gcreptile 10,970 Posted April 28, 2015 French screenwriter/director/actor René Féret is dead at 69: http://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2015/04/28/disparition-de-rene-feret-realisateur-de-la-communion-solennelle_4623939_3476.html (french link) Also dead, but at age 68, French guitarist Serge Koolenn of the group "Il était une fois": http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2015/04/28/serge-koolenn-mort-il-etait-une-fois_n_7160472.html (french link) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,970 Posted April 30, 2015 Frnech actor Jean Lescot is dead at 76: http://www.20minutes.fr/cinema/1598411-20150429-jean-lescot-voix-francaise-yoda-star-wars-mort Though judging from the headlines, his main claim to fame was to be the french voice of Star Wars' master Yoda. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BuriedInCarolina 46 Posted May 6, 2015 Patachou, a French Singer With a Habit of Snipping Neckties, Dies at 96 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/arts/music/patachou-a-french-singer-with-a-habit-of-snipping-neckties-dies-at-96.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vinegar Tits 606 Posted May 10, 2015 For anyone wanting an up date on Charles Aznavour - he was on Vivement Dimanche today on TV5 Monde (so it's a show from a couple of weeks ago). As I've mentioned earlier in this thread, he's currently on a 'farewell' tour. He does look quite frail - and definitely more so than a year or so ago, and his hands are a little shaky, but otherwise he's in fine fettle. Obviously a fall or a bout of illness could finish anyone his age off, but otherwise he's good for at least another five years in my opinion. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainChorizo 1,982 Posted May 26, 2015 Vicente Aranda The Spanish Film Director of historical films Libertarias and Juana La Loca among others is dead at 88 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,970 Posted May 27, 2015 Book has a potential unique DDP hit, now that Elisabeth Wiedemann is dead at 89: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/frau-von-ekel-alfred-schauspielerin-elisabeth-wiedemann-gestorben/11831978.html (link in german) She played the wife of "Ekel Alfred" in the early german TV series (actually a sitcom long before they became a household name) "Ein Herz und Eine Seele" (A heart and a soul, meaning, sort of, beating as one heart). It was an iconic german TV-show of the 70s about a "typical" german family with "Alfred" as the always grumpy father. It was before my time, and it always seemed to me that this father was symbolic for the people who voted Hitler into office and the children had to life with these people. Elisabeth Wiedemann is the last of the core family to die since the actors of her two TV children died before her. Wiedemann also had a couple of roles in some very prominent german TV movies, and the usual smaller roles in several series'. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Book 3,556 Posted May 27, 2015 Book has a potential unique DDP hit, now that Elisabeth Wiedemann is dead at 89: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/frau-von-ekel-alfred-schauspielerin-elisabeth-wiedemann-gestorben/11831978.html (link in german) She played the wife of "Ekel Alfred" in the early german TV series (actually a sitcom long before they became a household name) "Ein Herz und Eine Seele" (A heart and a soul, meaning, sort of, beating as one heart). It was an iconic german TV-show of the 70s about a "typical" german family with "Alfred" as the always grumpy father. It was before my time, and it always seemed to me that this father was symbolic for the people who voted Hitler into office and the children had to life with these people. Elisabeth Wiedemann is the last of the core family to die since the actors of her two TV children died before her. Wiedemann also had a couple of roles in some very prominent german TV movies, and the usual smaller roles in several series'. Thank you, gcreptile. Und ruhe in Frieden, Frau Wiedemann. No UK obit for her I suppose. But for me: A hit is a hit! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted May 27, 2015 Book that's very impressive, points or not. Perhaps I'm trapped on the wrong side of the Pond, but are you in Germany?? It's some damn solid research, mate, what finds old German sitcom actors. What would even make you hunt such a thing down? Well done. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,970 Posted May 28, 2015 Taiwanese actress and singer Yue Fung dies of stomach cancer at 64: https://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/news/veteran-singer-yue-fung-passes-away-041700112.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Book 3,556 Posted May 28, 2015 Book that's very impressive, points or not. Perhaps I'm trapped on the wrong side of the Pond, but are you in Germany?? It's some damn solid research, mate, what finds old German sitcom actors. What would even make you hunt such a thing down? Well done. SC Thank you, SC, but it wasn't that difficult. She lived in a rest home for the last couple of years. And as gcreptile said: The sitcom she was playing in is still very popular in Germany. She even got an obit in the main news yesterday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,044 Posted June 2, 2015 Günther Schneider-Siemssen, designer of some 500 opera and theatre productions at the Met, Salzburg, Vienna and Covent Garden, 88. http://slippedisc.com/2015/06/karajans-designer-is-dead/ Edit: His death gets a mention here on BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/entertainment-arts-32288522 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainChorizo 1,982 Posted June 5, 2015 Hiroshi Koizuma Japanese Actor who appeared in several of the early Godzilla films is dead at 88 from pneumonia Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted June 5, 2015 Hiroshi Koizuma Japanese Actor who appeared in several of the early Godzilla films is dead at 88 from pneumoniaIt has happened just after Godzilla himself becomes a Japanese citizen: http://abcnews.go.com/International/godzilla-official-resident-shinjuku-ward-tokyo/story?id=31493159 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Book 3,556 Posted June 6, 2015 French Winnetou-actor Pierre Brice is dead at 86: http://www.n-tv.de/leute/Pierre-Brice-gestorben-article15246486.html (German link) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,970 Posted June 6, 2015 French Winnetou-actor Pierre Brice is dead at 86: http://www.n-tv.de/leute/Pierre-Brice-gestorben-article15246486.html (German link) A legend in Germany for his portrayal of "Winnetou", the main native american character in Karl May's Wild West novels. I wonder if he was any kind of famous anywhere else... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted June 6, 2015 French Winnetou-actor Pierre Brice is dead at 86: http://www.n-tv.de/leute/Pierre-Brice-gestorben-article15246486.html (German link) Now he really IS In The Valley Of The Dead SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mijkediablo 79 Posted June 7, 2015 Czech novelist and former dissident Ludvik Vaculik, who wrote the Two Thousand Words manifesto during the 1968 Prague Spring, has died, aged 88. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33038273 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,970 Posted June 8, 2015 Germany's most famous gossip reporter Paul Sahner is dead at 70: http://www.huffingtonpost.de/2015/06/08/paul-sahner-gestorben_n_7532606.html (link in german) His speciality was to make his guests confess private secrets. His interview with then-german minister of defense Rudolf Scharping, half-naked at and in a swimming-pool, showing him kissing and embracing his aristocrat girlfriend, led to his (Scharping's) resignation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ankou 17 Posted June 10, 2015 Horst Brandstätter, the "father of Playmobil" inventor of the hoola hoop is dead at 81. http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-father-of-playmobil-dies-aged-81-2015-6?IR=T 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted June 10, 2015 Horst Brandstätter, the "father of Playmobil" inventor of the hoola hoop is dead at 81. http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-father-of-playmobil-dies-aged-81-2015-6?IR=T I went round and round whether to put him on my DP this year. SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,271 Posted June 10, 2015 Horst Brandstätter, the "father of Playmobil" inventor of the hoola hoop is dead at 81. http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-father-of-playmobil-dies-aged-81-2015-6?IR=T I'm scoffing a pack right now in his memory. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,044 Posted June 13, 2015 Junix Inocian, Filipino actor, 64. http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/196709/junix-inocian-acclaimed-actor-on-ph-and-london-stages-dies-at-64 Appeared in many musicals and was also the ship's cook in Sky's version of Sinbad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,044 Posted June 16, 2015 Zhanna Friske, born Jeanna Vladimirovna Friske, Russian singer and socialite, 40. http://en.apa.az/xeber_prominent_russian_singer_zhanna_friske_d_228443.html She had been struggling with brain cancer. One DDP team is waiting for a UK obit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,970 Posted June 16, 2015 Harry Rowohlt, heir to a german publishing company, turned actor/artist/translator, is dead at 70: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/harry-rowohlt-ist-tot-a-1039005.html(german link) He had an incurable nerve disease for years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vinegar Tits 606 Posted June 20, 2015 Harry the tramp from Lindenstrasse has died. Harry Rowohlt was also a writer. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
