Dead Screenwriters Society

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4 minutes ago, Toast said:

She's also the mother of actress Gaynor Faye, who used to be in Coronation Street and was killed off when she dropped dead while hanging out the washing.

I'm sure she's been in other things, but that's where I know her from.

 

If I can precede this by noting Gaynor Faye is always one of those actresses I am aware is in things rather than seen (as its mostly Corrie, Emmerdale and her mums shows).

 

This is me learning Gaynor Faye is younger than I thought! She's 50. I legit thought, as a 90s Corrie name, that she'd be ages with Kirsten Scott Thomas and the others from that 1990s generation of actors who are in their early 60s now!

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35 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Strikes me as one of those shows that every middle aged woman loved and found "hilarious" and "hysterical", even though it was totally shit. A bit like Miranda.

 

 

 

Don't get why people are so harsh on Miranda it is very very fun and really gives Patricia Hodge an opportunity to let her down after playing stuck up cows for her whole career

 

Yes it is silly and ridiculous but that is its charm

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1 hour ago, Bibliogryphon said:

 

Don't get why people are so harsh on Miranda it is very very fun and really gives Patricia Hodge an opportunity to let her down after playing stuck up cows for her whole career

 

Yes it is silly and ridiculous but that is its charm

As sitcoms go, Miranda is decidedly quite poor imo, but it doesn’t deserve any hate. That should all be reserved for Mrs Brown.

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4 hours ago, Toast said:

She's also the mother of actress Gaynor Faye

 

Whose acting career seemed to amount to Coronation Street plus parts in dramas written by her mum (presumably a condition written into the contract).

 

EDIT: I won't delete but see that msc has already said the same.

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Ni Kuang, screenwriter of Fist of Fury, and other films, TV series, and novels, has died aged 7.

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20 minutes ago, time said:

Ni Kuang, screenwriter of Fist of Fury, and other films, TV series, and novels, has died aged 7.

Live fast, die young.

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3 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Live fast, die young.

*Note to self* Proofread before sending! 87!

 

I initially typo-d 97, deleted the 9, pressed 8 but obviously not firmly enough!

[YoungWillz 21,044]

John Milne, author of the Jenner series of books who wrote for such TV series as Bergerac, Lovejoy, Silent Witness, Taggart and Waking The Dead, reportedly dead from cancer aged 69: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/07/18/john-milne-policeman-art-student-crime-novelist-television-scriptwriter/

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Aaron Latham, who co-wrote Urban Cowboy & Perfect, both inspired by his own magazine articles, died July 23, aged 78, complications of Parkinson's disease. He was also husband of 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl.

[Gisooo 3,334]

Hollywood Reporter for William G. Borchert (Wiki), nominated also for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

[YoungWillz 21,044]

Report that the American screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard, responsible for Remember The Titans and the story for the biopic Ali, has died: 

If true, he was only in his early sixties.

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Arnold Schulman, a two-time Oscar nominee for 'Goodbye Columbus' and 'Love with the Proper Stranger', has died. He was 97.

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/arnold-schulman-dead-goodbye-columbus-1235318174/

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Ted Whitehead, British Dramatist and screenwriter has died 89. Guardian

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6 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

Ted Whitehead, British Dramatist and screenwriter has died 89. Guardian

 

Wrote the screenplay for Life and Loves of a She Devil and only survived Fay Weldon by a few weeks. Also wrote that strange First Born miniseries sometimes mentioned on here (Charles Dance and gorillas), and one of the weirder Crackers.

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6 hours ago, msc said:

 

Wrote the screenplay for Life and Loves of a She Devil and only survived Fay Weldon by a few weeks. Also wrote that strange First Born miniseries sometimes mentioned on here (Charles Dance and gorillas), and one of the weirder Crackers.

I was most surprised his death hadn’t been mentioned on here until now. I re did the search several times convinced it must have been. 

[YoungWillz 21,044]

Ray Jenkins, writer for various British "cop" shows such as Juliet Bravo, The Gentle Touch and The Sweeney, reportedly dead: https://deadline.com/2023/02/ray-jenkins-dies-the-sweeney-the-outsiders-writre-was-the-87-1235273041/

 

As a former teacher, he taught drama to Kenneth Cranham, one of our best actors.

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Aaron Sorkin has revealed he suffered a very serious stroke this past November

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Screenwriter Michael Reaves (Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Gargoyles) has died.

 

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/michael-reeves-obit/

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Norman Steinberg, best known for work on Blazing Saddles and My Favorite Year, has died

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Doc Severinsen's third wife Emily Marshall, who wrote for Newhart, Rhoda, WKRP In Cincinnati among other US sitcoms, reportedly dead: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/emily-marshall-dead-tonight-show-sitcom-writer-1235371626/

[Gisooo 3,334]

Rita Lakin (Wiki), American screenwriter, active from around 1962 to 1981 dead at 93

 

 

 

[YoungWillz 21,044]

British born child actor turned screenwriter Paul Playdon has reportedly died aged 80: https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2023/05/13/paul-playdon-spyfi-writer-dies/

 

After appearing in such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents with Jessica Tandy, he went on to write for TV on such as Mission Impossible, Cannon and Hawaii Five-O.

 

To my generation though, he will be known as the guy who developed the motorcycle cop show CHiPs for TV.

[YoungWillz 21,044]

On 19/05/2023 at 05:48, Octopus of Odstock said:

 

Great shame. First Terry Jones, then Palins wife Helen and now Roger Mills, the Palin 'team' is slowly being picked off.

Malcolm Mowbray who co-wrote and directed A Private Function with Palin in a starring role, reportedly dead: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/malcolm-mowbray-director-private-function-192918896.html

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0610261/

 

Also directed Once Upon A Time In The North, Cadfael and Pie In The Sky.

 

Which Palin collaborator is next? Maggie Smith? Alan Bennett? One of the Pythons? It's all gone very Peter Bowles for him this year.

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4 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Malcolm Mowbray who co-wrote and directed A Private Function with Palin in a starring role, reportedly dead: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/malcolm-mowbray-director-private-function-192918896.html

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0610261/

 

Also directed Once Upon A Time In The North, Cadfael and Pie In The Sky.

 

Which Palin collaborator is next? Maggie Smith? Alan Bennett? One of the Pythons? It's all gone very Peter Bowles for him this year.

 

 

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28 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Malcolm Mowbray who co-wrote and directed A Private Function with Palin in a starring role, reportedly dead: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/malcolm-mowbray-director-private-function-192918896.html

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0610261/

 

Also directed Once Upon A Time In The North, Cadfael and Pie In The Sky.

 

Which Palin collaborator is next? Maggie Smith? Alan Bennett? One of the Pythons? It's all gone very Peter Bowles for him this year.

 

John Nettleton

Pat Heywood

Jonathan Lynn

Clem Vallance

Graeme Garden

Peter Cellier

Kenneth Colley

Gwen Taylor

Maggie Smith

Tim Curry

David Griffin

 

Would be most likely, but it's noticeable how many of his era (or younger) are already dead so could easily be one of those in their early 60's (Simon Russell Beale doesn't look too healthy)