died, aged 71. I could've sworn somebody like Handreijka already mentioned her, but a search of DL reveals nothing.

 

That death was revealed on Entertainment Insiders, which also announces the death of Ethel Stratton.

Link. The Stratton Story is one of my all-time favourite films, so I'm sorry to hear she's died.

 

That site also has nothing on Tiffany Rayne's "death", and it does cover that genre, so I think we can presume that the young pup is still alive.

[Tempus Fugit 214]

Leading Indian film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee, has died aged 84.

 

BBC obituary

[Tempus Fugit 214]

Media great David Plowright* has died aged 84. Brother of Joan Plowright and responsible for some rather good TV programmes, like Brideshead Revisted. The elitist bastard would never get away with that today, not in Blair's Britain.

 

* This post is courtesy of iain.

[Phantom 2,533]

Race horse trainer David "Duke" Nicholson has died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 67

[VSBfromH 74]

Jesse Pintado

 

Ex-Napalm Death Guitarist (not in the original line-up)

[Tempus Fugit 214]

Bloc Quebecois Canadian MP Benoit Sauvageau had a little accident in his car and is dead aged 42.

[VSBfromH 74]

Vladimir Tretchikoff

 

The geezer who painted this:

 

 

has died. It is believed to be the best-selling commercial print of all time. Yuk!

[Handrejka 1,903]

Vladimir Tretchikoff

 

The geezer who painted this:

 

 

has died. It is believed to be the best-selling commercial print of all time. Yuk!

 

 

I don't normally question where people put these but Tretchikoff is certainly famous enough to be in the near misses thread surely.

[Bald rick 9]

Vladimir Tretchikoff

 

The geezer who painted this:

 

(picture snipped - it's on this thread too many times already)

 

has died. It is believed to be the best-selling commercial print of all time. Yuk!

 

 

I don't normally question where people put these but Tretchikoff is certainly famous enough to be in the near misses thread surely.

I've never heard of him, or seen that picture before. In fact, whilst waiting for the picture to load, I read the caption 'best selling commercial print' and was expecting that picture of the girl itching her bottom whilst on a tennis court. Shame.

 

I must be living a more sheltered life than I had previously thought!

[Phantom 2,533]

Vladimir Tretchikoff

 

The geezer who painted this:

 

(picture snipped - it's on this thread too many times already)

 

has died. It is believed to be the best-selling commercial print of all time. Yuk!

 

 

I don't normally question where people put these but Tretchikoff is certainly famous enough to be in the near misses thread surely.

I've never heard of him, or seen that picture before. In fact, whilst waiting for the picture to load, I read the caption 'best selling commercial print' and was expecting that picture of the girl itching her bottom whilst on a tennis court. Shame.

 

I must be living a more sheltered life than I had previously thought!

 

I recognise the painting, it was used by Chumbawamba for the cover of their 1990 album "Slap!"

But had no idea the name of the artist behind the painting.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

Sir Alfred Sherman, a Tory policy advisor and former communist. One of "Thatcher's earliest intellectual soulmates", has died. Bit of an eccentric by all accounts.

 

I would imagine Mrs T will make a public outing for his funeral.

[Canadian Paul 97]

Veteran Porn Master Jon Dough, suicide

[Tempus Fugit 214]

Veteran Porn Master Jon Dough, suicide

 

Yet another porn suicide. Your average porn star seems as likely to top themselves as a farmer whose EU subsidies have been stopped, his cattle have all contracted TB and he's being taken to court by The Ramblers Society for blocking a footpath.

[maryportfuncity 10,639]

Farmer + porn star produced this link. Anyone know if Jessica is famous enough to count for an obit that would register for DL purposes.

[Octopus of Odstock 2,186]

Melvin Schwartz, who won a Nobel Prize in physics in 1988, has died, aged 73, after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease.

Obit

[halleluyahjohntudor 5]

Sir Alfred Sherman, a Tory policy advisor and former communist. One of "Thatcher's earliest intellectual soulmates", has died. Bit of an eccentric by all accounts.

 

I would imagine Mrs T will make a public outing for his funeral.

 

Thanks DDT. I edited a book of his memoirs. He was incredibly spikey, and I detested his views on virtually every subject of public interest. But the private man was... actually, just as bad as the public image.

 

Even so, I'm glad that he's been remembered here. He was muddle-headed, but painfully sincere in all that he did and said.

[Phantom 2,533]

Lord Monro of Langholm and Westerkirk has died at the age of 83

[Cowboy Ronnie 78]

Veteran Porn Master Jon Dough, suicide

 

I'd heard of Jon Dough, and consider him somewhat famous, but perhaps that's showing a little too much specialist expertise. How awesome are the names of the various people mentioned in the article? Survived by his wife Monique DeMoan, mourned by ex best friend Randy Spears (who looks a lot like Alan Shearer. So I'm told). Classic.

[Phantom 2,533]

Ghost hunter and demonologist Ed Warren has died at the age 79

[VSBfromH 74]

Heinrich Hollreiser

 

Noted Austrian conductor died on July 24th aged 93

[VSBfromH 74]

Joseph Stefano

 

Wrote the screenplay for "Psycho". He was responsible for some major changes in the original (Robert Bloch) story line, without which the film would have been very different.